final episode!

here it is. my last show. it was an obscure six months. thanks to the five or six people who actually listen to this! Adam and Jay joined me in the studio for this one and It means allot to me that they were here for it.

playlist:

My Echo-Rival Schools
Drug Free Youth- the Abused
Lash Out- Bad Choice
I Hate You- Creem
Walking Out on Love (Breakaways cover)- The Men
Crucial Point- The Mob

plus HOUNDS OF HATE!

it was a suuuubtle show.


so with that, au revoir New York, Bonjour Montreal!


dl here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4f6s4h2h604rujm

here's May 19th's show with The Enthusiasts as well:

http://www.mediafire.com/?xxcj868qftfofzc

also incomplete recordings of April 12th's and May 31st's shows (the shows we lost due to technical issues) can be streamed here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pits-and-poisoned-apples

Pits and Poisoned Apples 5/10/11!

after a long absence due to academia, travels to the motherland of Canada and me just being a lazy asshole. PPA is back!

the legendary Westchester punk funk celebrity GI DAVE joins me live in the studio, lots of goodies on this show! thanks to "my mustache", RichardNJ and Ryan Hendriksen for calling in!

Playlist:

Pits And Poisoned Apples- Kid Dynamite
If I was you- the Boston Strangler
Problems- CREEM
A Mean Day- CREEM
Good Things- Rival Schools
Dreams Never End (Peel Session 1981)- New Order
Circles 'Round the Moon- Nana Grizol
At Your Mercy- Foundation
Queen of Hharts-Fucked Up
A Little Death- Fucked Up
Weapons Free- Slobs
Rock n Roll Pt 3- School Jerks
No Mind- Mad Men
Step Forward- The Mob
Forked Tongues- Rise and Fall

DL Here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0272cix2olxh04k

Pits and Poisoned Apples 3/29/11

Here is this weeks episode! in all its unprofessional, awkward college radio glory! the EQ on some of the songs on this one is a bit off, im working on that right now and will put the edited show up when its fixed. but this was a good one, so listen up!


Pits and Poioned Apples- Kid Dynamite
The Protocols of Anti-Sound- Magrudergrind
Under the Street Lights- Coke Bust
International Blacklist- Direct Action
Pink Slip- Paint It Black
Real Deal-Antidote
Jonzos Leaking Radiation- Career Suicide
Ignorant/BNC-Urban Waste
Condensed Flesh- Void
The Other Shoe- Fucked Up
Burning Churches- Crazy Spirit
No One Rules/Final War-Agnostic Front
Cannibals-Eating Glass
I Apologize- Husker Du
Mediocrity Rules- Confines
Get Your Mind Right/Fight- Waste Management
Six Pack- Black Flag

download here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V95OO9Q9

but wait there's more!!

If you are reading this, you have stumbled across my incredibly unprofessional, convoluted joke of a podcast. thanks for listening, I guess. Hope your not disappointed by my lack of radio eloquence. that being said Im having a good time, so do listen! Its not THAT bad!

I apologize for not keeping up with putting the shows online, I've been incredibly busy/habitually lazy and Im working on getting a complete archive for this season up here. Three weeks ago I had Adam and Colman from ICOULDDIETOMORROW on the show and it was quite a duzi. we shall see if it gets let loose into internetland. A week later (3/15) I did a solo show that was alright but had some technical issues so were working on getting that up asap. last week we had Matt from GILDED AGE as a guest co-host and that show went quite well, probably my favorurite of the season thus far:

PPA 3-22-11:

feat. Matt Weinberg and thanx to: Kriss Scratchmarks, my Cousin Anthony, Nick Gergs and the Redekop siblings for calling in!

PLAYLIST:

Pits and Poisoned Apples- Kid Dynamite
Careerist- Marvelous Darlings
Felt Alone- Nerve Assault
River of Sadness- the Nils
False Worship-Omegas
You Can Be Replaces- Omegas
Vulnerability- Operation Ivy
Crash the Clubs- Deaf Mutations
Greed, Money, Useless Children- Jay Reatard
Prolixin Stomp- Rhino 39
Mind over Matter -the Rival Mob
Stuck- Hoax

plus a special guest set from matt featuring NATURAL LAW, GAUZE, GILDED AGE, NEGATIVE APPROACH and more!

DL Here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?d7q7x7y4z2wm0p8

cheers

Return of the Rat!

Pits and Poisoned Apples the radio show is back! I have returned to WHLC Radio at Lehman College and I have a fixed timeslot now, Tuesdays from 7-8 and the show streams live now! fighting the radio plutocrats since 2009, Pits and Poisoned Apples is not forgetting the struggle or the streets! here are the first two episodes of this season thus far:

PPA 2/15/10:

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7689a6dhsjwislm

Playlist:

Pits and Poisoned Apples-Kid Dynamite
Cherry Beach-Career Suicide
Spent- Natural Law
Hardcore for Hardcore- Rival Mob
Assing- Turbosleaze
smut sts-Pollution

ANDY FOLK, STEVE YANKOU and KEVIN YANKOU joined me in the studio for this one, lots of goodies, we talked about Whack, Chumbawamba vs. the Cro-Mags and NYC punk venues past, present and future. lots of good stuff. give it a listen.

*note: the audio is a bit choppy for the first three minutes of the show, just fast forward if need be, the rest of the show is fine

PPA 3/1/11:

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/?pjci4w36p24whuc

Playlist:

Pits and Poisoned Apples-Kid Dynamite
N.Y. Slam- The Mob
Ulythium- Nation of Ulysses
Downtown- Nerve Assault

ICB- New Order
Dreams Never End- New Order
I locked the door- Merchandise

Dead Weight- Waste Management
Murray- Waste Management
Time to Die- Void
Cut Loose- Social Circkle
Something must be done- Antidote

Living on the brink of suicide- Hoax
Never make a change- Lifes Blood
You can be replaced- Omegas
No escape- Slobs

lots of goodies on this show, my favourite episode of the season so far! special guest "John Joseph"* called in and offered his opinion on Meat Eating, Whack and World/Inferno, and I interviewed DJ Tess and Jim Cannon of the elusive Bronx mysterious guy rap group "Zebra Set".

*-wink wink nudge nudge

I'm looking for people to come on and co-host! so if your in NYC and feel like coming up The Bronx on a Tuesday night, get at me!

listen to the show live tuesday nights from 7-8pm here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pits-and-poisoned-apples

NYHC!

a dramatist for the cynics?

Back in Grade 12 I had to write a short little untitled play for my English class. I sort of had an inclination towards avant grade theatre back than, I had been interning with the theatre department at Sarah Lawrence College, reading lots of Beckett and Ionesco and plotting to put on a DIY Punk themed absurdist masterpiece of my own. well, my absurdist masterpiece is still very much a work in progress, because to be honest, I often forget of its existence and it goes unfinished for months, only to be resurrected and expanded or gingerly edited every time I stumble across the manuscript. at this rate, I figure I'll have it done by time i'm 27. but alas, my flirtation with the stage withered and died once I entered the academic side of it. that and theatre kids (even in University, they really are kids) are a rather peculiar bunch that I don't seem to "jive" with all too well. However, some little pieces of my brief foray into creativity remain. one of them being this little ditty I penned at the end of High School (forgive the fact that it is written in a vernacular that disregards all formative norms of written drama). I was incredibly cynical and jaded at the time. By my own accord, I had not obtained well enough High School marks to make it into any University I initially applied to, and all the while having to simultaneously wage war with the Orwellian, privatized monster that is post-Secondary education in the United States, made this a quite daunting and sordid experience, and that's putting it nicely! this is a product of that angst. however, time (mostly) healed those wounds and after having attended the University of Toronto (wich coincidentally had been my dream school since Grade 10)I can firmly say my desires were misguided and University is overrated. but nevertheless, my desires for a degree are still not completely stifled......yet. so in keeping up with my quest for education sans indoctrination, I just applied to Concordia University in Montreal. marvelous, eh? rawr.

here is the play unabridged:

*SCENE*

(Enter Lance and Tray)

LANCE: I for one am absolutely floored to be attending this shining gem

TRAY: The beacon of enlightenment, the stalwart of the divine, the leader in the Liberal Arts.

LANCE: do you have it?

TRAY: have what?

LANCE: The Cheque’s

TRAY: Oh Yes

(Tray pulls out two large cheques from his satchel)

TRAY: $56,000 for you, $56,000 for me.

LANCE: The price we pay for such a captivating experience.

TRAY: We are the educated elite, we are better than those groundlings, those inferiors who are rotting in….gasp!....Community College’s!

LANCE: so, what do we do now?

TRAY: lets just get….

(Enter ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR SULU)

SULU: Hey Fellas! Dig my new asbestos suit!

(LANCE and TRAY gaze at SULU’s suit.)

SULU: If you work diligently, and follow the master plan, than You can wear one of these too!

LANCE and TRAY: yay!!

SULU: Now the very quintessence….no….quiddity of the college admissions orgy is its…well…realness and honesty. As you have being doing, you must format your lexicon and speech patterns from these scripts we have so generously bequeathed to you. If you fail to follow the script, you are an anti-intellectual philistine, and you don’t want that do you? We all follow the script here, I do, you do, your professors do, only our corporate overlords who endow our fine institution are enlightened enough to speak freely.

LANCE and TRAY: (reading from the script): I Will not delineate from the master plan.

SULU: Now that the ground rules have been set, and your fine educations are completely paid for, I would like to, on behalf of our corporate overlords, welcome you two to Bernard L. Madoff College.

LANCE: I am so glad to be a part of this fine institution

TRAY: I thank Robert Moses everyday that my status as a member of the Landed Gentry allows me to take advantage of this opportunity.

LANCE: it is such a fabulous life, being coddled in a perverted form of a cradle to the grave welfare system, set up for the perpetuation of the power structure.

SULU: and boys, here at Madoff College, you will be taught only the most progressive of ideals, by the world’s leading left leaning scholars, However, be warned, if you try to act on those ideals, you will face the unrestrained wrath of said power structure.

LANCE and TRAY: We will not think freely, we will regurgitate the same basic form of faux-intellectualism that has been in vogue among the pseudo-alternative educational overmind since the 1960s.

SULU: Now Boys, let us continue our tour by showing our cutting edge facilities!

(enter SULU, LANCE and TRAY outside of a trash receptacle)

SULU: These amenities allow out students to be on the cutting edge of humanities and arts education, our bounty over your heads is but a small price to pay for these impeccable educational devices!

SULU (pointing to the garbage can): as long as you are a part of the lucky few, the humanistic ideals we teach you are as golden as the material inside of this fine device, and in the course of your studies here, as long as you follow the master plan, your minds and this device will share an inseparable symbiotic bond. Isn’t that absolutely captivating?

(LANCE and TRAY nod in approval)

SULU: Now, it is time to show you our room and board amenities!

(Enter LANCE, TRAY and SULU outside of a dormitory)

SULU: after your minds are stimulated, this is where you can vivify your loins! After you complete the process of social sacculation, you too can be a part of the old boys’ network of patriarchical dominance! As healthy young alpha males in the midst of post secondary education, you can choose from our fine crop of comfort women, we have an endless supply in our various sororities!

(LANCE and TRAY look on in amazement)

LANCE: Now that I am in the institution, I can fully enjoy my status as a proud misogynist!

TRAY: Were going to Fuck Bitches, Get Money!!!!

SULU: Now Now Tray, we at Madoff College do not tolerate such language

TRAY: Excuse me….myself and my good friends will fornicate with the opposite sex while illegally procuring large sums of currency.

SULU: Much better!

LANCE: so tell us, Mr. Sulu, we can live out our grandest terminal preppie fantasies in these buildings?

SULU: as long as you keep paying your room and board fees, than yes!

LANCE: and the administration will turn a blind eye to our rampant sexism and the unrestrained moral bankruptcy that we partake in?

SULU: It would be simply un-American if we didn’t, even at an “alternative” school like ours!

TRAY: (under his breath) I can’t believe they actually wrote that into the script!

SULU: Tray! Follow the Script!!

TRAY: yes sir.

SULU: now, we will visit another building, come with me.

(Enter LANCE, TRAY, SULU and ULRICH outside of a large modern building)

LANCE: wow, what a sight to behold!

TRAY: it is magnificent

ULRICH: (walking out of the building): I just got back from Holiday….In Cambodia!

SULU: Why Hello, Jello, care to explain your positive experiences at Madoff College with these two incoming freshman.

ULRICH: Well, the visual arts building is really neat-o, I’m going to be the most talked about artist in the Brooklyn loft scene when I finish here! I also like the school, because it is like, so um.....diverse.

(EXIT SULU)

SULU: that is right, at Madoff College, all shades of white are represented in out student body!

LANCE: Even the Dutch?

SULU: Even the Dutch!!

TRAY: WOW! Ive never seen a Dutchman before!

LANCE: how about Flying Dutchmen?

(ENTER FLYING DUTCHMAN)

FLYING DUTCHMAN: Arrrrgh!!!! SHOW ME YER BOOTY!!

TRAY: this is the worst college ever

LANCE: the worst play ever too.

SULU: NO!!! My dream is ruined!

(SULU collapses and dies, while LANCE, TRAY and the FLYING DUTCHMAN disco dance)

*FIN*

Out on Bikes?

If Only.....


As someone who has had the misfortune to have been hit by a car (while cycling nonetheless) the image above comes straight out of my wildest dreams. unfortunately I come from a place where community activists make DIY bike lanes, only to have them subsequently and abruptly removed by the powers that be. I lived for three months in a city that elected a mayor who is vitriolically opposed to the construction of any new bike lanes and my own bike is currently sitting mangled in my garage from my aforementioned accident.

I will admit I lose serious bike punk points though, I have a drivers licence (sssshhh, dont tell anyone!) A good friend of mine from Paris tells me that having a drivers licence is something that makes me uniquely American, because I come from a place where I don't really need one. how American of me! Most of my Canadian friends don't Drive, and my sole European friend indeed does not drive. yet in the United States the Automobile is king. At least I'm going back to a place where there are 24 Subway lines that run all night and a strong cyclist culture. god forbid I were to end up in a place like Los Angeles, my god that would be rather dreadful. Am I the only one who thinks its a bit...erm....sordid that things as simple as bike lanes could draw so much ire and scorn from the public at large? only in the USA (and Toronto now, apparently).

Its 2:07 AM. now I'm just ranting with out any sort of coherence or eloquence. time for bed.

thanks to David Bilmas for inspiring this post.