Wormwood Goes To Hell

No.140, aired September 28, 2011, the finale of C.S.Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (as dramatized by Focus On The Family), where Wormwood’s fuck-ups become too much and Screwtape admonishes him in a stunning 12 minute soliloquey before final condemnation.

Part 1

1. Beyond Hell Intro – GWAR
2. Sonata Tragica – Blah Blah 666
3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – The Stooges
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Moths To Flame – Buckethead
6. Murderer`s Muse – GWAR
7. It`s Only Life – Blah Blah 666
8. Tormentor – GWAR
9. Hymno Nacional Mexicano – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
2. Fuck Satan To Death – Dayglo Abortions
3. Blossom Blah – Blah 666
4. 666 – Anvil
5. Hylozoists – Hylozoists
6. Go To Hell! – GWAR
7. Sailing – Ripcordz

The Liberal Hater's Rite Of Spring

No.115, aired March 23.

This was my annual Rite Of Spring episode, in which I sacrifice an audiobook to the pagan death ritual of Igor Stravinsky’s violent 1912 ballet.

This year’s sacrificial victim was Ann Coulter’s How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must), which fought bravely before fainting under a barrage of angry modernist hornblast & percussion, heckling from various birds (from a BBC sound effects CD), and rude interruptions from various punk rock bands. For overall sonic violence combined with accidentally appropriate song choices, this one gets a nomination for “best episode ever” honours.

Part 1

1. Rite Of Spring (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I Hate You – D.O.A.
3. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. U-J3RK5 Work For Police – U-J3RK5
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Sorceress – Cancer Bats
7. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Bullshit – Dishrags
9. Games Of Rival Tribes – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Mothra – Anvil
12. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Nuan Gabo – U-J3RK5
3. Glorification – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Harem Of Scorpions – Cancer Bats
5. Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Gasoline – American Flamewhip
7. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Heat Sink – Anvil
9. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Fuck You – Subhumans
11. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason - Subhumans

Suffersurge ... or Colloquy In Black Rock

No.104, aired January 5, 2011, featuring an on-air reading from Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s volume of bone-hard, dark-as-hell verse from 1946.

Part 1

1. Energy Surge – Layaway Plan
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. No Guru – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Crazy Boys – Clones
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
6. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats

Part 2

1. Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
2. Open Aspect No.1.1 – Anthony Braxton -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
3. Controlling Me – Suffersurge
4. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
5. Deathsmarch / Sorceress – Cancer Bats

Poems read with Phlegra: The Exile’s Return / The Holy Innocents / Colloquy At Black Rock / Christmas At Black Rock / New Year’s Day / Winter In Dunbarton

Poems read with Open Aspect No.1.1: The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket / Christmas Eve Under Hooker’s Statue / The Drunken Fisherman

Evil

Aired August 26, 2009, featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, a monodrama (in German) about a woman wandering in a forest at night searching for her lover. To this nightmarish setting was added Howlin' Wolf (for a fairy-tale aspect), as well as several monstrous heavy metal anthems by The Muscle Bitches, Monster Magnet, and Anvil. Three different versions of the Willie Dixon-penned blues classic Evil were heard, as performed by Howlin Wolf, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, and Monster Magnet.

Part 1
1. Sonata Tragica - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 2 - Howlin Wolf
2. I'm the Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Erwartung, Sc.III - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. Cyclops Revolution - Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
7. Mothra - Anvil
8. Erwartung, Sc.I - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
9. Peek Through the Pines - Muscle Bitches -- The Wolf Talks 3 - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2
1. Dogs - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 1 - Howlin' Wolf
2. Evil - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
3. Erwartung, Sc.II - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. 666 - Anvil
5. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.1 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
6. Balls To the Wall - Muscle Bithches (originally performed by Accept)
7. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.3 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
8. Evil - Monster Magnet
9. Cielito Lindo - Blah Blah 666
10. Wolf At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf