HEY, VENUS! RADIO
HEY, VENUS! RADIO is an analog sound collage chronicling epiphanies in music, literature, plant life—and everything in between. Each episode departs with a monologue on such topics, and concludes with a curated playlist from the sound archive; featuring over an hour of tracks -from ethereal wave to Ethiopian funk & beyond.
HEY, VENUS! RADIO
Jupiter Pluvius
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...(y)our wish has been granted; the Bristly Greenbrier grows alongside each dazzling ember, by chance creating shadow puppets who whimsy across a field of red diamonds.
ingredients: magnificent musical prisms, bougainvillea care-bare binoculars, add banana and cinnamon, bark berry pails, all aboard here-to-stay flames, gallop closer winged lal khargosh, whisper in unison "the Grand Chawhee to win." An additional twirl for the Salmonberry Blossom Pixie and her research partner, Tlingit Kadjuk.
Effervescent tunes by Florist, Puma Blue and other breezy melodies from our ever expanding archive.
So let me see. This is episode number a hundred and thirty two Jupiter Pluvius and uh and other stories. I wish has been granted. Oh hello Magnificent Banana and Cinnamon. The orchids love that. He could today. He's fine. He's a good little boy. Green, little green spider. Yeah. You know, take care of me here inside the little greenhouse. I can trust them. I make sure not to get their webs too wet. But they do end up getting a little wet. I'm sorry, guys. You can still see it. It's still all there. Oh, but last night the thunder was so amazing because um more thought. Fiber optic spider webs. Oh, you called the plane. I have to. I have to get all these things up because of the seeds and berries and shit. I can I can get it down like a clear now. And I got water all over. I think it's gonna be okay though. I only have to get one of these like everything. Thank you for listening. The sun is going down. Sun is going down. We had a spot of rain this morning. Low humidity until it was like around eight in the morning. The sky was filled with those low-lying clouds. Yeah gallop closer, winged lad, cargo!
SPEAKER_06Whisper in unison, the grand trahe to win.
SPEAKER_01An additional twirl for the for the salmon berry blossom pixie and and her research partner Klingit Kaju. Treasures from above and beyond our imagination. And that's what this is all about. Yeah, anywho, Jupiter Pluvius. If you aren't familiar with this character, he is the infamous Greek god who, you know, brings the rain to famished lands. Who drenches all the glorious plant life with his, you know, very very generous, uh enchanted uh ocean, giving life to those who require oh you know, can you imagine? Can you imagine if I think about these things, you know? So what if you were let's just say what if you were the daughter of some long lost magician who is the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of a Greek god. Would that not be just well, I who knows? Uh we could all be descendants of these mystical beings in the sky. I wouldn't doubt it. I do love things that melt. Sound even. Yeah. The way sound melts over your entire senses. The meaning of life.
SPEAKER_06Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.
SPEAKER_01Anywho, what you got? I've got so whoa, candle delirium. So, West Hollywood is Sergeant Pilot ship for all these fucking yuppies. Look at 'em! Look at these yuppies. I hope I'm not one of them. Oh I will never be a yuppie. I'll never spend more than eight dollars on a parachute.
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SPEAKER_01And aside from some some poetry that uh uh I'd love to get a little carried away with at the beginning of each of our uh episodes. Wait, what but what but oh a side room? What the side from what the what the side from books?
SPEAKER_06Oh yes, we do. And if you like these, you can visit the My Book Zoo. These good batteries or bad batteries. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
SPEAKER_05That's what I want to be forever. I am like a stone. I have my dead boy.
SPEAKER_00Cell phones blow round and all phone princes once you're going to be able to do it.
SPEAKER_13Oh, the blood I would get. Just to convince you to stay. Should they have some new it's in the following? Oh, the blood I work. Just to convince you to stay. Let's have to forest always. The Christ card blesses me.
SPEAKER_10Scared you so cry by floral bedside until the telephone rang in the next room. It was ticks, ticks, dicks from the top. And you could tell he was gonna just by the way that he would speak and but stop like little cherry Being crushed between my fingers. I dropped the pits on out of floors and they echo like a toneless mouth. So I try to speak eyes where I wish I were straight on eating scraps to meat you gave me because you saw my ribs and I was dirty.
SPEAKER_12They are watching us take off each other's shirts to become the subject of their best.
SPEAKER_07What is wrong? With the life you're on makes you fall down and cry. It's a trap. Labyrinth smack. A completely random series of events. Play with me now. Play with me now. Now can I ask you a question? Can you ask? Is this all you want?
SPEAKER_02Is it all you're true? Is it all about school?
SPEAKER_07Life honors singing. A lot of pain, a lot to give away. Looks a lot like you just stand in.
SPEAKER_02Is this all the time?
SPEAKER_08If I could live across the road from a boot fair, wouldn't that be something? If I'm thin as a beanball, I can slip through the fence. I'm not here to provide a blank. I can fucking provide a blank. Our relationship. Well it's not what you think of. It's not going to be time. And don't get the bottom of the eye.
SPEAKER_09Ready and wait for the song the sideline. Air when the mist rolls through. This crystal ball that I see to run. Air when the mist rolls through. What can't you say? About even you and scrap the blood like butter. I still love you too.