Nap Day

Nap Day. The Hub Radio Show for Monday July 20, 2020. View the completely refreshed playlist for 7-20-20 (CLICK HERE)

Christian Lee Hutson, A.A. Williams, Kalen & Aslyn, Bibio

Humans are monophasic sleepers, meaning that they devote one part of the day to sleep, and the other part to being awake. But there is one exception to this. Naps! And being that today is Nap Day, it's the perfect day to take one.
Naps provide numerous benefits, as long as they aren't too long. Naps that are about 10 to 30 minutes in length improve mood, alertness, and performance—both mentally and physically. The alertness that naps provide can last for a few hours time. Naps of 10 minutes in length provide the most benefit of improved cognitive performance and reduced sleepiness. Naps also provide relaxation and rejuvenation. Celebrate the day by taking a nap! In order to reap its benefits, make sure it's about 10 to 30 minutes long. It's a good idea to make sure you have a good sleep environment too, with good room temperature, and limited light and noise. Also, make sure that you aren't napping too close to the morning or evening.

Cornscateous Day

Cornscateous Day. The Hub Radio Show for Monday July 13, 2020. View the completely still playlist for 7-13-20 (CLICK HERE)

The Beths, Motion City Soundtrack, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hum

Well, as you might guess, it has to do with corn. The old almanac makers dreamed it up, we figure, and used it to signify a time in July when the air is damp and warm, which the farmers considered ideal for growing corn, but which could also pose a serious health threat to old-timers (or others) suffering from asthma, pneumonia or other respiratory ills. Those old-timers were valued work force come husking time, you understand, when every good hand was needed. Our 1805 Old Farmer's Almanac advised: "If you make a husking, keep an old man between every two boys, else your husking will turn out a loafing. In a husking there is some fun and frolic, but on the whole, it hardly pays the way; for they will not husk clean, since many go more for the sport than to do real work." You can store corn unhusked (husks still on) in the refrigerator for about two days, but the sooner you eat it, the better it will taste. Right off the stalks is about right. As Garrison Keillor put it, "Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn."

Solemnity

Solemnity. The Hub Radio Show for Monday June 29, 2020. View the completely sober playlist for 6-29-20 (CLICK HERE)

Run The Jewels, Public Enemy, The 1865, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Bob Mould

In the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or another important saint. The observance begins with the vigil on the evening before the actual date of the feast. Unlike feast days of the rank of feast (other than feasts of the Lord) or those of the rank of memorial, solemnities replace the celebration of Sundays outside Advent, Lent, and Easter (those in Ordinary Time). The word comes from postclassical Latin sollemnitas, meaning a solemnity, festival, celebration of a day.

Midsummer Day

Midsummer Day. The Hub Radio Show for Monday June 22, 2020. View the completely poetic playlist for 6-22-20 (CLICK HERE)

Country Westerns, Muzz, Mt. Joy, Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men, Jehnny Beth

Midsummer is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary among different cultures. The celebration predates Christianity, and existed under different names and traditions around the world. The wealthier sort also before their doors near to the said bonfires would set out tables on the vigils furnished with sweet bread and good drink, and on the festival days with meats and drinks plentifully, whereunto they would invite their neighbours and passengers also to sit, and to be merry with them in great familiarity, praising God for his benefits bestowed on them. These were called bonfires as well of good amity amongst neighbours that, being before at controversy, were there by the labour of others reconciled, and made of bitter enemies, loving friends, as also for the birtue that a great fire hat to purge the infection of the air. On the vigil of St John Baptist and St Peter and Paul the Apostles, every man's door being shadowed with green birch, long fennel, St John's Wort, Orpin, white lillies and such like, garnished upon with garlands of beautiful flowers, had also lamps of glass, with oil burinin in them all night, some hung branches of iron curiously wrought, containing hundreds of lamps lit at once, which made goodly show

Go Fly A Kite

Go Fly A Kite. The Hub Radio Show for Monday June 15, 2020. View the completely stress free playlist for 6-15-20 (CLICK HERE)

Bob Mould, Diet Cig, Drab City, Jeff Rosenstock, Muzz

Fly a Kite Day takes place on the anniversary of the date in 1752 when Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm, with the intent of proving that lightning was caused by a discharge of electricity (some sources say he flew his kite on June 10). His experiment led to further understanding of positive and negative charges, the proving that lightning was an electrical discharge, and to the invention of the lightning rod—which provided a safe way to discharge electricity and a way to prevent fires. Lightning rods are still used today to protect buildings, ships, and people.

Name Your Poison

Name Your Poison. The Hub Radio Show for Monday June 8, 2020. View the completely insidious playlist for 6-8-20 (CLICK HERE)

IDLES , Perfume Genius, Car Seat Headrest, Caribou

In modern parlance, “name your poison” is a phrase most commonly spoken by a bartender when they ask a patron what type of drink they are having. Name Your Poison Day is a day dedicated to making decisions and choices, whether they be among good or bad options. But, since “poison” is in the phrase, there is a negative connotation and more often than not the day is about choosing among various bad options. This is a great day to go to the bar and “name your poison”. If you are a bartender, this is the phrase you should be using all day to ask patrons what they want to drink. If you have other vices or poisons that you indulge in, today you get a free pass. If you are a smoker, go to a gas station and name what brand of cigarettes you want. Go to the most unhealthy restaurant and “name your poison” there as well. It’s okay, you can get the the double bacon cheeseburger with a side of bacon. This is also a good day to listen to 80’s hair metal band Poison, or the Alice Cooper song “Poison”. It’s a good day to watch the film Poison, or Arsenic and Old Lace

Mother Whistler

Mother Whistler. The Hub Radio Show for Monday May 18, 2020. View the completely coherent playlist for 5-18-20 (CLICK HERE)

CHAI, Chicano Batman, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, I Break Horses

Whistler’s Mother is a painting done by James McNeill Whistler. It’s actually called Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1. It was done by an American artist who resided in France. It’s kind of a somber painting with an overwhelming sense of the proper and staid. Not a whole lot of nurturing motherhood emanating from the painting but something intriguing nonetheless. I particularly like the curtains as they have so much detail and life. The severe protestant look of the woman is contrasted by the beauty and textures around her.