Radio Radio
Sep. 2nd, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauI was on the radio!
The people from Class Wargames (http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/204553.html) have an occasional slot on ResonanceFM, which bills itself as the world's first radio art station, or maybe art radio station. (http://resonancefm.com/). They talk about games they have been playing (they have reviewed Freikorps, Red Guard and Operation Whirlwind) and have interviews with designers - today it was my turn, for about 15 minutes.
They asked me about my history as a designer, why I do political games, how I designed the system for Red Guard (they really like that game, which is encouraging), and about the economics of distributing games. I think I talked too long and with unnecessary detail, and I hate how my voice sounds on tape or over the radio. I also felt really self-conscious doing the interview over the phone from my cubicle (London is 8 hours ahead of Victoria and they were broadcasting live, so we had to do it at 9 am), as people in my office are aware of "Brian's funny little hobbies" but don't understand them.
Anyway, they were very nice and it was over quickly - I made a bad tape of it but I think they will post an MP3 of the program later.
Also:
Japan's new first lady says rode UFO to Venus
ReutersSeptember 2, 2009
TOKYO - Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "the alien," but it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year.
"It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."
Yukio Hatoyama is due to be voted in as premier on September 16 following his party's crushing election victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday.
Miyuki, 66, described the extraterrestrial experience, which she said took place some 20 years ago, in a book entitled "Very Strange Things I've Encountered."
When she awoke, Japan's next first lady wrote, she told her now ex-husband that she had just been to Venus. He advised her that it was probably just a dream.
"My current husband has a different way of thinking," she wrote. "He would surely say 'Oh, that's great'."
Yukio Hatoyama, 62, the rich grandson of a former prime minister, was once nicknamed "the alien" for his prominent eyes.
Miyuki, also known for her culinary skills, spent six years acting in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater group. She met the U.S.-educated Yukio while living in America.
© Copyright (c) Reuters
The people from Class Wargames (http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/204553.html) have an occasional slot on ResonanceFM, which bills itself as the world's first radio art station, or maybe art radio station. (http://resonancefm.com/). They talk about games they have been playing (they have reviewed Freikorps, Red Guard and Operation Whirlwind) and have interviews with designers - today it was my turn, for about 15 minutes.
They asked me about my history as a designer, why I do political games, how I designed the system for Red Guard (they really like that game, which is encouraging), and about the economics of distributing games. I think I talked too long and with unnecessary detail, and I hate how my voice sounds on tape or over the radio. I also felt really self-conscious doing the interview over the phone from my cubicle (London is 8 hours ahead of Victoria and they were broadcasting live, so we had to do it at 9 am), as people in my office are aware of "Brian's funny little hobbies" but don't understand them.
Anyway, they were very nice and it was over quickly - I made a bad tape of it but I think they will post an MP3 of the program later.
Also:
Japan's new first lady says rode UFO to Venus
ReutersSeptember 2, 2009
TOKYO - Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "the alien," but it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year.
"It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."
Yukio Hatoyama is due to be voted in as premier on September 16 following his party's crushing election victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday.
Miyuki, 66, described the extraterrestrial experience, which she said took place some 20 years ago, in a book entitled "Very Strange Things I've Encountered."
When she awoke, Japan's next first lady wrote, she told her now ex-husband that she had just been to Venus. He advised her that it was probably just a dream.
"My current husband has a different way of thinking," she wrote. "He would surely say 'Oh, that's great'."
Yukio Hatoyama, 62, the rich grandson of a former prime minister, was once nicknamed "the alien" for his prominent eyes.
Miyuki, also known for her culinary skills, spent six years acting in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater group. She met the U.S.-educated Yukio while living in America.
© Copyright (c) Reuters
