THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION
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Alicia Silverstone
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She has such an interestingly beautiful face
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Rose Leslie by Rebecca Miller for Bust
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Carice van Houten by Janey van Ierland
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Drew Barrymore
The Beastles: Ill Submarine.
This episode is designed not only to make you feel as if you’ve lost your mind, but to actively rot that selfsame mind, for reals. Though recorded live on WCSB, 2013-5-19, half of it is music, collage and extremely (coincidentally?) SubGeniusful movie dialog clips. John Dies at the End (2012) and an episode of Tales of Tomorrow (1951) both contain uncannily SubGenius-centric stretches, which flabbergasted us when we saw them at an iDRMRSR/Dr. Dark movie night. Dr. Dark also provided us with a “scientific” monograph which describes alien cultures as researched via remote viewing — a classic of its kind, read in UFO Channeling Voice by Stang. Mind-wrecking music is by Fishbone, ESO, The Rudy Schwartz Project, and The Amino Acids with a new song (!); collages are from Rev. Royal deCapitator and The Large. We also hear preaching by Brother Freddy of the rogue SubGenius hate group, The Westeros Bobtist Church. Special guest stars: Jack Chick and Lonesome Cowboy Dave (whose buzz this time proved to indeed emanate from the station, not Dave).
“It’s hard knowing that there’s some other guy out there who gets to beat her senseless. In fact, for all I know, there might be someone out there assaulting her right now. And let me tell you, that guy is the luckiest guy in the world.”
“The souvenirs were recalled and buried at the centre of the stone circle in Scarfolk fields, now the only location where the music can still be heard, and only then on the anniversary of the death of Payne’s husband who found himself unexpectedly dismembered during a pagan ritual competition for the under 10s.
“This is a field recording made from the stone circle…”
The Rudy Schwatrtz Project has a new album in distribution, Full Frontal Klugman, and we premiere here three golden tracks (including a cover of SLC’s “Pick A Booger”) plus a SubGeniusly special promo. Much of the rest of the show, interspersed with LeMur barrage and other chunks, is from the February 22 Puzzling Evidence Show recorded at KPFA, Berkeley, when Wei and I, Stang were visiting. (Dr. Drummond was engaged in an important medical experiment that night/morning.) Subject matters include the “Bob” department store chain, the SubGenius video game and abusement park, and speculation about who would win — Hitler or Jesus? A Psycho Skeletons cover of a Nirvana song closes the show.
It’s a good thing that our contributors spend so much time crafting their segments. We at Tarzan’s Radio Studio in Cleveland Heights, where Hour of Slack is assembled, must perforce swing hurriedly from show production to show production; for instance, the credits for this were recorded “on the run” in the Slackermansion bathroom.
“Music and the visual arts are central to the way he approaches his literary craft. It was while touring nightclubs (“a ridiculous concept now of course, but at the time it was something that people did”) with authors from the rave-lit anthology Disco Biscuits, for instance, that he hit on his future direction. Listening to a reader before him, while he waited to go on stage, he became aware that techno music from the next room was “pumping away – doosh doosh doosh doosh, four-to-the-floor – and it was interfering with the reading in quite an interesting way. It suddenly came to my head and I turned to Sarah Champion [the anthology’s editor] and I said: ‘I wonder if you could do a dub version of a story.’ I couldn’t get that idea out of my head…”
Upon our return to the Cleveland Heights Slackermansion after a four month road trip, we did an old-fashioned live show at WCSB with collages, music, Puzzling Evidence clips and the buzz that sometimes comes when Lonesome Cowboy Dave calls in. We plan to buy Dave a cell phone. Collages this time are mostly by Rev. Baby Bear. Songs by The Rudy Schwartz Project and Jonathan Coulton. Background music by Cult of Zir and The Psycho Skeletons. Subjects covered include: Desert Hiking Hints. We Need a New iEverything. Things that Novelty Dinosaurs are Made Of. Pest Western and the Roach Motels of America. Forbidden Geology and the New Names for Crazy Rock Formations. Rain in Death Valley and tortoises who pee themselves to death.
We again intersperse parts of the Ask Dr. Hal Show of 2-15-2013 with appropriate Jonathan Coulton songs and F. LeMur’s collage work. The conversation is energetic, as this episode especially features the great Michael Peppe along with host Dr. Hal and other guests Dr. Philo Drummond, Puzzling Evidence and Rev. Stang. Many subject matters are touched upon, or in some cases struck forcefully, including zombies — but not the Pink kind — and monkeys, including the Pink kind. Also: devil worship and the Church; slug bears; Tartar sauce; bootstraps vs. petards; immortality, Philo-style; SubGenius Chain Gang Lounge Music; Steeple People and the fact that those who call everybody else “sheeple” usually fit the definition of “sheeple” perfectly; and bluff and lies as a path to self-confidence and confidence schemes.
“I’ve had a recording industry that’s made life very hard for me for two decades. At first it somewhat irked me, but then I became like a man possessed. I was determined to get back to making music, and no one has a right to stop me, regardless of their contracts and regardless of their accounting departments. I had to raise enough money over the years in order to put myself back on the map.”
Second hour of a lively Puzzling Evidence show with host Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Philo Drummond, Dr. Hal, Rev. Ivan Stang and Popess Lilith in the KPFA studios, plus esteemed callers Dr. Gary G’broagfran, Rev. Baby Bear, Michael Peppe and others. Music at the open and close is by The Psycho Skeletons and Half Man Half Biscuit; collages by LeMur.
Second half of the 2-hour Puzzling Evidence show of Feb. 8, 2013 with Dr. Hal, Dr. Philo Drummond, Rev. Stang, Princess Wei ‘R.’ Doe, K-Rob, Michael Peppe and numerous callers, including Rev. Baby Bear. Topics heatedly discussed include the then-upcoming asteroid-Earth collision, red dwarf stars breeding superior beings, the Princess Wei Fan Club, Hal’s 12 step success and real estate plan, The Party of Giant Sharks who can’t sleep, New Advanced Amoebas, the Steeple People, Richard the Third’s skeleton, more Church, less air, the cerebral “taint” and more. “This show is The Brain’s Bumper Sticker.” The last 8 minutes are actually the first 8 minutes of a very early show, #287.
Philo’s Description: “The Show regulars are joined by KROB, Michael Peppe and the STANGS (not a new bandname) in whirlwind food service performance that goes beyond the pail or bucket, as it were. In this Show, Church Secrets, Inside-Jokes, Overly Extended Concepts, Preposterously Loveable Conspiracy Theories, are killed while the callers fight desperately for a word. The Puzzling Evidence Radio Show on KPFA. Like an fine old chum bucket filled with half-baked concepts and sweet pickles in an arresting array of florid putrefication.”
“Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo—the immortal proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power—will finally be out April 30, when Fat Possum Records releases the all-new Iggy and the Stooges studio album, Ready To Die.”
(via Iggy and the Stooges “Ready To Die” 4/30/13 | Fat Possum Records)
“Susan Root suffers from a form of tinnitus where music and songs play endless in her head on a loop throughout the day and night.
“Her childhood favourite, Patti Page’s hit How Much is that Doggie in the Window? has been stuck in her head now for the past three years.
“Other tunes which have intermittently tormented the school cleaner during that time also include God Save the Queen, Happy Birthday and Auld Lang Syne…”
