WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 24, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:43pm Arvo Zylo: Greetings!
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties!
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hello! Welcome to the Jumble! My head is mashed up too.
	9:01pm Geoff-U: Hello Mid-valley mutants
	9:01pm Geoff-U: /me is quite literally in the mid-valley right now... Corvallis
	👻 9:02pm Heather Z: Made it home from my friend's set just in time to tune in on the dot! Looking forward to the show tonight!
	9:03pm Imaginos: Glad to be here
	9:03pm WR: Hello Austin and Arvo. Here for just a bit, fading here. Hear ya later in the archive.
	👻 9:04pm Arvo Zylo: Hi Everybody! Thanks for tuning in!
	9:07pm Geoff-U: haha sweet intro
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for joining us! We've got a little silliness before his set kicks in...
	👻 9:08pm Arvo Zylo: Damn! This is a wild, prime time big budget intro!
	9:08pm Geoff-U: I heard Trent Reznor produced this and it cost $153,000
	👻 9:08pm Arvo Zylo: I feel like I am being introduced on MTV!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:08 We're in negotiations to have it over the end-credits for a winter blockbuster.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:08 I asked an AI to write a song about you hosting my show, with the title, "Scarlet Begonias." It spat out a few. We'll hear another at the VERY end, after your set is over.
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 I was wondering if it was AI. I still don't know how to use AI to make music, partly because I would probably use it too much, but that was impressive!
	👻 9:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Walk The Night" by "Skatt Bros." Featuring Sean Delaney, who worked with KISS "behind the scenes" in the 70s.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone for showing up tonight: Imaginos, Krys O, Geoff-U, WR, Heather Z, and any lurkers out there!
	9:15pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Well thank you for the show!
	9:16pm Krys O.: Good night, folks! Take care.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 We should meet up next month. I'm playing two masked shows, one in Eugene, and one in Salem, in October! I think you'd dig it.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Fire (Arthur Brown cover)" by "Lizzy Mercier Desc... I do not remember the movie that had this song in it recently, but I've been fond of it for years. It might have been the film "Dog Man" which is recommended, if anyone feels like it. Either that, or it was a film called "Femme", which is essentially about a gay man in drag who seduces a homophobic/closeted man and outs him...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 Sleep well, Krys! Thanks for helping out last hour.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 Goodnight, Krys O.!
	9:17pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 „Lurkers aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!“
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Fire (Arthur Brown cover)" by "Lizzy Mercier Desc... I love Arthur Brown, thanks to my mother being a fan, but I have never heard this. Pretty cool! Thanks for the tip...
	9:18pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I'd love that. I'll keep an eye out. I have a few things going in Oct. but it's much less crazy that Sept ended up being
	👻 9:18pm Arvo Zylo: Dog Man: www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I love Arthur Brown too, have pics with him after one of his shows. He did not perform the song "Fire", though.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @9:17 Thanks for joining the digital salon tonight! I'm not good with foriegn languages, but is that a mangled Marx Quote?
	9:19pm Geoff-U: I'm also working furiously on arranging the next Regional Processing Facility release for the exchange project... hoping to make it by the end of Sept, stay tuned haha
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:18 Oct 21 in Eugene, Oct 28 in Salem. I'm opening for Mike Watt's trio!
	9:20pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Oh damn, fancy!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 I thought you had seen him. (I have not.) Still, he's got some great songs that aren't "Fire."
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:19 Rad! I didn't want to bring it up, but I was wondering.
	9:21pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 You say "mangled," I say "adapted." 😉
	👻 9:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 It was really a great experience. I believe that man has a great deal of Kundalini.
	9:21pm Imaginos: Sorry about not talking much tonight. My mind is awake and enjoying, but my eyes keep drifting shut
	👻 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: Femme: www.imdb.com...
	9:22pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 It will go out soonish (I already have art and packaging mostly done) but might be a tiny bit late.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 I understand. You don't have to chat every time. It is always nice to hear from you.
	9:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Hey Austin and folks! I’d ask Mike Watt to record an ID for us, but it would probably turn into a 10-minute “spiel”!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 Ha! Yeah, that would be great. He would probably be into it. There's usually some down-time before gigs.
	👻 9:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 I think Watt just does that when he is excited. I'm sure he can reel it in when the setting calls for it.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cat In Disguise" by "Julia Claire" Thanks for this song, Arvo! I'd never heard it, and of course, I'm a sucker for stuff about cats. We just got our third cat. Three cats is a lot. I love them all, but damn... they can cause a BIG ruckus, now.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ^ sneaks in
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:25 At this point you've introduced him to a number of folks, too.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Mr. X! Hooray, now the party can start.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Damn straight!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Want Your Love (1965)" by "The Pussycats" I love this label, and they have a number of great comps. But this series is sort of essential.
	👻 9:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Especially if they are still fighting! I know some cats have knocked everything off the mantles and my cat stated off jumping on my turntable when it was playing. Glad you dig it, trying to keep it upbeat for once... at least for a good while.
	9:30pm Imaginos: Who remembers The Cat Came Back?
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Certainly!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:30 They are not fighting, they get along pretty well. But they can get loud if they all start meowing, and they chase each other for fun, which can get loud, and knock stuff over. It's certainly a lot sometimes.
	👻 9:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 I had to look it up, can't lie. Will check it out. For the record, I almost played a piece that I found on archive.org of someone making a drone of cats purring... Didn't fit
	9:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 What is new kitty's name?
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Judy Tenuta" I love everything about this.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:33 Leander. We thought it was a girl at first, because its a siamese that is very pretty. But we had it checked, it's male.
	9:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Great tune!
	9:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 nice
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Judy Tenuta" Her appearance on Space Ghost Coast To Coast was pretty legendary, too. She is the best thing.
	9:36pm Imaginos: Then there's this little ditty... youtu.be...
	👻 9:36pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I saw a pic of the new guy! He's a real beauty! I have a soft spot for boy Siamese cats because we had a wonderful man, Simon, when I was a kid. He was such a Good Cat. Congratulations on your new baby!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:36 Essential!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:36 The cat adopted us, and started living under our house, meowing until Marla noticed it. She made an appointment to have the vet check it's chip. It didn't have a chip, and the vet said it had probably been homeless for "quite some time." It was only two, and since we can't reconnect it to any possible previous owner, we decided to adopt it.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 That's so sweet! Beautiful Leander is lucky to have adopted himself into such a loving home! Lucky guy, for sure...
	👻 9:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "La Sorella Di Christine" by "Andrea Tosi" The cat cover I was referring to: www.discogs.com...
	9:44pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Congrats on the new kitty
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: This is probably the only pet I've ever named, since I was very young, and named a kitten that, unfortunately, did not live long. The other pets in my life were named by other folks.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:44 That's a great cat cover! Meow!
	9:45pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Wolfman Jack" Reminds me of American Graffiti, which had no plot, so it was really all about Wolfman Jack.
	👻 9:46pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:45 I do not know for sure if I ever saw that one, although it feels like one of those I watched with a few drinks...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:45 I sort of remember a few "intertwined" plots, with Wolfman connecting them all. (And not much really happens, except all the kids naively don't realize what's just around the corner...)
	👻 9:46pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 That's so good! What's the inspiration? I wasn't the one who named my Nigel but the name did suit him.perfectly.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Friend of The Devil (Grateful Dead cover)" by "Mi... The least Ministry sounding recording in their catalog, even accounting for their first album.)
	👻 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Friend of The Devil (Grateful Dead cover)" by "Mi... A few months ago, I listened to The Grateful Dead for four days straight. It was agony. It was really hard. This song, however, is the only song by them I truly like. The rest are barely tolerable at best.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:46 Named after the story of "Hero and Leander." www.britannica.com...
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: Re Wolfman Jack, when my dad was in college, his glee club took him to Ballston Spa, NY, where he and a bunch of the guys were put up at Wolfman Jack's mom's house. They got to drink and sing along with all the records he'd left at home. Everyone thought that was pretty neat.
	👻 9:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I guess it was an acoustic/"unplugged" set, had an appearance by Eddie Vedder for a version of the Midnight Cowboy theme...
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:48 I"m with you; I'm not a fan, usually, but this isn't so bad.
	9:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 I think the most memorable scene is when they wrapped a chain around the axle of a cop car, which promptly fell apart when the cop took off after a hot rodder. Everybody loves a good cop car wreck.
	👻 9:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Al Jourgensen has a side project called "Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters" where the studio version resides. It is less metal and less electronic, for sure.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 Oh, yes! I was trying to recall what film that was in.
	👻 9:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 That is incredible!
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Devil Do" by "Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs" This is, apparently, a Holly Golightly album I somehow missed. So thank you!
	👻 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I remember that! I must have seen it, need a refresher.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: We are now finally on the other side of a 90 degree day. This is, apparently, going to be the last hot day of the season. Sort of marks the end of summer in a more real way.
	👻 9:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Glad you dig it! Actually this might be the only one I know. First discovered it in the catalog at WZRD.
	👻 9:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:51 I would have never heard the story had I not been to Ballston Spa last year and mentioned it to my dad! He was just sitting on that memory all these years! Also, you're slaying tonight! I'm enjoying the show, as I always do!
	👻 9:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:54 Thanks Heather! It is an honor to be in the company of such talented and decent humans!
	9:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:50 I love that album. It really does sound like: what if Ministry went country. Sample song title: “I Hate Every Bone In Your Body (Except Mine)”
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I was never afraid of the Devil, but I was not raised in a religious house, either, so our family never talked about the Devil. Or God. Or much of anything with any religious angle to it. I often have to remind myself that songs about the devil sort of hit different outside of heathen upbringings. I never understood what Churchs even were until I was almost in High School, and some kid tried to get me to go with him.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Desert Rat" by "Duane Eddy" Hell yeah! I always associate this song with Ghoulardi... as I'm sure many do...
	👻 9:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I'm glad it was finally finished. He'd been talking about it since Revolting Cocks existed in proper form. I can't get into the production all the way, but "Take Me Away" is a special tune on that one.
	9:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 It's kind of amazing that the comic book Hot Stuff was approved for children. I don't think that would be allowed in this day and age.
	9:59pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Pretty much the opposite of my hardcore Irish Catholic upbringing. We were all part of a great cosmic battle against Satan. And YOU are one of the Lord’s soldiers! Our weekly church services did instill in me a love of creepy organ music.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:58 Ha! There was a lot of stuff like that back in the day. There was a comic book called, "Son of Satan," that I have a few issues of, and seems like it would be hard to make now.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 I have been curious about going to churches almost entirely for the music.
	👻 10:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 I have seen some pretty massive pipe organs in churches. None of them have let me play with them! I've sent formal request letters with highlights from my career as a noise musician!
	10:04pm Mr. X: Ghoulardi figured prominently in my childhood in Akron. Austin has done a show about him, too.
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: Portughoul!!!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: I first heard about Ghoulardi in 2011, and immediately did a radio show featuring clips of him. I was obsessed with Horror Hosts at the time, and had just seen a great documentary that featured him, and many others. I've featured him on a few shows since then. He is the best...
	👻 10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:04 I've heard the show that Austin did! This show was in the making before that, I'm crazy like that.
	👻 10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 I mean the one that he aired for a fill-in slot here, there may have been another before that...
	10:06pm Mr Fab: Sheena’s own Dr Sarcophaguy was featured in a documentary about horror hosts.
	👻 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: We seem to have a skipped track in the playlist, Ghoulardi Surf
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 There was, back in 2011, October 8th. About two months after I first saw the documentary, "American Scary." blasphuphmusradio.wordpress.com...
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:07 Oh, sorry!
	👻 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:06 I'd watch the heck outta that!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:07 Here's a link about it. Not sure where you can watch it. That was also the first time I heard of Dr. Sarcophaguy: watching that same documentary. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:10pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:07 Actually, I missed something, we are on track.
	10:10pm Mr. X: Mid-Valley Mutations always gets an early start on Halloween.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I was looking at my Halloween shows from 2004 - the first year I did Halloween Radio. My first Halloween shows was the last week of September, that year, too.
	👻 10:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Thanks!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Here's the final "dumb" connection to "American Scary" that might amuse some listeners: I found out about the film because they used some music by MX-80 in the soundtrack, and I read about that on a website about MX-80. So I thought I'd check out the documentary, since I liked horror hosts AND MX-80.
	👻 10:16pm Heather Z: I'm such a sucker for Rosemary Clooney.... and anything Halloween!
	👻 10:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I like to play Halloween music whenever I feel like it. Not long ago, I played "Halloween Is Black As Night" by Jackson C Frank, and "Halloween Party" by Jack Starr
	👻 10:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:16 I have to check if I have ever played it on air before, but I love Rosemary Clooney's collaboration with Perez Prado!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I can't recall; was Rosemary Clooney the one who had the swear jar in the studio, and would make the session players cough up if they started getting too "blue"?
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:17 I don't know this at all and definitely should! Appropriately, I'm working right now on a spoooooky haunted house diamond art, though!
	👻 10:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 If I were a rich patron of the arts, I'd buy many of your diamond art pieces! I don't feel that I would have a great time making diamond art, but I like it in concept!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: David Thomas - who also lived in the same area - used to quip that the Cramps weren't interesting to him, because Ghoulardi had already done it.
	👻 10:23pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 You wouldn't even need to be rich! They're just little kits! But they do take some time... I bet I'll send you some kind of thing one of these days!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: I've gotten a couple of Halloween DJ gigs, the first in 2004. But it's not an easy gig to do, depending on the venue. I did one gig at a bar on Halloween and it was not a great gig, and then took forever to get home after since traffic was garbage that night. So it can be good / can be headachey.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oops! It’s An Accident" by "Gary Allen" I do love this tune. Thanks again for this one, Arvo.
	👻 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I have done some Halloween DJ gigs. Most recent was 2017. It really depends on the crowd, and the key is to not take it personal when people don't get into it. It's because they're scum!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oops! It’s An Accident" by "Gary Allen" This is the 80's that I am nostalgic for. As I get older, I find the typical 80's "pap" you hear at bars and dance clubs to be fairly boring anymore. It's just... always the same 20 songs...
	👻 10:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Recent fill-ins are more recent discoveries, but I've kept the sets for you after having gone quite a while without DJing on the radio, so it has been a long time of boiling and writing crazy scrawling notes in old, withered notebooks and things. I haven't done weekly radio since 2014, but I still have the habit of making mental notes of things to do when the opportunity comes.
	👻 10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:23 I would be absolutely thrilled. There is a place for it on my closet door, just waiting. I loved the skull/frog one you did recently!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Nihil, As In Nihilism" by "Kiss The Anus of A Bla... Umm... we have a black cat.? Nothing personal, but I'll take a pass on that.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:27 It's been almost 10 years since our first radio collaboration. Though we haven't really done it consistently, until the last few years.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 It's certainly a bold band name, if not memorable.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 (We have two black cats... I'll pass, twice!)
	👻 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I used to bartend and serve at weddings. I know that 80s playlist all too well. I was asked to DJ a wedding, and I was peeved when I was expected to do too much that resembled those playlists. I regret not doing it, because it was a friend of mine, but I thought I was asked to have more input, and be able to nix Phil Collins if I wanted...
	👻 10:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Apparently taken from an old spell book...
	👻 10:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Good times!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Yeah, weddings are hard. I've done a few. I did one for free, then after that started charging. People pay a lot for music at weddings, and for that I'm happy to let them tell me what to play. I usually get free drinks, food, and paid... it's not a bad deal. But not always fun.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:28 I haven't sealed that one yet but I will soon! I could always buy another one to do for here, after all! And thanks for the nice words about it!! That was a big one!
	10:33pm Mr. X: Toss that A-ha song too.
	👻 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 I think my first set for you was a Halloween set, incidentally...
	10:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 Funny you mention this, I've gotten back into digging into weird '80s obscurities. I've been compiling albums for my Bandcamp record "label" and thought I might actually move beyond 1950s/60s into punk/wave vinyl.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:33 It was!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:33 Please?
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 I need to buy one of your comps. Are there more than one? The first one you did was great!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Oh, damn. There are tons! Yes, buy some Mr. Fab bounty! jungleroomrecords1.bandcamp.com
	👻 10:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 I like a lot of '80s music. I'm more about the overall sound than the melodies, but it's also quirkiness that interests me. I have listened to plenty of old New Wave and Synth Pop, but there is definitely still a desire to hear more of the obscure/outsider stuff that is beyond our introductory "outsider" artists.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wet Cat" by "Prick (Kevin McMahon)" That poor wet cat. You shouldn't go out in the rain!
	10:38pm Mr Fab: Thanks, ha yes, there's lots now. It hasn't really made much of a dent in the money we owe (the reason I started the label), but still, it's fun to do.
	👻 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:33 It definitely sets my mind rolling. I have been slowly trying to figure out how to design things like that.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 Yeah. I love doing radio and music, but my student loans aren't closer to being paid and are like an axe hanging over me at times...
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 A friend gave me some canvases he's done vinyl printing on and he wants me to paint them and then apply diamonds. I have ideas for the one but the other, I'm a little stumped. I'll see what I can do soon, though! I'm absolutely not a visual artist but the stones are sparkly and pretty and maybe harder to mess up.
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 Oh wow, that's cool you are paying royalties and whatnot though!
	10:42pm Geoff-U: Great songs, Arvo... I had to step away from chat to make dinner but the show's on the bluetooth speaker
	10:43pm Geoff-U: Good stuff :)
	👻 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Geoff-U @10:42 Badass! Thanks for listening over dinner!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:42 Enjoy dinner!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: On the subject of the "Bloodstains" series: this is the one I have, of all Eugene, OR stuff. If I recall correctly, it was one of those "open source" ideas, where they encouraged people to do their own local versions. littlewilly.bandcamp.com...
	👻 10:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Powder Blue" by "The Cactus Blossoms" Revivalist vibes are hit and miss, but this song does the job quite well for me.
	10:45pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Powder Blue" by "The Cactus Blossoms" Everly Bros. wannabes?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 Almost.
	👻 10:48pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Cool! I can't say I've heard of a single one of those bands! I like Stick Men with Ray Guns a lot, so I looked into what else there might be with side projects and whatnot.
	👻 10:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 I like The Everley Brothers, and Phil Spector's work, but David Lynch worship is what came to mind...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:48 I'm a sucker for the Eugene Scene, even though I've moved away and haven't really been connected to it directly in years, aside from Don Haugen, who IS the Eugene Scene, in my opinion.
	👻 10:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 That is funny because to me he has such a non-presence online, but apparently he books a lot of shows down there. I have thought about going, he invited me to do a show, but who knows when that might happen. Great guy, though.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:52 He is a very personal person, who has made a lot of connections with a lot of artists and venues, and has been doing it since the late 80's. So he's a little old-school in some ways. He arranged the Watt show in Eugene, and he's playing on that bill with me, too.
	👻 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Spirit" by "Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown)" This was really wonderful to hear live.
	👻 10:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Wicked!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:54 Yeah, this song is sort of the best thing ever.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Spirit" by "Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown)" I've been very unhappy the last few years. Nearly inconsolable, if I'm honest. Lost some very close friends and family. But I have my partner, my wife, Marla, and even when there are few other things, we still have each other. And our cats.
	👻 10:58pm Heather Z: We're to about that time so just wanted to be sure to thank you both, Austin and Arvo, for a great listen tonight! I always love tuning into MVM and tonight was no different!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:58 We will be going about 20 minutes long tonight.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I'll stay tuned in!
	👻 11:02pm Arvo Zylo: I forgot to say for some reason, that Robert Rental was one of the first, if not thee first artist on Mute Records...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Colourblind" by "Robert Rental" Yeah, this is what my ears crave these days...
	👻 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 I'm sorry. I've lost some friends to drugs, suicide, and other things. Grief is a natural process and time doesn't ever fully heal it, but it does change us in ways that allow for more empathy, which is a tool that needs to be utilized properly for survival, more than any other "coping mechanism", as far as I'm concerned. All my best to you, sir, in your recovery.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Another person said this on a different podcast - The Flophouse, if you're curious - but it resonated with me SO much. I'm paraphrasing, but he was talking about how, because he is of a certain age, particular kinds of electronic music is like catnip to him. I agree. It's like a narcotic haze; I just slip into sounds and I'm home...
	👻 11:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I've always been into this sort of repetitive electronic soundscape. It's not great to call it "trance-inducing" necessarily, but it's a more proper new age music to me.
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:05 We loose some to time and to death. But some just disappear - even after 20+ years of history - and you are left to wonder what happened. It's been a combination of all of them, in the last several years.
	👻 11:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @11:00 Thanks Heather!
	👻 11:10pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 I know that well. Especially when we lose touch simply because the other person prefers social media to communicate on. Some people are just unable to get back to telephone, much less email or text... Gone forever, unless I sign back into social media.
	11:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 I never read that series, but the character did make a guest appearance in "Howard the Duck". The demonic portion of Damian Hellstrom's soul posessed Howard, transforming him into the Duck of Satan.
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:10 Or gone forever, because of politics, or culture. Or because they were never much there to begin with. Covid sort of broke our culture in a big way. Ghosting has become a way of life.
	👻 11:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 Oh yes he did! Damn, I could talk about Howard The Duck all day. THAT book changed me in ways I still don't fully understand...
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: You can still leave comments, but they are now at the bottom of the page.
	👻 11:13pm Arvo Zylo: I saw the movie Howard The Duck in theaters when I was a kid, but never read the comics. Damn.
	11:14pm Mr. X: Great show, Arvo! Lots of cool tunes! Thanks for hosting, Austin!
	👻 11:14pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks Austin! And thanks to everyone who listened!
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:13 I like that movie for nostalgic reasons, but you can imagine how angry I was at the time, when it wasn't anything like the comic. The comic is... just bonkers in the best possible way. There's nothing like it but... Ambush Bug, maybe?
	11:15pm WR: Over already? I got cozy in bed and was drifting in the stream. Thank you Arvo and Austin!
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: One more AI song about Arvo Zylo DJing on Mid-Valley Mutations...
	👻 11:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:16 I am very amused! Thanks for taking the time!
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: "tune to Zylo's hard refrain..."
	11:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 When asked about the movie, Howard's creator Steve Gerber said "What can I say? It sucked."
	👻 11:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:16 Thank you! Sleep well!
	👻 11:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:17 It has a few Gerber touches. But it's nothing like the comic. And in the movie there are Duck Boobs. It's unsettling.
	👻 11:18pm Arvo Zylo: I hope this will be in the archive....
	👻 11:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:18 I'll see what I can do...
	👻 2:59am Arvo Zylo: For the record, I am sure someone has played Ghoulardi and Wolfman Jack better than I, but I had to light a candle, pass the torch, whatever. I did play an episode of Night Gallery on air, where an homage to Wolfman Jack was clearly the idea. That was on my last show at WLUW, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks again for having me!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 24, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Self-Released	2024	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Skatt Bros.	Walk The Night "Walk The Night" by "Skatt Bros."	Strange Spirits	Casablanca	1979	0:10:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux	Fire (Arthur Brown cover)	Press Color	Light In The Attic	1979	0:14:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Blue Russell	I Wanna Fly Away "I Wanna Fly Away" by "Blue Russell"	I Wanna Fly Away	Dark Entries	1984	0:19:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julia Claire	Cat In Disguise "Cat In Disguise" by "Julia Claire"	Cat In Disguise	Leiber Records	1987	0:23:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pussycats	I Want Your Love (1965)	Girls In The Garage Vol. 11	Romulan Records		0:29:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Herbi Silvers & His Orchestra (featuring theremin by Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman)	I’m So Attracted To You	"I’m So Attracted To You" b/w "No More Sunshine"	Sutter	1960	0:31:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Judy Tenuta	[Excerpt] "[Excerpt]" by "Judy Tenuta"	Undated Youtube Clip			0:33:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Andrea Tosi	La Sorella Di Christine	La Sorella Di Christine			0:36:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
""
Wolfman Jack	[Excerpt] "[Excerpt]" by "Wolfman Jack"	17 October 1967	XERB Radio Archive		0:40:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cannibal & The Headhunters	Devil In Disguise	Land of 1000 Dances	CBS	1965	0:44:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ministry	Friend of The Devil (Grateful Dead cover)	The Bridge School Concerts Vol. One	Reprise	1997	0:46:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs	Devil Do	You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying	Damaged Goods	2007	0:49:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Izzy Cox	Devil, Devil "Devil, Devil" by "Izzy Cox"	Rodentum: The Best of Dark Roots Music Vol. 4	Devil’s Ruin Records	2010	0:53:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Duane Eddy	The Desert Rat "The Desert Rat" by "Duane Eddy"	The Best of…			0:57:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
""
Ghoulardi	Ghoulardi 1/Ghoulardi Surf	Voyage To The Bottom of The Barrell			1:04:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	a song				1:04:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ghoulardi	Ghoulardi Surf "Ghoulardi Surf" by "Ghoulardi"	Ghoulardi Surf			1:07:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chance Halliday	Bury Me Deep "Bury Me Deep" by "Chance Halliday"	Halloween Nuggets: Monster Sixties a Go-Go			1:05:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Salty Holmes	The Ghost Song "The Ghost Song" by "Salty Holmes"	Season's Greetings - The Shadow Knows More - 35 Scary Tales From The Vaults Of Horror	Bear Family	2020	1:10:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rosemary Clooney	The Wobblin’ Goblin	"Punky Punkin" b/w "The Wobblin’ Goblin"	Columbia	1951	1:12:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Monocles	The Boogie Man "The Boogie Man" by "The Monocles"	The Spider, The Fly, & The Boogie Man	Out-Sider	2015	1:15:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ghoulardi	Ghoulardi 6 / Ghoulardi 7	Voyage To The Bottom of the Barrell			1:17:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	a song				1:19:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jimmy McGriff	Turn Blue "Turn Blue" by "Jimmy McGriff"	The Great Jimmy McGriff			1:19:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
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Gary Allen	Oops! It’s An Accident	In White America: This Hollow Valley Broken Jaw Of Our Lost Kingdom	19 Ninety 9	1982	1:23:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kiss The Anus of A Black Cat	Nihil, As In Nihilism	If The Sky Falls, We Shall Catch Larks	9000 Records	2015	1:25:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bobby Soxx	Scavenger of Death "Scavenger of Death" by "Bobby Soxx"	Learn To Hate In The 80’s	Cheap Rewards Records	1981	1:33:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Prick (Kevin McMahon)	Wet Cat "Wet Cat" by "Prick (Kevin McMahon)"	The Wreckard	Lucky Pierre Music	2002	1:37:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Baby Sticks And The Kingtones	Pigmeat	Jungle Exotica			1:40:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
""
The Cactus Blossoms	Powder Blue "Powder Blue" by "The Cactus Blossoms"	You’re Dreaming	Walkie Talkie Records	2016	1:44:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Daniel Figgis	Alison Creaking "Alison Creaking" by "Daniel Figgis"	Skipper	Rough Trade	1995	1:46:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Troum	Ananke "Ananke" by "Troum"	Synistа́nai	Aquarellist	2020	1:50:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown)	Love Is A Spirit	Kingdom Come	Swordfish Records	1974	1:54:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: John Barry	Midnight Cowboy "Midnight Cowboy" by "John Barry"	Midnight Cowboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	United Artists	1969	1:58:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
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Robert Rental	Colourblind "Colourblind" by "Robert Rental"	Mental Detentions	Klanggalerie	1979	2:02:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Self-Released	2024

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:43pm Arvo Zylo: Greetings!
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties!
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hello! Welcome to the Jumble! My head is mashed up too.
	9:01pm Geoff-U: Hello Mid-valley mutants
	9:01pm Geoff-U: /me is quite literally in the mid-valley right now... Corvallis
	👻 9:02pm Heather Z: Made it home from my friend's set just in time to tune in on the dot! Looking forward to the show tonight!
	9:03pm Imaginos: Glad to be here
	9:03pm WR: Hello Austin and Arvo. Here for just a bit, fading here. Hear ya later in the archive.
	👻 9:04pm Arvo Zylo: Hi Everybody! Thanks for tuning in!
	9:07pm Geoff-U: haha sweet intro
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for joining us! We've got a little silliness before his set kicks in...
	👻 9:08pm Arvo Zylo: Damn! This is a wild, prime time big budget intro!
	9:08pm Geoff-U: I heard Trent Reznor produced this and it cost $153,000
	👻 9:08pm Arvo Zylo: I feel like I am being introduced on MTV!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:08 We're in negotiations to have it over the end-credits for a winter blockbuster.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:08 I asked an AI to write a song about you hosting my show, with the title, "Scarlet Begonias." It spat out a few. We'll hear another at the VERY end, after your set is over.
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 I was wondering if it was AI. I still don't know how to use AI to make music, partly because I would probably use it too much, but that was impressive!
	👻 9:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Walk The Night" by "Skatt Bros." Featuring Sean Delaney, who worked with KISS "behind the scenes" in the 70s.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone for showing up tonight: Imaginos, Krys O, Geoff-U, WR, Heather Z, and any lurkers out there!
	9:15pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Well thank you for the show!
	9:16pm Krys O.: Good night, folks! Take care.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 We should meet up next month. I'm playing two masked shows, one in Eugene, and one in Salem, in October! I think you'd dig it.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Fire (Arthur Brown cover)" by "Lizzy Mercier Desc... I do not remember the movie that had this song in it recently, but I've been fond of it for years. It might have been the film "Dog Man" which is recommended, if anyone feels like it. Either that, or it was a film called "Femme", which is essentially about a gay man in drag who seduces a homophobic/closeted man and outs him...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 Sleep well, Krys! Thanks for helping out last hour.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 Goodnight, Krys O.!
	9:17pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 „Lurkers aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!“
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Fire (Arthur Brown cover)" by "Lizzy Mercier Desc... I love Arthur Brown, thanks to my mother being a fan, but I have never heard this. Pretty cool! Thanks for the tip...
	9:18pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I'd love that. I'll keep an eye out. I have a few things going in Oct. but it's much less crazy that Sept ended up being
	👻 9:18pm Arvo Zylo: Dog Man: www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I love Arthur Brown too, have pics with him after one of his shows. He did not perform the song "Fire", though.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @9:17 Thanks for joining the digital salon tonight! I'm not good with foriegn languages, but is that a mangled Marx Quote?
	9:19pm Geoff-U: I'm also working furiously on arranging the next Regional Processing Facility release for the exchange project... hoping to make it by the end of Sept, stay tuned haha
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:18 Oct 21 in Eugene, Oct 28 in Salem. I'm opening for Mike Watt's trio!
	9:20pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Oh damn, fancy!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 I thought you had seen him. (I have not.) Still, he's got some great songs that aren't "Fire."
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:19 Rad! I didn't want to bring it up, but I was wondering.
	9:21pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 You say "mangled," I say "adapted." 😉
	👻 9:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 It was really a great experience. I believe that man has a great deal of Kundalini.
	9:21pm Imaginos: Sorry about not talking much tonight. My mind is awake and enjoying, but my eyes keep drifting shut
	👻 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: Femme: www.imdb.com...
	9:22pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 It will go out soonish (I already have art and packaging mostly done) but might be a tiny bit late.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 I understand. You don't have to chat every time. It is always nice to hear from you.
	9:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Hey Austin and folks! I’d ask Mike Watt to record an ID for us, but it would probably turn into a 10-minute “spiel”!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 Ha! Yeah, that would be great. He would probably be into it. There's usually some down-time before gigs.
	👻 9:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 I think Watt just does that when he is excited. I'm sure he can reel it in when the setting calls for it.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cat In Disguise" by "Julia Claire" Thanks for this song, Arvo! I'd never heard it, and of course, I'm a sucker for stuff about cats. We just got our third cat. Three cats is a lot. I love them all, but damn... they can cause a BIG ruckus, now.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ^ sneaks in
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:25 At this point you've introduced him to a number of folks, too.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Mr. X! Hooray, now the party can start.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Damn straight!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Want Your Love (1965)" by "The Pussycats" I love this label, and they have a number of great comps. But this series is sort of essential.
	👻 9:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Especially if they are still fighting! I know some cats have knocked everything off the mantles and my cat stated off jumping on my turntable when it was playing. Glad you dig it, trying to keep it upbeat for once... at least for a good while.
	9:30pm Imaginos: Who remembers The Cat Came Back?
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Certainly!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:30 They are not fighting, they get along pretty well. But they can get loud if they all start meowing, and they chase each other for fun, which can get loud, and knock stuff over. It's certainly a lot sometimes.
	👻 9:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 I had to look it up, can't lie. Will check it out. For the record, I almost played a piece that I found on archive.org of someone making a drone of cats purring... Didn't fit
	9:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 What is new kitty's name?
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Judy Tenuta" I love everything about this.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:33 Leander. We thought it was a girl at first, because its a siamese that is very pretty. But we had it checked, it's male.
	9:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Great tune!
	9:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 nice
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Judy Tenuta" Her appearance on Space Ghost Coast To Coast was pretty legendary, too. She is the best thing.
	9:36pm Imaginos: Then there's this little ditty... youtu.be...
	👻 9:36pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I saw a pic of the new guy! He's a real beauty! I have a soft spot for boy Siamese cats because we had a wonderful man, Simon, when I was a kid. He was such a Good Cat. Congratulations on your new baby!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:36 Essential!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:36 The cat adopted us, and started living under our house, meowing until Marla noticed it. She made an appointment to have the vet check it's chip. It didn't have a chip, and the vet said it had probably been homeless for "quite some time." It was only two, and since we can't reconnect it to any possible previous owner, we decided to adopt it.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 That's so sweet! Beautiful Leander is lucky to have adopted himself into such a loving home! Lucky guy, for sure...
	👻 9:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "La Sorella Di Christine" by "Andrea Tosi" The cat cover I was referring to: www.discogs.com...
	9:44pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Congrats on the new kitty
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: This is probably the only pet I've ever named, since I was very young, and named a kitten that, unfortunately, did not live long. The other pets in my life were named by other folks.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:44 That's a great cat cover! Meow!
	9:45pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "[Excerpt]" by "Wolfman Jack" Reminds me of American Graffiti, which had no plot, so it was really all about Wolfman Jack.
	👻 9:46pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:45 I do not know for sure if I ever saw that one, although it feels like one of those I watched with a few drinks...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:45 I sort of remember a few "intertwined" plots, with Wolfman connecting them all. (And not much really happens, except all the kids naively don't realize what's just around the corner...)
	👻 9:46pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 That's so good! What's the inspiration? I wasn't the one who named my Nigel but the name did suit him.perfectly.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Friend of The Devil (Grateful Dead cover)" by "Mi... The least Ministry sounding recording in their catalog, even accounting for their first album.)
	👻 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Friend of The Devil (Grateful Dead cover)" by "Mi... A few months ago, I listened to The Grateful Dead for four days straight. It was agony. It was really hard. This song, however, is the only song by them I truly like. The rest are barely tolerable at best.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:46 Named after the story of "Hero and Leander." www.britannica.com...
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: Re Wolfman Jack, when my dad was in college, his glee club took him to Ballston Spa, NY, where he and a bunch of the guys were put up at Wolfman Jack's mom's house. They got to drink and sing along with all the records he'd left at home. Everyone thought that was pretty neat.
	👻 9:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I guess it was an acoustic/"unplugged" set, had an appearance by Eddie Vedder for a version of the Midnight Cowboy theme...
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:48 I"m with you; I'm not a fan, usually, but this isn't so bad.
	9:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 I think the most memorable scene is when they wrapped a chain around the axle of a cop car, which promptly fell apart when the cop took off after a hot rodder. Everybody loves a good cop car wreck.
	👻 9:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Al Jourgensen has a side project called "Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters" where the studio version resides. It is less metal and less electronic, for sure.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 Oh, yes! I was trying to recall what film that was in.
	👻 9:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 That is incredible!
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Devil Do" by "Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs" This is, apparently, a Holly Golightly album I somehow missed. So thank you!
	👻 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I remember that! I must have seen it, need a refresher.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: We are now finally on the other side of a 90 degree day. This is, apparently, going to be the last hot day of the season. Sort of marks the end of summer in a more real way.
	👻 9:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Glad you dig it! Actually this might be the only one I know. First discovered it in the catalog at WZRD.
	👻 9:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:51 I would have never heard the story had I not been to Ballston Spa last year and mentioned it to my dad! He was just sitting on that memory all these years! Also, you're slaying tonight! I'm enjoying the show, as I always do!
	👻 9:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:54 Thanks Heather! It is an honor to be in the company of such talented and decent humans!
	9:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:50 I love that album. It really does sound like: what if Ministry went country. Sample song title: “I Hate Every Bone In Your Body (Except Mine)”
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I was never afraid of the Devil, but I was not raised in a religious house, either, so our family never talked about the Devil. Or God. Or much of anything with any religious angle to it. I often have to remind myself that songs about the devil sort of hit different outside of heathen upbringings. I never understood what Churchs even were until I was almost in High School, and some kid tried to get me to go with him.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Desert Rat" by "Duane Eddy" Hell yeah! I always associate this song with Ghoulardi... as I'm sure many do...
	👻 9:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I'm glad it was finally finished. He'd been talking about it since Revolting Cocks existed in proper form. I can't get into the production all the way, but "Take Me Away" is a special tune on that one.
	9:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 It's kind of amazing that the comic book Hot Stuff was approved for children. I don't think that would be allowed in this day and age.
	9:59pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Pretty much the opposite of my hardcore Irish Catholic upbringing. We were all part of a great cosmic battle against Satan. And YOU are one of the Lord’s soldiers! Our weekly church services did instill in me a love of creepy organ music.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:58 Ha! There was a lot of stuff like that back in the day. There was a comic book called, "Son of Satan," that I have a few issues of, and seems like it would be hard to make now.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 I have been curious about going to churches almost entirely for the music.
	👻 10:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 I have seen some pretty massive pipe organs in churches. None of them have let me play with them! I've sent formal request letters with highlights from my career as a noise musician!
	10:04pm Mr. X: Ghoulardi figured prominently in my childhood in Akron. Austin has done a show about him, too.
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: Portughoul!!!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: I first heard about Ghoulardi in 2011, and immediately did a radio show featuring clips of him. I was obsessed with Horror Hosts at the time, and had just seen a great documentary that featured him, and many others. I've featured him on a few shows since then. He is the best...
	👻 10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:04 I've heard the show that Austin did! This show was in the making before that, I'm crazy like that.
	👻 10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 I mean the one that he aired for a fill-in slot here, there may have been another before that...
	10:06pm Mr Fab: Sheena’s own Dr Sarcophaguy was featured in a documentary about horror hosts.
	👻 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: We seem to have a skipped track in the playlist, Ghoulardi Surf
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 There was, back in 2011, October 8th. About two months after I first saw the documentary, "American Scary." blasphuphmusradio.wordpress.com...
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:07 Oh, sorry!
	👻 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:06 I'd watch the heck outta that!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:07 Here's a link about it. Not sure where you can watch it. That was also the first time I heard of Dr. Sarcophaguy: watching that same documentary. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:10pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:07 Actually, I missed something, we are on track.
	10:10pm Mr. X: Mid-Valley Mutations always gets an early start on Halloween.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I was looking at my Halloween shows from 2004 - the first year I did Halloween Radio. My first Halloween shows was the last week of September, that year, too.
	👻 10:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Thanks!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Here's the final "dumb" connection to "American Scary" that might amuse some listeners: I found out about the film because they used some music by MX-80 in the soundtrack, and I read about that on a website about MX-80. So I thought I'd check out the documentary, since I liked horror hosts AND MX-80.
	👻 10:16pm Heather Z: I'm such a sucker for Rosemary Clooney.... and anything Halloween!
	👻 10:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I like to play Halloween music whenever I feel like it. Not long ago, I played "Halloween Is Black As Night" by Jackson C Frank, and "Halloween Party" by Jack Starr
	👻 10:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:16 I have to check if I have ever played it on air before, but I love Rosemary Clooney's collaboration with Perez Prado!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I can't recall; was Rosemary Clooney the one who had the swear jar in the studio, and would make the session players cough up if they started getting too "blue"?
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:17 I don't know this at all and definitely should! Appropriately, I'm working right now on a spoooooky haunted house diamond art, though!
	👻 10:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 If I were a rich patron of the arts, I'd buy many of your diamond art pieces! I don't feel that I would have a great time making diamond art, but I like it in concept!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: David Thomas - who also lived in the same area - used to quip that the Cramps weren't interesting to him, because Ghoulardi had already done it.
	👻 10:23pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 You wouldn't even need to be rich! They're just little kits! But they do take some time... I bet I'll send you some kind of thing one of these days!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: I've gotten a couple of Halloween DJ gigs, the first in 2004. But it's not an easy gig to do, depending on the venue. I did one gig at a bar on Halloween and it was not a great gig, and then took forever to get home after since traffic was garbage that night. So it can be good / can be headachey.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oops! It’s An Accident" by "Gary Allen" I do love this tune. Thanks again for this one, Arvo.
	👻 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I have done some Halloween DJ gigs. Most recent was 2017. It really depends on the crowd, and the key is to not take it personal when people don't get into it. It's because they're scum!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oops! It’s An Accident" by "Gary Allen" This is the 80's that I am nostalgic for. As I get older, I find the typical 80's "pap" you hear at bars and dance clubs to be fairly boring anymore. It's just... always the same 20 songs...
	👻 10:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Recent fill-ins are more recent discoveries, but I've kept the sets for you after having gone quite a while without DJing on the radio, so it has been a long time of boiling and writing crazy scrawling notes in old, withered notebooks and things. I haven't done weekly radio since 2014, but I still have the habit of making mental notes of things to do when the opportunity comes.
	👻 10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:23 I would be absolutely thrilled. There is a place for it on my closet door, just waiting. I loved the skull/frog one you did recently!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Nihil, As In Nihilism" by "Kiss The Anus of A Bla... Umm... we have a black cat.? Nothing personal, but I'll take a pass on that.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:27 It's been almost 10 years since our first radio collaboration. Though we haven't really done it consistently, until the last few years.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 It's certainly a bold band name, if not memorable.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 (We have two black cats... I'll pass, twice!)
	👻 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I used to bartend and serve at weddings. I know that 80s playlist all too well. I was asked to DJ a wedding, and I was peeved when I was expected to do too much that resembled those playlists. I regret not doing it, because it was a friend of mine, but I thought I was asked to have more input, and be able to nix Phil Collins if I wanted...
	👻 10:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Apparently taken from an old spell book...
	👻 10:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Good times!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Yeah, weddings are hard. I've done a few. I did one for free, then after that started charging. People pay a lot for music at weddings, and for that I'm happy to let them tell me what to play. I usually get free drinks, food, and paid... it's not a bad deal. But not always fun.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:28 I haven't sealed that one yet but I will soon! I could always buy another one to do for here, after all! And thanks for the nice words about it!! That was a big one!
	10:33pm Mr. X: Toss that A-ha song too.
	👻 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 I think my first set for you was a Halloween set, incidentally...
	10:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 Funny you mention this, I've gotten back into digging into weird '80s obscurities. I've been compiling albums for my Bandcamp record "label" and thought I might actually move beyond 1950s/60s into punk/wave vinyl.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:33 It was!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:33 Please?
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 I need to buy one of your comps. Are there more than one? The first one you did was great!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Oh, damn. There are tons! Yes, buy some Mr. Fab bounty! jungleroomrecords1.bandcamp.com
	👻 10:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 I like a lot of '80s music. I'm more about the overall sound than the melodies, but it's also quirkiness that interests me. I have listened to plenty of old New Wave and Synth Pop, but there is definitely still a desire to hear more of the obscure/outsider stuff that is beyond our introductory "outsider" artists.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wet Cat" by "Prick (Kevin McMahon)" That poor wet cat. You shouldn't go out in the rain!
	10:38pm Mr Fab: Thanks, ha yes, there's lots now. It hasn't really made much of a dent in the money we owe (the reason I started the label), but still, it's fun to do.
	👻 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:33 It definitely sets my mind rolling. I have been slowly trying to figure out how to design things like that.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 Yeah. I love doing radio and music, but my student loans aren't closer to being paid and are like an axe hanging over me at times...
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 A friend gave me some canvases he's done vinyl printing on and he wants me to paint them and then apply diamonds. I have ideas for the one but the other, I'm a little stumped. I'll see what I can do soon, though! I'm absolutely not a visual artist but the stones are sparkly and pretty and maybe harder to mess up.
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 Oh wow, that's cool you are paying royalties and whatnot though!
	10:42pm Geoff-U: Great songs, Arvo... I had to step away from chat to make dinner but the show's on the bluetooth speaker
	10:43pm Geoff-U: Good stuff :)
	👻 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Geoff-U @10:42 Badass! Thanks for listening over dinner!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:42 Enjoy dinner!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: On the subject of the "Bloodstains" series: this is the one I have, of all Eugene, OR stuff. If I recall correctly, it was one of those "open source" ideas, where they encouraged people to do their own local versions. littlewilly.bandcamp.com...
	👻 10:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Powder Blue" by "The Cactus Blossoms" Revivalist vibes are hit and miss, but this song does the job quite well for me.
	10:45pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Powder Blue" by "The Cactus Blossoms" Everly Bros. wannabes?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 Almost.
	👻 10:48pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Cool! I can't say I've heard of a single one of those bands! I like Stick Men with Ray Guns a lot, so I looked into what else there might be with side projects and whatnot.
	👻 10:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 I like The Everley Brothers, and Phil Spector's work, but David Lynch worship is what came to mind...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:48 I'm a sucker for the Eugene Scene, even though I've moved away and haven't really been connected to it directly in years, aside from Don Haugen, who IS the Eugene Scene, in my opinion.
	👻 10:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 That is funny because to me he has such a non-presence online, but apparently he books a lot of shows down there. I have thought about going, he invited me to do a show, but who knows when that might happen. Great guy, though.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:52 He is a very personal person, who has made a lot of connections with a lot of artists and venues, and has been doing it since the late 80's. So he's a little old-school in some ways. He arranged the Watt show in Eugene, and he's playing on that bill with me, too.
	👻 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Spirit" by "Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown)" This was really wonderful to hear live.
	👻 10:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Wicked!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:54 Yeah, this song is sort of the best thing ever.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Spirit" by "Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown)" I've been very unhappy the last few years. Nearly inconsolable, if I'm honest. Lost some very close friends and family. But I have my partner, my wife, Marla, and even when there are few other things, we still have each other. And our cats.
	👻 10:58pm Heather Z: We're to about that time so just wanted to be sure to thank you both, Austin and Arvo, for a great listen tonight! I always love tuning into MVM and tonight was no different!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:58 We will be going about 20 minutes long tonight.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I'll stay tuned in!
	👻 11:02pm Arvo Zylo: I forgot to say for some reason, that Robert Rental was one of the first, if not thee first artist on Mute Records...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Colourblind" by "Robert Rental" Yeah, this is what my ears crave these days...
	👻 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 I'm sorry. I've lost some friends to drugs, suicide, and other things. Grief is a natural process and time doesn't ever fully heal it, but it does change us in ways that allow for more empathy, which is a tool that needs to be utilized properly for survival, more than any other "coping mechanism", as far as I'm concerned. All my best to you, sir, in your recovery.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Another person said this on a different podcast - The Flophouse, if you're curious - but it resonated with me SO much. I'm paraphrasing, but he was talking about how, because he is of a certain age, particular kinds of electronic music is like catnip to him. I agree. It's like a narcotic haze; I just slip into sounds and I'm home...
	👻 11:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I've always been into this sort of repetitive electronic soundscape. It's not great to call it "trance-inducing" necessarily, but it's a more proper new age music to me.
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:05 We loose some to time and to death. But some just disappear - even after 20+ years of history - and you are left to wonder what happened. It's been a combination of all of them, in the last several years.
	👻 11:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @11:00 Thanks Heather!
	👻 11:10pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 I know that well. Especially when we lose touch simply because the other person prefers social media to communicate on. Some people are just unable to get back to telephone, much less email or text... Gone forever, unless I sign back into social media.
	11:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 I never read that series, but the character did make a guest appearance in "Howard the Duck". The demonic portion of Damian Hellstrom's soul posessed Howard, transforming him into the Duck of Satan.
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:10 Or gone forever, because of politics, or culture. Or because they were never much there to begin with. Covid sort of broke our culture in a big way. Ghosting has become a way of life.
	👻 11:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 Oh yes he did! Damn, I could talk about Howard The Duck all day. THAT book changed me in ways I still don't fully understand...
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: You can still leave comments, but they are now at the bottom of the page.
	👻 11:13pm Arvo Zylo: I saw the movie Howard The Duck in theaters when I was a kid, but never read the comics. Damn.
	11:14pm Mr. X: Great show, Arvo! Lots of cool tunes! Thanks for hosting, Austin!
	👻 11:14pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks Austin! And thanks to everyone who listened!
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:13 I like that movie for nostalgic reasons, but you can imagine how angry I was at the time, when it wasn't anything like the comic. The comic is... just bonkers in the best possible way. There's nothing like it but... Ambush Bug, maybe?
	11:15pm WR: Over already? I got cozy in bed and was drifting in the stream. Thank you Arvo and Austin!
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: One more AI song about Arvo Zylo DJing on Mid-Valley Mutations...
	👻 11:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:16 I am very amused! Thanks for taking the time!
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: "tune to Zylo's hard refrain..."
	11:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 When asked about the movie, Howard's creator Steve Gerber said "What can I say? It sucked."
	👻 11:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:16 Thank you! Sleep well!
	👻 11:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:17 It has a few Gerber touches. But it's nothing like the comic. And in the movie there are Duck Boobs. It's unsettling.
	👻 11:18pm Arvo Zylo: I hope this will be in the archive....
	👻 11:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:18 I'll see what I can do...
	👻 2:59am Arvo Zylo: For the record, I am sure someone has played Ghoulardi and Wolfman Jack better than I, but I had to light a candle, pass the torch, whatever. I did play an episode of Night Gallery on air, where an homage to Wolfman Jack was clearly the idea. That was on my last show at WLUW, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks again for having me!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 24, 2024

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