Last Refuge of the Incompetent

The Incompetent Crew is joined by special guest Josh Olson to talk about famed SF author Harlan Ellison's collection of television criticism, The Glass Teat .

Special Guest: Josh Olson

Works Cited

Harlan Ellison

Ellison YouTube

The Glass Teat

Radio Playlist

They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee

Tom Paxton - What Did You Learn In School Today

Earle Hagen - The Mod Squad

Richard Thompson - Harlan's Bounce

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mission Impossible

Three Dog Night - Dreaming Isn't Good For You

Laura Nyro - Save The Country (Single Version) (Mono)

Elyse - Simpleminded Harlequin

Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Young Folks

The Richard Davis Trio feat. Joe Beck & Jack DeJohnette - Agnewistic

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio

Frank Comstock - Adam-12

Beach Boys - Student Demonstration Time

John Denver - The Ballad of Spiro Agnew

Rangda - Spiro Agnew

Pete Atkin - Driving Through Mythical America

The Jazz Butcher - Harlan

Foodman - The end of TV

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest L.M. Bogad to get weird on China Miéville's Bas-Lag triology.

Special Guest: L.M. Bogad

Works Cited

China Miéville

China Miéville Website

Bas-Lag

Perdido Street Station

The Scar

Iron Council

Radio Playlist

Flat Earth Society - Perdido Street Blues

The Death Of Anna Karina - Every Revolution Is A Throw Of Dice

Anti-Nowhere League - Streets Of London

Plank - Khepri

Ocean Colour Scene - Policemen & Pirates

patten - Torque

The Ruffled Feathers - Blueprints For Our Failed Revolution

Benoît Pioulard - As Would A Weaver

Sound Voyage - Golden Garuda

Glok - Weaver (Edit)

Get Back Guinozzi - Police And Thieves

Paul Roland - Buccaneers

Quasi - sea shanty

The Almanac Singers - Union Train

Neutral Milk Hotel - Up And Over We Go

The Red Krayola - People Get Ready (The Train's Not Coming)

Chris Bowden - New Crobuzon

The Incompetent Crew shill for big community radio.

Works Cited

Americathon

Zap Comix

Transmetropolitan

Transhumanism

Alan Moore

From Hell

From Hell Letter

100 Great Short Stories

The World Treasury of Science Fiction

The New Prehistory

Blindsight

Orphan Black

The Glass Bead Game

Radio Playlist

Deerhoof - Come See the Duck

The Mothers of Invention - Who Needs The Peace Corps

Patti Smith - Redondo Beach

Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson, Mo Dean - Weird and Twisted Nights

Shelor Family - Big Bend Gal

Sandy Bull - Triple Ballade

Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages - Jack The Ripper

Link Wray - Jack The Ripper

Syd Barrett - Octopus

Jimmie Noone Apex Club Orchestra - King Joe

The Olivia Tremor Control - Green Typewriters 

Harvey Korman - Gold

Guided by Voices - Kicker of Elves

Sifl & Olly - Laser Eyes

Pixies - Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise

Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown

Sugar Candy Mountain - Echopraxia

Greg Vandike - Clone

James Blackshaw - Fix

They Might Be Giants - Fingertips: Everything Is Catching on Fire

They Might Be Giants - Fingertips: I Found a New Friend

I guess this is all a big joke to you?!?!

Special Guest: S.K. Meyer

Works Cited

List of Science Fiction Comedy Films

Largely Forgotten UK Sci-Fi Sitcoms

Science Fiction Comedy

Radio Playlist

Lazy Magnet - Masters Of Science Fiction

The Focus Group - The Moon Ladder

Douglas Adams - Fit The Second - The Encyclopaedia Galactica

Brian Hodgson - "The Savages" (Serial AA): Energy Escapes

Douglas Adams - Fit The Nineth - The Following Facts

Suzanne Ciani - Almay Eclipse (TV Spot)

Douglas Adams - Fit The Seventh - Modern Elevators Are Strange And Complex Entities

François de Raboix - Partout L'Electricité

Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer

The Manhattan Transfer - Trail of the Screaming Forehead

Abner Newton & Brain in Slow - ten4gv

Raymond Scott - Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

Carl Stalling - Variation on Lucky Day (1957, from “Fox Terror”)

The Woolen Men - Alien City

Buke and Gass - Horse Head Nebula

Janelle Monáe - Suite IV Electric Overture

Mouse on Mars - Parliament Of Aliens Part III

Flaming Lips - The Distance Between Mars And The Earth (Part Two)

People Like Us - Music Of Your Own

Ennio Morricone - Ripresa L'indagine

Oval - Chronograph

MCI Players and Singers - Packard Bell TV

Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas

Miaow Miaow! - Kid's TV!

Saturday's Children - Wisconsin Electric Co.

Mowbird - The Quiet Despair Of The Starship Enterprise

Henry Solomon - Spaceship to the Darkside

AtomTM & Masaki Sakamoto - Alien's Delight (second movement)

Tom Dissevelt - Quiz Tune for VARA Television (Tunes)

DJ Q-Bert - Grandpa Wears Fat Laces, Turntable TV [Blueprint]

Arrowheads - Lifeforce Energy

Infinity Frequencies - TV People

The Advisory Circle - Erosion of Time

Tod Dockstader - Signal Powerdown

The Focus Group - Geometree Hou

Frank Bretschneider - Funkalogic

ToiToiToi - Talkoller

Karel Vlach Orchestra - Ridiculous Cuniculus

Roland Barker - Interlude

Dak - electric speed (in)

Botany - Schoolday Morning TV

Pepe Deluxé - Child Of Energy

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Children's Television Workshop

Jean-Claude Roché - Turdoides hartlaubii - Hartlaub’s Babbler

Chloé - Solarhys

Nick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra - Plus! A TV Theme Tune For The New Chief!

Bibio - Over The Far And Hills Away

The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap

The Incompetent Crew wonders what a world where Ronnie Rocket was made would look like.

Works Cited

Jodorowsky’s Dune

The Incal

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau

William Gibson Alien III Audio Drama

William Gibson Alien III Script

Ronnie Rocket Script

David Lynch, Ronnie Rocket

Radio Playlist

Brian Eno - Tutti Forgetti

David Bowie - Shadowman

Magma - Sckxyss

Zao - Atart

Alejandro Jodorowsky - Psychedelic Weapons

Dün - Arrakis (version alternative)

Richard Pinhas - Variations VII Sur Le Thème Des Bene Gesserit

Kurt Stenzel - Parallel World

Zed - Adab

Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Marlon Brando

Monty Python - Talking Science

Russ Le Roq - I Just Want To Be Like Marlon Brando

Prince & The Revolution - Movie Star

Eskaton - If

Death - You're A Prisoner

Space - Supersonic Jetplane

The Beach Boys - Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls into a Piano

Brian Wilson - Do You Have Any Regrets (I Do)

Neil Young - White Line

Dusty Springfield - Angels

Paul McCartney - PS Love Me Do

Frank Zappa - Down in de Dew

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest Prof. N. Hubble to talk about the intertwined histories of speculative fiction and socialism.

Special Guest: Professor Nick Hubble

Works Cited

How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism, Nick Hubble

Unearthing the Music

50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Every Socialist Should Read, China Miéville

Political Futurists and Radical and Utopian SF Authors

News From Nowhere

The Ministry for the Future

The City and the City, Book

The City and the City, Miniseries

Radio Playlist

Doktor Kosmos - Eurovision Socialist Contest 2001

Neon Neon - Hoops With Fidel

The Ethiopians - Socialism Train

Chumbawamba - The World Turned Upside Down

Nicolette - No Government

Hard Left - Future Perfect

Future Of The Left - Suddenly it's a Folk Song

Sydney Carter - Socialism In Our Time

Bob Hill (Fred Hellerman) - Pity The Downtrodden Landlord

Leyla McCalla - The Capitalist Blues

L-Space - Unit of Production

Puff Pieces - Object Accumulation

Art Bears - The Song of Investment Capital Overseas

Stereolab - Ping Pong

Robert Wyatt - Red Flag

Barbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist System

Gang Of Four - We Live As We Dream, Alone

Tim Heidecker - Property

Laurie Anderson - Dark Time in the Revolution

The Incompetent Crew surrender to the ray.

Special Guest: Jennifer Juniper Stratford

Works Cited

TeleFantasy Studios

Shredder Orpheus Soundtrack

Cathode TV

Mondo Video, The Colonel

Remote Control

Shredder Orpheus

I Was A Teenage TV Terrorist

Rollerblade

The Icicle Thief

Liquid Dreams

Split

Dr. M

Radio Playlist

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - I'm The Slime

Negativland - Why Is This Commercial?

The Art Of Noise - Paranoimia (7" Mix)

David Bowie - TVC15

Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)

Bow Wow Wow - (I'm A) T.V. Savage

Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?!

WhoMadeWho - TV Friend

Roland Barker - Worm Song

Black Flag - TV Party

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug Of The Nation

a‐ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.

The Music Tapes - The Television Tells Us

David Byrne & St. Vincent - I Should Watch TV

Labelle - Medley: Somethin' In The Air / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Automatic Tasty - television

The Incompetent Crew commit bug-genocide in the name of freedom.

Special Guest: S.K. Meyer

Works Cited

Space Marines

Robert A Heinlein

Starship Troopers (novel)

Starship Troopers (film)

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Paul Verhoeven

Powered Exoskeletons

Armor, John Steakley

Armor 2, excerpt

Aliens (film)

Screamers (film)

Second Variety

Edge of Tomorrow

Radio Playlist

Billy Bragg - Like Soldiers Do

Chumbawamba - Walking Into Battle With The Lord

Josh White -  Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier

Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper

Harpers Bizarre - Battle of New Orleans 

SSgt. Bob Lay (USMC) - Marine's Ballad

Blondie - The Attack Of The Giant Ants

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bunker Soldiers

The Tee-Vees - War Machine

Spizzenergi - Soldier Soldier

Peggy Gou - Troop

Tom Lehrer - It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier

Thin Lizzy - Soldier Of Fortune

The Walkmen - Old Forgotten Soldier

Parquet Courts - Careers in Combat

Minutemen - Just Another Soldier

The Decemberists - The Legionnaire’s Lament 

The Dog That Bit People - Tin Soldier

Harp And A Monkey - The Reluctant Soldier

Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock

Lewski - Military Simulations

The Incompetent Crew ride horses through outer-space. Yeehaw! Boy, Howdy!

Special Guest: S.K. Meyer

Works Cited

Jizz Legends

Space Westerns

Outland

WestWorld (film)

Mad Max: Fury Road

Totem Transfer Narratives

The Expanse

The Mandalorian

WestWorld (tv series)

Cowboys and Aliens

Wild Wild West

Radio Playlist

Zun Zun Egui - Cowboy

Woody Guthrie - My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky)

Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer

Holly Herndon - Frontier

Avalon Emerson - The Frontier (High Desert Synthapella)

William Shatner feat. Brad Paisley & Steve Miller - Space Cowboy

Kenny Rogers - Planet Texas

The Flatlanders - Stars in My Life

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip (On A Space Shuttle)

Atomic Rooster - Space Cowboy

The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman

Sly & The Family Stone - Spaced Cowboy

The Highwaymen - Highwayman

Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down

John Prine - Linda goes to Mars

John Prine - Space Monkey (Live)

Miriodor - Space Cowboy

Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy

Units - Cowboy

The Incompetent Crew have visions of energy crisis (and utopia).

Special Guest: A.B. Bertagnini IV

Works Cited

Traditional Appalachian Coal Mining Music

This insane genre of music curated for men working on oil rigs… worth a perusal…

Ecotopia

Ecotopia Emerging

Ernest Callenbach

The Cool War

Frederik Pohl

The Gods Themselves

Energized

Edward M Lerner

Renewable Energy Primer:

Disruptive Technologies

Peak Oil

Renewable Energy and Covid

Socio-Economic Impacts

Distributed Energy Resources

Equitable Renewable Energy Access

Radio Playlist

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity

Orville Jenks - Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave

Jerry Reed - The Crude Oil Blues

Ages And Ages - Cascadia Waving Back

Solar Bears - Solarization

Joni Mitchell - Electricity

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation of Energy

Morgan Delt - Sun Powers

Beans On Toast - Oil

Russ Walker - Solar Energy

Boards Of Canada - Energy Warning

Bloc Party - Price Of Gasoline

Oi Polloi - Nuclear Waste

Gatto Fritto - Solar Flares Burn for You

British Sea Power - Childhood Memories

Thomas Dolby - Windpower

Cléa Vincent - Electricité

Stornoway - Here Comes the Blackout...!

XL Middleton - Sunshine & Power Lines

Andrew Judah - The Ghost of Electricity