Oh, I get it.
If you’re a christian, you’re like a pickle with 220 volts surging through it.
Why didn’t I think of that?

Found at Boing Boing.

I’ve been listening to these wonderful, live shows from The BigCityOrchestrae (Wednesdays from 4pm to 6pm PST) for a few weeks now. They’re a great mix of surreal noise, music and other assorted mayhem, with a liberal sprinkling of classic National Lampoon from time to time.

You really owe it to yourself to give it a listen and join the live chat.

This week:

Join us TODAY for :::: ubRadio SALON #27
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Wendnesdays, 4-6pm pst (thurs 01.00-03.00 cmt)

They also have archives up at - appropriately enough - Archive.org.

Everything is under control

Now that the State/Corporate Nexus version of American Idol has narrowed the search down to two enthusiastic hopefuls, Randomonium and The Kill Ugly Radio Institute for Synergistic Exploitation would like to remind you that whichever lever you pull next November, everything is under control.

Friday, July 18, 11pm to 12am
KBOO 90.7FM in Portland and at kboo.fm/listen online.

Hi all.

I had good intentions of posting the playlist and audio from my last show - where I unexpectedly had to fill in for The Pickle Feather Express (3AM - 6AM), but am buried in household tasks of the plumbing nature (arrived home at 6:30AM to water on the master bedroom floor due to a leaky water heater. ARGH!).

It was a fun show. I played a large assortment of electronica - mainly The Orb - for three hours, with some Severed Heads, Laibach’s Kunstderfuge, some Future Sound of London and some mysterious vocalizations from The Chakra Chimp Utility Kitchen. It was all formulated to keep the nightshift folks swinging and productive.

I also learned that next week’s Outside World will be hosted by none other than Baron Landscape, who has been hiding in exile for the last fifteen years or so. His show - The Broken Hours - ran on Sunday nights years ago and was an amazing mixture of music, spoken word, radio theater and all kinds of absurdities. You have to listen. His show will follow mine, from Midnight to 3AM, and possibly longer if there’s no Pickles again.

Playists from my last show and more details as they come.

Another retread from the old Kill Ugly Radio site and still active, apparently.
Again, file under Short Shelf-life - move fast:

Tetsuo - The Iron Man Soundtrack
Japan Overseas

Music from Shinya Tsukamoto’s synapse bursting Tetsuo movies. The bulk of the songs are from the second flick, The Body Hammer and most appear to be adaptations of themes and motifs from the movies themselves, rather than the songs actually used in the films, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Megatron is a grand reworking of The Iron Man’s theme, featuring Ishikawa’s precise industrial percussion and martial rhythms. The faux-Arabic keyboard sounds on Mausoleum are a lot more restrained here, but the song is expanded out to a regular length - something Tsukamoto’s unconventional cinematic narrative style and brain-fry editing don’t allow. Jerked out of their surreal celluloid context, it’s easier to scrutinize Ishikawa’s musical style, even if his sounds and his director’s images seem inextricably linked.
Nice. I’m really glad I found this.

“Sakoi!”
(re-upped 12-10-07)

Worth reading:

The best evidence that they don’t get this is Telco Immunity. Obama said he would filibuster a FISA bill with Telco Immunity in it. He has now signaled he won’t. When you talk to people close to the campaign about this, they say stuff like: “Come on, who really cares about that issue? Does anyone think the left is going to vote for McCain rather than Obama? This was a hard question. We tried to get it right. And anyway, the FISA compromise in the bill was a good one.”

But the point is that the point is not the substance of the issue. I’d argue until the cows come home that in a world where soldiers go to prison for breaking the law, the government shouldn’t be giving immunity to (generous campaign contributing) companies who break the law. But a mistake about substance is not why this flip is a mistake. I agree that a tiny proportion of the world thinks defeating Telco Immunity is important. The vast majority don’t even understand the issue. But what this perspective misses is just how easy it will be to use this (clear) flip in policy positions to support the argument “Obama is no different.” Here, and in other places, the campaign hands the other side kryptonite.

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Hilarious cut-up (er, make that cut-in) and amazingly foul-mouthed version of the John McCain story told via clips from Citizen Kane.

The Ubu Hour Radio Theater Production of Citizen McKane. Based on the
famous Orson Welles movie, we follow the rise of Charles Foster John
McCain from Vietnam POW to President of America, as a group of
investigative reporters tries to discover the meaning of McKane’s last
words, “Rosebud.”

The first Monday of the month, from 11 pm to Midnight, on KBOO, 90.7 FM in Portland and at kboo.fm/listen on the web.

Experimental radio theater with dada/surreal elements…

The Ubu Hour Radio Theater Page

Including hope merchant Obama….
This shit just sucks the life out of me.
I called my Senators and even got a real live person on the phone who told me that she (Murray) would vote against it. To her and Senator Cantwell’s credit, they did vote no, but to no avail.
As my comrade-sister Slim puts it:

“There is something very diseased at the heart of this country. We are a bunch of fucking pussies, scared of each other and our own shadows. Willing to give up anything so long as we don’t have to think, don’t have to learn, don’t have to worry about anything but whether the TiVO is working and how I’m going to pay for that new Scarlet LCD TV if I’m paying $70 twice a week to fill up my F-150.” <link>

Fuck these weasels.
If anybody thinks these people will be an improvement, you’re deluding yourselves.

I just checked and this upload is still alive and kicking.
Here’s a warmed over leftover from the Kill Ugly Radio files:

One of my most treasured possessions is my cd of the late, great Charles Bukowski’s Hostage.
Recorded at the height of his fame, both as a published poet and as a performer, this is a wonderful document of what a reading might of sounded like.
Here he spars with rowdy, drunken hecklers almost as often as he reads actual poetry.
Both are equally engaging and hilarious.
Here’s a snippet from the original liner notes:

In Los Angeles especially, his poetry readings became parties themselves, with “poet and audience both drunk.” As you’ll hear on this album, fans and poet come to these readings prepared to compete. “Is there anybody tough enough here to try me?” Bukowski taunts the crowd. “try some shit, do some anger.”

However, the CD - as originally issued by Wordbeat - had the entire performance as one long track, making random access or selection difficult. Perhaps they intended to reproduce the integrity of it’s original vinyl release (in 1980), but it made it hard to isolate a favorite track to - say - include on a mix for friends.
Here’s a version of that CD presented as segmented album, with each poem or tirade as a separate track. Where applicable, the tracks are named after the poem, or said tirade.

Download Hostage.zip (83 megs)

Weird little video from Croatian band Putokazi featuring backing vocals by Milan Fras of Laibach.

Cool band, weirdly cool video.