Pure As Arctic Snow

No. 63, aired February 24, 2010.

A very geological episode featuring an on-air reading from Christian Bok’s Crystallography, a book of ice so clean you can see yourself in it.

Part 1

1. Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Meteors & Pulsars – Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble -- Geodes – Christian Bok
4. Pure As The Arctic Snow – GWAR
5. I (Fuck) Mountains – Pink Mountaintops

Part 2

1. Call Of The Triumphant – Thor
2. No Emotion – Hanson Brothers
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- (epigraph to Crystallography by M.C. Escher) / Krystallos / Katharsis / Kalokagathia / Crystals (Preliminary Survey) / The Hagiography of Snow: Preface / Krystalloneiros / Crystals / “Turbulent winds ...” / Crystals (Euclid & His Modern Rivals) – Christian Bok
4. Electric Jewels – April Wine

Dr. Dyer Gets A Job

Episode 33 featured a number of bands sounding off in various ways about the workplace including 2 tracks from Eric Dolphy's modern jazz masterpiece Out To Lunch. And to add a confrontational element I employed Dr. Wayne Dyer's audiobook, How to be a No-Limit Person, once again bringing stuff together that maybe outta be kept apart but it's interesting & fun so what the fuck? Aired July 29, 2009.

Part 1
1. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - Frank Zappa
2. I Don't Give a Shit - DOA
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Abolish Work - (International) Noise Conspiracy
5. Wendall's Work Week - Johnny Rockstar
6. Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
7. The Things That Some People Do For Fun - Lungbutter
8. Job - Lungbutter
9. Black Napkins - Frank Zappa

Part 2
1. M11 - Derek Bailey
2. Flipping Off My Dirty Dishes - Lungbutter
3. Slaves - Pink Mountaintops
4. Best Dishwasher I Ever Had - Lederhosen Lucil
5. Wind Up Workin' In a Gas Station - Frank Zappa
6. Gazzelloni - Eric Dolphy

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