gts013 “utopish” 01-01 Nat Shilkret – Victor 22444 – Get Happy (1930) — after Black Friday in 1929, record sales slumped hard. Tunes like this were the music biz trying to save their own ass. 01-02 Joey Ramone – Don’t Worry About Me 01 – What A Wonderful World (2002) — released after his death,…

gts012 “endish” Nothing to see here folks, move along, it’s only the crumbling of time itself. Not that we’d miss it. Look at all the equations in cosmology and particle physics which have time as a variable. They work just fine if time is negative, if time runs backwards. So in theory, nothing really ends,…

gts011 “rockish” Getting robbed, getting took, it’s harder than it looks. That’s what they say, and they can’t all be wrong. 01-01 Al Jolson & Walter Rogers Orchestra – Victor 17081 – Ragging The Baby To Sleep (1912) — went looking for an oldie to introduce rock and Muddy Waters was a cinch, can’t believe…

gts010 “countsheep” Get out your slide rule, it’s time to interpolate your butts off! Integers are nice and discrete, they come at regular times like a steady tympani backbeat, and then along comes Kate Bush to blow that all up. 01-01 Phil Harris & Alice Harris – ARA 136 – One-Zy Two-Zy (1946) — the…

gts009 “magish” Snap your fingers past the graveyard, walk around that ladder. Or, some people take it a bit farther. No matter, this episode is your grimoire for defense against the dark arts. What they don’t teach you in school, is that Cornish pixies can be easily baited with corned beef. 01-01 Dell’Isola & Ezio…

gts008 “betterish” A handful of years ago, as these were taking shape, noticed that some of them could tell a meta-story if played in a row. Here is the conclusion to a 3-episode arc: “madnesh” -> “she kills” -> “betterish”. More loosley, “loveish” and “breakupsh” preceded this arc on purpose. But from here on out,…

gts007 “she kills” What do you do with a drunken sailor? After he’s been out whoring and stumbles into your flat an hour before daybreak expecting a warm bed? If you’re Nellie or Joan you stab him (knife and icepick, respectively), Miss Otis and Frankie shoot him, Wanda and Mary Ann (and Marry Ann too)…

gts006 “madnesh” You know lack of proper sleep can arise from mental infirmity, but don’t forget it can run the other way too! Snoozin’ lets the brain sort out everything it encountered since the last time it went dormant, so if it doesn’t get enough downtime, it leaves things hanging, unprocessed, jangled. By the way,…

gts005 “leftshwept” You know how those dating apps work, swipe right for yum and sweep left for ugh. But what happens to the left-swept? Who are they, why are they perennially swiped sinisterially, and where do they go after they drop off the left side of your phone? Don’t claim to have any of the…

gts004 “insomnish” 01-01 Andrews Sisters – Well All Right (Tonight’s The Night) (1939) — backed by Vic Schoen’s Orchestra, Decca release #2462. I just put some coffee on, but your lifestyle might run different. 01-02 Tim Armstrong & Skye Sweetnam – A Poet’s Life 03 – Into Action (2007) — yes, Tim Armstrong of Rancid…