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This woman’s rants are some of of the strangest I’ve ever heard on the internet or anywhere. Some of what she says is quite disturbing, shocking, and profane. One of the weirdest and not profane things she says is “Someone says David Geffen is Hal 2000” at about 28:35. To see all of her posts go here. Many of the files have poor sound quality and just by chance, I found this recording with clearer audio. There are videos of her, as well. In addition, I’ve put a couple posts up previously featuring this individual here and here.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have some similar really crazy recordings.
Some guy used to call the station when I was doing my show – maybe three or four weeks in a row. He’d often request some really odd songs or recordings and eventually told me that he had a bunch of recordings that ‘you guys would really like’ and he gave me a URL to a storage place where he kept them.
Then he started calling multiple times per show, wanting to hear this or that and one time he called from the phone handset outside the station door, so I could see him on the security camera, but he luckily didn’t demand to be let in, he just wanted to talk and would ask if I ever got around to listening to his recordings, which I had not. He again said that I should and that I would like them, etc.
I finally got around to it and they were simply him keeping an audio diary of his wanderings around Portland. He was a homeless panhandler. He was actually pretty funny and sarcastic and rather witty, but had a nasty attitude about nearly everything.
One particularly long and epic recording has him traversing Hayden Island – a suburb of North Portland, lying in the river between Oregon and Washington. It’s sort of a tax haven for Washington shoppers. It’s where Washingtonians go to buy liquor, cigarettes and major appliances tax free and has lots of drinking establishments with video poker. It’s rather sleazy.
But our narrator explains why it’s sort of like Disneyland for hobos, and he meets up with and has conversations with other homeless men. It’s really a great recording.
I downloaded a lot of his rants but soon his site was gone, so I only have a few. I will have to see if I can’t dig them up and share them with you someday.
Thank you, Rich, for that bit of Portland trivia!
I hope this post isn’t too inappropriate as I think there are some racist comments, as well.
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By the way, how did you ever discover those recordings in the first place?
That’s a top-drawer kook find!
I think I first knew of this strange woman late in 2008 when Google had a site kind of like Archive dot Org. I think it was called “Google Video.” This was separate from YouTube. Richard and I were always looking for strange things online (for possible use in Negativland) and I simply stumbled on these files. There was another strange and perverse group of postings where this older man was inviting teenage and twenty something men to “audition” for tickling sessions. This was on Google Video, as well. These videos along with “whatever, whatever” disappeared when Google Video was stopped, I think. The guy making the tickling videos may have been arrested. Later the “whatever, whatever files” showed up on Archive dot Org, where they remain today.