Keeping in the fine tradition of unusual re-runs here on Blasphuphmus Radio, we've decided to bring you a strange little gem from the summer of 2007 with a little show called, "Recreating 'A Boy And His Dog' ". While my archives are much more complete than most other DJs who are involved with this medium, many of the shows I did are missing entirely, or only exist in fragments. Much like last year's "The Outer Limits" recreation, I felt this one deserved to be resurrected, and not only because it is likely that there will be very few listeners who will have heard both broadcasts.

If memory serves correctly, this show came together with little or no plan. I quickly selected several songs that I wanted to hear, all of which skirted Experimental Territory. Without giving too much thought to flow, mood, or theme, I ran into the broadcast booth at 6 PM, hammered out this show, and left at 7, most likely to down a few beverages and meet up with friends. As the show was lost shortly afterward, I had little time to reflect on it as a complete broadcast, and thought this would be an excellent opportunity to give it another chance, this time with the record button actually de-pressed.

You can find the complete original playlist here. As I have little memory of the original broadcast (unlike "The Outer Limits" recreation), I sort of guessed on a couple of things, and opted to use the recording by Your Drugs, My Money as this show's incidental music. (Which I think works better.)

In looking at the playlist, this show includes a fair amount of home recordings by friends of mine, which I feel is worth mentioning now:

Cold Pizza used to work at the Plaid Pantry near my house, and was a strange dude who listened to a lot of Negativland and would often look like he was on drugs. He was originally discovered by my friend Tristan, but where Tristan was only willing to listen to his music, I took a chance on him, and spent a few alcohol-fueled evenings in bars talking about music (in between him going off to talk to girls). When I finally bridged the subject of his own recordings, he gave me a three-CD boxed set covering his entire career, about which I can only say: wow. The last time I saw him, he told me he was working at a porn store, and asked me to come in sometime when he was working so I could get free tokens. I politely turned him down, and haven't seen him since.

Leopards is a local Experimental artist who played on KPSU once a few years back. The music is a sort of electronic-ish female take on Jandek, if you had to nail down what it Sounds Like. On the whole, Leopards is (like most good things in the world) very much its own thing. To my knowledge, her performance on KPSU is the only live performance Leopards has ever done in public, and we were really honored to have hosted her. I don't know if she's put out any albums or recordings in the time since, but I still have a compilation CDR she made me of her favorite home recordings, which is where this song comes from.

Your Drugs, My Money have played on KPSU a few times, and when I hosted them, they gave me a CD released by Tiny Wolf Records containing a live radio performance from an appearance they made at KFJC in August of 2006. I like the idea that they were asking one radio station to play a recording made at another, and I really hoped that they took the recordings I made, and gave them to some other station somewhere else, creating a chain of radio recordings between stations that are unrelated. I have yet to contact the band (or KFJC) to see if this is actually the case, but I like to think about it from time to time.

Cornflake Mandala (later known as Teacup Mandala) was a home recording project by an ex-roommate of mine, The Ramen City Kid. (see: Isosceles Diego, member of Gordon Taylor, Moment In Static, The Knives And Plates And Forks And Spoons, Half Eye, etc.) In High School, he used various household instruments (organs, guitars, voice) to record some cassette albums that are pretty strange and wonderful, in a late '80's / early '90's kind of way. At one point, he managed to loan me the original cassette masters for both the albums, of which I made digital transfers. To this day he hasn't forgiven me.

Dillutions Of Parasitosis is, again, another home recording project by a friend of mine, this time an ex-bandmate from Cathead, Mr. Syd Louse. His musical resume has been somewhat extensive, yet contained to the city of Eugene: Gel, Mike Hawk, Blunderbuss, Angry Foreign Roommate, Sawyer Family, etc. Even before Cathead dissolved, Syd would record endless cassette tapes using sound-on-sound technology, either playing along with existing recordings, or with songs he had written. Often, his process would go like this: Syd would play around with a recording for a while, until he got sick of it, at which time he would either give me the tape, mail it to me, or destroy it. While much of his recorded output is lost to the ages, I have a fair amount, much of which has been digitized for your enjoyment. This particular track is surprisingly upbeat, and seemed like a curious (yet appropriate) closing number.

And that's it for this extravaganza. Stay tuned, as next time we'll be hosting a local group, Cold Metal, for an hour of live music and interviews, beamed directly to you for your entertainment. Yeah, it's what we do.

See ya in seven.