Friday, July 29, 2005

testing gig [wluw]

Oingo Boingo - Nasty Habits (Demo)
Petra Haden - I can see for miles
Ministry- the missing
the Deviants - Child of the Sky
MC Jack E Chocolate - Pavaroty (from the Rio Baile Funk comp)
Money Mark - Break Open My Shells (the only worthwhile track on a lackluster album from 2004)
Masaki Batoh - You Doo Right
the Ventures Walk Don't Run/Perifidia/Lullaby of the Leaves
(this would've been really cool if I realized there was a 2 minute Spanish intro before the medley. I accidentally ejected this disc before the Lullaby of the Leaves crescendo which sucks because that's my favorite song of theirs. Also check out the Asylum Street Spankers version with an awesome singing saw solo)
Aesop Rock - Number Nine
Essential Logic- Quality Crayon Wax

then I started my slow, destructo set:

Tom Waits - November (more singing saw!)
The Ex - Let's Panic Togethor
Enuma Elish - Imminent Doom

then I countered the destructo set with the super happy set:

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - wake up and make love to me
Puffy AmiYumi - Boogie Woogie No. 5
Dee Lite - What is Love?

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Gentlemen Callers present "The Vicious Cycle" [Theatre Building Chicago]

The Gentlemen Callers is my sketch comedy troupe. We perform every now and then. For our last show, we wanted to include different scenes from Chicago. We opened our shows with comedians Hannibal and Dave Odd, and used music from all local bands in between each scene. The music was all picked by myself and Miss Ruby Aftermath.

small change - damn!
PKDores - un pasa atras
hannibelectro - chilly willy
stag party - rachel my dear
lord of the yum yum - habanera
schizowave - love
forgotten four - wreckless angel
environmental encroachment - taderra
j davis trio - breath of a tiny dragon
condenada - puertes fal
curlee brazell - another...
black bear combo - albionea
brenmar someday and elissa p - demo (track 2)
loraxx - three witches on brooms
stag party - sun explodes
mud show circus - that old time music
hannibelectro - neutrons
curlee brazell - where am i now
shellac - mouthpiece
small change - rock on
environmental encroachment - bembe noche
felix da housecat - some kinda special

Sunday, May 29, 2005

it's pronounced like 'rogues' and that's important

Bands: the Walkie Talkies, There Must Be Others
Date: 5/27/05
Venue: Wicker Park Basement
Cost: Free

when the drunken pregnant girl with drug and worry and mascara lined eyes
hands the mutilated babydoll
to the dwarf
by means of a switchblade
you know you've found your way into a david lynch film or made it to a really good chicago party

the birds are cheaping to challenge the moogs
urine foams when it contacts bonfire
the graham crackers go before the marshmallows
there is a such thing as perpetual motion
cats make noises like lazerbeams and rape victims
at 5:00 AM
perhaps the moon is sick of you

with the girl i can't say the word to
depressed and bedriffed
i can see the stars from old angles
-this does not constitute a claim that she's holding me back
just a change in perspective

it's good to see that when i mellow
and simmer
for stretched months

some of the same
half-decade stalwarts
some longer still
are left
cyndi, host, ibarra, party steve, sam, stevo, mike the midget
the old one last walk crew, kokomo crew, the nervous center
the weird fuckers from whitney and lane and lakeview and lp
newish arrivals here like bryan, briton, and kelleh
omnipresence

i drank tequila out of a bag, caballo
and had champagne spit in my face
dancing on green clouds that tasted like unsweetened cotton candy
playing with knives

some people say that these nights blend togethor
but i know better
that these are the only way i'll hear myself laughing
this certain way and
i must keep moving

even the cabbies know
"it's a quiet night" they say
they're lying, but i tip them anyway

this is how i will start my diary
a third or fourth lifetime attempt:
5/28 5:30 AM

the sun is coming up over the trees and traintracks. not here, but somewhere. something tall protects my little cul-de-sac but i've never noticed its erection. I am up and so are the cats. Despite all attempts to ruin myself with tequila...lucidity. The cats question my place at this hour. The little one claws at my feet and groin. When he is neutered soon, he'll wonder if I knew he was just trying to kill the drawstring in my pajamas. No matter.

I have as many days left in my school career as a girl named Emily has in gestation. Another one. Knocked up. Another girl I'll probably never fuck, kiss, look in the eyes, and after devoting so many hours thinking about it. She has skin like paper, blue eyes and pale tits bigger than anything you've ever seen on a person outside Japanese caricature. Just like every other girl I loved too much to talk to in high school. Just like every friend that's dropping babies. Today I took a final and held up traffic in an office building. I missed appointments, procrastinated and got everywhere late. It was nice to eventually wind up somewhere I was able to do something other than build contempt.

]There Must Be Others have since disbanded and played one show since]

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Version 05 [wpbr]

This was a Radio Dysentery set Ruby and I did that may or may not have actually aired on the problematic WPBR

Mario Lanza - This is my Beloved
Anton Lavey
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Peggy Lee - Sugar
Happy Kamiyama
Offwhyte - Bow to the Scepter (request from our friend Exploding Bunny)
Barbarellas - Teenage Werewolf
Fourskins - Evil Evil Evil
Burt Bacharach & Friends - I Say a Little Prayer for You
Dead Boyz Can't Fly - I Wanna Be a Queer
The Deviants
Sludge - Screaming Lord Sludge
The Deviants (little switching problem there)
Plasmatics - Living Dead
Hasil Adkins - Devonna Rock (r.i.p.)
Roky Erickson
Pigpen - Kind of Dead
Bonzo Dog Band
Monks - Drugs in my Pocket
Residents - Constantinople
Melt Banana - Too Rough to Sleep (Find a Grain of Greed)
The Eternals
Majestics - Riding By
The People Under the Stairs
Laibach
Saul Williams - Black Stacy
Jean Michel Jarre - Ethnicolor II
Tom Waits



At this point, we lost the pen and left soon after

Friday, December 10, 2004

Monday Nite @ the Ole Noise Show

Band: the Coughs
Venue: the empty bottle
Cost: free
Date: 12/9/04

free noise in the hipster mecca brings everyone togethor
the annoying celebs lauded by their friends in the newsprint rags
i've pored over from bus stop to bus stop
broke bread with the gentlemen dumpster divers
who aided in the development of a young lab rat
learning how to sow his oats at Columbia College a 20th of a century ago

of course there was no bread
on the business end of Bite
so everyone had to agree on pabsts and honeybrowns

when an old hipster staple
worried he'd blown his load at 21
started lamenting he was 'lost'
i suggested we burn the place down and marvel
at the pretty blues reds and yellows
the kind of fire gods make when they dance
scorching the soil for rebirth
(of course i don't have a fireplace
this holiday season)

and

(of course nobody dances at the empty bottle)



the place was crawling
i was surrounded by,
contributing to
one
massive
collective
bad haircut

and i mentioned it many times
because i didn't have anything else to say

(and)

thought it
clever

all in all
the band was neither as good nor as bad as i
was/had
warned/hoped

but

erred on the side of good

the people who like to jump were juming,
the people who always stand still stood just so

sarah bought me beer and held my hand

it will be 2005 soon

Saturday, October 09, 2004

October 9 [Radio Dysentary, wpbr]

Toots and the Maytals - 5446 was my Number
Slouch - Lifeless Wandering
Body Count - Body Motherfucking Count
MC Paul Barman - Bleeding Brain Grow
Method Man ft. Mary J Blige - You're all I Need (to get by)
Peche Mortel - cassette demo track 4
Vampyros Lesbos - Sexadelic Dance Party track 4
Youngblood Brass Band - Center Level Roar
Tom Waits - Bullets for Sale
Soul Hooligan - Sweet Pea
Tupac - My Mind Made Up
The Fast - Kids Just Wanna Dance
De Lyckliga Kompisarna - Dit Kuken Pekar
Brujeria - seis seis seis
Amon Tobin & Eric Truffaz - track 1
Diamanda Galas - I Put a Spell on You
Busdriver, Daedelus, Radioinactive - Pens Oil
The Damned - Lovesong
Motorhead (or someone... mislabeled. guttermouth?) - Stand by Your Man
Ultra Bide - Kill Me Tender
The Ziggens - When I Die
GG Allin - Bored to Death
Old Number 8 - Take Your Ticket

Saturday, September 25, 2004

1st Radio Dysentary on Radio Free Wicker Park [wpbr]

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Around Knuckle White Tile; Dyna Sark Arches
Echo & the Bunnymen - Under the Killing Moon
Nancy Sit (Girls in the Garage, Asia) - Love Potion #9
Clouddead - Track 3
Elecric Prunes - Long Day's Fight
Make-up (live) - Here comes the Judge
Reaccion (Ratos de Cuidad comp.) - track 7
L'amico di Martucci - Non e` Tempo; Sulla Tavola
Devo - Praying Hands
The Frogs - Hot Cock Annie
The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
The Residents - Constantinople
Xiu Xiu - Luber
Bossanova something or other
Run Ra
Blockhead
Six Finger Satellite - Send in the Clones
Willy Wonka Soundtrack - Boat Ride
Essential Logic
The Upsetters - Popcorn
Tropiezo - La Xenifobia
Pere Ubu - Track 2 (The Modern Dance)
Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein
Perspectives in Percussion - Mambo #5
Qwel & Jackson Jones - track 2
Merle Haggard - White Line Fever
Riistetyt - Track 12
Spitboy - You and Me and the Art of Being a Woman
Georgio Moroder - Underdog
Faun Fables - Eternal
De La Soul - Daisy Age
Mcluskey - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
Melt Banana - Stimulus for Revolting Virus
Themselves - Track 3
Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
Jimmy Cliff - Stop that Train
Birth Control - Operation

Monday, September 20, 2004

last episode [wzrd]

Tom Waits - Forever Dead
Saturday Looks Good to Me - If you Ask
His & Her Vanities - Notpartablurb
Guitar Wolf - Katsumiya Tobacco City
Rudimentary Peni - from The EPs of RP)
Astrud Gilberto - from Astrud Gilberto
Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains - Ignorance is Bliss
Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man (demo)
Giorgio Moroder - from Best of
Quintron - Stray Cat Strut
Medeski Martin & Wood - Curtis
Barrington Levy - from Bounty Hunter
Telefon Tel Aviv - from Map of hat is Effortless
Eyedea & Abilities - Act Right
Firewater - Diamonds and Gold
Quantazelle - Pedwards
Birth Control - from Operation
Themselves - from The No Music
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Rock Rock Chicken Pox - the Girl Who Lives on the Moon
the Great Kat - Sarasate's Zapateado
Hank Williams III - from Risin' Outlaw
Dizee Rascal - Learn
Sublime - Chico Mi Tipo
Ween - from All Request Live
5,6,7,8's - from Teenage Mojo Workout
Leonard Cohen - the Future
Wesley Willis - I'm Going on a World Tour
Temporary Forever - Tempest II
Eazy E - My Name's Eazy
Mars Volta - Eunuch Provacateur
Riistetyt - from Valtion Valkina
Johnny Cash- When the Man Comes Around
Busdriver - Imaginary Places
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb
New Grenada - Eric's Trip
Bill Laswell - Babylon Site
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
the Ex- Dog Tree
Blockhead - Insomniac Olympics
Big Bill Broonzy- This Train is Bound For Glory
the Weathermen - Daytime TV
the Roger's Sisters - Check Level
Ghost - Escaped and Lost Down in Medina
Ghost - Leave the World
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Haywire Mac - Big Rock Candy Mountain
Johnny Cash - I'll be Back again

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

WZRD

Aesop Rock - Float
Ralph Nader- How Long, How Long
Hed Arzi Music - tracks 1 & 2
Mendelbaum - No Hiding Place
Amon Duul - Im Garten Sandosa
Ziggens - Sober Up
Ruby Falls - the Brave Ones
Max & Harvey - Big Amoeba Sound
Asylum Street Spankers - Winnin the War on Drugs
Juice Bros- Clam Bake
Hi Standard - theme from the Pink Panther
Neptune - Soul Pride
Pogues - Whiskey You're the Devil
Ventures- Walk, Don't Run
Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets
Mr. Bungle - Pink Cigarette
Kenny Rogers - What Condition My Condition was In
Rahzel - What Condition My Condition was In'
Boom Boom Satellites - Fogbound
Future Sound of London - Elysian Feels
Camper Van Beehthoven - L'Guardiente
Was (Not Was) - I Feel Better than James Brown
Muggs w/ Everlast - Gone for Good
Flanger - Quicksilver Loom
Sid Vicious - (I Did It) My Way
El Stew - Something Awful Happened
Wailing Wall - Night Horse/Crazy Nights
Rachel's - Frida Kahlo
Ziggens - Strange Way to Live
the Virus - Take What's Ours
Bootsy's Rubber Band - Night of the Thumposaurus People
Hott Beat - Organs of Desire
Glen Gould/Dmitri Shostakovich - Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello & piano in G minor
Teddy Brannon - Mixen w/ Dixon
Evil Stig - Drinkin Song
Fires Were Shot - Subslumber
Cocksparrer- Bird Trouble
Rev. Horton Heat - Lonesome Man
Guru - Insect A (Mental Relaxation)
Thee Hydrogen Terrors - the little Belgian
R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders - Hula Girl
Black Dice - Island
Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys - Parts Unknown
Matthew Shipp Quartet - Critical Mass
Wesley Willis - Polkaholics
Bollweevils - Utopia
Klezmatics- khsidim tants
Saul Williams
RJD2 - Making Days Longer
Adicts - Sound of Music
Tar Babies
Los Crudos
4 Skins
Gil Scott Heron - the Revolution will Not be Televised
Shel Silverstein - the Great Smoke Off
Pogues - Lorca's Novena
David Byrne - don't fence me in
Tom Waits - All Right with Me
Roky Erikson & the 13th Floor Elevators - Night of the Vampire
Duke Ellington - Agra
Sage Francis - Different
Ocean 11 - the Best of Love
Petulah Clark - Crying through a Sleepless Night
Tom Hermann - Jack

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

WZRD

the Specials- (this is the) dawning of a new era
Mixel Pixel- Desert Falcon
Odd Nosdam
Charlie Parker- Laura
Langhorne Slim- Loreta Lee Jones
Rivel- isine
Bombay the Hard Way
the Clash - English Civil War
TV on the Radio - staring at the sun
R. Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders
Melt Banana- introduction for Charlie
Amon Tobin w/ Eric Truffaz
Sage Francis- crack pipes
Caetano Veloso- come as you are/the Carioca
Angel Corpus Christi - I'm 18
Wesley Willis Fiasco - the Bar is Closed
Mariade Barros - Mi Nada un Catem (Women of Africa)
Firewater - I often dream of trains
Lumberjackass- turn all lumpe
end- o hell with everybody
Asylum Street Spankers- lullaby of the leaves
Omoide Hatoba- atelite Groove
Azita- Wasn't in the bargain
x-ray spex- i am a poseur
murs- the pain
Acid Motherhood
Estradasphere- elderly normal samurai tortoises

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

old playlist, unknown date [wzrd]

Varukers - the Bob Blast
the Business- Harry May
A. Dvorak- Adagio
Tracy & the Pastics- quaasars
Smoke Jon- sasatteru
Polyponic Spree- Hold me now
Vic Vacuum & the Attachments - my body is a toilet
Patti Smith- last hotel
Bebo & Cigala - inolvidable
Rufus & Ben Quillian - Satisfaction Blues (Old Time Hokum Blues)
the Pleasure Fuckers - Schizophrenia
Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash- with space on top
lake of dracula- blues fantastique
Macha- D-D-D
Klute- Desert Storm
Kid606- Wickid Megamix
the Adicts- Smart Alex
Big Black- kerosene
Matthew Shipp - fir play
Aiyb Dieng - boka devotion
Dr. Octagon-
Edith Frost- Temporary Loan
Molasses-
Ozomatli-Cumbia de los Muertos
Juice Bros- 13 years old
Ausia- Idiot's Delight
Great Kat- Sarasate's Gypsy Violin Waltz
Ballgagger- dog star
Last Poets- King is Home
Justin Hinds & the Dominoes- Miss Vendell
Magnetic Fields - I thought you were my boyfriend
Jane Jensen - More than I can
Mojo Nixon- Are you Drinkin w/ me Jesus?
Son House-President Kennedy
Klezmatics- khsidim Tants
Colleen- Ritournelle (Delivery From Secial Low Price)
King Missile-the story of Willy
Anti Flag- red white & brainwashed
Japonize Elephants- fuck the farmacia
Raincoats- you're a million
the Slugs- tomorrow
Miriam Makeba- Pata Pata
Los legres de Teran- La Toma de Torreon
Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds- west country girl
Metallux- Mexico

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

some time in 2002 [wzrd]

sound collage:
Griot Galaxy - Liberty City Rundown
Antipop Consortium - A Knot in your Bop
Celestina Boninsegna - Trovatore, Tacea la notte Placida
At Western Campfires - Cool Water
Red Ink - Track 1
Bhundu Boys - Chimbira
Great Speeches of the 20th Century - John Glen
Niet? Da! Da! - tracks 2, 3
Ani DiFranco - Promised Land
Urban Species - Listen
George Clinton - Nubian
Arable Farmland-Bent Media Om - Warp

Linval Thompson & U Brown - Train to Zion
Shellac - My Black Ass
Band of Bees - Angry Man
Bjork - One Day
Count Basie - Goin to Chicago Blues
Saturday Looks Good to Me - I Wish I Could Cry
Cabaret Futura
88 Fingers Louie - Try it Again
Visions of Vespertina - the Garden
Frankie Sparo - Sleds to Moderne
the Cramps - Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs
Payday at the Polka Party - Zosia
N.O.L.A. - Atom Kraft
Ries - a song
Malade de Souci - Tracks 1, 2
King Crimson - Picture of a City
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Tsuya Uz' Ekhaya
Gravediggaz - Diary of a Madman
Kevin Ayers, J. Cale, B. Eno, Nico & the Soporifics - Driving me Backwards, Babies on Fire, the End
Pascals - Wedding Polka
Muggs - Chasing Shadows/Tears
Love Peace & Poetry - Brazilian Psychedelic Music - O Bando
the Stooges
Roky Erikson
Easy Star All Stars - Money
the Stranglers - Strange Little Girl
Burnside Project - He Never Knew
Illegal Teenage Bikini - I'm Still Not Job
Dinky
Dirty Three - Alice
DJ Vadim - DJ Vadim