The Golfer's Rite of Spring

Aired March 25, 2009. This episode celebrated the Vernal Equinox by recasting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. In place of the virgin dancing herself to death was sportswriter & virgin caddy Rick Reilly's death-dance for the primadonnas of pro golf - Reilly's audiobook Who's Your Caddy was played with Stravinsky's violent modern ballet. And just to keep things interesting, tracks from two Victoria, BC punk bands, The Dayglo Abortions & Nomeansno, were played between movements.

Part 1

1. Young Girl's Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Wake Up - Nomeansno
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Wake Up America - Dayglo Abortions
5. Mock Abductions - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Stupid Songs - Dayglo Abortions
7. Round Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Ashes - Nomeansno
9. Games of Rival Tribes - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Inside My Head - Dayglo Abortions
11. Wise Elder's Procession - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Stupid World - Dayglo Abortions
13. Dance of the Earth - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2
1. Mystic Circles - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I See a Mansion in the Sky - Nomeansno
3. Glorification - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Mr. in Between - Nomeansno
5. Ancients' Ritual - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Bedtime Story - Dayglo Abortions
7. Sacrificial Dance - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. 'Till I Die - Nomeansno

Electricity

This electric-charged episode Aired March 18, 2009, featuring music from AC/DC's High Voltage, April Wine's Electric Jewels, 2 pieces of electronic music from Frank Zappa & the Mothers' We're Only In It For the Money, Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, & electric guitar rock by Vancouver's The Northwest Company & Long Time Comin'. Passages were read from Tom McNichol's AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War & from David Bodanis' Electric Universe. The chapter from McNichol's book entitled Killing an Elephant provided the perfect textual accompaniment to the cathartic shocks of Stefan Jaworzyn's electric guitar with the painful wail of Alan Wilkinson's baritone sax.

Part 1
1. Electricity - Captain Beefheart
2. Live Wire - AC/DC
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Part of the Season - Long Time Comin'
5. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
6. Electric Jewels - April Wine
7. Are You Hung Up? - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
8. Paper Rose - Long Time Comin'

Part 2
1. Eight Hours - The Northwest Company
2. David Murray dons a cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise and blags his way onto a bill at the Termite club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Hard to Cry - The Northwest Company
4. The Band Has Just Begun - April Wine
5. High Voltage - AC/DC
6. Electricity - Captain Beefheart
7. Just Like That - April Wine

De Re Metallica

Episode 17 concerned metal. Georgius Agricola's founding work of metallurgy, De Re Metallica (on the Nature of Metals) was read with various keyboard works by J.S. Bach & alongside metal bands Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden & Pericardium, whose Anthems of Anger pummeled my eardrums & incited me to frenzied dancing in Regina's live music clubs in the late 1990s.

Part 1
1. The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach / Christopher Hogwood & Chrisophe Rousset (harpsichords)
2. Corrupted - Pericardium
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. The Wizard - Black Sabbath
5. I Meditation - Pericardium
6. Deceiver - Judas Priest
7. The Opportunist - Pericardium
8. Inventio IV - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
9. Judas Rising - Judas Priest
10. II Meditation - Pericardium
11. The Ides of March - Iron Maiden

Part 2
1. Fughetta super Wir glauben all an einen - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
2. Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
3. Lashed Out and Gashed - Pericardium
4. Sinfonia XV - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
5. Bodies - Pericardium
6. III Meditation - Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyon - Pericardium
8. Ram it Down - Judas Priest
9. The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach / Christopher Hogwood & Chrisophe Rousset (harpsichords)
10. Eat Steal - GWAR
11. The Metal - Tenacious D

Martian Acid

This sixteenth episode featured the audiobook version of H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, especially a corrosive chapter in which the entire arsenal of human weaponry is dissolved in liquid mountains of green Martian acid. This text was played over & alongside music from The Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradaiso U.F.O.'s Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?, as well as Motocaster's Acid Rock & various artists released by Mint Records.

Part 1

1. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Fire in the Ocean - The Organ
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Interview - Nardwuar vs. Timothy Leary
5. The Train - Motocaster
6. Cold Hands/Chapped Lips - Hot Panda
7. Attack from Planet Hattifatteners - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
8. I'll Drive - Motocaster

Part 2

1. Camino Real - The Ramblin' Ambassadors
2. Oblivion - Motocaster
3. I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Saddle - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. Making Gestures - The Pack A.D.
5. Asimo's Naked Breakfast - Rice and Shrine - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage