Listen Please!

THE Halloween Show has been up for about a week but just wanted to make a quick reminder to ya'll that it is up and you should listen! 

Also be sure to check out all the pics of the big time event!

LOVE,

Tick

Christmas is Coming

 . . . and how!

In Portland on the Night of November 4th, 2008

Fireworks in the sky.

Oh my oh my.

Cars honking on 39th.  

People buying Celebratory Pie.

We have a new president.

My oh my oh my 

read this --

Christians, i defy you to find me any word, statement or idea within our Constitution that is not in complete agreement with the very Word of God.  

and Founding Fathers, i defy you.  tell me why it's taken nearly 24 decades for We the People to start acting like Civilized Americans?  or are we?

people, we go into a time of tremendous overhaul.

those who are True will go Free.

much of our History rests on bloodied backs of a People, stolen in the night and carried over sea.  to be sold as Moving Parts for a Terrible Machine.

and those who are True will go Free.

a Man's Person is his Person.  Can be owned by no other Man.  both Men can however be owned by a Woman.

   

Enlightenment gives the Idea.  Desperation provides the Need.  you'll never guess which one hurts worse.

a truly enlightened old man named Alexander said to me once, "I don't care what color the president is.  I just want a damn good one."

God Bless You and Happy New President

Love, 

Tick Talk Radio Shop

 

Spooktastic

To everyone who attended our Halloween Night show, thank you. It was awesome. Down South Sally performed. So did the Devil (dressed like Pocahantas) played flawlessly by Diane Uy. Jeff Munger and Jambo Land were there. And we even were able to talk to the Ghost of the Purple Barn, his name is Don. Great guy.
Tick's Tacky Spooktacular will be available in about a week for podcast. A preemptive round of applause for Linda on that one! And can we also clap for Lindsay and her skinned pet rabbit, Tara and her six-pack of NC Brown and of course Angie who's costume entitled "www.myspace.com/angie" won her an authentic U.S. fifty-dollar bill.

And how great was that party afterward? Good grief (wiping sweat from my brow). I kept looking for "Bluto" Blutarski and Frank the Tank. Unfortunately they didn't show up, but everyone else in SE Portland did. It was glorious.

Then in one final swipe of awesomeness, I wake up Saturday morning (2 p.m.) and my house has been cleaned. What the . . .??!! Thank You Don the Ghost of the Purple Barn. Seriously, he cleaned my home. Not kidding. He even left a note.

Love,
Tick

I once considered myself a musician. until i saw bryan free at tonic. good god.
(and please, a round of applause for jeremiah on existential drums.)

Listen to TTRS's NEW Show - 14!

Featuring local Portland artist G-pak!

ibiscuits and more!

Killer Hipsters on Rampage in Portland, OR!

Coming Soon . . .

--A Little Peace and Quiet--

new from kumbionix

church and state - thoughts on a plastic window - by an ex wise man

insanity strikes the people
and they scatter in tragedy
only to become aware years later

the solemn few.

a government maintains order
in a society where worship is free.

to ensure proper production,
man's religion
is best kept seperate from
man's government.

understand?

Modern Guilt by Beck

Here's my opinion:

It's Beck saying, "You may think I'm a little weird but, hey look, I can be normal too."

It's grainy and a little rough around some of its edges.

It speaks.

It's actually real rock n' roll (something of a rarity).

It's definitely not Beck's best. Of course, I really don't think we've heard Beck's best yet.

It's a decently entertaining, well-put-together album (also something of a rarity these days).

That's all.

Tick

august is for parties.

Here are two parties we will be at and/or are throwing.

Good tunes, good times, free drinks, and lots of dancing.

Be there or be square.

dear america

THINK!

love,

tick

Tick Talk: Back with a vengeance.

(Pictured: Jeff Munger. Photo Credit: Joseph Piacentini)

The Tick Talk Radio Shop is happy to be back in the saddle again.

Show 12 is posted and ready for your listening enjoyment.

The following episode may (or may not) contain: Jeff Munger, sextual texting ("sexting"), Aaron's job interview, 5-hour energy drinks, and more.

Take a listen, let us know how you like it.

We've missed you, and we sure as hell hope you've missed us.

Also: See below for Aaron's jobinterview recorded via "INTELIVISION" and expedited to Youtube.

Mucho Gusto,
Tick

Aaron's Interview

And We're BACK.....

Welcome Back to the Tick Talk Radio Shop. After 6 weeks of silence, Tick Talk and crew joined together this Saturday, August 9, 2008 with musician Jeff Munger and made Show 12.
It was a blast. A reminder to all of us at Tick Talk that 6 weeks is way to long.
So with that said the show will be up within the next few days -listen listen listen, oh yeah and enjoy!


It is good to be back - we missed you all!

Love,
Tick

Check Out:
Jeff Munger's Myspace
Tick Talk's new Myspace

Age

As I get older, my showers get hotter but my heart gets colder.
I have to keep reminding myself - Age is just the number of years
someone has been living.

Tick

The great Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at 89. His work which detailed (often quite humorously) the Soviet labor camp system include 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' and the three-part masterpiece 'The Gulag Archipelago.' Solzhenitsyn was truly one of the world's last great writers.

ALL THINGS MAY
SOME THINGS WILL
ANYONE CAN

but who lord... who?

(or is it whom?)

tick

Does is make me a bad person that I was rooting for The Joker?
Or was I rooting for The Joker because I'm a bad person?
Hard to say.
Oh well, Chaos for Chaos's sake.
Let the people with plans figure it out.

Irony -
Hero dies so the rest of us can live
long enough to become
villains.

now go to bed

Guess what

THE DARK KNIGHT OPENS TODAY.

seeing it tonight.
very excited.

your friend,
tick

I have three items of business. They are as follows:

1.) Anyone can lend a hand. But a friend knows when to leave you alone.

2.) On this show, anything goes. Which means it might get dirty. Someone might cuss. Or heaven forbid, pretend to be naked. (Oh my, look how far we've fallen) So I say to anyone this podcast may have offended or hurt in any way... sorry.

3.) I had a third item, but I'm tired now and I forgot what it was. If you have a problem with that, maybe we should step outside. That way I can smoke while we talk about it. I hate smoking indoors. I also hate smoking out of doors. To be honest I just hate smoking. And yet I smoke. Truly vexing is it not?

Now Playing

Now it's a bit confusing, so here's how it works. We have made eleven episodes of The Tick Talk Radio Shop and seven of them are available for your listening ecstasy. This means there are three shows which are not available. (Simple deductive reasoning). They are: shows One, Two and Three. Episode Two was a recording mishap if I remember right. And as for why One and Three are not available, that I couldn't say. (Linda do you know why that is?) I bet she does. And I bet Linda's fixing the problem even as I write this. Except that Linda is at work... Which brings us to shows four through eleven. They are numbered and listed in this order: 1: Show 11 ... 2: Show 10 ... 3: Show 9 ... and so on and so forth all the way back to our 4th show which is listed last at number 8. Also, it is impossible to fast forward through our show. This I'm sorry for. And if you can't deal with it, don't listen. But tell your friends to.

Love,
Tick

Real quick - Who dated the most people. Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City or Jerry on Seinfeld?

VALERI LOPEZ: THIS SAT!

I first saw Valeri in the front bar at the Hawthorne Theater. I had some good friends playing the main stage that night, but the bands that played before my friends were insufferable...so I decided to wait it out in the bar.

My sister and I sat in the dark, dingy bar and drank Sasparillas. Not the fake rootbeer version, but REAL sasparilla - the kind that makes your throat burn, your cheeks pink, and your stomach warm.

There were maybe 15 people in the bar.

And on the little stage, in the corner of the room was a bright looking girl with a banjo. I was immediately interested. She played the banjo! And she played it well! Her songs were beautiful & interesting and there was something about her that I just liked.
After the show, I introduced myself and Valeri was kind enough to give me one of her CD's. I've been listening to the CD and patiently waiting to have her on the radio show.

And guess what?
Saturday is the day!

Ms Valeri Lopez will be playing some of her folky folk folk banjo tunes for our happy little ears this Saturday.

You know the drill....big purple house, some pizza, some beer. Etc. Oh! Except this Saturday we record at 4. Come one, come all. This promises to be a great show.

- Tick

SHOW 8 IS READY FOR YOUR EARS.

The show has been up now for a few days and we JUST got around to telling you about it (terribly sorry about that).

Show 8 includes:

Gregory Miles Harris

Hukum (Indian classical music)

The Top 12 Songs to Torture To (Features Joey as our Torture Volunteer)

So listen up! And, of course. Enjoy. 

Artist MP3's and photos will be up shortly.

Love,
Tick 

To My Many Dear Moms

If it weren't for you moms, I would never have been.   And to all the other mothers I say, when the glorious day comes when we are all perfect and awesome and harmonious and existing in our own states of nirvana and self-actualization, we will owe it all to you. Thank you.

Love, 

Tick

The Naked Episode

As Tick Talk pioneers his way through the already-over-crowded-mostly-mediocre-post-industrial digital wasteland called the web, he likes to find ways to make things more interesting for his friends. Au-natural made the most sense, especially here in totally-organic-do-whatever-you-want-just-don't-forget-to-recycle-your-PBR-cans Portland.

The Naked Episode of Tick Talk Radio Shop is available now.
Tick Talk Radio Shop - the world's first animated radio show.
Tick Talk Radio Shop - Breaking Ground, Breaking Hearts, Breaking Bread... since day one.

the thirst of all men is for honor

and true honor is only earned by the man who excels

at what he loves to do

happy seventh show

love,

tick

luck number seven

Tick Talk says-

"Saturday afternoon is a good 

     time to take it all off."

Tick Talk also says-

"Finding yourself is easy!"

And Tick's official stance is

"Trashman is a very bad man.

Not funny.  Not funny at all."

Featuring the partial reunion of

Francesca Baby as they perform

          Reconsummate.

Listen to the Naked Episode of 

Tick Talk Radio Shop

available online in a few days

feel free to comment.  

  

the too-hot hipsters and the big squirt

sunday afternoon, blue sky, brisk.  i'm walking up 39th avenue to the fine grind.  in my left hand is a cigarette and in my right, a big bottle of ruby red squirt.  i see about a block or two down the street and coming toward me, one of those very typical, very attractive, always pissed-off-looking, portland hipster couples - tight black, slicked back but messed up and in boots.  and i panic.  when this hipster couple sees me, they're gonna think i'm just a guy who walks around smoking cigarettes and drinking squirt.  but i'm not.  i know it looks like i am that guy, what with the cigarette and the big squirt.  but no.  i'm more.  i'm... well i may be a lot of things but some dirtbag out on the street smoking and drinking squirt, i'm not.  and then they walk past.  and... you know what hit me about ten seconds later.  "dave, you are a guy who smokes and drinks squirt.  I mean look at you, dave.  you're smoking and drinking that ruby red squirt.  why would you want to hide that from people?"  I'm so crazy.

    

Show 6: Posted therefore Listen

Artist Stuff: March 29th and April 12

Check out all the rad shit our artists from the past two shows have offered us.

Michael Wassman and Fred Chalenor - they played an amazing show March 29th
Listen to their Live performance.

Check out more by Michael Wassman - www.myspace.com/oden
and Fred Chalenor - www.slowmusicproject.com

Blake Chamberlin and Andrew Kirk - both amazing artists thanks for coming April 12th

Check out: Blake's Photos

Andrew Kirk's Art:

one sunny spring saturday

Our sixth show happened Saturday, April 12th - perhaps the most beautiful afternoon so far this year.  This resulted in our live audience being... not quite as... present as in weeks past.  Oh well, what're ya gonna do?

Blake Chamberlain came down and talked about his photography and the PDX skate scene.   (A video we produced of Blake skating will be available on this site in a few days.)  Andrew Kirk brought in some of his scultpures and his ever-present political activism.  He even seized the moment to offer up his official endorsement to Illinois Senator Barak Obama.  As of this posting, Obama was unavailable for comment.  

Grandma Erma stopped by to say hi which is always nice.  

And we had live coverage of Mother Superior's record-breaking gun-jump and swan song. Leaping into public consciousness in the 1968 Beatles song Happiness is a Warm Gun, Mother Superior has been  jumping guns ever since.  Now she holds the record for most guns jumped in a single bound and Tick Talk's very own Natasha Kettlebright was there.  

An altogether different show for us, it was definitely one of the most fun to make.   

And keep checking back.  The show itself and its various videos should be up in a few days.  And listen to our other shows.  They're over there in that weird little Podomatic Box.  

Our next show is April 26th.  And anyone who doesn't come or at least listen on-line, will be hunted down and killed.

"The Boss" loves him some Lezzies!

On Friday, March 28th I went to see Bruce Springsteen.

The show was fantastic (of course) despite a very long hour + wait until the show began (apparently due to some technical difficulties).

Overall, the 58 year old rocker from Neptune City, NJ still knows how to rock an arena especially Portland, Oregon's very own Rose Garden. The only issue I have with the guy is that he still calls Oregon "Oree-gone"...Bruce, you friggin' dated an Oregonian wouldn't you know how to pronounce Oregon correctly? Sheesh.

Anyway...like I said, the "Boss" put on a great show, but I find that the only two things I remember the most from that amazing night were these: while wandering in the sea of people to find the right enterance to the floor (yes, we were on the floor) I saw a woman walking towards me in a white baby-tee with these words on it:

"Lesbians love (really it was a picture of a heart) Bruce Springsteen"

I instantly fell in love. With the shirt. Of course.

That shirt was stuck in my mind all night (...that shirt looked awesome on that woman by the way, but I must focus...). It wasn't until the end of the night during one of Bruce's encore songs that I was officially blown-away. I think I belted out the loudest scream I could muster that night after I had heard what he sang.

At one point in the song, "American Lands" he made a slight change to the lyrics,

"the Blacks, the Irish, Italians, THE LESBIANS, and Jews"

I didn't know, until later after reading a blog about the show that night, that a group of lesbians (and probably the cute one with the shirt I saw earlier) were all apparently in the front row holding up a sign that read, like the shirt, "Lesbians love Bruce Springsteen"!

Damn. I may have missed the lesbians that night, but I didn't miss that little shout out from the "Boss"! (Sorry, Martha, I tried to get Bruce to do a shout-out to Kiki, Mata Hari, and Ferocious Eagle, but I couldn't get his attention -- I should have made a sign like my fellow lesbians).

But I think he just likes him some damn hot lezzies! What guy wouldn't, really?

Thanks Boss. I love you with all of my little lesbian heart.

Debra

No. 5

Thank you Michael and Fred, your music was awesome.  And Jambo Land too.  And everyone who came and Linda, Deb, Lindsay, Aaron and Ike.  And Coop for being our muse for the night.

Deep breath........

OK, I have to take a nap.  Bye for now.

Dave

our sixth show should surely shock you

Sculptor : Andrew Kirk 

He makes rad sculptures out of old bicycle chains.   Stay tuned for more information on his upcoming shows.

Photographer: Blake Chamberlin

Also a local of Portland Oregon Blake is a photographer of art, nature and skateboarding.
Check out some of his Photography below as well as @:
-Shrunken Head Skateboards -- www. shrunkenheadskateboards. com
-M and M Skateboards -- www. mandmskateboard. com

Listen and See Show 4 - March 15

Listen to Show 4

Never Judge a Who By Its Movie

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss is one of my all-time favorite stories.   And let it be said I rarely walk out of movies.  Last night was an exception.

Joey Breaks Another Record

The shortest amount of time he's ever quite smoking - six hours. Way to go Joey!!!

Meg B-A-I-E-R

The first time I saw Meg perform was at some little bar/pool pub on Belmont. I can't remember the name of the place. All I can remember was sitting there with my mouth kinda open, shocked that I was seeing someone this talented and all it had cost me was four-fifty for my Newcastle Brown. Not to sound poetic, but yes to sound a little poetic, Meg Baier's music sounds like the broken heart of rock n roll mended. Check her out at megbaier.com or at www.myspace.com/megbaier.


Listen: Redwood

The 51-Second Cigarette

Joey Piacentini took his last drag Saturday afternoon.  And he did it at record speed.  His previous time, for smoking a complete cigarette was a minute, forty.  Now it's 51 seconds and that's fast!  

Show 3 March 1 PICTURES

Thanks Jeremy for not only taking pictures but taking amazing pictures! Enjoy.

Tara Williamson on Third Show

Thank you Tara so much for playing on Saturday. And for everyone else, wait til you hear this girl!


Listen: Winded



Tara Williamson's Myspace

" said, wonderhead.

"Positive thinking.
The rock hopes it will float.
Maybe it could if it didnt take so long to learn
how to get out of the boat.

Built on the shoulders
of men who would sooner die than give up.
too bad they couldn't have had a say
in what we bought with their blood.", said wonderhead.

www.myspace.com/wonderhead

Show and Tell: February 16, 2008

Andre Blackburn Nelson


Listen: Fly Solo
Listen: All Ready There



Andre's Myspace










Down South Sallie


Listen: Me and You
Listen: Song 2




Down South Sallie's Myspace

shocking, just shocking!!

We made our second show on Saturday.  And it'll take a couple days to edit and should be available in a couple of days.  Andre Blackburn Nelson came and played a few of his songs for us as well as Down South Sally.  Thank you very very very very very very very very very much to both of them, in as much as they came through in a huge way at the last minute.  All told, it was pretty good... and... fun. Really very good and pretty and fun.  And evidently people enjoy drinking tequila.  We did a taste test of Jose Cuervo, 1800, Hornitos and my personal favorite, Patron.  The results were shocking, just shocking!!  

Coffee -- It's The Only Way To Keep Me Going All Day

Coffee always makes me have to pee and I now, of course, desperately need to pee.

Yes, peeing sounds so wonderful to me right now -- it really does. But, unfortunately, it requires so much effort. The thought of having to move from the couch to the bathroom sounds like too much work.

Hmm...I guess I'll just keep drinking this coffee until I absolutely, positively cannot hold my pee in any longer. Sure I have an abundance of energy now -- thanks to the coffee! -- to easily perform this simple task, but I lack the desire or drive to actually get up and pee. It's kind of strange, I know. So instead of using this abundance of energy to get up and pee, I've decided to use it to type this random blog entry instead.

Obviously blogging about how much I desperately need to pee while chosing not to do so is more important than getting my lazy ass off the couch to actually go pee -- it's good to know that I have my priorities straight.

Two things:

First - Is there anyone alive who honestly thinks email fwds are funny at all, or even worth looking at?  I'm just curious, because I'm absolutely not one of them.  In fact, I'm the opposite. 

Secondly - I saw The Savages and I really appreciated it.  In my opinion, as far as Philip Seymour Hoffman goes, he never does wrong.  But Laura Linney!   She ruins movies for me.  She almost ruined The Truman Show.  I don't know what it is about her.  She just rubs me the wrong way. But not this time.  For the first time ever, she was my favorite thing about The Savages.  

I'm trying to remember who directed it....  oh yeah, Tamara Jenkins.  Didn't she also direct Fugitive Love?  I think so, but I'm not sure.

Show and Tell: Saturday, February 2

Down South Sallie


Listen: Song 1
Listen: Song 2
Listen: Song 3
Listen: Song 4
Listen: Song 5

Down South Sallie Myspace





Jambo Land


Listen: Song 1
Listen: Song 2
Listen: Song 3
Listen: Song 4
Listen: Song 5
Listen: Song 6

Jambo Land Myspace

Visual Tasting: The First Show

Click to Listen to The First Show

The First Show

Listen: The First Show

Review of the new Rambo movie

really bad

one down

We made our first show this afternoon. It'll take us a few days to figure out exactly how to get it online, but we will. Down South Sally and Jambo Land were both great. You can find them on Myspace by searching for "Jambo Land" or "Down South Sally." And thank you so much to Linda's roommate Mark for filming it for us. Dude came down at the last minute when our own camera ceased to work. He saved all our lives. Or anyway, he filmed our show for us and that was nice. The next show is Saturday February 16. Can you distinguish between Coca Cola and Pepsi. I'll bet you can't. I used to think I could. I was wrong.

The Slit Convo

What is Tick Talk Radio Shop?

It's a show and tell for grown-ups. Let's say you have some unrecognized talent, some undiscovered genius, or you can do a trick, or you know a really good joke, whatever you got, come be on our show. Hey maybe you have a birth mark underneath your left butt cheek that looks just like John F Kennedy... Great! We wanna see it. Seriously.

Our email address is ticktalk@ticktalkradio.com.

The Tick Talk Radio Shop is recorded every other Saturday at a big purple house in South-East Portland.