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A little over a year ago... the bottom fell out, and here I am in a new city building from ground zero.
Normally the way these podcasts work, is that I send out an email to several people (mostly regular NAP contributors) and I ask them to send me submissions. This week I didn't send out one of those emails.
I decided to do a cast of some music I like. I've said it before but, sometimes it seems like a contest for you guys to see who can provide the most unlistenable shit on the face of the Earth every week... I honestly think you are fucking with me when you send some of the submissions you do... which is why I asked John Cramer to guest host last week's cast with one of his alter egos. I wanted to punish you. If you haven't listened to it, you should, because he was fucking hilarious.
My grandmother died last week, and she loved Johnny Cash. She saw him perform in Australia a century ago. I wanted to do a cast to commemorate her, but I couldn't even bring myself to include any Cash. I was actually on the verge of doing a cast entirely about death but opted out at the last minute. Next week we should go for a theme... any ideas? How about a "most unlistenable shit ever" episode?
If you can guess the identity of the one and only contributor to have submitted music this week without being solicited, then you win a gigantic cookie with your name spelled out in Big Foot's semen around a chocolate chip profile of your likeness. Lone contributor, I am sorry I didn't use your song.
Since moving from the Aleutians back to Houston... I have seen a grasshopper on the sidewalk, a dying cockroach and a possum walking a power line. I have also noted that Texas is still fucking fucked when it comes to being fashion forward. At least I can see lightning again (which I have seen twice in the past 10 years-as often as I have heard thunder), so all of the homely-horn rimmed, suicide girl, geeked out tight ankle pant wearing retards don't hurt me so bad....
The development around the downtown area is fucking frightening. I was last here 15 years ago. None of that shit was here. Condos two feet away from dilapidated row houses... and everyone just getting along grandly-as long as an iron fence protects the faggy up and comers from those next door who have spent generations on the property fighting to just get by....
But none of that matters. What matters is that you can get a ten pound turd out of a delicious plate of greens and ox tails from "this is it" soul food smack dab in the middle of all that disgusting gentrification.
Can anyone tell me the best place to go and take pictures of some of these righteous pimped out fellows I see walking around the Montrose area?
In closing... I don't have shit to say, except... HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
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Well, thats the last time I send you unrequested music :P
The Lone Contributor
I can't get the cast to work for me, either in the player or in itunes.
*eyes downcast, he slowly puts the Jefferson Starship album away, knowing now for certain that the mean ol' podcast lady won't love it like he does...*
It worked for me on a pc and a mac with the embedded player. Did you hit "play"?
Aww, Don't worry Charlie. You can submit jefferson Starship next week when the podcast is all about music that sucks dog dick.
It must be my work network. I'll try at home.
I'll never look at another Jefferson Starship fan with a happy dog the same way again...
Is it really big foot's semen or is that just another of John Cramer's alter egos?
I had trouble trying to play it earlier. Had some folks tell me they had trouble with the disclexington podcast at one point too. Could be an intermittent podomatic problem.
Claire - you aren't really in a new city, more like a homecoming and you are the Queen.
Podcast themes - songs about politics, songs about food, D is for drone, trikee beeetz, songs featuring any state but Texas, songs featuring Idaho, Kids on Grownups, the sounds of wII, guess who this artist stole this riff from, when they were good, Music that will change Justin's brain.
Justin's brain is fine the way it is, thank you.
"Justin's brain is fine the way it is, thank you."
yeah.. plus you went way the hell out of your way to tell us something to the effect that music has absolutely NO control over your emotions.. and only you have control over your emotions.. or something to that effect.
how about:
- spoken word podcast
- female drummers
- hip-hop
- songs with place names in the title
- unlikely covers
hmm, that's all I got.
plus you went way the hell out of your way to tell us something to the effect that music has absolutely NO control over your emotions.. and only you have control over your emotions.. or something to that effect
Oh, I know what he was referring to and I stand by my argument that music doesn't change lives.
I think we should either do a BEST DRUMMER/Drum podcast or an OVERRATED music cast.
Those both sound like great ideas Claire... the best drummer/drums one would probably be the more educational and interesting of the two, while the most overrated would be the one to get the most arguing going...
what about napcaster does it with a napcaster? So, groupings like DD and Justin and Kilian, and/or Claire and Cramer, and/or Charlie and Ramon and Heidi?
Well, I already did it with Cramer, so...
I would suggest:
justin and Heidi
kilian and Ramona
Charlie naked and Ramon
Anaconda and Doug
Ted and Conor...
Any takers or thoughts there?
I'm not doing it with anyone unless they are shaved and are into leather.
Before I engage in any sort of partnership I would like a signed contract with at least three listeners.
Actually that's not true I'd be happy enough just to hear what Ramona's got in mind. That is if she is shaved and into leather. I'm with the spanish snake on that one.
Not so into the Overrated music podcast on account of that's a lot of music compiled for a negative reason. Might be a gay little discussion thread but sounds a miserable project for the ears.
Is nobody into the Songs Featuring Idaho idea? Really?
The reason I suggest groups, or even singles, is to get less of a variety and more cohesion in the listening experience. For some going into one genre from another may just be too much. Or fine for one cast or two or so, but more than that and they are overwhelmed with hatred for the huge variety and span of tastes.
Or even if the person or group decided to be full of variety themselves, it would be interesting to see what their style of variety is that they chose themselves.
So, whoever I'm with, it might need to be someone similar to my taste in music. with kilian it might be dance and electronic type stuff, which would be great.
But however, I'm open. Shaved and powdered.
one reason i thought of this, is because I really am enjoying #55. i haven't heard of a single band, it all flows nicely together, i really like some of the songs a lot. it's like a story.
I think that regardless of what works out as far as partnerships go, from messy handling of assless chaps to "outercourse"- you should all be forced to adhere to a theme that you totally fucking hate.
And I am glad you like #55 Ramona.. I like it too obviously.. because I chose all of the music.
maybe we don't even need partnerships. This would mean that people would have to be willing to soloflex a cast, which to be honest is a shitload easier than collecting and marrying music from contributors.
So... sign up if you want to partner or do lone casts of your music only I guess.
Who wants #56?
Is that how you feel every week, claire? cause i'm definitely not doing a theme i totally fucking hate.
I'm not sure i'm even into doing a theme unless i totally fucking love it.
And my guess is that if i totally fucking love it, most likely everyone here will totally fucking hate it.
I'll sign up for 56 by myself. But anyone who wants to, can submit music iwht the theme - music other people will totally hate but which you love. then i will just not use it and just use the music i love which you all will hate. It's gonna be awesome.
so let me know if i'm allowed to do this and i will. I will call it, Blow Me.
No, i don't always feel that way.. but there was a very dark time for me doing the podcasts when every week I had to listen to the Mountain Goats. Now I'm not going to say that I was totally suicidal over that... but I do have the scars to show that I at least tried to kill myself. To be honest, mostly I just like to give you guys shit out of my heroic sense of duty to a narrow world view who's soundtrack is strictly noise, metal and electronica....
Oh, dont worry about it, if I'm selected to do podcast 56, i will express my heroic sense of duty to a narrow world view who's soundtrack is strictly yacht rock, disco, and spanish ballads....
i suggest you don't listen if you still have scars from the mountain goats.
But I HAVE to listen Carlos. It's the only thing that gives my life meaning. If it wasn't for the podcasts, I would be rotting away in a culture free pit- drowning my shrinking soul in a godless grip of nothing but black and death-like music... fondling my viking miniatures... shining my black shoes... carving tears into calves... crying for no reason... so I live for those moments when the roof is collapsed and a big smiling sun is pumping my house full of the gaiety and carefree passion of world beat, folk and disco. I would be nothing without the podcast. I would be a dark dark death dealer. Thank heaven for those troopers willing to listen to all of the other types of music.. to weed through it and give me the best of the worst. I appreciate your dedication.
Dammit! Ramona is shaved and powdered.
You really are a snake, Carlos.
Well Ramona if things could have been different for us we would have had a total of maybe four listeners. I like to look on the bright side but I'm not finding one.
So does that mean i can do the podcast? now i want to do it. And it will be full of gaity and sunlight and all that crap.
I have no objections. Bring on the endless love.
Oh you know I'll have to put some Lionel in there now...
I can send you some if you need it. I keep it in a shoe box with Kool and The Gang and Falco.
No need for it, I have all three in my Kool Falco Ritchie playlist on my itunes.
so... who wants #57?
I'll take 57, by myself I'd prefer.
kilian - there will always be more podcasts.
so go forth, prosper, and give me some new music to listen to. I'm bored.
Okay Charlie. Sounds great.
so..... who wants #58?
I think I'll sit these out for a while, had no idea I was causing such mass trauma.
Looks like I've really done it now, huh...
you guys are way too sensitive. You can't tell me that you love all of the submissions all of the time. And I would wager that you probably hate my submissions more than anyone elses. i can handle that. I pretty much don't care. i like what I like.
You also have to realize that before I moved back to houston, it would take me ten minutes to download a 5MB song. That totally added to my stress with putting a cast together. I have always appreciated it immensely when someone would take the time to send music for the podcast.
This week, I just wasn't into it. I have incorporated everyone's submissions for 50 episodes, and cut maybe 4 tracks total over that time. Several of you have hosted, and at times appeared to care little for the submissions of other Nappers-if you chose to use anyone's music other than your own at all. For me, each episode was at least a 6 hour investment. So as far as my feelings about it all... I have demonstrated that I am a team player in this- and I am sorry if my ribbing is striking nerves. I do enjoy doing the podcasts. I listen to them all of the time. People all over the world listen to them. Not a million people, but enough for me to care about the product being consistant and having variety. ... even if I can't stand some of the songs.
And by the way Doug- in general I probably like your submissions the most, but the Mountain Goats did nothing for me. Nothing but make me want to stick a knife in my brain. It should be okay for me to say that, and if it's not... then wtf am I even doing here?
Claire -
It's okay to say whatever you want. Obviously. It's just weird to hear three months after the fact, "oh, that thing you were doing was like death to me", well after the point where I could have done anything about it, like host the songs independent of the podcast, which I would have happily done and will now do if I ever get around to finishing that series.
It's kind of like when I broke up with a girlfriend and then everyone was like, "oh, we never liked her and thought she was terrible for you", but didn't bother to tell me at the time.
Perhaps that analogy is torturous, but you get the idea.
Anyway, I've already done a podcast of all my own stuff (cf Podcast 33) so I figure I should be at the back of the line for foisting my tastes upon the NAPCasts yet again. The people need their electronica and yacht rock, apparently, and who am I to argue?
Doug - since when did the usual bile coming out of Claire's keyboard become mass trauma?
The point of the cast, like this site, should be the differing point of views so Doug if you start leaving out what Claire doesn't like (and referring to Claire as "everybody") then the cast is going to suck a little worse.
I don't care if one person does the cast by themselves each week as long as that one person is everybody unless it's the case of one person being thought of as everybody in which case I think that's not cool.
And Justin is right, We can't change minds. This site proves it over and over.
But I still want to host the "this napcast will change Justin's Brain" cast. Not because Justin's brain needs changing but because he is everybody.
How about one person with an alter-ego? I thought that stuff was hi-larious. Though others thought the Michael Jackson was funnier and maybe alter-ego guy should splice over other voices and sounds to ramp up the funny.
The people need their electronica and yacht rock, apparently, and who am I to argue?
Are you coming in the back door with the milk man on that one? Your feelings are still hurt and you won't submit the MGs in the future if you pick that series up again because of my feelings about them.
Look here. I used the Mountain Goats as an example to stress a point to you guys. A point, that I assumed would be received without all of this bleeding. Maybe I am ripping off a bandage to apply another one, but part of the reason I used the Mountain Goats to express that I didn't always enjoy the submissions- was because out of all of the contributors, Doug- I thought you could handle it. Looking back over this devastation that I have caused- I should have used Kilian's submissions.
The fact that I was polite or that I cared enough about you, your submission, the project, maintaining variety etc to not tell you that listening to the mountain goats was like listening to baby rabbits go through a blender... shouldn't mean that I am an ass rapist now, because I mention some annoyance retroactively. Who fucking cares if I like it?
As far as comparing my reserved behavior to those friends who sugared up their feelings about your ex.... which is obviously something that you consider an affront, and speaks to how much my comments actually bothered you. I never said I liked the Mountain Goats. I never said anything at all, because.. again... who cares? I'm just the person who lays it all out, and I care about you.
This shit always happens to me. For some reason I am incapable of criticizing something-no matter how unimportant- without slaughtering villages in the process. Unbelievable.
If I am ever stuck on a deserted island now, i have assuredly cemented my fate to have only that MG album with me.
Who wants #59?
Wait. Who wants #58 (not 59)? Ramona?
DD - that podcast you did that was mostly you looks like it was about a half a year ago. There are about 8 regulars of you peeps, so you are ripe for another one. Sign up. Aren't you working on looking at one genre at a time? I'd like to hear a cast on whichever one you're on.
And remember, it's not a big deal, to quote you. I mean, look at Claire, she slaughters Villages. You just play a lot of Mountain Goats.
Look at me - whose going to listen to my cast of torme, kitt and god knows what else. But hell if I won't do it, or something equally as annoying, to some.
So sure! Sign me up for #58! Looks like that's the April 4th edition. Good timing for April Fool's.
Damn, you guys are going to hate my podcast when it's nothing but 50 straight minutes of poorly told knock-knock jokes over a looped version of "Polythene Pam".
Not because Justin's brain needs changing but because he is everybody.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
Also, nationwide.
Two things:
1. I'm not sitting around with my feelings hurt right now. I'm not even thinking about this when I'm not here. Between broken rib, fucked liver, cat with open gaping infected wound and about a bajillion things I don't want to talk about first thing in the morning (if at all on a public forum), it doesn't even register as a drama and I'm sorry for saying anything and unnecessarily inflaming a sensitive issue.
And I don't think you're an "ass-rapist" or whatever kind of hyperbole you want to throw. I just don't take suicide jokes well and if they're not jokes then I take them even less well. Call me oversensitive, everybody else does. My problem, not yours.
The girlfriend analogy wasn't an affront btw so much as a "this information isn't really useful to me now" analogy. I should have learned my lesson about tortured analogy years ago. The point stands it was a weird specific situation, as most people foist different terrible music on you every week instead of the same terrible music. ;)
2. Sign me up for #59.
Anyone want #60?
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