The Walls

How many radio pieces take you on the experience of peeing in a public bathroom? Not many, probably. Well, here's your chance. With layered
voices reading the angst-ridden messages on the walls mixed with sounds of squeaking doors flushing toilets, running water, and yes, peeing, this is a strange, yet fascinating piece of radio/audio. It would seem that the women's bathroom in question is a place for some serious contemplation of the intricacies of relationships. The scribblings are intense. I can't compare them to the men's rooms of this world, as one reviewer has done, but even for women's rooms, they are above and beyond what you'd find in your local bar. Play this as an audio postcard from a bathroom near you!

It’s a great concept: a radio document of one college bathroom’s graffiti, and it is pulled off with charm, humor, fine production value, and a lack of pretension. It manages to be both anthropological and thoroughly entertaining. The level of confiding and poetry on these walls is sort of incredible. (Boy’s bathroom graffiti is just filthy in comparison…. I think the biggest difference between men and women, it would seem judging by this piece, is their graffiti.) It’s good enough to make you think a whole series should be done on graffiti all over the place-- shopping malls, prisons, high schools, construction sights, office buildings. This was like a well done experimental short film—one that, through its art, allows you to see something common place in a whole new way—a way that allows its inherent beauty to be seen. This could fit in anywhere. It’s a treat.