There are plenty of reasons to come home early from Grandmother's house, as I try to illustrate on this Thanksgiving-Eve edition of pat radio.

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Play List:
Shawen Acres - Sugar Act    myspace.com/shawenacres
Hotel Eden - The Take Home     hoteledenmusic.com
The Sailing - The End Of The World     myspace.com/thesailing
Phantods - Shovel    Phantods
Murder Your Darlings - Miss Compromise     myspace.com/murderyourdarlings
Patterns Of Static - Roaches     myspace.com/patternsofstatic
Grafton - Not The Kind of Color    Jumpstart Wire
Cheater Slicks - Walk Into The Sea    Walk Into The Sea
Bassholes - Out In The Treetops    Out In The Treetops
Necropolis - The Knife Song    The Hackled Ruff and Shoulder Mane
Howlies - Chimera    download it
The Detroit Cobras - Right Around The Corner    Life, Love, & Leaving
The Language Our Fathers Forgot - Oragami Crane    myspace.com/thelanguageourfathersforgotmusic
Envelope - Straight Up (Feat. Hugs N Kisses)    Sharkbolt
Dane Terry - My Heart That Tired Old Thing    myspace.com/daneterry

Second-hour of the Thanksgiving Eve extravaganza - Download it here: http://patradio.org/blix/pat_radio_hour_two.mp3

Play List:
Trains Across the Sea - Pumpkin    Trains Across the Sea
The Lodger - Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion    Grown Ups
Clinic - Thank You (For Living)    Winchester Cathedral
Talking Heads - Thank You for Sending Me an An Angel    More Songs About Buildings and Food
Erin Mckeown - Thanks For The Boogie Ride    Sing You Sinners
Eef Barzelay - Thanksgiving Waves    Bitter Honey
The Books - Thankyoubranch    Thought For Food
Soft Boys - Cold Turkey    A Can of Bees
Firebirds - Mashed Patatoes    Firebirds
Imperial Teen - Sweet Potato    The Hair, The TV, The Baby and The Band
The Shins - Young Pilgrims    Chutes Too Narrow
El Jesus de Magico - Indian Giver    Funeral Home Sessions
Dean And Britta - Indian Summer    L'Avventura
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Indian Summer    The Manhattan Love Suicides
Talkdemonic - Indian Angel    Mutiny Sunshine
Guided By Voices - Liquid Indian    Do The Collapse
The Fall - Pumpkin Head Xscapes    Code: Selfish

Another mostly-local show with some bands who are new to pat radio: Ugly Stick and Wartime Ladies to name just a couple. I also chat with Chuck Helm of the Wexner Center about tomorrow night's Dean and Britta show. I give away a pair of tickets to that show as well. So listen up.

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Play List:
Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
Ugly Stick - Wind Up In It    Still Glistening
Two Cow Garage - Your Humble Narrator    Speaking in Cursive
Lydia Loveless - Crazy    myspace.com/lydialoveless
Civil War Generals - Coyote Song    myspace.com/civilwargenerals
Dean And Britta - Night Nurse    L'Avventura
Luna - Tiger Lily    Bewitched
Galaxie 500 - Fourth Of July    This Is Our Music
Wing and Tusk - Room For One More    myspace.com/wingandtusk
Elephant Bones - Try And Catch Me    myspace.com/elephantbones
The Hiders - Plastic Flowers    myspace.com/thehiders
Wartime Ladies - Bedsheet Ghost   myspace.com/wartimeladies
Super Desserts - Hammock    Barefoot in the Disenchanted Forest

No guest this week, just lots of music from bands playing Columbus over the next few days, including Day Creeper, Night of Pleasure, Triceratops, Los Llamarada, Sleeping in the The Aviary, and Captain of Industry. The second hour features music from national/international acts, including Deerhunter, Wire, and Million Brazilians.

Download: http://patradio.org/blix/program_141_Assorted.mp3

Play list:
The Scrawny Dads - Pat Radio Official Themesong
This Moment in Black History - Obama    7"
Day Creeper - My Blue Screen
Necropolis - The Problem With Life    Live, WRUW, 7/31/08
Triceratops - Doodle My Shooter
Goes Cube - You Clench Your Jaw When You're Angry    myspace
Los Llamarada - Against the Day
Psychedelic Horseshit - Lost Since Now
Night Of Pleasure - Bitch Pitch
Sleeping In The Aviary - Write On    Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel
Captain of Industry - Sabo    The Bronze
Paper Airplane - Four Trucks Sitting in the Snow    Middlemarch
Amo Joy - The Sane Design    myspace
Take No Damage - Brazil    Shambles
The Whiles - Spanish Steps    Sleepers Awake
Ghost Shirt - Underground    myspace
Rosehips - The Dead Are Watching   Rosehips
Moviola - Green Wood    cringe.com/pilation vol. 2
Karate Coyote - Move-Yourself    Move EP

Second hour. Download it: http://patradio.org/blix/pat_radio_hour_two.mp3

Play List:
Saintseneca - Tunnel Song    myspace
The Rosebuds - Life Like    Life Like
Deerhunter - Operation    Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
Pavement - The Killing Moon   Various Artists: What's Up Matador
The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery   The Velvet Underground
Million Brazilians - Arnold's Patience
Gadget Voz - Subprime Mortgage Crisis    myspace
Wire - One Of Us    Object 47
Ponytail - Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)    Icecream Spiritual
Gang Gang Dance - Princes (Feat Tinchy Stryder)    Saint Dymphna
Dream Bitches - Bad Luck Bill    Coke and Spiriters

Sean Gardner performs two Melty Melty songs and two Winter Makes Sailors songs in the studio and talks about the upcoming cd release of Melty Melty's Rise of the Birdmen. Justin Riley of Super Desserts gets on the pat phone and tells us about the cd release for Super Desserts' second cd, Barefoot in the Disenchanted Forest.

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Play List:
1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
2. Melty Melty - Mouths    live
3. Melty Melty - After Awhile And After All    live
4. Winter Makes Sailors - It's Not About You    live
5. Winter Makes Sailors - Moving On    live
6. Melty Melty - Brave    Rise of the Birdmen
7. Melty Melty - Same Situation    Rise of the Birdmen
8. Super Desserts - Momma's Circle    Barefoot In The Disenchanted Forest
9. Super Desserts - Stripper with a Stolen Car    Barefoot In The Disenchanted Forest
10. The Normal - Warm Leatherette    Various Artists: Just Say Sire. The Sire Records Story
11. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation    Various Artists: Just Say Sire. The Sire Records Story
12. Jay Reatard - See/Saw    7"
13. Jared Mees & The Grown Children - In the Fall    Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money
14. Gang Gang Dance - First Communication    Saint Dymphna
15. High Places - Head Spins (Extended Version)

Second hour. There's a theme at work here. You can download the second hour here for one week and one week only.

Play List:
1. Times New Viking - New Times, New Hope    Present the Paisley Reich
2. Cat Power - American Flag    Moonpix
3. The Classic Brown - Americana    Down with Fun
4. Mike Rep and the Quotas - Americas Newest Hero    A Treestump Named Desire
5. Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America    Must I Paint You a Picture?
6. The Concretes - Change In The Weather    In Colour
7. Camper Van Beethoven - Change Your Mind    Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
8. The Black Swans - Change!    Change!
9. The Flaming Lips - Suddenly Everything Has Changed    The Soft Bulletin
10. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed    The Electric Version
11. Guided By Voices - Hold On Hope    Do the Collapse
12. The Submarines - Hope    Declare a New State
13. Rilo Kiley - Three Hopeful Thoughts    The Execution of All Things
14. The Bats - Candidate    Daddy's Highway
15. Robyn Hitchcock - America    Groovy Decay
16. Brian Eno And David Byrne - America Is Waiting    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
17. Broadcast - America's Boy    Tender Buttons