Greenwich Village Idiot for July 17, 2005

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 Network
  


• "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