psychoceramics: Radio Jihad

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

The following is from HotWired;  file under "weird audio recordings".

 -- acb

>                   Radio Jihad
> 
>              If you live in America's
>              Bible Belt and favor a
>              secular lifestyle, you've
>              no doubt been in the
>              minority, surrounded and
>              out-gunned on all sides
>              by devout, holy-rolling,
>              Bible-thumping
>              Christians. Well fret no
>              further, because your
>              secular prayers have now
>              been answered with
>              Brother Russell's
>              RadioJihad, a CD of
>              sneaky prank phone calls
>              to Christian radio         [Melba]
>              stations deep in the
>              heart of Texas. Brother
>              Russell handles several
>              alias voices admirably,
>              but his most memorable
>              invention is Melba
>              Jackson, an elderly woman
>              of indeterminate age who
>              wins the hearts of
>              unsuspecting call-in
>              program hosts, until that
>              inevitable moment where
>              she either shoots
>              herself, begins speaking
>              in gibberish, or simply
>              starts laughing like a
>              hyena.
> 
>              An offshoot of the clever Brother Russell has
>              Dallas-based Snake Oil    obviously done his
>              zine, which monitors the  homework, slowly drawing
>              more outlandish antics of each host into a
>              Christian culture, Radio  religious conversation
>              Jihad keeps the mood      that suddenly turns and
>              light with some           confronts his narrow
>              righteous, toe-tappin'    beliefs, from the
>              hillbilly gospel music    violence of the Old
>              sandwiched between calls. Testament to tasteless
>              Highlights include a      jokes about Jews and
>              lengthy discussion about  queers, or strange voodoo
>              a Christian conspiracy    curses - not exactly what
>              book involving trained    the radio personality
>              orangutans who storm the  expected when he started
>              Vatican to install a      the night's shift. Radio
>              giant intelligent         Jihad reminds us that,
>              crystal, an actual on-air even in this age of
>              healing that ends in      technofetishism,
>              screaming pain, and an    sometimes all you really
>              increasingly pissed-off   need is a telephone to
>              radio host who finally    entertain. Fans may share
>              snaps and says, "So many  their testimony with
>              of these calls are coming Melba herself.
>              from the homosexual
>              community, and it's so    Radio Jihad: US$12.
>              obvious when they call,   Available from Goy
>              you can tell.... They are Division, Dept. R, PO Box
>              a stench in the nostrils  650239, Austin, TX 78765.
>              of God."
> 
>           Fetish contributors: Jack Boulware, Rachel Flores.
> 
>           Previously in Fetish ...
> 
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