81. 2006-12-25 "d. Christmas Eve Special"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Lee Rosevere	Christmas Eve at Midnight (Small Town Square)
	The Royal Guardsmen	The Story of Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
	The Royal Guardsmen	The Story of the Return of the Red Baron
	The Royal Guardsmen	The Story of Snoopy's Christmas
12:17	Boris Karloff	How the Grinch Stole Christmas
12:40	Dylan Thomas	A Child's Christmas in Wales
1:00	Lux Radio Theater	Miracle on 34th Street (12/20/48)
1:53	Stan Freberg	Green Chri$tma$
2:01	Campbell's Playhouse	A Christmas Carol (12/24/39)
2:56	MonkSeven	Santa on Mars
3:02	Jack Benny	A Jack Benny Christmas Special (12/24/44)
3:29		Command Performance (12/24/45)
3:58	Jamie Barnes	Snow Angel

Much of tonight's audio came from the Internet Archive. The links in the playlist go to the pages for the respective tracks. Here are the albums and collections I pulled material from as well as some that I didn't get a chance to play on the show:

A Happy Puppy Christmas
Interplanetary Materials
MonkSeven-Santa on Mars
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Miaoussers - Xmasterpiece
The 8 Bits of Christmas
Winter Wishes
A Christmas Carol - Many Old Time Radio Versions
KIBM Presents Christmas Old Time Radio
Jack Benny Holiday Specials

80. 2006-12-18 "Dr Worm's Request-O-Rama"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	They Might Be Giants	Doctor Worm
	Troubled Hubble	Jackpot Stampede Deluxe
	Christine Fellows	Vertebrae
	Tom Waits	Little Drop of Poison
	Poe	Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By a Go-Go)
12:21	Neon Swing X-Perience	Late to the Party
	George Benson	On Broadway (Live)
	Wynton Marsalis Septet	Linus & Lucy
12:41	Junior Brown	Lovely Hula Hands
	Tom Waits	Downtown Train
	Merle Haggard	I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
12:55	The Velvet Underground	Rock & Roll
1:01	Desmond Dekker & the Aces	Israelites
	Chuck Berry	Memphis
	Warren Zevon	Lawyers, Guns and Money
	Coldplay	Green Eyes
	Neil Young	Harvest Moon
	Belle & Sebastian	The Blues Are Still Blue
1:23	Otis Redding	I've Got Dreams to Remember
	Rolling Stones	Loving Cup
	Ben Folds	The Luckiest
	The Pogues	Sally MacLennane
	The Pogues	Fairytale of New York
1:43	Bob Dylan	Isis
	Leftover Salmon	River's Rising
	Leftover Salmon	Let's Give a Party
1:59	Parliament	Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioawauadoloop)
	Bruce Springsteen	Growin' Up
	Nick Lowe	The Beast in Me
	Pete Townsend	Slit Skirt
	Rolling Stones	Play With Fire
2:43	Daniel Johnston	I Killed the Monster
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	Redemption Song
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	No Woman, No Cry (Live)
	Gordan Gano	Impossible Love
2:44	Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules	Mad World
	David Gray	White Ladder
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	We and Dem
2:55	King Crimson	Bude
	King Crimson	Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
3:00	Ben Folds	Landed
	North Mississippi Allstars	Shimmy She Wobble II
	North Mississippi Allstars	Sugartown
	Roy Buchanan	The Messiah Will Come Again
	Edgar Winter	New Millennium
3:22	Genesis	The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
	North Mississippi Allstars	Eyes (Rock Mix)
	War	The World is a Ghetto
	Joe Cocker	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
3:40	Tracy Chapman	Let it Rain
	Tracy Chapman	Fast Car
	Old & in the Way	Panama Red
	Roseanne Cash	Dreams Are Not My Home
3:56	The Mountain Goats	Home Again Garden Grove
	Phish	All Things Reconsidered

MST3K 0405 - Being From Another Planet

MST3K 0405 - Being From Another Planet

At one point Joel and the bots start singing "boring, boring" to the film's background score and it's hard to disagree. A fantastically brainless film about an alien that was mummified in ancient Egypt and has now been released by a half-witted frat boy at some nondescript California college. The frat boy stole some crystals from the mummy-alien's coffin and now the alien-mummy is hunting down each person with a crystal one by one. And never more thant one by one. It's like he's got a daily bagging limit and can only kill one annoying, utterly unemployable actor a day.

It's a simple enough concept, but wait, there's more! The I-want-my-mummy is covered with a special alien space fungus that starts immediately eating the flesh of anyone who touches it. But that's not all-there's also the college's publicity-hungry dean and his conniving assistant who are trying to undermine the professor that brought the $0-spent-on-special-effects monster back to the college. And did I mention that the professor is sleeping with one of his students? That's not a plot point in the movie, it's just going on and every body's cool with it.

A really plodding and awful film. Servo, at the end of the movie, declares it the worst movie they've ever seen which causes Joel and Crow to list every movie the crew of the SOL have riffed up to that point. It's impressive. Highlights from the film include Crow and Servo freaking out every time the monster's green, not-quite night vision POV is shown and the professor's student/girlfriend running from the monster for freaking ages only to have her defend the monster after it shoves her off a roof. There's a lot wrong with this picture beyond the script, which coincidentally was written by Tom Friedman. Not the NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, just a man with the same name who's just as bad at his job as Thomas Friedman.

Rating: 3/5

What do you do during the show?

It may shock and/or appall some of you to know what I do down here at the WYEP Community Broadcast Center while I'm DJ'ing. The terrible truth is I do pretty much what I do whenever I'm listening to music: I surf the web. Here are some links I stumbled across during this week's show.

Staccato. A webcomic about several video game geeks sharing an apartment. I know, a webcomic about video games. Whodda thought? It's a nice strip though. My only complaint is there aren't more comics in the archive and if the worst thing you can say is "I want more," that's not bad.

Child's Play. Speaking of webcomics and video games, Child's Play, the charity set up by Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade just hit $495,000 in donations-$230,000 of it in the past week. That's pretty amazing and Child's Play is a nice charity. They donate toys and cash to children's hospitals to make the kids' holidays better.

Wii Safety: The Missing Pages and WiiHaveAProblem. And speaking of video games, why not a little shout-out towards Wii safety? I figure everyone's heard about WiiHaveAProblem by now, but in case you haven't, browse through that blog a bit. It's somewhere between hilarious and awful-funny in that, "holy cow, look at that," way, sad in the fact that people are destroying their homes while playing these games. From there, surf over to this Flickr set and familiarize yourself with further Wii safety suggestions.

79. 2006-12-11 "Reminiscence"

Time	Artist	Song
12:00	Bob Dylan	Don't Think Twice, it's All Right
	Kalyandji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Troubled Hubble	Secret
	Adam Evil & the Outside Royalty	Love Song at the End of the World
	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come on Eileen
	The Mountain Goats	Alpha Rats Nest
12:21	Nirvana	(New Wave) Polly
	Jimi Hendrix	Little Wing
	Jimi Hendrix	All Along the Watchtower
	They Might Be Giants	I Should Be Allowed to Think
	Guided By Voices	Chasing Heather Crazy
	James Brown	Prisoner of Love
	Belle & Sebastian	The Blues Are Still Blue
12:43	Cake	I Will Survive
	The Flaming Lips	Hit Me Like You Did the First Time
	Sonic Youth	Teen Age Riot
12:57	Smashing Pumpkins	Cherub Rock
1:02	Eels	Dog Faced Boy
	Live	T.B.D.
	Pretty Girls Make Graves	The Number
	The Karl Hendricks Trio	A Boy Who Plays With Dolls
	Pearl Jam	Rearviewmirror
1:22	Iggy Pop	Lust for Life
	Radiohead	No Surprises
	Soundgarden	My Wave
	The Beta Band	Dry the Rain
1:43	Butthole Surfers	Pepper
	Big Audio Dynamite	Rush (Live)
1:55	Public Image Ltd.	Rise
2:02	Devo	Post Post-Modern Man
	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Teenage Lust
	Better Than Ezra	Return of the Post Moderns
	James	Laid
	Kula Shaker	Hey Dude
	Beulah	Gravity's Bringing Us Down
2:24	Super Furry Animals	The International Language of Screaming
	Mike Doughty	Sunken-Eyed Girl
	The Afghan Whigs	Let Me Lie to You
	Tom Waits	Lie to Me
	The Science Fiction Idols	I Want You to Lie
2:40	The Ventures	Blue Moon
	The Apples in Stereo	I Want
	Luna	U.S. Out of My Pants!
	Fountains of Wayne	Maureen
2:54	Soundgarden	Fresh Tendrils
2:59	Nine Inch Nails	Last
	R.E.M.	Bang and Blame
	The Presidents of the United States of America	Boll Weevil
	Teenage Fanclub with Jad Fair	My Life is Starting Over Again
	Clem Snide	Tears On My Pillow
	Elliot Smith	Independence Day
3:22	Pixies	Where is My Mind?
	Portishead	Sour Time (Nobody Loves Me) (Airbus Reconstruction)
	Kings of Convenience	Winning the Battle, Losing the War
	Waking Matthew	We're Nowhere
	Billy Bragg & Wilco	All You Fascists
3:41	We're Wolves	Will They Be Misquoted?
	Michael Franti & Spearhead w/Gift of Gab	What I Got
	Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton	The Last Page
	Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)
3:56	The Moog Cookbook	Are You Going to Go My Way?
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt

78. 2006-12-04 "Get Real Paid"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyandji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	June Carter Cash	The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
	Johnny Cash	Personal Jesus
	Johnny Cash	I Walk the Line
	Lambchop	The Decline of Country and Western Civilization
	Clem Snide	I'll Be Your Mirror
12:21	Clem Snide	Joan Jett of Arc
	Troubled Hubble	I'm Pretty Sure I Can See Molecules
	Matthew Sweet	Looking at the Sun
	Neil Young	Down By the River
12:42	Spoon	Not Turning Off
	The Tragically Hip	Fireworks
	Hank Williams	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
12:53	Bruce Springsteen	State Trooper
	The Ike Reilly Assassination	God and Money
1:01	The New Pornographers	Use It
	The Weakerthans	Uncorrected Proofs
	Super Furry Animals	Herman Loves Pauline
	Weezer	Say it Ain't So
	They Might Be Giants	New York City
1:20	They Might Be Giants	Mammal
	Fountains of Wayne	Troubled Times
	Suede	Sleeping Pills
	Pixies	Wave of Mutilation
	Matt Keating	Never Stop Cryin'
	Eels	Living Life
1:39	Eels	Dead of Winter
	R.E.M.	Sad Professor
	Crooked Fingers	Twilight Creeps
	The Flaming Lips	Knives Out (KCRW Version)
1:56	The Flaming Lips	Fight Test
2:01	Guster	Jesus on the Radio
	Warren Zevon	Mohammed's Radio (Live Version)
	Corinne Bailey Rae	Put Your Records On
	Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins	Handle With Care
	Tom Waits	Young at Heart
2:19	Tom Waits	Day After Tomorrow
	The Mountain Goats	Against Pollution
	Guided By Voices	I'll Replace You With Machines
	The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket
	Jeff Buckley	Kick Out the Jams (Live at Columbia Radio Hour)
2:39	Jeff Buckley	Last Goodbye
	Leonard Cohen	Democracy
	Nina Simone	Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
2:56	Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddam
3:01	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
	Gnarls Barkley	Storm Coming
	The Other Ones	Jack Straw
	Jandek	Real Wild
3:23	The Science Fiction Idols	Hey Little Demon
	Adam Evil & the Outside Royalty	Welcome to the Underworld
	Santana	Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile)
	We're Wolves	The Cigarette Basement
	Norman Nardini	Ready Freddy
3:40	Vale and Year	Snow Leopard
	Ennui	Heard You Say
	Waking Matthew	Burn the Useless
	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown	Don't Cry Sister
3:56	Orbital	P.E.T.R.O.L.