Buzz

From bees buzzing to buzzers buzzing, Self Help Radio has all the buzz on buzz.  You may never get the buzzing out of your head.  (Really, though, if you hear constant buzzing, that might be tinnitus & you should probably see a doctor.)  (Listening to this show, it must be noted, may be as irritating as having tinnitus.)

All the buzzing your onomatopoeia-loving self can stand is now available at the Self Help Radio web site.  You may go directly to show by buzzing the following links: part one bzzz & part two bzzz.  I have prepared a handy list below that's got the buzz on which buzz songs are on which part.

Thanks for listening to all this buzzing!

(part one)

"Mr. Buzz" P. Van Meren _Stereo Ultra Vol. 2_
"Why Does A Bee Buzz?" Marais & Miranda _More Nature Songs_
"Buzz Buzz Buzz" Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers _Back In Your Life_

"Buzz Me Babe" Slim Harpo _Rocks_
"Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It" Freddie Cannon _His Latest & Greatest_
"Buzzin'" Kathy Zee _Hot Boppin' Girls, Vol. 4_
"Buzzin'" The King Bees _Rockin' From Coast To Coast, Vol. 2_
"Buzz Buzz Buzz" The Treniers _A Proper Introduction To The Treniers: Go! Go! Go!_
"Buzz Me" Ella May Morse _The Very Best Of Ella Mae Morse_

"I Gotta Buzz" The Buzz _Joe Meek Rarities Vol. 2: The Beat Groups Era_
"I Live For Buzz" The Swingin' Neckbreakers _Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996_
"Buzz" Lord High Fixers _Flaming Burnout_
"Keep That Buzz Alive" Booze-O-Phonic _Green Light Go!_
"The Buzz" John Wesley Harding & The English UK _Making Love To Bob Dylan_

"Buzz" Pylon _Chomp More_

(part two)

"Buzz" Throwing Muses _The Season Sessions: Fall_
"Buzz" Lemuria _Get Better_
"Love Buzz" Shocking Blue _At Home_
"What's The Buzz" Ted Neeley _Jesus Christ Superstar_

"Buzzin'" Panjabi MC _The Album_
"Eardrum Buzz" Wire _Wire 1985-1990: The A List (Best Of)_
"Sugar Buzz" Li'l Cap'n Travis _Twilight On Sometimes Island_
"Birds Buzzin'" The Gronks _Cats & Dogs_
"Buzz Buzz Buzz" The Primitives _Lazy 86 - 88_

"Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz" The Cramps _Stay Sick!_
"Buzz Stomp" Afrika Korps _Music To Kill By_
"Buzzers" Scott Walker _The Drift_
"Big Blue Buzz" Choo Choo Train _Briar High_
"Buzzing Unobtrusively" The Deep Freeze Mice _The Tender Yellow Ponies Of Insomnia_

P.S. Yes, that's a Self Help Radio buzzer up there.

Whither Buzz?

I didn't hear the buzz but I did get a buzz cut with a buzz saw.

That buzzing noise from some far-off buzzer is telling you Self Help Radio's show about all kindsa buzz is happening TODAY on 88.1 fm WRFL.  That's from four to six Lexingtime.  You can listen to it in the city or, if you're not in the city, but you are in your computer, you can listen to it on the WRFL web page.

The buzzing in your head may never stop, since I will put the show later on the Self Help Radio web site.

I'm just going to be going buzzzzzzzzzzzz-zzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzzzzz-zzz-zz-zz-zzzzz-zzzzzzz all damn day long.

Preface To Buzz: Buzz Off!

Here's the thing.  If you look up the definition of "buzz off," not only is it "chiefly Brit." but it means "to go away; to leave; to depart."

But if you go to an online thesaurus & look for synonyms (is there a special figure of speech for phrases that are synonyms?) for "buzz off," you get these: "bugger off, scram, fuck off, get."

It seems like the phrase is not as innocent as one might think.

Let's go to the Urban Dictionary!

Oh that wasn't very nice.  It just says it means, "Go away."

It doesn't seem to be very polite to say "buzz off."  But is there a polite way to say it?

So Much Tumblr

Did you know?  Self Help Radio has a Tumblr page!  It's only peripherally related to the show - I put videos & images on it, but I don't put things related to themes.  I guess its only relationship to the show is that I do both of them.  But there are some Self Help Radio-ish things on the page, like this graphic I found probably on some other Tumblr blog:

That's on the Self Help Radio Tumblr page today.  Plus a couple of videos.

I just looked - I have almost a thousand entries on in blog!  What?  No!  Impossible!

But there it is.

Fifty Years Later

Sebastian was mourning (once again) the death of radio.  He said radio was like the dodo, or the fan-tailed fluffernutter, or the casio gameboy - things that once may have existed but now surely never will again.

"Do you remember the last time you listened to radio?" he said as he threw himself upon the divan.

"I do not," I said.  "I was born as radio was dying.  I have always gotten music uploaded into my cranial hard drive by juice & pills."

"Also," he yawned, "we don't use our ears anymore.  Except for tattooing their piercings."

Another bridge exploded & fell in the distance.

"Do you know," he told me, "people like you and me - well, you know, not as enhanced by implantation - ha ha!"

"Ha ha!" I said.

"People used to do radio."

"Do radio?" I asked.

"Yes," Sebastian said saucily.

"Do," I repeated.  "You mean like one does Paris?"

"No, no, my dear boy," he said, waving me down with his electronic meth pipe.  "No, I mean do as one does a randy-loo."

"A randy-loo!" I said, feeling a blush come to my cheeks.  "Sebastian, you naughty stinkbug!"

"Oh yes," he said, delighted that he has caused me embarrassment, "there were people called deejays who would sequester themselves in little rooms and play music for anyone who might - well, in those days, it was called listening."

"But all the time they were...?"

"Yes! Yes!  All the time it was randy-loo!"

We collapsed in a heap of naughty laughter.

"Randy-loo!" he gasped.  "Randy-loo!  Randy-loo!"

Mother came in to readjust the oxygen.  "Stop talking, you two," she said.  "Our air rations for this week have been particularly diminished.  Use your virtual keyboards to chat."

We nodded, chastened.  She left.

"Oh but I love to talk," said Sebastian.  "It's so decadent."

"Me 2," I texted him.

Don't Stop!

Don't!  Keep going!  If you stop, you'll die!  Well, maybe not die.  But.  Don't stop!  Don't stop!

Okay, you can stop & listen to the 'Don't Stop' show, which is now available on the Self Help Radio website.  If you can't stand still for long, you can access the two parts directly: part I is here & part II is here.  List of songs below.

Don't stop listening!

(part one)

"Don't Stop, Don't Don't Stop, Don't Stop, Don't Stop" Wobbly _Wild Why_
"Don't Stop" The Orioles _The Jubilee Recordings_
"Don't Stop" Horace Andy _The Wonderful World Of Horace Andy_

"Don't Stop" Alex Chilton _A Man Called Destruction_
"Don't Stop" The Rolling Stones _Forty Licks_
"Don't Stop" The Frank & Walters _Beauty Becomes More Like Life_
"Don't Stop" The Stone Roses _The Stone Roses_

"Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow (William Clinton)" Oscar Brand _Presidential Campaign Songs, 1789-1996_
"Don't Stop Believin'" Petra Haden _Guilt By Association_
"Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" The Embarrassment _Heyday 1979-83_
"One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" Big Maybelle _The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story_

"Don't Stop Loving Me" Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys _San Antonio Rose_
"Don't Stop - I Like It! (with Hal Lone Pine)" Betty Cody _The Successful Hillbilly Era Of Betty Cody_
"Don't Stop Kissing Me Goodnight" Sheb Wooley _That's My Pa_

(part two)

"Don't Stop The Music" George Jones _Cup Of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years_
"Please Don't Stop Loving Me" Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton _20 Greatest Hits_
"Don't Stop Now" Roy Hall _Roy Rocks_

"Don't Stop Dancing (To The Music)" The Bar Kays _Gotta Groove_
"It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)" The Isley Brothers _Step Back & Boogie_
"Move Your Feet" Junior Senior _D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat_
"Don't Stop The Night" Momus _Don't Stop The Night_

"Don't Stop Now" The Encounters _Don't Stop_
"Don't Stop" Larry Trider _Teen Town USA, Vol. 4_
"Don't Stop" The Parting Gifts _Strychnine Dandelion_
"Don't Stop Loving Me Baby" Flying Machine _Flight Recorder_
"Don't Stop" The Dodos _No Color_

"A River Don't Stop To Breathe" Múm _Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know_
"Don't Stop" Pocketbooks _Waking Up EP_

Whither Don't Stop?

This day has not stopped, or else I would have stopped to tell you HEY!  Today is Self Help Radio day!  The theme today is "don't stop" & please don't stop me if you think you've heard this before, because I am not stopping now.

Listen!  On the air in Lexington, Kentucky, from 4 to 6 pm, on the 88.1 fm frequency.

Listen!  Online anywhere at WRFL dot fm, also from 4 to 6 pm because the stream is in real time.  Really!

Oh no!  You read this blog entry later than 6pm on February 15, 2013.  What the hell can you do?  You can listen!  But from a file downloaded at the Self Help Radio web site.  (That's not ready as I write this - since I haven't even done the show yet!)

This blog post may be stopping but Self Help Radio today don't stop!

Preface To Don't Stop: Do Stop

I have been thinking about things that I wish would stop, he said.

Like what, she said.

Wars.  Poverty.  Hunger.  Reality television shows, he said.

It seems like those things continue, she said, because there's money in them.

Someone makes money from poverty & hunger? he asked.

You're so naïve, she said.

Happy Valentine's Day, he said.

Happy Valentine's Day to you, she said.

Revenge Of Kid Stupids

So what if that stupid kid called me didn't learn how to tie his shoes until third grade?  Is third grade really nine years old?  What the hell happened before that?  Untied shoes!  Shoes tied so tightly that they couldn't be untied!  Poor stupid kid stupids!

What about stupid kids in the snow?  Did they really say today while there was some snow but it wasn't sticking did they really say:

Stupid kid: We should make a snowman.
Another stupid kid: There's not enough snow.  There's also rain.
Stupid kid: We should make a rainman.

Stupid kid stupids unaware of Dustin Hoffman movie!

Why sit alone in your advancing age thinking about how stupid you were anyway?  You were a kid & kids (except for Mozart) are pretty stupid.  It's only because so many adults are stupid adults that kids are tolerated.  Otherwise something would be done.  To make stupid kids not so stupid.

Or else what could be done?

Goats Yelling Like Humans

Yes.

Love Is...

It's the annual Self Help Radio Valentine's Day show!  As usual, a detailed & methodical pseudoscientific exploration of a theme - this one is finishing the sentence "love is..."  What is love?  Is it a rose, a stranger, the drug, a heat wave, a gamble, a fiction, a hurting thing, or the sweetest thing?  As you'll discover, the answer is yes!

You can listen to the show right now & even on Valentine's Day & probably for like a year after it (& still never really know what love is) at the Self Help Radio website.  Should you need instant gratification, you can listen to the two parts of the show by clicking either part one or part two.  While love is strange & might well be a mystery, there's no mystery about the songs on this week's show - they're listed below!

Happy Valentine's Day!

(part one)

"Love" The Dream Academy _A Different Kind Of Weather_
"Love Is" A House _The Way We Were: The Best Of A House_
"Love Is A Rose" Neil Young _Decade_

"Love Is A Stranger" Eurthymics _Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)_
"Love Is A Shield" Camouflage _80s Precious Little Diamonds_
"Love Is Lighter Than Air" Magnetic Fields _Get Lost_
"Love Is Blue" Hangman's Beautiful Daughters _Dreamworld 1985-1987_

"Love Is The Drug" Hot Rats _Hot Rats_
"Love Is Like" Strange Fate _Sigh Cry Die: 29 Garage Rock Tales Of Woe & Despair From The Sixties_
"Finding Out True Love Is Blind" Louis XIV _The Best Little Secrets Are Kept_
"(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" The Jam _Setting Sons_
"Love Is All Around" Hüsker Dü _Eight Miles High_

"Love Is Strange (Take 4)" Mickey & Sylvia _Love Is Strange_

(part two)

"Love Is A Gamble" Johnny Mathis _Rhythms Of Broadway_
"What Is Love" Judy Mackenzie _Judy_
"Love Is A Merry-Go-Round" Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra _Charlie Barnet 1937 - 1939_
"Love Is... 1968" Beaumont _This Is Beaumont_

"Love Is A Sign" The Go-Betweens _16 Lovers Lane Acoustic Démos_
"Love Is The Answer" Even As We Speak _Feral Pop Frenzy_
"Is That Love" Squeeze _East Side Story_
"Love Is The Slug" Fuzzbox _We've Got A Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It_
"Sweetest Thing" U2 _Where The Streets Have No Name_

"Love Is Red/Green" Tender Trap _Film Molecules_
"If That's What Love Is" Television Personalities _Constrictor Collector Series 7"_
"Love Is A Fiction" Shirts _Street Light Shine_
"Love Is Like A Bullet" Shoes _Shoes' Best_

"Love Is Everywhere" Pharoah Sanders _Love Will Find A Way_
"Love Is A Hurting Thing" Toussaint McCall _Nothing Takes The Place Of You_
"Love Is Not A Game" Sam E. Solo _Big City Soul, Vol. 1_

Whither Love Is...?

Love is... this week's theme on Self Help Radio!

Listen!  88.1 fm in Lexington, Kentucky!

Listen! Online at wrfl.fm!

Listen!  Later on (perhaps even on Valentine's Day?) on the Self Help Radio website!

Love is...

How the hell should I know what love is?

Preface To Love Is...: Oh God, It's A WEEK Until Valentine's Day?

If my show were still on Monday mornings, I'd be doing my show on Valentine's Day week.  It seems a little silly to be doing the show a week before Valentine's Day.  No one is thinking about chocolate & flowers on the Friday before the Valentine's Day that's on a Thursday.  Indeed, it might be safe to say that if I did it the day after Valentine's Day this year, which is a Friday, there would still be residual love left for me to pull off a day-after-Valentine's-Day show.

Listen: one of this days, I'm going to do a show about Valentinus, an early Christian who believed in that kooky kind of Kristianity called Gnosticism.  (He probably wouldn't have called it that - he would've called himself a Real Christian not like those soon-to-be-Catholic fuckers.)

Look: here's a graphic (well, it's made up of text) I took from the page about Valentinianism on the Wikipedia:

I can't even begin to explain what this is supposed to mean.  See, the beginning of all things at one thing projected thirty Aeons who are fifteen pairs of heavenly archetypes.  & Jesus comes along at some point.  I am not drunk nor high enough to really understand it (or explain it!) & also I don't think our culture would be as screwed-up sexually if Gnostic Christianity had beaten the "orthodox" Christianity that prevailed (the Gnostics also thought the flesh was icky).  But boy! wouldn't this have been fun to learn instead of Jesus walking on the water?  It's like if Zen had become the dominant form of Buddhism.

This has nothing to do with Valentine's Day, which is not Valentinus' day.  He doesn't get one.  All of his writings are lost, presumed destroyed.  Because the "orthodox" Christians who triumphed are sore winners.

Love Is... (The Comic)

I'm toying with the idea of just reading selections from this comic (you know what I'm talking about) on my show this week.  The one up there.  Could that be a real "Love Is" comic?  It's among other real Love Is... comics on this page but I don't know.  What the hell could it possibly mean?

I think someone's getting pranked here.

Here's another anomaly from the page:

The rest, though, seem as solid as the regular "Love Is..." syrup.

An Artist I'm Always Forgetting I Like: De Chirico

Many paintings here.

That painting up there, which is called "Mystery & Melancholy Of A Street," was in one of my high school English texts.  I remember being enchanted by it, at a time when I didn't really have any opinion of art at all.

I was never able to make what happened in my head come out properly on the page in my art classes in middle school, & I have no idea if my high school had art classes - I certainly would never have thought to take them.  At best I drew lots of comic strips.  But real art?  It seemed very far away.

I love De Chirico's fucked up perspective, but I also love his shadows.  The shadows!  I always find myself wanting to explore the rest of his paintings, like I could climb inside & find out what the hell's happening on the other side of the building.

I need to remember to look at more art now & then.  It's good for the head.

The Naked Show

Disgraceful.  A naked radio show.  In this day & age!  Well!  It's time for some kind of internet rating system.  I am outraged!  & it's my show!  Nude beaches!  Naturism!  Streaking!  What is this show coming to?

It's available for those with prurient interests at self help radio dot net.  If you can't be bothered with searching for it on a website, you can listen to the filthy show in either of its two parts: part one is here & part two is here.  You can see what disgusting songs were played below.

I'll understand if it's just too disgusting to listen to.

(part one)

"I Am Naked" Stereo Total _Do The Bambi_
"I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" Ida Maria _Fortress Round My Heart_
"My Birthday Suit" Cattanooga Cats _Cattanooga Cats_

"Naked" Autohaze _Counter Clockwise_
"Naked" The Dentists _Naked 10"_
"Naked" Shoestrings _Wishing On Planes_
"Naked" Sera Cahoone _Deer Creek Canyon_

"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention _We're Only In It For The Money_
"Theme For A Nude Beach" The B-52's _Nude On The Moon: The B-52's Anthology_
"Totally Nude" Talking Heads _Naked_
"The Girls Are Naked" Creation _Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes_
"She Was Naked" Supersister _Control OST_

"The Streak" Ray Stevens _Gitarzan_

(part two)

"The Ballad Of The Mad Streaker" Larry Lujack, Superjock _The Ballad Of The Mad Streaker_
"Here Comes The Streaker" High Voltage _Hard To Find Vol. 1_
"Strip Me Naked" Love, Peace & Happiness _Love Is Stronger_

"You Naked" Jamie Lidell _You Naked_
"Naked, Drunk ∓ Horny" Yellow Note Vs Pukka _This Is Tech Pop_
"Butt Naked Man Stresses The Importance Of Proper Schooling" Onion Radio News _Onion Radio News_
"Undressed" Lloyd Cole _Lloyd Cole_
"We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" Class _Double Agent 1980_

"Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs" The Cramps _Flamejob_
"Naked To The World" Obits _Moody, Standard & Poor_
"Naked In My Car" The Pushtwangers _The Pushtwangers Mini-LP_
"Photographs Of Naked Ladies" Toy Love _Cuts_

"Take Off Your Clothes To Feel The Setting Sun" Wolfgang Druner Quintet _Untouchable Outcaste Beats_
"Naked As The Day You Were Born" The Weather Prophets _Creation Soup Vol 4_

Whither The Naked Show?

Dude, it is EIGHTEEN DEGREES FAHRENHEIT in Lexington, Kentucky, right now.  (That's negative eight degrees Celsius if you must know, or as I like to say, -8.)  Who in their right mind would want to do a show about nakedness in freezing temperatures?

It's rather warm in the WRFL studios, is all I'm saying.  Why is that?  It's because it's boiler room heat!

Listen!  It's a clothing-optional Self Help Radio!  From 4 to 6 pm TODAY!  On 88.1 fm in Lexington!  On wrfl dot fm in warmer & colder climes!  Or listen later in the privacy of your own nudist colony at the Self Help Radio website!

(It may take awhile, though - I might have frozen extremities after two hours naked in this temperature.  Boiler heat or not.)

Preface To The Naked Show: Gymnophobia

Gymnophobia literally means "naked fear" & I hope you don't have it.  Sure, it's a phobia, it's irrational, you know it's irrational, but like being afraid that bugs might be crawling over you, you start to think about it & then you're swatting your pants leg & then they're all over your back & you can feel them in your hair & you're like OH GOD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE AGGH! AGGGGHHH!

That very thing (in ALL CAPS!) may happen to you if you're afraid of nudity & you listen to Self Help Radio this week.  That would be the very definition of unfortunate.  As unfortunate, you know, as happening to listen to Self Help Radio.

The Wikipedia has a short article about it & has this tidbit, "Child gymnophobia is common due to peer pressure, bullying, & a fear of exposing sexual organs."

This reminds me of a weird experience in the field house - you know, the place where you "dressed out" in gym class in middle school - when I was in sixth grade.  I was not a terribly bright child & most probably hadn't hit puberty yet, & didn't have any information about what might happen when I did, & I remember watching two older boys - eighth graders! - teasing each other in a playful way by roughhousing & snapping each other with towels & that sort of thing so popular (one imagines) in gay pornography.  The freaky moment happened - & I think I was watching this because I found the field house so incredibly frightening & I "dressed out" in-between the wall & the door of my locker - one of the two older kids made the other feel bad by "flashing" him his junk, which, he proudly pointed out, featured public hair.  (I assumed the other boy didn't have any yet.)

Yeah, I had no idea that sort of thing - hair. down there. - was going to happen to me.

Imagine!  I went to gym class every day of sixth grade for at least nine months & that's all I really remember about it.  Trauma!

I don't know if I'm gymnophobic, but I certainly don't like to see people I know in states of undress.  Perhaps it's just prudishness, or perhaps it's some fear that there's something that's supposed to happen to my naked body that hasn't happened yet - & I'll see it on someone else - & that would freak me out as much seeing male pubic hair for the first time.

My show will probably not have anything to do with this story.  I just went where my memories led me.  Nakedness, so popular on the internet, has proved a bit of a weird tangent on this naked blog.

Last Night

First night on a Friday was about last night.  Why do we say "last night" & not "last morning" or "last afternoon"?  If we do say that, what do we mean?  Grammarians are asked!  Answers might even be found (that would be a nice thing)!  If you didn't listen last night, it'll be up for many nights in the future!

Radio show here: website.  Radio show in two parts: direct link to part one, direct link to part two.  List of what songs are in both parts: below.

Thanks for listening!

(part one)

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Lead Belly _Country Blues Outlaws_
"Let's Go Again (Where We Went Last Night)" Hank Ballard _Sexy Ways: The Best Of Hank Ballard_
"Last Night I Dreamed" Max Bygraves _The Decca Years 1957-1962_

"Last Night" Mondo Crescendo _Beikoku-Ongaku Magazine # 11 - 1998 Early Summer_
"Last Night On The Back Porch" The Andrews Sisters _Sing The Dancing 20s_
"Last Night I Fell Asleep On Your Floor" Saturday Looks Good To Me _Saturday Looks Good To Me_
"Last Night I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep" Hank Williams _The Complete Hank Williams_
"After Last Night" The Rev-Lons _One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found_

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths _Strangeways, Here We Come_
"Had A Dream Last Night" Sandie Shaw _The Greatest Hits Of Sandie Shaw_
"Something I Dreamed Last Night" Julie London _London By Night_
"Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" Indeep _The Disco Years Vol. 2: On The Beat (1978-1982)_

"On Her Doorstep Last Night" Percival Mackey & His Band _Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us_
"Where Did You Stay Last Night?" Famous Hokum Boys _The Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1930 - 1931_
"You Weren't Ashamed To Kiss Me Last Night" Davis Sisters _The Davis Sisters, 1952-53 Vol. 2_

(part two)

"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill" Joan Baez _Folk Song America: A 20th Century Revival_
"I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" Billy Bragg _The Internationale_
"Last Night" Laurel Aitken & The Soulmen _Trojan Mod Reggae Box Set_

"I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (12" Mix)" The Thought _The Thought_
"Something Almost Brilliant Happened Last Night" The Siddeleys _Slum Clearance_
"Late Last Night" The Clean _Anthology_
"I Fell In Love Last Night" Heavenly _Heavenly Vs. Satan_

"Last Night" Me & You _Floating Heavy_
"Late Last Night" Slim Harpo _The Best Of Slim Harpo_
"Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me" Lillie Delk Christian _Louis Armstrong & The Blues Singers_
"Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?" Zuzu Bollin _Ham Hocks & Cornbread_
"Last Nite" The Strokes _Is This It?_

"I Cried Last Night" The Shondells _The Ikon Records Story_
"Spent A Week With You Last Night" The Records _Smashes, Crashes & Near Misses_
"Late Last Night" The Boomtown Rats _The Fine Art Of Surfacing_

Gird Your Loins

According to these guys, "gird your loins" means "to prepare yourself mentally to do something difficult."  The site helpfully adds, "This phrase comes from the Bible, where girding up your loins meant to tie up long, loose clothes so that they were more practical when you were working or traveling."  & not something disgusting, which is totally what it sounds like.

Hey!  Self Help Radio is gearing up to get back into a regular schedule!  Show on Fridays!  Tomorrow I'll post last week's show!  No more vacation, taking time off, ignoring this blog!

Well, until tomorrow, that is.