Ira takes it easy for the holidays and only discusses frivolous subjects like DVD releases for you big rectangle hanging on the wall. Old Time Radio with “Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,” lots of funky music to wrap your gifts to and Nerd News.
Opening Clip:
Red Pill Blue Pill – The Matrix
Music:
Behind the Groove – Teena Marie
Get The Funk Out Ma Face – Brothers Johnson
I Just Want To Be (12” Extended Mix) – Cameo
Atomic Dog – George Clinton
You And I – Rick James
What Is Hip? – Tower of Power
Future Shock – Curtis Mayfield
Glide – Pleasure
Goin’ To See My Baby – The Fatback Band
In The Bottle – Brian Jackson/Gil Scott Heron
Just Kissed My Baby – The Meters
Old Time Radio:
Indestructible Mike Matter (Part 4&5) – Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Nerd News
DVD Reviews, New Comic Book Releases – Ira Harmon
Music:
Changin’ – Brass Construction
Do It ‘Till You’re Satisfied – B.T. Express
Brick House (12 Inch Mix) – Commodores
Fight The Power Parts 1 & 2) – Isley Brothers
Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) – Parliament
Ira discusses the difference between Nerds and Geeks; Money, creativity and global competition; The new Star Trek Renegades crowd funded series pilot; List of can’t wait DVD summer movie releases.
Recommended Reading:
The Death of Money-How the electronic economy has destabilized the world’s markets and created financial chaos by Joel Kurtzman (ISBN: 0671687999) – The author, a business columnist for the “New York Times”, explores a world transformed by computers into an electronically integrated international market that is virtually unregulated – and so powerful that no government can defy its will. The book examines this new speed-of-light environment and shows how it works as well as whom it is working for – and against. It introduces people who control it, explains the technology that drives it and probes its revolutionary and potentially catastrophic effect on business.
Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People by Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein (ISBN: 0395907713) – Exercise your imagination and set off sparks of genius. In this mind-expanding book, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein describe the “thinking tools” of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and show how you can practice the same imaginative skills to be your most inventive, at any time in your life.
Playlist:
Except from Snow White
Bach’s Air (Orchestral Suite No 3)
Delibes’s Noturno (Coppélia)
Swan Lake, Scene
Carmen Suite Nº. 1, Intermezzo
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Romance
Humming Chorus (‘Madame Butterfly’)
Nocturne In B Major, Op. 9 Nº. 3
Noturno (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Piano Concerto No. 2, Larghetto
Piano Sonata In B Flat Major, D 960, Andante Sostenuto
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