The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour (That Feels Like Two Hours)

the key to keeping this show atop the podcast charts every week is that I don't overpromise / under-deliver. While the (ahem) competition offer guarantees of something truly explosive, incendiary, etc., I'm very comfortable the whole "niche" nature of this sort of thing, realizing that many of you are using this program as some sort of mood/vibe enhancement while you're pe...

"Everybody’s got something that keeps them awake at night. When you can’t tell the difference between nightmares and what’s real, that’s when you’re no good to yourself or anyone else." Thinking about the late Yaphet Kotto's work as Lieutenant Al Giardello and Smokey James. But thinking about other stuff, too. It's a long show, there's room for more than a couple of though...

Living together in close quarters is never especially easy, never mind the added pressures of pandemic-required confinement. Not everyone has the requisite patience or respect for the privacy of others to handle such situations over the long haul and for this week's show we speak with a couple of experts on the subject who've been roommates for years. There's also some music, otherw...

Getting this week’s show up and running was not without challenges, to wit, how to do so sans power, heat, internet connectivity, running water or gourmet dog food. Who amongst us has not at one time or another resorted to burning a big pile of rare records in order to stay warm?  OK, would you believe burning several boxes of sub-solvent record label overstock print?  How about MP3’s and WAV’s —...

The Desperate Bicycles famously sang, "The Medium Is Tedium" but let's spare a thought or 2 for the extra large. For the non-Mixcloud audiences on all the big fancy podcast platforms, this program is pitched as "The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour (That Feels Like Two Hours)", however, on careful reflection, this week's episode feels like three hours.  I'm not saying th...

Each year when I read about another incident featuring trucks getting “STORROWED” in Boston (ie. they’re transporting heavy goods on Storrow Drive, oblivious to the BIG SIGNS on the overpasses reading, “CLEARANCE 10” 4’, ultimately wrecking their vehicles, cargo, etc. by getting crunchola’d underneath, aka “STORROWED”), I have the same reoccurring thought : Wouldn’t it be MAGICAL if the original l...

Q : WHY DOES KYRIE IRVING PREFER DYLAN CARLSON OUT OF TUNE? A: HE BELIEVES IN A FLAT EARTH  I was thinking about a book that would combine the best of my brain with that of Peter Vecsey, but after careful reconsideration, I might have to settle for a pamphlet. Or a PDF.

Not since Pia Zadora's bought-and-paid-for 1981 award for "Best New Star" has there been a Golden Globes miscarriage of justice quite like Hollywood Foreign Press' failure to nominate "Money Plane" (dir - Andrew Lawrence) in any category. I realize most people in the entertainment world are too timid to ask the hard questions about this kind of, well, I'll say it...

 The first episode of the new year features new music from Kuzu (Dave Rempis, Tashi Dorji, Tyler Damon), the Cheater Slicks' Dana Hatch, Sarah Hennies & Andy Meyerson, Allen Ravenstine and much more...including a critical reassessment of the late Leonard Rossiter's television career. OK, not so much a critical reassessment as a gratuitous name-drop. I'm not being paid to talk.

"I go and put myself through this for your entertainment. I can barely walk and you all, you all, you all just stand there and stare at me. You, one, two, three sitting down, or you standing there. You ever think to help somebody in need, huh? Did you enjoy that? Did you enjoy watching me trying to walk up here by myself?! Hmm? And or what? Huh?! I go through all of that, all of that, for wha...

It's a tough day to focus on music given all the hoopla surrounding Mike Gravel being sworn in as the 46th President Of The United States, but somehow I'm going to manage. This week's show features new material by Model Home, White Suns, Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi, Bobby Would, Michael Beach, Auton and more. Let the healing begin #gravelicious

Of the graphic commercials for 1984’s “Silent Night, Deadly Night”, the late Gene Siskel famously declared, ““the showing of Santa with an axe on free TV in commercials is sick, and sleazy, and mean-spirited.” However, one might argue it was absolutely necessary. I’ made such an argument on this week’s show, however TriStar Pictures — a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment — ignored my reasonable requ...

As we come to the end of 2020, i can share with you my most ambitious project to date — an attempt to create a modern equivalent of Fredrick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies” for the podcast medium, this time addressing the plight of unredeemed download codes, all piled to the ceiling in the most dire of living conditions. Repeated tries at getting executives from Bandcamp, downloadthisrecord.com, dropc...

Headlines(?) were made recently when the office fixtures of Chicago dumbshit/repository Victory Records were auctioned off to the public, but what of the treasures left behind in the warehouses of San Francisco's Grr-r label? Though the imprint only released one title, 1990's seminal, 'Sebastian Speaks - Your Watchdog On A Disc', we can only speculate what sort of incredible ar...

some will tell you Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1932 adaptation of "The Most Dangerous Game" is the granddaddy of all HUNTING HUMANS motion pictures. Others prefer John Woo's "Hard Target", while some deranged individuals see the merits in the John Leguizamo comedy vehicle, "The Pest".  With full respect to all other efforts to depict jaded, vena...

  after this past weekend’s rather anticlimactic exhibition bout between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr., I convened this show’s production staff to attempt to determine which was the most memorable celebrity boxing encounter of all-time. ?As you would expect, there were nominations for Joey Buttafucco vs. the late Joanie “Chyna” Lauer, Manute Bol vs. William “Refrigerator” Perry, and most controvers...

as much as I'd like to say this special time of year is about bringing people together, the simple fact of the matter is the New England territory is not big enough for 2 GG's. In fact, it might not have been large enough for one. We can debate whether or not it is appropriate or safe to encourage family gatherings simply for the purpose of commemorating the 30th anniversary of Hector Gu...

Adaptability in an ever-changing marketplace has never been more important. I try to tell people that all the time but do they listen?  No, they just leave the doors and windows open, the cereal on the countertop, there's BEARD BITS ALL OVER THE SINK.  I mean, that's it. I've had enough. I am done babysitting these guys.  Find someone else to mastermind their next "reboot"...

PITIFUL PUNKS WITH CHUNKS (RIPPED FROM YOUR BODY) (Pep Love, 2001) for this week's program, my new producer (bottom right corner) had booked special guests Corey Worthington, Fox Alaska news reader Maria Athens and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  Unfortunately, there was some confusion over the correct time-zone with Worthington, Athens says she's been detained by Anchorage p...

much the way overzealous fans of the 1957 Cincinnati Reds stuffed the ballot box packing that year's National League All-Star team with all eight of their starting position players, this show is constantly victimized in the Mixcloud chart rankings by unscrupulous programmers and their acolytes, conspiring to fuck me out of my rightful place at the top of the rankings. Where is the Mixcloud eq...

this week's program is dedicated to the FLOP campaign of Texas Third Court Of Appeals Chief Justice Jeff Rose, who promised Central TX voters he'd not "legislate from the bench" (for fuck's sake) but used a FAKE DOG in his TV commercials. There's real dogs running all over the goddamn street and this guy goes to Toys-R-Us. FUCK HIM.  tracklist :  Sadistic Exploits - F...

In the healing business you get to a point where you ask yourself if you wanna be a Rainere or a Towle. And without question, I'd rather be a Towle. The results speak for themselves.  2 1/2 hours of exercises that will help you unleash your full potential --- putting the REAL in self-realization. music submissions : info@12XU.net things in boxes : 12XU, 3005 S. Lamar Blvd., D109-403 Austin TX...

this week's show is dedicated to the newest member of production team CSTB, Larry the slow loris. Many of you know I'm an animal lover and Larry absolutely captured my heart when I saw him caged at Austin's Pound 4 Suspicious Creatures. Unfortunately, I completed his adoption just prior to reading the recent NY Times article about slow loris' deadly venom and as a result, I&apo...