AMV on Public Radio - July 4th at 8 pm

[Sleeves]

New Hampshire Public Radio will be playing "Sarro's Balloon" on July 4th at 8 pm EST.

This is a slightly altered version of the story that played during the Night of 100 podcasts.

If you missed it and want to listen live, it will be streaming from their site (http://www.nhpr.org/).

If they get good feedback they'll give me a few more chances. As it is, I have one more shot next Christmas.

For me this is pretty exciting. It's really my dream to be able to AMV as a job on a weekly basis. But it's also a crazy longshot to try to get a fictional show on the radio. There's just not that much demand/interest.

Anyway - this is the first time I've gotten paid to do exactly what I want to do. So even if it's fleeting I'm pretty happy and shocked that the real world connected up to my dream world with a couple bucks rolling around on the floor. Never thought that would happen.

[Hottub]

Dude, getting paid to do AMV? You are on your way Bud!

I will definitely listen (can't guarantee my sobriety on Independence day, but WTF!)

I'll also link it to the Listening Thread.

Swanny and Al will be thrilled.

Break a leg!

Tub.

[Badinia]

Hachi Machi! You're the David Sedaris of New Hampshire!

Except, you know. Not ghey.

[mikeyboy]

That's fantastic! Congratulations!

[Epschtein]

awesomeness.

[Tall_James]

That is incredible news! Congratulations!

I'm in NH this week for vacation with the family and have been listening to NHPR for the slight chance that I may hear our favorite Lemon Mountain resident between visits to StoryLand and Santa's Village.

So glad to hear that you going to make some coin for this instead of them giving you some lousy pledge-drive tote bag for your efforts.

[Lawson]

It's really my dream to be able to AMV as a job on a weekly basis.

Hey it's my dream to be able to listen to a new AMV on a weekly basis!

If everyone who has enjojed a Sleeves story, song, video, play (did I get everything?) listens to the 4th of July show and sends feedback... well, that dream might be a little closer.

And thanks for making the past year and a half since I first heard Fez of the Flies a lot more interesting.

Congratulations buddy!

[patsopinion]

how do i submit positive feed back?

[Lawson]

how do i submit positive feed back?

I know for archived stories on the NHPR (www.nhpr.org) site, you can put the name of the reporter or performer in their search engine to find the page for the story and use the add comment button... ie: The Plows (http://www.nhpr.org/node/14079)

maybe the same for live streams?

[Sleeves]

all ya nice people...thanks.

the feedback they need is from the normal new hampshire listener - and they're pretty savvy about figuring out who's who.

:)

[Lawson]

all ya nice people...thanks.

the feedback they need is from the normal new hampshire listener - and they're pretty savvy about figuring out who's who.

:)

So what exactly would that make us if we're not from New Hampshire? :huh:

If we all camp out on the mountain for the 4th of July weekend would we count as New Hampshire listeners?... ya know, just sayin'

[OGC]

all ya nice people...thanks.

the feedback they need is from the normal new hampshire listener - and they're pretty savvy about figuring out who's who.

:)

Isn't that an oxymoron ?


I keeeed, I spent the early years of my life in Cow Hamster.

[Sleeves]

Isn't that an oxymoron ?


I keeeed, I spent the early years of my life in Cow Hamster.

whereabouts?

we're all oxymorons up here...

[Lawson]

It's official:

New Hampshire Public Radio 4th of July Special Programming (http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546)

There's a link on the main NHPR (http://www.nhpr.org/) page where it can be streamed.

wonder if we'll still hear from Sleeves once he becomes a big, fancy radio star?, hmmm..

[bobrobot]

WOW, CONGRATS!!!
Couldn't happen to a nicer, more deserving guy!!!
I sincerely hope your dream comes true!!!
I will listen online whilst wearing my AMV bloomers!!!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/boboAMVbloomers.jpg

[Hottub]

Dude,
I apologize most sincerely for missing the show. However I was with some old friends, patriotically exercising my liver.
Is it available anywhere for download?

[Reephdweller]

Dude,
I apologize most sincerely for missing the show. However I was with some old friends, patriotically exercising my liver.
Is it available anywhere for download?


It sure is...


http://www.atomsmotion.com/uploads/amv32nhpr.mp3

[Reephdweller]

I love this from the NHNPR site...

8-9 pm: “Sarro’s Balloon”, produced and voiced by Sherwin Sleeves (http://www.atomsmotion.com/)
Visit this program's website (http://www.atomsmotion.com/) | It’s the 4th of July and Sherwin’s plans to watch the fireworks from his cliff-side vista are canceled by cloudy weather. Unable to sleep, he goes out for a walk and is shocked to see a hot air balloon floating down toward him through the dark sky. The balloon lands. Collapsed on the floor of the balloon’s basket, Sherwin discovers a body – and he concludes the poor balloonist must have died mid-flight. His investigation takes him inside the basket where he hopes to recover the body from the balloon before the balloon is blown off into the wilderness. Unfortunately, he is not quick enough and the balloon is swept up into the sky with Sherwin still aboard. The balloonist – Andrew Lee – turns out to be alive. And he’s searching for something – and with Sherwin’s accidental aid, he finds it.


http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546 (http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546)

I will be adding some positive comments in there for Sleeves, this is great. Congrats and I wish you and AMV all the best.

[Sleeves]

I love this from the NHNPR site...



http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546 (http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546)

I will be adding some positive comments in there for Sleeves, this is great. Congrats and I wish you and AMV all the best.

very cool buddy Reeph!

the NHPR broadcast went really well and I got a couple other hour long slots (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas now).

[Reephdweller]

I went on a good long ride around the island today and got to hear the entire broadcast of Sarro's Balloon with very little interruptions. I loved it. The whole story, the setup and music selections that accompanied between sections.

Bravo Sleeves!

http://kikidesign.hautetfort.com/files/Applause.gif

[Reephdweller]

I posted my comments on the NHPR website, hopefully it be display soon enough on the site.

Support Sleeves people!

[Reephdweller]

They finally posted my comment

Sarro's Balloon (http://www.nhpr.org/node/16546#comment-3306) Submitted by Tony Reefaletto (not verified) on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 00:09.
By happenstance I was making my way around the dial on the 4th when I decided to give NHPR a listen for my long ride home. I was thrilled by the wonderful storytelling of a particular broadcast Sherwin Sleeves story of Sarro's Balloon. It was such a riveting and visual story that I actually sat in my driveway after making it home for an additional ten minutes glued to my seat to hear the rest of it. I felt like I was listening to a classic, the very reason I first became addicted to radio in the first place.
Thank you NHPR for the wonderful treat. I hope this is not the last of Sherwin Sleeves broadcasts, keep them coming. My kudos to you.