It's Official

I have moved over to vox. Please come visit me at http://katranon.vox.com/ .

love you long time,
Katranon

3 Announcements

1. I will be changing my blog location from here to http://katranon.vox.com in a couple of days. Vox kicks ass. ("Tank you Buffy!")

2. KRUI is off the air this week of Thanksgiving break, so there will be no listing of all the songs you probably don't tune into listen to anyway. 1o am is early on a Sunday in Iowa City.

3. I have been watching Stargate Atlantis obsessively on youtube. And I refuse to stop. I embrace the geek I am.

fyi- i tried upgrading my blog page here to the "beta" version which is supposed to be cooler than the regular one. however, on the way to the "upgrade" i found that once you do so, Google owns whatever you post. so "suck my ass." there- own that, google. you corporate fucks.
-so please join me on vox from here on out (or at least very, very soon).

From Last Weeks Show: KRUI

This is a week late, but should you want to know...here it be:

Artist / Album Title / Track title

the slats / boom patrol / Stegosaurus WrxxX

Bert Jansch/ the black swan/ the black swan

Alpinestars/ white noise / burning up

porlolo/ porlolo / usetonaut

Benjy Ferree/ leaving the nest / in the countryside

amps for christ/ oak in the ashes/ little angel

rotary downs/ chanined to the chariot/ 9-7 hit

track a tiger/ woke up early the day I died / I don't understand these machines

animal collective/ sung tongs/ who could win a rabbit

sierra leone's all star refugees/ like a refugee/ soda soap

blanket music/ love translation~the love/ connection time

anjali/ the world of lady A/ rainy day

thunderbirds are now!/ make history/ panthers in crime

flying canyon/ flying canon/ the bull who knew the ring

boards of canada/ the campfire headphase/ peacock tail

aterciopelados oye cancion protesta

slumber party/ slumber party/ strawberry Sunday

denison witmer/ safe away/ closer to the sun

oma yang/ from the heart of jumbo malaria/ rooom to acroo

rasputina / how we quit the forest/ sign of the zodiac

various / the world is gone /lost

park avenue music/ to take with you/ hiding

hella/ acoustics / women of the 90s

mochipet / disko donkey / electro ewok village

Band of the Week: The Slats

Keith Olberman: It's time to vote

The tide has turned. The day before the election Keith Olberman put it all together so succinctly.

KRUI: the list of songs i probably played

ah, it was a nice show- a nice show i tell ya. i inadvertently cranked the Love and Rockets- hope no speakers were blown out there. heh heh- sorry about that...

Artist of the Week: Mochipet



















Artist/ Album Title/ Track title

scissors for lefty/ scissors for lefty/ lay down your weapons

ruffians/ ruffians/ hedonistic me

mochipet/ disko donkey/ robot girl (featuring Ellen Allien)

masters of the hemisphere/ I am not freemdoom/ who is this dog?

tanya donelly/ this hungry life/ this hungry life

land shark/ land shark / dangerous

low flying owls/ elixir vitae/ looks of a killer

junior boys/ so this is goodbye/ in the morning

I love you but I've chosen darkness/ fear is on our side/ the owl

love and rockets/ express/ an american dream

baldwin brothers/ return of the golden rhodes/ air is invisible

boards of canada/ the campfire headphase/ slow this bird down

modest mouse/ the moon and antarctica/ alone down there

ta shma/ come listen/ voice of my beloved (feat. Andy statman)

Koushik/ peanut butter world presents chrome children (v/a)/ none in my mind

skye/ mind how you go/ tell me about your day

the cat empire/ the cat empire/ hello

negativeland/chumbawumba/ the ABCs of anarchy/ smelly water

alias and tarsier/ oaklyn brookland/ rising sun

a northern chorus/ spirit flags/ I dreamt the world had ended

hooverphonic/ the magnficent tree/ waves

the slats/ boom patrol/ Erase U

need new body/ need new body/ land hobo/ monkey dancer

daedelus/ throw a fit/ unadventurer (featuring subtitle)

rotary downs/ chained to the chariot/ false protection

the network/ money money 2020/ supermodel robots

the spiral band/ the spiral band/ simple song

the Garish Side of Good Ol' Fashioned "Know How"

These pictures are from my place of employment and they detail what happens when holiday decor takes a shortcut and runs into an embankment of error. Or something.

Click in the pics for a view and commentary:

Madonna and the Media: infotainment loves a good crucifiction

I’m thinking about Madonna now and her adopting that little boy from Africa- David. I watched her on Oprah on Youtube last night. Oprah does think she is Jesus, by the way. she doesn’t have an audience, she has a following. anyway, Madonna is actually doing work in Africa, setting up- I think it is schools for orphanages, or working with these orphanages somehow, don’t quite recall now. but it is extremely humanitarian. and her taking this boy, keeping him from certain death growing up in a country in Africa where he has already survived malaria and- was it tuberculosis? something horrible. now had and has pneumonia. lifting a child out of that and providing them with more resources than they would have ever known- with the hope that he can then go back and make a positive change by being able to provide those resources and aid to his people is only commendable. I mean, I really do believer her on this one. the press has is trying to destroy something truly beautiful. she didn’t just fly in, take a baby, and run. she went through all the customary process she needed to in that country in Africa. I totally believe her. anyway, Natalie of the Dixie Chicks (also on Oprah- which is why I started watching it in the first place) made a valuable point. why is this even our business? it’s not. if something is fishy, let the courts handle it. why does everyone need to jump on the band wagon and make proclamations and snap judgments when they have hearsay and not facts. we have turned into such a bizarre people. it is like we feed upon ourselves. and the media has fueled and fueled and fueled this type of behavior. it is now all entertainment and the real news is the jumping off point. being able to twist and bend it into a completely unrecognizable shape is the goal, and then feed it to the masses as truth.