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So I was neatening up around the Braindouche! abode, and found this little gem of a track in the folder where I keep all my published podcasts. I have no idea how it got in there, but I thought I’d share it with you.

The Monkey Song, by The Bernard Sisters.

The Bernard Sisters are Crystal and Robyn Bernard. Crystal Bernard might sound familiar — she was the bitchy blond from Wings, remember? Robyn also apparently did a lot of work with General Hospital, too. So, she and her sister spent their childhoods running around to tent revivals and gospel… things, singing cute little songs with their preacher father and none other than Jerry Falwell. Crystal still goes on the road to sing gospel music with her dad now and then to this day.

It’s just so cute, isn’t it? When evolution just gets to be too much for you, turn this puppy on and be reassured that you ain’t kin to no monkey.

And if you can’t get enough of this, I have a track somewhere of The Bernard Sisters decrying ecumenicalism, too, and it’s adorable.

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I have a new obsession, Cartoon Brew, a prolific blog mostly about vintage animation. A couple of days ago, I discovered that Jerry had posted a video called  “A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature”. If you’ve payed attention at all, you should know how much I love Herb and The Brass, so it got my attention. It turns out, animator John Hubley won an Oscar for this short in 1966. (No, I don’t know who he is, either.) Anyway, this animation was posted on youtube and was rendered in excellent quality, and I wanted to make sure it survives any potential future stupidity, so I’m republishing it here. It’s a great little cartoon, with the classic Brass standards “Mexican Shuffle”, “Spanish Flea” and “Tijuana Taxi”, and I hope you enjoy it.

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Um, yeah. This is Dani, pinch-hitting for Mer, who’s had a bit of a breakdown. Whoever put NaPodPoMo in November very obviously doesn’t run a retail side business – it would seem that pre-holiday rushes and psycho podcasting aren’t the best combination for one’s mental health. So, here’s a special Christmas edition of Braindouche Radio (hosted by a pagan. On an athiest’s podcast. Fun!) enjoy, and please don’t hold Mer responsible. I’m sure she’ll have a suitable replacement ready when she finally stops drooling and staring at the wall. I hope.

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Yanno, just because I run a committed anti-commercial podcast here doesn’t mean that I don’t live in a commercial society, or that the commercial nature of our society doesn’t produce some astonishing artifacts now and again. It’s sometimes fun, in fact.

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Noise! Delicious, yummy, avant guarde noise.

I’ve been in the mood to do a BD!Radio for a week or so now, and just never quite got up the focus to dive through my archives to find stuff to play. Tonight, I was wandering through Archive.org (now with a working keyword structure!) and I found this short, experimental album. I love it. I want to be a tenth as awesome as this. I can share it with you!

Hey, it’s out of character, but I don’t have to always be a big stinky pirate, right?

Gunter Adler says about his EP, The Silver Book:

“For some years I have been carrying a small silver book along with me. It serves as a note book for sketches, ideas, thoughts… These rarely are palpable or brought to conclusion. Thus they are not suited for any direct use. The silver book is an unlimited repository for inspiration, makes me feel contemplative
or amuses me. At times I wonder whether somebody who comes across the book should be able to discover a use for it or might find some meaning in the nonsensical words and sentences. This EP consists of material I collected and archived messily in the years 1999 to 2005. Call it IllMuzak, Illbient or an experimental audio book, the designation is without relevance. It is a personal and humoristic work, appropriate before a sumptuous dinner or in order to calm down passengers during the take off of an airplane.
My intention was to find blurred, yet nevertheless dense sound qualities offering sufficient room for private associations to the listener, however, simultaneously being powerful enough to carry him away. Although silver is the fairest of colours, the sounds of this EP are rather the opposite…”

Track listing:

1. Angeltone

2. I feel for you

3. The Silver Book

4. Zeitnaht

5. Rohrpost revisited

Direct link to archive.org

Gunter Adler on myspace

The music in this podcast is released under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

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Is it something psychological? Or is it diabetes? I may be able to help you find out just what’s wrong, and take you to your happy place.

Note: Somehow, I uploaded an 11 minute silent file to the server. Should be fixed now, but if you somehow got the bum file, you can redownload now.

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Open your mind, change your needle, tune in and get that fresh clean feeling.

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