july 23rd - word(s) of the day - "dawn to dusk!" playlist
alls i gotta say this week is...
KAT COME BACK AND CO-HOST WITH ME BEFORE YOU TURN TO PHOTOSHOPPED STARDUST!!
haha.... well.. all is well on the word play front. we're taking applications / resumes / demo reels for our newest youtube promo, which WILL BE A MUSIC VID chock full of crazy stunts and spits!! lets just say... there will be crazy hula hoopers and a couple of drag queens and probbbbably like 8 dachshunds (if i can round em all up) in this vid. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (but are not limiting ourselves to this list) : -fire breathers -vaudeville flappers -GRANDMAS -monster costumes -astronauts -someone as david bowie in the labyrinth -ravi shankar sitar riffs in the back -SOMEONE WHO CAN PLAY SOME MAD SYNTH -stunt drivers -as well as : -ET CETERA
once kat comes back, we will start this shiz (scuse me, ranch dressing) UP. get in on the word play gravy train!
hope you enjoyed the morning-afternoon-evening-night set this week! as always thanks for the support ! word play adores you, kellen
i just want to salute that round disc in the sky that gives us light on days when it's shinin' bright. tonights a new moon, so we'll have to bow to it all yoga-style once it comes back.
THE best thing i can recommend to any of you who love short stories is this:
italo calvino's cosmicomics. the first chapter is a tiny story about the moon's gravitational pull being so close that humans used to climb ladders to the bottom of the moon and catch moon milk. its a fantastic read and one of my all-time faves, especially pertaining to this word of the week we call "moon."
i dont exactly have a song o' the week, but ill leave you with the sculpture of the week?! same thing... purdy much...
this is by bruce nauman, titled my name as though it were written on the surface of the moon, 1968. neon sign. how appropriate, since apollo 11 was just a year later!
and, so wait, we did have an artist of the week on word play-- RAHIM QUAZI! he's a singer/songwriter from the DFW area, and he actually suggested the word of the day be "moonlight." little did you all know that rahim himself has some songs with material covering the ole satellite in the sky, so i hope you all enjoyed the "apollo" and "she talks to moonlight" songs! check him out if youre ever in the dallas / grapevine area-- it is HIGHLY highly wordplay-recommend. stamp of approval GRADE A MEAT.
thats alls i got for this week, keeeeeeeeelleeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
july 9th- word of the day : " ? & ( ) ! " playlist
THE AMPERSAND : & check out that treat for all you type nerds out there! shoutout to my friend claude, a fantastic graphic designer who loves the ampersand like anyone else.
i hope you guys dug the symbols/punctuation word of the day! it was a different way of working here at word play since ive never found songs in the caliber i did for the ?!&() show!
an UPDATE! the octopus project is incredible live. just wanted to put that out there-- what a great 4th of july that was seeing them and wooden birds (EXCELLENT too ps) and explosions in the sky. no fireworks though, austin texas. come on!
the word play song of the week is YEASAYER's "TIGHTROPE" -- it is tiiiiight! i found it on sirius's XMU channel but realized, well hey its on that one Dark Was The Knight compilation album. check it outtttt!! im gonna try to make a song of the week since its exciting to put up new stuff youre dying to tell everyone about.
DAN DEACON and DEERHUNTER are taking a collaborative tour right now (as of late, they're only in the east coast and new york area) where they are playing eachothers' songs and singing together. HOLY COW. those two are two of the best live shows ive seen, EVER, so together? who wants to hop a plane and go see them play in chicago in august?? im sure there will be some ACL action since the both of them are lined up for the festival, but.... theres never a time when the windy city sounds like a bad idea!
kat, my fellow co-host who is on leave for the summer and NEEDS TO COME BACK ASAP, and i are going to start up a video blog on this here site pretty soon, so in a couple of weeks be ready to see some hilarious off-air action with your word play gals. continuing on the music and words are what we at word play are here for, SO!
other than that, i got nothing. enjoy the ampersand / exclamation / question mark / parentheses show! ill leave you with this: SONG O THA WEEK BALLERS!
uh.... sorry everyone. its been almost three or four weeks or something like that since our streaming server has been shot down. MOTHERLINE. so if youve been one of the many listeners that cant stream off our site and are pulling your hair out-- just be comforted in the mere fact that IM RIGHT THERE WITH YOU and that we are holding comforting group sessions every thursday after the show until this mega cajunga uber glitch in our webmastery department gets its hiccups out. ill bring the ginger ale if you bring some croissants and or cookies :)
pero, until then, i will still be posting the shows in mp3 format after the fact, so you can still get your word play fix on FRIDAY, just not live with all the fun and shenanigans on the 89.9 air wave.
anyone know a guy who could do a thing with my main guy, tony? cheers worders, kellen
SO CATS AND DOGS! its word plays COVER SHOW part deux.
kat and i had a marrrrvelous covers show in the spring (if that strikes your fancy, listen here). i, of course, HAD to repeat the word of the day "repeat" since, to be frank, there are so many covers out there floating in cyberspace. i hope you all enjoyed, are enjoying, or will enjoy.
what was the first cover song in your memory? my father (who, as i will write time and again, schooled me in music appreciation from the time i could hear music) revealed to me that the one aerosmith song i knew so well in the 80s was IN FACT a beatles song orignally on abbey road. when i was a yee young gal growing up in the suburbs, trying to make 4-track mix tapes of my newly-acquired guitar skills, i first covered "hide your love away."
covers are such a great sub-category of the music universe! here's a fun one-- ben folds covering "bitches aint shit" by dr. dre. i saw this live myself and definitely should share.
and speaking of live, there are some GREAT live shows coming up! i myself will be seeing the octopus project and explosions in the sky on 4th of july and will for sure come back here to give a little review of the show. ALSO! -next wednesday, july 15th -- tortoise is playing at the mohawk THEN the dirty projectors are playing at red 7 -- CHECK IT OUT if you can since red 7 is such a tiny place and im sure dirty projectors will rock that space out! -next thursday, july 16th -- the blue hit and the river hymn will be playing at san marcos's triple crown. let me tell you, i had the blue hit play in my own backyard last year and was blown away by this 3-piece band with a cello and amazing lady vocalist. ive yet to see the river hymn but know the female vocalist and know her pipes are fantastic also, so all you san martians should absolutely check that out.
thats all i got for this week! thanks for tuning in, and dont forget that next week's word of the day is up for suggestions! email me your ideas for a word at ktswwordplay@gmail.com and you might get your word played!
we the ladies of word play are sweet deejays on the lovely air wave of KTSW in san marcos texas. in our once-a-week show, we bring to you tunes that come together with a word of the day. call it word association or whatever bodes well, but this little blog guy is our way of posting previous shows and talking trash about the music on our playlists. LISTEN LIVE @ 89.9FM in san marcos or stream live anywhere in the world - ktsw.net!
