This should have been up earlier - I've been having endless issues uploading the damn thing. My internet connection was crap and my FTP had diabeetus.

But now here it is, episode 27 of The Swinging Wake, guaranteed to be 100% Jacko-Free!

Cha-mon!

Time now for the second ever all-soundtrack edition of The Swinging Wake.

All tunes heard herein originate from the silver screen (with a couple exceptions from the idiot box).

Pour yourself a drink. Turn off the lights. Enjoy.

Oh, and Gothball now has a logo and stencil. If you haven't been to a game, you've been missing out.

Cheers!

Here's the picture of Bob I said I'd post during the episode... Bob is the demented little black one on the right. The one on the left is Spot (my cat)...

Just play the episode. (Click on tsw_25 below.)

Violet DeMent and I are at Bats Day, mingling with the gothapotomai and wondering "just how much differnce do you think that waist-sincher is doing?"

There's a newfangled steampunk crowd emerging from the cauldron, so we're looking forward to seeing them out and about. In fact, they're going to be taking an excursion together on the Mark Twain Steamboat at 14:00.

Episode 25 is currently being recorded. Episode 24 is below, in which I discuss my feelings on Bats Day, past and present.

This episode is dropping far too late to be on track for the usual two-week installment schedule, but out of respect for Nick I felt a desire to complete and publish it sooner than originally intended. This will be the new episode until probably mid-May.

Things like this really throw reality into sharp relief, don't they?

Enjoy the episode.

R.I.P. #34

I've been so busy lately that it took days to record this episode, stealing a moment here or there when I could and the apartment happened to be empty or quiet enough to record.

I'm taking a lovely little holiday in the early part of this month, so I honestly doubt that you'll get another new episode until the beginning of May.

Violet DeMent and I will be up in the heart of Steinbeck country, breathing in the salty sea air. I've been looking forward to this for months.

Have a lovely time while I'm gone.

~Zoe

Yeah, the new episode is late. I'm not happy about it. But damn I'm busy.

Give me a day or two and I'll have something special to tide you over for the month of April.

If you are unsatisfied by this tardiness please return the unused portion for a full refund.

~Zoe Necrosis

So St. Patrick's Day is here again, and my annual tradition for this day never varies: I'll be purchasing a couple six-packs of Guiness and watching "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" followed by "The Quiet Man."

Sean Connery and Janet Munro (scene from Darby O'Gill)

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (scene from The Quiet Man)

This episode does indeed have a sharp Irish theme to it, but due to my busy schedule I had to cut it a bit short. Think of it as the Fun Size edition of The Swinging Wake.

Anyway, enjoy the show and stay away from the green beer. Drink stout.

As I write this it is six days until the release of "Watchmen" the film. I'm surprised at how much I am looking forward to the release of this adaptation, as I haven't had any enthusiasm about a current cinematic release since "The Dark Knight." I was originally skeptical about this film, the original Alan Moore work being generally considered unfilmable. But every review I've read and every second of footage I've seen suggests that this thing is right on the money.

So you can count on this: the day it comes out, March 6th, I will be there at my local theatre for my traditional "pajama matinee." What on earth is this? you may be asking. Listen to the episode and you'll understand.

The Valentine's Day Edition of The Swinging Wake brings some familiar features back into rotation: not only Tinseltown Bullshit but the beloved Ask Dr. Vertigo.

And of course, I can't help but get in on the whole Christian Bale thing.

So light some candles and enjoy this romantic episode with the one you love, living or dead.

And for those who are still confused as to how to listen straight from this website, either click on the 'Pod' icon to the left of the title or click on 'tsw_20' below.

Oh, P.S. If you want to see how the Gothball experiment is going, there's pictures and video up here.