KMHD Playlist from 4/21

From my show, 10pm to Midnight every Saturday night on KMHD 89.1 in Portland and here on the web.

1. THEME WAYNE HORVITZ DUKE FROM MONOLOGUE

2. TREES SNOOKS EAGLIN FROM THE WAY IT IS

3. PEPE LINQUE OREGON FROM CROSSING GLEN MOORE TUNE

4. BROADJUMP JOHN KIRBY/CHARLIE SHAVERS FROM MOVIE SEPIA SINDERELLA 1947

5. WONDERING WHERE DON BYRON FROM BUG MUSIC

6. THE PENQUIN RAYMOND SCOTT FROM RESTLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH DELIGHTS THE MUSIC OF RAYMOND SCOTT

7. DON BYRON THE PENQUIN FROM BUG MUSIC

8. FUNKALICIOUS KEITH SCHREINER AND DEREK SIMS UNRELEASED

9. VALENTINES DAY KEITH SCHREINER AND STORM LARGE FROM SESSIONS AT EAST

10. DON'T KNOW THE NAME KEITH SCHREINER SAW IT PERFORMED LIVE WITH DEREK SIMS UNRELEASED

11. CIRCLE DANCE PAUL MOTIAN TRIO JOE LOVANO BILL FRISELL

12. HOW SHALL I SEE YOU THROUGH MY TEARS JEVETTA STEELE AND THE J.D. STEELE SINGERS FROM OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM

HOUR 2

1. JOY OF TROY ORNETTE COLEMAN FROM TWINS

2. CYBER CYBER ORNETTE COLEMAN AND JOACHIM KUHN LIVE IN LEIPZIG

3. THE BLESSING DON CHERRY FROM ART DECO

4. NEFERTISIS ANDEW HLL FROM LIVE AT MONTREAUX VINYL
SNUGGLE SET

5. PURPLE NIGHT BLUES SUN RA FROM PURPLE NIGHT

6. #11 DANZA LUCUMI 3 LEG TORSO ARR GABE LEAVITT

7. A VALENTINE OUT OF SEASON JOHN CAGE FROM IN A LANDSCAPE STEVEN DRURY KEYBOARDS

8. LULLABY FOR HELENE (QUARTET VERSION) BILL EVANS FROM FROM LEFT TO RIGHT CD VERSION

9. BETTY CARTER

1O. SWEETER THAN THE DAY WAYNE HORVITZ FROM FROM A WINDOW

My KMHD Playlist 4/14/07

I do a radio show Saturdays from 10pm to Midnight (Pacific) on KMHD-FM 89.1 on the radio and streaming live here on the web.

Here's the playlist from last night.

Time Artist Song Album Notes

10:01 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
10:03 PM Bobby Previte Open World Pushing the Envelope
10:08 PM John Zorn The Sicilian Clan Naked City
10:14 PM Liv Warfield Brotha Man Embrace Me Live at Doug Fir
10:25 PM Dahlia Forget This Place Emotional Cycles Jen Folker on vocals
10:29 PM John Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen Pin Your Spin Pin Your Spin
10:32 PM Reggie Houston's Earth Island Band Mean Bunions Urgin for the Virgin He means Virgin Islands
10:35 PM Galactic Black Eyed Peas Late for the Future
10:40 PM David Vest Monklite in Vermouth Unreleased
10:42 PM David Friesen Trio Come Rain or Come Shine Midnight Mood Live in Stockholm Randy Porter Piano, Allan Jones Drums
10:49 PM Mac Potts Tipitina Unreleased www.myspace.com/macpotts
10:58 PM Various Last of the Hipmen A Tribute to John Coltrane David Murray on Sax
11:06 PM Lester Bowie Rio Negros The Great Pertender
11:14 PM World Sax Quartet Night Train Rhythm & Blues
11:20 PM Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett The Raven Speaks Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett 1971
11:27 PM Gil Evans Las Vegas Tango The Individualism of Gil Evans Vinyl
11:36 PM Dr. John Qutre Parishe N'Awlins Dis Dat or D'Udda
11:38 PM Oregon Take Heart Northwest Passage
11:43 PM Zoe Keating We Insist one cello x 16: natoma layered cello
11:46 PM Pink Martini Song of the Black Swan Hang on Little Tomato
11:49 PM Tim Buckley Chase the Blues Away Blue Afternoon
11:53 PM Yet To Be Oregon Northwest Passage
11:58 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show Theme

The Cruel "Old" Subtext in the Imus Flap

Just as the Imus flap has exposed how deeply the race issue goes in America, what you may not have noticed is the subtext for many of Imus' detractors. That is the subtext of age discrimination.

Laugh if you want. But if you're laughing at that statement, you're probably under 55. And you probably laughed at "I've fallen and I can't get up." And you laugh at all the "old" jokes, too.

Take the subtext in Nina Burleigh's post here "Don Imus and the Rage of the Viagrans." His first offense was his statement about the Rutgers women. His second offense was that he's old. He needs Viagra and is therefore a lesser person than someone who doesn't. He's just old. Push him out of the way and get on with it.

Take her last line, " They are the jokes that their wives and girlfriends share with each other, but quietly, in order to hang onto their icky diamond rings and the rights to the sweet little retirement ranch.
They have to do with what those little blue pills can't cure forever."

Perhaps she doesn't see what's in her future.

Unlike bashing ethnic groups, dissing older people is particularly stupid because while Imus will never become black, every single one of those who ridicule their elders will one day become a member of the club.

In many societies elders are respected. Not this one. The difference is that the current crop of older folks are boomers who are not about to take the guff. Present company included.

You can laugh at me but I learned everything before you did, and I’m going to know what happens after you die before you do. Top that with a Viagra joke, kid.

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Imus Was Doing His Job

Those African-Americans who are calling for Don Imus to be fired, should look to their own media. Radio One, an African-American owned radio network, for years has hired black racist talk show hosts. They constantly generalize about "white folks" or "Europeans." They're serious. They're not making jokes.

Ever seen any African-American comics on HBO or BET? One anti-white joke after another.

Are African-Americans going to fire anyone who makes racial jokes? How about blacks who do the dozens on other blacks? Let's fire them. Just because you're of the same race as the person to whom you are throwing the worst insults possible (the sole purpose of the dozens), doesn't absolve you of hurtful language.

Was Imus' comment stupid? Sure lots of Imus' comments are stupid. He has made a career out of stupid comments. Did I think he meant what he said? Of course not. He was doing the dozens. He insults everybody. He's a SHOCK JOCK. His purpose is to shock you. How can he shock you? By going to the limit of taste and sensitivity.

That's his job. You and I may not like the job description, but that's what he gets paid for.

I realize there's a danger in that kind of humor. But the essence of humor is exaggeration. Imus' technique of saying the worst thing that comes to his mind in order to get a laugh may be regrettable, but it doesn't make him a racist. If that were true then paint every jock and comic of every race with that brush and fire all of them.

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George Bush's Jake LaMotta Moment

Remember in "Raging Bull" when Jake LaMotta was fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the last time? Jake was beaten to a bloody pulp. Robinson brutally hit him, repeatedly. When the ref stopped the fight, LaMotta stood, blood all over his face. Blood even dripping from the ropes. Although he was still standing, he was thoroughly defeated. He turned to Sugar Ray and said, "I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray. I never went down, Ray," as though that fact mitigated his defeat.

George W. Bush has had a series of Jake LaMotta moments recently, talking defiantly to the Democrats who have defeated him. As his administration, and his life, crumbles around him, he stands in the rose garden and says, "I never went down, Nancy. You never got me down, Harry. I never went down, Democrats."

The whole world knows he has been defeated, yet he stands, bloody, trying to make us believe that it means something that he appointed the Republican fund raiser, and lying Swift Boater Sam Fox as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium. Another crony who would have been rejected by the Senate, snuck in as a recess appointment.

"I appointed Sam Fox, Ray. You couldn't stop me, Ray."

He stands in the ring with boos in his ears, looking defiantly into the camera and telling us that he will veto the funding for the troops. He's still reeling from the punches, dizzy and confused. Maybe he'll never realize what's happened to him…the total rejection of his presidency.

He behaves as though these childish acts negate the series of Bush Administration scandals that have been exposed. It doesn't.

As Jake's behavior was indicative of his total denial (of everything), so is Bush's recent bully behavior. Many bullies understand when they've lost. Jake didn't. Bush doesn't.

I know it'll never happen but I wouldn't mind seeing Bush in a dark cell banging his head against the wall and shouting, "Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?"

All we can hope for is that Bush ends up running a cheap bar in Miami, where he gets up on stage every night and tells bad jokes.

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