owen orates and pinchbottom premieres MoM & MMM

Posted in slappycast by slappy on May 20th, 2007

dear friends,

this week’s episode of the Odd Preoccupation has it all: guest stars, world premiers, discussions of duende, and dub auctioneers. here are the files for your downloading pleasure:

http://www.pinchbottom.org/Slappy/slappy070510_Part1.mp3
http://www.pinchbottom.org/Slappy/slappy070510_Part2.mp3
http://www.pinchbottom.org/Slappy/slappy070510_Part3.mp3
http://www.pinchbottom.org/Slappy/slappy070510_Part4.mp3

Part 1 this week features the sad, not uncommon tale of old jack mathers, as recounted by the Who Boys. we then introduce a most welcome guest, Owen Egerton. owen is an austin-based writer and comedian, and here he graces us with a morbid little tale from his new book How Best To Avoid Dying. the story is called “Tonight at Noon”, and it continues in Part 2; afterwards, owen and i discuss death-in-art, the duende, and autoerotic asphyxiation.

Part 3 (introduced by agent datura) features the very first episode of the fantastic and mystical radio adventure serial, Moon Over Morocco. a new episode of MoM will be aired every Thursday at 4:00 (smack dab in the middle of the Odd Preoccupation) for the next good long while, as it’s a fairly lengthy series. keep an ear out for the proverbs and allow them to rule your life.

Part 4 starts off with some great hiphop from Keepers of Tym and Alexandros (whose track “Heliopolis” would be very handy to listen to before that upcoming exam on the history of ancient Egyptian dynasties.) we then segue into the Pinchbottom Premier of another slappylicious segment, Moore Meets Merwin, wherein austin playwright (and old pinchbottom pal) Steve Moore reads from the work of poet W. S. Merwin. we hope this becomes a recurring feature; it’s two great tastes that go great together, friends, and you’ll only hear it here on the Odd Preoccupation. after that is a fabulously forensic feature entitled “Tableau of a Lithotomy”, and we finish off with more of the who boys as they present the Return of the Dub Auctioneers, who seem to have a few more elks on the auction block than even the most talented tongue could possibly tally.

until next week, dear friends, i remain,

your histrionically humble host,

slappy pinchbottom