Paradoxal Pterodactyl

Tonight is the third show in the Undercurrent concert series at the Schlafly Tap Room, and the release of the second Undercurrent mix cassette with audio taken from last month's show.  We've realized in assembling these tasty plastic morsels that 20 minutes per side leaves a lot on the cutting room floor, and barely gives you room to stretch your leathery wings.  So starting this month we are offering a digital Side C continuing where the tape left off.  Enjoy! Tracklist: (banter) The Funs Tim Rakel meets Muck-Tet CaveofswordS (banter) The Funs Muck-Tet Chris Ward The Funs Tim Rakel (mehb remix) Dusty Fingers Performances recorded 2/27/14 at Schlafly Tap Room by Charlie Nehr. Additional recording and editing by David Bell. Undercurrent is a production of Wrong Division, Schlafly Tap Room, Paradoxal Pterodactyl, and chizmo.tv. Undercurrent #2 mixtape cassette released in conjunction with Manic Static. http://wrongdivision.blogspot.com/ http://vimeo.com/chizzardshttp://mehb.bandcamp.com/http://www.m

curated by chad, dingus, and brad.  specimens: mad at dad, denasjeh, losers make good, the night grinder, onewayness, josh meyer, icebergs, navigator, plickety plack, stress orphan, and other.

If you hadn't heard, Paradoxal Pterodactyl is participating in a special project in association with Wrong Division and Chizmo.tv called Undercurrent, a series of (FREE) monthly shows at the Schlafly Tap Room aimed at fostering communication and collaboration amongst the diverse artistic and musical scenes around St. Louis.  Each month, Joseph Hess curates a select lineup of the best experimental/noise/punk/hardcore/spoken word/comedy/etc/etc/etc performers in town, including some specially arranged collaborations that would likely never have happened otherwise.  Everything gets recorded, and then your favorite avian reptiles work their magic and edit it down to a funky mix that then will be released as a physical mixtape at the next month's show on professionally duplicated cassettes, again free for the first 100 people through the door. The first installment of this series took place on January 30th, 2014.  The second concert and release of the mixtape from the first show is tonight.  To celebrate, here is

curated by brad and dingus.  specimens: tom sanders feat. austin case, peg hulse, laura rosener, and britton dougherty, savant trigger, dankle swankoff, mad at dad, volnastar, leland p. malaria, conky, jaded evil lambs, ultraviolet, ss, the top grossing films of 1984.

have you ever wondered what "rock lobster" sounded like backwards? well now you can go ahead and scratch that off your list (presumably, you can now die happy).  it's actually kinda cool and utterly bonkers.  and if you were feeling bad about the way your life is going, now you know that this dumb shit is how dingus spends his free time.  doesn't seem so bad now, huh?

Genderqueer activist Andy Semler gave this platform address at the St. Louis Ethical Society on 11/11/2013, as part of National Transgender Awareness Week.  Recording taken from the Ethical Society podcast feed, and shared with our audience with Andy's gracious permission.   "Genderqueer people are gaining increased visibility within a society that doesn't legally recognize our existence, but we are still a minority within a minority. This talk will explore the social, economic, and health aspects of living outside the gender binary in the USA. I will also share from my own "coming of gender" story, as we begin a broader dialog: What can the humanist community do to create a society where people of all genders flourish?  Andy Semler is an active member of the LGBT Center of St Louis, the Metro Trans Umbrella Group, and the greater online community of non-binary trans and genderqueer folk everywhere." For more information on the Ethical Society of St. Louis ("A Welcoming Home For Humanists"), please visit eth

John Beabout (maybe you know his band Stonechat?) sat down at the piano on the first day of this year's edition of Noisefest at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, and gave us what was perhaps the most atypical performance of what was already an atypical festival.  He calls this piece "A Pitiful Statement".  Recorded by Dingus with his Zoom recording thingus on 11/1/2013. Be sure to check out stonechat.bandcamp.com

the eggnogs were a band from iowa city, iowa.  davelybob saw them at the way out club with the phonocaptors years and years ago.  the singer looked just like him but a head shorter, so everyone went around calling davelybob "evil sam" all night.  their record had a bunch of fun songs on it.  a lot of them were absolutely horrible to think about, just like this one.  that's right, a pterodactyl just shit down your chimney.  merry fucking christmas.

curated by dingus and chad.  specimens: community awareness alert, mr. silly man, the ghosts of pterodactyls past, lillybean, esqueleto, keith lowell jensen, touch people, unknown paris metro band, grocery guys, chad's wife, dutch smurf, baratunde, sguwtn, keith, turan, tim, tom, mad at dad, kat, guy with sax under bridge in paris

singer/songwriter/cassette impresario/friend of the show BILL TUCKER graciously gifted us this tasty morsel.  ripped by dingus straight from the tape to your ears.  it's sold out now, but there are plenty more tunes to be had at http://billtucker.net/ or http://1980recs.com/  or http://1980recs.bandcamp.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/1980records 1- weird shapes2- telephone wizard3- lamp bill tucker - guitar and vocalsjacob erwin - bass and vocalsian fullerton - drums and vocals

curated by chad, brad, and dingus.  specimens: jane, mad at dad, blair, banjo, jerry, paul, abigail, seth, sunny, adam, pseudosmile, miles davis, downtown saint louis, korn feat. downlink & charlie turner, the night grinder, effingham county fair, the icebergs, counterfeit i, karthik, more moneybags (the charlie so nice we stuck him in twice), jaded evil lambs feat. smith corona & ghostface killah, brian, bill, tim, music embryo.

For the second portion (and main event) of the evening, Darin & Tatsuya were joined by butoh dancer Vanessa Skantze, who gave a truly beautiful, haunting, and mesmerizing performance (other adjectives used that evening also included "gut-wrenching," "grotesque," and "horrifying").  Butoh, if you didn't know, is a subversive, confrontational, and often painfully awkward style of dance that emerged in post-WWII Japan after a series of student riots.  Tom Hill's video of the performance is well worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1rolN6ZnsM As before, this recording was made at Lemp Neighborhood Arts center on 10/4/2012 by Dingus with his Zoom recording thingus, and lovingly presented in 320 kbps.  See you kids at the gong show.

curated by dingus, brad, and chad.  specimens: elder statesmen, rhs musik, skarekrau radio, spelling bee, nevin, the radish king, derfsregor, fire ban'd, dave stone and brad schumacher, dweller, bambi raps, the least comma, chris wease, mad at dad, chad's neighbors, capable guy, joe kile, seth andrews, sguwtn, mort, paul, kristy, em, ladybug, miss robin, boo, thug friends.

It physically pained Dingus to sit on this snacktime so long, but we were saving it for a special occasion.  Legendary St. Louis bassist Darin Gray (Dazzling Killmen, Grand Ulena, On Fillmore, etc) and NYC-based percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (as shining an example of a man living his dream as you are likely to ever meet) unleashed this rumbling, shuddering, improvisational maelstrom a little over a year ago (10/4/2012) at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center.  Darin is currently on tour with the live production of the acclaimed public radio show Radiolab, and Tatsuya has a new record out and will be back at LNAC on 12/20 with his gong orchestra in tow.  Yes, GONG ORCHESTRA.  Put that shit on your calendar. Recorded by Dingus, with his Zoom recording thingus.  Someone (Tom Hill, I think?) also posted video of this performance at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfNa3FR_sBI

curated by chad and dingus.  specimens: franc, samantha, turan, dr. pamela gay, mark & family, alan, mimi, fraser, mr. coffee, em, the night grinder, little miss heavy legs, head of security

Adolph Bunyan & The Nazi Lumberjacks is up in this piece!  This track was a live brap by HLIC (head lumberjack in charge) Davelybob, with special guest Ra3ndy (accomplished visual artist and board game designer), and will be featured on one of the two Bunyan albums that D-Bob is currently polishing for release (and has been for quite some time now, to be honest).  Once that feat is accomplished, the AB+TNL moniker will be shelved indefinitely in favor of his new project Jaded Evil Lambs, not to mention resolving the yin/yang dichotomy that comes with simultaneously being both Davelybob and Dingus. [  whatever would our hero do without his mask?  #LOLCHAD  ;P  ] UPDATE:  Those albums were eventually released under the name Jaded Evil Lambs.  (jadedevillambs.bandcamp.com)  The Bunyan sleeps tonight.  Heil Bunyan.

Your pal and ours, one Mr. Charlie Turner  (née moneybags) doing what he does best.  This one starts with a nice throbbing, pulsing drone, and ends up in unrelenting tormented spasms of howling glitchery.  Oh my goodness, indeed.

Michael McKay, president of the Skeptical Society of St. Louis, gives a talk on the implications of psychologist Daryl Bem's research into precognition.  Recorded by Dingus at the inaugural edition of SkeptiCamp St. Louis on August 18th, 2012, held at the St. Louis Ethical Society- one of numerous SkeptiCamp events put on this summer all over the US, and thus far the largest in attendance!  The Skeptical Society of St. Louis exists to  promote critical thinking, education, and the rigorous application of the scientific method to all aspects of life.  This podcast is firmly in support of those goals.  :)  The Society regularly meets up for workshops, picnics, and the popular "Skeptics in the Pub" events. Learn more at: http://www.meetup.com/skepticalstl/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/215496350310/ http://stlouisskepticalsociety.blogspot.com/ More on Bem:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem

There's a lot of stlpunk.com nostalgia going on right now.  So here's one of Dingus's old favorites, the "Rock Star" EP by The Yellow Five.  It's peppy, catchy, sloppy fun circa 2002.  Because there's nothing more pure at heart than a high school ska band. Tracklist: 1.  My Life 2. Super Monkey Toenail Flesh 3. Same Old Line 4. Iron Curtain 5. Spontaneous Erection (full disclosure, we re-EQed this a bit for the podcast)

This four way battle royale of analog persuasion was recorded by Dingus at  the "Spend an Evening With  Tapes" event on  3.14.2012 at Floating Laboratories, which is apparently no longer a place.   Dingus misses that joint already,  and wishes he  had spent more time there.