MAY 19 2008
hello everyone,

firstly, i want to thank you for your support this year, it's been a great experience and a lot of fun and i hope to continue to be involved in wdcv as long as i can. i hope you've enjoyed listening to my show as much as i've enjoyed putting it together and broadcasting it, as cliche as that sounds.

anyways, i've been thinking a lot about the future of the show, as far as next semester. i think i'm going to drop the themed-show theme. it's been a good challenge but i also feel that it's very limiting, and there are a lot of explorations i'd like to make without having to worry about things fitting in or not fitting in or whatever. the result is going to be a show with a lot more variety every show, rather than over the course of the entire semester, and i'll also get to play a lot of things that i want to and can't necessarily fit into a theme. that's something i'm really excited about because oh man do i have some awesome music to pull from. i also think that it'll make for a more organic and sincere show--it'll be what i genuinely want to play and listen to and what i want you all to listen to as well. often when i was making the themed shows i felt really limited and like i was searching for songs to fit in. and i mean, i think themes will probably come out organically--if i want to play a lot of songs about friendships or a lot of twee that week or whatever--but ultimately i think having an anarchic rather than a structured format will produce a stronger and truer product.

obviously i've put a lot of thought into this decision, so please nobody be disappointed. it won't be all that different in the end, and it'll most likely be better. i haven't decided yet whether i'm going to keep the same name or pick a new one--having a new name would mean moving a lot of stuff, like this website, the facebook group, etc--but that might also be a good thing, and it would also be an artistic clean slate which is kind of what i might need. plus i have a very sweet name i want to use. it's a pun. i'll warn you about that right now.

so that's my announcement. i hope everyone's summers are awesome and you have time to listen to some great music. i've been getting into a lot of world music and old jazz and swing lately. i'm in love with django reinhardt. also i've been listening to a lot of punk rock again which is lovely. i'm hoping over the summer i can go to a lot of shows and meet a lot of new bands as well--and if  so, i'm sure you'll hear about them.

i have a wonderful extended summer mix i'll put up here for you in a few days to tide you over until september, but i can't post it right yet. instead i will leave you with this:

MAY 02 2008
title: momentum songs
-BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA selection from voyage into the golden screen
-LATTERMAN doom! doom! doom!
-TOKYO POLICE CLUB shoulders & arms
-MY LITTLE AIRPORT bai tian shopping center
-THE PIPETTES pull shapes
-BOB MARLEY satisfy my soul
-A TRIBE CALLED QUEST check the rhime
-THE BROADWAYS we'll have a party
-MIKA NAKASHIMA glamorous sky
-BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! side projects are never successful
-TED LEO shake the sheets
-LED ZEPPELIN rock and roll
-70s ORGASM CLUB peppermint insect
-WO?LFMOTHER apple tree
-TOM WAITS anywhere i lay my head
-THE LAWRENCE ARMS like a record player
-MISCHIEF BREW nomads revolt
-AGAINST ME! wagon wheel
-THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB the argument
-DEFIANCE, OHIO sometimes, motion
-THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY me v. angry mob
-JOE STRUMMER silver and gold
-DONG BANG SHIN KI my little princess (acapella)
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it's the last show of the semester! thank you for listening <3 mk.

APR 24 2008
title: soundtracks and showtunes
guest starring: kristen jensen
-SOUND OF MUSIC something good
-CURTAINS it's a business
-AVENUE Q schadenfreude
-REEFER MADNESS the brownie song
-DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS here i am
-HERCULES zero to hero
-THE LION KING morning report
-SEUSSICAL notice me, horton
-A CHORUS LINE nothing
-[TITLE OF SHOW] monkeys and playbills
-LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ya never know
-ZOMBIE PROM jonny don't go
-BATBOY batboy
-PHANTOM OF THE OPERA notes ii
-THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL the creation of man
-ASSASSINS the ballad of guiteau
-SWEENEY TODD the worst pies in london
-LE PETIT PRINCE apprivoise moi
-THE LAST FIVE YEARS the schmuel song
-MULAN i'll make a man out of you
-MUPPETS cabin fever
-DROWSY CHAPERONE show off
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thanks for listening! <3 mk and kj.

APR 17 2008
title: ska's died so many times, this joke isn't even funny anymore
-THE CLASH rudie can't fail
-MIKE PARK bankshot
-THE SPECIALS longshot kick de bucket
-BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE the sounds of allston village
-FISHBONE party at ground zero
-BRAIN FAILURE fall in love 2008
-POSITIVE DOWNSIDE far apart
-GOLDFINGER superman
-JEFFRIES FAN CLUB milk
-THE IMPOSSIBLES eightball
-BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! sorry brooklyn, dancing won't solve anything
-COQUETTISH common existence
-SONIC BOOM SIX tell me something i don't know
-WE ARE THE UNION mtv is over if you want it
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i've got a mohawk and a bad attitude, a checkerboard tie and a three-piece suit. <3 mk.

APR 3 2008
title: </3
-MIKE PARK supposed to be there too
-JOHNNY CASH i still miss someone (live)
-VELVET UNDERGROUND who loves the sun
-ELVIS PRESLEY (marie's the name) his latest flame
-PIPETTES it hurts to see you dance so well
-CAT STEVENS the first cut is the deepest
-BEN FOLDS fair
-LIBERTINES music when the lights go out
-OF MONTREAL eros' entropic tundra
-DBSK my destiny
-ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI frenchy, i'm faking
-HARVEY DANGER private helicopter
-TED LEO where have all the rude boys gone?
-BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE new nail bed
-EMILY LOIZEAU je suis jealouse
-LOUIS ARMSTRONG there must be a way
-ELLA FITZGERALD cry me a river
-MY LITTLE AIRPORT coka i'm fine
-BOUNCING SOULS kids and heroes
-THE ARCADE FIRE cars and telephones
-DEFIANCE, OHIO bikes and bridges
-AGAINST ME! "another new one"
-LATTERMAN fear and loathing on long island
-JAWBREAKER do you still hate me
-THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY so long to the circus
-BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! future 86
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thanks for listening <3 mk.

MAR 27 2008
title: <3
-ZREO TEAM kakariko village (orchestra version)
-ELLA FITZGERALD let's fall in love
-AGAINST ME! we laugh at danger and break all the rules
-THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB of chivalry and romance in a dumpster
-MIKE PARK on that stage
-THE RACHETS 77a broadway
-BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE safe haven
-ASOB last on my list
-THE ATARIS i.o.u. one galaxy
-FRANK SINATRA fly me to the moon
-OF MONTREAL keep sending me black fireworks
-KATAMARI SOUNDTRACK que sera sera
-THE DECEMBERISTS of angels and angles
-DEFIANCE, OHIO response to griot
-HARVEY DANGER pike street - park slope (live)
-THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS damn good times
-CASABLANCA SOUNDTRACK as time goes by
-TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS the gold finch and the red oak tree
-LUPE FIASCO kick, push
-JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS redemption song
-LEMURIA get some sleep
-THE LAWRENCE ARMS light breathing
-BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! skye! life is awesome!!!
-THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY only anarchists are pretty
-JERRY GARCIA tangled up in blue
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thanks for listening! <3 mk.

MAR 20 2008
title: songs from the ancestral homeland, part two
-DANU  are you ready yet?
-DROPKICK MURPHYS rocky road to dublin
-THE DUBLINERS the galway races
-BLOOD OR WHISKEY they say no
-CATHY DAVEY reuben
-MORE TINY GIANTS you wanna sell
-KIERNAN MCMULLAN let go john doe
-BLACKWATER new england jigs
-DANU kerry tunes
-CELTIC ORCHESTRA the meeting of the waters
-DARKHALFTERA end of days
-ROB KELLY in the air
-PHILIP MORROW blue aeroplane
-THE DECEMBERISTS the tain
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go raibh maith agat! thanks for listening! <3 mk.

MAR 06 2008
title: freeflow
-ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI wishbone
-THE FAD ska-boom!
-ASOB i, musical genius
-DEFIANCE, OHIO hey kathleen, are you hungry?
-FUTURE KINGS OF NOWHERE i'm still waiting
-JAWBREAKER boxcar
-THE ERGS! books about miles davis
-BOUNCING SOULS kate is great (live)
-LATTERMAN yo, get into it
-COQUETTISH common existence
-SCREAMING FEMALES fun
-TALULAH GOSH i don't want to have to break your face
-THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS new york city
-THE CLASH clampdown
-BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE if we want to
-BECK think i'm in love
-LUPE FIASCO (feat. JILL SCOTT) daydreamin'
-SONIC BOOM SIX flower
-FUGAZI sweet and low
-MIKA NAKASHIMA hitoiro
-TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS little dawn
-AGAINST ME! disco before the breakdown
-ELLA FITZGERALD something's gotta give
-THE OLD CEREMONY get to love
-MISCHIEF BREW coffee, god, and cigarettes
-HARVEY DANGER carlotta valdez
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i really like this playlist a lot, it's a shame i was so out of it between songs. sorry guys! thanks for listening! <3 mk.

FEB 28 2008
title: greatest story

when they were young, the world had not yet collapsed. it was poised on the edge, not falling but not on safe ground.. just looking at the long fall ahead and waiting for it to happen. the threat of war loomed in the back of everyone's minds like an unpleasant shadow in the corner. but still, they were young, and optimistic, and off to find what life might have in store for them.
-THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY peter lorre
-THE FALL live at the witch trials
-MOS DEF boogie man song
-BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE checklist
-BRIAN DEWAN jimmy carter says yes!
he had spent his entire life in teh country until today. all the noise, the concrete, the crowds, the lights, it was being trapped in a giant pinball machine. it was overwhelming. it was mystifying. it was exhilarating. and once he met her--a wide-eyed artist with bold ideas and bold friends, with whom everything was magnificent--once he met her, he knew he would never be the same.
-THE OLD CEREMONY ole
-MON COTE PUNK killer king
-ELLA FITZGERALD let's face the music and dance
-MANDRAGORA TANGO ORCHESTRA besame much
it was a whirlwind romance that lasted all of two months. they each swore nothing would ever come between them, that they would love one another forever. then the war came, and the letter that pulled him away. "you have been called. you are a new hero, and it is time to serve your country." in a few weeks, he was on a boat and gone, as quickly as he had arrived. full of rage and haunted by his ghost, she too left, seeking the solace of the great american road
-PASCAL COMELADE brand new cadillac
-AGAINST ME! extra track (from the acoustic ep)
-MISCHIEF BREW lighting knock the power out
-PIXIES oh my golly!
after wandering without direction, she fell in with a group of revolutionaries who felt, as most revolutionaries are prone to do, that the war was wrong, the government was taking over, and the only responsible thing to do was to take the country back by themselves.
-THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ich erinnere mich an die weimarer republik
-GOGOL BORDELLO santa marinella
-THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB we shall not be moved
-DEFIANCE, OHIO promises
things quickly spiraled out of control as the war got worse and worse, and the group more and more radical. when she woke up one morning in a street full of broken glass and empty of people, it was too late. it was too much and it was all for nothing. it was time to go home. sorting through months of male, one letter--starkly white--fell out of the pile. it was dated five weeks prior, and it said in flat terms that he had been lost and presumed dead.

INTERMISSION

bereft of his love, he had volunteered for the most dangerous missions, sure he would never see her again. he seemed to have a cursed good luck until one night, he was captured and taken behind enemy lines.
-DANIEL JOHNSTON desperate man blues
-BANDITS OF THE ACOUSTIC REVOLUTION it's a wonderful life
-SECRET CHIEFS 3 the electrotheonic grail dove
-FRANK SINATRA they can't take that away from me
things seemed the worst they had ever been. he spent some time wondering how this had all happened to him, and then spent some time not thinking at all, waiting for the end. but at some point.. at some point, by some miracle, he remembered her--her smile, her eyes, everything he loved about her. every reason why he was alive. and he knew that this could not be the end--he couldn't die with out her. he had to do all he could to escape, to get back to her. but when he showed up at her door, he was met only by shock and confusion. so much was changed forever.. so much had come between them. and they did not know what was stronger: love, or despair.
-CASABLANCA SOUNDTRACK lazslo/airplane
-PETULA CLARK conversations in the wind
-ALLEN GINSBERG the sunflower sutra
-TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS tell balgeary, balgury is dead
years later, the war is over and the world has moved on without them. yet they have peace and love in each other. the heart may be fragile--it may be beat, or broken, or lost, but it is eternal and invincible.
-THE DECEMEBRISTS grace cathedral hill
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thanks for listening <3 mk.

FEB 21 2008
title: pop rocks!
-SHANGALANG friends grow up
-LIBERTINES what became of the likely lads
-THE FAD bright lights and texaco stations
-SCARED OF CHAKA all my friends are ghosts
-BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! 493 ruth
-BACKSEAT VIRGINS can't take it
-MARILYN MONROE i wanna be loved by you
-CHUCK BERRY check me out
-BEN FOLDS kate
-ELVIS PRESLEY stuck on you
-BING CROSBY the song is you
-DONG BANG SHIN KI my little princess (acapella)
-FRANK SINATRA french foreign legion
-PIPETTES it hurts to see you dance so well
-ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES i get around
-SPAZZYS hey hey baby
-TALULAH GOSH in love for the very first time
-ASH everybody's happy nowadays
-THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS yeh yeh
-DAVID BOWIE golden years
-THE INDELICATES julia we don't live in the 60s
-ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI nothing's wrong
-BECK elevator music
-JAY TEA rock star couple
-SLEATER-KINNEY words and guitar
-STEINWAYS i wanna kiss you (on the lips)
-MACH PELICAN spend my time
-THE ERGS! kind of like smitten
-THE IMPOSSIBLES everyday
-THE LOVED ONES 100k
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thanks for listening <3 mk.