My program tries to be topical when it can. In late September and early October, which seem about 50 years ago now, Americans were transfixed by the trainwreck of a nomination process for (now) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a belligerent drunk (possibly formerly, but no one is sure) who almost certainly at least tried to rape at least one woman. It was a sordid process leading to a predetermined outcome, and you felt (rightly) that there was nothing you could do to stop it. That reminds me of something, though I can't quite put my...
My program tries to be topical when it can. In late September and early October, which seem about 50 years ago now, Americans were transfixed by the trainwreck of a nomination process for (now) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a belligerent drunk (possibly formerly, but no one is sure) who almost certainly at least tried to rape at least one woman. It was a sordid process leading to a predetermined outcome, and you felt (rightly) that there was nothing you could do to stop it. That reminds me of something, though I can't quite put my finger on what that is.
Because the whole thing needed just a touch of bleak humor, it emerged the week of this program that at some point (1985?) Kavanaugh and his bros had gone to a UB40 gig, presumably in New Haven. Afterward, at a bar, Kavanaugh had confronted someone he mistook for Ali Campbell; angry at being properly rebuffed, he initiated a fight. This led to a brief, unresolved national dialogue on whether this is something that all "real men" do--starting barfights, not attendinng UB40 concerts, sadly.
I've never done either, though UB40 did come through my hometown on what seems to be that same tour. I bet they would have been good, if the disc I played on this program is any evidence. And, though I seem less intrusive on this program than I have seemed recently, the disc certainly "stops the bleeding," by which I mean the run of terrible shows brought on by lapses of judgment and technique. If only I had heeded the lesson I learned here, which is to go back to the basics--can you just play one thing and not screw it up? It's a solid foundation.
BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 3, 2100-2300:
- "Missing You" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
- "Heart for Yes. Like for No." | Man Power | Souvenirs | Correspondant
- "Repercussions - Live" | A Certain Ratio | acr:mcr | Mute
- "Snake Hips" | Trinidadian Deep | The Tribute Songs | Shelter
- "Thaw" | deathlist | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Burning Curtains" | Orvar Smarason | Light Is Liquid | Morr Music
- "The Stop Next" | The Lost End | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Something's Missing Inside" | CTMF | Something's Missing Inside | Damaged Goods
- "Touch of Goodbye" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
- "Galactic Cruise" | Retep Folo | Galactic Sounds | Clay Pipe
- "I'm Your Man" | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | Bella Union
- "Glossine (Zombie)" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
- "Mantaray" | Syrup, Go On | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Floor Lord" | The Lavender Flu | Mow the Glass | In the Red
- "Food for Thought" / "Sardonicus" / "Don't Slow Down" / "Folitician" / "Tyler" / "Present Arms" / "Piper Calls the Tune" / "Love Is All Is Alright" / "Burden of Shame" / "One in Ten" | UB40 | Live | Disky
Together, we shall live
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