Mental Nomad Podcast 135: Fiction Burns

A few times in the first 50 or so episodes, I read short fiction written some years ago. The sound quality on those was poor, and they probably merit remastering with some extra music in the near future, but in the meantime, here's a new episode with stories not read before.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Jules Shear: "We Said Goodbye" (IODA Promonet)
Deni Bonet: "Last Girl On Earth (Full Band)" (Ariel Publicity)
"Change"
Tonye Christopher: "Dear Ms. Anniston (I Need You)" (Ariel)
"Double Blind Illusion"
Gregory Douglass: "Cathedrals" (Ariel)
"Two-Minute Love Affair"
Lichtzwang: "Please Kill Me" (MySpace)
"Quivers"
Howard Markman: "I See the Rain" (from the album Half Smiles Blue Skies)
(Title withheld)
Jaik Miller Band: "After Last Call" (Ariel)
Neko Case: "People Got a Lotta Nerve" (Podshow)
"Best of All Possible Worlds"
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: "Isis Unveiled" (Podshow)
Vanessa Daou: "Once in a While" (IODA)

(Total play time: 57:36)



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Vanessa Daou
"Once In A While" (mp3)
from "Joe Sent Me"
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Jules Mark Shear
"We Said Goodbye" (mp3)
from "More."
(Funzalo Records)
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Mental Nomad Podcast 134: The End of the Beginning

A more personal episode than normal, wherein I talk about some upcoming developments in my life and what it might all mean.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Comandante Zero: "Give It Up (Receive And Transmit)" (Ariel Publicity)
Vanessa Daou: "Black and White" (IODA Promonet)
Chris Huff: "Hey Now Now" (Ariel)
John Brown's Body: "Give Yourself Over" (IODA)
Dram: "Kringellek" (Magnatune)
Dudley Saunders: "Take Me Back Home Again" (Ariel)
Deep 6 Holiday: "Seafaring" (Ariel)
Noam Weinstein: "Learning to Talk" (Podshow)
Not the Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Midnight Moses (demo)" (MySpace)
Ensemble Al-Asdeka: "Lake of Clouds" (Magnatune)
Judd Starr: "Firefly" (Ariel)

(Total play time: 1:00:57)



IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded below for as long as their promotions last.

Charities mentioned in this episode include Everyone Deserves a Roof (providing portable shelters to the homeless); Heifer International (anti-hunger efforts); Kiva (supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries); Operation Fairy Dust (helping young women have a prom experience); the Point Foundation (offering scholarships to LGBT young adults); the St. Baldrick's Foundation (funding juvenile cancer research); The Trevor Project (offering suicide and crisis prevention for LGBT youth); and local libraries wherever you are.

Vanessa Daou
"Black & White" (mp3)
from "Joe Sent Me"
(Daou Records)

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John Brown's Body
"Give Yourself Over" (mp3)
from "Amplify"
(Easy Star Records)

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Mental Nomad Podcast 133: Chill

Other circumstances have forced Ye Olde Podcaster to admit defeat and push the next Pod Across America back to May. Just ran out of time, and other things that don't bear discussing. So enjoy some mostly relaxing, mostly electronic music this week. (One track is vocals only and is a stunner.)

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Cascada: "Because the Night (Makrolon remix)" (Podshow)
Purepath: "The Sun Always Shines on TV" (Ariel Publicity)
Falik: "Idle Hands" (Magnatune)
Hungry Lucy: "Goodbye" (Podshow)
Sub-Level 03: "Splinter" (Podshow)
Lovespirals: "This Truth (Soul Swirling Somewhere remix)" (Podshow)
DJ Black Acid: "El Destino" (Podshow)
46bliss: "In a Long Time (Hon TripHop remix)" (Ariel)
Kristin Hersh: "Static (Industry Giant remix)" (Podshow)
Secret Archives of the Vatican: "Fear of a Black Jesus" (from the album Babylon Halt)
Blue Tribe: "The Buddha Bar" (IODA Promonet)
Cascada: "Because the Night (Makrolon club remix)" (Podshow)

(Total play time about 57 minutes.)



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Blue Tribe
"The Buddha Bar" (mp3)
from "Deep Buddha"
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Mental Nomad Podcast 132: Colo(u)r My World, Part 2

Here's a no-talker sequel to something I did a long time ago, an episode full of songs with colors in their names. We're going roughly from white to black along the ROYGBIV path of a rainbow's colors, with some variations on the way.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Mike Del Ferro: "Over the Rainbow" (Podshow)
Calexico: "Two Silver Trees" (Podshow)
Wendy & Lisa: "White Flags of Winter Chimneys" (Ariel Publicity)
A Brokeheart Pro: "Pink Mischief"
Mike Zito: "Little Red Corvette" (IODA Promonet)
Shira Kammen: "My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose/O Fickle Fortune" (Magnatune)
The Crash Moderns: "Solid Gold" (Ariel)
Cassandra Kubinski: "Lime Green Taxi" (Podshow)
Fahir Atakoglu: "Istanbul in Blue" (Podshow)
Stone Coyotes: "The Grey Robe of the Rain" (Ariel)
Alona: "Fade to Black" (Podshow)
Nancy Kelly: "Over the Rainbow" (IODA)

Bonus Track:
The Raveonettes: "Black/White" (Podshow)

(Total play time: 56:13)



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Next Wednesday, Pod Across America stops in New Hampshire.

Nancy Kelly
"Over the Rainbow" (mp3)
from "Live Jazz"
(Amherst Records)
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Mike Zito
"Little Red Corvette" (mp3)
from "Today"
(Eclecto Groove Records)
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