Free Things Are Cool Playlist 8/31/05

The Robert Moog memorial show.

artist / song / album / label

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion
Wendy (Walter) Carlos / 2 part invention in d minor / Switched On Bach / East Side Digital

The Cars / Moving in Stereo / Just What I Needed / Elektra
Helios Creed / Flying Through the Either-Ub the Wall / Lactating Purple / Am-Rep
Gary Numan Tubeway Army / I Nearly Married a Human / Double Peel Sessions / Strange Fruit

Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson / OK Robot / Listen, Compute, Rock Home / Emperor Norton
Kraftwerk / Atherwellen / Radio-Aktivitat / EMI
Robyn Hitchcock / Messages of Dark / Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" / Midnight Music
Donna Summer / I Feel Love / The Disco Box / Rhino
Broadcast / We've Got Time / Work and Non-Work / Drag City
Wendy Carlos / Prelude & Fugue #2 in C minor / Switched on Bach / East Side Digital
Men Without Hats / Moonbeam / Pop Goes the World / Mercury

Lipps, Inc. / Funkytown / The Disco Box / Rhino
Mocket / Flyspeck / ProForma / Kill Rock Stars
Dead Air Fresheners / Fear is Nature's Warning Plan to Get Busy / I Try to Show My Love / Plastic Duck
Hawkwind / Sonic Attack / Space Ritual / United Artists
The Vocokesh / 12 Monkeys / Through the Smoke / Strange Attractors Audio House
Jessamine / Oscillations / Another Fictionalized History / Histrionic
Hawkwind / Electronic Vol. 1 Pt. 1 / Space Ritual / United Artists
Wesley Willis / Chuckie / Greatest Hits Vol 3 / Alternative Tentacles
April March / Keep in Touch / Chrominance Decoder / Ideal
Enoch Light & The Light Brigade / Walk On By / Spaced Out / Total Sound
Juana Molina / Tres Cosas / Tres Cosas / Domino
Hawkwind / Electronic Vol. 1 Pt. 2 / Space Ritual / United Artists
Satisfact / Alawat / The Third Meeting At The Third Counter / K

Thor / The Coming of Thor / Thor Against the World / Smog Veil
Witchy Poo / Olympia Must Die / Public Works / 5 Rue Christine

Mountain Goats / Song for Tura Satana / Zopilote Machine / 3 Beads of Sweat
~fin~

So the theme was Moog or Moog influenced songs...
I used my Rouge Moog for backing "music" between songs when I was back-announcing. I love that thing. Makes me so happy. Just what I wanted and didn't know it when I was 10 or something. Exactly what I wished my 200 in 1 Electronics Kit would do. Now if I can just get the bomb that I could never make with my chemistry set when I was that same age...

Anyway...It went over pretty well, I think. What did you think?

Hmmm... Time to go to sleep. Thanks to all the listeners.

I'm a bad blogger

REALLY...

I just haven't had it in me to blog lately... I want to have a good blog but I'm having trouble prioritize it. Being a new dad and having to work certainly get in the way of blogging, huh?

Anyway, this entry is hardly going to count either as I'm at work now and have no time for a propper entry. Bah!

I'm doing my radio show tonight. You can listen Wednesday night at 9PM (Pacific) on KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, WA or online at http://kaos.evergreen.edu/listenlive.html. Tonight will be a requiem for Robert Moog who passed away shortly after my last show 2 weeks ago. I'll be playing lots of synthesiser music and a few songs that specifically feature Moog synths. I'll also be bringing my Rogue Moog up to the station to demonstrate the range of the instrument and provide backing music for my voice. I'll post my playlist after the show. Maybe I'll even start blogging again this week.

Kisses,
Brooks

My baby has a serious case of the cutes.

Free Things Are Cool 8/17/05

An acceptable show I think. I was a bit ditzey, but that's alright I guess.

Artist / Title / Album / Label

the Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion

Low / I Started A Joke (Bee Gees) / Pure Sweet Hell (V/A) / Mammoth
Spanky & Our Gang / Distance / s/t / Mercury
Psychatrone Rhonedakk / They Moved the Moon (Zevon) / Disburbs the Air / Black Plastic Sound
Dungen / Le jonet & kulan / ta det lugnt / Kemado
The Lickets / Moo Moo / Apartment Tree / International Corporation
Pelican / Aurora Borealis / The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw / Hydra Head

Paul Robinson / Fly Me to the Moon / The AStronomical House Of Aquarius / GWP (behind my voice)

Currituck Co. / My Home / Ghost Man on Second / Troubleman Unlimited
Nick Castro / Zoey / A Spy in the House of God / Records of Gaudh
Quintron & Miss Pussycat / God of Thunder (KISS) / s/t / Tigerbeat 6
John Cale / Fear (Is a man's best friend) / Fragments of a Rainy Season / Hannibal
Gogol Bordello / Illumination / Gypsy Punks / Side One Dummy
Foscil / Simple / s/t / fourthcity.net
JFK Singers / The Trumpet / The Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control / WFMU
Liz Brady / Palladium (The Hip) / Swinging Mademoiselles / Silva

M. Bentley / Sixteenths / Thing Asunder (V/A) / The Foundry (behind my voice)

Van Morrison / Want a Danish? / In Session / Dressed to Kill
Hopewell / Square Peg Teeth / Hopewell & the Birds of Appetite / Rubric
Fabulous Five / Ooh! Aah! / Countryman soundtrack (V/A) / Island
The Drift / Fractured Then Gathered (reprise) / Noumena / Temporary Residence
Prefuse 73 & The Books feat. Caudia Maria Deheza / Pagino Ocho / Prefuse 73 Reads the Books ep / WARP
The Satelliters / World of Bubbles / Sexplosive / Dionysus
Cats Tapes / Hard Reset / Sticky Buttons / Tigerbeat 6

Sara Debelle / Them Bones / Grunge Lite / C/Z (behind my voice)

Lozenge / No Fair / Undone / Sickroom
Inflatable Boy Clams / I'm Sorry / 7" ep / Subterranean
Dawgisht / Blues-01 (12-10-96) / Amoeba Music Comp Vol V / Hip Hop Slam
The Free Design rmx by Styrofoam & Sarah Shannon / I Found Love / The Now Sound Redesigned / Light in the Attic
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra / Cha Love / Moods and Grooves / Ubiquity
Erkin Koray / Sahdalci / Tutkusu / Kervan
Numbers / Funny But Sad / We're Animals / Kill Rock Stars
The Slits / FM / Cut / Island

Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio / Jesus etc (Wilco) / Other Valentines / Atavistic
The Brass Ring / Carrot Top / The Now Sound of the Brass Ring / Dunhill
(both behind my voice)

Jandek / It's Forever / Raining Down Diamonds / Corwood
Encyclopedia of Fun / Iceberg / Comprehensively Stuffed / self release

And that was, as they say, it. Time to go to bed.
Good night Johnboy.

Free Things Are Cool

Tonight I'm gonna rock ya.
Tonight I'm gonna rock ya.
Tonight.
Listen to my radio show Wednesday night at 9PM on KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, WA
or online at http://kaos.evergreen.edu/listenlive.html

I'm thinking maybe Low's version of I Started a Joke, maybe some Burl Ives, maybe some digital hardcore, I dunno... What do you think? Requests?Let me know.

Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight.

Ego surfing the light fantastic

So, there's been this game making the rounds on friendster and myspace that's kind of fun and funny. But it's particularily funny when your first name is also a last name. You type "{your name} is" into google and find all the funny phrases about yourself. You pick out the 5 or 10 funniest and send the list on to your friends. Fun, fun...

Unless you're me.

If you're me you develop it into a large-form piece. I'm a maniac. A nut job. I need help. But anyway, here it is.

Have fun! Type "{your name} is" into Google and see what you get.

Brooks is content
Brooks is a real-life example
Brooks is an influential, brilliant and encouraging teacher.
Brooks is a new name to me
Brooks is not afraid
Brooks is content to describe a moment in the lives of very ordinary people
Brooks is at his most enthusiastic
Brooks is essentially arbitrary in that he chooses only one method to interpret

Brooks is excellent!
Brooks is "free"
Brooks is the public intellectual of the moment.
Brooks is a leading speaker and author on such themes as resilience, self-esteem and family relationships.
Brooks is very much on display here.
Brooks is a humanist before he is a humorist.
Brooks is not aggressively partisan enough
Brooks is an amusing neo-con, no more.
Brooks is an old-fashioned liberal
Brooks is required to contradict himself.
Brooks is the hothouse flower of the Times' op-ed page -- its token conservative.
Brooks is waiting for Larry King to die
Brooks is now known around the world as the man
Brooks is considered the lesser two evils
Brooks is luke-warm about the nuclear option
Brooks is a Republican
brooks is charged with 12 counts of embezzling or stealing
Brooks is a "libertarian"
Brooks is from Oklahoma!!!
Brooks is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association
Brooks is SUCH an ass.
Brooks is a partisan hack.
Brooks is a lucid and fair-minded guide through the brambles of eclecticism
Brooks is a pragmatic Machiavellian in the best sense of the word.
Brooks is throwing some of the lobbyists to the wolves
Brooks is out of his depth
Brooks is a proponent of civic participation and a champion of youth
Brooks is a mild mannered, conservative podiatrist
Brooks is off Rupert Murdoch's payroll
Brooks is at His Best Today... ... which is very good indeed.
Brooks is staying put.


Brooks is specifically interested in questions of "temporal sequence and progression"


Brooks is not a culture warrior in the traditional sense.
Brooks is that short, funny Jewish guy
Brooks is the second youngest person to serve as president
Brooks is active in various professional organizations
Brooks is sipping cheap lager and eating crisps

Brooks is anxious for camp

Brooks is not your typical house music producer.
Brooks is an architect responsible for the future
Brooks is primarily concerned with the suburbs, but not the inner-ring suburbs like Bethesda.
Brooks is in the French village of St. Martin
Brooks is a protest poet
Brooks is a brightly-colored, low-hanging piñata
Brooks is neither a journalist nor a poet.
BROOKS IS no common gagster.
Brooks is just weird....

Brooks is mostly an enthusiast for the Bobo ascendency

Brooks is dramatically improving
Brooks is like a smiling waiter who explains the menu
Brooks is far more concerned with their sexual appetites.
Brooks is your ideal
Brooks is well equipped.
Brooks is the biggest
Brooks is not merely a very good player
Brooks is the only player
Brooks is the flavor of the week
Brooks is without a doubt, the most beautiful woman ever
Brooks is the only serious saddle out there.
Brooks is hoisting a white flag for the donks.
Brooks is playing catch
Brooks Is a Turd.
Brooks is also a center for oil & gas production
Brooks is just offensive.
Brooks is Forgiven Some Sins
Brooks is also known to stretch his legs
Brooks is the Funniest Man in America
Brooks is an insult to just about everyone.
Brooks is feeling pretty good himself these days
Brooks is such a masterful writer
Brooks is being honest about this
Brooks is arguably wrong
Brooks is the canary in the coal mine and he just fell off his perch
Brooks is not that
Brooks is under attack.
Brooks is offended
Brooks is actually up to something interesting.


Brooks is back in moderately fine form
Brooks is going to the well a third time
Brooks is an energetic but technically limited singer
Brooks is considered by many to be one of the world's foremost Zombie
Brooks is trying to build robots with properties of living systems
Brooks is shrewd in how he allows us to glean how alike the two women are.
Brooks is pleased to see more development in the area.
Brooks is excellent at taking us inside the world of television
Brooks is trying to have it both ways
Brooks is a holier-than-thou ass.
Brooks is trying to figure out what was done right, and what was not
Brooks is sailing west to discover America
Brooks is surveying people
Brooks is intellectually secure enough to resist.
Brooks is just an amateur.
Brooks is incredibly sharp and informed.
Brooks is the only Museum
Brooks is blazing a trail of firsts
Brooks is said to be taking the unprecedented step
Brooks is a winner of numerous prizes and awards
Brooks is affable and says many worthwhile and intelligent things
Brooks is saying that as a people, we're *tolerant*
Brooks is also right
Brooks is so full of hot air, on average, I can never tell when he's being serious
Brooks is at the very least watchable

Brooks is a man of integrity
Brooks is puzzled
Brooks is building

Brooks is the wild one.
Brooks is secretly shrill
Brooks is now up to his eyes in the mess.
Brooks is at home gently parodying the world
Brooks is the reason that Oregon is a national power.
Brooks is helping create a biodiversity
Brooks is among roughly 6 percent of the population that has "cut the cord.
Brooks is deputy director of a nonprofit association
Brooks is telling lies well or truths badly.
Brooks is right about this
Brooks is very careful and serious about what he does.
Brooks is the proud husband of supporting wife
Brooks is looking for a different kind of fix
Brooks is a public company
Brooks is the starting goalie

Brooks is an Environmental Scientist
Brooks is the ultimate testament
Brooks is subject to a maximum $5000 fine for each day of training camp he misses.
Brooks is noted for an arm
Brooks is of average height but is rail thin and often cannot run
Brooks is fun to read.
Brooks is the psychic
Brooks is one tiny dot in 4 million acres
Brooks is renowned
Brooks is quick to point
Brooks is working to overcome one obstacle
Brooks is also on that side.

Brooks is a familiar voice to NPR listeners.
Brooks is a very familiar voice to public radio listeners.
Brooks is scheduled to speak
Brooks is a fine storyteller
Brooks is effusive in his praise
Brooks is an American music icon.
Brooks is on a quiet side street that spans a long block
Brooks is the director of an underground music video
Brooks is a thriving bioscience
Brooks is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School
Brooks is back on campus
Brooks is a Phi Beta Kappa
Brooks is working as a crossing guard.
Brooks is passive-aggressive
Brooks is the crown jewel of the NFL
Brooks is precisely that
Brooks is also taking action
Brooks is very odd.
Brooks is not an apologist for Muslims.
Brooks is dealing
Brooks is fascinated with Buster's face
Brooks is employed
Brooks is at work
Brooks is our best option..there's no one else.


Brooks is given the opportunity to put his theory into practice
Brooks is currently Owner of Fork
Brooks is still riding the wave of his bestselling work
Brooks is mistaken if he believes that diva behaviour has comic worth.
Brooks is the Garth Vader of country music
Brooks, is why you do not deserve music fans
Brooks is a highly skilled facilitator and charismatic speaker.
Brooks is even more country-pop than Jim Reeves.
Brooks is only a one hit wonder
Brooks is a seeker
Brooks is particularly interested in the workings of the large molecular machines
Brooks, is wrong and that proves that you never were a Christian.
Brooks is celebrating twenty years of continued success
Brooks is a great author


Brooks is out of the office until mid-afternoon
Brooks is being held without bail
Brooks is the highest
Brooks is far more confident
Brooks is a comedic genius
Brooks is just being modest
Brooks is in effect asking the Judge to believe
Brooks is now one of 16 women
Brooks is a pivotal figure



Brooks Is Back
Brooks is well aware of the moralistic, even ascetic side of all this self-indulgence.
Brooks is a Fellow
Brooks is a Senior
Brooks is like good wine - the older, the better.'
Brooks Is Old Dot Com
Brooks is sufficient
Brooks is considerably younger than Judi
Brooks is the second youngest person to serve as president
Brooks is now semi-dormant
Brooks is dead.
Brooks is currently bein' inhabited by his new personality
Brooks is an American and was an Army infantryman who was captured by the Germans
Brooks is the first African American
Brooks is a bluesman
Brooks is featured in the first-ever Jazz Concert
Brooks is NFL ready
Brooks is Rodney
Brooks is Caucasian
Brooks is Steven
Brooks is very upset—about Mitch
Brooks is Todd
Brooks is walking a tightrope under which there is no net.
Brooks is Benjamin
Brooks is getting at something a bit more amorphous

Brooks is what is called in the biz a women's artist.
Brooks is incredibly disingenuous
Brooks is the son
Brooks is lead actor Kurt Russell
Brooks is just flotsam in Douglas' wake
Brooks is going back to the Olympics.
Brooks is #1
Brooks is singlehandly responsible
Brooks is my favorite

Brooks is among the leaders as they close in on Nome.
Brooks is rapidly unraveling
Brooks is allegedly done
Brooks is looking out for the best record deal available
Brooks is available for download

Brooks is sent to stay with an aunt in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania

Saturday in the Park

What a nice morning we've had! Mindy had a gift certificate for a massage that she hadn't used and today was the day.

Gillian and I took the time as an opportunity to run around Capitol Lake. It was hot but there was a nice breeze and the sun was pretty much directly overhead so I was able to keep Gillie in the shade of the jogging stroller's canopy, so she looked pretty comfortable. She's just so content in her stroller watching the trees and water. What a cutie. We generally start our run at the Tumwater Historical Park and run under I-5, along the trail to the old interpretive center and then along the parkway to Marathon Park. From Marathon Park we run around the lower lake and through Heritage Park, sometimes stopping at the fountain to watch the "big kids" playing in the water. She thinks that's pretty weird; I've gotta tell you. The loop goes back around to Marathon Park and then it's on back up the parkway to Tumwater Hitorical Park. Today we lost one of Gillie's toys so we doubled back, but someone must've absconded with it 'cause it was nowhere to be found. I think that's the first toy that she's lost. I'm sure there will be many more. It was a beautiful day. Hot, but otherwise perfect.

After the run with met up with mommy and took a walk down to the Olympia Farmer's Market. Got some yummy German brats and watched some jazz while we were there. It was nice. I feel so freaking old sometimes. Oh, well... I'm a dad. I love it.

We stopped at Safeway on the way home and I waited in the truck with the sleeping baby reading my daddy book. (The New Father---I always just call it my daddy book) Anyway, now we're home and thinking about taking Gillian down to the lake (Offut Lake) to splash around. Sounds like fun!

Off we go!

I'm up to no good.

Work Sucks.

Boring, boring, boring...

I just had to get that off my chest so that we're clear.

Free Things Are Cool 8/3/05

I really need to blog about my vacation (it's over) but at the very least I'll post my playlist like a good boy.

Artist / Song / Album / Label

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion

People like Us / My Son Jim / Recyclopaedia Britannica / Mess Media
Fetchin' Bones / Chicken Truck / Galaxy 500 / Capitol
Richard Hell and the Voidoids / Lowest Common Dominator / Spurts: The R.H. Story / Rhino
Amps for Christ and Two Ambiguous Figures / Enids Jig / s/t / Shrimper
Negativland / Car Bomb / Escape From Noise / SST
Beck / Fax Machine Anthem (Hell Yes remix by Dizzee Rascal) / Remix EP#1 / Interscope
Bob Cargile / Buckin' / Buckin' / Dub

Hubert Laws Group / Something to Feel Good / A Hero Aint Nothin' But a Sandwich (soundtrack) / Columbia (behind my voice)

Bonny Billy / A Dream of the Sea / More Revery / Temporary Residence
Dogbowl & Kramer / When the sun goes down / Hot Day in Waco / Shimmy-Disc
Colwells / Design for Dedication / Up With People! / Pace
Thor / Thor Against the World / Thor Against the World / Smog Veil
Four Tet / Turtle Turtle Up / Everything Ecstatic / Domino
Champion Jack Dupree / Clog Dance / Asch Recordings 1939-45 Vol. 2 / ASCH
Syd Barrett / Birdie Hop / Opel / Capitol
Old Time Relijun / Cha Cha / Cha Cha Caberet / K

Heldon / Virgin Swedish Blues-Psylocybine / IV / Aural Explorer (behind my voice)

Of Montreal / Mimi Merlot / Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies / Kindercore
Mountain Goats / There Will Be No Divorce / The Coroner's Gambit / Absolutely Kosher
Drekka / Fracture / Take Care to Fall / Blue Sanct
Jim O'Rourke / Please Paronize our Sponsors / Eureka / Drag City
Sergio Mendes / Samba de Una Nota-La Pulga Espanola / s/t / A&M
Pajo / Ten More Days / Pajo / Drag City
Daddy Hotcakes / Hawaiian Dream Blues / The Blues in St. Louis / Folkways
Dungen / Om de vore en vakthund / ta det lugnt / Kemado
Jad Fair and Jason Willett / Invisible Ray / Enjoyable Songs / Alternative Tentacles
Kraftwerk / Nachrichten / Radio-Aktivitat / EMI
Hopewell / God is Near (a diamond suture) / Hopewell and the Birds of Apetite / Rubric
Al Larson / Real Moonlight / The Hardline According to Danny & the Dinosaur / Property is Theft
Cat Power / Wild is the Wind / The Covers Record / Matador

Lali Puna / Left Handed Dub / I Thought I Was Over That / Morr
Arthur Doyle / Chemistry of Happiness / The Songwriter / Ecstatic Peace

~fin~

I go home and sleep now. More stuff in a bit.