#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.
  

#413: This programme brought to you by Walt Disney Comics. (w/ guest host Eli Squinch)

I swear, if Peter Hocking ever decides to do a show here again, I am so going to find a way to crash it with 45 minutes of pointless CLAMP trivia.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Coyle & Sharpe	Maniacs in Living Hell	Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks and Put-ons
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
DEVO	Fresh	Something For Everybody		*
LCD Soundsystem	You Wanted a Hit	This is Happening		*
ceo	Illuminata	White Magic		*
Smoosh	The Line	The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on the phase of the moon, apparently.		*
Stars	The Passenger	The Five Ghosts		*
YACHT	It's All the Same Price	I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real.
Stereo Total	Baby Ouh	Baby Ouh!		*
Xiu Xiu	This Too Shall Pass Away	Dear God, I Hate Myself
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band	Between My Head and the Sky	Between My Head and the Sky
Syd Barrett	Effervescing Elephant	Barrett
Tender Trap	Danger Overboard	Dansette Dansette		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
The Flaming Lips	Suddenly Everything Has Changed	The Soft Bulletin
Joanna Newsom	In California	Have One on Me		*
Laura Veirs	July Flame	July Flame
The Thrills	You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines	Let's Bottle Bohemia
The Minus 5	The Disembowlers	Killingsworth
The Fiery Furnaces	Ray Bouvier	I'm Going Away
They Might Be Giants	The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)	Here Comes Science
The Aquabats	Hot Summer Nights (Won't Last Forever)!	Charge!!	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
of Montreal	An Eluardian Instance	Skeletal Lamping
Bat for Lashes	Pearl's Dream	Two Suns
Bell X1	The Great Defector	Blue Lights on the Runway
The Apples in Stereo	Hey Elevator	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Wilco	Bull Black Nova	Wilco (the Album)
The Sw!ms	Turbo-Lined Suit	Itemlord
Tilly and the Wall	Bad Education	Bottoms of Barrels
The Like	Fair Game	Release Me		*
The B-52's	Funplex	Funplex
The Baseball Project	Harvey Haddix	Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Yo La Tengo	Periodically Double or Triple	Popular Songs
Tom Waits	Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)	Small Change

What did we learn on today's programme?

• There is more than one old duck with glasses
• (Scrooge McDuck has whiskers, while Ludwig von Drake has some kind of long hair that comes down or something)
• Yes, some of these ducks actually do have hair. There are also ducks that have ears. Human ears.
• Most of the ones with ears seem to be policemen, making the law in Duckburg mostly mutant ducks.
• And so on, and so forth.
• The curly fry was originally an ancient Mayan delicacy.
  

#412: Fun with contingency plans! (w/ guest host A Pack of Feral Chihuahuas in Heat, with Grenades Taped to Their Backs)

In which numerous campus network problems turn this entire operation into a farce that doesn't even start until 5:30.

Playlist might be prettied up later. No guarantees.

(* = new)

- William Shatner - It Was a Very Good Year - Spaced Out: The Very Best of Leonard Nemoy and William Shatner
- Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) - Tank! - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
- Smoosh - We Are Our Own Lies - The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on who you ask and when. (*)
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- LCD Soundsystem - One Touch - This is Happening (*)
- ceo - White Magic - White Magic (*)
- The Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor - Travellers in Space and Time (*)
- Stars - We Don't Want Your Body - The Five Ghosts (*)
- New Young Pony Club - The Optimist - The Optimist
- The Ex - The Pie - Turn
- Xiu Xiu - Chocolate Makes You Happy - Dear God, I Hate Myself
- Steve Burns - Maintain - Songs for Dust Mites
- Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959 - Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle, Volume 1
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- Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference (*)
- The Like - Wishing He Was Dead - Release Me (*)
- Tender Trap - Girls With Guns - Dansette Dansette (*)
- Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
- Superdrag - Lighting the Way (live) - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin
- The New Pornographers - Valkyrie in the Roller Disco - Together(*)
- St. Vincent - Just the Same but Brand New - Actor
- Sean Lennon - Spectacle - Friendly Fire
- Eels - Little Bird - End Times
- Joanna Newsom - Baby Birch - Have One on Me (*)
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- Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Round Bottom, Square Top - Forty Fort
- The Lost Fingers - Tainted Love - Lost in the 80's
- Television Personalities - Walk Towards the Light - A Memory is Better Than Nothing (*)
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- They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul - Severe Tire Damage


What did we learn on today's programme?
- Somebody at 'Da U tripped over a very important ethernet cable today
- A company is working on a cellphone app that will convert spoken words into text mesages in order to avoid being distracted by typing on the keyboard. I've got a better idea: why don't you just, you know, call the person? Phones can do that now. Amazing, isn't it?

#411: Technical Excellence! (w/ guest host Geoff Peterson)

In which my computer decides that it's time to end the show.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Sam Chalpin	Michelle	My Father the Pop Singer
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
ceo	Come With Me	White Magic		*
Micachu & the Shapes	Vulture	Jewellery
Los Campesinos!	I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know	Romance is Boring
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists	Even Heroes Have to Die	The Brutalist Bricks
Pernice Brothers	Jacqueline Susann	Goodbye, Killer		*
Young Fresh Fellows	If You Believe in Cleveland	I Think This Is
Archers of Loaf	Wrong	Icky Mettle
Superdrag	The Staggering Genius	Last Call for Vitriol
Frank Black	Headache	93-03
The Flaming Lips	Be My Head	Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Nøb Dylan and His Nøbsoletes	Motorpsycho Nitemare	Positively 12 Stiff Dylans!
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
They Might Be Giants	Lullaby to Nightmares	Long Tall Weekend
Stars	Wasted Daylight	The Five Ghosts		*
Camera Obscura	Swans	My Maudlin Career
The Like	Catch Me if You Can	Release Me		*
Shonen Knife	Evil Birds	Super Group
Kalmaria (feat. Miku Hatsune)	Summer Days	Sugar Particle	This week's Magic Miku Moment
YACHT	Women of the World	I Believe In You. Your Magic is Real.
The Apples In Stereo	It's All Right	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Caribou	Leave House	Swim
Felix Kubin & Coolhaven	Notbremse	Suppe Für Die Nacht
Xiu Xiu	Apple For a Brain	Dear God, I Hate Myself
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Rough and Ready	Forty Fort
Joanna Newsom	No Provenance	Have One on Me		*
Sufjan Stevens	Movement II - Sleeping Invader	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
St. Vincent	Black Rainbow	Actor
Asobi Seksu	Blind Little Rain	Rewolf
mocksession.com	Crazy Train (Microsoft Songsmith version)		Roman Grecco quasi-theme continuation moment
Eläkeläiset	Humppaneitsyt	Humppasirkus
Supersuckers	Rubber Biscuit	Play
The Bran Flakes	The Sidewalk Song	I Have Hands
The Smurfs	Smurfin' Summertime	Best of Friends
The Yamaha PSS-170 Keyboard	Just the Way You Are	The infamous WUSR Technical Difficulties track	Thank you, Traktor!
Rifle Nice	Move Closer to What Deaner Was Talking About	Songs from the Sixth Borough
Juliana Hatfield	The End of the War	Peace & Love

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Reenacting Battleship Potemkin on a commercial flight is apparently a trend now.
• The police hate those %*#@ speed cameras, too.
• Apparently even Brian Carpenter is now getting sick of hearing Brian Carpenter ramble on over the phone for 45 minutes.
• Traktor DJ Studio is a QUALITY product
  

#410: From the Land of the Subhuman Drones (w/ guest host Gray Powell)

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!1111one

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Walter Brennan	Blue Jay Yarn	Stories of Mark Twain	From the WFMU Blog
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack	The theme song that's guaranteed 100% vuvuzela-free
Stars	I Died So I Could Haunt You	The Five Ghosts		*
Joanna Newsom	In California	Have One on Me		*
The Lost Fingers	Careless Whisper	Lost in the 80's
Tom Waits	Step Right Up	Small Change
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Pen Argyl	Forty Fort
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
The Aquabats	Canis Lupus	The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Dog Eat Dog	Polka Party!
Eels	Dog Faced Boy	Souljacker
The Beatle Barkers	Day Tripper	The Beatle Barkers
Jim's Big Ego	Cat Named Boogers	Titanic
The Pernice Brothers	We Love the Stage	Goodbye, Killer		*
Chumbawamba	The Devil's Interval	ABCDEFG
Stereo Total	Babyboom Ohne Mich	Baby Ouh!		*
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Ask the Elephant!	Between My Head and the Sky
Uryu Akiha	Fureguransu	In the Souk		*
She & Him	Thieves	Volume Two
Laura Veirs	Make Something Good	July Flame
Yo La Tengo	My Little Corner of the World	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Fiery Furnaces	Teach Me Sweetheart	Bitter Tea
of Montreal	Disguises	The Bird who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower
Okay Paddy	Gas Money	The Cactus Has a Point	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Ted Leo & the Phamacists	Woke Up Near Chelsea	The Brutalist Bricks
Black Francis	Captain Pasty	Bluefinger
The Flaming Lips	Powerless	Embryonic
The Like	Walk of Shame	Release Me		*
Caribou	Hannibal	Swim
New Young Pony Club	Dolls	The Optimist
The New Pornographers	Up In the Dark	Together
The Apples in Stereo	Wings Away	Travellers in Space and Time
They Might Be Giants	I Can Hear You	Factory Showroom
Television Personalities	Walk Towards the Light	A Memory is Better Than Nothing		*

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Vuvuzelas are really annoying
• There are actually people out there who defend New Jersey
• Vuvuzelas are really, really annoying.
• Pet Turtles are among the things that cannot be taken on an airplane. Apparently, a little girl might smuggle a bomb on-board in its shell or something.
• Seriously, I'm downright amazed that nobody at the World Cup has had one of those infernal plastic horns shoved up their you-know-what already.
  

#409: What the %&*@ is a "Cyber Sabor"? (w/ guest host 500,000 Vuvuzelas)

Yes, that's right, 500,000 vuvuzelas. Those annoying buzzing things that drive you crazy when attempting to watch the World Cup. Well, more crazy than just the total lack of any sort of action in the game whatsoever. Oh, and the completely random officiating. Aaaand the fact that the referee can pretty much end the game whenever he feels like it. Are you guys sure this isn't professional wrestling?

Artist	Song	Album	Comments	New?
Dokaka	Larks' Tongues in Aspic II
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The Like	Wishing He Was Dead	Release Me		*
Television Personalities	People Think That We're Strange	A Memory is Better Than Nothing		*
Pernice Brothers	Jacqueline Susann	Goodbye, Killer		*
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	Ativan Eyes	The Brutalist Bricks
Eels	Lilac Breeze	Hombre Lobo
The New Pornographers	Silver Jenny Dollar	Together		*
De Novo Dahl	Marketplace	Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound
of Montreal	Forecast Fascist Future	The Sunlandic Twins
Sam Chalpin	Batman	My Father the Pop Singer
Yo La Tengo	The Room Got Heavy	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Polyphonic Spree	Running Away	The Fragile Army
New Young Pony Club	Dolls	The Optimist		*
The Apples in Stereo	Hey Elevator	Travellers in Space and Time		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
Elvis Costello	Down Among the Wines and Spirits	Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Robyn Hitchcock	Television	Spooked
Joanna Newsom	Baby Birch	Have One on Me		*
Laura Veirs	Summer is the Champion	July Flame
Tom Waits	Dirt in the Ground	Glitter & Doom Live
Sufjan Stevens	Movement I - In the Countenance of Kings	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Little Hope	Forty Fort
They Might Be Giants	Withered Hope	The Else
Uryu Akiha	Mizutama Doresu	In the Souk		*
The Bird and the Bee	Ray Gun	Ray Guns are Not Just the Future
Jim's Big Ego	Everything Must Go	Free*
The Flaming Lips	When You Smile	Clouds Taste Metallic
Silver Apples	Whirly-Bird	Silver Apples
David Byrne and Brian Eno	Life is Long	Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Bell X1	Amelia	Blue Lights on the Runway
Visqueen	Centerfield	Play	Roman Grecco "Sorta-Theme-Continuation, even though it was continuing from last week's show, and it wasn't really a theme, anyway" Moment.
The Baseball Project	Past Time	Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Morning Glory	Piano Man	Magical Mystery Tour
Puffy AmiYumi	Red Swing	Nice
The Aquabats	The Ballad of Mr. Bonkers	The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!

What did we learn on today's programme?

• ABC News announcers don't know anything about video games.
• God is apparently an art critic.
• There is now a dating website for people who are too obsessed with Apple products to functionally participate in a relationship.
  
• It would be incredibly amusing if said dating website were Flash-based.
  

The Great College Radio Labor Dispute of 2010

On this week's programme... we're locked out of the WUSR studios! Tune in, as we play absolutely no music, discuss no stupid news stories, play no instructional films for defunct camera manufacturers featuring decrepit actors, and almost certainly don't ramble on with Brian Carpenter for forty-five minutes! It's all happening right now on WUSR - playing your ex fave song!

In the meantime, while the University and Union lawyers duke it out over who's paying for the Chinese take-out, here's a special web-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of former WUSR Jazz director Mark Webb^H^H^H^H^H^H Sorry, wrong moment. *ahem*, The musical stylings of Japan's computer-generated vocal diva Miku Hatsune.

This week, we're featuring a remake of one of my favorite tracks from the "Miku Hatsune is Murdering Improving the 1980's" genre, a cover of "Heaven is a Place on Earth", originally by Belinda Carlisle (whoever that is), by YouTube user initializedee. This version uses the recently released "Miku Append" libraries, which feature a wider range of vocal tones to work with. Also, initializedee seems to have acquired an animation budget with this one:




(Though I still like the goofy, minimalistic animation (okay, okay, lack of animation) of the original better)

Lock photo by Darwin Bell

#408: Cranial Impacts and their Influence on Human Vocalisation (w/ guest host The Stig)

In the case of the Scrantonian accent, this only proves what we've suspected all along, henna or no?

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Vincent Price	Nishika 3D Camera (part two)
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The New Pornographers	Valkyrie In the Roller Disco	Together		*
Joanna Newsom	Baby Birch	Have One on Me		*
Yo La Tengo	More Stars Than There are In Heaven	Popular Songs
Stephen Malkmus	No More Shoes	Face the Truth
King Crimson	Lark's Tongues in Aspic III	Three of a Perfect Pair
Sonic Youth	Antenna	The Eternal
The Apples in Stereo	Nobody But You	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Wilco	Wilco (the Song)	Wilco (the Album)
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
James Kochalka Superstar	Fascist Bikes	Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly
They Might Be Giants	Dirt Bike	John Henry
LK	Tandem Bikes	vs. the Snow
New Young Pony Club	Stone	The Optimist		*
Bit Shifter	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here	Weezer - The 8-bit Album
YMCK	Anotoki	Cloclo Made in Japan
Role Model	Showroom Dummies	8-bit Operators: A Tribute to the Music of Kraftwerk
Hot Chip	Wrestlers	Made in the Dark
Devo	One Dumb Thing	Pioneers who Got Scalped: The Anthology
of Montreal	Du Og Meg	Icons, Abstract Thee EP
The Fiery Furnaces	The Philadelphia Grand Jury	Widow City
The Flaming Lips	The Ego's Last Stand	Embryonic
Sufjan Stevens	Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Bad Plus	Feeling Yourself Disintegrate	For All I Care
Uryu Akiha	Yubisakino Hachimitsude	In the Souk		*
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down	Fixed It!	Know Better Learn Faster
Talking Heads	Making Flippy Floppy	Remain in Light
The Pillows	Ride on Shooting Star	FLCL Soundtrack No. 3	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	Bartomelo and the Buzzing of Bees	The Brutalist Bricks
Art Brut	Slap Dash for No Cash	Art Brut vs. Satan
Bell X1	How Your Heart is Wired	Blue Lights on the Runway
Television Personalities	How I Learned to Love the...Bomb	Yes Darling, But Is it Art?
Bonzo Dog Band	The Trouser Press	The History of the Bonzos
Elliott Smith	Somebody That I Used to Know	Figure 8

What did we learn on today's programme?

• The hardest part of beekeeping is engraving your state hive ID number onto each individual bee.
• It turns out that the best thing you can possibly do with a Chia Pet is just eat the damn thing.
• ... until next month, when the same doctors will invariably discover that doing so is somehow linked to at least sixteen different forms of cancer.
• The key to good impersonations? A reallly good whack to the head.
• You should definitely avoid eating bath goods, no matter how much they're made to resemble desserts.