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The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out a Motivational Karo

Anybody Wanna Watch Some Bloody F. Mess?

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So a little Bloody Birdy tells me that Nick Zedd ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Zedd ) filmed this video.  Check it out.  Bloody is thriving in Oregon.  He's making a (309) run and playing PEORIA PIZZA WORKS on April 19th with Divine Dirt/The Sadistic Cowboys/Super 88/ The River Bottom Scum (  https://www.facebook.com/events/438268770344412/  ) Here's another video with his band, DIVINE DIRT . Warning, there is a little graphic depictioning of drug use. I first discovered Bloody listening to WWCT's Lytle & Lamb morning show in High School.  My friend Bobby Schifano (RIP) and I came across his fantastic cassette, "6th Grade Field Trip" and a Black & Blue Records comp at MOTHER MURPHY 's.  He bought one, I bought the other. Somewhere along the line, he put out a local music compilation, CONCRETE & CORNFIELDS  (1998).  When I heard about that, I tracked him down and sent him a demo, in the hopes of making the next comp.  Ge