Last Refuge of the Incompetent

Last Refuge of the Incompetent
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Last Refuge of the Incompetent

An eclectic journey through science fiction writing and film centered around a changing weekly theme.

  1. 05/31/2021

    The Glass Teat

    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

    1h 8m
  2. Bas-Lag

    05/22/2021

    Bas-Lag

    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

    1h 3m
  3. 2021 KCSB Fund Drive

    04/24/2021

    2021 KCSB Fund Drive

    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

    58 min
  4. The Cosmic Joke

    04/03/2021

    The Cosmic Joke

    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

    47 min
  5. Speculating on Speculative Fiction

    03/27/2021

    Speculating on Speculative Fiction

    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

    54 min
  6. Future Perfect

    01/30/2021

    Future Perfect

    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

    1h 6m
  7. Thoughts From A Tube

    01/23/2021

    Thoughts From A Tube

    The Incompetent Crew surrender to the ray. Special Guest: Jennifer Juniper Stratford Works Cited TeleFantasy Studios Shredder Orpheus Soundtrack Cathode TV Mondo Video, The Colonel Remote Control Shredder Orpheus I Was A Teenage TV Terrorist Rollerblade The Icicle Thief Liquid Dreams Split Dr. M Radio Playlist Frank Zappa & The Mothers - I'm The Slime Negativland - Why Is This Commercial? The Art Of Noise - Paranoimia (7" Mix) David Bowie - TVC15 Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On) Bow Wow Wow - (I'm A) T.V. Savage Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?! WhoMadeWho - TV Friend Roland Barker - Worm Song Black Flag - TV Party The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug Of The Nation a‐ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V. The Music Tapes - The Television Tells Us David Byrne & St. Vincent - I Should Watch TV Labelle - Medley: Somethin' In The Air / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Automatic Tasty - television

    1h 3m
  8. I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper

    01/15/2021

    I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper

    The Incompetent Crew commit bug-genocide in the name of freedom. Special Guest: S.K. Meyer Works Cited Space Marines Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers (novel) Starship Troopers (film) Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Paul Verhoeven Powered Exoskeletons Armor, John Steakley Armor 2, excerpt Aliens (film) Screamers (film) Second Variety Edge of Tomorrow Radio Playlist Billy Bragg - Like Soldiers Do Chumbawamba - Walking Into Battle With The Lord Josh White -  Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper Harpers Bizarre - Battle of New Orleans  SSgt. Bob Lay (USMC) - Marine's Ballad Blondie - The Attack Of The Giant Ants Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bunker Soldiers The Tee-Vees - War Machine Spizzenergi - Soldier Soldier Peggy Gou - Troop Tom Lehrer - It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier Thin Lizzy - Soldier Of Fortune The Walkmen - Old Forgotten Soldier Parquet Courts - Careers in Combat Minutemen - Just Another Soldier The Decemberists - The Legionnaire’s Lament  The Dog That Bit People - Tin Soldier Harp And A Monkey - The Reluctant Soldier Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock Lewski - Military Simulations

    46 min
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