last night’s shuffleation
October 19, 2021
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last night’s shuffleation
Little Liars – Ida Mae
Terror Couple Kill Colonel – Bauhaus
Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly – Modest Mouse
English Suite No. 1 in A Major – Bach / Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Reoccurring Dream – Joni Mitchell
Me And Paul – Willie Nelson
TV Spot (Apr. 71) – Can
Shoo Lie Loo – Ranky Tanky
Canned Laughter – Twig Cinnamon
Heaven Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Steve Earle & The Dukes
Palestine Texas – T Bone Burnette
Blue Monk – Thelonious Monk
Eternal Consumption Engine – Primus
Peacocks And Blackhawks – Jerry Joseph
Strange Girl – Laura Marling
Smoke: IV. – New Music Detroit
Blue Yodel No 9 – Jimmie Rodgers/Louis Armstrong
Heroin – The Velvet Underground
Never Say Never – Romeo Void
Desolation Row – Bob Dylan
strange shuffle
October 14, 2021
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strange shuffle . . .
Lay Down – Goat Girl
Mexican Radio – Wall Of Voodoo
Know Your Rights – The Clash
Talking, Talking – New Young Pony Club
Subterranean Homesick Blues – Harry Nilsson
Lovesick Blues – Hank Williams
Elephant Talk – King Crimson
If Jesus Drove A Motor Home – Jim White w/Aimee Mann
Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street) – Hank Snow
I’m Not Your Mother, I’m Not Your Bitch – Courtney Barnett
Speak Out – Rising Appalachia w/ Ani Difranco
Heavy Balloon – Fiona Apple
Blue Yodel No.8 (Mule Skinner Blues) Jimmie Rodgers
Pleasure And Pain – Divinyls
Mother’s Rope – Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band
Poverty Train – Laura Nyro
Deep Dish – Ani Difranco
Johnny Feelgood – Liz Phair
On The Road Again – Canned Heat
little Donnie Dimwit
October 14, 2021
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“in March, Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, removed its Trump waxwork because customers kept punching it.”
shuffle on anon o A.I. D.J.
October 12, 2021
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shuffle on anon o A.I. D.J.
Ain’t Got No Money – Justin Townes Earle
Hell On Heels – Pistol Annies
Down – St. Vincent
Democracy – Leonard Cohen
The TV Made Me Do It – Moon Walker
Leaving Love All Over The Place – George Jones
My Medicine – Snoop Dogg
Birdbrain – Allen Ginsberg & The Gluons
Blue Monk – Thelonious Monk
I’ve Got A Feelin’ In My Body – Elvis Presley
Fuck That Guy – The Dirty Knobs
M – Music I – Inside C – Curved E-Entrances – Terry Riley
What We All Want – The Dandy Warhols
Platinum Dress – The Vibrators
Not My Idea – Garbage
Ain’t Nothin’ in Ramblin’ – Bonnie Raitt / Steve Freund
Run, The Darkness Will Pass – Shabaka and the Ancestors
You Are My Sunshine – The Dead South
a dozen days, 7 shorties
October 12, 2021
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a dozen days, 7 shorties
2021.10.1 – Wife’s working
2021.10.2 – The end of times
2021.10.2 – Good coffee
2021.10.2 – Caffeine
2021.10.5 – Sittin’ in dark
2021.10.10 – After false fire alarm
2021.10.12 – Life and time
~ ~ ~
Wife’s working
roofers are working
I sit in sun
~ ~ ~
The end of times
is just beginning
welcome to the future
~ ~ ~
Good coffee
extra face slap
from inside
~ ~ ~
Caffeine
and cannabis
holy trinity
~ ~ ~
Sittin’ in dark
rain fallin’
life livin’
The world out there
and the world way out there
whirl within
Faint rooster crow
distant train wail
hope rises
~ ~ ~
After false fire alarm
waiting in dark
watching
~ ~ ~
Life and time
a one-way dead-end street
The outside of the backside
it lingers and it grows
Tribal fire’s slight warmth
temporary light against the night
Window haze hiding city
sirens seeping through the woods
Programming on Television Earth
cold souvenir of reality
Wet whispers in the dark
hunger creeping from the heart
Sometimes you hit the mainline
sometimes you don’t
It’s the maybes that get you
they suck you from your song
bad fotos of good poets
October 11, 2021
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Bad fotos of good poets (camera on wrong setting)
October 6, 2021, ex-Cleveland and current California poet Michael Joseph Arcangelini read at Visible Voice with 15 co-readers — it was a magic nights:
Michael Joseph Arcangelini, host & featured poet
Steve Thomas
Steve Goldberg
Chris Franke
Shelly Chernin
poets
Charles Cicirella
Terry Provost
John Burroughs
Marc Steven Mannheimer
poets
Russell Vidrick
Adam Brodsky
Jane Bodnar
Doc Janning
Ben Gulyas
poets
Lady
Lady & Smith by Adam Brodsky (I was last reader)
feature & host Michael Joseph Arcangelini
5-alarm non-fire
October 10, 2021
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The 5-Alarm Non-Fire
or the smoke detector that wouldn’t die
Asleep 90 minutes and the fire alarm goes off. We have ADT home security so the smoke detector is tied to a very loud penetrating abrasive screaming beep alarm.
We get up. I smell wood smoke, check every room, closet, pull ceiling stairs down , look in the attic, prowl the basement, then go outside in my underwear and inspect the roof and grounds. No smoke, no flame, but do smell wood smoke coming from the southeast. While I’m doing this, Lady is explaining to ADT we have no fire so please don’t send the fire trucks.
One late late night last fall our foyer door wasn’t quite latched and a hard wind pushed it half an inch and the alarm went off — by the time I managed to turn it off, there was a cop car out front flashing, so I open our front door in my undies and convince the lady cop I live here and it’s all cool.
We go back to bed.
30 minutes later it goes off again. We convince ADT to not send any firetrucks no matter what for another 6 hours. I’m quite awake so sit in dark, toke, write lowku, go back to bed.
Hour later we gooooooooo again, so I get ladder, take smoke detector down from ceiling, and the alarm control panel goes crazy screaming “tampered” message. I reset yet again, put detector downstairs, tell Lady it still has batteries in it so could still technically go off.
At 3:30 a.m. it starts its screambeep again so I come down, take a fork and pry its 2 batteries out, slipping once and poking a bloody hole in my hand.
By this time there’s no smell of wood smoke, no probable cause to scream.
We go back to bed.
At 5:30 a.m. it goes off again — no batteries in detector. Without my reading glasses I can’t rsee the message the ADT control panel is flashing as I insert our PIN to shut it up. Look later and last alarm msg says HEAT while previous ones all said SMOKE. We have neither.
Now we’re up, sipping coffee, is almost 7 and alarm’s been silent for 90 minutes, but have feeling we’re not done.
Achh, microwave beeper went off and I thought it was the Attack of the Never-Ending Fire Alarm again.
After false fire alarm
waiting in dark
watching
flow shuffle go
October 7, 2021
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when you sit in the dark, take a toke, tell the Artificial Intelligence to shuffle your playlist, and she starts with Thelonious Monk, you know you’re in the flow . . .
Misterioso – Thelonious Monk
Echolalia – Dead Can Dance
Walking In The Rain – Grace Jones
Transmission – Joy Division
God Is God – Juno Reactor
Scientist – The Dandy Warhols
Long Gone Lonesome Blues – Hank Williams
Jazz Police – Leonard Cohen
I Put A Spell On You – Mykal Rose
Kill Your Mama – Alicia Keys
Monkey In A Silo – Jim White
I Am Electro – Meat Beat Manifesto
super-fine shuffle . . .
October 6, 2021
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super-fine shuffle . . .
Cross Talk IV / Radio Lonelys – Oneohtrix Point Never
Pedestrain At Best – Courtney Barnett
Ashes To Ashes – David Bowie
Detective – No Doubt
Hangover Blues – Amythyst Kiah
Whitey On The Moon – Gil Scott-Heron
Old Age and Treachery – Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Kickstand Hog – Critters Buggin
Thrills – Cake
Strong Feelings – Dry Cleaning
Easily Charmed By Fools – The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Trailer Trash – carolesdaughter
Watermelon Man – The Gun Club
I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive – Hank Williams
Only Happy When It Rains – Garbage
5:45 – JJ Sterry w/ Gang of Four
Kill Your Mama – Alicia Keys
