Screwtape Meets Hellephant

No.118, aired April 13, 2011, featuring further segments from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, in a dramatic audiobook version by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Sweat Loaf – Butthole Surfers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
4. Bedlam’s Bluff – Buckethead
5. Track A – Solo Dancer - "Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!" – Charles Mingus
6. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
7. Circle, With Tangents 1 – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
2. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
3. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
4. Yellowed Hide – Buckethead
5. Save The Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
6. Track B – Duet Solo Dancers - "Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces" – Charles Mingus
7. Hell – Blind Melon
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

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

Demon Sanctuary

No.116, aired March 30, 2011 – the third episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a demonic dialogue.

Part 1

1. Demon Sanctuary – John Zorn
2. Losing My Religion – Kleins96
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lion’s Gate – Helios Creed
5. Aetheral – Augury
6. Sicilian Clan – John Zorn
7. Paso – Blah Blah 666
8. Batman – John Zorn
9. Overture – Blah Blah 666
10. This Terror – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Brimstone Landscapes – Augury
2. Where’s Dane? – Tim Postgate
3. A Shot In The Dark – John Zorn
4. Migratory Birds – Buttless Chaps
5. Obeah Man / Ujaku / Fuck The Facts / Speedball - Zorn
6. Stray – The Pack A.D.
7. All The Love (instrumental) – Helios Creed

The Liberal Hater's Rite Of Spring

No.115, aired March 23.

This was my annual Rite Of Spring episode, in which I sacrifice an audiobook to the pagan death ritual of Igor Stravinsky’s violent 1912 ballet.

This year’s sacrificial victim was Ann Coulter’s How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must), which fought bravely before fainting under a barrage of angry modernist hornblast & percussion, heckling from various birds (from a BBC sound effects CD), and rude interruptions from various punk rock bands. For overall sonic violence combined with accidentally appropriate song choices, this one gets a nomination for “best episode ever” honours.

Part 1

1. Rite Of Spring (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I Hate You – D.O.A.
3. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. U-J3RK5 Work For Police – U-J3RK5
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Sorceress – Cancer Bats
7. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Bullshit – Dishrags
9. Games Of Rival Tribes – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Mothra – Anvil
12. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Nuan Gabo – U-J3RK5
3. Glorification – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Harem Of Scorpions – Cancer Bats
5. Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Gasoline – American Flamewhip
7. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Heat Sink – Anvil
9. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Fuck You – Subhumans
11. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason - Subhumans

Freedom Of Obsession

No.114, aired March 16, 2011. Second episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma
2. Beaten With Sledges – Buckethead
3. Tarabos – Soft Machine
4. The Man Who Never Was – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma (played 2nd time by mistake)
7. Snodland – Soft Machine
8. Penny Hitch – Soft Machine
9. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma

Part 2

1. Imitation Of Christ – Sheavy
2. Nouvelle Axe – Ana Marie Avram / Hyperion Ensemble
3. Block – Soft Machine
4. Kaos Rex – Dog Eat Dogma

Hank Markus

No.113, aired March 9, 2011.

I am transient. I will die.
Before I die, I will change history.
I will give rise to a superior religion,
One that will assure human success.
No one can stop me.
Phenomena are no hindrance.
Conditions are no hindrance.
History is no hindrance.
Everything conspires to help me.

- Hank Markus

Hendrik (Hank) Markus, Regina poet & Buddhist scholar, passed away on November 20 2010 & this episode is a tribute to his memory, featuring live readings from his book Phenomena No Hindrance.

Part 1

1. Haiku III – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp)
2. Life Is Long – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Meeting Of The Spirits – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- The Messianic Heart / This Mountainous Reality / Mountain Poem / Three Meditations – Hank Markus
5. Breathless – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6. Birds At The Mountain Temple - Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp) -- The Myth Of Fan / The Foreman’s Monologue – Hank Markus
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. A Lotus On Irish Streams - Mahavishnu Orchestra -- poems from pgs.87-92 of Phenomena No Hindrance – Hank Markus

Part 2

1. Supernaturally – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Sleep – Godspeed! You Black Emperor – Invitation / The Poetic Verge / Midnight Hours / The Word Of The World? / Among The Gems / On Earth And In Heaven / Open The Gates / In Space / Reality Writ Small / That Flare Of Demon Tongue / No Longer Moved / Under The Eternal Sun – Hank Markus
3. Comas – Pink Mountaintops

My Dear Wormwood ...

No.112, aired March 2, 2011.

This is the first episode in a series to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a cosmic psycho-drama in which a young aspiring demon is tutored by a severe master in the corruption of an innocent human.

Part 1

1. Rattletrap – Forbidden Dimension
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Regrets – Cancer Bats
5. Seventh Arrow – Weather Report
6. Glad Your Whiskey Fits In My Purse – Little Miss Higgins
7. One Tooth For The Time Train – Buckethead
8. Circle 2 – John Beckwith
9. Around The Corner – Evil Dick

Part 2

1. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension
2. Umbrellas – Weather Report
3. Heat Distraction – Women
4. I Put A Spell On You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
5. Coprophagism – Evil Dick
6. Meat Is Meat - Forbidden Dimension
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready - Forbidden Dimension
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf