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

Torture (With Screaming)

No.122, aired May 25, 2011. Featuring more of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters in dramatic format, produced by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Torture – King Khan & The Shrines
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Temptation – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. theironchef – Hylozoists
5. Frenzy – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins-
6. red bird wishes – Hylozoists
7. Person To Person – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
8. Judgment – Asian Dub Foundation
9. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
10. 911 – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. The Hylozoists – Hylozoists
2. Rebel Warrior – Asian Dub Foundation
3. Milano Odeo – John Zorn
4. Burnin’ Inside – King Khan & The Shrines
5. streets of crocodiles – Hylozoists
6. Chaos Girl – Ripcordz
7. Chi Mai – John Zorn
8. Sailing On – Bad Brains

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

Hero Going Down

No. 56, aired January 6, 2010.

This was another episode in the "Western Movie" mode, this time the text being a country-tinged reading of Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost (with the lines I read given below, e.g. PL I:1-13), featuring the ultimate fallen hero ... Satan!

Also featured the World Premier of Ernie Klinger's new song, Hero Going Down.

Part 1

1. The Ballad of Hank McCain (vocal) - John Zorn -- PL I:1-13
2. Country - Muscle Bitches
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. This Terror - The Pack A.D.
5. Snake Earl - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice -- PL I:27-75, I:192-224
6. Dust Devil - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Hardtack Saloon #1 - The Pack A.D.
2. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
3. Hero Going Down - Ernie Klinger
4. The Big Gundown - John Zorn -- PL I:225-263
5. Siamese Wet Dream - Muscle Bitches
6. Svegliatti & Uccidi - John Zorn -- PL I:264-270
7. The Ballad of Hank McCain (instrumental) - John Zorn -- PL I:315-323

Billy the Kid

Featured Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a documentary poetic recreation of the Billy the Kid mythology, and bpNichol's The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, a fanciful phallic destruction of the myth. These texts were read side-by-side, for the most part accompanied by John Zorn's The Big Gundown, featuring his renditions of Ennio Morricone's movie themes.

Part 1
1. Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America) - John Zorn
2. Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra
3. Three Steps Backward - New Town Animals
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Letter from an Occupant - The New Pornographers
6. Giu Ba Festa (Duck You Sucker!) - John Zorn
7. Two-By-Four-And-A-Half - Thee Skabling
8. 125th Street Prophet - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
9. Just in Case You Wonder - The Ugly Ducklings

Part 2
1. Traffic Jam - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
2. Gaslight - The Ugly Ducklings
3. Peur Sur Ba Ville - John Zorn
4. I Wish You Would - The Ugly Ducklings
5. Swingin' At the Met - Les Brown & His Band of Renown
6. Once Upon a Time In the West - John Zorn
7. Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
8. My Little Red Book - The Ugly Ducklings

Gunshots & Bloodletting

Words in this episode come from Take All of Murphy, a story played from Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, an audiobook of true stories from the operating theatre. Lam's descriptions of medical students cutting into their first cadavers were accompanied for the most part by the ethereal instrumentals of The Hylozoists' CD La Nouvelle Gauche, and complemented by the controlled chaos of John Zorn's Naked City, which was itself offset by the low-fi blues groove of The Pack A.D. and violent experimental rock of the Butthole Surfers' Locust Abortion Technician. Aired January 21, 2009.

1. intro -- The Hylozoists - The Hylozoists
2. You Will Be Shot – John Zorn
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. A Shot in the Dark – John Zorn
5. Bang – The Pack AD
6. Reanimator – John Zorn
7. Newrealmsofvibration – The Hylozoists
8. James Bond Theme – John Zorn
9. Paper Bag – The Pack AD
10. Weber – The Butthole Surfers
11. Hardtack Saloon #1 – The Pack AD

Part 2

1. Bone Handle – The Pack AD
2. Blood Duster – John Zorn
3. Parisianeyes – The Hylozoists
4. The O-Men – The Butthole Surfers
5. Thecrippledgiant – The Hylozoists
6. Demon Sanctuary – John Zorn
7. Graveyard – The Butthole Surfers
8. Graveyard Shift – John Zorn
9. Gold Rush – The Pack AD
10. Igneous Ejaculation – John Zorn
11. Outro -- Human Cannonball – The Butthole Surfers