Baixo

Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt.

Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lally of Fugazi and Sandra Coutinho of legendary Brazilian punk band Mercenárias.

Mercenárias no programa Pedidos na Noite da TV Bandeirantes

Left-to-Right : Marcelo Florentino, Sandra Coutinho, Luiza Demoro (São Paolo, Brasil)

Joe Lally (right of frame) plays bass below Guy Picciotto, who hangs from basketball hoop.

Sandra Coutinho • Mercenárias

Joe Lally • Fugazi

Original written piece on Howls Road

The siblings you didn’t know you had:

13th Floor Elevators • Os Mutantes • Neil Young • Arthur Verocai • Joni Mitchell • Caetano Veloso • Buzzcocks • The Clash • Dead Boys • Ira! • Inocentes • Cólera

Music in this episode:

16 toneladas - Noriel Vilela (small clip)

Waiting Room - Fugazi

Trio’s - Fugazi

Mercenárias - Mercenárias

Trashland - Mercenárias

Scoring under final act composed by Emily Pratt

Still - People with Bodies

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Topics, Tags and Mentions: Brazil, Brasil, Necropole Sao Paulo, Joe Lally, Fugazi, Bar do Baixo, Pinhieros, Sandra Coutinho, Mercenárias, As Mercenárias, bass, bass guitar, 13th Floor Elevators, Os Mutantes, Neil Young, Arthur Verocai, Joni Mitchell, Caetano Veloso, Buzzcocks, The Clash, Dead Boys, Ira!, Inocentes, Cólera, Berlin Wall, Punk, Brazilian Punk, battle bots, classic punk, Joe Lally interview, Mecenárias interview, music journalism, music podcast, punk journalism, punk podcast, brasil punk,subversion, death from below, bass guitar as subversive instrument, Rua Cardeal Arcoverde, Howls Road, Emily Pratt

Interlogue

A quick tour of the office.

A Tale of Two Mountains

Who gets to name things?

Two western peaks named for the confederate president work their way through a bureaucratic name-changing process.

Doso Doyabi (left) Wheeler Peak (right), Nevada: Public Domain via NPS

Da-ek dow Go-et, California

“Language deficit is attention deficit. As we further deplete our ability to name — describe particular aspects of our places — our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.” - Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

 

“Once, from eastern ocean to western ocean, the land stretched away without names. Nameless headlands split the surf; nameless lakes reflected nameless mountains; and nameless rivers flowed through nameless valleys into nameless bays. Men came at last, tribe following tribe, speaking different languages and thinking different thoughts. According to their ways of speech and thought they gave names, and in their generations laid their bones by the streams and hills they had named. But even when tribes and languages had vanished, some of those old names, reshaped, still lived in the speech of those who followed.” - George R. Stewart, Names on the Land

Denali. // Photo: Tim Rains, Public Domain via National Parks Service

Irvin Jim Jr. with son - Hope Valley, CA

United States Board on Geographic Names • Nevada • California

Dr. Robert Greene ii - Article on African American opposition to Civil War Memorials • African Americans are Shaping the 2020 Elections, Especially in the South (Washington Post)

Anthony Oertle

Thomas Mitchell: article against name change

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Salted Caramel - Black Twig Pickers • Mountains - Yclept Insan

Topics, Tags and Mentions: Doso Doyabi, Da-ek dow go-et, da ek dow go et, jeff davis peak, jefferson davis peak, california, nevada, great basin national park, sentinel rock, usbgn, united states board on geographic names, nevada board on geographic names, california advisory committee on geographic names, confederate monuments, confederate name change, anthony oertle, thomas mitchell, irvin jim jr, washoe tribe, wašiw tribe, wašiw language, shoshone tribe, shoshone language, names on the land, george r stewart, landmarks, robert macfarlane, robert greene ii, Denali, Mt. McKinley, Mckinley name change, ralph regula, alaska, name change, naming mountains, naming

A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum

What is the difference between a Hobo, a Tramp, and a Bum?

Em Jiang and I head down to the train yard to ask around.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO BUT SOMETIMES THAT LINE MOVES, THEN BLURS.

buZ Blurr • Colossus of Roads

Bill Daniel’s Who is Bozo Texino?

Em Jiang co-produced this episode and wrote + performed the poem in the middle. And a huge thanks to Luka Starmer, whose encounter with buZ in Elko Nevada, subsequent acquisition of his book, gifted to myself at the Santa Fe Hotel in packaging masquerading as a postal delivery gave me the idea to conduct the interview via USPS. Picons on me.

Further reading:

Night Ride V30 with Wes Modes / Trainhopping

Railroad Semantics by Aaron Dactyl

Whiskey Texas - Zines #2-#6

Yclept Insan · IveBeenAMillionTimesOver

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They/Them

How gender neutral language is working for non-binary people,

and how it’s developing in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Hebrew.

I started using the term Non-Binary for myself a couple years ago. I knew a few people who identified that way, but for a long time my assumptions about those words made me think they didn’t apply to me. But once I started to embrace the vocabulary, so many things began to make sense. The language directly changed the way I understood the world. And still, that language is unfamiliar to a lot of people, and it’s constantly evolving.

Guests:

Cara Nguyen - Website and Instagram

Avery Hellman - Where the World Begins

nwaobiala

Blue Broderick - Diners

Dan Everton - New Bedford lgbtq+ Archive

and Queer Arts Council of New Bedford

Dana Ysabel Dela Cruz - Website and Instagram

Em Jiang - Instagram

Jaq Victor - Vimeo • Website

Lior Gross + Eyal Rivlin - Non-binary Hebrew Project

Tuck Woodstock - Gender Reveal (Podcast)  

Also, a huge thank you to Miriam Berger whose

article for The Washington Post helped inform this episode, and to Kelsey Penrose.

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Topics, Tags and Mentions: non-binary, they/them pronouns, gender neutral pronouns, cisgender, transgender, trans rights, genderqueer, neopronouns, gender neutral pronouns in english, gender neutral pronouns in Tagalog, gender neutral pronouns in Portuguese, gender neutral pronouns in Vietnamese, Chanh, Cam pronoun, gender neutral pronouns in Hebrew, Filipinx, diaspora, gendered language, non-binary podcast, non binary podcast, nonbinary podcast, language.