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Julie Shapiro
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Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social

Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...
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Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social · Dec 26
In service of the "sonorous new year" I've been wishing others, I'm cooking up a daily listening homage / adventure / practice for 2025, and will be posting about it here. I can promise amazement, bemusement, occasional confusion, and pure sonic delight. More info and daily links start January 1 ✨
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November 25 / Take a moment here to ponder The Smurfs. Now imagine them all country & western. Now see if you can get through these 7 minutes.

Me neither.

329. The Smurfs - Follow My Leader / Smurf Square Dance / Smurf Rodeo [7:01]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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November 24 / Am fairly destroyed by this, as I can hear my extremely-obsessed-with-Neil-Diamond sweet mom singing along so clearly, in my mind's ears. Thank you, Singing Mariners🙏😭

328. The Singing Mariners - Holly Holy [4:05]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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November 23 / I am consciously uninterested in this recording, and the narrators Imperatorian ways.

327. Imperator Ralph M. Lewis (Rosicrucian Recordings) - Attaining Cosmic Consciousness, Side 1 [14:16]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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November 22 / Brings to mind a Cookie Monster song, if Cookie Monster was Lebanese, born in 1918, and sang about counting hamburgers. Especially the spirited, appreciative growl at the very end.

326: Philemon Wehbe - Hamburger [3:00]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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November 21 / Cue the turquoise eye shadow and piano twinkling and settle in for some make-up application instruction, starting with the almighty, no longer available, "feather-fine" FLATTER FLUFF.

325. Make Up Routine [6:08]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 20 / Finally! Something Johnny Cash-inspired to forward to your favorite Wisconsinite, Cheesehead, Badger, Sconnie, Wisco.

234: Wayne Brunner - Smoked Fish / T.R. Special / Woman Of Wisconsin [10:28]
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November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Julie Shapiro
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What a thrill to present Audio Flux both inside San Quentin with the @earhustlesq.com team AND in the planetarium at the Chabot Space & Science Center, all in the span of three days. Same stories, very different environments, equally appreciated 🙌
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by Julie Shapiro
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New AF Podcast ep! 🌊

In "A Wave is Coming Towards You" @mathildeurfa.bsky.social attempts to unlock feelings stuck somewhere between her chest and her throat with the help of a plot conceit.

What, you can relate?

Scream it: Listen! Enjoy! Subscribe (minus Spotify), Share!
bit.ly/AFpodlinks
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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November 19 / Someone's idea of what a "Fantastic Party" sounds like. They're not SO far off, right? [very druggy]

323. Staff Carpenborg & The Electric Corona - Stainy Heavy Needles / The Every Days Way Down to the Suburbs [8:59]
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November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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14. Loved this @newyorker.com Radio Hour episode featuring a conversation with the marvelous Patti Smith about her new book AND 50th anniversary of... yes... 🐴🐴🐴

What an album. What a musician. What a human! ❤️

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...
Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses” | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios
In the musician’s most revealing account she discusses her retreat from public life, the early loss of her husband, and the challenge of learning and writing about her biological father.
www.wnycstudios.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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November 18 / More dramatic poetry recitations lined with schmaltzy music! A little unsatisfying for my birthday track, if I'm honest. Pass / next!

322. Gerrard Kennedy - I Am An Island / Searching / Four Letter Word [5:47]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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November 17 / Must say I prefer the original version from Laverne Baker to this Tweedle Meh melodramatic recitation of her lyrics set to classical piano.

321: Cactus Pryor, with Ralph Kies and his Piano - Tweedle Dee [2:47] ubuweb.com/outsiders/36...

#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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November 16 / Judaism & Jewish-holiday-inspired Mother Goose-adjacent song-stories. Fun fact: TIL that geese are kosher if slaughtered appropriately.

320. Gladys Gewirtz & Eve Lippman - Mother Goose Songs For Jewish Children [16:14]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 15 / A++ for the rickety-heartful effort from this elementary school band string section! Don't miss the whopping audience response afterward, too. 👏👏👏

319. San Joaquin School District - Popeye The Sailor Man
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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November 14 / Workplace planking clubs take note! Nothing helps with steady weight loss and core strengthening like a jazzy instructional exercise program theme song set to a popular tune.

318. Pat Dixon - Bye Bye Blubber [2:47]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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November 13 / Early "family recordings" emblematic of all the other early "family recordings" that end up in thrift store bins and in piles across flea market tables. The past sounds so... in the past ⏳

317. Marcia and Robin [7:33]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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November 12 / Vapid and creepy I-don't-even-know-what followed by the unlistenable sounds of farting contest. I expect more from our northern broadcast neighbors! #skip

316. Letter To A Teenage Daughter & The Great Contest [18:11]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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November 11 / Love a raunchy cassette artifact from a Kalamazoo-local, purple-spandex-wearing heavy metal fan and guitar enthusiast known to the musician community as, yep, "Purple Dave." #NSFW

315. Purple Dave [5:04]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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November 10 / "We think that the truly important thing is the effect the sound produces in the listener." A sentiment I can get behind! Cool TV-theme sounding music, too.

314. Daniel Carbonell - El Sonido Hecho a Mano (The Handmade Sound) [7:17]
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#listeninging #ubuweb
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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November 9 / Funny ladies parodying church life to the tune of classic ditties? Not my favoritest cup of tea, but admirable in its own way.

313. Luther Annes - Dashing Thru the Church/The Tract Rack/Covered Dish Supper [3:01]
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#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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When worlds collide... 🥲

@audioflux.bsky.social + @earhustlesq.com = BFF
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Travel offers so many rewarding images. Like when you notice a fellow traveller, waiting to board the same flight, throw her head back and guzzle the final third of her Tic Tacs, straight from the container 😲

Btw best packaging of any breath-freshening snack ever.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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November 8 / Very clever, having us sit through the song before getting to the verité dogfight recording. Poor pups, though apparently nobody was hurt too bad. PHEW🩸🐶🐕🩸

312. Soggy Heart Sea: The Dogfight Mix [7:53]
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November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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November 7 / Definitely the smoothest, slightly sexist and certainly suggestive popcorn anthem from the 1930's that I've heard all year. Possibly ever. 🍿🍿🍿

311. The Tunetwisters - The Popcorn Man [1:48]
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November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Nov 6 / Totally unhinged 5yo twins give it their all.

310. Harry & Hugo - I'm Tired of the Old Life / Johnny Contananti / Catfish Swimmin / The Ambulance Composition / The Woody Song / Mr Scarecrow Wakes Up His People / The Circus Day / Punk Rock Song [7:06]

#listeninging #ubuweb #365DaysProject
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM