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loke rahbek & frederik valentin  a woman without   Favoriting buy corals online  editions mego  Vinyl    *   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
tough solar  transcripts   Favoriting a/b  sweet pea  Vinyl    *   0:05:33 (Pop-up)
UB40  i think it's going to rain today   Favoriting signing off  graduate records        0:12:51 (Pop-up)
makaya McCraven  above & beyond   Favoriting highly rare  International Anthem  Vinyl    *   0:16:02 (Pop-up)
bob marley  Rebel Music ( 3 o' Clock Road Block)   Favoriting 'natty dread'  tuff gong        0:20:01 (Pop-up)
bob marley & the wailers  kaya (version)   Favoriting african herbsman  trojan        0:25:59 (Pop-up)
 
alcione  sufoco   Favoriting o samba  luaka bop        0:36:28 (Pop-up)
bob marley and the wailers  love light ( version ) dreamland (version   Favoriting jungle dub  D.A.D International licensing Ltd         0:40:33 (Pop-up)
hal  will the world allow it   Favoriting Starry Nights in Western Sahara  rounder        0:46:32 (Pop-up)
olivia wyatt/mursi tribe  mursi song   Favoriting staring into the sun  sublime frequencies        0:49:11 (Pop-up)

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author david goodwin 

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talking about his book is "Left bank of the Hudson" Jersey City and the artists of 111 1st street 

 

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os brazoes  modulo lunar   Favoriting os brazoes  mr bongo        1:41:40 (Pop-up)
o terco  Longe Sem Direcao   Favoriting o terco  forma        1:48:32 (Pop-up)
marcio greyck  beija-me-agora   Favoriting marcio greyck  polydor        1:48:56 (Pop-up)
piri  porta do sol   Favoriting voces querem mate?  quartem        1:51:21 (Pop-up)
karma  cara & coroa   Favoriting karma  rca        1:52:12 (Pop-up)
 
hollie cook  angel fire   Favoriting vessel of love  merge      *   2:02:23 (Pop-up)
hanny  ibarrena   Favoriting learn-play bongos v/a with Mr. bongo v/a  mr bongo        2:06:12 (Pop-up)
bobby valentin  funky big feet   Favoriting Long Live Boogaloo: 22 Rare Latin Boogaloos from Spanish Harlem '63-'72  secret stash records        2:11:30 (Pop-up)
Bomba Estéreo  bailar conmingo   Favoriting elegencia tropical  soundway records        2:14:19 (Pop-up)
djavan  serrado   Favoriting gilles peterson in brazil v/a  ether records        2:17:10 (Pop-up)
las deblas  zorongo   Favoriting Naino! spanish gipsy soul funk disco 1974-1984  ada      *   2:21:04 (Pop-up)
spanglish fly  chain of fools   Favoriting ay que boogaloo!  chaco      *   2:23:49 (Pop-up)
fabio  Lindo sonho delirante   Favoriting Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976  tropicalia in furs records        2:28:08 (Pop-up)
juana molina  in the lassa   Favoriting halo  crammed discs        2:29:59 (Pop-up)
DJ Dolores  ciranda da masdrugada   Favoriting Aparelhagem  ziriguibom        2:34:18 (Pop-up)
hugo filho  Quem Me Viu Por Al?   Favoriting paraibo  HP        2:39:26 (Pop-up)
 
carmern miranda  absolutamente   Favoriting The Extraordinary Girl  el        2:45:51 (Pop-up)
os mutantes  Fuga No. II   Favoriting Mutantes  m 80 music        2:48:10 (Pop-up)
telebossa  eu sonhei que tu estavas tao linda   Favoriting telebossa  staubgold        2:51:46 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Trouble:

good morning! The artwork gracing our page today is by Brian Chippendale. He also wrote this article which will be included in the discussion at 10:00 with author david goodwin: thecreativeindependent.com...
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Dave in Vermont:

yay, Trouble!
I haven't been here live in a while.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:03am
Trouble:

hola dave!
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TDK60:

Morning Trouble. Still catching my breath after that previous show.
  9:06am
CHAD PEARSON:

Beautiful piece of artwork in the page today!
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Sem:

Good morning, Trouble, Dave in Vermont, TDK60.
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Dave in Vermont:

hi, Sem
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Linda Lee:

wow .. amazing artwork
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Linda Lee:

good morning!
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northguineahills:

cool, Brian Chippendale from Lightning Bolt!
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TDK60:

A semi dub feel?
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melinda:

hi friends
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TDK60:

Early UB40!
  9:13am
Peter in Sea:

G'morning Trouble, g'morning troubled listener friends, it's still dark n raining on the west coast....
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Dave in Vermont:

y,know, I discovered The Creative Independent because Blast of Hot Air pointed me to it when Faye did their spiral gif logo. I haven't read it in a while but for several months I was reading it everyday. Another way FMU has made my life better.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15am
MD:

Good Morning Faithful!
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sphere:

hello hello
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MD:

UB40? It's a long time since I be 40! he he he!!!
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sphere:

the McCraven track reminds me of DC's go-go grooves.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:21am
Trouble:

bob marley was born feb 6 1945
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TDK60:

This album was my intro. to reggae!
  9:22am
Lucky:

Brian Chippendale's article is really pretty amazing.
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Linda Lee:

Happy Birthday Robert Nesta Marley Feb 9. Rest in power.
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Linda Lee:

whoa posting too soon after waking!
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Dave in Vermont:

N.E.S.T.A. by Antibalas is my alarm.
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adampsyche:

ok waking up to the tail end of clay's show and now this i think i'll work from home for quite a bit, lovely set trouble.
  9:27am
exile-on-hicks-street:

Good morning, @Trouble!
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Planet Tyler:

Good morning Trouble and birds!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:32am
listener james from westwood:

College dinguses overplaying Marley in particular put me off of reggae for way too long. One of these guys, however, actually played Eek-a-Mouse now and again, which exposure served me well years later when I encountered Reggae Schoolroom for the first time.
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TDK60:

Frat boy culture did the same with The Doors in the '80s. // My town's reggae scene was fun -- a mix of hippies and punx.
  9:36am
queems:

isn’t that the struggle. sigh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am
northguineahills:

Bob's cancer started from an injury on his toe he received on an impromptu pickup football/soccer match in Central Park during a NYC stop on a tour.
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Fernando P.:

Marrom!!!!!!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:38am
listener james from westwood:

That my college (Boston College) actually had a fairly decent radio station was a huge relief when the dorm hallways were reverberating with amped replays of the Doors and the same five Grateful Dead tunes on repeat. That and WFNX were how I rolled, with the odd Columbia House binge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38am
Brian C.:

IMO, there's a big difference in overplaying both Doors and Wailers. Doors, um, how to put it. Suck?
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Fernando P.:

I know that may be considered inappropriate by nowadays standards, but marrom is how Alcione is known in Brazil.
  9:42am
JakeGould:

192 Books is a nice place and sea birds are—generally—good birds. www.192books.com...
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Fernando P.:

Alcione & Axl BFF! goo.gl...
  9:43am
JakeGould:

To be honest, I favor sparrows nowadays.
  9:43am
JakeGould:

@TDK60: Fat bot culture made liking “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers” hard at best.
  9:44am
JakeGould:

I like those two movies as well as sparrows.
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TDK60:

Don't think the Doors such but it doesn't matter.
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Brian C.:

Whoa, thanks for playing Bunny! Love Dreamland. Saw him play live in NYC c 2002? Would love to see him again
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TDK60:

"suck"
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sphere:

Someone in high school gave me a tape of '60s Atlantic R&B tunes (including Stax-Volt), so watching The Blues Brothers in college had its own magic resonance.
  9:49am
emily:

good morning, trouble!
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D. Lightfoot:

Hello all. I'm just here for the soft fascination.
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mb:

Good morning all. Listening from home and enjoying!
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melinda:

I understand that the Doors were overplayed but they weren't ruined for me somehow. @Jake I saw Animal House in grade school and thought it was hilarious, but my feelings toward it became more complicated later. Some of it is still great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
Brian C.:

Doors fans… www.youtube.com...
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:50am
Barney Grubbs:

@fernando, coincidentally, Axl shares a birthday with Bob Marley (and Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Aaron Burr, Thurl Ravenscroft, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rick Astley, and me)
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TDK60:

I did have some uncomfortable encounters with frats in the '80s.
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sphere:

My college was essentially Slacker U. The frat/soro community was so outnumbered that members would start almost every conversation with "fraternities/sororities aren't so bad!"
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Linda Lee:

never had use for frats & thankfully no opportunity to worry about it.
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drr:

also Doors fans: www.youtube.com...
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Linda Lee:

traveling beyond the comfort zone is always a problem for the pioneers. I remember when people outside the area wouldn't come to Soho. then they wouldn't come to the LES. then they wouldn't come to Wiliamsburg.
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Linda Lee:

same old same old. once pioneers prove an area 'marketable' by their presence, forces come to bear to get them out. same old forever.
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Linda Lee:

those are white pioneers, of course.
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TDK60:

Real estate moguls? Sounds familiar.
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Linda Lee:

Trouble is right.
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melinda:

Good point Trouble. Sometimes the trade-off isn't worth it.
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Linda Lee:

y'know, space in the metro area is perennially at such an absolute premium that it always turns out to be worth it, in my experience. we'll put up with just about anything, until it's literally not possible any more.
  10:04am
JakeGould:

@Trouble: So happy you brought up the silly romanticization of squalor. I grew up in a crappy building and crappy neighborhood and when I became an adult it was hard for me to understand why someone would willfully place themselves in such conditions.

Granted, I regret some aspects of avoiding the crappy neighborhoods in NYC back in the 1980s, but still.
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Ike:

"How many people actually relish that environment?"
"Some do, probably...."
Not many, but a good chunk of those few are at WFMU, LOL. When volunteering over the years I've heard plenty of people pining for the sleazy gross old Times Square of yore. Ew. ;P
  10:07am
JakeGould:

@Ike: I generally think people who romanticize sleaze to that level really have the choice of being or not being there. Meaning they are “slumming” it.

There is some level of freedom to chaotic environments like that, but if you have no choice *but* to live there that is not really the same thing.
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D. Lightfoot:

Harris Teeter: gentrify your groceries
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geegee vindaloo:

Good interview. It's interesting how this story matches what was going on in Boston at this time. We were in the Fort Point neighborhood in South Boston. For artists in our 20s, this was so exciting, having affordable raw space to create. In the mid 90s we went through the painful negotiation process , losing out in the ned.
  10:08am
queems:

this is fascinating to me and it hits close to home
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Linda Lee:

@Ike ~ i think it's just a matter of interesting aesthetically vs not interesting. accessible to a sensibility vs not accessible. the authentic vs inauthentic. the fact that unsavory exposes something of human nature that gentrification serves to obscure. i grew up in 60s nyc & there was no doubt times square was interesting! day-to-day living as education was of incredible value to me as a person. just saying. sometimes nostalgia is more than a pose. if you weren't there though .. that's funny.
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Lewis:

this conversation is not helping me get my presentation ready for my 10 o'clock!...
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melinda:

Me too queems.
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D. Lightfoot:

I'm trying to quasi-gentrify a town of 160 people in the middle of nowhere (I am an artist whose medium is living)
  10:10am
Mikeee:

Upstate NY towns Hudson, Kingston, Beacon once affordable to artists, have increased to luxury standard pricing. WTF
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Linda Lee:

blaming the artists for gentrification! talk about blaming the victim! it's practically a national sport.
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northguineahills:

The goal is to bring the benefits that gentrification can bring to a neighborhood, rather then replacing the neighborhood.
  10:12am
queems:

i left the city last year for the suburbs so i could maybe afford to make art part time when i’m not at my sad job
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SSS:

Very complex subject. Just don't forget that the MOB and drug infusion into a neighborhood is often involved in gentrification. East Village in particular.
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drr:

New Orleans (where I live) used to be attractive because of cheap rent, but AirBnB and overexposure have ended that fun era. It's now an expensive place to live with all the same problems it had before.
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northguineahills:

(the goal should be)
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SSS:

These moves by the MOB happen in a planned way over several decades.
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Linda Lee:

yes, hudson valley is definitely changing as people in need of space are thrown far afield from home. but you do have a train line back to the mother.
@SSS ~ that's right.
my grandparents landed in JC as well, in the early 20s. a shame they didn't want to own property there, though they were offered properties many times.
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Linda Lee:

think the word is provincialism ..
  10:16am
JakeGould:

Oh man, the politics of DUMBO and the people who own those buildings is amazing. The city did not want them to do what they have done. The city wanted to tear down all of those buildings. What it is now is really hypergentrified, but I will say this: That neighborhood still feels welcoming in its own way.
  10:17am
PJ:

There are no longer any working artists in DUMBO (or at least I haven't seen any in at least five years, and everyone I knew who worked or lived there was forced out by the Walentis family). So, yes, St. Ann's is there, and there is the very nice Brooklyn Bridge park, but these are just amenities for the wealthy people living in their new luxury condos.
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BronwynB:

the conversations about gentrification and the old days of nyc (including at fmu) sometimes frustrate me because a) as a Youth(ish) im tired of hearing that the NYC i always dreamed of living in and finally made it to sucks now because it's not weird or cool enough and I'll never experience the tru magic of Old Weird Dirty Sleazy New York blah blah blah and b) as someone who grew up poor and has lived in very bad neighborhoods, it's not glamorous when you don't have a choice. it can be very interesting but also very scary and sad. gentrification is a scourge because it pushes poor people (mostly POC) out of their homes, not because it makes things less ~cool~
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, gang!
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βrian:

Horace Greeley's imperative still holds: Go west!
  10:18am
PJ:

@JakeGould - Dumbo is welcoming for tourists and tech bros these days, not so much for regular people, and definitely not for artists.
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Linda Lee:

& this is why people value a sense of the authentic & therefore have nostalgia for the authentic. because much of what we value aesthetically is turning to window dressing for wealth.
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steveo:

great talk -- thanks!
  10:19am
queems:

@bronwyn well said
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BronwynB:

thanks queems :)
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Linda Lee:

BronwynB ~ ignore nostalgia. don't let it bug you. the idea is, make your own fantastic weird when & where you can. that's what we do.
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ⓘⓚⓔ:

@Linda@10:09, fair enough! "That unsavory exposes something of human nature that gentrification serves to obscure"... hmm, interesting!
  10:21am
JakeGould:

@PJ: Well, not as a renter or owner, right. But just being in the neighborhood gives an outsider something to do. The tech dude bros and all that stuff are annoying. But that kind of hypergentrification is utterly everywhere nowadays. Some places are just more exclusionary about it.
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TDK60:

I'm struggling to understand David's main conclusion.
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Linda Lee:

oh yeah. definitely. & even if we have no choice but to live in rough neighborhoods ~ as i have, as Bronwyn has ~ we benefit from that awareness of human nature. no use denying that or resenting it. then we do what we can with it depending on our character.
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glenn:

most people who are nostalgic for something have never lived through what they're nostalgic for.
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BronwynB:

@Linda: that's my plan. people tell me i missed out on the weird artistic times but im just trying to make my own doing weird theatre and starting a group for occult studies, etc.
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Priscilla:

This is so interesting!
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melinda:

@glenn not necessarily.
  10:24am
queems:

i mean part of the problem is society’s view on art and artists. it’s disposable unless it can be used to make money or enrich the lives of wealthy people
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Linda Lee:

@rBronwynB ~ there you go! brava!!! back in the day in nyc we didn't think wow, wish this was the 1940s! (though that was a truly fantastic time in nyc). we just got on with it.
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βrian:

@glenn: The 60s were awesome, right?
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Passaic River Blues:

I often think people's reductive criticisms of gentrification fail to realize their problem isn’t so much with gentrification as an isolated trend as it is with late capitalism generally and its attendant exploitative racism as its most useful lever. Gentrification is merely the “upswing” phase of the endless cycle of capital harvesting maximum value from real property; redlining, block-busting, and impoverishment is the “downswing” phase. Money is made at each step. The particular dynamics at any given moment for each neighborhood are individual and specific and, of course, there are unthinking market forces at work, but there are also larger structural issues always churning away.
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Linda Lee:

queems ~ forutnately or unfortunately, the creative drive exists regardless of what happens to art.
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sphere:

To me, every decade is awesome if you look at it in the right way.
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BronwynB:

nice linda, i like that analogy. although my mom does say that growing up in the 70s she sometimes felt like she missed out on the 30s and 40s (her favorite era of music) :D
  10:26am
JakeGould:

Slight detour, but in NYC attempts at “affordable” housing are a joke. The city gives tax incentives to developers. That sounds good right? A lot of “affordable” places are seriously going for $2,000 to $3,000 a month.

And if you want those magical $500 a month apartments in some developments? Your max income must be $30,000 or so a year. What the fuck?!?!
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glenn:

so they tell me. i was too busy trying to get through grade school.
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Linda Lee:

see? :-D
  10:26am
PJ:

@JakeGould - You're right, it could certainly be worse. I worked in the JC waterfront area for a while, and there was really nothing to do there. It was hard to even find a decent spot to eat lunch.
  10:27am
queems:

@linda true
  10:27am
JakeGould:

@PJ: Food trucks are the diners of the 21st Century.
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βrian:

Everything started going downhill when people stopped writing in cursive, damn it.
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northguineahills:

PRB: My Master's thesis involved the history and spatial analysis and modeling gentrification, and you're spot on (that was 15 years ago).
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melinda:

@Linda regarding artists being blamed for gentrification, I think it's understandable in a way since everyone knows they are the first step in that direction, but it's like the critics and protesters are going after soft targets rather than focusing higher up or on larger systems at work.
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ⓘⓚⓔ:

@glenn, great point -- or in many cases they're just nostalgic for being young, and the rest of the stuff was much more incidental than they realize.
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northguineahills:

errr.. modeling of gentrification
  10:28am
JakeGould:

@brian: I want to relearn cursive.
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Linda Lee:

@Passaic River Blues ~ dead on. correct. of course.
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Linda Lee:

@melinda ~ darn right.
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melinda:

@PRB well stated.
  10:29am
queems:

this is so interesting that i’m not getting any work done
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TDK60:

We need affordable housing for everyone -- the poor, the working class, and artists. But, we don't have it.
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sphere:

Let the Re-Rebirth of Calligraphy begin!
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Linda Lee:

don't know why you wouldn't be nostalgic for a time when your art was first, making a living second. how is that not lovely? the point is that it doesn't matter.
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βrian:

Correction to an earlier statement: There is a $10 yearly fee to keep chickens in Madison, WI.
  10:31am
JakeGould:

Not calligraphy. Cursive.
  10:32am
queems:

smith st is a ghost town these days
  10:32am
queems:

lots of turnover in recent years
  10:32am
JakeGould:

Yeah, but Smith Street is now hypergentrified. Not a fun place anymore.
  10:33am
PJ:

@PRB - there's a good book that came out last year, Fear City, about how Republicans and developers used NYC's fiscal crisis in the 70s as leverage to break unions and sell public property at bargain basement prices to developers (including Trump!) along with massive tax breaks, which they then sell or lease as luxury housing.
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northguineahills:

I remember when I wouldn't walk Bushwick (heck parts of Williamsburg) alone, and then I moved to Bushwick.
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Passaic River Blues:

@PJ: ooh, that book sounds good to me. Thank you for the tip.
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northguineahills:

(and back then, I lived in Bed-Stuy, i got jumped many times there)
  10:35am
PJ:

Smith Street is a ghost town because the landlords all want Sephora/Chase Bank money for their storefronts, which most Mom and Pops can't afford.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:35am
Webhamster Henry:

There's some concern about gentrification here in Kingston, NY. Kingston has primarily three parts: Uptown, Midtown, and the Rondout. While the cityencouraging artists and other creatives to colonize Midtown, Uptown is getting some boutique hotels and the rents are rising, kind of removing the low-margin stores that are the main attraction.
Again, the tax abatements go to the new rich developers, not the existing mom & pops.
  10:35am
JakeGould:

@northguineahills: In the later 1980s I remember going to Williamsburg. Was in the train. Just me and some guy on the L train. While in the tunnel he pulls out a butterfly knife and is playing with it right in front of me. Then I get to Lorimer Street and get out and it’s immediately urban squalor and crap.

At least I didn’t pay $5 for a cookie back then.
  10:36am
queems:

@pj ding ding ding
  10:37am
JakeGould:

@PJ: Smith Street went from urban blight in the 1980s to high rent blight in the 21st century/
  10:37am
queems:

nyc affordable housing is a joke
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northguineahills:

@Jake: I remember going to a party at friend's warehouse off the Bedford stop in 2001, and at 10pm is was deserted, and spooky. By 2003 in was a whole new ball game.
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Linda Lee:

@Webhamster Henry ~ was in Kingston last this fall (i'm about an hour southwest) visiting friends working there. we were in Midtown. still seemed like a happy secret, but the bloom's fading from the rose for sure.
  10:39am
PJ:

DG, right on, I don't understand why abatements and PILOTs are necessary when we are talking about the most valuable property on the East Coast. These developers will build under whatever conditions you prescribe, so why not demand 50% actual affordable housing, and artspace, and whatever else we want as a community?
  10:39am
JakeGould:

@northguineahills: Yeah, 2001 to 2007 was still rough. Now it’s an outdoor mall.
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Linda Lee:

@Jake ~ 2 little white girls from the East Village moved to south williamsburg in 85 & believe it or not, our neighborhood was nothing but welcoming & friendly. dope wasn't a big thing there yet. that took a few years. & then of course came the robberies & so on.
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steveo:

Kimzilla & Emily did a show on the Loew's JC which I have not listened to yet but which is probably excellent wfmu.org...
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steveo:

i have really enjoyed hearing this talk -- thanks for for coming in, David, and thanks for hosting, Trouble (I used to work in Jersey City in the early 00's)
  10:42am
queems:

that was great, thanks!
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Linda Lee:

i lived in JC with my grandparents for the whole of the 60s. haven't been there since their deaths in the 80s. i should drop in & see what's what! :-)
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TDK60:

David's thesis is available as a PDF: 111 1st Street Jersey City, NJ: The Life and Death of an Arts Community.
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Webhamster Henry:

@Linda Lee : We in Kingston have a consciousness of the economic and social danger. The city got a grant of $10M to fix up uptown, but a lot is going toward kind of upscale-y incentives rather than infrastructure improvements.
  10:44am
JakeGould:

@LindaLee: Yeah, the mid 1980s is when NYC really started to slide. Even my neighborhood in Brooklyn was crappy but there was community and our landlord was nice. Then he sold the building and it fell to crap and our neighborhood became known more and more as the place you could score good cheap heroin in. What’s not to like?
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks, Trouble, for a little Talk Radio! You should take over for Lopate!
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melinda:

@Henry yes!
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Barney Grubbs:

That science/art comparison from the Chippendale piece made me happy (& depressed at the same time)
  10:46am
PJ:

The whole Exchange Place area in JC is a real missed opportunity, miles of waterfront property with just glass office towers and condos. But this is how most development and re-development is in the US since the 70s, mediocre buildings and few amenities and why on earth would anyone want to spend time there?
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Itzall Ablurr:

Dear TDK60, thanks for the info. I really want to get his book and will most definitely read this work as well.
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Linda Lee:

@Webhamster Henry ~ jeez .. feeders at the trough taking their tithe.
@JakeGould ~ it's basically a given that viable communities are almost always purposely driven to shit for the benefit of the controllers. we wrongly blame the community, as if its intrinsic weakness forced its destruction. but bombing is bombing.
  10:46am
stu:

Hi Trouble from cool and crispy Finland.
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Itzall Ablurr:

And of course, thank you, Trouble for the great show this morning.
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Linda Lee:

@Webmaster Henry ~ problem is the distribution of resources, seems like. who decides where the money goes..
  10:48am
Dean:

The book is also on Muse for those who have access to its contents: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/53037/
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Linda Lee:

of course i fucked up your name. sorry.
  10:49am
PJ:

Trouble, I second the call for you to have your own talk radio show. Thanks for the thought-provoking and anger-generating conversation with DG, as always for the great music.
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TDK60:

That's a good idea -- an additional Trouble talk show. It would be very unusual in that the discussion would be thought provoking.
  10:52am
PJ:

I also think that part of the problem is that in smaller and poorer communities, politicians have little experience in dealing with the amounts of money that developers throw around and are just happy that anything is happening rather than blight, so that they miss out on the things that could really benefit the community if the redevelopment were done more intelligently.
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TDK60:

Is Station Mgr. Ken reading the comments? Or shall we direct his attention?
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Linda Lee:

no word yet from Trouble on the idea .. :-)
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Passaic River Blues:

@WH, PJ & TDK60: a Trouble talk show built around a probing interview of an author on an interesting subject? YES.
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βrian:

Mais enfin ! Les oiseaux !
  10:58am
PJ:

Re the talk show, assuming, of course, that Trouble would want to do it, even if time elsewhere is unavailable, maybe an hour of the current show could be set aside for these kinds of conversations. Even though I would miss that hour of music, there are so few places to hear these kind of discussions (that I am aware of.)
  11:01am
JakeGould:

FWIW, Jersey City is really nice. But the whole finance district—offices and condos for workers—is kinda insane. It’s like an office park by the shore. At least the NYC financial district has some life.
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βrian:

Jersey Garden is a euphemism for shopping mall?
  11:02am
Dean:

It is her third, if you don't count the remix album by Prince Fatty.
  11:03am
Dean:

"Presents Hollie Cook in Dub"...nice.
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Passaic River Blues:

@Brian: The Jersey Gardens is an actual mall in Elizabeth, near Newark Airport. It's cursed ground I am forced to visit a few times a year. (I did see "Bridesmaids" there--that was nice.)
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Trouble:

hey guys! i was saying goodbye to my guest so i couldnt read comments. thanks for all your good words. i do miss leonard lopate's interviews.
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βrian:

Wow. Stranger than fiction.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Very nice work today, Trouble!
  11:05am
queems:

jersey gardens is an experience, i will say that
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βrian:

Garden state makes more sense now.
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ⓔⓘⓚ:

Jersey Gardens is just about the least garden-like place in existence, and kind of depressing even as malls go. You should be cursed to have ivy grow all over your body if you name something "[Whatever] Gardens" and there are no actual gardens there!
  11:09am
Dean:

Madison Square?
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βrian:

Olive?
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βrian:

Beer?
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Priscilla:

Dancing on my desk
  11:13am
slowbear:

this is making my commute effing amazing thank you
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glenn:

trump gardens. where bullshit flourishes.
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Linda Lee:

hey girl! love it!
  11:13am
Dean:

Madison Square Olive Beer...has a nice ring...
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Itzall Ablurr:

Priscilla: SAME here!
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TDK60:

WFMU's little building is old and quaint compared to the glass offices surrounding. Well, WFMU is next to the old Post Office building, still running.
  11:16am
Kate from NYC and more recently SF:

Not listening right now but just saw this. Did you know about this? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cdc-chickens-backyard-salmonella-kissing-cuddling
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Trouble:

thanks kate! we do not cuddle our chickens: they wouldn't stand for it!
  11:18am
queems:

yikes
  11:20am
JakeGould:

I miss malls. Discovered this great article from 2013 talking about how “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Valley Girl” are time capsules of a world of retail that doesn’t exist anymore. www.kcet.org...
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drr:

Thanks for the good interview, that was like a personally relevant On Point.
  11:22am
r i s k y:

Hi trubzzzz - keep em rockin!!
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steveo:

i should buy this album (and a record player)
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steveo:

oh, and a bigger apartment (see real estate discussion)
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Linda Lee:

those disco strings helped mitigate new york filth, children. :-D
  11:25am
Dean:

I, too, have a soft spot for malls, so long as I don't think for too long about the inherent racism that spawned the suburbia that was formative for me. When I would hie to Victoriaville for the festival I'd kill time in the morning having coffee at the mall. It was a comfortable familiar site, for all intents and purposes identical to the ones I knew from Southern California, except all of the signage was in French.
  11:25am
SG:

This set is really warming up this corner of NH!
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Linda Lee:

same for the snowy catskills, SG!
  11:27am
exile-on-hicks-street:

That electric piano riff sounds familiar...
  11:28am
queems:

i’ve got a question for trouble/any local fiber people out there- does anyone know of any places in north jersey that offer yarn spinning classes? my internet searches have brought up a lot of outdates lists and dead links. thanks in advance!
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βrian:

Never cared much for malls. I always tried to get in and out as fast as possible. And the air had a strange soul-dessicating effect.
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melinda:

My favorite mall from childhood was converted into a community college campus. I loved the mall back then but don't miss it.
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βrian:

Are malls likely places to be converted to arts hubs? Or is their location and layout just too peculiar?
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melinda:

Brian I wonder about that too. I think it could happen with the right mall and location.
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TDK60:

Always hated malls. Wasn't Paramus, NJ's the first? // Love Juana Molina by the way.
  11:34am
exile-on-hicks-street:

The Newburgh Mall (does that exist?) and the Orange Plaza mall both had excellent video arcades. It is not unusual for imagined versions of these malls to be sets/locations for my dreams.
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Trouble:

@queems check out white barn farm in new paltz, she might teach spinning or know of someone. it's an easy drive and gorgeous!
  11:37am
Dean:

"A place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy..."
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shopping-mall-9781501314827/

That's probably overstating the effect.
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melinda:

Thinking of malls reminds me of food trends that have passed, like potato-focused fast-food restaurants with silly names. When I was a kid one of my favorite mall joints was Tater Junction, and the mall in my college town had a Super Spud. Then again, maybe there still are potato restaurants I'm missing because I avoid malls now.
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Linda Lee:

my gosh i cannot wait for summer in these mountains. brrrrrrr :-)
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Linda Lee:

Trouble, this set is just delicious. absolutely delicious. thank you.
  11:39am
queems:

@trouble thanks!! i used to climb rocks in new paltz! agreed, it is lovely up there. i will definitely check it out!
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Linda Lee:

i've always found malls disorienting. no sense of natural light .. which is how i find myself in space :-D
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Dean:

Southdale Center in MN, "oldest fully enclosed shopping mall in the country," though Valley Fair Shopping Center in Appleton, WI, was earlier, but hosted only six stores.
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Trouble:

obrigado @ linda lee
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steveo:

It's cold down here too, Linda :) & I am also loving this set
  11:41am
Dean:

Southdale opened in October 1956.
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Linda Lee:

where are you steveo? sorry, i forget! getting on you know
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melinda:

@Linda yeah, no natural light is bad. Though some have skylights.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Dead malls in New Jersey: www.deadmalls.com...
  11:42am
Warwick joe:

Great show, from the interview to the music to the dj banter.
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Linda Lee:

@melinda ~ true! but somehow it doesn't help. like a prison window i guess .. what i need is landscape & the relative position of the sun.
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glenn:

that's a lot of dead malls.
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TDK60:

I suppose we don't need another Trouble talk show, if she can easily do that here in-between the music. Maybe a bit more often?
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steveo:

sorry, Linda; you can't read my mind?; live in Brooklyn work in Hell's Kitchen
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Linda Lee:

ah! where are you in Brooklyn? even after all that's happened .. love Brooklyn. moving from manhattan in '81 was such a revelation. sky!!! :-)
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Linda Lee:

speaking of art spaces .. dead malls.
  11:47am
JakeGould:

Early goodbye but still listening because work. THANKS TROUBLE!!!
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Linda Lee:

wow look at all the dead hudson valley malls ~ & here come the artists looking for space to live & work! hello??
  11:48am
exile-on-hicks-street:

Same - @Trouble-Great show today.
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common:

purdy
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Priscilla:

I could go for Tater Junction about now...
  11:49am
Leelee:

Ahhh love this Os Mutantes... so dreamy
  11:49am
exile-on-hicks-street:

Aw, man.... Now you play Os Mutantes? :)
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steveo:

Linda, i live near Grand Army Plaza. my not-yet-wife dragged me out there from the east village in the 00s. we think about moving upstate but... jobs
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Webhamster Henry:

@Linda Lee - The Hudson Valley Mall is definitely dying out - and even if they were to convert it to housing, there's lousy bus service there!
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Trouble:

obrigado! thanks for sitting in today and all your fab comments!
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TDK60:

Believe it or not, lots of Brazilian tourists come to NYC in the winter.
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βrian:

Coming up:
Underwater Theme Park with Meghan

wfmu.org...
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Linda Lee:

@steveo ~ nice neighborhood for sure. & you're not the only ones thinking about relocating! here's the funny thing .. the more folks come .. the more jobs created to serve. i believe that's how it goes. the trick is, don't pick up a city-income mortgage!! that's the mistake people make.
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Linda Lee:

@Webhamster Henry ~ opportunity for creating citizen bus service! :-)
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Linda Lee:

@TDK60 - shopping opportunities in the off-season?
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TDK60:

Cheaper flights? Too see winter weather? I know not.
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Linda Lee:

just you wait .. co-housing community is coming. this is how we transform dead spaces & areas affordably. the nuclear family is over. it's just a matter of time.
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TDK60:

"to"
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steveo:

i wonder about providence, which Trouble mentioned earlier; seem like a nice place...


Thanks for the show, DJ Trouble!
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Passaic River Blues:

Thank you, Trouble!
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