Live Jive

While I am out of town, and cannot do a live show this week, I was able to piece together a retrospective podcast-only show that I think does a great job at looking at 2009. Ob-soive:

Episode 052: "It's Alive Part IV: 2009 In Review"
(Featuring live performances by artists that appeared on Blasphuphmus Radio in 2009.)

Playlist & Footnotes.

Special thanks to my sister and brother, for letting me record this in their apartment while I'm visiting. Couldn't have done it without you.

Stay tuned for at least one-more podcast-only show. We'll be back to business as usual on January 2nd. See ya then.

The Holidays

I will be out of the Portland area for the next two weeks, visiting family up north. I will still be available via the Inter-Web-A-Tron and by phone if you want to reach me, as per the usual.

Happy Holidays.

All Things Must End... For Now

Well, 2009 has come to an end, and today marked the last new live episode of Blasphuphmus Radio, and in honor of that, we decided to revive The Grumpy Punk, and brought in a special listener guest who provided an assortment of excellent records to deliver a fantastic last episode of the year. Ob-soive:

Episode 051: A Grumpy Punk Christmas (w/ Special Guest, Will!)
(Featuring musical selections from the collection of a listener, Will, focusing again on Christmas Music for people who don't like Christmas Music.)

Playlist & Footnotes

I know, I know. There's still two more weeks in December, and there will not be a live broadcast. This cannot be helped; the holiday season requires family togetherness, and I will be out of town. But fear not! If you keep your eyes focused on the Podcast Feed, you'll find some year-end, Inter-Web-A-Tron only episodes that will wrap up this year in Blasphuphmus Radio. It should be a good time, and of course, any requests can easily be sent via e-mail.

We hope you're having an excellent holiday season, and tune in for a new season of Blasphuphmus Radio starting in January. Hell yeah.

See ya next year.

Well, That Was Something

For better or for worse, however the dice may fall, I just finished my last test for my last class this term.

I feel like there's something strangely foreboding about calling a cumulative test a Final. A Final what? Is this the end? Is this a Pheonix-rebirth metaphor, or a symbolic death that I will never recover from? It's the finality of the word that is getting to me this time.

With the last goal having been achieved, there is a certain listlessness that is setting in, a sort of disorientation that seems overwhelming. There is no shortage of things that I can (and will) be doing for the next month, and the whole process will repeat again soon enough anyway, so the miniature reprieve almost seems like a cheat, or a false sense of hope before having to dive back into the fray again.

My final Final may be complete, but what that means for the long term - or even for just today - is somewhat lost on me.

Radio Schedule Update

As we move into the end of the year, there will be a couple of unexpected changes for Blasphuphmus Radio to accommodate the holiday season. Sadly, I will be unable to bring you live broadcasts for December 19th and December 26th, as I will be out of town with family. I know it is tough, and this year I've already taken one week off. Nonetheless, I will be enjoying the warmth and hospitality of family for a few weeks, and cannot turn down free food or stories told by my grandmother. All in all, it should be fun.

For those who listen online, however, there will be a few podcast-only shows to make up for my on-air absences. I may do more than two, actually, as I have a few ideas for the end-of-the-year that I haven't been able to fit into the schedule this year, so keep an eye out for those. If you don't already get this show as a podcast, and have never listened via the Inter-Web-A-Tron, this handy link works as a podcast feed, or as a streaming archive, depending on your preference. You can even download the shows, and play them in your .mp3 player of choice. How 20th Century of us?

We will be back on the air, doing live shows again, beginning January 2nd, which brings us to our next announcement: the Blasphuphmus Radio 2010 Programming Schedule is now up. If you've been enjoying the show this year, then expect more of the same. There are a variety of "empty" weeks so far (as it is far too early to know the entire schedule), and there are some bands and guests that I am waiting to hear back from. As usual with this kind of thing, nothing is permanent, everything is subject to change, and even if I've said otherwise, never believe anything you think you'll hear until you actually hear it. More than anything, it's a roadmap for me to follow when I feel like I'm lost, if that makes any sense.

We may have some new announcements regarding some projects that are in the pipe, but the cold weather, personal economic collapse, and the dim portents of things to come are conspiring together to make such announcements seem somewhat moot. When things are more specific than that, you'll be the second to know.

Comics / Books / Records

I need to get rid of a lot of my stuff, and it turns out that 99% of everything I own is either Comics, Books, or Records. I don't exactly have anything that is particularly collectible or valuable per se, only in that they are important to me, and I don't really want to part with them. But that's neither here nor there. I just can't afford to keep this stuff anymore, and sometimes you don't have a choice.

If you are interested in Comics, Books, or Records, and would like to peruse this stuff before I begin selling it off in a more public way, please contact me. My Comics are mostly centered around '80's DC Superhero crap, and my records are all over the map. (Again, typical hipster bullshit.) The books look like a collection a PSU student / pseudo-literati would happen to hang on to instead of sell back to the bookstore like he should have. Go fig.

I want this stuff to go to a good home, so drop me a line and we'll talk. I would rather someone I know get something they want to have (and will use).

I Think I Broke Something

And I don't know what to do to fix it.

It's deep inside. Above the neck and in my chest. And it hurts. A lot.

This sucks. And it's been getting worse and worse all year.

Lame lame lame. I give up.

New Is Old

For today's show, I decided to delve into the archives again and pull out some selections from my favorite Holiday shows of the past. I'm not a big Christmas person (for the most part), and when I do get into Seasonal Music, it's generally not what you would hear in the Mall. So consider this a snapshot of what I like to bump this time of year. Ob-soive:

Episode 050: Ghosts Of Christmas Past
(Featuring selections from previous broadcasts on 12/23/98, 12/14/04, 12/13/06, and 12/20/06.)

Playlist & Footnotes.

If nothing else, you should really listen to my rendition of The Cremation Of Sam McGee from 2006, near the end of the show.

Next week: tune in for the return of The Grumpy Punk, with a special co-host, who will be helping me pick the tunes for that hour. Should be pretty epic.

See ya in seven.