An instrumental composed in an electronic music suite. And I barely knew what the fuck I was doing. This electronic music suite was located in a very old building at ____ College. I never went to ____ College. I had a friend (my babymomma before the baby, actually) whom I visited often up there--it was a beautiful, rural campus. She happened to have a key to the electronic music room, so if I was hanging out with nothing to do while she was researching her thesis, I would take the key and go futz around over there. It was a risk, because it was a small enough college that if anyone walked in, they'd know I wasn't one of them. Getting caught trespassing would not have been good. The room had a Mac, a fancy keyboard that acted like a piano, banks and banks of wires and knobs, and a tape player to record the final product on. That's pretty much all I knew: Mac, Keyboard, how to launch an application, the button to turn the stuff on... and a good excuse if someone came by. (I kept these activities mainly to the middle of the night.) Over the course of a year, I came out with 7 or 8 songs, all hastily nailed together, all fun and exciting to make. I think Rush must have been in my brain -- 80's prog-rock and Stereolab mixing it up in my head somewhere; so, by way of the hunt-and-peck method, I came out with this. Less

As I said on the blog, this is taken from my brother’s Rush – All The World’s A Stage – 8 TRACK!!! I recorded it to cassette and just found it while transfering all my old cassettes to the laptop. Neil Peart is the greatest drummer ever to smack a cymbal or pick up a set of sticks. Less

Following the tidal wave of a request to get this week’s show podcasted (this one’s for you, Paul!) here is the pre-Halloween “really terrible week” catered-by-the-neighbours Rage Machine in which Spike remembers his dead friend, muses over why “trick or treat night” is on the 30th down his way – despite Halloween being on the 31st – and runs down the categories of ToTers, he talks about the “don’t tase me bro” guy, why Australian TV’s ‘worm’ is a good idea, and why a 100 year old mouldy orange is a rubbish museum exhibit. All with his mouth full of candy. You know the drill by now, right? Email TheRageMachine@gmail.com Send a voicemail through http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/TheRageMachine Join the SNRM Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5266341551 Less

There’s a brief recap of the last show (which, if you were clever enough and technical enough to decode it, would give you a good ten minutes’ worth of material from last week) before Spike breaks kayfabe and reveals some intimately personal details and has one of his regular and well-worn crisis of confidence. But he’s happy that local blogger The Film Geek asked him to guest review the movie “Michael Clayton”. On the show tonight, why Sean “insanity” Hannity is a better broadcaster than Spike; the cost of the Iraq war, what the cost to translate to per person and how much more Bush wants; a ‘gnarly’ action by an Australian politician which may cost him the PM-ship; it’s tinfoil hats at the ready as Spike expounds on a report that NASA are burying that is more interested in protecting “Wee Johnny CEO’s bonus” than it is the general population; anther reason for the extremists to hate ‘Harry Potter’; “signatures and circles” and, after a “crunchy gear shift”, why the geek will inherit the votes…. Join the Facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5266341551 Email the show! TheRageMachine@gmail.com RSSubscribe! http://feeds.feedburner.com/rage Send a voicemail! http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/TheRageMachine Visit the Film Geek! http://thefilmgeek.blogspot.com Less

Well, someone’s a little gassy tonight, aren’t they? On the agenda: “a tidal wave of correspondence”, a veritable backlash over Spike’s comments on the Bond franchise last week, which leads into the great man himself saying something he’s never said before… “It appears that I may have been wrong about this.” Another episode of the podcast-within-a-podcast from Brendan the Iremonger, a look at a traditionally liberal civil rights organisation standing firmly behind (but not standing widely beside) a troubled republican senator. Rudy Giuliani marches into “jolly old England” to tell those whacky English types how rubbish their ‘socialized’ heathcare system is. Because he knows all about it, having been in the country for fifteen minutes. Spike expounds on his own extensive experiences with both nationalised and private healthcare systems, which is better and why Guiliani is talking out of his cancerous prostate. Additionally; them foreigners is living longer, how a brown lawn can get you thrown down a flight of L.A. stairs, weird Spike and his multiple phobias and the state of Chernobyl. Less

On Friday, July 6th, we celebrated our Friday lunch hour with Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand on 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio. Returning guest Marchand became Mayor shortly after his last appearance in studio with Dan and is again seeking the “Belforti Bump” in order to win the office of U.S. Senate next November. Songs from the new Rush CD – “Snakes and Arrows” are interspersed in the backround, including “Far Cry”, “Malignant Narcissism”,”Hope” and “The Main Monkey Business”. Less

On November 23, 2006 I turned 37. I decided, somewhat foolishly, to record a long rambling diatribe. It was then edited around some songs that seemed to have no relation to what I was saying. For better or worse, a tradition was born. Less

Shownotes: Annie Lennox v The Rolling Stones v Rush (Go Home Productions) Mike Cupcake – Now That’s What I Call Mashup – Volume 1 All tracks above can be dowloaded via the website – link below. Less

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – July 4,2006 – Jamie Leigh and friends attend launch of space shuttle Discovery. In a majestic Independence Day liftoff, Discovery and its crew of seven blasted into orbit Tuesday on the first space shuttle launch in a year. NASA’s first-ever Fourth of July manned launch came after two weather delays and a new crack in foam insulation on the fuel tank. Shuttle managers said early video images showing small pieces of debris breaking away — and one even striking the shuttle — were not troubling. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said of the launch: “They don’t get much better than this.” Less