something in the weeds….is waiting….for you
by slappy on October 18th, 2007
dear friends,
we’re pleased as pineal gland punch to present a most unique episode of the Odd Preoccupation this week — it’s a full-length, hour-long, somewhat unwitting (on their end, unless they’ve been pulling my puppet strings from the beginning without my knowledge, which would be just like them) collaboration with our esteemed colleagues at cryptonarrative.com, and their audio subversion outlet, Medroxy Progesterone Acetate.
with a respectful bow and a sniggering wink toward the impending hallowday, our episode this week features the grim, grinning, and gruesome recounting of certain events in the small town of devlin, texas (or is it devlin, iowa?) the invisible hearse cruises for the hum goddess; the butcher surgeons are making another of their incompetent attempts at resurrecting flesh that was never alive; a missing child tells the tale, and learns a thing or two along the way. come join us, won’t you?
(all texts in this episode by D Bauler. all musics in this episode by MPA, except vamp track at the beginning, which was by the Peace Orchestra. arranged and performed by SP for the benefit of his OP.)
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for October 18, 2007:
enjoy,
slappy
the MakerFaire comes to Austin
by slappy on October 11th, 2007
dear friends,
this week we devote our entire show to an interview with Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, Sherry Huss, director of the MakerFaire, and Vern Graner, of Austin’s The Robot Group. the resurgence of DIY culture, the roots of MAKE, the various attractions of this year’s MakerFaire, and the Peanut Butter Monster Detector all get their day in the sun. join us, won’t you?
on the make but never made,
slappy p
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for October 11, 2007:
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coincidentally enough
by slappy on September 6th, 2007
dear friends,
this week’s episode of the Odd Preoccupation features as a theme one of my lifelong fascinations: coincidence. herein i spin a series of connected moments about the subject, including along the way:
- another segment in our recurring feature moore meets merwin
- ken nordine relating the odd tale of the man who always knew what time is was
- eugene mirman vs. the gays, or more accurately eugene mirman vs. the telephone solicitor for the antigay Christian telephone company
- and the debut of features from two foreign correspondents:
- from all the way up on the lonesome plains of Ioway, dating advice from our friends at cryptonarrative — yes, it’s the series premiere of If A Dude Wants To Watch A Rabbit Fuck A Lemon, He’s Not A Scientist, He’s A Pirate!
- from all the way over in the bustling metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan, comes the latest in intellectual property news from our extremely foreign correspondent Russell Case. in this segment he demonstrates how to get your illegally downloaded copy of the new videogame Hitman to run successfully, on a computer screen that you can’t see (because it’s the RADIO.)
enJoy, be on the lookout, and don’t let the bedbugs bite — send ‘em to the fish.
love,
slappy
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for September 6, 2007:
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slappy gets RAW
by slappy on August 23rd, 2007
dear friends,
we here present a special memorial episode of the Odd Preoccupation, honoring the work of novelist, philosopher, and cosmic prankster Robert Anton Wilson, who died this past January. Wilson was a tremendous influence on yours truly, and his books have saved my brain from implosion on numerous occasions. also, he was funny as hell. LITERALLY.
see you there, Bob!
love,
slappy
here’s the filez:
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Part 4
ps: the following Preoccupied Players appear in this episode, and we thank them muchly for their lovely work: narrator, tenorune, scotto, majcher, omgoleus, and svann.
the secret is out
by slappy on August 9th, 2007
dear friends,
if you, like me, are a nosy parker, this is the episode for you. the theme is secrets, and many are revealed during the course of the program, including two by Simic and Bukowski. listeners call in with secrets that range from amusing to truly unfortunate, and we present secrets from certain other secret compendiums (#4).
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for August 9, 2007:
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shhh….don’t tell anyone, but we’ll see you here again next week for another Odd Preoccupation.
in hidden shame and broken trust, i remain,
slappy
all slappy, all the time
by slappy on August 2nd, 2007
dear friends,
this week’s show has the distinction of being the first entirely slappy-produced episode of the Odd Preoccupation. all our performers this week are members of the Preoccupied Players, though some may not know it. those performers include: narrator, tenorune, hankston, berrylicious, scotto, jenmoon, and free agent rez, along with KOOP apprentice justin and his pal brandon. let their laryngeal stylings caress your tympani and you WON’T be sorry — changed perhaps, but not sorry.
part 1 this week features a slappyrant about the impending Singularity, and whether Google can save us from nuclear holocaust. we then present a dialogue between two ghosts in the machine, ghosts named Alice and Jabberwacky. in part 2 we chat a bit about Ray Kurzweil, and then delve into a braided collage of short pieces designed as a vehicle to facilitate swift passage to the hypnagogic realms. part 3 consists of a description of a number of highlights from the game of Blank White Cards, which is interrupted by a special news briefing and farewell address from the President, who resigned during the course of this episode of Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation. (i’m not saying the two phenomena are related, though they ARE.) part 4 rounds up the show with the usual painfully droll interstitial banter between the Odd Preoccupation and the Elk Mating Ritual.
here’s the filez, do with them what you will.
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for August 2, 2007:
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Part 4
see you next week, wherein we’ll take up once more with Moon Over Morocco,
le slap
brought to you by the information age, such as it is
by slappy on July 12th, 2007
dear friends,
information is the key to this week’s episode of Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation, information of any and every kind. in Part 1 we feature information from the world of dreams, insanity, and doggerel verse (triangulate on those and you’ll quickly find the capital city of the Odd Preoccupation.) we finish up Part 1 with a segment graciously and unwittingly gifted to us from another possibly recognizable radio program, via the good people of Kasper Hauser.
in part 2, we receive an indirect transmission of information regarding one gregor samsa, presented by franz kafka, who is in turn presented by vladimir nabokov, who is in turn presented by his former student christopher plummer, who is in turn presented by yours truly, Slappy Pinchbottom. then we receive, through direct transmission, the latest episode in our ongoing radio adventure serial, Moon Over Morocco.
part 3 of our program features an excerpt of an interview with james kent, of the great drug news site DoseNation (the full interview first appeared on the Neofiles podcast over at the MondoGlobo Network.) we then have a couple of poems by kenneth koch, with a nice chunky bit of verse in between by r. j. moore — the MEAT of the koch sandwich, if you will, and i KNOW you will. then we transition into the Elk Mating Ritual, as slappy and the Elkmaster discuss the final koch poem and the origins of Moon Over Morocco.
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for July 12, 2007:
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hope you enjoy, back again next week with more stuff for you to stick in your earhole,
el slapitan
girls girls girls tear up the joint
by slappy on July 5th, 2007
dear friends,
we were privileged this week to have as our guests the talented and funny women of Girls Girls Girls, austin’s only all-female improvisation troupe. their speciality is improvised musical comedy, and they perform some right there live in the studio, taking requests from callers and pinchbottoms alike.
part 1 of the show features a chat about musical improv and the origins of GGG; the ladies then create a theme song on the spot for the Odd Preoccupation, finishing up with a rousing number by the name of “Immanual Kant’s Sweet Revenge”. in Part 2, they perform a trio of improvised tunes based on listener suggestions; these include “You Broke My Heart At The Red Light”, “Lucifer Kitty”, and “Stop Biting, Amelia Rose“. Part 3 features the latest installment ( Episode 8 ) of our ongoing radio adventure serial, Moon Over Morocco. we finish up in Part 4 with another improvised theme song, this one for KOOP radio, followed by an epic musical tribute to wizards and witches. the rousing finale, “Night on Bald Mountain”, leaves us wanting less — less hair, that is!
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for July 5, 2007:
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thanks to GGG for all the good-time fun and musical stylings. back again next week, by hook, crook or little black book,
slappy
love to moon to television to bomb to poetry
by slappy on June 28th, 2007
dear friends,
this week’s Odd Preoccupation offers a cornucopia of audio delights, including (but NOT limited to) the following:
- more short plays from the Neo-Futurists
- field recordings of the nefarious Spider Haus Lurker
- some meditations on love, including:
- the idea of you
- the sex life of the rattlebox moth, described by Dave McBride
- the bed dance
- the mysterious and voluptuous correspondence of one B. H. Khabouti
- the latest episode of our ongoing radio adventure serial, Moon Over Morocco. this is episode 7 in the series.
- the performance poetry of nuclear physicist and beat publisher Bern Porter
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for June 28, 2007:
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preferring hot to cold and wet to dry until the night i pass and the day i die, i remain,
your humble host,
slappy pinchbottom
St. Idiot Collective: accidents of love and zoology
by slappy on June 21st, 2007
dear friends,
this week the Odd Preoccupation was pleased to welcome members of the St. Idiot Collective, a sharp, high-energy collaborative theatrical ensemble that’s one of the younger troupes in Austin. they were here to promote their all-improv show Is That Science? (which, alas, will be long over by the time you read this.) we chat about the history of the troupe, improv vs. traditional theater, the Austin theater scene, and MORE. the SIC also perform some very funny live improvisational comedy right there in the KOOP studio. (part 3 of the show is our regular radio adventure serial, Moon Over Morocco).
Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for June 21, 2007:
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note: you can and should still check out the mainstage production which Is That Science? was a fundraiser for: Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now, or the Orpheus Project. it runs from August 10 to August 19, six shows only, so get tickets while you can!
until next week, i’ll keep slappin’ if you will (and probably, even if you won’t),
love,
slappy