Podcast of the Week

Finally, after a very long time, I am back to making the podcasts.

Thankfully, last week I had an already prepared mp3 podcast so it was easy to post, as opposed to my tech problems on this side. But, forgoing any detail on my tech issues, I finally am able to make my own podcast and we had a lot of contributors this week. Awesome!

Last week I posted music from my old college. This week we find out what happened to that band and the members. After the huge success of the Moaners, and mainly getting together to play regularly for at least three years of college, no small feat (as many of you know), they went off to play in a band called The Chickens. Included in our podcast is a special cut, “Dolores.”

After that, they made a band that included a horn section and was called The Merchants of Venus. They played Austin and Houston circa 1994, and I actually saw them at Rudyard’s once.

Though John also played in Elektrolux, I have no track from that, but I do have a track of him in a play called Rats singing about being a naked mole rat who’s lonely. I have to say it’s my favorite track out of all of them.

Nowadays all members are spread out across the globe and some don’t even play instruments anymore, but that’s a painful detail we won’t go into. That any of them wouldn’t just hurts my sensibilities. Some members are in Austin and I hear there is a play that involves foil suits that is coming up shortly. Intriguing!

(By the way, there is a burlesque cupcake event happening at Emo’s in 3 weeks. Another Austin event I may just have to try and attend.)

To honor The Cramps and one of their fallen, Unspeakable contributed with one of their most awesome tracks.

Conor served up The Pogues, Justin sent in Buddy Holly and Kilian sent a couple of tracks in as well, the Hauschka is one of my favorites. To round out representation in the nap, Roberto sent some Latin flavors, one of which has rocked my world with the unlikely title of “Yogurt.”

My friend Jared answered my call to contribute with a song by Paul Newman. Janna, another friend, submitted one of her favorites, this one by Bettye LaVette. Stephen, a friend who is doing the art work for my cookie store, also is a person who I source music from and he contributed a song. I simply chose a few songs from another friends latest music mix that he sends out somewhat regularly. Thanks Lee!

The last song is a dedication to Cherry Blossom. Contributing music to a blog and serving yourself up to people is not easy. It’s hard enough to find the words to write, and it’s another job to deal with what comes back once you put something out there so I can understand at least that much about her decision to not be a part of our blog anymore. This song is just a nod to her for giving it a go. It just reminds me of her, or, my perception of a part of her.

On that note, if anybody reading who is not already posting regularly to the blog and would like to, please respond and let us know. A Sunday spot is available. You can write about anything but very short stories seem to be enjoyed quite a bit, in addition to actual music blog posts.

On to the music!

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