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

Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother

No.129, aired July 13, 2011, featuring more from C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, as re-imagined by the Focus On The Family theatric version on audiobook. High point of this episode was hearing the demons disgust at the idea of falling in love with a virgin during the drugged out guitar jam in Monster Magnet’s Black Mastermind.

Part 1

1. Jesus Sings The Blues – Junkhouse
2. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
3. Gimme The Love – Junkhouse
4. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Track C – Group Dancers – Charles Mingus
7. Praying For The Rain - Junkhouse

Part 2

1. Looking For God - Fucked Up
2. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
3. Vital Transformation – Mahavishnu Orchestra
4. Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother – Monster Magnet
5. The Chemistry Of Common Live – Fucked Up

Screwtape Meets Hellephant

No.118, aired April 13, 2011, featuring further segments from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, in a dramatic audiobook version by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Sweat Loaf – Butthole Surfers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
4. Bedlam’s Bluff – Buckethead
5. Track A – Solo Dancer - "Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!" – Charles Mingus
6. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
7. Circle, With Tangents 1 – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
2. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
3. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
4. Yellowed Hide – Buckethead
5. Save The Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
6. Track B – Duet Solo Dancers - "Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces" – Charles Mingus
7. Hell – Blind Melon
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Visions Of A(Nightare)ica

No.85, aired August 25, 2010. Featuring on-air readings of the poetry of Winnipeg’s Werner “Van” Harder.

Part 1

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers Of Invention
2. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie -- The Unwelcome Critic – Werner “Van” Harder
3. Wake Up America – Dayglo Abortions
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. America The Beautiful – D.O.A.
6. Hatian Fight Song – Charles Mingus -- I Am Dick Dick / Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran (?): Some (Viet)Nambulism (we’ve sleepwalked through this nightmare before) - Werner “Van” Harder
7. Everything I Touch – American Flamewhip

Part 2

1. American Society – L7
2. Sad Statue – System Of A Down
3. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
4. Ronald McRaygun – Dayglo Abortions
5. Americanized – GWAR
6. Once Upon A Time There Was A Holding Corporation Called Old America – Charles Mingus -- Jumping Jingoism: Flag-nostic / Calamity Gain - Werner “Van” Harder
7. American Dream – Cat Rapes Dog

Wrong versus Right

Episode no.74, aired May 26, 2010.

Featured “right” & “wrong” songs, plus select chapters [18-24] from Leviticus, the Old Testament book of law and priestly ritual, which provided hilarious moral commentary as various sexual taboos & severe punishments were described to a backing of Charles Mingus’s Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces from The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Leviticus 21:9 provided some rather scary (and unintentional!) congruence as the text ordered the burning of promiscuous daughters of priests to the tune of Queen’s Of The Stone Age’s Burn The Witch.

Part 1

1. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Absolutely Right – Five Man Electrical Band
4. I’m Right, You’re Wrong – D.O.A.
5. Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces – Charles Mingus
6. Not Right – The Stooges
7. Burn The Witch – Queens Of The Stone Age
8. III Meditation – Pericardium
9. I Am Wrong – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Corrupted - Pericardium
2. I Meditation – Pericardium
3. Ain’t No Right – Jane’s Addiction
4. From The Eastern Gate I – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Ultimate Everything – Monster Magnet
6. II Meditation – Pericardium
7. You Were Right – Built To Spill
8. The Right Stuff – Monster Magnet

Monster Spawned

This is the second episode to feature the visionary poetry of Regina's Robert Betteridge. #36, aired August 19, 2009.

Part 1
1. Medicine Men - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepherd Letter - Robert Betteridge
2. Ultimate - Gogol Bordello
3. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 1 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
4. Stranger Than Kindness - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Used To Be In Love - Dayglo Abortions
7. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 2 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max - Robert Betteridge
8. Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! - Charles Mingus -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max (continued)
9. Haram in Tuscany [Taranta] - Gogol Bordello

Part 2
1. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 3 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
2. Religious Bumfucks - Dayglo Abortions
3. Playroom - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- YET - Robert Betteridge
4. Supertheory of Supereverything - Gogol Bordello
5. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 4 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Monster Spawned - Robert Betteridge
6. (Soul Fusion) Freewomen and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries - Charles Mingus
7. San Bernardo (1913) - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
8. I'm My Own God - Dayglo Abortions

King Dream Fisher

Episode 31 featured the words of Regina poet, artist & one-time gallery curator Robert Betteridge. Recordings of Betteridge's readings were played with music by Charles Mingus, Derek Bailey, and Eugene Chadbourne.

Part 1
1. M5 - Derek Bailey -- King Dream Fisher - Robert Betteridge
2. Strawberry - Butthole Surfers
3. Meine Augen - Lederhosen Lucil
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Sigh About This - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Rothko Lumberjack - Eugene Chadbourne -- The Be's B-B-B-Bs - Robert Betteridge
7. M6 - Derek Bailey -- The Be's ... (continued)
8. Donnybrook - DOA

Part 2
1. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 6) - Erica Goodman
2. Dancing Fool - Butthole Surfers
3. Meditation on Inner Peace - Charles Mingus -- Dommmmmme Dome; A Betteridge in {Swim Spring / Spring Swim / Swim Spring}; Aquerie'n Aquarian Gypsy - Robert Betteridge
4. E.D.G.A.R. - Butthole Surfers
5. La Vocabulaire - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains