brimming ... just a few miles south of Camp Pendleton. Boom buubooom buuboom ... It doesn't hurt enough. Make it hurt more.

Fucking black muck, so satisfying.

Indeed, SiHV, so much so that I often don't have much more to add. These little, self-imposed, look-back at the week's show posts; sometimes I honestly forget to do them, esp. with the fact that WFMU diligently archives everything in the already.

But here it is; sometimes I think it need not be more than a linked picture. Going, way, way, back, to paraphrasing an obscure DJ-Irwin quote, I often have not much more to add than the fact that I gave "good ball club." On the other hand, if I've a LOT to say, at any time, on any given thing, here is where you'll see it.

Great special programming coming up on My Castle of Quiet, with Seed Stock guest-DJ appearance #3 on 1st/2nd April, and Future Death Toll LIVE on 4/8-9.

Thanks for listening! ...For info on our screen capture this week, see the internal playlist-comments discussion.

plz help i have no idea about this fm

Me neither, fella! I have South Park's "Fingerbang" playing on an endless loop in my head, not really your problem, or your fault; except to say that this week's show was a huge FINGERBANG of three hours of fundraising, like that perfect FINGERBANG we all so often dream of. And even though I completely FINGERBANGED my voice at Hoof 'm' Mouth practice (not singing "FINGERBANG"), Stan and I carried it, and brought it home, much like a good FINGERBANG, with a $3,178 plus change afterglow. THANKS TO ALL THE CASTLEHEADS WHO SO GENEROUSLY DONATED; many of you will soon be enjoying this year's My Castle of Quiet premium CDr, NOT ENTITLED FINGERBANG (see above.)

I don't quite know what to say, I'm moved, much like the satisfied feeling that lingers after a good FINGERBANG. Ooh, explicits. Satanic Dystopia sang "fucking" (as an adjective) quite so many times, that it lingered dangerously close to losing its impact as a cussword. Oh hell, it did. But at least we still have FINGERBANG; we'll always have FINGERBANG.

I know it's a good show when I wish I were at home listening, and winning prizes like the edition of 5 (they now tell me) of Death Factory's Chilling Impressions. I'll either beat the leukemia or I won't, depending on which Lifetime movie we're using as a reference...you never hear anyone say "FINGERBANG" on Lifetime, noooo Sir.

You all earned yourselves a good three hours of nearly no talking whatsoever, next week, and at least a serviceable FINGERBANG; for the girls and Gays, it's getter's choice, as to which finger and which orifice. Personally, I just need a good, deep scalp massage. SOOTHE MY ROARING HEAD. You asked if there was "anything you could do," and though I know it's just something people say as they're on their way out the door, I am free in that situation to call you out, combining the words "White Castle" and "vegetarian" in a single sentence, HA!

My son discovered The Residents this week, so in my absence, will someone in SF just go to Minna Ln., hang out for a minute and do a little happy dance? If you happen to see piles of mail garbage, look for a piece addressed to "Residents" or "Resident," and then STOP because this has all gone way too far. Still, it's cool when your kid discovers something that bizarre and culturally significant all on his own and then chooses it.

So what happened on the playlist? New and old friends said "hi," the gang was pretty much ALL THERE. ...Praise for Nuit Noire, Carter and Murano (Castle session), and Death Factory (Chilling Impressions just really is that goddamn good, like Mister Softee.) I had my bearings, despite my shredded rasp, and I think I gave good show as well as conducting a successful marathon show. Not so much last week. But maybe Mars was in retrograde or something. Thanks goodness I got rid of "FINGERBANG," somewhere during the course of composing this post. Whew!

Check you out next week, business as blissfully usual; lots of great live music and special programming to come this season on MCoQ.

That fucking tuba! ... We german freemen and women pledge for freedom and WFMU!

T H A N K S  T O  A L L O F  L A S T W E E K ' S C O N T R I B U T O R S !~

Appreciation for: Dan Peck's Solo LP, and the Telecult Powers track from this year's Castle premium CDr, The East Orange Ripper. Thanks also to Jason S. for co-hosting, and DJ Deep Creep for volunteering.

Did what I usually do, offered great prizes and reasons aplenty, without overwhelming everyone with talktalktalk (though a lot more talk is necessary than usual.) This coming shift HAS to be BETTER than last week, though, just sayin' - somehow the tried-and-true methods were not quite bedazzling, thought THEY say week #2 often exceeds week #1, this has not necessarily jibed with Castle history.

Make NO mistake, I appreciate every penny, but would also like to see MCoQ make a better-than-decent showing, just on a personal level, and also to support the mothership, WFMU. (I peeked, so I know we're starting this week off ahead of where we ENDED last week, thanks to Dave K and several others!!!)

So, all those appreciative folks who write to me, and post to the playlist saying that The Castle is their favorite show, PLEASE do us a solid, and donate something tomorrow night @ midnight, where I'll be reunited with my old Thursday-night compadre Stan. ...And here's that pesky pledge widget again -

WFMU Marathon 2014 under way and accepting your generous pledges. ...

It's that time of year again, for us at MCoQ, it means reminding you, the devoted Castlehead, which side your black bread is buttered on, and who you can count on, week after week, for the ugly, dark, dreary, encrusted sounds we research and provide gladly for your icky pleasure. The WFMU 2014 'thon started earlier today, and will continue for two full weeks, culminating in the usual amped-up, madcap karaoke party at WFMU HQ as per usual (in which I will be singing as well.)

Despite the great diversity on the WFMU airwaves, from broadcaster to broadcaster, one thing can be counted on, and that's the hardcore enthusiasm with which every show is prepared and executed, like The Dusty Show, Reggae Schoolroom, Blurred and Obscured, or My Castle of Quiet, to cite just a few of my personal favorites. Every WFMU DJ is an absolute fanatic about what they present every week on air, and it's a labour of love and compulsive energy that makes every show happen—indifference or casualness never being part of the picture. Whatever we're nuts about, be it Dave The Spazz's show or Sinner's Crossroads, we're BATSHIT nuts about it, and therein lies the drive that holds the WFMU schedule together like a mighty psychic glue.

We're eternally grateful that we need not, thanks to our devoted listeners, ever kowtow to corporate support (which would inevitably lead to corporate dictates), though the occasional big power has been very generous with us, asking nothing but our continuance in return, bless 'em. But it's YOU, the WFMU listener, that keeps us rolling along for the most part, with your amazing, selfless, generous donations year after year, both during our relatively new Web-based "silent" fundraiser, and this of which I now speak, our annual, two week, big-magilla fundraiser wherein we put all the massive energy—a given, yearly event, like our record fair, and our out-of-town participation in musical festivals and the other crucial events of WFMU's year, this, without a doubt, being the MOST CRUCIAL.

So, if you want to donate specifically to My Castle of Quiet, and let your pledge be associated with the station's weekly home of black metal, horror scores, haunting/instrumental noizemusik, post-industrial weirdness, free improv and the like, HERE is the mighty widget through which to make your pledge specifically to MCoQ. (click on "PLEDGE") Pledge during our three-hour, on-air show for the next two weeks, and you'll be thanked on-air, and be eligible for the per-shift prizes and giveaways (this year we have some doozies, be assured!) In addition, any pledge to this program of US $75 or more, and you automatically get our WFMU t-shirt, as well as the My Castle of Quiet premium, exclusive CDr, compiled by your host—The East Orange Ripper. More info on the premium... It's comprised of all rare tracks ripped from cassette (hence the title), and used by permission, from Déficit Des Années Antérieures (DDAA), Jabladav, Zwaertgevegt Label (the bands Stink and Vartanian), Cryptic Carousel (Towering Heroic Dudes), Slasher Risk, Putrid Servant, Telecult Powers (Temple of Pei), Kr Grauwacke (Diskret records), and Onkunde (The Throat tapes.)

Tomorrow night (now tonight), Castle-fundraiser show #1 starts at midnight ET, and my co-host will be listener/friend/fan and fellow WFMU air personality, all-around good guy Jason Sigal. Looking forward to working with Jason, and watching your pledges of support for My Castle of Quiet and the mighty bastion of free-form and oasis of Northeast-US creative radio that is WFMU roll in. Thank you in advance, HAILS!

My snow fort of quiet!

Please click on the -once you've seen it, you can't unsee it- image above, from Rats - Notte di terrore, to access the playlist page, view the comments, and most importantly hear the archive of this week's show.

Next week will find us slam bang in the middle of the 2014 WFMU Marathon fundraiser—my co-host for week #1—the honorable Mr. Jason Sigal (not to be at all confused with the onanistic Mr. Jason Segel, star of film and television.)

ALL FEAR THE FEROCIOUS PENANGGALAAN!

Hell for breakfast.

castle of quiet is my favorite show. eat shit i love you

Obviously, returning to live music on air was the RIGHT CHOICE for My Castle of Quiet, and our guests Ubasute were the stars of the night; their set ferocious and possessing, and their many enthused supporters dominating the playlist comments as well. It always makes it more fun to feel like there are people "at the party," rather than just me spinning records.

Interestingly enough, I looked deeper into the band's name, and one fan's assertion that it meant "throwing away Grandma," finding this page, which discusses the phenom in real-world terms, and also mentions a film, The Ballad of Narayama, which has been made twice, and the '83/'84 version is rentable from Netflix. Added to queue. ...

...A general tone of irreverence ruled the night, and some felt the need to call me a "faggot" or a "pussy," either on the playlist, or in private mails sent during the show. My fault perhaps, for declaring that my lens was set to receive hostility with even the slightest suggestion. Was that what it was about? Or do we need to get all the noise pussy-faggots and metal jerkdicks in one room and hold a summit about this? It all fits inside The Castle, and those early-a.m. European listeners especially like our last hour, where I pretty much played 8- to 14-min. noise and electronic cuts and sat there by myself in the dark, the band and engineer Ernie long gone, headed home in the snowstorm. I stopped at White Castle on the way, ice chips raining down, and hoped for my own self-applied Ubasute, but alas, I made it home.

Click on the iconic, disturbing shot from E. Klimov's Come and See, to reach the audio archives and playlist from this week's Castle, featuring Ubasute's sterling performance.

TOMORROW NIGHT ... UBASUTE, LIVE!

After a six-month, self-imposed hiatus from WFMU's weekly air, and no live music since July 2013, My Castle of Quiet returns with our first live band in a long while—Ubasute, north-Jersey based grind maestros extraordinaire. With almost weekly sets at Montclair venue The Meatlocker, Ubasute have been honing their sound, tightening up, and are rough and ready to spin Castle listeners dizzy with a live set Tuesday night/Weds. a.m.

Insanely hardworking, also having released two vinyl records (a split w/locals Dutchguts, each band, amongst originals, contributing a Townes Van Zandt tribute/cover song), and the one-sided LP Tyranny Garden (soon to be remixed and reissued as a two-sider), Ubasute prove that grind is alive and well in NJ, and their songbook pushes the boundaries and conventions of the genre, both with their sound, and in their unconventional choice of associated graphic images. Viz: 

We rode out our original weekly tenure at the station with a set by the great Psychic Limb, some of you may recall, and it seems only appropriate that we christen the "new" ship with yet another grind band, though this time from the seesaw-end of the genre from PL; with tapes, wild, catchy songs and arrangements, and Alex "Mountain Mover" Caprio's hysterical, man-in-a-tornado vocals. (Scroll down to track 4 of that linked Castle archive to hear some of Alex's solo work.)

Though our street address was given in the original Facebook announcement for the event, please note that this performance is solidly a radio event, and is not open to the public—sorry! Enjoy from the comfort of your snowed-in domicile, via radio, computer, tablet-top or handheld device.

I jog past the spirit of Philip Seymour Hoffman, cautiously, @ 12 mid.

Ubasute (pronounced ooo-ba-soo-tay) @ 12:30 a.m. approx.

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,,,,izzit coffinated?,,,or or nnnnoooo itz alive!!!

Being buried alive does not negate attractiveness in the extreme, especially when you are firmly planted in the natural breast-full lipped universe of 70s Eurosploitation / ultra-weirdness. Does this girl get out of her dirty entombment? Is she re-cast as a vampire? Do we care? It hardly seems to matter, in The Reincarnation of Isabel, one of those Salvation Films-released, visually rich, richly naked movies we all love soooo much.

Thanks for listening this week; I had the usual great time with the music, and things flowed pretty naturally. Praise for:

early ULVER | LORD TIME's newest | Echoes Within The Attic | Artemeiv's original Solaris score, reissued


...more essential reissues from Superior Viaduct


We return in earnest to live music in real time with a session from Ubasute. Make sure to join us! (That's the Facebook event link.)

Click on the unfortunate Christa, buried alive (but still looking fabulous!), to reach the archived audio and playlist / comments for this week's My Castle of Quiet show.