frankenstien's mobster

Ridin' on a train that was not bound for glory

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:39:44 GMT

Saw this yesterday:

Higher than the Stars

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:54:28 GMT

So many great new tracks for this episode. Stream or Download

Wild Dogs in Winter - The Butcher's Wife
Kinski - Losing Touch With My Mind (Spacemen 3 cover)
Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium (Second Time Around)
Secret Shine - Into the Ether
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Look Into the Air
The Meeting Places - Millions
The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
Spiral 25 - Signals
Dead Leaf Echo - Half-Truth
Station Break - Mogwai - I Know You Are But What Am I
Yeti Lane - Think It's Done
Pas de Printemps Pour Marnie - Lose My Breath (My Bloody Valentine cover)
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Out Walking
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars (St. Etienne remix)
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
Furs - Hair Like Fire
All the Saints - Sheffield
Church - Crab Magic
Station Break - Ride - Grasshopper
Asobi Seksu - Miniature Cities
The Sky Drops - Bourgeois Beat
A Place to Bury Strangers - Strictly Looks
Swervedriver - Just Sometimes
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Are You Awake?
Carissa's Wierd - To Be There Now (Nemo Remix)
Secret Shine - Last Leaves
SPC-ECO - Shine On Down (Overnight Mix feat. Alan Moulder)
M83 - We Own the Sky (Maps Remix)
Maps - Don't Fear

Scared Stupid

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:55:50 GMT

So tonight I decided it would be an excellent idea to play Dead Space with the lights out. Got through the entire first chapter and part of the second only screaming like a thirteen year-old two or three times. No prob. Died, turned the lights on and proceeded to do normal not-scary things.
As I was doing not-scary things there issued from behind me a loud THUMP which caused me to scream and flail and scare the shit out of my cat, who had already frightened herself by knocking a bag over and causing a loud THUMP. I fell for the most cliché horror movie scare in the book.

Let the Right One Slip In

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:41:23 GMT

Ever read a book or seen a movie that drew you in so completely that you find it hard to shake off even days later? Something that captivated you so utterly that you feel the atmosphere of it even in the most mundane settings? Let the Right One In did that for me. Every time I step outside I expect to see snow filtering down from a black sky onto a concrete square and hear my short and frozen breaths against the silent night.
Slow and aching, Let the Right One In is exactly what I want from a vampire movie and never get: monstrous horror. Horror that deals with emotion and not just viscera (but don't get me wrong; I love viscera). Lina Liandersson is a phenomena; a child actress whose subtleties can accurately convey ageless weariness, insurmountable hunger, desire, sorrow, and a thinly contained predatory nature. Her relationship as Eli with Oskar (played with genuine childlike fascination by Kåre Hedebrant) tugs at the heartstrings with its familiarity, full of longing for love and acceptance and treading the deep waters of sexual awakening.
I was pretty late to the game in watching this, but I'm glad I did. It will probably be haunting me for some time to come.
Did anyone else see it? What did you think?

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:26:37 GMT

Sometimes I don't especially like my friends.

Possibilites and Likelihoods

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:16:02 GMT

I could talk about how I broke up and got back together with my girlfriend. I could talk about all the work that's gone into the Oktoberfest street party. I could talk about books I've read or movies I've seen. Instead, here's another podcast:

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Les Modules Etranges - Am I Blind
Place 4 Tears - September's Breath
The Slimp - A Hundred Thousand Faces
The Transisters - Ultraviolet on You
Station Break - Noctoflora - Drone 01
Sunsplit - Something for Nothing
Ringo Deathstarr - Swirly
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Light (Love and Rockets cover)
Crocodiles - Sleeping With the Lord
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Mission Dolores
The Layaways - Come Back Home
The High Violets - Fa
Scarlet Youth - Before the Surface Breaks
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Stay Alive
Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever You Are
Spiral 25 - Let the Light Shine On
Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door
The Sky Drops - Swimming With Fishes
SPC-ECO - Shine On Down
Station Break - Limp - Silent Running
Echo and the Bunnymen - Think I Need It Too
The Mary Onettes - Puzzles
The Raveonettes - Suicide
Church - Graveyard
Station Break - Velour 100 - Your Sky
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Trouble
Trespassers William - I Could Go On
Dead Leaf Echo - Woolgathering

Bonus Video Time - The Sky Drops - Truth Is

Into the Abyss

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:55:03 GMT

Smear on your Kohl folks, 'cause this one's got bat wings.
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Gothic Archies - City of the Damned
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (Peel Session)
Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
The Soft Boys - Old Pervert
Bone Orchard - Kicking Up the Sawdust
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surf Bat
Sad Lovers and Giants - Alice (Isn't Playing)
The Dancing Did - Squashed Things
Joy Division - Komakino
The Damned - Fan Club
Misfits - Cough / Cool
45 Grave - Violent World
Station Break - Tones on Tail - Instrumental
Tones on Tail - Twist
Suicide - Johnny
Southern Death Cult - The Crypt
Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper
The Chameleons - Turn to the Vices
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - Fyt
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
The Cure - The Hanging Garden
Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
Ausgang - (You Got the) Hots for Christ
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
UK Decay - For Madmen Only
Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
Station Break - The Cure - The Weedy Burton
Death in June - Heaven Street (mk II)
Attrition - To the Devil!
X-Mal Deutschland - Orient
Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Burning Image - Burning Image, Burning
The Cramps - The Strangeness in Me (Runabouts cover)

Bonus Video Time!

Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Hopeless Vocalizations

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:01:43 GMT

I think I want to sit down and write a letter. Not even about me really. Just a letter. Maybe I should write to someone fictitious and send it. There it will languish in the dead letter office until someone strange and bored decides to break federal law and open it. They will either be pleased, disgusted or bored. I'm okay with all three.

Half Steps and Thirds

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:51:27 GMT

Thanks to everybody who had a kind word. I keep trying to think of Neil Gaiman's Death saying, "You get what everyone gets - a lifetime". Sometimes that helps and sometimes I want to kick Neil Gaiman in the face. Truth will not always set you free. Sometimes it just pisses you off.

Venting Steam

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:29:05 GMT

Eating peanut butter out of a jar with a spoon is for me what eating a tub of Ben & Jerry's is for a lot of people.
I'm not entirely sure why I need comfort food this morning, but I do. Maybe it's the prospect of summer's end. Or that I keep being late on my mortgage because I have no money but being late incurs late fees that I can hardly pay because I have no money. And I have no money because I'm largely irresponsible and probably shouldn't be living in a two-bedroom house by myself but I don't know a single person I could stand living with me.
As a grown up, I think I'm doing about as good a job as anyone. Which is to say shitty.
And I'm almost out of peanut butter.

Make the world go away

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:25:21 GMT

Me: "Movies that don't need to be remade, volume two: Dorian Gray"
JD: "What/"
Me: "Y'know, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde?"
JD: "Obviously it needs to be remade because not enough people have heard of it."

WHAT?

Then he left a rotting pigeon skull on my desk. Next to my food.

Tracks to go to sleep by

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:11:11 GMT

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Tones on Tail - Rain
Comsat Angels - Dark Parade
Colourfield - Windmills of Your Mind
Station Break - Trespassers William - Piano Concert
Devics - Heart and Hands
Centro-Matic - All the Lightning Rods
Carissa's Wierd - Die
Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim
Station Break - Broadcast - Dead the Long Year
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Zaza - Sooner or Later
Bethany Curve - Ann Illusion
Film School - A Taste of Dust
Codeine - Vacancy
Low & Dirty Three - I Hear... Goodnight
Gregor Samsa - These Points Balance
Break - Max Richter - Organum
Air Formation - For the Hours
Doves - Darker
PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan
Break - Gregor Samsa - We'll Lean This Way Forever
The Notwist - Hands on Us
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Bat For Lashes - I Saw A Light
Trespassers William - To Be the One (Idaho cover)

Being Manly is Painful but Satisfying

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:27:37 GMT

Just got back from hanging gutters on the powerhouse. It was a long day of hard work and I really enjoyed myself (though my sunburns from moving the brewhaus yesterday now have sunburns). I'm glad that for my day off I didn't decide to sit around being unproductive, but instead got up early and helped my friends.
Holly in particular is a BAMF, as she hung herself off of the roof to drill in the final seven screws. She never ceases to amaze me. I was only proud of myself for ditching my fear of heights and climbing around on rickety scaffolding thirty feet in the air.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:36:15 GMT

It is phenomenally difficult to care for someone when they won't care for themselves.

New MBV tracks & show

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:43:37 GMT

Well, this is good news. Three tracks of previously unreleased material by (ostensibly) My Bloody Valentine have surfaced on the internet. I play all three of these as well as projects associated with MBV's members post-breakup. Also some newer shoegazing, b-sides and remixes.
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My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Jesus and Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk
Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
Spacemen 3 - Lord, Can You Hear Me?
Station Break - Pale Saints - A Thousand Stars Bust Open
Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup
Swervedriver - Duel
Dinosaur Jr. - Alone
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Are You Awake?
My Bloody Valentine - Cowboy Song
My Bloody Valentine - Kevin Song
My Bloody Valentine - Bilinda Song
Station ID
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
A Place to Bury Strangers - Just Out of Reach
Kevin Shields - City Girl
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Around My Smile
Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter From Home
Station Break - A Place to Bury Strangers - Half Awake
Engineers - Home
Hammock - Take A Drink From My Hands
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - Performance I, Part IV of Coral Sea
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Goodbye
B. Fleishmann & Ms. John Soda - Here She Comes (Slowdive cover)
M83 - We Own the Sky (Maps mix)
The Raveonettes - Here Comes the End

That's About Right

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:49:39 GMT

Two Hours!

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:54:53 GMT

Well, better late than never, for the 10th anniversary of KISU and the 1st anniversary of Beyond the Wall of Sleep, the show has gone to a two-hour format. I didn't plan anything special; just hacked away at the playlist like I normally would. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
Stream It or Download

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
Vivan Girls - I Believe in Nothing
Crippled Black Phoenix - Really, How'd it Get This Way?
Devics - Forget Tomorrow
Bat For Lashes - Two Planets
Station Break - Codeine - W.
Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind
Spiritualized - No God, Only Religion
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Problem (Prids cover)
Portishead - Plastic
Blonde Redhead - Ego Maniac
Station Break - Spindrift - The New West
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Crushed
Crocodiles - Neon Jesus
Furs - Tumbleweeds
Station ID/Top of the Hour - Max Richter - Tokyo Fiddle Song
Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry
Idaho - To Be the One
Codeine - Cave In
Carissa's Wierd - Silently Leaving the Room
Station Break - Carissa's Wierd - The Piano Song
Grouper - When We Fall
Miss Moonlight - Back and Forth
Disinterested - Felt Leaves (feat. Anna-Lynne Williams)
Trespassers William - I Could Go Back
Station Break - Trespassers William - Piano Concert
Low - Whitetail
Cowboy Junkies - It Really Doesn't Matter Anyway
Orbit Service - My Only Friend (Magnetic Fields cover)

Phil Spector Retrospective

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:34:53 GMT

Yup, Phil Spector got convicted for 2nd degree murder yesterday. Yup, he deserved it because Lana Clarkson was an amazingly beautiful and talented woman who will be missed. But that doesn't change Spector's impact on the music that I love as so many people before me have loved, so this episode focuses on the music more than the man.

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The Teddy Bears - To Know Him is to Love Him
The Crystals - He's A Rebel
Connie Francis - Second Hand Love
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Crystals - I Wonder
The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Break - The Ventures - Apache 65
The Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be the Night
The Ronettes - Paradise
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
The Beatles - Across the Universe
Leonard Cohen - Memories
Break - The Pearescents - Ronnie's Night House
The Ramones - Do you Remember Rock n' Roll Radio?
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
The Raveonettes (feat. Ronnie Spector) - Ode to LA
The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You
Tail ID - The Cubs - Ram Charger

Memorial Day should be for Lovers

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:30:54 GMT

Let's not forget that we are not the only ones to remember.
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Patti Smith - Memento Mori
Leonard Cohen - The Story of Isaac
David Bowie - Running Gun Blues
Warsaw - They Walked in Line
Station Break - Gregor Samsa - Makeshift Shelters
The Cure - World War
Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones cover)
Swans - God Loves America
Love and Rockets - Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Station Break - David Bowie - V2 Schneider
Crass - Bloody Revolutions
Skinny Puppy - VX Gas Attack
Butthole Surfers - USSA
Rasputina - Draconian Crackdown

Bonus Video Time!

This video was projected onto the stage during Skinny Puppy's Too Dark Park tour.

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:56:48 GMT

Dear California Supreme Court: FUCK YOU.

http://tinyurl.com/q3z23g

Fri, 22 May 2009 08:34:54 GMT

Dear Liveurinal,

If there were drama involving my recent relationship I would most certainly speak of it here. But there's not. Everything is wonderful and I feel really good.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Eat it, motherfucker.

d

Fire Walk With Me

Sun, 17 May 2009 09:54:30 GMT

David Lynch has teamed up with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse plus a plethora of vocalists from an eclectic range of musicians to release an album and photo book of esoteric, Lynchian proportions. This episode celebrates David Lynch by showcasing the many musical sides of his prolific career. Highlights include Julee Cruise, Martin Gore, Chris Isaak, The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and more. EMI may not release the album but the book of photographs can be purchased at http://www.dnots.com.

Stream or Download

Martin Gore - In My Other World (Julee Cruise cover)
Julee Cruise - Up In Flames
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
The Pixies - In Heaven
Station Break - Fats Waller - Stompin' the Bug
Rebekah Del Rio - Llorando (Crying) (Roy Orbison cover)
David Bowie - Wishful Beginnings
David Lynch - Imaginary Girl
"Little" Jimmy Scott - Sycamore Trees
Station Break - Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme (from Dune)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. The Flaming Lips - Revenge
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. Jason Lytle of Granddaddy - Everytime I'm With You
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. Iggy Pop - Pain
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. Vic Chestnutt - Grim Augury
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. David Lynch - Dark Night of the Soul

Poll

Fri, 15 May 2009 17:44:52 GMT

Astronaut Tim Kopra is taking Echo & the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain album into space for its 30th anniversary. If you could take one album to play in outer space, what would you take?

Kvetch

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:12:59 GMT

So I have to vent a little. As most everybody's figured out by now, I've started seeing this wonderful girl. Things are getting progressively more serious and I like her more all the time. Eventually our circle of friends are going to have to intersect like a Venn Diagram. The problem is, my two very best friends have already made up their minds about her. Based on stuff like, "I've met the girls you date; they're all horrible", or, "I had a class with her. She seemed rich and spoiled." Well, she's none of these fucking things and I can't believe my friends, insular as they are, would disrespect me enough to shrug off my informed opinion about someone I like in favor of their own pre-determined, nebulous judgments. This isn't high school. I've known these people far longer than that and they're more important than family to me. But quite frankly, it's pissing me the fuck off.

Happy Mom's Day

Sun, 10 May 2009 06:58:14 GMT

Here's a collection of songs about moms, both celebratory and derogatory (because we all know we've been awful to our mothers now and again).
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Kate Bush - Mother Stands for Comfort
The Psychedelic Furs - Mother-Son
Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was Moth
Mazzy Star - Umbilical
Station Break - Eluvium - I Will Not Forget That I Have Forgotten
Red House Painters - Mother
Autumn's Grey Solace - Distant Mother
Low - Mom Says
Tori Amos - Maybe California
Station Break - Max Richter - The Twins (Prague)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Mother / Oh Mein Papa
The Raveonettes - Momma I'm A Communist
Rasputina - Momma Was an Opium Smoker
The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song

Bonus video time! I really wanted to play this song, but it didn't fit in with the rest of the tracks. So here it is, in all its ridiculousness, Danzig's "Mother":