The Fall ... or the Laff?

No.139, aired September 21, 2011, featuring a live reading from the opening chapter of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. The Fall – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Things That Look Like Meat – Frank Zappa
4. The Sky Is Falling – Junkhouse
5. Orphans Of Living – Augury
6. Rebonds A pour set de percussion – Iannis Xenakis (comp.) / Pedro Carneiro – percussion

Part 2

1. It Ain’t The Fall That Kills You – Guitar Shorty
2. Bottom Of The Barrel – Grant Green
3. Simian Cattle – Augury
4. All Fall Together – Ford Pier
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

The Horror Of The Same Old Thing Or Fresh Excesses Of Lasciviousness

No.133, aired August 10, 2011, featuring further passages from The Focus On The Family presentation of The Screwtape Letters. This will be a candidate for “Best Episode Ever.”

Some of the serendipitous highlights included Augury’s Faith Puppeteers being introduced with the words “I don’t think we have to worry about pagens anymore” and D.O.A.’s Unchained Meldody, from The Nutwrencher Suite, introduced with “by suppressing one side of Jesus’ teaching and emphasizing another.”

Part 1

1. Bogg-Marsh Boogie – Evil Dick
2. Faith Puppeteers – Augury
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Nutwrencher Suite: Bound For Glory – D.O.A.
5. Little Pink Gibson – Evil Dick
6. The Nutwrencher Suite: Unchained Melody – D.O.A.
7. Klismaphilia Funk – Evil Dick
8. The Nutwrencher Suite: Cut Time – D.O.A.
9. They Can Make It Rain Bombs – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
10. Demons Out! – Art Brut

Part 2

1. What Is It Now? – Evil Dick
2. Blindman – D.O.A.
3. "Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers" ("Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!") / "Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance" ("Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front") / "Mode F – Group and Solo Dance" "Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!" ("Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day") – Charles Mingus
4. Sovereign Unknown – Augury
5. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension

Demon Sanctuary

No.116, aired March 30, 2011 – the third episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a demonic dialogue.

Part 1

1. Demon Sanctuary – John Zorn
2. Losing My Religion – Kleins96
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lion’s Gate – Helios Creed
5. Aetheral – Augury
6. Sicilian Clan – John Zorn
7. Paso – Blah Blah 666
8. Batman – John Zorn
9. Overture – Blah Blah 666
10. This Terror – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Brimstone Landscapes – Augury
2. Where’s Dane? – Tim Postgate
3. A Shot In The Dark – John Zorn
4. Migratory Birds – Buttless Chaps
5. Obeah Man / Ujaku / Fuck The Facts / Speedball - Zorn
6. Stray – The Pack A.D.
7. All The Love (instrumental) – Helios Creed