Talking to Death

Aired June 3, 2009. Featured text was Edgar Cayce: Channeling Your Higher Self: A Practical Method to Tap into Higher Wisdom and Creativity, an Audio Renaissance production written by Stanley Ralph Ross & read by Mark Thurston

Part 1:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. It's All Over - Headstones
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Death Was Too Kind - Subhumans
5. Oh My God! - Headstones
6. III Meditation - Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyond - Pericardium
8. The Walking Dead - Eugene Chadbourne
9. Losing Control - Headstones

Part 2:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. Cut - Headstones
3. I Talked To Death In Stereo - Eugene Chadbourne
4. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
5. Cemetery - Headstones
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage

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

Dark Waters

Episode 24, aired May 13, 2009, completes one full day of programming! Featuring music and words from Frank Zappa's Opera-Pantomime Masterpiece, Civilization Phaze III.

Part1:
1. "This is Phaze III" - Frank Zappa
2. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
3. Put a Motor in Yourself - Frank Zappa
4. "Oh-Umm" - Frank Zappa
5. Money Matters - SNFU
6. They Made Me Eat It - Frank Zappa
7. Eat My Meat - Lungbutter
8. Reagan at Bitburg - Frank Zappa
9. She's Not on the Menu - SNFU
10. "A Very Nice Body" - Frank Zappa
11. Nanavax - Frank Zappa
12. Boot Raper - Lungbutter

Part 2:
1. "How the Pigs' Music Works" - Frank Zappa
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Bil's Butt - Lungbutter
4. Joyride - SNFU
5. Xmas Values - Frank Zappa
6. "Dark Water!" - Frank Zappa
7. They Call Me Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters
8. "Have You Ever Heard Their Band?" - Frank Zappa
9. Religious Superstition - Frank Zappa
10. "Saliva Can Only Take So Much" - Frank Zappa
11. One Chord Song (Except for the End) - Lungbutter
12. Get Off Your Ass - SNFU
13. Harry's Groove - Muddy Waters
14. Wascana Lake - Lungbutter
15. Let's Make the Water Turn Black - The Mothers of Invention

Song of the Open Road

Episode 23, aired April 24, 2009. Featured text was "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman. Dedicated to Pearl & George, a couple of real road warriors!

Part 1

1. Rocky Road Blues - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs I - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. I Put a Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6. Clarinade - Benny Goodman
7. I Want To Be Your Driver - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs II - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Shivers Down My Spine - King Khan & the Shrines
10. Little Demon - - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Part 2

1. Footprints in the Snow - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs III - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Land of the Freak - King Khan & the Shrines
4. Alligator Wine - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
5. Destroyer - King Kahn & the Shrines
6. All the Cats Join In - Benny Goodman
7. Back in the USA - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs IV - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Heavy Traffic Ahead - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys

Never Be Dead

Episode 22, aired April 17, 2009. Featured several poems by Milton Acorn read with Papineau-Couture's String Quartet.

Part 1

1. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation
2. Humanoid Boogie - Bonzo Dog Band
3. String Quartet, 2nd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
4. C.C. And O. Blues - Pink Anderson
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
7. String Quartet, 1st movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
8. You Got it Wrong - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Dub Mentality - Asian Dub Foundation

Part 2
1. If You Don't Give Me What I Want - Blind Boy Fuller & Floyd Council
2. String Quartet, 4th movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
3. Never Be Dead - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Culture Move - Asian Dub Foundation
5. Take My Hand - Jennifer Gentle
6. String Quartet, 3rd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
7. Who Are the Brain Police? - The Mothers of Invention
8. Dumb It Down - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation

Bacillus Anthracis

April 8, 2009. This episode concerned Anthrax, the bacteria & the band. Featured text was the audiobook The Demon in the Freezer: a True Story by Richard Preston.

Part 1

1. elementary particles - The Hylozoists
2. Chromatic Death - Anthrax
3. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme - Frank Zappa
4. Reverb 10,000 - Man ... or ASTROman?
5. the fifty minute hour - The Hylozoists
6. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
7. Bring the Noise - Anthrax (with Public Enemy)
8. smiley smiley - The Hylozoists
9. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution - Frank Zappa
10. Protest and Survive - Anthrax

Part 2

1. Pipeline - Anthrax
2. The Dancing Top - Violet Archer
3. Zolar Czakl - Frank Zappa
4. Singing Bells - Violet Archer
5. warning against judging a christian brother - The Hylozoists
6. Name of Numbers - Man ... or ASTROman?
7. In the Woods - Violet Archer
8. Milk (Ode to Billy) - Anthrax
9. hearts & harps - The Hylozoists
10. Gay is the Rose - Violet Archer
11. Uncle Meat Variations - Frank Zappa
12. Music Everywhere - Violet Archer
13. Sects - Anthrax
14. straight is the gate - The Hylozoists

Lungbuttered Souls

Episode 20 aired April 1, 2009, featuring the music of Lungbutter, an anticommercial dada-rock combo that apparently thrived in 1990s Regina without me knowing about them. I played music from their masterpiece debut, Available Now, with music by Sun Ra, Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser, with poems read from Dennis Cooley's tounge-in-cheak satire Soul Searching, in which souls are imagined as material, not spiritual, entities, vulnerable to electric storms and vacuum cleaners.

Part 1

1. Lungbutter Theme - Lungbutter
2. Carowinds - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
3. Kingdom of Not - Sun Ra
4. Intestinal Fortitute - Lungbutter
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Wascana Lake - Lungbutter
7. Captain Fortune - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Music For People People With Short Attention Spans - Lungbutter
9. Thither and Yon - Sun Ra
10. Ecstasy Girl - Lungbutter

Part 2

1. Medicine for a Nightmare - Sun Ra
2. Boogerchair - Lungbutter
3. Twilight in Duckburg - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
4. That Bitch - Lungbutter
5. Rocket Number Nine - Sun Ra
6. Space Wiener - Lungbutter
7. Number Twenty-Two Is - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Underwear - Lungbutter
9. We Travel the Spaceways - Sun Ra