Rent Me A Gap In The Earth

No.161, aired March 7, 2012. Played the entire 1989 landmark of west coast punk, Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbours by Jello Biafra & D.O.A. Featured texts were further readings from Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and more passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine on audiobook. While Bonney and Last Scream have a direct political affinity, The Time Machine interacted with both texts at the levels of concept and image.

Part 1

1. That’s Progress – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Tchorb - Rake
3. Attack Of The Peacekeepers – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
4. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
5. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
6. Skree – Rake

Part 2

1. Power Is Boring – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Beak – Rake
4. Full Metal Jackoff – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard
6. I Wish I Was In El Salvador – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.

Outside His Circled Limpid World

No.160, aired February 29, 2012 – a double (2-hour episode).

This episode contrasted two texts – a live reading of Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and an audiobook of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Wells envisions a class-bassed society polarized to the point of total segregation, as observed from the top down by Wells’ detached, alien narrator. Bonney registers the effects of class society on subjectivity, the tortured imagination of participants in the struggle at street level, in a whirl of sensation – there is no privileged place to look down from.

Part 1

1. The Fifty Minute Hour – Hylozoists
2. Ghosts Of Griffintown – Ripcordz
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Corrupted – Pericardium
5. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis
6. 25th Century Quaker – Captain Beefheart

Part 2

1. Lunchmeatophobia – Funkadelic
2. Tear Ya Down – Motorhead
3. Elementary Particles – Hylozoists
4. Gimme That Harp, Boy – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis

Part 3

1. Everything Pisses Me Off – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Smiley Smiley – Hylozoists
3. The Opportunist – Pericardium
4. Ittidra – Iannis Xenakis
5. Kandy Korn – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
6. No Class – Motorhead

Part 4

1. Lashed Out And Gashed - Pericardium
2. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
3. Charlie Don’t Surf – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
5. Punk Nation – Ripcordz
6. Strait Is The Gate – Hylozoists
7. Moanin At Midnight – Howlin Wolf

The Flowers of Evil

Episode 42 featured an on-air reading of Sean Bonney's Baudelaire in English (Veer Books, 2008), according to many the best ever English renderings of the French poet.

Part 1
1. The Black Forest - Buckethead -- O Carib Isle - Hart Crane (on-air reading by host)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4. Naked - Ballroom Zombies
5. Please Hang Up - Dog Eat Dogma
6. Hair Pie: Bake 1 - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney (on-air reading by host)
7. Necropolis - Dog Eat Dogma
8. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
9. Bills Corpse - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
10. Fountains of the Forgotten - Buckethead

Part 2
1. Sweet Sweet Bulbs - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2. Fleuves (pt.1) - Gilles Tremblay -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
3. Impotent Fantasies - Ballroom Zombies
4. Fleuves (pt.2) - Gilles Tremblay -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
5. Sailin' On - Bad Brains