Jim Noir: "Don't You Worry" The Raveonettes: "Black/White" Leonard Cohen adducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Laura Barrett: "Deception Island Optimists Club" Soda Fountain Rag: "You Sit And Wait For Life" Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: "Think I Wanna Die" Tim Fite: "Big Mistake" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency Leonard Cohen - Closing Time Uploaded by beautifulcynic...
Mar 15, 2008•37 min
How to speak modern... modern, like, 3 decades ago "How To Speak Modern" by Michael O'Brien and John Elk Intro messages from The Rockford Files and "Say Hello To Rockford" Gil Scott Heron: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" T-Rex: "Children Of The Revolution" The Bowery Riots: "Can't Get Out" The Last Poets: "This Is Madness" Rick Harris: "Is It Real? (excerpt)" Mix of various sound poems by Henri Chopin featuring excerpt of his essay "Why I Am The Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry" Gog...
Mar 05, 2008•53 min
Ennui, depression, idealism, positivity, acceleration, culture, dead romance, and other random topics Modey Lemon: "Become A Monk" Los Campesinos! "Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats" Port O'Brien: "I Woke Up Today" Steward: "Can't Force The Hand" Directing Hand: "Hangman" Daniel Lanois: " Here Is What Is " Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency...
Feb 20, 2008•48 min
Do It Yourself Psychoanalysis Kit Katie Lee: "It Must Be Something Psychological Fatai Rolling Dollar: "Omo Lere Aiye" Auto Da Fe: "Bao Ba Cha" Kathleen Baird: "Breaking the Roofs" The Something Special: "Now I'm Doing Alright" Joel R. Cooper: "Cup Of Jesus" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency...
Feb 12, 2008•32 min
Click To Play Driving home from work on the Fraser Highway at 3am during a soft white snowstorm listening to a radio podcast Country Feedback vol 83 featuring a lecture of Alan Watts . email: trillium@transpondency.com...
Feb 01, 2008•12 min
Culture, consciousness, and chaos Dengue Fever "Seeing Hands" (mp3) from "Venus on Earth" (M80) YACHT "See A Penny (Pick It Up)" (mp3) from "I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real." (ERR) Cornelius "Gum" (mp3) from "Gum" (Everloving) Studying the pseudo-religion of Discordia Learning to appreciate Chaos Terrence McKenna: "Culture is your operating system" Elk City "Cherries In the Snow" (mp3) from "New Believers" (Friendly Fire Recordings) Faunts "Memories Of Places We've Never Been" (mp3) from "H...
Jan 28, 2008•45 min
EmoBot (Cybernetic Teenage Poet) A semi-lyrical electro-gothic audio diary Poems: All I Have Pseudomorph Quiver music: Cagey House: featuring songs from "Comic Drain" emobot@transpondency.com Subscribe to EmoBot's podcast with iTunes or Subscribe using RSS feed...
Jan 18, 2008•10 min
An unguided meditation of sorts. Alan Watts "Untitled Zen Poem" (mp3) from "Zen & Senryu" (Locust Music) More On This Album Alan Watts: " Love You " Sister Jayanti "Introduction to Part I" (mp3) from "Understanding God" (M-Y Audio books and Spoken Word) More On This Album Cristian Amigo "Poplicola" (mp3) from "Kingdom of Jones" (Innova Recordings) More On This Album Alan Watts: "A Spontaneous Life" Cristian Amigo "Kingdom of Jones" (mp3) from "Kingdom of Jones" (Innova Recordings) More On Th...
Jan 11, 2008•49 min
Lydia Davis: "New Year's Resolution" Retro Movie Review: Beat Girl Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her mother-in-law, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the...
Jan 04, 2008•45 min
Dean Martin "Jingle Bells (Dan The Automator Remix)" (mp3) from "Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved" (Rock River Music) More On This Album Odawas: "I Tell Lies (Odawas Remix)" Frightened Rabbit: "It's Xmas So We'll Stop" Nellie McKay: "A Christmas Dirge" Evangelicals: "The Last Christmas On Earth" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency...
Dec 22, 2007•20 min
Okkervil River: "The President Is Dead" & "For Real" Lou Reed: "Safety Zone" ( Nanking, the film ) The Ravonettes: "Dead Sound" Black Mountain: "Tyrants" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency...
Dec 13, 2007•37 min
Future Clouds & Radar: "Back Seat Silver Jet Sighter" Marah: "Coughing Up Blood" Retro Flashback Movie Review: Expresso Bongo (1959) Wikipedia says... Laurence Harvey plays sleazy hustler Johnny Jackson, who is always on the lookout for fresh talent to exploit, while managing his hectic life with his stripper girlfriend. Maise is looking to find a better life in singing. He discovers a teenage singer named Bert Rudge in a coffee shop and sets about sending him along the rocky road to fame. H...
Dec 05, 2007•39 min
Topics: Mark Blevis Meetup, Grey Cup, Physics, Theory of Everything, death, astronomy, String Theory, Quantum Theory, dark matter, philosophy, etc. Lew Jones: "Love Is Gravity" Lifters: "This Is" Shiina Ringo: "Gamble" & "宗教 [Religion]" The Antlers: "The Universe Is Going To Catch You" Sir Edmund et L'Autre: "L 'Idéalisme en Question" listen to an audio clip from the Vancouver Geek Dinner Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transp...
Nov 28, 2007•45 min
Geeking and freaking out with new Technology "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." ~Aldous Huxley Radiohead's webcast "Thumbs Down" The Headmaster's Ritual ( a Smith's cover) Reckoner from In Rainbows Half Cousin: "The Absentee (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)" To Be a High Powered Executive "Building the Fort" (mp3) from "We Don't Want It Safe, We Want It Secret" (Ropeadope Digital) Butterflies Of Love, The "In A Blizzard In A Lighthouse" (mp3...
Nov 16, 2007•40 min
Philosophical ramblings after a long night of deep internal monologues I recommend listening to Alan Watts rather than to my drivel Loner Party "An Unacceptable Happiness" (mp3) from "Protest is Dead" Barzin "Just More Drugs" (mp3) from "Just More Drugs" In honour of Remembrance Day, November 11th watch Howards Hughes' WW1 flying ace epic: Hell's Angels watch James Cagney in Captains Of The Clouds about Canadian bush pilots join the RCAF war effort note: I meant to say "NOT" an actor playing Bil...
Nov 09, 2007•47 min
Halloween Mix Messer Chups: "Intro Monstro Crescendo" Deadbolt: "Billy's Dead" Zombina & The Skeletones: "Zombie Hop" Incredible, But True: "The Wolf on Bald Mountain" & "Three Who Died" Radio Berlin: "12 Fingers" Ghouls With Attitude: Tyrone A'saurus and his Cro-Magnons: "The Monster Twist" Don Hinson and The Rigamorticians: "Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsatured Blood" Sounds of Terror!: "Burned At The Stake" Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars: "Vampire Husband" Stealing ...
Oct 27, 2007•47 min
Stealing Orchestra: "Listening To Old Tunes on My Grandfather's Radio" with "Poetry is a World of Things" Henry Miller on New Media, the Magicians of Talk, and the future of creativity with Kink Avi-D: "The Psychadelic EP Fourex" Yelle: "A Cause Des Garcons" The White Rabbits: "The Plot" Brad Laner: "Find Out" Eastern Stars: "Diamonds In Your Eyes" The Art of Fact: "Starving Art" Ken Nordine: "Fliberty Jib" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: ...
Oct 17, 2007•39 min
The Petrified Forest: excerpt of Leslie Howard monologue Katie Lee: "Will To Fail" The Something Specials: "I Don't Wanna Try" & "Everything's Surreal" Ken Nordine: "You're Getting Better" & "Down The Drain" Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew "Tbtf (Too Beautiful To Fuck)" The Most Serene Republic: "Sherry and her Butterfly Net" Cars & Trains: "The Wires From My Broken Record Player" Craig Donaldson: "Going To The Sun... Kalispell, Montana Bonus Track: Jamming after a late nigh...
Oct 04, 2007•59 min
Experimenting with some binaural audio mixing... aka a sloppy mess Weekend activities include: Peter Bjorn and John concert and Podcast Meetup Baby Elephant "How Does The Brain Wave?" (mp3) from "Turn My Teeth Up!" (Godforsaken Music Inc) More On This Album Snakes Say Hisss! "Talk" (mp3) from "I'll Be Lovin' You" (Famous Class Records) More On This Album The Saturday Knights "45" (mp3) from "The Saturday Knights" (Light In The Attic) More On This Album LeisureCo "The Pan Am Connection" (mp3) fro...
Sep 27, 2007•41 min
Black On White Affair "Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother" (mp3) from "Wheedle's Groove - Seattle's Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75" (Light In The Attic) More On This Album Jackie Mittoo "Soul Bird" (mp3) from "Wishbone" (Light In The Attic) More On This Album The Soulsations "Funky Night Club" (mp3) from "Amazing Hits Of The Transistor Era Vol. 2" (Fervor Records) More On This Album Ram John Holder: "Brixton Blues" Robyn Hitchcock: "I Wanna Go Backwards" The Last Men: "Jimmy Igo" Jarvis Humb...
Sep 20, 2007•45 min
Bald Eagle "Those Are Cobras, Man" (mp3) from "Hot Shoulders" (Emergency Umbrella) More On This Album The Pack: "Things That Bring Me Down" Nada Surf: "Do It Again" The Cloud Room: "24 hr Heartbreak" The Mohawk Lodge: "Wear Em out" The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart" The Nails "88 Lines About 44 Women" (mp3) from "Corpus Christi" (Safe House) More On This Album Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@trans...
Sep 07, 2007•31 min
Moon Eclipse Madness: Fueled by red wine and work weariness, Adam blathers on about... bunnies, hippies, human evolution, technology, fame, God, faith, Zen, mediation, podcasting, life experience, death, aging, birthdays, books, etc, etc, such and so forth Poems of Jack Keraouc: "The Moon Her Majesty", "I'd Rathe be Thin Than Famous", "Town and the City" & 50 year anniversary of "On The Road" "Make The Madness Stop" (mp3) from "Kites Are Fun" by The Free Design (Light In The Attic) More On T...
Aug 28, 2007•55 min
Interview with Capt. Gary Gratrix (my dad) Regarding his trip to Louisiana and Washinton, D.C. Two Years after Hurricane Katrina Cajun Mock Frogs: "Jolie Blonde" "Let's Make a Record" (mp3) from "King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan" by king britt (Ropeadope Records) More On This Album Chenard Walcker: "Trouble So Hard" "Sweet Home New Orleans" (mp3) from "Going Back Home" by Phillip Walker (DELTA GROOVE PRODUCTIONS) More On This Album Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscr...
Aug 17, 2007•40 min
"There's gonna be a party here tonight!" "Dingo's Protest" Dan Green: "MacDougal Street Freak Out" People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz: "Bad Restaurant Boogie" Mirah and Spectratone International: "Community" "Superfink" "Atom and Evil" Sheldon Allman: "Crawl Out of the Fallout" Rockets and Cars: "The Protest" Evils That Never Came: "Can't Afford A Soul" "Heaven Out Of Hell" Messer Chups: "Devil Exit From Fashion" "That Great Big Au Go-Go In The Sky" Judee Sill: "Jesus Was A Cross Maker" Hilhaven: "...
Aug 05, 2007•45 min
Download "Little Bird" (mp3) from "Mr. Bones' Walk-In Closet" by The Barmitzvah Brothers Weewerk More On This Album Download "Weight of the World" (mp3) from "The Midwest Peace Talks Vols. 1, 2" by Shades of Al Davis Old 3C Records More On This Album Download "Never Never Man" (mp3) from "Twenty One and Hungover" by The New Normal Old 3C Records More On This Album Download "It's Our Time" (mp3) from "The Sprightly Sounds of The New Normal" by The New Normal Old 3C Records More On This Album Song...
Jul 28, 2007•35 min
The Coggs: "Ride My Train" & "Who Cares" Download "Downtown Mayors Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule!" (mp3) from "Lose All Time" by You Say Party! We Say Die! Paper Bag Records All Girl Summer Fun Band: "Canadian Boyfriend" Download "See You On The Moon" (mp3) from "See You On The Moon! Songs For Kids Of All Ages" by Great Lake Swimmers Paper Bag Records Chenard and the Sand: "Sailing" Subscribe to my videos at transpondency.blip.tv Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency email: suburban@tr...
Jul 21, 2007•45 min
TransCanada Transpondency Adam Gratrix is on a 2 week adventure to discovery his Canadian identity. A travelogue. Part 5: On Canada Day, I flying to Calgary and crash on the couch of my best friend Tammy. I visit with family in Brooks for a few days. Taking a Greyhound bus, I head back up to Calgary in time for the Stampede parade. I spend the weekend getting drunk, hanging with Tammy at her favorite bar, and walking the Stampede grounds. (3rd time uploaded...FTP errors...this one better work, s...
Jul 12, 2007•1 hr 30 min
TransCanada Transpondency Adam Gratrix is on a 2 week adventure to discovery his Canadian identity. A travelogue. Part 4: I jumped on a train at Union Station and headed for Ottawa. I was lucky to beat the Canada Day traffic and a possible blockage of highways and railway lines by aboriginal protesters. In Ottawa, I was greeted by Arthur Masters who offered his couch for me to crash on. He guided me through the streets of the nation's capitol from historic sites to Canada Day festivities to his ...
Jul 07, 2007•59 min
TransCanada Transpondency Adam Gratrix is on a 2 week adventure to discovery his Canadian identity. A travelogue. Part 3: After saying goodbye to Ken, I find myself in the thick of the Greater Toronto Area. I navigate the transit system to get to Brampton to visit podcast friend the Maharaja Mack Daddy. I spend a day in downtown Toronto before taking the train up to Ottawa.
Jul 02, 2007•1 hr 11 min
TransCanada Transpondency Adam Gratrix is on a 2 week adventure to discovery his Canadian identity. A travelogue. Part 2: I arrive in Ontario and meet up with podcaster friend Ken, aka Scarborough Dude. We drive out to the Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, June 22-24. There I would be speaking on a panel on Authentic Voice and meeting the Canadian community of podcasters.
Jun 26, 2007•1 hr 27 min