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This week: recent addition to the BAS family Anna Kunz talks to indie rock legend Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Sentridoh, and his own solo work) about the creative process, his music, and other exciting stuff. Lou recently released a spectacular new album out Goodnight Unknown. Richard will kick himself for a long time that he wasn't there for this interview. Bad at Sports congratulates the Barlow family on the addition of a recent bundle of joy! The baby thing is catching kids, watch out. Before you realize it everyone you know will have a couple ankle biters running around. Also: Duncan talks about hugging Rashid Johnson, about whom nice things are said. Lastly, Mike B returns to sing sweet sweet music.Clipped from Wikipedia, and redundant: Lou Barlow is an American alternative rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Jackson, Michigan and Westfield, Massachusetts.

This week: Duncan leads a panel discussion on the the state of painting and current MCA exhibition Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection(which closes October 18th!) the panel consists of Artists Vera Klement and Wesley Kimler, Artletter.com's Paul Klein and exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm! Stolen liberally from the MCA website: This exhibition explores various approaches to painting and how it communicates ideas about life and art from the 1940s to the present. Arranged in a series of constellations, or groupings, the exhibition highlights for the first time the MCA Collection's particular strengths in this medium. Augmented by major works from important private collections to fill gaps in the MCA Collection and to provide examples of recent works made during the last few years, the exhibition includes work by approximately 75 of the most important artists of the last sixty years including Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Lari Pittman, Rudolf Stingel, Clare Rojas, Laura Owens, Josef Albers, Rene Magritte, Francis Bacon, Brice Marden, Caroll Dunham, Thomas Scheibitz, Jean Dubuffet, Sherrie Levine, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Sigmar Polke, Rebecca Morris, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy, among others. Featured Chicago artists include Angel Otero, Wesley Kimler, Kerry James Marshall, Judy Ledgerwood, Scott Reeder, Michelle Grabner, Marie Krane Bergman, and Vera Klement. This exhibition explores questions about the current state and future of painting by creating a dialogue with works from the past. These conversations within each section stimulate ideas about painting that are not limited to chronology or specific art historical narratives, but follow lines of thought. Within the exhibition, the constellations aim to make connections through the various interests, positions, styles, and histories that artists address within their approach to painting. For example, Constellations explores approaches to the landscape and figure, so-called "bad" painting, appropriation and collage in painting, the critique of illusion in painting, form and color, and paintings that exist in-between representation and abstraction. All of the works in this exhibition are united by the use of paint, a brush, and a support to emphasize the complex and varied manner in which artists use similar materials. This exhibition does not seek to redefine what can be considered a painting, but rather examines how it endures as a vibrant art form, more than 100 years after it was proclaimed "dead" at the advent of photography. Clearly there is no correct way, which is why painting continues to be a source of stimulating conversation and debate. From the perspective of the artist and viewer, painting is a subjective experience. This exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator.

Twin Stars: Book 2, Episode 4 - Higher Education Written and Produced by Robyn Paterson Mixed by Brushmen   Tysen and Esther travel to Versagan University on Hanna's World in search of an old associate of Sir Fawn, but what they find is a fateful encounter that will decide the lives of millions.   Starring:   Tysen- Greg Nugent Ping-An- Melissa D. Johnson Sophie- Cathy Rinella Esther- Tegan Harris Betsey- Niko Ford Tomlin- Nick Patrella Professor Rossum- Ty Konzak Lt. Kilpatrick- Nathalie van Sistine Mark- River Kanoff Henrietta- Kimlinh P. Tran   Opening Music: Beyond Infinity by Peter Chen   Closing Music: Victorious Day by Maestro Rage   Additional Music:   Backyard Boom (Nemesis Theory, newgrounds:223470) Monday Night In Seattle (Orb Gettarr, Devadata, Jesse A) Head First Into A Wall (xerochi, newgrounds:104618) Just Nasty (Kevin MacLeod) Accralate (Kevin MacLeod) Backalley Royale (Cross666, newgrounds:91580) Solo2 (Alexx Pacifici) Sunshine (Kevin MacLeod) Glorious Morning (Waterflame, newgrounds:91476) Elm (fosterCHILD16, newgrounds:95080) Ignosi (Kevin MacLeod) Evening Fall Harp Hi (Kevin MacLeod)   Sound Effects:   sounddogs.com freesound project Sound Ideas Series 6000 Sound Effects library others recorded by members of Kung Fu Action Theatre   This recording is licensed under a creative commons non-commercial share-alike license. So pass it around, please!   This story and all its characters within are copyright 2009 Robyn Paterson, all rights reserved.   For more audio adventure come to Kungfuactiontheatre.com, where theatre is spelt with an "re” at the end because that"s how it’s done with style!      

Four solid years of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!   This week we are pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!   From the Stockyard Institute’s website:   The Cafeteria Sessions   A series of lunch time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip Hop).   This series culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May 21, 2009.  

This week, Brian and Patricia talk with artist Desirée Holman about TV sitcoms, life-like baby dolls, and Dungeons & Dragons in her Oakland Home. Desirée Holman was recently awarded the 2008 SECA award by the San Francisco Modern Museum of Art, and is a currently a resident artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.