Onus Playhouse

Reynolds takes an ill-fated ride with Roscoe Des Moines, a conspicuous King of the Road is as ever there was one. And along the way, he learns no one will believe a penniless hitch-hiker.

CAST
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Roscoe Des Moines - Joobs
Joanna -  Kristen Saggau
Mr. Punabi - Ernesto Moncada
Narrator -  Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker

Songs in this episode include "Cream Colored Cadillac, " "All That Gorgeous Going To Waste" and "Down to the Ravine."

All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amourr & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score  by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000 

Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records.

The bonus episode of this Onus Playhouse podcast highlights the hidden tracks and outtakes of  the Serene Dominic album, Speculation, recorded in the month of February 2013 and tinkered with until he stopped and released it, if you can call it that, on August 13, 2013.
Songs include "Wearing Out My Welcome," "Juggernaut," "I Love You More Than The Town," "The Loner's Code,"  "Much Too Much Woman"  and a mercifully brief snippet of the acapella version of  "Music"

Click here to stream the entire Speculation album

Click here to watch "The Amnesia Record Club" video directed by Running Wild Films

Click here to see the photographic evidence of Serene's 2015 record collection collapsing onto itself!!

Click here to subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

The latest episode of this Onus Playhouse podcast highlights more of  the Serene Dominic album, Speculation, released August 13, 2013. In Part 2, Serene and co-host Steve Asetta  run down the next seven songs of a record Serene used to delight  in telling people is a better album than Rumours. Find out what Speculation track our hosts  consider Less Killer and More Filler, what delivery system  Serene first discovered  and fell in love with Miss Wanda Jackson,  what two songwriting exercises Serene utilizes to clear the  cobwebs and what town back east Serene considers a shithole. 
Songs include "1791 (ye olde delivery system...)," "The Girl Singer," "Woulda Coulda," "Designated Driver," "Edison"  and "You Sexy, Sexy Sex Fiend You!" Plus a bonus cut, "Wearing Out My Welcome."

Click here to stream the entire Speculation album

Click here to watch "The Amnesia Record Club" video directed by Running Wild Films

Click here to see the photographic evidence of Serene's 2015 record collection collapsing onto itself!!

Click here to subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

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The latest episode of this Onus Playhouse podcast highlights another Serene Dominic album, Speculation, released August 13, 2013. In Part 1, Serene and co-host Steve Asetta  run down the first six songs of  the Speculation album, a record Serene used to delight  in telling people is a better album than Rumours, a view  no one drawing breath has ever shared. But it is nay bad and its conceptual theme placing  music front and center as the subject of every song  has never been attempted, unless there's a Johnny Mann Singers album we haven't heard about. Serene and Steve kibitz about record clubs that expanded our record collections, the RCA Record Club and their poor quality "Dynaflex" vinyl and file sharing sites like Limewire and Frostwire that ultimately ruined the record industry. Find out what mislabeled record club edition of an album was a life changing moment for Serene or Steve and which one was just a major annoyance. And learn what happened the first time Serene sang into a live microphone.

Songs include "2791 (a new delivery system...)," "The Amnesia Record Club," "If U Didn't Want Me To Look @ It (U Shouldn't Have Shown It 2 Me)," "You Can Love a Song," "I Can't Sing Boston"  and "Music (I Want to Thank You)."

Click here to stream the entire Speculation album

Click here to watch "The Amnesia Record Club" video directed by Running Wild Films

Click here to see the photographic evidence of Serene's 2015 record collection collapsing onto itself!!

Click here to subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

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Serene and Steve tackle the last six songs (plus a hidden track - aww, the wonders of the compact disc) of  the Winter Trance Party album, a song cycle that originally set out to be the soundtrack to a children's story Serene wrote about a bunch of kids that communicate with the dead rock stars, specifically those who perished during  of the Winter Dance Party of 1959 when a charter plane crashed in a frozen cornfield and took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. While the morose children's story never got turned into an app as originally intended (the paid app was going to include the album for free),  he did succeed in crafting  a suitably psychedelic chill down album. Serene and Steve go into length about the death of Tanya Roberts, the Everly Brothers' most morbid disk, how Nino Rota's score for 'The Godfather' was declared ineligible,  Serene's Catholic School gym shorts, James Brown's star turn in Ski Party, Steve defining what Calabash means to beer drinkers, Joe Meek's morbid fascination with Buddy Holly  and Why old master painters put their ugly mugs in to their Madonna and Child paintings.

Songs include "Don't Lost That Rock, Child! ," "Suspend Your Disbelief," "Cold Day in December," "I Rebelled Last Night," "Take Your Little Heart and Go," "Calabash"  and "Goodbyes in The Snow."

Click here to stream the entire Winter Trance Party album!

Click here to watch all the Winter Trance Party and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Check out the Buddy Holly biography Serene was reading during the making of this album!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

Serene and Steve survey the first six songs of  the  Winter Trance Party album, a song cycle that originally set out to be the soundtrack to a children's story Serene wrote about a bunch of kids that communicate with the dead rock stars, specifically those who perished during  of the Winter Dance Party of 1959when a charter plane crashed in a frozen cornfield and took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. While the morose children's story never got turned into an app as originally intended (the paid app was going to include the album for free),  he did succeed in crafting  a suitably psychedelic chill down album. Serene and Steve go into length about the Winter Dance Party and go off on some tangents involving defense attorney Melvin  Belli, Peter Pan records, The Million Dollar Movie and Sy Sperling., the President of Hair Club for Men

Songs include "Friendly Angel Revisited," "Winter Trance Party," "Crazed Shape Shifter," "Rezo Para Donna," "Heartbreaking Machine"  and "Carbon Footprint Man."

Click here to stream the entire Winter Trance Party album!

Click here to watch all the Winter Trance Party and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Check out the Buddy Holly biography Serene was reading during the making of this album!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

Here Serene and Steve run down the final six songs of Serene's figurative double album, the  24 Originals Happening Now album, which was modeled after a 1967 TV record album offer called  24 Original Happening Hits. This miracle of science crammed 24 songs onto two sides of vinyl by severely editing and prematurely fading out all your favorites. Musical genres covered on this last installment  include 80s technopop, Steampunk (or at least what Serene think's steampunk would sound like if it were an actual musical genre), progressive rock, Britrock R&B, muzak and garage rock.  We'll learn the backstories of fictional musical acts like Mr. Catherine to U, Weather Gnome, Watson The Telly and The Makeup Sect. And as usual, we'll expound on topics like TV technical difficulties of yesteryear, fluttering eyelids and snobbery while Nino, Steve's faithful dog makes some really unsettling sounds that pass without comment.

Songs include "Lies About the World," "Queensbury Rules,"  "Eye Throb," "Strength Was Always Your Weakness," "Please Stand By"  and "Real Revolting"

Click here to watch all 24 Original Happening Now Videos and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Click here to stream the entire 24 Originals Happening Now! album.

Click here to  stream a Spotify playlist of the 24 Original Happening Hits! collection that inspired this album (only one song had to be substituted).

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic 

Here Serene and Steve run down side 2 of Serene's figurative double album, the  24 Originals Happening Now album, which was modeled after a 1967 TV record album offer called  24 Original Happening Hits. This miracle of science crammed 24 songs onto two sides of vinyl by severely editing and prematurely fading out all your favorites (at least Australians saw the sense in deleting four tracks to accommodate 20 Original Happening Hits with the proper song lengths in future reiterations). Musical genres covered on side 2  include Motown ("My Secret Life" is presented here for the first time in its 2020 supermix), Bakersfield country, disco, Merseybeat, electro clash and charity records. Conversational tangents include Cyndi Lauper's jewelry, the danceability of Brook Benton records, Yankees bat day swag and the 1964 World's Fair.

Songs include "My Secret Life," "What Are You In For?"  "Mutha Earth," "Agony," "Maintenance"  and "Let's See Other People."

Click here to watch all 24 Original Happening Now Videos and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Click here to stream the entire 24 Originals Happening Now! album.

Click here to  stream a Spotify playlist of the 24 Original Happening Hits! collection that inspired this album (only one song had to be substituted).

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

Here Serene and Steve run down side 3 of Serene's figurative double album, the  24 Originals Happening Now album, which was modeled after a 1967 TV record album offer called  24 Original Happening Hits. This miracle of science crammed 24 songs onto two sides of vinyl by severely editing and prematurely fading out all your favorites. Musical genres covered on this baker's half dozen  include bubblegum, Philly Soul, goodtime music, grunge, countrypolitan and psychedelia.  Edited out for your protection, the pair wasted a lot of time looking up minutia on the internet about such subjects as  "did Ian Whitcomb write 'This Sporting Life" and "did Tom Waits ever cover a Buck Owens record." Existential questions posed by this podcast  include the meaning of "wolf tickets," how did Cole Summers get his first DUI in Marin County and should Ethel Merman's disco album be designated as a weapon of war.

Songs include "Your Heart Ain't Saying," "I've Got So Much To Forgive,"  "If Tallulah Were Mine," "Tight Wad," "Scranton"  and "Yellow Shampoo."

Click here to watch all 24 Original Happening Now Videos and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Click here to stream the entire 24 Originals Happening Now! album.

Click here to  stream a Spotify playlist of the 24 Original Happening Hits! collection that inspired this album (only one song had to be substituted).

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic 

Here Serene and Steve run down the first six songs of what would figuratively be  a double album on vinyl, the  24 Originals Happening Now album, which was modeled after a 1967 TV record album offer called  24 Original Happening Hits. This miracle of science crammed 24 songs onto two sides of vinyl by severely editing and prematurely fading out all your favorites, which K-Tel also did later on. Serene has a back history for each of the 24 made up groups he concocted for each selection.  Musical genres covered on Side 1  include jangle-pop (Serene actually tried getting  "Unfriend Me" to the Gin Blossoms with no success), Britrock, indie rock, glitter, lounge and white-boy reggae. Other topics of discussion include Esteban, the merits of the  Kia Spectra EX,  the question of whether  Phil Spector is allowed  to wear wigs in jail and how a movie might have killed off friends with benefits for everyone.

Songs include "Unfriend Me," "The Lights Go Down and Out" "Independent Thought," "Sarsaparilla Lillian," "That Lounging"  and "FWB (Friends With Benefits)."

Click here to watch all 24 Original Happening Now Videos and subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Click here to stream the entire 24 Originals Happening Now! album.

Click here to  stream a Spotify playlist of the 24 Original Happening Hits! collection that inspired this album (only one song had to be substituted).

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic