Wish I Was There

Audio Junk is another Stoopid Kar Production live every Monday on randomradioonline.net and roundtableradio.net @ 9 pm EST. The World's Worst Mixing DJ -DJ JOE INC plays a variety of music-no format- just samples variety and more tonight. The Modern Mixtape. Replays on http://kaosradioaustin.org/ every Sun 5 am - 7 am-Texas Time.

1. “Wrong Party” from Pink Angels

2. “By My Side” - Checker Kabb

3. “Move With me” - Neneh Cherry

4. “that’s why god makes new days” from Precious

5. “Hundreds and Thousands of Guys” - Patti Drew

6. “ugly black grease” from Precious

7. “Money” - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

8. “stand up and there and look down on me” - from Precious

9. “Sad New Day” - Me Phi Me

10. late night car chase from The Cars that Ate Paris

11. “Jesus” - Dom

12. “Common People” William Shatner (With Joe Jackson)

13. final chase scene from The Third Man

14. sea of man-boobs – Bill Maher

15. “O.O.B.E(Live).” - Orb

16. “Offscreen trailer” - Portrait II

17. Blows of the Fist - SPK

18. “in the house” - DJ Assault

19. “Home”-Bone Thugs N Phil

20. “I’m Ready” – DJ Assault

21. “Low Cool(Remix)” - Cabaret Voltaire

22. “What’s Going ON” - Cyndi Lauper

23. “What’s Happening Brother” - Marvin Gaye

24. “Them Changes” - Buddy Miles

25. “I have no pride” - Splendor in the Grass

26. “Rain is a Good Thing” - Luke Bryan

27. “Trailer Park Pulp Fiction” - Colt Ford

28. “Rayuela” - Gotan Project

29. “My Companjera” – Gogol Bordello

30. “Procession of Moons” - Harold Budd & Clive Wright

31. “No More Time Outs” - David Holmes

32. “Stripper Girl” - Steel Panther

33. “I Mean Business” - Diamond District

34. “Terminal Preppie” - Dead Kennedys

35. “Hurt Me Baby” - Cop Shoot Cop

36. “Euglama” - VHS or Beta

37. “Intermission” - Meat Beat Manifesto

38. “Up Ronnie” - D.O.A.

39. “Woodie thrown off a train” - from I’m Not There

40. “Not Ready To Make Nice” - Dixie Chicks

41. “I Love to “ - Nobodys

42. “Refuse/Resist” - Sepultra

43. “suicide drums” from the SGT

44. “drum build” from ONG – BAK II

45. theme from Angel

A Bird In The Hand...

First 20 tracks on my iTunes after coming home from The Ten Top and getting to eat real food for a change.

1. "Life Is White" - Big Star

2. "Freckle Song" - Chuck Prophet

3. "American Neutron" - Citizen 23

4. "Summersong" - The Decemberists

5. "C'Mon Every Beatbox" - Big Audio Dynamite

6. "The Silence Between Us" - Bob Mould

7. "Me Myself & I" - De La Soul

8. "Still Crazy After All These Years" - Ray Charles

9. "Swing Like A Baby" - The Wolfgang Press

10. "A Small Victory" - Faith No More

11. "Reagan Sucks" - NOFX

12. "Black Magic Woman" - Santana

13. "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" - Michael Jackson

14. "Let's Get Drugs" - Zeke

15. "Sea Of Sin (Tonal Mix)" - Depeche Mode

16. "Pretty Houses" - Lunachicks

17. "One Step Beyond" - Madness

18. "(My) Bleeding Heart" - Elmore James

19. "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas

20. "The Spirit Of Radio" - Rush

Hoist With My Own Petard

Inventory tomorrow night, so I cleaned out my hold bin at work. A new copy of the complete series of The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse (a short-lived and very surreal Saturday morning cartoon by former Terrytoon employee Ralph Bakshi), a used copy of the film version of Tommy by The Who, which I had memorized from watching so often back in the 80's I hardly ever need watch it again (but its nice to own), and a used copy of T. V. Mikel's notoriously dreadful Blood Orgy Of The She-Devils, which I haven't seen yet but promises to be... well, T.V. Mike-o-rific, to be sure.

Oh, and a reduced price used copy of the first season of Big Valley, the sudsy western from the 60's which I was thoroughly addicted to as a child. Don't remember a whole lot about it, but I love Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans was never more beautiful, and for some reason I just love this scene were Timothy Carey, observing Stanwyck from a balcony, cooly steps off the staircase and lands neatly into his horse's saddle. Whatta badass.



Missed a few events in town this weekend. Bernstein's Mass at Chrysler Hall, and the Reduced Shakespeare Company at the Wells, which I was thinking about going this evening until I opened my mail and saw that I owe my dentist fifty bones. Ah well. Brunch tomorrow at the Ten Top with the gang, and then inventory, which luckily is not as late as they usually run for me. Then a Mammorgram on Monday. See, I get out of the house every once in awhile!

Schedule

Sat 24: 11-4
Sun 25: 5-11:30
Mon 26: 9-4
Tue 27: 9-4
Wed 28: 9-1
Sat 1: 9-4

Love It Stinks, Love It Bites...

My brother and I used to watch this show back when it aired from 1979-1980, and although I couldn't tell you one thing about an single episode, the theme song "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern still haunts me like recalling an old childhood dream. Or Nightmare.



And for the record, it still sounds like she's saying "Love it conquers, love it bites".

The Double McGuffin

After having read Robert Crumb's Book Of Genesis in the last few months, I find this parody particularly endearing. And yes, I do realize that this counts as being "Phil Collins'd" for the day. All I know is that I want a ginormous-sized poster of Peter Gabriel truckin' on up to Solsbury Hill.

R.I.P. Guru

First Printing Rarity

Audio Junk is another Stoopid Kar Production live every Monday on randomradioonline.net and roundtableradio.net @ 9 pm EST. The World's Worst Mixing DJ -DJ JOE INC plays a variety of music-no format- just samples variety and more tonight. The Modern Mixtape. Replays on http://kaosradioaustin.org/ every Sat 5 am - 7 am-Texas Time.

1. “Jive Samba” - Pete Constanzo

2. trailer for the Incredible Melting Man

3. “Rat Cut-A-Bottle” - Bass-O-Matic

4. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century opener/theme

5. “Masturbation” - Dave Attell

6. Fat Boys vs Apartheid

7. “City Vapors” – Wax Tailor

8. “born when she kissed me” from In A Lonely Place

9. “I’m Yours” – Prince

10. “M’Lady” - Sly and the Family Stone

11. “Get Up Offa that Thing” - James Brown

12. Jackie Wilson speaks on hard drugs

13. “Gene Machine/Don’t Bother Me” - Bad Brains

14. “I Don’t Give” - Zeke

15. “Clone” - Avail

16. “Goldberg fired from Celebrity Apprentice

17. “The Joke About Jamica” – The Hold Steady

18. “Noises in the Dark” – Pop Sickle

19. trailer for Record City

20. “What Would Your Mama Say” - Facts of Life

21. “Set The Record Straight” - New York City

22. “Fudge Pudge” - Organized Konfusion

23. ghp_message of love

24. “Chuck Berry in Space” - Steve Dirkxx

25. “A Big 10-8 Place pt 1” - Negativland

26. get in the car from What’s Love Got To Do With It

27. “Who Do You Love” - The Preachers

28. “Pushing Too Hard” - The Seeds

29. “Do What You Want” - Bad Religion

30. “New Dawn Fades” - Moby

31. “Love Me or Hate Me” - Lady Sovereign

32. “The Toe Jam” – Minuteman

33. “Saving All My Love for You” - Whitney Houston

34. “Lady” - Modjo

35. Zodiac killer montage

36. “Leave It” – Yes

37. “Bridge Over Troubled Water” - Sen.Sam J. Ervin Jr

38. “She Keeps Me Humble” - A House

39. “Disconnected 666” - Cop Shoot Cop

40. “Go Home” - Joan Jett And the Blackhearts

41. “Dazzle” - Siouxsie and the Banshees

42. “Jay Gone Bimbo” - Princess Tinymeat

43. “Kill The Good” - Dragnet

44. “Escape” - Daze

The Day After...

First 20 tracks on my iTunes this morning wondering if the rumors are true that Prince is making a return to the Norva this year.

1. "Tall Cool One" - The Fabulous Wailers

2. "A Fool In Love" - Ike & Tina Turner

3. "Suck My Kiss" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

4. "Excess" - Tricky w/ Alanis Morissette

5. "Poor Little Rich Girl" - Suede Raissa

6. "I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (live)" - The Feelies

7. "Puke Island Paradise" - Zoogz Rift

8. "Luka (live)" - The Lemonheads

9. "Insomnia" - Faithless

10. "Missed The Friction" - Self

11. "Porcelain" - Moby

12. "Whitey's Revenge" - Everlast

13. "Senior Twilight Stock Replacer" - The Fall

14. "Funky Crime" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

15. "Church Of The Poison Mind" - Culture Club

16. "Who Fingered Rock 'n Roll" - Cornershop

17. "Pink" - Boris

18. "River Man" - Nick Drake

19. "Between Something And Nothing" - Ocean Blue

20. "I Believe In Tomorrow" - Brave Combo & Tiny Tim

Schedule

Sun 18: 1-cl
Mon 19: 9-2
Tue 20: 9-1
Fri 23: 9-4
Sat 24: 11-4

FYI On The DIY

Happy Record Store Day! Go to Skinnies! Go to Fantasy! Just don't go to mine!

Frank Gorshin Frank Gorshin FRANK GORSHIN!

How have I never seen this movie?

The Lives Of Others

Two days off my feet have done wonders for healing the tear in my plantar fasciitis. Not that the issue has disappeared, but it has certainly made sleeping a lot easier on me. Plus several short days at work on my feet allow enough for short bursts of exercise, which I'm hoping is enough to matter in terms of weight loss. I seem to be doing okay so far now that I'm back on Weight Watchers again. Not as fast as it happened last time, but fifteen pounds isn't anything to sneeze at, to be sure. Go, me.

And now on to something that I always, always love...

Peter Bagge's trademark hipster canvas bedroom/living rooms. Knowing how much Bagge despises hipster culture, it still tickles me how much he both ridicules as well as pays homage to the tropes we instantly recognize, from the kitsch of Margaret Keane and the Louvin Brother's Satan Is Real album cover, to the Coop devil logo and the classic Johnny Cash photo by the recently deceased Jim Marshall. Oversized panels such as these make me smile, because as prevalent as they seem to be in Bagge's work I can't help but suspect he more than secretly enjoys drawing them. Possible because he knows hipster schlubs like myself secretly get off on examining them, identifying almost every semi-obscure reference and taking comfort in their familiarity (and yes, I own that Louvin Brother album too).

That panel, by the way, is from Bagge's brand new graphic novel Other Lives, the story of four inter-connecting characters whose real lives are often blurred with their virtual lives, whether on the internet, or of their own making. Vadar is a self-loathing journalist hiding secrets about his past from his wedding-obsessed girlfriend Ivy, who is exploring her wild side on a virtual reality online computer world with Vadar's friend Woodrow, an internet gambling addict living out of his car and in complete denial about his divorce. And then there's Javy, a slovenly reclusive with social issues that might possibly have once worked for homeland security. Bagge's story touches on modern relationships, with others as well as ourselves, where living other lives is as simple as changing our names to hide our ethnicity, to creating entire personalities in the alternate reality of the internet to the point where the two blend so seamlessly together it becomes increasingly difficult to draw the line between the two. I find it oddly ironic that the panel above shows Vadar searching Woodrow's Myspace photo album for a photo of the time the two of them first met Javy playing Dungeons & Dragons at Altanta's annual DragonCon back in 1992. To many people, including my own parents, D&D was fraught with dangerous elements, encouraging kids to create alternate identities, live alternate lives, and blur the lines between reality and fantasy that might have disastrous consequences (1992 was also the year of the locally famous Shawn Novak murders, a disturbed D&D obsessed teenager who slaughtered two small children). Other Lives picks up nearly twenty years later, where the ease of leaving our mundane or unsavory real lives is far easier and more accessible than the roll of a 12-sided dice, and a majority of us hardly seem to blink an eye about it at all these days. Bagge's story captures both the bleeding of multi-crossing falsified lives, not knowing what is real and what is fabricated, and most disturbingly, how the characters appear to take it all in stride, as if this is how life is now.... and how questioning what is and what is not is hardly relevant when we live in a world where both can exist simultaneously.

Technicolor Yawn

This song used to be my answering machine message twenty years ago. Now I'd love to find a way to make it my ringtone.

Mark Spots The X

Audio Junk is another Stoopid Kar Production live every Monday on randomradioonline.net and roundtableradio.net @ 9 pm EST. The World's Worst Mixing DJ -DJ JOE INC plays a variety of music-no format- just samples variety and more tonight. The Modern Mixtape. Replays on http://kaosradioaustin.org/ every Sat 5 am - 7 am-Texas Time.

1. Opening titles for The Big Combo

2. “Nem Um Talvez(take 2)” - Miles Davis

3. “Birthday” - Devilhead

4. “I once ran over a guy” - Manstrokewoman

5. “Drum Crazy” - Fred Astaire from Easter Parade

6. 38 little kids from Dragnet

7. “Forevergreen (Foreveregocentric Vocal Edit)” - Finitribe

8. “Final Blindness” - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

9. “The Corpse(Remix)” - Pink Industry

10. “Albie’s God Squad” from Big Love

11. “Hungry For The Power” - Azari & III

12. Bingo Asians from Up in The Air

13. “Silly Love Songs” - Paul McCartney & Wings

14. “You’re Moving Out Today” - Carole Bayer-Sager

15. “Charm Attack” - Leona Neass

16. “Not One of Us” - Peter Gabriel

17. “Lucky Bag” - Princess Tinymeat

18. “Down Come The Mickey” - Cop Shoot Cop

19. “Shorty Said” – Das Racist

20. “CNN” - Consolidated

21. “The Ghetto” - Donny Hathaway

22. Uplift little black people – Ali

23. “IN The Ghetto” - Sammy Davis, Jr.

24. “The Thrill is Gone(Live from Zaire 1974)” - B.B. King

25. Potentiality for profit – Don King and James Brown

26. “Consume” - Cop Shoot Cop

27. Opening for Moon

28. “Payback” - James Brown LIVE from Zaire 1974

29. “Computer Blue” - Prince and the Revolution

30. Opening to 3 Days of the Condor

31. “New Bones” - So Many Dynamos

32. Prepare the virgin – Christopher Plummer from Dragnet

33. “I Don’t Want” - Poseur Bill

34. “Captivating Solitude” – In Vain

35. “It was a very good year” - William Shatner

36. George Micheal vs Crystal Method with Ron and Nancy Reagan

37. “Hey MR DJ “ - Zhane

38. “Whole Lotta Love” - The Wonder Band

Daisy Chain Reaction

My 'lil brother Cullen, a rather obsessive fan of rebus puzzles, just got his copywrite for the characters for his brand new online comic strip for children, Rebusquest. Starring a little boy named Carson who gets sucked into an alternate universe were rebuses are a part of everyday life, he must find his way home again with the help of a purple go-go boot wearing elf named Reba by solving rebus puzzles that will help him leap into the next world, hoping one day that world will be his own. Written, lettered, drawn, and colored by Cullen. Check it out, pass it along, and give him a little feedback if you can. Hey, between the two of us, he's the closest to getting his work published than I ever will be at this point!

Life On Mars?

First 20 tracks on my iTunes having just come home from cleaning up after vandals/shoplifters in the store today. *sigh*

1. "Iggy Stooge" - Cher UK

2. "Spitting In The Wind" - The db's

3. "Sulphur To Sugarcane" - Elvis Costello

4. "Cold Parade" - Stew

5. "Don't Mess With Orgasmatron" - DJ Earworm

6. "Say Man" - Bo Diddley

7. "Ease My Mind" - Arrested Development

8. "Heaven" - Talking Heads

9. "Burn" - Nine Inch Nails

10. "Gloomy Sunday" - The Associates

11. "All My Friends Are In Popular Bands" - 88 Fingers Louie

12. "Come" - Dizzy Monk

13. " - " - Pelican

14. "Blues" - Bert Jansch

15. "Here Comes The Sun" - Voodoo Glow Skulls

16. "A Girl I Knew" - Savage Rose

17. "Smokestack Lightning (live)" - The Yardbirds

18. "Only The Strong Survive" - Jerry Butler

19. "Guitar Solo 5" - Neil Young

20. "In Heaven There Is No Beer" - Brave Combo

Malcolm McLaren, 1946-2010

When The City Sleeps

That's me on the left, Halloween 1990, dressed as a burglar and trying to break into the change box at the pay phone that used to be planted in front of the Burger King on Hampton Boulevard right next to Friar Tucks, where our Tuesday night Halloween party was taking place. I think either Mike or S. took the picture, and years later my friend Stan enlarged my comically grit-toothed expression into a circle coming off the original scanned photo. I was twenty-one years old, and the Burger King -- and Friar Tucks -- is now the Ted Constant Convocation Center. But for several years in the early 90's, that was where I lived, ate, breathed, busked for change, washed my hair in the sink, and had the cops chase me into the dumpster for drawing on the sidewalks in colored chalk. One of the many, of course. The beginning of the end.

For about a year we had a weekly Tuesday night "progressive" night with Joe Djing from our shared stash of records, although I think we initially hesitated to use the word progressive --music snobs that we were and all. "Progressive" to me always sort of implied a broadening of the rock/pop format, which though ostensibly "progressive" felt more marginalized to a specific genre. "Alternative" suggests musical genres other than rock/pop, and all other fliers after this one were altered to be called "Alternative Nite", although what was probably considered alternative then gradually grew into mainstream now. This predated Nirvana and Pearl Jam's commercial breakthrough albums, and Nine Inch Nails was only at the top of the college charts. We danced to Fugazi, Bad Brains, Meat Beat Manifesto, Danielle Dax, Ofra Haza, Public Enemy, Dead Kennedys, They Might Be Giants, Ice Cube, Front Line Assembly. We covered the walls with garbage bags and tin foil, strung dried pasta on strings and mutilated baby dolls from the ceilings. The bathrooms were wallpapered with headlines from the Weekly World News, and we threw bang caps on the dance floor so that people couldn't see them when they stepped on them in the dark. It was a great time. It was a creative time. And this flier, this very very first flier drawn by our friend Mark Kinsella, brings it all back to me, twenty years later.

Enough of that. Now time for bed.

Orbita Taramanus Ridiculum

New Jamie Hernandez color short, Las Primas Controla, at Dark Horse Presents.

Schedule

Fri 9: 9-4
Sat 10: 8-3
Sun 11: 12-cl
Mon 12: 8-2
Tue 13: 9-2
Thur 15: 9-2
Sat 17: 10-4

Masters Of Their Domain

Veer TV's brief clip of The Master Plan, the band I saw at 37th & Zen Saturday night, including live footage spliced with interview. Nope, you don't see me in the crowds, but host Kelly is wearing that same Southern Culture On The Skids T-shirt that I'm always wearing. :)

She Divines Water

Audio Junk is another Stoopid Kar Production live every Monday on randomradioonline.net and roundtableradio.net @ 9 pm EST. The World's Worst Mixing DJ -DJ JOE INC plays a variety of music-no format- just samples variety and more tonight. The Modern Mixtape. Replays on http://kaosradioaustin.org/ every Sat 5 am - 7 am-Texas Time.

1. “Sometimes(Universe Remix)” – Miami Horror

2. “you will never take my child - Battlestar Galactica

3. “Unfinished Sympathy” - Massive Attack

4. “Help Me Lord” - Souls of Solomon

5. “Freakman” - Empire Projecting Penny

6. “disco horror” from Virginia Creepers DVD

7. “kill the good “ from Dragnet

8. “Mef vs Chef 2” - Meth, Ghost & Rae

9. smoke monster montage from LOST

10. “You Made Me Love Cheese” - Julia Lousie Dreyfuss & Steve Carrell

11. “One Day I was Walking” - Swan Melmarks

12. “When You Were Mine” - Prince

13. “Hush Funk” - Andy Kaufman & Morris “Butch” Stewart

14. “Chaos” - Julian & The Wolves

15. trailer for The Apple

16. commercial for Fraiser’s show

17. “Closet Astrologer” - The Ruby Suns

18. “Bluebeard” - Cocteau Twins

19. “God is marching on” - Harry Dean Stanton on Big Love

20. “New Grange” - Clannad

21. “Shake Hands with Danger”

22. “I Take A Lot of Pride in What I am” - Merle Haggard

23. convict country band from Justified

24. “If You Believe Your God is Dead, Try Mine” - The Swan Silvertones

25. “I Need More Love” - Robert Randolph & The Family Band

26. let me get a sip - Chris Rock

27. “Rifles” - Black Motorcycle Club

28. BS guantlent – Up in the Air

29. “True Confessions” - Undertones

30. Economic Forecast by The Onion

31. “The Juicy Reminder” - The Bionaut

32. “Chicano Power” - Thee Midnighters

33. “If You Me Now” - Shirley Ross

34. “The Devil Made Me Do it” - Paris

35. “Planet of Sound” - The Pixies

36. “Keep Clear” - Gypsy Spit

37. “Mope” - Bloodhound Gang

38. “It’s My Life” - Talk Talk

39. Dunder Miflin

40. “Landslide” - Fleetwood Mac

Happy Easter

Rock out wit yer tongue out.

Night Of The Middle-Aged Leather Jacket Horde

The Master Plan at 37th & Zen, with Paul Johnson formerly of the Waxing Poetics, Keith Strong and Bill Mihizer of The Fleshtones, and Andy Shernoff from The Dictators. Very tight. Very... Dictators.

Mark, Rose, Jeff, and Crizti are some of the many faces I recognize from the local Norfolk scene, even though Al and I spent most of the night sitting against the wall making catty comments about all the old punks on display. But it was really nice to see everybody. Yes yes, I kid, but I love.

Schedule

Sun 4: 12-6
Mon 5: 2pm (appointment)
Tue 6: 9-3
Wed 7: 9-4
Fri 9: 9-4
Sat 10: 8-3

Good Friday

First 20 tracks on my iTunes looking forward to a few consistently warm days in a row.

1. "Ana Ng" - They Might Be Giants"

2. "Dead Beat Descendent" - The Fall

3. "Save It For Later" - The English Beat

4. "Amsterdam Dogshit Blues" - Mojo Nixon

5. "I Wish It WOuld Rain Down" - Brian McKnight

6. "Oh!" - Boys Noize

7. "Supressa" - Dog Faced Hermans

8. "Ease My Mind" - Arrested Development

9. "Star" - Primal Scream

10. "On The Battlefront" - The db's

11. "Part Time Punks" - Television Personalities

12. "Snatching It Back" - Clarence Carter

13. "You Gotta Be" - Des'ree

14. "Outdoor Minor" - Wire

15. "Seven" - Fever Ray

16. "Business In The Front" - Arsonists Get All The Girls

17. "Crepuscule With Nellie" - Thelonious Monk

18. "Interlude" - Skylab

19. "Pip Digs Pep" - Negativland

20. "Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis Presley

It Still Feels Like Two-Thousand Four...

I think that's me at 2:50 holding up the camera trying to take a picture while Jello is being crowd surfed. I was definitely standing right dirty dead next to this guy taking the video footage for this clip. And I AM chanting along loudly to "CALIFORNIA! UBER ALLES!" like everybody else. And I see Vincent from work in the pit.