Weekly Weed News: San Diego Cracks Down on Medical Marijuana

While it seems the rest of the country is coming to grips with American's insatiable appetite for weed, it's use as medicine, and increasing decriminalization of the drug, San Diego law enforcement is taking upon itself to reverse the spin of the Earth on its axis:

"More than 30 people were arrested last week in San Diego on charges of illegally distributing marijuana — part of the city's crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries."

So, you may want to consider a vacation in Denver this fall...

Los Angeles - Stealing Our Water, Wasting It

Need another reason to hate Los Angeles? Here's what those people are doing with YOUR water:

"Torrents of water have been sweeping cars off streets and barbeques out of backyards as aging water pipes have been bursting at a rate of more than one a day in recent weeks."

Two states. We need two states. North and South. TWO STATES!

Huffington Post: " When Getting Beaten By Your Husband Is A Pre-Existing Condition"

I've steered fairly clear of the health care stuff, but this...

"It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition."

Ugh. Just ugh.

400 Years of Looking Down a Long, Thin Pipe (at the stars)

Don't be bored. Go look through a telescope to celebrate its anniversary:

"In late August 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his 8-power hand-built telescope to Venetian notables. (Note that the word "telescope" was actually coined in 1611, and that there were several terms such a "looker" used previously.) This won him a lifetime appointment to a university chair and raised his salary from 520 to 1000 florins per year. His built his first 3X telescope sometime in early 1609 after hearing about such "lookers" being built elsewhere in Europe."

Psionic Dehiscence - Playlist, 9/26/2009

Join the electro-skwee dance party here:

PJ Harvey / Yuri-G / Rid Of Me

Love / Alone Again Or / Forever Changes
Mrs. Queda / Babi / 7"
Donny Hathaway / Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything) / Live Soul

[[0:18]] - National Cholesterol Awareness Month

Sepalot / Surrender feat. Blu / Red Handed
Mux Mool / B’genius / Just Saying Is All
Mudd / Adventures In Bricket Wood / This is Rong Music
Chandeliers / Mr. Electric / PM
Eero Joahannes / Sumuhumus / Eero Joahannes
Operator / Ceiling / How to Make Bombs and Influence People

Ajello / Moody Bang (Dicky Trisco Re-Edit) / Moody Bang
Verto / Alice (1976) / Musiques Electroniques En France. 1974-1984

Spank Rock and Har Mar Superstar / Trick For Treat / Stainless Style Rock
Busdriver feat. Abstract Rude & Ellay Khul / Map Your Psyche / Fear Of A Black Tangent
Amon Tobin / Reanimator / Permutation
Richie August / Sippin (Original Mix) / Sippin Single
Son Lux / Wither / At War With Walls and Mazes
Randy Barracuda / Shock The Plankton / Museum Of Future Sound 2
Architeq / Babylon / Green + Gold
Jega / Recursion / Geometry

Boris / Farewell / Pink

Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins / Dollar Short / Clutch of the Tiger
Augustus Pablo / Satta Dub / King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Money Mark / Revolt Of The Octopi / Mark's Keyboard Repair
Ultramagnetic MCs / Traveling at the Speed of Thought / 12"

Simply Put, The Smell of Death is Ancient

As long as animals have lived, they have died. And as long as animals have died, they have stunk. Livescience.com reports:

"Dead ants no longer smell like live ants, for example, and the result is they get carried out of the nest," found a study presented at the bacchanal otherwise known as an American Chemical Society meeting.

Hungover interns used needles to extract juice from dead cockroaches. The least you can do is check out the findings.

Playlist: Psionic Dehiscence - September 11, 2009

Good show, I think. Give a listen.

PJ Harvey / Yuri-G / Rid Of Me
Tom Waits / I'll Take New York / Franks Wild Years
Klaatu / Subway Sub-Rosa / Klaatu

5:00 National Sewing Month (TS141)

Spartan Lover / Sex With A Woman / Skweee Tooth Unclassifiable PJ Harvey / Yuri-G
Gizmog / Gurg / Tonight
Architeq / Birds Of Prey / Gold + Green
Arpadys / All The Bass / Arpadys
Black Devil Disco Club / For Hoped / Eight Oh Eight
Jay Dee aka J Dilla / caDILLAc / Jay Stayed Paid

Wes Montgomery / A Day in the Life / A Day in the Life
Madlib / Answers / 12"
The Upsetters / Bad Luck / Africa's Blood
Monoton / Transnumerique / Four Lost Tracks: Bionic Automatonic Archeology
Scientist / Time Warp / Scientist Meets the Space Invaders
Augustus Clarke / Late Arrival / Black Foundation Dub
Prince Douglas / Tribesman Dub / Dub Roots

Tony Allen / Black Voices / Black Voices
Miles Davis / Sivad [Live] / Live Evil

Friday September 4 - OUT (no playlist)

That's it. No playlist.

Friday August 28 : Interviews and Perfomance. No Playlist

Rak Razam and Lulu Buttons joined us in the studio for an interview and to play found sounds from the Peruvian rain forest. Then Torture Memo performed. No playlist, just awesome radio.