Radio Free California Episode 2148 and thoughts about cars, social media and mental illness

 

New music this week from The Darkness, Sting, Moule, Scary Pockets with Cody Fry, Young Knives, Adele, Deap Valley, Ovlov, and much more. Enjoy!

This week's artists, by twitter handle unless otherwise marked:

@iamhazelenglish
andrewhagarofficial (Instagram - that's right, Sammy's kid isn't on twitter)
@MOULEOFFICIAL
@scarypockets with @codyfry
@tmorello with @BarnsCourtney
wonderingwithmusic (Instagram)
@BonnieLegion with @THEREALMETRO1
Darkcave (No socials. Follow on Spotify - he's been putting out an album a week)
@ainsleymusic07
@Crimsonicband
@youngknives with @wpgonzalez
David Bowie
@bridgetkmusic
@OfficialSting
@Adele
@Convergecult with @CCHELSEAWWOLFE
@ladyhawkeforyou with @broodsmusic
@thedarkness
@hashtagovlov
@STSOfficial_1
@DeapVally
David Christian & The Pinecone Orchestra (no socials I could find - distributed by @tapete
@SoundSwansea
@naytronix

When I was 19 years old I was a sophomore at UCLA. When I was a freshman I lived on campus but I now had my own apartment a few miles away. I couldn't afford living in Westwood, the small part of Los Angeles that is the "college town" for UCLA. That said, Westwood is where we all hung out. There were clubs and movie theaters and shopping and on a weeknight it would be bustling. On a weekend they'd shut down some of the streets and only allow people on foot.

That summer, on a night I was in Westwood, a man drove his car on the sidewalk. He killed 1 and hurt another 54. He would eventually be sentenced to 106 years in prison. He was thought to be mentally ill and he was thought to hate the police. There was no political agenda or anything, he just did it. 

I didn't see it happen. I went home about an hour earlier.

What happened in Waukesha, WI this past weekend, immediately following the unjust acquittal of a teenager who had killed two and injured another, is easy to look at through a political lens. That's a mistake, but people tend to gravitate to easy. The two events do not appear to be related, but boy howdy did social media erupt about it over the weekend. I saw the suspect called "BLM Terrorist" on the kinder posts. Twitter, to my knowledge, never policed or took down any of the racist hate speech that was posted, all over the race of the suspect.

In reality is appears that the suspect has anger issues and went off the rails over a personal matter. That no excuse, but it is an explanation.

I suspect that in today's America a dangerously large number of us are mentally unstable. Over 30% of the country believes that the one thing PROVEN to be able to save their lives and end the Pandemic is actually a conspiracy to do... something.

To quote a line from a movie I saw about Jesse Owens, It's no real secret that my country is losing its mind.

I don't have a suggestion to make here. I don't know the whole story - not for what happened this weekend and not for what I missed seeing by an hour back in 1985. I'm not qualified.

But I'm sure glad than when the case from my college days that Social Media didn't yet exist.

Cheap Shots (remember, it's Monday so it's Rum Day!)

Well, bye.

Oh by the way, the pandemic is nowhere close to over.

Actually, we are better off now.

And because I love you, I introduce you to The Tim Traveler:

Radio Free California Episode 2147 plus cheap shots and insults

 

Quite the list this week, including new music from The Engagement, Sabrassi, Jethro Tull (!!!), Le 1991, Pomplamoose with Grace Kelly, NRBQ, Silk Sonic, Rod Stewart, They Might Be Giants, Gov't Mule, Walk the Moon, 10 minutes of Taylor Swift scorned (let that be a lesson to you) and much more. Enjoy!

Here are this week's artists, identified by twitter handle unless otherwise noted:

@engagementmusic
@sebrassi
@jethrotull
@Avi_Kaplan
@p_menis
@Le19911
@trixiemattel
Mr. H Beats with @mybandowen
@ombiigizi
@pomplamoose with @gracekellymusic
@codyfry
@idlesband
@courtneymelba
@silksonic
@rodstewart
@tmbg
@Damonalbarn
@makthaverskan69
@govtmuleband
@TheDodos
@hackedpicciotto
irreversibleentanglements (Instagram) - features @moormother, @lukeostewart (I hope I got that one right), @keirneuringer, @AquilesPTY and Tcheser Holmes. Check out @intlanthem for more.
@WALKTHEMOONband
@NRBQHeadquarter
@Pipblom
@taylorswift13

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Cheap Shots:

Bleed the motherfucker dry.

Hate Town, USA.

Yeah, I know he's going to be out on bail by the time you read this but for the love of our nation, throw away the fucking key. At least he should be remanded after his comments once out (without bail I might add).

Back to Beto.

Now hear me out, but, but, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case just might be, and hear me out, a fucking sociopath.

Quite Restful. Monster boss tweet.

Hey, is this called "I've Got A Feeling"?

Enjoy your retirement, sir. No snark. I honestly mean it.

Fuck you too.

Don't take advice from someone obviously going to hell.

Infrastructure week. Really! Honest!

And because I love you, here is the video for the Irreversible Entanglements song on this week's stream:

Radio Free California, Episode 2146

 

We start this week with my new single, but quickly move on to new music from Swivels, Scary Pockets, Abba, Joan as Policewoman (with friends), Diana Ross (!), Aimee Mann, Foxx Bodies and so much more! Enjoy!

Here are this week's artists, by twitter handle unless otherwise marked:

@animeraider (me!)
@scarypockets with @theokatzman and @JESUNDEMUSIC
Smith/Kotzen
@vrda.music (Facebook)
@robertoquirogamc (Facebook)
@Swivelsbanda with Ari Venegas
@JOANPOLICEWOMAN and @t_allenafrobeat and @dave_okumu_
@charli_xcx with @QueensChristine and @carolineplz
@pomplamoose with @LorenBattley
@ABBA
@snailmail
@DianaRoss
@NRateliff
@aimeemann (twice! I'm a huge fan)
@ChimeSchool
@Curtis_Harding
@hanavuuu
amydouglassings (Instagram)
@PenelopeIsles
@terracemartin
@foxxbodies
@MartaDelGrandi

There's also a pretty damn good video for my own song, which you can see here:

Radio Free California Episode 2145, plus cheap shots and raining tacos

 

New music from all over the map this week, including Mad Sky, Touch (with their first release in 40 years), the supposedly retired David Lee Roth, Midnight Oil, The Reflectors, Deep Purple, Tori Amos, Luka Caraway, The War on Drugs and so much more. Enjoy!

This week's artists, twitter handles unless otherwise marked:

madskynorway (Facebook... er I mean Meta)

@bandmaid
Touch (come on, it's their first record in 40 years - they have no socials)
@STYXtheBand
@kylieminogue with @JessieWare
@thebandhala
@TReflectors
@thaogetstaydown
richard.charles.edwards (Instagram)
@midnightoilband
@Inventioning featuring Jean-Luc Ponty and @TheJonAnderson
@Kiffie8
deeppurple_official (Instagram)
@ringostarrmusic
@TheWarOnDrugs
@toriamos
@mastodonmusic
@remhq
@TheDoobieBros
@JBONAMASSA
@monlaferte
@piafrausband
@mjcofficial with @ClaudiaKaneUK
@TheonCross (as a side note, I should point out that almost everything you hear on this track is TUBA!!!!!)
@sam3vian
@corywong
@KonigsbergLily
@Lone with Morgane Diet (No socials I could find)
lukacaraway (Instagram)
@DavidLeeRoth

As a fun side note, as I was putting this together and working through all of the album tracks I came up with the idea of what would be the last 3 songs - Mastadon, Tori Amos, and The War On Drugs. I listen to everything before I put these lists together. That was where I planned to end it. And then I realized that Cory Wong had recorded a new version of "Meditation", which is one of my favorite songs of late. And then I discovered Diamond Dave's song by accident - I hadn't heard a word about it.

Just so you know, I think about these things.

Cheap shots:

Who gives two ratfucks?

No Mama Karen, it didn't happen.

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

DuckDiver19 is a dick.

I'd always assumed that men watch porn because the real thing isn't available to them. I don't watch porn.

The basic Laws of Human Stupidity, with helpful graphics.

I don't call them Anti-vaxxers anymore. I call them Disease-Riddled Filth.

You know, if you want to say "Fuck Joe Biden" then just fucking SAY "Fuck Joe Biden", I may support him, but you have the right. This horseshit just makes you sound like a bully.

Gotta love Justice Kagan, but very very very very weirdly, it might be Kavanaugh that sinks it.

They said it would be 10,000. It was 34. The rest is a bit alarming but it's still only 3%.

Three guesses on who this might wind up being. All three might be correct.

"We bassists have to stick together."

I honestly hope that all of your children are taught Critical Race Theory. That means that all of them - ALL OF THEM - are going for their Master's Degrees.

And because I love you, let it rain tacos!