22nd one!

Here’s the ‘cast!

Wow, a new website AND a new update! If I had suspenders, I’d be snapping them right now. Of course, my upload server of choice, Filenanny, appears to have bitten ye olde dust, so I’ll have to find another place to store my past shows. But more on that later.

This marks a new period in the Brasserie’s gradual evolution, because I’ve decided to replace most of the vocal breaks with hilarious/ironic/terrifying sound clips taken from here and there around the Internet (sermons are a favorite, if only to expose how crazy and sheltered religious people can be). It was an easy choice to make, given that the alternative was me babbling semi-coherently into the microphone for several takes per break and getting more frustrated with each one. Plus, these days I sound like my sinuses are filled with concrete, which may very well be true, so I’ll pop on for DK’s Word of the Day (a new segment!) and leave it at that. Today’s word, which you’ll hear defined in the podcast itself, was criterion.

Playlist:
No One’s Hero – Broken Bones
the Epoxies – Need More Time
Jump Off A Building – Waste It
Fucked Up – Baiting the Public
Season of Nightmares – Voodoo Queen

Tranzmitors – Bigger Houses
the Tremors – Two Timin’ Man
So Unloved – Asshole
The Young Werewolves – Black Cat
the Hipshakes – Bangy Bang

Village Pistols – Big Money
TV Eyes – Bored
the Lunatics – Rocknuts
Vitamin X – Bad Trip
the Fire Dept. – You’re Too Much

Lords of the Highway – Johnny Psycho
Bayonettes – Stuck In This Rut
Neos – Destruct
Bankrupt – Record Store Renegade
Kompressor – You Have To Synthesize

*The chunks of sermon you heard in today’s podcast were taken from sermonaudio.com; the speakers were Ricky Jones and Mark Monte. And yes, they scare me too.

whee!

And now I make the commute to WordPress. Fun times!

Here’s an awesome picture of a dinosaur whose meteorite-borne death would, millions of generations down the line, explain Chicken Little’s fear of the sky falling:

21st one! gospel edition!

Since my allergy-ridden voice is too nasal for the vocal parts you’ve all come to know and ignore in favor of the music, this edition of the Brasserie will be “hosted” by Willie Wilson and his enlightened, progressive, dare I say charming views concerning the GLBT movement. If the Internet is good for anything beyond the acquisition of pornography, it’s good for finding and exposing total idiots who base their hateful, mean-spirited opinions on a religion that more or less commands you to be nice to people (well, the New Testament does, anyway).

Here’s the ‘cast!

playlist:
Thug Murder – Dice
Paper Dragons – The Beginning of the End
the Rimshots – Cold Sweat
Nunstalker – Luxury Point
the Arkhams – Insane

Black Panda – Ruedas de Fuego
Non Compos Mentis – Twist the Blade
Straight 8s – Fool
Pulling Teeth – Shiteaters
the Trashies – Bare Bulb

The Buckle Busters – Golden Rocket
the Sermon – Luzerne County
Bad News Bats – Chronic Dextrousness
Mike Bonanza – Devil
Creative Waste – God of Excrement

Start – No Direction
the Breaks – Breaking the Bible Belt
the Starlighters – Don’t Wanna Fly Back Home
imadethismistake – Clear Skies Beyond
Evil I – A Little Evil

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20th One!

Hi, kids! Sorry for the exactly-one-month delay, but Audacity had the, well, audacity to erase this thing a couple of times. We’re all set now, though. And good thing too, because I’ve been painting the town red at shows lately and getting lots of new music. I’m becoming a huge fan of Vitamin X and Pulling Teeth, to say nothing of Deep Sleep.

Here’s the ‘cast!

Playlist:
Foxboro Hot Tubs – Mother Mary
Helen Keller – Surfin’ With Steve and E.D. Amin
the Sure Shots – Fire Engine Baby
Weedeater – God Luck and Good Speed
Dissent – Abe Lincoln

Lonesome Kings – Who’s Your Daddy?
Groovie Ghoulies – Freebird
Hoss Wranglers – Shitfight
Witches With Dicks – One Whopper For the Copper*
Hank III – Mississippi Mud (live)

Cowboy Killers – Sgt. Bastard
Ovenmen – Rock Against Racism
Mehkago N.T. – Siafu Attack
the Southerners – Long Black Train
Brain Damaged – Respect

Hi Standard – Teenagers Are All Assholes
“the Babykillers” – Lickin’ the Drinkin’
Deep Sleep – Screwed
Long Tall Texans – Alcohol
Neale and the Fauns – You Left the Water Running

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*The song listed in the playlist above is the correct one – I recorded that vocal break before changing the playlist around a bit and forgot to rerecord it. Oops!

update!

Still working on the next edition of the Brasserie, of course, but I did get published again. Read my essay, titled “Last Call,” right here. Good to know that at least one of my self-destructive personal habits can be put to use.

Also, here’s a little something until the next official Brasserie update shows up: An evil, Satanic, occultist, trippy freakout rock and roll partyganza!

19th one 4 da n3rdz!

Let’s just say I have a broad definition of “the next couple of days,” eh? Anyway, this show is special because it contains a spot of nerdcore rap, entirely at the behest of my friend Ellen. Yep. All her fault. And to be fair, MC Chris and MC Hawking are pretty funny.

Anyway, here’s the ‘cast.

And, of course, the playlist:

Sprouts – Sensitive Man Senseless Ideas
MC Chris – Fucking Up My Christmas
Libido Grande – Awful
the Spectres – Rubber Room Rock
the Mentally Ill – Tumor Boy

Runnin’ Riot – Alcoholic Heroes
Chibuku – Persecution Mania
MC Frontalot – Goth Girls
Witch Hunt – Fed Up
Ubangi Stomp – Havin’ A Spell

MC Hawking – E = MC Hawking
Straitjacket – Crusaders
Thee Merry Widows – All of Them Witches
Orthodox – Solemne Triudo
Dead Kennedys – Kepone Factory

Hasil Adkins – Ha Ha Cat Walk
Phantom Limbs – Ear to the Ground
the Hives – Uptempo Venomous Poison
MC Router/Funky 49 – Trekkie Pride
the Bomb – Can Jeannie Come Out Tonight?

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happy new year!

Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2008 won’t be as much of a shattering disappointment as 2007 was. Of course, the Brasserie will continue to chug along at its own glacial pace, and there’ll be a new one up in the next couple of days. It’ll be a special show dedicated to my friend Ellen, who coerced me into perhaps the most ridiculous theme show of all time. All eyes on the Brasserie in 2008!

18th one!

See? I told you there was one coming soon. Good thing I didn’t define “soon,” or else I might be taken to task for neglecting my duties as host of this fine, fine podcast.

If you’re into stoner/sludge/dirtweed metal, you can’t go wrong with Weedeater’s newest, called God Luck and Good Speed. It’s amazing, and if you don’t like it then by law I’m allowed to hunt you for sport.

Here’s the ‘cast!

Playlist:

Zero Boys – I’m Bored
B.U.S.H. – Dave Smalley
Gasoline – Radio Flic
the A-Bombs – A-Bomb Beat
Dead Things – Dean’s List

Weedeater – Potbelly
the Spooky – Clairvoyant
Dead Man’s Hand – Stand
Active Ingredients – Identity Loss
Gazoo Bill – Ghost Town

Zolar X – Timeless
Cyclone – Lonely Zombie
Romantic Gorilla – Get A Chance
the Eat – Mary Mary
Bottles and Skulls – War Machine

Grint – Break Your Neck
the Pagan Dead – Come Join The Dead
Tommy and the Terrors – On the Run
the Victims – Open Your Eyes
Lonesome Kings – Sweet Little Succubus

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weekly schmeekly!

Yes, there will be a new ‘cast this week. And yes, it will be late. As usual. In the meantime, do read “the road to god knows,” a work of (as Dave Eggers would say) staggering genius by a good friend of mine, Von Allan. I can speak for his character by noting that he is a Brasserie listener and a Canadian, both of which are signs of taste and good breeding.

17th one!

Okay, I’m all settled into the new place and things are calm at the moment, so I can resume throwing this thing out into the Internet and seeing what/who it hits. Not much else to report, although I am looking forward to mass quantities of turkey and stuffing tomorrow. Hope everyone else has a lovely Thanksgiving, too.

Also, there’s this band called Witchcraft. Do explore.

Here’s the podcast!

And the playlist:
Battle of Ninjamanz – Lady Luck
Cult Ritual – Bitter
the Tossers – the Crutch
Adolph and the Piss Artists – Heroes
the Hatchetwounds – Nightmares

JFA – Preppy
the Generators – Snaketown
Joe Lombardie – Let’s All Rock and Roll
Pansy Division – Alpine Skiing
the Escaped – Resent

Francine – Downtown
The Hipshakes – In The Summer
Barnyard Ballers – Mr. Murder
Shower With Goats – I’ll Be Gone
the Introze – Kids In Uniform

the Undead – Violent World
the Goddamn Gallows – Save Us
Deals Gone Bad – I’m Sorry
the Templars – Ockham’s Razor
Technycolor – Tot 77

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