The Epic of Gilgamesh on the Mess

Greetings, friends! Thank you for listening to Murphy's Magic Mess on KZUM, Lincoln's Community Radio Station, 89.3 FM, back ground music for Time Warner Cable channel 10 in Lincoln, and the streaming audio on KZUM's website every Sunday morning from 9-11 CST.

PLAY LIST FOR AUGUST 23, 2009

1. Wytches Chant - Inkubus Sukkubus - Away with the Fairies
2. Light Returning - Acoustic Ocean - Light Returning
3. Heartland - Louis Landon - Solo Piano for Peace
4. Early Rising - Anewday - Summer Reflections
5. Knight of Gold - Christopher Boscole - Presents of Angels
6. Nez Perce - Kori Linae Carothers - Trillium
7. Voyage - Juliet Lyons - My Siren Song
8. Myth - terraambient - wanderlust
9. Cosmic Blues - Lisa Hilton - Twilight & Blues
10. Suite irlandaise - Alan Stivell - Again
11. O'Neil's march/the king of the fairies - Alan Stivell - Again
12. When They Tell You (spoken word) - Thunderstorm - Witch
13. Rock the Goddess - Serpentine - Rock the Goddess
14. Deity - Wendy Rule - Deity
15. The Crown - Nuit - Mother Night
16. Morpheus - Omnia - Sine Missione
17. Spiral - Jana Runnalls - (album title not available)
18. Aradia - Inkubus Sukkubus - Wild
19. The Bull of Heaven - Tony Garone - the Epic of Gilgamesh
20. Inanna/Ishtar - Tony Garone - the Epic of Gilgamesh
21. Stapals - Hedrengarna - (album info not available, spelling may be inccorect)
22. Mars Reprise - Omnia - Sine Missione
23. Marine's Lament - Fred Small - Everything Possible
24. Before the Twilight Falls - Emerald Rose - Archives of Ages to Come
25. Hang Up and Drive - John Mitchell - the First 49 Years
26. Little Witch House - Serpentine - Rock the Goddess

Next week is Murf's birthday. She'll be playing several of her favorites and relaxing in the glow of her admiring fans and listeners. You can help her celebrate by leaving a comment on this blog wishing her a happy birthday! We've already had one listener do so even before this post was written!

Remember, you can make requests for songs or dedications by leaving comments to this blog as well. Please understand that it may take two shows before you request is played. Murf and Hyenas do not bring ALL of their music with them, but we will do our best to meet your request as quickly as possible.

You can also catch news and information regarding the Mess on our MySpace page. As soon as we get some technical glitches resolved, you may even be able to FINALLY listen to the Mess at other times. We can post the show as a "video" to the MySpace page for up to two weeks at a time. We've been trying to do that for most of the summer and keep hitting some kind of snafu with the hardware, but with the help of KZUM's staff, we think we may have solved that problem. We will let you know in a future post to the blog if and when that is taken care of.

Thank you for listening and showing your support for Murphy's Magic Mess and KZUM!
-Murf, Damon (aka Shanzi, Sir Fluffy Bunny), Eddie (aka Ed the Hyena), and Phil (aka Bonzai, Rev. Moonbeam)

Once in Time, Murphy's Magic Mess 08/09/09

Well, folks, it would seem that not only was not present the show, but my brain took a vacation and I didn't get around to doing anything with the play list until today. Almost entire week AFTER the show aired. And, it would look as if Damon's having some technical difficulties of his own getting the show recorded so he can post it to the show's MySpace page. Terribly disappointing. I shall see what I can do to assist him with that for tomorrow's show.

So, here is the play list. Remember, Murf's theme song for the show is Wytches Chant 98 by Inkubus Sukkubus. It is not listed here as this is the play list as it was sent to me by Damon:

1. Once in Time by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
2. Hoedown Jig by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
3. Present Being by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
4. Unknown - Sorry, there was a bit of confusion! :)
5. Acient Forest by Acoustic Ocean from Light Returning.
6. Nantucket by Kori Linae Carothers from Trillian.
7. Magic Garden by Marc Enfroy from Awakening
8. In a stone circle by Ian Anderson from 12 Dances with God
9. Ganesha Mantra by Larisha Stow & the Shakti Tribe from Reaching In
10. Ganesha Mantra II by Larisha Stow & the Shakti Tribe from Reaching In
11. Stolen Child by Loreena McKennitt from Night from the Alhambra
12. The Bonny Swans by Loreena McKennitt from Night from the Alhambra
13. Ordinary Day by J.P. Jones from Salvation Street
14. Blood of Eden by Peter Gabriel
15. Dragons by Anne Lister from Spreading Wings
16. Old Time Religion by Peter Seger from Peter Seger's Sing Along CD
17. Online Religion by Tom Smith from Plugged.
18. Pray your Gods by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
19. Penquin Lust by Annwn.
20. Superman Sex Life Boogie by Tom Smith from Plugged.
21. The Gate by Enigma from The Screen Behind the Mirror.
22. Push the Limits from The Screen Behind the Mirror.
23. GURU - Didn't catch it - will check with Murphy
24. God is Alive, Magick is Afoot by Buffy Saint-Marie from Unknown.

I'm not going to try to go into any show notes, as I was not there for it. But I will do my best to make up for it with tomorrow's show. Remember, tune in to listen to us at 89.3 on the FM dial in Lincoln, NE or Time Warner Cable's channel 10 in Lincoln. If you are one of our MANY online listeners, go to KZUM and click on the streaming audio. But you know that already. :D The show is EVERY Sunday at 9am CST.

Gods bless and keep your ears AND eyes on the traffic as you listen to KZUM, Lincoln's own Community Radio Station.

-Phil aka Rev Moonbeam

Sunday, July 25, 2009

Greetings everyone! I do hope you liked the show this weekend. If I may toot my horn, I thought the show was uber fantastic and very smooth....for the first time I was behind the boards for the show the WHOLE show! lol Yes, I am the crazy person who selected the majority of the music for the show this time around. A little different, but still keeping with the general theme as it is put forth by Murf. It would seem to that I a getting better at this kind of thing. :)

It was quite humorous to watch Murf AND Damon scribbling down my play list. Murf so that she can add it to the playlist archive on the website and Damon so he can use it for the MySpace page. Woot! And only about five or so pieces that were not selected by me. :) I think I did pretty good and at least one of my listeners concurs. Thanks, Stormcrow!

THE PLAYLIST:

1. Wytches Chant 98 by Inkubus Sukkubus off of Away with the Faeires
2. In the Beginning by Dragon Ritual Drummers off of The Epic: A Drum Opera
3. Otherside of the Moon by Juliet Lyons off of My Siren Song
4. Meet Me By the Standing Sgtones by Leigh Anne Hussey off of Homebrew
5. Carpe Diem by Kori Linae Carothers off of Trillium
6. Begin Again by Terri Liles Mason off of Om Gaia
7. Nocture No. 2 by Arturo Mayorga off of Cascades
8. Visionary Temples by Dean Everson & Scott Huckaby off of Healing Dreams
9. In the Between by Zingaia off of Soles on Earth
10. The Mummers Dance by Loreena McKennitt off of Book of Secrets
11. I Am the Goddess by Spiral Rhythm off of Roll of Thunder
12. Intro: Viator by Corvus Corax off of Viator
    
13. Second Sight by Glass Wolfe off of Xotica
14. Glastonbury Song by the Waterboys off of Dream Harder
15. Hey, It's Cannon by Tom Smith
16. Trans Poly U Fight Song by Tom Smith
17. Dead Gerbel Jam by Kenny Klein off of Fary Queen
18. The Howling by Within Temptation off of the Heart of Everything
19. Freaks in Love by Elton John off of Peachtree Road
20. Foliorum Viridum by Agalloch off of Of Stone, Wind and Pillar
21. Worlds Wedding by Emerald Rose off of Songs for the Night Sky
22. City Magick by Chalice and Blade off of Wild Hunt
23. Ruse Up Witches by Leigh Anne Hussey off of Homebrew
24. The Rede by Gaia Consort off of Gaia Circles

And Now For Some of the Stuff We Didn't Do:

TIDBITS AND QUOTES:

Frogs have it easy, they eat what bugs them. -- Anonymous

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

                                       -- George Eliot 

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

                                        -- Robert Frost 

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

                                        -- Kurt Vonnegut 

I was never lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

                                        --  Daniel Boone

Astrological Calendar for July 26th-August 2, 2009 – all times are Central. 

Sunday, July 26th, the Moon entered Libra this morning at 12:25am. 

Monday, July 27th, the Moon is void of coarse at 9:53pm. 

Tuesday, July 28th, the Moon enters Scorpio at 5:36am and is in its 2nd quarter at 5pm. 

Thursday, July 30th, the Moon is void of coarse at 7:54am and enters Sagittarius at 3:10pm.

Friday, July 31st, Venus enters Cancer at 8:28pm. 

Sunday, August 2nd, Pallas enters Virgo at 12:29am, the Moon is void of coarse at 12:42am and enters Capricorn at 3:08am, and Mercury enters Virgo at 6:07pm.  



Calendar of Events for July 26th-August 2nd, 2009 

Friday, July 31st, birthday of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society; date of the fabled meeting

of British witches to raise cone of power to stop Hitler's invasion in 1940. 

Saturday, August 1st, Lammas or Lughnasadh; birthday of Edward Kelley, a medium of Dr. John Dee;

anniversary of the founding of AURORA Network in the UK. 

Sunday, August 2nd, birthday of Henry Steele Olcott, co-founder of the Theosophical Society.  



Announcements: The 2nd Annual Pagan Alliance Network Yard Sale is scheduled for Friday the 31st-Sunday

the 2nd. Contact panfounders@yahoo.com for details.

The Pagan Alliance Network is hosting an open Lammas celebration on Saturday the 1st at 7pm.  Again contact

panfounders@yahoo.com for details.

Pagan-Musings, a podcast on Blog Talk Radio, will be addressing science and magic on Saturday the 1st at

10pm.  Pagan-Musings is hosted by RevKess and KaliSara and is a program for discussion of news and topics

of interest to the Pagan Community.



Tune in next week for our Lammas Celebration show.  We will be including music and songs about Harvest as

well as a reading by yours truly about Lammas.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

My most sincere apologies for being so behind on posting this blog. I have recently started back to work and I am adjusting to this new schedule. My time online has been significantly influenced by the hours that I am working. But enough with the excuses.

It would seem that I put my foot in this week with the show. Murf and Damon have elected for me to put together the music for the first half of the show AND to run the boards for at least half an hour. Well on my way to becoming a certified programmer with KZUM. Woot!

So I have been busy with planning what to play during the show. I am seriously thinking that I should just go ahead and put together enough music for the whole show and see what happens. Who knows, Murf may decide to let me sit behind the boards for the bulk of that morning. /crosses fingers and hopes/ Not sure which way I should be hoping there. LOL

Between the music selections and the other things that we would like to be doing for the program, I think I have my work cut out for me for the 26^th. I make no promises, but I plan to have our tidbits and quotes going again as well as some world holidays and a brief calendar of events. We are approaching on August and Lammas, so there is bound to be some interesting things going on in the world of Paganism and Witchcraft.

WHAT'S NEW WITH THE MESS:

• Glass Wolfe sent us a wonderful CD, you heard some of it on the show from the 19^th

• Murphy's Magic Mess is now available online. For two weeks at a time, you can listen to each program of the Mess on MySpace. You do not have to be a member to listen to the show. Visit www.myspace.com/Murphysmagickmess and click on the video feeds. (Damon was a little over zealous when he made the page and accidentally put a “k” into the mess.) As the Mess is a music show you will not be able to download the program like you would a podcast. FCC regulations and all that jazz.

• Murf is moving her website. For the last several years Murf has had a website detailing the playlists and special guests from the Mess. Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities free websites, so Murf has to move. We do not yet know where she is moving the website. Could be an extension of the MySpace page or could be something entirely different. Stay tuned for further updates.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• KZUM Grill-a-thon at Russ's Market on 17^th and Washington, Friday the 24^th and Saturday the 25^th from 11am-6pm. Come join programmers and staff from KZUM as they cook up some good old fashion burgers, hotdogs, and bratwurst and help support KZUM. This is a fund raising event for KZUM.

• The Pagan Alliance Network is hosting it's monthly Meditation and Divination Night on Saturday the 25^th at 7pm. Phil is playing host for this event. Please contact him for directions. The Meditation and Divination Night is an opportunity for people to meet, experience a guided meditation and practice with their divining skills.

• Pagan-Musings podcast is covering the Pagan Alliance Network and its history on Saturday the 25^th at 10pm CST. You can listen live at www.blogtalkradio.com/Pagan-Musings, or download the show at a later date. Join RevKess and KaliSara, the founders of PAN, as they discuss the history of PAN, current projects, and future plans.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Greetings, once again! Thank you for listening to Murphyy's Magic Mess on KZUM 89.3FM in Lincoln, NE or on the web at www.kzum.org, and Lincoln Time Warner Cable channel 10.

I am going to show the two main looks of Damon, the Pocket Pirate a.k.a. Sir Fluff. the first picture is Damon looking all cool at the microphone with his dark glasses and slicked hair. The second one is Sleepy Damon from a couple of weeks ago. Poor man came in tired off his feet, bedraggled and barely dressed - that is, he was dressed by not as dressed as Damon usually. Too bad I didn't get a picture of him in his kilt from last week! Will have to see if we can catch him in that again. Ooolahlah!

Unfortunately, I do have to be a good boy and avoid posting any pictures that could be compromising to Damon or the radio station. But that doesn't mean I can't take them! /evil grin/

As promised: Murphy's Magick Mess is now available online to listen to any time of day or night! Sometime today the new site will be totally up and running. Damon has worked out a way to put the show on MySpace.com, you do not need to have a MySpace account to access the show. We will have a brief instruction list for how to access the show for those who are not familiar with MySpace. Due to FCC regulation regarding music programs, we are only able to have the show on the site for two weeks at a time, so if you missed a program, be sure to check for it within two weeks of that date. It is being broadcast on MySpace as a video file, which means it will not be downloadable nor will you be able to put certain songs on repeat. But we will have playlists for the shows, going all the way back to the mid 1990's, when Murf took over from Cindy Clarity's Spiral Dance. There will also be a link to this blog and other related information. I am still working out some details with Damon and Murf, but we might have some rather interesting things going on with the MySpace site. So keep checking it weekly for updates other than just the show.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
Tonight, Sunday 12th, at 6pm is the Open Full Moon Circle hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for transformational Wicca at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A Street. The meet and greet portion of the evening begins at 6pm with the Circle to follow at 7pm. All are welcome and there is no charge for this event.

Thursday, July 16th, at 7pm is this month's DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class hosted by DolphinMoon Coven at Phil's apartment. This month's topic is Comparative Religions. Check-in starts at 6:30pm and meditation is at 7pm. New students or curious individuals are welcome. Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Saturday, July 18th, at 7pm is the next Discussion Group meeting for the Pagan Alliance Network, hosted by Julia in the Belmont area of Lincoln. This week's topic is Portable Altars, what are they and how do you make them? Check-in begins at 6:30 and meditation starts at 7pm. New faces are welcome! Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Sunday, July 19th, at 7pm is the DolphinMoon Coven Open New Moon Meditation and Healing Circle hosted by DolphinMoon Coven at Phil's apartment. Meet and greet session begins at 6:30 and the meditation will start at 7pm. New faces welcome! ! Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Check out the Moon Phase applet I found.

July 5, 2009

Greetings and thank you once again for listening to the Mess! We had, as usual, a very good show. Good music, fun conversation, and lots of phone calls this week. Woot!

First, we would like to thank ALL of KZUM's supports, we raised over $13K in our latest pledge drive. That is for ALL shows and ALL programmers. Congratulations to the station!

Second, we would like to thank everyone for making this 4th of July weekend a safe and exciting one! Celebrating our independence is important, but we don't want to be b lowing our fingers off or setting the neighbor's house on fire!

Third, I'd like to send a shout out to all those online listeners that we have! Cairelle in New Orleans, Gwydion and Silverowl in Massachusetts, Lauralee et al in the Denver area, and of course our overseas listeners who are too many to list! These are just a few of our online listeners. You can tap into the live streaming audio by going to the KZUM website and clicking on the microphone icon on the left side of the page. The Mess is on at 9am CST every Sunday, but there are so many other shows to fit your tastes. Explore the site while you are listening to the Mess.

We are always aquiring new music as we go. If you have any suggestions or requests, please feel free to comment here or email Phil.

Some up-and-coming things for the Mess:
At least once a month we plan to have a themed show. We've already been doing something like this for the Sabbats and other special holidays. But what we are planning is something more along the lines of featuring an artist or a style. So if you have any suggestions we would love to hear about them!

Damon is working on creating a MySpace page for the Mess that will have up-to-date playlists and video streams of our shows. Now, these will be track listing videos, not footage from the studio. Though we may through in some pictures of the three of us, our featured artists and guests. We will only be able to have each shop up for two weeks at a time to avoid issues with the FCC and the video will not be downloadable. But you will be able to catch each show for up to weeks. I'll be sure to post the link when it is up and ready!

Murf is moving her website by the end of this fall. Yahoo has decided to do away with the Geocities sites and that is where Murf has had the radio's website for the last several years. Perhaps that explains why she has stopped updating her playlist... Damon and I are helping her to move her archives over to a new site and we shall see what we can do about having special links and other services available. We do know that her playlists will be archived back as far as we can go. I believe as far back as 1996 or so. Again, as soon as we have the live link, I'll post it here for you.

And last, but not least, Phil will be on a podcast soon. Cairelle from WitchyLiving will be interviewing Phil on his involvement with the local and national Pagan communities, the Pagan Alliance Network and other issues and topics of interest. The show is scheduled to air live on Monday, August 3, 2009 at 8pm Central. There is also a chat room open during the podcast for people to talk about the show and whatever else might come to mind. As this is a podcast, it will be archived and available for download if you miss the live broadcast. Phil and Cairelle are both very excited to be doing this together.