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Orange Noise Radio is getting closer and closer. I can feel it. Can you?
We’re ironing out the weekly schedule, playlist and more.
Since I’ll be heading to Nigeria for two weeks next week, I would imagine the station will go live around November 1.
But until then, we’re adding more and more music, more and more programming and I’m having fun.
Want a tease? Check out the current stream at: www.lighthouse21.com.
Here’s our current program lineup (all times CST):

Sunday:

11 a.m. – encounter (with Brian Treadaway)

1 p.m. – Soul2Soul (with Mike Beck)

7 p.m. – Spin 180 (with Matt Mungle)
Mon-Fri:
Noon – Powertalk (with Rick Walker)
Monday:

11 a.m. – encounter (with Brian Treadaway)
Friday:

8 p.m. – Renew (with Aaron Lehmann)

9 p.m. – Headphonaught’s Music Store (with Thomas Mathie)
Saturday:

1 p.m. – Soul2Soul (with Mike Beck)

3 p.m. – Renew (with Aaron Lehmann)

4 p.m. – Headphonaught’s Music Store (with Thomas)

7 p.m. – ?? (with myself – Jonathan Blundell)

I’m still considering a name for my program. I’ve considered Lighthouse 21 and Powerline, but they’ve both been used and I’d like something new, so feel free to email/leave your suggestions.
Also, if you’ve got an idea or program you’d like to see added to Orange Noise Radio, drop me a note.

We were able to record Kinky’s message yesterday at the DeSoto Chamber Luncheon and it’s online now.
To listen to the file, click here or I’ll have it on my podcast in a few minutes.

From multiple sources:

U2 will help reopen the New Orleans Superdome on September 25th, by performing before the start of the Saints’ home game against the Atlanta Falcons. The band will be joined by the punk rock trio Green Day for a version of the song “The Saints Are Coming,” which was originally recorded by the Scottish group the Skids. The appearance will be featured on Monday Night Football on ESPN, and the audio will be streamed live over the rhapsody.com music service. In addition, a download of “The Saints Are Coming” will be sold by rhapsody.com soon after the performance, with the proceeds going to the Music Rising charity that U2 guitarist the Edge helped set up to get instruments back in the hands of New Orleans musicians.
The Edge said, “My visits to New Orleans gave me a firsthand look at the devastation which tragically destroyed the lives of thousands. The area’s rich and spirited culture must continue to be restored. Providing musical instruments through Music Rising will not only help the professional musicians, but all the churches and schools in need.”

Looking for a Bible study idea? I just came across this random site tonight that offers Bible studies based around Barney Fife and the gang on The Andy Griffeth Show.

The Andy Griffith Show is a unique television series in that it never goes out of style. Some viewers even suggest that the show is more popular today than during its original eight-year run. A glance at the membership of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (TAGSRWC) would seem to support this opinion. Looking back, there were several notable series from that classic TV era so the question becomes, what makes The Andy Griffith Show special? And furthermore, why is it remembered above the others?
I’ve often heard people say, “I wish we could go back to Mayberry; back to a simpler time when life was far less complicated”. However, even a cursory glance at the decade of the original series run reveals anything but a simple lifestyle. The threat of nuclear annihilation, civil unrest, and political assassinations were just a few realities of the turbulent sixties. But it was during this time that The Andy Griffith Show enjoyed its primetime success. Do people really want to return to the events of the 1960s, or is there something about the attitude of this television show that provides the appeal?
Reflecting on the series, the characters are what people most remember. The names Andy Taylor, Barney Fife, and Gomer Pyle instantly produce memories of a particular show or situation. Most often the comedic interaction between the characters comes to mind, but other impressions surface as well. We remember Andy for his selfless attitude and ability to find good in any situation. Barney had the best of intentions, but his methods always seemed to backfire. And Gomer may have seemed a bit naïve (“nave” as Barney would say), but his compassion toward others was undoubtedly genuine.

Friedman joined his fellow candidates running against Perry and criticized the TAKS test.
“I’ve said no teacher left behind,” Friedman said. “In order to accomplish this we’re going to have to leave one governor behind. Education has dropped to 50th. We’re last and Guam and Samoa are sneaking up on us. But I want to put the teachers back in charge. I want to appoint people to education positions who have actually seen the inside of the classroom. Teaching is the noblest profession of them all. So the teachers are getting screwed around. They’re playing with their social security and Perry finally promised them $1,500, that’s about what it amounts to. But I really want to do something for the teachers. For starters I want to get rid of the TAKS test. There’s not a teacher in Texas that likes the TAKS test – not a good teacher. This test has a whole generation of kids who aren’t quite sure if the Civil War took place here or in Europe – it wasn’t on the test. They’ve never heard of Mark Twain – he wasn’t on the test.
Friedman also plans to bring local retirees back to the schools to help students learn.
“I want to bring in the Texas Peace Corps. It won’t cost the taxpayers a dime,” Friedman said. “Its retired people with the most love, wisdom and knowledge to give come back to the public schools and teach shop art, music, vocation and life experiences.”

Dallasblog.com weighed in on the blog wars between Frontburner and The Observer:

This morning in D Magazine’s online Blog Front Burner, D Editor Tim Rogers complained of the Dallas Observer’s Jim Schutze’s reporting on the Trinity River as so bad it had to be biased. Said Rogers:
“But Schutze is so far off-target on the Trinity Project that it gives me the fantods. He’s so wrong that I find it hard to believe he’s doing it by accident. Honestly, I’m troubled. Just doesn’t make sense.”
Schutze was so incensed that he responded on the Dallas Observer’s Unfair Park Blog.
“Tim Rogers posted a long item today on the D magazine blog FrontBurner accusing me of writing deceptively about the Trinity River project. Some personal innuendo was made, which I will get to at the end of this way-too-long post.”…
Even in the good old days when the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald were battling to the death you couldn’t have gotten this kind of real time exchange. Blog wars are a lot more fun.