It's another show I didn't have much time to prepare for, but I guess it turned out okay. And I had some live listeners, which is always nice. Speak up next time, people! And listen to wruw.org starting on Monday. They have several good indie rock shows, among other things, and they're doing their pledge drive next week. Help them out. You'll be glad you did.

1. Ms. John Soda - Go Check
2. B. Fleischmann - Take a Day Off
3. Rainer Maria - I'll Make You Mine
4. Built To Spill - Conventional Wisdom
5. Lou Reed - Down At The Arcade
6. Film School - 11:11
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena
11. The Essex Green - Penny & Jack
12. The Eames Era - Old Folks
13. Belle and Sebastian - Act Of The Apostle
14. Calexico - Yours And Mine
15. Sexton Blake - Emma
16. Yo La Tengo - Georgia Vs. Yo La Tengo
17. Psapp - Calm Down
18. The Weakerthans - (Past Due)
19. Devendra Banhart - I Feel Just Like a Child
20. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?
21. Rilo Kiley - Always
23. Viva Voce - Fashionably Lonely
24. Four Tet - Sleep, eat food, have visions
25. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Pretentious Version)
27. Laika - Looking for the Jackalope (Peel Session)
28. Talking Heads - Papa Legba (Pops Staples Vocal Version)
30. Talking Heads - City of Dreams

I phoned it in a tad this evening. Start out rockin' then the whole middle section of the show indulged in a lot of guitar rock, the spacy, bong-hit variety from the likes of Kinski and Viva Voce. Then I finished with some electronic music I'm digging these days.

There. Now you don't even need to listen to it. Wait...of course you do. A little birdie says, "Notify Me".

1. Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed
2. The Detroit Cobras - Hey Sailor
3. The Gossip - Jealous Girls
4. Amy Millan - Skinny Boy
5. The Unicorns - Les Os
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
7. Laura Veirs - Lonely Angel Dust
8. Mirah - Light the Match
9. Yo La Tengo - Saturday
10. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - i love creedence
11. Kinski - Passed Out On Your Lawn
12. Okkervil River - A Forest
13. Modest Mouse - talking shit about a pretty sunset
14. Sonic Youth - Skip Tracer
15. Electrelane - Two For Joy
16. Viva Voce - Yr Epic Heart
17. Laika - Badtimes (Peel Session)
18. Luna - Bewitched
19. Beck - Broken Drum (Boards Of Canada remix)
20. Four Tet - She moves she (Live, Melbourne, January '06)
21. Midwest Product - Reminder
22. Fingathing - Walk In Space
23. Amon Tobin - Ten Piece Metric Wrench Set
24. Amon Tobin - Verbal (Kid 606 mix)

Here's the playlist. Sure, I sandbagged with an 8 minute Fall song, but the rest of the show ain't bad. If you haven't signed up for my notify list yet, what's wrong with you? Everybody else is doing it.

1. Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
2. Cordero - En Este Momento
3. Mates of State - Fraud In The '80s
4. Controller-Controller - Sleep Over It
5. Tender Forever - The Magic Of Crashing Stars
6. Stars - Death To Death
7. Metal Hearts - Sunray
8. Flowchart - Compilation Dream Song
9. Alpinestars - You Rescue
10. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Love Connection
11. Electric President - We Were Never Built To Last
12. Lali Puna - Left Handed Dub
13. Ms John Soda - Hands
14. B.Fleischmann - Gain
15. Low - Words (Jimmy Somerville & Sally Herbert)
16. Bloc Party - Compliments
17. The Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals
18. The Fall - Hip Priest
19. Destroyer - Painter in Your Pocket
20. The Weepies - Painting By Chagall
21. Rachael Cantu - blood laughs
22. Bonnie Prince Billy - Vivas Ultra
23. Eef Barzelay - Thanksgiving Waves
24. Broken Social Scene - All My Friends
25. Hotel Lights - A.M. Slow Golden Hit
26. RobinElla - Brand New Key

Below is the list. In other news, I've set up a notify list so folks can find out when there is new stuff and anti-pod casts for download. You can find that sign-up form here -> Notify List Sign-Up.

1. The Weakerthans - Aside
2. The Cinema Eye - What you die for
3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Bobby Malone Moves Home
4. Death Vessel - Deep in the Horchada
5. The Books - An Owl With Knees
6. Belle and Sebastian - Meat and Potatoes
7. The Essex Green - Cardinal Points
8. Rogue Wave - Love's Lost Guarantee
9. Lambchop - Loretta Lung
10. Half-Handed Cloud - You've Been Faithfull To Us Clouds
11. Emperor X - Raytracer
12. Stereolab - Excursions Into "oh, a-oh"
13. B. Fleischmann - Sleep
14. Calexico - Nom De Plume
15. Sufjan Stevens - Opie's Funeral Song
16. Nick Drake - Cello Song
17. Stars - Life Effect
18. The Gossip - Your Mangled Heart
19. Guided By Voices - I Am A Tree
20. Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo
21. Comet Gain - Daydream Scars
22. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
23. Cornelius - Another View Point
24. Electric President - Hum
25. Lali Puna - middle curse
26. 13 & God - Men of Station
27. East River Pipe - I'll Walk My Robot Home
28. Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet - Human Hands

The title of this entry comes from a found voice, sampled in The Books' song "Be Good To Them Always". I got to see the Books Monday night at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

The Books are Nick Zammuto (guitars, vocals) and Paul de Jong (bass, cello). They're based in North Adams, MA. and create what could be called multimedia chamber music. Videos accompany most of their songs, many of them collages of found film and home video. Found sounds and voices figure prominently in their music as well.

Images of long-dead Mormon men taking their hats on and off, pictures of the planet Saturn taken by the Cassini-Huygens mission, and home video of Zammuto's younger brother Mikey filled the screen as Nick and Paul plucked and sawed, sometimes plaintively, often frenetically on their instruments. While most of the time, the images on screen complimented the music, there were occasions when the video evoked laughter from the audience and created a strange juxtaposition to the serious tone of the music.

The highlight of the show for me, the point where sight and sound came together most effectively, was during “An Owl With Knees”. This song features fast interplay between Zammuto’s guitar and de Jong’s cello. The screen was split into three sections horizontally and the same high-speed video clips were shown in each of the sections, only each was several frames off from the other, creating a dizzying, panicked effect that went well with the music.

The Books also featured a song from an upcoming documentary they are scoring about the Biosphere project. They capped their show with a cover of Nick Drake’s “Cello Song”. I’m not familiar with the original but their bouncy rendition of it seemed to be a good pick. Then the roadie came out and told some strange story about blowing money from the merch table on greyhound racing, while Zammuto blew smoke rings from a contraption made out of a gramophone horn and a toilet plunger.

Only major disappointment: They didn’t play “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps”. Maybe next time.

Opening the show was singer / songwriter / guitarist Joel Thibodeau, who calls himself Death Vessel. Thibodeau sings in a high register and is a skilled guitarist. I enjoyed his half-hour long set, which included a beautiful song, which I think is entitled “Don’t Laugh”. I didn’t find it on his one lp which was for sale after the show. I suppose I could have asked him what the song was called, as he was standing right there. Maybe next time.

Keeping with my trend of jumping on bandwagons after they've already left town, I've finally filled out my myspace.com site. I decided to make it a pat radio site, although I've shared many fascinating details of my history and personal life. Captivating! The whole purpose of it is whoring for links. If you're on myspace and want to link to me, do it! The more people who find out about pat radio, the better. That special web site address is http://www.myspace.com/patradio

Here's the playlist from tonight's show. I liked it. Hope you do, too. If I'm a good boy, maybe I'll see the Books on Monday and let yuz know how that goes.

1. The Dials - Phone Line
2. The Eames Era - You May Not Know My Name
3. Manda And The Marbles - Take It Out On Me
4. Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
5. Mindy Smith - The Word
6. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Blue Lights
7. His Name Is Alive - I Thought I Saw
8. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rise Up with Fists
9. Neko Case - John Saw That Number
10. Cat Power - Living Proof
11. Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
12. Rachael Cantu - run all night
13. The Gossip - Dark Lines
14. Boom Bip - The Matter (Of Our Discussion)
15. Metal Hearts - Socialize
16. The Books - Tokyo
17. Jel - no solution
18. Polysics - Walky Talky
19. Tarkio - Slow Down
20. Eef Barzelay - Ballad Of Bitter Honey
21. Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo)
22. Troubled Hubble - To Be Alive And Alone
23. Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Thunder Road
24. The Helio Sequence - Satellite
25. The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
26. Belle and Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard
27. The Incredible Moses Leroy - Roscoe
28. Andrew Bird - Headsoak
29. Señor Coconut - Beat it