Thu, 18 October 2007
What a lovely, lovely podcast this is. No Mrs. Toad this week (yeah, yeah, I know, fuck off the lot of you) partly because she is away in the States being important and businesslike and so forth and partly because you are all a bunch of cunts for liking her best, you shower of ungrateful bastards. Anyway, needless alienation of one's audience aside, I am a little tired of doing themed podcasts. Nothing particularly pressing leapt to mind this month so I thought I'd just throw on a pile of stuff I was really enjoying and sod having a coherent theme - that's for the professionals anyway. So it's just a big old mish-mash of stuff I'm enjoying at the moment, but I think it's quite a good playlist for all that. There are actually a couple of songs chosen for other women in my life! Oh shock horror! One is our reception lady here at work who revealed a surprisingly excellent vinyl collection when a few of us went round to her place after a staff night out recently, including Pavement and The Pixies. Who would have thought it! The other lady song is from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, after I was entirely charmed by the niece of our next door neighbour who apparently used to go out with their keyboard player. She is trying to move to New York at the moment actually, where there are plans to play fiddle and harp on the new Au Revoir Simone album, which is splendid news. Apparently this one is to be more folky than the last, which bodes very well indeed. So go Ruth! I can't wait to hear it. Better stop talking about ze laydees now of course, before I get skelped by my lovely lady. Not one of of 'em a patch on the sparkling gem that is the delectable Mrs. Toad of course, not even close! *ahem* Toadcast #14 - Total Self-Indulgence 01. The White Stripes - 300mph Torrential Outpour Blues (03.04)
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Tue, 2 October 2007
My dearest Toadlings it is with enormous pleasure and brimming pride that I present the light of my silly life, the bright and shining star at the centre of my universe and the bad tempered little Scottish strumpet to whom my every waking hour is devoted. That sounds sarcastic, but it isn’t. She treats the music I play with a sort of contemptuous indifference and has some truly shocking stuff in her rather limited collection. But she has a punk side, she loves Bob Dylan and has taken to some unexpected groups recently, like The Sequins, The Builders & the Butchers and Grandaddy. It slowly started to dawn on me that actually, Dolly Parton aside for the moment, she could probably put together a better playlist than I could, and I was absolutely mortified to be proved absolutely right. So I thought I’d get her along to co-present too, which seemed like it might be fun. It was a bit odd at first, but we warm up a bit by the end and it turns slowly into what I think it a pretty decent podcast, all told. I’m not sure I’ll be able to talk her into doing this too often, but if it proves a success I promise to do my best. Toadcast #13 - The Mrs. Toadcast 01. Lambchop - Dallas Theme Song (00.00) |
