Wretched City Radio
by DAMARIN
A sepia sunset expands over the horizon. A town stuck in shades of greyscale. A brown light everybody sees and yet no-one acknowledges – a surreal film-noir horribly aware of its own existence as a film-noir - a radio show host overwhelmed with existential nonchalance. Listen to how this fictional Wretched City reacts to an ever-changing, ever-expanding America, both inside of its reach and outside of it… The citizens respond through their sensuous worldviews, through their corruption, through their paradoxical freedom, through their strange religions. James Harlot speaks from his lonely red microphone inside his booth – inside an ephemeral, cyclical city, tangible in its laws of reality and yet unlikely. You drive in at dusk, unsure of how you got here, overwhelmed by the red, cloudless sky. As the static clears you hear the station, you hear the strange greeting - Welcome to Wretched City Radio – 606Fm, the official radio of the capital city of Greater Amsterdam. A missing State… Bu
Episodes
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Episode 6: Soul Delay
James Harlot explores synchronicities, numbers, lucky digits, pattern recognition, the seduction of the signs, depictions of food, inquiries on soul delay - what is the phenomenon known as 'soul delay'? "Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like...
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Episode 5: Fourth Model Colt Derringer
James Harlot begins today's broadcast with an exposé on the War on Bugs (significantly more present in Wretched City than the infamous federal War on Drugs). This War on Bugs could be interpreted as a reaction to bugkind's war against mankind. He continues with Current Events and ends with...
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Episode 4: Interview with a Man Twice Dead - Harry Lime
Wretched City Radio resumes after a painfully long hiatus with a mesmerizing interview - fictional radio host James Harlot interrogates fictional criminal-entrepreneur/philantropist-rogue/conman-and-delight Harry Lime, a character born from the imagination of Orson Welles - featuring many…
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Episode 3: Sandy Satire's Taxi Service
James Harlot takes a little detour during his usual brodcast to present a community story - the story of Sandy Satire, the Scottish-American cab driver with the face of a bear cub and how he went on a hundred dollar ride at 7.30 AM one sepia-hued morning. James also meets a woman with blue skin…
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Episode 2: Temple of the Hookers
In this broadcast, James Harlot recounts the reactions of his beloved Wretched City to the events of 1968's Chicago protests - including the "sermon" of a certain Jesus Beelzebub, the preacher of the Temple of the Hookers. Featuring Senior Beelzebub's morning chant and his tolling of the Black...
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Episode 1: Improvising the News
A cryptic excerpt of a broadcast lost in the mysteries of time and obscured by unsettling frequencies. You've tuned into the strange sepia light - a dip into an alternate world of surreal noir. The host, James Harlot, discusses various wretched developments and opinions - including the…
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About this show
A sepia sunset expands over the horizon. A town stuck in shades of greyscale. A brown light everybody sees and yet no-one acknowledges – a surreal film-noir horribly aware of its own existence as a film-noir - a radio show host overwhelmed with existential nonchalance. Listen to how this fictional Wretched City reacts to an ever-changing, ever-expanding America, both inside of its reach and outside of it… The citizens respond through their sensuous worldviews, through their corruption, through their paradoxical freedom, through their strange religions. James Harlot speaks from his lonely red microphone inside his booth – inside an ephemeral, cyclical city, tangible in its laws of reality and yet unlikely. You drive in at dusk, unsure of how you got here, overwhelmed by the red, cloudless sky. As the static clears you hear the station, you hear the strange greeting - Welcome to Wretched City Radio – 606Fm, the official radio of the capital city of Greater Amsterdam. A missing State… Bu
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DAMARIN