The Great Random Signal Name Our Roomba^TM Contest is still open for submissions! So, to get your creative meat juices flowing, here is an assortment of robot-y songs. The supplier of the winning name will receive an piece of original hand-made robot art and/or craft by Futuregirl (Leah Riley) ! Stay tuned for further details.

Song 1: Pathways to Progress - Eyes To Space (from From The Bureau of Robotic Affairs)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes]

Song 2: Techno Machine (With a Lazer Beam) - Math The Band (from Math The Band Banned The Math)
[MySpace]

Song 3: Speed Food Pyramid - Captured! By Robots (from The Ten Commandments/Get Fit With...)
[MySpace]



Song 4: Robotacus - Zombies! Organize!! (from Before It's Too Late)
[MySpace]

Robotacus by Zombies! Organize!!


Song 5: Automaton - No They Do (from When Robots Rule The World)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Netork]

Song 6: Tom The T1000 - Jonathan Coulton (from Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 7: FU Robot - Pro Audio (from Make The Happiness Stop)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 8: World Robot Domination - Sudden Death (from Fatal Error)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network] [The FuMP]

Song 9: The Laws of Robotics - No They Do (from When Robots Rule The World)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network]

This Thanksgiving, don't forget to thank all the hard-working robots in your life--the security and well being of the human race may depend on it!

November ended badly, and I'm not quite up to my normal geeky ramblings. Therefore, RS65 is wall-to-wall music. Enjoy.

Song 1: Tip of My Tongue - Tall Dwarfs (from Weeville)
[MySpace]

Song 2: Boy With a Coin - Iron and Wine (from The Shepherd's Dog)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [PMN]

Song 3: Science VS Romance - Rilo Kiley (from Take Offs and Landings)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [PMN]

Song 4: My Favorite Book - Stars (from In Our Bedroom After the War)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [PMN]

Song 5: Revenge! - Spoon (from 30 Gallon Tank EP and the Wired Magazine CD)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes]

Song 6: The Love I Crave - The Blow (from Poor Aim: Love Songs)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [PMN]

Song 7: So What - Space Mtn (from A Drawing of a Memory of a Photograph of You)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes]

Song 8: Feathers - Man Man (from Six Demon Bag)
[MySpace] [Emuisc] [iTunes]

Song 9: Bottom of the World - Tom Waits (from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
[MySpace] [Emuisc] [iTunes] [PMN]

Back in July, Mur and I had the pleasure of interviewing Randy and Jason from prolific geek band Beatnik Turtle. (Recorded live during brunch on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago--"the most recognized building in the world.")

All songs featured in this show are from BT's The Song of the Day podcast.

1. This Is Chicago (Theme To 849)
2. Ants
3. Until My Parents Were Called
4. Bunsen Burner

This podcast is an All-Girl-Indie-Pop-Fun-Fest!

Song 1: Video Game Heart - All Girl Summer Fun Band (from 2)
[MySpace] [Emusic]

Song 2: Ces Mots - Belaire (from the Belaire EP) - watch the video!
[MySpace]

Song 3: Oh - Space Mtn (from A Drawing of a Memory of a Photograph of You) - watch the video!
[MySpace]

Song 4: You Dance Bad - Palomar (from Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar)
[MySpace] [Emusic]

Podcasts shouted at, er, out during the the course of the show:

I Motor Away
WHYME
Notes Underground - check out the Space Mtn interview!
The Geeklabel Podcast
The Voice of Free Planet X
Voices of Tomorrow

I had a ton of fun at HeroesCon. I got to meat a lot of really cool people, like Matt Fraction and Tony Harris, and got to see our favorite local vendors of geeky goodness--Chapel Hill Comics and Wootini. My friends and I even dressed up like superheroes! See the pictures here.

I'm trying someting a little different by focusing on two different bands and playing two songs by each.

First up...

Man Man - www.wearmanman.com and www.acefu.com
1. Black Mission Goggles - from Six Demon Bag
2. 10 lb. Moustache - from Man Man (aka The Man In the Blue Turban With the Face)
- check out the video!

And then...

Tom Waits (!!!!) - www.anti.com and www.tomwaitslibrary.com
3. How's It Gonna End - from Real Gone
4. Hold On - from Mule Variations
(both songs courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network)

Tom Waits is touring the southeast in August! Find out more from The Eyeball Kid.

Warning: The songs in this podcast contain BAD WORDS!

PodcasterCon is Saturday (January 7, 2006) in Chapel Hill, NC. Be there!!!

Song 1: Pirovette - Tall Dwarfs (From the album Weeville, which is back in print!)

Song 2: Mississippi Love - American Giraffe

Song 3: Destroy the Mother Brain - Bad News Bats

Don't forget to check out my Frappr map and my Flickr page!

To all my new listeners who found me via Geek Fu Action Grip, The DragonPage, or some other happy accident, welcome! You are all totally Airwolf!

I've got a cold tonight, so it's less of me talking and more music, Christmas music to be precise.

Song 1: It's Christmastime - Lee Harris
(Available at www.soundclick.com and the Podsafe Music Network.)

Song 2: All Around the World - Evil Wiener

Song 3: The Day Monty Saved Christmas - Monty Jones (of The Ukulele Hipster Kings)

Song 4: Xmas Bubble Gum Machine - The Sultans of Ping

Songs:

Cannot Eat Better Not Sleep - The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers

The Fountain of Youth Dries Up in an Election Year - The Physics of Meaning

Links:

Bu Hanan Records
Blue Sun Shirts
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Best. Carwash. Ever.)

Stickers:

So far so good...

Again, I'm very sorry about show #13! It's safe to say that I've learned a lot from my many mistakes.

Tomorrow I start my new job! Lulu.com

"Peter Pan's Revenge" by Seth - third son of Albert (from the WHYME podcast)

My brother's homecoming and a feeble rant about the war in Iraq.

"Mr. Brocolli" by Tall Dwarfs

Belated apology to Tad Dreis for mispronouncing his name.

A reminder about the podcasting panel at Dragon*Con! (Atlanta, GA, Sept. 2-5)

And last but not least...
My Odeo Channel (odeo/0bea6da7496d8a2d)

Ok. Fourth time's a charm.

Thanks to everyone for bearing with me. Show 14 will be a different podcast, I promise!

Third time's a charm!

I re-exported the original Audacity file (now with Exclusive Bonus Intro!), and, just like that, I'm golden. Or, at the very least, it doesn't suck anymore. Show notes are the same, so I left the orginal post as a text blog entry.
It's just a little bit down the page...

a little further...

There it is.

Audacity crashed right as I was putting the finishing touches on what would have been, if I do say so myself, a totally kick-ass show. Of course I hadn't saved any of it. So, what you get instead is my grumpy-cast.

podCast411
Audacity Crash Recovery Wiki
Podspam
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"Cousin Fucker" - American Giraffe (also www.myspace.com/usagiraffe)

"Fatty Fowl in Gravy Stew" - Tall Dwarfs (Flying Nun Records/Carrot Top Records)

Holly Golightly

"The Lost Freshman" - Palomar (also www.mayspace.com/palomar)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina gets the show cranked up all the way to eleven!

Apologies for the mysterious background static during the talky parts. I didn't do anything differently during editing, so the only possible explaination is that Audacity decided it doesn't like my microphone. That must be it.

After some lame excuses for not podcasting more frequently, I get right into some local music.

1. Good For You - Tad Dreis (www.taddreis.com)
2. Sympathetic Thrill - Can Joann (www.canjoann.com, www.myspace.com/canjoann)
3. Ma Tutrice - Kapow! Music (www.buhananrecords.com, www.kapowmusic.net)
4. Ships As Friends - North Elementary (www.northelementary.com, www.sit-n-spinrecords.com)
5. Destructive Behavior - Eyes to Space (www.eyestospace.com, www.myspace.com/eyestospace)

Happy birthday Mur!

Today is the day we celebrate our independence day! (It's an in-joke, sorry.)

-I talk a little bit too much about my conjunctivitis, and not nearly enough about watermelon margaritas.

-"In an Unfamiliar Land" - Eyes To Space

-Bumper-stickers, superstitions, and me.

-The groovy Communist-Bloc-meets-School-House-Rock stylings of Red Shadow. The song "Understanding Marx" comes courtesy of The 365 Days Project.
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Geek Fu
She Said, He Said
Radio Clash
The Last Radio Station

More geek music! I play two songs (with permission) by the band Artichoke:
"Anning, Mary (1799-1847)" and "Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)."
Both are from the amazing album 26 Scientists Volume One: Anning-Malthus.
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Buy the CD!
Learn more about Mary Anning!

My wife and I went to the North Carolina Symphony tonight to see the phenomenal band Pink Martini. I will return to geek and/or indie rock soon, I promise!
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NC Symphony
Pink Martini

I continue the geek music thread that Mur and I started in her newest installment of Geek Fu Action Grip. I also list my 5 geekiest CD's and play "Fett's Vette" by MC Chris. (Sorry about the volume levels!)
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Geek Fu Action Grip
Homestar Runner
MC Chris

I had so much trouble getting this one recorded, that I was beginning to wonder if last week was a fluke! I'm having Audacity and/or mic problems, so sorry if this one sounds worse than my previous podcasts.

Last night's Camper Van Beethoven/Modest Mouse show, mainly. Next time, Batman Begins!
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Modest Mouse
Camper Van Beethoven

The Pixies reunion tour.
pixiesdiscs.com (for the 2005 shows)
CDbaby.com (for last year's shows)