wake up at seven eat some corn puffs cereal

here's some catch up for the fun house.  there is still one more show to put up that will hopefully be here in the next few days.

the fun house 13: 9.14.11
playlist - this is a slightly shorter show than normal due to being locked out of the studio

the fun house 14: 9.28.11
playlist

also starting in november i will be hosting the funhouse 3 weeks a month, so the shows will be coming even quicker.  also also i am looking into setting the show up as a podcast to help streamline the download process for some.

just for curiosities sake here is a list of artists who have appeared more than once in the first 15 shows. enjoy!

bert jansch (11) - all part of the jansch tribute in show 15

lee noble (4)
the residents (4)
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exuma (3)
the flaming lips (3)
lee hazlewood (3)
leonard cohen (3)
nina simone (3)
odetta (3)
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abner jay (2)
big blood (2)
emily reo (2)
fred lane (2)
gil scott-heron (2)
harry nilsson (2)
john jacob niles (2)
john prine (2)
lydia lunch (2)
michael hurley (2)
the raincoats (2)
richie havens (2)
robbie basho (2)
robert mitchum (2)
scientist (2)
thee oh sees (2)
tom ze (2)
townes van zandt (2)
ty segall (2)

they really are disgusted\ the lost episode

Fun House 9.7.11 
playlist

here we have the recording of my 12th funhouse from last week.  for those keeping track, the 11th show is not available.  i was sick/wacko/shitty and when the file was giving me problems at the end of the show i was frustrated enough not to care.  however if anyone wants me to upload what i played as individual tracks i'd be happy too.  the shitty evening did not taint the good music.

lost funhouse playlist (8.24.11)

also, i will probably be posting the radio sessions more than individual albums from now one.  because a) i put a lot of time into them and am proud of them 2) i am more comfortable with that morally III) there are a bajillion album blogs, but only half a bajillion posting radio shows.  that said, if you ever would like more of what you hear on these radio shows, ask.  it's just nice to know people are listening/enjoying themselves and i'd love to aid in more enjoyment.

should have some movie related posts coming mid week.

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-johnathon

i couldn't get away, no matter how far i went

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming

another wonderful modern soul release from daptone.  they have to be one of the most consistent labels these days and we really should all support this kind of music.

Menahan Street Band - No Time For Dreaming (The Instrumentals)

no words, still great.



-johnathon

something is wrong with everything

-johnathon

i am the warlock supreme

yesterday was my tenth broadcast of the fun house.  to celebrate i thought i would make a megapost of all of the shows, especially since the first few were not available on this blog yet.

01) April 6, 2011
      Playlist

02) April 13, 2011 **there is no recording of this broadcast, so the individual songs are available.  be sure to download both halves*** (part 1)  (part 2)
      Playlist

03) May 11, 2011
      Playlist

04) May 25, 2011
      (No Playlist)

05) June 1, 2011
      Playlist

06) June 29, 2011
      Playlist

07) July 13, 2011
      Playlist

08) July 20, 2011
      Playlist

09) August 3, 2011
      Playlist

10) August 10, 2011
       Playlist

-johnathon

i'm straight and i want to take his place

yet another radio show.  quality should be greatly improved since i finally figured how to record straight off the board instead of recording the online stream.  enjoy.

August 3, 2011
playlist

-johnathon

my dear i can't take much more

two more installments of the radio show:

July 13, 2011
playlist

july 20, 2011
playlist

i will be on the air again tomorrow (wed aug 3 7-9pm cst) on 103.3 if you are for some reason in duluth,mn or streaming at kumd.org

-johnathon

i can dream of you without snoring, and I'm lucky that that's true, because everyone would know that i found them boring, simply because they're not you

Of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety  of Whimsical Verse

if i were to make a list of the perfect pop albums this would be there next to nilsson's aerial ballet and abbey road.

what more could i say.

i'm back?

-johnathon

I Was The One When You Needed Love

Moby - Destroyed


Moby, huh? Well, yeah, Moby. For the last 20 years, Moby has had a formula that some would call easy but I find it irresistible. Moby has claimed the music for his new album was inspired by late night drives in the city. Since I like Moby and I like late night drives, I could refuse.

-Megow

there can't be no disguising, that the pretty bird is dying

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

i first found this album when i started buying vinyl in my teens.  when you don't know much and you see a cover that is as nuts as this you buy it.  i loved it then and i love it now.  it reminds me of harry nilsson in a way.  both guys seem like big music nerds who play with the history of rock/pop music.  also maybe the tender/sarcastic tone.  yeah.  todd is great.

-johnathon

everyone loves apple schnapps

The Fun House 6.1.11

another episode of the radio show.

-johnathon

trying to get out

Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread

when i was little i grew up listening to KRNA in cedar  rapids iowa.  their tag line was "krna rocks" and rock it did.

this album reminds me of that time in my life.  all of a sudden a music that maybe i turned my back on for the most part as i matured comes rushing back.  this is good shit.

i've liked ty segall for a while and started to sense the classic rock leanings a lot in his last lp, especially with songs like caesar, but here it is pushed even more to the front.

music seems obsessed with nostalgia right now, and even if the references aren't as posh this most certainly falls under that categorie.  but this isn't some longing for a time not lived.  it more seems like segall is dealing with ideas of growing up and utilizing the music of his (and my own) youth to do so.

so if your childhood memories are sound tracked to bum fuck nowhere classic rock stations playing greasy white boy rock too i'm sure this will hold more meaning.  we all grow up, but we don't escape and maybe that's for the best.

-johnathon

hope it don't turn away

VA - Headed For The Ditch

a nice little neil young tribute album.  standout track for me is "on the beach", one of my favorite n.young songs covered by the lovely emily reo.

-johnathon

sky is charcoal grey

Martin Newell - Songs For A Fallow Land

Support

very 80's & very british and yet very in tune with a lot of things that are being made now.

originally came out in 85 as limited (100) casette, now as a limited (500) lp.

-johnathon

i pulled the head off elvis and filled fred up to his pelvis

i've had this stuck in my head all day.

-johnathon

don't worry

Yoko Ono - Fly (part one) (part two)

let's try and wash away the bad misogynist vibes from the last post, shall we?

if you say you don't like yoko ono you probably are dumb or need to get over your nostalgia or hate japanese people or women people or any people. but seioursly, she has never deserved all of the shit she has had to put with from all the ass holes crying cause they didn't get to hear a beatles do disco album.

that is all.

this is good.

-johnathon

you're just a little boy in my bath tub

Alexandre Desplat - Birth OST

my favorite soundtrack by mr. desplat for one of my favorite films from the 00s.

-johnathon

dance music for wheat fields

Alexandre Desplat - The Tree of Life OST

today will be a soundtrack day. listening to this as i count down the days til i get to bask in malick.

-johnathon

too crazy for boys town, too much of a boy for crazy town

The Chemical Brothers - Hanna OST

hanna:the movie - this was a very schizophrenic movie watching experience for me. on the one hand there were wonderful moments of stylization and technical prowess that had my inner cinephile tickled. on the other hand i cared little about what was actually happened in the movie, found most of the action sequences tedious, and found cate blanchett obnoxious (as usual). if you wanted to be positive you could say that as far as modern holywood action movies go, this was very good. but i'm not the positive type. the shallowness of a majority of the films shows even the better parts for what they really are, flashy bullshit and allusions to much better movies.

hanna:the soundtrack - the music is probably the most memorable thing about the movie and in parts i think it really lifts the material up. i've always been medium on the brothers o' chemical, but in this case they do a wonderful job of combining the fairy tale aspects of the movie with more traditional action movie music and in a sense create a microcosm for what the movie seems to be attempting that is much more successful.

-Johnathon

we're gonna kill the california girls

Sonic Youth - EVOL

to go along with the new thurston i thought i would share my favorite sonic youth album.

-johnathon