PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Covering the years 2002-2003
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   The DFSX Top 100 of 2003

   Miss it? Sorry. It will appear sometime again this year.

   BUT...I asked several dozen voters to send in the answers to
   the quiz related to people listening to the countdown before
   1/9/04. 105 qualified people were sent e-mails. Only 31 responded,
   and of those, we have four winners who got the minimum 15 correct
   answers to qualify and who beat out the others (three had perfect 
   20's) vying for the same prizes as they were.

   Winners:

   James wins four Dr. Demento mp3 CDs of my choosing.
   Chachi Jones: wins the Michael Bolton CD (for his skeet shooting)
   Richard Berger: wins "The Very Best of Stan Freberg"
   Tom Monday: wins "Van Halen 3"

   All others who sent in the quiz answers got less than 10 correct,
   many of which copied the Top 10 Funny 25 of 2003 list from
   the Dr. Demento Show.

   Prizes not awarded will be carried over to the Demented Music
   Poll 2004 contest beginning in December.


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   WHY "I STILL GET DEMENTED"

   I chose the name because back in the year 2000, two of the longtime
   San Diego radio icons, John Fox, who retired to sell autos, and
   Phil Flowers, who was producing "Hooked on Trivia" on KCBQ until
   he passed away in December, co-hosted the local radio show
   about the history of San Diego's KCBQ called "I Still Q in My Car"
   making a statement that people still listened to the radio station
   long after the glory days of the "Q", which was once a top-rated
   rock-leaning Top 40 station, ended two decades ago.

   The name "I Still Get Demented" not only is a making of a statement
   that people still listen to the radio for funny songs on regular
   radio stations like they once did when they were all over Top 40 
   and for the weekly Dr. Demento show, but it's also a rebellious
   cry that people defy what the humorless radio programmers don't
   want them to listen to: music that makes people laugh and think.
   What a novel idea.

   "ISGD", with your help, will find obscure records and recent
   crazy cuts that got airplay just once on Dr. Demento and elsewhere
   and expose them worldwide on the Internet for the first time,
   getting their second chance at fame decades after they have long
   been forgotten.

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  TOO NEW TO REVIEW

  Joe Giacoio "Superman's Midlife Crisis"
  http://www.joegiacoio.com has the info.

  Cuts include "It's a Man's World", "A Man's Hair Is His Castle",
  and "Women's Clothing"

  thanks to Carla Ulbrich for the reccomendation. I'll try to get
  this album featured on the 7th or 8th November show of ISGD

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  NEW CD by DA YOOPERS

  "Songs For Fart Lovers" is the newest CD by our friends Da Yoopers,
  famous for many songs that got played over the past 15 years
  on Dr. Demento, Jim Zippo, and most everywhere else that features
  funny music. It contains 19 songs including one for Christmas,
  as well as songs like "She Loves to Fart", "Pucker and Smell,"
  "I'm a Turd", "A Fart Can Be a Friend", and more.

  http://www.dayoopers.com

  It's the first complete album of "all original" songs about farting,
  songs that speak the true essence of farts and asks these age
  old questions: Where do farts come from? Why don't you ever hear
  your Mother fart? If you fart in church, will you go to hell?
  And other questions as it says in the press kit.

  "Songs For Fart Lovers" by Da Yoopers available now, and will be
  showing up on DFSX Comedy Radio shortly.

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   NEW CD by THE KWIFFS

   "The New Fred Gwynne" is the latest production of The Kwiffs.
   Find their website by typing their name in a search engine.
   Songs include "I Wanna Be The New Fred Gwynne," "Put The Baby in
   a Cannon," and "My Name is Jim Hannigan."

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   JUST IN -- NEW SONG BY SLIM ROACH

   http://www.iwantlovewritenow.com/ (c), yes, he copyrighted the name

   Slim Roach has a new song that was just received at the DFSX
   Radio HQ with his new song "I Want Love Write Now" by Slim
   Roach and The Smoochers on Bozo Row Records.

   Visit his website for a video of his song, more about Slim Roach,
   and to sign the guestbook.


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   IT'S NEW TO YOU: BROBDINGNAGIAN BARDS - 'A FAIRE TO REMEMBER'

   This CD is two years old, yet the only songs Dr. Demento are
   Donald, Where's Your Trousers?/What Do You Do with a Drunken 
   Sailor?

   Well, there's more songs worth playing such as "Wild Rover",
   "The Scotsman", "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life",
   "If I Had a Million Ducats", and more. DFSX will be adding some
   of the songs from this newly-acquried album as soon as we get
   enough room in the remote hard drive by dropping the older songs
   first as they get voted down.

   http://www.thebards.net is where to go for more CDs.


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   WHEN IS THIS STATION UPDATED?

   Due to NFL football, the radio station updates will be on
   Saturday nights after 9pm instead of Sunday mornings in order to
   accomodate my busy schedule. 


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   NEW CD by JIM's BIG EGO

   Just this past week, I received a new CD by Jim's Big Ego
   called "They're Everywhere!" whose cover and CD is in the style
   of a comic book. Songs such as "They're Everywhere", "Math Prof
   Rock Star", "The Ballad of Barry Allen", and others will be
   premiering on DFSX as soon as I can give them a rip and upload
   and will be showcased in a late October edition of "ISGD"

   Meanwhile, you can visit his website below...
   http://www.bigego.com/


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  OUT OF LEFT FIELD

  Lots of good suggestions keep coming in, but I only have time
  to play one song a week. Thanks for the suggestions.

  Sorry, there are no plans to turn it into a weekly show.

  Hint: the songs must be not boring or whatever else makes me
  want to throw up or get out a baseball bat to smash the radio.
  It also helps if it's an original song that was parodied.
  It's also got to be upbeat and fun, but not demented.
  Send your song suggestions in today!

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   UPGRADED DFSX SERVER...now 434 MB!

   Now that we gotten enough money to upgrade the storage space
   on the DFSX space, we're thinking of more kinds of shows to add
   to the lineup of DFSX Comedy Radio. We're working on many show
   ideas to produce and upload. What do you think?

   Also...added more listener ports so 100 people can listen for
   free, or if you have Live 365's Preferred Membership, this
   limitation does not apply to you.

   Want even more MB's on DFSX? This means more songs, and 
   consequently, less often you'll hear some of the newer songs,
   sometimes it won't get played during the entire day. We currently
   have a 19 hour randomized playlist. Is it too big or too small?

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  THE KAHNMAN COMEDY CORNER HAS A YAHOO GROUP

  Check it out here...
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kahnmansplace

  NOTE: his special has been moved to Sep 29 where he hosts four hours
  of ISGD. Anyone in dementia land wish to host their own one-shot
  four-hour special on DFSX?

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   NEW CD by The MOD-EST LADS

   The Mod-Est Lads have just released their newest CD titled
   "Trouser Load of Love". It contains these cuts:

   Trouser Load of Love
   Sputnik Spy From Outer Space
   They Stand Straight Up (When She Lays Down)
     which has been getting airplay on DFSX since Jan 2003
   She Said Bi...
   She Could Be in the Beatles

   Peter, Reggie, Stu, and Simon ar the fun-loving blokes from
   Bladderpool have hit the scene with a load of high-energy
   hits sure to get you movin and groovin so hard you won't
   want to stop.

   For more information, please visit
     http://www.mod-estlads.com/


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   COMPETETING DEMENTED RADIO SHOWS

   This has been brought up in rec.music.dementia. The longtime
   funny music radio show, Nummy Muffin Cocoa Butter (see
   http://www.nummymuffincocoabutter.com for archived shows), for
   example, airs at the same time as two other shows Thursdays
   at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. Here's the rundown...

   Nummy Muffin Cocoa Butter
   http://www.nummymuffincocoabutter.com/
   airs on KVRX 91.7, Austin, TX;
   http://www.kvrx.org

   How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away
   http://www.geocities.com/howtorecognize/index.html
   airs on WTPL 610 AM
   http://wtpl.tusculum.edu/

   Tony Goldmark's The Looney Bin
   http://www.dqydj.com/
   airs on Land of Dementia channel
   http://www.TheLandOfDementia.com/

   Is this the magic hour of dementia? 8pm Eastern? It worked for
   Friends on NBC for nine years. Maybe nobody watches TV at this
   hour and people want to hear something funny instead. At least
   Tony's show is repeated three hours later. I'm not sure if
   the Trees show is archived on his website, but 11 shows of the
   Nummy show is archived.

   Well, in this universe, you can't have too many demented and
   funny music shows.   

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   NEW CDS by CHASTON AND GRODITSKI

   http://www.chastongroditski.com

   Chaston and Groditski who first became famous on Dr. Demento
   way back in 1998 with their "We Burned The Christmas Tree"
   is releasing their second CD called "Rugged Hoarhadees"

   Some of the songs included are "We Were Raised in Warsaw Poland",
   "The Ants Are Here", "Tell Me, Jelly Donut", "Brain Sdghot",
   and "We Roasted Santa Claus". Some of the songs will be playing
   on DFSX and ISGD beginning the week of September 8th.

   ALSO

   RICHARD TRIBLE http://www.richardtrible.com, who had his version
   of "Closer" played, sent a solo album that's a little Weird Al-ish
   sometimes, some is like Frank Zappa, but with less musical
   discipline according to the website.

   Is this album "Love, Sex, and Other Messy Things" destined to
   be a cult classic? You, the listener, be the judge, as cuts from
   the album get spun on DFSX in the near future.


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  WORST ALBUM EVER RELEASED 7/26/03

  the great Luke Ski just released his latest album six months
  early! Get the details at http://www.lukeski.com

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   NEW OPENING THEME FOR ISGD

   Out goes the generic piano tune I taped from a 1972 Zoom series.
   In comes in a brand new opening montague featuring the instrumental
   from Weird Al Yankovic's Poodle Hat CD. Actually, a hidden track
   accessable only by your computer. It's "Hardware Store". Check
   it out.

   MORE MUSIC BEING SQUEEZED IN EACH ISGD SHOW!

   That's right. We've pumped in about 30 more minutes of music and
   other stuff in each ISGD without adding more time. How? We got
   rid of the Demented Datebooks feature. We figure that there's too
   much stuff to present and we don't want to go to five hours, so
   something had to go. Also, the Best of ISGD from earlier months
   will be airing in the last hour of ISGD most weeks beginning
   with the 7/13 show.

   See the Demetned Datebooks at
   http://today.davesfunstuff.com/

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   TIME CHANGES:

   After some research, we determined that some time slot changes
   for the runs of ISGD need to be adjusted. The premiere episode
   of ISGD will still be on Mondays, but will run TWICE in a row.
   The Easterners can listen in earlier at 8pm their time. As the
   Westerners get home, they can tune in between 5pm and 9pm their
   time and join the show in progress, then catch the beginning
   of the second run when it starts at 9pm so they can listen to
   what they didn't catch at 5pm.

   Saturday mornings will have two shows back to back in order
   of last week's show followed by this week's show.

   Thursdays will have a run of this week's show in the daytime
   for people who work in the office. It's repeated the following
   Wednesday daytime after the XM 30 feed of Dr. Demento 
   ends, so you can switch channels to catch it.

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  DR DEMENTO ON XM Radio

  For those who have XM Radio, past shows of the Dr. Demento Show
  will be heard on XM Radio beginning on June 2.

  You can buy the receiver at Best Buy, Circuit City, and other places,
  and you can see xmradio.com for a list of dealers near you that carry
  their radios.

  Tune in Mondays at 6pm ET/3pm PT, Wednesdays at NOON ET/9am PT,
  and Thursday nights at MID (early Friday) ET/9pm PT (opposite Will
  and Grace on NBC!).

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  Kahnman's Comedy Corner - one new episode aired on the May 12th
  and a new one will be on June 30th.

   NOW YOU CAN E-MAIL THE KAHNMAN, host of "Kahnman's Comedy Corner",
      right here! Let him know how you like the songs he chooses...
   kahnman2003@yahoo.com
   (his clickable e-mail link is also on http://dfsx.netfirms.com/)

   UPDATE: The June edition is the last 30 minute version before 
   the 2 hour version of the show makes it's debut on DFSX. 
   He is also working on "The best of the I still get Demented 
   radio show" to air in August.

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In the 10 CD giveaway during the reformat promotion last March 2004, 
the lucky winner was Grant Baciocco of Throwing Toasters.

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  COMEDY MUSIC IN THE NEWS:

  Deirdre Flint is traveling across the states to do her concert.
  See her website at http://www.deirdreflint.com for touring details.
  For her travel to San Diego and Los Angeles July 1-3, also
  see her website above.

  WEIRD AL JUST STARTED HIS POODLE HAT TOUR:
  See http://www.weirdal.com for more.

  COMEDY CENTRAL LAUNCHES DEMENTED MUSIC WEBSITE
  See http://www.davesfunstuff.com/ for more on that.

  RICHARD CHEESE WAS SEEN ON NBC's LAST CALL SHOW in MAY and JUNE
  Will he do more? See http://www.iloverichardcheese.com for more!

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  COMING SOON: DEMENTIA IDOL

  You heard about that Fox show, right, only with amateur singers
  singing covers of (yawm) contemporary pop songs.

  Well, why don't somebody do the same thing, except with singers
  singing funny songs of their own? That's what Dementia Idol is
  about.

  Many new funny musicians have come to the dementia scene in the past
  seven years or so, and it's time for DFSX to showcase the songs
  of the artists, while letting you vote for the artist you like best.

  Each week on Dementia Idol, you vote for the one artist you like
  the best, and the artist with the least votes is elimiated from the
  show.

  I'm planning to start out with ten of these artists from this list,
  but I need to whittle it down by a few, so feel free to e-mail me
  and let me know what ten of these artists I should start out with.

  Raymond and Scum, Mike Toomey, Billy Jonas, Power Salad, Worm Quartet,
  Carla Ulbrich, Dan Hart, Slant 6 and the Jumpstarts, Henry Phillips,
  Mylo Hatzenbuhler, Throwing Toasters, Tony Goldmark, 
  Barry & The Bookbinders, Steve Goodie, Four Postmen, The Vestibules,
  Sudden Death, Larry Weaver, Steven Lynch, Da Vinci's Notebook.

  All of these artists are relatively known to have several songs
  played on Dr. Demento's radio show. The rule is that they had to 
  have 2-3 CDs out in the past ten years or several unreleased tapes 
  over the same period.

  So please feel free to e-mail me and let me know what ten artists
  you wish to start out with.

  Also in the works: "Big League Dementia Idol"

  The following artists are in the Major League, and if interested,
  I'll do a separate Idol type show for these. They had at least
  one of the following apply to them: TV and/or radio 
  exposure outside of Dr. D, multi hits and albums, major label, and
  minor celebrities, etc.

  the great Luke Ski, Tim Cavanaugh, Richard Cheese (Mark Jonathan 
  Davis), Adam Sandler, Jeff Foxworthy, Jimmy Fallon, Arrogant Worms, 
  Weird Al, Cletus T Judd, Tim Wilson, Bill Engvall, George Lopez, 
  South Park, Rodney Carrington, They Might Be Giants, Sean Morey

  The Unknown Idol

  The following apply to them: (2 CDs or less in five years, two songs 
  or less on Dr. D)

  KJV Presents, John Cougarstein, The Cowards, Suzanne Willett, 
  Phil Van Tee, Amanda Green (songs of...), Chaston and Groditski,
  Mark Poolos, Jane Hathaway, Tom Tuerff, Ian Butler, Jim Caruso,
  Brett Eidman, David M. Kilgore, Two Headed Puppy, Tom Perri



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  THE JUNE 2 ALL STAR WARS EXTRAVAGANZA

  A special four hour salute to the summer movie blockbuser
  "Star Wars" aired in the first week of June. We went through the 
  history of Star Wars inspired novelty songs from 1977-1983 and again 
  from 1977-2002, covering all five of the Star Wars movies in novelty 
  song and sketch history.

  This show may repeat once a week throughout the summer at odd times,
  so watch this website to see when it pops up again.

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  WHY DID SOME OF MY FAVORITE SONGS DISAPPEAR?

  Sometimes just one "thumbs down" vote is all it takes to get a song
  off the playlist, especially if nobody gives the song a "thumbs
  up" vote. Also, DFSX takes into consideration how many people leave
  a song while it is playing. Though it may have gotten one "up" vote,
  five people left while it was playing, so that song is also gone!

  Please be sure to launch the DFSX stream from this website and not
  directly from your Winamp player in order for you to be able to
  rate the songs:

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  FAQ: WHERE ARE ALL THE POODLE HAT TRACKS?

  Answer: The CD wsa almost impossible to rip into MP3 files needed
  to use for broadcasting on the Internet. I tried the normal
  digital high speed rip, but the MP3s were full of errors.

  I also turned on the error-checking feature to slow it down, but
  that still resulted in errors.

  Lastly, I put the ripping on analog method and ripped the songs
  in over 60 minutes.

  The problem is that the tracks on the CD, like many others,
  are recorded with the volume too high. This causes the MP3
  ripper to produce errors in the MP3s, rendering then
  unusuable for broadcast.

  Before I used the ripped MP3s, I had to use Cooledit to lower
  the volume to 87 percent of the maximum level to make them
  compatable with the volume of the other songs on the station.
  Nobody likes to listen to a LOUD song, then listen to a song
  with the volume too low, then back to LOUD again. It's very
  annoying.

  More tracks, three at a time, from Poodle Hat will make their
  debuts on DFSX in the weeks to come beginning June 9th.
  Thanks for understanding.



   The DFSX Comedy Radio Top 100 of 2002 Countdown
   Listen as D.T. the host counts down the 100 most popular novelty
songs of the year 2002 for the first time ever, exclusively on DFSX!
These are ALL NEW recordings released from November 2001 through November
2002! No Fish Heads or Dead Puppies or Napoleon XIV oldies; just the new 
stuff, and we found 100 of them worthy to include in the survey!

   NOTE: Times have changed!
   FIRST AIRING:
      Pacific: 4pm Dec 31
      Mount'n: 5pm Dec 31
      Central: 6pm Dec 31
      Eastern: 7pm Dec 31
      GMT:     MID Jan 1
   SECOND AIRING:
      Pacific: 1am Jan 1
      Mount'n: 2am Jan 1
      Central: 3am Jan 1
      Eastern: 4am Jan 1
      GMT:     9am Jan 1
   THIRD AIRING:
      Pacific: 10am Jan 1
      Mount'n: 11am Jan 1
      Central: NOON Jan 1
      Eastern:  1pm Jan 1
      GMT:      6pm Jan 1
   FOURTH AIRING: (just added)
      Pacific:  5am Jan 4
      Mount'n:  6am Jan 4
      Central:  7am Jan 4
      Eastern:  8am Jan 4
      GMT:      1pm Jan 4

   For times in other zones, please consult your almanac.