PODCAST · music
radiobombast
by Kid Catharsis
music program on WRFI Community Radio, 88.1 FM Ithaca / 91.9 FM Watkins Glen
Episodes
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We're Not Alone, It's Hard To Tell: Transmission 530, 2020 June 10
“Our Pandemic Radio Adventure” continues, and I’m back on my bullshit–by that I mean counting the mixtapes I’ve had to assemble for you. What must I have been thinking–that this would end soon? Dear listener, we have eleven months to go! Listeners will experience a hefty serving of music…
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Now, Later, Never and Ever: Transmission 529, 2020 June 3
It’s been a tough week, hasn’t it? INDEED IT HAS. This episode finds me losing count of the number of times I’ve had to submit a pre-recorded program. Whatevs, counting is for nerds anyway. Trying to get through the week as best I can–by playing tunes that are “dear to me,” I say--but this is a...
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Outright Denial of the Dying and the Sane: Transmission 528, 2020 May 27
This episode and the next are about clearing the decks, a “before and after” tableau, if you will. They are about how I cannot seem to perform the deck-clearing in a spontaneous, immediate way, and how I compensate (if that’s what I am doing) by making big changes at the level of concept. All of...
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Sorry If I Give You PTSD: Transmission 527, 2020 May 20
More sandwich-making: the first few songs of this program provide me with comfort on a chilly fall evening in the Northeast, provenance be damned. Listening to the program I don’t really care where the songs came from, whether the artists are dear to me, whether I cared enough to buy actual…
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Just Admit You Don’t Know What To Do: Transmission 526, 2020 May 13
Here is a program that chased my dog upstairs (kudos to Cry Robot for that). Her taste is something of a mystery, though. There is plenty of the sublime to experience in this audio file. Where else are you going to hear Slum of Legs transitioning into Little Richard? That’s right, nowhere. In the...
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Deep off into Mother Universe: Transmission 525, 2020 May 6
Honesty time. I dread these programs between the beginning of the lockdown and the death of George Floyd. Yet somehow this program has my energy. I can’t deny it. Maybe it is inescapable. I have this thing about noting the passage of musicians into the next life. Not sure where that comes...
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Hello Refusal, You’re Just the Same as Usual: Transmission 524, 2020 April 29
FAM. I am trying so hard to get back on the horse and process the last 39 months. I have to honor the muse when she appears.. I detect a weirdly naive positivity in this program’s energy despite what must have been happening in my life right around this time. Happy Mondays, Pia Fraus and The Room...
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I Got One Doctor That I Talk to Every Week About This Panic: Transmission 523, 2020 April 22
From my contemporaneous notes: "I have to say I enjoyed this show, it seems to demonstrate that I had made peace with pre-recording and had found a way to still be good." Wow, just wow. I suppose this is going to happen a lot, but I am just not as keen on this episode as I was at the time....
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But What Do You Expect Me To Do? Transmission 522, 2020 April 15
Welcome to Eighties night! Are you up for some Cocteau Twins? Shriekback? Breathless? Durutti Column? Crass? The Wedding Present? How about two versions of the same R.E.M. song? "Sure," I can hear you saying. "Sounds tubular." Public life had stopped when this broadcast aired, so why not time...
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Let the Sirens Sing Out Their Nightmare: Transmission 521, 2020 April 8
"I keep falling asleep during this episode," my notes say, "but I assure you it is quite good." Here's hoping you can (a) stay awake and (b) find this assessment accurate. Despite the distance between then and now, it's tough for me to be objective. I know there are strong tunes here, but the...
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Can You Pretend To Love Chaos? Transmission 520, 2020 April 1
Bless me, listeners, for I have sinned! It has been 575 days since my last post. And to paraphrase the world’s most famous TERF, I solemnly swear I have been up to no good. Serendipity and dialectics: as I embark on a mission of piecing together the past, I find that this show performs a feat of...
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My Revenge Against the World Is To Believe Everything You Say: Transmission 519, 2020 March 25
Now it can be told! Methods and agendas disclosed in this week's blurb. It's all here. To begin we have to go back to the very early days of this program, when I decided (a) my library was not enough and (b) I had to chase the ghosts of my past and prove that I could follow the "rules" of my old...
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Everything's Coming to a Grinding Halt: Transmission 518, 2020 March 18
There is a weird symmetry to this post, as it comes (seemingly) at the end of the pandemic era even as I am trying to make sense of how it began. Maybe there was a point in dragging my feet all this time. Increasingly I think things happen as they are meant to, when they are meant to. My brain…
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You Try To Give Me Your Money, You Better Save It: Transmission 517, 2020 March 11
For months I left my page-a-day calendar on March 10, 2020. At first it was genuine shock and refusal. I probably thought in the beginning that it would just be a few weeks. After a while it was a more self-conscious, pretentious gesture, my own Hiroshima clock. God knows what I must have been...
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No Sex or Records for a Year and a Day: Transmission 516, 2020 March 5
A great show awaits you, and in even better news, it's my show! The only element missing is Lady Catharsis, who has arrived by and by at a grudging respect for The Fall, tonight's featured artiste. Here is yet another posthumous Hall of Legends induction, since I lazily made the band charter...
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It's the Beginning of the End: Transmission 515, 2020 March 4
One week to go before time stops. I guess this particular outing is a "grower." It seems forced early on; Kristin Hersh and Mogadisco don’t really go together nicely, for example, nor does Vanitas follow smoothly. The overall vibe smacks of the insincerity and LARPing that, I feel, characterizes...
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Pay Your Respects to the Vultures, For They Are Your Future: Transmission 514, 2020 February 27
The pandemic has made me extra-fond of this episode, because it's one of the last "specials" I did before the lockdown, but I think this episode might be suitable for the pantheon in any timeline. I had of course already inducted Coil into the Bombast Hall of Legends, in four stages, to go along...
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Call Me Your Nightmare, Call Me Your Dream: Transmission 513, 2020 February 26
Wednesday is my day of healing: first therapy, and then this. My therapist thinks my dj hobby is creativity. I think it is self-expression at best. I have never believed that djs are artists or that spinning and mixing records is a performance. I have done art and I have done performance; I may…
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All Surroundings Are Evolving: Transmission 512, February 19
"Who’s listening?" I wonder out loud in my notes to this program. So much of the time on the radio I actually want to be "alone," at least left to my own devices. Sometimes the isolation gets to me and this must have been one of those times. Was I having some kind of premonition, or advance…
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Overstand the Futility of My Antics: Transmission 511, 2020 February 12
Shockingly I had stopped drinking, at least for this week, and had been working very hard at the gym with nothing to show for it. On this day I wrote down that I'd had a four-hour training at work just to be the backup to a backup on some issue or other. I had scribbled something...
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music program on WRFI Community Radio, 88.1 FM Ithaca / 91.9 FM Watkins Glen
HOSTED BY
Kid Catharsis
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