As The Columns Of Hail Grew Thinner

No.157, aired February 8, 2012, featuring more passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, with the Back In Time album by James Blood Ulmer’s Odyssey plus other music.

The predominance of the colour white, the columns & arches & garlands in the ruins where the time travellor lands in 802,701 A.D. seem to represent classical culture, as seen through the rear-view mirror of western civilization – the simpleness and innocense, the childishness of the citizens, the fact that the architecture is in ruins, bring to mind Karl Marx’s assessment that the towering achievements of classical culture may represent unreachable standards for modern art, but are in reality the infancy of western culture.

Part 1

1. Science Fiction – Private School
2. Sonatine Baroque: Adagio – Murray Adaskin
3. D.N.I. – Man or Astroman?
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Shame I Feel – Corsage
6. Open Doors – Odyssey
7. Hawaii – Young Canadiens
8. Sonatine Baroque: Andante – Murray Adaskin
9. Test Driver – Man or Astroman?

Part 2

1. Baby How Long – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Last One – Odyssey
3. Seen A Fight – Tim Ray
4. Sonatine Baroque: Allegro – Murray Adaskin
5. Principles Unknown - Man or Astroman?
6. How Many More Years – Howlin’ Wolf
7. Happy Time – Odyssey
8. Synchronized Swimming – Popular Front

Enigmatic Nocturnal Waves Phosphoresce On The Moonlit Shore Of An Inland Ocean

No. 136, aired August 31, 2011, during a Regina & area thunderstorm, featuring a live reading of Christopher Dewdney’s Time Wind. The following was read as lightning lit up the sky: “Fireworks explode in the summer night. Pyrotechnic blossoms of silver and gold ... lightning blossoms in the purple strata of distant storms.” Another happy accident was hearing the Animal Slaves sing “thoughts fall like rain” as heavy showers pelted the CJTR window.

Part 1

1. Beauty And The Beast – Tandoori Knights
2. The Lord Is A Monkey – Butthole Surfers
3. Nocturne No.1 In B-flat Minor – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
4. Thoughts Fall – Animal Slaves
5. You’re Gonna Change Or I’m Gonna Leave – MonkeyJunk
6. Nocturne No.2 In E Flat – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
7. L.A. – Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Right Now – MonkeyJunk
2. Nocturne No.3 In B – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
3. My Brother’s Wife – Butthole Surfers
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Roam The Land – Tandoori Knights
6. Happy Time – Odyssey The Band
7. Hip Hug-Her – Booker T. Jones & The MGs
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

No.117, aired April 6, 2011, featuring live readings of Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson.

Part 1

Intro. The Philosophy Of The Parthenon – Ralph Gustafson
1. Heroic Doses – Glueleg
2. Haught – Derek Bailey -- At The Ocean’s Verge – Ralph Gustafson
3. Cough Syrup – Butthole Surfers
4. Nacht (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis -- On This Sea-Floor / “S.S.R., Lost At Sea.” – The Times / Basque Lover: Spain 1937 – Ralph Gustafson
7. Magic Word – Fucked Up

Part 2

1. Polio – Glueleg
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Waiting – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Open Doors – Odyssey: the Band -- Flight Into Darkness / Legend – Ralph Gustafson
5. Days Of Last Light – Fucked Up –- Prolegomenon At Midnight – Ralph Gustafson
6. Wash These Blues Away – Little Miss Higgins
7. Last One - Odyssey: the Band -- Aspects Of Some Forsythia Branches – Ralph Gustafson
8. Midnight Show – The Horribles