Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 6

UPDATE: WE HAS A PODCAST

I haven’t listened to it all yet, so I still don’t know what happened in it either.

Long live the podcast

Poptimism - Lesson Festive Fifty

Fairytale Of New York - Audrey 3000 & Mr Hopkinsons Computer

All I Want For Christmas Is You - My Chemical Romance

I’m Your Private Santa Claus - Eddy Arnold

I’ll Be Home for Christmas - Aly & A.J.

Christmas On The Block - Go Home Productions (Lopez/McCartney mashup)

Walking in the air - Osymyso (Heathrow expansion mix)

Coldcut’s Christmas Break - Coldcut

Good King Wensleslas - The Roller Disco Orchestra

Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World

Another Christmas - KinKi Kids

ding-dong - TOKIO

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town - Joseph Spence … read on …

Transhuman Express – A Lollards antici-post

Ed Regis’s “Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition” [Amazon] is a wonderful and funny collection of science writing. The tone is set in a great prologue about ‘bezoar stones’, but the focus of the book is on the big names in late 80s ‘extropianism’. The author spends a lot of time with them, talking to them, finding them to be both calm and engaging people, who just happen to have really wild, really really wild, ideas about the future.

Fifteen years after first reading that book, and catching up with what has been going on with the extropian/transhumanist movement, I was surprised and slightly saddened (at first) to find it being tainted with a small dose of mainstream acceptance. Stanford University hosted a ‘Singularity Summit’ in 2006, and they even managed to pull in Douglas Hofstadter to give a talk. You can watch videos of speeches from last year’s Singularity Summit including Hofstadter’s diplomatic and slightly shambling appearance. Love him or hate him, his presence should be a reliable indicator that something interesting, and not 100% whacked out, is going on here. … read on …

Food Science Links – neverbashfulwithbutter

Delicious, usually sweet and well photographed foods can be found on this US bakinblog. They earn a link to food science for their Experiments in deliciousness: Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. OH YES

Poptimism - Lesson Forty Nine

Song 4 Kylie / I’m In Love (With A Girl In A Time Machine) - Fast Ood Rockers

The One - Kylie Minogue

This Is Our Time - Ocelot Mthfckrs

Into the Galaxy - Midnight Juggernauts

Go Dumb - Da Muzicianz

Outta My Head - Ashlee Simpson

Black Jacks - Girls Aloud

Blush - Aly & A.J. … read on …

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 4

Featuring: Eli Sessions, Tom Ewing, Dave ‘Avenue’ Queen and Mark Sinker.

BOOGIE. Jimmy Blythe ‘Chicago Stomp’. Taste of Honey ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’. The plight of the wedding and office party DJ. Fat Les ‘Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office)’. Tanya’s ‘Scooby Doo’ albums. Milo Twins ‘Truck Driver’s Boogie’. Sam the Sham ‘Wooly Bully’. Boogie and funky, bogarts, bogling and bogies. A halloween list. Slade ‘Pook Hill’. Hot Chocolate ‘Mindless Boogie’. Anna Kaufen (Akufen) ‘Sneak Preview’

The Locked-Room Lecture

Two coffins of the way through The Three Coffins(aka The Hollow Man) the author, John Dickson Carr, breaks into the narrative through the words of his serial detective Dr Gideon Fell. Fell responds to a question:

“Because … we’re in a detective story, and we don’t fool the reader by pretending we’re not. Let’s not invent elaborate excuses to drag in a discussion of detective stories.”

He then let’s the reader know what counts as contravening his/her rights regarding the possibilities in solving a locked-room mystery:

“the low … trick of having a secret passage … so puts a story beyond the pale that a self-respecting author scarcely needs even to mention that there is no such thing. We don’t need to discuss minor variations of this outrage: the panel which is only large enough to admit a hand; or the plugged hole in the ceiling through which a knife is dropped, the plug replaced undetectably, and the floor of the attic above sprayed with dust so that no one seems to have walked there.”

Then proposes a taxonomy of locked-room solutions. First where there was no murderer in the room:
1. It is not murder, but a series of coincidences ending in an accident which looks like murder. eg a crack on the head from a piece of furniture. “the most popular object is an iron fender”
2. It is murder, but the victim is impelled to kill himself. Gas, poison, induced hysteria.
3. It is murder, by a mechanical device. Mechanical trap, concealed guns, hidden poisoned needles, “Even” says Fell ” a glove is electrified”. Er, ok. … read on …

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 3

Toby Keith is The Angry American. Arno Peters is a lyingmisleading swine (and German), the size of Brazil, the world in the shape of a heart. The sound of rattling pots and pans “Dude, this is Resonance”. Tanya targets the murderer Richard Marx. Sporting National Anthems. The amazing Hey Say Jump’s World Volleyball Championship Theme. The role of bumpkins, poachers and yokels. The midweek number one - congratulations to Swell Maps.

Poptimism - Lesson Forty Eight

Fling - Girls Aloud

Sweaty - Muscles

Guilty Pleasures - Cobra Starship

Clumsy - Fergie

Dat Girl Right There - Usher ft. Ludacris

This Summer Night - Bertrand Burgalat w/ Robert Wyatt

The Question Is What Is The Question - Scooter

Hutch - Rob Gibson … read on …

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 1

Freaky Trigger’s radio escapades continue to The Next Level. Here’s the episode as originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM between 7 and 8pm earlier this evening.

HAIR, sprouting from a new location. Hosted by Mark. What has gone before? (And why?) Britney has a plan. Kat’s entirely explicable Victorian hair fixation and a dubious graph. Magnus’s doffable clothing. New Seeker’s Pinball Wizard. The Teen Forecast. 2 Unlimited. Katie susses sunseed. And announcing the Midweek Number One…

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