important words and definitions for This Modern Age (which began 1-20-17)

DEMAGOGUE–a person who tries to stir up the people by appeals to emotion, prejudice, etc. in order to win them over quickly and thereby gain power.

use in sentence–“The President is a lying demagogue.” (Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, 5-31-18)

KLEPTOCRACY–a government with corrupt leaders who use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own country in order to extend their personal political powers and wealth.

SADOPOPULISM–a government that operates without policy and inflicts pain upon its citizens.

AMMOSEXUAL–fun new slur for people who used to be called “gun nuts.”

BANANA REPUBLIC–a country with an economy of state capitalism, by which the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the RULING CLASS.

so you’d like to see Trump lackey and future butler at Mar A Lago Devin Nunes get his ass handed to him in November?  how about contributing to the campaign of very legitimate Democratic contender Andrew Janz?  couldn’t hurt.  andrewjanzforcongress.com

the music from the BVD bucket, spun out by boss jock Randy Shuffle today from 815am to 9 included……

lester (paul) and chester (atkins)–steel guitar rag

wall of voodoo–mexican radio

boards of canada–happy cycling

mumbo gumbo–i like boats

fleetwood mac–bare trees

the cure–let’s go to bed

lump sum tom and the howling void–lopsided moon

herbie hancock–maiden voyage

all in all, a pleasant respite from the madness that swirls invisibly around us in this strange and twisted time…..

a quote from this morning’s Washington Post, in a column written by E.J. Dionne……

“The president is a lying demagogue.”

questions?

here’s one.  how can you help get rid of dum dum’s number one stooge in congress, devin nunes?  well, maybe contribute to his opponent Andrew Janz? his web site is andrewjanzforcongress.com.

 

well, so I was listening to my show a few days ago, just to see if i could, as the late dan hicks once sang, scare myself. ya know?  in some way or another. and the mix was actually sounding ok, but a bit….stale.  like every song being fired up by Random Shuffle was a song that i had in my first bucket way back in late ’14, making all this stuff about 3 and a half years old.  good songs, most, but they’d also been around the Jive Block a few times. i began listening for recent additions to The Bucket, and came up dry.  started to get paranoid.  the best thing to do upon the appearance of paranoia in our little experiment in radio terror–call jeff, the central scrutinizer for all technical Jive in the Open Sky Broadcast Network.

cutting to the chase…..what had happened was…..after a recent bad tech meltdown in april (we suspect Mongolian hackers), the reloading of songs in my bucket only made it to the 30% zone.  meaning that only about 1,000 songs of my early ’18 figure of 3,500 rebooted into BVD Bucket, meaning 2500 were in digital limbo! and not getting played! happily, tech competence reared its blessed head, and i’m heartened to report that My Bucket of WatheGaryPuckett is now fully restored, bulging with about 3500 tunes, most of which deal in some way or other with the dopamine-drenched madness that’s so integral a part of romantic love.

Yes, there is some crazy shit in this massive injection of music, but there’s also all kinds of good shit, too.  i think it’s gonna sound ok. and yes, apologies if you got a little burned out in the recent weeks when there were only 1,000 tunes in The Bucket because the last doggone thing we want to do is sound ORDINARY.  your patience, diligence, and loyalty are all super and we appreciate them.

The BIG LIBRARY, our master “liberry” that plays through the night, for examplethat library was, as far as i know, generally unaffected or tweaked by that recent meltdown.  it is and always has been a rather hefty piece of work.  and curiously, i must report that The Bucket of WatheGaryPuckett contains absolutely ZERO gary puckett and the union gap songs.  which might need correcting, although i’m not sure if the GP classic “Young Girl” is in good taste these days, considering the lecherous lyrics being sung as Gary skeezes up a storm, telling his tender darling that “my love for you is way out of line” and damn, gary, he’s pretty much fessing up to some jailbait action that might’ve been cool back in ’68, but may not fly here in This Modern Age.

just to let you know…..The Black Lillies show is all set to go on the cozy patio of The Station restaurant and cultural mecca, downtown Cedarville, California.  you wanna be a part of it?  tickets at zekescandy.com.  doors open at 630 for eatin, drinkin, and socializin.  The Lillies get it going at 8-ish.  and yes, they are a VERY good band.  the weather–cool n cloudy.  a two to three layer night.  but it should be ok.

also…..sample hour from monday on the morning Bucket goes like this here…..

junior wells–get down

texas tornados–guacamole

robben ford–busted up

robben ford–supernatural

the neville brothers–drift away

elvis–viva las vegas

jeb loy nichols–kissing gate

slim harpo–scratch my back

otis redding–shake

paul mac–too many people

paul simon–boy in the bubble

tim o’brien–kelly joe’s shoes

jon cleary–cheating on you

the stones–lovin cup

paul mac–let me roll it