Tonight on Monkey on the Lam I have a couple songs from an Advance of Sofi Thanhauser’s new album
I also have new stuff by:

Soap & Skin
The Vandelles
Wilco
Tortoise
Manic Street Preachers
Riceboy Sleeps (guy from Sigur Ros side project)

and more!

Listen up tonight at 8 PM

AND show up at Che’s Lounge tomorrow night for Sofi’s CD release party where I will be pumping out the beats on my laptop, DJing

I finally got around to editing and uploading the two shows from last week. My computer was wigging on me at the beginning of the process for both recordings so the two recordings start a little late (and i forgot to edit the bit of democracy now out of the end of Wolfie’s show) but they are mostly intact. You know, for all you completists out there.

Wolfie – Strange Ways in 4D 05-06-09
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Maury – MOTL 05-07-09
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On the way back from NYC this week, several things happened. Our van broke down, smoke pouring out of it on the side of the road. We went to a Goodwill and hitched a ride with a nice, albeit slightly off-her-rocker middle aged woman. I bought political books by famous authors for very cheap. I got myself some framed pictures that I intend to use as future art projects. I was temporarily stranded at a Friendly’s. The curtains in our hotel room collapsed and we had to switch rooms. I had some very good Tiramisu.

In the midst of all this, after purchasing a bottle of water from a starbucks on the road, I decided to spend a portion of the ride taking “experimental” photographs of objects on the side of the road, and of myself. It’s only an iPhone camera, but it beats my last digital camera and has tons of storage space, so I am taking advantage of it. Anyway, one example of such a photograph appears here: a self portrait, taken through the bottle of water I bought. I found myself enjoying the various stretched effects that the bottle had on the camera, and the look of the water as it appeared to rise above the edges of the road. I took several photos that may end up in a gallery here soon. I know my updates have been sparse and far between lately, I plan to try to get back on task and post more often. I guess taking a vacation can sort of pull you away from the all important things, like updating your website, huh?

I hope the next iphone update actually has video, as is rumored, and that I can use it with my current phone, because I would really enjoy that.

I had to take the night off from my radio show this week, but I plan to return in full force next week.

Playlist from tonight’s show, listen here.

1. Junior Boys – Parallel Lines
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
3. Danger – 00:01
4. Cupp Cave – Blast Offf
5. HEALTH – Die Slow
6. Pick A Piper – Yellowknife
7. Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber
8. Tiga – Shoes
9. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
10. MeWithoutYou – Bullet to Binary (pt. two)
11. Paper Route – Tiger Teeth
12. Junior Boys – Dull To Pause

Enjoy. Oh I took a bunch of “artsy” pictures in the studio that I’ll put up some time.

Wolfie’s latest show. Recorded and available here.

At the Burlesque Expo in Boston Wolfie and I witnessed an oddities fair. I snapped some photos. The oddities troupe is called “Eight Corner Globe.” It’s some freaky stuff, be warned. Here are the photos. Professor Badger was a funny guy and he had a wealth of knowledge, some real, some fake, about the materials in his collection. See below, and visit their website to book them for your town. Oh yeah, they vacation on the Vineyard and would love to do a setup near the flying horses.

[Show slideshow]

(Feel free to click the comment button and ask any questions you may have about the above images, he gave a pretty decent description of what they all were. Human scrimshaw, live black widows, Vampire slaying kits, etc.)

I informed the Professor about the woman with the invisible arm I’d read about on Boing Boing a few days prior.

I bought an iPhone in Boston yesterday and I am exploring the lovely world within it. One app I discovered was the free wordpress blogging app, from which I’m typing this very post. This phone is pretty slick, I must confess. For kicks, here’s a photo I took from the roof of the hotel. (if I think of it I’ll try to post photos from the floor of the burlesque expo today. There have been some neat sights but the trip has been overwhelming and I’ve had less time to appreciate the show than I planned for.)

I’m going to this tonight.

I’m a little bit intimidated, to be honest.

There’s a pool party, classes on how to run a stripping oriented website, and various other events.

It’s at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, MA and it lasts through sunday (I’ll be leaving during the day that day).

Anyone gonna be in Boston this weekend? Drop me a line. Come on by? Or perhaps I’ll be able to peel my eyes away and get out of the hotel for a bit to visit.

Sarah’s going to have an Aequinox booth at the show and is selling several items.

Oh yeah and, on Saturday I’m going to run off to the AT&T store and buy myself an iPhone. Huzzah.

How’s this for service: the show performed, recorded, and available online within the same hour. Now I need some bands to perform on the show live so I can share them with the world instantly. Anyone? Smallish Acoustic acts preferable – the studio is very very small. I’m serious, drop me a comment, it’s free.

Playlist from tonight’s show:

1. The Horrors – Mirror’s Image
2. M83 – Run Into Flowers
3. Prick – I Apologise
4. Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource
5. Primal Scream – The Glory of Love
6. Holy Fuck – Casio Bossa Nova
7. The National – Bitters and Absolut
8. Minotaur Shock – Bats
9. Hot Chip – Colours
10. Dirty Projectors – No Intention
11. Tune Yards – Little Tiger
12. A.C. Newman – Drink To Me, Babe, Then
13. Clark – Growls Garden

Mp3 @ 96kbps

Here’s Wolfie’s latest, and I think greatest episode of his radio show, Strange Ways in 4D, yet. He played a ton of new music, much of which was new to me as well, and his radio presence was dynamic and funny. I got turned on to a few bands I’d never heard from this episode, and for me that’s a rarity. Listen to it.

96kbps MP3 – About 1 Hour long

And check out my show tomorrow night at 8 on WVVY – the stream is working again now, so I’ll be interacting live on twitter, facebook, and other avenues.