Totally random post title but does anyone remember the Today’s Special TV show from Nickelodeon in the 80s? No? I thought not. Moving on…
While searching for bacon-related sound bytes for liners I discovered a blog that has more center cut bacony goodness than this site could ever hope to have. Royal Bacon Society. I’m quite surprised neither I, nor any of my Camp Bacon cohorts discovered it sooner. Much like density popped George McFly to Lorraine Bates in Back to the Future (1.21 gigawatts!) it was this post and google that popped me to the Royal Bacon Society. I haven’t had a chance to fully explore the site but I’m sure when I’ve got time away from studying Spanish, I’ll give it the once over. Aside from my favorite bacon-related quote of all time, “butter that bacon,” I found a new one which I had not heard before, which is “Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend – fudge.â Classic.
If anyone listened to the show today we cut out twice. Once was because the engineers were working on fixing something and once was because I played Juliana Hatfield’s “Spin the Bottle” but forgot about the line, “she is such a sucker, he don’t wanna fuck her.” I managed to cut the CD player for a second just in time to avoid an FCC violation. Oops. Really good song, though. I heart Juliana Hatfield.
My Bhopal Stiffs CD came yesterday so I played “Bottle It Up,” the first song on their 1985-1989 compilation. It’s good, good stuff. In a related note, I also played some Pegboy. For the Camp Bacon crew, and also Evan Reser, I played a little Sonseed with “Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine” but I couldn’t play the Jesus/Flea Market mashup because we’re not able to play from the computer right now (that’s what the engineers were working on.) That ability should be back next week and I plan on hitting you all with some extra fun stuff, including She and Him.
I discovered today that my favorite soul label, Daptone Records had their studio broken and a bunch of equipment was stolen. Not only should you check their site out and buy stuff (because it’s all pretty much awesome) but, if you feel inclined, you should buy a drink for Daptone and donate to help them buy mics, preamps, etc. Or don’t, whatever. If you want my personal recommendation, you can never go wrong with the smooth automatic soul of Binky Griptite & The Mellomatics.
That’s all I’ve got for now, time for radio class. Stay tuned.
Bacon Is My Anti-Drug 
I saw the video for that sonseed song on monday, their guitar player sure knows how to rawk hard.
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Yeah, I heard some good music today, stuff I had never heard before … I was kind of distracted with work and I missed the names of the songs though. đŚ
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1.21 gigawatts!!! That made me giggle. I ⤠Juliana Hatfield, too.
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What were you, like, actually working or something? Eventually I’m going to try and have full playlists for my shows and post them here but I keep forgetting to write down what I play.
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Yeah, work can be a real drag. đ
I like the playlist idea.
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I totally remember Today’s Special. I was a TV junkie as a kid – all of those old Nick shows, and some PBS and Canadian shows are so stuck with me. And don’t even get me started on the Disney Channel – it used to be so great, and now it’s unwatchable.
As for music – I’ve been listening to an excellent band lately called the Miniature Tigers. The songs Cannibal Queen and Dino Damage are especially great, but everything of theirs is great. Oh – and the new Lily Allen CD is fantastic.
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