Steers Beers 'n' Queers

Happy Pride, everyone! Yes, this is a bit late, but get off my ass, it's free.

First up is some good old fashioned Bush-bashing as our President from the state of steers tells us everything's A-OK in Iraq.

Music - Rantings of Eva "Still Holding On" - July 9th @ Smith's Olde Bar
Then, let's recap the fun at Corndogorama 5000 as Traci from j e t t y grabs some balls and gets wet, Arthur doesn't puke up his corndogs, and two skinny guys make some awful "music."
Music - Cadillac Jones (live recording) - July 23 @ The Earl

Take a tour of Atlanta Pride 2005, visiting with some nice Christians, a toy store, a dildo toss, and various drunken revelers.
Music - Trances Arc "Champagne" - July 9 @ Smith's Olde Bar
It all reminds me of a tale about my first friend to come out of the closet. Sort of.
Music - Little Country Giants "Something to be Proud of" - July 5 @ Eddie's Attic

Credits, administrative business, and an extra bonus clip courtesy of NPR's On the Media and thepoorman.net.
Music - The Woggles (live recording) - August 19 @ The Earl

I'm going to take a couple weeks off for a road trip, my birthday, and to shake some podcaster funk. Back with a revived show around July 19th. In the meantime, I'll put out my first All Songs BBQ'd mix, since enough of you responded favorably. It will be on a different RSS feed, which I have yet to invent, so be sure to visit the website!

DOWNLOAD (38:39 / 27.9MB / 100kbps)

Music survey

Here's a question for you folks. For those of you inclined to comment or email anyway. As you know, this show straddles that abyss between the music podcasts and the talk podcasts, known as the ever-elusive "variety" genre. Sure, I could just play local Atlanta music, but frankly I don't listen to too many just-music podcasts m'self, and I'm just so goddamn in love with the sound of my own voice.

What if you could have the best of both worlds? That is, if you even want just music. I've been bouncing around the notion of putting out a secondary podcast that's almost exlusively music -- I'd only pop in briefly between tracks to identify the artists -- and maybe even played at a higher quality (i.e. 128kbps, though that's unlikely b/c I feel that if you like the band so damn much you should at least go visit their website...at the very least, 96kbps, still quite listenable). And this would basically consist of the tracks played on the regular show, but in their entirety without me blathering all over them. If there wasn't much music in that episode, maybe I'd throw in a bonus track from the artist(s).

And if you're interested in the music-only bonus show, would you want it each week with the music from that episode? Or how about a once-a-month compilation from the last four shows, sort of an "All Songs BBQ'd" album? Either way, these would be sent out on a different feed, so if you don't want music shows, you don't have to subscribe to them. I'm just trying to gauge interest here.

I'll make it easy with some pre-filled-out email votes (just remember to change the (at) to @):

Yes! Music show! Either weekly or monthly is fine.

Yes! Music show! Monthly is good.

Yes! Music show! Weekly please.

I wouldn't subscribe, don't bother.

Or, of course, feel free to comment.

Corndogorama!

Tonight is the super awesome special fun Corndog-O-Rama episode!

I didn't seem to make the newspaper's cut, so the reporter scared me for nothing - but that's okay, the bloggerettes still think I'm cool. What's not cool is the ridiculous behavior on both sides of the aisle in the House Judiciary Committee. But enough of today's news (and random traffic reports from North Carolina...stupid Florida tourists).

Some of the music you'll hear at Corndog-o-rama at The Earl this weekend includes

The Close - "Hey Fever!"

The Woggles - "Get Down With It" and "I Got a Line on You"

Y-O-U - "Moviekiss" and "Shadows on the Page"

Hope For a Golden Summer - "Malt Liquor"

Jetty - "Instigator"

Telegram - "My Baby"

As cool as Corndogorama is, it ain't no Findley Fair. We get the inside scoop on this historical hippie-infested Atlanta street corner in Little Five Points.

And of course, you can find not only all of the Atlanta-area bands, but ME, at MySpace if you are so inclined.

DOWNLOAD with ye olde right-click (29:54 / 21.5MB / 100kbps)

Anticip......pation!

Just a heads up for you eager beavers, stay tuned (subscribed/clickity/weborcized) for the following ridiculously pointless podcast content!

This week: Findley Fair in L5P (what rich Atlanta history!) and a preview of next weekend's Corndog-O-Rama at The Earl.

Next week: The Big Gay BBQ - coverage of Atlanta's Gay Pride festival.

Don't forget to tell me where to go and what to record (and who to play) next -- send me an email!

Public Privacy

Inspired by my recent brush with a reporter, who may or may not want to cover the wtfBBQ podcast in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, tonight's show is about privacy and anonymity -- about which I'm kind of freaking out right now. Podcasters and bloggers are "out there" on the net, but can we expect (or do we even deserve) a little privacy at the same time? Mike Tyson might want to go find some peace and quiet in sub-Saharan Africa while beating some Jesus into the natives, but how much anonymity can a blogger expect? While pondering such things, we hear from

joy wants eternity - excellent podsafe ambient tracks that I knew I would forget to mention at the end fo the show.

Of Montreal with their tracks Hello From Inside a Shell up front and Penelope at the back. They were Amber's pick for tonight, a supergroovy Athens band that won't be back in Georgia for quite some time. And I am sad. But that's okay, because

The Five Foot Flame, JenRae's local pick who brought us our inter-segment bumpers tonight, will be playing at Lenny's on June 24.

My other blogger guests were Mae of Politics 101, Gymno of, well, Gymno, and Daniel Moore of the Atlanta MetBlog. Oh yeah, and the un-linked Big Red Chick.

Of Montreal used to be represented by Kindercore Records. Damn shame what happened there. Thanks to Dan Geller for the nod, and we'll hear from him again later.

Ragan Fox, poet and podcaster smart-mouthed genius, brought us the abortion meme.

Oh yeah, and Mike Tyson beat African converts to Jina na Bwana.

DOWNLOAD with a right-click (45:57 / 22.1MB).

Not feelin' so hot

Howdy hidy ho, folks. This podcaster has either been nippin' too much into the fizzy podcast juice, or hasn't been gettin' enough sleep, or has been stressin' too much at work -- or all of the above. And I'm really actually kinda feelin' like unholy ass right now, like "take a vitamin and sleep for 10 hours" kind of ass, so I don't think there'll be a podcast waiting for you in the morning (I know you're crushed). I'm going to finish this last nip o' fizzy podcast juice while I do a bit more editing of the raw footage I've accumulated this week, but I probably won't be in rantin' spirits till tomorrow, so look for a hump day episode and in the meantime, go check out Extra Super Action Show or something.

Ugh, seriously...not well.... Did you know cigarettes are bad for you? Sheesh.

Attention iPodderX users!

If you are an iPodderX fan (I know I am) and you've upgraded to the new wow-factor Version 3, YOU'RE SCREWED!

Chances are you aren't hearing the show. My last log check shows a ridiculous number of aborted downloads by iPodderX 3.0 in the last couple weeks, and the support forum over there has a lot of complaining podcasters. Seems they have worked out a fix, but we'll see if it works (and you'll have to go get it). So see if you have the Mass Media and the Smoke & Mirrors episodes, you may have to download them manually till they debug your podcatcher.

Stupid programmers.

Smoke and mirrors

Lacking a consistent theme tonight, I try to distract you from the fact that I've no idea what I'm doing with:

Hashing. Ever heard of Hash House Harriers? Give it a try.

I'm online at AIM and Yahoo IM as "wtfbbqdotcom" if you want to say something.

Nillah - courtesy of Two Sheds Music. Nillah is playing Saturday the 11th at Smith's Olde Bar.

Fireworks in Midtown, Beirut. Complete with symphonic car alarms.

GA Smokefree Air Act 2005 - Attempting to protect the health-conscious, so they can eat a 500 fat-gram burger with a side of tots in a clean air environment. It didn't work.

The Unadored open for Dishwalla this Wednesday night at Masquerade.

And I might have said something about voting in there, but I'm not sure. No, no, certainly not.

Download here (44:09 / 21.1MB / 66kbps)