Hang on to your ear holes, and cover the furniture in plastic, because it's Aprilween and we may not make it out alive...

Song 1: Monster Party - The Powerknobs (from Tomorrow's Never Going To Come)
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Song 2: Where They Wander - Horrorpops (from Hell Yeah!)
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Video 1: Ghouls - Horrorpops (from Hell Yeah!)



Song 3: Hunting For Witches (Fury666 Remix) - Bloc Party (from Hunting For Witches [Remixes])
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Video 2: Hunting For Witches - Bloc Party (from A Weekend In The City)



Song 4: Who Wants To Be a Zombie Anyways? - The Mansfields (from Cramp Your Style, coming in May 2008 from Gearhead Records)
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Song 5: Vampires of the West Coast - Ghost Bees (from Tasseomancy)
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Song 6/Video 3: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)
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Song 7: Knee Deep In Wolf Guts - Two Headed Phantom (from Her Majesty the Witch Demo)
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Song 8: Black Cat - The Young Werewolves (from The Young Werewolves)
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Song 9: Demons Are a Ghoul's Best Friend - Ghouls Night Out (from The Mourning After)
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Song 10: Elena's Empty Tomb - Thee Merry Widows (from The Devil's Outlaws)
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What's this? A new episode of Random Signal already? Could this be some kind of wonderful dream and/or psychotic break?

Probably. My advice--roll with it...

Song 1: Wreck My Flow - The Dirtbombs (from We Have You Surrounded)
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Comic review - The Twelve

• Publisher: Marvel
• Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
• Artist: Chris Weston
• Wikipedia entry

Song 2: Pins In My Doll - The Dynamite Brothers (from Clap Along With...)
[Ask me and I bet I can hook you up!]

Comic review - Project Superpowers

• Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
• Plot: Jim Kruegar and Alex Ross
• Scripts: Jim Kruegar
• Cover Art: Alex Ross
• Interior Art: Doug Klauba and Stephen Sadowski
• Wikipedia entry

Watch Jon Stuart geek out about Man-Bat!



Song 3: Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker (from Face To Face, Volume 1)
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Ryn joins me as co-host again to talk about her recent trip to South By Southwest Interactive and her new-found addiction to social networking.

All music in this episode is by one of my new favorite bands, Los Campesinos!

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Their first full lengh CD, Hold On Now, Youngster is realesed in the US on April 1, 2008 (pre-order here), but you can get it now at Emusic.com.

Song 1: This is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"

Video 1: The International TweeXcore Underground (from The International TweeXcore Underground EP)



Ryn's SXSW report -- "There was a moustache going around."

Song 2/Video 2: Death to Los Campesinos!



Need a new drug?
Socialthing!
Get Satisfaction
Good Reads

Song 3: My Year In Lists

A couple of sites that came up during listener feedback...

Andy Lee - www.findandy.com
The Clockwork Cabaret - www.clickcaster.com/clockworkcabaret


Song 4/Video 3: We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives (from Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP)



Video 4: You! Me! Dancing!

Being an experiment in tandem podcasting. For more steampunk and dinosaurs, listen to The Voice of Free Planet X (aka Jared Axelrod).

Song 1: The Lives of Captured Scientists - The Craft Economy (from All On C)
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Steampunk!

As definied on Wikipedia

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

On Flickr - The Guild of Justice-Minded Citizenry! (as seen on Boingboing.net)

Steampunk Spectacular podcast

The Clockwork Ball - Ringside, Durham, NC (Saturday, March 28)

Song 2: Airship Pirate - Abney Park (from Lost Horizons)
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Dinosaurs!

Paleo-blogs:
Tetrapod Zoology
Laelaps

On Flickr - Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

Cladistics on Wikipedia

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

Song 3: Age of the Fern - George Hrab (from [sic])
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WARNING: This episode of Random Signal contains snarky Liberal ranting about the state of American politics and the 2008 presidential election. Not Safe For Work, Children, or Easily-offended Republicans.

Song 1: Dick Is a Killer - rx

Video 1: Imagine - rx



Song 2: The Happiest Place on Earth - Desaparecidos (from Read Music/Speak Spanish)
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Song 3/Video 2: Exit Strategy - Valient Thorr (from Legend of the World)
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Song 4: W's Duty - Jonathan Coulton (from Thing a Week One)
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Video 3: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips



Video 4: Dr. Who on Holiday - Dean Gray



Song 5: When The President Talks to God - Bright Eyes
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I've been called out by listener Brandt for "shenanigans" because this episode is coming one month and one day after my last show. But you know what, Brandt? I don't care because I got a new job! That's right, I am the newest project manager at Newfangled Web Factory in Carrboro, NC. To celebrate, all of today's music is by local bands.

Song 1: Dark Horse - Bowerbirds (from Hymns For a Dark Horse)
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Song 2: Terrier - The Moaners (from Dark Snack)
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Song 3: Say You Will - The Honored Guests (from Tastes Change)
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Song 4: Give It Away If You Can - Tad Dreis (from Play To Remember)
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Song 5: For All I Know - SNMNMNM (from Crawl Inside Your Head)
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It's Christmas! To celebrate, I bring you an extra-long episode filled with wine, women, and song. And chocolate cookies. All songs by Beatnik Turtle from The Song of The Day podcast.

00:00 The Christmas Train (Song of the Day for 12/10)

04:00 I welcome my two special guests: Jared Axelrod, host of podcasts The Voice of Free Planet X and Aliens You Will Meet, and JR Blackwell, host of Voices of Tomorrow.

08:58 JR is a runner-up in Violet Blue's list of the Top Ten Sexy Geeks of 2007!

11:44 How to tell if your waiter is Wolverine.

18:33 Christmas Is Coming To Your House (Song of the Day for 12/9)

21:06 We discuss "Comfort and Joy" the Justice League Christmas special. For the record, the Ultra-Humanite was voiced by Ian Buchanan, not Kelsey Grammer.



28:25 The Ultra-Humanite vs NPR

34:18 Fun with Mythology Pt. 1

A short reading from Classical Myths That Live Today (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1927) by Frances E. Sabin (who was a woman, incidentally).

Question for discussion: Is classical mythology a "girl's subject"?

38:45 Christmas Is a Vulture (Song of the Day for 12/12)

42:28 Fun with Mythology Pt. 2

Question for review: Was Juno justified in her jealous attitudes toward Jupiter?

50:00 Coed Naked Drunk Xmas Shopping (Song of the Day for 12/11)

52:16 Trader Joes's Candy Cane Joe-Joe's: "Oreos to the next, NEXT level."

55:00 Will Jared and JR ever discover the true meaning of Empire Day?

58:59 A Random Signal exclusive--JR Blackwell will launch her new podcast, Blackmail, early 2008!

01:01:10 For Lee at the I Motor Away podcast, "I Motor Away In a Manger" a drunken, a capella, improv (mostly), karaoke Christmas carol.

November ended badly, and I'm not quite up to my normal geeky ramblings. Therefore, RS65 is wall-to-wall music. Enjoy.

Song 1: Tip of My Tongue - Tall Dwarfs (from Weeville)
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Song 2: Boy With a Coin - Iron and Wine (from The Shepherd's Dog)
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Song 3: Science VS Romance - Rilo Kiley (from Take Offs and Landings)
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Song 4: My Favorite Book - Stars (from In Our Bedroom After the War)
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Song 5: Revenge! - Spoon (from 30 Gallon Tank EP and the Wired Magazine CD)
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Song 6: The Love I Crave - The Blow (from Poor Aim: Love Songs)
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Song 7: So What - Space Mtn (from A Drawing of a Memory of a Photograph of You)
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Song 8: Feathers - Man Man (from Six Demon Bag)
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Song 9: Bottom of the World - Tom Waits (from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
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The lovely (and giggly) Ryn joins me once again to talk about what's new in the world of television.

Song 1: Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
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Promo: 7th Son and Heaven on Podiobooks.com

Ryn and I run down the pros and cons of the Fall TV season.

Torchwood (Jason: Yes/Ryn: No)
Bionic Woman (Jason: No/Ryn: No)
Journeyman (Jason: No/Ryn: No)
Pushing Daisies (Jason: Very Yes/Ryn: Yes)



Dirty Sexy Money (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Yes)
Damages (Jason: Yes/Ryn: Yes)
Moonlight (Jason: Very No/Ryn: Yes)
Big Bang Theory (Jason: Yes/Ryn: Yes)



Chuck (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Maybe)
Reaper (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Maybe)

Song 2: Fake French - Le Tigre (from Feminist Sweepstakes and the Wired Magazine CD)
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After we finish up our TV discussion, we review Guitar Hero III for the PS2.

Song 3: Helicopter - Bloc Party (from Silent Alarm and featured in Guitar Hero III)
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Song 4: Wasp Nest - The National (from Cherry Tree EP)
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Welcome to the Third Annual Random Signal Halloween Music Spectacular! Let's get right down to tonight's tracks...of TERROR!!!

Song 1: All Hail the Horror Host - The Creeping Cruds (from The Incredibly Strange People Who Stopped Living and Became...)
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Song 2: House of Mysterious Secrets - Calabrese (from The Traveling Vampire Show)
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Song 3: Zombie Love Affair - Johnny O and The Jerks (from Taking Out the Trashabilly)
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Song 4: Fiend Without a Face - Aliens and Strangers (from Fiend Without a Face EP)
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Song 5: Bloodlust - The Quintessentials (from Legends From the Grave)
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Song 6: Mother Was a Carpegian - Reverend Glasseye (from Our Lady of the Broken Spine)
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Song 7: The Cemetery - Get Three Coffins Ready (from S/T)
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