Part Bubbles In Brazen Kettles, Part Sputters On Spits, The Full Hour Dripping With Gore

No.234, aired October 23, 2013. A pre-Halloween episode with readings of 3 Odes by John Keats, and a fortuitously gorey portion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses where the vengeance of Procne & Philomena is wreaked to the tune of James Rolfe’s Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! As always, the Ovid passage was a blind selection, the next in sequence, and the congruence with other audio material unplanned. “Bachanalian Vengeance” might have been an appropriate title, but the bloody Ovidean tale provided no end of more colourful possibilities – here are but a few: The Ravenous Bird Of Jove Has Dropped His Prize, The Barbarous Fellow Triumphs, Blood Smeared Over Plumage, The Savage Tyrant’s Wrath Aroused, Offered Her Throat To The Stroke, The Mangled Root Quivers While The Severed Tongue Lies Palpatating, The Severed Tail Of A Mangled Snake Twitches Convulsively, Soul Bent On The Thought Of Vengence, Night Resounds With The Shrill Clash Of Brazen Symbols, Dons The Array Of Frenzy, Mimics Your Madness, Oh Bacchas, Trappings Of The Bachic Rites, Still Warm And Quivering With Life, Invokes The Snaky Sisters From The Stygian Pit, To Seek The Bright Gleaming Fleece Of Gold ...

Part 1

1. Graveyard Line – Forbidden Dimension
2. Freddy’s Dead – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
3. The Leper’s Honeymoon – Swelter
4. Defcon 2 – Man ... Or Astroman
5. Nothing Left Alive – GWAR
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Haunted – Forbidden Dimension
8. Devilled Swan – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
9. Spiderbite – Forbidden Dimension

Part 2

1. Vulture Feed / Dreamdate – Forbidden Dimension
2. Electric Arc – Man ... Or Astroman
3. Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. Defcon 5 – Man ... Or Astroman
6. Wild Doll – Forbidden Dimension
7. Defcon 1 – Man ... Or Astroman