The things people say.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com

Came across this site the other day - pages and pages of funny and weird things overheard in New York. Very easy to waste hours here but very entertaining.

Personal highlight -

Mom: ...and you have to hold my hand before we go out into the street.
Little girl: Best fucking advice ever.

--106th & Broadway

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Monday - ooops Wednesday sunset tracks

Had a bit of a shift swap this week while off doing some (very useful and exciting) work training. Thanks to the Great Fintain for filling in.

This is what I played on Wednesday.
I Was Made For Loving You    Queen Of Japan    2:01    2 Many DJs
Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFingers    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...
Our Way Of Life    EYE Vs Comm. Govt  1:17    Songs Of Protest
Wonder Riff    Baterz    3:03    Out of Hell
Take You Home    The Devastations    3:53    Coal
Electricityscape The Strokes    3:33    First Impressions Of Earth
Not So Tough    Love Cuts Kill    4:08    Melbourne Water 2
Summer Wino    Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males    4:54    The Tabloid Blues
Unmade Love    The Triffids    4:02    Australian Melodrama
I-94    Radio Birdman    3:36    The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)
Hash Pipe    Weezer    3:06    Weezer (Green Album)
Paranoid    Black Sabbath    2:49    Paranoid
Black Country Rock    David Bowie    3:36    The Man Who Sold The World
Love Me Like You    The Magic Numbers    4:50    The Magic Numbers
Comet    Wire    3:18    Send
Meganerd    YT Cracker    3:02    Nerd Rap
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?    Matthew Sweet    3:13    Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits
Peaches & Cream    Beck    4:54    Midnite Vultures
Bullet    Frank Black & The Catholics    3:53    Dog In The Sand
I got your number    Deadstar    3:12    Deadstar
Suicide Baby    The BellRays    2:11    Raw Collection
Well That Was Easy    Franz Ferdinand    3:02    You Could Have It So Much Better


Everything Reminds Me of Her    Elliott Smith    2:37    Figure 8
Twin Lakes    Sodastream    2:12    Reservations
The stories you tell    Jim Dead    3:39    13 Songs by Jim Dead
Rowboat    Johnny Cash    3:44    Unchained
Guns Of Brixton    Nouvelle Vague    4:06    Nouvelle Vague
Falling Out    Ween    2:28    White Pepper
Make it Count    Barb Waters & Kim Salmon    3:35    Rosa Duets
Aeroplanes    Paradise Motel    4:52    Flight Paths
Take It From Me    The Weepies    3:52    Say I Am You
Greetings In Braille    The Elected    3:58    Me First
Whitey Trickstar    GBVG    6:04    Whitey Trickstar
Pissing in the wind    Badly Drawn Boy    4:19    The hour of the bewilderbeast
Under The Milky Way    The Church    4:58    Under The Milky Way
7 Sisters    Wild Pumpkins At Midnight    3:04    The Secret Of The Sad Tree
Heart Of Gold    Neil Young With The Stray Gators    3:09    Greatest Hits
A punchup at a wedding    Radiohead    4:57    Hail to the thief
If You're Feeling Sinister    Belle & Sebastian    5:21    If You're Feeling Sinister
World Looking In    Morcheeba    3:20    The Chillout Session 2 (Disc 2)
Slience    Delirium    3:55    The Chillout Session 2 (Disc 2)
How Would You Plead?    Ed Kuepper    3:21    This Is The Magic Mile

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And the beg-athon continues

Last day of Radiothon (thank God) - while it's nice to have something to break up the routine, it kind of gets a little painful when you pitch pitch pitch for people to support the station and consistently get very little. (Big thanks to the people who did subscribe during Monday and Tuesday Sunsets last week, by the way)

Anyways, it is a worthy cause and it is important to do your bit, so onwards and upwards I guess.

Here are some tracks for the show today.

So Now You're Paul Simon's Producer 2:18 Full Fathom Five 07 Seven
Got No Money 2:43 theredsunband Peapod
Grace 5:34 King Creosote Dream Brother: The Songs Of Tim & Jeff Buckley
Mornings Eleven 5:34 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
Constant Ships 5:05 Sodastream A Minor Revival
Oh, Madalene 2:44 The Oranges Band All Around
Swimmers 2:55 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
Solar Flare 3:52 Endorphin Embrace
Black Heart 4:48 Calexico Feast Of Wire
Everything Reminds Me of Her 2:37 Elliott Smith Figure 8
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 3:19 Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Music 3:31 The Beautiful Girls Learn Yourself
Outer Accelerator 5:21 Stereolab Mars Audiac Quartet
Run Baby Run 7:23 Alex Cortiz Mesmerising
It's A Dream 6:32 Neil Young Prairie Wind
This Modern Love 4:25 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Silver Bird 3:18 Collard Greens And Gravy Silver Bird
Blackjack 4:07 Tortoise Standards

Anita's Miracle Suntan Lotion Magic Dirt 2:34 Tough Love
Breakdown Electronic 5:52 Twisted Tenderness
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani/Snoop Dogg/ZZ Top) Torero 4:28 Best of Bootie 2005
Am I ever gonna see your face again Mach Pelican 2:24 Bigger than Tina

Tuesday tracks

Mr Cheapskate    Cosmic Egg    4:39    Cosmic Egg
Give Me Tonight    Art Of Fighting    4:38    Wires
Sweetheart    Goldentone    4:21    Blood Red Earth
Fruite De Passion    The El Caminos    3:55    ...Away
She bangs the drums    The Stone Roses    3:50    Very Best of
Inner Meet Me    The Beta Band    6:19    3 E.P.'s
Hallelujah    Custard    4:58    Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
World Divided    The View From Here    3:15    Songs Of Protest
Fifteen    Baterz    2:05    Out of Hell
Across 110th Street    Bobby Womack    3:50    The Best Of Blaxploitation (Disc 2)
Le Chant De l'Helium    Marie-Jo Therio    4:53    So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
What a wonderful world    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    3:03    B-Sides And Rarities II
Hurt    Johnny Cash    3:38    American IV - The man comes around
Final Straw    R.E.M.    4:07    Future Soundtrack for America
The Staunton Lick    Lemon Jelly    5:22    Lemonjelly.ky
Love Will Tear Us Apart    Nouvelle Vague    3:18    Nouvelle Vague
Throw your arms around me    Hunters and Collectors    4:45    Live in large rooms and lounges

Requiem for the Punters Club    The Lucksmiths    5:19    Midweek Morning

Ready Light    Full Fathom Five    4:54    07 Seven
Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFingers    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...
Girl and the Sea    Presets    4:46    Beams
In Front of Me    Tzu    3:37    Smiling At Strangers
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange
(Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top)    Torero    4:28    Best of Bootie 2005
My Other Car Is A Beatle
(L'Trimm vs. Armand Van Helden vs. Beatles vs. Gary Numan)    Jay-R    4:52    Best of Bootie 2005
Passenger    Powderfinger    4:21    Internationalist
Ever Fallen In Love    The Buzzcocks    2:55    The Archive Series - BBC Sessions
Simple Love (Orig)    Saints, The    3:40    Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Thornbury    Ruck Rover    3:10    Before we lost it
Seven Nation Army    The White Stripes    3:52    Elephant
for the price of a cup of tea    belle and sebastian    3:19    the life pursuit
Blister In The Sun    Violent Femmes    2:32    Viva Wisconsin [Live]
Man Overboard    Deborah Conway & Wicked Beat Sound System    6:11    He died with a felafel in his hand - Soundtrack
Last nite (The Strokes)    The Detroit Cobras    2:35    Stop me if you think you've heard this one before
Gabrielle    Ween    3:29    Shinola (Vol. 1)
Prisoner Of Society    The Living End    3:52    The Living End
Mornings Eleven    The Magic Numbers    5:34    The Magic Numbers
Supernatural    Ripe    4:09    The Plastic Hassle

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Todays tunes - a special radiothon editiion (now with bonus i's)

Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFinger    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...   
Turn Up Your Radio    The FBI Idols    4:06    Kill Your Idols   
Kool thing    Sonic Youth    4:06    Goo   
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio    Ramones    3:52    Anthology   
New Race (Orig)    Radio Birdman    4:27    Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87   
Radio    Teenage Fanclub    2:55    Four thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-six seconds   
Golden Radio    Bit By Bats    6:08    Let's Go Romeo   
Get up    The Smallgoods    4:23    Listen to the radio    10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Radio    The Avalanches    4:52    Since I Left You   
God Is On The Radio    Queens Of The Stone Age    6:04    Songs For The Deaf    
Radio Jordan    Josh Abrahams    6:39    Sweet Distorted Holiday   
Give Me Something Back    Skulker    2:33    Coming Home Single   
Money (That's what I want)    Flying Lizards    2:32    J Files - Best covers of all time   
Got No Money    theredsunband    2:43    Peapod    10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Warm Milk With Honey    Legends Of Motorsport    2:44    Warm Milk With Honey   
Rocket Ride    Felix Da Housecat    2:37    Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever   
Pinball City    The BellRays    2:35    Raw Collection   
This train will be taking no passengers    Augie March    4:30    Strange bird   
19-2000 [SOULCHILD REMIX]    Gorillaz    3:30    G Sides   
Lick The Bacon    Osterberg    2:08    Osterberg   


No No Never    Weddings Parties Anything    5:20    They Were Better Live (Disc 2)   
Radio #1    Air    4:22    10,000 Hz Legend   
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead    Justin Heazlewood    2:07    The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed   
Spidermother    Baterz    2:21    Out of Hell   
Point that thing somewhere else    The Clean    5:27    Topless women talk about their lives    
Did You See Me?    Ween    5:11    Shinola (Vol. 1)   
You Never Give Me Your Money    The Beatles    4:02    Abbey Road   
Everything in it's right place    Radiohead    4:11    Kid A   
Heaps    Essendon Airport    3:57    Melbourne Water 2   
Easy Money    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    6:43    The Lyre Of Orpheus   
Airwaves    Kraftwerk    4:40    Radioactivity   
Shake Your Mood    Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males    4:08    Pirate Radio EP   
Mexican Radio    Wall of Voodo    3:57    Rage - More Of The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers (Disc 2)   
On the radio    The Killjoys    3:21    Stealing Horses   
A.M. Radio    Hugo Race & True Spirit    5:55    The Goldstreet Sessions   
Tessalit    Tinariwen    3:58    The Radio Tisdas Sessions   
Give Me Tonight    Art Of Fighting    4:38    Wires   
Surfing Magazines    The Go-Betweens    4:33    The Friends Of Rachel Worth   

Nifty Flash animation

If you have ever used Flash (or even a computer I guess), you should find this Flash centred cartoon pretty funny. It is all about the battle between a Flash animator and his creation. Kudos to Alan Becker for this one.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/34244097/

Nifty Pixies covers

http://pottymouth.org/mcpt/

This guy has covered a bunch of Pixies songs in the style of other famous (and generally far less cool) artists - check it out.

These are the songs :

Hey as performed by Prince

No. 13 Baby as performed by Elvis

Vamos as performed by Jimi Hendrix

Mr. Grieves as performed by Bob Marley

River Euphrates as performed by Tina Turner

Levitate Me as performed by The Beach Boys

Wave Of Mutilation as performed by The Bee Gees

Monkey Gone to Heaven as performed by Frank Sinatra

Songs of joy

Ok, so maybe this whole exercise is on the futile side, what with the lack of comments/feedback/reasons-to-live but what the hey, I might as well add my bunch of 1s and 0s to this great big blogosphere thing, right?

Anyways, it would be nice to know someone is out there paying attention - maybe I'm optimistic to think that people are listening to their radios at the same time that they are online, in fairness, can't say I ever do but it would be nice to think someone was prepared to stop by and say hi once in a while anyways.

So please, if you're here, would it kill you to leave a comment. See the bit at the bottom of the post where it says 0 comments? Just click on that and say something. I'd do it for your blog (if I knew about it) - honest

Anyways, this is what I played yesterday. (Actually, that's not entirely true, I think I got up to Your Missing - Cowboy Junkies on the soft cd and Chase the Dragon - Beasts of Bourbon on the loud one.

Firelines Sodastream 3:07 Reservations
Georgina Richard Easton 3:16 Boganvillea
Thirteen Wilco 3:25 Big Star Small World
Wonder Riff Baterz 3:03 Out of Hell
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
After the Garden Neil Young 3:23 Living With War
Riga Girls The Weepies 2:36 Say I Am You
Originality Thievery Corporation feat. Sister Nancy 4:08 Versions
Khalghi Stomp Transglobal Underground 3:54 Versions
Haven’t Got A Clue The Flaming Lips 3:25 At War With The Mystics
I Won't Back Down Johnny Cash 2:09 American III: Solitary Man
Made of stone The Stone Roses 4:16 Very Best of
Shake Your Mood Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males 4:08 Pirate Radio EP
Love Will Tear Us Apart Nouvelle Vague 3:18 Nouvelle Vague
You're Missing Cowboy Junkies 4:09 Early 21st Century Blues
Valentine & Garuda Frank Black & The Catholics 3:13 Black Letter Days
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
Marble Arch Minimum Chips 3:04 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Rain Falls For Wind The Sleepy Jackson 4:03 Lovers
It's Gonna Be (Alright) Ween 3:18 The Mollusk
Blue Spanish Sky Chris Isaak 3:58 Wicked Game

Fruite De Passion The El Caminos 3:55 ...Away
Revolution Get Down The BellRays 2:41 The Red White & Black
Cry for love Iggy Pop 4:28 Nude and Rude - the best of Iggy Pop
This Time Drones 5:35 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
The Best You Can Believe In Drones 7:35 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
Glasgow Mega-Snake Mogwai 3:35 Mr. Beast
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Dazzled Kids Voicst 2:42 11:11
Picture From A Sound Ripe 4:52 Galaxies And Stars
I Hate Shopping The Drugs 3:15 The Very Next Of
Chase The Dragon Beasts Of Bourbon 3:37 From The Belly Of The Beast Live
Echo and Bounce The Propellerheads 5:26 Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Disco 1 Mess Hall 3:59 Notes From A Ceiling
Six Months In a Leaky Boat Little Birdy 3:53 She Will Have Her Way
sukie in the graveyard belle and sebastian 3:00 the life pursuit
Love Me Like You The Magic Numbers 4:50 The Magic Numbers
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better
Sabotage The Beastie Boys 2:58 Ill Communication
See the sun Rocket Science 4:15 Eternal holiday

tracks

I'm falling Halfday 3:50 Now We're Happy
Nature Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:54 Abattoir Blues (Disc 1)
Ten Little Pills Slumber Party 4:11 Slumber Party
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Gutter for two The Tremors 3:03 Cash up front, no kissing
Would You Love A Monsterman Lordi 3:02 The Monster Show
Devil Is A Loser Lordi 3:29 Get Heavy
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
Quiet Room Meatbee 3:46 Caught In The ACT 2001
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Bubblegum Gun I Heart Hiroshima 3:26 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Shock And Awe Neil Young 4:52 Living With War
Let's Impeach the President Neil Young 5:10 Living With War
Midweek morning The Lucksmiths 3:05 Naturaliste
The Ballad Of Lachlan And Sarah Ripe 3:50 Galaxies And Stars
Sharkfin Blues The Drones 4:32 Single
Cinnamon girl Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:44 Under The Covers
Secret Track The Drugs 0:41 The Very Next Of
Nightmares By The Sea Jeff Buckley 3:49 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk [Disc 2]
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Hott Date The Gossip 2:17 That's Not What I Heard

Take me home Kirsty Stegwazi 5:04 Jailbirds
Kid Fears Indigo Girls 4:34 Indigo Girls
Madeline Yo La Tengo 3:37 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Sweetheart Goldentone 4:21 Blood Red Earth
Lonely Stretch The Triffids 5:02 Born Sandy Devotional
Pancho Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 3:13 The Brave And The Bold
Stars The Weepies 3:02 Say I Am You
Snow Peas Minimum Chips 3:33 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Your Neighborhood Spaceman (featuring Jel and Odd Nosdam) Peeping Tom 5:45 Peeping Tom
Acid Food Mogwai 3:40 Mr. Beast
We're No Here Mogwai 5:36 Mr. Beast
This is Not a Love Song Nouvelle Vague 4:33 Versions
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) The Flaming Lips 4:51 At War With The Mystics
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
I Wish You Were Here Ed Kuepper 3:03 This Is The Magic Mile
The Nature vs. Effect Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Lichen And Bees Tamas Wells 3:05 A Plea En Vendredi
Lived In Bars Cat Power 3:43 The Greatest
Start Again Sounds Like Sunset 3:24 Saturdays

Oh Lordi - Eurovision goes Metal

Well, far be it from me to blow my own horn (though like all guys, you know I would if I could :) but take a look back through the archives of this blog to the entry from the 27th of March where you'll notice I got perhaps a little excited about the Finnish entry in Eurovision this year.

That's right, it was Lordi, the monster themed metal band who last night took out Finland's first ever Eurovision victory and also did a great interview in their press conference afterwards

"“Think about it, a rock band just won a pop song contest. This is weird, strange, interesting. This is for all rock fans, hard rock fans, metal fans and Kiss fans. And we didn’t just win – we won it for Finland.”

He then sang the chorus of Lithuania entry, ‘We Are The Winners’." And that Lithuanian entry is a whole other thing again

Evidently the band has been embroiled in a little controversy at home, with the Finnish leader expressing concern that they might give Finland a bad name overseas (be interesting to see the backpedal now) and claims elsewhere that the band are satanic. Lordi addressed this pretty well in his press conference as well though

“For the millionth time, we’re not Satanists or devil worshippers,” he said. “This is entertainment. The masks are like our calling card and we’ll never perform without them. It would be like Santa Claus handing a child his gifts and Christmas time and then pulling off his beard and saying, ‘By the way, I’m your father…’”

Read all about it on the Eurovision website - http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm

Last weeks tracks

Yeah, umm, kind of forgot to do that one I know - sorry if you were wondering - got a bunch of new music this week though and will also highlight a bit of Lordi, so I hope you enjoy

Today's tracks

Robert Onion Frank Black & The Catholics 4:00 Dog In The Sand
Electrical Storm (Live) Ed Kuepper 6:37 This Is The Magic Mile
Retro Bailterspace 4:29 Wammo
Supernatural Ripe 4:09 The Plastic Hassle
I-94 Radio Birdman 3:36 The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)
Rex Kramer Gomez 4:30 In our gun
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely Hüsker Dü 3:31 Candy Apple Grey
Pyramid Wolfmother 4:28 Wolfmother
No One Knows Queens Of The Stone Age 4:38 Songs For The Deaf
Open air channel Rocket Science 7:13 Contact High
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:05 We Got Communication
Sir! Beat Sir Bit By Bats 2:33 Bit By Bats
Hazy Shade of Winter Bodyjar 2:11 Ten Years Of The Meredith Music Festival
Fighting in a sack The Shins 2:26 Chutes too narrow
Contact Frausdots 4:26 Couture, Couture, Couture
Daddy's Home Sixfthick 2:30 Daddy's Home
Can't work you out Dallas Crane 3:05 Dallas Crane
Mirror Blues Pt.1 Died Pretty 4:32 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Are you gonna be my girl Jet 3:33 Get Born
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow

Love Will Tear Us Apart Nouvelle Vague 3:18 Nouvelle Vague
The Clock The Go-Betweens 4:06 The Friends Of Rachel Worth
Boundary Rider The Go-Betweens 2:45 Oceans Apart
Streets of Your Town The Go-Betweens 3:33 16 Lovers Lane
Butterfly Baterz 3:45 Out of Hell
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead Justin Heazlewood 2:07 The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
December Skies Cowboy Junkies 5:18 Early 21st Century Blues
Sing Me A Song Charlie Marshall 5:05 Charlie Marshall And The Body Electric
Submarine Bells The Chills 3:41 Submarine Bells
Empty Shell Cat Power 3:03 The Greatest
Thunder Road Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 6:28 The Brave And The Bold
Danko/Manuel Drive-By Truckers 5:43 Across The Great Divide
Incident on South Dowling Paul Kelly 2:50 Post
Marble Arch Minimum Chips 3:04 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Spacewalk Lemon Jelly 7:02 Lost Horizons
The passenger Iggy Pop 4:43 Nude and Rude - the best of Iggy Pop
Jack-Ass Beck 4:11 Odelay
Road To Nowhere Talking Heads 4:20 Once In A Lifetime

Bush cops a comedy beating at major dinner

Democracy Now! | Stephen Colbert's Blistering Performance Mocking Bush and the Press Goes Ignored by the Media

Maybe you're already across this, but if you aren't, Daily Show performer Stephen Colbert was guest speaker at the annual White House Press Corp dinner the other week. Standing about 5 feet about from George W and in full character doing his conservative commentator bit, he proceeded to sledge Bush for the better part of 20 minutes, while the President just looked more and more annoyed.

He also had a thing or two to say to the assembled journalists in the room about how slack they'd been in keeping the government accountable, which is probably why his speech got almost no coverage in the mainstream media in the US until it had swept the web, getting more than 500,000 viewings on YouTube (a popular web video site).

It's largely been removed from the web by now (apparently due to Copyright issues) but can still be found here and there - here for now ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/03/145234 )

Here are a couple of excerpts to give you some idea.

Mark Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps, Madame First Lady, Mr. President, my name is Stephen Colbert, and tonight it is my privilege to celebrate this president, ‘cause we're not so different, he and I. We both get it. Guys like us, we're not some brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut. Right, sir?

That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.

And as excited as I am to be here with the President, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of FOX News. FOX News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side.

But the rest of you, what are you thinking? Reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in Eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished.

Monday tracks

The Red Flag Billy Bragg 3:13 The Internationale
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
(Nice Dream) Radiohead 3:53 The Bends
I See A Darkness Johnny Cash 3:42 American III
Danielle Tex, Don & Charlie 3:18 Sad But True
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
The Other Side Bit By Bats 6:12 Bit By Bats
What Else Could It Be Mercury Rev 5:13 All Is Dream
You Can Have It All Yo La Tengo 4:36 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Under The Milky Way The Church 4:57 Rage 1
Los Angeles Frank Black 4:07 Rage 1
Shivers - 1 Nick Cave and the Dirty 3 5:11 Single
Fitzroy Strongman Sodastream 4:10 Single
The Clock The Go-Betweens 4:06 The Friends Of Rachel Worth
The Mule The Magic Numbers 5:11 The Magic Numbers
This Is Not The Way Home The Cruel Sea 4:06 This Is Not The Way Home
Bananas And Blow Ween 3:34 White Pepper
I Love Work Butterfingers 4:13 Breakfast At Fatboys

Anita's Miracle Suntan Lotion Magic Dirt 2:34 Tough Love
Breakdown Electronic 5:52 Twisted Tenderness
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani/Snoop Dogg/ZZ Top) Torero 4:28 Best of Bootie 2005
Am I ever gonna see your face again Mach Pelican 2:24 Bigger than Tina
Calm Down Riff Random 3:05 In Space There Is No Sound
Sidewalking The Jesus and Mary Chain 3:34 Rage 2
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five 7:20 Rage 1
Popcorn Hot Butter 2:33 Single
Beverly & Honeymoon DeepSeaPlaza 4:06 Songs Of Protest
the blues are still blue belle and sebastian 4:08 the life pursuit
In The Red Love Of Diagrams 3:36 We Got Communication
Check Level The Rogers Sisters 3:20 The Rogers Sisters
Cool Scene The Dandy Warhols 4:07 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
I Think I Smell A Rat The White Stripes 2:04 White Blood Cells
common_people William Shatner 2:19 Has-been
Girl Beck 3:29 Guero
Stop thinking about it Joey Ramone 2:56 Garage Days
Fortress Europe Asian Dub Foundation 3:53 Enemy Of The Enemy
Bang On! The Propellerheads 5:44 Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Ladybird Dallas Crane 2:34 Dallas Crane
Agent Tremolo Messerchups 4:01 Black Black Magick

Tunes

The Man Who Sold The World David Bowie 4:00 The Man Who Sold The World
Without You Ed Kuepper 4:47 This Is The Magic Mile
Eternal Struggle Full Fathom Five 4:00 07 Seven
The Telemarketer Resignation Tamas Wells 2:21 A Plea En Vendredi
December Skies Cowboy Junkies 5:18 Early 21st Century Blues
Give Me Tonight Art Of Fighting 4:38 Wires
Previous Crimes Devastations 4:58 Devastations
Nic Nax Minimum Chips 3:44 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Final Straw R.E.M. 4:07 Future Soundtrack for America
The Sandringham line The lucksmiths 5:26 Naturaliste
Chicago Sufjan Stevens 6:04 Illinois
Dark Days theredsunband 2:58 Peapod
Summer 78 (With Claire Pichet) Yann Tiersen 3:54 Good Bye Lenin!
Live Bed Show (Extended) Pulp 4:10 Second Class
Is this it (The Strokes) Royal City 3:01 Stop me if you think...
Empty Shell Cat Power 3:03 The Greatest
Hollywood Landmines Blu Mar Ten 3:51 The Six Million Names Of God
Waves Superette 3:18 Topless women talk about their lives
Yoshimi battles the pink robots The Flaming Lips 4:45 Yoshimi battles the pink robots

I Go Hard, I Go Home Presets 5:04 Beams
Paris Brooklyn Dimitri From Paris 7:37 Cruising Attitude
Maria Peripatetica Ed Kuepper 3:36 This Is The Magic Mile
Sing Me A Song Charlie Marshall 5:05 Charlie Marshall
Bokura No Mazinger Dimitri From Paris 5:14 Cruising Attitude
The Suburban Ballet Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Music Is Crap Custard 3:03 Goodbye Cruel World
Simple Love Hoss 4:02 Idiot Box
My Pal Magic Dirt 3:53 Idiot Box
Sleeps With Angels Neil Young&Crazy Horse 2:46 Sleeps With Angels
Like A Hurricane Jay Farrar 7:08 Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
September 13th Deodato 5:17 Best Of Blaxploitation
Love Me Like You The Magic Numbers 4:50 The Magic Numbers
The Dead Heart Frenzal Rhomb 3:46 The Power & The Passion
Igloo The Screaming Tribesmen 4:01 Savage Beat Of The Screaming Tribesmen
Miles Away Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2:19 UNCUT - Neat Neat Neat
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:05 We Got Communication
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better

10-04 Tunes

Just Dropped In Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 3:20 The Big Lebowski
Blue Orchid The White Stripes 2:38 Get Behind Me Satan
The dark of the matinee Franz Ferdinand 4:03 Franz Ferdinand
Supernaturally Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:37 The Lyre Of Orpheus
The Man Who Sold The World Nirvana 4:20 MTV Unplugged in New York
Final Straw R.E.M. 4:07 Future Soundtrack for America
Off With Your Head Sleater-Kinney 2:26 Future Soundtrack for America
sukie in the graveyard belle and sebastian 3:00 the life pursuit
The Legend YT Cracker 3:01 Nerd Rap
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Lateral Jump Bergerac 5:47 Voice Of Translator
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Billy Bragg 4:34 Workers Playtime
Dead In A Ditch Cosmic Psychos 3:56 Off Ya Cruet!
Joker And The Thief Wolfmother 4:39 Wolfmother
Ashes To Ashes Faith No More 3:36 Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits
Let's Take A Trip Together Morphine 3:00 Cure For Pain
Heroes [Live] Blondie 6:20 UNCUT - Starman: A Tribute To David Bowie
The pledge to resist Saul Williams (Coldcut remix) 5:36 Peace Not War
Forsaken Fashion Dolls Lordi 3:45 The Monster Show

Ocean Of You The Blackeyed Susans 3:33 Welcome Stranger
Don't Dream It's Over Sarah Blasko 4:42 She Will Have Her Way
Lay Of The Sunflower Gov't Mule 6:58 The Deep End Vol. 2
A Few More Miles Karl Broadie 2:47 Nowhere Now Here
Unfair Sounds Like Sunset 4:05 Saturdays
Some Say (I Got Devil) Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 3:33 The Brave And The Bold
No Woman, No Cry Renegades Steel Band 6:02 Sounds Of The Planet, Womadelaide 2006
Love And Communication Cat Power 4:33 The Greatest
Labour Of Love Frente! 3:10 Whirled
Summer Heat The Crustaceans 3:04 I'm Happy If You're Happy
Alaska Minimum Chips 4:28 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Love Theme Moby 4:36 I Like To Score
Midnight Bird Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set 4:24 Autumn Bone
Hole In The Bucket Spearhead 5:46 Home
Made of stone The Stone Roses 4:16 Very Best of
Burma Shave Tom Waits 6:33 Used Songs 73-80
I Feel Just Like a Child Devendra Banhart 4:47 Uncut 2005

Belated tunes

Wayward.....Vashti Bunyan.....3:06.....Lookaftering
Six Months In a Leaky Boat.....Little Birdy.....3:53.....She Will Have Her Way
Fall At Your Feet.....Clare Bowditch.....3:50.....She Will Have Her Way
Sex & Mayhem.....The Devastations.....4:22.....Coal
Louise.....Tex, Don & Charlie.....4:48.....Sad But True
It Looks Like You.....Evan Dando.....3:15.....Baby I'm Bored
Sun King.....The Beatles.....2:26.....Abbey Road
Blasphemous Rumours.....Depeche Mode.....5:09.....Singles 81-85
Sunday Session.....Weekender Ft Zoe Johnston.....4:38.....The
Chillout Session 2
X-Ray Eyes.....Randy.....3:23.....Welfare Problems
I Know.....The Beta Band.....3:59.....3 E.P.'s
Charity Board.....Sodastream.....4:33.....Take Me With You When You Go
Let It All Turn Black.....Sodastream.....3:57.....Take Me With You When You Go
The beautiful look city today.....Gersey.....9:05.....Hope springs
Summer of love.....Black Cab.....4:51.....Altamont Diary
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole.....Martha Wainwright.....3:14.....Martha
Wainwright
Serac.....Decoder Ring.....5:24.....Fractions
The Rift.....Ween.....5:41.....Shinola (Vol. 1)

another sunny day... 4:04... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
sukie in the graveyard... 3:00... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
for the price of a cup of tea... 3:19... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
Mornings Eleven... 5:34... The Magic Numbers... The Magic Numbers
Love Me Like You... 4:50... The Magic Numbers... The Magic Numbers
YYY/NNN... 4:00... Soulwax... Any Minute Now
Miserable Girl... 3:41... Soulwax... Any Minute Now
The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying... 4:58... The Devastations... Coal
There She Goes, My Beautiful World... 5:17... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds... Abattoir Blues
The Mercy Seat... 4:35... Johnny Cash... American III: Solitary Man
Devil Behind That Bush... 3:33... Cramps... Big Beat From Badsville
Execution day... 4:46... Beasts of Bourbon... Black Milk
The Death of an Idiot... 2:31... Charles Bukowski... Charles Bukowski Reads His Poetry
Gold Soundz... 2:40... Pavement... Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
A Fond Farewell... 3:58... Elliott Smith... From A Basement On The Hill
Where Is My Mind?... 3:41... Frank Black Francis... Frank Black Francis
This Charming Man... 2:43... The Smiths... Hatful Of Hollow
Perfect Day... 3:44... Lou Reed... Legendary Lou Reed (Disc 1)
Chinese Rocks... 2:53... Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers... Mojo: I Love NY Punk
Black shuck... 3:22... The Darkness... Permission to land

This years Finnish entry in Eurovision

A Finnish friend of mine put me on to these guys - a very cheesy and entirely entertaining metal outfit called Lordi.

Lordi will be the official Finnish act in the Eurovision song contest this year and have a very 80's metal / cockrock kind of sound, with lyrics all in English. There's a kind of The Darkness feel about them but heavier and without the o.t.t falsetto.

According to their bio

Lordi is a self-taught professional FX-make-up artist. Each costume and make-up has been designed, sculpted and detail painted by himself. It takes up to five hours to get the whole band applied in make-up and dressed in the multi-part rubber suits.

The stage set, which contains two stone towers with gargoyles on top, a wide stone logo and a whole lot of horrific props, were also done by the band from the scratch.

Lordi also drew a 12-page Lordi comic book, which was given to consumers as a bonus gift when they purchased the first single "Would You Love A Monsterman?". The single went gold and reached #1 in the Finnish single charts.

Lordi entered the studio to record their debut album "Get Heavy" with producer T.T. Oksala in early 2002.

Musically Lordi is strongly inspired by 80's heavy metal melodies, with a twist of modern day programming. Simple, striking, ass-kicking heavy rock!

The album was finally mixed in London at SARM STUDIOS by Kevin Shirley, who?s previous work includes names like IRON MAIDEN, AEROSMITH and THE BLACK CROWES among others.

Being a strongly visual band, Lordi shot their first video, "Would You Love A Monsterman?", in a staged horror forest. It was designed by the professionals that were behind OZZY OSBOURNE's image.

The video was also co-scripted by Lordi, who drew the storyboards. The "Would You Love A Monsterman?" video gives a glimpse of what to expect from the up-coming Lordi stage shows: pyros, special effects and monsters.

Lots more information to be found on their official website - http://www.lordi.org

Hits and Memories

So now you're Paul Simon's Producer Full Fathom Five
Got no money theredsunband
Grace King Creosote
Mornings eleven The Magic Numbers
Constant ships Sodastream
Oh, Madalene The Oranges Band
Swimmers Broken Social Scene
Solar Flare Endorphin
Black Heart Calexico
Everything reminds me of her Elliot Smith
John Wayne Gacy Jr Sufjan Stevens
Music The Beautiful Girls
Outer accelerator Stereolab
Run baby run Alex Cortiz
It's a dream Neil Young
This modern love Bloc Party
Silver Bird Collard Greens and Gravy
Blackjack Tortoise

Jazz Devil Barry Adamson
Ring of Fire Ed Kuepper
Postcard Karma County
Please break me gently Tex Perkins
Empty Nights Art of fighting
Love in the cupboard Jim Dead
Crazy Cordrazine
Holiday in Spain Machine Translations
For a short time Tiddas
Morning Rain The Sleepy Jackson
Requiem for the Punters Club The Lucksmiths
Human equivalent of penicillin Rob Clarkson
Arthurs Pizza Pnau
Constant Ships Sodastream
Rubin The Anyones
Hush Money Hugo Race and the True Spirit
Ocean of you The Blackeyed Susans
Wide Open Road Weddings Parties Anything

Monday's choons

U.S Forces Midnight Oil 4.08
Worry Worry The Fiery Furnaces 2.05
The Golden Path The Chemical Brothers 4.36
Gimme Danger Iggy Pop 3.23
She finally gets to travel The Beautiful Few 4.03
Salt water fish Ruby 8.26
Open air channel Rocket Science 7.13
Shakin' Dandy Warhols 3.55
Starman Culture Club 5.14
The Passenger Iggy Pop 4.43
Better the devil you know The Meanies 3.05
Talking talking lion blues Mick Thomas 3.45
Flag (Half mast mix) Alabama 3 3.40
Down in Splendour Straitjacket fits 3.38
Wrong party Dallas Crane 4.14
Hitched The Kills 4.02
Livin' in the city The Casanovas 4.13
A big star The City Lights 2.30

Dirty Lives Love as laughter 3.09
What I want Mark Hilton 3.47
Sunshine 78 Saab 4.49
Lay down Dallas Crane 3.16
Promised Land Edan 3.11
Heart in a cage The Strokes 3.27
Killing Lies The Strokes 3.50
Latin Flute Deodato 4.46
Weight of the world BRMC 3.41
Metal and hair The Mess Hall 2.35
I see a darkness Johnny Cash 3.42
La Di Doh Ed Kuepper 6.34
The Complaint Buju Banton 3.49
Time Edwin Starr 2.54
Winter in the hamptons Josh Rouse 3.12
Chinito Chinito Ry Cooder 4.54
Tin Pan Valley Robert Plant & the strange sensation 3.45
Shame PJ Harvey 2.33
Government Centre The Modern Lovers 2.03