Waste Radio
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWaste Radio is the audio arm of Waste Division, an art collective dedicated to the proliferation of independent (and dope!) art in the midst of all this fucking garbage.
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W.B. Appendix 004 - Chris Tsekouras & Eric Toennis
February 06, 2019 17:24 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBWaste correspondent Eric Toennis sat down with his friend Chris Tsekouras to talk about their road trip from Eugene, OR to Billings, MT for Julia Louis-Dreyfest last August. They tell of their experience volunteering for the fest, as well as attending concerts and a comedy show there. Dreyfest also inspired these guys to pack a drumset back from MT and start jamming themselves. Music in this episode features Dreyfest vets, Lung, from Cincinnati, OH. The track is called "All The King's Horse...
Waste Books Episode 12: The Dispossessed
January 30, 2019 02:49 - 2 hours - 145 MBJoin us this month as we discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's anarchist utopian space novel, The Dispossessed! Overview With all this talk about walls, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is a timely masterpiece for science fiction. Her novel chronicles the physicist Shevek who travels from the utopian but inhospitable planet of Anarres for the earthly Urras where the landscape is verdant but capitalism and hierarchy dominate society’s mores. Rather than present a fable filled with hyperspace trav...
W.B. Appendix 003 - A Naval Flight Officer & Phil Griffin
January 18, 2019 16:29 - 54 minutes - 62.3 MBWaste correspondent Phillip Griffin sat in a hot tub with an old friend who finds himself training to be a Naval Flight Officer, achieving the dream of flight he's had since he was a kid. They talk about flying, discipline, guns, and music in the latest episode of the Waste Books Appendices! Get the low-down on the up-high from this Grade-A Derelict Wastoid. Speaking of music, The track at the end of this is a demo called "Dry County" by the pilot himself. Graphic by Cooper Malin. For mor...
W.B. Appendix 003 - A Naval Flight Officer & Phil Griffin
January 18, 2019 16:29 - 54 minutes - 62.3 MBWaste correspondent Phillip Griffin sat in a hot tub with an old friend who finds himself training to be a Naval Flight Officer, achieving the dream of flight he's had since he was a kid. They talk about flying, discipline, guns, and music in the latest episode of the Waste Books Appendices! Get the low-down on the up-high from this Grade-A Derelict Wastoid. Speaking of music, The track at the end of this is a demo called "Dry County" by the pilot himself. Graphic by Cooper Malin. For mor...
W.B. Appendix 002 - Mary Kate Teske & Phil Griffin
January 12, 2019 02:15 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBMary Kate Teske is a woman of many talents. She's a photographer, graphic designer, web designer, videographer, musician, crocheter, talker, classic car maintainer... etc.etc.etc. In a word: she's dope! And she's doing a lot of stuff. To check out her work visit her Instagram or her website. Aaaaaaand to see her web design and other work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us wi...
W.B. Appendix 002 - Mary Kate Teske & Phil Griffin
January 12, 2019 02:15 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBMary Kate Teske is a woman of many talents. She's a photographer, graphic designer, web designer, videographer, musician, crocheter, talker, classic car maintainer... etc.etc.etc. In a word: she's dope! And she's doing a lot of stuff. To check out her work visit her Instagram or her website. Aaaaaaand to see her web design and other work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us wi...
W.B. Appendix 001 - Cooper Malin & Phil Griffin
January 06, 2019 23:46 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis is a new addition to our show & feed, a series of mini-episodes that feature one-on-one conversations between the Waste Books doods, orrrrr other cools peeps we manage to sit down with. Cooper and Phil catch up on their non-WB projects, including Coop's new ventures into graphic design commission work and Phil's training as a professional musician. Topics include social media & self promotion, conspiracy theories, our reading practices (or lack thereof), and of course the extracurricula...
W.B. Appendix 001 - Cooper Malin & Phil Griffin
January 06, 2019 23:46 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis is a new addition to our show & feed, a series of mini-episodes that feature one-on-one conversations between the Waste Books doods, orrrrr other cools peeps we manage to sit down with. Cooper and Phil catch up on their non-WB projects, including Coop's new ventures into graphic design commission work and Phil's training as a professional musician. Topics include social media & self promotion, conspiracy theories, our reading practices (or lack thereof), and of course the extracurricula...
Waste Books Ep. 11 - Babel 17
December 25, 2018 21:17 - 2 hours - 161 MBJoin Dan, Cooper, Eric, Phil, and Jordan as we discuss Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17! Music by Grant Jones, with the track "Something for Me." Check out his album Nighttime Friends on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get music. Check out more of our work at waste-division.org, and if you'd like to get on our list to receive monthly art packages please visit our Patreon page! Produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.
Waste Books Ep. 10 - Dune (Part Two)
October 27, 2018 18:19 - 2 hours - 143 MBJoin us this this episode as we discuss the second half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune! Overview Ten years after Lord of the Rings, twelve years before Star Wars, and nineteen years before David Lynch’s godawful adaptation, Dune holds true as perhaps the greatest science fiction epic of all time. Frank Herbert’s masterwork of a novel (and five sequels) realizes through the mythos and mystique of the planet Arrakis (a.k.a. Dune) the fertile intersection of ecological, colonialist, fem...
Waste Books Ep. 9 - Dune (Part One)
April 04, 2018 16:31 - 2 hours - 156 MBJoin us this time as we discuss the first half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune. Overview Ten years after Lord of the Rings, twelve years before Star Wars, and nineteen years before David Lynch’s godawful adaptation, Dune holds true as perhaps the greatest science fiction epic of all time. Frank Herbert’s masterwork of a novel (and five sequels) realizes through the mythos and mystique of the planet Arrakis (a.k.a. Dune) the fertile intersection of ecological, colonialist, feminist, Ma...
Waste Books Ep. 8 - Frankenstein
February 07, 2018 22:15 - 1 hour - 125 MBJoin us this month as we discuss Mary Shelley's seminal sci-fi/horror novel, Frankenstein. Overview It was one fateful summer night in the year of 1816 that young Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin found herself near Lake Geneva in the company of fellow romantic authors Lord Byron and her future husband Percy Shelley. Due to the unpleasant nature of that year’s summer, they were confined to Byron’s villa for much of their time there, reading German ghost stories and exciting their imaginations. Th...
Waste Books Ep. 7 - White Noise
December 17, 2017 16:40 - 1 hour - 200 MBJoin Eric, Phil, Dan, and Cooper as they discuss Don DeLillo's spectacular novel, White Noise. Overview Published in 1985, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a college professor who teaches Hitler Studies at the college on the hill in the quaint little town of Blacksmith. Babette, his fourth wife (by his fifth marriage), and a collection of their children live a life characterized by trips to the supermarket, cycles of laundry, and time spent in front of the television. After a m...
Waste Books Ep. 6 - Be Here Now
October 19, 2017 14:07 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBJoin Phil, Wendy, Eric, Dan, and Jordan this month as they talk about the trip that is Be Here Now, by Baba Ram Das. Overview In 1967, a disillusioned Harvard professor named Richard Albert journeyed to the foothills of the Himalayas to seek a spiritual solace the West failed to provide. Originally a lecturer in the field of psychology, Albert travelled to Mexico with fellow professor Timothy Leary, (of LSD fame) experimenting with then unacknowledged psilocybin mushrooms and aided Leary i...
Waste Radio: Richard Dreyfest Interviews Richard Dreyfuss
August 07, 2017 15:22 - 23 minutes - 27.2 MBNOTE: This fest no longer associates with Richard due to his alleged sexual misconduct, but we did interview him before anything came to light. We’ve got a lot to share with you about the 5th annual, all-ages, D-I-Y Richard Dreyfest, August 11th and 12th at eight venues across Downtown Billings. In this episode, you’ll hear interviews with some of the Montana-based and out-of-state musicians, visual artists, poets, and comedians performing at this 2-day event, along with an extra delux...
Waste Radio: Richard Dreyfest Interviews Richard Dreyfuss (Teaser)
August 04, 2017 14:51 - 2 minutes - 3.07 MBNOTE: This fest no longer associates with Richard due to his alleged sexual misconduct, but we did interview him before anything came to light. This Sunday, we’ve got a podcast coming out that will feature interviews with bands, comedians, visual artists, and poets who are part of the upcoming, 5th annual Richard Dreyfest. We’re sharing tracks from some of the three dozen bands playing this two-day, all-ages, DIY event. Those tracks will be available for you to stream, or download so ...
Waste Books Ep. 5 - A Wild Sheep Chase
June 19, 2017 21:01 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBIn this episode we talk about Haruki Murakami's novel, A Wild Sheep Chase. Overview “The thing is you’re looking for something two-dimensional and not quite real. It never lasts. But you can’t expect something unreal to last anyway, can you?” The ordinary, desultory, and nameless protagonist of Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase is not the character one immediately wants to identify with. At times incorrigible, mostly helpless, and constantly at a loss for understanding his farrago of a ...
Waste Books Ep. 4 - Watt
May 20, 2017 19:08 - 1 hour - 106 MBIn this episode we discuss Samuel Beckett's oddball novel, Watt. Overview Be prepared for Watt. Few novelists find the ability (or gall) to include the syncopated musical notation of three croaking frogs or a two-page description of the twenty ways four objects in a room are positioned. There are sentences written backwards, a man who eats the same meal every day, and an unseen dog that has its origins explained for longer than any other scene in the novel. This unseen dog’s story begins t...
Waste Books Ep. 3 - No Country for Old Men
April 05, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBIn this episode we talk about Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, relating it to the Coen Brothers' film rendition and existentialism. Overview The highway that is No Country for Old Men gets you lost even though the two-lane blacktop never deviates in direction. It’s just that that first wrong turn screwed everything up and turning back now is as impossible as turning back time itself. For those who’ve seen the Coen Brothers film, the novel No Country for Old Men is just as blood-s...