Some Kind of Treat for All Ages

Just because all of us actual, breathing DJs have been thrown off the air in favor of an increasingly sad auto-rock, doesn't mean that we can't continue to have our timeless holiday traditions around here. And so, on that note, we once again proudly present our classic tale of the greatest Easter vermin of them all:

...tequila.

And by "timeless holiday tradition", I of course mean "growing increasingly dated every year that I trot this out".

(You see, kids, back in the early naughts, Mariah Carey... oh, nevermind.)

Photo by David Blackwell

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#417: See you space cowboy. (w/ guest host Tsubaki Nekoi)

And after many years (for some, well over a decade, even two) of keeping this station on the air, we get blown off with a three-line form letter. This, my friends, is the very definition of "chickenshit".

Feel free to write in to the University of Scranton with your complaints about the elimination of weekend programming to satisfy a station manager's personal grudge:

Board of Trustees
c/o The University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510

Note that I'm pretty much done here, regardless. Eight years of wasting my Saturdays on what can only be described as an abusive relationship is enough for me. But please go ahead and make your opinions known for those like T. O'Hearn and Roman Grecco, who wish to continue fighting the good fight.

Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Stay tuned to this blog for a new web-based audio entertainment product in the weeks to come. 'Cause I paid $10 for this domain name, and dammit, I'm gonna use it! Besides, who actually listens to the radio anymore?

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Justin Beiber	U Smile (Slowed down 800x)	From the Interwebs
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank! (Live @ Shibuya AX)	Cowboy Bebop CD Box
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	The Real Folk Blues (Live @ Shibuya AX	Cowboy Bebop CD Box
Kid Icarus	A Good Place to End	Imaginary Songs & Aluminum Hits		*
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Blue	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack	You're gonna carry that weight.

And now, our Roman Grecco Theme Continuation Moment, continuing the theme of "Radio" heard today on the Grecian Formula, which airs... oh, right, it doesn't air anymore. Nevermind! This is Swedish band The Drowners, with a song from their album Muted to a Whisper, an excellent disc that I found in the garbage can in the management office many years ago, which goes to show you how long this place has been going downhill.

This song is called "On the Radio", and, well, it would have required a lot of editing if I actually did have to play it on the air, so maybe this is for the best:

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Despite all evidence to the contrary, Kid Icarus is actually a Minneapolis-based band.
• Reading all of these host names will give one laryngitis for a month.
• Speaking of which, I should have asked Conan to lend me the Bugatti Veyron Mouse for this show.
  
• Going out with all of your proverbial guns a-blazing on the air may not be the most productive thing in the world to do, but damn does it feel good.

Bang.

Frequency Demodulation

On this week's episode, Electroman strikes again, taking the WUSR transmitter (what's left of it) off the air until somebody can drive up to the top of Bald Mtn. to switch it back on! (SPOILER ALERT: ain't gonna happen.)

Tune in next week, as we kick off our annual "Welcome Freshmen" show a full week after the freshman have moved in, causing it to make no sense whatsoever! Either that, or the station will be on fire. The fire is looking more likely right now, actually.

And now, as is tradition here on the blog, it's time for a special web-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of Miku Hatsune, Japan's computer-generated vocal diva, and author of the new book "Self-healing through MTBI"

#416: of Parking Meter Futility (w/ guest host Some Allegedly-cute Abandoned Duckling Your Aunt Bertha Found on Facebook)

Maybe if Scranton stopped tyring to milk every last quarter they could get out of people who work in the city, more businesses would actually locate in the city, instead of in the boroughs or other regions entirely. Just a thought.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Joel Martin Kohn	Jazz Concepts with Buckminister Fuller	Good Radio / Bad Radio (Irwin's 2005 WFMU Marathon premium)
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The Divine Comedy	The Complete Banker	Bang Goes the Knighthood		*
Mates of State	Second-Hand News	Crushes: The Covers Mixtape		*
DEVO	Human Rocket	Something for Everybody		*
LCD Soundsystem	I Can Change	This Is Happening		*
New Young Pony Club	We Want To	The Optimist
Twink	Catnip	Twink
Oleg Kostrow	Playing Marilyn Monroe	Lego for Four
tinypixel	Sloop John B	Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds
Guitar Vader	Bird Ship	Dawn
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
Basement Jaxx	Good Luck	Kish Kash
Ed Shepp	Pumpkin Cake Recipe	Images of Rapture from the Boggle Woggle
GLaDOS and Jonathan Coulton	Still Alive	The Orange Box: Original Soundtrack
The Fiery Furnaces	Cut the Cake	I'm Going Away
Wilco	You and I	Wilco (the Album)
Yoko Ono with the Polyphonic Spree	You and I	Yes, I'm a Witch
Silver Apples	You and I	Silver Apples
Tilly and the Wall	You and I Misbehaving	Wild Like Children
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players	Singing a Song	Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2
Yo La Tengo	Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Viva	Moons of Jupiter	Electric Cabaret Volume One & Volume Two
Tom Waits	Get Behind the Mule	Glitter & Doom Live
Talking Heads	I Zimbra	Fear of Music	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation Moment
Robyn Hitchcock	The Devil's Radio	Moss Elixir
Laura Veirs	Sun is King	July Flame
Jim White	Static on the Radio	Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Sufjan Stevens	Chicago	Come On Feel the Illinoise
Eels	Railroad Man	Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Elvis Costello	Down Among the Wines and Spirits	Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane
Guided By Voices	Sons of Apollo	Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
Joanna Newsom	In California	Have One on Me		*
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Forty Fort	Forty Fort
Frank Black	I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)	Fast Man, Raider Man
Randy Newman	Laugh and Be Happy	Harps and Angels

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Always sip your sake
• Stay away from sushi wrapped in Pop Tarts
• When you see an ampersand, it means profanity.
  

#415: We're not recovering from the Bush debacle fast enough, let's just vote ourselves back into the stone age! (w/ guest host Nell (and cat Pepper))

And I assume that once the Republicans start forcing rape victims to bear their attackers' children, the next step will be to stone them to death after giving birth, for having sex without being married to the person. But nevermind that, it's that scary big government Obamacare socialism secret Muslim agenda with no birth cirtificate that's really going to bring this country down!!!!1111one

Why the hell did we ever let those states back into the union? Anybody know? Any chance we can still give Texas back to Mexico? They don't want it, either? Well, damn. What if we throw in U... nah, nobody wants Utah.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
The WUSR Jupiter Theatre of the Air	Electroman Episode 1: Electroman Meets Panelman	The very worst of WUSR
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
Mates of State	Long Way Home	Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)		*
Steve Burns	Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues	Steve Burns Live at the Casbah 7-27-2004
The Sw!ms	Take the Monorail	Sw!ms EP
The Young Fresh Fellows	Lamp Industries	I Think This Is
Self	Dead Man	Gizmodgery
of Montreal	Disconnect the Dots	Satanic Panic in the Attic
DEVO	Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)	Something for Everybody		*
ceo	Love and Do What You Will	White Magic		*
Smoosh	We Are Our Own Lies	The World's Not Bad		*
LCD Soundsystem	One Touch	This Is Happening		*
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players	(It Must Be) Somebody's Birthday	Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2
They Might Be Giants	Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head	They Might Be Giants
The Fiery Furnaces	Chief Inspector Blancheflower	Blueberry Boat
The Like	I Can See It In Your Eyes	Release Me		*
Stars	The Passenger	The Five Ghosts		*
The Flaming Lips	Watching the Planets	Embryonic
The Apples in Stereo	Dream About the Future	Travellers in Space and Time		*
The Syrup	Love is Sad	The Syrup Best
Shuggie Otis	Strawberry Letter 23	Inspiration Information
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players	Military Open Mic Night (Christian Terror)	Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2	Since I was finally able to score a copy of this after, like, five years, I might as well play another track.
Eels	Flyswatter	Daisies of the Galaxy
Rilo Kiley	Dreamworld	Under the Blacklight
Talking Heads	Television Man	Little Creatures
YACHT	The Afterlife	See Mystery Lights
The Rosebuds	Border Guards	Life Like
Passion Pit	Little Secrets	Manners
Kaki King	Can Anyone Who has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person?	Dreaming of Revenge	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	St. Mary's Proctor	Forty Fort
Joanna Newsom	Occident	Have One On Me		*
Emi Meyer	Kaigara	Passport
Supercell feat. Miku Hatsune	Melt		This Week's Magic Miku Moment
Wilco	Bull Black Nova	Wilco (the Album)
Sonic Youth	I Love You Golden Blue	Sonic Nurse
Yo La Tengo	Spec Bebop	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Lali Puna	Faking the Books	Faking the Books
Tom Waits	Long Way Home	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards

What did we learn on today's programme?

• College radio DJs sound absolutely pathetic when attempting to impersonate a cat.
• Real cats never perform on cue.
• People who attempt to rob the drive-thru at Wendy's are really, really stupid.
• The Tea Party is full of people who attempt to rob the drive-thru at Wendy's.
  

Dead Air Disco

This is the power conditioner located in the lobby of the WUSR studios. It stabilizes incoming power before sending it off to our sensitive, and extremely expensive broadcasting equipment. Note that should this conditioner lose power for whatever reason, it will be a minimum of several hours before the station can be brought back on the air. But no worries. As long as that little green light remains lit, everything is just peachy-keen in WUSR-land.

Wait, what do you mean the light isn't on?


Well, damn.

Anyway, here's another special online-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of Japanese computer-generated vocal diva, and now V8 spokesperson, Miku Hatsune:



Next week: everybody gripes about how Catholic Charismatics don't know how to park! Be there!

#414: Eviction Notice (w/ guest host Los Angeles County Inmate #2409752)

In which all of the WUSR DJs who actually show up for their programs are officially told that they're being kicked out in favor of more student programs. You know, the ones that come in for three weeks, then are never seen again. Because they shouldn't have any problem at all filling in the Saturday time slots! I mean, look at 6 and 8 PM: Those time slots have only been open since... ohhhh... 2003. So no worries. Hooray for power trips!

Today's episode is brought to you by the all-new Blue Bear Grille and Tavern! Now featuring the words "Grille" and "Tavern" in its name! Tavern, that's a classy word right there. And that's a genuine 'e' in "grille", accept no substitutəs. That's the Blue Bear Grille and Tavern, still conveniently located in South Side, next to the shady Mexican restaurant, across the street from where someone left an old sofa on the curb!

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Holger Hiller	Fresh Young Girls in Commercials
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
LCD Soundsystem	Home	This Is Happening		*
Smoosh	Aaarplane Song	The World's Not Bad (I'm just gonna stick with this title)		*
The Eames Era	Fake DoGooders	Heroes & Sheroes
Bat For Lashes	Moon and Moon	Two Suns
Sean Lennon	On Again, Off Again	Friendly Fire
The Fiery Furnaces	My Egyptian Grammar	Widow City
Stars	He Dreams He's Awake	The Five Ghosts		*
St. Vincent	The Neighbors	Actor
marble	Mebae Drive	Hidamari Sketch Season 1 opening theme single
I'm From Barcelona (feat Loney, Dear)	This Boy	Let Me Introduce My Friends	These two songs are irrevocably linked in my mind now.
ceo	No Mercy	White Magic		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
of Montreal	Art Snob Solutions	The Sunlandic Twins (Bonus EP)
The Apples in Stereo	Nobody But You	Travellers in Space and Time		*
New Young Pony Club	Chaos	The Optimist
Caribou	Bowls	Swim
Stereo Total	Barbe à Papa	Baby Ouh!		*
The xx	Heart Skipped a Beat	xx
The Sw!ms	Busload of Art Students Forced to Watch Hollow Man	Welcome to the Back of Beyond
Joanna Newsom	'81	Have One On Me		*
Lucky Stiffs	If It Weren't For Drugs	Lucky Stiffs 2
Jim's Big Ego	Pascagoula Pawn and Gun	free*
Johnny Cash	Sam Hall	American IV: The Man Comes Around
Tom Waits	Step Right Up	Small Change
Jenny Lewis (feat. Elvis Costello)	Carpetbaggers	Acid Tongue
They Might Be Giants	Experimental Film	The Spine
Art Brut	Summer Job	Art Brut vs. Satan	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Cub	Summer Samba	Betti-Cola
The Snow Fairies	Summer in Japan	Feel You Up
Kalmaria feat. Miku Hatsune	Summer Days	Sugar Particle	This week's Magic Miku Moment
The Chris Stamey Experience	The Summer Sun	A Question of Temperature
YACHT	Summer Song	See Mystery Lights
The Smurfs	Smurfin' Summertime	Best of Friends
DEVO	March On	Something For Everybody		*

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Bears cannot drive, despite what the Clerks animated series claims.
• It apparently takes a judge to determine that cheerleading isn't a sport now.