WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 11, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: We have prize premiums for people who make donations! Stay tuned for more information!
	8:56pm Imaginos: ahoy.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Love the image from Explorers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 It's one of my favorite movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Have a great show! Cheers!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 i still watch it and D.A.R.Y.L. from time to time
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Thanks Krys O!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Howdy hi!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Haven't seen DARYL since it probably came out. But I try to watch Explorers every so often.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mr. X! My partner in crime.
	9:03pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Let's go do some crimes.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 have you ever seen Mio In The Land of Faraway?
	9:08pm Imaginos: DARYL and Explorers are both on Fandango at Home.
	9:09pm Geoff-U: Hiiiiiiiiii
	9:10pm GorillaFella: Hello Austin and fellow mutants! Been looking forward to this all week, last weeks show completely blew my mind 🤯
	9:11pm laurapanic: ITS OK AUSTIN OTHERS ARE STUCK I NHERE AS WELL
	9:13pm Imaginos: Music is the soul of time and space
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: If you make a donation to WFMU, you could own this biography of Thurston Moore! Donate today! en.wikipedia.org...
	9:13pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ayye time to oil up the Space-Winnebago for a trip 🌌🚀
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Or if Deerhoof is more your jam, then you might want to make a donation and ask for this excellent LP! www.discogs.com...
	9:14pm Imaginos: Scavenger hunt? I think the first clue would have been: The Sea is Reversed. SS Itari is mixed up and blind.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: laurapanic, red_door, Imaginos, Geoff-U, and Mr. X! (Plus any lurkers who might be out there!) Good Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Riddles Riddling Me" by "Jandek" I've been lucky enough to see Jandek play live a couple times. For a reclusive artist who hides out in Texas, he sure tours a lot these days.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:11 Maybe being stuck inside the radio wouldn't be the worst thing, considering the world outside.
	9:18pm Imaginos: If you want to see some real dreams and nightmares, look up the works of Beny Tchaikovsky
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 I'll check it out! Thanks for the recommendation.
	9:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 especially the MorningStar Trilogy of animation videos. (Flashing image warning)
	9:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: The sound brick road!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:19 I love when the Munchkin's sing that one.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: "No pretty girls to look at?!" Emergency!
	9:21pm Imaginos: double speed? THe Chipmunk Show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: Just saying hello. Will be lurking, making tacos, and preparing Austin's birthday present for shipment... I used to watch Quantum Leap every week! My favorite episode was the one where the main character played Oswald. It kinda overlaps with Stephen King's later book, 11.22.63, which does involve time travel, but not through the eyes of Oswald. That is one case where the TV series was better than the book, I thought.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 Quantum Leap was pretty great! I should probably re-watch. It's been years.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: The way Lee Ving screams at the end of this song is ridiculous.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "We Got To Get Out of This Place" by "Fear" I forgot about this version! I do remember the cover that Jello Biafra did with DOA. I might prefer this cover a bit more these days.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 Speaking of Stephen King, my favourite episode of QL was the one with Little Stevie. I loved the stinger at the end "Have a nice day, Mrs. King" (to Stevie's mom)
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I do not remember that one! Wild!
	9:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich Lol! Sure beats the SILENCE brick road! The future stretches out ahead... Fun fun fun journey thanks DJ!!📻
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Wasn't there a lot of stuff like that? I feel like he inspired Buddy Holly, too.
	9:25pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: This Black Lips album rips !!
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 the episode was titled "The Boogieman"
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:25 Yeah, that whole album rules. The Black Lips are pretty great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: Trill Tone Season.
	9:28pm Imaginos: Kidd Video?
	9:29pm Imaginos: stuck in the telecine machine?
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 There was a Stephen King film adaptation not too many years ago called "The Boogeyman"!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 so....nice....
	9:36pm Imaginos: those who don't finish the Gunslinger have forgotten the face of their father.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Arvo Zylo: I still need to read The Stand, and The Dark Tower series, and The Richard Bachman stuff. Sorry I think I hijacked with Stephen King yet again.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:37 It was either Stephen King, Douglas Adams, or Christopher Moore
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: I think I have probably read everything Adams wrote. But there might be some scraps here and there that I missed.
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Have you read the Meaning of Liff?
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Stars" by "The Ventures" I'm a sucker for The Ventures, and I try to get all their albums. But this one, on vinyl, still elludes me. All their albums are great, but this one is VERY good. Man... Or Astro-Man? has covered nearly all of this Ventures songs.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I have! It's not his best, but it's pretty good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... This is The Headliners appearing on my show in 2005. I remastered this recording this morning, for this specific broadcast.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 it's basically the British equivalent of Sniglets.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:42 There were two books, right?
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Yes. The original and the Deeper Meaning of Liff.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Arvo Zylo: I believe Elvis had a song called "Flaming Star" which was originally called "Black Star", unrelated to Bowie's "Black Star".
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... I had the biggest crush on Holly Hotbox, the drummer for this band. One of the first shows I ever saw in PDX was her band, The Newly Deads, playing at Satyricon. She was so cool. Drove a cab, played drums, sang. What more do you want in a woman?
	9:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... this is cool
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... I guess this is a cover! I haven't heard it in a while. www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:44 They were the COOLEST. The Headliners were totally #RelationshipGoals.
	9:46pm Imaginos: does that starfield contain the Phoenix Asteroids?
	♥ 9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:43 It was a 1960 western he starred in, directed by the great Don Siegel. One of Elvis' better films.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "We Travel the Spaceways" by "Sun Ra And His Myth ... This one goes out to Heather, who was telling me she was a Sun Ra fan.
	9:47pm GorillaFella: No police? Damn that really is a utopia!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 Agreed. I actually like Flaming Star, where I don't really like most of Elvis' movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:47 Only the best when you get sucked into the radio.
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @9:47 no police. and Sting isn't going to step out of the shower in metal shorts either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Thank you! I do have a Sun Ra soft space in my heart. Maybe ought to ask my doctor about that? Hm.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Stars" by "The Ventures" Only available from Europe! At least on discogs. And the shipping costs have gone up! www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" The only way I can write a song about how I feel is couch it in a tune about my favorite starship...
	9:50pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: what a trip man! so this is where music comes from. when I was little I was sure there was a tiny little band in the radio making the music, that only makes sense! 📻🌌🥁🎸🎙️
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Heather Z: Yesss Shot Reverse Shot!!!
	♥ 9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 Sun Ra appeared on the 3rd season finale of Saturday Night Live. I don't know if that was mentioned in last month's 50th anniversary music special.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:50 I remember thinking that there must be some magic imps inside the TV, making all the shows happen.
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" Metaphoric butterflies seem to show up everywhere.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:50 Hasil Adkins thought that one person played all the instruments when he heard songs on the radio, that's why he became a one-man-band...
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" I had to steal some Alex Toth illustrations, and combine them with some Jack Kirby backgrounds, for this album cover.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Heather Z: ↳ David Shortell @9:51 Oh cool!!! A friend and I have been talking a lot about SNL and I'll have to tell him about that and find it for myself!!
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 EC Comics had some good scifi illustrations, too. Including the ending scene from Judgment Day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:52 That "Saturday Night" movie that came out last year was amusing, although I felt it lacked a certain chutzpah.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: I will always thank my friend / fellow DJ Ricardo Wang, for FORCING ME to watch a Sun Ra documentary, and then playing for me about 10 Sun Ra albums, as the one who introduced me to him. I think Ricardo still does a radio show, if I'm not mistaken. In PDX.
	♥ 9:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:52 As the late Billy Miller said in the Hasil documentary: Thank goodness he wasn't listening to the Benny Goodman Orchestra!
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 He was still on Freeform Portland last time I checked...
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)" ... This is a great comp, with a lot of cool / interesting experimental / electronic music. I'm quite a fan of this series.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:53 I just watched that (because of that friend..it's what got him on the SNL kick)! I agree. Parts were good but overall, I would have liked to watch something else. But, then again, everyone knows I'm not a movie person.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)" ... Seems like all he did was the Eraserhead soundtrack, always wondered about how he got on this comp, if he had some other work that I didn't know about.
	9:58pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich heehee yes the wee radio men! 📻🌌
	9:59pm Imaginos: getting sleepy. Going to head to bed. Good luck, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: I thought television was like an animated painting with brushstrokes too intricate to be seen by the human eye, since televisions were not that big in the 80s.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Sleep well, Imaginos!
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm univac: Hello, all. Diggin the show Austin!
	10:02pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Arvo Zylo woah what a legend!! I gotta learn more about this talented whimsical fellow
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:56 I am not a movie expert, although I like the ritual of it. I would like to watch television/netflix series that are truly creative. I don't watch them much. So far, I like Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and to some extent, Dark Shadows. After 250 episodes of Dark Shadows, I think my viewings are more charitable, but the first two seasons are charming, clumsy, and also clever. The first four seasons of Dexter were amusing, but not exactly surreal in that way that thrills me, for example. True Detective was similar. Great work, but I don't need to watch more cop shows really.
	♥ 10:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 Wally Wood drew that in 1953. It caused some trouble with the Code. x.com...
	10:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Cheers to all vibing through radioland in the digital salon tonight 📻✨🛣️✨📻 love and light on your journeys
	10:05pm laurapanic: Ten Sun Ra albums is a lot
	10:07pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: "You come to music.. not in the glamorous way you wish you have " etc sorry for paraphrasing but what a quote to think about in music/art and life in general, it's about the journey, thanks DJ ✨🎶🛣️🖼️✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: Sun Ra started as an organist, if I recall. I like his organ work.
	10:08pm ?: I wanted to get into Sally Fourth, but I haven't read Sally 1st through 3rd yet
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:01 Hi univac!
	10:09pm GorillaFella: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:07 This strongly resonated with me as well!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm univac: ↳ Heather Z @10:08 Hello Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks JM in Texas! And Thanks Austin for putting up with my madness!
	♥ 10:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Stephen King's son, the creator of "Locke & Key", spoke at Rutgers last week. wh.rutgers.edu...
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm univac: I want the People Like Us record!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 I love Twin Peaks and loved Dark Shadows back when I used to watch all the time!! I'm not even ashamed to say I have been loving the new, something like, With Meghan With Love show on Netflix where the Duchess of Sussex teaches us all to be cottagecore. I'm in! I already love glass jars so why not?!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Arvo Zylo: People Like Us blew my mind when I discovered them at WZRD in 2005 or so...
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm univac: I saw Vicki's 4 Wall presentation in SF at Grey Area few years back. It was amazing!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm univac: Severed Heads is one of my favorites, too, Austin! I love them!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Ha! I don't think that would be my cup of tea! But if that floats your boat, go for it! I don't know, I think I need a surrealist aspect, or a supernatural aspect to film to really take it into the next level of my appreciation. I don't claim that everyone should feel this way. For example, The Prisoner was not technically surreal, but I found it to be touching in that way...
	♥ 10:14pm David Shortell: ↳ @10:08 That's a Wally Wood reference, folks.
	10:14pm laurapanic: I think People Like Us came out here and played a festival I used to work on called This Is Not Art. It may or may not have been the year of 9/11, which happened days before we were flying a whole bunch of electroinc artiss in from around the globe. Ca nt remember.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:14 Suxxex will make you a cup of tea! From things she's grown in her garden!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:11 I still haven't read "Locke & Key." Any good?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I watched the TV series. I liked it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" One of two times I recorded in a studio in the 90's. I wrote this song while I worked at B. Dalton Bookstore. Oh, the 90s...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:19 I also liked the TV series quite a bit!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" I remastered this recording for this broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: "I'm gonna steal your car / spend on your credit card..."
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" We got Jack Pollack, the artist behind "Devil Chef," to do this cover art.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: Love this!
	10:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 Wow, Cathead you can actually hear!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: Great artwork!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: I also recorded in a studio two times, but not in the 90s. I was in a band that didn't record anything ever. So it goes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: This song has be re-issued a few times, but the original tape was released in 1996.
	♥ 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 I've never seen "Quantum Leap" but I'm sure it's better than the one-season Irwin Allen TV series "The Time Tunnel" which MeTV repeats early on Sunday mornings. What rubbish! No matter where or when those time travelers go, everybody speaks English.
	10:23pm Mr. X: I've read exactly one Harlequin romance novel, just to see what it was like. Can't remember the name of it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 I remember liking the set for the Tunnel, and about nothing else.
	10:24pm GorillaFella: If I were Fabio, Id be playing some cool spacey tunes on Strength through Failure. But Im not Fabio!
	10:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 I've been in bands since 1992 and I have just recorded my first album with a band. Look, lets not get excited.....we haven't got the money to press it yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: "Now in six new wacky flavors."
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 Gotta run. Great stuff Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: (Great commercial!)
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 Thanks univac!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: ↳ univac @10:25 Sorry, didn't mean to reply to Arvo.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: I do like that Men's Recovery Project includes a sample of them smashing car windows as the intro to their song about Smokable Birth Control.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm univac: Austin: Can you reserve the People Like Us record for me? I'll put in a donation asap.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 That's rad! I love recording. I could spend all day in a studio, if I could afford it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:26 It's yours!
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 Rumor has it that Scott Bakula, star of Quantum Leap, lives (or lived for a time) in Austin's home town of Salem.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 Super funny!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 He did! He would come eat a local restaurants. His son jammed with my band once, and was going to the local college. (Which is why Dad was here so often.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: Mitch stole the mints!! Mitch!! Except that's exactly what Mitch would do..
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 I remember reading that they were developing birth control for men, but it didn't go to market because "it made men depressed". Ironically, birth control is not great for women, I'll surmise. I'll watch old Time Travel shows, but I understand!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I hear that there are a lot better romance novels these days, even a bunch that are from men's points of view. (Of every orientation, too.) There's one series about a group of guys who usually have a friend with love problems, so they have a book group and recommend to him a book that will "solve" his love problems. I haven't read it, but it is very popular at our store, among all genders, it appears.
	10:31pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Just popped a mint chiclet gum! Must have been trippin!
	10:33pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:33 Hey Barno!
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:33 Thanks for droppin' in, Barno!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Center of The Mind" by "The Amboy ... In spite of the Ted Nugent being an awful person, I really love this album.
	10:36pm Knox Velour: Ramones did a great version
	♥ 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Incredibly, it inspired a recurring skit on "The All New Alexei Sayle Show"! youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Knox Velour @10:36 Agreed!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 His show is so good! I need to watch more.
	10:37pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Maybe the Ted hadn't turned awful yet, prior to Cat Scratch Fever.
	10:38pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Knox Velour !! Gotta hear this
	10:38pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Barno (from Akron) Barno!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: "What is the point, dude?" Currently what will be on my tombstone.
	10:40pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: On a ROCK AND ROLL :~P If digital dreams could speak though, you captured it so perfectly. FINISH OR PERISH
	10:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I was literally just thinking I gotta listen to this episode again! diving deep man. I also dream of a free radio utopia of love and togetherness 🎶📻✨ Thanks everyone who helps make it happen 🌈💖
	10:50pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: 🎵Being Cool ~ Kimya Dawson :~)
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:50 Oh, man, I love her songs. I saw her a couple times way back when, once when she was in The Moldy Peaches. She's pretty rad.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Oh man, the computer voice burned me about how long it took me to finish college! He knows everything!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Ooooo! Sick Dean Koontz burn!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" Ricardo Wang told me some story, about Sky Saxon wandering into the radio station Ricardo was at, with a tape of some new song he'd recorded, trying to find someone to play it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: Flowers In The Attic of The Windmills Of Your Mind I Wanna Marry A Lighthouse Keeper and Keep Him Company!
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" I first heard about The Seeds from the Nuggets comp. Really like them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 They are one of the better Nuggets bands, with a deeper catalog than, say, Strawberry Alarm Clock. (Though I do like their one album.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 I first heard about them because someone on youtube set a dance by Bettie Page to the song "Can't Seem to Make You Mine".
	10:57pm GorillaFella: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" Really digging this one 🧠✈️🌌
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show, Austin, and good day or good night to everyone!! Can't wait for next week and more fun radio times!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Train I Ride Part 2" by "Mini-Mutations" I like finding those synth noises that sound like ghosts singing.
	10:59pm GorillaFella: Also its Shelby here lol, both Deerhoof and Severed Heads are unfamiliar to me and both look very cool so would be stoked abt either! Suprise me ;D
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:59 Cool!
	10:59pm GorillaFella: ↳ GorillaFella @10:59 And thanks again for an extremely thoughtful and inspiring program! Looking forward to tuning back in next week
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's a bit more, a couple more songs. For those who can, we'll go long...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: I love train travel. There's something very soothing about sleeping on a train.
	11:02pm Mr. X: The one time I rode on Amtrack, our train hit a bull. I felt the whole train jolt. Later during a stop, I strolled to the front of the engine, and saw the huge dent there.
	11:03pm GorillaFella: 🚂🛤🏡🌲🌄😴💤
	11:03pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Bro so real 💤🚂🌌💖🌈✨☁️
	11:03pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @GorillaFella YO emoji twins kinda AYE
	11:04pm GorillaFella: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @11:03 Ayyyy
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Woah! I've never been on a train that had anything more than a delay. That's wild!
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cup of Dreams" by "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282" One of my favorite bands.
	11:06pm GorillaFella: Ohh Music for Mind Control played a song earlier this evening from a dude who believed he found a frequency that allowed him to travel to new dimensions in sleep, I wonder if he was on that train too...
	🎸 ♥ 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @11:06 I need to check that out!
	11:09pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I'll have a cup of these dreams , please 🍵 Served in my train car 🚂
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @11:09 I'm sure the porter can hook us up.
	11:10pm Mr. X: Great show, Austin, thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:10pm Austin Rich: That really is a recording of me snoring, made by my wife one night when she couldn't sleep.
	11:11pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich lmao! 💤 sweet dreams
	11:14pm ?: Thanks for the show, I was cooking so not chatting much
	11:14pm ?: That was geoff
	11:15pm Geoff-U: I got logged out somehow haha
	🎸 ♥ 11:15pm Arvo Zylo: I met an architect and an owner of an art gallery in Signapore, and some other interesting folks...
	🎸 ♥ 11:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:15 On the Amtrak, I mean.
	11:16pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: lol this is like those recordings of cats purring except it's the relaxing frequencies of Austin Rich 🌌💤 thanx conductor for leading the way to dreamland tonight📻🎶
	11:16pm GorillaFella: ↳ GorillaFella @11:06 Looks like it was The Gateway Experience by Robert Monroe! Also the snoring outro is so cool lol thanks again for another great show!
	🎸 ♥ 11:16pm Arvo Zylo: I have seen this band live, but it's not the Newlydeads you speak of, I don't think... www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:16 Different band, same name I think! But I can't really remember if that band had recordings...
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: Oh, it was the NEARLY Deads. www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:23pm Arvo Zylo: Ok, good show, good luck, have a good night, enjoy Sherlock Holmes!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 11, 2025

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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March 11, 2025: Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part VI: Slip Inside This Dream - A Firesign Nordine (Marathon Week 2)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
We Be Trippin' "We Be Trippin'"
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones	Let’s Go Trippin’	"Let's Go Trippin'" b/w "Del-Tone Rock"	Deltone Records	1961	0:01:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Self-Released	2024	0:03:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Get It? "Get It?"
Mini-Mutations	Finish or Perish Part 1	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:10:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jandek	Riddles Riddling Me "Riddles Riddling Me" by "Jandek"	Staring at the Cellophane	Corwood Industries	1982	0:14:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Sacred Trickster "Sacred Trickster" by "Sonic Youth"	The Eternal	Matador Records	2009	0:17:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Finish or Perish Part 2	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:19:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fear	We Got To Get Out of This Place	The Record	Slash Records	1982	0:21:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Black Lips	Get Out And Get It	Arabia Mountain	Vice Records	2011	0:23:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Finish or Perish Part 3	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:25:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Journey (Instrumental) [Excerpt 1]	The Journey EP	Self-Released	2023	0:28:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stars "Stars"
Mini-Mutations	Starfield Part 1 "Starfield Part 1" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:38:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Ventures	Journey To The Stars	Journey To The Stars	Liberty Records	1966	0:39:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thee Headliners	Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)	18 November 2005	Mid-Valley Mutations	2005	0:41:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Starfield Part 2 "Starfield Part 2" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:45:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra	We Travel the Spaceways	We Travel The Spaceways	Evidence Records	1992	0:46:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shot Reverse Shot	The Furthest Stars	Dimension X... Minus One!	WTBC Records	2020	0:49:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan R. Splet	Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)	An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003	Sub Rosa	2003	0:53:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Starfield Part 3 "Starfield Part 3" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	0:57:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Journey (Instrumental) [Excerpt 2]	The Journey EP	Self-Released	2023	0:59:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Still Trippin' "Still Trippin'"
Mini-Mutations	Nibbs Part 1 "Nibbs Part 1" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:17:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cathead	Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)	In Loving Memory of Harold	WTBC Records	2013	1:19:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Nibbs Part 2 "Nibbs Part 2" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:24:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Men's Recovery Project	Smokable Birth Control	The Very Best Of Men's Recovery	5 Rue Christine Records	2005	1:25:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Nibbs Part 3 "Nibbs Part 3" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:27:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Flaming Lips	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell [Excerpt]	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots	Warner Bros. Records	2002	1:28:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Why? Part 1 "Why? Part 1" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:31:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Amboy Dukes	Journey To The Center of The Mind	Journey To The Center Of The Mind	Mainstream Records	1968	1:34:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Why? Part 2 "Why? Part 2" by "Mini-Mutations"	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:37:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Esquivel & His Orchestra	Sentimental Journey	Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music	Bar/None Records	1994	1:41:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cup O'... "Cup O'..."
Mini-Mutations	Train I Ride Part 1	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:49:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Seeds	Travel With Your Mind "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds"	Future	GNP Crescendo	1967	1:53:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Train I Ride Part 2	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	1:57:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure	Dream	Twink	Phillips Records	1967	2:04:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282	Cup of Dreams	Strangers From The Universe	Matador Records	1994	2:04:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Train I Ride Part 3	A Firesign Nordine	Self-Released	2024	2:11:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Self-Released	2024

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: We have prize premiums for people who make donations! Stay tuned for more information!
	8:56pm Imaginos: ahoy.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Love the image from Explorers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 It's one of my favorite movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Have a great show! Cheers!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 i still watch it and D.A.R.Y.L. from time to time
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Thanks Krys O!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Howdy hi!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Haven't seen DARYL since it probably came out. But I try to watch Explorers every so often.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mr. X! My partner in crime.
	9:03pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Let's go do some crimes.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 have you ever seen Mio In The Land of Faraway?
	9:08pm Imaginos: DARYL and Explorers are both on Fandango at Home.
	9:09pm Geoff-U: Hiiiiiiiiii
	9:10pm GorillaFella: Hello Austin and fellow mutants! Been looking forward to this all week, last weeks show completely blew my mind 🤯
	9:11pm laurapanic: ITS OK AUSTIN OTHERS ARE STUCK I NHERE AS WELL
	9:13pm Imaginos: Music is the soul of time and space
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: If you make a donation to WFMU, you could own this biography of Thurston Moore! Donate today! en.wikipedia.org...
	9:13pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ayye time to oil up the Space-Winnebago for a trip 🌌🚀
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Or if Deerhoof is more your jam, then you might want to make a donation and ask for this excellent LP! www.discogs.com...
	9:14pm Imaginos: Scavenger hunt? I think the first clue would have been: The Sea is Reversed. SS Itari is mixed up and blind.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: laurapanic, red_door, Imaginos, Geoff-U, and Mr. X! (Plus any lurkers who might be out there!) Good Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Riddles Riddling Me" by "Jandek" I've been lucky enough to see Jandek play live a couple times. For a reclusive artist who hides out in Texas, he sure tours a lot these days.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:11 Maybe being stuck inside the radio wouldn't be the worst thing, considering the world outside.
	9:18pm Imaginos: If you want to see some real dreams and nightmares, look up the works of Beny Tchaikovsky
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 I'll check it out! Thanks for the recommendation.
	9:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 especially the MorningStar Trilogy of animation videos. (Flashing image warning)
	9:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: The sound brick road!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:19 I love when the Munchkin's sing that one.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: "No pretty girls to look at?!" Emergency!
	9:21pm Imaginos: double speed? THe Chipmunk Show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: Just saying hello. Will be lurking, making tacos, and preparing Austin's birthday present for shipment... I used to watch Quantum Leap every week! My favorite episode was the one where the main character played Oswald. It kinda overlaps with Stephen King's later book, 11.22.63, which does involve time travel, but not through the eyes of Oswald. That is one case where the TV series was better than the book, I thought.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 Quantum Leap was pretty great! I should probably re-watch. It's been years.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: The way Lee Ving screams at the end of this song is ridiculous.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "We Got To Get Out of This Place" by "Fear" I forgot about this version! I do remember the cover that Jello Biafra did with DOA. I might prefer this cover a bit more these days.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 Speaking of Stephen King, my favourite episode of QL was the one with Little Stevie. I loved the stinger at the end "Have a nice day, Mrs. King" (to Stevie's mom)
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I do not remember that one! Wild!
	9:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich Lol! Sure beats the SILENCE brick road! The future stretches out ahead... Fun fun fun journey thanks DJ!!📻
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Wasn't there a lot of stuff like that? I feel like he inspired Buddy Holly, too.
	9:25pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: This Black Lips album rips !!
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 the episode was titled "The Boogieman"
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:25 Yeah, that whole album rules. The Black Lips are pretty great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: Trill Tone Season.
	9:28pm Imaginos: Kidd Video?
	9:29pm Imaginos: stuck in the telecine machine?
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 There was a Stephen King film adaptation not too many years ago called "The Boogeyman"!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 so....nice....
	9:36pm Imaginos: those who don't finish the Gunslinger have forgotten the face of their father.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Arvo Zylo: I still need to read The Stand, and The Dark Tower series, and The Richard Bachman stuff. Sorry I think I hijacked with Stephen King yet again.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:37 It was either Stephen King, Douglas Adams, or Christopher Moore
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: I think I have probably read everything Adams wrote. But there might be some scraps here and there that I missed.
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Have you read the Meaning of Liff?
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Stars" by "The Ventures" I'm a sucker for The Ventures, and I try to get all their albums. But this one, on vinyl, still elludes me. All their albums are great, but this one is VERY good. Man... Or Astro-Man? has covered nearly all of this Ventures songs.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I have! It's not his best, but it's pretty good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... This is The Headliners appearing on my show in 2005. I remastered this recording this morning, for this specific broadcast.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 it's basically the British equivalent of Sniglets.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:42 There were two books, right?
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Yes. The original and the Deeper Meaning of Liff.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Arvo Zylo: I believe Elvis had a song called "Flaming Star" which was originally called "Black Star", unrelated to Bowie's "Black Star".
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... I had the biggest crush on Holly Hotbox, the drummer for this band. One of the first shows I ever saw in PDX was her band, The Newly Deads, playing at Satyricon. She was so cool. Drove a cab, played drums, sang. What more do you want in a woman?
	9:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... this is cool
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Flaming Star (Live) (2025 Remaster)" by "Thee Hea... I guess this is a cover! I haven't heard it in a while. www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:44 They were the COOLEST. The Headliners were totally #RelationshipGoals.
	9:46pm Imaginos: does that starfield contain the Phoenix Asteroids?
	♥ 9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:43 It was a 1960 western he starred in, directed by the great Don Siegel. One of Elvis' better films.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "We Travel the Spaceways" by "Sun Ra And His Myth ... This one goes out to Heather, who was telling me she was a Sun Ra fan.
	9:47pm GorillaFella: No police? Damn that really is a utopia!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 Agreed. I actually like Flaming Star, where I don't really like most of Elvis' movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:47 Only the best when you get sucked into the radio.
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @9:47 no police. and Sting isn't going to step out of the shower in metal shorts either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Thank you! I do have a Sun Ra soft space in my heart. Maybe ought to ask my doctor about that? Hm.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Stars" by "The Ventures" Only available from Europe! At least on discogs. And the shipping costs have gone up! www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" The only way I can write a song about how I feel is couch it in a tune about my favorite starship...
	9:50pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: what a trip man! so this is where music comes from. when I was little I was sure there was a tiny little band in the radio making the music, that only makes sense! 📻🌌🥁🎸🎙️
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Heather Z: Yesss Shot Reverse Shot!!!
	♥ 9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 Sun Ra appeared on the 3rd season finale of Saturday Night Live. I don't know if that was mentioned in last month's 50th anniversary music special.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:50 I remember thinking that there must be some magic imps inside the TV, making all the shows happen.
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" Metaphoric butterflies seem to show up everywhere.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:50 Hasil Adkins thought that one person played all the instruments when he heard songs on the radio, that's why he became a one-man-band...
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Furthest Stars" by "Shot Reverse Shot" I had to steal some Alex Toth illustrations, and combine them with some Jack Kirby backgrounds, for this album cover.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Heather Z: ↳ David Shortell @9:51 Oh cool!!! A friend and I have been talking a lot about SNL and I'll have to tell him about that and find it for myself!!
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 EC Comics had some good scifi illustrations, too. Including the ending scene from Judgment Day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:52 That "Saturday Night" movie that came out last year was amusing, although I felt it lacked a certain chutzpah.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: I will always thank my friend / fellow DJ Ricardo Wang, for FORCING ME to watch a Sun Ra documentary, and then playing for me about 10 Sun Ra albums, as the one who introduced me to him. I think Ricardo still does a radio show, if I'm not mistaken. In PDX.
	♥ 9:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:52 As the late Billy Miller said in the Hasil documentary: Thank goodness he wasn't listening to the Benny Goodman Orchestra!
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 He was still on Freeform Portland last time I checked...
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)" ... This is a great comp, with a lot of cool / interesting experimental / electronic music. I'm quite a fan of this series.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:53 I just watched that (because of that friend..it's what got him on the SNL kick)! I agree. Parts were good but overall, I would have liked to watch something else. But, then again, everyone knows I'm not a movie person.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)" ... Seems like all he did was the Eraserhead soundtrack, always wondered about how he got on this comp, if he had some other work that I didn't know about.
	9:58pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich heehee yes the wee radio men! 📻🌌
	9:59pm Imaginos: getting sleepy. Going to head to bed. Good luck, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: I thought television was like an animated painting with brushstrokes too intricate to be seen by the human eye, since televisions were not that big in the 80s.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Sleep well, Imaginos!
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm univac: Hello, all. Diggin the show Austin!
	10:02pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Arvo Zylo woah what a legend!! I gotta learn more about this talented whimsical fellow
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:56 I am not a movie expert, although I like the ritual of it. I would like to watch television/netflix series that are truly creative. I don't watch them much. So far, I like Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and to some extent, Dark Shadows. After 250 episodes of Dark Shadows, I think my viewings are more charitable, but the first two seasons are charming, clumsy, and also clever. The first four seasons of Dexter were amusing, but not exactly surreal in that way that thrills me, for example. True Detective was similar. Great work, but I don't need to watch more cop shows really.
	♥ 10:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 Wally Wood drew that in 1953. It caused some trouble with the Code. x.com...
	10:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Cheers to all vibing through radioland in the digital salon tonight 📻✨🛣️✨📻 love and light on your journeys
	10:05pm laurapanic: Ten Sun Ra albums is a lot
	10:07pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: "You come to music.. not in the glamorous way you wish you have " etc sorry for paraphrasing but what a quote to think about in music/art and life in general, it's about the journey, thanks DJ ✨🎶🛣️🖼️✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Arvo Zylo: Sun Ra started as an organist, if I recall. I like his organ work.
	10:08pm ?: I wanted to get into Sally Fourth, but I haven't read Sally 1st through 3rd yet
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:01 Hi univac!
	10:09pm GorillaFella: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:07 This strongly resonated with me as well!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm univac: ↳ Heather Z @10:08 Hello Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks JM in Texas! And Thanks Austin for putting up with my madness!
	♥ 10:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Stephen King's son, the creator of "Locke & Key", spoke at Rutgers last week. wh.rutgers.edu...
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm univac: I want the People Like Us record!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 I love Twin Peaks and loved Dark Shadows back when I used to watch all the time!! I'm not even ashamed to say I have been loving the new, something like, With Meghan With Love show on Netflix where the Duchess of Sussex teaches us all to be cottagecore. I'm in! I already love glass jars so why not?!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Arvo Zylo: People Like Us blew my mind when I discovered them at WZRD in 2005 or so...
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm univac: I saw Vicki's 4 Wall presentation in SF at Grey Area few years back. It was amazing!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm univac: Severed Heads is one of my favorites, too, Austin! I love them!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Ha! I don't think that would be my cup of tea! But if that floats your boat, go for it! I don't know, I think I need a surrealist aspect, or a supernatural aspect to film to really take it into the next level of my appreciation. I don't claim that everyone should feel this way. For example, The Prisoner was not technically surreal, but I found it to be touching in that way...
	♥ 10:14pm David Shortell: ↳ @10:08 That's a Wally Wood reference, folks.
	10:14pm laurapanic: I think People Like Us came out here and played a festival I used to work on called This Is Not Art. It may or may not have been the year of 9/11, which happened days before we were flying a whole bunch of electroinc artiss in from around the globe. Ca nt remember.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:14 Suxxex will make you a cup of tea! From things she's grown in her garden!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:11 I still haven't read "Locke & Key." Any good?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I watched the TV series. I liked it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" One of two times I recorded in a studio in the 90's. I wrote this song while I worked at B. Dalton Bookstore. Oh, the 90s...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:19 I also liked the TV series quite a bit!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" I remastered this recording for this broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: "I'm gonna steal your car / spend on your credit card..."
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paperback Romance (2025 Remaster)" by "Cathead" We got Jack Pollack, the artist behind "Devil Chef," to do this cover art.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: Love this!
	10:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 Wow, Cathead you can actually hear!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: Great artwork!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: I also recorded in a studio two times, but not in the 90s. I was in a band that didn't record anything ever. So it goes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: This song has be re-issued a few times, but the original tape was released in 1996.
	♥ 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 I've never seen "Quantum Leap" but I'm sure it's better than the one-season Irwin Allen TV series "The Time Tunnel" which MeTV repeats early on Sunday mornings. What rubbish! No matter where or when those time travelers go, everybody speaks English.
	10:23pm Mr. X: I've read exactly one Harlequin romance novel, just to see what it was like. Can't remember the name of it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 I remember liking the set for the Tunnel, and about nothing else.
	10:24pm GorillaFella: If I were Fabio, Id be playing some cool spacey tunes on Strength through Failure. But Im not Fabio!
	10:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 I've been in bands since 1992 and I have just recorded my first album with a band. Look, lets not get excited.....we haven't got the money to press it yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: "Now in six new wacky flavors."
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 Gotta run. Great stuff Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: (Great commercial!)
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 Thanks univac!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: ↳ univac @10:25 Sorry, didn't mean to reply to Arvo.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: I do like that Men's Recovery Project includes a sample of them smashing car windows as the intro to their song about Smokable Birth Control.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm univac: Austin: Can you reserve the People Like Us record for me? I'll put in a donation asap.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 That's rad! I love recording. I could spend all day in a studio, if I could afford it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:26 It's yours!
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 Rumor has it that Scott Bakula, star of Quantum Leap, lives (or lived for a time) in Austin's home town of Salem.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 Super funny!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 He did! He would come eat a local restaurants. His son jammed with my band once, and was going to the local college. (Which is why Dad was here so often.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: Mitch stole the mints!! Mitch!! Except that's exactly what Mitch would do..
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 I remember reading that they were developing birth control for men, but it didn't go to market because "it made men depressed". Ironically, birth control is not great for women, I'll surmise. I'll watch old Time Travel shows, but I understand!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I hear that there are a lot better romance novels these days, even a bunch that are from men's points of view. (Of every orientation, too.) There's one series about a group of guys who usually have a friend with love problems, so they have a book group and recommend to him a book that will "solve" his love problems. I haven't read it, but it is very popular at our store, among all genders, it appears.
	10:31pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Just popped a mint chiclet gum! Must have been trippin!
	10:33pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:33 Hey Barno!
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:33 Thanks for droppin' in, Barno!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Journey To The Center of The Mind" by "The Amboy ... In spite of the Ted Nugent being an awful person, I really love this album.
	10:36pm Knox Velour: Ramones did a great version
	♥ 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Incredibly, it inspired a recurring skit on "The All New Alexei Sayle Show"! youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Knox Velour @10:36 Agreed!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 His show is so good! I need to watch more.
	10:37pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Maybe the Ted hadn't turned awful yet, prior to Cat Scratch Fever.
	10:38pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Knox Velour !! Gotta hear this
	10:38pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Barno (from Akron) Barno!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: "What is the point, dude?" Currently what will be on my tombstone.
	10:40pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: On a ROCK AND ROLL :~P If digital dreams could speak though, you captured it so perfectly. FINISH OR PERISH
	10:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I was literally just thinking I gotta listen to this episode again! diving deep man. I also dream of a free radio utopia of love and togetherness 🎶📻✨ Thanks everyone who helps make it happen 🌈💖
	10:50pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: 🎵Being Cool ~ Kimya Dawson :~)
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:50 Oh, man, I love her songs. I saw her a couple times way back when, once when she was in The Moldy Peaches. She's pretty rad.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Oh man, the computer voice burned me about how long it took me to finish college! He knows everything!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Ooooo! Sick Dean Koontz burn!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" Ricardo Wang told me some story, about Sky Saxon wandering into the radio station Ricardo was at, with a tape of some new song he'd recorded, trying to find someone to play it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: Flowers In The Attic of The Windmills Of Your Mind I Wanna Marry A Lighthouse Keeper and Keep Him Company!
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" I first heard about The Seeds from the Nuggets comp. Really like them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 They are one of the better Nuggets bands, with a deeper catalog than, say, Strawberry Alarm Clock. (Though I do like their one album.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 I first heard about them because someone on youtube set a dance by Bettie Page to the song "Can't Seem to Make You Mine".
	10:57pm GorillaFella: ↳ Song: "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds" Really digging this one 🧠✈️🌌
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show, Austin, and good day or good night to everyone!! Can't wait for next week and more fun radio times!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Train I Ride Part 2" by "Mini-Mutations" I like finding those synth noises that sound like ghosts singing.
	10:59pm GorillaFella: Also its Shelby here lol, both Deerhoof and Severed Heads are unfamiliar to me and both look very cool so would be stoked abt either! Suprise me ;D
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:59 Cool!
	10:59pm GorillaFella: ↳ GorillaFella @10:59 And thanks again for an extremely thoughtful and inspiring program! Looking forward to tuning back in next week
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's a bit more, a couple more songs. For those who can, we'll go long...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: I love train travel. There's something very soothing about sleeping on a train.
	11:02pm Mr. X: The one time I rode on Amtrack, our train hit a bull. I felt the whole train jolt. Later during a stop, I strolled to the front of the engine, and saw the huge dent there.
	11:03pm GorillaFella: 🚂🛤🏡🌲🌄😴💤
	11:03pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Bro so real 💤🚂🌌💖🌈✨☁️
	11:03pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @GorillaFella YO emoji twins kinda AYE
	11:04pm GorillaFella: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @11:03 Ayyyy
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Woah! I've never been on a train that had anything more than a delay. That's wild!
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cup of Dreams" by "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282" One of my favorite bands.
	11:06pm GorillaFella: Ohh Music for Mind Control played a song earlier this evening from a dude who believed he found a frequency that allowed him to travel to new dimensions in sleep, I wonder if he was on that train too...
	🎸 ♥ 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @11:06 I need to check that out!
	11:09pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I'll have a cup of these dreams , please 🍵 Served in my train car 🚂
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @11:09 I'm sure the porter can hook us up.
	11:10pm Mr. X: Great show, Austin, thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:10pm Austin Rich: That really is a recording of me snoring, made by my wife one night when she couldn't sleep.
	11:11pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: @Austin Rich lmao! 💤 sweet dreams
	11:14pm ?: Thanks for the show, I was cooking so not chatting much
	11:14pm ?: That was geoff
	11:15pm Geoff-U: I got logged out somehow haha
	🎸 ♥ 11:15pm Arvo Zylo: I met an architect and an owner of an art gallery in Signapore, and some other interesting folks...
	🎸 ♥ 11:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:15 On the Amtrak, I mean.
	11:16pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: lol this is like those recordings of cats purring except it's the relaxing frequencies of Austin Rich 🌌💤 thanx conductor for leading the way to dreamland tonight📻🎶
	11:16pm GorillaFella: ↳ GorillaFella @11:06 Looks like it was The Gateway Experience by Robert Monroe! Also the snoring outro is so cool lol thanks again for another great show!
	🎸 ♥ 11:16pm Arvo Zylo: I have seen this band live, but it's not the Newlydeads you speak of, I don't think... www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:16 Different band, same name I think! But I can't really remember if that band had recordings...
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: Oh, it was the NEARLY Deads. www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:23pm Arvo Zylo: Ok, good show, good luck, have a good night, enjoy Sherlock Holmes!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 11, 2025

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