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PaxCast

May 09, 2008

Poseurs (Where Have All The Paxcasts Gone?)

In which NTodd observes there is no hiding place for imposters.  (17:39)  Features: Elvis Costello.

Bonus links: Elvis Costello's newest, 'Momofuku,' may be best.

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May 05, 2008

Cinco de Kent State (Where Have All The Paxcasts Gone?)

In which NTodd marks an important day and the lessons therein.  (17:07) 

Features: Yes, CSNY, Country Joe and the Fish, Pete Seeger.  Bonus links: Kent State shootings, Tangled Morning and Dismal Twilight.

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May 02, 2008

Self-Righteous (The Decent Thing)

In which NTodd gets all uppity.  (23:05) 

Features: Peter Gabriel, Loud Sugar, Gnarls Barkley, U2, Avenged Sevenfold, V for Vendetta, MLK.

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May 01, 2008

Witness (The Decent Thing)

In which NTodd offers peace testimony on Mission Accomplished Day.  (19:40) 

Features: Mozart, Moussorgsky, Bach.  Bonus Links: Questing Beast, Friends and Peace,  Schindler's List, The Red Girl.

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April 30, 2008

Operation Divine Wind (The Decent Thing)

In which NTodd wants to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture and kill them.  (35:50) 

Features: The Raconteurs, REM, Buffalo Springfield, The Screaming Trees, The Doors, Tool.

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April 29, 2008

Or We Could Just Buy A Lot Of Crap (The Decent Thing)

In which NTodd meanders musically through the morass.  (28:32) 

Features: Papa Roach, Marilyn Manson, Weezer, Outkast, Midnight Oil, Incubus, Tom Waits.

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April 28, 2008

Herr Direktor (The Decent Thing)

In which NTodd marks Oskar Schindler's 100th birthday.  (38:26) 

Features: Beethoven's Sonata No 2 in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Terry Tucker's Overture to the Sun.

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April 22, 2008

Songs Of Distant Earth (What If They Gave A Paxcast And Nobody Came)

In which NTodd gets down to earth.  (17:19) 

Features: System of a Down, The Byrds, Serj Tankian, Fifth Dimension, Carl Sagan, Apollo 8.

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April 20, 2008

I See A Bad Moon Rising (What If They Gave A Paxcast And Nobody Came)

In which NTodd notes Apollo 16's lunar landing, Adolf Lu Hitler R. Marak, and four-twenty.  (27:30) 

Features: Queen, Johann Strauss, Public Enemy, Michael Franti, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen.

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April 19, 2008

Today's Your Big Day (What If They Gave A Paxcast And Nobody Came)

In which NTodd marks a rather eventful date.  (26:51) 

Features: The Cure, Moody Blues, Radiohead, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Beatles.  Bonus links: History of LSD, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Executive Order 9066.

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April 16, 2008

After The First Blush Of Sin Comes Its Indifference (In Critical Moments That Man Measures Man)

In which NTodd celebrates his second year of war tax resistance.  (29:05) 

Features: Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Prince.

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April 14, 2008

Where Have All The War Songs Gone? (In Critical Moments That Man Measures Man)

In which NTodd wonders how anybody can claim there are no anti-war songs anymore.  (27:41) 

Features: Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Michael Franti with Spearhead, No Use For A Name, Against Me, Bad Religion, System Of A Down, Star Wars.

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April 09, 2008

Knocking On Baghdad's Door (Not So Revolutionary)

In which NTodd celebrates Saddam Statue Day.  (29:25) 

Features: Nirvana, Puddle of Mudd, Bob Mould, Trapt, Warren Zevon.  Bonus links: Iraqi Who Began Saddam Statue Topple: "I Regret It", Springtime for Hitler, Saddam Statue Media Hoax.

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April 08, 2008

How About A Nice Game Of Chess (Not So Revolutionary)

In which NTodd wonders what the difference is between Good Germans and Good Americans.  (25:00) 

Features: Godspell, Queen, Erwin Lehnow, Peter Gabriel, REM, Schindler's List.

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April 07, 2008

Don't Render Unto Caesar (Not So Revolutionary)

In which NTodd gets back on the WTR hobbie horse.  (27:22) 

Features: Andrew Lloyd Weber, Billie Holiday, ABBA, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, REM.  Bonus links: Xan at Corrente, A surge in tax resistance could end the Iraq war , War Tax Boycott resisters list.

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The World As I Found It (Not So Revolutionary)

In which NTodd revisits his very first political memory.  (33:35) 

Features: Camper Van Beethoven, Peter Gabriel, U2, Sir Paul, Fleetwood Mac, Siouxsie and the Banshees, REM, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Anne Sexton.  Bonus links: Nixon's resignation speech, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

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April 04, 2008

I'm So Glad You Didn't Sneeze (I Can Explain)

In which NTodd marks the 40th anniversary of Dr King's assassination.  (24:32) 

Features: U2, Seal, Pennywise, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam.  Bonus links: MLK I've Been To The Mountaintop Speech, RFK Remarks On MLK, JFK Inaugural Speech.

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April 02, 2008

All Around The Margins Lies The Abyss (I Can Explain)

In which NTodd shifts gears and looks at the nonviolent lessons contained in Schindler's List.  (24:50) 

Features: Tori Amos, Heatmiser, The Jam, Guided By Voices, Pearl Jam.

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March 31, 2008

Cry Me A River (I Can Explain)

In which NTodd expands on a panel discussion point about translating online activity into offline action.  (32:10) 

Features: Coldplay, Evan Dando and Sabrine Brooke, Bob Mould, Blake Babies, Evanesence, Zardoz, Torchy, Gandhi.  Bonus links: Lambert, The Long Tail, Torchy.

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March 30, 2008

The Dildo Connection (I Can Explain)

In which NTodd recounts a harrowing tale of oppression.  (22:25) 

Features: King Missile, Traveling Wilburys, Dresden Dolls, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, 40 Year Old Virgin.  Bonus link: It's Totally Not My Fault.

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March 27, 2008

Slouching Toward A Theory (Days Of Purple)

In which NTodd has a new theory, which is his, of punditry.  (14:03) 

Features: Aerosmith, Queen, Against Me, AFI.  Bonus link: Is Al Gore The Answer?, The Man Who Would Be President.

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March 26, 2008

War Is Kind (Days Of Purple)

In which NTodd blesses the vessels that carry us.  (18:16) 

Features: Johnny Mandel/Michael Altman, Rage Against The Machine, Kenny Primus, Chevelle, Marilyn Manson, MASH, Stephen Crane.  Bonus link: Do Not Weep, Maiden.

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That Which Does Not Kill Us (Days Of Purple)

In which NTodd marks the 300 day milestone.  (14:40) 

Features: Gorillaz, Queen, Kanye West, MASH.

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March 23, 2008

I Float From Sun To Sun (Days Of Purple)

In which NTodd bathes in a ray of optimism.  (22:46) 

Features: Godspell, Rimsky-Korsakov, Queen.

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March 22, 2008

What Cannot Be Answered (Days Of Purple)

In which NTodd listens to the answerer.  (20:35) 

Features: U2, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, Peter Gabriel, Paramore, Walt Whitman.

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March 21, 2008

To Celebrate The Memory Of A Great Man (To Be Continued)

In which NTodd boycotts Bonaparte.  (27:07) 

Features: Beethoven's Third Symphony (Second, Third and Fourth Movements), Immortal Beloved.  Bonus links: 1980 Summer Olympics, Eroica.

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March 20, 2008

The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Strife (To Be Continued)

In which NTodd celebrates the first day of Spring.  (25:31) 

Features: Beethoven's Third Symphony (First and Second Movements), Jarhead.

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March 19, 2008

Five Years (To Be Continued)

In which NTodd marks five years of war in Iraq.  (25:04) 

Features: Pink Floyd, Country Joe and the Fish, Neil Young, Moody Blues, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam.

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March 13, 2008

We Need Louder Americans (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd thinks that the time has come to make things right.  (21:28) 

Features: Dick Dale, Foo Fighters, Muse, Apocalyptica, Monty Python, South Park, Graham Greene.

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March 12, 2008

We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd obliquely references Lifeboat Earth.  (29:15) 

Features: The Beatles, Godspell, GNR, The Chieftans with Sinead O'Connor, Fifth Dimension.  Bonus links: a leaf falls in loneliness .

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March 10, 2008

You Are What You Eat (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd breaks his fast and invites Peter Singer and The Mahatma to talk of hunger and poverty.  (27:13) 

Features: Nick Drake, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Planet P Project, Michael Jackson.  Bonus links: The Ethics of what we eat , Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Gandhi.

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You Are What You Eat (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd breaks his fast and invites Peter Singer and The Mahatma to talk of hunger and poverty.  (27:13) 

Features: Nick Drake, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Planet P Project, Michael Jackson.  Bonus links: The Ethics of what we eat , Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Gandhi.

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Six Degrees Of Paxcast (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd asks questions about fragmentation and diameter.  (20:06) 

Features: Schubert's Second Symphony (Fourth Movement), Snow Patrol.  Bonus links: Fragmentation of the Internet .

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March 09, 2008

This Is The Paxcast Age (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd reads the poetry of action.  (13:02) 

Features: Schubert's Second Symphony (Second and Third Movements), Arthur Hugh Clough, George Gordon Byron.  Bonus links: Amours de Voyage, Don Juan.

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March 08, 2008

How Can I Keep From Singing (Fragmentation)

In which NTodd connects to music, communication and community.  (21:35) 

Features: Schubert's Second Symphony (First Movement), Carl Sagan.

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March 07, 2008

Sokath, His Eyes Uncovered (At Tanagra)

In which NTodd celebrates De la Terre à la Lune.  (21:23) 

Features: Serj Tankian, Chevelle, Seether, Sick Puppies.  Bonus link:  Europe's 'Jules Verne' Spacecraft Carries Namesake's Notes on Maiden Voyage.

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March 05, 2008

Immortal Beloved (At Tanagra)

In which NTodd obliquely muses on just what political candidates provoke in our minds.  (21:50) 

Features: The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gwen Stefani.  Bonus link: Immortal Beloved.

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March 04, 2008

Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos (At Tanagra)

In which NTodd participates in democracy and brings you along.  USA!  USA!  USA!  (17:51) 

Features: Talking Heads, Pixies, U2 and Johnny Cash.

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March 03, 2008

Shaka, When The Walls Fell (At Tanagra)

In which NTodd celebrates Vermont Primary Eve.  (18:20) 

Features: Silversun Pickups, Queen, Squeeze, Talking Heads, Monty Python.

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March 02, 2008

Playing Poker With Giants (At Tanagra)

In which NTodd blows away conventions like dry husks.  (16:43) 

Features: Primus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Violent Femmes, Albert Einstein.  Bonus link: Science and Civilization.

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February 29, 2008

Eternity Is A Child Playing (Heraclitus)

In which NTodd tries to learn the lesson complete in DC.  (23:25) 

Features: Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, 10000 Maniacs, Chevelle, System of a Down, Walt Whitman.  Bonus link: Who Learns My Lesson Complete.

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February 23, 2008

Step Into The Same River (Heraclitus)

In which NTodd wonders what it would look like if the world revolved around peace.  (22:10) 

Features: Dougie Maclean, Gorillaz, Evanescence, The Offspring, Cat Power (Lou Reed).  Bonus link: Gandhi's Spiritual Message On God.

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The Day That Changed Everything (Verruckt)

In which NTodd  considers people who go the extra mile and change everything.  (28:13) 

Features: George Michael, Paramore, Oingo Boingo, Toni Childs, Barenaked Ladies.  Bonus link: Norsehorse's Home Turf.

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February 21, 2008

The Universe Moves In Mysterious Ways (Verruckt)

In which NTodd celebrates the moon.  (28:25) 

Features: Frank Sinatra, Wilco, Pearl Jam, The White Stripes.

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February 17, 2008

I Don't Tip Zombie Waitresses (Verruckt)

In which NTodd simply runs out of gas.  (17:38) 

Features: Ash/Chris Martin, Paramore, Chevelle, The Figments.

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