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Music From the Underground

I subbed Martha Copeland's psychedelic music show on KAOS a couple of weeks ago and this is the playlist. It was great fun. Martha is a hoot and it's always fun to fill in for her show.

Included here is a picture of Dr. Doom. ;)

Artist / Song / Album / Label:

The Open Mind / Magic Potion / Rubble Collection Vol 1 / Bam-Caruso
Lord Buckley / Marc Antony's Funeral Oration / The Best of... / Elektra
Shays / Brainwashed / Essential Pebbles vol. 1 / AIP
Mutantes / Banho de Lua / Mutantes / Omplatten
Blue Cheer / Out of Focus / Vincebus Eruptum / Phillips

(Music behind DJ = Paul Robinson / If I Had A Hammer, Baby, the Rain Must Fall / The Astromusical House of Aquarius / GWP )

Pink Floyd / Green is the Colour / BBC Archives 1970-71 / Harvested
Edith Frost / Blueish Bells / Telescopic / Drag City
Erkin Koray / Korkulu Ruya / Elektronik Turkuler / Dogon
Tyranasaurus Rex / Seal of Seasons / The Collection / Castle
The Deviants / Nothing Man / Unknown Legends of rock n roll / Miller Freeman
Blossom Toes / Peace Loving Man / Black Light Vision / Pontiac
Kim Fowley / The Trip / Nuggets Box Set / Rhino
The Pretty Things / LSD / Get the Picture? / Original Masters

Windy and Carl / Sirens / Depths / Kranky
Robyn Hitchcock / If I Could Look / You & Oblivion / Rhino
Frank Zappa / Peaches En Regalia / Hot Rats / Bizzare
Shuggie Otis / Strawberry Letter 23 / Insperation Information / Luaka Bop
Sir Walter Raleigh / Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day / NW Battle of the Bands: Flash and Crash / Beat Rocket - Sundazed
Yol Aularong / Come Again Tomorrow / Cambodian Rocks III / Khmer Rocks
The Riot Squad / I take it that We're Through / It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek / Razor & Tie
Butterfingers / Key / Music for Gracious Living 2 / QDK Media - Shadooks

(Music behind DJ = The Brass Ring / Monday Monday, Amy's Theme / The Now Sound of the Brass Ring / Dunhill )

Acid Mother's Temple / Untitled / Private Tapes Vol. 3 / AMT CDR
13th Floor Elevators / Dr. Doom / Bull of the Woods / Decal
Red Crayola / Place for Piano and Electric Bass Guitar / God Bless the Red Crayola and All Who Sail With Her / Decal
The Third Eye / Young Folk and Old Folk / Love Peace and Poetry: African Psychedelic Music / Normal - QDK
Hawkwind / Welcome to the Future / Space Ritual / MGM

Olivia Tremor Control / Can You Come Down With Us? / Dusk at Cubist Castle / Flydaddy
Davis Redford Triad / Targets of Opportunity / It's Gonna Be Hot in the Cannibal Pot Tonight / Ptolemeic Terrascope
Of Montreal / City Bird / Satanic Panic In The Attic / Polyvinyl
Neutral Milk Hotel / Two Headed Boy Part 2 / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea / Merge

The Tell-Tale Hearts / Bye Bye Baby / The Now Sound of the Tell-Tale Hearts / Voxx

I was banned from here when I was 6 or 7.

I was a only a first grader when I had my first taste of crime. I had a neighbor that lived kitty-corner across the alley from me and he was a bad seed. Well, apparently... That's what my mom said anyway. A bad influence for sure, a bad seed --- he was a first grader, how bad could he have been? What is true is that he taught me that it was really easy to just take candy from 7-11. So... shoplifting.

I knew that it was wrong, but my mom didn't let me have candy very often. It was all tiger-milk cookies and carob bars at my house. Once the aforementioned bad seed showed me how easy it was, I just couldn't stop. The worst part was that this particular 7-11 (pictured--on Chicago Ave in Oak Park, IL--it's still there!) was right on my 3 block walk to school.

It doesn't take a supergenius to figure out that something is amiss when the same kid comes into the store every day at 2:45, always goes over to the candy aisle and never buys anything. The jig was up after a week or two. Now, remember that this was 76 or 77 and I was in Chicago. The afro on the clerk was at least 6 inches and she was rail thin and 6 feet tall if she was a foot. She towered. And she had zero sense of humor. Grim. I was scared of her before she busted me. Everything was going according to plan and proceeding as usual... I had watched until she was helping someone at the register and then I put the candy bar in my pocket. I walked out the door and started walking across the parking lot towards the corner where the crossing guard was waiting to help me across Chicago Avenue. I was just barely out the door before I had taken the precious chocolate out of my pocket and started opening it as I walked. She swooped down on me like a nazgul and said (I'll never forget this) "Gimme back that Kit-Kat!" And with that she spun me around knelt down and yelled at me "I don't evuh want ta se you in my store again!" And that was it. The worst part was the sobbing embarrassmentt when I had to wait for the crossing guard. I don't think she said anything to me. Not that I even looked up at all. I was absolutely crushed.

It's all hella funny now, though!

A lot of kids have similar experiences. I think they're really interesting to hear 'cause it's those common experiences that bring us together and excite us. I mean, does that make sense? I love the weird and unusual but I think that deep down that's just because I've always liked to identify as "outsider." You know? I and we as a race mostly seek community. So even in having a passion for Tuvan throat singing or exotic beer or whatever, it's ultimately the identification with the unusual in-and-of-itself that forms that initial bond. A genuine taste or affinity can follow, but attraction is so basic. It's just not that subtle. Anyway... That's a whole other topic, and, as usual, I'm late for bed. Tomorrow's an early morning too. Yikes.

The Rainbow Connection

This was our lovely view from the house the other day, all rainbows and gentle mists. I love the way the air looks when it's like that out. It's magical. It makes me feel as though I'm in Narnia or something.

BTW... I saw the preview for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe the other day and it looks so fun. I read all of those books to death when I was a pre-teen and I can't wait to see the movie. Something about it troubles me sometimes, though. I don't want Gillian (my daughter) to be deprived of the joy of reading them and using her imagination to visualize the characters. I mean, ever since the LOTR movies came out, I can't even remember how I had imagined the characters and locations. I totally see Sean Astin when I think of Sam. Admitedly the casting and scouting and sfx were superb so that might be part of it... Anyway... I can't wait to read books like that to her. I loved it when my mom read them to my sister and me.

The blog is coming along. I'm still learning, but it seems to be getting better. Format-wise if not content-wise. I'm off to sleep.

A flower.

Mindy and I went on a hike last year on the day that we found out that she was pregnant. Now we've got a six month old girl. I took this picture on the hike. I love the way that the pollen has spilled out onto the leaves.

I haven't much time for hikes this year. Having a baby changes everything. When she gets to be a big bigger we're gonna go on lots of hikes, though. She loves being outdoors. We call her our "little nature girl." We were sitting down at the lake last night and she was having so much fun watching the birds swoop around and eat the bugs. I let her pick some grass and she was so cute holding it up and looking at the seeds... Of course, she tried to eat it and I had to put the kabosh on, but it was fun while it lasted.

A quiz.

How do I sound? You could listen to my radio show OR look at this quiz!

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

So, I've got a radio show

Did I mention that I've been doing a radio show on KAOS for upwards of 12 years? Well, I have. And I did a show tonight. I just finished, as a matter of fact. While I wait for my CDs to burn, I figure I'll type out the playlist for your perusal. You're like, "Oh, no! Not another playlist blog!" And I'm like, "Yeah, another geeky music blogger... That's me."

Artist / Song / Album / Label

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion
(my theme song)

Deerhoof / Hot Mint Air Balloon / Green Cosmos / Menlo Park
Damien Jurado / Fuel / On My Way to Absence / Secretly Canadian
Jandek / What Do You Want to Sing / Follow Your Footsteps / Corwood
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice / Return of the Nose / XIAO / Troubleman Unlimited
Gastr del Sol / Parenthetically / crookt, Crackt, or Fly / Drag City
hollAnd / Soft Limit / mil (cd ep) / Darla
Lali Puna remixed by flowchart / Fast Forward / I Thought I Was Over That / Morr

William Parker Quartet - Poem for June Jordan - Sound Unity - AUM Fidelity
(behind my voice)

The True Boys / Moonlight Water / s/t / Disgruntled
Hopewell / Sugar in the Honey / ...& the Birds of Appetite / Rubric
Gang Gang Dance / track#5 / God's Money / The Social Registry
Just Plain Bill / It's All Too Much / Kalama Tea / self release
OCS / The Pool / 3 & 4 / Narnack
APSE / Balat / s/t / Acuarela
Thomas Patrick Maguire / Christian Love / Pissing Streams / Luv-a-Lot

Matthew Smith / Symphony 8; 3rd movement / Archaic / Innova
(behind my voice)

Magnolia Electric Co. / Hammer Down / What Comes After the Blues / Secretly Canadian
Pyramids on Mars / Tarama / Lines / Pyramid Ltd.
Poi Dog Pondering / Collarbone / the Best of Poi...(The Austin Years) / Columbia
Massive Attack / Collar Stays On / Danny the Dog soundtrack / Virgin
Subtitle / Organichemico / Young Dangerous Heart / Gold Standard Labs
Ed Shepp / Dance of the Sugarplum Beepner / FIVE / self-release
By the End of Tonight / 7:30 Easter Morning / A Tribute to Tigers / Temporary Residence
The Slits / Newtown / Cut / Island

Blowhole / some of side B / A Love Extreme / Zabriski Point
(behind my voice)

Arrington de Dionyso & Thollum McDonas / Conjunction / Saturn Returns / Pine Cone Alley
Anaphylaxis / Tomie / Noise for Lovers / Parasomnic
Marissa Nadler / Old Love Haunts Me in the Morning / The Safa of Mayflower May / Eclipse
Icky Boyfriends / Our Love Song / A Love Obscene / Menlo Park
Annelies Monsere / Midnight / Helden / BlueSanct
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio / Arnold Layne / Other Valentines / Atavistic

Fast Asleep Club / Wary Line / Property is Theft (V/A) / propertyistheft.com

It would be good practice for me to type this shit out every time, huh? I never do. Anyone want a data entry project? I've got hundreds of pages of playlists I'd like to have digitized for posterity. Anyway... I'm gonna go home to my beautiful family now. I miss my cutie-pie little baby girl.

RIP: Monster

Well, my second blog post will be continuing on the style previously established. Unfortunately. But don't worry. The sad-sack kitty moping is on it's way out and fabulous fun is on the way in. I promise.

As it turns out, Monster had a bladder infection as well as severe anxiety due to the new baby in our home and the onset of diabetes. Not a happy kitty. She was 10 years old and we don't have the time, money or energy to care for such a kitty, so it was her time. Sad. I just wish I hadn't spent the hundred bucks just to decide that I had to put her down anyway. That sucked. At what cost, indeed; Two hundred and five dollars, I guess. $100 for the vet, $30 for Animal Services to euthenise her, and $75 to have the carpets steam cleaned. And me with only one income and a big, fat mortgage. Fuck me.

I miss my kitty.

Bah.

Monsters are real.

I have a cat named monster. She's been a real bad seed for the past few months. It's got a lot to do with the fact that there's a new cutie in the house that's getting all the attention now. My new, first-born daughter has been edging in on the (not so) little monster's lap time.

When I get home, I used to go sit down at the computer and read my email and stuff. Monster, or "the pace" as we usually call her, would jump up on my lap and get some serious petting before dinner time.

That was then.

Now my evening consists of playing with my giggley baby girl. I love it and I love her. I don't really have time for the Pace these days. Poor, poor pace-o. To show her displeasure she's taken to ruining our carpets by pissing on them.

My baby will be 6 months old on Friday. She's really into rolling on the floor right now and at this rate crawling can't be far off. Death to the Pace.

Don't get me wrong, I love my cat, but it's time to face facts. She's at the vet today, and I guess we'll discover whether there's any medical reason for her incontiance, but even if there is, I can't afford to get the carpets steam-cleaned again ($75) and the mournful wailing that wakes me every morning isn't high on my favorites list either.

Anyway... We'll see.