Halloween Podcast
I've posted a recording of the radio show I hosted and mixed yesterday, a Halloween Celebration of Fear. It's three hours of music, theater, and found sound devoted not just to traditional ghosts and demons but to conspiracies, extraterrestrials, and a host of social anxieties. Among the contents:
* an exorcism in the Phillipines;
* a mid-'60s documentary on the scourge of pornography, mixed with some '70s porn music;
* a right-wing Christian lecture, recorded in the 1970s, on how Ayn Rand was a communist witch writing coded instructions for the Illuminati;
* Mr. Show's exposé of the scourge of Monster Parties;
* a dramatic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"; and
* devilish music by artists ranging from John Cale to Charlie Daniels.
I've also posted last week's program, which has much less in the way of weird mixes and spoken words, and much more in the way of classic country and R&B.
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I hope you included a song by the band Fear. After all, no "Celebration of Fear" would be complete without a rousing rendition of "Beef Bologna."
I thought about throwing in "Let's Have a War" or "I Love Living in the City," but time didn't permit it.
Cool ad for "Zombie Strippers" at the top of the page!
Why did you leave out movies featuring computers that kill people? Like Colossis, 2001 and that ABC Movie of the Week I can never remember the name of?
Maybe next year!
anything from the Melvins?
Thanks Jesse.
Thanks.
There's a guy here at work that I think is supposed to be Captain Jack Sparrow.
He looks more like a butt pirate.
Yay! Thanks, Jesse.
There seems to be an overarching theme in this recording: a "plan." People think they need the notion of something planned because "random" or chaos theory is frightful to those who cannot adapt quickly. For people who think, the necessity for plans is in itself fearful.
I'm pretty sure what I just said doesn't make any sense. Drat. I'm digging the tunes, though.