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This is my fifth year celebrating October’s end with a challenge originally created by DJ Ginger Snapp. Each year, inktober.com provides daily prompts to challenge artists to create 31 ink drawings in October; here, we choose one song for each prompt to build a show: https://www.mixcloud.com/reade/posts/the-inktober-2026-season-is-upon-us/
I am not the only one - see others’ shows from 2026 and past years here!: https://www.mixcloud.com/reade/playlists/inktober/
I also follow my own rule that the prompt word can’t be in the titles of tracks I pick, but I hope you can find the links for most of my selections. It’s a haphazard ride through the musical library in my brain - you may have the urge to get off occasionally, but I suggest you wait to see what’s around the next curve.
Prompts & tracklist in the comments!
WARNING: 29% Crochet World by volume. Contains trace amounts of Smash Mouth. Produced in a facility harboring the spirit of Missy Bagels.
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HAHAHA! Starting it off with Kermie in the Big Apple, then young Tony Danza... Oh, I am so here for this! 😂
Hahaha, true story - I put together the first third of this show tipsy after a long night of trick or treating where my neighbors were handing out candy to the kids and beers to the parents 🤣 - so I made some "interesting" decisions.
Also, Kermie's little speech mirrors a bit the vibe I'm getting on mixcloud these days... come back friends! 🫠 (Though I barely have time to even listen these days, so not guilting anyone!)
Know that feeling - full-time teaching vs you, and the night and the music:)))
I feel seen, haha - yes, once I get done with work and family, I'm eating further into my sleep deficit to produce any shows!
So, I'm guessing the Floppotron is the "Contraption" here. LOL!
Yes! Have you seen it!?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuCQ3u2N_A
I'm pretty sure BMOC aka @matt-conte shared that with me like two years ago, and it was the first thing that popped into my mind!
And I'm tagging @trinib in case he hasn't seen this!
damn! I've seen a couple of robot bands, but this is way more complex!
@reade I don’t even remember sending you this! Do I send you too much?
NEVER ENOUGH
INPUT, MORE INPUT!
Listening on Sonos but had to tap into yo madness to drop a ❤️. I'm glad I did because now I am slightly relieved to learn the cover art isn't a photo of shaved pubes on a flat surface 😅. Relieved, and all ears. Carry on!
DAMMIT iCAZO now you have me seeing pubes too. I feel like you could make a piece of art titled "Shaved Pubes on a Flat Surface" and get a bunch of people to pontificate on its meaning in a hipster gallery. In any case, this comment had me losing it!
..I know that I contemplated my place a vast universe--of pubes--when I first saw your the cover artwork 🤣
YASSSSSSS!!!!! 🍪💙🍪💙🍪 BRAVO!!!!
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Haha, and after your Shiny Happy People comment 🤣
What a cover! 🤯
I've definitely been trying to decide if it's wonderful or terrible... why not both? Maybe that's why I secretly love it...
Very clever! [BAKED] 😵🍃🤣
I'm not a stoner by any means, but I freakin love all of Quasimoto / Madlib's trippy mary-jane-themed hip hop... maybe because it makes me feel stoned?
This is a good song! Right in my alley. Never heard of Late Slip before? HA! SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE! I have the record version of REM singing it with The Sesame Street Gang! I'll have to play it one of these days! 🤗
I wondered if you'd heard or Late Slip - I thought you might like that one. I discovered them through their cover of Heart of Glass, but I actually like their originals better, I think: https://lateslip.bandcamp.com
Note on the cover art: The past few years I’ve used AI to produce faux pen-and-ink drawings for my Inktober cover art, but I haven’t really been feeling the AI this past year, to say the least. Thus for the cover art this year, I feature a figure that uses just a bit of ink to indicate the location of every known galaxy in the universe, at least known as of 1977. I borrowed the figure from one of Edward Tufte’s books; Tufte is very much obsessed with the proper use of ink, so it felt appropriate.
some clever stuff...I love that used used a song call WinRAR for Zip 😆And what's with Arny only doing 1 exercise then ending the lesson?? Is he getting paid by the exercise??
Thanks man! Very much appreciated - I cracked myself up with that one, so I'm glad someone else noticed! And Arny has a whole album that would surely kick my butt - I keep hoping to find it on vinyl in a dollar bin or thrift shop, but for the moment I just have to listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C09ukHjMMPo&list=PLTZgEk-BeU-hPFUXTH5OvXB32vVS8uoMU
okay ya now I have to find that to 😆
Really enjoyed this mix. Like for real.
Thanks mang. 🖤
Also, I feel like your field recording of Smash Mouth on your recent "Outside the Tape" show helped inspire some of the shenanigans here.