Godspeed You CJTR!

No.141, aired October 5, 2011, Special Radiothon 2011 Episode

This episode saw NAIA moving more toward a free-form radio art format, particularly in the second half, where Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s Static formed a foundation onto which was added 3 guitar pieces by Regina’s Bob Evans, spoken word from Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, BBC Sound Effects, and a live reading of the opening of the incredible Cape Hattaras sequence in Hart Crane’s The Bridge.

Part 1

1. Spinning Plates – Radiohead
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Transcendental Medication – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Jelly 292 – Jimi Hendrix
6. Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 001 Loser’s Club – D.O.A.
2. Static – Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- Dune / Khamenkule / Yesterday – Bob Evans
3. Midnight Show – The Horribles

Wormwood Goes To Hell

No.140, aired September 28, 2011, the finale of C.S.Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (as dramatized by Focus On The Family), where Wormwood’s fuck-ups become too much and Screwtape admonishes him in a stunning 12 minute soliloquey before final condemnation.

Part 1

1. Beyond Hell Intro – GWAR
2. Sonata Tragica – Blah Blah 666
3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – The Stooges
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Moths To Flame – Buckethead
6. Murderer`s Muse – GWAR
7. It`s Only Life – Blah Blah 666
8. Tormentor – GWAR
9. Hymno Nacional Mexicano – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
2. Fuck Satan To Death – Dayglo Abortions
3. Blossom Blah – Blah 666
4. 666 – Anvil
5. Hylozoists – Hylozoists
6. Go To Hell! – GWAR
7. Sailing – Ripcordz

The Fall ... or the Laff?

No.139, aired September 21, 2011, featuring a live reading from the opening chapter of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. The Fall – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Things That Look Like Meat – Frank Zappa
4. The Sky Is Falling – Junkhouse
5. Orphans Of Living – Augury
6. Rebonds A pour set de percussion – Iannis Xenakis (comp.) / Pedro Carneiro – percussion

Part 2

1. It Ain’t The Fall That Kills You – Guitar Shorty
2. Bottom Of The Barrel – Grant Green
3. Simian Cattle – Augury
4. All Fall Together – Ford Pier
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Dumitrescu + Songs Of Experience

No.138, aired September 14, 2011, featuring a reading of William Blake’s Songs Of Experience with music by Iancu Dumitrescu.

Part 1

1. Portland – Bill Bourne
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Stop It – Nomeansno
4. Movemur et Sumus (III) – Iancu Dumitrescu

Part 2

1. Hunt The She Beast - Nomeansno
2. The Things I Used To Do – Guitar Slim
3. Whadiddy Do – Bill Bourne
4. Basoreliefs Simphonique – Iancu Dumitrescu
5. Freeway Babe – Bill Bourne
6. Obsessed – Nomeansno

Yo' Mama

No.137, aired September 7, 2011, the sixth in the Orgazmo-Cozmik Ascension series (see no.123 for details), featuring Frank Zappa’s astral-incredible xenochronous guitar surgery in Yo’ Mama, plus the whole of side 2 of the Sheik Yerbouti album, which I am inclined to call the “castration suite.” And to enhance the mail castration anxiety in Zappa, strong female voices (Little Miss Higgins, The Pack A.D., American Flamewhip, L7) were heard throughout the program.

Part 1

1. Gather My Fruit – Little Miss Higgins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jones Crusher – Frank Zappa
4. Fast And Frightning – L7
5. What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World / Rat Tomago – Frank Zappa
6. Kick It – American Flamewhip
7. Hardtack Saloon #1 – The Pack A.D.
8. Wait A Minute / Bobby Brown – Frank Zappa
9. Shiny Things – The Pack A.D.
10. Rubber Shirt – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Tornado Song – Little Miss Higgins
2. Sheik Yerbouti Tango – Frank Zappa
3. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
4. Yo’ Mama – Frank Zappa
5. Black Cat – American Flamewhip
6. Fingertight – American Flamewhip

Enigmatic Nocturnal Waves Phosphoresce On The Moonlit Shore Of An Inland Ocean

No. 136, aired August 31, 2011, during a Regina & area thunderstorm, featuring a live reading of Christopher Dewdney’s Time Wind. The following was read as lightning lit up the sky: “Fireworks explode in the summer night. Pyrotechnic blossoms of silver and gold ... lightning blossoms in the purple strata of distant storms.” Another happy accident was hearing the Animal Slaves sing “thoughts fall like rain” as heavy showers pelted the CJTR window.

Part 1

1. Beauty And The Beast – Tandoori Knights
2. The Lord Is A Monkey – Butthole Surfers
3. Nocturne No.1 In B-flat Minor – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
4. Thoughts Fall – Animal Slaves
5. You’re Gonna Change Or I’m Gonna Leave – MonkeyJunk
6. Nocturne No.2 In E Flat – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
7. L.A. – Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Right Now – MonkeyJunk
2. Nocturne No.3 In B – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
3. My Brother’s Wife – Butthole Surfers
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Roam The Land – Tandoori Knights
6. Happy Time – Odyssey The Band
7. Hip Hug-Her – Booker T. Jones & The MGs
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

Mostly Awful, With Occasional Reprieves When It Was Purely Terrifying

No.135, aired August 24, 2011, featuring more passages from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, as re-enacted by Focus On The Family on audiobook. Most of Part 1 constituted a “Sandwich Bloody Sandwich,” 2 meaty slabs from the Dayglo Abortions’ Feed Us A Fetus plus bonus wedges of Prime Time Sublime and King Cobb Steelie like so much cheese, all stacked between two thick slices of Black Sabbath.

Part 1

1. Irrational – King Cobb Steelie
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Sabbra Cadabra – Black Sabbath
4. Scared Of People – Dayglo Abortions
5. Erectile Cognitive Bop Bits – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
6. Black Sabbath – Dayglo Abortions
7. Doomed Thinking Man v. Stupid Action Man – King Cobb Steelie
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath

Part 2

1. You Should Be Getting Something – King Cobb Steelie
2. Stay Clean – Motorhead
3. Pomp And Vindaloo – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
4. I’ll Be Your Sister – Motorhead
5. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic