As we enter the final week of The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide, your humble blogger actually managed to create a new piece of physical artwork.
Even more impressive, this is a mixed media painting (small-scale) based on photos I took last Friday during a return trip from a secret mission that you will learn about next week.
On thick illustration board, this painting was created using acrylic paint, watercolor, Winsor Newton ink, white-out, razor blades and X-acto knives, a variety of brushes and straight edges. This idyllic winter scene is based on a series of photos I took standing at the end of the outlet shopping center in Flatwoods, WV. To the immediate right of this peaceful scene is a Walmart.
Which is a good example how composition and framing are key to making art.
To see it bigger try clicking HERE.
Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a new edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.
At 2PM, Nigel Pye brings you yet another hour of Psychedelic Rock from many eras. Check out the playlist…
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Vanilla Fudge “Stra/You Keep Me Hanging On”
Astral Magic “It’s All In Your Mind”
Aphrodite’s Child “The Four Horsemen”
Rain “One Is All and All Is One”
The Gypsy Wizards Band “The Brightest Light”
Psychedelic Witchcraft “Slave of Grief”
The Turtles “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
Susanna Hoffs “Bell Bottom Girls”
Oingo Boingo “War Again”
Jimi Hendrix “All Along The Watchtower”
Led Zepplin “Dazed and Confused”
Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM, and Saturday at 9 AM.
At 3 PM Herman Linte pays tribute to iconic Prog-rock lyricist (and co-founder of King Crimson) Pete Sinfield, who passed away less than two weeks ago. Herman treats us to a mixtape show featuring some of the legendary Prog bands for whom Sinfield provided lyrics, along with a sampling of his sole solo album.
Check out the playlist:
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Peter Sinfield “The Night People”
King Crimson “Moonchild”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “C’est La Vie”
PFM “Photos of Ghosts”
King Crimson “Formentera Lady”
Pete Sinfield “The Song of the Sea Ghost”
King Crimson “In The Wake of Poseidon”
PFM “Mr. 9 to 5”
Chris Squire and Alan White “Run With The Fox”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression”
King Crimson “Cadence and Cascade”
Pete Sinfield “Still”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Taste of My Love”
King Crimson “Indoor Games”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Pirates”
King Crimson “Cirkus”
PFM “Promenade the Puzzle”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Benny The Bouncer”
You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.
At 8 PM you can hear an hour of conceptual random comedy a classic early episode of The Comedy Vault.
Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to five more early episodes of Prognosis. For the time being we are back to alternating between Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, because we’re going to be pulling the early episodes of those shows from the server soon to make room for newer programs. After they’ve been offline for a year or so, we’ll bring them back into rotation but for now, you can hear them Monday evening into Tuesday morning, and then those episode will go on hiatus.
The plan is to have all-new musical specialty programs this week, during the last week of The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide, which, coincidentally, continues later today.
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