{"id":34835,"date":"2015-07-03T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=34835"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:24:39","slug":"the-misadventures-of-eddie-turner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/07\/03\/the-misadventures-of-eddie-turner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misadventures of Eddie Turner #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Misadventures of Eddie Turner AKA DJ LiteBrite #2
\n<\/span><\/strong>-Finding Your Name<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Week Two of this journal for class, and the second story from the radio station.\u00a0T<\/span>his is going to be about trying to find my DJ name.\u00a0It might sound like an easy task, but it\u2019s pretty much like giving yourself a nickname…and that can be a daunting task, because this will be who you are on the air and how everyone will know you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Wednesday, the day of my show. I showed up early to look through the stacks and to plan my show out. I was in the Music Library staring at the wall when James walked in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHey, Eddie how\u2019s it going?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, hey James, it\u2019s going good. I am just looking for CDs. What are you up to?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

James walked over and began to inspect my stack of CDs I\u2019d made, \u201cI\u2019m on air right now, and I saw you in here.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019re the DJ before me? Cool,\u201d I said pulling a They Might Be Giants album off the shelf. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYep, I didn\u2019t know you were after me.\u00a0 <\/span>I think Matt is after you as well, so it should be a pretty awesome couple shows of music.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019m sure it will be, I think your song is ending there James.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDamn it. See you in a minute.\u201d James ran into the studio. <\/span><\/p>\n

As I watched\u00a0through the window I saw James grab the mic.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHey everybody, James Walters here, and you\u2019re listening to KDSK. It\u2019s about three in the afternoon and we\u2019ve got some great music coming your way. Coming up at the top of the hour, my good friend Eddie will be taking over the mic,”\u00a0I heard through the speakers. <\/span><\/p>\n

I finished grabbing CDs and walked into the Studio and sat down with my whole stack of about twenty albums. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEddie, have you picked a DJ name yet? James asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sorting through the CDs, \u201cNo, do you think I need one?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t hurt. I\u2019ve been working on one for myself without much luck.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell do you have any ideas for one?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou got to come up with one yourself, dude.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFine, I\u2019ll think of something, how much time do I have before I go on?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

James looked at the clock on the sound board, \u201cAbout five minutes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlright I\u2019ll put my first CD in and line up an ID.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I slid They Might Be Giants into the top CD Player, and turned the knob to select the fourth track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell Eddie, this is my last song so get ready.\u201d James said moving to another chair in the room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAren\u2019t you going to leave?\u201d I said as I found the ID I wanted on the computer. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will. I just want to see how you start it off.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFine, just stay quiet.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat down and waited for the song to come to an end and played the ID, featuring some artist saying the call letters and city. I\u2019m not sure who they are but it works for me.\u00a0 <\/span>I pull the mic in front of me, \u201cHello everyone, DJ LiteBrite at your service, and we\u2019ve got three hours of great music coming your way.\u00a0 <\/span>Call in any requests you may have and I\u2019ll do my best to get it on the air. We\u2019ll be starting with They Might Be Giants as well as some other good stuff.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I pressed the CD 1 button on the sound board and the music started playing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDJ LiteBrite is the best you could come up with? What\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d James was laughing so hard he almost fell out of his chair. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat? It was the first thing I could think of, I\u2019ll change it later but for now I\u2019m DJ LiteBrite.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After that James just sat there for a bit, watching me, and looking at his phone.<\/span><\/p>\n

The light on the wall indicating a phone call was coming started flashing.\u00a0 <\/span>I picked up, \u201cKDSK.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHey, great start to the show. I\u2019ve got a quick request.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSure thing, what is it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCould you play something by Husker Du?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I can get that on for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThanks anything would be great.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHave a good day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou too,\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I hung up the phone and looked at James. \u201cWho\u2019s Husker Du?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReally, you don\u2019t know who they are?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>James got up and walked to the wall and pulled off a CD. \u201cThis is Husker Du, did they ask for anything in particular?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, he just asked me to play something.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He looked at the back of the case, \u201cHere play number two, Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>He handed me the album. <\/span><\/p>\n

I played his suggestion and it was pretty good.\u00a0 <\/span>I ended up asking my listeners if they had a better suggestion for my DJ name, and no one called in this time. I\u2019m still on the hunt for the perfect DJ name. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Signing off,
\nEddie, DJ LiteBrite<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Misadventures of Eddie Turner AKA DJ LiteBrite #2 -Finding Your Name Week Two of this journal for class, and the second story from the radio station.\u00a0This is going to be about trying to find my DJ name.\u00a0It might sound like an easy task, but it\u2019s pretty much like giving yourself a nickname…and that can be a daunting task, because this will be who you are on the air and how everyone will know you.\u00a0 It was Wednesday, the day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":34841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226],"tags":[3169,3172,3170,3171,3173],"class_list":["post-34835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","tag-creative-writing","tag-eddie-turner","tag-fictional","tag-kdsk","tag-misadventures-of-eddie-turner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/KDSK.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}