Radio8 — do you remember it?

[Doreen Peri]

Oh what a great project this was! We only got 4 shows finished and broadcast but I had dozens of mp3s which were created and submitted by many Studio8 poets and musicians in the pipeline ready to be broadcast for future shows!

I was reminiscing the other night listening to these 4 shows and I’m telling you, we were really setting the fricking internet on fire back then! This was such a fantastic project!

What happened? I don’t know. I didn’t continue it. Something happened and I don’t remember what and the Radio8 show was abandoned. By me. Life got in the way of my dreams I suppose…,

Anyway..,, if you missed it or you’d like to reminisce and listen again, here’s the link! Enjoy!

https://www.studioeight.tv/radio8/radio8.html

Full shows on the left hand column…. About an hour each. Individual pieces on the right. Enjoy!

“Just look what we have done! Two heads are thicker than one, two heads!”

[saw]

wow...so cool ....Thank You ... thank you...I started off with Judih, and You and Theda Spracklin ( Hester Prynne ) and the 3 of you brightened my morning.....a great start to the day...I will come back later for more...have some chores to do, but boosted by these gems...

[Doreen Peri]

Awesome! Yay! Glad you’re enjoying it, Steve!

[mnaz]

Amazing stuff. I had the pleasure and privilege of seeing Theda sing on a live radio broadcast in Astoria, OR at the local radio station in the summer of 2004. There were little kids dancing in the studio as she sang. I also met Jim Furnish on that trip.

Seven months later, I visited Theda's place again and met Glorious Amok, who was staying with Hester/Theda. Then I gave Glorious/Kari a ride to downtown Seattle! Ah, those Litkicks and early S8 days... I'll definitely check out more of these pieces when I have time.

[Doreen Peri]

Mnaz— I’m so glad you got the opportunity to meet them! I met Kari and her brother in NYC when we went up there to read poetry 2002 maybe? I can’t remember the year. Would have loved to have met Theda and Jim Furnish. Jim’s gone now, you know.

I see Theda and Kari on Facebook regularly.

Every piece in Radio8 was performed by someone in our writing community here on Studio8. I’m glad you’re taking the time to listen to some of them.

[mnaz]

Absolutely. This is remembrance and rediscovery. It's hard for me to articulate the full extent of what Litkicks meant to me after I happened onto it 22 years ago after googling Jack Kerouac on the then still-kinda-new internet, and I knew right away that I had to join the place and try to hold my own with its artists and poets and I had no experience in that kind of world at that point.