... So Below ... Or, The Wreck Of The Broadcast

No.148, aired December 7, 2011, featuring the second disc of Ascension’s Broadcast, consisting the single 47 minute track “... so below.” The first disc, “as above ...” was played on June 15, no.125, in an earlier instalment of the Cozmo-Orgazmik Ascension series.

Late Monday night I decided that Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Wreck of the Deutschland would be a suitably active text to read with Ascension – only on the bus on the way to the station did I realize that Hopkin’s poem commemorates a shipwreck that happened on December 7 (same date the episode aired), in 1875!!

Part 1

1. Lucid Fairytale – Napalm Death
2. Nehemiah’s Misfortune – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. ... So Below – Ascension

Part 2

1. ... So Below (continued) – Ascension
2. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
3. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Orgazmo-Cosmic Ascension + Bloomsday

No.125, aired June 15, 2011. This was the second installment in NAIA’s Orgazmo-Cozmic Ascension series – see No.123, June 1 for more info. Featured music was the first disc of Ascension’s Broadcast.

Featured audiobook was Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. Also, in honour of Bloomsday (June 16, the date in 1905 that James Joyce’s Ulysses was set), passages from Episode 3 “Proteus” of Ulysses were read).

Part 1

1. B.B. On Mars – Alice Cooper
2. Destination Unknown – Vacation On Mars
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hope And Glory – The Class Assassins
5. As Above – Ascension

Part 2

1. As Above (continued) – Ascension
2. Just Like Me – L7
3. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
4. Medication – Vacation On Mars
5. Sailing On – Bad Brains