Posted On Sunday, November 1st, 2009 By Zen Render
Hi, I have decided to join a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to prostate cancer. I’m doing this by growing a Moustache this Movember, the month formerly known as November. My commitment is to grow a moustache all November and I am hoping that you will support my efforts by making a donation. The funds raised go directly to Prostate Cancer Canada. What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men with 25,500 diagnosed and 4,400 dying from the disease each year. Facts like these have convinced me I should get involved. To make a donation, you can either: • Click this link http://ca.movember.com/mospace/273776/ and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account , or • Write a cheque payable to ‘Prostate Cancer Canada’, referencing my Registration Number 273776 and mailing it to: Prostate Cancer Canada, 145 Front Street East, Ste. 306, Toronto, ON M5A 1E3, Canada. All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Prostate Cancer Canada will use the money raised by Movember for the development of Continue Reading
Posted On Sunday, April 26th, 2009 By Zen Render
Listening to the Unknown Origins Podcast Remix Show. http://is.gd/uCps Yes that’s a plug, ’cause yes that’s MY voice in there, too. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Posted On Thursday, November 13th, 2008 By Zen Render
Arwen was going through our inbound links, and found out there’s an IT videoblog overseas (well, maybe not, maybe they’re just both English) that’s using a track (titled He Feels Guilty Now) from my first album as their closing credits. This is seriously surreal, since that track was started some time in ’97 or so, back when I was using a freakin’ DOS program to make 8-track “music” called FastTracker, and wasn’t finished until 1999, for the album “Through the Windows of the Temple.” I often wonder what the music for certain commercials or radio shows are (Johnny Vancouver and I did a whole podcast about television and movie music), but it seems the folks at www.ITIdiots.com are asked often enough that they put it on the main page of their site. Music Used By The Shows Friday, 21 December 2007 We thought that based on the number of requests we receive for information on the ITidiots show music that we would give you all the info and downloads directly from our website. Opening Credits ITidiots is by FuriousBall and called So Funky It Stinks which you can download here. Closing Credits ITidiots is by Gecko Temple and called He Continue Reading
Posted On Monday, April 14th, 2008 By Zen Render
As usual, metric schwackloads of swearing (if you’re shocked by this, I guess you haven’t heard our show before), so watch out. Here’s April’s show. Right-click to SaveAs… instead of streaming it from your browser. 01 – Talkybit 1 02 – Broad Daylight – Gabriel Rios 03 – New Violence – White Williams 04 – You Are Never Alone – Socalled 05 – Talkybit 2 06 – Hustler – Simian Mobile Disco 07 – Can You Dig It (Bullet Proof Dirty Dub) – Journey Man DJ 08 – I Go Hard, I Go Home – The Presets 09 – Talkybit 3 10 – Certified Air Raid Material – edIT 11 – Ready For The Floor – Hot Chip 12 – Burial – Archangel 13 – Talkybit 4 14 – Istanbul – The Breeders 15 – Wata (Water) F. Mutabaruka – Beat Pharmacy 16 – A&E – Goldfrapp 17 – Talkybit 5 18 – Message FromOur Sponsor – Jello Biafra 19 – Anyone Else But you – The Moldy Peaches 20 – Testy
Posted On Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 By Zen Render
89 Minutes and 50 Seconds of us talking, with the occasional song thrown in to make it seem like there’s a point to it all. Enjoy. Download here. More (faster) download links to come soon. Download from here, too. Alsoplus from Mediafire, too. Tracklist: Talkybit 1 Time to Pretend – MGMT Boy With A Coin – Iron and Wine Magic Doors – Portishead Talkybit 2 Saturated Vietnamese Radio – Orientalist Never, Never Gonna Give You Up – Cake Reasons (Saturday Night) – Faithless Talkybit 3 Run (I’m A Natural Disaster) – Gnarles Barkley Artsy – edIT (feat. The Grouch) I Got a Man – Positive K Talkybit 4 Top Drawer – Man Man Race In – Battles Reasonable Ability – General Fuzz Talkybit 5 Lust – Raveonettes Trust Me – Martina Topley-Bird OutTakes of Two Idiots Doing Soundchecks
Posted On Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 By Zen Render
Just in case you’re joining us late, there’s been 12 (or is it 13?) shows done, and the next’ll be up in a bit. Honest. Any moment now. Here’s the full list in one shot, just in case you were missing any. Show #1 – Playlist (April 06) Show #2 – Playlist (Sept 06) Show #3 – Playlist (Nov 06) Show #4 – Playlist (Jan 07) Show #5 – Playlist (Feb 07) Show #6 – Playlist (Mar 06) Show #7 – Playlist (Apr 07) Show #8 – Playlist (May 07) Show #9 – Playlist (Jun 07) Show #10 – Playlist (Jul 07) Show #11 – Playlist (Sep 07) Show #12 – Playlist (Sep 07) As always, the Podcast Category will list all shows (or notes ABOUT shows). If you’d like to automatically download shows to your iPod add the following into iTunes as a Podcast RSS url: http://www.geckotemple.com/blog/?feed=rss2
Posted On Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 By Zen Render
Another show? In LESS than 45 days? What up with THAT? Duncan was nice enough to join us for another one, and we were a little more wired (read: we’ve had a few) this time around. Covers show. Check it. Via this link right here. {Or put our RSS feed address into iTunes, and let it download automatically for ya. } 1 – Talkybit 1 2 – Toxic – Mark Ronson F. Tiggers 3 – Three Is A Magic Number – Blind Melon 4 – Love For Sale – Fine Young Cannibals 5 – Talkybit 2 6 – Heartbeats – Jose Gonzalez 7 – Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley 8 – Don’t Fear The Reaper – Jenny Pinkertone And The Bluetones 9 – Talkybit 3 10 – Happiness Is A Warm Gun – Breeders 11 – I Will Survive – Cake 12 – Love Will Tear Us Apart – Mainsqueeze Accordion Orchestra 13 – Talkybit 4 14 – Rhinestone Cowboy – Radiohead 15 – Crazy – A Random Find On Seeqpod 16 – Stairway To Heaven – Dread Zeppelin 17 – Talkybit 5 18 – Human Behaviour – Decemberists 19 – Kiss – Age Of Chance 20 – Mission Impossible Theme Continue Reading
Posted On Thursday, September 20th, 2007 By Zen Render
Here ya go. 1 – Meet Me – Nora Smith-Hisler 2 – Talkybit 1 3 – Oh My God – Mark Ronson F. Lily Allen 4 – California – Marlena Shaw 5 – Track 24 Off Duncan’s Cousins Hip Hop Compilation – Guy of the Hip Hop Genre 6 – Talkybit 2 7 – Ultimate – Gogol Bordello 8 – Purple – King Kooba Meets DJ P-Trix 9 – Can’t Stop Talking – Betty Hutton 10 – Talkybit 3 11 – Nature Of The Experiment – Tokyo Police Club 12 – Goldrush – Yello 13 – Track 4 Off Duncans Cousins Hip Hop Compilation – A Series of Samples from Other Songs That Have Been Strung Together to Make One Song in It’s Own Right 14 – Talkybit 4 15 – Kinetic Stereo Kids – Barefoot In The Rain 16 – How You Sell Soul to A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul – Public Enemy 17 – Fantastic Plastic Machine – Theme Of Luxury 18 – PiAno – Richard T. Hatch Says Round Evry Corner 19 – Talkybit 5 20 – Dead from the Waist Down – Catatonia 21 – Strma A Uzka – Susuma Yokota 22 – Continue Reading
Posted On Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 By Zen Render
Well, it happened again. We hung out for about 3 hours and ended up making show that’s about an hour and a half long. Hoo-boy do we like to hear ourselves talk. If you listen very closely though, there’s ALSO some music in there… Click HERE to start listening, or download it with your favourite podcast/rss download thingie. Oh, and you might wanna throw on some headphones, ’cause both the lyrics and the hosts resort to some swearing from time to time. Talkybit 1 Can U Dig It – Pop Will Eat Itself Protection (Breaks Mix) – Massive Attack Yin And Yang (The Flowerpot Man) – Love And Rockets Talkybit 2 I Turn My Camera On – Spoon (and the video we’re talking about is here) Fed Up And Low Down* – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion City Of Angels – The Distillers Talkybit 3 We Share Our Mother’s Health – The Knife Music Selector In The Soul Reflector – Deee-Lite Das Spiegel – Chemical Brothers Talkybit 4 Can U Keep A Secret – De La Soul Read A Book* – Bomani “D’Mite” Armah Watch Ya Mouth* – Busta Rhymes Talkybit 5 Such Great Heights – The Postal Service Legs – Continue Reading
Posted On Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 By Zen Render
So yeah, so… yeah. Song list coming shortly, but you’ll all be happy to know the categories are fixed, even though none of the OTHER podcasts MP3s are back online after our main drive exploded a few weeks back. The data’s all safe & sound, but still offline. It’ll be back up again soon, kay? Kay. Not entirely safe for work, or the faint of heart, so grab some headphones and send the kids to bed. So start listening by clicking the play button (if you see one), or clicking this. Talkybit 1 Check The OR – Organized Rhyme Pressure Drop – The Specials Hey Ya – Mat Weedle Talkybit 2 Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Patti Smith Who Am I (Animatrix Edit) – Peace Orchestra Sea Lion – Sage Francis Talkybit 3 Xltronicradio 20060118 – Mike Paradinas U-ziq Rainbowarriors – Cocorosie Where’s Johnny Sabatino – Dzihan & Kamien Talkybit 4 Icky Thump – White Stripes Parting Of The Sensory – Modest Mouse Perpetual Dawn – The Orb Talkybit 5 So Much For Everyone – Dan Mangan Body’s In Trouble – Mary Margaret O’Hara Bonus song & Easter Egg Try downloading the site from a much-faster (but might-not-be-there-any-more) Continue Reading