Archive | May, 2007

Dueling Turntables#9: Billy Bragg: the Price of Oil..2002

Like Elliott Smith..here’s a musician who can silence a rowdy crowd armed with only an acoustic guitar, awareness, and a passion. The lyrics may seem obvious..in hindsight, to some..but remain too relevant today. God bless Billy Bragg for keeping the Faith and damn the current fashion… Mr. Smith for following the Muse.. and Cindy Sheehan [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Movin’ on up

Tomorrow, Transafixion will be down because we’re moving to a new server. This is going to take some effort to move the whole site over, so bare with us. By tomorrow night, I should at least have a barebones site up. With this change, we hope to do a little updating of the layout, which [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Sunday Morning Selections#9..Elliott Smith”Waltz #1″

Alien Alert! Hello. I’ve acually been given the secret handshake for a guest hosting for this weeks sunday show. My friends here have invited me over to the land of the ‘rendered conciousness’ and for this I must say thank you. We’ve had some duels before as I have my own blog that’s more on [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Dueling Turntables #9: Califone

Califone – Spider House This very well could have been a house Mr. White drove by during his exodus through the South. Glancing out the corner of your eye while passing by, you catch their stare from the Spider House window. We’ve all driven by these places. I love this band though. They corral so [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

No God but God

A debate took place at UCLA this last Tuesday between Chris Hedges and Sam Harris. Hedges, son of a Presbyterian minister and author of such books as War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) and this year’s American Fascists, sparred off with Sam Harris, an author himself and outspoken critic of religion, in [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

sunday morning selections#8..Jim White..”Still Waters”

by request from Duncan…. this little ditty comes off the “Wrong Eyed Jesus..” cd which, I think was the first one from Mr White. I was introduced to that cd through fortunate serendipity..doing a couple radio programs a week at a very..free-form station..we would get scores of new promo cd’s a week. This one showed [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

Dueling Turntables #8: Germans Who Say Nice Things

Dana Carvey & Steve Carell Anyone remember this show? Beyond Carvey and Carell it boasted a pretty impressive supporting cast of actors/writers including Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, Louis C. K., and a certain Greatest Living American…Mr. Stephen Colbert. The show only lasted one season in ’96. It apparently was just too far ahead of the [...]

Read full storyComments { 0 }

“Love Mercy”…from the Talmud.

Do not be daunted by the Enormity of the Worlds’ Grief, Do justly..now Love mercy..now Walk humbly..now. You are not obligated to complete the Work.. but neither are you free to abandon it.

Read full storyComments { 0 }

sunday morning selections#8..”Bill Bailey..Kraftwerk Tribute”

hey, what the hell..it’s Mothers Day. I was going to put out something meaninful..Billy Bragg “Price of Oil”..maybe some cool Pentangle, or even Kelly Jo Phelps…then this little ditty floated by.. yah, der hokey-pokey..

Read full storyComments { 0 }