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Chesty on Coke

Chesty on Coke & Chimichangas, the OK Minister, and Cap’n Whackencracker, Episode Nine of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (10:07 mp3):

Gay Football

This was scheduled to run on last Friday’s NPR All Things Con, but got canceled last minute — we’re still not sure why. That’s no reason y’all shouldn’t hear it, tho.

So here’s something for those who think this week’s “Super” ends not in “Tuesday” but in “bowl.” A gay man crosses the line into unexplored fields, “For once in my life I wanted to watch an entire football game intently.” Mark Allen (from his “The Homosexual Brain” blog-post) with “Gays & Football” (2:05 mp3):

Yes, We Can

If you’ve the overwhelming desire to have pretty celebrities tell ya who to vote for, watch this well-done politimusic video Mr Dippy (aka, Black-Eyed Pea’s will.i.am). He calls it “Yes, We Can.” I call it an obama-nation.

via the Program Doctor.

Carl Warner- Food Fetish Fotos

WFMU’s Blog has a post on Carl Warner’s food-photo-landscapes. “Everything you see in these images can be found in the kitchen. Photographer Carl Warner has painstakingly incorporated all kinds of food into a series of still lifes:”

“The road is paved with cumin, bread mountain off in the distance, peas hang from broccoli trees and cauliflower clouds adorn the heavens:”

Chesty Takes It Off

Chesty takes it all off, throws her voice, gets all excited, and spanks bad monkeys, Episode Eight of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:31 mp3):

In other violence

Graham Smith (aka, the athenian), one of NPR’s Iraq inquisitors, observes a disturbing “journalistic tic” wherein the newscaster segues from bloody-to-bloody story with “In other violence….” Next, it’ll be “In Ultra Violence….”

Musician’s Warm-up

The latest in David Schulman’s Musicians in Their Own Words features vocals by Brazilian Flora Purim, soprano Cecilia Bartoli, folk-singer Gillian Welch, and Tuvan rocker Albert Kuvezin — not in performance but pre-performance, “A Musician’s Guide to the Pre-Concert Warm-Up” (4:25 mp3):

Chesty Calls

Chesty Calls Dog Breath Boat People, Episode Seven of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:50 mp3):

HEMA Store

Now here’s how to sell some stuff: HEMA – online winkelen. Takes about a minute for the party to start, so give it a little time.

Jason Cady & The Artificials

Jason Cady and the Artificials experiment with opera. The following piece is in five parts, Overture, Recitative, Aria, Recitative II, and Finale. The two Recitatives are priceless: they are operatic renditions of everyday conversations, recorded by the composer. “Recitative” (at 2:10 into piece) is about how folk from Michigan say “m’Bye.” Recitative II (at 6:10) dialogs on the dictionary definition of “resplendent.” Jason Cady and the Artificials, “Post-Madonna Prima Donna” (9:35 mp3):

Jason Cady talks about his compositions on the podcast Sound Speaks for Itself.

Baraka- Something in the Way

Poet Amiri Baraka (mp3 from his Media section) performs with The Roots (their Phrenology CD), “Something in the Way of Things” (7:16 mp3):

So Much Noise

David Goren of Shortwaveology produced this “series of [shortwave radio] sound chunks” as part of a sound art workshop at Harvestworks studio. From May 2007, “Mercy, So Much Noise” (5:37 mp3):

Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where our consumer stuff comes from, how its made, who it effects, and where it ends up. Among the results is a 20min. video, The Story of Stuff (also in chapters on YouTube), made by Free Range Studios, the same folk who exposed The Meatrix.

via Puddles of Thought.

Cage- Speech

From the PBS American Masters doc, “I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It” (1990), John Cage prepares for a 1982 performance his 1955 composition for twirling radio dials, “Speech:”

Etch-A-Sketch Art

Intricate Etch-A-Sketches by George Vlosich at ETCHED IN TIME.

Others’ Etch Art at etchasketchist.blogspot.com and ohioart.com/etch.

via NYTimes.

Chesty’s Fur Nuts Pregnancy

Chesty Covers Up– Afghan Style, Episode Six of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (8:50 mp3):

Willy Vlautin- Northline

A new video for a new book by Willy Vlautin (sing/song/git for the band Richmond Fontaine). WV’s first book, The Motel Life, had critics shedding streams of shimmering ink. Northline is his new novel:

Sliced American Pie

Attached to an email from a friend from Panama, Blake Simpson of Juventud Con Una Misión, was the following file. Blake sez:

“In ’84 Dr. Demento aired someone’s tape montage of ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ with many key words borrowed from other songs. I thought “American Pie” would have make a better victim, so with digital advances (i.e., no more razor blades, online music, etc.) I was able, over several months and two countries, to make it happen.”

So with all due respect to Don McLean, here’s a heapin’ helpin’ of Blake Simpson’s “American Spliced Pie” (8:59 mp3):

Following along with this list of artists spliced:

Don McLean
Boston
Barry Manilow
Waylon Jennings
Steely Dan
Morrisey
The Carpenters
Johnny Cash
Peter, Paul and Mary
Madonna
Beach Boys
David Bowie
The Beatles
Carly Simon
Traffic
Styx
Neil Sedaka
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Dire Straits
Bing Crosby
Pink Floyd
Leslie Gore
Louis Armstrong
The Police
The Rolling Stones
Barbra Streisand
The Who
Buddy Holly
The Doobie Brothers
Neil Young
The Everly Brothers
Nazareth
The Guess Who
Elton John
Led Zeppelin
Byrds, The
Memphis Minnie
Cooper, Alice
Kelly, Gene
Ronstadt, Linda
Monotones, The
Frampton, Peter
Michael, George
Lovett, Lyle
Paycheck, Johnny
Lovin’ Spoonful, The
Jewel
Donald Fagen
Golden Earring
Proclaimers, The
Howard Keel
Jackson, Joe
ABBA
Bad Company
Berry, Chuck
Kinks, The
Robbins, Marty
Coe, David Allen
Mitchell, Joni
U2
Paper Lace
Reddy, Helen
Larry Groce
Isley Brothers
C.W. McCall
Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley
Lynard Skynard
Yankovic, “Weird” Al
Price, Ray
Yardbirds, The
Eagles, The
Dylan, Bob
REM
Joplin, Janis
James Gang, The
Queen
Essex, David
Wonder, Stevie
Mothers of Invention, The
Miller, Roger
Jethro Tull
Townshend, Pete
Page, Patti
Simon, Paul
Merman, Ethel
Newman, Randy
Mike Sammes Singers, The
Springsteen, Bruce
Foghat
Grant, Amy
B-52s, The
Krause, Allison
Siouxie and the Banshees
Kansas
Devo
Cray, Robert
Fleetwood Mac
ZZ Top
Sting
Kingston Trio
Manfred Mann
Fitzgerald, Ella
Mountain
Nystrom, Marty
Gene Autry
Green Day
Williams, Hank
Anderson, Lynn
Talking Heads, The
Cheap Trick
Zappa, Frank
Idol, Billy
Bob McGrath
Marshall Tucker Band, The
Shannon, Del
Rogers, Kenny
Toto
Eminem
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The
Rundgren, Todd
Justo Almario
Zevon, Warren
Black Sabbath
Starland Vocal Band, The
Merle Haggard
Julie Andrews
Hall, Tom T.
Roberta Flack
Margaret, Anne
Greenwood, Lee
Diamond, Neil
Band, The
Travolta, John
Left Banke, The
Men At Work
Huey Lewis and the News
Free
Martha and the Vandellas
Lennon, John
Blondie
Thin Lizzie
Stevens, Cat
O’Connor, Donald
Monkees, The
Procol Harum
Band of Gypsys
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Pastor Mike, Watts CA cast

This week’s HV cast — When the last school bell rings, Pastor Mike Cummings stands in front of Jordan High School in Watts, Los Angeles. Jordan High is next door to the gang-ridden Jordan Downs projects, which students have to pass through to go home — sometimes with Pastor Mike at their side. A story by Queena Kim, “Pastor Mike at Jordan High” (3:22 mp3):

Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra “performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos:”
via Mountain Music Project.