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Program & Artistic Director
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I'm Special Agent DJ Justice; Radio Host and Program / Artistic Director for The Netroots Radio Network; and I'm manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your hop.
Blue Skies on The Netroots Radio Network is proud to announce the playlist for the 23 July Monday 9pm to Midnight Pacfic Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres ~~ "Stained Glass Windows Opening Red on Carnage"
"1 - Brian Eno -- Babys On Fire" "2 - Dirty on Purpose -- Monument" "3 - Tone -- Timebox" "4 - Daikaiju -- Farewell To Monster Island" "5 - Crooked Still -- Undone In Sorrow" "6 - Abigail Washburn -- Bright Morning Stars"
Station Break
"7 - The Cranberries -- Never Grow Old" "8 - Garbage -- Milk" "9 - The Cardigans -- Erase Rewind" "10 - Portishead -- Machine Gun" "11 - The Pretenders -- Kid" "12 - Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Kiss Them For Me" "13 - The Sugarcubes -- Cold Sweat" "14 - Omara Portuondo -- Canta lo Sentimental" "15 - La Lupe -- Puro Teatro" "16 -La India -- La Gran Tirana" "17 - Los Straitjackets -- La Hiedra Venenosa"
Station Break
"18 - Tamikrest -- Aicha" "19 - Ali Farka Toure -- Inchana Massina" "20 - Claude Chalhoub -- Don t Wake Me Up" "21 - Nigel Kennedy -- Ederlezi" "22 - Edgar Meyer Bela Fleck Mike Marshall -- Sliding Down" "24 - Ulrich Schnauss -- A Million Miles Away"
Station Break
"25 - Samuel Barber and The Choir of Trinity College -- Agnus Dei" "26 - Stereolab -- Cosmic Country Noir" "27 - Animal Collective -- Leaf House" "28 - Alcoholic Faith Mission -- My Eyes to See" "29 - Nouvelle Vague -- Bela Lugosi is Dead"
Station Break
"30 - The Budos Band -- King Cobra" "31 - The Shaolin Afronauts -- Kilimanjaro" "32 - Quantic And His Combo Barbaro -- Cancao Do Deserto" "33 - Souljazz Orchestra -- Kapital" "34 - Antibalas Afro Beat Orchestra -- Battle of The Species" "35 - Orgone -- Cali Fever"
Station Break
"36 - Groovejuice -- Cafe Prague" "37 - Der Dritte Raum -- Blautaut" "38 - My Sleeping Karma -- Tamas" "39 - Parov Stelar -- Psychedelic Jazz"
Netroots Radio is there for ya, baby!
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Go ahead, now you can listen while roaming the Big Orange and beyond!
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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The Nurse
Abolished, and her frightful wing in the tears
Of the basin, abolished, that mirrors forth our fears,
The naked golds lashing the crimson space,
An Aurora—heraldic plumage—has chosen to embrace
Our cinerary tower of sacrifice,
Heavy tomb that a songbird has fled, lone caprice
Of a dawn vainly decked out in ebony plumes…
Ah, mansion this sad, fallen country assumes!
No splashing! the gloomy water, standing still,
No longer visited by snowy quill
Or fabled swan, reflects the bereaving
Of autumn extinguished by its own unleaving,
Of the swan when amidst the cold white tomb
Of its feathers, it buried its head, undone
By the pure diamond of a star, but one
Of long ago, which never even shone.
Crime! torture! ancient dawn! bright pyre!
Empurpled sky, complicit in the mire,
And stained-glass windows opening red on carnage.
The strange chamber, framed in all the baggage
Of a warlike age, its goldwork dull and faint,
Has yesteryear’s snows instead of its ancient tint;
And its pearl-gray tapestry, useless creases
With the buried eyes of prophetesses
Offering Magi withered fingers. One,
With floral past enwoven on my gown
Bleached in an ivory chest and with a sky
Bestrewn with birds amidst the embroidery
Of tarnished silver, seems a phantom risen,
An aroma, roses, rising from the hidden
Couch, now void, the snuffed-out candle shrouds,
An aroma, over the sachet, of frozen golds,
A drift of flowers unfaithful to the moon
(Though the taper’s quenched, petals still fall from one),
Flowers whose long regrets and stems appear
Drenched in a lonely vase to languish there…
An Aurora dragged her wings in the basin’s tears!
Magical shadow with symbolic powers!
A voice from the distant past, an evocation,
Is it not mine prepared for incantation?
In the yellow folds of thought, still unexhumed,
Lingering, and like an antique cloth perfumed,
Spread on a pile of monstrances grown cold,
Through ancient hollows and through stiffened folds
Pierced in the rhythm of the pure lace shroud
Through which the old veiled brightness is allowed
To mount, in desperation, shall arise
(But oh, the distance hidden in those cries!)
The old veiled brightness of a strange gilt-silver,
Of the languishing voice, estranged and unfamiliar:
Will it scatter its gold in an ultimate splendor,
And, in the hour of its agony, render
Itself as the anthem for psalms of petition?
For all are alike in being brought to perdition
By the power of old silence and deepening gloom,
Fated, monotonous, vanquished, undone,
Like the sluggish waters of an ancient pond.
Sometimes she sang an incoherent song.
Lamentable sign!
the bed of vellum sheets,
Useless and closed–not linen!—vainly waits,
Bereft now of the cherished grammary
That spelled the figured folds of reverie,
The silken tent that harbored memory,
The fragrance of sleeping hair. Were these its treasure?
Cold child, she held within her subtle pleasure,
Shivering with flowers in her walks at dawn,
Or when the pomegranate’s flesh is torn
By wicked night! Alone, the crescent moon
On the iron clockface is a pendulum
Suspending Lucifer: the clepsydra pours
Dark drops in grief upon the stricken hours
As, wounded, each one wanders a dim shade
On undeciphered paths without a guide!
All this the king knows not, whose salary
Has fed so long this agèd breast now dry.
Her father knows it no more than the cruel
Glacier mirroring his arms of steel,
When sprawled on a pile of corpses without coffins
Smelling obscurely of resin, he deafens
With dark silver trumpets the ancient pines!
Will he ever come back from the Cisalpines?
Soon enough! for all is bad dream and foreboding!
On the fingernail raised in the stained glass, according
To the memory of the trumpets, the old sky burns,
And to an envious candle it turns
A finger. And soon, when the sad sun sinks,
It shall pierce through the body of wax till it shrinks!
No sunset, but the red awakening
Of the last day concluding everything
Struggles so sadly that time disappears,
The redness of apocalypse, whose tears
Fall on the child, exiled to her own proud
Heart, as the swan makes its plumage a shroud
For its eyes, the old swan, and is carried away
From the plumage of grief to the eternal highway
Of its hopes, where it looks on the diamonds divine
Of a moribund star, which never more shall shine!
-- Stephane Mallarme'
Hérodiade
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Thu Mid - 1am -- Democracy Now
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Thu 4pm - 6pm -- Nicole Sandler Show
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Thu 10pm - Mid -- Open Court ~~ A Selection of News, Commentary & Music chosen by Special Agent DJ Justice
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Fri 5pm - 6pm -- At the Table with Kelly Lincoln aka Roaring Girl
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Fri 7:30pm - 8pm -- CounterSpin
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Fri -- Info Warfare with Dunvegan (returning soon)]
Sat Mid - 1am -- Democracy Now
Sat 1am - 2am -- BBC World Service ~~ News Hour Update
Sat 2am - 2:30am -- Free Speech Radio News
Sat 2:30am - 3am -- CounterSpin
Sat 3am - 6am -- Blue Skies Overnight & Blue Skies Over Your Morning ~~ A Selection of News, Commentary & Music chosen by Special Agent DJ Justice
Sat 6am - 7am -- BBC World Service ~~ News Hour Update
Sat 7am - 7:30am -- CounterSpin
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8am - 9am -- Open Court ~~ A Selection of News, Commentary & Music chosen by Special Agent DJ Justice
Sat 9am - 11am -- Working Family Radio ~~ The Union Edge
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Sat 5pm - 6pm -- Equal Time Radio ~~ Progressives of the Pacific Northwest with Frank Blair and Traci Kelly
Sat 6pm - 7pm -- Driftglass & Blue Gal ~~ The Professional Left
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Blue Skies Radio also features during the day and overnight; Jim Hightower, The Green News Report, Breaking News, Media Matters, Audio of SCOTUS oral arguments, Music, Dramatic Readings, Radio Documentaries, Old Time Radio, repeats of our shows and progressive talk podcasts of your favorites.
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(Cut Stones and Arch St Ceneri, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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(Man, Girl and Broken Window Klamath Falls, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(I've pledged the minimum $150 to help heat folks in need and cook their food on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations. Navajo has an important diary posted with all the particulars. Even a small amount can work towards building the minimum. Could you please help?)
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So that explains it... !
Sunlight and Water Pitcher Muir Beach / copyright Justice Putnam
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... Or does it?
(Holy Bible and 3 in 1 Oil Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Rail Road Crossing, Sonoma California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises."
-- Horace
"Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand."
-- Charles Kingsley
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The Nature of Poetics Collapsed Outside My Window
On the third floor
Of an old stone hotel
I gaze out my window
To the night rain
Wet streets of
Mexico City.
I look down on rooftops
Built by Spaniards
And across stratum
Of TV antennae
Electric lights
And the huge domes of
Ancient cathedrals.
History is backed up
Against itself here
Like layers of
Soil and mud
One can see the edge of
Aztec excavations
Between the sleek
Exact lines
Of modern towers.
Echoing up from the street
Is the wet hiss
Of rolling tires
On wet black-top
And the more distant
Sounds of
Engines
Dogs
And voices
All fusing somehow
Into that single
Universal
Hum-drone
The chant of cities.
The Poet must be
Alone here
He must be free
And live as
The wind itself
Not bound by
The culture of society
Not restrained by taboo.
At ease to wander
In the mysterious visions
Of touching everything
Of trusting everything
Of believing everything.
The Poet must be free
To live the law
Of iguana-lazy sleep
On the hot sand
The Poet must be free
For the frenzy
Of butterfly wings
Across the cool smooth
Strange sculptured
Texture of tropical waters.
The Poet must be free
To move
To see
Free to
Merely be.
(Mexico City 1986)
© 1988 and 2004 by Justice Putnam
and Mechanisches Strophe-Verlagswesen