I am waving the white flag because Self Help Radio is forced to surrender this week. After minutes of pointless fighting & untold losses on each side, Self Help Radio is going to take the more humiliating road & surrender outright rather than admit it wasn't entirely sure what it was fighting about & whom it had been fighting with. Also, the show is a lot wimpy.
The surrender ceremony (if that's what they call it) will air today from 4 to 6 pm (EST) on 88.1 fm WRFL in Lexington but events can be heard live as it happens online on the helpful website WRFL dot FM. Documents will be signed, gun salutes may be fired, & if I'm lucky, one of the generals from the other side won't knock me down & kick me over & over & over.
Do listen!
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Preface To Surrender: Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys!
"Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys." That's a mean way of referring to the French. Look it up.
The article notes it comes from a Simpsons episode, but was used by neocons to express unhappiness with France declining to join in the invasion of Iraq, but says, "With declining support for the Iraq War, the term fell out of use."
I had this weird moment a while back when I discovered that my wife had never seen the television show All In The Family, which is widely considered one of the best television shows ever, & certainly I loved watching it as a kid. But the main character, Archie Bunker, is so obviously racist that someone born after the show, as my wife is, can't really get past that to the show's motives. She did not want to watch it.
He used a particular hateful term - one I haven't heard in years - & I don't want to print it here, so don't worry which one it is - but the thing is, the word - which just isn't used any more - seems kinda cute to me. Like, if no one knew its racist connections, they might think it was adorable.
One time, I was with a friend who (like me) doesn't eat animals & who in particular (also like me) loves pigs, & finds them very lovely & intelligent. One time, in a car, we were listening to the song "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan. (If you're not familiar with it, you can read about it if you want.) It's about an injustice &, to describe how the protagonist of the song is getting railroaded by the authorities, Dylan sings, "The trial was a pig circus, he didn't have a chance."
My friend, when she heard the phrase "pig circus," said, "Yay!" She wasn't listening to the song, she was just thinking of how cute a circus composed entirely of pigs would be. & she was right! It would be amazing.
Which is my long way of saying, I think "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" sound like animals I'd love to hang around with. Who wants to hang out with flesh-eating aggressive monkeys? The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have the right idea: drop out of the war & enjoy some snacks.
I have noticed that the word "surrender" in the songs I'll play on tomorrow's show don't have negative connotations. Perhaps I'll talk about that.
The article notes it comes from a Simpsons episode, but was used by neocons to express unhappiness with France declining to join in the invasion of Iraq, but says, "With declining support for the Iraq War, the term fell out of use."
I had this weird moment a while back when I discovered that my wife had never seen the television show All In The Family, which is widely considered one of the best television shows ever, & certainly I loved watching it as a kid. But the main character, Archie Bunker, is so obviously racist that someone born after the show, as my wife is, can't really get past that to the show's motives. She did not want to watch it.
He used a particular hateful term - one I haven't heard in years - & I don't want to print it here, so don't worry which one it is - but the thing is, the word - which just isn't used any more - seems kinda cute to me. Like, if no one knew its racist connections, they might think it was adorable.
One time, I was with a friend who (like me) doesn't eat animals & who in particular (also like me) loves pigs, & finds them very lovely & intelligent. One time, in a car, we were listening to the song "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan. (If you're not familiar with it, you can read about it if you want.) It's about an injustice &, to describe how the protagonist of the song is getting railroaded by the authorities, Dylan sings, "The trial was a pig circus, he didn't have a chance."
My friend, when she heard the phrase "pig circus," said, "Yay!" She wasn't listening to the song, she was just thinking of how cute a circus composed entirely of pigs would be. & she was right! It would be amazing.
Which is my long way of saying, I think "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" sound like animals I'd love to hang around with. Who wants to hang out with flesh-eating aggressive monkeys? The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have the right idea: drop out of the war & enjoy some snacks.
I have noticed that the word "surrender" in the songs I'll play on tomorrow's show don't have negative connotations. Perhaps I'll talk about that.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Chance
But hey, I finally got it digitized & here it is, available now at the Self Help Radio website or directly by these links: part one | part two. The songs in each part are below.
I am sorry I missed a week, but I knew the chances of you missing me would be slim.
(part one)
"Chance" The Teardrop Explodes _Kilimanjaro_
"Chance" Repetition _A Will To Win 12"_
"Chance" Big Country _The Crossing_
"Chance" Red Lorry Yellow Lorry _Smashed Hits_
"Chances" The Ten Commandments _Home Fires Burning_
"Chances Are" Julie London _The End Of The World_
"The Certainty Of Chance" The Divine Comedy _Fin De Siècle_
"By Some Chance" The Lewis Sisters _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 5: 1965_
"Just A Chance" Badfinger _Poptopia! Power Pop Classics Of The '70s_
"Chance I Can't Deny" James King & The Lone Wolves _Texas Lullaby 7"_
"By Chance" The Go-Betweens _Before Hollywood_
"Chances Are High" Monster Movie _Transistor_
"Is There Any Chance Of You Coming Into My Life?" Thee Headcoatees _Here Comes Cessation_
(part two)
"Second Chance" The Reivers _Pop Beloved_
"If I Ever Get The Chance Again" The Parcels _One_
"I Don't Suppose I'll Get A Second Chance" Another Sunny Day _London Weekend_
"Give Me A Second Chance" The Wave Pictures _Long Black Cars_
"Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" Bob Dylan _The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan_
"Give Me One More Chance" Wilmer Alexander Jr & The Dukes _Hey! Look What I Found! Vol. 10_
"One More Chance" The Jackson 5 _Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 _
"One More Chance" The V.I.P.'s _Beat Crazy!_
"Best Chance" Big Star _In Space_
"Last Chance" Yuya Uchida & The Flowers _Japanese Rockin' Psyche & Punk '66-'71_
"Last Chance To Be Free" Great Plains _Length Of Growth 1981-1989_
"Last Chance To Turn Around" The Fall _Light User Syndrome_
"Your Last Chance" Gore Gore Girls _Up All Night_
"Ghost Of A Chance" Edwyn Collins _Hope & Despair_
"Ghost Of A Chance" The Saturday People _The Saturday People_
"A Sliver Of Chance" Jeremy Jay _Splash_
Monday, June 17, 2013
A Week Off
Hey, I'll be taking a short vacation this week, so I won't be blogging or doing Self Help Radio - luckily Patrick will be sitting in on Friday with a show about "friendship"! I hope you'll listen & will pardon this already quiet blog's week of inactivity.
See you next week!
See you next week!
Friday, June 14, 2013
Whither Chance?
Something I won't talk about today: the meaning & origin of the phrase "You pays your money, you takes your chance." Why not? Because the actual phrase - discussed by William Safire here is "choice" instead of "chance."
A ha! Self Help Radio is on the ball!
Still, there's a chance I'll get a lot of things wrong in today's show about chance. That's just the chance you have to take. If you get a chance to listen, you can from 4 to 6 pm on 88.1 fm in Lexington or online at wrfl dot fm. Chancy, I know.
(It's my last show for two weeks! More about that tomorrow.)
A ha! Self Help Radio is on the ball!
Still, there's a chance I'll get a lot of things wrong in today's show about chance. That's just the chance you have to take. If you get a chance to listen, you can from 4 to 6 pm on 88.1 fm in Lexington or online at wrfl dot fm. Chancy, I know.
(It's my last show for two weeks! More about that tomorrow.)
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Preface To Chance: Thinking Of Chance
Wikipedia, that fine fellow, has five articles related to "chance" but as chance's possible definitions & not chance itself, to wit: indeterminism, contingency, luck, probability, & randomness. The first two are related to philosophy, & therefore completely over my head, while the last three seem like the things that basically rule my life. Not just my life! Yours too.
I wonder if thinking that makes me a philosophical indeterminist or contigencist (I am not sure that's a real world). I know a philosopher so I think I should ask her.
There is a Chance, Kentucky, but it's an unincorporated community & there's not a lot of information about it. Perhaps its residents all got together by chance? That's highly unlikely in Kentucky, where, in any given place, most of the folks know each other & about a quarter of them are related.
(Coincidentally, Chance, Kentucky, is in the same county as Christine, Kentucky. What are the chances that I'd do two show back-to-back the themes of which would also be the name of two unincorporated towns in the same county in Kentucky?)
Mostly though the meaning of the word "chance" encountered in the show this week will be "an opportunity" or "a possibility." "Give me one more chance!" or "I don't stand a chance!" Stuff like that.
There are still lots of songs about chance that I have to listen to before tomorrow's show. Too many songs, dozens of them, hours of listening. What are the chances that I'll play your favorite song about chance? I fear they're quite small!
I wonder if thinking that makes me a philosophical indeterminist or contigencist (I am not sure that's a real world). I know a philosopher so I think I should ask her.
There is a Chance, Kentucky, but it's an unincorporated community & there's not a lot of information about it. Perhaps its residents all got together by chance? That's highly unlikely in Kentucky, where, in any given place, most of the folks know each other & about a quarter of them are related.
(Coincidentally, Chance, Kentucky, is in the same county as Christine, Kentucky. What are the chances that I'd do two show back-to-back the themes of which would also be the name of two unincorporated towns in the same county in Kentucky?)
Mostly though the meaning of the word "chance" encountered in the show this week will be "an opportunity" or "a possibility." "Give me one more chance!" or "I don't stand a chance!" Stuff like that.
There are still lots of songs about chance that I have to listen to before tomorrow's show. Too many songs, dozens of them, hours of listening. What are the chances that I'll play your favorite song about chance? I fear they're quite small!
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Loser
Once upon a time, I ran a computer lab at the University of Texas. In a hopefully playful way to get folks to stop bringing food & drink into the lab, I would put signs up at each station, & the signs began, "Hey Loser!" Barely a day had gone by when I was called in by someone in the Dean of Liberal Arts office to discuss with me the inappropriateness of the signs. It appears that someone had tearfully complained to the Dean that "I didn't spend all this money to get an education & still be called a loser!" I was asked to take the signs down.
Still, a loser like me can certainly celebrate losers in a radio show & hope not to offend. You may listen to that show at the Self Help Radio website, or you may listen to each part directly by clicking on these direct links: part one & then part two. A list of songs for the loser is below.
Hooray for the loser!
(part one)
"Yesterday's Winner Is A Loser Today" Jimmie Skinner _Doin' My Time_
"Three Cheers For The Loser" Carl Belew _Carl Belew_
"Poor Loser" Jimmy Castor _The Hull-Mascot Story, Vol. 2_
"Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers" The Marvelettes _Finders Keepers: Motown Girls 1961-1967_
"I'm A Loser" The Beatles _Beatles For Sale_
"Hard-Lovin' Loser" Mimi & Richard Fariña _The Vanguard Recordings_
"Here's To The Losers" Frank Sinatra _The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings_
"World's Worst Loser" George Jones _The Race Is On_
"It's So Hard Being A Loser" The Contours _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol 7: 1967_
"Born A Loser" Don Ray _The Wigan Casino Story_
"Loser Again" Jackie Moore _When A Man Cries_
"I Guess That Don't Make Me A Loser" Ruby Andrews _Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)_
"You're The Loser Now" Martha Reeves & The Vandellas _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 10: 1970_
"Loser's Cocktail" Dick Curless _The Long Lonesome Road_
"Three Time Loser" Don Covay _Funky Yo Yo_
"(I'm Not) Destined To Become A Loser" The Ellingtons _Northern Soul Fever, Vol. 4_
(part two)
"Loser" Scrawl _Plus, Also, Too_
"For The Loser (Hallelujah!)" The Rave-Ups _Chance_
"Only Losers Take The Bus" Fatima Mansions _Viva Dead Ponies_
"Even The Losers" Nectarine _You Got Lucky: A Tribute To Tom Petty_
"The Key Losers" Guided By Voices _Hardcore UFOs: Demons & Painkillers_
"Bring On The Loser" East River Pipe _Poor Fricky_
"Love A Loser" The Raincoats _Looking In The Shadows_
"Gallant Losers" Monograph _Lorelei_
"Every Loser In London" Bill Pritchard _Happiness & Other Crimes_
"Beta Losers" Darren Hanlon _Early Days_
"Charity Is For Losers" Peppermint _Keep Your Chin Up There Sailor_
"Loser" Richard Cheese _Tuxicity_
"You're A Beautiful Loser" Acid House Kings _Mondays Are Like Tuesdays & Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays_
"Loser" The Launderettes _Shaken & Disturbed_
"The Loser Wins" Atmosphere _To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs_
"Losers" Broncho _Can't Get Past The Lips_
Friday, June 07, 2013
Whither Loser?
I wish I could say, "This show is for the losers!" That's the sort of thing someone would say triumphantly in a "Revenge Of The Nerds" type movie, where the losers end up on top. But that hardly ever happens. Or else why would they be called losers?
However, if you want pretend this is a contest - which has obvious winners & losers - then it must be admitted that Self Help Radio - which has been barely been noticed in its ten years - nearly eleven years? - on the air - is a total radio loser. So this show is for Self Help Radio! Wait. It's impossible to say that triumphantly.
From 4 to 6pm today on 88.1 fm WRFL Lexington, online at WRFL dot FM. I hope you'll join us.
But if you're a winner, be nice. We're feeling a little low.
However, if you want pretend this is a contest - which has obvious winners & losers - then it must be admitted that Self Help Radio - which has been barely been noticed in its ten years - nearly eleven years? - on the air - is a total radio loser. So this show is for Self Help Radio! Wait. It's impossible to say that triumphantly.
From 4 to 6pm today on 88.1 fm WRFL Lexington, online at WRFL dot FM. I hope you'll join us.
But if you're a winner, be nice. We're feeling a little low.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Preface To Losers: Did I Like That Comic Book?
I haven't read the updated version but I did see the movie which, since it featured Idris Elba, is worth watching, especially if you're a little drunk. But it didn't make me want to read the comic.
I see DC Comics has a collection of Jack Kirby's run on the original Losers:
If someone had a collection of Losers comics they'd let me read, sure, I'd read them now. I miss having those old comics around. But did I like the comic & do I remember it fondly? No, I guess not.
I feel a little like a loser for saying so.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Christine
It's strange how few Christines I have known in my life. It seems like such a popular name. I don't even think there was a Christine in my high school class. But! It's a name that lends itself to song!
There are thirty Christine songs for the Christine in your life or the Christine in you. You can listen now to the entire show at the Self Help Radio website or! if you're impatient! you can listen to the show directly (it's in two parts): part one & part two. Christine songs played on the show are listed below.
Thanks for listening, any & all Christines!
(part one)
"Miss Christine" Brownie McGhee & The Jook House Rockers _The Best Of Harlem & Jax Records, Vol. 2_
"Christine" The Dells _Time Makes You Change 1954-1961_
"Christene" Little Hank Crawford & The Rhythm Kings _Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970_
"Christine Keeler" Phil Ochs _Broadside Tapes 1_
"Christine" Burt Blanca _La Collection Sixties Des EPs Francais_
"Christine" Marisa _Ultra Chicks, Vol. 1: Filles In The Garage_
"Christina" Waylon Jennings _Destiny's Child_
"Christine's Tune" Flying Burrito Bros. _Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels - The Gram Parsons Anthology_
"Christine" Big Walter Horton _Big Walter Horton With Carey Bell_
"Kirsteen/Christinn" Gordon Bok _Bay Of Fundy_
"Dear Christine" Klaatu _Sun Set: 1973-1981_
"Little Christine" Mott The Hoople _Backsliding Fearlessly: The Early Years_
"Christine Sixteen" Kiss _The Casablanca Singles 1974-1982_
"Christine" Garland Jeffreys _Escape Artist_
(part two)
"Christine Keeler" Glaxo Babies _Dreams Interrupted_
"Christine" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Kaleidoscope_
"Life For Christine" Bombay Ducks _Dance Music_
"Christine" The House Of Love _1986-1988: The Creation Recordings_
"Pristine Christine" The Sea Urchins _CD86: 48 Tracks From The Birth Of Indie Pop_
"Christine Norden" The Nivens _From A Northumbrian Mining Village Comes The Sound Of Summer_
"Christine" The Monochrome Set _The Best Of The Monochrome Set_
"Christine's World" Nits _Ting_
"Li'l Christine" Material Issue _International Pop Overthrow_
"Capital Christine" Smoking Popes _Destination Failure_
"Christine, ND" Tullycraft _Beat Surf Fun_
"Opening On Thompson" Baskervilles _Baskervilles_
"Come Crash" A.C. Newman _The Slow Wonder_
"Christine" Paul Roland _Roaring Boys_
"Christine" Baby Woodrose _Love Comes Down_
"Oh Christine" The Cave Singers _Invitation Songs_
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Junk
Gah! Look at all this junk! It's like I need a radio show to keep it in!
I do! Self Help Radio's junk show is rotting away at the SHR junk yard (pictured above). You can go through a couple of piles if you want - there's a pile here & there's a pile over there. I even made a list of what's in the piles below. Have you had a tetanus show recently?
Enjoy the scavenging!
(one pile)
"I Don't Want That Junk Outa You" Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy _Queen Of The Country Blues: All The Published Sides - 1929 - 1937_
"Junk Man" Spirits Of Rhythm _1933 - 1945_
"I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" The Four Tunes _The Complete Jubilee Sessions_
"Please Mr Junkman" Penguins _The Legends Of Doowop, Vol. 3_
"Leave That Junk Alone" Johnny Cash _All Aboard The Blue Train_
"Junk Maker Shoppe" Yellow Balloon _Yellow Balloon_
"Junkman's Song" The Stark Reality _Now_
"Turnstiled, Junkpiled" Townes Van Zandt _Anthology 1968 - 1979_
"The Streetbeater" Quincy Jones _You've Got It Bad Girl_
"Radio Junk" Yellow Magic Orchestra _Faker Holic_
"The King Of Junk" Virgin Prunes _Over The Rainbow + Heresie EP_
"Junkyard" Birthday Party _Junkyard_
"Junk Mail" Circle Jerks _Golden Shower Of Hits_
"Jack Junk" Itchy Rat _Go & Do It: The Aberrant Compilations_
"Junk" Bronski Beat _The Age Of Consent_
(another pile)
"The Junk Keeps Piling Up" The Higsons _The Curse Of The Higsons_
"3Junk" Three Johns _Atom Drum Bop_
"Junkyard" Alex Chilton _High Priest_
"Oscar's Junk Band" Oscar The Grouch _Sesame Street: Oscar's Trashy Songs_
"So Much Junk" Frank Allison & The Odd Sox _Monkey Business_
"Junk Shop Clothes" The Auteurs _New Wave_
"Junk Man" The Fall _Middle Class Revolt_
"Junk" Monaco _Music For Pleasure_
"Junk" Hefner _Dead Media_
"Junk" You Am I _You Am I's #4 Record_
"Junk" T-Model Ford _She Ain't None Of Your'n_
"Junked!" The Mayfair Set _Young One EP_
"Spacejunk" The Bats _Free All The Monsters_
Friday, May 31, 2013
Whither Christine?
I'm back! You didn't notice I was gone.
I only have two Christines as friends on Facebook. This show could be for either of them, or both of them. I am generally not as thoughtful a person as someone who makes a show for one of his or her friends. I just happened to listen to two or three songs in a row called "Christine" & dared myself to do an entire show for the name.
& so I shall!
I wish I had fun stories from my trip, but the older I get, the more I am mainly focused on food. Yum! Ethiopian food! Yum! Vegan buffets! Yum! Vegan migas! I ate too much & truly deserve to be laughed at & called "fatty" every opportunity for the foreseeable future.
Speaking of foreseeable futures, hey! Self Help Radio is on this afternoon from 4 to 6 pm! It's on the air in Lexington at 88.1 fm, & online here, there, & everywhere at wrfl dot fm. Please listen, especially if you're named Christine.
& I promise to get last week's show up as soon as I can. I just got home! There were ticks on me! Ticks!
I only have two Christines as friends on Facebook. This show could be for either of them, or both of them. I am generally not as thoughtful a person as someone who makes a show for one of his or her friends. I just happened to listen to two or three songs in a row called "Christine" & dared myself to do an entire show for the name.
& so I shall!
I wish I had fun stories from my trip, but the older I get, the more I am mainly focused on food. Yum! Ethiopian food! Yum! Vegan buffets! Yum! Vegan migas! I ate too much & truly deserve to be laughed at & called "fatty" every opportunity for the foreseeable future.
Speaking of foreseeable futures, hey! Self Help Radio is on this afternoon from 4 to 6 pm! It's on the air in Lexington at 88.1 fm, & online here, there, & everywhere at wrfl dot fm. Please listen, especially if you're named Christine.
& I promise to get last week's show up as soon as I can. I just got home! There were ticks on me! Ticks!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Days Off
Going away for a little while. But will be back for next week's show. However. Yesterday's show won't be posted for a little while. Please forgive me. Have a safe & happy weekend. xoxo
Friday, May 24, 2013
Whither Junk?
Hey man. I got a lot of good junk at my place. Wanna take a look?
Not now! Not now! Come between 4 & 6 pm today. You can get to my place at 88.1 on the fm dial or at <a href="http://wrfl.fm/">WRFL</a> - you know where that is?
Good. Good. I'm serious, man, it's some really primo grade-A junk. Yeah. See you then.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Preface To Junk: Boom! 1600 Posts
Speaking of junk, I was thinking of making a poem based on the first words of every post written to date. What made me change my mind? This:
Hi this when here's but quick this I in I we why Halloween.
It's worse than playing Mad Libs with a bunch of people half your age in a rented mini-van on the way to Atlanta!
It's also probably better than the poems I used to write when I was sad enough to write poems. Now, I fear, I am too sad.
I have no reason to mention this but I enjoy playing the trivia game You Don't Know Jack on my iPad. But I refuse to log in with my Facebook account. First, I don't want to give up my personal goofball data that easily; & also, who wants to play video games with Facebook friends? Competition brings out the worst in people.
Said Adam Smith to Karl Marx playing Words With Friends.
I have too much to do to count the number of posts like I like doing but I will point out that:
Post # 1: September 12, 2006
Post # 1600: May 23, 2013
If I were writing a Harry Potter or Game Of Thrones-sized book, it would take me nearly seven years to finish it!
Unless the Harry Potter books aren't that big. Should I have said Dune? Would anyone get that reference these days? In the 1980s, maybe. But now?
I'm a little sleep-deprived. How are you? Did you find your way here by accident? I thought so.
Hi this when here's but quick this I in I we why Halloween.
It's worse than playing Mad Libs with a bunch of people half your age in a rented mini-van on the way to Atlanta!
It's also probably better than the poems I used to write when I was sad enough to write poems. Now, I fear, I am too sad.
I have no reason to mention this but I enjoy playing the trivia game You Don't Know Jack on my iPad. But I refuse to log in with my Facebook account. First, I don't want to give up my personal goofball data that easily; & also, who wants to play video games with Facebook friends? Competition brings out the worst in people.
Said Adam Smith to Karl Marx playing Words With Friends.
I have too much to do to count the number of posts like I like doing but I will point out that:
Post # 1: September 12, 2006
Post # 1600: May 23, 2013
If I were writing a Harry Potter or Game Of Thrones-sized book, it would take me nearly seven years to finish it!
Unless the Harry Potter books aren't that big. Should I have said Dune? Would anyone get that reference these days? In the 1980s, maybe. But now?
I'm a little sleep-deprived. How are you? Did you find your way here by accident? I thought so.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tomorrow With Be The 1600th Post On This Blog
Who cares?
It's a little amazing how little we know about the year 1600 (CE, but at the time, AD). Just looking at Wikipedia's page for the year, there are several unknown dates of things we know happened that year & people we know were born that year, but the dates are not exact. Also, there's a section called "probable." It might not have happened, but it's probable it did!
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the American President's residence, known as "the White House." The zip code, by the way, is 20500. In case you want to write something. Although there's also an email address, or rather, an online form. What? No "president@whitehouse.gov"?
Obama might be afraid George W. Bush still occasionally checks his mail at that address.
There's also a 1600 Smith Street, a giant office building in Houston, but you wouldn't want to visit there, let along email anyone who happened to be around. It's an office building in Houston, for pete's sake!
Ah, 1600 CE. Shakespeare wrote The Merchant Of Venice that year. Nothing that grand will ever ever come from this blog. In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. That's more of the mood around here, generally.
It's a little amazing how little we know about the year 1600 (CE, but at the time, AD). Just looking at Wikipedia's page for the year, there are several unknown dates of things we know happened that year & people we know were born that year, but the dates are not exact. Also, there's a section called "probable." It might not have happened, but it's probable it did!
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the American President's residence, known as "the White House." The zip code, by the way, is 20500. In case you want to write something. Although there's also an email address, or rather, an online form. What? No "president@whitehouse.gov"?
Obama might be afraid George W. Bush still occasionally checks his mail at that address.
There's also a 1600 Smith Street, a giant office building in Houston, but you wouldn't want to visit there, let along email anyone who happened to be around. It's an office building in Houston, for pete's sake!
Ah, 1600 CE. Shakespeare wrote The Merchant Of Venice that year. Nothing that grand will ever ever come from this blog. In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. That's more of the mood around here, generally.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Caesar
I must've misspelled "Caesar" two thousand times while writing stuff down for this show. I was going to write some kind of riff on "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears," but every time I wrote "Caesar" it came out as "Casear" or "Ceaser" or "Cesaer." Julius Ceaser? Dude, stop!
Many spoken word pieces on this show, as well as a hip hop version of a famous soliloquy. What more could you want? Except, perhaps, for a night at a Roman orgy? Really? You'd want that? Weirdo.
The show is now at the ruins I call "the Self Help Radio website". Or you can listen directly by choosing either part I or part II. Please note the use of Roman numerals. Caesar songs in each part listed below.
Gratias vobis ago! For listening, I mean.
(part one)
"The Story Of Rome: Enter, Caesar" Jim Weiss _Julius Caesar & The Story Of Rome_
"Julius Caesar" The Mills Brothers _The 1930s Recordings_
"Caesar" Ty Segall _Melted_
"Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)" Morris Schreiber _Windows For Youth: Guidance Through Literature_
"Caesar Needs A Brutus" Simon Bonney _Forever_
"Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)" Nico _The Marble Index_
"Caesar" Iggy Pop _American Caesar_
"Caesar's Palace" Charles Wright _The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band_
"Ides Of March" Stag _Stag_
"High School Caesar" Reggie Perkins _Teen-Age Riot!_
(part two)
"Young Caesar 2000" The Mountain Goats _Zopilote Machine_
"Little Caesar On A Bicycle" Rock*A*Teens _Golden Time_
"Little Caesar" Blondie _The Hunter_
"Caesar" The Cannanes _The Cannanes_
"Unto Caesar" Dirty Projectors _Swing Lo Magellan_
"Julius Caesar" Brother Dave Gardner _Live In Concert, Vol 2_
"Caesars Tod" Ute Lemper _Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill_
"Three Times (Julius Caesar)" Flocabulary _Shakespeare Is Hip-Hop_
"Eric The Gardener" The Divine Comedy _Fin De Siècle_
"Caesar's Planet" Gene Defcon _Fields & Streams_
"Ease Up Caesar" Asian Dub Foundation _Punkara_
"Julius Caesar Plum Cake Dance" Pino D'Angiò _Italian Classics: Pino D'Angiò Collection, Vol. 2_
"Czar" Moev _Dusk & Desire_
"Czar" Frank Black _Frank Black_