Monday, September 30, 2002

When I lived in NJ, my son Dan introduced me to Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight Sunday night radio show then on WNEW, a delicious mix of music from all genres and quarters, live guests, poetry, and Vin's skeptic, meandering, sometimes dark-humored take on the world, music, and the indignities of commercial radio. As I would drive back Sunday evening from taking Dan to Vassar, I would enter NJ with the show starting, and hoped that Dan would be listening too, sharing Vin's choices in radio synchrony as I sped down I-287. Recently, I have been choosing music to play before my class (thanks, Stu, for the idea!). I was listening to a record I first heard on Idiot's Delight, Belle and Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap, and I wondered about the show. Unsurprisingly, WNEW no longer carries it, but it can now be heard on WFUV on the air and by webcast on Saturday evenings, and also from its archives. Listening to latest show right now. Sound quality could be better (32Kb Windows Media Player on Mac OS X), but who cares? The music and company are great. 10:25:53 PM