WFMU: Music Of Mind Control with Micah: Playlist from December 24, 2019

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:01pm mariano: Ooh, heard this was gonna be a good one, perfect for Xmas Eve!
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm dale: strapping in to have my soul saved.
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: Happy entirely xtian holiday in which elves and flying reindeer bring toys to the tree inside your house.
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm Kat in Chicago: Oh hell yes
	♥ 6:02pm Mr. Pumpy: Yes! I see the light!!!
	💆 ♥ 6:02pm ultradamno: Just alright, don't get above your raisin', JC.
	💆 ♥ 6:02pm Kat in Chicago: This song always seemed like a rather tepid endorsement of the Son o'God.
	💆 ♥ 6:03pm Kevin-san: I took the Teen Challenge... and failed!
	💆 ♥ 6:03pm ultradamno: Now Baphomet, that guy is super groovy.
	♥ 6:05pm mariano: And let's not forget Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth.
	♥ 6:05pm common: Yes. And hello
	💆 ♥ 6:05pm ultradamno: The idea of presenting JHC as just a cat you can have a rap sesh with is a very 70s-The Way kind of thing.
	💆 ♥ 6:07pm ultradamno: Was this song always this long or is it a remix?
	♥ 6:07pm Mr. Pumpy: @Kat...the tepidness puts you at ease...then they bring out the heavy stuff!
	♥ 6:08pm Handy Haversack: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn.
	💆 ♥ 6:09pm ultradamno: "I don't care what they may say" and "just alright" is your retort?
	♥ 6:09pm mariano: Fhtagn, Brother Handy! Can I get a fhtagn, my fellow cultists?
	💆 ♥ 6:10pm dale: bo cephus?
	6:10pm Adam West Coaster: Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, my teen challenge was to get drunk at a bonfire party..and not burn down a large expanse of forest.
	6:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: EPIC !
	♥ 6:12pm mariano: Cephas was one of St Peter's names. Beyond that, I don't know.
	💆 ♥ 6:13pm ultradamno: 77, so right on the heels of the movie Car Wash...no reason to bring that up.
	6:14pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: One of the major dark sides of the cultural revolution stuff in the 1970s was too do a lot of creepy bait and switch stuff… Which is all very well documented on this show.
	💆 ♥ 6:15pm ultradamno: Like, for instance, attempted light jazz-pop
	6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Peter is associated with the Rock & the Cock ...& the Catholic Church. So - Rawk Out with yer Defrocked Out.
	💆 ♥ 6:16pm dale: i'll bet this group laid out a good spread - ambrosia, luncheon meat plate...
	💆 ♥ 6:17pm ultradamno: Average White Cartoon Disco Singers
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I suppose there's not enuff for a three hour Amway holiday...
	💆 ♥ 6:19pm ultradamno: Well, I kind of liked that staccato interlude...
	6:19pm JakeGould: The thing about these cultist: No true joy in their “art” and not true talent either. Something very high functioning about all of this music.
	6:20pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: Sounds like anime disco generic music from 1979.
	💆 ♥ 6:21pm ultradamno: It's Their Generation and they've got something to say (and a fuzzbox and they're going to use it)
	💆 ♥ 6:21pm dale: bass player is trying to save this one.
	💆 ♥ 6:23pm ultradamno: Ack! It's really bad Yes.
	💆 ♥ 6:23pm Kat in Chicago: Ouch
	6:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I was just thinking again about 'Tommy''s culpability in this whole phenomenon as a Whofan...
	💆 ♥ 6:24pm ultradamno: This seems like too much of a test of patience to bring people into the flock.
	♥ 6:26pm mariano: That's the thing that's always gotten me about contemporary Christian: it all sounds so bland and brainwashed. The 60s/70s Jesus freak stuff isn't the worst of it, but the stuff nowadays, it's like they listened to adult contemporary and decided it was too racy and needed a lobotomy and a chemical castration. Christianity used to produce some epic, era- and culture-defining music, and did so for centuries, usually blazing the trail in new musical developments. Now, CC artists basically imitate whatever's popular after giving it the same lobotomy-castration combo.
	💆 ♥ 6:27pm ultradamno: Somebody has a brand new pair of rollerskates, Jesus has a brand new key.
	6:28pm JakeGould: @mariano: Well, Gospel music has never sunk to as crappy levels as Christian music does. There’s definitely some white superiority in the world of modern Christianity and the entertainment it produces.
	💆 ♥ 6:29pm ultradamno: ...or the Mormon parody songs, that's where the insincerity level really takes over.
	6:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One has a moral imperative - one has a moral aspiration.
	💆 ♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: Are they hoping people on acid will hear this song and...I can FLY!
	💆 ♥ 6:30pm dale: hard not to feel the joy when you hear french horns and disco laser sound effects and these terrible vocalists.
	💆 ♥ 6:32pm ultradamno: Her christian music album is called Judy! Judy! Judy!? Kind of puts JC in the backseat.
	♥ 6:32pm mariano: @Jake: you're right, I should've pointed out I wasn't including gospel in contemporary Christian. I mean more the stuff that's interchangeable with some of those Scientology songs.
	💆 ♥ 6:32pm dale: this is pretty studio 54 and i like it.
	6:33pm JakeGould: @mariano: One major exception to the rule might be John Denver. I’ve liked him since I was a kid. Don’t even know if he’s Christian in his art and PoV but he seems it to me.
	💆 ♥ 6:34pm dale: micah, i hope you looked up the group meadow as i instructed you to in a divine fashion.
	💆 ♥ 6:34pm ultradamno: The Sands of Time by The Sands of Time from the album The Sands of Time I'm assuming on The Sands of Time Records
	6:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: '11 AM Sunday is our nation's most segregated hour'... - MLK
	💆 ♥ 6:36pm dale: whenever i search records the only xian stuff i find is a singing family in matching jumpsuits.
	6:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To go full circle - Gospel still an undercredited influence on Rawk.
	💆 ♥ 6:37pm ultradamno: He once attacked his bed in a chainsaw rampage, so probably a christian.
	💆 ♥ 6:40pm ultradamno: My grampa was a catholic racecar driver, the other was a pentecostal drunk.
	♥ 6:40pm mariano: @JakeGould: I remember at least some evangelicals when I was a kid railing against John Denver because of Rocky Mountain High and then appearing in Oh God!, with George Burns playing God (imagine that, a Jew playing the father of Jesus!). Especially because the villain was a televangelist (brilliantly played by Paul Sorvino). Of course, these were the same people behind "The Smurfs Are Evil" and "Tolkien teaches kids about witchcraft."
	♥ 6:41pm mariano: I like how you have "Day by Day" from "Godspell" in the background, micah.
	💆 ♥ 6:42pm ultradamno: What I remember was The Smurfs were dead, necrophiliac (which would seem fair if they were all dead) homosexuals.
	6:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tolkien a devout Catholic. Of course - just the plain sustained big collared polyester awfulness of the 1970s...
	💆 ♥ 6:43pm dale: this is not bad. i could hear kate wolf singing this.
	💆 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: That would probably bolster the Tolkien complaint for most of the people making it.
	♥ 6:45pm mariano: Yeah, there's the hardcore Pentecostal Jack-Chick crowd who think that the Catholic church is the Whore of Babylon and the Pope's the Antichrist. On the other hand, if the shoe fits... [I was raised Catholic so I can say it]
	💆 ♥ 6:47pm ultradamno: I can practically see the ugly peach colored floor length dress she's wearing with one of those long game show microphones.
	6:47pm JakeGould: The way I understand it, Catholics were “questionable” because they all ultimately follow the Pope… So you can never trust them because your local religious leader will never be able to control people who can ultimately be controlled by some guy in Italy.
	💆 ♥ 6:47pm dale: this could be poco.
	♥ 6:49pm Monica: hey there, micah. the perfect xmas eve show. thx for all that you do.
	6:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Had not thot of Jack Chick for a minute !
	💆 ♥ 6:50pm dale: hi mo. happy holiday to you.
	💆 ♥ 6:50pm Kat in Chicago: This is in fact highly Poco-esque
	💆 ♥ 6:51pm ultradamno: And that's why raising Jack Chick awareness is so important.
	♥ 6:52pm Monica: thx, dale.
	♥ 6:52pm micah: thanks monica. thanks everyone. happy christmas
	6:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chick Tracts were a thing - for reals !
	♥ 6:52pm mariano: @Jake: Yeah, there's the belief that the Pope is the successor of St Peter, praying to Mary (a female deity?!? Tut tut!), veneration of saints (or as Pentecostals see it: idolatry/paganism), needing a priest to absolve your sins, transubstantiation, all kinds of other stuff they find objectionable. @ultradamno: I've seen some really funny parodies of Chick over the years. I have kind of a soft spot for them, they're so over-the-top absurd. Pure spiritual pornography.
	💆 ♥ 6:52pm dale: are we talking chick tracts? i found one in a tire store waiting area last month and took it for it's artistic value. looked like it was illustrated by crumb.
	6:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pure spiritual pornography. Perfect.
	💆 ♥ 6:55pm ultradamno: I've still got a few, I know one is a 'dead guy being showed a movie of his life' scenario. Which just seems like a dick move on god's part. If you're sending me to hell just get on with it.
	♥ 6:56pm mariano: I love how at the end the worldly sinners in the stories are shown silhouetted in hellfire shrieking "YAAARRGHHH Satan is a LIAR!!!"
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm Kat in Chicago: Oh no
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm ultradamno: Oh, this hurts. It's like the newsie version.
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm dale: this is like the defranco family.
	💆 ♥ 6:57pm Kat in Chicago: What the world needs now is earplugs
	💆 ♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: Can they legally really call themselves "Musical"?
	💆 ♥ 6:58pm dale: kat - HA!!!!
	♥ 6:58pm mariano: Thanks micah, great chatting with everyone - have a merry and happy celebration of whatever you celebrate!
	💆 ♥ 6:58pm ultradamno: I just got this pedal contraption, I'm not real sure what it does.
	6:59pm Listener Robert: The mixture of styles in Chick Publications got very interesting once Chick hired other artists. As to Jesus freaks, I always considered them a subset of hippies. I don't know what about them would disqualify them from being considered hippies.
	💆 ♥ 6:59pm Kat in Chicago: Wah-wahing for Jesus!
	♥ 6:59pm Monica: great track.
	💆 ♥ 7:01pm ultradamno: I don't think Danny and Lynda were on speaking terms during the creative process leading up that recording.
	♥ 7:02pm mariano: Yeah, I might just have to get good and baked and find some Chick tracts online...
	💆 ♥ 7:02pm dale: nice melissa manchester vibe here
	💆 ♥ 7:03pm Kat in Chicago: I agree, Dale! I kinda like this one.
	💆 ♥ 7:03pm chresti: Hello, hoping to get some mind control.
	7:03pm JakeGould: @mariano: Thanks for the summary. People endlessly yammer about Judaism and Islam being “weird” but Christian sects and their beliefs are so thinly divisional it makes no sense to me. Anyway, Karen Lafferty seems to be the first person I am hearing tonight that has any talent.
	7:03pm Listener Robert: Anyway, I've had in mind for years the idea of doing ticket-book style tracts like Chick Publications, but for Odinism. And I don't mean ironically. And I would acknowledge Chick as inspiration...and I bet he'd be glad for it if he could see them. I'm not a good enough artist, but I could story board them with crude drawings and do the text writing for an artist to finish.
	💆 ♥ 7:04pm Kat in Chicago: Welcome chresti!
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm chresti: Hi Kat!
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm ultradamno: They're like Tijuana Bibles for people who think anyone creating or reading Tijuana Bibles is going to hell.
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm Kat in Chicago: Jake, I was raised Catholic and it took decades away from the Church before I realized how thoroughly weird and cultlike stuff like "transubstantiation" is.
	💆 ♥ 7:06pm Kat in Chicago: That first hour just flew by!
	7:08pm coomerado: Christ
	💆 ♥ 7:09pm dale: steelers wheel?
	♥ 7:09pm mariano: Oh wow, so it's a longer show, awesome! And I'd be totally into Odinist Chick tracts. @JakeGould: Anyone who thinks Xtianity doesn't have its weird side needs to have talk with me about some of the things I've seen over the years. @Kat: a mass is basically a ritual of ceremonial magic and divine cannibalism, in which (if you really believe), bread becomes God's flesh and wine becomes his blood. Metal AF if you ask me, lol!
	7:09pm Listener Robert: What the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches don't acknowledge openly is that they are doing magick. They may not achieve transubstantiation, but by getting people in the mood where they're willing to make it happen, especially when they chant together, they're probably calling down SOME kind of magick -- spelled with a "k" in the Crowleyan sense.
	💆 ♥ 7:09pm Kat in Chicago: stuck in the middle with Jesu
	💆 ♥ 7:10pm dale: kat - jinx.
	♥ 7:10pm mariano: @Rober: magickal jinx! (jincks?)
	7:11pm coomerado: Heavy traffic- Ralph bakshi
	💆 ♥ 7:11pm ultradamno: I don't think I've ever heard Steeler's Wheel sound this lost before, or have sub-David Gates vocals either, but then I'm not an aficionado.
	💆 ♥ 7:12pm Kat in Chicago: yeah the Stealers Wheel kind of evaporated when the vocals started, and morphed into The Dead vs. Bread
	💆 ♥ 7:12pm dale: it was just the opening riff there ultra.
	7:13pm coomerado: /x/
	7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Definition of Mythology : Someone else's Religion. The idea that any major Religion developed in a perfect bubble of isolation & historical literacy apart from others is obviously not supported by facts or logic.
	♥ 7:13pm Alex of Chicago: I had FMU on in the background, but then this set just sort of got its hooks into me. Feelin' it.
	7:14pm Fox: I snuck into a Christian rock show in Ocean Grove once. There was a screen behind the band, where the lyrics of the song were scrolling by with a bouncing ball, so EVERYONE could sing along. It was like a cross between a show and church.
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm ultradamno: Emmanuelles for Jesus!
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm Kat in Chicago: Alex, I like knowing there's at least one other Chicagoan who's spending their Xmas Eve listening to this instead of Mannheim Steamroller or something
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm dale: this is nice. abc movie of the weeknice.
	💆 ♥ 7:18pm ultradamno: In my head it's just Sylvia Kristel traveling to exotic new places, meeting new people and exposing them to the good news.
	7:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as George Carlin spoke of 'nice'...
	💆 ♥ 7:19pm Kat in Chicago: I just laughed out loud at that vision, ultra-d
	♥ 7:19pm mariano: @Kat: Oof. I lived in Omaha for a while back in the late 80s, and every. Friggin'. Year there was a big Mannheim Steamroller Xmas concert, and for a month or more every movie was preceded by some video of theirs with stop-motion toys.
	💆 ♥ 7:19pm ultradamno: I like the curl in his voice when he sang "and you'll be left behind"...and bless your hearts.
	♥ 7:20pm Alex of Chicago: Cheers to that, @kat. There must be a few more of us lurking out there.
	💆 ♥ 7:20pm dale: this needs a less milquetoast singer. good song.
	💆 ♥ 7:23pm ultradamno: You take a lot of wind out of the xtian sails when you take away the allegories and traffic more in abstract feels.
	💆 ♥ 7:26pm dale: did mary have joseph's class ring?
	♥ 7:28pm Alex of Chicago: this stuff is very sonically pleasing from the other room where you can't quite make out the lyrics
	💆 ♥ 7:28pm ultradamno: Could he at least have a woman singer to say something like "Joe, did you make the reservations like I told you to weeks ago?"
	💆 ♥ 7:28pm Kat in Chicago: @alex Which are truly insipid
	7:29pm JakeGould: Give the drummer some Christ: youtu.be...
	💆 ♥ 7:29pm ultradamno: The album is subtitled "ten simple love songs"
	💆 ♥ 7:29pm dale: some sweet mellotron action here.
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Truly the sound of labor under oppressive circumstances if ever.
	💆 ♥ 7:31pm ultradamno: @jake Keeping him in that boy in the plastic bubble isolation chamber did not help at all.
	7:31pm JakeGould: The vast majority of Americans find any non-Christian religion as weird… Us Jews are tolerated because of course we will convert when “He” comes down to Earth after a “Great War” in the Middle East, duh…
	7:32pm Gnomon: @Listener Robert sounds like you and I are on the same page (of an Odinist Chick Tract). I was just thinking “oh yeah well my god stayed up for NINE days”
	♥ 7:33pm mariano: @JakeGould: that vid's hilarious! ""Please Lord - if you don't want us to have this band, please give us some sort of sign..."
	💆 ♥ 7:33pm dale: canoodling. not cuddling.
	💆 ♥ 7:35pm dale: or just sitting around eating bugles and drinking milwaukees best in your underpants.
	7:35pm ron-ji: Happy Merry Everything, everybody. Been looking forward to this special episode all week, only to realize I have family rituals to observe while it’s on live. I am stealing 2 minutes to scan the chat—just long enough to see Chick Tract Talk—and say hello to the rest of the congregation.
	💆 ♥ 7:35pm ultradamno: Well, North Korea has a gift for us...Trump thinks it could be a vase.
	7:36pm JakeGould: @mariano: That video is one of the most metal things ever. Especially the guy’s bandmates doing utterly nothing to come to his aid.
	♥ 7:37pm mariano: Hah! They should've been playing "I Don't Care About You"!
	💆 ♥ 7:39pm ultradamno: I do approve of Krampus' anti-child position.
	💆 ♥ 7:39pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you, Micah, that was heartwarming.
	7:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...hehe - KrampusKen...too perfect...
	7:41pm JakeGould: Ken should just sew all of the t-shirts into a big quilt.
	💆 ♥ 7:41pm dale: i think the label believed in frank. some big production here.
	💆 ♥ 7:41pm ultradamno: www.etsy.com...
	💆 ♥ 7:42pm ultradamno: It sounds like he's having a hard time getting someone's attention.
	7:42pm Listener Robert: @Gnomon, I would have Odin, Freya, and eventually others walking among us today, talking to this one "seeker" type, giving them an excuse to be explaining things. There'd be no definite effects of magick visible in the tract, except for Odin's ability to do quick changes in apperance. Like in one he'd be driving a taxi in New York City with a bumper sticker deceptively saying, "Read Holy Qu'uran / broaden your knowledge." Then he'd pick up the seeker and take him on a wild ride. And he'd turn around and look at the guy in back and have one eye, and then again a brief time later and have both eyes, to show his timelessness, and that the myths don't necessarily run in any consistent chronologic order, so "before" and "after" are all mixed.
	💆 ♥ 7:43pm dale: disco kiss.
	7:43pm Fox: Robert: Have you read / watched American Gods? If not, you should.
	7:46pm JakeGould: When I think about this time of year and NYC, the NYC segment of “Night on Earth” always comes to mind. youtu.be...
	7:47pm Listener Robert: @Fox, I definitely mean to read it some day. Anyway, Odin would take the seeker to the observation deck of a skyscraper and show him someone in an office thru a telescope, and say, "You can see him, but can you tell what he's going to do next week? Somebody gave me a device that let me peer into men's minds, but I turn out to have hardly any use for it. I can tell what he PLANS to do next week, but he can always change his mind."
	💆 ♥ 7:48pm ultradamno: JC Superstar and Godspell were kind of cultural atrocities.
	♥ 7:49pm maestroso: @JakeGould "Night on Earth" was great. I think I need to re-watch.
	💆 ♥ 7:51pm Kat in Chicago: This one is making me cringe
	♥ 7:54pm mariano: @ultradamno: because I heard it when I was a kid, "Where Are You Going?" from Godspell can put a lump in my throat, I guess it's a guilty pain instead of a guilty pleasure? The scene from the movie is soooo 70s NYC.
	💆 ♥ 7:54pm ultradamno: It's disconcerting to not hear stories of molesting, rape and violence to go along with the music. Especially since I'd be willing to bet the last two singers are incorrigible gropers.
	7:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Point ultra-d.
	♥ 7:56pm mariano: Wait, who is this reminding me of, this Ken Scott? The voice is like some other 70s singer's...
	💆 ♥ 7:56pm ultradamno: Looking back at the movie now, with Victor Garber, I can only see Jennifer Garner's dad in Alias.
	7:57pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: Station Krampus Ken loves “JC Superstar.”
	♥ 7:58pm mariano: That's right, Garber with a white-boy 70s 'fro and rainbow suspenders! Lynne Thigpen was in it too (the DJ from The Warriors). Not sure if anyone else in it got famous.
	💆 ♥ 7:58pm Kat in Chicago: Is this THAT Barry McGuire? Sure sounds like him.
	♥ 7:58pm mariano: I've always thought Elvis Costello could do a kickass cover of "Turn Back, O Man".
	💆 ♥ 7:58pm ultradamno: He also plays Ultra Right Extremists/Liberal whatevers every chance he gets :D
	7:58pm CC: McGuinn and McGuire still getting higher in L.A... you know where that's at!?!
	💆 ♥ 7:59pm ultradamno: Scratch Acid's Damned For All Time does almost make it worth it, though.
	7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dragged to church & even church school when very young - but I learned far more about the Bible from JC Superstar. Its great Writing & Performing - & it isn't absolutely about blind faith @ all. I rather like it. Godspell also great Writing & Performing - yet simultaneously less Biblical & more Preachy...
	💆 ♥ 8:00pm Kat in Chicago: I hear some "Chestnut Mare" in there
	8:01pm JakeGould: This sounds like Christian strip club music.
	♥ 8:01pm mariano: If you're doing Christian soul, can't go wrong with Al Green's "Jesus Is Waiting". OMG, @ultradamno, I haven't thought of that Scratch Acid cover in probably decades, thanks for the reminder! @RevRabbit: I really like some of the playing on the original JCSS concept album. One of the guitarists from Roxy Music is on it iirc.
	💆 ♥ 8:01pm ultradamno: Sure, it's like a range with stars...no oxygen, a vacuum, freezing, just right for cowhand work.
	8:01pm CC: Wind Up, by Tull... puts it all in perspective pretty well!?!
	💆 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: Speaking of cosmic cowboys toysfromthepast.blogspot.com...
	8:06pm CC: In My Memory, by The Call, always gives me goose pimples!!!
	♥ 8:06pm mariano: Speaking of cowboys (maybe play it on silent with the Xtian music in the background): www.youtube.com...
	8:10pm Keith-O: This show is so damn good tonight!
	💆 ♥ 8:10pm ultradamno: I'm pretty sure those guys are singing Oh Saviour
	8:14pm JakeGould: This almost rocks.
	♥ 8:14pm mariano: These guys aren't half bad!
	8:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Joshua is copping Bubble Puppy so hard I gotta admire it.
	💆 ♥ 8:15pm ultradamno: Anti-Trump Jack Chick parody cultjamproductions.blogspot.com...
	8:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now subverting Laura Nyro...
	💆 ♥ 8:17pm ultradamno: Getting pitchy there lady.
	♥ 8:17pm mariano: That's effing hilarious, @ultradamno!
	8:19pm CC: Overtones of Shawn Phillips here???
	💆 ♥ 8:21pm Kat in Chicago: Maybe that's why I liked it.
	💆 ♥ 8:23pm Kat in Chicago: Not sure this needs to be a "suite" tho
	♥ 8:25pm Alex of Chicago: loving the csny ripoff. "love is calling"
	♥ 8:25pm Chop Scott: Micah! Deeply enjoying the extension of listening to you this evening.
	♥ 8:27pm mariano: @ultradamno: One really funny Chick parody I remember, from the 90s, is called A Patriarchy's Worst Nightmare, a takeoff on A Demon's Worst Nightmare. Ooh, look what I found, an archive of Chick parodies! www.monsterwax.com...
	♥ 8:27pm mariano: I'm quite sure they play Dana Howard at Guantánamo.
	💆 ♥ 8:28pm ultradamno: Was this the theme to seventies christian sit-com about a young woman at a christian college striving to get her MRS degree?
	8:28pm CC: This song kind of reminds me of a cross between Joni Mitchell and that girl who sang Chuck E's In Love.. not Phoebe Snow???
	💆 ♥ 8:29pm Kat in Chicago: haha ultradamno! def has a TV theme feel.
	8:31pm Keith-O: Still waiting for some Lil' Markie but that might be a bit too dark for Christmas...
	💆 ♥ 8:31pm ultradamno: God Unlimited? Isn't the unlimited part implied?
	8:32pm fleep: God is all around, no need to fake it
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: God LLC
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: good one, fleep
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm ultradamno: @mariano They should update A Demon Hunting Veep. Mike Pence looking everywhere but right beside him.
	♥ 8:34pm mariano: @ultradamno: Amen to that!
	💆 ♥ 8:34pm ultradamno: Is there a reason they prefer to not name the other aspirations?
	8:34pm CC: I'm pretty sure that Jesus is still just as groovy as he ever was!!!
	8:35pm Listener Robert: @mariano I wonder whether Monsterwax has my friend Frank Schwartz's "You Bet Your Soul", wherein St. Peter is Groucho and the Devil is Chico.
	8:35pm choggie: Mitch, yer a God amidst the mouth- breathers.
	♥ 8:36pm coelacanth∅: well, if 1 hour wasn't enough time to convert everyone this should do the trick
	💆 ♥ 8:37pm Kat in Chicago: Can't hear them sing "whole lotta love" without hearing Led Zep in my head
	♥ 8:37pm mariano: Sounds really funny, @Robert, I'll look for it. This Bill, Dave, Mary: were they thinking "Zeppelin thinks they got a whole lotta love? Let's show them, fellow believers!"
	♥ 8:39pm coelacanth∅: it predates the austin powers movie so yeah, that's probably it
	💆 ♥ 8:39pm ultradamno: That Sinner Man didn't have anything in common with the Les Baxter song did it? I'd hate to think I spaced through a cover of that.
	8:40pm CC: The way I got it is Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit are like an egg they're like one but separate... and they all love you until you go to hell???...
	💆 ♥ 8:41pm ultradamno: Jesus: Don't rush me Tom, I'll get there when I'm good and ready.
	♥ 8:41pm coelacanth∅: reminds me of "we are not helpless" by Stephen Stills
	♥ 8:42pm mariano: "Come Quickly"? [Butthead laugh] There's this hymn, "Just As I Am" that has the refrain "O Lamb of Go-od I come.... IIIIII come." My mom kept asking me why I'd squeal with laughter when they sang it at the church they were going to. I explained it to her and she said "Oh great, thanks for ruining it for me, douchebag!"
	8:42pm CC: Correction...I meant Hell...
	💆 ♥ 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: I definitely remember that hymn, mariano. Your mom calls you "douchebag"??
	8:45pm fleep: Clinging to the older model God as bipolar punishment freak was a good way to keep people in line, the underlying purpose of organized religion.
	💆 ♥ 8:45pm ultradamno: Well, now I'm terrified.
	8:46pm Listener Robert: @mariano "You Bet Your Soul" parodies "Somebody Goofed", if that makes it any easier to find. That may be Chick's easiest to parody, since Chick's original is done in a jocular style.
	♥ 8:46pm coelacanth∅: my mother's no angel, and she says "shit" a lot, but i'd bet she's never said "douchebag". i'd crack up if she did!
	💆 ♥ 8:48pm ultradamno: He never did one thing wrong? You need a license to serve wine, just because it arrived as water makes no difference and no one inspected all that fish and bread that "miraculously" appeared.
	♥ 8:49pm coelacanth∅: fleep -exactly. and it's astounding how many full-grown adults (chronologically) hang on to an idea that there's heaven and hell. no wonder people (in the us anyway) are so well-contained.
	8:49pm CC: We are weak...but She is strong!!!
	💆 ♥ 8:50pm ultradamno: Well, this is even creepier that kid intro of the last one.
	8:51pm CC: Flutes always go good at Christmas time!!!
	♥ 8:51pm coelacanth∅: ultra d well - the damage was done by the time the fda and the department of alcohol tobacco & firearms showed up.
	💆 ♥ 8:54pm ultradamno: Jesus, just get a room with Jesus, already.
	♥ 8:56pm mariano: @coela: My mom swore like a sailor, even when she went through her unfortunate Baptist phase in the 80s. One of her favorite quips when I was being argumentative with "if"s was "If my aunt were my uncle she'd have balls. But she isn't so she doesn't." @Robert: thanks, looking it up right now!
	8:56pm CC: Wow... I thought this was the monkees for a minute!!!
	💆 ♥ 8:56pm Kat in Chicago: Hey Jude, this song is bad...
	♥ 8:57pm coelacanth∅: nah, they're hippies after all. they can just do it outside, with nature. ...maybe over there, on calvary hill...
	8:58pm JakeGould: A few more minutes and this flagellation is over.
	💆 ♥ 8:58pm ultradamno: Throw in some whoas and handclapping, that'll fix it.
	8:59pm Sally: OMG, this is perfect for xmas eve. Haha thanks Micah! My main memories of 1970s Jesus Freaks as young teen: 1-Had to go to sleepover Jewish summer camp and one of hour hippie Jesus Freak counselors brought JC Superstar with her and made us all listen to it. Loved it. 2-Two Jesus Freak dudes accosted my friend and me at the mall and tried to convert us. They wanted us to come to some meeting with them, and we were afraid they were trying to get us to join their cult, so we ran away! haha
	♥ 8:59pm mariano: Thanks for tending to our wretched souls this Christmas Eve, Micah!
	💆 ♥ 8:59pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you Micah, that was truly awesome.
	💆 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: Do they know Danny and Lynda?
	♥ 9:00pm coelacanth∅: mariano that's funny. my mom was pretty funny sometimes (not so much nowadays) but usually it was sarcasm; sometimes a bit mean-spirited. (like "why don't you guys go play in traffic")
	9:00pm CC: yea
	♥ 9:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Micah

Music Of Mind Control with Micah: Playlist from December 24, 2019

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An exploration into the musical output of religious cults, new religious movements, and individuals of a spiritually inspired and divine nature.

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December 24, 2019: Xmas Eve 3 hour Special: Xian Rock of the Jesus Freaks 1968-1981

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Approx. start time
Cephas	Jesus Is Just Alright "Jesus Is Just Alright" by "Cephas"	Teen Challenge Presents 'Cephas', with Jeff Cogswell	1973	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Jubal	When the Son Sets Free "When the Son Sets Free" by "Jubal"	Trust	1977	0:10:40 (Pop-up)
Tetelestai	Repent "Repent" by "Tetelestai"	S/t		0:13:09 (Pop-up)
Revelation	Giving it All Up "Giving it All Up" by "Revelation"	S/T		0:15:13 (Pop-up)
Our Generation	Hello Friends "Hello Friends" by "Our Generation"	Praise & Prayers	1972	0:19:21 (Pop-up)
The Project	Just Live By Faith "Just Live By Faith" by "The Project"	Just Live By Faith	1973	0:23:22 (Pop-up)
Ellis and Lynch	You Can Fly "You Can Fly" by "Ellis and Lynch"	Star Light	1979	0:26:20 (Pop-up)
Judy Romero	Wont Talk About Love Anymore	Judy! Judy! Judy!	1975	0:29:43 (Pop-up)
The Sands of Time	The Sands of Time	S/t	1973	0:32:21 (Pop-up)

Omega Sonship	Pretty Words "Pretty Words" by "Omega Sonship"	Earth Rider	1980	0:40:55 (Pop-up)
Patricia Bown	I Wish We'de All Been Ready	And His Name Shall Be Called Jesus		0:44:05 (Pop-up)
Saltcreek	Searchin' "Searchin'" by "Saltcreek"	Saltcreek 1	1971	0:46:08 (Pop-up)
The Messengers and Good News	The Right Way	Born Again	1971	0:49:53 (Pop-up)
The Musical Harts	My Sweet Lord "My Sweet Lord" by "The Musical Harts"	What the World Needs Now is Love and the Harts		0:54:40 (Pop-up)
Danny and Lynda	Look to Him "Look to Him" by "Danny and Lynda"	Gospel	1972	0:56:41 (Pop-up)
Karen Lafferty	Beautiful Day "Beautiful Day" by "Karen Lafferty"	Sweet Communion	1978	0:59:49 (Pop-up)

Dan Martino and the Last Minute Band	I Think its You	S/t	1977	1:08:28 (Pop-up)
Lilly Green	Feeling The Way I Feel	Especially for You	1977	1:12:04 (Pop-up)
Sonshine Circle	Beginnings "Beginnings" by "Sonshine Circle"	A Simple Song of Love	1975	1:14:27 (Pop-up)
His	Look to Calvary "Look to Calvary" by "His"	Forever Together	1975	1:16:42 (Pop-up)
Spirit & Understanding	The Alternative	Jesusongs	1975	1:20:26 (Pop-up)
Marc Haney	Journey to Bethlehem "Journey to Bethlehem" by "Marc Haney"	Let Us Go To Bethlehem	1975	1:24:33 (Pop-up)

Frank Dumin	Easter 22 "Easter 22" by "Frank Dumin"	Another Dawn	1970	1:38:55 (Pop-up)
Act One Company	Power "Power" by "Act One Company"	Power	1978	1:41:28 (Pop-up)
JIM SCANNELL & THE BELIEVERS	Know the Love..Grow the Love	Songs for the Beautiful People to Get Ready By...	1969	1:45:42 (Pop-up)
Randy Matthews	All I Am Is What You See	All I Am Is What You See	1972	1:49:10 (Pop-up)
Mustard Seed	Eyes of Jesus "Eyes of Jesus" by "Mustard Seed"	S/t	1971	1:51:32 (Pop-up)
Ken Scott	There's Only One "There's Only One" by "Ken Scott"	Angela	1974	1:53:25 (Pop-up)
Barry McGuire	Cosmic Cowboy "Cosmic Cowboy" by "Barry McGuire"	Cosmic Cowboy	1979	1:55:55 (Pop-up)

Emmanuel	May I Rest "May I Rest" by "Emmanuel"	You Color My Life	1976	2:03:35 (Pop-up)
Solid Rock Big Band	Oh Saviour "Oh Saviour" by "Solid Rock Big Band"	Born Again	1979	2:06:03 (Pop-up)
Joshua	Keep Your Light Shining "Keep Your Light Shining" by "Joshua"	God Spoke and Said Lead My People	1973	2:09:45 (Pop-up)
The Joyful Noise	Sinner Man "Sinner Man" by "The Joyful Noise"	Break Forth and Shout for Joy	1975	2:14:05 (Pop-up)
John Michael Talbot	The Suite "The Suite" by "John Michael Talbot"	The New Earth	1977	2:16:49 (Pop-up)
Dana Howard	Right Where You Are "Right Where You Are" by "Dana Howard"	Dana	1979	2:25:08 (Pop-up)
God Unlimited	God Unlimited "God Unlimited" by "God Unlimited"	Joy and Other Aspirations	1968	2:28:24 (Pop-up)

Bill, Dave & Mary	That's Alotta Love	Transition	1973	2:34:37 (Pop-up)
Tom Stipe	Come Quickly Jesus "Come Quickly Jesus" by "Tom Stipe"	Maranantha 2	1972	2:37:23 (Pop-up)
Patmos	Thine O Lord "Thine O Lord" by "Patmos"	Voyage to the Inner Kingdom	1980	2:41:07 (Pop-up)
The Last Days	Jesus Loves You "Jesus Loves You" by "The Last Days"	s/t	1972	2:44:00 (Pop-up)
Hope of Glory	Daybreak Joy "Daybreak Joy" by "Hope of Glory"	s/t	1973	2:47:36 (Pop-up)
Becky Severson	Jesus Song "Jesus Song" by "Becky Severson"	A Special Path	1972	2:50:47 (Pop-up)
Ron and Shirley	Jude "Jude" by "Ron and Shirley"	Rock and Scroll	1977	2:53:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:01pm mariano: Ooh, heard this was gonna be a good one, perfect for Xmas Eve!
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm dale: strapping in to have my soul saved.
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: Happy entirely xtian holiday in which elves and flying reindeer bring toys to the tree inside your house.
	💆 ♥ 6:01pm Kat in Chicago: Oh hell yes
	♥ 6:02pm Mr. Pumpy: Yes! I see the light!!!
	💆 ♥ 6:02pm ultradamno: Just alright, don't get above your raisin', JC.
	💆 ♥ 6:02pm Kat in Chicago: This song always seemed like a rather tepid endorsement of the Son o'God.
	💆 ♥ 6:03pm Kevin-san: I took the Teen Challenge... and failed!
	💆 ♥ 6:03pm ultradamno: Now Baphomet, that guy is super groovy.
	♥ 6:05pm mariano: And let's not forget Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth.
	♥ 6:05pm common: Yes. And hello
	💆 ♥ 6:05pm ultradamno: The idea of presenting JHC as just a cat you can have a rap sesh with is a very 70s-The Way kind of thing.
	💆 ♥ 6:07pm ultradamno: Was this song always this long or is it a remix?
	♥ 6:07pm Mr. Pumpy: @Kat...the tepidness puts you at ease...then they bring out the heavy stuff!
	♥ 6:08pm Handy Haversack: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn.
	💆 ♥ 6:09pm ultradamno: "I don't care what they may say" and "just alright" is your retort?
	♥ 6:09pm mariano: Fhtagn, Brother Handy! Can I get a fhtagn, my fellow cultists?
	💆 ♥ 6:10pm dale: bo cephus?
	6:10pm Adam West Coaster: Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, my teen challenge was to get drunk at a bonfire party..and not burn down a large expanse of forest.
	6:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: EPIC !
	♥ 6:12pm mariano: Cephas was one of St Peter's names. Beyond that, I don't know.
	💆 ♥ 6:13pm ultradamno: 77, so right on the heels of the movie Car Wash...no reason to bring that up.
	6:14pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: One of the major dark sides of the cultural revolution stuff in the 1970s was too do a lot of creepy bait and switch stuff… Which is all very well documented on this show.
	💆 ♥ 6:15pm ultradamno: Like, for instance, attempted light jazz-pop
	6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Peter is associated with the Rock & the Cock ...& the Catholic Church. So - Rawk Out with yer Defrocked Out.
	💆 ♥ 6:16pm dale: i'll bet this group laid out a good spread - ambrosia, luncheon meat plate...
	💆 ♥ 6:17pm ultradamno: Average White Cartoon Disco Singers
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I suppose there's not enuff for a three hour Amway holiday...
	💆 ♥ 6:19pm ultradamno: Well, I kind of liked that staccato interlude...
	6:19pm JakeGould: The thing about these cultist: No true joy in their “art” and not true talent either. Something very high functioning about all of this music.
	6:20pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: Sounds like anime disco generic music from 1979.
	💆 ♥ 6:21pm ultradamno: It's Their Generation and they've got something to say (and a fuzzbox and they're going to use it)
	💆 ♥ 6:21pm dale: bass player is trying to save this one.
	💆 ♥ 6:23pm ultradamno: Ack! It's really bad Yes.
	💆 ♥ 6:23pm Kat in Chicago: Ouch
	6:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I was just thinking again about 'Tommy''s culpability in this whole phenomenon as a Whofan...
	💆 ♥ 6:24pm ultradamno: This seems like too much of a test of patience to bring people into the flock.
	♥ 6:26pm mariano: That's the thing that's always gotten me about contemporary Christian: it all sounds so bland and brainwashed. The 60s/70s Jesus freak stuff isn't the worst of it, but the stuff nowadays, it's like they listened to adult contemporary and decided it was too racy and needed a lobotomy and a chemical castration. Christianity used to produce some epic, era- and culture-defining music, and did so for centuries, usually blazing the trail in new musical developments. Now, CC artists basically imitate whatever's popular after giving it the same lobotomy-castration combo.
	💆 ♥ 6:27pm ultradamno: Somebody has a brand new pair of rollerskates, Jesus has a brand new key.
	6:28pm JakeGould: @mariano: Well, Gospel music has never sunk to as crappy levels as Christian music does. There’s definitely some white superiority in the world of modern Christianity and the entertainment it produces.
	💆 ♥ 6:29pm ultradamno: ...or the Mormon parody songs, that's where the insincerity level really takes over.
	6:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One has a moral imperative - one has a moral aspiration.
	💆 ♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: Are they hoping people on acid will hear this song and...I can FLY!
	💆 ♥ 6:30pm dale: hard not to feel the joy when you hear french horns and disco laser sound effects and these terrible vocalists.
	💆 ♥ 6:32pm ultradamno: Her christian music album is called Judy! Judy! Judy!? Kind of puts JC in the backseat.
	♥ 6:32pm mariano: @Jake: you're right, I should've pointed out I wasn't including gospel in contemporary Christian. I mean more the stuff that's interchangeable with some of those Scientology songs.
	💆 ♥ 6:32pm dale: this is pretty studio 54 and i like it.
	6:33pm JakeGould: @mariano: One major exception to the rule might be John Denver. I’ve liked him since I was a kid. Don’t even know if he’s Christian in his art and PoV but he seems it to me.
	💆 ♥ 6:34pm dale: micah, i hope you looked up the group meadow as i instructed you to in a divine fashion.
	💆 ♥ 6:34pm ultradamno: The Sands of Time by The Sands of Time from the album The Sands of Time I'm assuming on The Sands of Time Records
	6:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: '11 AM Sunday is our nation's most segregated hour'... - MLK
	💆 ♥ 6:36pm dale: whenever i search records the only xian stuff i find is a singing family in matching jumpsuits.
	6:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To go full circle - Gospel still an undercredited influence on Rawk.
	💆 ♥ 6:37pm ultradamno: He once attacked his bed in a chainsaw rampage, so probably a christian.
	💆 ♥ 6:40pm ultradamno: My grampa was a catholic racecar driver, the other was a pentecostal drunk.
	♥ 6:40pm mariano: @JakeGould: I remember at least some evangelicals when I was a kid railing against John Denver because of Rocky Mountain High and then appearing in Oh God!, with George Burns playing God (imagine that, a Jew playing the father of Jesus!). Especially because the villain was a televangelist (brilliantly played by Paul Sorvino). Of course, these were the same people behind "The Smurfs Are Evil" and "Tolkien teaches kids about witchcraft."
	♥ 6:41pm mariano: I like how you have "Day by Day" from "Godspell" in the background, micah.
	💆 ♥ 6:42pm ultradamno: What I remember was The Smurfs were dead, necrophiliac (which would seem fair if they were all dead) homosexuals.
	6:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tolkien a devout Catholic. Of course - just the plain sustained big collared polyester awfulness of the 1970s...
	💆 ♥ 6:43pm dale: this is not bad. i could hear kate wolf singing this.
	💆 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: That would probably bolster the Tolkien complaint for most of the people making it.
	♥ 6:45pm mariano: Yeah, there's the hardcore Pentecostal Jack-Chick crowd who think that the Catholic church is the Whore of Babylon and the Pope's the Antichrist. On the other hand, if the shoe fits... [I was raised Catholic so I can say it]
	💆 ♥ 6:47pm ultradamno: I can practically see the ugly peach colored floor length dress she's wearing with one of those long game show microphones.
	6:47pm JakeGould: The way I understand it, Catholics were “questionable” because they all ultimately follow the Pope… So you can never trust them because your local religious leader will never be able to control people who can ultimately be controlled by some guy in Italy.
	💆 ♥ 6:47pm dale: this could be poco.
	♥ 6:49pm Monica: hey there, micah. the perfect xmas eve show. thx for all that you do.
	6:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Had not thot of Jack Chick for a minute !
	💆 ♥ 6:50pm dale: hi mo. happy holiday to you.
	💆 ♥ 6:50pm Kat in Chicago: This is in fact highly Poco-esque
	💆 ♥ 6:51pm ultradamno: And that's why raising Jack Chick awareness is so important.
	♥ 6:52pm Monica: thx, dale.
	♥ 6:52pm micah: thanks monica. thanks everyone. happy christmas
	6:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chick Tracts were a thing - for reals !
	♥ 6:52pm mariano: @Jake: Yeah, there's the belief that the Pope is the successor of St Peter, praying to Mary (a female deity?!? Tut tut!), veneration of saints (or as Pentecostals see it: idolatry/paganism), needing a priest to absolve your sins, transubstantiation, all kinds of other stuff they find objectionable. @ultradamno: I've seen some really funny parodies of Chick over the years. I have kind of a soft spot for them, they're so over-the-top absurd. Pure spiritual pornography.
	💆 ♥ 6:52pm dale: are we talking chick tracts? i found one in a tire store waiting area last month and took it for it's artistic value. looked like it was illustrated by crumb.
	6:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pure spiritual pornography. Perfect.
	💆 ♥ 6:55pm ultradamno: I've still got a few, I know one is a 'dead guy being showed a movie of his life' scenario. Which just seems like a dick move on god's part. If you're sending me to hell just get on with it.
	♥ 6:56pm mariano: I love how at the end the worldly sinners in the stories are shown silhouetted in hellfire shrieking "YAAARRGHHH Satan is a LIAR!!!"
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm Kat in Chicago: Oh no
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm ultradamno: Oh, this hurts. It's like the newsie version.
	💆 ♥ 6:56pm dale: this is like the defranco family.
	💆 ♥ 6:57pm Kat in Chicago: What the world needs now is earplugs
	💆 ♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: Can they legally really call themselves "Musical"?
	💆 ♥ 6:58pm dale: kat - HA!!!!
	♥ 6:58pm mariano: Thanks micah, great chatting with everyone - have a merry and happy celebration of whatever you celebrate!
	💆 ♥ 6:58pm ultradamno: I just got this pedal contraption, I'm not real sure what it does.
	6:59pm Listener Robert: The mixture of styles in Chick Publications got very interesting once Chick hired other artists. As to Jesus freaks, I always considered them a subset of hippies. I don't know what about them would disqualify them from being considered hippies.
	💆 ♥ 6:59pm Kat in Chicago: Wah-wahing for Jesus!
	♥ 6:59pm Monica: great track.
	💆 ♥ 7:01pm ultradamno: I don't think Danny and Lynda were on speaking terms during the creative process leading up that recording.
	♥ 7:02pm mariano: Yeah, I might just have to get good and baked and find some Chick tracts online...
	💆 ♥ 7:02pm dale: nice melissa manchester vibe here
	💆 ♥ 7:03pm Kat in Chicago: I agree, Dale! I kinda like this one.
	💆 ♥ 7:03pm chresti: Hello, hoping to get some mind control.
	7:03pm JakeGould: @mariano: Thanks for the summary. People endlessly yammer about Judaism and Islam being “weird” but Christian sects and their beliefs are so thinly divisional it makes no sense to me. Anyway, Karen Lafferty seems to be the first person I am hearing tonight that has any talent.
	7:03pm Listener Robert: Anyway, I've had in mind for years the idea of doing ticket-book style tracts like Chick Publications, but for Odinism. And I don't mean ironically. And I would acknowledge Chick as inspiration...and I bet he'd be glad for it if he could see them. I'm not a good enough artist, but I could story board them with crude drawings and do the text writing for an artist to finish.
	💆 ♥ 7:04pm Kat in Chicago: Welcome chresti!
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm chresti: Hi Kat!
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm ultradamno: They're like Tijuana Bibles for people who think anyone creating or reading Tijuana Bibles is going to hell.
	💆 ♥ 7:05pm Kat in Chicago: Jake, I was raised Catholic and it took decades away from the Church before I realized how thoroughly weird and cultlike stuff like "transubstantiation" is.
	💆 ♥ 7:06pm Kat in Chicago: That first hour just flew by!
	7:08pm coomerado: Christ
	💆 ♥ 7:09pm dale: steelers wheel?
	♥ 7:09pm mariano: Oh wow, so it's a longer show, awesome! And I'd be totally into Odinist Chick tracts. @JakeGould: Anyone who thinks Xtianity doesn't have its weird side needs to have talk with me about some of the things I've seen over the years. @Kat: a mass is basically a ritual of ceremonial magic and divine cannibalism, in which (if you really believe), bread becomes God's flesh and wine becomes his blood. Metal AF if you ask me, lol!
	7:09pm Listener Robert: What the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches don't acknowledge openly is that they are doing magick. They may not achieve transubstantiation, but by getting people in the mood where they're willing to make it happen, especially when they chant together, they're probably calling down SOME kind of magick -- spelled with a "k" in the Crowleyan sense.
	💆 ♥ 7:09pm Kat in Chicago: stuck in the middle with Jesu
	💆 ♥ 7:10pm dale: kat - jinx.
	♥ 7:10pm mariano: @Rober: magickal jinx! (jincks?)
	7:11pm coomerado: Heavy traffic- Ralph bakshi
	💆 ♥ 7:11pm ultradamno: I don't think I've ever heard Steeler's Wheel sound this lost before, or have sub-David Gates vocals either, but then I'm not an aficionado.
	💆 ♥ 7:12pm Kat in Chicago: yeah the Stealers Wheel kind of evaporated when the vocals started, and morphed into The Dead vs. Bread
	💆 ♥ 7:12pm dale: it was just the opening riff there ultra.
	7:13pm coomerado: /x/
	7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Definition of Mythology : Someone else's Religion. The idea that any major Religion developed in a perfect bubble of isolation & historical literacy apart from others is obviously not supported by facts or logic.
	♥ 7:13pm Alex of Chicago: I had FMU on in the background, but then this set just sort of got its hooks into me. Feelin' it.
	7:14pm Fox: I snuck into a Christian rock show in Ocean Grove once. There was a screen behind the band, where the lyrics of the song were scrolling by with a bouncing ball, so EVERYONE could sing along. It was like a cross between a show and church.
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm ultradamno: Emmanuelles for Jesus!
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm Kat in Chicago: Alex, I like knowing there's at least one other Chicagoan who's spending their Xmas Eve listening to this instead of Mannheim Steamroller or something
	💆 ♥ 7:16pm dale: this is nice. abc movie of the weeknice.
	💆 ♥ 7:18pm ultradamno: In my head it's just Sylvia Kristel traveling to exotic new places, meeting new people and exposing them to the good news.
	7:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as George Carlin spoke of 'nice'...
	💆 ♥ 7:19pm Kat in Chicago: I just laughed out loud at that vision, ultra-d
	♥ 7:19pm mariano: @Kat: Oof. I lived in Omaha for a while back in the late 80s, and every. Friggin'. Year there was a big Mannheim Steamroller Xmas concert, and for a month or more every movie was preceded by some video of theirs with stop-motion toys.
	💆 ♥ 7:19pm ultradamno: I like the curl in his voice when he sang "and you'll be left behind"...and bless your hearts.
	♥ 7:20pm Alex of Chicago: Cheers to that, @kat. There must be a few more of us lurking out there.
	💆 ♥ 7:20pm dale: this needs a less milquetoast singer. good song.
	💆 ♥ 7:23pm ultradamno: You take a lot of wind out of the xtian sails when you take away the allegories and traffic more in abstract feels.
	💆 ♥ 7:26pm dale: did mary have joseph's class ring?
	♥ 7:28pm Alex of Chicago: this stuff is very sonically pleasing from the other room where you can't quite make out the lyrics
	💆 ♥ 7:28pm ultradamno: Could he at least have a woman singer to say something like "Joe, did you make the reservations like I told you to weeks ago?"
	💆 ♥ 7:28pm Kat in Chicago: @alex Which are truly insipid
	7:29pm JakeGould: Give the drummer some Christ: youtu.be...
	💆 ♥ 7:29pm ultradamno: The album is subtitled "ten simple love songs"
	💆 ♥ 7:29pm dale: some sweet mellotron action here.
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Truly the sound of labor under oppressive circumstances if ever.
	💆 ♥ 7:31pm ultradamno: @jake Keeping him in that boy in the plastic bubble isolation chamber did not help at all.
	7:31pm JakeGould: The vast majority of Americans find any non-Christian religion as weird… Us Jews are tolerated because of course we will convert when “He” comes down to Earth after a “Great War” in the Middle East, duh…
	7:32pm Gnomon: @Listener Robert sounds like you and I are on the same page (of an Odinist Chick Tract). I was just thinking “oh yeah well my god stayed up for NINE days”
	♥ 7:33pm mariano: @JakeGould: that vid's hilarious! ""Please Lord - if you don't want us to have this band, please give us some sort of sign..."
	💆 ♥ 7:33pm dale: canoodling. not cuddling.
	💆 ♥ 7:35pm dale: or just sitting around eating bugles and drinking milwaukees best in your underpants.
	7:35pm ron-ji: Happy Merry Everything, everybody. Been looking forward to this special episode all week, only to realize I have family rituals to observe while it’s on live. I am stealing 2 minutes to scan the chat—just long enough to see Chick Tract Talk—and say hello to the rest of the congregation.
	💆 ♥ 7:35pm ultradamno: Well, North Korea has a gift for us...Trump thinks it could be a vase.
	7:36pm JakeGould: @mariano: That video is one of the most metal things ever. Especially the guy’s bandmates doing utterly nothing to come to his aid.
	♥ 7:37pm mariano: Hah! They should've been playing "I Don't Care About You"!
	💆 ♥ 7:39pm ultradamno: I do approve of Krampus' anti-child position.
	💆 ♥ 7:39pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you, Micah, that was heartwarming.
	7:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...hehe - KrampusKen...too perfect...
	7:41pm JakeGould: Ken should just sew all of the t-shirts into a big quilt.
	💆 ♥ 7:41pm dale: i think the label believed in frank. some big production here.
	💆 ♥ 7:41pm ultradamno: www.etsy.com...
	💆 ♥ 7:42pm ultradamno: It sounds like he's having a hard time getting someone's attention.
	7:42pm Listener Robert: @Gnomon, I would have Odin, Freya, and eventually others walking among us today, talking to this one "seeker" type, giving them an excuse to be explaining things. There'd be no definite effects of magick visible in the tract, except for Odin's ability to do quick changes in apperance. Like in one he'd be driving a taxi in New York City with a bumper sticker deceptively saying, "Read Holy Qu'uran / broaden your knowledge." Then he'd pick up the seeker and take him on a wild ride. And he'd turn around and look at the guy in back and have one eye, and then again a brief time later and have both eyes, to show his timelessness, and that the myths don't necessarily run in any consistent chronologic order, so "before" and "after" are all mixed.
	💆 ♥ 7:43pm dale: disco kiss.
	7:43pm Fox: Robert: Have you read / watched American Gods? If not, you should.
	7:46pm JakeGould: When I think about this time of year and NYC, the NYC segment of “Night on Earth” always comes to mind. youtu.be...
	7:47pm Listener Robert: @Fox, I definitely mean to read it some day. Anyway, Odin would take the seeker to the observation deck of a skyscraper and show him someone in an office thru a telescope, and say, "You can see him, but can you tell what he's going to do next week? Somebody gave me a device that let me peer into men's minds, but I turn out to have hardly any use for it. I can tell what he PLANS to do next week, but he can always change his mind."
	💆 ♥ 7:48pm ultradamno: JC Superstar and Godspell were kind of cultural atrocities.
	♥ 7:49pm maestroso: @JakeGould "Night on Earth" was great. I think I need to re-watch.
	💆 ♥ 7:51pm Kat in Chicago: This one is making me cringe
	♥ 7:54pm mariano: @ultradamno: because I heard it when I was a kid, "Where Are You Going?" from Godspell can put a lump in my throat, I guess it's a guilty pain instead of a guilty pleasure? The scene from the movie is soooo 70s NYC.
	💆 ♥ 7:54pm ultradamno: It's disconcerting to not hear stories of molesting, rape and violence to go along with the music. Especially since I'd be willing to bet the last two singers are incorrigible gropers.
	7:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Point ultra-d.
	♥ 7:56pm mariano: Wait, who is this reminding me of, this Ken Scott? The voice is like some other 70s singer's...
	💆 ♥ 7:56pm ultradamno: Looking back at the movie now, with Victor Garber, I can only see Jennifer Garner's dad in Alias.
	7:57pm JakeGould: @ultradamno: Station Krampus Ken loves “JC Superstar.”
	♥ 7:58pm mariano: That's right, Garber with a white-boy 70s 'fro and rainbow suspenders! Lynne Thigpen was in it too (the DJ from The Warriors). Not sure if anyone else in it got famous.
	💆 ♥ 7:58pm Kat in Chicago: Is this THAT Barry McGuire? Sure sounds like him.
	♥ 7:58pm mariano: I've always thought Elvis Costello could do a kickass cover of "Turn Back, O Man".
	💆 ♥ 7:58pm ultradamno: He also plays Ultra Right Extremists/Liberal whatevers every chance he gets :D
	7:58pm CC: McGuinn and McGuire still getting higher in L.A... you know where that's at!?!
	💆 ♥ 7:59pm ultradamno: Scratch Acid's Damned For All Time does almost make it worth it, though.
	7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dragged to church & even church school when very young - but I learned far more about the Bible from JC Superstar. Its great Writing & Performing - & it isn't absolutely about blind faith @ all. I rather like it. Godspell also great Writing & Performing - yet simultaneously less Biblical & more Preachy...
	💆 ♥ 8:00pm Kat in Chicago: I hear some "Chestnut Mare" in there
	8:01pm JakeGould: This sounds like Christian strip club music.
	♥ 8:01pm mariano: If you're doing Christian soul, can't go wrong with Al Green's "Jesus Is Waiting". OMG, @ultradamno, I haven't thought of that Scratch Acid cover in probably decades, thanks for the reminder! @RevRabbit: I really like some of the playing on the original JCSS concept album. One of the guitarists from Roxy Music is on it iirc.
	💆 ♥ 8:01pm ultradamno: Sure, it's like a range with stars...no oxygen, a vacuum, freezing, just right for cowhand work.
	8:01pm CC: Wind Up, by Tull... puts it all in perspective pretty well!?!
	💆 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: Speaking of cosmic cowboys toysfromthepast.blogspot.com...
	8:06pm CC: In My Memory, by The Call, always gives me goose pimples!!!
	♥ 8:06pm mariano: Speaking of cowboys (maybe play it on silent with the Xtian music in the background): www.youtube.com...
	8:10pm Keith-O: This show is so damn good tonight!
	💆 ♥ 8:10pm ultradamno: I'm pretty sure those guys are singing Oh Saviour
	8:14pm JakeGould: This almost rocks.
	♥ 8:14pm mariano: These guys aren't half bad!
	8:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Joshua is copping Bubble Puppy so hard I gotta admire it.
	💆 ♥ 8:15pm ultradamno: Anti-Trump Jack Chick parody cultjamproductions.blogspot.com...
	8:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now subverting Laura Nyro...
	💆 ♥ 8:17pm ultradamno: Getting pitchy there lady.
	♥ 8:17pm mariano: That's effing hilarious, @ultradamno!
	8:19pm CC: Overtones of Shawn Phillips here???
	💆 ♥ 8:21pm Kat in Chicago: Maybe that's why I liked it.
	💆 ♥ 8:23pm Kat in Chicago: Not sure this needs to be a "suite" tho
	♥ 8:25pm Alex of Chicago: loving the csny ripoff. "love is calling"
	♥ 8:25pm Chop Scott: Micah! Deeply enjoying the extension of listening to you this evening.
	♥ 8:27pm mariano: @ultradamno: One really funny Chick parody I remember, from the 90s, is called A Patriarchy's Worst Nightmare, a takeoff on A Demon's Worst Nightmare. Ooh, look what I found, an archive of Chick parodies! www.monsterwax.com...
	♥ 8:27pm mariano: I'm quite sure they play Dana Howard at Guantánamo.
	💆 ♥ 8:28pm ultradamno: Was this the theme to seventies christian sit-com about a young woman at a christian college striving to get her MRS degree?
	8:28pm CC: This song kind of reminds me of a cross between Joni Mitchell and that girl who sang Chuck E's In Love.. not Phoebe Snow???
	💆 ♥ 8:29pm Kat in Chicago: haha ultradamno! def has a TV theme feel.
	8:31pm Keith-O: Still waiting for some Lil' Markie but that might be a bit too dark for Christmas...
	💆 ♥ 8:31pm ultradamno: God Unlimited? Isn't the unlimited part implied?
	8:32pm fleep: God is all around, no need to fake it
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: God LLC
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: good one, fleep
	💆 ♥ 8:32pm ultradamno: @mariano They should update A Demon Hunting Veep. Mike Pence looking everywhere but right beside him.
	♥ 8:34pm mariano: @ultradamno: Amen to that!
	💆 ♥ 8:34pm ultradamno: Is there a reason they prefer to not name the other aspirations?
	8:34pm CC: I'm pretty sure that Jesus is still just as groovy as he ever was!!!
	8:35pm Listener Robert: @mariano I wonder whether Monsterwax has my friend Frank Schwartz's "You Bet Your Soul", wherein St. Peter is Groucho and the Devil is Chico.
	8:35pm choggie: Mitch, yer a God amidst the mouth- breathers.
	♥ 8:36pm coelacanth∅: well, if 1 hour wasn't enough time to convert everyone this should do the trick
	💆 ♥ 8:37pm Kat in Chicago: Can't hear them sing "whole lotta love" without hearing Led Zep in my head
	♥ 8:37pm mariano: Sounds really funny, @Robert, I'll look for it. This Bill, Dave, Mary: were they thinking "Zeppelin thinks they got a whole lotta love? Let's show them, fellow believers!"
	♥ 8:39pm coelacanth∅: it predates the austin powers movie so yeah, that's probably it
	💆 ♥ 8:39pm ultradamno: That Sinner Man didn't have anything in common with the Les Baxter song did it? I'd hate to think I spaced through a cover of that.
	8:40pm CC: The way I got it is Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit are like an egg they're like one but separate... and they all love you until you go to hell???...
	💆 ♥ 8:41pm ultradamno: Jesus: Don't rush me Tom, I'll get there when I'm good and ready.
	♥ 8:41pm coelacanth∅: reminds me of "we are not helpless" by Stephen Stills
	♥ 8:42pm mariano: "Come Quickly"? [Butthead laugh] There's this hymn, "Just As I Am" that has the refrain "O Lamb of Go-od I come.... IIIIII come." My mom kept asking me why I'd squeal with laughter when they sang it at the church they were going to. I explained it to her and she said "Oh great, thanks for ruining it for me, douchebag!"
	8:42pm CC: Correction...I meant Hell...
	💆 ♥ 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: I definitely remember that hymn, mariano. Your mom calls you "douchebag"??
	8:45pm fleep: Clinging to the older model God as bipolar punishment freak was a good way to keep people in line, the underlying purpose of organized religion.
	💆 ♥ 8:45pm ultradamno: Well, now I'm terrified.
	8:46pm Listener Robert: @mariano "You Bet Your Soul" parodies "Somebody Goofed", if that makes it any easier to find. That may be Chick's easiest to parody, since Chick's original is done in a jocular style.
	♥ 8:46pm coelacanth∅: my mother's no angel, and she says "shit" a lot, but i'd bet she's never said "douchebag". i'd crack up if she did!
	💆 ♥ 8:48pm ultradamno: He never did one thing wrong? You need a license to serve wine, just because it arrived as water makes no difference and no one inspected all that fish and bread that "miraculously" appeared.
	♥ 8:49pm coelacanth∅: fleep -exactly. and it's astounding how many full-grown adults (chronologically) hang on to an idea that there's heaven and hell. no wonder people (in the us anyway) are so well-contained.
	8:49pm CC: We are weak...but She is strong!!!
	💆 ♥ 8:50pm ultradamno: Well, this is even creepier that kid intro of the last one.
	8:51pm CC: Flutes always go good at Christmas time!!!
	♥ 8:51pm coelacanth∅: ultra d well - the damage was done by the time the fda and the department of alcohol tobacco & firearms showed up.
	💆 ♥ 8:54pm ultradamno: Jesus, just get a room with Jesus, already.
	♥ 8:56pm mariano: @coela: My mom swore like a sailor, even when she went through her unfortunate Baptist phase in the 80s. One of her favorite quips when I was being argumentative with "if"s was "If my aunt were my uncle she'd have balls. But she isn't so she doesn't." @Robert: thanks, looking it up right now!
	8:56pm CC: Wow... I thought this was the monkees for a minute!!!
	💆 ♥ 8:56pm Kat in Chicago: Hey Jude, this song is bad...
	♥ 8:57pm coelacanth∅: nah, they're hippies after all. they can just do it outside, with nature. ...maybe over there, on calvary hill...
	8:58pm JakeGould: A few more minutes and this flagellation is over.
	💆 ♥ 8:58pm ultradamno: Throw in some whoas and handclapping, that'll fix it.
	8:59pm Sally: OMG, this is perfect for xmas eve. Haha thanks Micah! My main memories of 1970s Jesus Freaks as young teen: 1-Had to go to sleepover Jewish summer camp and one of hour hippie Jesus Freak counselors brought JC Superstar with her and made us all listen to it. Loved it. 2-Two Jesus Freak dudes accosted my friend and me at the mall and tried to convert us. They wanted us to come to some meeting with them, and we were afraid they were trying to get us to join their cult, so we ran away! haha
	♥ 8:59pm mariano: Thanks for tending to our wretched souls this Christmas Eve, Micah!
	💆 ♥ 8:59pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you Micah, that was truly awesome.
	💆 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: Do they know Danny and Lynda?
	♥ 9:00pm coelacanth∅: mariano that's funny. my mom was pretty funny sometimes (not so much nowadays) but usually it was sarcasm; sometimes a bit mean-spirited. (like "why don't you guys go play in traffic")
	9:00pm CC: yea
	♥ 9:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Micah

Music Of Mind Control with Micah: Playlist from December 24, 2019

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