The Rite of Fall

Naval Aviation in Audio celebrated the Autumnal Equinox by playing select passages from Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian horror Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, invoking the transformation from mildness to monstrosity that characterizes Regina's weather this time of year. Aired September 23, 2009.

Part 1
1. reprise - Hylozoists
2. People of the Plague - Subhumans
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Spy Vs Spy - Sheavy
5. Voile (for 20 strings) - Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz
6. Ain't No Right - Jane's Addiction
7. permeability - Hylozoists
8. Celebrity - Subhumans

Part 2
1. theironchef - Hylozoists
2. Stop - Jane's Addiction
3. Analogique A + B - Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz
4. Hangman - Sheavy
5. Untitled (Track 11 of La Nouvelle Gauche) - Hylozoists
6. lejazzlibre - Hylozoists
7. Throwing Up Leaves - Lederhosen Lucil
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Pink Desert

Episode 40, featured an on-air reading of British poet J.H. Prynne's High Pink On Chrome with Edgar Varese's Deserts.

Part 1
1. Ass Machine Box - Lungbutter
2. Deserts, 1st episode - Edgar Varese
3. The Day Everything Became Nothing - Nomeansno
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Chico Lympico - Blah Blah 666
6. Deserts, 1st interpolation - Edgar Varese
7. I Ate That - Lungbutter
8. Deserts, 2nd episode - Edgar Varese

Part 2
1. Suicide Ride - CPC Gangbangs
2. Deserts, 2nd interpolation - Edgar Varese
3. BurntDeadBurnt - Lungbutter
4. Deserts, 3rd episode - Edgar Varese
5. It's Catching Up - Nomeansno
6. Deserts, 3rd interpolation - Edgar Varese
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. Deserts, 4th episode - Edgar Varese
9. Home Sexuality - Blah Blah 666
10. Driving Me To Habit - CPC Gangbangs

Lust in Space

Episode 39 took Naval Aviation in Audio way beyond Uranus & out into the Milky Way, featuring several tracks from Lust in Space, the brand spanking new CD of our Galactic Overlords, GWAR!!! Also included some portions from William Shatner's Star Trek audiobook Captain's Glory, read by Shatner himself, recounting (in 3rd-person!) the adventures of Captain Kirk. Naturally, the show played out with Kirk, the Enterprise & all its crew being horribly slaughtered by GWAR in a comical orgy of destruction.

Part 1
1. Lust in Space - GWAR
2. Naval Aviation in Audio? - Frank Zappa
3. robot love serenade - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. We'll Wait For You - Sun Ra
5. Space - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Let Us Slay - GWAR
7. The Pezzi Brevi 1 - Norma Beecroft
8. Robot Dub Jam - Guerrilla Funk Monster
9. The Pezzi Brevi 2 - Norma Beecroft
10. The Uberklaw - GWAR

Part 2
1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic
2. The Pezzi Brevi 3 - Norma Beecroft
3. Damnation Under God - GWAR
4. Strange Worlds - Sun Ra
5. Lords and Masters - GWAR
6. The Perfect Man - Sun Ra -- Finnegans Wake / James Joyce (on-air reading from pgs.219-20)

Billy the Kid

Featured Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a documentary poetic recreation of the Billy the Kid mythology, and bpNichol's The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, a fanciful phallic destruction of the myth. These texts were read side-by-side, for the most part accompanied by John Zorn's The Big Gundown, featuring his renditions of Ennio Morricone's movie themes.

Part 1
1. Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America) - John Zorn
2. Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra
3. Three Steps Backward - New Town Animals
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Letter from an Occupant - The New Pornographers
6. Giu Ba Festa (Duck You Sucker!) - John Zorn
7. Two-By-Four-And-A-Half - Thee Skabling
8. 125th Street Prophet - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
9. Just in Case You Wonder - The Ugly Ducklings

Part 2
1. Traffic Jam - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
2. Gaslight - The Ugly Ducklings
3. Peur Sur Ba Ville - John Zorn
4. I Wish You Would - The Ugly Ducklings
5. Swingin' At the Met - Les Brown & His Band of Renown
6. Once Upon a Time In the West - John Zorn
7. Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
8. My Little Red Book - The Ugly Ducklings