So, this week’s This American Life podcast has a very Starlee Kine-centric episode (originally aired August 24, 2007) in which she enlists the help of Phil Collins and Joe McGinty (ex-Psychadelic Furs) and Julia Greenberg to write a breakup song. I know this isn’t directly Wiretap related, but Starlee Kine has been mentioned in several Jonathan Goldstein National Post diaries as of late and she has appeared in quite a few Wiretap episodes (i.e. Negative Scanning).
Anyway, you can listen to the episode for free at ThisLife.org and you can listen to the resulting song here. There’s also a plug for the Post-It Note Reading Series in the episode, which, as I mentioned earlier, our hero JG is participating in soon at Bumbershoot 2008.
Also, Starlee’s (hopefully) fictitious intern mentioned in a Jonathan Goldstein National Post article from July 23, 2008 has a new blog posting up.
Speaking of blogs, this is how they’ll do it in the future.
Tags: Joe McGinty, Jonathan Goldstein, Julia Greenburg, Ruby Polygon, Starlee Kine, This American Life
October 4, 2008 at 6:21 am |
l LOVE your song and think you should sell it. I’ve listened to the This American Life program several times, and it makes me smile each time. I wrote a fight song for The Jacksonville Jaguars and had a blast writing the lyrics, creating the melody, singing the song and producing it. It’s not a break up song, but I loved the process of making the song, as you did. Thanks for sharing.