Save the Date

For all you hardcore kids out there. Check this out.

p.s. IT’S TODAY

I’m sure many of you have seen the fliers around campus for Mojo Nation, playing Flat Tuesdays this Friday. I’ve received an e-mail from their manager informing me that they would love to be interviewed on our radio station. Awesome, right? Too bad I can’t do it, or I would totally lord my position over all of you peon DJs. So I’m turning it over to you guys, if you want to interview them, shoot me an email (johnvon1@umbc.edu) and I’ll get you in touch with their people. If you need help setting anything up in the studio, contact Alex or Rostam. This is a pretty limited offer, so act fast.

Your friendly neighborhood music director,

John von Gunten

Most of you don’t owe me cookies - the rest of you do.  And Liz - you owe me a cake.For those of you who owe me cookies, you may want this information.  

1. No eating or drinking in the booth - if you eat in there you can take care of the rats and crap that are going to start living in there.
2.  Vinyls in the windows of the booth aren’t cool - put them up there and we’ll assume you’re doing something shady, like building a bong out of common household items.
3. We need DJs for the Halloween Fest SGA’s putting on - if you’re interested, send Alex an email.  We need people from all genres so if you want to protest this amazing Pagan holiday I would recommend signing up to be the Christian Rock DJ.  
4. Fliers - we need some.  The vandalism on the Engineering Building sign is cool, and the stickers on the trash cans are pretty boss, but seriously lets try and walk the straight and narrow sometimes.
5. DJ Tron 3001….coming soon to a station near you.
6. Live Broadcasting from events will be starting up soon, so attendance to sporting events can drop even more.
7.  New mailing list (wmbcradiodjs@lists.umbc.edu) - join or die.
8. The ass bin isn’t there just for us to mock the person who takes the Bo Bice CD out of it.  Give away some of that shit to unsuspecting listeners.  Get creative with your giveaways - I don’t care if you drop those discs out of an airplane with a food drop, just get rid of them.
9. Ops and Music Directors will be having office hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during Free Hour (12-1 for those of you who haven’t left your dorm room during your entire time here).  Those hours will be posted as soon as I feel like not paying attention in class again.
10.  We need a webmaster - Mary Poppins (Aka Rostam) isn’t doing a very good job of it, or he’s just lazy - you decide.  But seriously, if you all are going to whine about the lack of website awesomeness then do something about it.
11. Guerilla  dance parties and random live events are totally cool - you have my permission to go crazy.
12. I am your amazing contact for day to day issues - stop harassing Alex about stupid crap like you don’t know where the line-in cable plugs in on your computer, or you can’t find something because the punk who’s show is before yours walked off with it.  I don’t mind emails - they make me feel popular and loved - but if you ask me where the line-in cable gets plugged in, I’ll spread vicious lies involving you and a donkey.
13. If you have a key to the station you need to return that shit.  I don’t have a key and I want a key because I’m in charge and having a key demonstrates my position of power.  But really, we want the keys back.
14. Read all the instructions first before emailing me the answer. DJs pick a 5 digit number starting with the number 7. Then add 83 to it, divide by 12, and square it.  Disregard the last 3 directions and email me your answer.
15. Read all the instructions first before emailing me the answer.  Ops pick a 5 digit number starting with the number 5.  Then add 326, divide by 72, then take the square root of the resulting number.  Disregard the last 3 directions and email me your answer.
16. If you have suggestions, email them to me or the proper Staff member so we can disregard them.
17. The most important part of the meeting: Jesus Man and his Holy Magic Easel need to be destroyed.  We have taken this responsibility upon ourselves, and now this is the only task that matters.
18. Next meeting will be October 15th - if you can’t make it I will expect a $50 deposit to my off-shore account. 

As of right now (3:30pm, September 30, 2008) the stream is down and the keyboard for the DJ computer isn’t working. Rest assured, we’re working hard to fix both problems and don’t anticipate this to last very long. Thanks for understanding, please don’t send any nasty e-mails.

Your friendly neighborhood music director,

John von Gunten

UPDATE: Everything is fine. Nothing is broken.

Your dedicated and hardworking staff bring good news. The updated schedule for the year is up. You have to scroll down a lot, but we figure it builds suspense.

Also we just purchased equipment for a new (read:better) DJ tron and equipment to enable sports broadcasting. More updates coming as developments change.

Alex

Attention DJ’s. If you’re not receiving e-mails from the DJ list send me an e-mail so that I can add you. If you are already on the e-mail list ask your co-host if she/he is on the list. Thanks.

-Alex

Hey Everyone,

Here’s the important stuff to know from the meeting this last Wednesday, that all but 3 of you missed.

1.  Make sure you sign in on the computer when your show starts, and sign out when you are done - otherwise, DJ Tron will be playing your awesome tracks, or you’ll be playing DJ Tron’s shitty tracks.

2.  If you are a musician or you know any musicians interested in playing a gig at UMBC, get that info to Jamal - our lovely Promotions Director.

3.  If you know any graphic artists interested in building up their portfolio, ask them if they want to design fliers, logos, tattoos, whatever for WMBC and get their info to Jamal - our lovely Promotions Directors.  If you want listeners then we need to advertise - we’re looking for stuff that will almost offend administration, but won’t get us in trouble - which basically means they can go to town (if you want to design some stuff for us, then go for it)

4.  I’m not your mother, and Alex sure as hell ain’t - so pick up after yourself and keep the station clean.  Rostam may have Mary Poppins’ accent, but he won’t magically clean the station either.  I know we aren’t very clean to begin with, but that’s not an invite to act like a pig and leave trash everywhere.

5.  If you think it would be a super awesome time to get trashed and then rewire the booth, I can tell you know it won’t be.  Also, smoking pot in the productions booth, not such a great idea either - not much ventilation in there.

6.  Rule of thumb for profanity:  if the sun’s up keep it clean.  When the sun goes down, the only rule is that there are no rules.  This rule is in effect during eclipses.

-E

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, any applications previously submitted have not been received. EVERYONE must re-submit an application to alexd2@umbc.edu (either forwarding me the copy of your previous app, or filling out a new one). As per before, priority will be given to returning shows. 12-1 is the news hour. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.
The first Dj & Operations meeting will be held Wednesday, September 3rd during free hour in the radio station. Attendance is mandatory for this meeting. You will receive confirmation of your show time here.

The website is now updated with current contact information. Please contact us if you for some reason cannot make the meeting, or you have any questions.

Alex

Hey everyone! Another awesome semester of WMBC radio is gearing up and that means Fall DJ SIGNUPS!  They are happening now and a schedule should be done during the first week of classes.  Once that’s done we can have our first meeting and get things rolling. Any questions email me at alexd2@umbc.edu or any of the other staff.

I know I’m late on this….
But I read the lineup for this year’s Virgin Festival and I was pretty psyched. I’m really gassed to see Rabbit in The Moon, Soulwax, The Stooges, and Wilco. I went to the last one and pretty much spent the whole thing in the Dance Tent (with the exception of Wu-Tang and Bad Brains). But this time, who knows?

In other news, we are trying to plan a concert for WMBC sometime early next semester. If you are in a band, or are a DJ, or a rapper at UMBC and would like to perform please send me an email at wrostam1@umbc.edu. Unless you suck… and not in that good way that people find funny or innovative. I mean you just are not good in any sense. Your own mother wouldn’t say she liked your stuff. If that is the case, do not email me, and stop it.