Today's One-Track mind features multiple versions of Antonio Carlos Jobim's classic song, Águas de Março (Waters of March). Composed in 1972, it has become one of the most important and beautiful songs to come out of Brasil. Jobim wrote the English version of the song, though not a direct translation of the Portugese lyrics. Here's a comparison of the two versions.

We didn't have time during the show to play all versions (43 and counting), but for those hardcore fans, here they are:

aguasdemarco1.zip

aguasdemarco2.zip

aguasdemarco3.zip

aguasdemarco4.zip

Last but least, here's where you can find a link to the show and see the playlist.

Labels: music, One-Track Mind

Along the same lines of the genius of Found Magazine, check out these warning notes about food theft. I get the impression that most are from a sorority house. If you've ever lived in any sort of communal situation (I once shared a house with twelve other people), these should be painfully familiar.

Labels: found

We continue our postings featuring music that we can't play on the radio. This time it's The Frogs, a couple of brothers from Milwaukee. Their sound is very unique: folk/rock and very low-fi. The songs seem to be all improvised. Most importantly, they are the epitome of political incorrectness, with songs about homosexuality, racism, drug use, religion, sexual deviance, and anything else that pops into their heads. If you're not easily offended, it's also hilarious.

For your amusement, here's their album My Daughter, The Broad (72mb zip). We have others from them. Leave a comment if you want more.

Labels: music, Radio-unfriendly

Sure, we all know Bert is Evil, but you might want to read more about his past, his influences and what he's up to these days. The fine folks at Uncyclopedia have done some exemplary research into this modern day muppeterrorist.

Did you know that...

He was born in Hel Norway, on 6th June 666 A.D. at 6:00 to Henry Kissinger, Josef Stalin, Dr. Doom and The Wicked Witch of the West. As an orphan, he was molested by chickens and a rubber duck named Bernice.

Go sign up for the British Airways frequent flier program and click the Title dropdown. You won't be disappointed.

From Craigs List.

Researchers at Purdue University have created an animation of one of the 9/11 plane strikes on the World Trade Center.

Labels: video

Another in a long list of "a guy with a lot of time on his hands" creations. Very cool.

Labels: video

Found Magazine tickles us with all the crap they find all over the place. Here's today's find of the day:

FOUND by Moira Mosher in Highland, Michigan

Found this in the hallway at my high school. Given that it's a high school, it probably stemmed from a bad breakup. 'Bitch ass dyke' is now my favorite curse.

Labels: found

One of our favorite magazines, Punk Planet, has decided to call it quits. This was mostly due to the ridiculous financial challenges inherent in keeping a fiercely independent print mag alive in the face of severe distribution challenges. We've been a fan of the music writing, the political articles, and the way they kept their finger on the pulse of our amazing counter-culture. And not just because Dan Sinker, it's publisher, is our brother-in-law.

Dan will keep the website alive and continue publishing books through their imprint, Punk Planet Books.

The Yes Men have unleashed another of their infamous culture hacks. This time, they delivered a presentation to a Canadian oil industry symposium. Posing as executives from Exxon Mobile and the National Petroleum Council, they delivered a keynote presentation about a new solution to the problem of dwindling supplies of petroleum: use dead people.

Using a technique similar to rendering of whale blubber, they propose the conversion of corpses into a new fuel source known as Vivoleum.

"Vivoleum works in perfect synergy with the continued expansion of fossil fuel production," noted "Exxon rep" "Florian Osenberg" (Yes Man Mike Bonanno). "With more fossil fuels comes a greater chance of disaster, but that means more feedstock for Vivoleum. Fuel will continue to flow for those of us left."

Labels: culture hacks

When you watch a movie on T.V., they take out, among other things, all instances of the F-word. Well, just to keep the universe in balance, a clever guy has created f@&king short versions of several well-known films, in which he edits out anything that isn't the F-word.

Hilarious, but obviously not for sensitive ears.

The Big Lebowski


Pulp Fiction


The Departed


Casino

Labels: culture hacks

It's my dream finally fulfilled.

Labels: culture hacks

• Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.


• Chuck Norris' calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd; no one fools Chuck Norris.


• Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Chuck Norris can kill 100 percent of whatever the fuck he wants.


• Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.


• Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.


• Chuck Norris was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when he managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.


• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

Here is the more complete list of Facts About Chuck.

Also, why not listen to the song that put Chuck's accomplishments on the charts in Belize?

Yet another reason I wish I were 24 and living in Barcelona. A group called the Graffiti Research Lab seems to be focused on promoting technology for urban expression (I read this as "trade your spray can for a laser"). Here's an amazing video of an event someone put together to virtually deface a department store in Barcelona.

Labels: culture hacks

We had a nice visit today from Wayne Horvitz and Ron Miles. They're performing at Dazzle Restaurant with Wayne's group the Gravitas Quartet. Ron played a nice solo live and then Wayne showed up during our subsequent chat.

Ron's solo
The interview

Labels: interviews

This is the first in what I expect to be an ongoing series of postings featuring recordings I'm forbidden by federal law from playing on our radio show.

What better way to start than with the amazing Shut Up Little Man recordings. From the Wikipedia entry:

Shut Up, Little Man! is the title of a number of audio-verité recordings of two violent alcoholics, Raymond Huffman and Peter Haskett.

The recordings were made by "Eddie Lee Sausage" and "Mitchell D.", who lived in a bright pink apartment building—dubbed the "Pepto Bismol Palace"—in San Francisco's Lower Haight district.

Eddie Lee and Mitchell moved into the apartment in 1987, and soon discovered their neighbors, Peter and Ray, who argued nearly constantly. There was also a third who is on tape, Peter's gay lover, ex army man, vagrant Tony.

They were initially shocked and intimidated by the volume and intensity of the fights, which occasionally turned violent. Later, however, Eddie Lee and Mitchell became fascinated by the content of Ray and Peter's yelling matches. Peter's repeated insult of "Shut Up, Little Man!" became a fixture of Eddie Lee and Mitchell's own conversations.

Eventually, Eddie and Mitchell began tape recording the arguments, and distributing copies among their friends.

Eddie Lee and Mitchell sometimes goaded Ray and Peter, such as with prank telephone calls, hoping to introduce new topics for the drunken pair to argue over.

You have been warned. Not to be played at work, in front of impressionable children, or while sober.
ShutUpLittleMan.zip

Labels: Radio-unfriendly

For my money, there's no better entertainment than some of the strange, surreal stuff that comes from Japan. Our kids, Agents 11 and Evajean, love a bizarre kid's show called Gimme Gimme Octopus. Here's an episode:



You can buy the whole video at 5minutestolive.com.
Another slightly less strange, but really cool Japanese kid's show is called Pythagoras Switch. One part of the show show features Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions for introducing/ending segments.

They also do an inexplicable dance called the Algorithm Dance, done here at an airport:




For Japan's take on the English language, there's the perenially amusing engrish.com.

Labels: japanese

Rx has graced KGNU listeners with bunches of great political mash-ups over the last couple of years. Here's a good (if a bit long) video from him from a couple of months ago.

Labels: video

Labels: culture hacks, legion of rock stars, video

O.k., here's the story. They wear noise-canceling headphones and can only hear the original. They play along with the video. Then I wet my pants.

Labels: culture hacks, legion of rock stars

Just in case you're one of the 11 people who haven't seen this:

Labels: video

First referenced in the book of revelations, it combines the most boring elements of breakdancing/crunking and Lord of the Dance.

Labels: video

This one's in Yuba City, CA
This one's in Westmoreland, KS