{"id":132250,"date":"2018-12-24T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=132250"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:01:14","slug":"on-the-radio-its-always-midnight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/24\/on-the-radio-its-always-midnight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Radio, It\u2019s Always Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 2, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-126227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/old-radio-receiver-tune-in_n1sbsvklx__f0000.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we don\u2019t belong in the world governed by time,\u201d says Michael Cremo, a guest on KNWZ, a radio station in Palm Springs, California. \u201cAs beings of pure consciousness, we are essentially timeless.\u201d It is around two thirty <small>A.M.<\/small> in Palm Springs and around eleven thirty <small>A.M.<\/small> in Paris, where I am tidying my apartment. Cremo is talking about the end-time, which he thinks could well be imminent, but his point is relevant to the experience of listening to local radio from somewhere I am not. I love listening to radio, but sometimes I don\u2019t want to listen to a particular station, genre, or category. Sometimes I want to listen to a time of day. Which is, of course, entirely possible thanks to the rise of online streaming at the expense of older analogue broadcast methods. If I am feeling afternoony in the morning, I can leave the world that is \u201cgoverned by time\u201d and join whichever community of radio listeners\u2014in Mumbai, Perth, or Hong Kong\u2014is currently experiencing three <small>P.M.<\/small> The optimism of a morning show somewhere to my west offers a fresh beginning to a day that\u2019s become lousy by midafternoon, whereas the broadcasts of early evening, burbling across the towns and cities to my east, can turn my morning shower into a kind of short-haul time machine past those hours in which I\u2019m expected to be productive. But for the loosest and strangest of broadcast atmospheres, I am drawn most often to the dead of night, to the so-called graveyard shift. That low-budget menagerie of voices and music is concocted to serve an unlikely fellowship of insomniacs, police officers, teenagers, and bakers\u2014and cheats like me, tuning in from afar to behold radio\u2019s closest equivalent to the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/on-the-radio-its-always-midnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love listening to radio, but sometimes I don\u2019t want to listen to a particular station, genre, or category. 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