The Greenwich Village Idiot presents the Heat Wave Edition (29:32, 20 MB)

Direct download: July_17_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed)

Music includes:

• "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - available hundreds of places, but Ultimate Collection is a nice choice
• "Hot Night," Me'Shell Ndegeocello - from Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
• "Ring of Fire," Johnny Cash - anthologized everywhere; The Essential Johnny Cash is a nice collection 
• "Summer In The City," The Lovin' Spoonful - from, e.g., Summer In The City
• "Too Darn Hot," by Cole Porter, from the musical "Kiss Me, Kate" (sung by Ella Fitzgerald on The Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 1)
• "Up The Ladder To The Roof," The Nylons - from One Size Fits All

The Joseph Mitchell article excerpt read aloud is printed in My Ears Are Bent, a collection of Mitchell's early newspaper writing.  The definitive collection of Mitchell's writing for The New Yorker is Up in the Old Hotel.

More information about Joseph Mitchell:

• Joe Mitchell - Biography from "North Carolina Writers"
• "Joe Mitchell's Secret" - excerpt from Mark Singer's Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed
• Joseph Mitchell's obituary (May 26, 1996)
• Internet Movie Database: Joe Gould's Secret

Enough gazpacho to feed your family and most of the neighbors - ingredients list only; for the instructions, you'll have to listen to the podcast:

• 6 pounds of dead-ripe Jersey tomatoes
• 3 pounds of cucumbers, peeled
• 3 pounds of young tender onions
• 3-4 large sweet peppers
• Fresh parsley and/or chives
• Fresh garlic
• Juice of four to six large lemons and/or some red wine vinegar
• Olive oil
• Coarse salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Tomato or V-8 Juice
• Tabasco sauce

The Greenwich Village Idiot presents the Cover Version Edition (37:58, 25MB)

Direct download: July_10_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed) Songs covered include:

• "Enter Sandman" (originally performed by Metallica)
• "Hot In Herre" (originally performed by Nelly)
• "I Touch Myself" (originally performed by Divinyls)
• "I Will Survive" (originally performed by Gloria Gaynor)
• "Perfect Day" (originally performed by Lou Reed)
• "Sixteen Tons" (originally performed by Merle Travis; famous version by Tennessee Ernie Ford)
• "Stayin' Alive" (originally performed by the Bee Gees)
• "Straight Outta Compton" (originally performed by N.W.A.)
• "Your Cheatin' Heart" (originally performed by Hank Williams, Sr.)

Artists performing covers include:

• Cake
• James Brown
• Johnnie Taylor
• Nina Gordon
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Pat Boone
• Scala Youth Choir
• Wang Chung

Web sites referenced include:

• Metafilter, and especially this Ask Metafilter thread
• Coverville (podcast)
• Chromewaves (blog)
• Copy, Right? (blog)
• iTunes

Direct download: July_4_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed)

Music includes:

• "4th Of July" by Aimee Mann 
• "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by Bruce Springsteen
• "All the Way from America" by Joan Armatrading
• "America the Beautiful" by Ray Charles 
• "American Tune" by Willie Nelson
• "O Superman (For Massenet)" by Laurie Anderson
• "Rednecks, White Socks And Blue Ribbon Beer" by Johnny Russell 
• "Revolution 1" by The Beatles
• "Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix
• ...and spoken word performances by Richard Pryor and the late Bill Hicks

Also: Barry discovers a way to podcast and catblog simultaneously (special subvocalizations and sound engineering courtesy of Mister Gato.)