Noogie Man sabotages new tune

Chris Wilkinson writes songs the way other people breathe. He’s like one of those special people — savants, I think they’re called  — with remarkable, unexplained talents for mathematics or painting or getting elected president.

For example, I left town for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I returned, Chris greeted me with Whatever Happened To Ken Turetzky and Hello Ken (You’re Back Again). And they were good songs! Better than anything Paul McCartney has written in two years! Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 4:25 pm Wed, Jan 30, 2008.

A tribute to Ken Turetzky

I sure was great, wasn’t I?

If I wasn’t gone, why else would Taylor Kent devote an entire episode of the Snark Tank Radio Variety Hour to “a tribute to Ken Turetzky”?

I know I haven’t produced any decent music in, like, four years, but am I really in line for a tribute? You bastards!

Snarky’s back, with a vengeance

Speaking of a character who dropped from the radar, old Snarky himself signed off on his former Snark Infested Waters show in July and only recently resurfaced with an entire slate of new podcasts. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 10:55 pm Wed, Jan 23, 2008.

I’m No. 10 (and 11)!

Best I can tell, Captain Wayne dispenses with unreliable Internet polling and picks his own year-end “top songs” list for the Mad Music Show.

That worked out just fine for me, as the Cap’n selected Fly Me To The Moon and I’ll Get Old And Die as the Nos. 11 and 10, respectively, new songs for 2007.

Why did he pair my songs on the year-end chart? So they wouldn’t be “lonely.” That’s my kind of methodology. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 10:15 pm Mon, Jan 21, 2008.

The return of Kip Dynamite

The Comedy Music Cellar has added a new voice to the world of Dementia, in the form of a very mellow host named Reverend Zack.

Now, the CMC playlist is mostly the same old crap you can get on any number of comedy music podcasts. And that includes My Fat Ass Itches, featured on the current episode.

What defines the show is the Kip Dynamite-ish Rev. Zack himself, (See Comedy Music Cellar: A new demented podcast joins the fray), who dryly invites listeners to “open up your heart and let the lunacy in.” Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 4:53 pm Thu, Jan 17, 2008.

At long last, somebody gets my music

Leggolambe is another of these ruined reprobates who chose, at some defined moment in life, to cast away all pretense and let the world know what he thinks at each and every moment of the day.

The result is a myspace page (representing his band, the Whiskey Sournotes), filled with raw, wailing guitar, on original tracks with titles such as I Shit My Pants, Hardcore Porn, Rich SOB and Go All The Way.

Check leggo’s tour schedule and you’ll be hitting such venues as “Public Hanging” (May 20 in Whoopsies, Texas), “God, Women are Beautiful!” (July 22, Angel City, Minnesota) and “City Dump” (May 1, Edina, Minnesota). Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 5:58 pm Wed, Jan 16, 2008.