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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

"got a steak on my face 'cause i got into a fistfight..."
- Beastie Boys

"don't be afraid of the hits..."
- a very wise man


digging in at the radio station again. missed the last session because i was sick and haven't updated because i was lazy so i figured tonight i'd kill two birds and all that by setting up tonight's songs and rambling about it at the same time. tonight i'm being introduced as J's "musical director and elder" so i thought i'd do an hour brick of 80's songs. any suggestions? i'll check for comments for the next four hours, if i see any i'll play the songs. hey, do this, actually call the request line! that's what this shit is for! the station's name is WYEP 91.3 and the request number is 412-381-9900. i'll be answering it all FUCK, sorry, i smashed the remote for my TV and cut the shit out of my hand so now i have these criss-crossing crayola band-aids because the cut was on the tip of my finger and i'm typing like Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Nut." anyway, call up, if not here's the cds i've pulled so far, INXS's Greatest Hits, Leonard Cohen (who i swore again tonight that i would start buying his shit next time i got paid), Nick Cave's "The Good Son" (it's the only thing from the 80's of his they got), something from "Paul's Boutique," something from David Bowie's "Let's Dance" probably "Cat People." that reminds me of Jr. High when my friends started this fake band where they did parodies of songs and played on buckets and toy keyboards and i soooooooo wanted to be in it but i didn't have an ounce of musical skill so i tried writing some songs instead. my proudest moment was "Red Ants" instead of "Let's Dance" and the boys actually let me drum on the bucket until they realized that i couldn't stop myself from speeding up as the song progressed. every time i would go faster and faster until everyone was staring at me and my bucket. oh well, no hard feelings. actually, just the opposite tonight because one of my boys recently lost his dog. okay, i'm going to find a dog song as a tribute to Truman. be right back............

okay G, i was going to play something off "Temple of the Dog" but amazingly this studio doesn't have it. so then i was grabbing "Amoreena" off Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection" because it's the opening song from "Dog Day Afternoon" and it turned out that J already had it in HIS stack and whined about it being from the 70s and not fitting into my theme (even though i introduced him to the song 3 weeks ago, bastard) so instead i'm going to play Tom Waits' "Raindogs" for Truman. it's supposedly about how dogs lose the scents off everything when it rains and you get these mobs of dogs wandering the streets lost after every storm. there's so much symbolism and potential for fiction in the idea for that song that it's almost intimidating to think about. anyway, i'll play that song at about 1:15 am.

anybody see the Donnie Darko Director's Cunt? not sure how i feel about his revisionist editing suggesting that there's aliens or Marty McFly future-boys tamporing with Donnie's head. in the first movie it was obviously godtalk creeping through, but he must have gotten scared and changed it later. ha! and i thought i was irritated enough with the underlying spirituality of the flick. turns out there's IS something that irritates me more...not sticking to your guns.

on the air in three minutes. back later...

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okay, that Elton John song wouldn't even play. spooooky. some drunk woman just called in and requested The Beatles "Coming Together." must be a B-side. you know, this Red Bull tastes like bottled ass yet i return to it like a dog to its own sick. i don't drink coffee so it's the only thing that will keep me up until 4:00 am. hey! there's "Amoreena!" he got it going after all. Truman gets two dog songs tonight afterall. imagine the first minute of "Dog Day Afternoon," that sweaty New York streets montage and the dog rooting through the garbage. such a good song in that movie because it's the only music that is played. the rest of the flick is done almost like documentary. there isn't even any music in the closing credits after all the dramatic shit happens. imagine that, a movie that trusts its story to make the final impact on the viewer instead of a hit song. hold up, J has to take a shit. thank christ because his toxic ass is just about smoking me out of the booth, i told him he should have just thrown the chicken wings he ate into the toilet and cut out the middle man. back again in a minute...

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my songs are stacked up and ready. in honor of how they fucked up the opening feel of Donnie Darko i'm playing "Killing Moon" (the original opening song) and then "Never Tear Us Apart" (the directors cut version) to show that sometimes your first instinct aren't always best. i know he probably wanted to contrast that song with Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" later in the movie but still, the "Killing Moon" sounds more like a creepy post-sleep-walk bike-ride kinda song.

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just had a small crisis. another cd wouldn't play and we had one minute to find a replacement before the dreaded dead air. Prince, "Little Red Corvette" saved the day. a song so good that it's critic proof. try to make fun of it and see.

::: david - 11:32 PM [+] :::
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