Specialist Marc Decoteau, RIP

By Sleeves, 8 February, 2010, No Comment

Most of the stories I’ve done for NHPR have been fun or light. Not this one.

But it was still the most rewarding story I’ve worked on. The world of the fallen soldier is rife with cliche. There’s not much you can do about it, except be careful and try to find the real person beneath the golden memory. My thanks to Tom Quackenbush and Sarah Bunkley. Read more about it here.

Story on NHPR:

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Marc Decoteau

By Sleeves, 5 February, 2010, No Comment

This is just a rough draft of an audio piece on Marc, which will simply be the voices of a few people who knew him well.

As of now, it’s Sarah Bunkley, Marc’s theater teacher from Plymouth High and Tom Quackenbush, a friend. But if you knew Marc and have a story you want to share, please get in touch!

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The $1,000 Jingle Challenge – Beat Sleeves

By Sleeves, 26 January, 2010, No Comment

I feel extremely awkwardly proud to be a part of this gimmicky piece of wickedness.

So come up with a better jingle than this for Pennystock Chaser:

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and win $1,000.

More details here.

Here’s the original live Ron & Fez read that really got the penny rolling:

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Today’s Show on WSPS

By Sleeves, 22 January, 2010, No Comment

“The Dinner in the Dark” story airs today on WSPS 90.5 FM at 5 pm with music from The Ink Spots, The Eels, Johann Johannsson, British Sea Power, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek, Elizabeth Cotten and myself.

Listen at home on PC via the live stream.

You can also get the stream on your iPhone/iTouch using Internet RadioBOX (simply use the app’s built-in SHOUTcast directory search feature to find “WSPS 90.5″’s stream).

I’m not much of a phone app user, so I don’t know how easy the above method is. If that works or if anyone figures out an easy way to listen to WSPS on their iPhone or Blackberry, please let me know!

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Sam Amidon at the Sumner Knight Chapel

By Sleeves, 19 January, 2010, No Comment

This past weekend at the Sumner Knight Chapel was really amazing. The Chapel itself is set way back in a cemetery. It was a standing room only crowd of 120 or so. I started off with a story and then Redwing Blackbird did a set, followed by Red Heart the Ticker, and then Sam Amidon.

Kevin Dremel put the whole thing together and recorded the event. I’ll be sync’ing Kevin’s good audio up with my ok video and hopefully posting some songs from the other bands and a bit of my story.

Here’s Sam’s version of Word of Mouth:

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Live Reading of “Sarro’s Balloon” Tonight!

By Sleeves, 16 January, 2010, No Comment

Starts tonight at 6:30. I’ll start with a live reading of “Sarro’s Balloon” with the musical assistance of Red Heart the Ticker, Redwing Blackbird & Sam Amidon.

Redwing Blackbird will play second, RHTT third and Sam Amidon last. If you haven’t heard these musicians, please check them out. They all have new or forthcoming discs, but this is especially a CD release party for Redwing Blackbird’s beautiful new album“That Bear Skinned A River”.

The mysterious Sumner Knight Chapel is a neat pile of stones and has perfect acoustics – the show will be done without PA’s. No wires or mics. Just sounds bouncing off walls hanging in the midair.

$8 donation is requested, but this goes toward the rehab of the chapel.

I’ll be selling copies of the “Sarro’s Balloon” CD at the show for $5. But you can also click on the disc above to purchase. Or you can do Paypal here.

Directions below. Hope to see you at this really unique show!

The Sumner Knight Chapel & Cemetery on North Lincoln St, Keene, New Hampshire 03431

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AMV starts today on WSPS!

By Sleeves, 15 January, 2010, No Comment

The first episode of “Atoms, Motion & the Void” airs today on WSPS 90.5 FM and as long as nothing blows up, it’ll continue on Fridays at 5 pm. Very exciting!

Listen on PC via the live stream.

You can also get the stream on your iPhone/iTouch using Internet RadioBOX (simply use the app’s built-in SHOUTcast directory search feature to find “WSPS 90.5″’s stream).

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Live AMV Performance of “Sarro’s Balloon” this weekend!

By Sleeves, 12 January, 2010, No Comment

This Saturday (Jan 16th) at 6:30, I’ll do a live reading of “Sarro’s Balloon” together with Red Heart the Ticker, Redwing Blackbird & Sam Amidon.

The bands will play a song with me and then have their own set. These are 3 amazing bands! I feel really honored to be able to do this with them. It’s also a CD release party for Redwing Blackbird’s beautiful new disc “That Bear Skinned A River”.

The mysterious Sumner Knight Chapel is a neat pile of stones and has perfect acoustics – the show will be done without PA’s. No wires or mics.

$8 donation is requested, but this goes toward the rehab of the chapel.

I’ll be selling copies of the “Sarro’s Balloon” CD at the show for $5. But you can also click on the disc above to purchase. Or you can do Paypal here.

Directions below. Hope to see you at this really unique show!

The Sumner Knight Chapel & Cemetery on North Lincoln St, Keene, New Hampshire 03431

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The Tweets – story for NHPR

By Sleeves, 8 January, 2010, No Comment

It’s interesting and strange that we don’t have a term or name or easy way to talk about the outgoing decade. The aughts, the nils, the oh’s, the zeds were all proposed, but nothing took.

For this piece for NHPR I sort of rolled this odd problem around, trying to get to the bottom of why we stumbled in a place where we usually excel.

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AMV to Air Weekly on 90.5 WSPS

By Sleeves, 7 January, 2010, No Comment

Episodes of “Atoms, Motion & the Void” will begin airing weekly on WSPS 90.5 FM on Fridays at 5 pm starting January 15th.

You can also listen to the station and the show via their live stream.

You can also get the stream on your iPhone/iTouch using Internet RadioBOX (simply use the app’s built-in SHOUTcast directory search feature to find “WSPS 90.5″’s stream).

Blackberry users can input the stream into Moodio or similar using the stream URL: http://war.str3am.com:7590/

Because I’m doing a live performance on Jan 16th of “Sarro’s Balloon” with Red Heart the Ticker, Sam Amidon, and Redwing Blackbird, I thought I’d start with that story.

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