Deedlecast

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."  Carl Sagan, "Cosmos"

Cosmology is the study of the universe and humankind's place in it.  When DJDeedle was a  young geeky human, one of his heroes was the famed astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, Carl Sagan.  Your humble deejay even had the fortune to meet Sagan, and hear him speak just a year or two before the astronomer's unexpected death in 1996. 

This week, the week of Sagan's November 9 birthday, DJDeedle salutes him with a tapestry of sound that, like the cosmos, is fluid, but lumpy, sometimes dark, and sometimes sublimely beautiful.  This Deedlecast starts with Sagan's voice, and ends with a DJDeedle remix/mashup of two youtube creations, a moving and haunting tribute to Sagan and his work, "Cosmos," and an ode to science and man's place in the cosmos, featuring Sagan and his colleague scientists, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

With My Own HandsThe Horror

This week DJDeedle plugs you into the Groove Electric; a dynamic sound designed to energize you during these short autumn days.  Need more musical volts?  Try:Neon SoundHigh Energy TransmissionElectric Pie

This week, we're on full automatic in the hands of the computers.  Just sit back, and let DJDeedle and his processors do all the work.  Just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Through the magic of Twitter, DJDeedle's had the great fortune of finding the work of Harold Pichol.  Harold's musical creation, "Capucine," has a sensual groove, and DJDeedle just couldn't resist tinkering with it, and mix/mashing it with Madonna's sensual groove, "Substitute for Love."Harold's story, along with his other musical and artistic works, are available at his website: http://www.haroldito.com.  Check it out.Also, you can follow him on twitter: @Har0ld

Come into Deedlecast Laboratories and hear what DJDeedle's cooked up for you.  This week, it's a collection of beats ranging from the rock, reggae, and R&B variety to beat break, metal, dub, hipop, and jazz.  Remember, as Richard Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the Bucky Ball,  famously said, “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”This week's Deedlecast experiment is just one of those unexpected outcomes.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, September 30 was International Blasphemy Day,

the day to thumb your nose at religion.  Clearly something as fun as

blasphemy should not be confined to only one day. So, this week

DJDeedle touches the third rail of any discourse, religion.  Though

DJDeedle is most decidedly a skeptic and nonbeliever, utterly and

firmly unchurched, he realizes that artists throughout the ages,

including musicians, have included religious images and references in

their creations.  Modern musicians from Depeche Mode to Johnny Cash and

the Doobie Brothers and Kanye West have included references to Jesus in

their works, and others like Jesus and Mary Chain and MC 900 Foot Jesus

even included everyone's favorite imaginary friend in their band names.

  If these august artists can take liberties with religion, so can

DJDeedle.   Exercising your freedom of and from religion can be fun,

and above all, entertaining.

Though the tunes in this Deedlecast have nothing to do with Alfred

Hitchcock's classic movie, North by Northwest, the show starts with one

of DJDeedle's favorite cheesy Cary Grant double entendre movie lines.Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art? Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival. This week's show is intended both to satisfy your overpowering interest in art, as well as helping you survive.For those of you who, like DJDeedle, can't get enough of Alfred Hitchcock's genius, try Music for Murder, from June 22 of 2007.

Heroes, the NBC television series people who possess unique genetic mutations giving them unusual, sometimes bizarre, abilities, returns for its new season on Monday.    This week, DJDeedle uses his bizarre abilities to bring you your very own hero effect.