Summer Solstice 2009

Featured text was the audiobook The Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation by Clarissa Pinkola.

Part 1
1. The Slippery Slope - Bob Evans
2. Twin Earth - Monster Magnet
3. The Alter Destiny - Sun Ra
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Starwalker - Buffy Sainte-Marie
6. Cage Around the Sun - Monster Magnet
7. Fred Brophy - Joel Fafard

Part 2
1. A Vaquero's Dream - Freddie Pelletier
2. Dinosaur Vacume - Monster Magnet
3. The Utter Nots - Sun Ra
4. Black Balloon - Monster Magnet
5. Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Dagger of the Mind

Featured text was the Classic Drama audio production of Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Fiona Shaw. One of the bloodies episodes yet despite the difficulties of balancing the low recording levels of the play with the accompanying music.

Part 1
1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 1) - Miles Davis
3. Black Cat - American Flame Whip
4. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 2) - Miles Davis
5. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
6. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 3) - Miles Davis
7. Battle Lust - GWAR
8. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 4) - Miles Davis
9. Fingertight - American Flame Whip

Part 2
1. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
2. Bitches Brew (excerpt 1) - Miles Davis
3. The Wizard - Black Sabbath
4. Bitches Brew (excerpt 2) - Miles Davis
5. Eat Steel - GWAR
6. Bitches Brew (excerpt 3) - Miles Davis
7. Hell For Sale - American Flame Whip
8. Bitches Brew (excerpt 4) - Miles Davis
9. Immortal Corrupter - GWAR

Buying In

Episode 27 explored the relation between what it is and what it buys, with help from Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, an audiobook written by Rob Walker and performed by Robert Fass. All music played was purchased by myself at the annual CJTR garage sale. Naval Aviation in Audio strives to create tension & conflict with audio material, not unity & identity. It therefore refuses the marketing drive to create identity through purchase. As Samual Beckett wrote, "The danger is in the neatness of idenfications." Notes towards a manifesto.

The greatest "finds" at the sale were two CDs by Dog Eat Dogma, the earlier of which, Dogmachine, represented with 4 tracks in this episode, was given to me as a casette tape by the band's lead singer after their set opening for DOA in 1998, in gratitude for the energy I exhibited in front of the stage, because they seriously rocked. And by a lovely coincidence this show also aired the night before DOA played the Distrikt in Regina once again - which is why the hour ended with 3 DOA classics.

Aired June 10, 2009.

Part 1
1. Courage of the Morning - Bob Evans
2. Bad Seed - Dog Eat Dogma
3. Madison 22 - C. R. Avery
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
6. Placenta Soup - LungButter
7. Transcendental Medication - Dog Eat Dogma
8. The Loose - Jon Ballantyne

Part 2
1. Wholisticism - Barry Whitmore
2. No Such Thing As the Future - Immaculate Machine
3. Bill Hicks - C. R. Avery
4. Political Prisoner - Dog Eat Dogma
5. East Van Business Plan - C. R. Avery
6. Mon Dieu - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Search - Jon Ballantyne
8. Liar For Hire - DOA
9. America the Beautiful - DOA
10. Waiting For You - DOA

Talking to Death

Aired June 3, 2009. Featured text was Edgar Cayce: Channeling Your Higher Self: A Practical Method to Tap into Higher Wisdom and Creativity, an Audio Renaissance production written by Stanley Ralph Ross & read by Mark Thurston

Part 1:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. It's All Over - Headstones
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Death Was Too Kind - Subhumans
5. Oh My God! - Headstones
6. III Meditation - Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyond - Pericardium
8. The Walking Dead - Eugene Chadbourne
9. Losing Control - Headstones

Part 2:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. Cut - Headstones
3. I Talked To Death In Stereo - Eugene Chadbourne
4. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
5. Cemetery - Headstones
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage