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

Hank Markus

No.113, aired March 9, 2011.

I am transient. I will die.
Before I die, I will change history.
I will give rise to a superior religion,
One that will assure human success.
No one can stop me.
Phenomena are no hindrance.
Conditions are no hindrance.
History is no hindrance.
Everything conspires to help me.

- Hank Markus

Hendrik (Hank) Markus, Regina poet & Buddhist scholar, passed away on November 20 2010 & this episode is a tribute to his memory, featuring live readings from his book Phenomena No Hindrance.

Part 1

1. Haiku III – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp)
2. Life Is Long – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Meeting Of The Spirits – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- The Messianic Heart / This Mountainous Reality / Mountain Poem / Three Meditations – Hank Markus
5. Breathless – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6. Birds At The Mountain Temple - Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp) -- The Myth Of Fan / The Foreman’s Monologue – Hank Markus
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. A Lotus On Irish Streams - Mahavishnu Orchestra -- poems from pgs.87-92 of Phenomena No Hindrance – Hank Markus

Part 2

1. Supernaturally – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Sleep – Godspeed! You Black Emperor – Invitation / The Poetic Verge / Midnight Hours / The Word Of The World? / Among The Gems / On Earth And In Heaven / Open The Gates / In Space / Reality Writ Small / That Flare Of Demon Tongue / No Longer Moved / Under The Eternal Sun – Hank Markus
3. Comas – Pink Mountaintops

Songs Of Innocence

No. 87, aired September 8, 2010, featuring live readings of William Blake’s Songs Of Innocence.

Part 1

1. Haiku I – Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -– Introduction To Songs Of Innocence (“Piping down the valleys wild”) – William Blake
2. Pied Piper – Not Going To Vegas
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Jacques And Madeleine – Run Chico Run
5. Hyperprism – Edgar Varese -- The Shepherd / The Echoing Green / The Lamb – William Blake
6. Mr. Highway Man – Howlin Wolf
7. Prophesy – Eugene Chadbourne -- The Little Black Boy / The Chimney Sweeper – William Blake
8. Fairweather – Shikaska

Part 2

1. On Permanence - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Little Boy Lost / Little Boy Found / Lauging Song – William Blake
2. Howlin Wolf Boogie – Howlin Wolf
3. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666
4. Noon Harras – Derek Bailey with John Zorn & William Parker -- Cradle Song / The Divine Image / Holy Thursday / Night / Nurse’s Song - William
Blake
5. Sweet Little 16 – Chuck Berry
6. Ceremonial Music - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -- A Dream / On Another’s Sorrow – William Blake
7. A Real Mother For Ya – Johnny Guitar Watson

Airway To Heaven

A starry vault, a firmament dividing celestial waters, paradisiacal mind state, cloud city, New Jerusalem, City of God ... What's your conception of Heaven or the heavens? Can you get there by air? From 10pm to midnight on February 3, 2010 Naval Aviation In Audio tried, reading the poetry of Canadian Christopher Dewdney (Radiant Inventory) and Brit Keston Sutherland (Antifreeze) with Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate and other music. This episode included the entire Hairway to Steven album by the Butthole Surfers, and just to make sure things didn't get too serious, 3 blasphemous tracks from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is. Second ever Double Episode.

Part 1

1. Ricky - Butthole Surfers
2. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. John E. Smoke - Butthole Surfers
6. From The Eastern Gate 1 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Radiant Inventory / This My Emissary - Christopher Dewdney
7. Sun Ship - John Coltrane
8. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Sol, Pt. 1 - Wooden Shjips -- Ten Past Nine - Keston Sutherland
2. From The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Fart Song - Butthole Surfers
4. Attaining - John Coltrane
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Frank Zappa
6. From The Eastern Gate 3 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Jettison Khaki - Christopher Dewdney

Part 3

1. From The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
2. Jimi - Butthole Surfers
3. Dumb All Over - Frank Zappa
4. From The Eastern Gate 5 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Winter Central - Christopher Dewdney
5. Mole Machine - Simply Saucer -- Among The Golden Sheaves - Keston Sutherland
6. Julio Iglesias - Butthole Surfers

Part 4

1. Rocky - Butthole Surfers
2. Amen - John Coltrane
3. From The Eastern Gate 7 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Heaven - Christopher Dewdney
4. Backass - Butthole Surfers
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Fly Without Fear

Episode 25 begins the new day with a statement of purpose - to conquer fear of flight, thru flight! Featured KRS Edstrom's audiobook Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations for a Relaxing Flight, a spoken-word treatise on fearlessness including easy-listening background music - to which was added the following in the aural foreground -

Part 1:
1. Airports - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
2. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. You're Gonna Crash - Streetheart
5. Master of the Universe - Hawkwind
6. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
7. Silver Rocket - Sonic Youth

Part 2:
1. You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind
2. From the Eastern Gate I - Erica Goodman
3. Go to Hell - Streetheart
4. 'Cross the Breeze - Sonic Youth
5. Blast Off - The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Song of the Open Road

Episode 23, aired April 24, 2009. Featured text was "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman. Dedicated to Pearl & George, a couple of real road warriors!

Part 1

1. Rocky Road Blues - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs I - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. I Put a Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6. Clarinade - Benny Goodman
7. I Want To Be Your Driver - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs II - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Shivers Down My Spine - King Khan & the Shrines
10. Little Demon - - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Part 2

1. Footprints in the Snow - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs III - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Land of the Freak - King Khan & the Shrines
4. Alligator Wine - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
5. Destroyer - King Kahn & the Shrines
6. All the Cats Join In - Benny Goodman
7. Back in the USA - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs IV - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Heavy Traffic Ahead - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys

Microorganisms & Explosions

Usually, on this show I have mixed various musical works with spoken or recorded texts. In this episode, that was done for me, because I featured The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra, from London, England, and their dadaist music & spoken word masterpiece, A Life in a Day of a Microorganism. Also featured were some tracks from Canadian Blast & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Part 1

1. Introduction – The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
2. Changed – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Anarchavid – Lederhosen
5. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism (a) Prelude - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
6. Fairweather – Shikasta
7. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (b) Morning - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
8. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666


Part 2

1. '78 Style - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 3) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
3. Water Main - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 1) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
5. Biological - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (c) Afternoon and Afterlife - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
7. Geneve – Raking Bombs
8. Jacques and Madeleine – Run Chico Run
9. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 2) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
10. Sailin' On – Bad Brains