Virus-free.www.avg.com RADIO ETHER PROGRAM TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE (BURN OUT ETHER) Burn Out Amy M. Alvarez Everything is fine: a means to endure news cycles, historic cycles, menstrual cycles. This is walking home after work, crawling into bed naked. Night, quiet with snow. I am an empty bank account. I am a pylon glowing in the dark. I am a primal scream. I am not here. The body speaks first. If that doesn’t work, the mind empties: a crate of crabs scuttling toward nothingness. Authoritarianism blossoms like a corpse flower: foul men spread their stench across the globe. I remember these songs. It’s all on fire. A meteor // a virus // a bomb like a dark-eyed angel hurtles toward us. I’d like to see the ocean lap against a glacier before the end. I’d like to see the northern lights. I’d like to watch effigies of foul men burn in the desert. I’d like to be there, reel there, at the end. 1. Intro 2. Don't Beat Me Down (Gordon Lightfoot) - Gordon Lightfoot [Back Here on Earth - United Artists Records - 1968] 3. God's Own Drunk (Lord Buckley) - Jimmy Buffet [Living and Dying in 3/4 Time - Dunhill, ABC Records - 1974] 4. I Don't Need No Doctor (J. Armstead, N. Ashford, V. Simpson) - New Riders of the Purple Sage [Powerglide - Columbia - 1972] 5. talk 6. Goon Squad (Elvis Costello) - Elvis Costello and the Attractions [Armed Forces - Columbia - 1979] 7. Wilderness (Joy Division) - Joy Division [Unknown Pleasures - Factory - 1979] (2007 Remaster) 8. Killing an Arab (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst / Michael Stephen Dempsey / Robert James Smith) - The Cure [Boys Don't Cry - Fiction Records - 1980] 9. talk 10. Israel (Steven Severin / John Alexander Mcgeoch / Budgie / Sioux) - Siouxsie & the Banshees [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single - Polydor - 1980] 11. The Man Whose Head Expanded (Smith, Scanlon) - The Fall [Perverted By Language - Line Records - 1983] 12. This is Sad (Fela Ransome-Kuti) - Fela Ransome-Kuti and His Africa '70 [Fela Fela Fela - His Master's Voice - 1970] 13. talk 14. Mutiny in Heaven (Harvey, Cave) - The Birthday Party [Mutiny! - Mute, Vogue - 1983] 15. The Shepherd and the Moon (B. Bergman, E. Papathanassiou) - Aphrodite's Child [End of the World - Mercury - 1968] 16. Hey Joe (Trad., Arr. Hendrix) - Jimi Hendrix Experience [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Mono - Polydor - 1966] (mono - 2013 reissue) 17. talk 18. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) - Pink Floyd [The Wall - Harvest/EMI, Columbia/CBS - 1979] (2016 reissue) 19. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses [I Wanna Be Adored - Silvertone Records - 1989] (2018 European reissue) 20. Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon–McCartney) / Penny Lane (Lennon–McCartney) - The Beatles [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Mono - Parlophone - 1967] (mono) 21. Outro 22. Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) - Bob Dylan [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single - Columbia - 1965] (2016 2x45 RPM MFSL mono reissue) [ETHER BONUS] DJ: Charles Cicirella Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Cleveland, Ohio Artwork included ENJOY! ONWARD-FORWARD-INFINITE