Because Our Obsessions Are Important To You
April 30, 2013 Leave a comment
One last cruelty shower before the cruel flowers of May, which lead to June’s cruelest ice cream. Gather ’round, gather ’round, Bianca Stone, Ben Pease, Sara Renee Marshall, Rickey Laurentiis, John Most, Carrie Oeding, Jeffrey Allen, Holly Amos, and CAConrad have poems and stories to sing to you.
April 7, 2013 Leave a comment
We’re back! In honor of National Poetry Month we are re-opening The Poetry & Cruelty Hotline. We have many great guests in store for you. The first installment for 2013 features Philip Sorenson, Michelle Taransky, Gary Jackson, Frank Sherlock, and Lauren Shapiro. Poems and cruelties abound! Come on in! And keep checking back. We have more to come throughout April.
January 22, 2013 1 Comment
Salvatore Pane comes on the show to talk about his first novel, Last Call in the City of Bridges, Kanye West, video games, hating Kevin Garnett, his forthcoming graphic novel (co-written with Mark Kleman, illustrated by Lamar Nash), The Black List, and more!
January 14, 2013 2 Comments
Bill Taylor, husband, father, founding member of The Kingsbury Manx, artist behind the Tripp and Cautionary Tales comics in addition to the white board paintings he does at work, stops by the show to chat about all of these endeavors and more. Not enough? Fine. The kindly generous Manxmen shared a song off their forthcoming record Bronze Age (Odessa Records, out March 5th) with us. It’s called “Future Hunter” and we premier it after our chat. Go! Go!
All of The Kingsbury Manx’s album covers are painted by M. Scott Myers.
January 11, 2013 Leave a comment
We kick off the new year with something new: Jamboscree. This will feature our latest musical obsessions. It’s good stuff and the links are below.
The Fool: Sanford Clark
Tainted Love: Gloria Jones
In The Pines: Link Wray
You Make Me Shake: The Moving Sidewalks
Fat Man: Louie and the Fat Men
Roly Poly: Bob Wills
Cigareetes, Whiskey: The Sons of the Pioneers
Rainy Night Blues: Johnny Hicks
Zon Dede: El Rego
Beautiful Woman: Shin Joong Hyun
Dance Me Down Easy: Levon Helm
Carry Me Carrie: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Enchanted Forest: Mohawk and the Rednecks
Sun Comes to the Wood: Martin Newell
If I Had: Randy Howard
Hammond Song: The Roches
December 19, 2012 1 Comment
Given their recent inclusion in this Financial Times article, Jay and Patrick further discuss why it is they enjoy Christmas music, while also discussing off-target holiday movies, and, of course, eating those little green Army men. Pookahontas wrote a Christmas standard, “Merry Christmas from Talus, Or Scree” and it’s gonna jingle your bells. See you next year!
December 19, 2012 1 Comment
As our season of 77 Santas comes to a close, here’s one last bit of hits: Varner’s 2012 Sampler. This is a collection of (arguably) the best tracks from all five mixes that have gone up in the past month, plus a few new tunes. This concludes our holiday portion of the website—but fear not, we’re here all year long with podcast episodes and new content. Stop by and say hello.
Varner’s 2012 Sampler Download
December 17, 2012 Leave a comment
Varner’s back with yet another mix. He’s got a few more up his sleeve this season and he doesn’t care if you’ve been good or bad; you’re getting these no matter what.
December 13, 2012 Leave a comment
Varner’s back with yet another mix. He’s got a few more up his sleeve this season and he doesn’t care if you’ve been good or bad; you’re getting these no matter what.
December 10, 2012 2 Comments
Patrick:
It’s soup season! Jay and I often text each other “Soup!” during these cold, bleak, soul pummeling months. If you’re a member of The Soup Emporium… what’s that? You’re not a member of The Soup Emporium!? Friend, what are you waiting for? Do you hate soup? Do you hate Facebook? Join our group and you will find many a soup recipe and soup-related shouts in the dark, like these Regency Soup Socks that Soup Emporium member Claire brought to our attention. Making stock just got a lot easier with these socks. You know you want it. And if you try to join the Emporium and it doesn’t allow you, just request entry. I’ll let you in after the requisite background check.
Jay:
A Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Oh, I know what you’re thinking: but I can play Assassins Creed III on my Xbox 360! It’s shiny and fast and life-like. So what? Take your souped up expensive game console and be one of those folks who wear headsets while playing some kind of psychotically real murder rampage game. Me? I’ll take the good ole SNES any day of the week. Sure, this reminds me of Christmas, 1992. That morning, I opened up a new SNES and was just about the happiest I’ve ever been. I no longer needed 8-bit; I had 16-bit. 16. Think about that. Well, okay, don’t—it seems infinitely less impressive now. But back in the day, this was as important as oxygen. And the games on this system? Super Mario Kart? Super Mario World? Donkey Kong Country? A Link to the Past? Zombies Ate My Neighbors? Earthworm Jim? I mean, this was the best game system ever made. There’s no reason for you to ever play anything else. Ever. Now you’re playing with power. Super Power.
