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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 92: AftermathA 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 Wisława 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 90: GoldilocksA 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 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.
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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 BadVickie 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 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 TrimfinsCarter 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.
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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 1Astronomers 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 BergeronKurt 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 WeatherAs 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 RuinWe 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 RuinWe 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 RuinWe 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 BarsGranary 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 FootwearCarter 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 FootwearCarter 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: PanEnthralled 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: PanEnthralled 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 BagA 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 MaltbyA 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 MaltbyA 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 TurkeysIn 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: PieI 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: PieI 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 DiaryHere’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 DiaryHere’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 DefenseThe 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 BookThe 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 MumphriesCarter 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 PrayTwo 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 | |