A four-hour War On Sailing? What're you, nuts?
"Parade" Blue Train from Land Of Gold
"Perfect Games" The Broken West from Now Or Heaven
"The Faucets Are Dripping" Broadside Singers from Broadside Ballads, Vol. 3
"Dark Autumn Hour" Frontier Ruckus from The Orion Songbook
"She's My Baby" Peppermint Harris from Best Of Harlem & Jax Records, Vol. 2
"Shake Your Boogie" Billy Boy Arnold from Broadcasting The Blues
"Bad Taste" Compulsive Gamblers from The History Of Memphis Garage Rock: The 90's
"To Fix The Gash In Your Head" A Place To Bury Strangers from Stuck On Amp - Live From Radio K6
"Afterglow" Momus from Voyager
"These Jeans! Why They're... They're Made Of Taffy" Rad Wolf from For Your Consideration
"Rose" Zeale 32 from Zeale 32
"I Live Alone" Cynics from Get Our Way
"Klezmer A La Bechet" David Krakauer from A New Hot One
"Boo-Bah-Bah" Bob Vido from One Man Band
"The World" Dalek I Love You from Compass Kumpas
"One With The Underdogs" Terror from Less Than Zero
"A Sudden Manhattan Of The Mind" Max Richter from 24 Postcards In Full Colour
"Kasbah Rockers (vocal mix)" Kasbah Rockers with Bill Laswell from Kasbah Rockers
"Natt" Ismael Lô from Natt
"Keep On Walking" Mad Juana from Bruja On The Corner
"Colonel Impossible" Furtips from When My Baby Smiles At Me I Go To Rio
"You Can Find Me" Black Fiction from Ghost Ride
"Trust To Lose" South San Gabriel from Dual Hawks
"How To Catch A Lizard" Larkin Grimm from Parplar
"Daddy Rhythm Guitar" Paul Burch from Bloodshoot Records Honky-Tonk Compilation
"Hole Of Doubt" The Accident That Led Me To The World from The Island Gospel
"Black Dog Blues" Bayless Rose from American Primitive Vol. 2
"Accept" Aardvark from Find The Cow
"Funky" DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist from Hard Sell (Encore)
"Mestizo Eyes" Bobbi Humphrey from Fancy Dancer
"Halyards" Forty Seven Times Its Own Weight from Cumulo Nimbus
"Stop It" Pylon from Hits
"Magic Moments" Table Table) from Messthetics #104 DIY '77-81 South Wales 1
"Blessed Be The Nation" Studs Turkel from Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger
"Raincoat Song" Decemberists from Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series
"Die Wikingjugend Hat Mein Madchen Entfuhrt" Die Arzte from Blitzkrieg Over You: A Tribute To The Ramones
"Butch's DreamP" ygmylush from Mount Hope
"Let Your Light Shine On Me" Mud Boy & The Neutrons from It Came From Memphis Volume 2
"Mumbling Yeah (Kabale Und Liebe & Daniel Sanchez)" Luciano from Fabric 41
"Giant Step Forward" Dalton Mullins from Kaleidoscope
"We Will Fall" Stooges from The Stooges
"Crosseyed Cat" Magic Slim & The Teardrops from Midnight Blues
"When I Been Drinking" Big Bill Broonzy from Complete Recorded Works Vol. 11 (1940-1942)
"Listen Close" MC Frontalot from Final Boss
"El-Oh-En (featuring Jehst)" Sir Smurf Lil from A New Bloodline
"Instincticide" Lines from Flood Bank
"Build Your Own Los Angeles" Distant Seconds from Spectral Evidence
"Paint You" Meneguar from Strangers in Our House
"Freddie & The Trojan Horse" Radio Dept from Freddie & The Trojan Horse
"The End Of The Asterisk" Los Campesinos! from We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
"Cry Me Not" Booker Ervin from The Freedom Book
"Introduction (Excerpt) (read by Nicholas Ball)" Christopher Hitchens from The Portable Atheist
"Sonata For Piano No. 2, Op. 64 'The Fire Sermon"': I. Molto Allegro" Izumi Tateno from Rautavaara
"The Weight" Staple Singers from Soul Folk In Action
Yes, yes, way behind. The show struggles forward, Sundays at 7am om 91.7 KVRX Austin.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Cogwell Machine: Birth, Uses, Stuff
Enrest Lemmoin invented the Cogwell Machine in his second wife's sewing room on a cold January morning this very day, February 5, 2009, in 1859. While English by birth, he was British in temperament, & lived his entire life in the small village just outside the hamlet located due east of the growing suburb south of Baltimore, Maryland. Not far enough south, though, as his village was either in the United States or in the United States Virgin Islands. Not even a hastily modified land-bridge could help the hapless atlas markers.
Enrest showed a propensity for proposals are a pretentious age. Ever full of ideas, young Enrie (as he wasn't called by virtually everyone who knew him) stuck his button-up nose into imaginary arguments between peddler & pedant, cop & choreographer, shopkeep & shut-in, artist's model & model citizen. His "solutions" (as he called them, making the quotes with his fingers) were more often than not embraced by the disputers, if only to make Lemmoin go away. His self-esteem thus enhanced, Enrie lived to butt in another day. & another day. & another day.
Graduated from a tiny arts college located in the storeroom of West Point in 1844, Lemmoin immediately enlisted in the Peace Corps, one hundred & twenty years before its invention. Having no government sponsorship, his ill-conceived plan to work in a small village in central Africa turned disastrous, but since Lemmoin barely made it out alive & swore never to speak of it again, we shan't either, except to say that it was not there, as previously imagined, that Enrest acquired his taste for human flesh. That would happen when he became friends Stephen F. Douglas.
Still spry & nimble though possessed of a crushing ego, Lemmoin took to inventing in the inventive 1850s. That decade saw the invention of the baseball bracket, the curlicue curtain, the car stereo (though not just recognized as such), the Society For Creative Anachronism, grape jelly on a stick, malaria (not considered a great invention), dental dams, fast-acting baby oil, & that picture of a heart with an arrow through it, among others. Lemmoin jumped into the market with both pants down, & found employment at Hooper's Inventions, Unlimited.
Old Man Hooper (whose really name was Young Man Hooper) ran a tight ship, although he allowed the famously seasick Lemmoin to work in his Manhattan office. Lemmoin was essential in the invention of such common household items as the stapler, the common house string roll, & refrigerator magnets, but he dreamt bigger, his dreams aided by the enormous amount of opium he smoked, & the enormous amount of gin given to all the employees of Hooper's Inventions, Unlimited. He'd return home every night with ideas cracking through the back of his head - although later, he'd admit it might just be blood.
The Cogwell Machine was patented just before the Civil War got all whiny. Demand at first was scarce, but as Americans (in rebellion & not) learned about the wonders of this modern labor-saving device, it was reduced to nothing. Even Abraham Lincoln mentioning that he had one in White House during his annual weekly radio address failed to help the product, mainly because he was out of town that week, so David Brenner did the address. The failure of the Cogwell Machine drove Enrest Lemmoin to the brink of despair, & then over that brink, into the sad pool of blood & bones called suicide.
Lemmoin died unhappy, leaving behind his three wives, nineteen children, kin in central Africa, & the fortune he made inventing refrigerator magnets. All three wives remarried the same person, & that person's grandson discovered the Cogwell Machine in one of his funny-looking relative's attics one day. Amazed that somone in his family, at that point the scions of New England aristocracy & three-time winner of Lifetime Achievement Awards from Inbreeding Today, could have invented something so practical terrified him, so he burned down the house. Ironically, though he lost an uncle, an aunt, two cousins, two wives, his left arm, part of his face, & a pet goldfish named spot, the fire fighters were able to save the prototype of the Cogwell Machine, which was quickly secured by the Department of the Secret Stuff & flown by unhappy butterflies to Washington.
Where it languishes to this day. Yes, the rumors are true! The Cogwell Machine not only exists, but it works! Rumor has it former Vice President Cheney spent more time with it than with his terrorist torture subjects. What does it do? Oh, you know what it does. When can we see? Oh, I believe we'll see - soon. Soon.
Enrest showed a propensity for proposals are a pretentious age. Ever full of ideas, young Enrie (as he wasn't called by virtually everyone who knew him) stuck his button-up nose into imaginary arguments between peddler & pedant, cop & choreographer, shopkeep & shut-in, artist's model & model citizen. His "solutions" (as he called them, making the quotes with his fingers) were more often than not embraced by the disputers, if only to make Lemmoin go away. His self-esteem thus enhanced, Enrie lived to butt in another day. & another day. & another day.
Graduated from a tiny arts college located in the storeroom of West Point in 1844, Lemmoin immediately enlisted in the Peace Corps, one hundred & twenty years before its invention. Having no government sponsorship, his ill-conceived plan to work in a small village in central Africa turned disastrous, but since Lemmoin barely made it out alive & swore never to speak of it again, we shan't either, except to say that it was not there, as previously imagined, that Enrest acquired his taste for human flesh. That would happen when he became friends Stephen F. Douglas.
Still spry & nimble though possessed of a crushing ego, Lemmoin took to inventing in the inventive 1850s. That decade saw the invention of the baseball bracket, the curlicue curtain, the car stereo (though not just recognized as such), the Society For Creative Anachronism, grape jelly on a stick, malaria (not considered a great invention), dental dams, fast-acting baby oil, & that picture of a heart with an arrow through it, among others. Lemmoin jumped into the market with both pants down, & found employment at Hooper's Inventions, Unlimited.
Old Man Hooper (whose really name was Young Man Hooper) ran a tight ship, although he allowed the famously seasick Lemmoin to work in his Manhattan office. Lemmoin was essential in the invention of such common household items as the stapler, the common house string roll, & refrigerator magnets, but he dreamt bigger, his dreams aided by the enormous amount of opium he smoked, & the enormous amount of gin given to all the employees of Hooper's Inventions, Unlimited. He'd return home every night with ideas cracking through the back of his head - although later, he'd admit it might just be blood.
The Cogwell Machine was patented just before the Civil War got all whiny. Demand at first was scarce, but as Americans (in rebellion & not) learned about the wonders of this modern labor-saving device, it was reduced to nothing. Even Abraham Lincoln mentioning that he had one in White House during his annual weekly radio address failed to help the product, mainly because he was out of town that week, so David Brenner did the address. The failure of the Cogwell Machine drove Enrest Lemmoin to the brink of despair, & then over that brink, into the sad pool of blood & bones called suicide.
Lemmoin died unhappy, leaving behind his three wives, nineteen children, kin in central Africa, & the fortune he made inventing refrigerator magnets. All three wives remarried the same person, & that person's grandson discovered the Cogwell Machine in one of his funny-looking relative's attics one day. Amazed that somone in his family, at that point the scions of New England aristocracy & three-time winner of Lifetime Achievement Awards from Inbreeding Today, could have invented something so practical terrified him, so he burned down the house. Ironically, though he lost an uncle, an aunt, two cousins, two wives, his left arm, part of his face, & a pet goldfish named spot, the fire fighters were able to save the prototype of the Cogwell Machine, which was quickly secured by the Department of the Secret Stuff & flown by unhappy butterflies to Washington.
Where it languishes to this day. Yes, the rumors are true! The Cogwell Machine not only exists, but it works! Rumor has it former Vice President Cheney spent more time with it than with his terrorist torture subjects. What does it do? Oh, you know what it does. When can we see? Oh, I believe we'll see - soon. Soon.
Monday, February 2, 2009
"War On Sailing" Playlist January 1, 2009
A new year, the same old thing.
"This Gift" Sons & Daughters from This Gift
"On A Saturday" Herman Dune from Next Year In Zion
"Autoharp Concerto" Grandpa Jones from Family Album
"Valse Des Reeds" The Savoy Family Band from Turn Loose But Don't Let Go
"S Y S L J F M (The Letter Song)" Joe Tex from I Believe I'm Gonna Make It: The Best Of Joe Tex
"Bizarre Triangle" Hanway Troof from Islands Of Ayle
"S.O.C.A." Asian Dub Foundation from Punkara
"Making A Case For Magic" I Am Robot & Proud from Uphill City
"Strychnine, Breathless Ways" Centro-Matic from Dual Hawks
"You Stood Me Up" Benji Hughes from A Little Extreme EP
"Help Wanted" Company Flow from Funcrusher Plus
"Mama Don't Want No Peas An' Rice An' Coconut Oil" Cleo Brown from Complete Recorded Works March 1935 To June 1935
"Transcription Of Organ Music" Allen Ginsberg from Howls, Raps & Roars
"Uncle Joe" Buffy Sainte-Marie from I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
"Schönes Mädchen" Hauschka from Ferndorf
"Ce N'est Pas Bon" Amadou & Mariam from Welcome To Mali
"4-4-44" Youssou N'Dour from Rokku Mi Rokka
"The Eyes Of Texas" Milton Brown & His Brownies from From the Vaults: Decca Country Classics 1934-1973
"Hello Sunshine" Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles from Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles
"Hey Bartender, There's A Bug In My Beer" Warner Williams & Eddie Pennington from Down Home Saturday Night
"You Only Live Twice" Postmarks from By The Numbers
"Non-Stop Beatles Disco" Cafe Creme from Non-Stop Beatles Disco
"Baby Please" Walter Meego from Voyager
"Null" Midori Hirano from Klo Yuri
"Beatitudes" Cars & Trains from Rusty String
"Play The Role (Liquid Soul Remix)" Bavu Blakes from Nobody Leavin
"Singing Lesson 1 Pt 2 - How The Voice Works" Explore Your Voice from The Confidence To Sing
"Anua" Eddie Henderson from Realization
The War On Sailing. Sundays, 7 to 9am. 91.7 fm KVRX Austin. Like you didn't know.
"This Gift" Sons & Daughters from This Gift
"On A Saturday" Herman Dune from Next Year In Zion
"Autoharp Concerto" Grandpa Jones from Family Album
"Valse Des Reeds" The Savoy Family Band from Turn Loose But Don't Let Go
"S Y S L J F M (The Letter Song)" Joe Tex from I Believe I'm Gonna Make It: The Best Of Joe Tex
"Bizarre Triangle" Hanway Troof from Islands Of Ayle
"S.O.C.A." Asian Dub Foundation from Punkara
"Making A Case For Magic" I Am Robot & Proud from Uphill City
"Strychnine, Breathless Ways" Centro-Matic from Dual Hawks
"You Stood Me Up" Benji Hughes from A Little Extreme EP
"Help Wanted" Company Flow from Funcrusher Plus
"Mama Don't Want No Peas An' Rice An' Coconut Oil" Cleo Brown from Complete Recorded Works March 1935 To June 1935
"Transcription Of Organ Music" Allen Ginsberg from Howls, Raps & Roars
"Uncle Joe" Buffy Sainte-Marie from I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
"Schönes Mädchen" Hauschka from Ferndorf
"Ce N'est Pas Bon" Amadou & Mariam from Welcome To Mali
"4-4-44" Youssou N'Dour from Rokku Mi Rokka
"The Eyes Of Texas" Milton Brown & His Brownies from From the Vaults: Decca Country Classics 1934-1973
"Hello Sunshine" Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles from Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles
"Hey Bartender, There's A Bug In My Beer" Warner Williams & Eddie Pennington from Down Home Saturday Night
"You Only Live Twice" Postmarks from By The Numbers
"Non-Stop Beatles Disco" Cafe Creme from Non-Stop Beatles Disco
"Baby Please" Walter Meego from Voyager
"Null" Midori Hirano from Klo Yuri
"Beatitudes" Cars & Trains from Rusty String
"Play The Role (Liquid Soul Remix)" Bavu Blakes from Nobody Leavin
"Singing Lesson 1 Pt 2 - How The Voice Works" Explore Your Voice from The Confidence To Sing
"Anua" Eddie Henderson from Realization
The War On Sailing. Sundays, 7 to 9am. 91.7 fm KVRX Austin. Like you didn't know.
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