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dimland radio friday music special 8-10-12 playlist

Friday Night Music Special Show

Each Friday in August I will be playing music during the on hiatus Paradigm Shift. I can’t archive my music shows, so if you want to hear some good on a Friday night in August, you’ll just have to tune in.

Playlist

Respectable Street – XTC
See No Evil – Television

I Got The Hots – The Soft Boys
She’s Tight – Cheap Trick
The Noise Of Carpet – Stereolab
On The Wire – Audrey
The Light Pours Out Of Me – Magazine
Till The Rivers All Run Dry – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane
Creatures Of Love – Talking Heads
Achin’ To Be – The Replacements
Cracking – Suzanne Vega
Only You – Yaz
Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque – The Partridge Family
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – The Beatles
Cecilia – Simon & Garfunkel
Kingdom Of Rain – The The
Whatever Gets You Thru The Night – John Lennon
Take A Chance On Me – ABBA
Girls Girls Girls – Motley Crue
The Bends – Radiohead
Drowned – The Who
Brainy – The National

Limelight – Rush
Driven To Tears – The Police
Masquerade – Berlin

Just For You – The Church
Reactionary Girl – Robin Zander

Ace Of Spades – Motorhead
Knock Me Down – Naked Raygun
Skin Deep – The Stranglers
If I Can’t Change Your Mind – Sugar

Other Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Twist‘ by Tones On Tail

That’s it! You should know that I am not able to archive the music shows I do due to the limitations of Z Talk Radio’s music license. So, if you want to hear the music you have to tune in. Then I’ll see you next Friday night for Dimland Radio 10 Central, 11 Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.

dimland radio 7-28-12 show notes

So Painful

Not having been able to get myself to listen to the epic Gish Galloping I received from fellow Z Talker, Kale Kelly, guess what show was playing when I got to the chat room. Yep, a replay of Kale overwhelming me with his “documented facts.” Oh, brother it was painful. Trust me, Kale is wrong. The consensus of virtually all archeologists and Egyptologists is that the pyramids were built by the Egyptians without the assistance of ancient aliens or Atlanteans or Bigfoot or whomever.

Here is more information on Gish Galloping and here is a great source on the building of the Egyptian pyramids.

Programming Notes

I went over some programming notes on what my plans are for the month of August. During August, I will be playing music! Yay! Both on Friday nights in the on hiatus Paradigm Shift time slot and on Saturday nights after my regular show. However, I will not be doing either music shows or my regular show August 3rd and 4th. My wife and I will be taking our son camping.

It is possible for me to pick an older Dimland Radio episode or prerecord a new show to be played in my absence. We’ll see what I do.

A Night Of Unbelievable Fun

That’s what the St. Paul Saints are calling August 10, 2012. The minor league baseball team in St Paul, MN will be having a night honoring atheism and skepticism. Now that’s cool! And a bit of progress.

dimland radio 7-21-12 show notes

Only A Janitor Would Notice…

While watching an old episode of Law & Order, I noticed something peculiar about the vacuum cleaners being used by a couple janitors at the beginning of the show. Thanks to my extensive background in janitorial, I could tell, although I could hear the vacuums running, the janitors didn’t have their machine’s turned on. For shame!

Limbaugh V Bane

Collectors of Batman comic books are likely to recognize that Rush hadn’t done his research when he tried to connect the latest Batman film villain to a Hollywood liberal attack on Gov. Mitt Romney. You see, Romney got super-rich from his years at Bain Capital and Bane is the name of the villain in The Dark Knight Rises. See? Obvious, isn’t it?

Trouble is the character Bane was introduced into the Batman comic books in 1992 or 93. And the character was created by conservatives, Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan, as part of a storyline that lead to Bane breaking Batman’s back thereby putting Batman out of commission for a time. He got better.

Read about Rush’s stretching act here.

More Gun Violence

I couldn’t talk about the Batman movie without mentioning the horrific event in Aurora, Colorado. It’s terribly sad and scary, but remember with all the guns available in the world, these acts of terror are very rare. That’s no comfort to those touched by this mad act, but a reminder to you to not live in fear.

TMT: Le Roy, NY “Mystery” Illness And Hypnotist

Chris Brown and I do a follow-up talk on that “mysterious” illness affecting several teenaged girls and one boy in a small New York town. The results of more environmental testing has confirmed it is not a toxin making those kids act strangely. Here is an extensive piece by Dr. Steven Novella on the case.

Chris and I also touched on the trickiness of hypnotism and recovered memories.

A Tale To Weird You Out

I detailed a tale of weirdness in my past involving a chiropractor. A tale of back cracking, animal self-pleasuring, and my naked mother. So, weird.

Movie Recommendation: The People Vs George Lucas (2010)

Exhibit A Pictures/Quark Films

In 1977, George Lucas introduced us to a world that changed many of us in an immensely profound way. And then he went and messed it all up. Or did he? This documentary explores the phenomena from the view of the fans and George himself. Very compelling.

Music heard on the show (Whenever Possible, I Will Link To The Song)…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram’ by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: ‘YYZ‘ by Rush & ‘Diane ‘ by Husker Du
Second ad break bumpers: ‘Soldier’s Requiem‘ by Naked Raygun & ‘Here It Is Tomorrow‘ by Game Theory
Closing song: ‘Angler’s Treble Hook’ by $5 Fiddle

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.

dimland radio 7-14-12 show notes

Talk About The Weather

The Stuck In The 80s podcast hosts recently scoffed at the fact that it can get hot in Minnesota. They’re based in Florida so I guess they can brag about having longer stretches of hot and humid summer weather. Still we here in Minnesota have something they don’t have: range. We have temperatures that can top out at 100 degrees or more in summer, but we can also bottom out at temperatures that can hit 30 degrees below 0. So, yes, Florida you may know hot, but we know hot and cold! NYAH! NYAH! NYAH!

My Facebook Joke Bombed

The internet’s first photograph!

The date of July 18, 1992 was a very important day in the history the internets. It was on that day that the very first photographic image (see above) was posted on the world wide web. It was a cheesy image of four gals in the musical group Les Horribles Cernettes.

I was inspired by the image and the story to make a joke on my Facebook page about the nature of the internet. The adult nature of it, that is. My joke speculated on what the second image might have been. Only one person commented on the joke. Perhaps I’m just too clever for the folks on Facebook.

Click here to learn about how those gals became the first image online.

More Adult Talk

Then I talked about an article that appeared on the Facebook. It may be a load of nonsense, but it seemed plausible to me. Apparently, scientists at the University of Montreal wanted to study men in their 20s who had never consumed adult material. They couldn’t find any.

The Hottest Reading Of 50 Shades Of Grey

Just go to this link to get the unedited version of the hottest reading of that sensual literary sensation. Be warned it’s adult and very, very hot!

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment

Dimland Radio is rife with pedantic moments, but now I have two official intro sounders to play before I go off on some rant about some nonsense of some kind.

This time I went on about baseball’s tag line for the All Star Game, “The road to the World Series starts here!” Is that so? The road starts at just past the midway point of the regular season? What were all those games, training sessions, trades, deals, hires, fires, etc. prior to the season break all about then?

Chasing UFOs, Troubled Paranormal Kids, And More Pedantry

The National Geographic Channel (I refuse to refer to it as the Nat. Geo. Channel! That was part of my second pedantic moment of the show.) has jumped onto the paranormal bandwagon with a “scientific” show investigating UFOs. Oh, boy! We should be getting to the bottom of the phenomenon soon now that we have a “scientific” cable TV show on the case.

Doubtful News has reported that some TV production company has put the word out looking for troubled kids with a paranormal aspect. Will it be another version of the awful, exploitative, despicable ‘Psychic Kids’ with the paranormal hero, Chip Coffey? I hope not.

Movie Recommendation: Targets (1968)

Paramount Pictures

Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial debut follows a Charles Whitman-like character as he goes on a killing spree and an aging actor as he fulfills one last engagement before he can finally leave Hollywood. Yes, the two story lines do eventually connect. This low budget thriller is tense, funny, engrossing and stars Boris Karloff in one of his last films. What could be better?

Music heard on the show (Whenever Possible, I Will Link To The Song)…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram’ by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: ‘Smooth Operator‘ by Sade & ‘Ghosts‘ by The Jam
Second ad break bumpers: ‘Bruises‘ by Gene Loves Jezebel & ‘Snake Dance‘ by The March Violets
Closing song: ‘Angler’s Treble Hook’ by $5 Fiddle

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.

dimland radio 7-7-12 show notes

A Follow Up

I addressed the rhetorical beating I received during the last show at the hands of Kale Kelly (see previous show notes entry). Yep, I said “I don’t know” quite often that night. This week however I had some follow up. I had some more info on the Great Pyramids of Egypt. This site has a lot of excellent information. I would also recommend checking out Mark Lehner’s book, The Complete Pyramids: Solving Ancient Mysteries.

I also talked about how we are pretty sure the Exodus of the Old Testament never actually happened. Here is some recommended reading on that. And here you can read about the skepticism that Hebrew slaves were ever held in ancient Egypt and if they even had anything to do with building the pyramids.

Higgs!!!!

I touched on the big science news on the possible discovery of the Higgs particle. I’m not sure I understand how exactly this discovery will effect physics, but I do understand it’s huge! More news will be coming, I am sure.

Phil Plait blogged about it and you can read his take here.

Ten Minute Topic With Chris Brown

The fortunate to be going to TAM Chris Brown.

The long absent TMT returns and Chris and I talk about the upcoming TAM! convention. Sponsored by the good folks at the James Randi Educational Foundation, TAM! (The Amazing Meeting!) is the big time gathering of skeptics that takes place each year in Las Vegas. Alas, I will not be attending, but Chris will be there with bells on. (He’s a little strange that way.)

Learn more about TAM! here.

Bullying

I then related a couple tales of bullying from my youth. I admitted to having participated in some bullying, but that I learned how wrong it was and then I became the guy who befriended the social misfit sorts that would often find themselves being bullied. I had a lesson to impart.

Movie Recommendation: The Beatles Anthology (1995)

EMI Records

These guys might have a fighting chance to be remembered 200 years from now. And this 8 part documentary will help you understand why. It’s The Beatles and others who were involved at the time in their own words. Fascinating!

Music heard on the show (Whenever Possible, I Will Link To The Song)…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram’ by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: ‘Traveling Man‘ by The Woodentops & ‘Nausea‘ by X
Second ad break bumpers: ‘Stumble‘ by REM & ‘Crash‘ by The Primitives
Closing song: ‘Angler’s Treble Hook’ by $5 Fiddle

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.