whitney a jones: Archive

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Jun 2nd

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Jun 1st

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May 27th

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May 26th

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May 25th

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honesty and the personal narrative

Back in February one of my stories was featured on podcast HowSound: The Backstory to (in this case, a decent try for your first time out) Radio Storytelling. A couple of days ago Rob forwarded me a comment that had been posted on the story page and suggested that I might want to respond privately rather than publicly on the blog. I’ve been thinking over the last couple of days exactly how...

May 24th

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May 19th

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May 18th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 7

Here’s the final day: Listened to from my iphone connected to speakers while working. Best Coast was from the NPR Music First Listen Series through the NPR Music app: Best Coast : The Only Place : The Only Place Best Coast : The Only Place : Why I Cry Best Coast : The Only Place : Last Year Best Coast : The Only Place : My Life Best Coast : The Only Place : No One Like You Best...

May 15th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 6

All of this music again was playing through my iphone. The Beach House album was through the NPR Music app, part of their First Listen series, at 1:30 PM. I listened to it a couple days ago and wanted to give it a second listen: Beach House : Bloom : Myth Beach House : Bloom : Wild Beach House : Bloom : Lazuli Beach House : Bloom : Other People Beach House : Bloom : The Hours Beach...

May 13th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 5

This afternoon walking up to the radio station around 1:30 PM: Wild Flag : Wild Flag : Future Crimes Wild Flag : Wild Flag : Endless Talk And then tonight when I went for a walk 10:20 PM: Knaan : Troubadour : T.I.A. Knaan : Troubadour : Take A Minute Knaan : Troubadour : Fatima Knaan : Troubadour : 15 Minutes Away

May 12th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 4

Thursday’s list: On a laptop, not my own at 11:00 AM: ABBA : Gold: Greatest Hits : Money, Money, Money So, ABBA, this is a long story. On my iphone listening through headphones, walking home from the radio station around 4:30 PM: Weezer Pinkerton El Scorcho Weezer Pinkerton Pink Triangle Weezer Pinkerton Falling For You Ryan Adams Heartbreaker Come Pick Me Up Iphone...

May 12th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 3

I’ve fallen behind. Here is Wednesday’s list. All played on my iphone hooked up to speakers while I was working. 10:35 AM to 4:30 PM: Yeah Yeah Yeahs : It’s Blitz! : Heads Will Roll Yeah Yeah Yeahs : It’s Blitz! : Little Shadow (acoustic) Yacht : Shangri-La : Beam Me Up Wilco : A.M. : Pick Up The Change The Corin Tucker Band : 1,000 Years : Half A World Away Little...

May 12th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 2

Today’s List: Sleater-Kinney : The Woods : Steep Air Sleater-Kinney : The Woods : Let’s Call It Love I listened to these on my iphone, through headphones as I walked back from the radio station at 2:30 PM. At 3:00 I was working again and hooked my iphone up to speakers. From 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM: Sleater-Kinney : The Woods : (Entire Album) And at this point I turned control...

May 9th

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I came across a New York Times article from June 6, 1965 just before baseball’s first amateur draft. The idea of the draft was to give the teams with the worst records access to the best new talent each year, so that you have a more even distribution of talent throughout the league and a more competitive league overall…you know, Communism. So, obviously, 40 years later, amateur...

May 8th

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musicdiary2012 : Day 1

During my morning reading of the internet, I came across a tweet by @nprmusic that asked: “Who all is participating in the #musicdiary2012?” I followed some links and found out that Nick Southall, whom I had never heard of before, is heading up a weeklong project where he and others are documenting everything they listen to this week, from May 7th to May 13th. I thought it sounded like...

May 8th

May 3rd

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

In July of 2010, I sat at my job listening to CSPAN Radio. I ended up listening to nearly all of the Elena Kagan Senate confirmation hearings, you know, as one does. As the Senate went through all of her public data, academic papers, memos, emails, etc. I amused myself by thinking about what this process will be like a few decades from now when people from my age group (Gen Y, Millennials, people...

Apr 29th

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Transom Story Workshop: Photos

I’ve been out in Woods Hole, Massachusetts interning with Atlantic Public Media/Transom.org since the beginning of March. In addition to the radio stuff I’m working on, for the last couple of weeks I’ve been taking photos of the Spring 2012 Transom Story Workshop. A bunch of my photos are now up on Transom.org. You can check out the photostream and track the progress of the...

Apr 17th

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Monmouth Prohibition: 10 Years Later

In January, I started working on a radio story about my hometown of Monmouth, Oregon and its history as the the last dry town on the West Coast. Its status as a dry town ended back in 2002 when residents voted for the first time to allow beer and wine sales. Election day 2012 will mark 10 years since this vote. I wanted to see how the arguments had held up. The nice sit-down restaurants that...

Apr 12th

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Re:sound

“First Love and 27 Other Firsts” got picked up by Re:sound, which is a show done by the folks over at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and airs on WBEZ in Chicago. Their most recent episode, The List Show, ends with “First Love.” The other stories in this episode are great, they include: The List - by Sean Cole, Ashley Ahearn, and Nick van der Kolk ...

Feb 25th

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First Love and 27 Other Firsts

I did short little story last week and posted it over on the Cowbird website. Cowbird is a place where people tell stories using photos, words, and sound. When I was invited to the site at the beginning of the month, the email mentioned that they were starting to collect “First Love” stories for Valentine’s Day. My immediate thought was, well, I don’t want to do that. But...

Feb 14th