Intro

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

-Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Supreme Confidence ***** II of II

Part two of a compilation I made in 2006.  This episode is the latter half of this same compilation, so if you'd like a concatenated disc, ISO, or even tarball of the tracks, please indicate so and I will be glad to present it to you.  This is the best.


"Track#","Name","Artist","Album"
1,"Supreme Confidence Part II Intro","Giosue Etranger","Supreme Confidence *****"
2,"Ilude Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?","Sex Pistols","Supreme Confidence *****"
3,"New Slang","The Shins","Oh,  Inverted World"
4,"Don't Call Me Whitney"," Bobby","Islands", "Return to the Sea"
5,"Two Characters in Search of a Country Song","The Magnetic Fields","The Charm of the Highway Strip"
6,"Girl on the Wing","The Shins","Oh,  Inverted World"
7,"Child Star","The Unicorns","Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
8,"Sunset City","The Magnetic Fields","The Charm of the Highway Strip"
9,"Uptown Top Ranking","Althea and Donna","Uptown Top Ranking"
10,"Fuga nº II","Os Mutantes","Mutantes"
11,"Brazil","Arcade Fire","Cold Wind / Brazil"
12,"[untitled]","Neutral Milk Hotel","In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
13,"Dust of Ages","Eels","Blinking Lights and Other Revelations"
14,"Dust Bowl","The Magnetic Fields","The Charm of the Highway Strip"


Sunday, September 25, 2011

Supreme Confidence ***** I of II

Part one of a compilation I made in 2006.  The next episode is the latter half of the same compilation, so if you'd like a concatenated disc, ISO, or even tarball of the tracks, please indicate so and I will be glad to present it to you.  This is the best.

"Track#","Name","Artist","Album"
1,"Supreme Confidence Intro","Giosue Etranger","Supreme Confidence *****"
2,"I'm Sleeping in a Submarine","Arcade Fire","Arcade Fire"
3,"It's a Curse","Wolf Parade","Apologies to the Queen Mary"
4,"Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Place","Sunset Rubdown","Shut Up I Am Dreaming"
5,"Tuff Ghost","The Unicorns","Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
6,"Grounds for Divorce","Wolf Parade","Apologies to the Queen Mary"
7,"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)","Arcade Fire","Funeral"
8,"Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone","Islands","Return to the Sea"
9,"The View","Modest Mouse","Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
10,"Wrecking Force","Voxtrot","Raised by Wolves"



Sunday, September 18, 2011

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

Mens sana in corpore sano, enough of the desultory philippics.  Losing one's mind, finding it, losing it again.  Wondering if you've ever had or even lost it or if you've had it to lose or if there is anything to lose at all.  Not really knowing anything...

Juvenal:

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium uitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saeuosque labores
et uenere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe
tranquillae per uirtutem patet unica uitae.
(10.356-64)


It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life ultimate among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.



"Track" "Name" "Artist" "Album"
1 "Life During Wartime" "Talking Heads" "Fear of Music"
2 "Mens Sana Intro" "Giosue Etranger" "Mens Sana"
3 "The Akara" "Beirut" "March of the Zapotec / Holland (disc 1: March of the Zapotec)"
4 "Losing My Mind" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
5 "Wildlife Analysis" "Boards of Canada" "Music Has the Right to Children"
6 "Hérésie" "Malajube" "Labyrinthes"
7 "Oh No!" "Camper Van Beethoven" "Telephone Free Landslide Victory"
8 "Peaches en Regalia" "Frank Zappa" "Hot Rats"
9 "Losing My Mind" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
10 "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts" "Wolf Parade" "Apologies to the Queen Mary"
11 "the kind ropes" "nihiti" "faced with splendor"
12 "Shore Leave" "Tom Waits" "Swordfishtrombones"
13 "Losing My Mind Dear …" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
14 "They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong" "White Rabbits" "It's Frightening"
15 "Trap Doors" "Broken Bells" "Broken Bells"
16 "Bury My Body" "The Animals" "The Singles Plus"
17 "Zebra (Man Man)" "Man Man" "The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face"
18 "Zebra (Beach House)" "Beach House" "Teen Dream"
19 "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" "Simon & Garfunkel" "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"


Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Hollow Men

Featuring songs from The Buzzcocks and The Clash, a subtle tribute to the significance of the events on that Tuesday morning ten years ago today.  With some association, a narrative might be divined. None was intended. Concludes with Music For Airports.

V.

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear

At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act

Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion

And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm

Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.


Track, Name, Artist, Album
1, Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
2, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, Sparklehorse, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
3, Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), Buzzcocks, Love Bites
4, Atomic Garden, Bad Religion, Generator
5, I'm So Bored With The U.S.A., The Clash, The Clash (U.K.)
6, Manière de parler, Daniel Bélanger, L'échec du matériel
7, Shiva, The Antlers, Hospice
8, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division, Substance
9, High and Dry, Radiohead, The Bends
10, An Appeal to St. Peter, Pale Young Gentlemen, Pale Young Gentlemen
11, Float On, Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
12, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
13, Karma Police, Radiohead, OK Computer
14, Dilaudid, The Mountain Goats, Dilaudid
15, Dirty Old Town, The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash
16, Homeward Bound, Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
17, Burma Shave, Tom Waits, Bounced Checks
18, The Hollow Men for Trumpet and Strings,  Op. 25, T.S. Eliot & Vincent Persichetti, The Estamos Unidos Project
19, 1/1, Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports
20, 2/1, Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Lyrics to come:

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Ondes des Gábor Sári "Zsa zsa"

On June 14, 1989, in Beverly Hills, California, Gabor was accused of slapping the face of a police officer named Paul Kramer when he stopped her for a traffic violation. This episode features songs that evoke a spirit of L.A. & the absurdity of modernity.

Broadbent: ... I find the world quite good enough for me -- rather a jolly place, in fact.
Keegan (looking at him with quiet wonder):  You are satisfied?
Broadbent:  As a reasonable man, yes.  I see no evils in the world -- except of course, natural evils -- that cannot be remedied by freedom, self-government, and English institutions.  I think so, not because I am an Englishman, but as a matter of common sense.
Keegan:  You feel at home in the world then? Broadbent:  Of course.  Don't you?
Keegan:  (from the very depths of his nature): No.
 -Bernard Shaw: John Bull's "Other Island", Act IV.  (Colin Wilson's The Outsider)
Track Listing:


Track Number,Name,Artist,Album
1,Intro & Taxi Theme,Bob James,Ondes de Gábor Sári
2,Oahu,Menomena,I Am the Fun Blame Monster
3,Beverly Kills,Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti,Before Today
4,Los Angeles,Frank Black,Frank Black
5,Highway Chile,The Jimi Hendrix Experience,Are You Experienced
6,Do It,Beastie Boys,Ill Communication
7,Cars,Gary Numan,The Pleasure Principle
8,Moving to L.A.,Art Brut,Bang Bang Rock & Roll
9,Namaï-Taïla-Cambodge (Go-Tabla-Go),We Are Wolves,Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux
10,Once Was One,Portugal. The Man,In the Mountain In the Cloud
11,Angela Surf City,The Walkmen,Lisbon
12,Janglin,Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros,Up from Below
13,Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood,Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
14,Heartattack and Vine,Tom Waits,Heartattack and Vine
15,Modern World,The Modern Lovers,The Modern Lovers
16,Modern World,Wolf Parade,Apologies to the Queen Mary
17,Harmonix,Surfer Blood,Astro Coast
18,Wave of Mutilation,Pixies,Doolittle


Lyrics and Tracklist included in Lyrics ID3 Tag.  I'd love email, so write to me.



Sunday, August 28, 2011

Never On Sunday

This episode is inspired by the film "Never on Sunday"


"Up where the smoke is all billowed & curled
Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world
When there's hardly no day nor hardly no night
There's things half in shadow and halfway in light" ....


Tracks:


Track,Name,Artist,Album
1,Condition,Giosue Etranger,Never On Sunday
2,XXX YYYYY ZZZ,Musician Q,Release-Title
3,Never on Sunday,Μάνος Χατζιδάκις,Never on Sunday
4,Pavement Artist (Chim Chim Cher-ee),Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman,Mary Poppins
5,Walking My Gargoyle (original song from The Carnivorous Carnival),The Gothic Archies(The Tragic Treasury: Songs From A Series of Unfortunate Events)
6,The Only One,The Black Keys,Brothers
7,Sailing to Nowhere,Broken Bells,Broken Bells
8,My Descent Into Madness,Eels,Electro-Shock Blues
9,Tragedies,Giosue Etranger,Never On Sunday
10,I Ni Sogoma,Dinosaur Feathers,Fantasy Memorial
11,Έφυγε Έφυγε,Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης,15 Μεγάλες Επιτυχίες
12,Playing His Famous Homemade Guitar,Jimmy Driftwood,Onze
13,Soul Mining,The The,Soul Mining
14,Let's Get Strong,Clues,Clues
15,I Don't Really Mind,Tame Impala,Innerspeaker
16,Leave It at the Door,White Rabbits,It's Frightening
17,Ahhh You Are Very Crazy,Giosue Etranger,Never On Sunday
18,Monsieur Armand,Procol Harum,A Whiter Shade of Pale
19,Live Good,Burning Spear,Marcus Garvey
20,Το Ψωμί Της Ξενητειάς,Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης,15 Μεγάλες Επιτυχίες
21,Chim Cheree,Joe Pernice,It Feels So Good When I Stop
22,Head Is a Flame (Cool with It),Portugal-The Man,In the Mountain In the Cloud
23,Catholic Pagans,Surfer Blood,Astro Coast
24,The Charms of Ilya,Μάνος Χατζιδάκις,Never on Sunday
25,Watermelon Man,Herbie Hancock,Head Hunters
26,Gibraltar,Giosue Etranger,Never On Sunday


In celebration of Z.G., D.S., & I.T.; Cypriots & Greeks

***Identify the first track (who produced it, where it was featured, what it is called & I'll bestow you with a prize.***

Tracklist and Lyrics in Lyrics ID3 tag for m4a file.



Sunday, August 21, 2011

Marche ou crève

When only six survivors remained, out of ammunition, a bayonet charge was conducted in which three of the six were killed. The remaining three wounded men were brought before the Mexican general, who allowed them to return to France as an honour guard for the body of Capitaine Danjou. The captain had a wooden hand which was stolen during the battle; it was later returned to the Foreign Legion and is now kept in a case in the Foreign Legion museum at Aubagne, and paraded annually on Camerone Day. It is the Foreign Legion's most precious relic. (source: do you really care?)



Track,Name,Artist,Album
1,Dialup Intro,Giosue Etranger,Ut Supra Infra
2,Paris CDG Announcement Tones,ccmulliss,Marche ou crève
3,You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son,Wolf Parade,Wolf Parade
4,Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand,The Flaming Lips,Zaireeka (Disc Sync)
5,Codex,Radiohead,The King of Limbs
6,Take Up Thy Pen,Alden Penner,Unreleased
7,SNCF tune,Maarten Otto,Marche ou crève
8,Cliquot,Beirut,The Flying Club Cup
9,Gold Day,Sparklehorse,It's a Wonderful Life
10,I, Manface,Man Man,The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face
11,L'amour de moi,Jane Birkin,Arabesque
12,[untitled],Neutral Milk Hotel,In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
13,Inside bus 2a in Vienna,gandhi2,Marche ou crève
14,Lover I Don't Have to Love,Bright Eyes,Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil
15,Faust Arp,Radiohead,In Rainbows
16,Rotterdam Centraal Station,LG,Marche ou crève
17,En Melody (feat. Jane Birkin),Portishead,Melody Nelson: B-Sides
18,Le colombarium,Pierre Lapointe,Pierre Lapointe
19,Bullets,Tunng,Good Arrows
20,Je suis mort,Daniel Bélanger,L'échec du matériel
21,Malagueña salerosa,Chingon,Kill Bill: Vol. 2
22,Motionless,Sick Cell,Entry 7
23,Back to This,The Helio Sequence,Keep Your Eyes Ahead
24,ID,Sonny Lester & The Sonny Lester Orchestra,Exotica
25,CDG Alert,Various,Marche ou crève
26,Fairy Fountain - The Legend of Zelda,yosiejs0,Marche ou crève
27,Le Boudin,Légion Étrangère,Marche ou crève
28,Dialtone Fades Out,Giosue Etranger,Ut Supra Infra
29,It Ain't Me Babe,Bob Dylan,Another Side of Bob DylanTrack,Name,Artist,Album



Sunday, August 14, 2011

0.111 (the nigredo)

The Nth Episode:

The bishop touched him gently on the shoulder, and said:
"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt
eam." *

* Unless God protects a house, they who guard it, watch in vain.

And then he changed the subject.
He very often said: "There is a bravery for the priest as well as
a bravery for the colonel of dragoons." "Only," added he, "ours should
be quiet."


"Track Number","Name","Artist","Album"
1,"Dialup Diddidly Diddily Doo","Giosue Etranger","Ut Supra Infra"
2,"A Day in the Graveyard","Sunset Rubdown","Sunset Rubdown"
3,"ABCDEFGAGFEDCBA","Giosue Etranger","Practice"
4,"0.111... Introduction","Giosue Etranger","Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats"
5,"Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up","LCD Soundsystem","LCD Soundsystem"
6,"Little Tiger","tUnE-YaRdS","BiRd-BrAiNs"
7,"the return of kind ropes (laku noc, dusan k)","nihiti","other people's memories"
8,"the ringing in (the sun is rung)","nihiti","other people's memories"
9,"Youth Knows No Pain","Lykke Li","Wounded Rhymes"
10,"BOTE","Menomena","Mines"
11,"Solid Ground","Maps & Atlases","Perch Patchwork"
12,"Super 16 (excerpt)","Neu!","Kill Bill: Vol. 1"
13,"Baby","Os Mutantes","Os Mutantes"
14,"The Cave","Mumford & Sons","Sigh No More"
15,"Boarded Doors","The Morning Benders","Talking Through Tin Cans"
16,"The Grand Duel (Parte Prima)","Luis Bacalov","Kill Bill: Vol. 1"
17,"She's Leaving","Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark","Architecture & Morality"
18,"Mumbai","oOoOO","oOoOO"
19,"Revenge (feat. The Flaming Lips)","Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse","Dark Night of the Soul"
20,"The Mariner's Revenge Song","The Decemberists","Picaresque"
21,"The King of Carrot Flowers, Parts Two & Three (Giosue Etranger Remix)","Neutral Milk Hotel","In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
22,"A Day in the Graveyard II","Sunset Rubdown","Sunset Rubdown"
23,"Grim Augury (feat. Vic Chesnutt)","Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse","Dark Night of the Soul"
24,"Bravery","Victor Hugo & “Melissa” (librivox.org)","Les Miserables"


Sunday, August 7, 2011

Oktoeight

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.

Songs about mines and standard transcendentalism.


1,"Dialup Intro","Giosue Etranger","Ut Supra Infra"
2,"Phone Talk","Dr. Ring-Ding & The Senior Allstars","Dandimite!"
3,"Dandimite Ska","Dr. Ring-Ding & The Senior Allstars","Dandimite!"
4,"Oracle & Intro","O Brother","Oktoeight"
5,"The Carrying Arms","The Antlers","In the Attic of the Universe"
6,"Two Characters in Search of a Country Song","The Magnetic Fields","The Charm of the Highway Strip"
7,"Fool Looks For Logic in Chambers of Human Heart","O Brother","Oktoeight"
8,"Dark as the Dungeon","Johnny Cash","At Folsom Prison"
9,"Working in the Coal Mine","Lee Dorsey","Great Googa Mooga Disc 1"
10,"Subterranean Homesick Blues","Bob Dylan","Bringing It All Back Home"
11,"Heart of Gold","Neil Young","Harvest"
12,"Big Rock Candy Mountain","Harry ""Haywire Mac"" McClintock","O Brother"
13,"Desert Love","Sonny Lester & The Sonny Lester Orchestra","Exotica"
14,"Rock Island Line","Lead Belly","The Very Best of Leadbelly"
15,"Indian War Whoop","John Hartford","O Brother"
16,"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (radio station version) (feat. Dan Tyminski)","The Soggy Bottom Boys","O Brother"
17,"Man of Constant Sorrow","Bob Dylan","Bob Dylan"
18,"Paradigm of Hope","O Brother","Oktoeight"
19,"Lucifer Sam","Pink Floyd","The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"
20,"Fire","The Jimi Hendrix Experience","Are You Experienced"
21,"Temple Mystique","The Hidden Words","Free Thyself From The Fetters of This World"
22,"Spiritually Unaffiliated","O Brother","Oktoeight"
23,"Technicolor Health","Harlem Shakes","Technicolor Health"
24,"Lover of Mine","Beach House","Teen Dream"
25,"Solitude Is Bliss","Tame Impala","Innerspeaker"
26,"Tractor Man","Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti","Underground"
27,"Where Is My Mind?","Pixies","Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim"
28,"Bangers + Mash","Radiohead","In Rainbows (bonus disc)"
29,"My Wife, Lost in the Wild","Realpeople / Beirut","Holland"
30,"Useful Chamber","Dirty Projectors","Bitte Orca"
31,"On Miracles","O Brother",
32,"Dialtone Fades Out","Giosue Etranger","Ut Supra Infra"

Lyrics in podcast ID3 tag [again].


Sunday, July 31, 2011

ᏦᎢᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (tsoisgo galiquogi) 37

Sentimentality about Cool Hand Luke, indomitable spirit, the Great Mechanick, living above board and having a laugh and an esteemable regard, or disregard for death as defeat or vice-versa.  The tracks selected, hidden between samples, reflect my living.

Lyrics in m4a ID3 tag for lyrics, and tracklist below:

1,"Sometimes Nothing Can Be a Real Cool Hand","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
2,"Intro to ᏦᎢᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (tsoisgo galiquogi) 37","Giosue Etranger","ᏦᎢᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (tsoisgo galiquogi) 37"
3,"Just Passing Time, Captain","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
4,"Castles Made of Sand","The Jimi Hendrix Experience","Axis: Bold as Love"
5,"Plastic Jesus","The Goldcoast Singers","Here They Are! The Goldcoast Singers"
6,"Baba O'Riley","The Who","Who's Next"
7,"Fish in the Jailhouse","Tom Waits","Orphans: Brawlers"
8,"What Good Is It","Screamin' Jay Hawkins","I Put a Spell On You"
9,"With Nothing","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
10,"You Can Get It If You Really Want","Jimmy Cliff","The Harder They Come"
11,"Eat 50 Eggs","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
12,"Love Me Hate Me Kill Me Anything Just LET ME KNOW IT","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
13,"New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down","LCD Soundsystem","Sound of Silver"
14,"Plastic Jesus","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
15,"Just Doing My Job","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
16,"Alec Eiffel","Pixies","Trompe le Monde"
17,"Gouge Away","Pixies","Doolittle"
18,"How Do You Take Your Pants Off?","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
19,"Inglan Is a Bitch","Linton Kwesi Johnson","Bass Culture"
20,"You Gotta Move","The Rolling Stones","Sticky Fingers"
21,"Dear Boys Playing It Cool","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
22,"Florida","Modest Mouse","We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
23,"Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos","Man Man","Rabbit Habits"
24,"Midnight Special","Lead Belly","The Very Best of Leadbelly"
25,"Over And Over Again (Lost And Found)","Clap Your Hands Say Yeah","Clap Your Hands Say Yeah"
26,"Never Make It (What're You Talking About?)","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
27,"Approximate Sunlight","Bright Eyes","The People's Key"
28,"Never Planned Anything in My Life","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
29,"My Back Pages","Bob Dylan","Another Side of Bob Dylan"
30,"Plastic Jesus","The Flaming Lips","Transmissions From the Satellite Heart"
31,"Conclusion (So Good)","Cool Hand Luke","Cool Hand Luke"
32,"End Title","Lalo Schifrin","Cool Hand Luke"
33,"Goodbye","Giosue Etranger","ᏦᎢᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (tsoisgo galiquogi) 37"

That's It.

ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (galiquogi) 7
ᏦᎢᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (tsoisgo galiquogi) 37



An Endorsement for Nobyl Skateboards

(I'm not an actor):

#37: The What For

(Buy something from them. Maybe it's a good idea.)

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Abiogenesis

Abiogenesis:  Mineral, Animal, Vegetable.  Princeton's wordnet defines it:  "a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter".  It is one of many questions that buoy origin myth; for me it is just fascination.

Perhaps from a viewpoint of experience alone, using only information that one has sensed, a sort of solipsistic genesis could suggest where other life comes from and where humans come from.  Still, an assumption has to be made and credibility lent because no one (I've met) can reliably remember their own origin.  Funny thing, that.  This is the sixth episode.  Six was my favorite number in Latin.

This episode in honor of Tom Twilley:  biology instructor extraordinaire.

Track Listing:

"#","Name","Artist","Album"

"1","Abiogenesis Introduction","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis"
"2","Paradise Circus","Massive Attack","Heligoland"
"3","In the Morning of the Magicians","The Flaming Lips","Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
"4","Le Carnaval des animaux : VII. Aquarium","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)"
"5","Sea Ghost","The Unicorns","Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
"6","If","Islands","Return to the Sea"
"7","Elope","Clues","Clues"
"8","Le Carnaval des animaux : XII. Fossiles","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)"
"9","The Flood in Your Old Town","Candy Bars","On Cutting Ti-Gers in Half and Understanding Narravation"
"10","House of Cards","Radiohead","In Rainbows"
"11","12:51","The Strokes","Room on Fire"
"12","The Wanton Song","Led Zeppelin","Physical Graffiti"
"13","Le Carnaval des animaux : XIV. Finale","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)"
"14","Jung on Alchemy and the Esoteric Sort","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis"
"15","Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)","Arcade Fire","Funeral"
"16","Le Carnaval des animaux : XIII. Le Cygne","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)"
"17","Genius of Love","Tom Tom Club","Tom Tom Club"
"18","Hearts","oOoOO","oOoOO"
"19","Topless Party","Piero Umiliani","Svezia, inferno e paradiso"
"20","Dance Yrself Clean","LCD Soundsystem","This Is Happening"
"21","Let's All Go Home and Find a Nice White Woman to Make Love To","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis"


Lyrics, as usual, are in the m4a ID3 tag for lyrics.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Never Pawn Your Astrolabe

The songs in this cast are all titled or about locations, with a song or two of introduction to travel. Astrolabes, Porbas, Labia, Libraries, Occult and Madness all feature prominently in this one with bits taken from Captain Jack Sparrow for inspiration.

Track listing:

"1","Madness and Brilliance","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"2","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe Intro","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"3","Gasoline Horseys","Sparklehorse","Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot"
"4","Tortuga by Me Onesies, Savvy","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"5","Handsome Furs Hate This City","Handsome Furs","Plague Park"
"6","Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ","Titus Andronicus","The Airing of Grievances"
"7","14th St. Break","Beastie Boys","The Mix-Up"
"8","Across 110th Street","Bobby Womack","Jackie Brown"
"9","Labia","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"10","Moonlight","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"11","I'm Waiting for the Man","The Velvet Underground","The Velvet Underground & Nico"
"12","Honor Among Thieves","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"13","Against the Peruvian Monster","Man Man","The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face"
"14","Keeping the Occult in the Library","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"15","Santiago","Tunng","And Then We Saw Land"
"16","Postcards From Italy","Beirut","Gulag Orkestar"
"17","Holland, 1945","Neutral Milk Hotel","In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
"18","Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings","Sunset Rubdown","Shut Up I Am Dreaming"
"19","Different Systems & the Porba (kīla)","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"20","All the Umbrellas in London","The Magnetic Fields","Get Lost"
"21","The Truth","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"22","The Guns of Brixton","The Clash","London Calling"
"23","The kīla (Sanskrit Devanagari: कील; IAST: kīla; Tibetan: ཕུར་བ; Wylie: phur ba, pronunciation between pur-ba and pur-pu, alt. transliterations: phurpa, phurbu or phurpu)","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"24","My Night With the Prostitute From Marseille","Realpeople","March of the Zapotec / Holland (disc 2: Holland)"
"25","Israeli Caves","Maps & Atlases","Perch Patchwork"
"26","Singapore","Tom Waits","Rain Dogs"
"27","Mancy","Giosue Etranger","Never Pawn Your Astrolabe"
"28","The Last of the Famous International Playboys","Morrissey","Bona Drag"
"29","Mario Pazzaglini","Genesis P. Orridge","Infinity Factory"
"30","Spiritually Ecumenically Grammatically","Giosue Etranger","The Curse of The Black Pearl"
"31","Bimini Bay","Tennis","Cape Dory"

Lyrics, as usual, are in the m4a ID3 tag for lyrics.

08/05/02

Where is my astrolabe? Who waits for a ship to come in? Lonesome girls, often conspiring with the ocean to assuage their guilt. Longshoremen, figuring they have time to sober up. Those who report to some one or other.  They ask the same question every day with their perpetually concerned expression, which is answered day to day with an empty harbor.

One day their ships will come in. In the meantime, I am looking for one going out. One day a grey-beard loon I be.




Danse Macabre?

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Folly Loon

This week, the content relates to love lost and life spent in the throes of opiate addiction.  The films Drugstore Cowboy and Withnail & I are themed and much of the music was introduced to me in the UK.

There is a little bit of the steganogrammic, though I doubt anyone would see it, thus the "stegano" aspect of steganogrammic.  The sense I had in composing this podcast was one of turning around to face the demons that torture one, and of addressing them in turn.  Equally, and perhaps more importantly represented is a sense of gratitude and an earnest earnestness about lives led.  The clip at the end before the Israelites song is profound and I've found it to be almost perversely apropos in the life I've known.

The podcast is chapterized.  An enormous success (given that it was done with Windows 7 by a retard).


"Track Number","Name","Artist","Album"
1.,"Well Well Burroughs","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
2.,"Upon Entering Bloodstream","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
3.,"For All We Know","Abbey Lincoln","Drugstore Cowboy OST"
4.,"Well Well Burroughs","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
5.,"The Passenger","Iggy Pop","Lust for Life"
6.,"Teenage Kicks","The Undertones","The Undertones"
7.,"Chelsea Hotel #2","Leonard Cohen","New Skin for the Old Ceremony"
8.,"Stopped Clock","Giosue Etranger","Withnail & I Clip"
9.,"Wonder Waltz","Elliot Goldenthal","Drugstore Cowboy OST"
10.,"Futterman's Rule","Beastie Boys","Ill Communication"
11.,"Road to Luna","Girls in Hawaii","Plan Your Escape"
12.,"Transom","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
13.,"L'Hôtel Particulier","Serge Gainsbourg","Histoire de Melody Nelson"
14.,"Well Well Burroughs","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
15.,"A Whiter Shade of Pale","Procol Harum","A Whiter Shade of Pale"
16.,"Just Like Honey","The Jesus and Mary Chain","Psychocandy"
17.,"Father Brown Met","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
18.,"Sunrise, Sunset","Bright Eyes","Fevers & Mirrors"
19.,"Plaisirs Dénudés,"Pierre Lapointe","Pierre Lapointe"
20.,"She's Not There","The Zombies","Begin Here"
21.,"About Her","Malcolm McLaren","Kill Bill: Vol. 2 OST"
22.,"Mister Jung Stuffed","Man Man","Rabbit Habits"
23.,"Why Bob Quits","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
24.,"Hey,  That's No Way to Say Goodbye","Leonard Cohen","Songs of Leonard Cohen"
25.,"Play it,  Sam... Play "As Time Goes By"","Ingrid Bergman","Casablanca "
26.,"Conclusion: Read Bottles & Israelites","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"
27.,"I Shall Miss You","Withnail & I","Withnail & I Clip"
28.,"You're So Cool","Hans Zimmer","True Romance"
29.,"Mah na' mah na' (Album Version)","Piero Umiliani","Svezia"
30.,"Phone for Podcast","Giosue Etranger","Voice Memos"
31.,"Well Well Burroughs","Giosue Etranger","Drugstore Cowboy Clip"

Lyrics are in m4a "lyrics tag".



Sunday, July 3, 2011

Eschatological Bedtime Stories

How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Music stuff with Einstein & Oppenheimer.

Comments &c are more than welcome.

Friends,
I pray this podcast finds you and finds you well. I woke up at 0230 GMT-5 and gave up on trying to sleep, and recorded this very cast. There seems to be a thematic anchor of cinema, but my inspiration was drawn from an idea and experience of being a child and believing the world was to end imminently. "We can drink the water from the toilet reservoir, but not the bowl," and "We can cover the windows with telephone books (as if we had them)," are phrases I remember. Anyway, there is beauty in learning to love the bomb. As June has ended in my 33rd year, and I, at the mercy and grace of the Universe go on to live now, I think back on the certainty that I would never see these days. "I'm not going to be alive when I would be thirty." I said. I was so sure. It was my lot. And I was wrong. It's good to be wrong. I'm wrong at least once a day.

Two days before the Trinity test, Oppenheimer expressed his hopes and fears in a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita:
In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,The good deeds a man has done before defend him. ***


Bonne Ecoute,

Track,Name,Artist,Album,Time (Seconds)
0,Brazil - Geoff Muldaur,Michael Kamen,Brazil,206
1,Miracles,Bobby Johnston,Wristcutters: A Love Story,16
2,E=mc²- Einstein explains his famous theory,Einstein,None,58
3,Smoke and Mirrors,The Magnetic Fields,Get Lost,188
4,Lament,Sonny Lester, His Orchestra & Chorus,Take It Off! Striptease Classics,185
5,House of the Rising Sun,The Animals,The Singles Plus,270
6,Velvety Instrumental Version,Pixies,Complete B Sides,124
7,Occurrence on the Border (Hopping on a Pogo-Gypsy Stick),Gogol Bordello,Wristcutters: A Love Story,206
8,Collapsing Stars,The Mountain Goats,Dilaudid,149
9,Withnail and I - Hamlet Soliloquy,Richard E Grant,None,105
10,Three Changes,The Good, The Bad & The Queen,The Good, The Bad & The Queen,257
11,Clap Your Hands,Pale Young Gentlemen,Pale Young Gentlemen,179
12,Clap Your Hands!,Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,108
13,The Card Cheat,The Clash,London Calling,229
14,Ledmonton,Clues,Clues,262
15,Sunflower,Nicolas Jaar,Space Is Only Noise,48
16,Trinity Oppenheimer,Oppenheimer,None,99
17,I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover),Chromatics,In The City 12",198
18,We Built Another World,Wolf Parade,Wolf Parade,203
0,Brazil - Geoff Muldaur,Michael Kamen,Brazil,206
19,100,000 Fireflies,The Magnetic Fields,The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees,200

Lyrics are in podcast.  Alternative solution forthcoming.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Jugar

A podcast about living, dying, loving and playing. Or music about that stuff.

Comments &c are welcome.

Friends,

Please enjoy this second episode of the new and inspired podcast being produced in Joshuan Enterprises Labs, and let the marked improvement convince you to subscribe and refer it to those whom you believe may like it.

#,Track,Artist,Album,Time
0,Oscillate Wildly,The Smiths,Louder Than Bombs,207
1,Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,The Animals,The Singles Plus,140
2,There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,The Smiths,The Queen Is Dead,243
3,Heaven,The Golden Palominos,Pure (1994) Lori Carson,292
4,In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song),Pixies,Pixies,104
5,Jesus Gonna Be Here,Tom Waits,Bone Machine,201
6,The Universe Is Going to Catch You,The Antlers,In the Attic of the Universe,234
7,The Deathbridge in Lethbridge,The Rural Alberta Advantage,Hometowns,134
8,In My Life,Johnny Cash,American IV: The Man Comes Around,178
9,It's a Wonderful Life,Sparklehorse,It's a Wonderful Life,179
10,Swans (Life After Death),Islands,Return to the Sea,571
11,First Day Of My Life,Bright Eyes,I'm Wide Awake It's Morning,191
12,It's Only Time,The Magnetic Fields,i,265
13,God's Comic,Elvis Costello,Spike,331
14,Ready to Die,The Unicorns,Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?,102
15,Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,Nina Simone,Broadway Blues Ballads,168
16,Dead,They Might Be Giants,Flood,178
0,Oscillate Wildly,The Smiths,Louder Than Bombs,207

Lyrics, as usual, are in the m4a ID3 tag for lyrics.



Danse Macabre?

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Abracadabra - Emile Zola

Abradacabra - Emile Zola: a mix.  A mix for Rebecca, whom I love, even when I hate her.

Comments &c. are welcome.

Tracks:

#,Title,Artist,Time(Seconds)
1,The Navajo Know,Pixies,139
2,This Side of the Law,Johnny Cash,174
3,Kisses Over Babylon,Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros,315
4,You Can't Always Get What You,The Rolling Stones,448
5,Winter Windows,Sea Wolf,231
6,Swan Lake: Act II. No. 14 Scène,Пётр Ильич Чайковский,174
7,La Piqûre,Karkwa,302
8,La Folie,The Stranglers,364
9,Golden Brown,The Stranglers,207
10,Take It Easy (Love Nothing),Bright Eyes,200
11,Born on a Train,Arcade Fire,252
12,Born on a Train,The Magnetic Fields,226
13,Language City,Wolf Parade,303
14,Les Chemins de verre,Karkwa,199
15,Le Bon Sens,Karkwa,210
16,Drain the Blood,The Rural Alberta Advantage,169
17,Lowiza,The Lovely Feathers,226
18,Love Song No. 7,Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,271
19,Lotus Flower,Radiohead,300
20,Innocent When You Dream [78][Version],Tom Waits,188
21,Innocent When You Dream [Barroom][Version],Tom Waits,258
22,Look!,The Antlers,108
23,This Town,Johnny Cash,150
24,40 Day Dream,Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros,233
25,Black Dirt,Sea Wolf,225

Lyrics, as usual, are in the m4a ID3 tag for lyrics.




Danse Macabre?