bowel growels - April 7

This week's show focused on passionate food admiration and my awesomely cool pal Mike Simon, concocting deliciousness at every opportunity, who came on to boil up a pot of sounds and food devotional words.

Not much really to say. Was a lot of fun. Also this was the first attempt at a live in studio performance, and by all accounts it seemed to work out really great. Mike was also kind enough to bring along some delicious leek soup and bake potato construction, both really tasty. We had a heck of a time just trying to roll with the challenges of live radio production spontaneously being problematic. It was a lot of fun though I think Mike will agree.

Tracklist:
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (from Safe as Milk)
Litte Claw - Human Taste (from Human Taste)
Silver Apples - Oscillations (from Contact)
Caroliner Rainbow Strewed Angel  Skins - Wheat Delusion (from I'm Armed with Quarts of Blood)
Caroliner Rainbow Wire Thin Sheep Legs Baking Exhibit - Rainbows Made Meat (from Strike them Hard Strike them  to Church
Caroliner Rainbow Grace Blocks Used in the Placement of Personality - Red Roll Butter Shutters (from Rings of the Awkward Shadows)
(AND some original poems and jams by Mike Simon)

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Bodily Functions - March 31

Inspired by the various quirks and stories relating to the body and how it functions, this week show ended up being understandably pretty crude but also a lot of fun. Continuing in the tradition of using New Directions as a soapbox from which to talk about creative ideas in all the ways they manifest themselves out of our weird minds and through the microphone into your ears.

I was joined this week by Sarah Good, last week's guest Ceda Torma who asked to be invited back (probably cause Sarah and I are such wonderful company) and Dr. Sean Gadoury. We all learned a little something about each other in the process of relating some of our own personal body-related stories, and urged anyone to call in and tell us about their own bodily quirks or stories.

 It was kind of tough to avoid talking about sex and other crude aspects of the body/bodily functions. So to reign it in a bit, the discussion was momentarily redirected towards talking about Sartre's Nausea, which as well as any existentialist novel illustrates the sort of mental feeling of disconnection from our bodies that many people experience in their everyday lives. That feeling of being on auto-pilot and maybe not really being in your body in the moment. I argued that this kind of existential anxiety is perhaps what leads some to go to extremes with their bodies, either through reckless and dangerous thrill seeking that gets your adrenaline pumping or various kinds of pain and pleasure. Basically, a way to shock yourself back into your body. We touched on how this kind of relates to the creative process because making art/creating is our of the many ways that some people vent, and in the novel it is through a jazz recording that the hero is able to overcome the sensation and cope with existence. Definitely a book worth reading, especially the New Directions Publishing edition with the introduction by Hayden Carruth.


Finding music to fit the theme was a bit tougher than expected.  But I think we did okay thanks to some combined efforts.

Tracklistings:
Connie Francis - I Will Wait for You
Magik Markers - Body Rot (off of Boss)
Sonic Youth - Is It My Body? (off of Destroyed Room)
Charles Spearin - Vanessa (from the Happiness Project LP)
The Kinks - Funny Face (from Something Else)
Lamps - I Need a Chick (Devo Cover off of Songs of Sexual Frustration EP)

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The Creative Act - March 24

Local singer/songerwriter Ceda Torma joined my regular co-host/local music goddess Sarah Good  and I for this show to read some of his own poetry, which he often incorporates into his music as lyrics. We had a really great discussion about the process of writing poetry/lyrics.

An enlightening excerpt from a a lecture on the creative act by artist/icon Marcel Duchamps, who was a driving force in questioning/redefining art against a modern landscape of existence, was included for the spoken word portion of the show. It was taken from one of the most excellent web resources on art/music/writing www.ubu.com.  The section with more audio files on/by Duchamps (including a lot of great background info) can be found here. 


Playlist for this week:
Sylvester Anfang II - Salon Cassetten II (from the Commune Cassetten LP on Blackest Rainbow)
Dr. Sean Gadoury  - Floating Island  (from a local cdr release called Floating Island Punches off of his private release label)
Ufomammut -  UFO pt. 1 (off of the record Godlike Snake)
Quasi - My Coffin (off of R&B Transmogrification)
Sun City Girls -Flowers (off of  Torch of Mystics)
Head of Wantastiquet - Mortagne  (off of Mortagne)

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