Saturday's show is dedicated to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who passed 4 years ago Sunday, February 5th. In my life: he is the reason we have this vortex in southeast Iowa. He is the reason KRUU radio exists. He is the reason I'm here. He Is. We'll feature songs from the CD Beauty by Vargo. Vargo is Ansgar Uffink and Stephanie Hundertmark. Vargo believes "that inner peace- serenity- in every single human being is an important requirement for peace in the world." Song titles from Beauty include "Get Back To Serenity", "Relax", "Pure Consciousness", "Happiness", "The Flow", "Intuition" and "Silence"- which "has been inspired by a poem of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi". "Flowing silence is love / shared silence is friendship / silence seen is infinity / vibrating silence is creation / expressed silence is beauty / maintained silence is strength / allowed silence is rest / received silence is joy / perceived silence is knowledge / silence alone is Being..."

Jai Guru Dev.

The Artist and The Descendents won Golden Globes "Best Motion Picture" in the  Comedy and Drama categories respectively. I saw The Descendents this week and feel confident it will win the Oscar for Best Picture. I highly recommend you see it in a theater. Hawaii is part of the story and it's beautiful. George Clooney and Shailene Woodley are excellent as father and daughter. I loved their family evolution. Sometimes when it looks like you're digressing, you may just be going around "an island".

We saw two good films on DVD: Beginners, a Golden Globes winner, and Director Tom Shadyac's spiritual documentary I Am, which is available at the Fairfield Public Library. Jan Carey shows the monthly free films there and we're encouraging her to consider this one. Quite fulfilling for those who resonate with the knowledge of Oneness and Love. [Click on "Read more" below.]

The world of movies is moving into the awards season. Sunday evening the Golden Globes gets things rolling toward Oscar night. The Artist leads the contenders with six nominations. This silent film has charmed critics, including our own Chris Busch and is the Oscar frontrunner. We'll alert you of films you may want to see by Oscar time, February 26.

The Los Angeles Times predicts Martin Scorsese's Hugo will win the Golden Globes Best Picture Drama. I hope so because we're hoping to bring Hugo 3-D to the wonderful State Theatre in Washington (photo by Craig Swift). As said before, Hugo 3-D's a diamond of a film which may be getting away before you’ve had a chance to experience it in 3-D, as it must be, to be fully appreciated. [Click on "Read more" below.]

Holidaytime is a happy time of year for movie fans, with oodles of splendid films released in anticipation of the award season, culminating with the Oscars on February 27th. We have lots to tell you about. Intrepid co-host Chris Busch has been on family holiday and has seen no less than 8 films. Among them: A Dangerous Method; The Artist (current Oscar buzz leader); Carnage; Mission Impossible 4 (perhaps the most entertaining); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (perhaps the most difficult to follow) and Steven Spielberg's epic War Horse. Shane and I just returned from Spielberg's other major release- The Adventures of Tintin, which indeed is "Indiana Jones on steroids".

We also want to alert you to Hugo 3-D. A diamond of a film which may be getting away before you’ve had a chance to experience it in 3-D, as it must be, to be fully appreciated.  It’s at once a marvelous homage to the history of film and a dazzling experience of the latest film technology. After a screening that James Cameron attended, he called the film a "masterpiece" and told (recently initiated) Director Martin Scorsese it was the best use of 3-D he had seen, including his own films (Avatar)."  Hugo 3-D's a magical and emotionally fulfilling experience, especially for those of us who resonate with “the 100-year-old tribe of watchers in the dark”. - Ty Burr; Boston Globe.

We’ll talk  about that and more, Friday at 12:30 PM, rebroadcast Sunday at noon. We’re The Filmosophers where “we give our filmosophy of the movies and have filmosophical discussions.”  
We wish you the Happiest of Holidays, we’re your teetotaling beer brothers: Miller & Busch.

If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they're made. - Georges Méliès; Hugo

Oh boy, our Christmas Eve show. Hear holiday music from this season's Pirate Satellite Christmas compilation and we'll feature Richard Souther's album Tesla's Christmas, an intriguing "experiment in Ancient Electronica Christmas Carols". I asked Richard about this and he wrote: "Nikola Tesla was an amazing inventor and deeply religious man. The word 'ancient instruments,' in my mind, can mean everything from a 2000 year old Jewish Shofar ram's horn to a 'Moody Blues type' Mellotron string sound. I chose sounds to create something that could remind the listener of something vaguely familiar...yet not quite distinguishable. My dearest friend, Eric Persing, developed a virtual computer instrument called Omnisphere, which I used to create most of the Tesla soundscape."

We love Christmas, holiday music and You. Enjoy. Live stream always available @kruufm.com. We'll post the playlist afterward. - Shane, it's Christmas again! -Oh yeah!

From "Letters of Note": In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described as 'counting codes'. Having just detected cosmic radio signals for the first time, Tesla immediately believed them to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars, and later said of the experience, 'The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another'. [Click on "Read more" to continue...]

Greetings and holiday salutations once again from Pirate Satellite

This Saturday morning will be yet another installment of our all holiday music shows, from 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Central.

We'll hear music and sounds from last season's Pirate Satellite audio Christmas card: "Sounds Like Christmas", plus other surprises, all in celebration of a cool yule. We'll post the playlist afterward.

We'd like alert you to the best resource we've found for Christmas music: Stubby's House Of Christmas. Stubby's "List" of holiday music releases alone makes it worth a visit. We've had that page bookmarked the last two seasons and highly recommend it. Thank you Stubby for helping Pirate Satellite find just the right holiday euphony to fill our Christmas compilations with the ear candy we love so much.  

Yo-Ho-Ho. Enjoy!  

"Little boys have action toys for brains.

We're living proof it can last a long time"

Dear Claus,

Me and my girls are going to a Christmas crab boil. Ronald the Red-Nosed Reindeer got sick. So I gassed up the heavy-Chevy so you could make your rounds. Stay warm while you're out spreading Christmas joy, and here's a tape for you to ride out to. I even posted the playlist @kruufm.com for ya.

Love,

Mrs. Claus

Greetings and holiday salutations once again from Pirate Satellite!

This Saturday morning will be another installment of our all holiday music shows, from 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Central.

Originally airing in 2006, much of it is remixed holiday classics as well as original holiday songs. During the holidays we include other genres of the music world, all in celebration of a cool yule season! We'll post the playlist. Yo-Ho-Ho Enjoy!  

-What's your favorite Christmas song?

- Forest (9)- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

- Shane (5) Ahhh, I like race cars...

Greetings and holiday salutations from Pirate Satellite!

We play ambient electronic music, heard every Saturday morning, from 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Central. It's a fave time of the year- holiday music time.

Much of it will be remixed holiday classics, plus original holiday songs. During the holidays we include other genres of the music world, all in celebration of a cool yule! We'll post the playlist afterward. Yo-Ho-Ho Enjoy!

This edition of Pirate Satellite sponsored by Manger 6   We'll leave the Star out for Ya.

"Hi, this is Shane Miller, I love you guys!"

Inspired by Wednesday night's Best Obscure Electronic Music show on Fringe Toast (which can be heard again this Tuesday 11/22 at Midnight) we'll roll out some obscure electronic music of our own. It won't be a best-of, but will include some of our recent faves, and have two similarities to Wednesday's Fringe Toast playlist- a different song by one of the same groups and a different mix of a same song DJ UndergroundMan played.

Also hear music from Bent, Language Lab remixed by Groove Armada, G-Spliff from an album where "Tango Meets Chillout". Plus Les Hommes, a trio from London who "work a clean '60s jazz prototype, using organ, drums, and vibraphone". Get "Lost In A Moment", a beautiful electronic soundscape from the duo Shrift- a classic he plays electronics, she sings vocals (Yaz, Eurythmics).

Evan Bartholomew drops his Bluetech moniker to get "Between Mastery and Mystery" and MNO does the best cover of the Beatles "Julia" in recent memory- even if Beatles expert extraordinaire Andy MacKenzie begs to differ. That and more.

Ambient electronica, Saturday morning at 9 Central. Live stream @kruufm.com We'll post the playlist afterward.

"Mystically speaking there's no difference between you and another person." - Pirate Satellite Wayne Dyer Unity mix