R.I.P. Flattus Maximus

No.145, aired November 9, 2011. This was the annual "Remembering The Present" episode, featuring passages from Noam Chomsky's speech titled "An American Addiction" and two World War II speeches of Winston Churchill preserved on the audiobook "The Road To Victory."

This episode paid homage to Cory Smoot - the last and greatest "Flattus Maximus" lead guitar player for GWAR - with three songs that showcase his incredible shredding. In honour of the departed Smoot, GWAR retired the Flattus Maximus character.

Happy Death Day, Flattus Maximus.

Part 1

1. Battle Of Algiers - John Zorn
2. War - D.O.A.
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Hot Box Car - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
5. Haiku III (From the Eastern Gate) - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
6. Metal Metal Land - GWAR
7. Haiku I (From the Eastern Gate) - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
8. Untitled track from Pathways To Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra
9. Bonesnapper - GWAR

Part 2

1. Ed's Wake - Zubot & Dawson
2. Drop The Bomb - Genocide
3. David Murray Dons A Cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise And Blags His Way Onto A Bill At The Termite Club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
4. Drafted Again - Frank Zappa
5. In My Room - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
6. Happy Death Day - GWAR

1-2-SNFU!!

No.131, aired July 27, 2011. This was a primer episode for the SNFU concert that was supposed to have taken place Saturday Night – see August 3 for details. Spoken word component was from Steven R. Covey’s 7 Habits.

Part 1

1. Broken Toy - SNFU
2. Valse De Chopin – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. She’s Not On The Menu – SNFU
5. The Alphabet Poised Like 26 Frozen Ducklings – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
6. You Can’t Take It With You – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
7. I’m Real Scared – SNFU
8. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
9. Money Matters – SNFU
10. Circle With Tangets I – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Too Tired – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Ochre Ringlet – Eugene Chadbourne
3. Get Off Your Ass – SNFU
4. The Walking Dead – Eugene Chadbourne
5. Loser At Life/Loser At Death – SNFU
6. Madonna – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Bodies In The Wall – SNFU
8. Circle With Tangets II – John Beckwith
9. This Is The End – SNFU
10. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Remembering War

No.96, aired November 10, 2010, featuring the first disc of Blood On The Risers: An Airborne Soldier’s Thirty-Five Months In Vietnam, an audiobook by John Leppelman. Dedicated to remembering all the wars currently raging in the world.

Part 1

1. Fuck The Border – Propagandhi
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Memory War – Asian Dub Foundation
4. The People Is Never Corrupt – Hylozoists
5. War? – System Of A Down
6. Holy War In Your Pants – Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
7. Albright Monument Baghdad – Propagandhi

Part 2

1. Raining Bloody Men – Johnny Rockstar
2. Raining Blood - Slayer
3. 12 Minutes For George – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
4. Boost No War – Capleton
5. Guantanamo Bay – Ripcordz
6. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists
7. Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes - Propagandhi

1967! Drums Of Passion

No.84, aired August 18, 2010, featuring avant-garde, jazz & rock music from 1967, plus the 22-minute Drums Of Passion by Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, an incredible exploration of the percussive capabilities of the electric guitar & baritone sax. Also continued with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Rimb Nugget – Ugly Ducklings
2. 1967 – Dayglo Abortions
3. Song 1 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
4. Eyes – The Collectors
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Leo – John Coltrane
7. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
8. Song 2 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
9. Song 3 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
10. Song 4 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 2

1. Abba Zaba – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Drums Of Passion - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Listen To Me – One Way Street

Dead Poets II

No. 71, aired April 21, 2010 – picks up where No.69 left off, in the early 20th Century literary zeitgeist, featuring historic recordings of poets reading from their work.

Part 1

1. Resume – Dorothy Parker
2. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
3. Zenooner – Evil Dick -- Song For The Last Act – Louise Bogan
4. I Don’t Love You - Dishrags
5. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Marching Song – Pointed Sticks
7. Syrmos (for 18 Strings) – Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / as freedom is a breakfastfood – E.E. Cummings / Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies – Edna St. Vincent Millay
8. Kill, Kill, This Is Pop – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Big Shot – Exxotone
2. Snog With My Drums – Hession, Wilkinson, Fell -- Afternoon – Dorothy Parker
3. Wirehead – Wasted Lives
4. Ballad Of Otis Twelvepersons - Hession, Wilkinson, Fell –- The Dream – Louise Bogan / Dark Symphoney V & VI / An Ex-Judge At The Bar – Melvin B. Tolson
5. Fun While It Lasts – Active Dog
6. Doo’s – Evil Dick -- Resume – Dorothy Parker
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Industrial Sabotage

No. 57, January 13, 2010.

Featured text was Issue no. 62 of Industrial Sabotage, a long-running experimental poetry organ published by Ottawa's jwcurry on his Curvd H&z imprint (#458, 2006). Also read David UU's Elemental Journey (Curvd H&z #444, 1999).

Part 1

1. Crunch Time - Ripcordz
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Geneve - Raking Bombs
4. L'arbre de Borobudur - Gilles Tremblay -- Industrial Sabotage 62 (see list of individual poems below)

Part 2

1. Blood On The Floor - Ripcordz
2. Nettle Bed - Soft Machine -- Elemental Journey - David UU
3. Technocratic Manipulators - Voivod
4. Give a Man a Saxaphone and He'll End Up Playing Jazz - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
5. Sailing - Ripcordz
6. Batman - Voivod


The following poems were read during L'arbre de Borobudur in Part 1:

Stereoville / lexa red an mass a fear - Sam Andreyev
THE ONLY SOUND / REVELATIONS - Nelson Ball
Stoma 1351 / Stoma 1337: box pome- lost - Guy R. Beining
15 circus storeez - bill bissett
"somewhere blue ice is growing" - b. a. carver
.02.08.03 crow / .02.04.12.2 - Judith Copithorne
Due To The Success Of The Tonsilectomy / A Short History Of The Rebellion
The Taint / stuck in the back - David Fijino
37 RUE DE LA BOUCHERIE - Hans Jewinski
THE LAST CEDER (back in the daze) - Billy Little
the bell-wether - Michael Mann

For more information about Curvd H&z publications, write to:
jwcurry
#302-880 Somerset Street West
Ottawa, Canada K1R 6R7

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

Art of War

Aired February 25, 2009. Featured chapters from The Art of War (on audiobook) by Sun Tzu, played with King Cobb Steelie and the Leeds-based improvizing trio of Hession/Wilkinson/Fell.

Part 1

1. My American Partner - King Cobb Steelie
2. War - DOA
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. 12 Minutes for George - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
5. International Master - King Cobb Steelie
6. Horror of Yig - GWAR

Part 2

1. Vlad the Impaler - GWAR
2. The Alphabet Poised Like Twenty-six Frozen Ducklings - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
3. Sound Baffle - King Cobb Steelie
4. World War 3 - DOA
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Deadbeat - King Cobb Steelie
7. Maggots - GWAR
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains