Published on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 .
Given the fact that we are recovering from a major wild fire that took out over 200 homes, some of which were owned by people my girlfriend knows personally and one of which was owned by a faculty member who was on her Ph.D. committee when she graduated last Spring (I think, when this all shakes out and given the size of this town, everyone will know at least one person who lost a home), I kind of felt a little levity was in order.
KCSB-FM canceled our on-air fundraiser that was scheduled for this very week, as it seemed like a bad time to beg for money for ourselves while the city was on fire, and FCC regulations for non-commercial broadcasters prevent us from raising money for others over the air. If any of my podcast listeners were thinking about donating to KCSB-FM during this time, I’d ask that you consider giving money to two victims that suffered severe burns and who also lost there home:
The Lance And Carla Burn Fund:
Santa Barbara Bank & Trust
1483 East Valley Road
Montecito, CA 93108-1248
I don’t know either of these people, but I do know that KCSB’s operating budget is in good shape comparatively speaking. Despite all of the headlines regarding this fire talking about “Oprah” and “celebrities”, the fact is that a lot of the homes taken out were owned by working class people who bought in Santa Barbara 20-30 years ago when property values weren’t the obscene amount that they are currently - even in a mortgage crisis. But, as I seem to do a lot lately, I digress…
Or consider giving to some of the victims of the huge fires in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Anyway, here were are with another cover song edition of NonDescript. At least locally, I hope this brings a smile to someone’s face.
Standard Podcast [63:28m]:
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Richard Cheese | Baby Got Back | Tuxicity
The Detholz! | Built This City | The Detholz! Live at Schubas 05/07/2005
John Gora | Karma Chameleon Polka | Bulletproof Polkas
Zella Mayzell | I Wear My Sunglasses at Night | The Embittered EP
Mambo Kurt | Dancing Queen | Spiel Heimorgel spiel
The Billy Rubin Trio | Today (feat. Lady S.) | St. Valentines Massacre
The Rocky Raccoons | Little Girls | A Dead Bands Party: A Oingo Boingo Tribute
3 Redneck Tenors | TV Theme Song Medley | Cast Album #2
The Popes | Cracklin’ Rosie | The Rare Oul’ Stuff
The Alarm | In A Big Country | Live In The Poppy Fields
The Slackers | Wanted Dead or Alive | Wasted Days
Hot Buttered Rum | You Make Me Feel Like Dancing | Live In the Northeast
The Lounge-O-Leers | Mambo #5 | WOW It’s…The Lounge-O-Leers
Tom Lehrer | Clementine | The Remains Of Tom Lehrer [Disc 2]
Published on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 .
Everything is late today, as I took my Veteran’s Day yesterday in order to recharge my batteries. We, as in KCSB-FM, are about to head into our annual on-air fundrasier, which is, under normal circumstances, a bit stressful. Trying to raise money while the economy is in the toilet… well, the next ten days should be very interesting.
And for those of you saying to yourselves, “But aren’t you in Santa Barbara where money abounds?” Let’s just say that the folks in Hope Ranch aren’t exactly our primary listening audience.
I’ll try to add band links when I get some down time.
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Artist | Song | Album
Astronautalis | Oceanwalk | You And Yer Good Ideas
Beirut | A Sunday Smile | The Flying Club Cup
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Is In | Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection Vol. 2
Blitzen Trapper | God & Suicide | Furr
Hot Snakes | Our Work Fills the Pew’s | Automatic Midnight
Say Hi To Your Mom | A Hit In Sweden | Numbers & Mumbles
We Start Fires | Trouble | We Start Fires
The Minders | Savour All the Days | It’s a Bright Guilty World
The Golden Dogs | Elevator Man | Everything In 3 Parts
The Mabuses | Seasider | Mabused
Tom Waits | Goodnight Irene | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Spectaculars | Anti-Hectic | Have You Heard Things?
My Robot Friend | You’re Out Of The Computer | Hot Action!
Tubeway Army | Crazies | Replicas
The Teeth | Ball of The Dead Rat | You’re My Lover Now
Zen Guerrilla | Empty Heart | Positronic Raygun
Tom Lehrer | It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier | An Evening Wasted With…
Published on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 .
Law & Letters is getting spammed by supporters of Prop 8, so apparently the bigots are out in full force. Hopefully, it’s a sign of desperation, but to help spread the word, I’ll donate my little space in the blog-o-sphere against this awful, awful proposition. I have no tolerance for this kind of nonsense. It really, really pisses me off.
Anyway, more information can be found here.
Published on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 .
This show is live today, as I didn’t have time to pre-produce it last night. The podcast will be uploaded at some point today, depending on how the day goes.
So I really wanted to do an Election Day show, but we had a little incident in Santa Barbara that sucked the remaining energy I had right out of me. My better half and I were at a wedding in San Diego last weekend (our fourth wedding in two months, and the third wedding San Diego). We drove back Sunday night, arriving home at about 10:30pm.
I left for work at about 8:20am, and all streets leading to work were backed up, as there was a gunman on a freeway overpass. Police stopped traffic on the 101 FWY entirely, forcing those of us who were fortunate enough to not have gotten on the freeway before 8:15am to stay on side streets. This turned my 10-15 minute commute into an hour and 45 minute commute. During the first hour, I would have made better time walking.
I got lucky, as I know people who got stuck on the 101 FWY for almost three hours. So, yeah, all around it was a great morning.
For those wondering, the gunman was an Iraqi War veteran who apparently had some kind of mental breakdown, and it appears his gun wasn’t loaded and no one was harmed.
Lastly, GO VOTE!!
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The Majestic Twelve | Condoleeza, Check My Posse | Schizophrenology
Le Tigre | After Dark | This Island
The Dismemberment Plan | Girl O’ Clock | Emergency & I
Drazy Hoops | In God We Trust | Hey Sunshine
Electric Laser People | Disco3000 | Straight Talk On Raising Kids
Eagles of Death Metal | I Only Want You | Peace Love Death Metal
The French Kicks | So Far We Are | Two Thousand
Golden Shoulders | This Is A Test | Friendship Is Deep
The Heavy | Coleen | Great Vengeance and Furious Fire
Kultur Shock | Duna | We Came To Take Your Jobs Away
Firewater | Feels Like the End of the World | The Golden Hour
The French Kicks | England Just Will Not Let You Recover | Two Thousand
Cloud Cult | Story of the Grandson of Jesus | Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
BOAT | Remember the Romans | Songs That you Might Not Like
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | This Land Is Your Land | Naturally
Tom Lehrer | Werner Von Braun | That Was The Year That Was
