Leaves You Wanting Less

SotD 4-30

song:

"Sinning Hands" by Iron & WIne from Around the Well

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meme (bunny love):

SotD 4-29

song:

"Lazy Bones" by Witch from the 1975 album of the same name.

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meme (everyman a king; no man wears a Jughead's crown):

Just the other night, the conversation turned suddenly to the subject of Jughead's trademark; his goofy, crown-like hat.

I was surprised to discover that I hadn't brought it up, given my Archie obsession (that I wasn't aware I had until relatively recently).

"Well no, I don't think it's meant to be a crown..."

"Like one of those paper ones, that comes from inside an exploding party favor - - ?"

"Um, more like, uh, a kind of beanie - - ? You can see them in old movies, old comics and stuff, so surely people must have actually worn them. I guess they were popular with kids in the 1930s or '40s, during the depression. Homemade from, uh, felt or - - leather, maybe? Encrusted with buttons or bottle caps or other bling. Think of 'The Little Rascals'. Kids shining shoes on street corners, or - - y'know, teen-age delinquents riding around in jalopies."

It was quickly agreed that probably some answers could be found online, probably even pictures of people actually wearing the things, and thus it was easy for the topic of conversation to quickly move elsewhere.

As you know, searching the internet does bring answers, but often not quite definitive, wholly satisfying ones. 
- - And don't hold your breath waiting for definitive answers to appear here, either. 
Close, maybe, but not quite.

In the case of 'the Jughead hat', certainly there are good pop culture examples of the popularity that style of cap once held with America's youth...




At right: ▶ detail from a 1945 print ad drawn by cartoonist William Steig. 
(Via Weird Universe)


Below: ▼ Panel from 
All-Star Comics #40 (1948), 
The Justice Society of America fights juvenile delinquency in 'The Plight of the Nation!'
(via Comics Make No Sense)



Below: ▼ Cover art to Harvey Comics' 
Little Audrey and Melvin #40 (1969). 
Melvin might make a good stand-in for Jughead's young cousin, 'Souphead'. 
Please note that the decorations on Melvin's hat are fundamentally identical to Jughead's standard doodads.
(click on image to enlarge)







In looking around for the real-world origins of this hat style, some answers presented themselves at Wikipedia's 
'Jughead Jones' entry, a few came from the threads of a spirited discussion at The Fedora Lounge, while a great many more came from a 'Comic Book Legends Revealed' entry at 
CBR's Comics Should Be Good!
(follow link, and many thanks to Brian Cronin)

Some historic context: 
The Comics Should Be Good article reminds us that hats were once more popular in the U.S. than they are today. 
At the beginning of the 20th century and for several decades after, with few exceptions all adults wore hats.

This made available a great number of old, worn-out hats for creative re-use, or as hand-me-downs from parents to their children.

Concurrently, many factory workers and laborers of the era wore beanies or skullcaps on the job for safety. 

It kept grease and other gunk out of their hair, and kept their hair out of their eyes and out of the way. 
A brimless hat was safer too, and didn't obscure one's field of vision.

◀ (1925 factory photo detail via Shorpy. Follow link.)

SotD 4-28

song:

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" by Bob Dylan from Together Through Life

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meme (FMyLife Mythology):

FMYLIFE MOMENTS
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

BY JON MITCHELL EDGE AND TIM CAINE

- - - -

Aeneas

After the Greeks began to burn down my city, I was ordered to leave. I was hurrying out of Troy with my son, my father (who can't walk), and my household gods. The one thing I forgot? My wife. Now she's dead. FML

Icarus

Today my father made wings out of feathers and wax so that we could escape the king's castle. But I flew too close to the sun and the wings melted. I then fell into the ocean below. I can't swim. FML

Odysseus

Today I came up with a plan that helped my country win a 10-year war. But, because I forgot to pray to Poseidon, I won't get to go home for another 10 years. FML

Polyphemus

This morning, I came home to find a bunch of guys sitting around my cave, so I locked them inside to teach them a lesson. Afterward, I got drunk and passed out. I woke up with a horrible pain in my eye. Those men had poked my eye out with a huge sharpened stick. I'm a 50-foot-tall giant and they were 5-foot-tall humans. Oh, and did I mention I was a Cyclops before I met them? FML

Oedipus

I've been really busy. I solved the riddle of the Sphinx, gained entrance to the city of Thebes, killed the king and took his place, and then married his wife and had several kids. As it turns out, the guy that I killed to become king was my dad. And the chick that I married and had kids with was my mother. FML

SotD 4-27

song:

"My Fondest Dream" by Smokey & His Sister from their 1967 self-titled.

Download Smokey & his Sister - Smokey & his Sister - 12 - My Fondest Dream

Meme (the first draft had Chester A. Arthur and Franklin Pierce):

via Toolshed

The Urge to Merge: 20 years of Merge Records

Download 01 Merge Records Marathon Show, Part I

1. "Ivanka" - Imperial Teen - Live at Maxwell's [MERGE!!!!]
   All songs on MERGE records
2. "Ladies and Gentlemen" - American Music Club - Partiot's Heart [2004]
3. "Song Against Sex" - Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island [1995]
4. "Drill Me" - Portastatic - Summer of the Shark [2003]
5. "Tally Ho" - The Clean - Anthology
6. "Does YourHometown Care?" - Superchunk - Cup of Sand
7. "New Ways of Living" - Destroyer - Notorious Lightning and other songs
8. "Decora" - Spoon - Old enough to know better
9. "She's Got the Akshun" - Butterglory - MRG 100
10. "Drunkard's Worst Nightmare" - The Rosebuds - Make Out
11. "Break a Promise" - Guv'ner - Rows of Teeth
12. "Shangri-La" - Versus - Shangri La [2000]
13. "Round and Round (Ratt Cover)" - Lou Barlow - Emoh
14. "Late Great Cassiopeia" - Essex Green - Long Goodbye
15. "Plenty is Never Enough" - Shins - SCORE! 20 years of merge records: the Covers!
16. "Yeah! Oh Yeah!" - The Magnetic Fields - SCORE
17. "Dogs barking" - David Kilgour - Frozen Orange
18. "Vincent O'Brien" - M. Ward - Transfigurations of Vincent
19. "Lil' Wallet Picture" - Richard Buckner - Devotion Doubt
20. "We Can Walk Together" - The Clientele - Suburban Light
21. "This Is Not a Test" - She & Him - Vol. 1
22. "Don't Destroy this Night" - The Rock-a-Teens - into Every Life a little rain Must Fall
23. "Solitary Set" - Polvo - Celebrate the new Dark Age
24. "Ellen's Theme" - Sharkquest - Battle of the Loons
25. "Sundialing" - Caribou - Andorra
26. "If Looks CouldKill" - Camera Obscura - ILCK
27. "Nowhere" - eenage Fanclub - ManMade
28. "Rushes of Pure Spring" - Ladybug Transistor - Beverly Atonale  

Download 01 Merge Records Marathon Show, Part II & Silver Jews Opening 40

SotD 4-25-26

Song:

"Hong Kpng Flu" by The Ethiopians

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meme (are you reading me?):

 

This week, engineer Adam Wilson made global headlines by updating Twitter using his brainwaves. "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET" he explained.

Wilson's achievement was actually pretty trivial. He used a system called BCI2000, found in hundreds of laboratories across the globe, that can do the job of a keyboard for any software program. But it was significant precisely because it was trivial: mind-reading tech is going to have a massive impact this year.

In the coming months, cheap headsets that let you control technology with the electrical signals generated by your firing neurons will go on sale to the general public. Our relationship with technology – and our brains – will never be the same again.

Escaping the lab

Researchers have developed systems that read brainwaves – in the form of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals – in order to help people suffering from disabilities or paralysis control wheelchairs, play games , or type on a computer. Now, two companies are preparing to market similar devices to mainstream consumers.

Australian outfit Emotiv will release a headset whose 16 sensors make it possible to direct 12 different movements in a computer game. Emotiv says the helmet can also detect emotions.

Compatible with any PC running Windows, it will ship later this year for $299 (see image). They have shown off a game where the player moves stones to rebuild Stonehenge using mind power alone (see video).

Californian company NeuroSky has also built a device that can detect emotions: the firm says it can tell whether you are focused, relaxed, afraid or anxious, for example.

Rather than selling it directly to the public, NeuroSky is licensing its set-up to other companies, including Mattel, Nokia and Sega. Mattel, for example, will soon sell a game which involves players levitating a ball using thought alone (see video).

Lambchop Marathon Show

Download 01 Lambchop Marathon Show, Part I

 

1. "Theme from Dallas" - Lambchop - Nashville Does Dallas
2. "Get a Grip on Yourself" - Lambchop - Rainer on my Parade
3. "The Rise and Fall of the Letter P" - Lambchop - Damaged [2006]
4. "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" - Lambchop - OH (Ohio) [2008]
5. "Superstar in France" - Lambchop - Thriller [1997]
6. "The Distance from Her to There" - Lambchop - Nixon [2000]
7. "Gloria Leonard" - Lambchop - Thriller [1997]
8. "Popeye" - Kurt Wagner - Kurt [2006]
9. "Life # 2" - Lambchop - What Another man Spills [1998]
10. "I Have Been Lonely for so Long (Frederick Knight Cover)" - Lambchop - What Another Man Spills [1998]
11. "Love TKO (Teddy Pendergast cover)" - Lambchop - Live Recording
12. "Give Me Your Love" (Curtis Mayfield Cover) - Lambchop - The Declien and Fall of estern Civilization
13. "Up with People" - Lambchop - Nixon
14. "Let's Go Bowling" - Lambchop - Jack's Tulips
15. "The Book I Haven't Read (alternate version)" - Lambchop - The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization
16. "The Gap in My Education (Berman)" - Lambchop - Old Enough to Know Better
17. "Seemingly Stranded (David Kilgour cover)" - Lambchop - Rainer on my Parade
18. "Woodrow Wilson" - Vic Chesnutt & Lambchop - Bernadette & the Salesman
19. "Slipped, Loosed and Dissolved" - Kurt Wagner - Kurt
20. "We Shall Not be Overwheled" - Lambchop - The Decline and Fall of Western civilization, part II: The Woodw
21. "Fear" - Lambchop - Damage
22. "Your Life as a Sequel (fast version)" - Lambchop - Pet Sounds Sucks
23. "The Man Who Loved Beer" - Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
24. "Two Kittens Don't Make a Puppy" - Lambchop 

Download Lambchop Marathon Show, Part II & Broadcast Opening half-Hour  

Radio Freedonia 4.22.2009: Do You ENO Marathon Show

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Download 01 4.22.2009_ Do You ENO, Part II

1. "Needle through the Camel's Eye" - Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets [1973]
2. "Help me Somebody" - David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life ni the Bush of Ghosts [1980]
3. "Baby's on Fire" - Brian Eno - Dali's Car
4. "Virginia Plain" - Roxy Music - S/T [1972]
5. "No One Receiving" - Eno - Before and After Science [1977]
6. "Boomerang I (instrumental)" - U2 - Pride 12" single [1985]
7. "Burning Airlines Give You So Much Moer" - Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy [1974]
8. "Fever" - Eno - Music for Fans Vol 2 [1974]
9. "May I?" - Kevin Ayers/John Cale/Eno/Nico - June 1, 1974 [1974]
10. "The Lion Sleps Tonight" - Eno - 7"
11. "St. Elmo's Fire" - UiLab [1996]
12. "Third Uncle" - Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out [1982]
13. "Here Come the Warm jets" - Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets [1973]
14. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food [1982]
15. "Mongoloid" - Devo - S/T
16. "I'll Come Runnin'" - Eno - Another Green World
17. "Miss Sarajevo" - u2, Brian Eno & Luciano Pavarotti
18. "Needle in the Camel's Eye" - The Wolfmen
19. "Tomorrow Never Knows" - 801 feat. Phil Manzanera & Brian Eno - Why Don't We Do it in the Road
20. "Unfamiliar Wind & Interview" - Eno - 1978-82
21. "Evensong" - Eno & Fripp - Evening Star [1975]
22. "On Some Faraway Beach"

SotD 4-16-17

song:

"Sexy Sexy Sexy" by James Brown from Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.

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meme (shilling for the WPA):

WPA POSTERS:

CCC

National Recovery Administration Promo

Jimmy Durante's Give a Man a Job

Radio Freedonia 4.15.2009

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1. "Ripple" - Yo La Tengo - Live at Maxwell's
2. "Franklin's Tower" - Meatpuppets - I
3. "Turn on Your Lovelight" - Akron/Family
4. "Dark Star (single)" - Grateful Dead - 7" or Love is the Song We Sing
5. "Alligator >" - Grateful Dead
6. "China Cat Sunflower >" - Grateful Dead
7. "The Eleven" - Grateful Dead
8. "Stella Blue" - Ween
9. "We Bid You Goodnight" - Animal Collective
10. "Program" - Silver Apples - S/T
11. "Cybele's Reverie" - Stereolab - Emperor Tomato ketchup
12. "Apples and Oranges" - Pink Floyd - Early Singles
13. "Catch the Wind" - Roky Erickson - The 1966-67 Unreleased masters Collection
14. "Scarlet Begonias" - Grateful Dead & Janis Joplin
15. "I'm Shook" - James Brown [1969]
16. "Out of Time" - The 101ers
17. "Outta Reach" - She
18. "Es Largo El Camino" - Ana Y Jaime
19. "Brokedown Palace" - Bonnie Prince Billy
20. "Distortions" - Clinic
21. "Knotty Pine" - David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
22. "Fantasy" - Frank O'Hara
23. "Willful Suspension of Disbelief" - Modest Mouse
24. "Old John Henry Died on the Mountain" - Henry Grady Terrell
25. "Lillian Gish" - Vic Chesnutt
26. "Why'd You Come In here Looking Like That" - Dolly Parton