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Topic: Mad Music Show #223 (Xmas IV, 2017) - Santa's Monster Bash

Started by: Stavro Arrgolus

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  01-15-21 02:06 AM  -  3 years ago

During the actual Xmas season last year, it occurred to me that I was making a final segment for a final Xmas show of the year. Therefore, the segment had to have the traditional "end of Christmas" theme and not the killer finish I had scripted for it. So all at once, the script & playlist were useless & I was screwed.

I decided to make an Xmas podcast instead. It's actually a fairly good show. Now all I have to do is record it. Not so fast, Lightning Lips, you have to wait until you feel up to it before you record it...and you never feel up to it.

This is the conundrum that derails my every show.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-18-20 03:43 PM  -  3 years ago
Here's Seg. 3 - www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=MMS-223
Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-18-20 12:59 AM  -  3 years ago

Segment 3 - Today

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The premise: 2020 sucks major portions of ass, so any Xmas shows made about what's going on now will be a massive downer for anyone in the future who hears them...assuming anyone is left to hear them - and they aren't speaking Mandarin.

The conclusion: Making a topical 2020 Xmas show is a huge mistake.

Stavro's twisted logic: Don't make a 2020 show; tell the plague to suck it by finishing the incomplete 2017 "Xmas IV" show instead. 

The show: A thoroughly bizarre hour starring Renaissance vampire "Celestra Arrgula" playing Xmas classics - all yearly Xmas Mad Music Shows end with the final Xmas show of any year featuring classic Xmas favorites - no exceptions, no excuses.


Viscount Vyslo Arrgula   Offline  -  Member  -  12-07-20 08:03 PM  -  3 years ago

Celestra Arrgula - Eisenach, Deutschland 02:00 (CET - GMT +1) 8 Dec 20

Or not. He's been persistent. Stavro insists that I make an hour of holiday hilarity and doesn't care how it's worded as long as it's "safe for work." Is that phrase important in the West? I've no idea. Damn living people and your damn topical phrases...

Ok, I give in. I'll make a show. I've evaded it for this long; I'll make the remainder of show 4 of 2017 - or whatever the hell it is. This would be so much easier if Stavro was back in America and not here with us in Eisenach. It isn't safe in America I'm told. Not for the living, anyway.

Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  11-17-20 02:53 PM  -  3 years ago

Yesterday, Aunt Celestra turned up unexpectedly here at my dad's castle in Germany where the rest of us are for the holidays. We were going to spend it at Grandpa Pious' place in San Marino, but "The Coof" had other ideas.

Both Italy where Grandpa lives and Britain where I live are locked down due to coof paranoia, so we had to escape here to Germany. Yesterday, lockdown was announced for Austria where Aunt Celestra lives, so she's suddenly our guest today and Eisenach is once again ass deep in vampires.

It's still not safe for Uncle Stavro to go home to America (unlike us, he's alive after all), so he's here with us as well. I'm thinking he's going to get Celestra to stop procrastinating & make her half of that Xmas show, so you may not have that much longer to wait for it.

Seg. 3: "You Can't Bag Santa; He's Got Red On"

Seg. 4: Gonna Find That Jesus Guy

Viscount Vyslo Arrgula   Offline  -  Member  -  11-09-20 01:58 PM  -  3 years ago

Celestra Arrgula - Innsbruck, Österreich 19:55 (CET - GMT +1) 9 Nov 20

Hello, all you living and/or "not dead yet" people out there. Young Stavro has told me of the many horrors of 2020 and that it'd be a decent gesture on my part if I made my half of this Xmas episode that I never got around to last Xmas. He sent me his playlist for it again and I've agreed to give in & make this hour of Xmas music before any of the usual vampiric festivities next month at my brother's castle in Eisenach.

I'm not really an authority on Xmas music like the old man is, but I can manage to DJ an hour of it...provided someone puts a really big bucket of nice, body temperature blood in the room with me. I'll do the rest. Merry Christmas, all you delicious walking blood banks out there...

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  01-03-20 09:30 AM  -  4 years ago

So it's like this. The 'copied song' problem on this show isn't just annoying; it's ridiculous.

There are 7 songs in this show's remaining 2 segments that copy from other 2017 Xmas shows and no less than 6 that copy from Dave's Xmas in July show earlier in that year.

Translation - we can't use any of the remaining playlist. At all. Even the segment titles have to be changed.

But do you know what doesn't have to be completely redone? Segment 5 of MMS-232, aka "Right! Stop That! It's Filth!", the indignant reaction segment for my "most offensive show ever."

So this weekend (like Celestra, I have end of year business to clear up today), I'll retake control of MMS-223 for a bit and send her a new playlist, then finally decide just how outraged the reaction in seg. 5 will be to all the filth in the first 3 hours of MMS-232.

You'll hear whichever segment gets posted first.

Viscount Vyslo Arrgula   Offline  -  Member  -  01-02-20 01:38 PM  -  4 years ago

Celestra Arrgula - Innsbruck, Österreich 19:30 (CET - GMT +1) 2 Jan 20

"Our revels now are ended..." The holidays are over, everyone's back home and the cleaning crews have begun sorting out the mess that always gets made when all of us get together for the holidays. This gives me a chance to sort out some business/paperwork.

In a few days when things have settled down, my half of MMS-223 will get recorded - or a segment of it, anyway. Stavro can then continue with that obscene "offensiveness" show of his that he insists on finishing. Perhaps segment 5 of that will be posted first; who can tell. We don't really care when the Xmas show gets completed, only that it eventually does. You can listen to it whenever. It's SFW, and that goes over well in America - or so Stavro begrudgingly says. We hope you like it.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-29-19 05:35 AM  -  4 years ago
First half complete - www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=MMS-223
Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  12-28-19 01:30 AM  -  4 years ago

All right, the Xmas blood orgy is over & I'm awake & thinking clearly again - more or less. I began recording the second segment a moment ago when I noticed there were a lot of songs copied from the other 2017 shows, not just one or two. This show won't fit in with the others if I don't change at least some of these. ...Give me another day. It's not like Celestra & I don't have until Jan. 5 to finish the show.

You know how this works.

I'm making the new show segment. It should appear at the usual time - between 2 and 6am EST (GMT -5) in the morning of 29 Dec. It's SFW, so the kids will have the crap scared out of them love it.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-26-19 02:40 PM  -  4 years ago

Bugger all! What a sloppy mess!

These are not the underground catacombs of Uncle Vyslo's castle in Germany or Grandpa Pious' Dark Age fortress above San Marino. You can't just pile up the corpses in a corner and hose all the blood off the stone floors.

We've just had an epic vampiric blood orgy of death, blood and zombie madness in a great big exposed building outside of a freaking city - I often wonder what Aunt Celestra tells the guys who have to clean all this up. Maybe she pays them off to keep it all quiet. And I thought they made a mess when they come to my place for Halloween...

Annnyway, they're all pretty much zonked out from yesterday's...activities. This show will resume when our undead friends are conscious again. Tyro's script is ready to go, but I think Celestra wants to say whatever the hell she wants during her half of the show. It'll all still be SWF, no matter what happens.

I just have to keep Celestra from playing Powerwolf tunes for bgm. She's kind of fixated on those guys. It's a Christmas show, for f*ck's sake - and aren't vampires supposed to hate werewolves? I don't get it at all.

Anyway, new segments start tomorrow...or possibly later tonight your time - depending on when everyone regains consciousness.

Viscount Vyslo Arrgula   Offline  -  Member  -  12-24-19 08:38 PM  -  4 years ago

Consul Pious Augustus Arrgolus - 0215 (GMT +1) 25 Dec 2772 A.U.C.

It's officially early Christmas morning here in Austria. My kids have all gorn orf (what a super woody phrase) down into the city to do Krampus knows what. Stavro and I are sitting here in Celestra's chalet watching the damn snow guns make new powder for the idiots who ski - that fine art of knocking down trees with your face.

With the others chowing down on some comparatively innocent victims down there, I'm going to call this now and say they've chosen to take the holiday off. This episode will have more segments posted after the "feast" and during some of the 12 upcoming days of Christmas to the exclusion of all else.

It'll be Xmas for you in about 4 hours, so I'll just say Merry Christmas to our loyal membership now.

"Pass me that bucket of blood, old man. Yeah, just put a straw in it." "Hey, daddy-o, make that Type O. Attaboy."

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-22-19 08:50 PM  -  4 years ago

It's official. I'm totally worn out from the past week's activities.

I'm going to try to get in another segment of this in before the holiday. The rest will appear sometime after that. No attempt will be made to make to finish the other Xmas show. Not this year, anyway.

When this show is complete, I go back to making segment 5 of MMS-232. In case you've forgotten, MMS-232 is the most offensive show imaginable. However, in seg. 5, there's going to be...let's just call it a mutinous revolt against all the filth in the episode. The vampires seem to have a problem with my songs about BJs and stepping in sh*t. Go figure.

Since I already know about it, I'm thinking their little protest is going to fail miserably. Whatever happens, it's going to be fun taking it apart. There'll be no censorship around here.

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Since I can't manage long shows these days, next year there will be more half hour "Mad Music Moments". Hopefully, I'll be able to string a few of them together & have some consistent shows for a change.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-18-19 09:25 AM  -  4 years ago

Segment 1 is posted - www.madmusic.com/index.aspx and it's SFW. Just for this one show.

Now...perhaps you could help solve a site problem. Look at the link above. It leads to an insecure "www.madmusic.com" page even though I copied & pasted the secure link. The site changed it to this.

I can't get a response from Wayne about this bug, but if you all mailed or messaged him, maybe, just maybe, we could get this sorted out. Thanks.

Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  12-16-19 07:11 AM  -  4 years ago

I knew it. We overdid it in town yesterday.

Uncle is still asleep (it's 13:00 here). Cthulhu knows how many days his insomnia kept him awake before. The trip yesterday was fun, but it took all the energy out of the old man. It didn't help that he stuffed himself with all those chocolate lebkuchen.

It seems he needed rest more than we thought. My half of this show is complete, and before he passed out, he wanted to make a change or 2 to it to match the other 2017 Xmas shows. When he wakes up, I'll see if we can sort this all out, but knowing Uncle Stavro, he's going to want everything "just so", so give it a day or two.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-15-19 06:32 AM  -  4 years ago

At the beginning of this thread, I said this show would begin posting segments as soon as I could get out & buy some damn food. It's done nothing but storm all week (both snow & rain), so shopping wasn't an option...and it's now been 2 months.

It would also seem that I haven't slept in nearly 2 days. Just noticed it. Apparently, so did Celestra, so I'm now at her place just outside of Innsbruck. Lots of food/sleeping pills here. Imagine that - vampires looking after the living instead of eating them. I guess Consul Pious got word to them. And no one screws with the Consul. He's called "ancient of ancients; monster of monsters" for a reason.

Tyro & Celestra are making this SFW (grumble) show, and they insist I go with them to the Christmas market down in the city today (it's noon here right now). When we get back, the show's first segment will be posted. For you, it'll arrive at the usual time - Monday morning, between 2 & 5 am EST (GMT -5). Or a bit later, depending on how stuffed with Xmas goodies I get at the aforementioned Xmas markets. 

They may be making the show, but only I can post it. It's all a bit safer that way.

Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  12-13-19 12:39 PM  -  4 years ago

My half of this show is scripted. I just have to choose bgm, collect the mp3s & record it. It all starts this weekend.

Seg. 1: 'Cause Something In This Season Simply MAKES ME WANT TO KILL!

Seg. 2: Santa's Coming And He's Gonna Kick Your Ass

Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  12-12-19 03:29 PM  -  4 years ago

Ok, I've got the hang of the old show style. It's about shorter, more frequent announces. Not much else is different. He was even using unrelated bonus tracks back then just to screw with your head. He leaves a 15 - 20 second interval after the show ends and then clobbers you with something you weren't expecting. Nothing's changed.

Now that this has been sorted out, I can start cranking out segments starting this weekend.

Be warned. This playlist isn't compatible with the other 2017 shows and there'll be a good deal of song repeating. There isn't enough time to fix that. Besides, does anyone listen to all 4 Xmas shows at once?

We've all turned up in Innsbruck at Aunt Celestra's place for Xmas. Last year, we went to Vyslo's place in Eisenach. The shows will be made here. Uncle Stavro's show will likely take well into January to complete. This happened last year as well. All the others say that "Christmas" is really the 12 days from the 25th to Jan. 5th. Who am I to gainsay thousands of years of vampiric experience?

Anyway, Uncle Stavro is here with us. He wasn't eating or feeling all that well at home, apparently. As usual, he says his show will be done "when he damn well feels up to making it." He never changes.

Tyro Arrgula   Offline  -  Editor  -  12-10-19 05:50 AM  -  4 years ago

So let me get this straight...

Uncle Stavro wants me & aunt Celestra to make a show from 2 years ago - pretending that it was made back then. That's not even the fun part. The show style was slightly different in 2017 and he wants me to imitate it. This is screwy.

The playlist he sent consists of old favorites of his. And for some inane reason, they're all SWF. There's no date on it & it's made differently than the recent format, so it must be rather old.

I guess you should prepare for an old style Mad Music Xmas Show that's SFW. ...Wait, was there ever a show like that? We're about to find out.

Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-09-19 04:12 AM  -  4 years ago

Yes. This one will be first, then the NSFW show originally planned. Both shows will be made. I won't complicate things by trying to make a 3 hour special out of show 2 or anything.

Both shows will be completed. Even if it takes until Epiphany to do it.

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TheManofmydreams:

Seeing how the final Xmas 2017 show is going to be made first, if time permitted, is there going to be at least one Christmas  MMS for 2019?

TheManofmydreams   Offline  -  Suspended  -  12-08-19 06:44 PM  -  4 years ago
Seeing how the final Xmas 2017 show is going to be made first, if time permitted, is there going to be at least one Christmas  MMS for 2019?
Stavro Arrgolus   Offline  -  Editor, MP3  -  12-08-19 11:50 AM  -  4 years ago

Time to finish what I started...2 years ago.

This will be a Mad Music Hour hosted by Tyro Arrgula first. After a while, the second hour will arrive, hosted by Celestra Arrgula. When the season ends, the combined hour shows will become the long missing MMS-223 from 12/24/2017 and fill the final hole in the TMMS show list page.

Since the show will feature 2 of the Arrgula vampires, the title will be "Santa's Monster Bash." But the most monstrous thing of all about it will be that it will be...SWF. (grumble)

Like the missing Halloween show I replaced last year, the message above the playlist will announce that the show was made this year but will claim to be from Xmas Eve 2017 - so just go along with it.

The first segment (if not the whole hour) is scheduled for later this week. Assuming I can manage to get out there into that arctic hellscape and buy some damn food.


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