For the first edition of “Tuned In,” a new series about campus DJs, Charlotte sat down with Max Nelson (from Charlottesville, VA) and David Beal (from “a little east of Berkeley,” CA), both CC ’15 and co-founders of the new undergraduate film journal Double Exposure.  They both have shows on WBAR: “Maxwell’s Music Mondays” airs weekly from 10am to noon, and David (who is also co-music director at WKCR!) hosts “Guitars Guitars” on Thursdays from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Courtesy of Max Nelson and David Beal

What was your first album?

Max: My Chemical Romance, Welcome to the Black Parade. Still listen to it.
David: I don’t even know…can I do the first LP I ever bought? I think the first LP I ever bought was Transfiguration of Vincent by M. Ward.

It was just Valentine’s Day…What’s your favorite love ­or anti-love­ song?

David: I can’t necessarily narrow it down to a favorite, but one that I’ve been listening to a lot lately is Lucinda Williams. It’s called “Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet).” It’s from one of her early albums, if not one of her first albums, called Happy Woman Blues. You listen to it and you just feel like a better person.

Max: “Papa Was a Rodeo” by The Magnetic Fields off the record 69 Love Songs which is full of fantastic love songs. What a record. I’m not sure it makes me feel like a more productive or amazing human being, but it makes me happy. It’s just a beautiful song.

You’re self-professed movie-buffs…Best soundtrack?

Max: I’m not an expert, but the score for the movie Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, which is one of the finest movies of all time. It’s a Czech vampire movie from the 70′s about a girl who’s coming of age and it’s fantastic. And the soundtrack is beautiful. It’s kind of like pagan-magical vibes.

David: I think the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard are for Chungking Express, a Wong Kar-Wai movie, and Something Wild, Jonathan Demme. [The Feelies] are actually in it—they have a scene, at the high school party.

All-time favorite album/artist/song/other musical thing?

David: The guitarist John Fahey. Greatest guitarist I’ve ever heard.

Max: Sigur Rós. The best. They’re going on tour too, which is insanely insanely exciting. I skipped the Super Bowl to see their concert documentary playing at this little theater in Brooklyn and I was feeling kind of guilty for skipping the Super Bowl because when I was on the train back the guy sitting across from me was, like, madly refreshing his iPhone at every subway stop, watching the Giants game. And the Giants scored their final touchdown and he leaps out of his seat jumping around the subway car, screaming like a madman, and I’m thinking, “I’ve never been this passionate about anything in my entire life.” So I skipped the Super Bowl to see the Sigur Rós documentary, and then two days later Sigur Rós announces they’re going on tour again and I do that exact same thing in my dorm room. I freak out, jump around the dorm room, and I’m like “this is my thing.”