| Guns, Girls and Guitars featuring American actor, patriot and National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston, real life stories from the Armed Citizen column of the NRA Journal American Rifleman and WMFO's Billy Bob Neck. Special thanks go out to my friend (and NRA member) Peter Stefanou who provided the seed for this show by passing along his copies of the American Rifleman. | Dec. 15, 2009 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Here's another Plastic Sushi Halloween special with songs about devils, werewolves and other monsters, as well as candy and other sweet things... | Oct. 27, 2009 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Shonen Knife and Takkyu Ishino eponyously begin this week's theme of Gimme Some High Energy -- a two hour sound collage of bluegrass, classical, electronic, metal, punk, blues and country music... | Apr. 2, 2009 | MP3 | Playlist |
| We're kicking off the WMFO Spring 2009 Season with a theme called A Touch Too Much and songs all about fingers, hands and touching. | Jan. 29, 2009 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Here's another take on the theme of Heaven and Hell, as originally devised by Alex Kittle and Julie from WMFO's Bleeding Heart show on August 11, 2008 (here's their playlist). My version includes completely different music plus more audio clips from Richard Dawkins, Ken Ham and Charles Manson. | Dec. 5, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Evolution: I met MRI physicist and Evolution activist Ellery Schempp at a Harvard talk sponsored by the National Center for Science Education and we decided to do this show together, which includes lecture excerpts from Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins, creationist and founder of the Creation Museum Ken Ham, and the neuroscientist, author and Grammy award winning producer Daniel Levitin. | Oct. 17, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's the last show of the summer season and time to give a great big Welcome Back To School to students. | Sept. 8, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| OK, it's not a real Plastic Sushi, but I tried to channel Jamie McLaughlin's genius when I substituted for her and Chuck U on Free of Form, and then as an extra bonus, here's the Plastic Strawberries War 1.9 remix of Tangerine Dream's Tangram Set 1, featuring white supremacist William L. Pierce, the 1950s educational film How to Be Popular and excerpts from a 1932 speech by Adolph Hitler. | Aug. 22, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's the April Fool's Eve show featuring a long winded explanation of my best April Fool's work prank. | Mar. 31, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Tonight's special guest co-host Derek Gerry of Hear It Wow and I couldn't quite agree on the exact name of this theme but it's certainly SoMetHiNg SHoCkIng. | Feb. 25, 2008 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Here's Looking at You Kid was suggested by my colleague Tracy Hillman who stopped by to co-host the show as well... | Dec. 10, 2007 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's Autumn and we're Falling All Over the Place to find a reason to showcase a favorite Wendy Carlos piece. | Nov. 12, 2007 | MP3 | Playlist |
| There are so many great songs by or about Colors that we also devoted a Tears of the Gods show to this theme on November 5. | Oct. 15, 2007 | MP3 | Playlist |
| This week DJ Easy Ed and I traded timeslots and he did his take on Plastic Sushi with a theme of Done Gone Crazy while I filled in for him with a show I called Crazy Eddie's Variety Hour... | July 16, 2007 July 20, 2007 |
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| Cool Covers Great versions of songs performed by musicians other than the original artists. | Feb. 19, 2007 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's A Cold Winter Night and time once again to play the corresponding piece from Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings album along with other songs somehow related to Winter, cold and ice. | Jan. 29, 2007 | MP3 | Playlist |
| BeatleMania A HeLtEr sKelTeR mix of Beatles originals, covers and selections from their Christmas messages to fans. | Dec. 18, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's the second PSST Halloween special featuring all new music and many more technical difficulties than the first Halloween show. | Oct. 30, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Gone Too Soon This edition is co-hosted by my friend Tim Coleman, who came up with the concept of a show about musicians who died before their time and was responsible for picking all the tracks. | Oct. 23, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Coffee 'n' Smokes Bites the Dust This is a farewell pre-game tribute to long time WMFO DJ Alex Piandes' Coffee 'n' Smokes featuring some vintage garage and punk, surf, psychedelic, Japanese rockabilly and a lot of tracks from the Ultra-Lounge series, for which I am eternally grateful to Alex for turning me on to. Plus here's a link to the final 3 hour Coffee 'n' Smokes that followed. Check out the Coffee 'n' Smokes web site for more information. If you're a hardcore Alex Piandes fan, there's also our initial tribute to Coffee 'n' Smokes on December 5, 2005 below... | Sept. 18, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Tears Of The Gods: Let's Rock This actually isn't a PSST theme, but a prototype for a new show, alternating with PSST on WMFO this fall... | Sept. 11, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Ain't That Precious Songs about diamonds, rubies, sapphires, gold, silver and money. The idea for this show came courtesy of Poison Ivy, a.k.a. Mrs. DJ Easy Ed, who himself even stopped by to contribute a few songs to the mix. | Sept. 4, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| North, East, West and South As usual, we go in lots of different directions during this show... | August 14, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| War Another listener suggested theme: Thank you Diane! This show commemorates the 61st anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and reflects on the continuing wars in the Middle East. | August 7, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Let's Rock There is certainly more than one way to rock when you're doing it WMFO Freeform style... | July 24, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Royal Flush Songs by or about Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks and Tens plus Jokers are wild! | July 10, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Summer It's a long holiday weekend for many, and a perfect excuse to play Summer by Wendy Carlos, so let's build a whole show around it! | July 3, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Oh My God featuring songs and sound clips courtesy of Billy Bob Neck, WMFO's most controversial DJ. | June 26, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| The World Out of Focus A tribute to The World In Focus, an international music show hosted by Fletcher School grad students Delphine Hou, Neelam Patel and Conor Politz. | June 12, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Dogs What other theme could we possibly do after our Cats show??? A PSST tribute to "man's best friend..." | June 5, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Cats of all sorts including kitties, pussycats, lions and tigers. | May 22, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Rain, Rain, Rain Please go away, and come again some other day, after all it's been raining here in Boston for a week! | May 15, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Fire Songs about fire plus the usual smorgasbord of samples from who knows where... | May 08, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Black and Blue Music about black things and music about blue things, plus audio clips from the April 26 Peace Panel discussion at Harvard Law school, featuring former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. | May 01, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Guilty Pleasures More specifically My Guilty Pleasures. He he he… | April 24, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Vegetables Songs by and about mushrooms, artichokes, potatoes, onions, corn, collard greens, peas etc. | April 17, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Spring has Sprung so we're playing music about Spring and flowers, with some thoughts about nature, science and religion from Richard Feynman and Daniel Dennett. | April 10, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Let's Get Wild and Go Crazy In this show we alternate between songs about wild things and songs about crazy things. | April 03, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Big Bands and Big Beats In addition to the classic Big Band leaders like Glenn Miller and Billy May, we feature music from orchestras around the world, plus songs with energetic percussion. | March 27, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| A Wee Bit o' the Green During this somewhat chaotic program, we play a little Irish music in honor of St. Patrick's Day, a few songs about the color Green, and music by local bands that support MassCann. We also talk to a number of guests on the air, including MassCann President Prof. Keith Saunders, local music promoter Mike C, MassCann co-founder and attorney Steve Epstein, and Fran Zecco, a medical marijuana user. | March 20, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's Time to Hit the Road This theme was suggested by my friend Tim Coleman, and features songs about cars, driving and going places. | March 13, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Got Time for a Quickie? Running fast and furious, this show has a little bit of something for everybody because every single track we play clocks in at 2 minutes or less... | March 06, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Places Songs about continents, countries, cities, towns, states and even a park and prison. | February 27, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Fruits Music by and about cherries, blueberries, bananas, mangos, strawberries, plums and my favorite ElectroClash artist, Peaches. | February 20, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's Not Quite Valentine’s Day so to celebrate we play music about that wonderful and mysterious human emotion called love as well as related feelings like lust, jealousy, revenge and obsession, plus audio clips from such 1940s and 1950s educational films as Dating Dos and Don'ts. | February 13, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Guns and Violins Songs about guns, bombs and war plus a Beethoven string quartet and Celtic fiddle music. | February 06, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Beats and Bongos Beats to pump you up and get you moving, plus plenty of interesting percussion with bongos, marimbas, xylophones, tambourines and gamelans. | January 30, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Lady Singers Songs sung by women plus some speculation about sexual differences. | January 23, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Themes Lots of fun music from movies and TV shows. | January 16, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Chuckzilla! My friend and fellow WMFO DJ Chuck U. Rosina is a great audio engineer, news reporter and producer. In this show we mix up his sonic manipulations and montages with lots of Japanese music. | January 09, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Reflections of Jimi Hendrix Songs written by Jimi Hendrix as performed by other artists, plus interviews with people who knew him. | January 03, 2006 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Chop Suey The Chinese-American dish known as Chop Suey translates as "odds and ends" and tonight we play some great songs that I haven't been otherwise able to fit into any recent themes. Our special guests are Mike Lowry and his niece Victoria, who each perform Public Service Announcements. | Dec. 26, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| What's Up with the Sun? With Winter Solstice two days away, this show is all about the Sun. | Dec. 19, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Spaced Out Music about stars, planets and the moon, plus audio excerpts from the U.S. space program, Ray Kurzweil and Timothy Leary. | Dec. 12, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist | It's Coffee N' Smokes on Plastic Sushi, Strawberries and Time! This is a tribute to Alex Piandes' longtime WMFO show Coffee N' Smokes done in the inimitable Plastic Sushi, Strawberries and Time style. Plus, here's a link to Alex's show that immediately followed, where he mixes in some Japanese Group Sounds bands from the 1960s and a few other tracks from favorite PSST albums. | Dec. 5, 2005 | MP3
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| Crimes and Intrigue Songs about criminals, cops, spies and other outlaws. | Nov. 28, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Samples Sampling is a technique used widely in music these days, which involves taking bits of recorded sound and manipulating them in various ways to make music. A rather manic host leads you through some of his favorites on this show... | Nov. 21, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Riffs Hey man, that’s a really cool riff. Can you show me how to play it? | Nov. 14, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Mammals Songs about cats, rats, dogs, pigs, horses, walruses, beavers, bunnies and elephants... | Nov. 07, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Halloween There's just no other theme possible on October 31! | October 31, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Nomimono That's Japanese for things people drink. We start off with hot chocolate and orange juice, but soon enough move on to the harder stuff... | October 24, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| In The Night With sunset at 5:59 this evening, here are songs about the night and darkness... | October 17, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Numbers Without numbers, math would be impossible! | October 10, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Don't You Dare For better or worse, things some people don't want you to do... | October 3, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Oh Baby Another show where we mix audio samples in along with the music to match our theme... | Sept. 26, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Ain't That Sweet Songs about sugar, honey, candy et al. | Sept. 19, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| MassCann Freedom Rally 2005 This show focuses on the 16th Annual Freedom Rally that took place Saturday, September 17th on the Boston Commons. Special live in-studio guests include Dr. Keith Saunders, President of MassCann and Board Member Mike C., plus a call in by author and activist Fred Hapgood. The music includes many bands that are playing the Freedom Rally and the Rally After Party. On the same topic, here are some recent MassCann Public Service Announcements produced by you know who... | Sept. 12, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Let's Have a Beach Party! Lots of surf music, plus songs about beaches, waves and swimming. | August 22, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's That 70s Show Music and occasional speech excerpts from the 1970s, plus clips from the TV show. This show was 3 hours long, and the second part is just about all music. | August 8, 2005 | MP3
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| Devil Music and Evil Words Continuing last week's experimentation mixing audio clips in with the music, this show we hear from evil people like Adolph Hitler, Richard Nixon and William Pierce... [Note: The sound quality for this show is a little off in places] | August 1, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Gods, Spirits and Other Myths featuring clips of Jerry Falwell explaining who was really to blame for 9/11: feminists, people who are pro-choice, gays, lesbians, members of the ACLU, pagans and People for the American Way... | July 25, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Cool Synths Songs with fat synthesizer patches, resonance and any other artificially interesting sounds. | July 18, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Kawashima Eigo: Compare and Contrast featuring special guest Gary Leupp, Professor of Japanese History at Tufts University (and quite a Kawashima Eigo fan *8^!)... | July 11, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| It's the 4th of July! Songs and speeches about America, Freedom and Race Relations. | July 4, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| Songs Sans Guitars Songs without guitars, except for one and the first listener who called in and identified it won a super bonus prize pack! | June 27, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
| The 1960s featuring Japanese "Group Sounds" bands plus American, British and German artists... | June 20, 2005 | MP3 | Playlist |
You can email any comments you may have on Plastic Sushi, Strawberries and Time to edward@slidingRock.com
Here's a link to one of the Acoustic Cafe spots I narrated for WMFO. Here are also some links to some other projects and ventures that Edward Beuchert is associated with. And while we're at it, here's Edward Beuchert's favorite guitar...
Oh, and by the way, if you're interested in science and engineering lectures in the Boston area, be sure to check out BostonScienceAndEngineeringLectures.com for a great list maintained by Fred Hapgood.