notmovingpictures Episode 113: It Happened At The Shrine

This episode I'm talking about seeing 3 shows at The Shrine, headlined by The Dead Boys, Flipper and Agent Orange as well as all the bands that played with them, as well as making a deal with my wife for a daytrip. Have a listen here.

The Dead Boys - Ain't Nothin' To Do

Flipper - Ha Ha Ha

Agent Orange - Too Young To Die

I do not own any of the songs. All music is the property of the copywrite owners. Support the bands, go see them live.

Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpictures Episode 112: The Jesus Lizard

Spotlighted Artist - The Jesus Lizard  

Songs: Panic In Cicero, Then Comes Dudley, Gladiator

Give it a listen here.

A bit of political talk, seeing The Jesus Lizard at the 9:30 Club back in the early to mid 90s, how great their music is and more. 

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Opening music by Stationary Nomads  

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notmovingpictures Episode 111: The Molice and Seeing Henry Rollins

The episode starts off with a recap of the Henry Rollins talking show in Oklahoma City that Tommy and I saw on the 26th. It was good to talk with Tommy. There's talk about the status of my zines. Then the spotlight is on The Molice, a fantastic band from Japan that I've been into for the past 2-3 months. I speak a bit off the top of my head about the band and play 3 of their songs Rainbow, Magic and the remixed version of RiverS. Realistically I could have chosen from a large number of excellent songs and used others. They are flat out amazing. Please go listen to them on Bandcamp or Spotify. You won't be disappointed. Click the link to listen. 

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notmovingpictures Episode 109: I Get Anxious! and some Thanksgiving talk.

Talking about going back home for a Thanksgiving family reunion, the records I bought there and a zines, marvelous zines.

Find it here.

Closing music: Pinch Points - Reasons To Be Anxious

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notmovingpictures Episode 107: The Less Stress The Better

A new episode is up, as usual Podomatic doesn't play nice so I can't get the player to imbed. Follow the link if you want to listen.

Solo talking about my new position at a different work site, which has resulted in less stress and anxiety, the latest music that I've bought and some zines I'm working on. So.......the usual stuff.

Closing music: Palm Ghosts - Wide Awake And Waiting

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notmovingpictures Episode 105: Back From The Dead

After many months away, I've decided to return to podcasting. Zines that I've just finished and those that are in the planning stages are discussed as well as my mental health. Something is wrong with the code for the Podomatic player but if you click on the link below it'll take you there.

https://bit.ly/3vtZc9b

Closing music: Stationary Nomads - A Mind Is A Terrible Thing

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

I Update The Look Of The Blog Every Decade, Whether It Needs It Or Not

Guess I should update this blog since I really haven't done much to it in years. Make it more modern or at least give it a change. Lately I've had my zines reviewed in a few places and most recently it was on Seagreen Zines Youtube channel. Who knows, maybe one or two people might find their way here after wandering through the internet. Stranger things have happened.

Speaking of zines, in addition to the last issue of I'm Not From Here I Just Live Here that I just sent out, I included my first poetry zine called Does This Count? Poetry From A Non Poet. It's all haiku which is something new for me. Then I realized today that I didn't include my email or mail address much less the blog on the latest group of zines that I sent out. Kinda self-defeatist thing to do. But that is par for the course. Guess I won't expect too many hits off of that.

Talking about haiku, a few weeks back, as I explained to my wife how sometimes words just come to me, as if I was turning on a faucet, you could say inspiration hit. In less than an hour and a half I wrote 19 more haiku (what's the plural of haiku?). Some of them were even good! For whatever reason my mind started coming up with line after line. Some came fully formed with little thought. Some came a line here and a line there and not necessarily in the regular 5-7 5 haiku line order. 

Without a doubt I'm going to need to do some polishing on them but most of them will probably be in my 2nd issue of DTC. Don't groan, you don't have to read it if you don't want to. I'll still send it out to my regular people though. It's something creative and not too hard to make into a zine.

The people I send my zines to generally fall into three general categories. The first is those who trade with me. The second is those that have done something that I like. The third is the (rare) few who send me a buck or two for postage. It doesn't even matter to me if I get anything regularly from anyone. Whenever they can or if they can, if they can't that's fine. I'll keep sending them if people like them. If they hate them though, just don't tell me about it. Rejection sucks.

Anyway, back to updating the look of the blog. Seems I'll have to do some searching to figure out how to add some buttons or whatever they're called these days. I've no idea where to start. Or maybe I'll just assign it to my I.T. guy. He's only 13 years old but pretty good. Besides, he owes me, you know, for bringing him into the world and all. A bribe may be in order to sufficiently motivate him but I've an idea for that. Stay tuned.

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notmovingpictures Episode 104: Face The Music

A rambling discourse on social unrest in these covid times along with the zines I've been working on, anime and manga, a possible song and the new Bill And Ted Face The Music movie. What more do you need?

At the moment the code given by Podomatic for embedding a player does not work on this blog as it has in the past. Please go to www.notmovingpictures.podomatic.com to listen or download.

Closing music: Chris Murray Combo - Buckle Up

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

Ten For Tuesday Has Changed Podcast Hosts

Podomatic no longer hosts my music podcast, Ten For Tuesday. You can still go to the Podomatic site, I haven't deleted it, but moving forward I felt I needed something that didn't constantly give me issues and make it hard to publish a new episode.

Case in point, last night I uploaded episode 190 and even embedded a player with it here on this blog. Then I closed my laptop. When I came back and only needed to copy the link of the episode for Twitter and Facebook there was no end of problems. Podomatic now said that there was an issue and the episode couldn't be published. This was AFTER it had already been published.

Then it told me that there was a problem with the audio so I deleted it and uploaded the file again. Now Podomatic showed as if I had uploaded the file twice. Not knowing where to go with this I deleted the episode, signed out again, before signing in and trying to start all over. This time Podomatic showed as if the file was in there three times and took me way over the free hosting limit.

There were only three episodes at this point besides the one I was trying in vain to upload. Frustrated beyond belief I said the hell with it and deleted the episode once more, logged out and shut down my computer. Strangely enough, when I logged on today the episode that couldn't be published was back in draft form. That was the last straw. Once again I deleted it and started looking for another free hosting site.

This led me to Anchor. No longer am I limited by how many episodes I can have at one time. Originally, with Podomatic I was able to keep 6 or 7 episodes on at a time. Whenever I had a new one I would move the oldest to archive.org before uploading. Over time, for whatever reason, the number of episodes that could be hosted dwindled to 4.

Hopefully all of those problems are behind me. All I can say is that uploading episode 190 went smoothly and I had no issues embedding a player here on the blog as well as using the link to the page for social media.

Time will tell if I also move notmovingpictures. I am able to keep more episodes of it since it's a talking podcast and doesn't contain a lot of music. One nice bonus is that Anchor also will contact the major hosting/listening sites so that your podcast can be found more easily. So far so good. At least I'm not frustrated tonight.

Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpictures Episode 103: The March Towards Dictatorship Picks Up Speed

More rambling about the orange one and his attempts to start his own secret police and to corrupt the election process in order to stay in office. The militarization of the police and their brutality in this day. Plus I'm working on some new zines and whatever else my mind could come up with.



Closing music: The Beat featuring Ranking Roger - Good Day For Sunshine

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

Notmovingpictures Episode 101: Huge Stack Of Ziines

After a long spell of spent, well, not doing much really, notmovingpictures returns. This time around I talk about my recent move to 1st shift after not having worked it since 1995. There is talk of zines, those I have read in the recent months (Chorrada, The Ken Chronicles, Hypno Video, For The Clerisy, Friday Night In West Ealing, Rut Zine, Something For Nothing, Huckleberry, Burn Collector and Loserdom get mentioned) and some I have yet to create.

One nice thing I've been told is that some of the zines I did last Summer will be reviewed in the next issue of Xerography Debt which is awesome because I love XD. You might hear something about free classes I am taking for the iPad and uh, yeah, that's about it.

Closing music: Guided By Voices - Downer

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Older episodes can be found at www.archive.org. Just search for notmovingpictures.

Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

If You Choose Not To Decide You Still Have Made A Choice

The choices are, continue watching a movie that I’ve seen before or work on a project and actually get something creative done. For once I choose the latter. At some point before going to bed I should have the audio for two episodes of Ten For Tuesday done as well one for notmovingpictures. There is already an episode of Ten For Tuesday finished and ready to be uploaded and it will be the 1st one in over two months. For notmovingpictures it’s been even longer I think. Right now I’m just too lazy to look it up.

My stack of zines to read is almost finished, just a bit more including a forgotten one that I found buried underneath a stack of crap. Of course soon I’ll be sending out more or mine which hopefully will keep me on trading lists for those that I’ve found and like. There should be some reviews of the zines I did from earlier in the summer appearing in Xerography Debt soon. Who knows, that might lead me to more like-minded souls meandering in the world of zines.

Veteran’s Day will soon be here and that means there’s a very good chance I’ll eat myself into a food coma. To ensure this has a high likelihood of happening I’ve taken the day off from work. Look, if you’re going to do this thing then you might as well do it properly. Just think, five or six years ago I never would have gone for a single free meal. Now, I’m drawing up a plan of attack to maximize my intake of free food.

I just finished reading Burn Collector # 15 and next up is Loserdom # 24. Burn Collector was excellent. I’m typing this with the Bluetooth keyboard I purchased several months ago For my iPad and am just now getting around to using. That’s my modus operandi, go nuts thinking I just absolutely have to have something and then once I’ve acquired said object take months before actually using it.

Oh well, time to record.

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notmovingpictures Episode 100: Tulsa Zine Faire

Episode 100 finds me talking about tabling at the Tulsa Zine Faire, all of the new zines I have finished in the last two months as well as being besieged by a plethora of vehicle repairs in a short period of time. Oh, and my latest encounter with poison ivy. Can't forget about that.



Closing music: X - See How We Are

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpictures Episode 099:Mini Road Trip To See X

Yeah, the audio doesn't sound great since we were driving in Tommy's truck and I used my phone but so what. Take it or leave it, I say. Tommy and I talk about seeing X and Folk Uke at the Tower Theatre in OKC and my son John even makes a brief vocal appearance.

Closing music: X - Nausea



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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpicturres Episode 98: Zines, Collages, X and Guided By Voices

Yeah, I know, it's been a while and I've even had this episode ready for over a month. Why the delay? Because depression sucks and it's had a hold of me lately. One of the issues is a new anti-depressant that I was prescribed for insomnia as well as depression. Thing is, some of the side effects are insomnia and depression if that makes any kind of sense. Anyway, I'm in a creative mood and I need to grab it while I can.

On to episode 98 in which I talk about zines, of course. Specifically Modern Sainthood which includes a piece I wrote and Koogmo. Plus a collage done by Ryosuke Cohen in Japan that I sent in a weird little drawing to and he included it. Then I speak of not being to see X this month in Tulsa but thankfully I will see them in July in OKC. Then there is my infatuation with Guided By Voices and how I have been trying to acquire as much as I can. I do circle back around to more zine talk before closing it all up. I'll try not to take so much time for the next episode but I promise nothing. It is what it is.

Closing music: Cut Out Witch by Guided By Voices

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

Look What The Mail Brought, Modern Sainthood, Koogmo And A Collage from Ryosuke Cohen

It's amazing how receiving a few pieces of mail can change my outlook on the day and make me happy. This past Thursday that very thing happened to me. It's not as if I was sad or angry or anything along those lines but just receiving what you see below certainly made my day.

This is the cover over Modern Sainthood zine as well as a postcard of art from editor (and writer) Eva Marie Solangon. Eva did an amazing job on the artwork, the layout and the color scheme for this issue. It's such a great job that I'm going to check out her other artwork.

So if you're asking well what's so special about that it's because for the first time ever a story of mine has been published. I'm happy to have accomplished something with my writing and am looking for opportunities to do more. As a matter of fact I have two more pieces that have been accepted in other zines and am waiting to receive them.So I got that going for me.

At first I thought a brown envelope was junk mail from on of those life insurance companies pandering to anybody they could get to respond. I was about to rip it in half when "Japan" jumped out to me. It was from Ryosuke Cohen, an artist who makes collages from drawings, stamps, pictures, etc that are sent to him. Once completed he sends a copy put to each person who has contributed. My little drawing is in the lower left corner. My wife thinks we should put it in a frame and I have to agree. This collage is really cool and interesting to look at. Perhaps in the near future I'll submit something else to Mr. Cohen. As you can see he is a fantastic artist.

Lastly is Koogmo zine.When I sent out my zines in search of other zinesters wanting to trade this is one of the last to respond but it was worth the wait. This is a great zine that I want to read more of. I devoured all of the issues rapidly and it's one that I can highly recommend. I need to step my game up. Let's see what comes in the mail next. Hope it's as good as this batch.

notmovingpictures Episode 097: R.I.P. Ranking Roger

After a long time off I return to talk about the sad news of Ranking Roger passing away. Following that is an update on the lyrics I've been writing lately and how this time Aaron and I are starting to get the music and the words together faster. Then it's talk about another Zine Faire and how amazing a writer that Cassandra Khaw is, going to see Deals Gone Slack, going down the Guided By Voices rabbit hole, the Waxmasters Record Show and more.



Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: The Beat featuring Ranking Roger - A Good Day For Sunshine

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Blog: www.notmovingpictures.blogspot.com

Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpictures Episode 094: The Road Back From Rollins, Henry That Is part 2

Part two of the conversation Tommy and I had on our return trip from seeing Henry Rollins in Oklahoma City at the Tower Theatre.



Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: Rollins Band - Fall Guy

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.

notmovingpictures Episode 093: The Road Back From Rollins, Henry That Is

Tommy makes his triumphant return as we drive back from seeing Henry Rollins in Oklahoma City. We talk about the show, what he said and what it made us think about. Part two will follow soon.



Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: Rollins Band - Grip

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notmovingpictures Episode 92: Everybody Needs To Bow Down To Me

This episode finds me sharing my roadie for a day story for Laurel Aitken as well as updating my VA status, recent experiences with bad drivers and a few other things.



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Blog: www.notmovingpictures.blogspot.com

Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: Laurel Aitken - Rudi Got Married

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Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.