Playlist Date & Time: 6/6/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

The Blob

The classic 1960's movie returns to attack Louisiana.  A hideous blob of tar-like menace rises from the depths of the Gulf.  A hideous maddening monster with a horrifying hatred of mankind.  A huge, unstoppable killing machine creeps toward us.

Just like Katrina the red-eyed monster that attacked us from the same Gulf of Mexico, the Blob of 2010 grows bigger and more lethal as the evilness gets closer to our shore.  

Yep, the oil leak is unfolding along the same narrative as the horror movies of old.  We're at the part where the monster is hiding from human's observation somewhere deep in the ocean (a horrible case of shyness?).  Without visuals, the oil monster resides completely in our imagination and it's the fear of the unknown that is always most effective.  Yep, the visible and the known give us enough information that we can manage the threat but there is no stopping the unquantifiable horror that resides only in your imagination.  Ah Louisiana living - always dramatically surreal and with less reliable facts than anywhere else in the US.   

I used to end my shows with an admonition that after experiencing Katrina we Louisianians could handle anything.  Shelved it since the last election.  Looks like we're sliding back into fear.  Whadda say to that FDR?

That the only thing we have to fear is feat itself.  Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.    

And from the remake that was filmed at Black's Oyster House and around Abbeville, Louisiana:

Tonight's Box Score:

104 Selections of which 

  55 Were the songs listed below and 

  49 Were interstitial sound clips from the trash cana of Americana

< 2 Minutes per selection which is half the rate needed to break the radio sound barrier of one selection per minute.  I'm backsliding on this record.

   0 Number of prostitutes hanging around my neighborhood at 4am

 15  Number of cars stopped in front of the studio to avoid running over Jimmy who was arresting a drunk on the street.  And I mean on the street.

   0 Number of cars that decided to stay and block traffic to protect French Market security guard Jimmy and the drunk sprawled in the middle of South Peters Street.

   1 Number of WWOZ show hosts who redirected traffic with my bike flasher and frantic arm waving.  (I know you guys are all drunk - you call me from the car every Saturday night.)

 49 Total numeric value of my dog's (Wally and Gracie's) combined outputs of number ones and twos over the last three days.

And interstitials by:

Billy Mays

George Bush

Spock and Bones

Bender

Lisa Simpson

Bill O'Reilly

Tom Arnold and Krusty the Clown

Sherman and Peabody

The Blob

"Are You Prepared" movie trailer

FDR

Jeff Bridges

and my favorite sound clip generator:

Sarah Palin (We're not laughing at you, we're laughing at the folks who idolize you.) 

 Barney Fife

David Bowie as John Merritt

Simpson's Comic Book Guy

Fred Rodgers

Latka Gravits

Bela Legosi

Bender and a bunch more of dangling particles of Americana. 

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