Selected Prose and Poems...

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/30/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Randy Greif - Dark Matter Technology (Check it out here)

3. Kain - Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby (The Blue Guerrilla)

4. Kenneth Rexroth - Thou Shalt Not Kill (In Memory of Dylan Thomas) (Poetry Readings in the Cellar)

5. The Tony Hatch Sound - Man Alive (V.A. - The Easy Project II - House of Loungecore)

6. Peggy Lee - Johnny Guitar (The Best of the Decca Years)

7. Samba Soul - Garato de Ipanema / Manha de Carnaval (S/T)

8. Gabor Szabo - Stormy (1969)

9. Grant Green - Ezz-Thetic (The Best of Grant Green - Vol. 1)

10. '68 Comeback - Richman, Richman (Mr. Downchild)

11. Bert Convy - The Gorilla (V.A. - Monster Bop)

12. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Girl Get a Hold of Yourself (the Classic Collection)

13. Merle Haggard - Lonliness is Eating Me Alive (Branded Man)

14. Boyd Rice and Fiends - Their Bad Blood (Wolf Pact)

15. Captain Beefheart - Crazy Little Thing (London 1974)

16. The Ansley Dunbar Retaliation - Memory of Pain (S/T)

17. Larry Page Orchestra - Music for Night People (Music For Night People)

18.Keith Mansfield - Life of Leisure (Time To Fly: KPM 1000 Series Compilation (1970- 1976))

19.Los Stop - Extiende Tus Brazos (!Chicas!: Spanish Female Singers 1962 - 1974)

20. The Flying Lizards - Flicker (The Secret Dub Life of The Flying Lizards)

21. Orchestra Carlo Cordara - Tipsy (V.A. - Mo Plen 2000)

22. Beasts of Bourbon - Cool Fire (Black Milk)

23. The Soul Chargers (Featuring James Fountain) - Soul Charge (Pts 1 and 2) (V.A. - Rare Funk Liberation Vol. 1)

24. Claud Denjean - Venus (V.A. - Dig It! The Sound of Phase 4 Stereo)

25. Beachwood Sparks - Forget the Song (The Tarnished Gold)

26. The Fireballs - Groovy Motions (V.A. - Get Ready To Fly: Pop Psych From the Norman Petty Vaults)

27. Low and Dirty Three - Down by the River (In The Fishtank)

28. Alberta Hunter - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Amtrak Blues)

29. Chet Baker - Trav'lin' Light (Embraceable You)

30. Hugo Race and The True Spirit - Icy Roads (Second Revelator)

31. Canned Heat - Evil is Going On (S/T)

32. Slam Stewart and Major Holley - Misty (Shut Yo' Mouth)

There Was No Show On December the 23rd...

I was digging the Christmas scene in another town.

Let's Have a Beer and Unravel This Dream.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/16/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Brother Theodore - The Willow Landscape (Theodore in Stereo)

3. Embryo - Dreaming Girls (Steig Aus)

4. Bowery Electric - Sounds in Motion / Next to Nothing (S/T)

5. Core (A Conspiracy International Project) - Future Shock (featuring Monte Cazazza) (S/T)

6. Scorn - The End (Remix) (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection - Vol. 1)

7. Hunters & Collectors - World of Stone (S/T)

8. Future Pigeon - High Rolling (ft. Ranking Joe) (The Echodelic Sounds of...)

9. Kris Kristofferson - The Prisoner (Surreal Thing)

10. Giant Sand - Sandman (Long Stem Rant)

11. Tarnation - Halfway to Madness (Gentle Creatures)

12. Ace Cannon - Drunk (The Hi Records Years)

13. Lustmord - Words Of Voice (A Document of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation...)

14. Section 25 - The Wheel (The Key of Dreams)

15. Skeletal Family - Trees (Extra Track on Burning Oil CD release)

16. Kommunity FK - Anti-Pop (The Vision and the Voice)

17. Marc Almond / The Willing Sinners - This House is Haunted (Stories of Johnny)

18. Of Cabbages and Kings - Easiest Room in Hell (Never Too Late)

19. Area - This One (Radio Caroline)

20. Gallon Drunk - Every Second Of Time (Moog Instrumental Version) (Music Inspired by the Film "Black Milk")

21. The Prisoners - Come to the Mushroom (A Taste of Pink)

22. Nancy Sinatra - Coastin' (Sugar)

23. Elvis Presley - Let Yourself Go (Speedway sndtrk)

24. The Litter - She's Not There ($100 Fine)

25. Al Hirt - The Girl From Ipanema (Music to Watch Girl By)

26. Amon Duul II - Hawknose Harlequin (Carnival in Babylon)

27. Gandalf - Can You Travel in the Dark Alone (S/T)

28. The Golden Dawn - My Time (Power Plant)

29. Lalo Schifrin - Main Title / The Cop (Magnum Force Sndtrk)

30. Coil - Hellraiser (Unreleased Themes From Hellraiser)

31. John Patton - Memphis - (Memphis To New York Spirit)

32. Ruts DC Vs. Mad Professor - Rhythm Collision (Rhythm Collision)

33. Tangerine Dream - Fauni-Gena (Atem)

Funky Mandibles and Thin Paper Flowers Falling...Four Weeks of Playlists From The Usual Decaying City!

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/9/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Nocturnal Emissions - Dead Weight (Autonomia)

3. Laika - Breather (Lost in Space)

4. African Head Charge - Far Away Chant (My Life in a Hole in the Ground)

5. Leo Diamond - Dream Train (Subliminal Sounds)

6. John Lee Hooker - Endless Boogie, Parts 27, 28 (Endless Boogie)

7. Soulful Strings - Sleigh Ride (VA - Snow - The Get Easy Christmas Collection 1)

8. Gil Scott-Heron - Plastic Pattern People (Small Talk on 125th and Lenox)

9. Bud Shank - Nocturno (Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!)

10. Shirley Scott - Get Over the Bossa Nova (Latin Shadows)

11. Norma Jean with Bobby Bare and Liz Anserson - Game of Triangles (Heaven Help the Working Girl)

12. Joachim Kühn Group - Depression and Illusion (Bold Music)

13. Atomic Rooster - A Little Bit of Inner Air (Made in England)

14. Chet Baker - A Man and A Women (Into My Life)

15. The Congress of Wonders - Star Trip (“The Dated Edited”) (Revolting)

16. Coleman Hawkins - Easy Walker (Hawk Talk)

1. 17. Pete Terrace - Shangri-La (A Night in Mambo Jazz Land)

18. Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper (Midnight Creeper)

19. Eumir Deodato - Adeus Amigo (Percepção)

20. Gnaw Their Tongues - Glossolalia (Constructing Enochian Temples)

21. Dumptruck - Alive (D is for Dumptruck)

22. Nick Cave - Mack the Knife (September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill)

23. Fatima Mansions - Something Bad (Lost in the Former West)

24. Nico (w/ Lou Reed and John Cale) - Frozen Warnings (Bataclan ’72)

25. Lab Report - Track 2 (Figure - X - 71)

26. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Straight to You (Henry’s Dream)

27. Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Sleep, Safe and Warm (Music of Krzysztof Komeda)

28. Perez Prado - Silverado Mambo (La Nina Pop-off)

29. Marty Wilson - Harlem Nocturne (Jun’Gala)

30. Elisabeth Welch - Stormy Weather (The Ultimate...)

31. Bobby Cole - I’m Growing Old (Point of View)

32. Shirley Scott - Cold Winter Blues (On a Clear Day)

33. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Still in the Kitchen (Distressed Gentlefolk)

34. Julie London - Warm December (Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part 2)

35. Folk Swingers - Eight Miles High (Raga Rock)

36. Einsturzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne (Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings)

37. Roger Roger - Moogy Blues (Chatta Mooga Choo Choo)

38. Gustavo Pimentel - Nocturna - (Gustavo Pimentel Percussion)

38. Slim Gaillard - Sonny Boy (The Legendary McVooty)

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/2/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. T.A.G.C. - Ethermeral (Iso-Erotic Calibrations)

3. Blackworld - Cyber War (Subduing Demons: (In South Yorkshire)

4. Acker Bilk - Moon River (V.A. - Rare Mancini)

5. John Gilmore / Skip Heller - Nightmare on Yucca Street (Laid Bear)

6. Morton Gould - Nocturne (Blues in the Night)

7. Grayghost - AQ 23 Zaq (Thee Musick of Magick)

8. Sand Pepples - The Sundowner (Eastern Terrace)

9. The Damned - Torture Me (Damned But Not Forgotten)

10. Alternative TV - Communicate (Strange Kicks)

11. Einsturzende Neubauten - Armenia (Heat Sndtrk)

12. Iggy Pop (with Annie Ross and the Low Notess) - Evil California (Short Cuts sndtrk)

13. Duke Ellington, Max Roach & Charlie Mingus - Caravan (Money Jungle)

14. Ray Price - Intro / Nightlife (Nightlife)

15. Fifty Foot Hose - Fantasy (Cauldron)

16. Finchley Boys - I’m Not Like Everybody Else (S/T)

17. Martin Denny - Exotic Night (V.A. - Christmas Cocktails - Vol. 2)

18. The Fall - Breman Nacht Run (Backdrop)

19. The Adverts - On Wheels (Crossing the Red Sea with...)

20. Celibate Rifles - Wild Desire (Sofa)

21. Ed Kuepper - Wish You Were Here (Serene Machine)

22. Soft Cell - Numbers (The Art of Falling Apart)

23. Died Pretty - Out of My Head (Lost)

24. Jack Nitzsche – Surf Finger (V.A. - Hard Workin' Man - The Jack Nitzsche Story Volume 2)

25. Leonard Cohen - Memories (Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979)

26. Les Elgart - Moonlight Shuffle (Great Sound of Les Elgart)

27. The James Taylor Quartet - Mr. Cool’s Dream (The Money Spyder)

28. Al “Jazzbo” Collins / Slim Gaillard - Goldilocks (Steve Allen Presents: Grimm Fairy Tales For Hip Kids)

29. Shorty Rogers / Kelly Gordon - Spyder Bug (Bug-In)

30. Lenny Bruce - You’ll Be on the Air Soon (Leeny Bruce is Out Again)

31. Birds ‘N’ Brass - Soul Bossa Nova (Soundsational)

32. Lalo Schifrin - Vaccinated Mushrooms (There a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin’ On)

33. Edmundo Ros and Orchestra - I Came, I Saw, I Cong’d (Dance Again)

34. Chico Hamilton and Fred katz - Satin Doll (Classical Katz)

35. Gil Evans Orchestra - Stratosfunk (Out of the Cool)

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/25/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Ilhan Mimaroglu W/Freddie Hubbard - Threnody for Sharon Tate / This Is Combat I Know (Sing Me a Song of Songmy)

3. Schloss Tegal - Black Static Transmission ( Black Static Transmission)

4. Howard Shore w/ The Kronos Quartet - Fade to Black (Spider sndtrk)

5. Bark Psychosis - Big Shot (V.A. Ambient Extractions - Vol. 1)

6. African Head Charge - Hymn (Songs of Praise)

7. Lightning Hopkins - The World’s in a Tangle (Strikes Again)

8. The Fabulon Triptometer - Psychosis of the Worm (Padded Lounge)

9. Serpent Power - Endless Tunnel (S/T)

10. Thin White Rope - Valley of the Bones (Bottom Feeders EP)

11. Ry Cooder - Define Violence (The End of Violence sndtrk)

12. Doodles - Track 7 (? Something in Japanese ?)

13. Giant Sand - October Anywhere (Valley of Rain)

14. The Aints - A Good Soundtrack (Ascension)

15. Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes - I’ll Set the Scene (My Life on the Plains)

16. Kevin Ayers - Falling in Love Again (Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today))

17. Plan 9 - Street of Painted Lips (Keep Your Cool and Read the Rules)

18. Hula - Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (Best of...)

19. Bobby Hutcherson - Camel Rise (Montara)

20. Paul Desmond (with Wanda Sa) - To Say Goodbye (From the Hot Afternoon)

21. Nancy Sinatra - By the Way (I Still Love You) (Country My Way)

22. James Moody - Stella By Starlight - (Hey, It’s James Moody)

23. Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On To A Dream? (Tim Hardin 1)

24. Ray Barretto - Acid (Acid)

25. Merit Hemmingson & The Meritones ‎– Always Something There To Remind Me (At The Esquire Club, Discotheque Dance A Go Go)

26. Simon Bonney - Ruby (Everyman)

27. Tangerine Dream - Main Title (Sorcerer sndtrk)

28. Carlos Peron - Breakin’ In (Die Schwarze Spinne sndtrk)

29. Al “Jazzbo” Collins - Three Little Pigs (Steve Allen’s Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids)

30. Michael Rother - Zyklodrom (Flammende Herzen)

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/18/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Tim Hardin - Midnight Caller (Simple Song of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection)

3. Blackbeard (Dennis Bovell) - ‘Nough (I Wah Dub)

4. Marlene Dietrich - Honeysuckle Rose (In London)

5. Psychic TV - Just Drifting (For Caresse) (Force The Hand Of Chance)

6. Julie London - Light My Fire (Yummy, Yummy, Yummy)

7. Clock DVA - Dark Encounter (Advantage)

8. The Associates - A Matter of Gender (The Affectionate Punch)

9. Tiffany Anders / Boyd Rice - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Grace of My Heart sndtrk)

10. Billy Strange / Gene Norman - Rockford Files Theme (Secret Agent Files)

11. Leonard Cohen - Came So Far For Beauty (Recent Songs)

12. Medium Cool (with Adele Bertei) - How Long Has This Been Going On? (Imagination)

13. Harmonia - Gollum (De Luxe)

14. Lambert & Nuttycombe - Putting Myself Together Again (At Home)

15. Vic Damone - Hawaiian Wedding Song (Strange Enchantment)

16. Biff Bang Pow - Waterbomb (Waterbomb compilation)

17. Robert Calvert - Lord of the Hornets (Freq)

18. Gallon Drunk - Hanging On (The Road Gets Darker From Here)

19. Hair and Skin Trading Co. - Go Round (Over Valence)

20. Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - Swamp Gas (V.A. -Easy Rhythms For Your Cocktail Hour: Music for a Bachelor's Den - Volume 4)

21. Sandy Warner - Forbidden Love (Steve Allen Presents Fair and Warner)

22. Oranj Symphonette - Beat Girl (The Oranj Album)

23. Telescopes - You Set My Soul (Altered Perception)

24. Conway Savage - Old Soul with a New Hole (Nothing Broken)

25. Mo Watson - Watch That Dream Wander (I Gots Me A House-Broken MoonCalf)

26. Kris Kristofferson - Jesse Younger (Live at the Philharmonic)

27. Ames Brothers - Music From Out of Space (Destination Moon)

28. Frank Sinatra - Train (Watertown)

29. Warren Barker - Harlem Nocturne (Warren Barker Is In)

30. Mike Jackson & The Soul Providers ‎– Eye For an Eye (The Revenge Of Mister Mopoji - sndtrk to a imaginary film)

31. Einsturzende Neubauten - Berlin Babylon (Main Title) (Berlin Babylon sndtrk)

32. Stanley Black & his Orchestra - Old Devil Moon (Exotic Percussion)

33. Charlie Haden (with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell) - Lonely Woman (The Montreal Tapes)

34. Lola Albright - Slow & Easy (Dreamsville

35. Kenneth Patchen - They Won’t Let You in There (Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada)

36. Claude Vasori - Métamorphose Démentielle (April Orchestra Vol.16 Présente Caravelli)

37. Joanie Sommers - Meditation - (Softly, The Brazilian Sound)

38. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - 25th Century Quaker (Mirror Man Sessions)