Ink Mathematics

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Jazz music has always interested me, but I was never exposed to it for a long enough period of time for it to really take hold. Awhile back I decided I was going to make a concerted effort to get into jazz, so I went out and picked up a bunch of jazz albums that are considered “essential”. I picked up some Miles Davis, Charles Mingus,  John Coltrane, and a few other notable albums to kick things off and so far I have been enjoying these immensely. Anyway, it’s been a learning process for me, and as of right now I have more than enough jazz albums to digest. For this mix I whipped together a somewhat longer set consisting of some of my newfound jazz favorites. I know most of these songs are considered “classic” in the realm of jazz, but I am playing catch-up, so please forgive me if you’ve heard all or any of these. If you have any jazz recommendations for me please let me know.

Also, I am attempting to streamline this site into the sheik modern masterpiece it deserves to be, do you think it looks ok? I want to get rid of the sidebar and allow the whole site to function in a very simplistic manner. We’ll see how it goes though, I am a fairly shitty web designer so it is taking me a second to figure out how to make my dreams a reality.

And I have been thinking that I would maybe post some classical music up here, what do you think? I recently got a 7 record Beethoven boxset that is really good, so maybe you’d like that? Anyway, make a request if there is something in particular you’d like to hear.

Collin

Artist / Album / Song

Ornette Coleman / The Shape of Jazz to Come / Lonely Woman

Buddy Rich / Stick It / Space Shuttle Short Version

Miles Davis / Kind of Blue / All Blues

Charles Mingus / Mingus at Antibes / Better Git Hit in your Soul

John Coltrane / Blue Train / Blue Train

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It’s been a second but I am back with a real treat, a real treat. Now this record “The Dream World Of Dion McGregor”, which I will post in its’ entirety, was a childhood favorite of mine that my Father purchased on a whim years ago after reading the strange brief description listed on the back of the record sleeve. Dion McGregor was the most prolific somniloquist in recorded history. A Somniloquist, or voluble dreamer, is a person that talks during their sleep. Through the 1950’s Dion McGregor’s roommate taped his surreal narrations and in 1964 an avant garde record was released to minimal fanfare. Dion is incredibly unique due to the way in which he sleep-talks. Rather than mumbling random incoherent words like most sleep-talkers, Dion narrates his dreams eloquently at a conversational tone making them an incredible and surreal experience for the listener. I hope you like these dreams as much as I do. I’ll be posting an actual MUSIC mix up here soon, so stay tuned. Oh, and I don’t know if it is true or not, but while researching this post I came across a site that described Dion McGregor as a “homeless gay bohemian”…..for some reason I have always pictured him as a sort of business man with an incredible imagination and a boring monotonous daily routine trapped in some NYC office, all his creativity came out in his sleep…this changes everything.

bye, Collin

PS. That educationally endowed duo of Jamie and Adrienne have whipped together something special for y’all on their WRUV 90.1 Burlington radioshow, Educational Showdown. It’s a whole two hour show devoted to the topic of “Somnioloquism and the Sleeping Dimension“, chock full of Dion and interesting tidbits…it is far fucking out. Bottomline, I urge you to check out this show in particular and also keep an eye on The Educational Showdown cause I believe they will have plenty of treats for all of us in the future.From the back of the record:

At a moment like this I wish that I were a writer so that I could properly explain what you will hear when you play the record inside this cover. Perhaps it would also help if I were a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a clinical psychologist, a hypnotherapist, etc…etc… But since I am none of the above, i think it best that I simply report to you what I know about this record as the result of my work in connection with it.

About March of 1963 my wife, Nancy, came rushing into my office to tell me that she had just heard some tape recordings of a man by the name of Dion McGregor, who has a habit of “talking in his sleep”. Naturally I said, “go away wife, I’ve word to do.” She didn’t go away so I had to listen to her tell me all about McGregor’s “sleep talking habits…he tells crazy stories that are funny, terrify, serious and pathetic”, she said, “and he does this 3 and 4 times a week”. When she told me that Mike Barr, McGregor’s roommate, got up every morning (at 7:00) to turn on the tape recorder I was really upset, as obviously McGregor’s “talking habits” played havoc with Barr’s health. Then, to top it all, when she told me the “dreams” were coherent, naturally I had to agree to listen for myself. I listened and couldn’t believe my ears, and 150 tapes later I was still amazed. I found the subject matter fascinating, exciting, and with a touch of genius.

I sold the idea to Decca and the problem of what tapes to put into the album began. It took us three months to make the selections and to decide how much editing we should do. We wanted to put together an album that you would find interesting and enjoyable listening without destroying the feel of the unexpurgated versions.

There are many tapes which we would have like to include, but time and subject matter precluded that. Since we felt that so many of the tapes made good reading we convinced Bernard Geis Assosciates to publish them in book form.

Incidentally, I did some detective work on my own to get a little better understanding of the McGregor phenomenon and my only conclusion is that scientifically Dion is quite a difficult phenomenon to define.

P.S. the imperfections of the sound are the result of the conditions under which the recordings had to be made. The background disturbances are the actual sound of the traffic and street noises on First Ave., New York City, as Dion insists on sleeping with his windows wide open.

Jules L. Green

Side One

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1. Val

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2. Our Town

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3. The Gift

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4. The Diet

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5. Peony

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6. The Mogul

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1. The Swimming Pool

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2. The Mustard Battle

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3. Dear Uncle

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4. The Operation

A Pre-Dawn Raga

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An Evening Raga

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Picked up two albums of ragas recently and decided to record one side from each of them for you. The first raga, by Ali Akbar Khan, is intended to be played in the early morning. The Second raga, by Ravi Shankar, is an evening raga. Collin

From the back cover of Pre-Dawn to Sunrise Ragas I reproduce here a portion of an essay by Nat Hentoff:

I often wonder about people who have no passion for music – who would feel no real sense of loss if months and even years went by without their listening to music. I’m sure there any number of reasons in each particular case for this indifference. But I do have an unproved theory that a major contributing cause is the way we in the west are taught to listen to music.

I was often forced to “pay attention” to the way the music was put together rather than to what it was doing to me. “Follow the theme; follow the subtheme; see how it returns to the tonic; this is variation.” and on and on into increased irrelevancy.

I am not saying that knowledge of music structure cannot be pleasurable in itself. But first, it seems to me, there has to be a yielding to and an immersion in the music before knowledge of its structure can bring more than the pleasure of recognizing  you have the ability to discern it architectonics.

…the main characteristic of the Raga is its power to evoke emotion. The mode must seize the listener’s mind and hold it enchanted. But the listener must be willing to be enchanted. He must be willing to enter into a quality of time that has nothing to do with keeping appointments or writing down the exact length of each variation, slow or fast. He must be willing to let his emotions go. For those who can do this, or at lease can make the first tentative beginnings, Indian music can be so instructive an experience – instructive emotionally – that it can affect the way on listens to all kinds of music.

Artist / Album / Song

Ali Akbar Khan / Pre-Dawn to Sunrise Ragas / Raga Bairagi

• Raga Bairagi is to be played very early in the morning from before dawn to the beginning of daybreak. It expresses total devotion to God by giving up all worldly possessions. As the ability to make such sacrifices require the greatest of personal strength and character the raga is intended to be and is here played in the heroic mood.

Ravi Shankar / A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga / Raga Mishra Piloo

• This is intended to be played in the evening.

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It’s been a second since I’ve posted and I am happy to report that I’ve got a hot new one for you. What we have here is the first set from my radio show a few days ago. I’ve been trying to play more and more vinyl on the air, so sometimes the transitions between songs aren’t as smooth as they should be, but I am getting the hang of it. I think I’ll post another set from this particular show early on next week.

Seeya

Collin

Artist / Album / Song

The Animals / Animal Tracks / We Gotta Get Out of This Place

Otis Redding / Otis Blue / Ole Man Trouble

The Rolling Stones / Out of Our Heads / Play With Fire

John Fahey / The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death / Tell Her to Come Back Home

Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash Sings the Songs that Made Him Famous / There You Go

Fats Domino / 20 Best / I Want to Walk you Home

Roy Orbison / In Dreams / House Without Windows

Odetta / Odetta at Carnegie Hall / When I Was a Young Girl

Charles Bukowski in his later years, photograph by Linda Bukowski

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Lately I have been listening to all of the Charles Bukowski discs I acquired from awhile back when I went through a massive CB faze. This faze that I speak of was back in early 2004 when I returned to Montana after doing a study abroad in The Netherlands. For all the typical reasons I returned back to the US completely disillusioned with my life and with few friends still hanging around. It was during this time, and now I look back fondly, that Charles Bukowski found his way onto my bookshelf, and I began to read volume after volume of his work until I had most of it under my belt. It was always little food, lots of coffee, and down in the quiet library between classes reading Bukowski. It’s funny how during hard times you always seem to find some sort of crutch to help you through; CB was mine, and maybe still is one of them, along with this currently never-ending Buddy Holly fixation.

Charles Bukowski + Buddy Holly = Peas in a pod

I often think, and I’m not sure why, of the first time I ever came across CB. I had a professor at Chico State in California that was particularly captivating in class and seemed to radiate some sort of unique wisdom and respectability that was uncommon among the profs I’d had. He was older, tattooed, spoke to the class slowly and eloquently, and taught sitting down behind a large desk. I dreamt of one day possessing his old man attributes for myself, perhaps even before I was an old man. Oh, to be an old man and have respect…sigh. After one class period, during which he showed an optional Holocaust documentary which compelled most of the class to clear out, I approached him and asked him for a few book recommendations. He recommended the Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to: Alex Haley, which affected me deeply, and Notes of a Dirty Old Man by CB.

Along with Notes from a Dirty Old Man, my two other favorite Bukowski books are Ham on Rye and Pulp. Of his books of poetry, which run together in my head, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire stands out as a great anthology with a lot of his best work represented.

I am currently reading Love is a Dog from Hell.

I’ve met a few people poetry majors that bad-mouthed Bukowski and looked down upon his writing style, but for me, just a regular guy with normal thoughts and a limited vocabulary, nothing hits harder and closer, and that is pretty much everything.

Take care of yourself, you hear?

Still a Rabble Rouser from Montana,

Collin

Oh, and it’s nice to have a bunch of different Bukowski recordings, but the only one I need is the incredible double disc Charles Bukowski Uncensored : From the Run With The Hunted Session….Everything here is from that, except for Firestation and They, all of them, know…which came from Charles Bukowski Reads his Poetry

At the very least, listen to Dinosauria, We, and We ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain.

Genius of the crowd

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We aint’t got no money, honey, but we got rain

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Strongest of the strange

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Helping the Old

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Confession

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Dinosauria, we

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Firestation

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They, all of them, know

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Back cover to America

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A few weeks ago at an employee dinner party my boss, Dave, lent me a few records. One of those records was John Fahey’s America, which is incredible, and I have been unable to listen to much of anything else since hearing it. John Fahey is a fingerstyle guitarist and his particular style is described as “american primitive”….which is apparently a term borrowed from painting and refers to the self-taught nature of his particular style of music. I find his music to be completely and totally mind-blowing and I am amazed that he is able to bring forth emotions in me that range from joy to sorrow with simply his solo guitar playing. There is something old and natural about his songs, as if they existed before he ever actually played them. Two of the tracks I have included in this mix, “Mark 1:15 and The Voice of The Turtle”, are 15 minute epics and represent the highlights and the majority of the album, “America”. Unfortunately “mark 1:15” has a few minutes cut off. Anyway, this is a fairly lengthy mix and I included some other tunes that I have been listening to a bit lately. Let me know what you think of these Fahey tracks.

It’s snowing here in Missoula and I just spent an hour shoveling in the dark with this mix on my headphones, it fit.

Bye, Collin

Oh, and here is an interesting article concerning John Fahey and his childhood home in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Artist / Album / Song

John Fahey / America / Mark 1:15

King Crimson / In The Court of the Crimson King / The Court of the Crimson King

The Pentangle / Basket of Light / Light Flight

Bert Jansch / A Rare Conundrum / Day Break

The Pentangle / Basket of Light / Train Song

John Fahey / America / The Voice of the Turtle

Frank Zappa / The Grand Wazoo / Blessed Relief

Side One

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Side Two

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I have been planning on posting Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice” up here for awhile, but never quite got around to getting it transferred from vinyl to digital until yesterday. Now, this is an interesting listen and can be very rewarding and moving if you get extra close to the speaker and close your eyes.

So, on the back of the record we get a description of what “The Human Voice” actually is:

Jean Cocteau’s one-act drama, The Human Voice, is a stunning work. Requiring neither stage nor setting, it communicates the quiet desperation of a woman. The woman is alone, speaking on the telephone with her lover. She says much, intimates much, and leave much unsaid. We can almost hear, whe she pauses, the voice of the lover, disengaging himself from her life irrevocably.

“Had the piece been played in barren Sahara”, said one critic, “the dunes would have moved closer, to listen.” First written by Cocteau for the Comedie Francaise , and later the basis of an opera by Poulenc, the play has challenged many distinguished actresses…..But it has remained for Ingrid Bergman, one of the most sensitive performers of our time, to interpret the work as a recording, in its purest form, as a drama solely for the voice, without visual props, gestures, or facial expressions. All is conveyed by the human voice alone.

It’s amazing, I swear…Talk to you later. Collin

A highlight reel of my set

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Hey, here is the entire 3 hour set of Day and Collin nuking KBGA DJ night that i told you about.

It doesn’t get much better, friends, than spending a Tuesday night in Missoula, MT at the KBGA DJ night at the local billiards hall. My friend Day and I rocked the wheels of steel from 1030 to 2am to a nice-sized laid back crowd at the Palace. Our sets seemed to be all over the place…we heard some rockabilly, some old timey jug-tunes, doom-folk ballads, blip-hop clap-chants, turkish psychedelic death epics, songs of hate, songs of love, yodelin’ back-country classics, contra dancing toe-tappers, reggae head-turners, and whatever other stuff we were able to pull out of the stash of records we brought along in our sacks. It was quite a good time and I hope to be doing it again at some point here. I edited my set down a bit for this particular post into a thirty minute mix consisting of some of my favorite tunes from the night , so I urge you to check that out. If you’ve got some time on your hands go ahead and check out the entire three hour set which features both Day and I…the critics have been loving it. Anyway, be back some time next week with some John Fahey and King Crimson and a few other treats.

Bye….Collin

Artist / Album /Song

The Electric Prunes / Underground / The Great Banana Hoax

Bunzu Sounds / World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love’s a Real Thing /Zinabu

Mogollar /Love Peace and Poetry: Turkish Psychedelic Music /Haliçate Günesin Batisi

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention / We’re Only in it for the Money / Absolutely Free

Tom Waits / Real Gone / Make it Rain

Buddy Holly / The Complete Buddy Holly / Buddy’s Guitar

Donovan / The Hurdy Gurdy Man / The Hurdy Gurdy Man

New Tweedy Brothers / Love, Peace & Poetry: American Psychedelic Bands / Danny’s Song

Bob Dylan / Nashville Skyline / Tell me it isn’t true

Buddy Holly / The Complete Buddy Holly / Because I love You

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I have always liked Buddy Holly and whenever I listen to any of his songs I get the sort of warm feelings that come along with remembering something from the past fondly, such as childhood. My father has always been a Holly fan and when the CD player broke in my parents mini-van, which I now call my own, I searched frantically for cassette tapes but only came up with one, Buddy Holly’s Greatest Hits. Now, this was back in July and I have been listening to this same 35 minute cassette since then. I don’t know how it works, but I never get tired of Holly’s songs, they stick to me and color my day. Well, my gut desire is to share my joy with you and it turns out I have a ten disc buddy holly collection that has every known recording ever done by the man, so I am prepared. I went through that massive collection today and chose a whole bunch of his songs that really do it for me, you know, strike home. Oh, and my manor-mate, Josh (www.joshshaffner.com), has also become thoroughly obsessed with Buddy H and has been strictly listening to the man for the last two weeks or so. Nearly every Buddy Holly song concerns love, but that is ok, what else do you think about when you are in your 20’s, living during the 1950’s, and from Lubbock, Texas? And now that I think about, what else do you think about when you are in your 20’s, living in a opulent palace in middle of a forest, and from Missoula, Montana? Anyway, Holly is in the air and check out Josh’s site…he makes art and he is good at it, bleev me.

I don’t know about you, but if I could go back in time and save one of the many incredible musicians to have died before their time it would be Buddy Holly, he was only 23 years old. Buddy was cheated, many of the others were responsible for their own demise. Who would you save?

So, I have been running through the woods (sans trail) lately and the other day, when I was zoned-out mid-stride with Holly on the headphones, I glimpsed an orange blob rising out of the bushes to the right of me in a heavily forested area. The blob, it turns out, was a human being with an orange hunting vest on and a big game rifle in hand. This guy, who approached me and shot the shit for a second, seemed to be from Sweden or some such place and had been hunting in the area for a few days. I explained to him that my house was literally 500 hundred yards away (bullets can travel up to 3 miles) and he shouldn’t be shooting in the area, but I don’t think my words had much, if any effect on his behavior and I am sure he is up there in the woods this moment waiting for some innocent doe to come foraging through. The house I live in is full of windows, so if I don’t update this blog for a few weeks you can rest assured that a stray bullet shattered the glass which surrounds me and pierced my poor tortured heart.

Oh, and I went and saw The Darjeeling Limited a few weeks ago and enjoyed it thoroughly, although at this particular moment I believe I like the majority of Wes Anderson’s other films (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic) a whole lot more. Anyway, preceding The Darjeeling Limited a short film named, “Hotel Chevalier”, was shown. I loved this film, and although only 13 minutes long it seemed to stay with me days and days after viewing it. If you haven’t seen Hotel Chevalier, or The Darjeeling Limited, then you owe it to yourself to head down to the theater and see a few films that are better than 99% of the garbage that will come out this year.

Collin

Tracklisting (all Buddy Holly and all from The Complete Buddy Holly Collection…Also, many of these are outtakes or different versions)

Buddy Holly Winter Dance Party

Heartbeat

Learning the Game

Maybe Baby

Peggy Sue (alternate)

Well…. All right

Buddy’s Guitar

Love is Strange

Everyday

Wishing

Take your Time

Crying, Waiting, Hoping

I’m Changing All Those Changes

Tell Me How

Not Fade Away

Newscast About Plane Crash

You’re the One

You are My one Desire

The Paul Cohen Phone Call

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Well, so, yesterday my halloween radioshow ideas became all scrambled and I threw my hands up in the air and gave in to my most basic instinct, that is, to do a 2 hour all Frank Zappa Halloween Extravaganza. I spent all of my high school years only, I mean only, listening to FZ and during that time I was able to accumulate all of his 60+ commercial albums, plus countless bootlegs, videos, and other schwag that is now piled up in my childhood bedroom at my folks house. I’m no longer completely obsessed with FZ these days, but I do take a weird sort of pride in my collection and it was fun to be able to bust it out for the old college radio. For this show I ended up choosing a fairly eclectic and odd-ball assortment of zappa tunes, not necessarily “the hits”, but a fairly good representation of his pre-80’s catalog.

Collin

TRACKLIST! Album / Song

We’re Only in it For the Money / Are You Hung Up?

We’re Only in it for the money / Who needs the peace corps?

we’re only in it for the money / Concentration Moon

weasels ripped my flesh / toads of the short forest

uncle meat / electric aunt jemima

uncle meat / prelude to king kong

200 motels / mystery roach

absolutely free / plastic people

Freak out! / I’m not satisfied

hot rats / peaches en regalia

cruising with ruben and the jets / how could I be such a fool?

Chunga’s revenge / chunga’s revenge

another band in L.A. / Dog Breath

Waka/Jawaka / Your Mouth

Grand Wazoo / Eat that Question

overnite sensation / 50/50

apostrophe / Excentrifugal Forz

roxy and elsewhere / cheepnis

bongo fury / debra Kedabra

One size fits all / Can’t afford no shoes

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Hi.

So, here is a mix I am planning on doing this coming wednesday for the radio. The show will be on halloween night, so at first I wanted to make it sort of scary and all that, but that was not easy for me, so instead the songs I chose ended up being either lyrically dark, angry, or simply strange….which was very easy for me. Not the most typical halloween-esque mix, but does anyone really listen to scary music. What is scary music? Marilyn Manson….is that scary? Actually, here is a halloween mix a comrade of mine did that does stand up to the challenge. I tip my hat and stomp my cane in honor of his mix. Anyway, what the hell do I care about halloween? I’ve got work the next day at 4am, so you can probably count this old man out for the costume party down at the bar. Kids and their costumes, bah, who needs them? Having fun is not it’s all cracked up to be. All I need is this little hot computer on my lap, a steaming mug of chamomile tea with honey, and maybe a half an hour in the sauna before bed, now that is a memorable halloween…..oh…sigh.

Ha.

Collin

This mix consists of these artists, albums, and songs:

The Monks / Demo Tapes 1965 / I Hate you

Leonard Cohen / Songs of Love and Hate / Diamonds in The Mine

The Mothers of Invention / We’re Only in it for the Money / Mom and Dad

Smog / Knock Knock / Cold Blooded Old Times

The Mothers of Invention / We’re Only in it for the Money / Let’s Make the Water Turn Black

The Skygreen Leopards / Jehovah Surrender EP / Let the Lions be Swallowed by a Dove

The Books / Music for a French Elevator / Of the Word God

Destroyer / Destroyer’s Rubies / Rubies

Bob Dylan / Time out of Mind / Not Dark Yet

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My boy Bill Callahan (smog) is playing a show here tonight in Missoula and I am at this very moment preparing myself mentally. It’s not too often Missoula gets a concert of this high caliber and I can almost guarantee every hipster and their grandma will be attending this one. The concert is at a bar, The Badlander, and I am slightly worried that the place is going to be packed to the eyeballs with sweaty drunk fools and if you are a Smog fan you know this is not the ideal sort of setting for a show of this type. Oh well, maybe I am wrong and I’ll be able to leisurely stand feet away from Bill and gaze into his eyes longingly as he croons to me in his majestic baritone.

Smog – Feather By Feather MP3

Here is a sweet little mix for you that is based off of my last radioshow. Don’t pass up on Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing, “My Rifle, My Pony, and Me” from the incredible Howard Hawks western, “rio bravo”……that is the true gem of this set. Oh, and the Odetta album, “odetta sings Dylan”, is totally and completely amazing…listen to the two cuts from this mix and see if you agree.

Collin

ARTIST / ALBUM / SONG

Odetta / Odetta Sings Dylan / Baby, I’m in the Mood For You

The Monks / 1965 Demo Tapes / There She Walks

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention / Absolutely Free / Status Back Baby

The Beach Boys / Smiley Smile / Gettin’ Hungry

Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson / My Rifle, My Pony and Me..Movie and TV Soundtracks / “”

Leonard Cohen / Songs From A Room / The Old Revolution

Odetta / Odetta Sings Dylan / Tomorrow is such a long time

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The Seven Commandments

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal
8. So, there you have the Seven Commandments from George Orwell’s Animal Farm that were designed to unite the animals together in a common cause against the humans and to prevent animals from following the humans’ evil habits.
9. This week I am bringing you an uncut version of my radio show from last wendesday that was particularly fun to do, even if the music is of the sad bastard nature. Most often I record my shows and then clean them up a bit before posting them up here, but I am feeling particularly antsy tonight and would like to be done with this computer, so I can go and cook up some grub (slop). Anyway, this time around you will be subject to my terrible radio voice and whatever on-air mistakes I happened to make.
10. Been listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen this week and have been completely taken in by the albums, “songs of Leonard Cohen”, and “Songs from a room”. Why has it taken me so long to discover Leonard Cohen? I got a burned copy of his “best of” years ago, but for some reason it didn’t stick, and I ended up passing it by for years and years.
11. Tonight I am going to watch an italian horror from 1977 called, “suspiria”. In many of the reviews I read for this film it was often times referred to as the horror-gem that contains “the most vicious murder scene ever film”.
12. The story involves a young American ballet student, Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper), who arrives in Germany to attend a prestigious dance academy. On the night of her arrival, there is a torrential downpour, and she is unable to gain admittance to the school. But she witnesses one student, a young blonde girl, flee the building in a panic.
13. The fleeing student is horribly murdered, and Suzy begins having suspicions that all is not as it seems at the school. She begins experiencing inexplicable dizzy spells, and other deaths occur, such as that of the school’s blind pianist, who is savaged by his own guide dog the night after he is fired from his job.
14. Suzy ultimately discovers the school is a front for a coven of witches who practice a diabolical black magic. The headmistress of the school turns out to be a legendary black witch over a century old, who has kept herself alive through satanic rituals. Suzy uncovers the school’s secret chamber where the rituals take place, and manages to kill the ancient witch.
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16. A COVEN OF WITCHES! THE HEADMISTRESS IS OVER A CENTURY OLD!….AND HAS KEPT HERSELF ALIVE THROUGH SATANIC RITUALS!
17. That’s all for today…I hope you enjoy the radio show.
18. Collin
19. Here is my playlist

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Hello.

So, last night was my first live DJ set ever and I whipped together a fairly upbeat and eclectic mix for the occasion (KBGA 89.9 College Radio’s 11th Birthday). The room didn’t really start filling up until near the end of my set, but that was ok with me, I was nervous at the beginning and it was nice not to have too many people looking at me. Anyway, everything went smoothly with the mix and the sound in the place was clear and loud. I am purportedly signed up to do a longer set some time in November, so if that actually happens I’ll make sure and post that up here.

Also, my new radio show, Ink Mathematics, is on wednesday nights from 6-8 on KBGA if you happen to live in Missoula. I’ll probably be posting segments from that show up on this site each week.

As a child my parents gave me absolute free reign over the television and I would spend hours upon hours watching MTV, back when it was good and they actually had music videos. There was one video in particular, Peter Gabriel’s “shock the Monkey”, that used to make me absolutely nuts and I would watch MTV for hours in hopes of seeing it. To see a music artist act in their own video really builds my appreciation for them. I heard that Peter Gabriel nearly died from hypothermia from doing the lake scenes in this video, what commitment!

Here is the set! Artist / Song / album

Peter Gabriel / Shock The Monkey (vocals only)/ Security

The Jay Jays / The Cruncher / In Crowd: The Ultimate Collection 58-67

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band / Clear Spot / Clear Spot

Pere Ubu / The Modern Dance / The Modern Dance

The Monks / Oh, How We Do Now / Black Monk Time

Liquid Liquid / Optimo / Liquid Liquid

The Talking Heads / Animals / Fear of Music

Serge Gainsbourg / Requiem Pour Un Con… (Requiem For A Jerk) / Comic Strip

Tom Waits / Goin’ Out West / bone Machine

The Violent Femmes / Prove My Love / The Violent Femmes

Gang of Four / Natural’s Not In It / Entertainment

I’ve got a very upbeat/rocking mix in the pipes for a half hour live DJ set that I am doing tonight to celebrate KBGA 89.9 college radio’s birthday bash. It’s a little nerve-racking to imagine myself DJing before a crowd since I’ve never done it before, but I crafted a mix of music that can’t be denied, so I hope the tunes make up for my lack of stage presence. later doods.collin