66. 2006-09-11 "Bull Dada"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Blind Melon	I Wonder
	Nick Drake	Black Eyed Dog
	John Mellencamp	I Need a Lover
	Grateful Dead	Cassidy
12:24	Jimi Hendrix	Little Wing
	The Who	Pictures of Lily
	Joni Mitchell	God Must Be a Boogie Man
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	No Woman, No Cry (live)
12:41	The Mountain Goats	Moon Over Goldsboro
	Daniel Johnston	Living Life
	Odetta	Muleskinner Blues
	Sigur Ros	Glosoli
12:58	Frank Zappa	Tryin' to Grow a Chin
1:02	Crosby, Stills & Nash	Helplessly Hoping
	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Helpless
	Superdrag	Sucked Out
	Troubled Hubble	Try to Find
	Troubled Hubble	Floribraska
	Clem Snide	Joan Jett of Arc
1:24	Leftover Salmon	River's Rising
	Duvall	Between the Lines
	The Plus Ones	Serve in Heaven/Rule in Hell
	Kate Bush	Somewhere in Between
	Sneaker Pimps	Spin Spin Sugar
1:46	North Mississippi Allstars	Moonshine
	Belle and Sebastian	Seeing Other People
	Luna	ihop
1:58	The Firm	Star Trekkin'
2:04	Air Guitar Magazine	This Song is Called Track 3
	Vale and Year	You're a Good Man
	We're Wolves	The Conversationist
	Norman Nardini	Rock You
	Paul Westerberg	I Love You in the Fall
	Injury	Dig Dug-"Six Feet Under" (OC Remix)
2:24	Johnny Cash	Man in Black
	Lead Belly	Governor O.K. Allen (aka Angola Blues)
	"22" + group	Early in the Mornin'
	Old & in the Way	The Hobo Song
	Billy Bragg & Wilico	Against th' Law
2:41	The Tannahill Weavers	Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?
	Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah
	Bob Dylan	Solid Rock
2:56	Jr. Walker & the All Stars	Walk in the Night
3:00	Chuck Berry	Maybellene
	Roy Buchanan	Hidden
	Guster	Empire State
	Mike Doughty	White Lexus
	Beck	Devil's Haircut
	DJ Shadow	You Made It (feat. Chris James)
3:20	Gomez	Cry on Demand
	Spacemen 3	Feel So Sad
	Too Much Joy	Stay At Home
	MC Honky	The Object
	The New Pornographers	The Bleeding Heart Show
	Buckwheat Zydeco	Route 66
3:42	Lambchop	The Rise and Fall of the Letter P
	Robert Pollard	Conqueror of the Moon
	Crooked Fingers	Twilight Creeps
	Mychael Danna	We're Going to Make it
3:57	Sufjan Stevens	Chicago

There's an ad on my milk

There's an ad on my milk
It's a gallon jug and on the back is a sticker saying "Got Milk? Get Oreo" with a big picture of the cookie on it.
That depressed me. It's been a depressing day. I couldn't get anything done. And then I got free tickets to a showing of The Covenant (from Renny Harlin, the director of Driven and a slew of other painfully bad films). Proof that things can always get worse.
So to end the constant bring-down my day has been, and to strike back against the spirit of ambivalence and celebratory mediocrity that allows ads on milk jugs or films like The Covenant, here are some things that make the world a better place:

Vale and Year - Famous Fights
I've played a some of this album on my show recently and I have to say it's very good, maybe even best of 2006 good. They sound a little like pre-Top 40 Modest Mouse, but in the sense that Vale and Year listened to those earlier albums and then went their own way. This is a pretty quiet and restrained album. It's definitely worth checking out plus they're from Pittsburgh so you get bonus warm fuzzies for supporting the local scene if you pick this up.
website: http://www.valeandyear.com

V/A - Enamel Records Sampler
Speaking of the local scene, I picked up the Enamel Records sampler today. Enamel is the label that released Vale and Year's Famous Fights as well as one of my favorite albums from last year, We're Wolves' Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino-the title track of which is featured on this disc. 7 tracks, 3 bucks and it's good. It's very good. The CD comes in a little plastic sleeve and the title is just Enamel Records Sampler so it might get lost at your record store. But take the time to look. It's definitely worth finding.
website: http://www.enamelrecords.com/

Time Again - "Cold Concrete" (NSFW)
A punk song about being unjustly singled out by the cops. I couldn't stop listening to this track once I got my review copy of Give 'Em the Boot V. I'd just put it on repeat and grin. There are f-bombs so don't play it at work (or expect to hear it on the radio), but if you want to drop it onto your iPod for when you're jogging or stuck in traffic, who's to say no to that?
The other mp3 at the link below is a groovy reggae/ska track without any profanity at all. Play it wherever you want. It'll only offend people who hate reggae-sounding stuff, but you probably don't like them anyway so it's win-win.
website: http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/480 (NSFW)

The Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Collection
I am a horror/sci-fi geek. Kind of. I lean more towards the classics than the moderns (Bela Lugosi over Freddy Krueger, H.P. Lovecraft over Stephen King) so of course I love old time radio. I grew up listening to tapes of Jack Benny and Abbott & Costello. I even have old X-Minus One tapes that I break out every Halloween. I love this stuff but it's kind of hard to find. Leave it to the folks at the Internet Archive to solve that. They have an Old Time Radio collection featuring complete runs of various series including X-Minus One, Bob and Ray, The Shadow, every genre you can think of. It's very exciting.
website: http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Episode 0208 - Lost Continent
"Even rock climbing movies don't have this much rock climbing."
I've hated nearly every movie I've seen this summer so I've taken special joy in watching old episodes of MST3K. Helping me in my endeavor is the Digital Archive Project. They've been releasing episodes of the show in DVD format and I've been gobbling them up. Lost Continent is the latest one and it's fantastic.
Here's the story: A group of air force pilots escort a group of scientists to recover the black box from a crashed experimental rocket. Of course their plane crashes as well so they proceed on foot. Eventually they stumble upon a land that time forgot-dinosaurs included-but only after doing some rock climbing. Lots of rock climbing. Oh my goodness, do they climb rocks. This is a film where nothing happens. A lot. Joel and the bots salvage it though, screaming and raving at the film just about the same time you feel the need to. Check out this or any of the MST3K DVDs, both on the DAP or in stores. It's pure satisfaction.
Digital Archive Project website: http://www.dapcentral.org/
DAP Lost Continent DVD website: DVD #78
See the DAP FAQ for downloading instructions.

It's Alive
Or if downloading isn't your thing or you prefer your B-movies without additional commentary or you just long for the good old days of chiller theater right here in Pittsburgh, check out It's Alive. It's a locally-produced horror-movie showcase that also features local bands and filmmakers. This show makes every weekend a joy for me. It airs Saturday nights at 10PM ET on WBGN (check your listings) or you can catch a live stream of the show from the website. There's also an archive of the most recently aired episode on the homepage. Seriously, check it out. This show made me happy to be in Pittsburgh.
website: http://www.theitsaliveshow.com/

Hope these links helped pick you up as much as they did me. What have you found lately that's made you excited? Add a comment and let me know.

65. 2006-09-04 "Labor Day '06"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Lyle Lovett	Friend of the Devil
	Johnny Cash	Further On Up the Road
	Merle Haggard	Misery and Gin
	The Pogues	Whisky in a Jar (Long Version)
12:20	Dennis Brown	Bubbling Sweet Tonight
	John Brown's Body	Blazing Love
	Bob Dylan	Friend of the Devil
	Paul Simon	The Boy in the Bubble
	Erin McKeown	We Are More
	The Kinks	A Well Respected Man
	Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode
	The Beatles	Get Back
12:54	Brazilian Girls	Long
	Matt Costa	Sunshine
1:02	Billy Bragg & Wilco	California Stars
	River City High	Us vs. Them
	Maximo Park	Apply Some Pressure
	M. Ward	Chinese Translation
1:19	Pinky and the Brain	"Are you pondering what I'm pondering..."
	Grateful Dead	Bird Song
	Troubled Hubble	Work
	Dolly Parton	9 to 5
	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
1:39	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Third Stone From the Sun
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt
	Gnarls Barkley	Storm Coming
	Porcupine Tree	Blackest Eye
1:54	We're Wolves	96 Entries for "Happy"
	Troubled Hubble	Morning Person (DJ Pants Remix)
2:02	Curtis Mayfield	People Get Ready
	Michael Franti and Spearhead	Never Too Late
	Radiohead	High and Dry
	They Might Be Giants	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
	M	Bellville Rendez-Vous (French Version)
	Los Lobos with Antonio Banderas	Cancion Del Mariachi (Morena De Mi Corazon)
2:22	Violent Femmes	American Music
	Spoon	Sister Jack
	Band of Horses	The Great Salt Lake
	Tori Amos	Rapberry Swirl
	Phish	Piper
2:43	Wilco	Casino Queen
	The Tragically Hip	It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
	Elf Power	An Old Familiar Scene
2:54	David Bowie	Stay
3:01	Nirvana	All Apologies
	Mike Doughty	Grey Ghost
	Devo	Post Post-Modern Man
	Talking Heads	Wild Wild Life
	The New Pornographers	Star Bodies
3:19	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
	Screeching Weasel	Judy is a Punk
	Me First & the Gimme Gimmes	Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard
	Ann Beretta	Efforts Wasted
	The Promise Ring	Electric Pink
	Duvall	Standing At the Door
	Colossal	Table Setting
3:40	Anti-Flag	Spaz's House Destruction Party
	The B-52's	Rock Lobster
	Rufus Wainwright	California
3:55	Lambchop	Paperback Bible

64. 2006-08-28 "Dr. Worm Presents: Punk"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	They Might Be Giants	Doctor Worm
	311	All Mixed Up
	Desmond Dekker and the Aces	You Can Get it if You Really Want
	Jackie Edward	If You Don't Know Me By Now
	Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come
	David Bowie	Tumble and Twirl
12:26	Bob Dylan	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
	Grateful Dead	Cumberland Blues
	The Rolling Stones	Gimmee Shelter
12:41	The Osbourne Brothers	Walking the Floor Over You
	Santana	Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile)
	Michael Franti and Spearhead	Light Up Ya Lighter
12:55	The Pietasters	Can't Stand It
1:01	Toots & the Maytals	Pressure Drop
	Peter Tosh	Legalize It
	K's Choice	Not an Addict
	Feeder	High
1:19	Patti Smith	Break it Up
	The Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang
	Ian Drury and the Blockheads	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
	Merle Haggard	I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
	Vale and Year	Snow Leopard
	Neil Young	Harvest Moon
1:43	The Mountain Goats	Anti Music Song
	Gnarls Barkley	Go-Go Gadget Gospel
	Corinne Bailey Rae	Put Your Records On
	Fatboy Slim	That Old Pair of Jeans
	Jamiroquai	Canned Heat
1:59	Parliament	Up For the Down Stroke
	Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop
	The Clash	London's Burning
	Stiff Little Fingers	Nobody's Hero
	Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen
	The Offspring	Burn it Up
2:19	Lungfish	Friend to Friend in Endtime
	X	Johny Hit and Run Paulene
	Dead Kennedys	Jock-O-Rama
	MU330	Favorite Show
	Cringer	Cottleston Pie
	The Dead Milkmen	Beach Party Vietnam
	Adam & the Ants	You're So Physical
2:41	Lou Reed	Walk on the Wild Side
	David Bowie	Rebel Rebel
	XTC	Ball & Chain
2:55	Blondie	Atomic
3:00	Ramones	The KKK Took My Baby Away
	Dropkick Murphys	Boys on the Docks (Murphys' Pub Version)
	The Exploited	Hitler's in the Charts Again
	Billy Bragg & Wilco	All You Fascists
	The World/Inferno Friendship Society	The Expatriate Act
	Strike Anywhere	Infrared
	Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Burn Down the Malls
3:23	Flogging Molly	The Seven Deadly Sins
	Down By Law	Radio Ragga
	NOFX	Reeko
	Atom & His Package	Out to Everyone
	Mike Skiba	In Your Wake
3:41	MXPX	Doing Time
	The Explosion	God Bless the S.O.S.
	Descendents	When I Get Old
	River City High	Skip the Seventh
	Ef-Seventy	She Dumped Me Online
	Millencolin	Friends 'Til the End
3:57	We're Wolves	96 Entries for "Happy"

63. 2006-08-21 "Last Hurrah"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	The Mountain Goats	Woke Up New
	They Might Be Giants	New York City
	Bob Dylan	Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
	Frank Sinatra	Chicago
	Chuck Berry	Sweet Little 16
12:21	Norman Nardini	Rock N' Roll City
	Love and Rockets	Rock and Roll Babylon
	Better Than Ezra	Normal Town
	Talking Heads	Cities
	Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
12:40	Jimi Hendrix	Little Wing
	The Band	I Shall Be Released
	Grateful Dead	Bird Song
12:56	The Postal Service	Nothing Better
12:59	Bjork	Hyper-Ballad
	Vale and Year	Snow Leopard
	The Mountain Goats	This Year
	Troubled Hubble	14,000 Things to Be Happy About
	The Wolfgang Press	Mama Told Me Not to Come (7 Inch)
	The Beatles	The Long and Winding Road
1:24	Big Audio Dynamite	Rush (Live)
	The New Pornographers	Use it
	Tracy Bonham	Behind Every Good Woman
	Dolly Parton	9 to 5
1:41	Eurythmics	Sisters Are Doin' it For Themselves
	Joan Osborne	Right Hand Man
	Aretha Franklin	RESPECT
1:54	Geri Halliwell	It's Raining Men
	Garbage	I Think I'm Paranoid
2:02	The Offspring	Intermission
	The Offspring	All I Want
	Maximo Park	Apply Some Pressure
	The Weakerthans	Plea From a Cat Named Virtue
2:51	Matthew Good Band	Advertising on Police Cars
2:57	Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop
3:00	The Plus Ones	Serve in Heaven/Rule in Hell
	Screeching Weasel	The Girl Next Door
	Slapstick	What I Learned
	Less Than Jake	Liquor Store
	Hot Water Music	Trusty Chords
	Sex Pistols	Holidays in the Sun
	Sonic Youth	Teen Age Riot
3:21	The Jam	The Modern World
	Buzzcocks	What Do I Get
	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks
	Imperial Teen	Yoo Hoo
	Guided By Voices	Motor Away
	Soul Coughing	Rolling
3:40	Ryan Adams	Nuclear
	Aqualung	Easier to Lie
	Gomez	Devil Will Ride
	Sublime	What I Got (Reprise)
3:56	Devo	Freedom of Choice
	Screeching Weasel	Goodbye to You

62. 2006-08-14 "No Neil Young"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come
	The Clash	Police and Thieves
	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Get Up, Stand Up
12:20	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
	Morcheeba	Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
	Gang of Four	At Home He's a Tourist
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Into My Arms
	The Allman Brothers	Jessica
12:44	Bob Dylan	Shelter From the Storm
	Johnny Cash	I've Been Everywhere
	Amy Rigby	The Problem with Jeanie...
	Jefferson Airplane	Lather
1:00	Snow Patrol	Wow
	They Might Be Giants	Your Racist Friend
	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.
	Mahalia Jackson	If We Never Needed the Lord Before (We Sure Do Need Him Now)
	Aretha Franklin	Border Song (Holy Moses)
1:20	The Beatles	Revolution
	Nina Simone	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
	Joan Baez	I Pity the Poor Immigrant
	Randy Newman	Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
	Santana	Oye Como Va
1:36	Karl Denson's Tiny Universe	Freedom (featuring Saul Williams and Michael Franti)
	Pearl Jam	Dissident
	Bad Religion	Leaders and Followers
	Michael Frant and Spearhead	Rock the Nation
1:54	Billy Bragg and Wilco	All You Fascists
	Cornershop	People Power
2:02	Leonard Cohen	Democracy
	Sigur Ros	Glosoli
	Cingon	Malaguena Salerosa
2:19	Ann Peebles	When the Candle Burns Low
	The Ramones	Cretin Hop
	Flogging Molly	Screaming at the Wailing Wall
	Robert A. Wagner	Cherry Trees
	We're Wolves	The Conversationist
2:39	Thom Yorke	Analyse
	Nico	These Days
	Joe Strummer and the Mecaleros	X-Ray Style
	The Long Winters	Fire Island, AK
	Hotel Lights	A.M. Slow Golden Hit
3:00	The New Pornographers	Star Bodies
	Campbell Brothers	Rally Time
	Mike Doughty	Your Misfortune
	Beck	Que Onda Guero
	The Roots	Distortion to Static
3:19	Vale and Year	Famous Fights
	Band of Horses	The Funeral
	Dresden Dolls	My Alcoholic Friends
	Eels	Trouble With Dreams
	David Bowie	Sorrow
	Jose Gonzalez	Heartbeats
3:41	Sonic Youth	Sweet Shine
	Ben Folds featuring William Shatner	Rockin's the Suburbs (Over the Hedge Version)
3:52	Green Day	Jesus of Suburbia
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt

61. 2006-08-07

Time	Artist	Song
12:08	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Luther Wright and the Wrongs	Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
	The New Pornographers	Letter From an Occupant
	The Mountain Goats	Alpha Rats Nest
	Fountains of Wayne	All Kinds of Time
12:24	Jimi Hendrix	Little Wing
	David Bowie	Changes
	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
	Bob Dylan	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
	The Long Winters	Cinnamon
12:43	Ivy	Feel So Free
	Bob Dylan	My Back Pages
12:54	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Third Stone From the Sun
1:02	Stevie Wonder	I Believe (When I Fall in Love it Will Be Forever)
	Big Audio Dynamite	Rush (Live)
	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
	Pavement	Cut Your Hair
1:24	Gnarls Barkley	Gone Daddy Gone
	Violent Femmes	Gone Daddy Gone
	Porcupine Tree	Blackest Eye
	Grateful Dead	Bird Song
1:42	Michael Frani and Spearhead	We Don't Stop
	James McMurtry	Childish Things
	Cab Calloway	Minnie the Moocher
	Nina Simone	Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
1:59	Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	Please Baby
	Fred Astaire	The Way You Look Tonight
	Four Tops	Baby I Need Your Loving
	The Spinners	I'll Always Love You
	Toussaint McCall	Let it Be Me (Duet with Barbara West)
	Drive-By Truckers	Space City
2:22	The Pietasters	New Breed
	Nick Lowe	So it Goes
	The Weakerthans	Plea From a Cat Named Virtue
	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks
	Imperial Teen	Yoo Hoo
	Hot Water Music	Trusty Chords
	Sponge	Plowed
2:43	Blondie	Dreaming
	The Velvet Underground & Nico	I'm Waiting for the Man
	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
2:53	The Clash	Career Opportunities
	Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant
	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts	I Love Rock 'N Roll
3:02	Frank Zappa	Joe's Garage
	R.E.M.	At My Most Beautiful
	Sonic Youth	The Neutral
	Spoon	Loss Leaders
3:19	Tracy Bonham	Take Your Love Out On Me
	Dan Bern	Alaska Highway
	Crooked Fingers	Twilight Creeps
	Gillian Welch	Revelator
3:40	Blind Melon	I Wonder
	Jawbreaker	Save Your Generation
	We're Wolves	Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino
	The Urge	All Washed Up
3:56	Maximo Park	Apply Some Pressure
	Soul Coughing	Super Bon Bon
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt