By Similar I Mean Good: Transmission 84, 2013 December 15

We meet again, this time for a slightly abbreviated broadcast. I'm not entirely sure how I wound up doing this one, in a 90-minute shift we've been calling "The Time Slot in Question." It was originally meant for a rotating cast of live hosts, and is of course home to no one, because we can't get people to do radio on the weekends.

Anyway, this is the second consecutive program I did on the birthday of a loved one, and of course I played no music truly suitable to the occasion. Whether karma punishes me, or I fall victim to an unlikely but nevertheless random series of mishaps, this program also initiates a long string of shows in which something goes catastrophically wrong, at least to my ears. In retrospect, it seems like a smaller deal than it was in the moment. That Polvo song's got to be out there in its entirety, somewhere, just to give one example.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 15, 1600-1730:

"Some Songs" | Polvo | Siberia | Merge
"Space Christmas" | Shonen Knife | A Shonen Knife Christmas Record For You | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
"Dayz" | Mathew Jonson | Rebel Rave 3 | Crosstown Rebels
"Down and Out in a Diamond City" | Raccoon Fighter | Zil | Papercup
"Plant Lilies at My Head" | Tropic of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
"And the Salvation Army Band Plays" | Helen Love & Ricardo Autobahn | And the Salvation Army Band Plays | Damaged Goods
"Charlotte's Remains" | Strawberry Alarm Clock | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee
"Windschatten" | Extrawelt | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
"One" | Fuzz | Fuzz | In the Red
"Sky Hi" | Christmas Crew | G.E.D. Soul Christmas | G.E.D. Soul
"Das ibizenkische Wohlfuhlaroma" | Dominik Eulberg | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
"Boring Angel" | Oneohtrix Point Never | R Plus Seven | Warp
"Itous" | Tamikrest | Chatma | Glitterbeat
"Listen" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
"(We Wish You A) Protein Christmas" | The Fall | (We Wish You A) Protein Christmas | Action
"We Three Kings" | Magic in Threes | G.E.D. Soul Christmas | G.E.D. Soul
"Christmas Message '91" | Shonen Knife | A Shonen Knife Christmas Record For You | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"

next time: just a pair of flabby wings. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis