I know, it's been a long time coming.
I just discovered a new artist whose music was featured in the film "Loving Annabelle" - Jake Newton. Wow. I went directly to CDBaby and bought his album online. I love his sound. I hope to hear much more from him.
While I was on CDBaby, I noticed they now have a Film Baby site where you can buy independently released movies. What a great idea! I'm always looking for new interesting documentaries and films, so I'm psyched to have learned about this today.
I've spent the last couple days beefing up my podcast subscriptions and have found some great ones. I usually do most of my podcast listening when I'm weeding books out of my collection and have managed to finally get through the This American Life archives after several years of listening. I really need to donate some money to them. One thing I've really taken notice of while browsing for interesting podcasts is how many of the ones that sound the most appealing have gone defunct for lack of money. Although most of their archives are still available online, it's disturbing to see how many radio shows have been abandoned because of funding issues. One really great site I just found that had led me to many great shows is Public Radio Fan. The coolest thing about that site is that the homepage shows you what's on the radio now around the world and provides links to those that are available online for instant listening, along with links to podcasts and homepages of the shows. I've done extensive searching on that site over the past couple days and have found it to be very up to date and useful. Among my discoveries this weekend are Joe Frank, Outfront, Third Coast Audio International Festival, All in the Mind, and Curious Orange. Suddenly I am struck with the same depressing dilemma I have with books - too many awesome podcasts, too little time before I die to hear it all.


