In this episode Amy R. Singer, editrix of Knitty.com, and author of the new book, No Sheep For You, is our cast away for Desert Island Knits. I’m going to Wonderwool Wales! The Knit Wiki is now open for business. Check out ChristaKnits, the new knitting design-focused podcast. Decipher your knitting dreams or let Zabet do it for you. Many thanks to Ruth Homrighaus for this week’s fabulous Today’s Sweater. As always, more indie music than you can shake a pointy stick at. We got Steel drums AND Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, and … I feel human again! It’s good to be back.
KniTunes:
- KNAPSACKHEROES! – My Tubesocks
- bill – Slow Motion
- Elizabeth and the Catapult – Golden Ink
- Enter The Haggis – One Last Drink
Additional Tracks:
Intro – Back in the Saddle Again by Gene Autry
Zabet’s Dream – Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit
Desert Island Knits Theme – Brown Skin Girl by Steel Groove, from their cd Islands
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Normally, I like the talkie bits of Cast On so much that I fast forward through the music. This time, however, though the talkie bits were as wonderful as usual, the music was so good that I didn’t fast forward through one note! Here’s a big clack of the needles to you, Brenda, for your stellar music choices. Clack-Clack-Clack-Clack.
So marvelous to hear your voice-and know that this means you continue to feel better!
This new show has a very different “feel” to it than earlier ones-a bit like a variety or ensemble show. I think I’ll like it..I liked the background musics set to each piece-it added to giving more variety. I’d been thinking, “heh, maybe if a few of the community could help support Brenda, the show could keep coming out”-looks like others had that same great thought.
love it, love it, love it
Susan, in Wisconsin
Brenda, darling dear FABULOUS woman… It truly shocks me every time I hear your podcasts, because you have SUCH eclectic tastes in music and, happily enough, my own eclectic music tastes are greatly enriched by yours. I just got done listening to this ‘cast, and OMG, Enter The Haggis is CRAZY amazing! I may have to beg my partner to let me download the two albums they have on iTunes, and then beg MORE to buy the other three albums of theirs that aren’t on there! We also, evidently, share a luff of Jonathan Coulton as well, and I giggled like a madman when you played Skullcrusher Mountain (though, I would suggest First of May, but probably never on-air).
I’ve been listening to you (though I’ve never commented) for about nine months; you were my first podcast ever, and I’m seriously not anywhere near looking back! I’m deliriously happy every time I see that iTunes is downloading a new Cast On for me to enjoy. Thank you thank you thank you for all the hard work you put into this podcast. It makes my day go so much better when I have a new Cast On to get me through it.
Brenda,
Thanks for a wonderful, lively podcast. This is the first of your podcasts that I have heard, but I shall be going back to listen to all of them.
I was very sorry to hear that you had been ill. I do hope that you are much better now.
Sadly, I do think I have any Welsh in me. I live over the border in Cheshire. But both my daughters have been to University in Wales (Aberystwyth and Glamorgan), and both have a wide circle of friends there.
I love your choice of music.
Thanks yet again,
Mandy.
Brenda, Am I to understand that you reside in seattle ? If so I am looking for a shop that carries traditional Irish woolen cloaks/capes, and linen in the seattle area. do you know of any and could you please refer? Thanks in advance for you reply, Kim
Just listened to the final song in episode 46 and LOVED it. You might like Poi Dog Pondering. You can check them out at http://www.poidogpondering.com/ Poi Dog is what I listen to when I want to feel good….
Another band that I loves is The Samples http://www.thesamples.com/
I found podcasts about two months ago and I love your podcast! Keep up the great work.
-Meresa
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