The Great Leap Forward

very little blogging

our dsl modem got fried thanks to verizon. no internet until further notice, probably late next week.

i'm writing this from my wife's laptop. on dial-up. it's gay.

All Over The Place - HomegrownRadioNJ.com - 22 Sep 2006 (#23).

No AOTP next week. Show quality remains high, listenership remains low.

AOTP - 22 Sep 2006 - Part 1 [80 min - start to White Door]

AOTP - 22 Sep 2006 - Part 2 [80 min - New Order to The Cure]

Guided By Voices	Striped white jets	Alien lanes	Matador	12:58 AM
Orbit	Medicine	Libido speedway	A&M	12:54 AM
Echo & The Bunnymen	The puppet	Songs to learn and sing	Sire	12:51 AM
The Features	The beginning (week one)	The beginning	Universal	12:48 AM
The Cure	Grinding halt	Three imaginary boys	Rhino	12:46 AM
Breezy Porticos	Gee, your math looks terrific	Keep it crisp	Best Friends	12:43 AM
Ripe	We're all trying to get there	Just a taste	Summershine	12:40 AM
Belle & Sebastian	Get me away from here, I'm dying	Tigermilk	Matador	12:37 AM
New Monsoon	Mountain air	Downstream	New Monsoon	12:29 AM
Wolfie	Hey it's finally yay	Awful mess mystery	Mud/Parasol	12:19 AM
William Shatner	Common people	Has been	Shout! Factory	12:14 AM
William Shatner	The transformed man	The transformed man	Geffen/Chronicles	12:11 AM
Alex de Grassi	Western	Southern exposure	Windham Hill	12:07 AM
Nightnoise	Tundra summer	Something of time	Windham Hill	12:02 AM
Shadowfax	Tsunami	Too far to whisper	Windham Hill	11:57 PM
Howard Jones	City song	Best of Howard Jones	Elektra	11:50 PM
Howard Jones	Bounce right back	Dream into action	Elektra	11:41 PM
Stephen "Tintin" Duffy	Kiss me	7"	10	11:36 PM
Rick Springfield	State of the heart	Tao	RCA	11:33 PM
New Order	Age of consent	Power, corruption & lies	Qwest/Warner Bros.	11:28 PM
White Door	Love breakdown (long vocal version)	Love breakdown 12"	Passport	11:23 PM
Superdrag	Keep it close to me	In the valley of dying stars	The Arena Rock Recording Co.	11:15 PM
Suddenly, Tammy!	Not that dumb	We get there when we do.	Warner Bros.	11:13 PM
The Loud Family	Soul drain	The tape of only Linda	Alias	11:09 PM
The Icicle Works	Up here in the north of England	If you want to defeat your enemy, sing his song	Beggars Banquet	11:03 PM
Doug Martsch	Impossible	Now you know	Warner Bros.	10:57 PM
Stevie Wonder	I believe (when I fall in love it will be forever)	Talking book	Motown	10:49 PM
Joe Jackson	Fast movement	Symphony no. 1	Sony Classical	10:42 PM
Wayne Shorter	Juju	Juju	Blue Note	10:34 PM
Antonio Carlos Jobim	The girl from Ipanema	Tide	A&M/Verve	10:31 PM
Blue Aeroplanes	Spitting out miracles	Spitting out miracles	Fire/Velvel/BMG	10:26 PM
Dwight Yoakam	Love caught up to me	Tomorrow's sounds today	Reprise	10:18 PM
Rodney Crowell	The obscenity prayer	The outsider	Columbia	10:14 PM
Eels	Ugly love	Blinking lights and other revelations	Vagrant	10:11 PM
The Fiery Furnaces	Nevers	Bitter  tea	Fat Possum	10:10 PM

Video mashup: Nine Inch Nails vs. Star Trek.

Courtesy of Tbogg, here's a homoerotic video mashup of Kirk, Spock and NIN's "Closer".

Definitely NSFW.

Watch the original NIN video here or just click on the picture. I never got to see the full version before today because MTV edited the shit out of it way back when. "Scene deleted", indeed:

And here's the mashup:

Kinetic art.

Or more specifically, falling dominoes. From Yahoo!:

Game Theory - Real nighttime - Tracks 6-7.

06. Game Theory - If and when it falls apart

07. Game Theory - Curse of the frontierland

All Over The Place - HomegrownRadioNJ.com - 15 Sep 2006 (#22).

AOTP - 15 Sep 2006 - Part 1 [80 min - start to Bill Cosby]

AOTP - 15 Sep 2006 - Part 2 [80 min - Bill Cosby to Seefeel]

The Blue Nile	Halfway to paradise	The downtown lights CD5	A&M	12:57 AM
The Blue Nile	The wires are down	The downtown lights CD5	A&M	12:51 AM
Dif Juz	Two fine days (and a thunderstorm)	Extractions	4AD	12:49 AM
Seefeel	One	Starethrough EP	Warp	12:27 AM
BT featuring Tori Amos	Blue skies	Rare & remixed	Nettwerk America	12:27 AM
777	Alpha wave (bliss mix)	System 7.3 fire + water	Big Life/Astralwerks	12:22 AM
Placebo	Meds	Meds	Astralwerks	12:19 AM
Wings	Girls' school	London town	MPL/Parlophone	12:14 AM
Paul Collins' Beat	On the highway	The kids are the same	Wagon Wheel/Sony Music	12:11 AM
Michael Penn	No myth	March	RCA	12:02 AM
Candy Butchers	Hang on Mike	Hang on Mike	RPM/Sony	11:59 PM
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs	She may call you up tonight	Under the covers, Vol. 1	Shout! Factory	11:56 PM
Superchunk	Lying in state	Hit self-destruct CD5	Hippy Knight	11:53 PM
Ultra Vivid Scene	Three stars (three stars version)	Staring at the sun 12"	4AD	11:50 PM
Captain Beefheart	Ice cream for crow	Ice cream for crow	Warner Bros.	11:41 PM
Devo	Big mess	Oh no it's Devo!	Infinite Zero/Warner Bros.	11:38 PM
The Young Knives	Loughborough suicide	Voices of animals and men	Transgressive	11:34 PM
Bill Cosby	Chicken heart	Wonderfulness	Warner Bros.	11:22 PM
The New Pornographers	Sing me Spanish techno	Twin cinema	Matador	11:13 PM
Elefant	It's a shame	The black magic show	Hollywood/Kemado	11:10 PM
My Dad Is Dead	Babe in the woods	Shine(r)	Emperor Jones	11:06 PM
The Association	Never my love	The Association's greatest hits	Warner Bros.	11:03 PM
The Negro Problem	Buzzing	Post-minstrel syndrome	Aerial Flipout	11:00 PM
Trash Can Sinatras	Only tongue can tell	Fez	Bobame	10:50 PM
Moose	I'll take tomorrow	Jack CD5	Hut	10:47 PM
The Moon Seven Times	My medicine	The moon seven times	Third Mind/Roadrunner	10:41 PM
Morlenbaum2/Sakamoto	Estrada Branca	Casa	Sony Classical	10:38 PM
Jon Hassell	Voiceprint (Blind from the facts)	City: Works of fiction	Opal/Warner Bros.	10:32 PM
Bill Frisell	I heard it through the grapevine	east/west	Nonesuch	10:22 PM
The Horace Silver Quintet	How long has this been going on?	Silver's blue	Epic	10:18 PM
Grant Green	Ease back	Ain't it funky now	Blue Note	10:13 PM
Dexter Gordon	Three o'clock in the morning	Go	Blue Note	10:08 PM

Game Theory - Real nighttime - Tracks 4 and 5.

Game Theory - I mean it this time

Game Theory - Friend of the family

All Over The Place - HomegrownRadioNJ.com - 8 Sep 2006 (#21).

I'm going to start filing these shows under the Podcast heading. Sorry for the delay - work is hell.

AOTP - 8 Sep - Part 1

AOTP - 8 Sep - Part 2

Depeche Mode	Damaged people	Playing the angel	Sire	12:53 AM
Peter Murphy	Idle flow	Unshattered	Viastar	12:47 AM
Jawbox	Savory	For your own special sweetheart	Atlantic	12:38 AM
Todd Rundgren	Love in action	Bootleg series 3: Nearly human tour	Sanctuary	12:34 AM
Elvis Costello + The Attractions	You belong to me (live)	Armed forces (disc 2)	Rhino	12:32 AM
The Glass Set	You want more	The Glass Set	www.myspace.com/theglassset	12:27 AM
The Swingers	Counting the beat	Counting the beat	Backstreet/MCA	12:25 AM
David Gray	Real love	A new day at midnight	IHT/EastWest	12:15 AM
Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie	Secrets	Good deeds and dirty rags	Capitol	12:11 AM
The Smashing Pumpkins	Perfect	{Rotten apples}	Virgin	12:08 AM
Whipping Boy	We don't need nobody else	Heartworm	Columbia	12:04 AM
Rob Dickinson	My name is love	Fresh wine for the horses	Sanctuary	12:00 AM
Catherine Wheel	I want to touch you	Ferment	Fontana	11:51 PM
Eve 6	Small town trap	Eve 6	RCA	11:47 PM
British Sea Power	Apologies to insect life	The decline of British Sea Power	Rough Trade	11:44 PM
The Delays	The sun always shines on TV	Q Covered: Best of 86/06	Q Magazine	11:38 PM
Rhett Miller	My valentine	The believer	Verve Forecast	11:36 PM
805	Stand in line	Stand in line	RCA	11:28 PM
Stars	Set yourself on fire	Set yourself on fire	Arts & Crafts	11:23 PM
Idlewild	Great times wasted	Live in a hiding place CD5	Parlophone	11:21 PM
The Weakerthans	Diagnosis	Fallow	Sub City	11:17 PM
Hunters & Collectors	Holding down a D	The jaws of life	Slash	11:14 PM
Ride	Sight of you	Waves	Ignition	11:05 PM
Soul Coughing	True dreams of Wichita	Lust in phaze: The best of Soul Coughing	Rhino	11:01 PM
Ben Folds	Jesusland	Live at Tower Records	Epic	10:55 PM
Peter Gabriel	San Jacinto	Security	Geffen	10:44 PM
Ali Farka Toure' & Toumani Diabate'	Monsieur le maire de Niafunke'	In the heart of the moon	Nonesuch	10:40 PM
Gillian Welch	Make me a pallet on your floor	Soul journey	Acony	10:38 PM
Grant Lee Buffalo	Mockingbirds (original 4-track demo)	Yours truly, Grant Lee Buffalo	Slash/Warner Bros.	10:34 PM
Big Dipper	Mr. Woods	Heavens	Homestead	10:29 PM
Guru	Transit ride	Jazzmatazz	Chrysalis	10:23 PM
Stanley Turrentine	A kettle of fish	Joyride	Blue Note	10:18 PM
Scott Cossu	St. Croix	Islands	Windham Hill	10:13 PM
Pat Metheny Group	Beat 70	Letter from home	Geffen	10:09 PM
Miles Davis	Yellow	Aura	Columbia	10:02 PM

Game Theory - Real nighttime -Tracks 1-3.

The classic album from the spring of 1985. I discovered GT just as I was leaving college. After a steady diet of new wave at WRPI, Game Theory was the first indie rock band that I really liked. Scott Miller became one of my favorite songwriters of all time, all the way until The Loud Family's Days for days. Scott made a comeback this year with the new CD, What if it works? Real nighttime is the first album of theirs  that was worth a damn from start to finish. )Their previous releases were somewhat inconsistent.)

One of these days, I'll have to tell you about the time Scott and the LF stayed over at my house.

Available at Amazon for $37 minimum.

01. Game Theory -  Here comes everybody [all 8 seconds of it]

02. Game Theory - 24

03. Game Theory - Waltz the halls always

The Wrens - Silver - Tracks 19-23.

I don't have much time these days, but here's the remainder of the Wrens CD.

19. The Wrens - Me, the misser, the late

20. The Wrens - Dust

21. The Wrens - Grey complexion

22. The Wrens - Strengthless/Decided girl

23. The Wrens - Broken