Snobcast: Rorschach Jukebox Edition
Written by Col. Hector Bravado // May 19, 2008 // The Conservatory // 10 Comments
This week is a very special edition of the Snobcast. I have essentially handed the writing duties over to my colleague. So, without further ado, I present an experimental interview by the consistently crazy, constantly perplexing, always fresh, never frozen, Col. Hector Bravado!!! Give it up, ladies & gentlemen. – Father Guido
Col. Hector Bravado: The premise of this “interview” is simple. I’m going to suggest various scenarios, and the subject will put them to music. Our subject in this instance is Quin, aka NoFi, the benevolent Nerd King of iminlikewithyou.com, the Colonel’s preferred vehicle for social media crack rock. Quin is also a founding member of No-Fi “Magazine” in Los Angeles, and is a DJ on No-Fi “Radio,” a series of audio files available for download on the site.
My commute from Westminster to Louisville on Highway 36 takes about 11 minutes. Get me through this.
“A Life of Arctic Sounds” Modest Mouse
“King of the Road” Fu Manchu
“Ibitsu” Boris
“Bonehead” Naked City
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You actually got the smart-mouth girl with the barrette in her hair and the silvery laugh to come home with you. What’s the first thing you spin?
“The Other Side” Beat Happening
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/01-The-Other-Side.mp3|titles=The Other Side]
It’s Tuesday, any Tuesday, 1:28 p.m. 76 degrees, cloudless with a 5 m.p.h. wind from the SE.
“White Light/White Heat” The Velvet Underground
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/07-White-Light_White-Heat.mp3|titles=White Light/White Heat]
It’s Tuesday, any Tuesday, 1:28 p.m. 76 degrees, cloudless with a 5 m.p.h. wind from the SE, and that figure you saw before in the back yard was watching you from the other room and just ran behind the radiator.
“Somebody’s Watching Me” Rockwell
“Psycho Nightmare” Daniel Johnston
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/01-Somebodys-Watching-Me-1.mp3,http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/10-Psycho-Nightmare.mp3|titles=Somebody's Watching Me,Psycho Nightmare]
It’s the musical montage scene in Donnybrook: The Movie. Signs are going up in front plush new offices. Lady Z is test driving a 7-series BMW. Guido Sarducci IV is flogging an intern with unholy abandon. Song?
“Warm Leatherette” The Normal
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/02-Warm-Leatherette.mp3|titles=Warm Leatherette]
It’s the closing credits for I’mInLikeWithYou: The Movie. The profile names and faces flash slowly onto the screen, one by one. Song?
“Reel Ten” The Plugz
I’m visiting you in Redondo Beach. We are four beers deep on your favorite patio, and this comes on:
“Revenge” Black Flag
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/05-Revenge.mp3|titles=Revenge]
Give me fast tempo, loud guitars, super-catchy and recorded before 1960:
“You Can’t Catch Me” Chuck Berry
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/03-You-Cant-Catch-Me.mp3|titles=You Can't Catch Me]
Play me something from the 1980s that should have been a hit, but wasn’t:
“Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage” Killer Pussy
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/15-Teenage-Enema-Nurses-In-Bondage.mp3|titles=Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage]
You just saw her again.
“For No One” The Beatles
“All Mixed Up” Red House Painters
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/10-For-No-One.mp3,http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/All-Mixed-Up.mp3|titles=For No One,All Mixed Up]
What was stuck in your head when you got up this morning?
“Jolene” Dolly Parton
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/217-Jolene.mp3|titles=Jolene]
What song is stuck in the head of Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J right now?
“How Much is that Doggy in the Window?” Doris Day
Make us cry.
“Tell Laura I Love Her” Ricky Valance
“I’m Going to Go Back There Someday” Gonzo
“Ruby’s Arms” Tom Waits
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/1-114-Tell-Laura-I-Love-Her-1.mp3,http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/09-Rubys-Arms.mp3|titles=Tell Laura I Love Her,Ruby's Arms]
Nice work, Quin. Now take us home with a little jazz.
“Far Wells, Mill Valley” Charles Mingus
[audio:http://godonnybrook.com/v3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/06-Far-Wells-Mill-Valley.mp3|titles=Far Wells, Mill Valley]
10 Comments on "Snobcast: Rorschach Jukebox Edition"
Whoa! I like how the player doesn’t get interrupted when you navigate to other pages on the site. Sweet! Thanks to Quin for being a great subject and Guido for accommodating the concept.
All I can say to this is:
“Talkin’ Shit About a Pretty Sunset,” Modest Mouse and
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Them.
It’s Tuesday, any Tuesday, 1:28 p.m. 76 degrees, cloudless with a 5 m.p.h. wind from the SE
“everybody here is a cloud” by cloud cult
Dig. Also, I think it’s entirely possible that Shaggy 2 Dope is self-rocking “Incense and Peppermints” meanwhile.
I repeat: My mind = thoroughly raped
benevolent nerd king is one hell of a title. cheers.
this was seriously one of the coolest things i’ve ever gotten to do. it turned into a bit of an endurance test and forced me to reach way back into the far corners of my mind, but i had a lot of fun doing it. thanks to the Colonel and Father Guido. you guys rule!!
haha…am i really a nerd king?
Why, Quin, are you implying that the interview was grueling in some fashion? And you fielded the questions with such apparent ease and grace.
Yes. Benevolent Nerd King of IILWY. Own it. Love it. Here at Donnybrook, we’re very good to our nerds. They’re like tribal shamans.
colonel, the only reason the interview was grueling is because i am exceedingly neurotic. i would think of something and then immediately think of something else that might be better, but probably not. however, in the end i was pretty happy with my answers.
Hearkens to the IIHWY essay. No matter how well you pick, there’s always the melancholy of knowing your recipient will never be able to step in (or even find) the universe where you chose the song. That’s what makes it such a fascinating exercise for me.
But yeah.
I like the songs.