The Word Made Flesh

I was initially disappointed in the apparent lack of effort in this interpretation of St. Francis E. Dec’s text, but now have been converted!

Let the san-serif fonts work away at your synapses like a wood-planer works away rough irregularities in wood.

Watch over and over, if necessary.

EYE VEY!!!

UPDATE!!!

Worldwide, systematic comments from the computer god!

From the amazing Bento and Starchky site, comes Dec’s long-lost and legendary rant Astrocism: The True Religion of the Slovene People, beautifully annotated.

I Need That Record

[RUSH TRANSCRIPT AT 12AM, SO TYPOS ABOUND]
The death of an American record store.

Funny thing. I just visited my local Everyday Music store (one of two in Portland) and was able to identify that going to a music store no longer excites me.

Blame the goddamned internet, but there’s no sense of wonder and discovery to be had for me upon walking into a record store anymore. I mean, I can either find and download and/or stream nearly anything I can think of, relatively quickly.
Being involved with DJ’ing has, however, created a need to have the physical artifact in my hands from time to time. It’s much easier to have this tangible object available for easy playing and for on-air commenting and back-announcing, but in this case it makes CD buying something approaching a chore – both physically and financially.

But wait…
I noticed that at the Everyday on Sandy Blvd. that they were moving the vinyl to the front of the store. There also seemed to be an awful lot of new stuff and not so much old stuff.
What’s this..?
A new pressing of Kraftwerk’s Radioactivity on vinyl? The cover looked so sexy. I haven’t bought a new record since 1986 or so. I mean, I have bought hundreds since then, but haven’t run my thumbnail down the shrinkwrap over the jacket opening for at least 20 fucking years. Since my first kid was born. I can’t even remember what the last new record I bought was. It may have been The Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality.
Yep. The whole vinyl resurgence passed me by. I got right into CDs and also stubbornly stuck with cassettes well into their obsolescence. I got burnt out (and heartbroken) when the bulk of my record collection was ruined by being stacked on top of one another unbeknownst to me in dead storage for over a year. What records remain are those precious or valuable ones that have always been at my side.
So, I got cynical about vinyl and I also reasoned that most record piles at thrift stores, record stores, pawnshops etc. have been well picked over by hipsters with more time on their hands than I.
Besides, you can’t really listen to records in your car. Can’t listen to them on your laptop or iPod. They require some really serious, deliberate listening. Preferably with headphones and in a reclining chair, like the guy in the 70’s Maxell ad (or was it Pioneer?), with you attendant enough to flip the record over at about 20 minutes or so.

But damn, I need that Kraftwerk LP!

Fear of a Black President

Although the polls look promising and there just may be a glimmer of light at the end of this hellish, eight year long tunnel, I harbor this deep fear that there’ll be this eleventh hour turnout of fear-mongering white folks, all uniting in their terror of having an African American man for a President.

Some of these recent events are really only symptomatic indicators, perhaps, but I’ll bet the greater mass of unconscious people might be motivated to vote against Obama as a knee-jerk reaction and use whatever latest meme that’s aimed against him (as of this writing it’s the Share the Wealth/Socialism angle).

Missy’s right on in her assessment of the return of the Militia set.

I lived in Northern Clark County Washington throughout the entire Clinton regime and remember the vibe. Any day Clinton was going to descend on rural America with his fleet of black UN helicopters and take away everyone’s guns and run them through a program of forced racial miscegenation. I clearly remember going into gun shops and hearing more than one person openly joke about Bill and Hillary targets. I also remember having a gun store owner telling me how sales had gone through the roof in his store after the Rodney King/LA riots, some 800 miles away.

I also remember visiting my hometown of Battle Ground in 2004 and seeing someone driving around in a big, funky van with Kerry’s a Fag written on it in big, giant letters. I could go deep cover and go back and report on the quality of the graffiti or signage, but I suspect it would make you and I ill.

Even if Obama wins – and I think he will – it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
Events like the LA riots, voter disenfranchisement in 2000 and 2004, Katrina and the Obama candidacy reveal the ugly buried racism in America.

Another Halloween Mix

Here’s yet another Halloween mix I did in 2005.

Kill Ugly Radio 666: An Ugly All Hallow’s Eve

1.Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
2.Wendy Carlos – The Shining
3.Diamanda Galás – The Dance- Holokaftoma
4.Laibach – Vade Retro Satanas
5.Psychic TV – Unclean
6.Lalo Schifrin – Night Gallery
7.Jerry Goldsmith – The Omen
8.Krzystzof Komeda – Rosemary’s Baby
9.Fantômas – Rosemary’s Baby
10.Eugene Chadbourne – Psycho Birdcage
11.Laibach – Ti, Ki Izzivas [outro]
12.Marc Ribot – Empty
13.Phonequail – Last Meal Hotline
14.NON – Medici Mass
15.Big City Orchestra – Open Wide
16.Psychic TV – The Full Pack
17.UN – Videodrome is Death
18.Dead Can Dance – I Am Stretched On Your Grave
19.Death In June – Bring On The Night
20.Laibach – Sympathy for the Devil

Download:
Kill Ugly Radio 666.mp3

Previously:
October Mix
A Little Early but…

Also…
Here’s an embedded SeeqPod playlist of Halloween music from last year at the old, defunct Kill Ugly Radio:

Haunted Jukebox SeeqPod playlist

October Mix

I did a show last night with my son William by my side. We played news stuff, both from the library and from our personal music piles.

We played some of the brand new David Byrne and Brian Eno album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and some new(ish) Mountain Goats, The Breeders and The Kills and Bill brought some Anime music, including the Dethklok album!

The last hour was devoted to Halloween, coming next week.

It was a fun show and Bill did a good job for his first ever radio gig!

Here it is in two parts:

Download part 1

Download part 2

Here’s the playlist:
1. Freeze Frame – Godley and Creme
2. Everything That Happens Will Happen Will Happen Today – David Byrne and Brian Eno
3. Sax Rohmer #1 – The Mountain Goats
4. The Institute of Mental Health, Burning – Peter Hammill
5. Shatner being Shatner
6. Where’s Captain Kirk? – Athletico Spizz Energy
7. Istanbul – The Breeders
8. URA Fever – The Kills – Midnight Boom
9. Strange Overtones – David Byrne and Brian Eno
10. Wanted for Life – David Byrne and Brian Eno
11. Logos Naki World (A world without logos) – Yasushi Ishii – Hellsing Soundtrack
12. Right On Shooting Star – The Pillows
13. Tape Song – The Kills
14. I Think I Can – The Pillows
15. Awaken – Dethklok – Dethalbum
16. Bloodrocution – Dethklok – Dethalbum
17. Stop Pay TV PSA
18. Halloween – Jason Webley
19. Possessed – Kode 4 – Possessed
20. Lucifer Over London – Current 93 – Lucifer Over London 12″
21. Now I’m Feeling Zombified – Alien Sex Fiend
22. Jezebel Spirit – David Byrne and Brian Eno
23. The Witch – The Sonics
24. Intro/The Wickerman Song – Nature and Organization
25. Annabel Lee – Marianne Faithfull
26. Necromantra – Blood and Roses
27. The Wickerman – Paul Giovanni and Magnet
28. Ave Satani – Jerry Goldsmith
29. Black Mass/Electric Storm in Hell – White Noise
30. The Raven – Christopher Walken

KBOO, 90.7 FM, in Portland and on the web at kboo.fm/listen. Listener sponsored community radio.

Swope ‘08

Something I cobbled together on my lunchbreak. I couldn’t resist. Apologies to Barack Obama, Robert Downey Sr., Shepard Fairey and Derek Erdmann.
Now if I could just find my copy of the movie!

RIP: Dolemite

yep.
Rudy Ray Moore is no more.
Damn shame, too.
My favorite Rudy Ray Moore moment wasn’t Dolemite (although for a year or so, the sample of him saying “I just wanna let ‘em know that Dolemite’s the name and fuckin’ up muthahfucka’s is my game!” </a> used to make it’s way to nearly every cd mix I made), but a VHS release entitled Avenging Disco Godfather (later rechristened with its proper name – Disco Godfather-  on DVD). This movie had it all; really bad disco, really bad disco fashions, really bad disco music, really, really bad acting by everyone involved, many hallucination scenes (it was essentially Dolemite as a DJ/Gangster against angel dust dealers that messed up his nephew, kid, godson, whatever) and lots of hammy performances by Rudy.

Essential viewing.

But hell…
Go over to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog and see all the lovely tribute items they have for him, including TWO COMPLETE COMEDY ALBUMS by him!

PUTS SOME WEIGHT ON IT!!! PUTS SOME WEIGHT ON IT!!! PUTS SOME WEIGHT ON IT!!!

The Future of Kill Ugly Radio On the Radio

Hi radio-activists!

As you may know, there’s considerable changes afoot in KBOO’s on-air schedule and programming lineup. Some programs are going bye bye and some are being re-arranged to later dates. While I don’t relish the fact that some longtime programmers – some of them favorites and friends – are going away or having their shows shortened and I can’t say that I personally agree with all the changes, this is all long overdue, in my opinion.

KBOO hasn’t changed their overall format in over a decade. We face a dwindling audience in a changing world and an increasingly shitty economy.

All that said, the future of my own personal projects on the radio is in question. The show where I have been able to plug in my own little show (Randomonium) is going away to make room for the new Friday night programming block with will have a heavier emphasis on dance and electronica.

There are ample TBA slots in the currently proposed schedule, to be sure, but I can’t really bank on that and/or expect to build any kind of listenership if my show doesn’t have some kind of regularity. So I don’t really know what the future holds for me on the air at KBOO.

One thing I may do is do a regularly scheduled podcast, perhaps every other week. I can then do an on-air version when a slot opens up and can make the airdate known to you both on this blog and on the podcast. That would sort of be the win-win situation I am holding out for, rather than throwing in the towel, as some in my situation have done, so far.

That’s one possibility.

I also have a proposal for a program – along with a demo – submitted to the programming committee, so we’ll see. I may write another for another specific genre for good measure, but don’t really want to be tied to one specific genre of music if I can help it.

Who knows?

Cross your fingers for me!

Peace,

Rich

The why of the where and what

I get the occasional request to either share or re-upload a particular album or artist and usually try to respond individually, but here’s my personal stance in a nutshell, as I think I get a lot of new, unique visitors who landed after searching, not realizing that I have both slowed output, post-wise and virtually shut down the all-you-can-eat buffet o’music. This was all in response to a personal email I received regarding the deletion of much more prolific blogs and sharing in general:

(….)
I myself haven’t seen too many WordPress blogs get deleted, but I DO know that blogspot blogs are dropping like flies….
I think I have been left alone because I no longer share much music.

I no longer share music as much partly out of fear of getting deleted, partly out of being tired of all the work involved coupled with the greed and ungrateful attitude of some (I repeat, some) of the recipients.
I am also a little concerned about the possibility of either having my blog deleted and also legal action. No real close calls, but I have had a few complaints.
I also think some of the arguments regarding the moral issue surrounding ’sharing’ vs ’stealing’ are somewhat dishonest, in my humble opinion.
I personally would only try to share actually out of print or otherwise unavailable music.
I especially try not to share music if the artist themselves directly profit from the sale of their music. Some examples on two ends of the spectrum would be a band like Negativland, who directly sell their CDs on the web and someone like Robert Fripp, who – while in the music industry for decades – has managed to extricate himself from the machinations of the dishonest and antequated music manufacturing industry. As much as I think CDs rather expensive and take up lots of room, I would rather my money – when I have it – goes to the artists I like and respect. That’s just my opinion. Does that mean I never download anything elsewhere? Hell no. I do download, but will usually go out and buy (used, if I can find it, too -natch!) the product. It just means that I personally will go out of my way and spend my meager funds on supporting the artists I respect and admire with the hope that they will have the incentive to create more.

So, if you’re wondering, that’s just my personal stance on sharing and why – if you look through my archives – I don’t really share music too much anymore.

King Fader’s Thursday Mix-Up

Thursday, 7pm to 9pm on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland

Hosts:

• JayBozich

The first hour will be a new mix by World Renown Turntablist/Party Rocker DJ Z-Trip of Los Angeles.
It’s entitled the “Obama mix” and is not to be missed.
Second hour will live hip-hop and dance mixes by King Fader on the 2  phonograph players.

Jay’s an amazing mix-master, so it’ll be cool to hear who he’s brought in, as well as his own mixes.

Turn on, tune in and drop ‘em!