Flyswatter Show

Cherry Overload – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:30:35 +0000

Call the show, please: 678-368-4935.

I’m calling this show Cherry Overload because I am on the tail end of a gout attack and have been stuffing my face with cherries and drinking cherry juice until I have grown sick of them. And cherries used to be my favorite fruit. Thus….

Farewell Luna

A good thing going on is that lately a lot of freelance work has come in, and from doing a preliminary tax assessment, we may actually owe a little money to the federal government, which would not be happening if I weren’t bringing in some cash. Hopefully what I make can make a difference in our family income. If you need some graphic design, photo retouching, or illustration done, let me know. Hint, hint.

We also are fixing our MacBook’s hard drive which just crashed (luckily we were able to recover just about everything), and decided it was high time to buy some external hard drive so that all three of our main computers can be backed up. Expensive, but no longer will I lie in bed at night not sleeping over worry about this. Back up your hard drives, fools!

Kara Square

The first musician I am playing today is by Jared Wohl, who goes by the name Farewell Luna. The song I am playing is “By The Morning” from his EP which is also called By The Morning.

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Jersey Joe, who asked that I consider playing Farewell Luna, and after listening, I quite agree. Jersey Joe does a podcast called Jersey Joe’s Pick to Click, and he makes it a specialty to find artists who are posting their work on Music Alley. He picks out Pop/Rock/Alternative acts, and really helps them out by giving them exposure.

Human Face

The next song I am playing is a delightfully nerdy and upbeat ukelele-based love song by Kara Square called “I Heart Your Brain” from her upcoming album Love Songs For Everyone But Especially Uke. Kara Square has been a long-time comic songwriter who is very involved in the ccMixter Creative Commons community and also has several very popular videos out.

The final song today is from Human Face. The song is “Told You So” from their album The Waiting Game (Part One), which can be downloaded for free from their Bandcamp page. They are a synth indie rock act that was started in 2010 in Hertfordshire, UK.

Ed & Michael Buckner: “In Freedom We Trust” – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:09:56 +0000

On January 13, Ed and Michael Buckner gave a talk at Atlanta Freethought Society about their new book “In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty”, about how America is an exceptional nation because of the separation of religion and state.

Ed and Michael were kind enough to allow me to record their speech so I am presenting it to you. I tried cleaning up some of the more egregious sound problems, but as it was recorded at Atlanta Freethought Hall with a full house, you are still going to hear some extra sounds. The talk lasts an hour.

Their book has been released by Prometheus Books of Amherst, NY and is available wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, etc.

It’s All Good – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:41:50 +0000

Today I talk about positive feminism, and how it really is good for everyone, men and women both. Feminism is not about women beating men in some race to the top, but is about going together through life as equals. I cannot for the life of me see the controversy in that, and why there is such a backlash of women-hating these days.

Dr.Wippit

I also read a lot of quotes about feminism that I have found.

Next I play some feel-good music selections.

Ox B

The first is Dr. Wippit‘s ”Mama Baby (feat. The Kenilworth Project, Bobby the Dread)” from his album An Anthology of Sorts. You can buy that album from iTunes and Amazon.

Oregon Chad

Next up is a Trip Hop piece “Open Your World” by Ox B from his album The Toast Vol.1. He is also with the rap group BRMG.

Finally I play an instrumental piece by Oregon Chad called “Life’s a Beautiful Joke.” I couldn’t find out much about him, originally not even a photo, even on his MusicAlley.com page. The photo in the blog post came from a very old Myspace photo I found and I hope its him! He’s mysterious, but he does have a podcast, the link to the feed of which is here.

Cold Mouse Hand – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:38:22 +0000

I was having a rather enjoyable argument about male privilege, feminism, men’s rights, parental rights, etc. on Facebook, when I realized time was wasting away and I needed to get the first show of 2013 out soon as it was already late in the week. The guy I was having a discussion with is on Australia time, so he had no clue about how late it was here. I offered to have him Skype in and that would be my podcast but he didn’t get in touch with me. So a music show it is!

The Damned and Dirty

I am going to play music that I like that was recently uploaded to MusicAlley.com. That will be the entire criteria. This is going to be one wacky show.

The first band I am playing is The Damned and Dirty, which is an offshoot project of Kevin de Harde and Micha Sprenger who are with the Netherlands band BluesMotel. The song, which made me laugh, is “John the Evil Homeopath” and it comes from their self-titled album.The Damned and Dirty is released under a permissive Creative Commons Licence. You can download it for free but if you are super nice and want to purchase it, it is available from iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and CD Baby.

13 Shadows

The next band I am playing is one that is so new that I can’t find out much about it. It is the goth band 13 Shadows, which is fronted by a very lovely singer named Denise Donahue. There is just no information about this band that I can see, though the do have a YouTube video up for the song I am playing, which is “7 Years”. I am seeing the beginnings of a webpage being designed but it is still at the “Lorem Ipsum” filler text stage. They also have a Myspace page which surprisingly appears to have been set up recently. Myspace lives!

Chris Morris

Finally, I am playing the pop tune “Up Up and Away” by Chris Morris, from his album Changes. This is a very bouncy, upbeat, dance-y and polished piece by a guy who knows what he’s doing. He has a lot of albums out there, plus a lot of well-made videos, but no band blurb that I can find, so I can’t tell you much about him other than he’s from California and he’s just adorable.

My mouse hand is freezing because the basement where I am recording is cold and my desk is right next to the window, so I’m going to log off. Be sure to leave me a good review on iTunes! It really helps.

Les Misérable Holiday Week – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:21:26 +0000

Hi. I know this is late. But Christmas happened. We went up to see my mom and some siblings the weekend beforehand, and my mom got sick, so it was kind of unfun for her and for us. But Dwight had to work early on the 26th, so we came home in the heavy, scary fog from Tennessee, to the heavy, scary fog of Atlanta, and had Christmas at home. We went out for vegan Chinese and then went to see Les Misérables, which was a depressing but amazingly great big musical which will win a million Oscars.

And I’ve also been working on a newsletter for Atlanta Freethought Society, so I pulled an all-nighter.

Also I had a failure on the settings of my mixer, so this is a re-record. And I am so tired.

So I’m playing a single, very good jazz piece by BMR4 called ”The Blues at Clark and Addison” from their album Turning Point.

Leave me voicemail at 678-368-4935. Find Flyswatter Show on Stitcher.com. Leave feedback on iTunes. Go to my Facebook pageand hang out with me.

BMR4

Rockabilly Will Never die – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:15:47 +0000

Big Bad Meow

Because I hate Christmas and I love Rockabilly, this is a non-Christmas show. Enjoy. Enjoy.

I first play Big Bad Meow‘s artsy and creative Americana punk song “La La La” from their album Big Phat Pussycat. This song just tears at you.

Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders

Then I play “Earthquake Shake” by Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders from their album What You Gonna Do? I actually played this band two weeks ago and they sent me the rest of the album. There is a really cool video of this song that you can find on YouTube or their website.

Jukebox Sinners

Finally, I am playing a band that might have gone kablooey. Jukebox Sinners‘ “Roomful of MILFs” from their album Hunting in Suburbia is the tune. They are funny and my daughter liked them, and maybe they can have a reunion show like they hope on their Facebook page. They still have a Myspace page but it doesn’t appear to be active, like so many Myspace pages aren’t.

I never did care for Myspace, myself. I was a LiveJournal girl back at the height of its popularity.

Voicemail: 678-368-4935

A Party of Citizens – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:38:15 +0000

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Angelpig

I found out that my old buddy Gregg from back in the Citizen’s Party days was the mystery phone caller from last week–hey, it’s been a long time since I heard his voice!

Electrobuddha

Gregg and his wife Nancy were friends of ours back in Athens, Georgia in the early ’80s. Gregg actually ran for City Council against a Democratic contender (back in those days, Georgia was nearly 100% Democrat, whereas now they are nearly 100% Republican–exact same people and same political tendencies, don’t you know.).

We all lost touch after we moved away from that town, but luckily found each other via the magic of Facebook.

My first song is “ER” by Angelpig who came from Swansea, South Wales. Unfortunately, they may no longer be around–I am finding their Myspace page and that’s about it; no website or Facebook page. And the Myspace was last opened by an admin back in July. But the song is worth hearing anyway. And it was on MusicAlley, posted in February of 2007.

Then I bitch about Microsoft Excel. I can’t get my brain to learn how to code. We hates it. And all Microsoft products to boot, though Powerpoint and Word aren’t that bad.

Ummagma

Then I play Electrobuddha‘s “Loser Blues” which you can download on Bandcamp. They come from Glasgow, Scotland and the band was started by Mark McCaffer, with bandmates Silja Natalie Fischer, Graeme Proctor, Andy McLaughlin, and Mark Hamilton McCaffer.

Next I am playing “Balkanofellini” by a Ukranian/Canadian duo called Ummagna, from their album Antigravity. They got ahold of me via my MusicAlley page and sent me an email and a way to download their show on their Bandcamp page. For some reason though, in order to get that one track without paying a dollar for it, I instead had to download the entire album where I was able to pay my own price. You too can do this and are welcome to do so. There are other links to this band on their Facebook page.

At any rate, the band consists of Alexx Kretov and Shauna McLarnon, and it seems like a good place to say goodbye.

How to Put in a Podcast Rating on iTunes 11 – Flyswatter Show

Flyswatter — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:14:53 +0000

Dynoride

Today, I am playing a voicemail from what may be my only listener! He asks how to put in a rating on iTunes for a podcast.

Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders

Well…with iTunes 11, Apple has handily made it more difficult and with many more steps than there needs to be, all in the service of making this bloated and raggedy piece of jerry-rigged software look more like iOS.

I tell you on the show, but here’s a transcript:

The way you give ratings is to go to iTunes, go to the iTunes store, do a search for Flyswatter Show or whatever podcast you want to rate in the search window up at the top right, only that doesn’t seem to work anymore in stupid iTunes 11, so you look in the center top and you see buttons labeled with a home icon, Music, Movies, TV Shows, App Store, Books, Podcasts, and iTunes U. Click podcasts. THEN you can click the search button and it will take you to the Podcast you wish to rate. Again, Stupid iTunes!

Click the big red Flyswatter Show button and it will take you to my page. From there, you NOW have to click the button for Ratings and Reviews, which is between Details and Related. Click to rate. If you’re super nice, you also leave a nice comment. I think the folks at Apple are really influenced by ratings and comments, so please be kind! If you hate the show, leave me a comment on my webpage instead: godlessradio/flyswatter.

My music today is Dynoride‘s “Sleeper” and Crankshaft and the Gear Grinder‘s “When the Sun Goes Down.”

Flyswatter Show 11-30-12

Flyswatter — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:41:49 +0000

I saved yesterday’s show as a draft but apparently didn’t hit the Publish button until I was coming in here to work on this page, so…my bad!

Anyway, I am really glad NaPodPoMo is over for me as soon as I hit the Publish button on today’s show. This has been a stressful month. It would have been stressful even without having the podcasting commitment. But I’m glad I did it.

Somebody on Reddit today posted a photo of Johnny Cash wearing really tall boots and leaning against a tree. He looked like a fashion model. So I posted that image on Facebook. Then someone said that tall boots like that look better with a miniskirt. Challenge accepted, I replaced his thighs, hips and belly with a silver miniskirted babe’s hips. Finally someone bitched that the Man in Black wouldn’t be wearing anything silver so I once again went in and changed the skirt to black and reposted it.

I have been heavily downvoted on Reddit but got a lot of likes and shares on Facebook, which tells you that I have never been able to crack Reddit’s code. Things I think will be popular are just destroyed there and things I don’t think will do well give me hundreds of upvotes. A lot of it is timing, I suppose. If you can get in before the bots do, you’re gravy. But if someone there doesn’t like you, you’ll be hate-downvoted out of spite.

I’m playing “We Caught Fire” by Hello Caller from their new album Dark Twain.

The album is available on iTunes and also on their website. It may just be better for the band if you order it directly from them–I believe Apple takes quite a bit of the artist’s profits when they make the digital album available. And besides, the new iTunes 11 is totally crazy, if you’ve upgraded already. I’m not an iPhone or iPad user so the interface is throwing me.

Hello Caller

Flyswatter Show 11/29/12

Flyswatter — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:07:22 +0000

No Market Radio

One more day of NaPodPoMo. And I forgot to post this draft. So it’s a day late–so sue me!

Busy today with Photoshop work, and then Dwight and I have been trying to figure out how to get a non-standard-size door to fit our non-standard size basement. Seriously, our house was built with a lot of wood that was milled onsite in the 50s and everything is strange. But our basement door is rotting into sawdust so we need a new metal door, but we have to also figure out how to put a dog door in for Copernicus.

Today also, Shawn Thorpe of No Market Radio, who is also doing NaPodPoMo this year and he and/or his wife Jen have done it the past six years, had me on his show. We discussed amateur podcasting and how hard it is nowadays to even get listeners AT ALL if you aren’t corporate or a well-known standup comedian. Go listen. We dish the dirt.

The gist of that story is that we both think it would work better if each of us does our show once a week. So I am going to try to put Flyswatter Show out each Wednesday or thereabouts.

I am playing “My Own Advice” by The Scarlet Scourge from their self-titled EP. I am linking to their Facebook page as their website does not seem to be active yet. But this is a great song and I think the band has a good future.

The Scarlet Scourge

Flyswatter Show 11-28-12

Flyswatter — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:03:06 +0000

Running late on the show tonight because I’ve been working all day, plus I fixed dinner and then Dwight and I decided to watch the first episode of a six-part PBS reality miniseries called “Circus“. It is about the Big Apple Circus, is on Netflix Instant Watch, and so far, it is very good.

Today a couple of big squirrels broke into my bedroom through a loose window and caused all kinds of havoc and drama before Dwight was able to get them to go outside. I just stood there and screamed, because one of the cats was also in the room while this was happening, but she dived under the bed to hide. No cat-squirrel fights were had, but I thought there surely would be some. Dwight, however, got nasty scratched on his bare leg from one of them.

I am playing Elijah Turner‘s excellent cover of “If I Only Had A Brain” from The Wizard of Oz. Research has not indicated to me what album, if any, this song comes from nor who sings with him, but I did go to his website and listen to some of his other music. It is very good. I recommend you purchase his old album and preorder the new one, either from the website or from iTunes.

Elijah Tucker and Generous Music

Flyswatter Show 11-27-12

Flyswatter — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:30:20 +0000

Sonja Hewer

So listener, if you are actually out there, do you think it’s worth me continuing this show or should I just go ahead and shut this podcast down? Give me a call 678-368-4935 and give me some advice. If you care to. Whatevs.

Pär Berglund

I just really need more equipment and don’t really have money to get it. So I don’t know. I wish I had a working soundboard, as I still have all kinds of mics.

I am burning incense as I podcast and it smells great!

I had to wash my sheets as a cat vomited all over them, and I also had to go to the grocery store to buy cat and dog food and a few other things. I got a call from my ex-employers wanting me to come over there tomorrow and do some heavy duty Photoshop work onsight so I will do that. Other people should be hiring me to do this too as I am an excellent graphic artist, if I do say so myself!

Lasse Thomasson

I am playing the beautiful “Diamond in the Sky” by the Swedish band Bus Stop Dreams from their album Don’t Forget to Breathe. The band was created by Lasse Thomasson and Pär Berglund, with various musicans and singers sitting in. In this particular song, the singer is Sonja Hewer, who was honored as the best German folk rock singer in 2006.

I know you are going to love this. Be sure to check out the band’s Facebook page for videos and such. You can buy their beautifully designed CD from their website for $10, or can name your price for the album download.

Flyswatter Show 11-26-12

Flyswatter — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:15:22 +0000

My husband is putting in more and more free overtime now that he’s on salary, and he promised that this would not happen. He’s also making a lot less money than he was as an hourly employee. Very frustrating.

Maia’s high school days are winding down and not a moment too soon.

We finally broke down and got Amazon Prime, because our local library sucks.

I play Charlie Cheney and the Significant Otters‘ hilarious “Smart Wool Nipple Pasties” from their CD Front Porch Rebellion. They play in Western Michigan and surrounding areas and you can get them to play for you if you call them at (231) 335-7437. You can get the CD at SB United Records or download it at Charlie Cheney’s Bandcamp page.

Charlie Cheney and the Significant Otters

Flyswatter Show 11-25-12

Flyswatter — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:27:40 +0000

Here’s a show where I have no idea what to talk about. If you do, you can leave me a message on voicemail: 678-368-4935. I don’t think it will happen though.

So I scanned a book today (and I hate scanning so I wasn’t a happy camper), and I took Maia to buy school supplies since the cat peed on them due to the fact that nobody cleaned out the litter box when we were gone. We have four litter boxes, but the three cats only want to use one of them for some reason, and then other places get cat pee when that doesn’t get emptied at least once a day.

I’ve noticed that big chain stores that have closed over the past few years now have other big chains that have moved into their places, which are close to my neighborhood. So that’s good, I suppose.

I also play a pretty acoustic song called “Rabbit Holes” by a couple of Boston guys named Tom and Josh, who call their band Damon Hill. If you go to their Facebook page you can download their music for free, and I recommend it. If you aren’t on Facebook, but still want to download their music, you can find them on Soundcloud. I myself found them on MusicAlley.com.

Damon Hill

Flyswatter Show 11-24-12

Flyswatter — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:31:38 +0000

678-368-4935. That’s the voicemail number. Hint, hint.

I am putting in bed music on this episode once again, due to background noise, i.e. typing upstairs, sportsball-watchin’, barking dogs, airplanes.

It’s beautiful outside but cold. We’re going to have the first hard freeze of the season tonight so I went out and picked all the green tomatoes. It’s pretty late for the first real freeze of autumn though.

Tonight we are going to a friend’s house for a post-Thanksgiving movie night, and I need to go buy snacky things to bring. I am gaining weight from all these movie nights, as is Dwight. I blame beer. And chips.

We are supposed to go up to Virginia this summer and I don’t know how 1. we’ll pay for it, 2. how my back can stand it.

I am playing the beautiful, beautiful “Leave No Trace” by the Hillary Reynolds Band. Just lovely.

Hillary Reynolds Band