This young lady has dreams about the Unblinking Ear Podcast.
If you dream about this podcast as well, I invite you to please share your dreams in the comments. Leave out no detail, no matter how filthy or freaky.
There's a lesson here. I think it's that if you commit suicide but leave your child with a lot of money, they may wind up using it for cosmetic surgery and awful text tattoos.
This is the first podcast I'll be promoting through posting in Google+, which, as far as I can figure thus far, is like a less user-friendly version of Friendster. But there are circles for some reason. In any case, I'm sure the folks at Google know what they're going and it should be every bit as successful as Google Buzz.
The following Unblinking Ear Podcast is brought to you by antibiotics, without which I'd still be feeling great pain in various unnecessary body parts like tonsils and wisdom teeth. Instead of assembling this podcast, I'd be sick in bed having fever dreams. Granted, said dreams might be more entertaining than this podcast. But until technology gives us a device that allows others to see visual representations of our dreams ala Dr. Hugo Strange, this will have to do.
Yes, after a short hiatus, the Unblinking Ear Podcast is back. Aside from a much needed facelift on the blog itself (hey's it's 2011!), there are a few minor changes to the podcast as well. First and foremost, I won't be doing the podcast weekly anymore. I'm going aim for twice a month. To make up up for the decreased frequency, the podcasts are going to be a bit longer as well. I think it's going to work out well. I already have a bunch of songs picked for the next podcast. More time and more care are probably a good thing.
Anyway, give it a listen at let me know what you think.
This past New Year's Eve, I was on my way home from a night of revelry when I decided on a resolution. I would post a new podcast once a week. Surely, this consistency would yield more exposure for the podcast with listeners knowing they could expect one regularly. Given that my brain was trying to reconfigure itself back to normal functioning after several hours of ingesting Four Loko and hashish, I probably should have known this wasn't the best idea in the world.
By all conceivable measures, the weekly Unblinking Ear Podcast has been an abysmal failure. Downloads have been declining steadily. The podcast I posted last week received about 21% of the downloads of my last podcast of 2010. Perhaps I'm flattering myself here, but I think this may be a case of too much of a good thing. Its frequency devalued the podcast as a commodity (in as much as anything that's free can have value). The weekly arrival made each podcast less an event than part of a routine. At worst, it became a regularly scheduled irritating bit of self-promotion from yours truly. Basically, doing the podcast on a weekly basis had the exact opposite effect that I anticipated. Oh, Four Loko, why did I believe you?
The task of assembling each podcast, which drains more than a few hours of my week and changes the way I listen to music. I find myself listening to new releases less for the experience of an album and more as a survey of the best tracks to play. I'm listening to more records but spending less time on each particular album. I'm absorbing more information but not maximizing my enjoyment of the experience. That's also more or less the reason I haven't been doing any writing on the blog, as some of you have noticed. Superficial listening is not conducive to analysis.
Between my general burnout and its lack of success, there's really no reason to keep doing podcast weekly. So I'm going to take a little break to recharge. The podcast will be back eventually, in all likelihood sooner rather than later, probably a few weeks. Hopefully, it won't be like a Mets injury where one can tack a month on to the projected time. Once it does come back, it will no longer be weekly. I've been considering making the podcast longer to compensate for doing less on them, which is a definite possibility.
In the meantime, enjoy this edition of the podcast. And I will be trying to focus on getting some writing done in the interim, so you can probably look forward to a bit of that.
(The traditional gift for a third anniversary is leather. If you must, just buy me a drink instead.)
Three years and a few days ago I posted my first podcast.
In that time I've done 73 podcast and played hundreds of bands.
541 to be precise.
And here are all of them:
AC Newman
The Action
The Addicts
The Adverts
AK-47
Alan Milman Sect
Alternative TV
Alice Cooper
American Music Club
Angry Samoans
Animals and Men
Anti-Band
Apache Dropout
Arc In Round
Art Attacks
Article 58
Babylon Dance Band
Bad Posture
Babies
Barbara Manning
Bardo Pond
Bare Wires
Bartlebees
Bass Drum of Death
Bassholes
The Bats
Beach Boys
Beach Fossils
The Beat
Beauty Supply
The Beets
Belreve
Best Coast
Better Beatles
Bettie Serveert
Bevis Frond
Beyond the Implode
Big Star
Bird Nest Roys
The Birthday Party
The Bizarros
Black Market Baby
Black Tambourine
Blue Orchids
Bobby Soxx
Boomgates
Bottomless Pit
Box Elders
The Boys
Brain Eno
Brommers
Busted Statues
Buzzcocks
Cabaret Voltaire
Can
Captain Beefheart
Cardinal
Carolee
The Cat's Miaow
Cause Co-Motion
Chain Gang
Chain and the Gang
Chameleons
Charles Bradley
Cheap Time
Cheap Trick
Cheveu
Chills
Chris Carpenter
Christmas
Chrome
The Chosen Few
Cinema Red and Blue
Circle X
Classic Ruins
The Clean
Clinic
Cloud Nothings
Colin Newman
Come
Comsat Angels
Consonant
Coral
Coloured Balls
The Cramps
The Creation
The Creepers
The Crescendos
Crime
Cruddy
Crystal Stilts
Cyclops
Daniel Francis Doyle
Dantalian's Chariot
David Bazan
David Kilgour
Davila 666
The dBs
DC Snipers
Dead Boys
Dead C
Dead Fingers Talk
Death
Deerhunter
Defnics
Desperate Bicycles
Destroyer
The Dicks
The Dictators
Died Pretty
Dieter Meier
Dikes of Holland
The Dils
Dim Stars
Dinosaur Jr
Dirt Shit
Dirty Looks
Dirtbombs
Disappears
Distractions
Dog Eat Dog
The Dogs (US & France)
Dolly Mixture
Double Negative
Dr. Zeke
Drive Like Jehu
The Dream Syndicate
Drunks With Guns
Duchess of Saigon
Dum Dum Girls
Easybeats
Eat Skull
Eater
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Electric Eels
Eleventh Dream Day
The Embarrassment
Embrace
Endtables
Eppu Normaali
Eternal Summers
The Ex
Ex Humans
Fairport Convention
The Fall
Fang
The Feelies
The Fems
Fey Gods
Filth
Flamin Groovies
Fleetwood Mac
Flesh Eaters
Flipper
The Flys
Freestone
The Fresh and Onlys
Fucked Up
Fugazi
Futureheads
Gaunt
Gem
Gene Clark
The Germs
Girls
The Girls
Girls At Our Best
Go-Betweens
Golden Error
Goodnight Loving
Gordons
Grass Widow
The Great Excape
Great Plains
The Great Unwashed
Grifters
Guided By Voices
The Gun Club
Gun Outfit
Guv'ner
Halo of Flies
Hank IV
The Haskels
Thee Headcoats
Helium
Helmettes
Henry's Dress
Herman's Hermits
High Tension Wires
Home Blitz
Homosexuals
Honey Bane
Honor Role
Hot Snakes
Huggy Bear
The Hunches
Hüsker Dü
Idle Times
Ike and Tina Turner
The In Out
Inferno
Japanther
Jawbox
Jay Reatard
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Jet Bronx and the Forbidden
Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio
John Cale
John Felice
John Wesley Coleman
Johnny Moped
Johnny Thunders
The Kent 3
Kevin Ayers
K-Holes
Kidnappers
The Kids
The Kinks
Kilps 1988
Kriminella Gitarrer
Kurt Vile
Kistomized
La Peste
La Sera
Lame Drivers
The Laureates
Lazy Cowgirls
Lee Harvey Oswald Band
The Leftovers
Lemming
Les Olivensteins
The Lewd
The Like
Liket Lever
Liliput
Lilys
Lime Spiders
Liminanas
The Lines
Lipstick Killers
Little Claw
Lois
Lollipop Shoppe
Long Blondes
Look Blue Go Purple
Lost Sounds
Lou Reed
Loudon Wainwright III
Love
Love of Diagrams
Lyres
Ma'am
Magick Heads
Magik Markers
Mannequin Men
Mantles
Marked Men
Mars Classroom
Master's Apprentices
The Mayfair Set
Mayyors
Mecca Normal
Mekons
The Men
Meth Teeth
Method Actors
Mick Farren
Micronotz
Mind Spiders
Minutemen
Mirrors
Mission of Burma
The Misunderstood
Modey Lemon
The Monorchid
Moon Duo
Moonhearts
Mort Subite
Motards
Motorhead
The Move
Moving Sidewalks
Moving Targets
Muffs
MX-80 Sound
My Dad Is Dead
My Teenage Stride
Myelin Sheaths
The Mystic Tide
Naked On The Vague
Nasal Boys
Nation of Ulysses
The Nazz
Negative Approach
Negative Trend
The Neighborhoods
Neil Young
The Nerves
Neu
New Bomb Turks
New Pornographers
New Year
Nitwitz
NNB
No Joy
Nocturnal Projections
Nodzzz
Noh Mercy
Nothing Painted Blue
Nothing People
Nubs
The Obits
OBN IIIs
OFF!
The Only Ones
Opus
The Oranges Band
Oxford Collapse
The Pagans
Pain
Parting Gifts
Pastels
The Patti Smith Group
Paul Reekie
The People's Temple
Pere Ubu
Phil Ochs
Photobooth
Pierced Arrows
The Pin Group
Pink Fairies
Pissed Jeans
Pleazers
Polvo
Ponys
Pop. 1280
The Pop Group
The Prefects
Pretty Things
Prisonshake
Proud Scum
Protex
Psychedelic Horseshit
Psychic Ills
Psycho Surgeons
Public Image Ltd
Puffy Areolas
Purling Hiss
Pylon
Quintron
Radio Birdman
Randoms
Rayon Beach
Reading Rainbow
Real Kids
Really Red
Reactions
Red Asphalt
Red Krayola
Red Transistor
Reigning Sound
The Reruns
Restricted Code
Richard Hell
Richard Thompson
The Rich Kids
The Rings
Rip Offs
Rivals
Robert Wyatt
Rock-A-Teens
Roger Miller
Roky Erickson
Ron House
Ronnie Mayor
Rose Tattoo
Rot Shit
Roy Wood
Rozz
Rude Kids
Running
The Ruts
Saccharine Trust
Sado-Nation
The Saints
Salem 66
Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves
San Francisco Seals
Satan's Rats
The Satellities
Screaming Urge
Scritti Politti
Scrotum Poles
Sebadoh
Severe
Shannon and the Clams
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Shop Assistants
Sic Alps
Silkworm
Silver Apples
Simply Saucer
Singles
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Skinnies
Skrewdriver
Slant 6
Sleater Kinney
The Sleepers
Slices
The Slits
Slug Guts
Smith Westerns
Snuky Tate
Soft Boys
Soft Tags
Some Chicken
Sonic Youth
Sonics
Sonic's Rendezvous Band
Sorry
Sort Sol
Soul Ayslum
Spider Bags
Spinanes
Spoon
Spring
The Squad
Squirrel Bait
Steve Harley
Stiffs Inc
The Stooges
The Stranglers
Strapping Fieldhands
Stuart Murdoch
Styrenes
Sugar
Suicide Commandos
Suicide Squad
Superchunk
Super Wild Horses
Swamp Rats
Swell Maps
Tallboys
Tall Dwarfs
Tampax
Tapeworm
Team Dresch
The Teardrop Explodes
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Teenage Fanclub
Telefones
Television
Television Personalities
Terrorways
Thee Oh Sees
Thermals
This Kind of Punishment
This Poison!
Third Bardo
Thomas Function
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Thought Criminals
Throwing Muses
Tights
Tim Cohen
Times New Viking
Tommy Keene
Too Much
Toys
Trash
Tre Orsi
Triple Hex
The Trend
Troggs
True West
TV Ghost
Twink
Twinkeys
Two Tears
Ty Segall
Tyler Jon Tyler
Tyvek
Undertones
The Unholy Two
Unnatural Helpers
Unrest
Urinals
Urge Overkill
Uzi
V-3
Vagrants
Vaselines
Vast Majority
Vee Dee
The Verge
Verlaines
Versus
Vicious Visions
The Victims
Victor Dimisich Band
Vivian Girls
Vomit Launch
Vomit Pigs
Volcano Suns
Vulgar Boatmen
Wanda Jackson
Warmers
Waves
Wavves
The Wedding Present
Weekend
Weirdos
Wetdog
The What's New
Whines
White Fence
White Mystery
Wild Flag
The Wipers
Wire
Witchfynde
Women
Wooden Shjips
Wounded Lion
Woven Bones
Wreckless Eric
Wrong Words
X
Xray Eyeballs
X-Ray Spex
XYX
Yo
Yo La Tengo
The Young
Young Marble Giants
Yung Wu
Zero Boys
21-645
The 3Ds
45 Grave
Last year, I posted a similar list and asked for suggestions of artists I haven't played. If you made a suggestion and I didn't play it, feel free to suggest it again.
I hope none of you are suffering from the post-Easter blues. It's an emotional roller coaster of a holiday, where the faithful deal with the suffering portrayed in the passion play by imagining some kind of zombie-like scenario and then getting a sugar high.
The Unblinking Ear Podcast is here to help you deal with those feelings of ambivalence, good Christians. And from whatever havoc those chocolate covered peeps have wrought on your digestive system.
This young lady has dreams about the Unblinking Ear Podcast.
