life after radio

this is great! keep posting and i’ll keep listening! xoxo em

dear sarah buchanan,
i am sending you a lock of my hair. right now. no really.

the question remains: What happened to Jeanie?
Excellent work Sarah.. I listen to podcasts all day and it’s trippy to hear one with voices I know. Thanks for putting this into the world and please keep em coming!
Matt the black, I miss you man. Life on Cedar Hill Rd. still haunts me. I go to bed with the sound of djembe drums pounding in my head and it is comforting. Life now bears little resemblance to those carefree days.. except for living with Jim, drawing all day, eating so much toast and the ubiquity of druuuuuuuuuuuggzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Renfrew or Bust I LOVE YOU ALL!
-matt shane

Who could possibly read a book or play chess while listening to such wonderful post-radio goodness?

The music cue in the “letter to the listeners” is really funny.

Sarah…. sigh. The right thing at the right time. Dig that Mr. the Black was heavily featured, and a little snippet of Emersons laugh!!!

You and your gang have made my day bright,

-shaver

Dear Sarah. Now that we’re both here on first base… what do we do? You’re the baseball playin’ one.
Awesome. I laughed, I cried, I ate that soup.

my parents met once before my dad was drafted to vietnam. they corresponded for years, met up in hawaii for an r&r and got engaged. he went back to the war and she went back to kingston to make wedding plans. letter writing is in my genes and i fall in love all the time over letters… i can’t escape it!

Wow…..absolutely delightful! I had to put supper on hold, turn up the volume, tell my dog to stop chewing her bone so loudly, tell the cat to stop purring and just sit and listen, and laugh, and ponder. Then…..I had to get up and dance around the living room to the last musical score. When I was in my 20′s I had a satin wrapped bundle of love letters that I had read and reread many many times. Ahh, love….. Thank you so much, I am sending this link on to all my friends, keep up the great work1

i enjoyed the podcast but its obvious that you have stolen the “this american life” playbook and copied it. not that this is a bad thing but that would be my only criticism. radio shows like these are quite common and in order to stand out you have to bring something new and that encompasses the uniqueness of the city you are from. hopefully along the way you find your voice, best of luck, ill be listening!

Hi Sarah, this was beautiful… Thanks to Emily for her angelic voice… I too have a great love story based in NZ — Hokitika, Motueka, Hass Pass… I don’t think I could ever destroy pictures from that time. I also have a small locked box with momentos from the her — letters, little notes, a flower from her dress, a print of her lips, an old perfume bottle…

P.S. What was Beth’s surprise?

I did the dishes. It was so nice. Keep em’ coming Sarah.

Sarah, I loved the Love Letters podcast. As you know, I saved all of your Dad’s letters to me, but his idea of a love letter meant it contained an update on what he was doing, then a line saying he missed me, and the word “love” in the sign-off. (That was really exciting, when he first used that “love, george” ending.) I think it’s that way for a lot of people, or I wouldn’t mention it here! Many people are uptight about expressing romantic thoughts in writing.

I am jealous of your many comments! That’s what I want, for my blog — which as you know is about places I have lived, the wrenching disruption of moving between places, and how we have become a “dislocated” society (http://web.me.com/c.m.buchanan/dis.location/Blog/Blog.html if anyone is interested)

I like your radio.

this was great. “now they would probably have it tested” ha ha ha.