Magic Junk Radio on “Vacation”
If spending your lunches, nights, and weekends sitting in front of a laptop writing a work of fiction could be considered a vacation — then metaphorically, we’re in the middle of the Hawaiian Islands, baby. You remember us! Magic, Junk, and Radio! Here we are! At this very moment, we’re basking under the Maui sun, our debt to society paid in full!
So consider this a postcard. Sure, we aren’t returning to full-time work. But we wanted to drop a little note to let you know we’re still alive. And what better symbol of 1980’s American pop culture to skewer with our remix prongs than the mega-mustached Tom Selleck as Magnum, P.I., and his quirky pop theme song.After spending the night in the MJR Sound Lab with the lightly Newcastled technicians, the emerging sonic result is called:
Magnum FXPI – [click to play] – 2:00
Rumor has it that the acronym stands for F#@%ing Extreme Private Investigator, but we cannot confirm or deny such horrifying gossip. After all, we were last season’s winners. Huh? What’s that you say? We’re not. Oh dear.
