Catalogue of Ships: March 2006

Two plays for Chicagoans

I (Michael) am opening two theatre productions in Chicago this week.

The first is "The Ubu Plays" at Roosevelt University. It runs this weekend only, so hurry if you want to check out this surrealist classic.

The second is "The Bird and Mr. Banks" at the Live Bait Theater
It's a bizarre tale about a serial killer who falls for a small baby sparrow. There is beautiful music written and performed live by Tim Requarth. It runs for several weeks.

The New Website

If you have been listening for a while, you will notice that we now have a new website design. Hopefully, it will be easier for people to navigate and use. This page, previously the front page for our website, is now going to be our "News" section.

We will no longer be posting new episodes here. Instead we will post the latest episode on our new home page.

Old episodes can be found on our Archive page

This page is now reserved for any news about the show. You can subscribe to our RSS news feed (if you know how and use RSS feeds) with the feed URL to the left.

Thanks, as always, for listening.

-Michael

Episode 20 - Language is an Over-the-Counter Painkiller

Some high-school poetry from david.

Episode 20 - Language is an Over-the-Counter Painkiller

Episode 19 - Time

You actually get to hear David sing in this one.

Other than that (or including that...) it's a bit of a tear jerker. Enjoy.

Episode 19 - Time

Third Coast International Audio Festival Listening Room

Hi CoS listeners. As I mentioned on the show, Catalogue of Ships was invited to participate in a Third Coast Festival Listening Room event at the Steppenwolf Theatre this past Wednesday March, 8. The event was about podcasting. We represented the avant, artsy side of podcasts, I guess.

David couldn't make it, being in North Carolina and all. Instead, we pre-recorded some answers to questions we thought me might get and I played them as samples off my laptop (seen in the pictures).

The whole event was lots of fun. The woman in the photos is Julie Shapiro, who hosted the evening. In addition to CoS, the other guests were Bad at Sports, an hour long show about arts and culture here in Chicago, and Jones Franzel from PRX a group near and dear to Catalogue of Ships' heart.

I was asked to bring a sample of another podcast I liked, and naturally, I chose Love and Radio so check them out if you aren't listening already.

Third Coast says they will be podcasting a recording of the event soon, so I will let you know when it comes out, but I don't think it will be for a few weeks. If you are desperate to hear me being interviewed before then, send an e-mail to catalogueofships@gmail.com and I'll hook you up.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the event, it was great to meet some of our fans, and hopefully attract some new listeners. It was a lot of fun.

All photos by JoAnna McFadden