Last Refuge of the Incompetent Last Refuge of the Incompetent

The Incompetent Crew is joined by special guest Josh Olson to talk about famed SF author Harlan Ellison's collection of television criticism, The Glass Teat .

Special Guest: Josh Olson

Works Cited

Harlan Ellison

Ellison YouTube

The Glass Teat

Radio Playlist

They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee

Tom Paxton - What Did You Learn In School Today

Earle Hagen - The Mod Squad

Richard Thompson - Harlan's Bounce

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mission Impossible

Three Dog Night - Dreaming Isn't Good For You

Laura Nyro - Save The Country (Single Version) (Mono)

Elyse - Simpleminded Harlequin

Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Young Folks

The Richard Davis Trio feat. Joe Beck & Jack DeJohnette - Agnewistic

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio

Frank Comstock - Adam-12

Beach Boys - Student Demonstration Time

John Denver - The Ballad of Spiro Agnew

Rangda - Spiro Agnew

Pete Atkin - Driving Through Mythical America

The Jazz Butcher - Harlan

Foodman - The end of TV

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest L.M. Bogad to get weird on China Miéville's Bas-Lag triology.

Special Guest: L.M. Bogad

Works Cited

China Miéville

China Miéville Website

Bas-Lag

Perdido Street Station

The Scar

Iron Council

Radio Playlist

Flat Earth Society - Perdido Street Blues

The Death Of Anna Karina - Every Revolution Is A Throw Of Dice

Anti-Nowhere League - Streets Of London

Plank - Khepri

Ocean Colour Scene - Policemen & Pirates

patten - Torque

The Ruffled Feathers - Blueprints For Our Failed Revolution

Benoît Pioulard - As Would A Weaver

Sound Voyage - Golden Garuda

Glok - Weaver (Edit)

Get Back Guinozzi - Police And Thieves

Paul Roland - Buccaneers

Quasi - sea shanty

The Almanac Singers - Union Train

Neutral Milk Hotel - Up And Over We Go

The Red Krayola - People Get Ready (The Train's Not Coming)

Chris Bowden - New Crobuzon

The Incompetent Crew shill for big community radio.

Works Cited

Americathon

Zap Comix

Transmetropolitan

Transhumanism

Alan Moore

From Hell

From Hell Letter

100 Great Short Stories

The World Treasury of Science Fiction

The New Prehistory

Blindsight

Orphan Black

The Glass Bead Game

Radio Playlist

Deerhoof - Come See the Duck

The Mothers of Invention - Who Needs The Peace Corps

Patti Smith - Redondo Beach

Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson, Mo Dean - Weird and Twisted Nights

Shelor Family - Big Bend Gal

Sandy Bull - Triple Ballade

Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages - Jack The Ripper

Link Wray - Jack The Ripper

Syd Barrett - Octopus

Jimmie Noone Apex Club Orchestra - King Joe

The Olivia Tremor Control - Green Typewriters 

Harvey Korman - Gold

Guided by Voices - Kicker of Elves

Sifl & Olly - Laser Eyes

Pixies - Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise

Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown

Sugar Candy Mountain - Echopraxia

Greg Vandike - Clone

James Blackshaw - Fix

They Might Be Giants - Fingertips: Everything Is Catching on Fire

They Might Be Giants - Fingertips: I Found a New Friend

I guess this is all a big joke to you?!?!

Special Guest: S.K. Meyer

Works Cited

List of Science Fiction Comedy Films

Largely Forgotten UK Sci-Fi Sitcoms

Science Fiction Comedy

Radio Playlist

Lazy Magnet - Masters Of Science Fiction

The Focus Group - The Moon Ladder

Douglas Adams - Fit The Second - The Encyclopaedia Galactica

Brian Hodgson - "The Savages" (Serial AA): Energy Escapes

Douglas Adams - Fit The Nineth - The Following Facts

Suzanne Ciani - Almay Eclipse (TV Spot)

Douglas Adams - Fit The Seventh - Modern Elevators Are Strange And Complex Entities

François de Raboix - Partout L'Electricité

Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer

The Manhattan Transfer - Trail of the Screaming Forehead

Abner Newton & Brain in Slow - ten4gv

Raymond Scott - Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

Carl Stalling - Variation on Lucky Day (1957, from “Fox Terror”)

The Woolen Men - Alien City

Buke and Gass - Horse Head Nebula

Janelle Monáe - Suite IV Electric Overture

Mouse on Mars - Parliament Of Aliens Part III

Flaming Lips - The Distance Between Mars And The Earth (Part Two)

People Like Us - Music Of Your Own

Ennio Morricone - Ripresa L'indagine

Oval - Chronograph

MCI Players and Singers - Packard Bell TV

Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas

Miaow Miaow! - Kid's TV!

Saturday's Children - Wisconsin Electric Co.

Mowbird - The Quiet Despair Of The Starship Enterprise

Henry Solomon - Spaceship to the Darkside

AtomTM & Masaki Sakamoto - Alien's Delight (second movement)

Tom Dissevelt - Quiz Tune for VARA Television (Tunes)

DJ Q-Bert - Grandpa Wears Fat Laces, Turntable TV [Blueprint]

Arrowheads - Lifeforce Energy

Infinity Frequencies - TV People

The Advisory Circle - Erosion of Time

Tod Dockstader - Signal Powerdown

The Focus Group - Geometree Hou

Frank Bretschneider - Funkalogic

ToiToiToi - Talkoller

Karel Vlach Orchestra - Ridiculous Cuniculus

Roland Barker - Interlude

Dak - electric speed (in)

Botany - Schoolday Morning TV

Pepe Deluxé - Child Of Energy

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Children's Television Workshop

Jean-Claude Roché - Turdoides hartlaubii - Hartlaub’s Babbler

Chloé - Solarhys

Nick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra - Plus! A TV Theme Tune For The New Chief!

Bibio - Over The Far And Hills Away

The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap

The Incompetent Crew wonders what a world where Ronnie Rocket was made would look like.

Works Cited

Jodorowsky’s Dune

The Incal

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau



William Gibson Alien III Audio Drama

William Gibson Alien III Script

Ronnie Rocket Script

David Lynch, Ronnie Rocket

Radio Playlist

Brian Eno - Tutti Forgetti

David Bowie - Shadowman

Magma - Sckxyss

Zao - Atart

Alejandro Jodorowsky - Psychedelic Weapons

Dün - Arrakis (version alternative)

Richard Pinhas - Variations VII Sur Le Thème Des Bene Gesserit

Kurt Stenzel - Parallel World

Zed - Adab

Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Marlon Brando

Monty Python - Talking Science

Russ Le Roq - I Just Want To Be Like Marlon Brando

Prince & The Revolution - Movie Star

Eskaton - If

Death - You're A Prisoner

Space - Supersonic Jetplane

The Beach Boys - Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls into a Piano

Brian Wilson - Do You Have Any Regrets (I Do)

Neil Young - White Line

Dusty Springfield - Angels

Paul McCartney - PS Love Me Do

Frank Zappa - Down in de Dew

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest Prof. N. Hubble to talk about the intertwined histories of speculative fiction and socialism.

Special Guest: Professor Nick Hubble

Works Cited

How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism, Nick Hubble

Unearthing the Music

50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Every Socialist Should Read, China Miéville

Political Futurists and Radical and Utopian SF Authors

News From Nowhere

The Ministry for the Future

The City and the City, Book

The City and the City, Miniseries

Radio Playlist

Doktor Kosmos - Eurovision Socialist Contest 2001

Neon Neon - Hoops With Fidel

The Ethiopians - Socialism Train

Chumbawamba - The World Turned Upside Down

Nicolette - No Government

Hard Left - Future Perfect

Future Of The Left - Suddenly it's a Folk Song

Sydney Carter - Socialism In Our Time

Bob Hill (Fred Hellerman) - Pity The Downtrodden Landlord

Leyla McCalla - The Capitalist Blues

L-Space - Unit of Production

Puff Pieces - Object Accumulation

Art Bears - The Song of Investment Capital Overseas

Stereolab - Ping Pong

Robert Wyatt - Red Flag

Barbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist System

Gang Of Four - We Live As We Dream, Alone

Tim Heidecker - Property

Laurie Anderson - Dark Time in the Revolution