Never enough Duran Duran

To me, "new wave" means something like "Sounds a little like New Order, or The Cure, or Duran Duran, or other jangly/sensitive/synth-laden 80s pop." Or put another way "sounds really good and I like it." I'm always happy to find new bands that sound like new wave to me. It all started when I discovered Stars and Figurine and Godzuki about 7 years ago. The latest crop that is pleasing me includes Josh Rouse, The Rosebuds, LCD Soundsystem, Milosh, The King of France, Au Revoir Simone, Nouvelle Vague, and even Bonde do Rolé and Cansei de Ser Sexy, although they're a little more disco and freak-freak than new wave. Still excellent though. I completely agree with Sasha Frere Jones in this week's New Yorker when he says "In my house, Duran Duran-ness is something one works to achieve." I'll just point out that I read that today, Thursday, and played Duran Duran with no prompting yesterday, Wednesday.

It feels good to like some new music. So good I think I'll play some on the radio. Here are 2 playlists at once: this week's and last week's Beef Jerky Time rundowns. Hope you're liking the show! Please feel free to contact WVEW with feedback about my, or any, show.

7/18/07

• Hardcastle and McCormick theme
  
• Dear Mr. Man: Prince featuring Cornel West
  
• Time to Get Away: LCD Soundsystem
  
• Now Now: St. Vincent
  
• Mexico: The King of France
  
• You Make Me Feel: Milosh
  
• Save A Prayer: Duran Duran
  
• Summertime: Josh Rouse
  
• D.A.N.C.E.: Justice
  
• Who: Odyssey
  
• My Punishment for Fighting: The Rosebuds
  
• La Dola Rosa: The Communards
  
• Turn: New Order
  
• It's Over: Milosh
  

7/11/07 (partially inspired by Rolling Stone's 1967 issue)

• CHiPs theme
  
• Kiss the Break of Day: The Mammals
  
• The Operation: Charlotte Gainsbourg
  
• New Song: Howard Jones
  
• Happy Birthday: Stevie Wonder
  
• Shoulder Length: The Sea & Cake
  
• The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil: Jefferson Airplane
  
• Black Day in July: Gordon Lightfoot
  
• Borderline: Madonna
  
• Over You: Lost Dakotas
  
• Over You: Echo & the Bunnymen
  
• So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star: The Byrds
  
• Katie Cruel: Burt Jansch featuring Devendra Banhardt
  
• Creeque Alley: The Mamas & The Papas

www.colette.fr

OMG, this website is crazy! This is the site of a store in Paris but is much much more. For one thing it has an awesome soundtrack, which is not really something I expect from a website. Also check out the dance class pics under the "More" tab. Do not click if you have dial-up or dislike cute robots: www.colette.fr

Personal revisionism

An odd thing happened to me this week. It was one of those connective moments, when something you used to believe or think about when you were a kid gets re-illuminated or redefined much later on, when it's all but forgotten. Some mild examples are: The first time I saw Annie Hall, I didn't get how Alvy Singer was talking about therapy and that if didn't work, he was going to Lourdes. Later, I found out that Lourdes was a place of holy pilgrimage where people go for miraculous healing. Then I suddenly got Alvy. Or I never understood that in the Dead Milkmen song "Bitchin' Camaro," the Doors cover band described and the song they sang was actually a version of "Love Me Two Times" by a real band called The Doors. Later when I discovered the Lizard King and his crew, I realized Bitchin' Camaro made.. a tiny bit... more sense. I love these little mysteries we set ourselves as young people, simply by not fully understanding or absorbing the world yet. Then they are solved later in a lightning strike of amazement and realization. "OHHHHH! That's it!!!"

So here's what happened this time. I was listening to an audio-book called "Justice," narrated by the author, Dominick Dunne. (I'd always thought DD's Vanity Fair articles were a little high-falutin', but he's a great narrator and refreshingly frank about his gossip-collecting.) Anyway, the first piece in the book is a VF article published in 1984 about the murder of his daughter Dominique and the subsequent trial of her killer. While he was narrating, I suddenly realized that I'd actually read the article in 1984. I'd forgotten almost all of it except for one striking image: in his opening remarks, the DA held up a watch and timed off for the jury how long it took Dominique Dunne to die of strangulation. He did this for 4 agonizing minutes. That image hit me and I never forgot it. I even remember what song was playing on the radio after I finished the article and was mulling it over--it was "New Song," by Howard Jones. Whenever I hear it I think of that courtroom and that poor girl.

Now, in 2007, it's back. I was listening to the tape and I heard those lines and I realized where this image I'd been holding on to FIT into a bigger story. Maybe it doesn't sound that weird when I write it down. But it is fascinating to me to think that there are still little personal mysteries that I'll be stumbling on and unravelling throughout my whole life. I'm never going to "get it" all. I am grateful to have a good enough memory that when little pieces show up later on, glittering pennies on the sidewalk, they can be picked up and slotted into place, making my picture of the world a tiny bit more complete.

Radio news: Regular listeners will know that I took the evening off on Independence Day and there was no Beef Jerky Time broadcast. Here's what I played the week before though (sorry so late in this update!):

• Silver Spoons theme
  
• Sound of Silver; North American Scum; Someone Great: LCD Soundsystem
  
• 1 2 3 4: Feist
  
• New Day: Kate Hevnavik
  
• Lightbulb: Mezzanine Owls
  
• Backyards of Our Neighbours: Au Revoir Simone
  
• Quero te Amar: Bonde Do Role
  
• Destroy Everything You Touch: Ladytron
  
• 5:55: Charlotte Gainsbourg
  
• Warm Tears: Alsace
  
• Winter in the Hamptons: Josh Rouse
  

Changing my mind

Ever noticed when you argue with somebody about politics or music you rarely ever change their mind? And yet whenever I try it I am so FERVENT and really act like there's some hope that my brilliant rationale will make the other person say, "Oh my goodness, you are completely right! What a fool I am! I find that I totally agree with you!" Oddly, this has never happened to me in all my years of heartfelt arguing. So next I wonder, do people ever change their minds at all? When was the last time you changed yours? I have forged about in my lumber-room mind and found there are a few things I've flip-flopped on. For instance:

Kate Winslet: Back around Titanic and before, La Winslet annoyed me. As I have told many, "she looked like she smelled like milk." However sometime around Holy Smoke and her speaking out about being airbrushed to look thinner, I changed my mind. Now I LOVE Kate Winslet! She is so rockin'. Also poppin'.

Beer: For many years I devoted my spare time to the study of beer, mainly through its consumption. I liked all kinds and had revolving favorites. I even tried my hand at home-brewing. But lately I have lost my taste for it... it's just... bilious. Sometimes a cold one is nice on a hot afternoon or to relax after work. But basically, bleh.

Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt: Used to think they were cute in the 80s and 90s respectively. Now I think they're wierdo jerks. (Main reasons: crazy couch-jumping and wife-leaving, respectively. Guess I'm Team Aniston.)

Kale: This used to be the worst nastiest vegetable anybody could serve me. Worse than parsnips or mangelwurzels or celery pulp or creamed escarole or other icky greens and roots and stuff. But now? Kale is my fave food! It's so healthy-looking and healthy-tasting and full o goodness, like vitamin K and iron and whatnot. Bring it on. Kale has not changed, but I have changed for kale.

So think about it... have you changed your mind, even about something small like kale? That's a start!

Here's last week's Beef Jerky Time playlist (6/20/07). Theme should be obvious I think.

• Price is Right theme
  
• So Nice (Summer Samba): Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley
  
• Summer Song: Chad & Jeremy
  
• Summer Song: James Yorkston
  
• Summer Heat: Bert Jansch
  
• Children of Summer: Color Filter
  
• Endless Summer: Follow the Train
  
• We're Gonna Save the Summer: The Pearlfishers
  
• Hung Up with Summer: Big Star
  
• Cruel Summer: Bananarama
  
• Summer Breeze: Seals & Crofts
  
• Summertime: Kenny Chesney
  
• Summer Wind: Frank Sinatra
  
• Bummer in the Summer: Love
  
• theme from "Endless Summer": Laika and the Cosmonauts

Quickie post

Here's a super-fast update on the playlist for the 6/6/07 show. Peace OUT!

• Trapper John, MD theme
  
• Glory: Radical Fire
  
• Hong Kong Garden: Siouxsie & the Banshees
  
• Super Zero: Linda Draper
  
• My Lip Gloss: Lil Mama
  
  
• I Sat Down: Hal
  
• Raspberry Beret: Prince
  
• Quero Te Amar: Bonde do Role
  
• Destron: Takako Minekawa
  
• Great Northern: Blessed Light
  
• Mexico (Every Last Buffalo): Through The Sparks
  
• Elevator Love Letter: Stars
  
• Heatstroke: Magic Bullets
  
• Young Folks (cover): Dawn Landes

Where's SE VT Roller Derby?

Roller Derby is back and Brattleboro needs a team. Or a league. Whatever. I have been doing some research and found out that:

• you don't need any special track for roller derby, you can use a "flat track," i.e. gym, court or rink surface
  
• roller derby so rocks and loud music & cool outfits are de rigueur
  
• it really needs to have a life of its own because I don't think 1 person can pull together the amount of person-power that a vibrant RD operation would need (besides teams and refs, you also need scorekeepers, timers, medical people and oh yeah, an audience... maybe a coach)

But wait, how do you "play" roller derby anyway? If you're into reading, download the Women's Flat Track Derby Association "Official Rules." If you'd rather have a blow-by-blow description, check out HowStuffWorks.

Or if you really need a visual, I've enjoyed the following videos so far:
Ghetto Stiletto: A Day at the Roller Derby
Roller Derby Explained
Plus youtube has a gazillion RD videos, including Pioneer Valley Roller Derby stuff. PVRD's own website is at: www.pioneervalleyrollerderby.com

OK, so can we please get rolling around here?! I'm excited! Email me at logomachia at hotmail dot com if you have ideas for VT roller derby. I think a practice location might be a good start...

Hey, wanna know what got played on Beef Jerky Time last week (6/6/07)? Here it is y'all, pure rock n roll:

• Police Squad theme
  
• Let It Rock: Bon Jovi
  
• Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix
  
• This Fire: Franz Ferdinand
  
• Crazy on You: Heart
  
• Separate Ways: Journey
  
• Hard to Explain: The Strokes
  
• Moby Dick: Led Zeppelin
  
• Rock this town: Stray Cats
  
• One Way or Another: Blondie
  
• Back Where You Belong: 38 Special
  
• Jiving Sister Fanny: Rolling Stones
  
• Rattled: Traveling Wilburys
  
• Hot For Teacher: Van Halen

Job Lists

I just like to know what kinds of jobs are out there in the Brattleboro VT area. I know that there's plenty of retail stuff. If you don't want to do the merchandising thing, what else? A couple local institutions are big enough to have "career opportunities" listings on their Web sites.

World Learning, aka School for International Training.
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital--if you're a nurse or a "tray handler," you may be in luck
Marlboro College--usually professor-y stuff, obviously.
There's also the Marlboro College Graduate Center
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union--local schools

Troubled times, caught between confusion and pain. Distant eyes, promises we made were in vain... WAIT, that's the lyrics to Separate Ways! Summer's almost here--rock'n'roll with the windows down, man.

Last week's radio show recalled (5/30/07):

• 6 Feet Under theme
  
• The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Heart: Sufjan Stevens
  
• Take Away: Missy Elliott f/Ginuwine
  
• Crown of Love: Arcade Fire
  
• Breaking the Girl: Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
• Hotel Song: Regina Spektor
  
• Filet of Sole: The Dead Milkmen
  
• New Day (online edit): Kate Hevnavik
  
• Three Little Words: The Mondo Crescendo
  
• Fergalicious: Fergie
  
• An Electronic Address (remixed by Printed Circuit): Figurine
  
• Smile (remixed by Mark Ronson): Lily Allen
  
• Office Boy: Bonde do Role
  
  
• Galangation (Diplo mix): M.I.A.
  
• Anti Love Song: Betty Davis

Fuzzy Summer Days

I don't know what is more exciting, 1. getting carded for buying alcohol after several years of NOT getting carded any more, or 2. rediscovering the sharp carbonated joy of Genessee Cream Ale. Or what about having 1 happen because of 2—ahhh, happy summer is here again. Genny Cream Ale brings back warm memories of long-light evenings on the front porch with my parents sipping this fine beer from the old-stylee pull-tab cans. Now that sweet mystery can be mine. Pop a Genny and join me. Crissssp!

Radio playlist comin' up. Beef Jerky Time as of 5/23/07:

• Mighty Hercules theme
  
• I Don't Believe: Paul Simon
  
• Backyards of Our Neighbors: Au Revoir Simone
  
• I Wanna Have Your Babies: Natasha Bedingfield
  
• Cuckoo: Maria Eriksson
  
• Coming Back: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• Just Can't Get Enough: Nouvelle Vague
  
• I Want the One I Can't Have: The Smiths
  
• Bottom: Voltique
  
• My Mood Swings: Elvis Costello
  
• Me & My Imagination: Sophie Ellis Bextor
  
  
• Phantom Limb: The Shins
  
• I Wish (Bundle of Contradictions): Forro in the Dark f/David Byrne
  
• I've Been So Right: Ray Wonder
  
• Lest I Forget: One AM Radio
  
• Sweetie: Josh Rouse
  
• Boplicity: Miles Davis

discontent: It's a good thing

Did you know I used to be involved with a little zine called discontent? The website has been very recently updated with a wee history of the thing.


Hey, here's the playlist from last week's Beef Jerky Time. Good times!

• Falcon Crest theme
  
• Sombre Reptiles: Brian Eno
  
• Don't You Worry: The Beloved
  
• Quiet Town: Josh Rouse
  
  
• 5:55: Charlotte Gainsbourg
  
• Sweet Thing: Van Morrison
  
• Little Fluffy Clouds: The Orb
  
• Glorybound: The Bible
  
• Enjoy the Silence: Depeche Mode
  
• Untitled III (remix by Two Lone Swordsmen): Calexico
  
• The Weaker Soldier: Palace
  
• Dead Souls: Joy Division
  
• Jane Mary, Cry One Tear: Swans
  
• My Love: Justin Timberlake

Crickets

I had another dance DJ gig last weekend and am still traumatized by what happened. Can you get PTSD from DJing? Basically I was prepared for a certain crowd (the people who liked what I did last time and asked for more 80s music this time), but they weren't there! Instead some of the peeps who were there were not digging my tunes (I know because they said so!), and I didn't have anything else. I just am not well-trained in the live DJ thing. I'm used to radio and there's a big difference, apparently. When it comes to "giving the people what they want" on the spot, NOW, and helping them have fun and dance again in the next 54 seconds OR ELSE, I pretty much failed. Plus I had technical difficulties which made me look like even more of an idiot. I feel bad about getting frazzled and apologize to all the dope dancers there who maybe felt like my set was a bit of a trainwreck. Hmmm. It's like I was asked to tell a few funny stories at a small dinner party and when I got out there, it turned out I was in a big comedy club full of strangers with a spotlight on me and no real material.

Anyway, I'm glad to be on WVEW and able to expand and explore on my own time and in my own directions. THANK YOU for listening to Beef Jerky Time! This Wednesdays show--more cool new music I found on the Internets (sic).

Sean Connery: Alive

The other night, around 2am, I became concerned about Sean Connery. Is he OK? The last time I thought this way about somebody it was Bobby Short, and then later he DIED. So I'm not trying to be morbid, but I do think about famous people that I like who are, um, "seniors," and I hope that they're doing OK. I found this website called "Dead or Alive?" that tells you whether or not people are still around. Did you know that Lena Horne is still alive? And Joan Fontaine? And Claude Levi-Strauss (98!)? And Luise Rainer (97!)? It's heartening to know these things. Check it out if you're wondering about somebody...

What did I play last week on Beef Jerky Time? A lot of great vinyl, that's what. Here's the rundown:

• Family Ties theme
  
• Let's Go All The Way: Sly Fox
  
• Automatic: Pointer Sisters
  
• Simply Irresistible: Robert Palmer
  
• Loverboy: Billy Ocean
  
• I Can't Wait: Nu Shooz
  
• Burning Up: Madonna
  
• Crackpot History & the Right to Lie: Adam Ant
  
• Manic Monday: The Bangles
  
• Cruel Summer: Bananarama
  
• Electric Avenue: Eddy Grant
  
• Don't Let Go: Wang Chung
  
• New Song: Howard Jones
  
• Everything She Wants: Wham

A few interesting websites

I'm full of potato chips and falafel right now so even though it's my weekly time to update my blog (during my hilarious and eclectic radio show "Beef Jerky Time" on WVEW-LP), I'm feeeling a little sluggish.

If you live in Brattleboro and it's before June 1, 2007, click over to the Best of Brattleboro to vote (one vote, one voice) for your personal faves in the area. Please try to keep it in Brattleboro--like don't say your favorite restaurant is in Walpole or something. That's not an official rule, that's just my personal plea.

Somebody (thanks K!) sent me a link to a book promo website made by Miranda July, who turns out to be a fascinating person I'd never heard of. (There are many, trust me.) Click the link then keep clicking to be charmed and jealous of Ms. J's coolness.

Also, apparently I am the last person to find out about Chewbacca's blog, which hurt me with laughing when I scrolled down through its full insanity. Mom, don't bother following this link--it's not your cup of tea!

Which reminds me of Just My Cup of Tea, a style blog that fascinates me with its dedication to materialism. Also fundraisers for people in Kenya are featured, so it kinda balances out.

Here's last week's Beef Jerky Time playlist. Thanks for keeping it tuned to Prof. K!

• It's a Living theme
  
• Slow Wildcat: Essexboy
  
• Haunted Valley: Godzuki
  
• 1 2 3 4: Feist
  
  
• You Don't Know Me: David Byrne
  
• Goldfish Bowl: Stereophonics
  
• Planeta Engraja: Lineland
  
• The Comeback: Stars
  
• The Trawlerman's Song: Mark Knopfler
  
• Stardate May 2--Atacama Desert
  
• Suivez la Piste: Saloon
  
• Levis: Flin Flon
  
• Planar Cluster, Planar Burst: Mahogany
  
• Float On: Modest Mouse
  
• I Was Stabbed to Death in this Very Doorway: Steward
  
• Bedside Manner: Celeste
  
• Cloudy Sixth: Fort Dax

Don't deprive yourself cuz life's too short.

I was "reading" a book lately and found this great paragraph. Actually I was listening to it in the car. With a long commute every day, I'm all about audio books. Here's the quote:

"I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, or poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy -- when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight -- in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom."

What do you think? Wish I'd had this rationale handy back in college and needed a few excuses for feeling delight--very often. It's from Chapter 22 of Middlemarch, by our lady George Eliot.

Playlist from last week's radio show: It was an exploration of song, with a couple poems thrown in for Poetry Month (the cruellest month).

• Cibell in C: Henry Purcell
  
• Viens, Mallika... Dôme épais, from Lakmé: Delibes, performed by Mady Mesplé and Danielle Millet
  
• Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Chorale: J.S. Bach, performed by the Bach Ensemble (Joshua Rifkin)
  
• Thing Singing Club: Thomas Arne, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble
  
• Casta Diva, from Norma: Bellini, performed by Maria Callas
  
• Zefiro Torna: Monteverdi, performed by Tragicomedia
  
• next to of course god america: e.e. cummings
  
• Hélas Madame: Henry VIII, performed by I Fagiolini & Concordia
  
• Der Vogel fänger bin ich ja, from the Magic Flute: Mozart, performed by Gerald Finley
  
• Chi il Bel Sogno di Doretta, from La Rondine: Puccini, performed by Kiri Te Kanawa
  
• Come Again--Sweet Love doth now invite: John Dowland, performed by Virelai
  
• The Old Flame: Robert Lowell
  
• Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno!, from L'Italiana in Algeri: Rossini, performed by Cecilia Bartoli
  
• The Lass of Patie's Mill/I Like the Fox, from The Beggar's Opera: John Gay, performed by The Broadside Band

Fork-tender chicken with lemon and green olives

Here's something I've been working out lately. A scrumptious melt-in-your-mouth chicken recipe. Crockpot is strongly (and highly) recommended.

Ingredients:
16 chicken thighs, bones & skin removed
1 lemon, zest & juice thereof
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup (or more) green olives, pitted and halved
1 cinnamon stick
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 inch ginger, peeled and chopped
1 cup chicken broth
olive oil
2 T turmeric
1/2 t red pepper flakes
2 T flour

Assembly:
One great thing about crockpot cooking is there's plenty of time for the mise en place (i.e. getting ready in advance). Here's how I prep the night before:

• in 1 container, store olives, lemon zest and cinnamon stick
  
• in another, store onions, garlic and ginger
  
• in a 3rd, marinate chicken in the lemon juice (juice of 1 lemon plus extra juice)

Then, in the morning:

1. Heat olive oil in a large pan. Dump in chicken and arrange so it's in a single layer (do more than 1 batch if you have too much chicken). Sprinkle on 1T turmeric plus the red pepper and flour.
   
2. When chicken is starting to brown on 1 side, turn it over. Sprinkle on other 1 T turmeric. (Feel free to go crazy with lots more turmeric. It helps prevent cancer!)
   
3. When chicken no longer looks very raw on the outside, transfer to crockpot. Do NOT clean pan yet!
   
4. Add olive-zest-cinnamon to crockpot. Spread around.
   
5. If needed, heat a bit more olive oil in pan. Put in onion-garlic-ginger mixture and saute for about 5 minutes. Then, pour in chicken broth and stir around to scrape up any tasty bits sticking to the bottom. Pour all into crockpot.
   
6. Cook 8-10 hours or more. I sometimes start on Low and stir halfway through, then turn up to high to really tenderize the chicken. Or you can just leave it on high (or low) the whole time.

Serve with couscous and a veggie. Serves 4 with minimal leftovers.


For radio listeners, here's the Beef Jerky Time playlist from last week!

• The Bed's Too Big Without You: The Police
  
• This Will Be Our Year: OK Go
  
• Isaac: Madonna
  
• I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar: Jonathan Richman
  
• Quedate Luna: Devendra Banhart
  
• Waves & Echoes: Portal
  
• Four Winds: Bright Eyes
  
• Bongo Bong: Manu Chao
  
• Mushaboom: Feist
  
• Mary Is Alone: Dry Ice
  
• Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above: Cansei de Ser Sexy
  
• Rich Girl: Gwen Stefani feat. Eve
  
• Sycamore: Bill Callahan
  
• Quiet Town: Josh Rouse
  
• Ezy Ryder: Jimi Hendrix
  

Failure to Shop

Recently I received a small tax refund. (Thank you, deductions!) I wisely put about 55% of it into savings. But I wanted to take the rest and SPLURGE, man! Just because I suffer from a shopping disability doesn't mean I can't keep trying! (This disability manifests as stultifying indecision and anxiety when presented with more than about 5 choices... or 5 stores... or more than 5 minutes in a store that has more than 5 choices.) So I asked my family to accompany me to the mall. It's an adventure--a drive of about an hour and in a different state.

I was so sure I'd make it this time, and come away with tens of dollars of new duds and a whole new style. I did some research by reading "Lucky: The Magazine about shopping." I figured what I needed was layers, A-line knee-length skirts, lace accents, grays and greens and creams with maybe some splashes of color. A New Look silhouette with some gauzy bits and tailored bits. Simple, eh? Except I was not so lucky after all. I just can't shop! I need to have all items presented to me personally by knowledgeable and slightly stuck-up sales people. I'm incapable of sifting through things by myself. I lost momentum after the 2nd store I went to--Banana Republic--and bought only 1 thing in the course of 3 hours. It was a nice camisole however, so that's a layer that's lacy and fulfills 2 of my criteria in 1 piece.

Fortunately it all turned out for the best. I'd forgotten I owed a big chunk of a medical bill, and that I would need to buy some new tires at the end of snow-tire season. I'll have just enough money left over from my camisole purchase to afford these things. Thank you "failure to shop"!

Here's the playlist from last week's (4/11/07) Beef Jerky Time.

• Charles in Charge theme
  
• Incredibly Drunk on Whiskey: Memphis
  
• Take a Chance on Me: Abba
  
• Candylion: Gruff Rhys
  
• Was a Sunny Day: Paul Simon
  
• Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op: Mark Mothersbaugh (Life Aquatic s/t)
  
• Destroy Everything You Touch: Ladytron
  
• Don't You Want Me: Human League
  
• Fat Children: Jarvis Cocker
  
• Maneater: Nelly Furtado
  
• MechaMania Boy: Devo
  
• Tea for the Tillerman: Cat Stevens
  
• Rehab: Amy Winehouse
  
• Step Aside: Tobias Hellkvist
  

No show tonight: April snow!

Dear listeners, if you are tuning in to wvew.org to hear me today, 4/4/07, my sincere apologies! I'm staying safe at home on a grisly slushy night. Presumably my last "bad weather" excuse of the season though. Please tune in next week for some songs of spring, dance music, strange electronic noises, all the usual treats.

Here's last week's playlist, while I'm at it. Keep it cozy and tuned to WVEW, mates!

• The Benny Hill Show theme
  
• Always Stuck with Leaving: Japancakes
  
• Ballad of Maxwell Demon: Shudder to Think
  
• The Only Man in Town: Moose
  
• You Can't Push Me Away: The Sinking Ships
  
• Roller King: California Oranges
  
• End of the Day: Beck
  
• Within You Without You: Beatles
  
• The Casio Fight Song: David Shouse and the Bloodthirsty Lovers
  
• Drivin' Thru My Heart: The Donnas
  
• Tele-fone: Godzuki
  
• Knock 'Em Out: Lily Allen
  
• Around the World: Daft Punk
  
• Marilu: Serge Gainsbourg
  
• Why Do You Have So Much Fun Without Me?: Barcelona
  
• edit: hollAnd

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

I just read in the latest Mother Earth News that the 2.3 trillion dollars we've wasted killing people and embarrassing ourselves in Iraq could have solved all our sustainable "green" energy needs FOR GOOD. I don't know what upsets me more, this outrageous misuse of money, or the whiny woulda-coulda-shoulda tone of the statement. I mean, it's not too late! Surely we could cough up another emergency 2.3 trillion dollars to spend on something useful? Makes up for spending so much on a stupid wrong thing? Evens things out, like? What are we, BROKE?

I've been doing a lot of work-related reading about water conservation and electrical circuitry. Wouldn't think those things are related, but it turns out that by saving electricity (by installing those new-fangled fluorescent bulbs, for example), you also help save the planet's finite water supply. That's cuz many processes used to make electricity, like burning coal or gas or oil, create pollutants that affect water quality. So use less of the stuff and you mess up the earth a tiny bit less. Plus one of these bulbs will also save you bucks because it lasts a lot longer besides using less wattage.

Also I learned that reusing and recycling materials can help the environment. Wait, was I supposed to know this already?! I was reading that the ocean is turning to "plankton and plastic soup" because plastic doesn't biodegrade, it just photodegrades into nasty little plastic bits. So what am I doing about it? Well, baby steps man. I've started asking for "for here" dishes at the cafeteria even though I'm really taking the food "to go." Then I take my dishes and cutlery back to the cafeteria for washing instead of trashing them. Also I've become guilty about using plastic bags to buy bulk foods. If I'm such a hippie that I'm buying bulk, why am I using so many baggies and twist ties? So I'm trying to use Mason jars for bulk stuff now. Just get the tare weight first and mark it on the jar, then fill and label.

Also I'm so proud of our low-flow air-assisted toilet. It's a Gerber. Not the baby food company, the toilet company. If you're in the market for a new throne, check one out! (Or similar low-flow thingy.) It works better than our old leaky toilet, and with less water.

Sources: National Geographic depressing issue about how the oceans are messed up. The book "Hold Your Water! 68 Things You Need to Know to Keep Our Planet Blue." ESFi online resources, especially booklet on assessing circuitry in your home. Mother Earth News magazine.

Here's last week's playlist, BTW!

• Fantasy Island theme
  
• Autour du feu: Maritas de Plata
  
• La Iguana (son jarocho): Los Lobos
  
• Una Linea di Dolcezza: Bert Jansch
  
• Banderilla: Calexico
  
• Tientos: Carlos Montoya (guitar)
  
• Piedras Negras: Laika & the Cosmonauts
  
• Veinte Años: Buena Vista Social Club
  
• Memories of Madrid: Herb Alpert
  
• Desaparacido: Manu Chao
  
• Hotel California: Gipsy Kings
  
• Soul Sacrifice: Santana
  
• Malagueña: Mantovani & his orchestra
  
• Chan Chan: The Mammals
  
• Saga gitane: Manitas de Plata
  

G@# d%$# it!

No more poetry-quoting. Begorrah. I have taken to using fake swear words. Or whatever it's called when you say "darn" instead of "damn." I am finding them much more amusing and satisfying than real swears, in most cases. (Though there is still one word that I can't find a substitute for, as it's such a satisfying way to express my ANGER in one little syllable.) Here are some I like: crikey, crumbs, rats, drat, SHOOT!, motherflipper, garrrrrr, goshdarn, and my favorite, "fudge cakes!"

Here's Beef Jerky Time from last week (3/14/07). A little chunk by Japanese artists in there. (From * to **) I feel like this was a better show than the last as I wasn't bloody sick. (Ah yes, "bloody" is another good one!)

• Fall Guy theme
  
• Snow (Hey Oh): Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
• Idlewild Blue: Outkast
  
• Cosmic Rays: Helium
  
• Take Me Out: Franz Ferdinand
  
• Limbo: Throwing Muses
  
• Fluorescent: Gwen Stefani
  
• Back on Me: Urge Overkill
  
• Luck of the Irish: Shonen Knife*
  
• Everybody Knows: 800 Cherries
  
• Kahimi au Telephone: Kahimi Karie
  
• Never/More: Takako Minekawa
  
• New Rock: Buffalo Daughter**
  
• I Can't Sleep: The La's
  
• Curragh of Kildare: Bert Jansch

It's that time again

It's the time of year when I think of this rather long sentence:

Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
The Droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe course y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye, -
So priketh hem nature in hir corage:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages -
And palmers for to seken straunge stronde -
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.

I'm sorry if this doesn't match the General Prologue you have at home. I found it at this Long Island University site, which also includes a groovy .jpg of the manuscript page.

Anyway, yes I am ready for spring. Funny, since winter only appeared about a month ago, after a wicked long fall.

Here's the playlist for last week's "Beef Jerky Time":

• What's Happenin' theme
  
• Bayside Drive: Manual with Syntaks
  
• Alone on the Homestead: The Mammals
  
• She's Lost Control: Joy Division
  
• If You Leave: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  
• Empty Shell: Cat Power
  
• Fiesta: The Pogues
  
• Axcerpt: Mekons
  
• sn: hessen
  
• (Not Just) Knee Deep (Part 1): Funkadelic
  
• I Want to Be A Cowboy: Boys Don't Cry
  
• Trem Two: Mission of Burma
  
• The Preacher: Horace Silver

Dear Scientists

I've noticed that you have been working on some interesting new drugs and procedures, dear scientists. Now I don't have to ovulate more than 4 times a year, and I can control what kind of cholesterol my liver makes, if any. Plus I can have my eyes shaved with a laser! And all of these convenient procedures are so new that nobody knows the long-term effects! But I would like to make one suggestion. I have been bothered a lot by my fingernails. They keep growing and I keep having to cut them. I'm thinking if I could stop their growth voluntarily, it would save me a lot of time in life. Time I could spend doing other, more important things. Please let me know about your plans for making fingernail retardant, dear scientists. Who is working on this? Hurry up, if possible. Thanks. Prof. K.

Last week's radio show was robot and outer space music. Here's the list:

• Knight Rider theme
  
• batteries (can't help me now): Figurine
  
• I've Been Hittin' on a Russian Robot: Boris the Sprinkler
  
• Space Oddity: David Bowie
  
• Intergalactic: Beastie Boys
  
• Evil Robots Underground: Flash-C
  
• Escaping the Game Grid: Technicolor
  
• Mr. Roboto: Styx
  
• Rocket Patrol: Mathlete
  
• Cellphone's Dead: Beck
  
• Mobira: Printed Circuit
  
• Proto Eleven: The Elevator Drops
  
• Aging Astronauts II: Mary Timony
  
• Otra Dimension: La Monja Enana
  
• Space Base: Laika & the Cosmonauts

Cocoa and animals

I am big on chocolate, and lately it has become a daily passion. Hot cocoa in particular. When I was little, one of my favorite poems was this one by Christopher Morley:

Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,
That is the finest of suppers I think;
When I'm grown up and can have what I please
I think I shall always insist upon these.
What do YOU choose when you're offered a treat?
When Mother says, "What would you like best to eat?"
Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?
It's cocoa and animals that I love most!

The kitchen's the cosiest place that I know;
The kettle is singing, the stove is aglow,
And there in the twilight, how jolly to see
The cocoa and animals waiting for me.

Daddy and Mother dine later in state,
With Mary to cook for them, Susan to wait;
But they don't have nearly as much fun as I
Who eat in the kitchen with Nurse standing by;
And Daddy once said, he would like to be me
Having cocoa and animals once more for tea!

I find out that now I'm grown up and can have what I please, cocoa is just what I need every day around 2pm. Sometimes I have it mid-morning as well. Recently I discovered from reading New York magazine that fancy-pants gourmet-type cocoa may be called "drinking chocolate." They have some TASTY reviews of drinking chocolate in the 2/7/07 issue, and also check out another round of reviews done 3 years earlier on 1/12/04. Earlier one also includes a concocting recipe. YUMMM!

I think I've only had drinking chocolate once, at the Burdick's in Walpole, and it almost killed me. It was like mainlining 5 chocolate bars at once. I'm content with just my powdered cocoa in either milk or hot water. And maybe some animals now and then.

Here's the playlist from my Valentine's-a-week-late-because-of-snow show, 2/21/07:

• Here Come the Brides theme
  
• Alone Again Or: Love (live)
  
• You Are What You Love: Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
  
• Wear Your Love Like Heaven: Donovan
  
• Beautiful: Goldfrapp
  
• Everything About It Is a Love Song: Paul Simon
  
• Do You Feel the Same Way: Bob Marley & the Wailers
  
• Passion Play: Sugarhill Gang
  
• The Perfect Kiss: New Order
  
• Love Will Tear Us Apart: Susanna & the Magical Orchestra
  
• Fidelity: Regina Spektor
  
• Halleluia I Love Her So: Joe Williams
  
• Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe: Barry White
  
• Give Me the Love: The String Cheese Incident
  
• You Do Something to Me: Frank Sinatra

Pass the Poutine

I've been going through a bit of a Canadian phase lately. May in
large part be due to my watching the Kids in the Hall Megaset,
complete seasons 1-4, which makes me feel like I'm living right
in Toronto. Also I highly recommend a movie called "Comedy
Gold," a doc about Canadians (with interviews with Dan Aykroyd,
Dave Thomas, Tom Green, Lorne Michaels, and many many others)
and their comedy oeuvres (Codco, This Hour Has 22 minutes, SCTV,
Wayne & Shuster, Air Farce, etc.). Which reminds me, last week's
Beef Jerky Time was an all-Canadian show. Since Canada is a huge
country and not, say, Kansas City, I don't think it really has a
"sound." But I'm always thrilled to find out that various
interesting or odd people or groups turn out to be Canadian. I
was helped by this Wikipedia list.
(This reminds me of an old & great edition of "This American
Life" all about what it means to be Canadian--check it out here:
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/65.html)

Beef Jerky Time playlist 2/7/07

• Kids In the Hall theme: Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  
• The Jessica Numbers: The New Pornographers
  
• Burning in Love: Honeymoon Suite
  
• Where Evil Grows: The Poppy Family
  
• Promiscuous: Nelly Furtado
  
• Fight for Love: 54-40
  
• Stove/Smother: Sloan
  
• Safety Dance: Men Without Hats
  
• Down by the Rio Grande: Cajun Ramblers
  
• We Built Another World: Wolf Parade
  
• Reunion: Stars
  
• One Night Love Affair: Bryan Adams
  
• Rise Up: Parachute Club
  
• Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: Neil Young

Google & iTunes rethunk

It has come to my attention that maybe Google isn't ALL THAT. BoingBoing usually has good posts about what sneaky things the Googs are up to, and they also link to Google Blogoscoped which is already more than I want to know about the issue. If you don't want to use Google because you don't want to get involved with search-term records or cookies or access logs or censorship issues, you can still use Google via Scroogle, which I understand is set up to ping Google with your search requests without actually keeping track of you. By the way, thanks Google for buying and hosting my blog...

Another online discovery is the iTunes music store. Yes, I'm a very very late adopter on this one. I am only now discovering the joy of downloading songs for 99 cents each. I have spent almost 4 dollars so far and it feels so CRAZY, like I'm dumping my life savings into the penny slots in Vegas, one damn penny at a time!

Here's last week's playlist for Beef Jerky Time (1/24/07)--the children's show.

• Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries theme
  
• See You on the Moon: Great Lake Swimmers
  
• Peter Pan: Sunshine Day
  
• The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers: Winnie the Pooh s/t
  
• Yodelers: Raggedy Ann and Andy
  
• Little Hiawatha: Disney 7"
  
• "The Bean, the Straw and the Coal": narrated by Danny Kaye
  
• Algebra Spaghetti: Mild Euphoria
  
• Chim Chim Cheree: Bill Lee, from the Mary Poppins s/t
  
• The Friendly Beasts: Sufjan Stevens
  
• I Had a Rooster: Pete Seeger
  
• The Great Stone Fire Eater: narrated by Christine Price
  
• Berceuse: Gaubert (Bob Johnson, piano; Julia Older, flute)
  
• New Sound: Tony Borello

New format (slightly)

Because I only seem to post once a week with the playlist from my most recent hour of Beef Jerky Time, I've decided to stop calling each post "Beef Jerky Time [insert date here]," because it's getting kinda boring. Instead I'll try to incorporate playlists into each post with a modicum of artfulness, when possible. Though some weeks I might still just be throwin' out playlists alone, I promise to TRY TO INCLUDE SOME OTHER CONTENT for you. Let's just say I've been a little busy lately, and probably will be for some time to come, but I'm doing my best, yo.

So the news this past week: I was asked to co-DJ a dance party and it was so wicked fun I can't even believe it. I felt like I had the Ring of Power or something, because my previous ideas and careful plans went right out the window when I got a taste of what happens when you play Justin Timberlake and similarly CATCHY stuff for a crowd. What happens is that as a DJ I got beat-happy, and I was extremely reluctant to play anything that wasn't the absolutely best and danciest shit I could think of at that very moment. It was a scary and exhilirating edge to be perched on--the feeling that with one wrong move a whole happy roomful of people would suddenly sit down and ignore what I was doing. Fortunately my set was only an hour because that's about how long I could last at that outrageous pace before passing out. It was amazing and strange to feel like people's behavior depended, in a way, on me just pushing a button. I hope I can retain some semblance of my own musical tastes should such an event ever take place again. I did play the Pogues, Duran Duran, and The Beat, so I didn't completely abandon my choices to the siren song of Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous...

On to radio updates. This week's show (1/24/07) will be a children's hour--stories and songs. Stream it live at 7pm Eastern at WVEW.

Last week's list:

• MacGyver theme
  
• Le Rendez Vous: Manu Chao
  
• In the Dark: Toots & the Maytals
  
• Bamboleo: Gipsy Kings
  
• Karma Coma: Massive Attack
  
• There She Goes: The La's
  
• Celestial Soda Pop: Ray Lynch
  
• A New Career in a New Town: David Bowie
  
• Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad: Derek & the Dominos
  
• Fool's Gold: The Stone Roses
  
• Chal Chamali Bagh: Krodhi soundtrack
  
• Fisherman's Dream: Emerald
  

Beef Jerky Time: 1/10/07

This week's playlist:

• T.J. Hooker theme
  
• Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3: Ian Dury & the Blockheads
  
• Overkill: Men at Work
  
• Last Living Souls: Gorillaz
  
• Walking in My Footsteps: The Police
  
• Still Ill: The Smiths
  
• PYT: Michael Jackson
  
• Sissyneck: Beck
  
• If there's a Heaven Above: Love & Rockets
  
• The Dream: The Cure
  
• Alive: Pearl Jam
  
• Sell My Soul: Midnight Oil
  
• Anticipate: Ani diFranco
  
• You'd Better Get Yourself Together: Gigolo Aunts
  
• Pachysandra: Gordon Stone

Tolkien's birthday: radio special 1/3/07

First Beef Jerky Time of the year, and it's a special show dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. As I explained on-air, I've been feeling especially "Tolkien-y" lately as I just finished reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy (my first successful holiday run--I often try to read it around the solstice time but leave off somewhere in the first volume). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. There's certain music that seems to go with his work... for me anyway. It tends to be British (ish), a bit odd... sometimes plangent, sometimes jolly. I can't say enough excited, good things about the concept of Middle Earth. Yes I am a tremendous geek. Here's what got played.

• Dolente: In the Nursery
  
• The Black Swan: Bert Jansch
  
• The Greenland Disaster (Sealing Song): Figgy Duff
  
• "The Departure of Boromir," from The Two Towers: read by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• The Dark Island: Thistledown
  
• Fine Horseman: Silly Sisters
  
• "Of Herbs & Stewed Rabbit," from The Two Towers: read by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Ramble On: Led Zeppelin
  
• Boy in the Gap/Banshee/Music in the Glen: Barde
  
• "Farewell to Lorien," from The Fellowship of The Ring: read by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Gone Beyond: Akron/Family
  
• The Road to Lisdoonvarna/The Lark on the Strand: Patrick Ball (celtic harp)
  
• Gollum's Song: from The Two Towers soundtrack

Twice as Long! Beef Jerky Time: 12/27/06

Last show of the year was TWO HOURS long. That's twice as much Beef Jerky. Here's the playlist. Chewy!

• Mork & Mindy theme
  
• Temptation: New Order
  
• Nin-com-pop: Lali Puna
  
• For You Blue: The Beatles
  
• O Venus Bant: Super Madrigal Brothers cover Alexandre Agricola (1446-1506)
  
• Illegalize It: Trans Am
  
• Blood in the Air: Ui
  
• Look Up: Stars
  
• Blood of Eden: Peter Gabriel
  
• Perfect Skin: Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
  
• Stay Up Late: Talking Heads
  
• 24 Robbers: Apostle of Hustle feat. The Huskys
  
• Voices Are Your Best Friend: Glissandro 70
  
• Fruit Belt: Lederhosen Lucil & Kid Koala
  These last 3 from a CD for kids of all ages called "See You On the Moon!", from Paper Bag Records. Thanks 'bird!
  
• It's a Man's Man's Man's World: James Brown (RIP!)
  
• Go Out & Get It: John & Beverley Martyn
  
• Look Back in Anger: David Bowie
  
• Karate Man: The Super Friendz
  
• I'm the One: Material
  
• The Crunge: Led Zeppelin
  
• Resistance Is Futile: Jets to Brazil
  
• Drawbridge: Barons
  
• Dirty Martini: Joe Jackson Band
  
• On My Radio: The Selecter
  
• Stereotype: The Specials
  
• DesCartes: Brideshead
  
• The Last Time: Gnarls Barkley
  
• I'll Come Running: Brian Eno
  
• Facing East: Thievery Corporation
  
• Dayvan Cowboy: Boards of Canada

Let It Snow! Beef Jerky Time: 12/20/06

Tonight's show (12/27/06) will be a 2-hour special (7-9pm). Tune in for Beef Jerky that's twice as long! (wvew.org, 107.7 FM)

Here's what went down last week for the holiday show:

• Christmas at Sea: L'Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde
  
• Blue Christmas: Midnight String Quartet
  
• Christmas Waltz: Frank Sinatra
  
• SEVEN versions of Greensleeves/What Child Is This?:
  
  1. Mitzie Collins (dulcimer), Glennda Dove (flute), Roxanne Ziegler (harp)
     
  2. Donnelly & Gerardi
     
  3. Eddie Dunstedter (electric organ)
     
  4. Vaughn Williams
     
  5. Vince Guaraldi Trio
     
  6. Galliard Brass Ensemble
     
  7. John Fahey
• Christmas Time Is Here: Vince Guaraldi Trio
  
• Act II of "The Nutcracker" (In the Magic Castle on Sugar Mountain/Clara & the Prince): The Toronto Symphony, Andrew Davis conducting
  
• What Noise On Earth?: L'Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde
  
• Good King Wenceslas: Univ. of Vermont Choral Union
  
• Sladko Zvenyat Kolokol: Ivan Rebroff
  
• Tijuana Christmas: Tijuana Brass
  
• A Marshmallow World: Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin

Beef Jerky Time: 12/6/06

An hour of celebrations and props, plus the new Gwen Stefani record. Here's the list. Aoaoaoaooh.... Beef Jerky Time!!

• theme from "Fish"
  
• You'd Be Surprised: Marilyn Monroe [category: stuck in my head this week]
  
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Frank Sinatra
  
• Moonlight in Vermont: Frank Sinatra [category: happy b'day frank! (born 12/12/1915)]
  
• The Man that got Away: Ella Fitzgerald, w. Ira Gershwin lyrics [category: happy birthday Ira! (12/6/1896)]
  
• Blue Rondo a la Turk: Dave Brubeck [category: Happy 86th, Mr. Brubeck!]
  
• Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza): Astrud Gilberto & the Walter Wanderley trio [category: happy birthday brother John!)
  
• "Haffner Serenade" Menuetto & Trio: composed by Mozart, Pinchas Zukerman conductor & violinist with English Chamber Orchestra [category: shouts out to Mozart, 1/27/1756 - 12/5/1791]
  
• Early Winter: Gwen Stefani [category: sounding out her new disc, "The Sweet Escape"]
  
• We've Got a Long Way to Go: Gwen Stefani w. Andre 3000 [back to her 1st solo album]
  
• Wonderful Life: Gwen Stefani [another new track]
  

Beef Jerky Time: 11/29/06

First, a note to listeners: NO SHOW NEXT WEEK (December 13, 2006). I'll be cooking a birthday dinner for someone special that evening. But tune in anyway for a special 2-hour DANCE PARTY SPECIAL hosted by DJ Troy, of Peel Slowly & See (also on Weds nites).

Here's the most recent playlist, including an extra-special treat narrated by Sir Richard Burton. (see ** below!) It was also pointed out to me that several songs (see *) have French lyrics. This was not entirely intentional.

• Theme from "Too Close for Comfort"
  
• *Sunday Girl: Blondie
  
• Big Guns: Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
  
• Justified & Ancient: The KLF with Miss Tammy Wynette
  
• Epistle to Dippy: Donovan
  
• Mathonwy: Huw Jones
  
• Why Didn't My Parents Buy me a Casio?: Micromars
  
• *Your Redneck Past: Ben Folds Five
  
• Ana Ng: They Might Be Giants
  
• **The Eve of War: from Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the Worlds
  
• *Mon Oncle (jazzy mix [of film s/t music]): Mr. Untel
  
• *Hommage: Les Frères Checkolade
  
• Canadian Railroad Trilogy: Gordon Lightfoot