JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT KOOSH BALLS ARE

I BEEN SEARCHIN' 4 URCHINS

They look sort of like koosh balls, cross-bred somewhere down the line with sea anemones. Why did Ariel's father disapprove of them so much?? Take a look for yourself:

SEA URCHINS

SEA URCHIN FACTS
King Triton was right in his contempt for Ariel's little street-rat friend Urchin, en fait. Sea Urchins are quite dangerous. These spindly creatures are no koosh balls--they have spikes that can get stuck in your flesh if you step on or threaten them. Not so nice. But on the other hand, it can't be so nice for the sea urchin either, never being able to get close to anyone out of fear of stabbing them. What a melancholy existence these rainbow clad suckers lead on the bottoms of ships and the ocean floor. (Or is it just barnacles that stick onto ships?)

Strangely enough, people eat them. Check out this 'sea urchin sushi boat' on the right. Thus, when a sea urchin injures you, there are more than adequate ways to get revenge. Fish them up with a net and then stab them yourselves with large cutlery instruments, then boil, saute, or roll them raw.

The prickliest members of the echindoderm phylum, sea urchins tend to grow up to 2 to 4 inches in diameter and have teeth, which they can use to bite holes in rocks when they need to places to hide, only one example of the destructive power they posess.

WET DOG, "LOWER LEG" VIDEO

Check out the new video for the first single from Wetdog's forthcoming album, Frauhaus! (Captured Tracks, 11/30). "Lower Leg" was filmed/directed by the band, and edited by Margarita Louca, featuring some dizzying underwater shots of girls goofing off in a swimming pool.



Why should you care? Their layered British yelping, loud bass/angular guitar and syncopated rhythms deliver what the new Slits album couldn't. And in Thalassique-land we always like to dive into pools and walk on our hands and stuff. Except I hate swimming because I wear contact lenses. Actually, watching the swimming pool water kind of makes me thirsty. Drink enough water, people. Punk rock can dehydrate you.

www.myspace.com/wetdogthebest

PLAYLIST 11/8/09

Ahoy there. Here is the playlist from last Sunday:

6:08 PM	The Shop Assistants "It's Up to You" All Day Long CD
6:09 PM	Karen O and the Kids "Sailing Home" Where the Wild Things Are CD
6:09 PM	Abe Vigoda "The Garden" Skeleton (Post Present Medium) CD
6:10 PM	Best Coast "Something in the Way" Art Fag 7" (Art Fag) CD
6:18 PM	Grass Widow "Celebrate the Mundane" Demo (Make a Mess) CD
6:19 PM	The Clean "Fish" Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-So Sounds So-So, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten!! (Flying Nun) CD 1982
6:24 PM	Almighty Defenders "Jihad Blues" Almighty Defenders (Vice) CD
6:26 PM	The Beets "The Devil" Spit In The Face Of People Who Don't Want To Be Cool (Captured Tracks) CD
6:27 PM	Spectrals "Don't Mind" Cassette CD
6:30 PM	Christmas Island "Black Cloud" Blackout Summer (Midheaven) CD [N]
6:40 PM	Beach House "Turtle Island" Devotion (Carpark) CD
6:41 PM	Vivian Girls "I'm Not Asleep" Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red) CD
6:43 PM	Sleater Kinney "Heart Attack" Call the Doctor (Chainsaw) CD 1996
6:51 PM	Girls At Dawn "Every Night" 7" (HoZac) CD
6:54 PM	Wild Nothing "Summer Holiday" 7" (Captured Tracks) CD
6:56 PM	Sleep Whale "Roof Sailing" Houseboat (Western Vinyl) CD [N]
7:00 PM	Julie Ruin "Tania" Julie Ruin (Kill Rock Stars) CD
7:10 PM	German Measles "Eternity" Wild EP (Captured Tracks) CD [N]
7:11 PM	Orange Juice "Falling And Laughing" The Glasgow School (Domino Recordings Co.) CD 2005
7:16 PM	Meth Teeth "A Thousand Regrets" Everything Went Wrong (Woodsist) CD 2009 [N]
7:20 PM	The Bodines "Decide" Decide (Single) (Play Hard Records) CD 1989
7:29 PM	The Bitters "East" East 7" (Captured Tracks) CD
7:35 PM	Black Water "Abyss" MP3
7:36 PM	The Gun Club "Ghost on the Highway" Fire of Love (Slash) CD
7:37 PM	Little Claw "Slow Sticky Tornado" Human Taste CD
7:50 PM	Little Teeth "Oh Drag" Child Bearing Man CD
7:53 PM	Jens Lekman "It Was A Strange Time In My Life" Night Fall Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian) CD

Threw in some (post) riot grrl stuff that flowed with the lo-fi tide (Julie Ruin and gods of rock Sleater-Kinney), and some oldies like the Gun Club, the Bodines and Orange Juice. And as corporate as WTWTA is, I couldn't have a show without Karen O cooing every once in a while, particularly in a song that's supposed to guide images of a drifting boat.

ADDENDA
The ever well-dressed Eric Anderson dropped in to read some news about Mayor Bloomberg and some pipe exploding. And I re-played the excerpt from "The Bronze Horseman" over Black Water because I like it just that much.

TUNE IN SUNDAYS 6-8 PM ON WNYU.ORG

LISTEN TO CAMPFIRES ON THALASSIQUE

What do you know, last week's show hit the archives like 5 minutes ago. It's in 2 parts. Links here:

PART ONE: http://wnyu.org/2009-11-01_Thalassique
PART TWO: http://wnyu.org/2009-11-01pt2_Thalassique


Image courtesy of Kim Cronin's Flickr stream; it's the remains of the Annie M. Peterson Schooner shipwrecked on the shores of Lake Superior, like those Jeff Walls/Campfires described to me (and you, the listener) last Sunday. Mr. Walls also brandished his ipod to share with the show an Alan Lomax recording of Italian longshoremen singing a capella in strange, merry harmonies, and of course 7 tracks from his burgeoning repertoire of releases. (It wasn't all seafaring nostalgia). Some of the tracks were recorded in a summer vacation hot spot Lake Park with sound samples of Lake Michigan. Listen to hear how Michigan and lo-fi go together like sand and salt and how passive listening (like listening to books on tape) can be a beautiful thing.


About 4/5 of the way through Part 1 is "Underground, in a Cave, in a Shallow Bed of Freezing Water," a collaboration between Campfires and Philadelphia-based writer Ben Segal, who wrote a book in the form of crossword puzzles titled 78 Stories: A Crossword Novella. Full text of Ben Segal's story of the same title "Underground, in a Cave, in a Shallow Bed of Water" can be found here; Jeff reads the narrative about a giant salamander that offers a small town the choice of a certain gruesome euthanasia over his own super fuzzy layers of guitar in blatant homage to the Velvet Underground's "The Gift."

Big thanks to Jeff for coming on the show! Enjoy the streaming mp3s.


PLAYLIST 11/01/09

6:06 PM	Crystal Stilts "The City in the Sea" Alight of Night (Slumberland) CD 2008
6:08 PM	Yo La Tengo "Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador Records) CD
6:24 PM	Thee Oh Sees "Where the People do Drugs" In the Shadow of the Giant CD
6:25 PM	Times New Viking "No Time, No Hope" Born Again Revisited (Matador) CD [N]
6:27 PM	The Hunches "Not Invited" Exit Dreams (In The Red) CD
6:40 PM	Campfires "Stormy Late Fall" Stormy Late Fall 7" (Mexican Summer) CD {coming soon}
6:42 PM	Campfires "Easy Orchard" - (Self-Released) CD {coming out maybe on the Burning Rivers Tape from Leftist Nautical Antiques}
6:43 PM	Campfires "Chicora" - (Self-Relased) CD {Brand new song, maybe out on As Above, So Below purdy soon}
6:57 PM	Campfires "Air Raid" - (Self-Relased) CD
6:59 PM	Campfires "Slip-Shod Paradise" - (Self-Released) CD {probably on the Leftist Nautical Antiques tape}
7:01 PM	Campfires "Royal Orange" Upcoming Split with Benoit Pioulard! (FM Dust) CD
7:12 PM	Campfires and Ben Segal "Underground in a Cave" - (Self-Relased) CD
7:28 PM	Superchunk "Learned To Surf" Leaves In The Gutter EP (Merge Records) CD
7:30 PM	Les Sequelles "Everything's Just Fine Baby" CD
7:31 PM	Soft Tags "Deathstar is Ascendent" Seafoam Green (Self) CD [N]
7:33 PM	Reigning Sound "Stick Up For Me" Love and Curses (In The Red) CD [N]
7:44 PM	The Breeders "Cro-Aloha" Cannonball EP (Elektra) CD
7:47 PM	Genoese Longshoremen "La Partenza" Alan Lomax Collection Sampler CD
7:50 PM	The King Khan & BBQ Show "Third Ave" Invisible Girl (In The Red) CD [N]
7:52 PM	The Mantles "Bad DEsign" Bad Design 7" CD
8:05 PM	Surf City "Autumn" Surf City EP (Morr Music) CD

http://myspace.com/campfiresmusic
http://campfiresmusic.com

Shake it like a salt shaker,
Pier

http://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/nomura-jellyfish/

So it's been a while and I've been a little slack on the marine poetry and such. BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE FINER MARINE POETRY THAN THESE GIANT JELLYFISH?



Or these jelly fish captured in motion on film. Wow:




Last week's show with Campfires should be in the archives soon. Hold tight and if you're in Japan don't go swimming in the bay because I hear big ass jellyfish tend to ride in there on the currents.