today’s show marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Miles Davis record Sketches of Spain, and we pay tribute to it on here on the Odd Preoccupation with a surreal journey through a desert where all times exist as one and blood, fire and butter are the order of the day.  feast your earholes on this, friends:

slappycast – sketches of spain (the desert project)

until we both shall meet the Eye of El-Qabah, i will remain,

yr. obt. svt.,

slappy

ps: (all text in this episode written in collaboration with mr. harry vernon cathey the third, lo these several years ago.)

this week’s Odd Preoccupation featured a collage-type episode, most of it with multiple sound sources (spoken, instrumental and atmospheric) fading in and out of each other and basically creating a freaking AUDITORY WONDERLAND.  tune in here to see just what the hell i could possibly be talking about:

slappycast – collage collage

voices heard in that episode include those of paul bowles, spalding grey, rick moody, john lurie, amelia duende, kelly mark, public works, caroline bergvall, and shelley hirsch.  in addition, we pay tribute to our recently appointed poet laureate w. s. merwin (a particular favorite of yours truly), and slappy fills us in at excruciating length on all his many disbeliefs.  enJoy!

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it’s the latest and greatest episode of Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation, presented right here for your listening pleasure. i call this one ‘influences’.  this particular assemblage features the voices of peter cook, chris morris, max ernst, paul bowles, ken nordine, laurie anderson, colleen mcelroy, joe frank, michael gerber, william s. burroughs, dave mcbride, and the black pope, with station IDs by steve moore, agent datura and mc hawking, and music beds contributed all unawares by jeffff elder. enJoy!

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slappycast – influences

this week’s show brings us a great interview with New Orleans puppeteers and fabulists the Black Forest Fancies, who have a historically fancy puppet show going on over at the Blue Theater right now called The Pomology of Sweetness and Light. they had some fascinating things to say about the art and craft of puppetry, art and life in New Orleans, the transcendentalist and agriculturalist John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed, the subject of their puppet show), and other divers topics.  check out their show if you get a chance! (for more details, here’s what mr. w. a. brenner at the austin chronicle had to say about it.)

here’s our interview, it was totally fun:

the Black Forest Fancies on the Odd Preoccupation

enJoy,

slappy

there was no particular theme for this episode of the OP; just a few old and new favorites thrown together, including a couple of nice pieces from the pansophoscopist.  unknowing contributors included: radio free vestibule, slim moon, the firesign theatre, william shatner remixed by fall on your sword, mc frontalot, dave mcbride, laurie anderson, jim norton reading from the flann o’brien novel the third policeman, joe frank, ken nordine, ron berry, bob holling, and richard dunham.  for some reason i sound completely manic at the beginning of the show and very relaxed by the end.  enJoy,

slappy

slappycast – randomness

this week it was our privilege to host the Texas Youth Word Collective, and feature pieces performed live by three young poets from that group.  it’s intense and socially conscious work, friends.  we also hear about their upcoming trip to the Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Festival.

enJoy,

slappy

slappycast – Texas Youth Word Collective

this week’s episode of the Odd Preoccupation asks but a single question, though it is perhaps the single most important question ever posed by human or machine:

who is Slappy Pinchbottom?

many voices weigh in on this essential enigma of the human condition, including those of eliot haynes, kyra edeker, ilan bachrach, r.j. moore, katie pearl, marty blevins, hank cathey, rowan hartin, naomi shihab nye, russell case, thedward blevins, amelia rose duende, adam sultan, steve moore, wayne butane, connor hopkins, and aaron mace.  our theme song was improvised by Girls Girls Girls.  enJoy,

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this week’s episode was all Fusebox, all the time, and featured Wura-Natasha Ogunji and her 100 black women, 100 actions project, the Rude Mechs‘ Kirk Lynn talking scavenger hunt, Aaron Mace from the Church of the Friendly Ghost, and Fusebox jefe Ron Berry. a fun conversation about cool things for you to go do!

listen up:

slappycast – Fusebox 2010

performatively yours,

slappy

please to enjoy:

slappycast – Susan Tyrrell

in love and grotesqerie,

slappy

slappycast – Everlasting Duendeblaster

from way down yonder in the paw paw patch,

slappy