Transferring this blog from myspace to wordpress has had its down sides, but it's still more important to me to be able to link to websites I know are safe (e.g., geocities sites that have nifty content, such as the impaled northern moonforest site, http://www.geocities.com/return_of_the_necrobation/   Despite the remarks at the myspace redirect, there is absolutely no spam/phish/malicious code at that site.  Myspace has some kind of anti-yahoo, anti-geocities agenda;  politics, if you will, of the same ilk as one finds amongst Chicago politicians).

The blog for my radio show has moved to here. 

The page loads to a static page that's in German.  Don't freak.  Look over on the right.  The links to my English language blog entries are over there. On the right.  Directly underneath the calendar.  More specifically, the blog entries can be accessed by clicking any title directly under

Ya know, the other day, I was saying this:

Radio show entires will maintain the

WXYC Friday, Month Day, Year  Time (24:00)

style title I established here.

Friday night's radio show blog entry is decidely longer than they've been recently, partly due to the fact May 23 marked my first official show of the regular summer schedule, so preludes/disclaimers/etc. were necessary.

I forgot to sign out and sign in as myself, so this is a quick cut-n-paste job, instead of the usual link to the flow sheet.  I'll prolly come back in a few days and fix it up so it's easier to read... 

Had several surprise calls from friends who typically listen to my night show who were also surprised to hear me on the air before lunch.  We're not totally out of sign-ups yet, so I fill-in as needed. With that said:

My regular show for the summer starts tomorrow at 6pm.  18:00.  Eastern Daylight Savings Time.  Mark your calendar and tune in or tune out as fits your lifestyle.  Friday night 6-9pm EDT. 

Also!  Coming soon!  As in tomorrow!  New blog, new blog site.  Good-bye senseless anti-geocities prejudice and discrimination!  Wordpress doesn't have an automatic way to move myspace blogs (although they can for google and livejournal and a couple others), nevertheless, I will be moving all the radio show blog entries that are here over there, but it will prolly take awhile. 

Here's the radio show for 22/5/8 09:00-13:15 :
* = rotation
 * = request (that is, requests are offset by one space)

PERFORMER -/- TUNE TITLE -/- ALBUM TITLE -/- LABEL

--- 9:00 AM BREAKPOINT ---
*Japanther     $100     Skuffed Up My Huffy     Exo
Fred Rogers & Josey Carey     Tomorrow on The Children's Corner     Good Morning    
*Nkasai     Edua Neb U     Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation     OUT HERE
Steve Hillage     Electrick Gypsies     L     Virgin
*Terminals      Amnesia        Touch    LAST VISIBLE DOG
Mission of Burma     This Is Not A Photograph
*Dead Meadow     The Great Deceiver     Old Growth     MATADOR
anonymous voice talent     "How to Raise Your Parents"     Way Out!    
*Boris     Statement     Smile     SOUTHERN LORD
talkset
*Robert Ashley     Mesopotamia     Concrete     LOVELY MUSIC
B-52's     Mesopotamia     Mesopotamia     Warner Brothers
*Mi Ami     African Rhythms     African Rhythms 12-inch     WHITE DENIM
Frog Eyes     "Stockades"     Tears of the Valedictorian    
Led Zeppelin     The Immigrant Song
*Cantwell, Gomez, and Jordan     Moon     Hot Licks and Rhetoric     307 KNOX
--- 10:00 AM BREAKPOINT ---
Ratina.IT     Macrostruttura     Immediate Action     Hefty
Tannahill Weavers     The Geese in the Bog/The Jig of Slurs     IV     Green Linnet
*Black Twig Pickers     Rattletrap     Hobo Handshake     VHF
talkset
*Ruby Suns     There Are Birds     Sea Lion     SUB POP
Rain Parade     This Can't Be Today     Emergency Third Rail Power Trip     Enigma
*Growing     Swell     Lateral     SOCIAL REGISTERY
 *Stevie Ray Vaughan     Texas Flood     Texas Flood     Epic
*Akrobatik     Front Steps Pt. II     Absolute Value     FAT BEATS
talkset
Zen-Faschisten     TV     Sturm und Twang     Big Cat
Cobra Killer     Ledercouch     76/77     Monika
Brak     Italian Lesson     Surf and Turf    
--- 11:00 AM BREAKPOINT ---
*Autechre     Io     Quaristice     WARP
Hamilton O'Hara/Charlie Dobson & The Satellite Singers     The Story of the Planets     Journey to the Moon and More About Outer Space     Golden
*Bodega System     The Last Bronx O'Connor     Blood Pyx     GRANT'S TOMB
*D. Charles Speer & the Helix     Drink Up & Go Home     After Hours     SOUND@ONE
*The Don Isaac Exekial Combination     Amanlinja     Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6     SOUNDWAY
*The Funkees     Akula Owu Onyeara     Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6     SOUNDWAY
talkset
Radio 4     Save Your City     Gotham     Gern Blandsten
*Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tralala Band     Black Waters Blowed/Engine Broke Blues     13 Blues for Thirteen Moons     CONSTELLATION
Tom Robinson     Grey Cortina     Power In The Darkness     Harvest
*Master Musicians of Hop-Frog     Song of the South     Split 7-inch     LATHER/URCK
 *Molly Hatchet     The Creeper     s/t     Epic
Lynyrd Skynyrd     Saturday Night Special     Nuthin' Fancy     MCA
talkset
--- 12:00 PM BREAKPOINT ---
 *Fujiya & Miyagi     Collarbone     Transparent Things     Deaf Dumb + Blind Communications
The Who     Baby Don't You Do It     (b-side Join Together)     Track
*Excepter     Kill People     Debt Dept.     PAW TRACKS
Suicide     Frankie Teardrop     s/t     Red Star
anonymous voice talent     The Devil Made Me Do it     Way Out promo/PSA    
*Jack Rose     Song For The Owl     Dr. Ragtime & Pals/Self-Titled     BEAUTIFUL HAPPINESS
talkset
*Peter Brotzmann & Peeter Uuskyla     Beautiful But Stupid     Born Broke     ATAVISTIC
Osibisa     Music For Gong Gong     s/t     Decca
*She & Him     Sweet Darlin'     Volume One     MERGE
*Sun Kil Moon     The Light     April     CALDO VERDE
talkset
--- 1:00 PM BREAKPOINT ---
*Terminals     Janetta     Touch     LAST VISIBLE DOG
Kim Fowley     Silver Shadows     Outlaw Superman     Bacchus Archives
*Dead Child     Twitch of the Death Nerve     Attack     QUARTERSTICK

I haven't changed my "Top Friends" in forever, so a little blog entry to that end...

I was listening to WMBR one night last week, and Fender Schrade was on doing some live performance.  It was really great, so I added her as a friend, specifically because I knew if I didn't I might lose track of her work.  I don't know how many other places she may have gone here in the US, if she was on tour, if she's still on tour, or what, but I enjoyed it a great deal.  Total serendipity that I happened to catch her performance, and I'm glad I stumbled onto it.

I switched out Crash Worship to make space for her... her sound is very different from theirs.  Her stuff involves keyboards, electronica, and a minimalist approach... check it out if you're so inclined. 

Currently watching:
Mike Huckabee & Donna Summer
on Tavis Smiley

Hey all!  Lots of requests again.  My rhythm got thrown by rather insistent and creepy knocking on our door, and while I'm sure the music/set list for this show overall recovered, I never did.  Thanks for all the calls and requests, and your patience through the rhythm disruption.  It's awesome knowing you guys are out there listening.




Anyways, yes, indeed, I was extremely freaked out by the unannounced visitor who felt the door should open in a timely manner to anonymous knocking, so if that was your purpose, visitor, you succeeded.  Congratulations.  If that was not your purpose, word to your mother about "dropping by" WXYC, *especially* after business hours or when the Union is otherwise locked: 

Call the dj ahead of time, tell them who you are and what your purpose is.  Don't just show up at our door and knock as if it is the dj's job to answer the door and interact with you.  It is not.  It doesn't matter how "big" or "important" someone is in our music scene.  We have a phone.  If you're that big and important in our music scene, you should already know our telephone number is 962-8989.  Use it.  It's exceedingly creepy to stand in the dark so we can't see who you are and knock and knock and knock and knock and knock...  If the on-air dj is not expecting you, if you do not call ahead and let the on-air dj know you're coming by, you should expect that *no one* is going to come to the door.  We already have lots of stuff that keeps us extremely busy: I, for one, am actively choosing music and previewing tracks, running the show on the fly, mainly because I think *live* radio should be done live, in real time. 

If you need to have it in perspective, maybe next time you're on stage doing a show, consider someone coming up to the stage and asking you to take a note to someone else you know--I mean, climbing up on stage, while you're trying to perform, and getting in your space and trying to get you to do some errand for him.  That is exactly what you're doing when you decide to just drop by and knock on our door unannounced.  It's creepy and weird.

Thanks.

I *loved* this show tonight.  Everything about it.  Tons of requests and phone calls.  The only thing really missing was takers of the free tickets, but we did end up having one post-9pm straggler call in and gimme a reason to call the Cradle.  The best thing about the requests was each one was perfect and really made the show what it was--down to the request for the Diabetes PSA promo CD.  I think that was what inspired a listener to request Firesign Theatre... and it all went due North from there...  Here be the set list:


I'm still planning on moving the blog, if you're wondering... oh!  and I'm gonna be on in 24 hours again, that is, Saturday 17 May 2008 18:00-21:00... so tune in or tune out as suits your preference...

yeah normally I'd carry on more about my callers and stuff, but I'm sleepy (OK, so really it's after 3am, not a tad after 9pm as I set the entry).  I may come back and edit this tomorrow night, to that end.  Seriously, I totally loved this show tonight.  Great requests, great calls, good stuff.

Myspace blog has really been getting me down.  First, they've made the blanket decision to direct *all* hyperlinks to *all* websites of the geocities domain to a page that says this, exactly:



As I described in this blog entry of Friday March 28, 2008, you can no longer access (among others) the Impaled Northern Moonforest  back-up website--parked on geocities (url subverted by myspace code = http://www.geocities.com/return_of_the_necrobation/ if you want to copy-n-paste in your browser) and guaranteed to be there for time frostbittenly eternal because I'm the one who loaded it there--through a simple click from myspace.  I promise you, there is absolutely *nothing* malicious, no spam, no attempts to get your password, none of that stuff there.  I don't know what myspace's issues with geocities may be, but I suspect some ridiculous political bs, perhaps somehow related to Google, in say, I don't know, a collaboratory effort to take over and monopolize the world, but maybe it's just myspace lame-os slack at work.  Can't forget that Rupert Murdoch connection, tho'.   Anyways, facebook lets us link to geocities, and so do all the other alternative blog sites I've checked so far...

Second, on April 19, 2008, I noticed that there was no longer a "currently listening to" feature available...   that was for crap...  Ironically, tonight as I begin to make real steps towards moving, suddenly the "currently listening to" feature has returned.  Hah.  Too little, too late myspace drones!

Third, as I've been bitching about forever, there's no damned easy way to access past blog entries here at myspace.  Earlier this year, in fact, they blocked access to all blog entries before 2006.  They finally got that straightened out, but then, they changed the edit feature, and I was trying to fix a broken link on the 2005 Xmassacre entry--a broken link caused by myspace doing something to their code, in fact--and it wouldn't let me preserve the date of the original entry, such that suddenly, even though it was supposed to be 2005, and all I did was change the img src to the new place (uploaded the image to myspace so they couldn't block it again), it would only allow me to record the date as 2006 (or 2007 or 2008... so 2006 was the closest, ya know).

So tonight I was taking a good long look at Wordpress, and I'm thinking I'm gonna do it...  I'm not sure about doing it tonight...  but I think I'm gonna do it.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the new blog or this old one.  I just wanted to let my half dozen readers know there's likely gonna be a real change in my blog activity in the next couple weeks.  I may separate the radio shows, or maybe not.  Like I said, I'm just thinking about it right now. 

And I have no idea what DJ Lt. Dan sounds like, cuz I'm not really listening to that... it's now just a question of thematic title... 

!Up-to-date again!


You guys don't call me in the morning, at all.  No IMs.  Stille morgen stimmt das genau.  What's up with that?


 ...wellllll... OK. 



Maybe 6am-9am Saturday would not be the ideal morning shift to be expecting lots of mental activity from the locals... 

Almost done!  :)    Those geeky enough to notice URLs will realize that I'll be all caught up with the one after 909...        flowsheet  30909, that is! 

This was a fine show.  I haven't gotten the astrology thing totally polished, but it went close to how I wanted it, and I did get a couple friendly calls afterwards from the astrology fans.  Next Friday I'll tell ya about the coming Mercury retrograde, and I'll do it some time after 8pm Eastern time.  Got 3 excellent requests that helped pull it all together.  The Stones request was actually for Gimme Shelter, but due to the prolificity of the Stones, my dearth of knowledge regarding their discography, and our live broadcast, we got "Dancin' With Mr. D" from Goatshead Soup which actually, I think was better, mainly because while I was playing it, I realized how rarely that Stones tune gets played anymore, and it seems to have the same Gimme Shelter feel... of course, I'm not a Stones fan, and so I really have no idea.  I enjoyed it. 


Note: Temple City Kazoo Orchestra!!!!!

To be perfectly honest, it was really, really hard to post this link for Way Out Junk.  It's a genuine treasure trove.  Tony provides us sound geeks with priceless gems, so I was kinda wanting to horde up his blog url, but the reuniting with my long-lost Temple City Kazoo Orchestra can not go unrecognized.  Please visit and hail accordingly.  ...and if you're so motivated, tell him Richard sent you! 

(Of course, with myspace's weird-ass new hyperlink policy, you may not even be able to get to it, anyway, since they've made a blanket decision to label certain mostly-innocuous free domains as "malicious"  (i.e., all geocities url return a "malicious site" screen), with no consideration of the site's actual content.) 


Since myspace has dispensed with the "Currently Listening to" feature, I guess because of some commercial thing with Amazon, please know that the new compilation on Moulty, "Boston Underground 1978-1982" is worthy. 
Stuff on there I may otherwise have forgotten forever--and that would have been a real loss--now collected and easily obtainable on one CD.  To my ears, it successfully portrays the sound coming out of the Boston scene at the time.  I resisted the urge to grab the Mission of Burma, but I wasn't able to completely contain the 1982 flashback, as I led into it with Gang of Four.  And yes, I was dancing with myself while I did it.

In the name of 24/7 and getting our djs out of the chair and on to their paying jobs, a little 45 minute emergency coverage:

talkset

*Adam Rudolph's
Moving Pictures Oshogbo           Dream Garden        JUSTIN TIME

The Residents   Thoughts          Whatever Happened  
                Busily Betraying  To Vileness Flats   Ralph

*Terminals     What I've Heard                        LAST
               Of Wyoming         Touch               VISIBLE DOG

*Birds of
Avalon         The Reeds         Outer Upper Inner    VOLCOM

talkset

--- 9:00 AM BREAKPOINT ---

Clang Quartet  Companions   The Separation Of
                            Church and Hate         Silber

My Dad Is Dead Novocaine    A Divided House         Unhinged

*Mustangs      Sativa       Asian Flashback:
                            Underground Music from Asia   PSF

Besser spät als nie...  a little bloggy catch-up on a rainy Sunday, Looks like I got 2 or 3 more to put up before it's current.  Got caught up in the prod room this weekend, and we're on sign-ups, so if I get behind, I'm likely to get way behind. 

This was my first inter-session sign-up and summer session's up next, so we've gone back to the 3 hour tour, as opposed to the usual 2 hour set up.

The main thing I remember about this show by now (I'm actually posting this... uh... Sunday 11 May, 2008) is I got a request from our Danzig fan in Arizona, whom I haven't heard from in forever, this time for The Revolting Cocks.  I can't remember when the last time was that I played The Revolting Cocks.  Forever. 


Also, apparently there are those who want astrology.  I've been getting requests.  So, I'm gonna try to figure out how to work it in so it won't be quite so rambling as the one from this night.  There was just so much going on astrologically this night, I wasn't really prepared, so the usual fly-by totally didn't fly by...

Remember that epic blog entry I made a little while back about the "void of course" moon and Barack Obama?

I mean, no fat ladies have yet sung, but if *this* ain't characteristic of how stuff goes when you start it on a void, *nothing* is.

By rejecting Wright at this juncture, Barack's gonna play hell explaining how it's *not* a move he made expressly for political reasons, given his original public statements that painted Wright as one like a beloved family member whom one could not deny simply because he holds strong, if unusual, opinions.  Frankly, it's disappointing to see Barack get so "miffed" for the media, when it's clear Rev. Wright has held these beliefs as long as they've been friends. 

...or maybe just toss out the container.

Apparently, Pop Star Tupperware has created a delusion of freshness for what is in reality postponed decomposition.


Did I mention that I cried?

Last night, I caught the end of Morrissey performing some tune from his recently released Greatest Hits CD, "Irish Blood  English Heart."  I heard some of the lyrics.

Did I mention that I cried? 


Alright. 


I didn't really cry. 


I had something more like the kind of tearless stare you'd have if you witnessed the aftermath of some gory automobile accident in which you didn't personally know the victims, but you knew that any survivor would have a lifetime on life support and live horribly, irredeemably disfigured, forever.  You want to look away, but can't.  You want to turn and run, but you're paralyzed.  You're frozen from dread and repulsion.

Concession time:  Back in the day, I *did* quite enjoy Morrissey's voice when he sang, "So you go home, and you cry, and you want to die."  It captured a mood well.  But then, as we all know, he more-or-less kept rewriting the same damned song.  over and over and over.  Girlfriend in a Coma.    and over and over and over. 

...and some years pass, and it's 2004. 

The emo archetype feels his next natural move--you know, now that he's "mature"--should be to start whining about the dilemmas inherent within the socio-political struggle between Ireland and the UK. 

...and some more years pass, and it's 2008.

Now promoting his hit CD by appearing on TV, the emo archetype--who perceives himself as an "indie rocker"--naturally chooses to do this whining whilst wearing an American Idol t-shirt* under a jacket, wearing slacks (not jeans... or khakis... or Dockers...). 

Indeed, watching this spectacle was analogous to hoping the victims of a gory accident die while they're still unconscious and before they're assigned a hospital bed.  It's a tragedy, either way, but you know if they go on living, *everyone* is going to suffer, and for a long time.

I wonder if this relatively new theme Morrissey has chosen would have anything to do with a Sinn Féin brush-off.  You know.  He goes to get involved, and they tell him, "Sorry, mate, but we're called Ourselves Alone for a reason."  and then he's all depressed from the rejection or whatever, so he writes Irish Blood English Heart...

So, yo, yo, yo, mang.  Morrissey is all upset about the racism that splits the Irish and the English; so upset that most certainly he has cried.  And even though it's been 4 years he wants to sing to us about it, again. 

For creating Pop Star Tupperware, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank, you *are* evil.



* 2 May 2008 yeah, I edited the bit about the t-shirt and changed it to "jacket," which is what he was actually wearing.  I was writing from memory and didn't bother to review the actual video clip.  I knew I saw the American Idol shirt: an emo-all-too-emo-ly affectation of indie-pop poseur irony, too calculatedly "stylish" to forget.  I also remembered he did not have the fortitude to simply wear the t-shirt and boldly go full-kitsch, he had it partially covered, but I couldn't remember with what.  Reviewing the clip tonight, it reminds me of the W. get up from February...  and while I, myself--gratefully alive only because there is no death penalty for unbounded fashion faux pas--have worn a t-shirt under a jacket as Morrissey does here, it was my old Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat t-shirt, and I don't think I've done it since 1988.  Prolly cuz that was when someone *finally* told me what it looked like.



...damn. 

I wonder whatever happened to my Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat t-shirt? 



And my Cave-Aid t-shirt? 



And that red t-shirt that had the "Nuclear War? There Goes My Career!" graphic on it...



And the one James Grey made for me in 1983 that had "Anticipating a Monkees Reunion" on it...  (when he gave me that, I thought it was hilarious because "man... now if that happened, that would be insane!" and of course it did happen, 3 years later.  James was a visionary.)

...hmmmm...

...oh man, and the one with Richard Lane's artwork for that annual protest G.R.O.W. used to do, down in Barnwell, SC...  It was the "un-obscene" version, though.  He drew Medusa coming out of the state, bare-breasted--with nipples showing--and the story was that law enforcement came and threatened to arrest people for obscenity at the event for selling/buying/wearing it, so he quickly set up another silkscreen in which he simply removed the nipples from the drawing, and that ended the obscenity issue.  I don't know how true it is, but I do know Richard wore the obscene one, and a couple other people had them, but that was it.

Somehow, someone has made off with a small cache of fine, collectible t-shirts.


I still have that Ramones shirt I got at their last tour, though. 

I also still got my threadbare Wobbly t-shirt.  Most people don't know what the Wobbly shirt is, they just think it's some old worn-out piece of whatever.