beating heart

Don’t be ridiculous. There’s not a giant beating heart in the middle of the town square, suspended by strange ropy red cabling, powering the dark forces that have swept through the village. That’s ridiculous. How would that even work?

It’s obviously a metaphor. As such, it can be wrestled with symbolically, perhaps with wheat paste posters, but you absolutely shouldn’t fire a rocket launcher at it over the heads of the vampire lords who’ve replaced the local government.

The Signal: EP182

An animated gif from EYES OF FIRE. A woman, feathers in her hair, looks up, startled. A face appears in a tree. text: THE SIGNAL: EP182

The Signal: EP182 – Exactly 45 minutes of music that may not be what you want, but it’s what you need. This time out, we’ve got movin’, we got groovin’… we’ve got garage punk from Austria and Indonesia, drum & bass, Yugoslavian jazz from the 70s, synth pop, Indian-American hip-hop, crackly Armenian vinyl and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. I keep a list but I do it manually. Or just keep coming back here every once in awhile. It’s a free country.

low cost halloween costumes you can make yourself!

1. Can of soda – Hold can of soda out front of you, don’t do anything to draw attention to yourself behind the soda can

2. Sheet – Crawl under a sheet. Don’t come out ’til November.

3. Frankenstein – Allow your breast to swell with unimaginable hubris. Truly believe that any you create puts you on par with the Creator, whom you intend to surpass.

4. Dracula – Bite someone. After being invited, of course.

dubdubdubdub

The Signal – DUBdubdubdub. Something a little different this time out: a selection of dub techno, to accompany any flow state activity you might be engaged in.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. 

The Signal: EP181

The Signal: EP181 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed to make you spin in place and open your chestplate to let your heart light shine. This time out we’ve got hip hop, grime beats, drum & bass, post punk and punk-punk, retro-80s pop and griot music from Mauritania. Where else you gonna go to find a mix like that, eh?

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. I keep a list but I do it manually, like an Ancient. I write the emails with a quill.

The Signal: EP180

The Signal: EP180 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed by expert ears to soothe your inner monkey. This time out we’ve got a Peruvian/Spanish-French polyglot pop, Fleetwood Mac-style vibes, wall of sound shoegaze, planetary core-deep bass, dubbed out reggae and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, you can ask to be added to the mailing list that I maintain by hand, though I admit that requires you to know how to reach me. You can figure it out.

secret circus

The sound of a circus in the kitchen. A big top underneath the table. Ducking between the legs of grown-ups, towards the smell of sawdust and cotton candy.

Three rings down there, somehow. Eye contact with the ring leader who sends an assistant to take your hand, lead you to a spotlighted door.

Through the door and it latches behind with a click, a final click, and you’re in the Clown Room. The infinite space they dwell in until some reckless fool opens a clown car door.

daily dracula

Dracula [flipping through the letters he asked me to write so he can send them over a period of days and pretend he isn’t holding me hostage]: Why do each of these end with the “Like, Comment, and Subscribe” above your signature?

Me [eating a fly]: Algorithms, man.

The Signal: EP179

a parade of Walkman cassette players with the text The Signal: EP179

The Signal: EP179 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to snap your Walkman shut to, rhythmically, as if it were a percussion instrument. This time out we’ve got some rollicking rock, punk from Australia and Sweden, drum & bass, post-punk dub gems, surf and funk instrumentals, and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, you can ask to be added to the mailing list that I maintain by hand, like some sort of outlander posted in the wilderness.

Know your audience

twitter version:
I’ve signed this dumb ghost up for, like, at least three different Twitter accounts so far, but no, it prefers to write in blood on my wall.

I CAN’T RETWEET A BLOOD WALL, DUDE

mastodon version:

I’ve signed this dumb ghost up for, like, at least three different Mastodon accounts so far, but no, it prefers to write in blood on my wall.

No one can follow your blood wall, dude. It’s just me and a growing pile of blood-soaked paper towels.