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Name:
The Weatherman
Channel Views:
1,700
Total Upload Views:
29,036
Age:
57
Joined:
Jan 22, 2011
Latest Activity:
1 week ago
Subscribers:
70
Website:
I may post some items here from my blog at the negativland website. I'm lazy and slow , so please be patient! I don't expect anything, but if I get inspired I will add content here.
About Me:
Hometown:
Berkeley, California, Martinez, California and Seattle, Washington
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Retired
Companies:
Televents Cablevision (Martinez, California), TCI Cablevision of Contra Costa County, AT&T Cable and, of course Negativland
Schools:
Thousand Oaks School, Berkeley, California, Montecito Elementary, Martinez Junior High, Alhambra High School in Martinez, California and Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California
Interests:
weather, cleaning, conspiracy theories, vintage audio equipment, more recently computers and digital TV, listening to shortwave and scanner radios of any kind, pirate radio, amateur radio, internet content (listening to online very low freqency "VLF" receivers and hydrophones (under water microphones), watching online security and surveillance cameras (like Axis and Mobotix), surfing thousands of internet radio and TV stations, finding audio and video online that isn't mean't for public consumption, sound recording, video editing, capturing and editing cassette and open reel tapes, vinyl and 78 rpm records onto my computer and learning about file formats and codecs.
Movies:
THX 1138, Eraserhead, Fahrenheit 451, Quatermass And The Pit / Five Million Years To Earth, They Live, Prince of Darkness, Scanners, Videodrome, Crash, The Blob, Death Ship, tv miniseries: The Langoliers, The Tommyknockers, and Kingdom Hospital, an older obscure tv movie called The Firechasers, Head, 200 Motels, Phantasm, TV shows: The Outer Limits (original 1960s series), Star Trek (original 1960s series,some of the same sound effects from The Outer Limits were used), Lost In Space, One Step Beyond, Chillers From Science Fiction, Tuesdays or Thursdays at 3:30PM on KGO Channel 7, San Francisco (early 1960s) where I watched movies like "The H Man", "The Crawling Eye" and "Caltiki, The Immortal Monster", and after the movie, I would swtch to Sir Sedley and Friends with Three Stooges shorts on KTVU channel 2, The Prisoner (original 1960s series and especially the episode "Hammer Into Anvil)", Doctor Who (1960s and 1970s geeky Jon Pertwee episodes and I often had the pleasure of seeing whole series with four or more shows on Sunday Science Fiction on KTEH channel 54 in San Jose, Ca. with host Scott Apel), Blake's 7 (also on KTEH),The 1970 Pink Floyd performance at the KQED studios in San Francisco, The Kingdom (on Independent Film Channel, 1990s), The X Files, Fringe, and maybe Person Of Interest.
Music:
The Moody Blues (1960s), Pink Floyd (1960s), King Crimson (1960s - 70s), Frank Zappa And The Mothers of Invention, The Monkees, The Beatles (especially The White Album), Tangerine Dream and Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Neu, ambient techno artist from the 1990s: (Spacetime Cotinuum, Higher Intelligence Agency, Biosphere, Cypher 7, Sounds From The Ground, Global Communication), New Age artist Iasos, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Jesse Crawford, Frank Luther (mainly for his children's records, such as 'Happy The Harmonica' and 'The Tick Tock Shop'), Zofka, Space Age Lounge Music in general, Lalo Schifrin (for THX 1138, Tar Sequence from the film Cool Hand Luke which was used as the local TV news theme on ABC network stations in the 1960s), Fred Myrow for the soundtrack on the film Phantasm, Eric Siday (For the Screen Gems theme, 'The New ABC' jingle from the 1960s and others), Steve Fisk, Walter / Wendy Carlos and Negativland (remember I don't consider myself an expert on music or a musician and I cannot read music)
Books:
This is my weak point (as if the other stuff isn't "weak" as well). How about Hi - Fi Projects For The Hobbyist By Leonard Feldman for starters.
Channel Comments
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datelane
(1 week ago)
Is this really The Weatherman? My roommate and I want to start an AM radio station out of our apartment. Can this be done using our vast array of junky old out-of-date electronics somehow? Thank you sir...
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transparentape
(1 week ago)
How Dare You Like 1990's Ambient Techno!!! Unbelievable!!!
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BestSanFranciscoBusi
(1 month ago)
Entertaining 3 stooges video.
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a54dumb
(1 month ago)
I hope it does not offend anyone that I am a fan of 1990s ambient techno. I like to think of it as "audiophile techno" and I am in a somewhat limited way, an audiophile.
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a54dumb
(1 month ago)
If I see a video that has been removed due to copyright issues or taken down by the user, I will try to clean up the remains (the sad little face in the TV) by deleting the post.
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a54dumb
(3 months ago)
Sorry I'm so slow at checking my inbox. You are all welcome to be here.
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a54dumb
(5 months ago)
I'm still kickin' around. I found some more typos in my profile, added "Person Of Interest" to my TV favorites list and added another video (Angry Woman abuses garage owner) to my favorites.
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nakedrabbit
(7 months ago)
Man, am i the last to know about these developments or what?
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a54dumb
(10 months ago)
I've been a bit under the weather and generally lazy, and thank you to the new subscribers and comments.
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a54dumb
(10 months ago)
I think those are vintage Altec Lansing horn speakers, possibly model 511B on the Kraftwerk - Morgenspaziergang Live 1974 video I added to my favorites.
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