The Mystery Of The Reality And The Reality Of The Mystery Of Our Cosmic Existence

No.150, aired December 21, 2011 – the Winter Solstice special, featuring a playing of Regina poet Robert Betteridge’s Trilogy #2, from the great cerebral orb contesting the primitive coconut to the final invocation of the Sun’s Power in The Second Coming Scam, an incredible text to be played on the darkest day of 2011.

Part 1

1. Incantation – Voivod
2. Permeability – Hylozoists -- Prologue – Robert Betteridge
3. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg
4. Helldriver – Voivod
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. There Ain’t No Santa Clause On The Evenin’ Stage - Captain Beefheart
7. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.2 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (a) Premoe Moe And Humoe - Robert Betteridge
8. Quo Vadis – King Cobb Steelie -- Trilogy #2 (a) (continued)

Part 2

1. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.3 – Arnold Schoenberg
2. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.4 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (b) All One – One All (SiFi) A Temporary Myth - Robert Betteridge
3. Voivod – Voivod
4. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg – Trilogy #2 (c) The Second Coming Scam - Robert Betteridge
5. Reprise – Hylozoists -- Trilogy #2 (c) (continued)
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (version from Hendrix in the West)

Utilitarian Donuts (part 1)

No.79, the first of two episodes to feature on-air readings from Issue no.1 of Utilitarian Donuts, Regina’s newest magazine of radical poetry & politics. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. All I Want Is Everything – Lungbutter
2. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- No Mercy – Donna Burks
3. Markers - Lungbutter
4. A Phone Booth In The Middle Of Nowhere – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Ghetto Child – James Blood Ulmer
7. Farid – Grant Greene -- The Anti-Semantic - Paul Burnside / The Heavy Weight – W.B. Yonder / Ectopic? – Paul Friesen

Part 2

1. M10 – Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepard Letter (to Robert Betteridge)
2. Dominion of Deceipt – 3 Inches Of Blood
3. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max – Robert Betteridge
4. Satisfy (Story Of My Life) – James Blood Ulmer
5. The Real Thing – Tim Postgage –- Travelodge Hotel – W.B. Yonder / Litany Of Complaints – Paul Burnside
6. Jackhammer – Anvil

Monster Spawned

This is the second episode to feature the visionary poetry of Regina's Robert Betteridge. #36, aired August 19, 2009.

Part 1
1. Medicine Men - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepherd Letter - Robert Betteridge
2. Ultimate - Gogol Bordello
3. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 1 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
4. Stranger Than Kindness - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Used To Be In Love - Dayglo Abortions
7. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 2 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max - Robert Betteridge
8. Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! - Charles Mingus -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max (continued)
9. Haram in Tuscany [Taranta] - Gogol Bordello

Part 2
1. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 3 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
2. Religious Bumfucks - Dayglo Abortions
3. Playroom - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- YET - Robert Betteridge
4. Supertheory of Supereverything - Gogol Bordello
5. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 4 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Monster Spawned - Robert Betteridge
6. (Soul Fusion) Freewomen and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries - Charles Mingus
7. San Bernardo (1913) - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
8. I'm My Own God - Dayglo Abortions

King Dream Fisher

Episode 31 featured the words of Regina poet, artist & one-time gallery curator Robert Betteridge. Recordings of Betteridge's readings were played with music by Charles Mingus, Derek Bailey, and Eugene Chadbourne.

Part 1
1. M5 - Derek Bailey -- King Dream Fisher - Robert Betteridge
2. Strawberry - Butthole Surfers
3. Meine Augen - Lederhosen Lucil
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Sigh About This - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Rothko Lumberjack - Eugene Chadbourne -- The Be's B-B-B-Bs - Robert Betteridge
7. M6 - Derek Bailey -- The Be's ... (continued)
8. Donnybrook - DOA

Part 2
1. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 6) - Erica Goodman
2. Dancing Fool - Butthole Surfers
3. Meditation on Inner Peace - Charles Mingus -- Dommmmmme Dome; A Betteridge in {Swim Spring / Spring Swim / Swim Spring}; Aquerie'n Aquarian Gypsy - Robert Betteridge
4. E.D.G.A.R. - Butthole Surfers
5. La Vocabulaire - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains