Terrific time on the radio last night for All Hallows Eve Eve. I’ve talked before about VOID 1680 and my DJ character Dr. Jekyll, who takes calls from the lovelorn lycanthrope and brokenhearted banshee. This year, I invited my dear friend Tom Witherspoon to write the long-distance deadications. Tom used his horror-author powers to make a terrific story arc where all 3 callers were part of the same apocalyptic story.
This was a really good stretch of my creative muscles. It felt almost more like building a soundtrack for Tom’s story than my previous VOID 1680 episodes, which focus on the advice coming from the DJ. Working in the context of a single story required a higher level of sensitivity to the characters and the plot, and since the calls weren’t asking for advice like last years’ were, it felt right to be economical with my verbal response, and maybe a little more in-character in my song choices. Really it was 2 opportunities… one to practice yes-and, and one to think about music and written narrative.
The featured image “radio towers at sunset” is by Diane Krauthamer, CC-BY-NC-SA at https://flic.kr/p/2kUZAME. And it’s of the Tenleytown neighborhood, in DC.
