Theme-based radio show featuring music from various genres: 80s, goth, new wave, punk, classic country, Americana, experimental, oddities, etc . . .
I had a bloody good time with this playlist. I forgot to mention Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
Card by my friend Ernie, 1993
No theme. Aurora borealis. Stories. Lists. Happy Birthday Sofia Coppola, David Byrne, and George Lucas. A few goodbyes.
Postcard: Rene Magritte, La Clef Des Songes / The Interpretation of Dreams, 1935
Godzilla playlist in honor of the filmmaker Ishiro Honda (7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993), who co-wrote and directed Gojira in 1954.
The New York World's Fair opened on Sunday, April 30, 1939 in Queens. It's theme was the World of Tomorrow. This episode starts with some hits from 1939 and moves on to songs about the future.
Postcard: Licensed New York World's Fair Postcard: Actual Photograph, A. Mainzer, 1939
An (incomplete) alphabetic journey through my (mostly) 1980s vinyl.
Postcard: Water Alphabet, 1998 by Abelardo Morell
April 16, 1943 was the day that Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the effects of LSD.
Book: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, originally published in 1954 and 1956, Penguin paperback edition, 1971. Cover shows a detail from Max Ernst's Cocktail Drinker.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake
Greg Stroud, one of my oldest and dearest friends, is my Special Guest DJ for episode #117. He brought a great playlist and during mic breaks he talks about living in Russia in the mid-nineties, adapting and producing a Chekhov play, and starting the CT Examiner in Old Lyme, CT.
Playlist to celebrate the upcoming eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Postcard: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra (Nebra sky disc) - a bronze disc inlaid with gold symbols of sun, moon, and stars, 1800-1600 BCE
Emotions and feelings explored through songs. Happy Birthday to Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015) an actor best known for playing Mr. Spock, a television character on Star Trek, who lacked emotions.
Postcard: Miss Maude Fealy from the "Celebrities of the Stage" series
Just a bunch of working women who kill it. Musically.
Postcard: Wonder Woman by Ellen Shub taken in New Words Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, 1976
