Lots of wacky stuff coming up on tob’s Dubious Goals Committee

TACKER: tob (Tob)
SUBJECT: Upcoming DGC Shows
DATE: 29-Jun-17 19:43:54
HOST: sdf

Lots of wacky stuff coming up on Dubious Goals Committee:
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Friday 6/30: Blowing stuff up.

Saturday 7/1: Fossils preserved by volcanic eruption.

Sunday 7/2: Explosions, plus The Half-Pounder.

Monday 7/3: More of the Half-Pounder Cannon.

Tuesday 7/4: Celebratory Expolsions of Independence!

Wednesday 7/5: Further exploration of blowing stuff up.

Dubious Goals Committee: The best BANG for your buck! Mark your calendar!
(Stock up on FFg and visco NOW kids so you can play along!)

Frozen Music Playlist, Episode 8, June 24, 2017

DEDICATED TO JOHN QUINN

John was an amazing guy and is sorely missed by me and many others. I will repeat here what his family said in his obituary: in lieu of flowers or donations, please consider random acts of kindness to homeless people. John would like this very, very much.

Episode on SoundCloud:  https://soundcloud.com/alexander-rowsell/frozen-music-episode-8/s-wBOMY
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nterview on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-536990848-917789331/sellout-interview-edited

Radiohead – Fitter Happier/Electioneering 05:49 05:49
Intro 02:00 07:49
MC Frontalot – It’s Pitch Dark 04:56 12:45
Orishas – Mujer 03:49 16:34
Coeur de pirate – Adieu 02:27 19:01
First break 02:00 21:01
sellout – Tongue in Cheek 02:10 23:11
sellout interview 09:20 32:31
sellout. – Medication/Isolation 01:59 34:30
Second Break 02:00 36:30
Beaver – Absence Without Leave 05:06 41:36
Lorde – Homemade Dynamite 03:09 44:45
New Zealand spotlight intro 02:00 46:45
Goodshirt – Sophie 03:45 50:30
Miss June – Anxiety on Repeat 02:28 52:58
street chant – Less Chat More Sewing 03:42 56:40
Third Break 02:00 58:40
Local H – Toxic 03:23 62:03
Handsome Furs – Legal Tender 02:50 64:53
Garbage – As Heaven Is Wide 04:43 69:36
Friendlyness & The Human Rights – Right Now
Breeding Ground – Wintergarden
Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends
Love & Rockets – Ball of Confusion (12″ Extended Mix)
The Pack AD – Everyone Looks Like Everyone

CHECK OUT SELLOUT:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selloutpunk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearesellout/
EP LINKS:
Bandcamp: https://selloutpunk.bandcamp.com/album/sellout
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JEnKTIRlgMxSLg2Jmw12R
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1248025536
Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Sellout_Sellout_EP?id=Bei6xecz2gc64o337fdyrvh6k7a
Amazon: Not live yet

Happy 30th Birthday, SDF!

The SDF Public Access UNIX System (or simply SDF) celebrates its 30th birthday on June 16th, 2017! SDF received its first caller on June 16th, 1987 at 300 baud!

Wish SDF a happy birthday and share your first experience on SDF by posting on ‘bboard’ under ‘General’ –> Subject “Happy 30th B’Day SDF!”

Frozen Music Playlist, Episode 6, June 10th, 2017

Kasger – Hide And Seek
The Slaves – Cheer Up London
RATM – People of the Sun
Led Zeppelin – Out On the Tiles
Shred Kelly – The Bear
Lorde – Glory and Gore
Radiohead – No Surprises
MaxNormal – Punch My Teeth Out
Jets Overhead – Fully Shed
Breeding Ground – This Time Tomorrow (they played EdgeFest before it was called EdgeFest! https://everything2.com/title/Edgefest check out the very bottom entry)
Jale – Ali
Veruca Salt – Victrola
Queens of the Stone Age – I Appear Missing
Queens of the Stone Age – Smooth Sailing
Purity Ring – Obedear

 

I Appear Missing

Calling all comas,
Prisoner on the loose.
Description:
A spitting image of me
Except for the heart-shaped hole where the hope runs out

Shock me awake
Tear me apart
Pinned like a note in a hospital gown
Prison of sleep
Deeper down
The rabbit hole never to be found… again

Where are you hiding, my love?
Cast off like a stone.
Feelings raw and exposed when I’m out of control
Pieces were stolen from me
Or dare I say, given away?
Watching the water give in
As I go down the drain
I appear missing now

I go missing,
No longer exist
One day, I hope,
I’m someone you’d miss

Shock me awake
Tear me apart
Pinned like a note in a hospital gown
Deeper I sleep
Further down
The rabbit hole never to be found
It’s only falling in love
Because you hit the ground

Dancing on wire
Both ends are on fire
Cut me loose
Nowhere to run, no more room to pretend
Wandering along the road in the summer night

I go missing,
No longer exist
One day, I hope,
I’m someone you’d miss

Shock me awake
Tear me apart
Pinned like a note in a hospital gown
Deeper I sleep
Further down
The rabbit hole never to be found

Don’t cry
With my toes on the edge it’s such a lovely view
Don’t cry
I never loved anything until I loved you
Inside
I’m over the edge. What can I do?
Shine
I happen to think that it’s all like you

Don’t cry
With my toes on the edge it’s such a lovely view
Don’t cry
I never loved anything until I loved you
Inside
I’m over the edge. What can I do?
Shine

I’ve fallen through.

6/9/2017 My Absence (an apology)

My apologies, family obligations and forgetfulness is the cause of my absence. I haven’t disappeared, just have been insanely busy. Going to finish the track lists that were in drafts that I never got around to posting. From this point forward I do have a reminder set on my phone so I don’t forget.

I wanted to return this week, but a napping 2yr old niece and AC issues are making that impossible. It’s like 86 degrees indoors right now.

Frozen Music Playlist, Episode 5, June 3rd, 2017

Sloan - Underwhelmed 04:43
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 03:31
Queens of the Stone Age - The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died 06:55
Desert Sessions - A#1 03:37
Arcade Fire - Everything Now 05:51
Venus Hum - Hummingbirds 04:00
Sandbox - Curious 03:55
Emily Haines - Carpet 02:48
Metric - Too Little Too Late 04:21
Wolf Alice - Soapy Water 03:42
Not You - twofour 04:01
Jale - Again 03:21
Gorillaz - 19-2000 03:21
Chemical Brothers - Denmark 05:07
Bloodhound Gang - Along Comes Mary
Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
DAF - Was Ziehst Du An Heute Nacht 03:46

A Fun Machine

Tales From SYL Ranch – 2017-06-04

Tales From SYL Ranch
Sunday, May 28, 20:00-22:00 UTC

This week, we’re taking a break from the Old Fan’s Commentary.  Don’t worry, it will return.  We’ve already got several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series and The Animated Series recorded.  We’re holding back Superman for its 40th Anniversary. Close Encounters Of the Third Kind will be along soon.

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There’s also a Commentary for ▥▥▥▥ ▥▥▥▥ ▥▥▥▥ ▥▥▥▥▥ ▥▥ ▥▥▥▥ ▥▥▥▥ ▥▥▥ ▥▥▥▥▥ coming up.  We’ve no idea when.  We’re just making it up as we go along.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy returns after a two-week hiatus.  It’s S02E03 of Zaphod Beeblebrox‘s psychotic episode.

Otherwise, we’re going full Old-Time Radio with a Martian twist.

Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury

We’ve also gone a with decidedly Ray Bradbury emphasis.  Two shows are adaptations of The Martian Chronicles.  The third is an experimental 1973 re-mounting of X-Minus One.

The tracklist for the week:

Setting the Stage
Times Square At Night, 1950
Times Square At Night, 1950

The earliest episode, “The Martian Chronicles,” originally aired on August 18, 1950.

In 1950, nothing we’ve come to take for granted existed.  There was no entertainment of the kind we’ve come to expect.  There was radio, movies … and that was all.

Audio recordings were unknown because the only reel-to-reel tape recorders were physically huge and prohibitively expensive.

The only computers in existence were the size of warehouses.  The phone in your pocket can do more, and billions of times faster.

Typical 1950 TV signal.
Typical 1950 TV signal.

Television was a nascent industry, and entirely black-and-white.  Some homes had TVs, but never more than one.  They produced a grainy, low-definition, analog, broadcast-quality picture.  The signal could be destroyed by all manner of nearby electromagnetic activity.  Running the vacuum cleaner would obliterate the picture.  Nearby storms would do the same.  If you were too close or too far from a station’s transmitter, the picture would become filled with static.

Arvin Table Radio, Model_480-TFM
Arvin Table Radio, Model_480-TFM

Radio was king, however it suffered from the same problems as television.  Sound quality would be unacceptable by modern standards.

As with modern television, networks provided shows to local affiliates.  These shows were exactly the same as today’s TV.  There were news programs, daytime soap-operas, dramas, situation comedies, cop shows, detective shows, and science fiction.  They had similar stories, told through sound rather than video.

There were advertisers as there are today.  In two of Sunday’s episodes, the advertisements are included.  You’ll immediately recognize one sponsor that’s still in business.

Of science fiction, there were two undisputed kings:  Dimension X and X-Minus One.

Dimension X aired 50 weekly episodes from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951.  X-Minus One aired 126 weekly episodes from April 22, 1955 to January 9, 1958.

X-Minus One Advertisement
X-Minus One Advertisement

X-Minus One was essentially a re-mounting of Dimension X with many of the same production personnel.  One can almost speak of both series in the same breath.

Both featured half-hour adaptations of the best science fiction short-stories then published, from the premiere SF magazines of the time:  Astounding and later Galaxy magazines.

Famous names include Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, H. Beam Piper, and a host of others.  I strongly encourage you to listen to both series.  All episodes are in the public domain and are easily-accessible on the Internet Archive.

Most stories are of excellent quality.  As nearly all originate with the best authors of the day, stories hold up well and can easily be translated to modern times.

Audio quality varies.  Some episodes only survive because someone with a wire recorder captured from the radio speaker itself.  On Tales From SYL Ranch, we try and bring you episodes that survive from the studio masters.

Mars Of 1950
Mars in 1950
Mars in 1950

Until telescopes improved and probes sent to Mars, some of the best scientists of the day thought that Mars might be habitable and/or inhabited.  Until the mid-1960s, many serious science fiction stories about a habitable Mars were written.

It’s little-known, but Gene Roddenberry‘s 1965 pitch for Star Trek limited the Enterprise‘s explorations to “planets approximating Earth-Mars conditions, life and social orders.”

Arguably the the most famous Mars story is Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.  To attempt to describe it is impossible.  We strongly recommend that you read it.

While the locale of Mars has long-since been rendered problematic, the story holds up well.  If one simply substitutes an extra-Solar Earth-like planet for Mars, the plot and story could be written today.

Chesley Bonestell's Mars Rocketpad
Chesley Bonestell’s Mars Rocketpad

Some projections of technology are also now problematic.  It’s worth noting that Bradbury predicted the Smart Home, though in a more esoteric fashion than we see today.  As always, one must remember that writers were projecting forward from 1950s technology.  They could never have dreamt of the technological wonderland of 2017.

Aside from that, one simply has to use one’s imagination a bit more.  Good Old-Time Radio shows let the listener follow the action via sound effects.  Mediocre and bad ones (with the exception of Dragnet) narrated.

The only narration Sunday is in “The Martian Chronicles.”  That’s forgivable given the impossible task of reducing multiple short-stories and novellas to a half-hour show.

A family gathered around their radio.
A family gathered around their radio.

So sit back and transport yourself to another era where radio was king.  Imagine sitting in the living room, the family crowded around the radio, listening in earnest to The Martian Chronicles.

Update, Sat Jun 3 17:58:46 UTC 2017:

As a consequence of the following videos, I’ve added a libertarian rant.  It cost me three of the regular tracks, as time was very tight.

Listen for Gun Control Kills.