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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 137 (3-33)

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KUT's O’Dark 30 hits the July Ides this week as we bring you more of the very best from the world of independent radio production. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.

Episode 137 (3-33) includes Two Little Girls Explain the Worst Haircut Ever...99% Invisible-Beauty Pill's Immersive Ideal...Lean and Hungry Theater's Much Ado About Nothing...Egypt: Animals Feeling the decline in tourism...KUT's Views and Brews The Making of Kind of Blue Part One...Tour For the Chills, Tours of the Hills...Blind Dog

Two Little Girls Explain The Worst Haircut Ever

From Jeff Cohen | 02:57

My five year old cut off my three year old's hair. A few weeks later, I decided to interview them and get their explanations. Here's what they told me.

Imag0242a_small Happy to say that this little radio story has taken another life. In the summer of 2014, it will be a children's book released by HarperCollins Children's Books. Take a look!

99% Invisible #45- Immersive Ideal (Standard 4:30 version)

From Roman Mars | Part of the 99% Invisible (Standard Length) series | 04:30

The closest one could ever hope to get to dancing about architecture.

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[For Director's Cut, go to: http://www.prx.org/pieces/89160-99-invisible-45-beauty-pill-s-immersive-ideal]

(Above: Chad Clark under the “Abbey Road” window. Photo credit: Jon Pack)

Beauty Pill is band I really like from Washington DC. They have released two EPs (The Cigarette Girl From the Future and You Are Right to be Afraid) and their last album, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, came out in 2004.

In the interim, the singer/guitarist/producer for Beauty Pill, Chad Clark, got very sick and nearly died. That can be enough to make anyone stop making music, but in Clark’s case, he continued to make music, but he just never felt the need to release a record or play live. His music was just for him and his friends, and that was OK.

But a strange confluence of opportunity, desire and architecture knocked Beauty Pill out of their unforced exile. The curators at a new multimedia art center called Artisphere invited Chad Clark to come in and do something musical in the space. While they were showing him around, he saw the angled, 2nd floor window overlooking the Black Box Theater and it reminded him of the window in Abbey Road Studio 2, made famous by The Beatles. Months later, the Black Box Theater was transformed into a very public recording studio, capturing the sounds and energy of the band, onlookers and guests over the course of a couple weeks.

They called the project Immersive Ideal.

Egypt: Animals feeling the decline in tourism

From Jake Warga | 04:33

Talking, in Arabic, with the animals in Egypt. Specifically animals out of work because their country had a revolution and their main clients, tourists, have been not been visiting in the same numbers as they used too. Have you ever heard a donkey protesting?

Warga_egypt_07_small Talking, in Arabic, with the animals in Egypt. Specifically animals out of work because their country had a revolution and their main clients, tourists, have been not been visiting in the same numbers as they used too. Have you ever heard a donkey protesting?

Tours for the Chills, Tours of the Hills

From With Good Reason | 29:00

Recreational ghost hunting and the Shenandoah Valley come to life

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Halloween is just around the corner.  Haunted houses, graveyards, and ghost walks – paranormal tourism is more popular than ever.  Teresa O’Bannon is an expert on what she calls “dark side tourism.”  Then, With Good Reason will also do a little ghost-busting of its own.  Also featured: The Shenandoah Valley is prehistoric home of mastodons and giant sloths, the site of a storied Civil War campaign and a popular destination for outdoor adventures.  Award-winning nature writer John Leland in his new book "Learning the Valley" chronicles the natural and human history of the valley, offering insights on everything from maple syrup-making to Stonewall Jackson to the nineteenth-century fascination with sassafras.

Blind Dog

From Hearing Voices | Part of the Scott Carrier stories series | 04:22

Fritz catches Frisbees, even though he's sightless.

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Fritz the dog loves to play Frisbee. He still catches it most of the time, though not as much as he used to... before he went blind. Somehow the sightless German Shepherd manages to hear and catch the flying disk mid-air.