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AudioLingo 93: Creezus Jeightly Scales and fur fly in The Joyous Meeting of Creezus Jeightly and His Good Friend Arliss. This is the eleventh installment of News From the Edge, written and read by Carter Willet. The music contains samples from The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid and At the House of the Clerkenwell [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 93: Creezus Jeightly Scales and fur fly in The Joyous Meeting of Creezus Jeightly and His Good Friend Arliss. This is the eleventh installment of News From the Edge, written and read by Carter Willet. The music contains samples from The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid and At the House of the Clerkenwell [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 92: Aftermath A couple of short pieces about the mess of war. War & Peace is by Luis Cernuda, translated from Spanish by David Unger. The End and the Beginning is by Wis?awa Szymborska, translated from Polish by Joanna Trzeciak. In between is a million miles from saturday night by tehwa. And the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 92: Aftermath A couple of short pieces about the mess of war. War & Peace is by Luis Cernuda, translated from Spanish by David Unger. The End and the Beginning is by WisÅ‚awa Szymborska, translated from Polish by Joanna Trzeciak. In between is a million miles from saturday night by tehwa. And the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 91: The Contest Fred Sims and Dotty Wasserman compete in The Contest, from Grace Paley’s first collection of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959 by Doubleday. Bass solo by tehwa. Sorry about the buzz. Too much coffee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 91: The Contest Fred Sims and Dotty Wasserman compete in The Contest, from Grace Paley’s first collection of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959 by Doubleday. Bass solo by tehwa. Sorry about the buzz. Too much coffee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 90: Goldilocks A remix of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the core of which was recorded on Disneyland Records with Rica Moore narrating and Shelly Manne sticking the drums. The first half gets a walking bass by Stett Audio, and in the post-slumber edition has samples from Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf. In between and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 90: Goldilocks A remix of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the core of which was recorded on Disneyland Records with Rica Moore narrating and Shelly Manne sticking the drums. The first half gets a walking bass by Stett Audio, and in the post-slumber edition has samples from Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf. In between and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 89: Gormenghast A cursory glance at the first page of each Gormenghast novel, by Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone were published by Eyre & Spottiswoode from 1946 to 1959. Must-reads all for Goths and Steampunks. The music is by Irmin Schmidt. The Overture and Sepulchrave’s Aria come from the fantasy opera, Gormenghast. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 89: Gormenghast A cursory glance at the first page of each Gormenghast novel, by Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone were published by Eyre & Spottiswoode from 1946 to 1959. Must-reads all for Goths and Steampunks. The music is by Irmin Schmidt. The Overture and Sepulchrave’s Aria come from the fantasy opera, Gormenghast. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audiolingo 88: Axolotl Man consumed by salamander. Axolotl, a story by Julio Cortázar found in The End of the Game, published in 1967 by Pantheon and 1978 by Harpercollins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 88: Axolotl Man consumed by salamander. Axolotl, a story by Julio Cortázar found in The End of the Game, published in 1967 by Pantheon and 1978 by Harpercollins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 87: Many Hats of Sandburg Carl Sandburg was every bit as much a storyteller as a poet. This piece proves it. It’s called Many Hats and it was included in Good Morning America, published in 1928 by Harcourt Brace. His subject matter, as usual, was larger than life: the Grand Canyon. The stories it tells are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 87: Many Hats of Sandburg Carl Sandburg was every bit as much a storyteller as a poet. This piece proves it. It’s called Many Hats and it was included in Good Morning America, published in 1928 by Harcourt Brace. His subject matter, as usual, was larger than life: the Grand Canyon. The stories it tells are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 86: My Bad Vickie hangs me out to dry for being so late. Excuses follow. My blog has gone from fun pastime to scary obsession, what with all the collecting, remixing, painting, scanning, tweaking, posting and writing about all the critters there. My business eats all my weekday daylight hours. KABF music-directorhood and Audio 101 and World Tour steal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 86: My Bad Vickie hangs me out to dry for being so late. Excuses follow. 1. My blog has gone from fun pastime to scary obsession, what with all the collecting, remixing, painting, scanning, tweaking, posting and writing about all the critters there. 2. My business eats all my weekday daylight hours. 3. KABF music-directorhood and Audio 101 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 85: Pure Drivel Some Pure-D Drivel from Steve Martin. A story like this makes it evident Steve Martin could have been a latter day Robert Benchley if he’d just not have been led astray by that pesky Hollywood. Come to think of it, Benchley was somewhat led astray by Hollywood himself, but still managed to write book after [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 85: Pure Drivel Some Pure-D Drivel from Steve Martin. A story like this makes it evident Steve Martin could have been a latter day Robert Benchley if he’d just not have been led astray by that pesky Hollywood. Come to think of it, Benchley was somewhat led astray by Hollywood himself, but still managed to write book after [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 84: Vitreous Trimfins Carter Willet returns with Number Ten from News From the Edge, Arguments Over the Twilight Module and the Disposition of Vitreous Trimfins. The Trimfin voices are segments of Idle Chatter, Notjustmoreidlechatter, and Idle Chatter Junior, by Paul Lansky. He has lots of samples and info on his Princeton site. And check out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 84: Vitreous Trimfins Carter Willet returns with Number Ten from News From the Edge, Arguments Over the Twilight Module and the Disposition of Vitreous Trimfins. The Trimfin voices are segments of Idle Chatter, Notjustmoreidlechatter, and Idle Chatter Junior, by Paul Lansky. He has lots of samples and info on his Princeton site. And check out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 83: Millaysian Offering A tribal grunt is followed by a Counting-Out Rhyme by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Then another Edna, The Singing Woman From the Wood’s Edge. Both are backed by Glass Drum by Stett Audio: OpSound here and MySpace here. Then, an Offering by Staraya Derevnya: OpSound here, Jamendo here and MySpace here. Back [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 83: Millaysian Offering A tribal grunt is followed by a Counting-Out Rhyme by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Then another Edna, The Singing Woman From the Wood’s Edge. Both are backed by Glass Drum by Stett Audio: OpSound here and MySpace here. Then, an Offering by Staraya Derevnya: OpSound here, Jamendo here and MySpace here. Back [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 82: Tralfamadore 2 Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. This is the third and final ode to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., borrowing from the text of Slaughterhouse Five and the abridged reading by the author as recorded by Caedmon Records in 1973. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 81: Tralfamadore 1 Astronomers discovered the planet Tralfamadore in the year 1959 when Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote The Sirens of Titan, published by Dell. It was the home of the messenger Salo, a machine with a mission. Extra bonus: Tralfamadorian origin legend. This two parter will have to be a three parter since Billy Pilgrim won’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 80: Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote Harrison Bergeron in 1961. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, included later in Welcome to the Monkey House.This is part 1 of a two part send up to Vonnegut. Next stop: Tralfamadore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 79: Some Colorful Weather As you well know, grunt fronts bring about moral decay. So, next time you shuttle to Trixxid, watch the skies for Some Colorful Weather. This is number nine in News From the Edge by Carter Willett. Music is Sacred Rites of the Left Hand Path by John Zorn. It comes from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 78: Rock and Ruin We stand in Seventh Century rubble and look back further with The Ruin, author unknown, translated from Anglo Saxon by Robert S. Zelenka. Then Loren Eiseley marvels over The Hand Ax, from Notes of an Alchemist, published by Scribners in 1972.Music is by Stephen Jay. Underwater comes from Rounder Gaze and Ti [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 78: Rock and Ruin We stand in Seventh Century rubble and look back further with The Ruin, author unknown, translated from Anglo Saxon by Robert S. Zelenka. Then Loren Eiseley marvels over The Hand Ax, from Notes of an Alchemist, published by Scribners in 1972.Music is by Stephen Jay. Underwater comes from Rounder Gaze and Ti [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 78: Rock and Ruin We stand in Seventh Century rubble and look back further with The Ruin, author unknown, translated from Anglo Saxon by Robert S. Zelenka. Then Loren Eiseley marvels over The Hand Ax, from Notes of an Alchemist, published by Scribners in 1972.Music is by Stephen Jay. Underwater comes from Rounder Gaze and Ti [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 78: Rock and Ruin We stand in Seventh Century rubble and look back further with The Ruin, author unknown, translated from Anglo Saxon by Robert S. Zelenka. Then Loren Eiseley marvels over The Hand Ax, from Notes of an Alchemist, published by Scribners in 1972. Music is by Stephen Jay. Underwater comes from Rounder Gaze and Ti [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 77: Elmslie Bars Granary Books describes 26 Bars by Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard as “pureed anthropological tales of fantasy drinking establishments.” I’ll drink to that. Here are Big Bar and Top O’ Silo set to two numbers by soplerfo - Mode To and Garo Knows. And the braided fraulein in between is Lederhosen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 76: Truncheon Footwear Carter Willet returns with another dispatch from the terminal. The Unexpected Actions of Truncheon Footwear and Their Effects on the Spavian Princess and Her Implant. The music is Curiosidade. It’s an Amon Tobin remix of Tom Zé and comes from Tom’s Luaka Bop release, Postmodern Platos.Got the date wrong yet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 76: Truncheon Footwear Carter Willet returns with another dispatch from the terminal. The Unexpected Actions of Truncheon Footwear and Their Effects on the Spavian Princess and Her Implant. The music is Curiosidade. It’s an Amon Tobin remix of Tom Zé and comes from Tom’s Luaka Bop release, Postmodern Platos.Got the date wrong yet again. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 75: Pan Enthralled by Pan’s Labyrinth, I remixed the Lullabye with dogs, bugs, children, and mortar rounds. Then I read A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning over Que Ma Joie Se Meure by Laurent Rochelle. And then, Neil Gaiman’s recitation of his Faerie Reel, lifted from the RU Sirius Show and mixed with more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 75: Pan Enthralled by Pan’s Labyrinth, I remixed the Lullabye with dogs, bugs, children, and mortar rounds. Then I read A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning over Que Ma Joie Se Meure by Laurent Rochelle. And then, Neil Gaiman’s recitation of his Faerie Reel, lifted from the RU Sirius Show and mixed with more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 74: 2006 Grab Bag A veritable cornocopian smorgasbord of snippetry from the Audiolingo archives of 2006. You have been warned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 74: 2006 Grab Bag A veritable cornocopian smorgasbord of snippetry from the Audiolingo archives of 2006. You have been warned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 73: Junius Maltby A straight read of Junius Maltby, one of my favorite short stories. It was written by John Steinbeck and included in The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932 originally by Covici-Friede and subsequently by Viking and Bantam.(Note: Not the typical ten minute podcast. This one runs about 49 minutes.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 73: Junius Maltby A straight read of Junius Maltby, one of my favorite short stories. It was written by John Steinbeck and included in The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932 originally by Covici-Friede and subsequently by Viking and Bantam.(Note: Not the typical ten minute podcast. This one runs about 49 minutes.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 72: Special Turkeys In this, the seventh story of carterwillett’s News From the Edge, Moon Gaffers make lumpbrains of themselves in their quest for special turkeys. Music is That Yawning Hollow Void by Michael Forrest. Here’s his site and here’s his Jamendo portal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 72: Special Turkeys In this, the seventh story of carterwillett’s News From the Edge, Moon Gaffers make lumpbrains of themselves in their quest for special turkeys. Music is That Yawning Hollow Void by Michael Forrest. Here’s his site and here’s his Jamendo portal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 71: Pie I hope it’s not too late for you to learn the rules of Pie. A wonderful poem by Susan Bright. Happy Thanksgiving.©Susan Bright, 1987.Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 71: Pie I hope it’s not too late for you to learn the rules of Pie. A wonderful poem by Susan Bright. Happy Thanksgiving.©Susan Bright, 1987.Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 70: Dear Diary Here’s an idea. Start a diary. Only don’t use your boring old life. Make up one. Next time, try on another. I did that a half dozen times this year on my blog. What did it get me? A podcast episode.The music is by my neighbor across the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 70: Dear Diary Here’s an idea. Start a diary. Only don’t use your boring old life. Make up one. Next time, try on another. I did that a half dozen times this year on my blog. What did it get me? A podcast episode.The music is by my neighbor across the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 69: The Suckfist Defense The Public Domain belches forth Lord Suckfist, defendant before the court of Pantagruel, from Gargantua and Pantagruel, written by François Rabelais between 1632 and 1652. The music is March of the Dizzy Loonies by Kat Spot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 69: The Suckfist Defense The Public Domain belches forth Lord Suckfist, defendant before the court of Pantagruel, from Gargantua and Pantagruel, written by François Rabelais between 1632 and 1652. The music is March of the Dizzy Loonies by Kat Spot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 68: Lovecraft’s Book The Book was neither a book nor a story. More a fragment, it was written by H.P. Lovecraft three years before his death and appears in several collections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 68: Lovecraft’s Book The Book was neither a book nor a story. More a fragment, it was written by H.P. Lovecraft three years before his death and appears in several collections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 67: Bubblix Mumphries Carter Willet returns to earth with further News From the Edge. He brings you El-Barzongo and the Disquieting Metamorphosis of Bubblix Mumphries. Chimpy Loops come from Kurt Kronke of the Kronkaphone podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 67: Bubblix Mumphries Carter Willet returns to earth with further News From the Edge. He brings you El-Barzongo and the Disquieting Metamorphosis of Bubblix Mumphries. Chimpy Loops come from Kurt Kronke of the Kronkaphone podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 66: Robert Benchley Two Happy Childhood Tales of yesteryear, gay little legends of a simpler time, written by the quandarious Robert Benchley and included in No Poems: Or Around the World Backwards and Sideways (Harper’s 1932). Music by the five-reeded Clarinet Thing from Agony Pipes and Misery Sticks. Thanks, Beth Custer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 65: Glenn Gould A wee mashup of an excerpt from Glenn Gould: Variations on an Artist, a production by the CBC. The section deals with Gould’s experiments in radio documentary slash sound collage, excellent examples of such being the Solitude Trilogy. Music is They’ll Have Apple Juice On The Submarine and is by Cagey House from his Steel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 64: Podders Block My excuse for poddly underachievement is sandwiched between two percussive tracks from Older Than Dirt by Marc Black, a collage of unknown (so sorry) podcasters and audiobloggers, and The Drunk in the Furnace, a poem by W.S. Merwin. My blog’s to blame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 63: Comforts Last Stand No need to mourn the loss of Comfort Stand since so much great music still resides there. I sample a handful of their many artists and mix in some shortwave weirdos and Signs by poet Charles Martin. Musicians include Otis Fodder, Dan Deacon, Okapi, Lee Rosevere and Tapeworm Collective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 62: On Vacation I have taken leave of absence and my senses, but I leave you with Lullaby Big, taken from Impossible Holidays by the always wonderful Irmin Schmidt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 57 Varieties of Spam I confess I am a victim of podder’s block. Will it be worth the wait? Hell no. What you get is a rehashing of Spam Haiku and scrappling for the meaning of zen. I’m so sorry. Incidentals by Stephen Stills and Monty Python. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 56: Preach and Pray Two mash-ups:A Splendid Sermon, which marries Sermon #1 by eightprime with En fabelaktig sjebne (A Splendid Destiny) by Mortenjohs; followed by RiverValley, composed of Down to the Valley by Little Axe and Down to the River to Pray by Alison Krauss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 55: Busier Than Usual News From the Edge number three features Bravis Jernigan and his awful prodgies, an infestation of rarshicks in the terminal, and the grand entrance of Scarpi Piranza. Sort of a Fellini parade through the Edge of the Runway. Written and read by Carter Willett. Music is Breaking by Adkins and Duo by Octif. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 54: Great Bush Hits Ten quickie George Bush mash-ups. Most of these have been around the block a time or two, but what the hay - I say kick a man who’s down in the polls. 1. George W. Bushum mix by Dept. of Corrections. (Do a search on a-Infos Radio Project to find more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 53: Italo Calvino Boiled essences of three short stories by Italo Calvino; Making Do, Conscience and The Flash. They’re from Numbers in the Dark and other stories, published in 1995 by Vintage International. The music is by Soplerfo - aka Samuel Brelsfoard - and the titles are Lumb, Garo Knows, Paper Bags & Swallow Parts. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 52: Quiet Time on Edge The second installment of News From the Edge by carterwillett is titled Unusually Quiet Time in a Day In the Life at the Edge. Ambience and Tesser Tubes by Kurt Kronke. Other sounds by Djet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 51: 666 I reflect a bit on Revelations, particularly the bit about vials of wrath. Then the Kings of Mongrel Folk, Mark Graham and Orville Johnson, introduce us to 667. And the Seventh Seal is broken by Aphrodite’s Child by the Aegean Sea from 666. I hope I’m not violating the TradeMark of the Beast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 50: Stanley Kunitz I read three short poems by Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006). The Long Boat, The Snakes of September and Passing Through. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo 49: Johnny Caloric News From the Edge by J.W King begins with ‘Johnny Caloric.’ Strange cargo arrives at the Terminal. A warning: Dithersheen is spoken in this episode. Disnub flackle crum. Squozzum? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #44: Viggo Lotusland I read Land of the Lotus Eaters by Henrikas Radauskas with music by Mars Galliculus from The Clown. Then, Viggo Mortensen performs Business, Nine, Show & Chucko with musicians Andy Armer, James Cruce, Smokey Hormel and Duke McVinnie, from Don’t Tell Me What To Do, recorded live at KCRW in 1993. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #39: All a Bad Dream Ambien drivers and short-wave preachers to bend your ears. A Leap Second collage from the readers of Create Digital Music is worked into three voices surfing on short waves with music by Opsound artist Semebasta. A bit of Sleepwalkers sung by Barbara Mauritz of Lamb from Cross Between. Then my take on motorists tooling around on Ambien, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #38: Alpine Rocket Stew Orchestra tunes, Donavan croons and Michael Davidson thinks the Alps. Kurt Kronke fills in the dreamcloudy background. Sturclub devolves to orchestra tuning out. Kurt returns with a Kronkaphone cast, Rockets of Koblenzer, with a little Mortenjohs in the mix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #37: Sex, Food&Chickens After Lenny Bruce’s chicken (out of print), the subject of sex takes a decidedly kitchenward slant, with a fruity Oatybar jingle, a Bessie Smith bowl and bun-filler, a Godley and Creme luncheon companion (out of print), and just a smidgen of a taste of what Dan Reeder craves. (Oh Boy.) In between layers is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #36: W.H.Auden On what would be his 99th birthday, here are two poems by W.H. Auden. “The Shield Of Achilles” and “The Unknown Citizen.” I have been spending too much time having fun with my new blog to spend the time I need to here. Next time, no talking head; it’s time to get back to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #35: John Ciardi What luck it was to find John Ciardi’s books on the shelf so many years ago. He was in awe over the power of words and his wonder was contagious. Here I take down Selected Poems, published in 1984. (A better collection would be Collected Poems of John Ciardi, published in 1997.) I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #34: Bums Seriously, all I need is two dollars to get back home where James Dickey has Bums on Waking and Marc Black and the Accidental Orchestras have Bum’s Paradise and then Flies Around from Dark Light Dark and Bob Frank - he’s my buddy - does this thing called Wino and waits ‘Til the Trash Truck [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #32: Let’s From Some Dry Loaf Moon the Stars The voice of e.e. cummings (albeit altered) offers Let’s From Some Loud Unworld’s Most Rightful Wrong… with a Moondog flourish.Dry Loaf by Wallace Stevens casts a military pall on the landscape and JP Mercury provides the soundtrack with Falling Into Unknown from Fundamentalist Fruitcake, archived (where else?) on archive.org.And then we discover where stars come [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #31: Taxi Now Redux A remix of some of the dialogue and music from Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now. Why? It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now that it’s done, seems gooder even. Besides the narration by Martin Sheen and Robert DeNiro, the dark undercurrent and creepy progression toward an inevitable outcome [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #30.1: Armilla and Euphemia Two of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Music is an excerpt of ‘Mirage’ from Holger Czukay’s Good Morning Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #30: Babies Curtain rises. New Year Baby ushered in. Babies read the Book of the Dead and discover torque when discovered by Mary Koncel, from You Can Tell the Horse Anything, published by Tupelo Press. Music behind both is “Dripping Shadow” by Gabor Csupo, from Liquid Fire on Tone Casualties. Juan Jose Arreola finds the babies a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #29: Nutcracker Redux Three warped interpetations of The Nutcracker. A djBC mash-up - Nutbreaker - gets things rolling. It and many other fine and odd Yuletide ditties are on the Santastic mash-up project and can be found, free for the download, here. Next is a literary mash-up, of sorts. I explore the plot outline of the ballet and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #28: Paint Your Sofa A short tale of interior decorating. Music is by Hamish Low, aka The Hijiyama Project. The song behind the story is Fear of Earthquakes and the other is When Every Day is the Same. They are open sourced via Opsound.Closing music is Plink Plank Plunk by Norman Paris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #27: Affront Taken Aback We begin with a bit of Manx - a crab report with sample from Virginia Rosa…The curtain then rises on The Affront, written by Adam Hindman and performed by moi. What an inventory of insults. If you can, check out his wikis of sorts on the Kanaga Device and the Laslow Motor…Then Mars [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #26: Credo Chat A storm rolls in and I find two out of 73 poems by e.e.cummings, one of the Robinson poems by Weldon Kees, and some observations from grunt reporter Mark Stamey, as recorded by Brook Gladstone for NPR’s On the Media and remixed by me. The music is a mix of Age and Bhopal by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #25: Babelscan Thwarms! Again we scan the short wave dial in search of salvation and find only static cling. Gigi or someone like him said something first and supposedly Orb Gettarr supplies the music. The scan continues with Sparkle in Grey providing the Painless Delusion Song and my alter ego rears my ugly head. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #24: Galsworthy Grand! It’s “Without Benefit of Galsworthy” by John Collier, in which Major Jack of Cheltenham is smitten by a Goddess. This is one of the less fantastic stories found in Fancies and Goodnights, published in 1951 by Doubleday. When Collier wasn’t busy mixing love potions or conjuring devils and witches, he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #23: Cell Phone Robbery Ripped from the headlines. A snub nosed missive, in which I imagine who she was talking to. This one goes out to the cute but oblivious one, wherever she may be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #22: A Port Hanging around a port, we meet some crusty old salts. Hilary Corke not only translated many of the poems of Paul Valery, he wrote his own, too. Posh, a sonnet, is one. Music is a combination of Paul Hostetter guitar from the Joseph Spence tribute album “Out on the Rolling Sea” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #21: archy and mehitabel can a cockroach write poetry question markarchy can the typewriter poses a problempunctuation is not worth the time andthe shift key is out of the question stillhe has battered his head against the keysfor about ninety years which is a long timein cockroach yearsTwo from the very first book, archy and mehitabel. Music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo#20:Chimeras and Cephalopod Two rapid All Hallows shudders from Charles Baudelaire and Sakutaro Hagiwara. To Every Man His Own Chimera and The Undying Octopus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #19: Oddzenends A grab bag of stuff.A squelchy fable. The Garden of Love by William Blake, from Songs of Experience. A cut-up of Earl Nightingale explaining the keys to happiness and success, with serendipitous skip and Francis Dhomont. Another Song of Experience, The Fly. This time Sir Ralph recites to a ska hoedown [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #18: Down in Arkansas A few stories and songs from the Ozarks.The tall tales (Hoop Snake, A Preacher in the House & Uncle Cheyenne, Storyteller) are by the late Melvin D. Anglin of Berryville. They come from ‘Not Far From Here: Traditional Tales and Songs Recorded in the Arkansas Ozarks’ (out of print) on Arkansas Traditions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AudioLingo #17: Bugs and Drugs We return you to 1956, when giant mutant insects invaded our cities. It’s American Primitive 2: Bugs 1956, and it’s by William Trowbridge, who loves movies. From the online literary journal Blue Moon Review. The music is ‘Plastics For 500, Bub’ from ‘Sport Fishin’ and it’s by Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet. Some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website