Rent Me A Gap In The Earth

No.161, aired March 7, 2012. Played the entire 1989 landmark of west coast punk, Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbours by Jello Biafra & D.O.A. Featured texts were further readings from Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and more passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine on audiobook. While Bonney and Last Scream have a direct political affinity, The Time Machine interacted with both texts at the levels of concept and image.

Part 1

1. That’s Progress – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Tchorb - Rake
3. Attack Of The Peacekeepers – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
4. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
5. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
6. Skree – Rake

Part 2

1. Power Is Boring – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Beak – Rake
4. Full Metal Jackoff – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard
6. I Wish I Was In El Salvador – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.

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

Godspeed You CJTR!

No.141, aired October 5, 2011, Special Radiothon 2011 Episode

This episode saw NAIA moving more toward a free-form radio art format, particularly in the second half, where Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s Static formed a foundation onto which was added 3 guitar pieces by Regina’s Bob Evans, spoken word from Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, BBC Sound Effects, and a live reading of the opening of the incredible Cape Hattaras sequence in Hart Crane’s The Bridge.

Part 1

1. Spinning Plates – Radiohead
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Transcendental Medication – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Jelly 292 – Jimi Hendrix
6. Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 001 Loser’s Club – D.O.A.
2. Static – Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- Dune / Khamenkule / Yesterday – Bob Evans
3. Midnight Show – The Horribles

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

Times A-Changing / Mission Statement

No.120, aired May 11, 2011 - First ever episode at new 9 - 10 PM time slot.

Featured passages on how to develop a mission statement from Stephen R. Covey's audiobook The 7 Habits Of Highly Successful People, played simultaneously with instrumental tracks by Frank Zappa, Blah Blah 666, Sun Ra, King Cobb Steelie – and just to make sure things didn’t get dull, various animals were heard from a sound effects CD. In lieu of actually developing a "mission statement" for Naval Aviation In Audio," A poem from Sun Ra's Pathways To Unknown Worlds was read on-air.

Part 1

1. The Times They Are A-Changing – D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Chico Lympico – Blah Blah 666
4. Packin’ A Rod – L7
5. Pathways To Unknown Worlds – Sun Ra
6. Self Pity – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. What’s Going On – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Pass The Goldon Falcon – King Cobb Steelie
3. Shove – L7
4. Untitled Track 2 (from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD) – Sun Ra
5. Love Thang – Nomeansno
6. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa
7. March Of The Crabs – Anvil -- poem from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD booklet – Sun Ra
8. 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

Sailing Into Neptune

No.101, aired December 15, 2010.

If Uranus was the “Aviation” this episode brings the “Naval”, the final stop on our interplanetary voyage, landing at last on the seas of Neptune. Ezra Pound’s Canto II was read with the final track from Holst’s The Planets (Canto I was read on December 26, 2008, meaning I will have read all 120 Cantos on air by 2247!) And with the Winter Solstice only a week away we continued with the audiobook of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Gilligan’s Island – Rude Norton
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
4. Sea Cruise – Rude Norton
5. Ego, The Living Planet – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, Neptune, The Mystic – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty And Bones – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. 1983 ... (A Merman I should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix
2. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Angels Saints & Demons
3. Moon Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away - Jimi Hendrix
4. Neptune (The Planet) – The Bad Plus
5. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

Jumping For Jove

No.95, aired November 3, 2010, continuing the interplanetary journey with a trip to Jupiter, including a live reading of Canto 18 from Dante's Paradiso.

Part 1

1. Rocket Number 9 – Sun Ra
2. Get Away From It All – Northwest Company
3. The Planets, Op.32, Jupiter, The Bringer Of Joy – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) -- Paradiso Canto 18 – Dante Alighieri
4. Space Weiner – Lungbutter
5. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma
6. Jupiter – John Coltrane
7. Outer Space – The Radfords

Part 2

1. Buy The Moons Of Jupiter – Acid Mothers Temple & The Drowning Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Voodoo Chile – Jimi Hendrix
4. Jupiter Variation – John Coltrane
5. That’s Why I’m An Athiest – D.O.A.
6. Sailing – Ripcordz

Small, Hot, Fast & D.O.A.

No.92, aired October 13, 2010.

This show was a primer for the D.O.A. show at the Republik on Thursday night. Their set included To Hell And Back, World War 3, R.C.M.P., The Enemy, This Machine Kills Fascists/Human Bomb, That’s Why I’m An Athiest, I Live In A Car, Waiting For You, Fucked Up Stevie, War (Edwin Starr), The Prisoner, Disco Sucks, Fuck You, The Hockey Song (Stompin Tom Conners), and probably a couple of others that I can’t remember now.

In this episode we continued the interplanetary voyage by visiting Mercury – the first six tracks in Part 2 all pay tribute to the swift & small in some way. As Sun Ra & John Coltrane never (to my knowledge) visited Mercury, the space theme was augmented with three tracks from Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s Space Guitar.

Part 1

1. Waiting For You – D.O.A.
2. Space Guitar – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
3. Liar For Hire – D.O.A.
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Science Fiction – Ornette Coleman
6. Set Them Free – D.O.A.
7. The Jungle Is A Skyscraper – Ornette Coleman
8. Police Brutality – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Hot Little Mama - Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Mercury – Mahjongg
3. Disco Sucks – D.O.A.
4. Mercury, The Winged Messenger – Gustov Holst (comp.) / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra -- Paradiso Canto 5 – Dante Alighieri
5. Freewheel Burning – Judas Priest
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye – Queen
7. Street Woman – Ornette Coleman -- Paradiso Canto 7 – Dante Alighieri
8. D.O.A. – D.O.A.
9. The Prisoner – D.O.A.
10. 13 – D.O.A.

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

All OUT

No.83, aired August 11, 2010.

Featuring exclusively tracks with the word “Out” in the title, except the opening song, which was supposed to be The Hanson Brothers’ Duke It Out, but my notes were messed up so that song had to wait until the end.

Also featured a live reading of KRYATL, a strange but potent brew of words by one Out To Lunch.

Part 1

1. It’s A Secret – Hanson Brothers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jerk It Out – Caesars
4. Get Out Of My Life – D.O.A.
5. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – Ugly Ducklings
6. Extension Out – Sun Ra –- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
7. Outta Harm`s Way – King Khan & The Shrines
8. Lashed Out And Gashed – Pericardium
9. Sort It Out – Caesars

Part 2

1. Check It Out Dude, Get Ready, Cuz We're Rock 'N' Roll Rebels Cruisin' for Chicks in Our Metal Machine, Baby, All Night Long, Alright, Oh Yeah! (A Rock Anthem) Dude. (We Really Know How to Rock.) – Lungbutter
2. Demons Out! – Art Brut
3. Out To Lunch – Eric Dolphy -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
4. (I`m Gonna) Kick You Out – Caesars
5. Looking Outward – Sun Ra -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
6. Duke It Out – Hanson Brothers
7. Noise [#] [Outtake] – Diodes

Strange Celestial Roads ... or Nationalist Fervor?

Episode no.77 celebrated the height of summer by playing all three tracks from Sun Ra’s 1979 jazz-rock exploration Strange Celestial Roads. To add a parallel strange journey, Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness was played along with Sun Ra, sometimes in the foreground, as if Conrad was on stage with the band, and sometimes receding to the backround, as if you were in a jazz club and were hearing Conrad telling his dark tale at the next table.

And to acknowledge July 1 (which began at the end of the program), we heard some national-themed Canadian punk rock.

For more information on W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson)’s Oh Canada or for free downloads, visit: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Oh Canada – W.B. Yonder
2. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. We Hate The Bloody Queen – Mudhoney (originally by the Queen Haters)
5. Celestial Road – Sun Ra
6. Proud To Be A Canadian – Dayglo Abortions
7. Say – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. Maple Leaf Rag – Saxology (Scott Joplin)
2. Truck Stop Nun – Von Zippers (originally by Da Shyme)
3. I Am Canadian – D.O.A.
4. I’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra
5. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans