#zyzzy78!

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The thrilling Season 2 cliffhanger you won’t want to miss. (Listener Discretion Advised: Contains the one network-permitted F-word for the season.)

Source chronology: circa September 1998; circa October 1998; May 1999; January 1, 2000; circa February 2000; December 31, 2000

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29 to 9/29

On today, my 29th birthday, I am casting my eyes forward to next Monday’s zyzzy78! post. September 29, 2013 marked the end of Breaking Bad, an episode that garnered an audience of more than 10 million in the United States. September 29, 2014 brings forth the Series 2 finale of the zyzzy78! project, which might not quite make that.

With 52 one-minute pieces released by the end of Series 2, I will have posted a year’s worth of weekly dispatches from the imaginary worlds built from my collection of personal tape recordings. (You can listen to the entire collection at the project’s SoundCloud playlist page.) This leaves 26 more to complete the planned group of 78.

When I began the project in Fall 2009, I was unemployed, not yet a graduate student, and afforded enough free time to digitize and remix these cassettes. Five years later, I have enough responsibilities to make the project less feasible—and enough resources to make leisure activities outside the home more frequent, which also cuts down on time spent hunched over a laptop dragging wave blocks around.

Despite my current limitations, I plan to continue assembling more pieces as circumstances allow, and when the next batch of 13 is ready, I’ll pick back up with Series 3. I hope you’ll keep an ear out and join me for those new old sounds. In the meantime, I may pipe up here with occasional sonic tidbits. ▶

[zyzzy78]

And don’t come back.

Source chronology: circa Fall 1996; circa March 1997; circa September 1998; November 13, 2000; Fall 2002; June 2003

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This is the time I’m doing this voice.

Source chronology: January 17, 1993; November 26, 1998; circa May 1999

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The Eructation of Mt. St. Bertha.

Source chronology: January 17, 1993; circa Summer 1998; September 25, 1998; circa October 1998; Winter 1999; June 18, 1999; January 1, 2000; May 21, 2003; June 2003

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x = (6 strings) / (1 ChapStick)

Source chronology: circa August 1998; May 29, 1999; December 31, 2000

[zyzzy78]

You squeeze ’em, and you put ’em in your ear. Here, I’ll show ya.

Source chronology: circa November 1998; June 17, 1999; circa December 2001

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Yeah, baby—Sausage Eating Robots, baby, rah-hah-ahhhhck.

Source chronology: November 26, 1998; December 3 & 6, 1998; June 28, 1999; October 21, 1999