The President's Rite Of Spring

No.208, aired March 20, 2013. The Annual Rite of Spring episode, featuring Bill Clinton’s My Life, read by the Author (2004, Random House ed.).

Part 1

1. Double Life – Career Suicide
2. Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Show Me Your Sex Face – Lungbutter
4. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Recipe For Disaster – Career Suicide
6. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Television Assassination – Lungbutter
8. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Play The Part – Career Suicide
10. Games Of Rival Tribes / Wise Elder’s Procession / Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Part II: The Sacrifice (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Be So Dreamy – Shrimp
3. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Streaker – Shrimp
5. Glorification / Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. I’m Drunk Let’s Fuck – Shrimp
7. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Big Giant Head – Lungbutter
9. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
10. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie

No.207, aired March 13, 2013. Second episode featuring Doomed Shop! (Part One): A Proletarian Collage-Oratorio by THF Drenching, based on Karl Marx’s “The Class Struggles In France 1848-1850.” More info at: http://www.councilofdrent.com/doomedshop.html.

Part 1

1. Mange Avec Tes Doigts – Les Georges Leningrad
2. Doomed Shop! (“Potato blight 1845...”) – THF Drenching
3. Peur Sur La Ville – John Zorn
4. Political Prisoner – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Doomed Shop! (“It is well known how...”) – THF Drenching
6. Warning Against Judging A Christian Brother – Hylozoists

Part 2

1. Doomed Shop! (“A republic by force of arms!”) – THF Drenching
2. Sleek Answer – Les Georges Leningrad
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Doomed Shop! (“All classes of French society...”) – THF Drenching
5. Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie – Nomeansno
6. Doomed Shop! (“Decree on the Right to Work”) – THF Drenching
7. Mon Dieu – Dog Eat Dogma
8. Green Onion – Booker T & The MGs
9. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Crapuleux, Money, Filth, Blood!

No.206, aired February 27, 2013 (blogged March 6 episode earlier, so numbering is out of sequence). The first of three episodes to feature Doomed Shop! (Part One): A Proletarian Collage-Oratorio by THF Drenching, based on Karl Marx’s “The Class Struggles In France 1848-1850.” More info & full libretto available at: http://www.councilofdrent.com/doomedshop.html. Marx’s text can be read at:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/class-struggles-france/index.htm.

Part 1

1. Doomed Shop! (“From now on the bankers will rule.”) – THF Drenching
2. Smash The State – D.O.A.
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Doomed Shop! (“It was not the French bourgeoisie...”) – THF Drenching
5. Herr Noit – Lederhosen Lucil
6. Doomed Shop! (“The industrial bourgeoisie proper...”) – THF Drenching
7. The People Is Never Corrupt – Hylozoists
8. The Enemy – D.O.A.
9. Doomed Shop! (“Owing to its financial straits...”) – THF Drenching

Part 2

1. Doomed Shop! (“But the state defecit...”) – THF Drenching
2. Class War – D.O.A.
3. Parisian Eyes – Hylozoists
4. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists
5. Doomed Shop! (“The July monarchy was nothing other than...”) – THF Drenching
6. Sigh About This – Lederhosen Lucil
7. Doomed Shop! (“Crapuleux, money, filth, blood!”) – THF Drenching
8. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
9. Waiting For You – D.O.A.

Lunchmeatophillia As Pinned-Up Chime Glistening

No.205, aired March 6, 2013. Another tribute to Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, recently taken Resonance FM in London due to listener complaints. Included readings and vocal-gestural interpretations of OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer, 2010).

Part 1

1. Tomatelo Con Soda – Ada Rave Cuarto
2. Wake Up – Nomeansno
3. Out To Lunch – Ada Rave Cuarto
4. The Hawk Killed The Punk – Nomeansno
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy
7. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. The Day Everything Became Nothing - Nomeansno
2. Lunchmeatophobia (Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet!) - Funkadelic
3. Gazzelloni – Eric Dolphy
4. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie
5. Dead Souls – Nomeansno
6. Art 3 – Jaworzyn/Wilkinson/Fell
7. Utopias Humanicas – Ada Rave Cuarto

Interweaving Morphic Resonances

No.204, aired February 20, 2013, featuring poetry from a collection called Polar Perambulations: Variations And Combinations Within A Four Course Meal by Regina’s Robert Betteridge. As a show of solidarity with Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, a radio show in London, U.K. that has been taken off the air due to complaints, I played the Late Lunch theme music (Make A Blues Noise Here by Marc Guillermont) while performing the opening page from OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve.

Part 1

1. The Old Git Song – Diary
2. Medicine Men – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
3. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
5. Blackout City Nights – Royal Red Brigade
6. Endless Burning Fire – Ana-Maria Avram
7. Lost Cause – Royal Red Brigade

Part 2

1. Biting The Hand – Kleins 96
2. Make A Blues Noise Here – Marc Guillermont
3. Rolling Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. The Advocate – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
5. Trojan Whores – Kleins 96
6. Instant Events #1 – Ian Stonehouse & Sebastian Lexer
7. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Flexed Bowstrings & OOZE

No.203, aired February 13, 2013. Audiobook was Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Live readings were Out Of The Blue and Out You Come from Oort’s Cloud by John Wilkinson. Organization of materials was based on the letter O.

Part 1

1. Old Horse Whore – The Dinner Is Ruined Band
2. O Argaleios – George Koufogiannakis
3. Bobby Orr - The Dinner Is Ruined Band
4. Kaelin’s Mood – George Koufogiannakis
5. Douce Amnesie – Animal Slaves
6. Holwege For Solo Viola – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / loan-Marius Lacraru (soloist)

Part 2

1. Work For Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
3. Yo Mo Oud – George Koufogiannakis
4. Behind Those Eyes – Diodes
5. Gnosis For Solo Doublebass – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / Ion Ghita (soloist)
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

The Plastic Duck Machine

No.202, aired February 6, 2013. Featured audiobook was Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn, narrated by Christopher Evan Welch..

Part 1

1. Alligator Wine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
4. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.3 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
5. I Wish You Would – Ugly Ducklings
6. Continent And Western – Fond Of Tigers

Part 2

1. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
2. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.4 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
3. There’s Something Wrong With You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Soheb – Fond Of Tigers
6. Rimb Nugget - Ugly Ducklings