Eric's House Of Ego

I will be live on Dementia Radio from 8-midnight eastern standard time playing oddball and funny music from the depths (and I do mean depths) of my CD and record collection. This is the show that didn't happen last Saturday night. Follow the link below and tune in.

Dementia Radio

I'm almost done on the various stuff for Radio Capricon. I have to do one more gear check, which will take me a few minutes. I'm burning CDs, I like to have all the programming in several formats and ready to go if something fails. I've added new bumpers, new backgrounds and a lot of new music on the old shows. This is probably the easiest RC I have done, I'm only spinning for 9 hours, as compared to the 20 or so in previous years.

I need to update my schedule tomorrow, but everything seems to be about done. Remember to listen in next weekend. All info is at eric-coleman.com. Just click on the Radio Capricon link.

The initial schedule is up on my website

Radio Capricon is slowly getting off the ground for this year. So I am looking for ideas.

If anyone has an idea for a show, let me know. If anyone wants to record a show for the station, let me know. If anyone wants to be on the air at the Con, let me know. I can always use help. The station runs in hour increments.

But mostly I am looking for your opinion. What do you think is the greatest science fiction song of all time, and what do you think is the greatest fantasy song of all time? Inquiring minds want to know. They can be filk songs, they can be from other sources. But I want to know what you think.

For this year anyway ...

The station ran great, we had listeners all the time as far as I can tell, although I was not awake for Angel's REALLY REALLY late nights. I know that when I went to bed at 1:30 sunday morning, she still had 3 listeners.

We will be back next year, with some interesting twists that I will discuss later.

The drive back yesterday was pretty horrible. It took me almost 11 hours. Consider that I got to Iowa in the standard 2 to 2 1/2 hours, that should give you an idea how rotten the roads were in Iowa

There better not be any more friggin snow Marscon weekend.

I'm tired, back at work and ready to go back home to collapse, and perhaps get unpacked.

Oh, and a note to daisy_knotwise ... yes ... you DO want to hear sweetmusic_27 and I play Ghosts together ... we ran through it in gundo & born_to_me's room sunday night and it was lovely. She is definitely someone I have to play more with ... and lucky me, she put the whip and knife away, so I felt safe again

All in all I had a wonderful weekend, even with the minimal contact with someone who I really want to spend more time with, and the nasty drive home

Just a reminder of today's shows

10 AM - noon - My Favorite Little Festival, a report from Mahtowa - www.festivalbrew.com for information on the festival
Noon - 2pm - the great Luke Ski counts down the top 28 dementia Pirate songs. lukeski.com for more information on Luke
2pm - 4 pm - What The Filk? - Bill Roper plays 2 hours of the best in filk. filker.com for more info on Bill
4pm - 6pm - Bilgemunky Radio, the very best in Piratecore. bilgemunky.com
6pm - 8pm - That 80s Show, Eric spins two hours of his favorite 80s music, be afraid
8pm - 11pm - Bull Goose Looney, 3 hours of wacko music from Eric's collection including the dreaded Stairway To Heaven, Stairway To Hell hour
11pm - whenever, she went to almost 5 in the morning last night- The Esoteric Realm w/ Angelica Dawn, who really needs to get a website

The station is in the car, I just need to track down socks for the weekend, and I am outta here.

Radio Capricon is on the road in just a few minutes. See you at the con. And if you are not at the con you can listen at

www.dementiaradio.ORG:8050

the ORG is important since there is also a dementiaradio.com

I should be on the air around 6 this evening, but I might not be running live, just running a mix from my Ipod or some such thing.

you can also contact me on AOL Instant Messenger at radiocapricon and the schedule is can be found at eric-coleman.com/rc.html

Here it is so far.

Thursday
6:00 - 11:00 The Radio Capricon Mix
Get a preview of what you are in for as Eric wanders through the music that is getting played on the station this weekend at random.
Friday
Noon - War Of The Worlds
Radio Capricon always starts off Friday with this, no one is quite sure why. If you feel like it, ask Eric, but understand that he may answer you.
1:00 - P.D.Q. Bach
2:00 - Acoustic Madness (2 hours)
Nary an electric instrument in the bunch. For you folks with sensitive ears.
4:00 - Mad Music Dementia Top 20 with special guest DJ Particle (2 hours)
6:00 - Captain Blood
The 1937 Lux Radio Theatre Production of the greatest Pirate movie of all time. With Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Oh, and don’t get Eric started talking about Olivia, he gets a little unreasonable about her.
7:00 - Oh No, Eric’s playing whatever he wants again.
Eric delves into his massive music collection to play a bunch of stuff he likes. Be afraid, this could get ugly
9:00 - SF-Fantasy Friday Night
Another odd mix of SF/Fantasy songs from folks that might surprise you. The Beat Farmers you say? Why yes, they are on this show.
11:00 - The Esoteric Realm
Angelica Dawn guides you through a labyrinth of the best in New Age, Space, Pagan, Space, Ambient and Space
Saturday
10:00 - My Favorite Little Festival
A report from Mahtowa. Hear music from Eric’s favorite place to go play. www.festivalbrew.com.
12:00 - The Dementia Revolution
the great Lukeski brings his internet radio show to Radio Capricon, This year it is the Dementia Top 20 Pirate Songs Countdown
2:00 - What The Filk?
Two hours of the finest from the world of filk courtesy of the Secret Empire
4:00 - Bilgemunky Radio
Bilgemunky unleashes a broadside of Pirate-Core - a groundbreaking musical genre that launches the traditional sea shanty into the 21st century! While the songs are all pirate, pillaging, and rum, the music itself can range from rock and rap to punk and alternative. To learn more about Bilgemunky's weekly Pirate-Core radio show and podcast, visit www.bilgemunkyradio.com.
6:00 - That 80's Show
Skinny Hair and Big Ties (or something like that), it's 2 hours of music from that questionable decade.
8:00 - Bull Goose Looney
3 hours of wacko music, including the dreaded Stairway To Heaven Theme Block
11:00 - The Esoteric Realm
Angelica Dawn guides you through a labyrinth of the best in New Age, Space, Pagan, Space, Ambient and Space
Sunday
10:00 - F.O.E.
What does it stand for? Listen and find out.
11:00 - Go Home Already
Go Home Productions that is. Let's end the weekend with some mashups, bootlegs and remixes.
12:00 - Radio Capricon sinks beneath the waves
As the sun pulls away from the shore and our boat sinks slowly in the west, Radio Capricon signs off for another year.
The Radio Capricon staff are:
Eric Coleman
Angelica Dawn
the great Luke Ski
Bilgemunky

I am playing in Ames this Tuesday at 8 at the Ames Progressive office

I'm playing at Capricon February 15 - 5pm in the internet cafe, as well as running Radio Capricon all weekend. More information on that soon.

I am a part of The Marscon Dementia Track - February 29 - March 2. I'm playing friday night, which means you get to hear a couple of songs that I usually don't do at cons ... be afraid, this is going to be a more ... well ... let's just say that I am dipping back into my roots a little bit

I will be at Conestoga July 25-27. According to their recent new release I am playing friday night and saturday afternoon. The other musician verified is Bland Lemon Denton, (he's the guy who wrote Buddy Holly is Alive and Well and Living on Ganamede a very silly book that I dearly love).

And of course ... The Toyboat 2008 (we'll have a name for it soon) Tour

Toyboat Shows
Demicon - May 2-4
Duckon - June 13-15
Archon - October 3-5

Since Radio Capricon can be heard anywhere that there is a computer this year, what would you like to hear on Radio Capricon?

You can see the schedule from 2006 here. I don't expect to change a whole lot, but you can never tell. My entire Old Time Radio collection is currently missing, so that may get tricky.

So, ideas, comments, snarks anything?