November The Dozenth

 THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: 11/12/2011


Originally aired on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55765 

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Pink Floyd- Up The Khyber

Melomane- Dreams of Ships and Lightning

Taxi To The Ocean- Flag On The Moon

Tadpoles- Race To The Mustard Patch

Oingo Boingo- Run Away

Stranglers- Toiler On The Sea

XTC- Life Is Good In The Greenhouse

Of Montreal- Death Is Not A Parallel Move/Beware Our
              Nubile Miscreants

Joan As Policewoman- Kiss The Specifics

Ray Manzarek- Downbound Train

Pink Frost- Who I Belong To

Roxy Music- Would You Believe

Sparks- This Is The Renaissance

Area 27- Driving With The Future Self

Capt. Beefheart- Peaches

Michelle Malone- Teen Lament

Neil Young- Come on Baby, Let's Go Downtown

Cat Dail- Future Fridays

Steve Hillage- Sea Nature

HuDost- Skeleton Key

Cecile Corbel- Suil a Ruin

The Purrs- Stay With Me

Cardiacs- Leader of the Starry Skies

Jeannine Hebb- I Believe

The Fierce and the Dead- 10'X 10'

A Head Full of Quandry and a Mighty, Mighty Thirst

                                                 I love my radio friends


There are many ways to cope with the lingering spectre of depression. One way would to stay up all night listening to six billion songs in a single evening, imagining to oneself how the songs will fit together,for example: how will the end of this Bird York song fade into the beginning of this Joan Wasser tune?

Pretty damn well, it turns out. If you don't believe me, download the podcast and hear for yourself. If you do believe me, download the podcast and enjoy it.

What I'm trying to say here is: download the podcast.




 THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: AUG. 6th 2011
         (Originally aired on WRIR 97.3 FM. )



The Kinks- Preservation (Single)
This is a nearly-unknown Kinks track...a very un-Kinks-like  groove rocker with very Kinks-y timeless lyrics.

Booker T. Jones- Progress
You can get the awesome compilation CD that this soulful tune is taken from here, for FREE.

Joni Mitchell- Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
Ah, Joni. This song is nothing short of brilliant. The title of this post is taken from it.

Bird York- Bought A Gun
"By the time I'm eleven, I'll be a man"

Joan As Policewoman- Nervous
Had a couple callers on this one, they loved it and they should, it is awesome...I have been a huge Joan Wasser fan for years...why is she not totally fucking famous yet?

Sparks- I Can't Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song
"And only you and only you, my love"

Of Montreal- An Eluadarian Instance
This band is better than a million circuses.

Kalliopi- Summer Is Over
She's from Greece. Things are tough in Greece right now, hopefully there's some solace in music.

Nouvelle Vague- Making Plans For Nigel
XTC cover. 

Tom Waits- Make It Rain
"Sharpen my knives on my mistakes"

Amy Winehouse- Fuck-Me Pumps
Add Amy to my list of unattainable post-mortem crushes; Voltairine DeCleyre, Clara Bow, and Amy Winehouse.

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald- Frim Fram Sauce
Oooo tasty.

Rare Earth- Is Your Teacher Cool?
Depends on the lesson.

The Stranglers- The Sweet Smell of Success

Funkadelic- Funky Dollar Bill

Jimi Hendrix- Message of Love

Miles Davis- Spanish Key (single edit)

Michelle Malone  and Band du Soliel- Cortez the Killer
Awesome live cover of classic Neil Young song...Michelle Malone is the real rocking deal.


Jennings- Surrender
New album coming soon!

Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Cloudy Eyes

Atomic Rooster- Devil's Answer

Roxy Music- Three and Nine

John Cale- Taking It All Away

Brian Eno- The True Wheel

David Bowie- Blackout
Man, this song is about best thing that ever happened to my ears, ever.


Astronauts of Antiquity- Breakthrough


Misty Boyce- Be A Man
I like the way the title of this song doesn't say what you probably think it does...but if she was a man, she couldn't sing like she does. And that would be a bummer, 'cause she sings great.

How To Listen To The Radio In 2011

Podcast here...

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB JULY 30 2011

Sparks- Intro/I've Never Been High

Amy Winehouse- Amy, Amy, Amy

Edwinn Starr- Who Cares If You Are Happy Or Not? (I Do)

F&M- Another Closing Number

Jennings- Surrender

Gong- Digital Girl

Steve Hillage- Searching for the Spark

Goldfrapp- Strict Machine

Bird York- Prozac Day

Area 27- Human Alien

Hawkwind- To Love A Machine

Pink Floyd - Summer '68

Jimi Hendrix- Sunshine of Your Love

The Fierce and the Dead- 10'x 10'

Jeff Beck- Loose Cannon

Green Man- Cold Blows The Wind

Clannad- Battles

Rare Earth- When I Write

Funkadelic- Super Stupid

Hot Tuna- Extrication Love Song

Joan as Policewoman- Furious

The Whispering Tree- So Many Things

Stefanie Seskin- Your Own Road

Misty Boyce- Razor

Garbage- #1 Crush

John Cale- Heartbreak Hotel

HuDost- Salome

Catching Up, Going Out

Things have been a bit hectic but the show must go on - and so must the podcast of the show.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have been invited to dinner by one of my recent coffee dates and I need to make myself presentable...that should take at least 10 minutes.

PODCAST OF 7/16/2011 SHOW

PODCAST OF 7/23/2011 SHOW


THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 7/16/2011

Rathkeltair- All About You

Jethro Tull- The Valley

Apache O'Raspi- Hostal Simplex

Frank Zappa- Stinkfoot

The Whispering Tree- So Many Things

Misty Boyce- Be A Man

Cranberries- Zombie

Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield-Stop

Hot Tuna- Baby, What You Want Me To Do?

Good Rats- Reason To Kill

DOTMIG- Going To The Top

Israel Darling- Brilliant Plan

Triumvirat- The Walls of Freedom

Renaissance- Kiev

Area 27- Stereofab

NEU!- Isi

Manfred Mann's Earth Band- California Coastline

Sparks- No More Mr. Nice Guys

10CC- Sand In My Face

Beach Boys- Back Home

Taxi To The Ocean- I Live At Home

Crack The Sky- Suspicion

Ozone Player- Orange Apples

Early Bird Collages- Untitled #3

Love Kills Theory- Region of the Worms

Tiger- Suzi Slicker

Traffic- Memories of a Rock and Roller


THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 7/23/2011



Danny Kaye- The Maladjusted Jester

Pink Floyd- Echoes pt. 1 (Live)

Crack the Sky- Ice

Pretty Things- Cold Stone

Kalliopi- Fire and Sea

The Fierce and the Dead- Pt. 2

Neil Young- Don't Let It Bring You Down

Papa John Creach- The Janitor Drives a Cadillac

Speck Mountain- Twinlines

Gong- City of Self-Fascination

Billie Holiday- Nice Work If You Can Get It

Andrews Sisters- I Can Dream, Can't I?

Louis Armstrong- Lucky Old Sun

Flaming Groovies- She's Falling Apart

Suzi Quatro- Suicide

Carpenters- Superstar

Jethro Tull- Moths

Katie Lee- Something Psychological

Goldfrapp- Lovely Head

Rare Earth- Hum Along And Dance

Michelle Malone & Band du Soliel -Black River

The Tubes- Mondo Bondage

Hawkwind- Out Here We Are

Be Bop Deluxe- Shine

Low Pressure

The future looks pretty bright from where my guitar is sitting but the present keeps pulling the rug out from under me.

Not long ago, I met a woman that I really liked and while my head was still swimming with thoughts of her, I was also saddened by the loss of my long-time friend and party companion Tim M., who had finally lost his battle with cancer.

Obviously, my old friend isn't coming back, but it doesn't seem as if my new friend is going to come back either. And that's OK. I'm saddened and a bit hurt, but life goes on.  If anything, I learned a lesson: only date women with stable lives. I keep forgetting that I'm stable and reliable- I was so drunk and generally fucked-up in the head  for so many years that it is hard to get out of imagining myself as being  any other way. But that is changing-it has to or I'll never be happy.

So my next round of website dates was selected from a very short list of women. Intelligent, very attractive professional women of sound mind, spirit and body. The kind of women who wouldn't give the old me a second glance, much less their phone number. But that was the old me.

I had a great radio show this afternoon and afterwards I went to meet one of the women who had replied to me. She's brilliant, well-educated and funny, she had me laughing and at ease in no time. We had coffee and talked for a couple of hours and have agreed to do it again soon.  At the very least,it was a fine way to spend an afternoon.

Tomorrow I have a coffee date with a second woman. She was actually the very first woman that I messaged from the website I was using; she seems to be good at everything. She is a helicopter pilot- I've always wanted to find a date who was willing to go sky-diving with me, but I'm guessing my next date has already done that. I'll have to ask.

I learned something about dating sites today. My date, who is my age (44), told me that most men our age have a 'search range' for their partner's age that usually cuts off a few years before the man's age. For example, a 47-year old man might be looking for a date between the age of 21-44...a 45 year-old man might have 25-42 listed. My own range was 35-50 and my date liked that, apparently very few  men my age are willing to date older women. She asked me if I had any insight on why that is:

"Because most men are shallow and don't know how to have a conversation with an intelligent woman their own age."

She agreed.

The guys that won't date women my age are missing out. I love women my own age, they've already got themselves figured out by now and don't really need anyone to "complete" them; that and the importance of a shared historical context can't be over-rated.

I also learned something about myself. My past doesn't matter. Today's date is a psychotherapist  by profession, and I wasn't sure how much of my past to reveal, or if to I should tell her I'm actually in therapy at the moment...but we clicked really well and the gist of my story of addiction and brokenness  came tumbling out...it wasn't taken as a negative at all. Quite the contrary, in fact. She echoed what my own therapist has told me- there aren't many people like me out there. She knows what a hopeless addict looks like- it is her job to know- and I'm not like that at all, there is no 'profile' for me. I'm OK with that.

Today brought good music and quality company and tomorrow promises to bring more of the same.

Here's the podcast that proves it.

And yeah...I jinxed myself at the beginning of the show and flubbed a whole bunch of talking and generally got my words and facts dsylexicated.  Happiness trips me up and makes me clumsy but hopefully I'll get used to it.


The New Breakfast Snob: July 2nd, 2011

Rathkeltair- Spanish Chicken

Elvis Costello- Everyday I Write The Book

Jimi Hendrix- Red House

Spirit- Prelude to Nothing to Hide

Bird York- Had A Dream

Peter Ivers- Pursuit of Treasure

Rare Earth- Hey Big Brother

Family- Second Generation

Liars- Proud Evolution

Shadowfax- New Electric India

Sloe Panda- Skeleton

Genesis- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

Area 27- Dancing On The Moon

The Tubes- What Do You Want From Life?

Dresden Dolls- Bad Habits

Triumvirat- The School of Instant Pain

Alice Cooper- Go To Hell

The Who- Heaven and Hell

Carrie Rodriguez- Infinite Night

Jennings- Hero

Ace No Face- Snakes

Arvel Bird- Crow

Crack The Sky- Goodbye Mrs. Nature

Green Man- Dirge

Neil Young - Depression Blues

Traffic - Medicated Goo

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Trouble In The Air

I used to have the occasional head-butt with our old station manager, but she did a lot more work than I realized and it is starting to show now that she is gone.

This morning, for instance I was listening to the radio stream and a channel was out. Again. So I grabbed a few tools that I really hoped I didn't have to use (because I pretty much don't know what  they do and some of them are really sharp) and hustled down to station, where I  traced wires and generally got underfoot until I rigged up a temporary solution that lasted at least long enough for me to finish my shows and record the podcasts linked below.

Four straight hours of live broadcast is a lot of broadcast and I'd be damned if I was gonna let a bunch of guerrilla wiring ruin my shows. So there.

For your enjoyment, I present:


6182011 New Breakfast Snob & 6182011 Songs From The Big Hair Download
 

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 18 JUNE 2011


Rathkeltair- It's All Good

Damien Dempsey- It's All Good

The Purrs- Mostly

Astronauts of Antiquity- Everywhere

Jeannine Hebb- Too Late To Change Me

Angelfish- Dogs In A Cage

Love Kills Theory- Poverty of Student Life

801- Flight 19

Mythica- Don't Be

HuDost- Skeleton Key

mr. Gnome- Three Birds

Cafebar 401- Damn These Blues

Belly- Untogether

Peter Tosh- Won't Fool Me Again

Ramsey Lewis- Sun Goddess

The Kinks- Get Up

XTC- Poor Skeleton Steps Out

Al Stewart- Song On The Radio

Alan Parsons- One More River

Jethro Tull- Big Dipper

Frames- Monument

Stackridge- Happy In The Lord

Cat Nights Begin- Of Mettle

Traffic- Withering Tree

Shannon Sharon & Steve Earle- Galway Girl

Little Feat- Time Loves A Hero

SONGS FROM THE BIG HAIR 18 JUNE 2011

Birthday Party- Guilt Parade

Stranglers - Let Me Down Easy

Dire Straits- Setting Me Up

Dave Davies - In You I Believe

Nouvelle Vague- In a Manner of Speaking


Tuxedomoon- Jinx


Warren Zevon- The Factory


David Lindley- Talk To The Lawyer

X- Because I Do


Replacements- Go

Pretty Things- No Future


Dream Syndicate- When You Smile


Robyn Hitchcock- The Cars She Used To Drive

Husker Du- These Important Years

Crack The Sky- Frozen Rain

Wire- Getting Sucked In Again

Hawklords- Psi Power

Peter Blegvad- Model of Kindness

Suzi Quatro- Breakdown

Waterboys- All The Things She Gave Me

Golden Palominos- Strong, Simple Silences

Lou Reed- Underneath The Bottle

Meat Puppets- Lost

Pat Benatar- Helter Skelter

King Crimson- Sleepless

Troublefunk- Woman of Principle

Richard Thompson- Bone Through Her Nose

Joe Jackson- 50 Dollar Love Affair

Neil Young- Shots

Sex, Drugs,Tires, Spreadsheets and the Distant Echo of Boogie-Woogie Piano

By 'sex' I mean dating. And by 'dating', I mean 'not having sex', so the first word of this headline  is inherently meaningless and was simply used to catch your attention in a cheap,tawdry fashion- and  terms like 'tires and spreadsheets' would most likely fail to achieve that goal.

Not that I'm totally against meaningless, no-future sex with near-strangers, but I'm at the point in my life where I want some long-term stability from my partner, which means no more adulterous plundering on my part, despite that being my only current option.

The quick gratification isn't worth the lingering guilt-and if I didn't feel the guilt, I'd have to admit that there was something seriously wrong with me, I mean, I'm sure that I have my share of bad qualities, but I'd like to think that callous amorality is not one of them.

Here's a funny thing. Obviously, I don't mind blogging about my own personal failings and troubles, but this here dating stuff is a touchy, tricky subject, especially on account of me being so fucking desperately lonely that I signed up for a major dating site. And I'd like to date a woman who is savvy enough to find this blog, so I better be careful what I say...um...good luck, right?

Maybe that isn't so crazy. At this point in my life, I'd prefer a period of old-fashioned courtship instead of a quick and pointless affair - I have this strangely  non-male desire to actually like the person that I'm having sex with and to have the kind of  relationship that grows past 140 characters.

So far, my search isn't going especially well, at least not measured in quantity, but that is to be expected.

I'm not an easy fit in the 'web-date' pigeonholes and I've met feral children equipped with better social filters than myself...but I got a few replies that were sincere and one in particular that I find quite attractive- she's smart, funny, impressively self-possessed, creatively expressive and she even took the time to listen to me on last night's radio show -and said that she enjoyed it!

So I just asked her out and I am anxiously waiting her reply as I type this...blogging as a combination distraction/confession , if you will.

(UPDATE: She said yes!)

Wish me luck. Life is good , but I need a real girlfriend to share it with- one that doesn't have a husband and/or multiple boyfriends and  who isn't ashamed to be seen in public with me and with her friends -and my friends.

The closest to getting laid that I've come in the last month or so was the giant screw that I found embedded in my car's tire. The screw was actually preventing the air from escaping, but any leak- even a slow leak- is a bad thing, so I took it in to a garage to see if the tyre could be repaired.

No, it couldn't, and hey, how about that alignment wear on the other ones?...it was long, expensive afternoon, but at least I'm driving again.

Spreadsheets? The less said about them, the better.

Piano? Ah! I did a guest DJ spot for my friend P.Swann on her excellent show 'Can't Stop The Music'. Her show is "cheesy goodness", so I got to play quite a bit of material that I wouldn't normally play on my own show, my own show being all deadly-serious and wot.

Oh yeah...drugs. I forgot to mention them. What I meant to say was that the following two broadcasts might make a lot more sense if you are really, really high.

But don't take my word for it, get yer podcasts here:

NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: 5/28/2011

CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC: 5/29/2011


THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, MAY 28th 2011

Traffic- Walking In The Wind

Larry Graham - Can't Stand The Rain

Hot Tuna- See The Light

Good Rats -Does It Make You Feel Good?

The Purrs- Fear of Flying

Chrome- Meet You In The Subway

MX-80 Sound- Lady In Pain

Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle

Osibisa- Y Sharp

Al Kooper- The Monkey Time

Astronauts of Antiquity- Soup du Jour

Bob Dylan- Isis

XTC- Scarecrow People

The Kinks- Nobody Gives

Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Road To Babylon

Clannad- Struggle

Rare Earth- Long Time Leaving

Ten Years After- If You Should Love Me

Steve Hillage- Palm Trees (Love Guitar)

Slick/Kantner- Silver Spoon

Michael H. Price- Save Me A Slice of That

Lou Reed- Senselessly Cruel

Roxy Music- Pyjamarama

David Lindley & El-Rayo X- Make It On Time



Can't Stop The Music , May 29th 2011: New Breakfast Snob Guest Edition


Will Bradley- Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar

Mother Gong- The Upwardly Mobile Song

Danny Kaye- Ballin' The Jack

Golden Gate Quartet- Atom and Evil

Louis Armstrong- A Kiss To Build A Dream On

Nirvana Sitar and String Group- The Letter

Dinah Shore and the Pied Pipers- Tic,Tic,Tic

Miraim Makebe- For What It's Worth

Katie Lee- Properly Loved

Check Other- Night of the Living Dead

Bob Crosby and his BobCats- Dear Hearts and Gentle People

Marcy -The Gospel Express

Adriana- The Garden of Sin-

Swing on a Star-

National Lampoon- Deteriata-

Southern Sons Quartet - Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition-

Skorkian- Hot Butter-

- Dinah Shore- Blues in the Night

The Ink Spots- Address Unknown-

Mike H. Price- Love Roller Coaster-

 Myrtle Hilo- Lover's Prayer

Katie Lee- Will To Fail

Al Jolson- Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Ray Manzarek- Art Deco Fandango-

Herbie Hancock- Fat Mama

Petula Clark- Fill The World With Love

- The Ramones- Beat on the Brat

Lou Reed- Rock and Roll Heart

Betty Hutton- He's A Demon

Danny Kaye -Slow Boat To China

Mike H. Price- Till The Real Thing Comes Along

Jonathon Coulton- Skullcrusher Mountain

Telly Savalas- Sunday Morning Coming Down-

The Ink Spots- Bless You For Being an Angel-

(With special thanks to Mr. F.LeMur for the infospots)


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Sign Language of the Times

The New Breakfast Snob Special Not-Exactly The Rapture Edition

aired:5/21/20100

FREE PODCAST HERE! 

Pat Benatar- Pictures of a Gone World/Everybody Lay Down

Holy fucking brimstone fountains! I'm leading off my show with Pat Benatar!?

Surely the world has already ended and Hell is for children who thought they had escaped from their tragic pasts, only to have it all re-visited in the cruelest of ways...but wait, I can explain:

You see, the DJ before me inexplicably ended his show two minutes early, which completely caught me off-guard, since I was trying to trouble-shoot our internet and needed that two minutes to finish what I was doing and get ready for my show, and in my panic I just reached for whatever I could grab at the last second...

Aw, hell. I 'fess up. I used to think that Pat was hot and I still do. She's older than me and can still belt out the  Big 'Reena Rock without auto-tuning -and  anyway, sometimes one just needs to be hit upside the head with some mindlessly stupid rock and roll. You just do. 

Everybody say yeah!


Rajay and the Saptut(?)- Up,Up and Away 

A sitar-driven Muzak version of an insipid pop song that the adults in my life hated and sheltered me from. My adults liked cool music when I was a kid and I was never exposed to top 40 at home, something that helps make up for a lot of other things.

Hmmm, come to think of it, I was never forced into religion as a kid. The older that I get, the more thankful I am for this lack of indoctrination.

Parliament- Gloryhallastoopid

You will find more references to 'stoopid' in this week's show but none quite so funky as this one.

Crack the Sky- Maybe I Can Fool Everybody Tonight

No, sorry. Maybe next time.

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Actually, yours is a disgrace of the soul  wrapped inside  a blanket of shame, soaked in the gasoline of avarice, set aflame with the twin-fired candle of sadomasochistic self-destruction and burned  until the cold  ashes of your life are dumped into a piece of cheap pottery  which will be adorned with a plaque attesting to the fact that you died alone and unmourned ; a martyr-of-one to the lonely cause of your own manipulative, bizarrely willful and ultimately pointless self- degradation .

Text me sometime, why dontcha? I'll come over and fix your Internet real good.

Bob Dylan- Man Of Peace

Peter Tosh- Here Comes The Sun

This song is like, eerily prophetic, maaaaan. I mean, here it comes. Again!

Beatles- I've Got A Feeling

Everybody say yeah!

Robbie Robertson- Vanishing Breed

Are you still here? Cool.

Tuxedomoon- What Use?

Some people quit their jobs and gave away all their money in advance of the Rapture Hoax...good luck getting all that stuff back on Monday.

Al Stewart- Life In Dark Water

HuDost-Skeleton Key

Great Canadian band, this song ties into Fontainbleau and more...


Blue Oyster Cult- Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll

I thought the end of the world was gonna rock. If the world had ended in 1974, it would have totally fucking rocked -like  Montrose, Bloodrock or Blue Oyster Cult rock. If the world were to end today, it would probably lip-sync some kinda suck-ass white-girly-boy suburban gangsta rap while we collapsed into  fiery damnation and  eternal suffering..or maybe it would go 'emo' on us, whatever 'emo' is.

I hope the apocalypse doesn't sing 'Praise Rock'. Whatever 'emo' is, it can't be worse than 'praise rock'.

I'm pretty sure that Jesus, were he real, would recognize  'Christian Rock' as what it is- a Satanic plot to make the listener yearn for the self-inflicted  peace and serenity of  an early, unconsecrated grave.

Stills-Young Band  - Fontainebleau

This could have been written in 2009 but wasn't.


Ramsey Lewis- Gemini Rising


Steve Hillage- AftaGlid

From the 'Fish Rising' album, hitting on the glid riff introduced in Gong's Angel's Egg LP. Gong and Gong spin-offs are dedicated recyclers of riffs. Green!
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Oh, that is a different album... nevermind.

Peter Green- In The Skies

Up, up and away. Could be Santana but isn't.


Ten Years After- Religion

Pretty much sums it up.

Carpenters- Saturday

Somewhere in Hell, Satan spreads his leathery wings and laughs.

Grateful Dead- Ripple

Demonic laughter shakes the CDs off of the shelf and the world comes to a sudden halt.

Randy Newman- Spies

I had a request for RN last week but didn't have any with me. But I remembered.

Stackridge- The Galloping Gaucho

Hahahahaha! Who were these guys?

Pretty Things- Bitter End

Grace Slick- Theme From 'Manhole'

Grace rips the roof off for 15-minutes. You can tell that  she is ripping the roof off because she keeps saying "the roof is gone" over and over and over...when she is singing in English anyway.

The rest of the time is in some furring tongue.

I hope she isn't cussing in Mexican or something, 'cause that would be wrong.


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Ooops

 I close my eyes but I can still see her, she's smiling but blood streaks her face and I reach out to touch her, to clear away the crimson, but I have no fingers on my hand, I see them and they are severed, dangling moist and red from a necklace around her alabaster throat and she is smiling not at me but at someone behind me, and although I cannot turn my head, I know her necklace is a gift from him and he is back, wanting more...

Holy shit. Where am I?

Oh wow. I'm in the broadcast booth, smack-dab in the middle of a live radio broadcast. How long have I been lost in a semi-hallucinatory recollection of last night's horrid dream?

I look at the timer on one of the CD decks: about ten seconds.

Ten seconds is plenty of time for things to go wrong on live radio and sure enough, when I looked down at the broadcast console, I was lost amongst all the blinking lights and attention-seeking buttons. There were three CDs playing simultaneously and, panicking, I accidentally turned on the fourth deck, bringing my total number of inputs to four.

By this time I'd forgotten which deck had the song I intended to play, I'd even forgotten what song it was...

...but...

...the choir on the song in 3, it is in key with the guitar from 2 (or is it 4?) and there are two violins that work together, 1 and 4 maybe?, and if I can avoid any abrupt percussive outbursts from any of these songs, I just might be able to pull this off, because this sounds pretty good all mixed-up like this...

We have a light that flashes  when the phone rings and it took me by surprise...hello?

There was a woman on the phone with a question: who is this playing ? This is great!

It's Love Kills Theory and a few other things that are happening by mistake.

Way cool.  Keep it up!

That was good to hear. I'm listening to the recording now and she was right, it's the best part of the show. As usual, there are a lot of flubs but that particular passage has got some interestingly  musical moments.

With dreams like I've been having, it's amazing that I can function at all, much less do something as complex and wildly exposed as a live radio broadcast, but somehow I get by. Somehow.

But don't take my word for it: Get the Podcast here.

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THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, FEB. 19th, 2011 :


.Joe Strummer and Mescaleros- Coma Girl               
The Bitter Tears- Slay The Heart of The Earth               
Of Montreal- Will You Come and Fetch Me?               
The Duhks- You Don't See It               
Elfpower- Old Familiar Scene                
Various Artists Live Mixed-up Mess /Love Kills Theory- Lost in Vacuum Space Mash Up      Melomane- Even Though You're Born Toulouse               
Speck Mountain- I Feel Eternal               
Geraldine Fibbers - House Is Falling               
Jordan Reyne - The Proximity of Death               
HuDost -Trespasser                
Cocteau Twins- Road, River and Rail               
Monacy- Twisted               
Garbage- Cup of Coffee           
F&M- Rising To The Moon               
Atris- That Would Be The End               
Taxi To The Ocean- Crystal Cuts               
Mr. Gnome- Three Birds               
The Purrs- Fear Of Flying
Beauregard Ajax  -Things Will Work Out Fine                
Scream Daisy- Learn To Fight               
Frank Black- I've Seen Your Picture               
Cursive    - The Recluse             
The Frames- Sad Songs
Beauregard Ajax- Take You Far Away           
801- Rong Wrong               
No Restraints - I Was Wrong               
Pink Frost   - You Should Know               
Cafebar 401-   Troubles

Loneliness Is a Big Club

 For most of my life I've relied on the kindness of fur trappers.


THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 2/12/2011: BIG FAT VALENTINE'S DAY  SPECIAL

Atomic Hooligan- Thief
Oh baby.

Garbage-It's All Over But The Crying
 Which just keeps on coming.

Neil Young- A Man Needs A Maid
And vice versa. Don't forget that part.

Taxi To The Ocean- Hold On To Me
 Good tunes from the Netherlands.

Claanad- The Poison Glen

Tom Waits- Romeo Is Bleeding
 What would Valentine's Day be without Tom Waits? Happy? Can't have that.

Shivaree- I Don't Care (Live)
I do care. I can't help it.


Cat Dail- Think Of A Story 
 This story is short, sweet and well-told. The way it should always be but usually isn't.

Cafebar 401- The One I Love The Most
More cool and current Netherlands rock .

Motorbaby- Submerged
I can grok that feeling.

Joan as Policewoman- Eternal Flame
A beautifully produced, multi-layered song by one of my faves.

Rebekah Higgs- Little Voice
A welcome new addition to the playlist.

Carrie Rodriguez - She Ain't Me
I would like country music if it sounded like this song instead of like Ford commercials.

Ross Phazor- Someday
Hi Jake!

Eleni Mandell- Cracked 
Fun bitterness from the very versatile Mandell.



Monday Machines- Ruined Morning
The fabulous production by Cary Grace makes this CD go with almost everything.

The Pretty Things- The Rain
The Pretty Things- Loneliest Person
I really shouldn't have to explain this.


Cursive- Am I Not Yours?
I guess not.

Funkadelic -You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
Love me some Funky-delic.

Little Feat- All That You Dream
 ...but not like this before.

XTC- That's Really Super, Supergirl

Curtis Mayfield -Little Child Running Wild
Supergirl, Superfly, same difference, right?


Lou Reed -How Do You Think It Feels?
C'mere and let me spread some empathy on you.

R.Crumb All-Stars- Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band - Call On Me
The Captain is missed and so are you.

The Frames- Angel At My Table
And a devil on my shoulder. And check out that wah. I bet it is made of chrome.

The Purrs- Good Times To Come
Hi Kevin!

Nouvelle Vague- Have You Ever Fallen In Love?
No, of course not.. Do I look completely fucking stupid? Don't answer that.

 
Suicidal Tendencies- I Hate You Better
Despite the band name and song title, this is a surprisingly beautiful rocker.

Don't take my word on how great these songs are: Get the podcast and find out for yourself.


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What Could Happen?

Last Week's podcast was delayed on account of rescuin' orphans from floodwaters being such hard work. I was too tired and damp to do much podcasting, so here's a triple shot of podcasts, 6 full hours of live radio, hosted by yours truly.


Two editions of my own weekly show, plus a special edition of Songs From the Big Hair , WRIR's weekly 1980's show, each show is available in mp3 format  here:


Download 1/22/2011


Download TWO 1/15/2011 shows


And my fabulous archive.



NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 1/22/2011

Song- Artist-Album-Label-Year

-Tension Building Intro-
 Time To Kill -Gentle Giant Free Hand
 The Hidden -Aid Fantasm -The Kind  Bandcamp 2010
I Couldn't Love You- Cursive- Mama I'm Swollen-   SaddleCreek 2009
Swept Up- Old Smile- Hawkins Bridge
 Trust- Pretty Things -S.F. Sorrow -Motown 1969
Answers? Questions! -Focus -Focus 3 Sire 1972
Fidelity Shake -Speck Mountain- Some Sweet Relief
2009
Devil Be Gone- Mr. Gnome- Heave Yer Skeleton- Bandcamp 2010
Holiday- Joan as Policewoman- Survive
 Giving It All Away- Frames- Fitzcarraldo
I Live At Home- Taxi To The Ocean
Suffocate Me- Angelfish- Suffocate Me MCA 1993
Bleed Like Me -Garbage- Bleed Like Me
 Little Wrecking Ball -Tori Sparks- Scorpion in the Story Glass Mountain 2009
Where Do You Go (When You Need a Hole to Crawl In) -Strawbs -Ghosts A&M 1975
When I Burn This Place Down -Firewater -Get Off The Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire
 Breakdown Buildup -HuDost- Trapeze OS 2009
Infinite Night- Carrie Rodriguez- She Ain't Me Blu Hammock 2009
Bone Through Her Nose- Richard Thompson -Daring Adventures- Polydor 1985
Pure Cold Stone- Pretty Things- Rage Before Beauty Snapper 1999
Underneath The Bottle- Lou Reed- Blue Mask RCA 1982
That's Really Super, Supergirl- XTC- Skylarking Geffen 1986
How I Wanted To- Richard Thompson- Hand of Kindness Hannibal 1985
Jar Song -Damien Dempsey- Shots UFO 2004
Lost On Your Merry Way- Grandaddy -Sumday v2 `200

NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 1/15/2011

Torture Never Stops-    Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart-    You Can't Do That     Ryko    1976
Princess of the Streets-    Stranglers-    Rattus Norvegicus    A&M    1976
Sirens of Titan-    Al Stewart-    Modern Times     Janus    1975
You Got Something-    J.J. Cale-    Troubador    Shelter    1976
Fool No More-    Peter Green-    In The Skies    Sail    1979
Rainmaker-    Traffic-    Low Spark....      
Tangled Up In Blue-    Bob Dylan-    Blood on the Tracks    Columbia    1974
Ice-    Crack the Sky-    Live Sky    Lifesong    1976
Blame The Villain-    Cafebar 401-            2009
Bullet-    Frank Black-    Dog in the Sand        200
Visions of Johanna -    Bob Dylan -   Blonde on Blonde        1966
Intergalactic -   Area 27       -     2006
Trespasser-     HuDost   - Trapeze    OS    2009
Down in the Zero-    Monday Machines -   Monday Machines    Door 13    2010
If There is Something  -  Roxy Music -   Live    Atco    1976
Stay Where You Are-    Stephanie Seskin -   Edge of Reason        2006
Esnuria-    Gong  -  Gazeuse!    Virgin    1976

SONGS FROM THE BIG HAIR 1/15/2011

Big Hollow Man -Danielle Dax- Inky Bloaters Sire 1986
The Blacksmith- Steeleye Span- Hark! The Village Wait Chrysalis 1985
A Poisoned Heart and a Twisted Memory- Richard Thompson- Hand of Kindness
Is This The Life -Cardiacs A Little Man and a House- ABC 1985
Trouble -Troublefunk -Trouble Over Here Island 1987
Fender Bender- MX-80 Sound -Out of the Tunnel Ralph 1980
Clampdown- Clash -Londons Calling Columbia 1979
The Ugly Underneath- XTC -Nonesuch Geffen oops
Not Weak Enough -Peter Blegvad -Downtime ReR 1988
Lucky Number Nine- Nina Hagen -single Columbia 1979
Vanishing Girl- Dukes of Stratosphere- Geffen 1986
 Golden Brown- Stranglers- Feline Epic 1982
Groovin' On An Inner Plane- Robyn Hitchcock- Groovy Decay Albion 1985
Legs- Helios -Creed- Kiss To The Brain Amp Rep
Clean Plate- Golden Palominos
The Welcome -Fred Frith -Cheap at Half The Price Ralph 1980
The Age Of Self -Robert Wyatt- Old Rottenhat Rough Trade 1985
Siamese Trap -Opal- Happy Nightmare Baby SST 1987
Bring Back Reality- Snakefinger- Manual of Errors Ralph 1982
Kill The Great Raven -Snakefinge-r Live In Chicago TEC 1986
Jerking Back and Forth- Devo- Here It Is TDK 1988
Me, I Disconnect From You- Gary Numan Replicas Atco 1979
No Future -Pretty Things -Crosstalk Warner 1980
Days Of Wine and Roses -Dream Syndicate- Days of Wine and Roses Slash 1982
Bolingo -Poto Doudongo -Here it is TDK 1988
Maybe The Poet- Bruce Cockburn- Stealing Fire GoldMountain 1982
True Story -Tom Verlaine -Words From The Front Warner 1982


My good friend Kevin, host of The Sunrise Ocean Bender , will be filling in for me next week. Your ears will be in good hands.

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Eating Gibberish

 Armed with a fresh cup of coffee, I swipe my ID card over the doorknob  and listen with satisfaction as it *clicks* open, granting me access to the file room where I'm being trained by a soon-to -be retired employee.

I work for an outsourcing company that has moved in and taken over all of Company X's office services, forcing hundreds of people out of jobs nationwide...some are taking early retirement and severance, some have stayed on with the new company, but most of them are just plain laid-off.  I am part of the 'cost-cutting'...I have been on both ends of this merry go-round more than once, I'm afraid. It's terrible karma and I know it's only a matter of time before my company loses the contract to a lower bidder and I'm unemployed again.

If I don't get fired first. The transition isn't going very smoothly. I'm being trained by a tiny old lady who reminds me of my own grandmother in some ways...she's a pack-rat with an alternative non-alphanumeric filing system that only she understands, for starters.

Unlike my late grandmother, my co-worker is deaf as a post. She nods, grins and gives a 'thumbs-up'  to almost any statement, comment or question.

ME: "These yellow files...where do they go?"

HER: (nodding) "Yes."

ME: "No...where do these  with these labels go? Are they filed by name? Or account #? Or date? I can see clumps of  ABC here...but these are arranged by sticker number...these are by date and these are...I dunno? They all look the same, but they are filed in different order."

HER: Picks teeth with finger, stares at ceiling sprinkler.


ME: "Wow. You can't hear anything can you? I'm thinking that this filing system would work better in three dimensions-  that what we really need is a time/space wormhole here- where the letter A is- that reaches across the quantum wotsit over to this shelf two rows away where the letter B is. I'll need overtime approval. And that teeth-picking is gross."

HER: "That's the light switch."

ME: "The light switch?"

HER: Grins, gives thumbs-up.

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At least music still makes sense. To me, anyway.

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, JAN 16TH 1PM-3PM

The Clash- Koka Kola- London Calling-(Epic)
Talking Heads- Don't Worry About The Government- '77-(Sire)
ShawnFarley- Help is on The Way- 5240- (SF)
The Stranglers- Under The Name Of Spain- Aural Sculpture- (Epic)

Vanilla Fudge- Season of The Witch- 45- (Atco)

Cary Grace- Vanishing- Single- (Door 13)

I interrupt this playlist to announce that I'm really happy with what Cary Grace is doing with the first Monday Machines CD. She is producing, engineering, playing a great  many instruments, singing, writing...more...she's also done the website and all of the Monday Machines designs.

Me, I should be playing guitar instead of typing this...I'm  in Monday  Machines too, although I've never actually met Cary or Andy B. and Dave P., the superb bass and drums combo featured on the first MM CD. (And here.) I record my guitars, tractors and vocals here in the USA and use the Intertube to send them to Cary's lab in the UK, where she decodes my musical hieroglyphics using her Rosetta Stone pedal and blends them with  music and sounds  recorded there...it's the best band I've ever been in.

Cursive- Art Is Hard- The Ugly Organ- (SaddleCreek)
Clara Bellino- Swordfish Trombones- Embarcadero Love- (CB)

Astronauts of Antiquity- Breakthrough - Rocket Science For Dummies-(RevCon)
Diana Krall- Temptation- The Girl In The Other Room-(Verve)
T and T- Trippo Nova- (If I Knew I would Tell You)
Led Zeppelin- The Rain Song- Houses of the Holy-(SwanSong)
Dare Dukes- Kick and Holler- Prettiest Transmitter of All- (Starland)

Pretty Things- Scene One/Good Mister Square/She Was Tall, She Was High- Parachute- (Edsel)
Faust- Untitled- The Faust Tapes
Golden Palominos- No Skin- Pure- (Restless)
Firewater- Borneo- The Golden Hour- (Bloodshot)
Peter Bayreuther- Kinder Von Universe- 1997- (PB)
Nina Hagen- African Reggae- NHB-(Columbia)
Stephen Luke- Long Way From Home- No Man's Land- (Sweet Lucy)
801 - Baby's On Fire- 801 Live- (Expression)
Tom Verlaine- Always- Dreamtime- (Warner)

Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah- Various Positions- (Passport)
XTC- Dear God- Skylarking- (Geffen)
Neil Young- Sun Green- Greendale- (Reprise)

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Cop-Out Post

The last few weeks worth of playlists:

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, SAT. JAN. 9th:

Savoy Brown- Take It Easy- Looking In- (Parrot)
The Stranglers- Nice and Sleazy- Black and White (A&M)
Rod Stewart- Angel- Never A Dull Moment (Mercury)
Bob Dylan- Gotta Travel On- Self Portrait (Columbia)
Ray Manzarek- Whirling Dervish- TWTSWRRANIOUC- (Mercury)
Gong- A Sprinkling Of Clouds- You- (Virgin)
Talking Heads- Drugs- Fear of Music- (Sire)

Captain Beefheart- Happy Love Song- Unconditionally Guaranteed- (Mercury)
X- I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts- More Fun In The New World- (Elektra)
Bob Dylan & The Band- Long-Distance Operator- Basement Tapes- (Columbia)
Funkadelic- Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts- Standing On The Verge of Getting It On- (Westbound)

Grace Slick- Across The Board-Baron Von Tollbooth and The Chrome Nun (Grunt)
Goldfrapp- Strict Machine- Inbox- (...)
Cursive- I Couldn't Love You - Mama, I'm Swollen-(Saddlecreek)
BeBop Deluxe- Love With The Madman- Futurama- (Capitol)
Patti Smith- Dancing Barefoot- Wave- (Arista)

Pretty Things- Goodbye, Goodbye/Goin' Downhill- Rage Before Beauty- (Snapper)
Cary Grace- Firefly- Mendip Rock -(Door13)
Subrosa- Curtain Liner- EP- (Door 13)
HuDost-Trespasser- Trapeze- (HuDost)
Big Linda- Glass Onion- Mojo Sampler
Robyn Hitchcock- Superman- Queen Elvis- (A&M)
Here and Now- Acid Arcade/Russian Roulette- (Really old cassette)

SONGS FROM THE BIG HAIR, SAT. JAN. 2nd:

Klark Kent- Don't Care- KK- (IRS)
Oingo Boingo- Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me- Good For Your Soul-(A&M)
Clarence Fountain and Five Blind Boys- Lift Me Up- Gospel at Colonus-(Warner)
New York Gong-Jungle Window-About Time (Charly Records)
Joe Jackson-Survival-Big World (A&M)
Sugarcubes-Sick for Toys-Life's Too Good (Elektra)
Opal-She's A Diamond-Happy Nightmare Baby (SST)

MX-80 Sound-Follow That Car-Out of the Tunnel (Ralph Records)
Sonic Youth-Hot Wire My Heart-Sister (SST)
Danielle Dax-White Knuckle Ride-Dark Adapted Eye (Sire)

Magazine-About the Weather (Virgin)
Lou Reed- Don't Talk To Me About Work -Legendary Hearts(RCA)
Richard Thompson- Bone Through Her Nose- Daring Adventures- (Polygram)
Pixies- Subbacultcha-Trompe Le Monde- (Elektra)
Tom Verlaine- Days On The Mountain- Words From The Front-(Warner)

Pretty Things- No Future- Cross Talk- (Warner)
The Stranglers- In Celebration of The European Female- Feline (Epic)
Crack the Sky- Big Money- From The Greenhouse-(Grudge)
X- Soul Kitchen- Los Angeles- (Slash)
King Crimson- Matte Kudasai- Discipline- (EG)
Robert Fripp- Water Music/Here Comes The Flood (EG)
Robyn Hitchcock- The Rain- Groovy Decay-(Albion)
Tupelo Chain Sex- The Revolution Will Be Televised- (Selma)
Troublefunk- People All Over The World- (Island)
XTC- Melt The Guns- English Settlement- (Geffen)
Snakefinger- Golden Goat- Live in Chicago- (Tec Tone)
Frank Zappa- G-Spot Tornado- Here It Is - (TDK)
Gary Numan- Conversation- Pleasure Principle- (Atco)

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB , SAT. JAN 2nd:

Super Furry Animals- The Best Of Neil Diamond- DDLL- (Rough Trade)
Hawkwind- Spirit of the Age- Take Me To Your Leader- (Atomhenge)
Genesis- I Know What I Like- Selling England By The Pound- (Atlantic)
Grandaddy- Broken Household Appliance Forest -Sophtware Slump (V2 Records)
BeBop Deluxe- Superenigmatix(Lethal Appliances For The Home With Everything)/Japan - (Harvest)

Chris Huff- Then We're Dead- Death and Texas- (Huffmusic)
Cafe Bar 401- I Need To Know- Cafe Bar 401 (EPK)
The Duhks- Mighty Storm- Fast Paced World (Sugar Hill)
Firewater- Anything at All- Man On The Burning Trapeze
Santana- I Hope You're Feeling Better- Best- (Columbia)
Danny Elfman- The Little Things- Soundtrack to some movie that I never saw and probably wasn't as good as this song anyway.
Jenn Cleary Band- Attitude Behind Shades - (EPK)
Eleni Mandell- Pirate Song- Snakebite- (Space Baby)
Dare Dukes- Kick and Holler- Prettiest Transmitter of All- (Starland)

David Gilmour- Take a Breath- On An Island-(Columbia)
Omar Alexander- Breath- Soulare (EPK)
Sleater- Kinney- God is A Number -The Hot Rock (KRS)
Band du Soliel- Woman on the Floor- Mountain Stage 8 (Blue Plate)
Dixie Dregs- Ice Cakes- What If- (Capricorn)
Chrissy Coughlin- Big Log- Chrissy Coughlin (EPK)
Cary Grace- The Scarab- Perpetual Motion-( Door 13)
Carrie Rodriguez-Grace- She Ain't Me (Blu Hammock)

Can- Mushroom- 25 Years (Mute)
Damien Dempsey- Negative Vibes -Shots- (UFO)
Cait Dail- Squeeze Your Play- Cait Dail (EPK)

Smiling Neuroses

*Ring*

"Hello"? 

I was hoping it was an imaginary phone call but the voice on the other end was very real.

"Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I'm still depressed", said the voice in a muted feminine monotone, "but I'm not mad at you."

"Well, gee. I know why you are depressed- and it's stupid-  but I can't imagine why you would be mad at me."

"Because you think I'm stupid to be upset."

I can't divulge the details of the 'upsetting' story here, so I'll paraphrase below.

" Hmmm. Let me see if I understand your problem: You have told a dozen well-intentioned  and seemingly harmless lies in order to avoid hurting the feelings of a certain individual...your unsustainable web of white lies became unraveled and your actions were revealed to that individual, who , it turns out , doesn't care at all. They weren't hurt in the slightest...but the people you lied to are now having a hard time trusting you. Is that accurate?  If so, I'd call that stupid."

There was a long pause.

"You aren't very comforting."

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The music, however, goes on.

I'm proud to announce the release of the first run of Limited Edition and highly- collectible Monday Machines merchandise. As Cary Grace points out, we don't actually have any music to promote yet, but we do have products to support it. Music, the savvy consumer knows, is secondary to the products that it markets, so we have skipped the music and gone directly to merchandising.

We offer you Ruined Morning coffee mugs. Make a statement- buy one for all the 'morning people' in your life!

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When we do finish the CD, it will debut on my radio show. Until then, there is no shortage of good music to play.

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: DEC. 12th, 2009



Radiohead- Paranoid Android-OK Computer (Capitol Records)
My CD burner decided that this song needed to be 45 seconds longer than Radiohead intended...OK, computer, OK.  It was the first in what was to be two hours of  surmountable technical difficulty

Moody Blues-Dear Diary-Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Threshold Records)
Today I took a walk...and looked at the shoppes. What did people do before they had Twitter?
What a day it's been.

Renaissance-Can You Understand?--Ashes Are Burning (Sovereign/Capitol Records)
I got a phone call about this- a positive call!

>>>>>> Insert crashing sounds and off-air cursing here

Mellow Candle-Heaven Heath-Swaddling Songs (Esoteric Records)
If you click the link , you will learn everything I know about Mellow Candle.

Black Box Recorder-It's Only the End of the World-England Made Me (Jet Set Records)
This song has the exact same drum machine beat as the song after it...

Damien Dempsey-It's All Good--Seize the Day (UFO Records)
 ...same drum machine as the preceding song, played back to back, it sounds like an extended  mix .

Cursive-Bad Sects-The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
Gay priest's love story.

NEU!-After Eight-'75 (Astralwerks)
Pronounced.

Hawkwind-Angela Android-Take Me To Your Leader (Hawkwind)
If I had known that this song was about having sex with a robot I never would have played it. Too late now.

Alan Parsons Project-The Cask of Amontillado-Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Mercury)
 Spoiler alert: Unhappy ending.

The Pretty Things-Dear Beloved-Balboa Island (ZOHO Roots)



Ugly Head ( RIP, Jack Rose )-Evil Over- Silence is the Mystery of the Future Age (Transparanoia Records)
I worked with Jack during the recording of this CD. My distorted scream starts  the song...those were good times. He will be missed.

Tuxedomoon-59 to 1-A Thousand Lives by Picture (Ralph Records)
 Somehow 45 seconds of this song attached themselves to the end of every song on my CD. It was confusing.

Jim Protector-The Distance-Shields Down (Switch Off)
 Safety in mileage.

Nouvelle Vague-Ever Fallen in Love?-Bande a Part (Luaka Bop)
 Buzzcocks cover done lounge...no one knows what a 'Buzzcock' is-no one except me and Robert Hughes. Google it for wrong answers.

David Lindley-Papa Was a Rolling Stone-Very Greasy (IRS)
Hi Dad!

Michelle Malone-Grace-Beneath the Devil Moon (Velvel)
Have you ever heard Malone work a wah with Band du Soliel? Awesome.

Cary Grace-The Scarab-Perpetual Motion (Door 13 Music)
I can't believe that I'm working on a CD with the mad sorceress who produced the amazing double-CD that this song is from. Pinch me.

>>>>>> Ow! Forget the pinchin' mention.

The Band-Twilight-Best of the Band (Capitol Records)

Jeannine Hebb-Only Ones-Too Late to Change Me (Jeannine Hebb)
Bouncy, intelligent pop song...harder to pull off than it sounds.

Fiona Joyce-Lifting the Veil-Lifting the Veil (River Valley Records)
Lush sounds...

Mythica-My Magdalene-Vicarious (Mythica)

Jenn Cleary-Doesn't Make Sense-Breakin' Loose (Independent)
Brilliant observations about the organized superstition known as Church.

Fairport Convention- Billion Dollar Bash-Fairport Chronicles (A&M)
Oooo baby...ooo wheee!

Radio Giveaway

This is what my 1pm radio show looked like at 11:40 this morning. Each  block represents a song or an audio file and some files are not like the others. The newer songs (post-199ish) are shown as giant lime slabs- the older tunes appear as jagged waves with visible peaks and valleys. Any guess as to which type of file has a more natural sound?
 

This flower was blooming in my uncle's backyard on Thanksgiving afternoon.

Life is hardy stuff, something that I need to keep in mind as I gird my loins in preparation for my fifth return to work this year. I have been told that I can expect to work until July of next year but there is still a lot of 2009 remaining- if I get lucky,  I could get laid-off and re-hired two more times before New Years Day.

There has been a flurry of  inter-continental activity and recent reports indicate that the first pair of Monday Machines songs are coming together nicely. It's a new and challenging endeavor, recording original music with people who are thousand of miles away- we never rehearse as a full group and I have never actually met any of my band-mates in person.

I find it odd but somehow satisfying that my new band has over 50 fans despite having absolutely no released songs- I mean, I  played in bands for years, bands with dozens of songs but rarely drawing fifty people to a show-  and now we have a fan club of fifty but we have no songs.

If you are a fan of irony, then you are a fan of Monday Machines.  Sign up here. It'll be worth it.

Perhaps this winter will bring less than it's usual share of discontent. I have a job, a radio show, a band, lots of old friends  and a pair of great new friends to go with all of it.  My music and my work will sustain me through the holiday season and my brother is coming to visit in December...it may wind up being a decent end to a profoundly mixed year.

Happiness? It could happen.


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The New Breakfast Snob , November 28, 2009 1pm-3pm


R.Crumb - Confessions of R.Crumb
Pink Floyd- Fearless
Can- Vitamin C
Astronauts of Antiquity- Soup du Jour
Faust- Flashback Caruso
Green Man- Shiny Penny
Frames- Sideways Down
Cary Grace- Firefly

Pretty Things- Sickle Clowns

The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
Joe Strummer- Get Down Moses
Snakefinger- Kill The Great Raven
Soft Boys- I Got The Hots

Pentangle- Rain and Snow
Richard Thompson- Tear Stained Letter
Warren Zevon- Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
XTC- Senses Working Overtime
Strawbs- Tears and Pavan
Radiohead- Bodysnatchers
Aphrodesia- Think Suffer
Arvel Bird- No Problem
Carrie Rodriguez- She Ain't Me
HuDost- Trespasser
Garbage- #1 Crush
Kaiser Cartel- Okay
King Crimson- Thela Hun Ginjeet

Saturday November 21, 2009


Opal - Magick Power
Mazzy Star- Bells Ring
Snakefinger- The Model
Mothers of Invention- Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Cary Grace - Vanishing
Gong- Flying Teapot
Frames- Revelate
Pentangle- Mirage
Golden Palominos- Anything
Mike Watt- Against The 70;s
Belly- Gepetto
Danielle Dax- 16 Candles

Zerfas- The Sweetest Part

Dare Dukes- Ballad of Darius McCollum

The Potentials- Mayday Baby/ Next Attraction (w/ in-studio interview)

Neil Young- Over and Over
Cardiacs- Manhoo
Eleni Mandell- Pirate Song
Funkadelic- I'll Stay
The Faces-You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything
Chris Huff-For the Trees
Pere Ubu- Love Love Love
Damien Dempsey- Teachers

Until next time...

Troubleshoot Me In The Head

Vista 64-Bit sure is an interesting OS. I  can have  numerous  Office 2007 applications open, read email, surf the net, play music and talk on Skype simultaneously - but I can't cut and paste text from Notepad  without causing my motherboard to have a grande mal seizure and shut down completely.

Don't get me wrong- I love my new PC, it was dirt-cheap and it is quite powerful- but it is hard to love it if it won't boot, which is what happened to me today...my PC would power-up , but Vista wouldn't load.

So I went into my BIOS settings and found that my PC was trying to boot from my A: drive (floppy)- which would be fine, except that my PC doesn't even  have an A:drive. Who uses 3.5" floppy discs anymore?

In 'My Computer' there is an icon for an A:Drive, but it doesn't physically exist and clicking on that icon...well, it's a bad thing.

Anyway, I told the motherboard to use the DVD drive, then I turned it off and waited a few anxious minutes...

Yes! It worked.
Repeat.
Worked again. Good. So far , the only data I seem to have lost is what I had open at the time- a Notepad text file and an audio file of the jackhammers that woke me up in the morning.

I was going to post a dozen or so palliative tips for Vista sufferers, but now I have a feeling that one of my 'improvements' may have inadvertently changed my system's device boot order- and I wouldn't recommend  mucking about in your system BIOS unless you know what you are doing...and the really fun thing is, each motherboard model has a slightly different BIOS environment...I enter mine by pounding the  'delete' key immediately after powering up, but for some systems it's F11...or F5...no uniformity.

Hmmm...I uploaded a picture an hour or so earlier (above) and now I cannot upload any more pics...I get a 'failed' message. Is this a Blogger problem, an issue with my PC and/or connectivity or does the Interweb just hate my pictures?

So...I'm going to post this, along with the playlists from my last two radio shows, and then I am going to check as many settings as I can find, reboot and try again.

See ya in a few years.

[Edit: I can upload pics to Facebook, so I think it's a Blogger problem. First time for everything, eh?]

[Special OCD edit: It works now.]

Above: Home recording in progress. The PC is working again, it is time to play.

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB:  NOV.14, 2009


Adriana-- Garden of Sin
Norine Braun- Evolution of The Blood Star
Cursive- I Couldn't Love You Anymore
Peter Bayreuther- Sister Harmony

XTC- Smartest Monkey
T.Rex- Chrome Sitar
Kalliopi- Yoo Hoo
Carrie Rodriguez- Dirty Leather
Cary Grace- Undertow
Damien Dempsey- Your Pretty Smile
Area 27- Wild Card
Rodriguez- Crucify Your Mind
Crazy Aunt Mary- Indian Hills

special guest DJ spot by my friend Kevin :

Caribou-Melody Day
Super Furry Animals-ymaelodi a'r ymylon
Circle-Berserk
Can-One More Night
Radiohead-Meeting in the Aisle
Stardeath and White Dwarfs-The Birth/Those Who Are From the Sun Return to the Sun
Brant Bjork-Electric Lalli Land
Jeff Beck-Loose Cannon
Zen Guerilla-Pins and Needles
Swell-oh My My
Jethro Tull-Wond'ring Aloud
Macha-The Buddah Nature
Warren Zevon-The Overdraft

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, NOV. 7th 2009


Garbage-Can't Cry These Tears
Kaiser Cartel-Okay
The Duhks-95 South
Zerfas-You'll Never Win
Jennings-Doorway
The Frames-Lay Me Down
The Pretty Things-She's A Lover
The Band-Don't Do It
Clannad-In Fortune's Hands
Beauregard Ajax-Take You Far Away
Ross Phazor-You'll Never Change
Skywhale-Boggies
Cat Dail- Think of a Story
Richard Thompson-Never Give It Up
Cary Grace-Vanishing (Single)
Tadpoles-Sunrise Ocean Bender
Kinski-All Your Kids Have Turned to Static
Swell-Sunshine Everyday
Monacy-Orbit
Stefanie Seskin- Nasty

Chris Huff- For The Trees
Anouschka- Good Girl Gone Bad

Goldfrapp- Utopia
Jim Protector- The Distance
Joan as Policewoman- Holiday

What Goes Up Must Be Loud

What was that noise? It sounded like a City bus  being towed away by a Sherman tank, but it was far too early in the morning to actually get up and look...at first, anyway.  After a few minutes of metallic clamor, I heard my neighbor Scotty join in the fun , adding his loud and colorful commentary to the ongoing din:

"Muggerfuckershoespitter! Shitpaperbookfuckerbox! Nipplepaintpeelingcuntwall! Fuckwaterbottle!"

Without my glasses, this is all I could see (below), but it, combined with Scotty's interjections, was enough to wake me up.

I suspect that Scotty suffers from some combination of Tourette's Syndrome and alcoholic dementia, on account of him pretty much always wandering around the neighborhood, half-drunk and talking crazy to himself; I mean, he's been doing it for as long as I can recall and is a harmless neighborhood fixture, but he does tend to frighten the uninitiated...anyway, he had a  valid point this time.

I got dressed, put on my spectacles and took a look outside .

Well.

I'll be a muggerfuckinfuckerwatershitbottleshoespitsonofabitch...this was the view from my front door, 8am Saturday:

My block was closed to traffic while a work crew was using a crane to replace the old giant metal boxes on the hospital roof with new metal boxes arriving by truck...there were trailers in place to haul away the old ones and other trailers pulling up, containing the newer, sleeker replacements.

Scotty  (red coat, above) didn't even seem to notice any of this.  He was explaining "fuckbox sandtraps" to the sidewalk when I stepped outside.

"Good morning Scotty, what's up?", I said, sipping my first coffee of the morning.

"Antmorning! Shitwalkantsgoupandown. Muggerfuck! Ants!"

"Muggerfuck", I agreed, pointing at the crane.

"Slattassfuckershittrucktruckfeets!", he replied, seemingly in agreement...then he shuffled off, which is a rather muggerfucking sloooow process, him not walking so good and all. It's sad watching him shuffle and mumble his way through a haze of mental illness, walking his endless, aimless and heart-breakingly ironic loops around the hospital all day.

It wasn't until later that morning that I noticed that Scotty had dropped an impressively large and fly-covered  turd onto the walkway between my building and the adjacent one. I dealt with this mess the only way I know how: by ignoring it and hoping that magical 'de-turding' elves would materialize from the Faerie realm and cart Scotty's spoor away to an enchanted farm where it would be used as fertilizer for growing giant beanstalks. It was either that or wait for Superman to stop by and use his heat-vision to incinerate the unwanted poo...but I got lucky and a torrential downpour washed Scotty's filth out of my sight and into my local groundwater...oh.
Perhaps that isn't so good...

Anyway.

Imagine yourself recuperating from a major surgery. If you haven't had one, take my word for it that it will leave you tired and a little grumpy. Plus, you will be in a strange bed and surrounded by all sorts of machines that healthy people seldom encounter. In general, it is a bummer situation.

Now add heavy construction machinery to the mix.  Look outside- there is a loud crane swinging a very heavy-looking piece of metal around, directly outside your window. If you have one of those 'self-serve' morphine drips, this might be a good time to press the button that dispenses your ration. If you aren't  already having a heart attack, feign one- maybe the docs will give you Xanax or Valium to calm you down.

This operation was actually  interesting to watch for a short while- but when I realized that it was going to be a lengthy and very loud affair, I was forced to leave the house...but where to go?

Might as well hit the airwaves:

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, SAT. SEPT. 26,2009





Atris- Status Update
The Cranberries- Close To You
Hawkwind/Motorhead- Motorhead
Cursive- Lovecats
Kathy Fleischmann- He's Erasing Me
Jim Protector- The Hallmark Channel
Cary Grace-The Scarab
Portishead- Biscuit


Cafebar 401- Blame The Villian
No Restraints- I was Wrong
Firewater- The Circus
Dread Zeppelin- Viva Las Vegas
Planetary Nights- Blisters On My Soul

NUE!- Isi
Here and Now- City Man Cry
Cupero- La Sombra
Omar Alexander- Breathe In
Pretty Things- All Light Up
Jennings- Doorway
Damien Dempsey- Negative Vibes
Jeannine Hebb- All The Way Down
Megaphone- Write It Down
Angelfish- Dogs In A Cage
Beauregard Ajax- Loneliness Is A Sometimes Thing
Lou Reed- Hanging Around
Atomic Hooligan- Thief
Amon Duul II- Kanaan
Joe Croker- Lil' Miss Combat Boots
Dead Smiling Pirates- I 18
Clara Bellino- Goodnight Baby