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Subterranea is the light at the End of the World.
It’s a two-hour left-hook of bitter optimism.
It’s the fresh crawlspace in a burning building.
Subterranea is the sound of an envelope carrying good news.
It’s the megaphone of silence in the din of media mendacity.
Subterranea is the organic fertilizer pinched in the middle of
LA’s astroturf airwaves.
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At the intersection of Tuesday Night and Wednesday Morning lies "Subterranea".
Broadcasting across Los Angeles, "Subterranea" is a one-of-a-kind radio show built on a foundation of spoken word, poetry, and soundscapes. For a hundred and twenty minutes, your host, Matt, free-associates across themes, rhythms and melodies to create a show unlike any other in Southern California.
Recorded performances by writers like Kerouac and Ginsberg, Bukowski, Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, Gil Scott-Heron, Wanda Coleman and John Sinclair are all mixed together with music from the likes of Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie, Howlin’ Wolf, Steve Earle, Jolie Holland and the Eels.

Whether you’re in your car or at home, you’re always in the depths of "Subterranea". Make yourself comfortable.

KSCN 88.5 FM / Streaming at: kcsn.org
Tuesday Night / Wednesday Morning at midnight (Pacific).

My Interests



If you're an artist, then spend 9 minutes and watch this.
(And ignore the clueless, primping interview girl...)

R. Moose Jackson, ladies and gentlemen.

It's a wonderful age, this Information Age. Totally better than the Bronze Age. Rarest of rare video coagulating on YouTube... Lord Buckely putting down his Satchmo impression...

God, I love YouTube...

Too beautiful, in uncountable ways...

Carl Jung speaking on the apprehension-filled dreams of the 20th Century... "The only real danger that exists is man himself."

Check out this incredible footage of Eugene V. Debs from 1904. Not the original soundtrack, obviously, but sounds like one of Debs' speeches on acoustic wax cylinder. Now it's a hundred years later and Capital has achieved worldwide organization and resource control with the G8 and World Bank while Labor remains fragmented, powerless. And humans are still only economic resources to be devalued and outsourced wherever the price is best.

"Globalization" sounds so positive, huh?

Like, dig some rare video of Lord Buckley rappin' it w/ Groucho...



Sometimes YouTube is like finding God's holy boogers under the pew of cyberspace.

What, you wouldn't drink God's tinkle? Heretic.

"Pull My Daisy".

When Thomas "Fats" Waller was 14 his mother died in bed. She was so huge the fire department had to cut open the wall of their 4th floor Harlem apartment and lift her body out with a crane.

But then they dropped her.

Splat.

It may have affected him, no?

One never knows, do one?

I'd like to meet:

People with Shit to say.

If you got the Shit in MP3, email it to me - [email protected].

If you got the Shit on a CD, send it to:

Subterranea
c/o KCSN-FM
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8312


Movies:


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Television:

Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
TV is the scourge of civilization.

Heroes:

Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, Tom Waits, Jack Kerouac, Woody Guthrie, The Coen Brothers, The Marx Brothers, Kurt Vonnegut, William James, Carl Jung, Charlie Leeds, Raymond Carver, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Chuck Niles, The Shadow, Harry Lime, Welmon Sharlhorne.

My Blog

Subterranea Oct 23/24 - Pledge Night!

Some words, some music, and plenty of begging for cash.  Welcome to public radio!  P.S. send money, please.  ..>   Performer Title Album     Mitch...
Posted by Subterranea on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:13:00 PST

Subterranea Sept 25/26

  WORDS FROM: Ken Nordine, Ron Whitehead, Ernie Cline, Mitch Hedberg, Harlan Ellison, Joel Lipman, Andrei Codrescu, Billy Collins.  MUSIC FROM: Dvorak, Leonard Cohen, Spike Jones, Marianne F...
Posted by Subterranea on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:49:00 PST

Subterranea Sept. 18/19

WORDS FROM: Charles Bukowski, Lord Buckley, Mitch Hedberg, Shel Silverstein, Harlan Ellison, Ken Nordine, John Sinclair, Moose Jackson.  MUSIC FROM:  The Real Tuesday Weld, Dave Van Ronk, Th...
Posted by Subterranea on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:24:00 PST

Subterranea - Sept 11, 2007

WORDS FROM: Ken Nordine, Spoke, Tom Waits, Lord Buckley, Harlan Ellison, Jessica Radcliffe.  MUSIC FROM:  Regina Spektor, Schatzy, TMBG, Irving Aronson, Ivor Cutler, Jimmy Rogers, Ella & Louis, Fats W...
Posted by Subterranea on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:26:00 PST

Subterranea Sept 04/05 - Labor Day

  WORDS FROM: Utah Phillips, Babs Gonzales, George Carlin, Charles Bukowski, Ken Nordine, Woody Guthrie.  MUSIC FROM:  James Booker, The Fens, Tom Waits, Ry Cooder, Faith Petric, Fats W...
Posted by Subterranea on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:03:00 PST

Subterranea Aug 28/29 - New Orleans Two Years Later

WORDS FROM: Chuck Perkins, Moose Jackson, John Sinclair.  MUSIC FROM:  Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Schatzy, Dr. John, Papa Mali, Jessica Radcliffe, The Meters, Dan Kahn, Andy J. Forest, Davis, T...
Posted by Subterranea on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:24:00 PST

Subterranea Aug 07/08

WORDS FROM:  Ken Nordine, Mitch Hedberg, Michael C. Ford, David Berman, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, Noam Chomsky.  MUSIC FROM: The Fens, Tom Waits, Dave Frishberg, Sophie Tucker, Papa Mal...
Posted by Subterranea on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:41:00 PST

Subterranea July 31 / Aug 1

WORDS FROM: Lord Buckley, Utah Phillips, Ernie Cline, Rich Ferguson, Jerry Stahl, William S. Burroughs, Bill Hicks, Jello Biafra, John Sinclair, Ken Nordine.  MUSIC FROM: The Fens, Davis, Re...
Posted by Subterranea on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:21:00 PST

Subterranea July 24/25

WORDS FROM:  Ken Nordine, Ernie Cline, William S. Burroughs, Mustafio, Lord Buckley, Tex Townes, Bill Hicks.  MUSIC FROM:  Wilco, Nina Simone, Schatzy, Patsy Cline, The Mavericks, Lee W...
Posted by Subterranea on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST

Subterranea July 17/18

WORDS FROM:  William S. Burroughs, T-Bone Burnett, John Trudell, Rich Ferguson, Bill Hicks, Utah Phillips, Spoke, Ken Nordine, Mitch Hedberg, Jessica Radcliffe, Jello Biafra.  SONGS FROM:&nb...
Posted by Subterranea on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:00 PST