Another Island Where No One Remembers Your Name: Transmission 451, 2019 February 27

2019-03-05

On a day when I played Throwing Muses and Throwing Snow, I wanted to throw things. I was angry online and in life--strangely, though, not in therapy, where my counselor was telling me that "effective anger" (what is that?) is something I need to find in myself if I am ever to tap into another, more pleasant emotion. Great. During this program I was, admittedly, too busy reading (and writing?) bad tweets to keep my show on the rails--sorry, Telescopes and Brian Harris!--or answer a listener text. Someone asked me who Kenny Ritter (of "Kenny Ritter Memorial...

In my defense, that is something I used to know but no longer do. I think perhaps he was one of the original WRFI board members, back when the station was simply a repeater. He seems to have been a much-loved local activist of some sort, and a relative (or in-law?) of at least one occasional WRFI personality. Maybe a current board member, or anyone with more expertise than me (that's a large pool) could chime in here.

I should mention, before I forget, that I was graced by Drummer John's interventions--suggesting Ozric Tentacles, whom I had never heard (!), and telling me that I was helping him "transcend." I didn't ask what. It's his business, I guess.

A realization: I let the last program pass without noting that it was a milestone. I think that maybe this is good? Program 450 marked about 900 hours of airtime, which, I have always estimated, had to be the approximate amount of time I put in at my last radio gig. So I think that by every possible measure we can now consider that the rehearsal and this "the real thing," god help us. It's bewildering to ponder, and I have so many conflicting feelings about that time and its relationship to this one. Take that, therapist!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 February 27, 2100-2300:

"Diapason" | Jiboia | 0000 | Discrepant
"Takeover (intro)" | Babe Roots / Another Channel | Takeover EP | Echocord
"Spark from Flint to Clay" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
"Loverman" | New Apostles | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
"You Were Never Here" | The Telescopes | Exploding Head Syndrome | Tapete
"Dress Sexy for Me" | Brian Harris | The Sun Won | self-released
"Serpent Tongue" | The Messthetics | The Messthetics | Dischord
"Sunray Venus" | Throwing Muses | Purgatory / Paradise | Happy Happy Birthday to Me | "The Listening Parlour"
"Paramount Lobby" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
"Joan Of Arc" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality [reissue] | Virgin
"Opilio" | Lapalux | Brainfeeder X | Brainfeeder
"Subtitles" | Throwing Snow | Loma | Houndstooth
"Survey" | P.A. Hulsenbeck | Garden of Stone | Altin Village & Mine
"Waters" | Steeple Remove | Vonal-Axis | Fuzz Club
"Shattering Through" | CUTS | A Gradual Decline | Village Green
"Sploosh!" | Ozric Tentacles | Strangeitude | Dovetail
"Moe" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
"Saafiyeey Makaa Saraayeey" | Dur-Dur Band | Dur Dur of Somalia - Vol. 1, Vol. 2 | Analog Africa
"Jerusalem Dub" | Scientist | The Scientist in the Kingdom of Dub | Superior Viaduct
"Spirit Channels" | Dravier | Spirit Channels | Not Not Fun
"Laif of Smit" | Brainwaltzera | Epi-Log EP | Film
"Exposure" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
"A Vigorous Unfolding" | Ricardo Donoso | Calibrate | Denovali
"Dressing up in Other People's Clothes" | Orbital | Monsters Exist | ACP
"The Song I Said I'd Make for You" | Prequel | Without You | Distant Hawaii