WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from June 4, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:04am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, naomi shamble made it to summer schedule after only two fill ins, isn't that sumpthin' ,must be cause she's such a star!
	3:08am bill hanke: you know my name look up the number
	3:09am Cp304: Sweet
	3:10am bill hanke: I live next to a mulch facility. it smells like dung
	3:15am Brian D: Hello all!
	3:15am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:04 Happy for her. Deserves it.
	3:17am Cp304: ↳ Song: "Death Letter" by "White Stripes" This song is in perfect sync with cheaters right now
	3:17am bill hanke: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:04 how many WFMU dj's run their show off a lap top without ever queing up a record?
	3:18am Cp304: ↳ bill hanke @3:17 It's another level
	3:19am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone! Big day here in the Commonwealth! Got any Sex Pistols queued up?!
	3:20am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:19 Ha! No, but maybe I'll switch things up.
	♥ 3:26am fred: Hello Brian and all
	⚡ ♥ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:15 @brian, do you know if naomi is coming from another station like prb, or a station in philly?
	⚡ ♥ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: hi fred.
	3:32am ?: Is this the Ms. doubtfire soundtrack?
	3:33am Western: yes. Naomi will be doing her show from home in Pennsylvania
	⚡ ♥ 3:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Western @3:33 oh, thx
	♥ 3:35am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Quick greeting & off to walk the dog.
	3:40am Brian D: Fred! Brian!
	3:40am Brian D: Killer Mike's TV show: www.pbs.org...
	3:40am mr 6: Terrible things when you turn your back on a 45 rpm
	3:41am Yopi: Violent diarrhea has kept me away tonight. what a mess. I can do laundry tomorrow.
	3:42am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:40 Right. Good thing the summer schedule is already done.
	3:42am Brian D: The new Nick Drake biography: www.goodreads.com...
	3:43am Patterson: I heard fried food is good for that. must be true. all crispy
	3:43am Chris Crisco: Where's the summer schedule for the streams on the website?
	♥ 3:44am fred: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:43 The streams don't change their schedule that way. People can leave or come in anytime
	3:44am Kelly: the streams will be on archive reruns
	3:46am mr 6: There’s a stream where I live and I work near the Hudson River My summer schedule is 7 pm - 5:30 am I hope that helps
	3:47am Kelly: except Dave Spazz has been deleted from the archive
	♥ 3:48am fred: ↳ Song: "Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell" by "Mudhoney" There is/was a band called Me Donner, which is a pun because that's how Mudhoney is pronounced in French (of course they're from Amiens)
	3:49am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:48 Huh. Any good?
	3:49am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @3:44 oh is that how it works? When is Naomi on? I know Julie on the Drummer stream said she is leaving.
	3:51am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all of you on the board, and greetings from the cabin, where my friend spent hours yesterday diggin out invasive lupine roots. I'll have to get the Nick Drake biography. I just re-introduced Blackeyed Dog into my set. Oh, and great motto for this week. He would probably be killed by the state, which would be pushed by the official Christian churches to do so.
	♥ 3:51am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:49 Yeah, pretty cool. It's actually half of Headwar, with Claire whose solo project is Terrine
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: hi don.
	3:52am Herry: the streams will all be archive reruns. Naomi is past tense.
	3:52am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:51 Hey Don. Good luck with the digging.
	3:53am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:51 Oh cool. I'll check them out.
	♥ 3:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Clip: Reuters-ceasefire falters in Sudan" There was an interesting article in The Baffler about South Sudan, focused on a guy deported from the US, but telling about the complicated ethnic puzzle there
	3:56am Yoire: I read that issue. fascinating about adult male circumcision
	3:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:54 LRB had an article recently describing the rise of that guy Hamidi, head of the Rapid Support Forces. He is basically leveraging that complicated ethnic puzzle for financial and political gain.
	3:59am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all. Had a visit this week from Oz and got to sing some songs on my Takamine acoustic. For a change.
	⚡ ♥ 4:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Drag" by "Unknown Mortal Orchestra" liked that song, but somehow made me think of sanford an son theme, that i hardly remember. anybody else?
	♥ 4:03am fred: ↳ Song: "Down From Dover" by "Sally Timms & Jon Langford" People at work make fun of me for being a Dolly fan (my cowboy boots are not helping). People in France just know her looks, not her music. I was the same, until Laura Cantrell schooled me
	4:04am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:59 Greetings Michael.
	4:05am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:02 "I'm comin', 'Lizbeth!"
	⚡ ♥ 4:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:05 ha! hey it's one of those things that occur at three in the morning
	4:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:03 Dolly is awesome. I love the way she has no fear of pissing off her traditional, more conservative audience by telling them how it is and how she sees things
	4:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 I get it. The missus and I watched an old Richard Pryor comedy show last night, which brought Redd Fox to mind.
	4:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 Agreed. Dolly has a lot of... guts.
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:07 was it the richard pryor show with the slave ship?
	4:10am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:08 No, but that's a good one. This was from 1979, pre-freebasing accident. Huey Newton was in the audience.
	⚡ ♥ 4:11am tom tom the pipers son: wow huey newton
	♥ 4:15am fred: Again from The Baffler, an old article about last week's birthday boy: thebaffler.com... Nothing new, of course, but the very fact there is such a thing as the "Henry A Kissinger" prize that doesn't involve a prison sentence is galling
	♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Song: "Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity" by "William Tyle... Oh, I love this one!
	⚡ ♥ 4:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:15 "last weeks birthday boy" thought you were talking about malcolm x... what a turn of events...
	4:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 Me too. It's thrilling!
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:15 Trump is/was a monster. He is not the first to be in a position of power.
	4:22am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:07 Years ago in Las Vegas with some friends saw Redd Foxx. It was practically empty. He said to us where you guys from San Francisco? I wasn't quick witted enough to say No Queens..
	4:24am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:22 Ha! Never got to see him live. I remember people wondered how he could ever be funny on primetime network TV, given his material.
	⚡ ♥ 4:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:15 thanks for posting baffler article
	⚡ ♥ 4:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Life Is Strange" by "T. Rex" what did marc bolan owe to doo wop?
	♥ 4:42am fred: Many years ago, I interned at a French pharma called Servier. They were the same, despite the single payer system. A cesspool. They even had a corruption subsidiary, dedicated to paying politicians. And fascist vibes too: at one point employees were expected to contribute to pay for a statue of the founder, and they had strict racist and antisemitic hiring policies. A friend's father had to prove he had "pure" ancestry from Brittany after he submitted a picture where he was deemed suspiciously tanned after a skiing vacation
	4:43am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:42 Jaysus.
	4:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:42 Shiver me timbers!
	⚡ ♥ 4:47am tom tom the pipers son: some story, the statue is a real kicker
	♥ 4:50am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:43 I only worked there a few months, but there's much more
	4:53am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:50 The daily hum-drum business of generating turnover -- utterly indifferent to the content of what's being pushed onto the consumer. In my lingo it's called value-form indifference.
	♥ 4:54am fred: They were legally a non-profit with "independent" labs joining. Those would regularly fold and be recreated under a different name with the same people, for tax evasion purpose. Blatant, but the corruption division did its job well
	⚡ ♥ 4:59am tom tom the pipers son: have not worked much in the corporate world but what litttle i have there were always signs of fascism and raciism. i worked at a unilever headquarters working on an exhibit from the schomburg center for black history month. in the lobby were two monitors playing fox news with lightboxes of unilever product framing them. the first year we installed a series of photos about black history near their conference rooms, the next year the exhibit was moved to a hallway near the loading dock.
	♥ 4:59am fred: Once I had to deliver a replacement laptop for a conference. I got in trouble because I got in through the wrong door. They freaked out because I was not supposed to know the "separate" buildings of "independent" companies were actually all connected by underground passages
	♥ 5:04am fred: They also had a secret internal division to spy on workers. My boss tried to get a guy fired for wearing a lavender tie. Turned out the guy was from that secret division and the boss was fired instead
	5:05am Yoire: yet u continued to work for them. cashing your corporate pay check
	♥ 5:07am fred: ↳ Yoire @5:05 I was an unpaid intern (required for my degree)
	5:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:07 And you got quite the education. Are they still in business?
	5:12am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @5:07 He's a troll ignore him.
	♥ 5:14am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:10 They eventually got in trouble for aggressively pushing a weight-loss med that killed thousands, but they're still around and going strong
	5:16am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:14 I'd say I'm glad the US doesn't have a monopoly on awful pharma companies but...
	♥ 5:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:16 Did you expect otherwise?
	5:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:16 Kinda. I naively think the single-payer systems work against those sorts of corporate entities, despite evidence to the contrary.
	5:18am Claire from Montclair: The birds in the music are mixing with the birds outside and totally messing with my head lol
	♥ 5:19am fred: Single payer would probably help a lot (when I had heart surgery I only paid for ambulance fees). But it's not going to wipe away greed
	5:20am Michael of Cologne: Huge full moon last night and this coming one.
	5:21am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:19 Right. Unfortunately, greed is an all too common human trait.
	5:21am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:20 The moon has been unusually bright and clear here. Normally the ambient pollution dulls its shine a bit.
	5:22am Brian D: ↳ Claire from Montclair @5:18 Apologies, Claire. Tell those birds to pipe down ;-)
	5:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:21 It's only human greed induced by the relentless accumulation of thingified value. This is the hidden god whom all worship.
	5:22am Claire from Montclair: I’m a bird nerd so I love it!
	♥ 5:23am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:21 The bright side of the US health care system is that you have nowhere to go but up
	⚡ ♥ 5:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:20 here in nyc it turned cantelope(sp) color before it set
	5:25am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:23 Sadly, I'm not sure that's true. If they scrap the Affordable Care Act and keep cutting Medicare/Medicaid, millions will be uninsured and, thus, unable to afford care at all.
	5:26am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "See You Later, I’m Gone" by "Bria" Bria sings what?
	5:27am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:26 Not a typo.
	5:28am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:27 ok just making sure
	♥ 5:28am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:25 Yeah, things can always get worse. You should get single-payer though
	5:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:28 No doubt. If only we had more politicians with the will to make that happen.
	5:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:23 Last night as it rose, it was orange near the horizon and I sang the first lines of Tom Waits' Grapefruit Moon. Romantic, huh?
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:59 one other detail abut this unilever campus as they called it were these glass enclosed pedestals withe little crystal figures like jeff koons with plaques saying things like"teamship" , "innovation" and other bulshit. there was one pedestal with "caring", that pedestal was empty.
	5:33am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:28 You reckon it's a matter of will power?
	♥ 5:33am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:28 Vote them in. Tough when they have to beg for money for their campaign. Applies to many issues, of course those with money to spend like things as they are
	⚡ ♥ 5:33am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:31 very
	5:36am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:33 I do, believe me. But the people I vote for never win.
	5:36am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @5:28 Still trying to figure out New Zealand's healthcare. Got flu shots free. Going for annual physical this week I think it's $80. My wife was getting Monovisc knee injections in US covered by Medicare but here they have something similar Durolane $500 each knee. You can get private insurance but we haven't done that.
	♥ 5:36am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:32 I'm sure they filled it by now, but nice catch
	⚡ ♥ 5:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:36 maybe with a jar of mayonaise
	5:38am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:33 The moon rose a little to the east of the Volksbank Köln Bonn, behind which it temporarily disappeared thereafter. For years I've wanted to blow up that ugly building completely lacking in imagination, like those who work in it.
	5:39am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:36 Bernie would have kicked Insane Clown's ass if Hillary would have just put country over self. Insane Clown's own pollster admits that.
	♥ 5:41am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:38 That's some ugly building indeed. An insult to architecture as an art
	5:41am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:39 We'll never know for sure... And, frankly, it's "ancient" history at this point.
	⚡ ♥ 5:41am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:38 luckily, i live pretty high up, so no blocking though there's an empty lot adjacent to me, who known what's going to get built
	5:46am Brian D: ↳ Song: "Summer Samba" by "Combustible Edison" Have to admit this is making me think of Eddie Layton...
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:46 the organist at yankee stadium, former?
	5:48am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:48 Yes. Not sure why.
	♥ 5:49am fred: Well, I'll know soon enough what it is to live under a fascist government
	5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:49 Yeah, it's not trending well there, is it, Fred?
	5:50am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:41 Yeah but what we do know is Hillary basically let Insane Clown run uoppposed. Letting him bash her night after night on national TV. No demand for equal time. Nothing but lame Stronger Together / I'm With Her ads. That wouldn't have been the case with Bernie. You're right it doesn't matter now still it's a damn shame when you think of this shit we have now maybe could have been avoided.
	⚡ ♥ 5:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:48 per my sanford association ha!
	5:51am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @5:41 Köln is full of new architecture lacking in imagination, probably to save money. The tallest building, the Cologne Tower (Kölner Turm), is a monstrosity by a famous Italian architect. Its windows have cirrus clouds projected onto them and -- wait for it -- a jet liner flying into the building. It was built before 11 Sept. 2001, of course. Was it prescient?
	5:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Shine Hear" by "Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, Will... The slinky jazz loop recurs. Thanks, Brian.
	5:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:50 Agree 100%.
	5:54am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:52 I try, Michael.
	♥ 5:54am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:50 Problem is the left is divided (surprise!) and its populist flagbearer would switch to far-right if it would serve his ambition. Familiar story
	5:54am Brian D: Folks, that's almost it for me. Thank you for joining me. Have a great week and stay safe.
	⚡ ♥ 5:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks, brian!
	5:56am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "There'll Always Be Music" by "Tina Turner" Joe McGasko also closed his show last week with this. Great minds think alike!
	5:57am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:41 Luckily, high-rise is restricted in Cologne, and our sixth-floor loft is higher than most buildings around -- except that damned ugly bank.
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:57 sixth floor also
	♥ 5:58am Listener Jonny... in the woods of MA: ↳ Brian D @5:54 Great set! So nice to have this as my sleepmusic.

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Autorhythym	Doom Variations "Doom Variations" by "Autorhythym"	Songs for the Nervous System	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Mandy, Indiana	Drag (Crashed) "Drag (Crashed)" by "Mandy, Indiana"	i've seen a way	0:03:58 (Pop-up)
Run The Jewels	Walking in the Snow (radio edit)	RTJ4	0:07:52 (Pop-up)
White Stripes	Death Letter "Death Letter" by "White Stripes"	De Stijl	0:12:27 (Pop-up)
	Clip: KCRA-emergency approval for bird flu vaccine		0:16:56 (Pop-up)
Tenacious Bird of Prey	Feathers of a Massacred Bird	Tenacious Bird of Prey	0:17:21 (Pop-up)
Fontaines DC	'Cello Song "'Cello Song" by "Fontaines DC"	MP3	0:22:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack	0:27:14 (Pop-up)
Pyrex	Sleep Therapy "Sleep Therapy" by "Pyrex"	Pyrex	0:36:16 (Pop-up)
Mudhoney	Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell	Plastic Eternity	0:40:57 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Reuters-ceasefire falters in Sudan		0:45:49 (Pop-up)
Dommengang	Myth Time "Myth Time" by "Dommengang"	Wished Eye	0:47:19 (Pop-up)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Drag "Drag" by "Unknown Mortal Orchestra"	V	0:52:26 (Pop-up)
Sally Timms & Jon Langford	Down From Dover	A Way to Make a Living: The Dolly Parton Songbook	0:58:32 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WGN-a legal settlement spares the Sacklers		1:02:26 (Pop-up)
Bria	See You Later, I’m Gone "See You Later, I’m Gone" by "Bria"	Bria Sings Cuntry Covers Vol. 2	1:03:03 (Pop-up)
The Veils	Undertow "Undertow" by "The Veils"	… And Out of the Void, Came Love	1:08:14 (Pop-up)
William Tyler and the Impossible Truth	Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity	Secret Stratosphere	1:13:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack	1:26:16 (Pop-up)
T. Rex	Life Is Strange "Life Is Strange" by "T. Rex"	Tanx	1:38:33 (Pop-up)
Pas Musique	Lifeforce Hum "Lifeforce Hum" by "Pas Musique"	Shaman	1:40:39 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-Assad welcomed back by Arab League		1:44:31 (Pop-up)
Srmeixner	A Silent War "A Silent War" by "Srmeixner"	A Silent War	1:46:06 (Pop-up)
LA Priest	No More "No More" by "LA Priest"	Fase Luna	1:53:14 (Pop-up)
Old Fire	Void I: Uninvited "Void I: Uninvited" by "Old Fire"	Voids	1:59:07 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-Israeli officials make provocative comments at holy site		2:07:26 (Pop-up)
Schneider TM	Ost-Spirale "Ost-Spirale" by "Schneider TM"	Ereignishorizont	2:08:30 (Pop-up)
Hiram	Evaporation (Dawn) "Evaporation (Dawn)" by "Hiram"	Immersion	2:14:14 (Pop-up)
Stranger Still	A Dog Barking At Night	The Songs Which Are	2:23:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack	2:29:32 (Pop-up)
Delfeayo Marsalis	Uptown on Mardi Gras Day	Uptown on Mardi Gras Day	2:33:06 (Pop-up)
Cal Tjader	Huracan "Huracan" by "Cal Tjader"	Huracan (1978)	2:36:10 (Pop-up)
Combustible Edison	Summer Samba "Summer Samba" by "Combustible Edison"	Forbidden Isle of Demos	2:42:24 (Pop-up)
Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker, Francisco Mela	Shine Hear	Shine Hear, Vol. 1	2:46:00 (Pop-up)
Tina Turner	There'll Always Be Music	A Way to Make a Living: The Dolly Parton Songbook	2:51:31 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:04am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, naomi shamble made it to summer schedule after only two fill ins, isn't that sumpthin' ,must be cause she's such a star!
	3:08am bill hanke: you know my name look up the number
	3:09am Cp304: Sweet
	3:10am bill hanke: I live next to a mulch facility. it smells like dung
	3:15am Brian D: Hello all!
	3:15am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:04 Happy for her. Deserves it.
	3:17am Cp304: ↳ Song: "Death Letter" by "White Stripes" This song is in perfect sync with cheaters right now
	3:17am bill hanke: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:04 how many WFMU dj's run their show off a lap top without ever queing up a record?
	3:18am Cp304: ↳ bill hanke @3:17 It's another level
	3:19am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone! Big day here in the Commonwealth! Got any Sex Pistols queued up?!
	3:20am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:19 Ha! No, but maybe I'll switch things up.
	♥ 3:26am fred: Hello Brian and all
	⚡ ♥ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:15 @brian, do you know if naomi is coming from another station like prb, or a station in philly?
	⚡ ♥ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: hi fred.
	3:32am ?: Is this the Ms. doubtfire soundtrack?
	3:33am Western: yes. Naomi will be doing her show from home in Pennsylvania
	⚡ ♥ 3:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Western @3:33 oh, thx
	♥ 3:35am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Quick greeting & off to walk the dog.
	3:40am Brian D: Fred! Brian!
	3:40am Brian D: Killer Mike's TV show: www.pbs.org...
	3:40am mr 6: Terrible things when you turn your back on a 45 rpm
	3:41am Yopi: Violent diarrhea has kept me away tonight. what a mess. I can do laundry tomorrow.
	3:42am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:40 Right. Good thing the summer schedule is already done.
	3:42am Brian D: The new Nick Drake biography: www.goodreads.com...
	3:43am Patterson: I heard fried food is good for that. must be true. all crispy
	3:43am Chris Crisco: Where's the summer schedule for the streams on the website?
	♥ 3:44am fred: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:43 The streams don't change their schedule that way. People can leave or come in anytime
	3:44am Kelly: the streams will be on archive reruns
	3:46am mr 6: There’s a stream where I live and I work near the Hudson River My summer schedule is 7 pm - 5:30 am I hope that helps
	3:47am Kelly: except Dave Spazz has been deleted from the archive
	♥ 3:48am fred: ↳ Song: "Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell" by "Mudhoney" There is/was a band called Me Donner, which is a pun because that's how Mudhoney is pronounced in French (of course they're from Amiens)
	3:49am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:48 Huh. Any good?
	3:49am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @3:44 oh is that how it works? When is Naomi on? I know Julie on the Drummer stream said she is leaving.
	3:51am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all of you on the board, and greetings from the cabin, where my friend spent hours yesterday diggin out invasive lupine roots. I'll have to get the Nick Drake biography. I just re-introduced Blackeyed Dog into my set. Oh, and great motto for this week. He would probably be killed by the state, which would be pushed by the official Christian churches to do so.
	♥ 3:51am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:49 Yeah, pretty cool. It's actually half of Headwar, with Claire whose solo project is Terrine
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: hi don.
	3:52am Herry: the streams will all be archive reruns. Naomi is past tense.
	3:52am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:51 Hey Don. Good luck with the digging.
	3:53am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:51 Oh cool. I'll check them out.
	♥ 3:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Clip: Reuters-ceasefire falters in Sudan" There was an interesting article in The Baffler about South Sudan, focused on a guy deported from the US, but telling about the complicated ethnic puzzle there
	3:56am Yoire: I read that issue. fascinating about adult male circumcision
	3:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:54 LRB had an article recently describing the rise of that guy Hamidi, head of the Rapid Support Forces. He is basically leveraging that complicated ethnic puzzle for financial and political gain.
	3:59am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all. Had a visit this week from Oz and got to sing some songs on my Takamine acoustic. For a change.
	⚡ ♥ 4:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Drag" by "Unknown Mortal Orchestra" liked that song, but somehow made me think of sanford an son theme, that i hardly remember. anybody else?
	♥ 4:03am fred: ↳ Song: "Down From Dover" by "Sally Timms & Jon Langford" People at work make fun of me for being a Dolly fan (my cowboy boots are not helping). People in France just know her looks, not her music. I was the same, until Laura Cantrell schooled me
	4:04am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:59 Greetings Michael.
	4:05am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:02 "I'm comin', 'Lizbeth!"
	⚡ ♥ 4:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:05 ha! hey it's one of those things that occur at three in the morning
	4:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:03 Dolly is awesome. I love the way she has no fear of pissing off her traditional, more conservative audience by telling them how it is and how she sees things
	4:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 I get it. The missus and I watched an old Richard Pryor comedy show last night, which brought Redd Fox to mind.
	4:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 Agreed. Dolly has a lot of... guts.
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:07 was it the richard pryor show with the slave ship?
	4:10am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:08 No, but that's a good one. This was from 1979, pre-freebasing accident. Huey Newton was in the audience.
	⚡ ♥ 4:11am tom tom the pipers son: wow huey newton
	♥ 4:15am fred: Again from The Baffler, an old article about last week's birthday boy: thebaffler.com... Nothing new, of course, but the very fact there is such a thing as the "Henry A Kissinger" prize that doesn't involve a prison sentence is galling
	♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Song: "Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity" by "William Tyle... Oh, I love this one!
	⚡ ♥ 4:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:15 "last weeks birthday boy" thought you were talking about malcolm x... what a turn of events...
	4:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 Me too. It's thrilling!
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:15 Trump is/was a monster. He is not the first to be in a position of power.
	4:22am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:07 Years ago in Las Vegas with some friends saw Redd Foxx. It was practically empty. He said to us where you guys from San Francisco? I wasn't quick witted enough to say No Queens..
	4:24am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:22 Ha! Never got to see him live. I remember people wondered how he could ever be funny on primetime network TV, given his material.
	⚡ ♥ 4:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:15 thanks for posting baffler article
	⚡ ♥ 4:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Life Is Strange" by "T. Rex" what did marc bolan owe to doo wop?
	♥ 4:42am fred: Many years ago, I interned at a French pharma called Servier. They were the same, despite the single payer system. A cesspool. They even had a corruption subsidiary, dedicated to paying politicians. And fascist vibes too: at one point employees were expected to contribute to pay for a statue of the founder, and they had strict racist and antisemitic hiring policies. A friend's father had to prove he had "pure" ancestry from Brittany after he submitted a picture where he was deemed suspiciously tanned after a skiing vacation
	4:43am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:42 Jaysus.
	4:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:42 Shiver me timbers!
	⚡ ♥ 4:47am tom tom the pipers son: some story, the statue is a real kicker
	♥ 4:50am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:43 I only worked there a few months, but there's much more
	4:53am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:50 The daily hum-drum business of generating turnover -- utterly indifferent to the content of what's being pushed onto the consumer. In my lingo it's called value-form indifference.
	♥ 4:54am fred: They were legally a non-profit with "independent" labs joining. Those would regularly fold and be recreated under a different name with the same people, for tax evasion purpose. Blatant, but the corruption division did its job well
	⚡ ♥ 4:59am tom tom the pipers son: have not worked much in the corporate world but what litttle i have there were always signs of fascism and raciism. i worked at a unilever headquarters working on an exhibit from the schomburg center for black history month. in the lobby were two monitors playing fox news with lightboxes of unilever product framing them. the first year we installed a series of photos about black history near their conference rooms, the next year the exhibit was moved to a hallway near the loading dock.
	♥ 4:59am fred: Once I had to deliver a replacement laptop for a conference. I got in trouble because I got in through the wrong door. They freaked out because I was not supposed to know the "separate" buildings of "independent" companies were actually all connected by underground passages
	♥ 5:04am fred: They also had a secret internal division to spy on workers. My boss tried to get a guy fired for wearing a lavender tie. Turned out the guy was from that secret division and the boss was fired instead
	5:05am Yoire: yet u continued to work for them. cashing your corporate pay check
	♥ 5:07am fred: ↳ Yoire @5:05 I was an unpaid intern (required for my degree)
	5:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:07 And you got quite the education. Are they still in business?
	5:12am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @5:07 He's a troll ignore him.
	♥ 5:14am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:10 They eventually got in trouble for aggressively pushing a weight-loss med that killed thousands, but they're still around and going strong
	5:16am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:14 I'd say I'm glad the US doesn't have a monopoly on awful pharma companies but...
	♥ 5:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:16 Did you expect otherwise?
	5:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:16 Kinda. I naively think the single-payer systems work against those sorts of corporate entities, despite evidence to the contrary.
	5:18am Claire from Montclair: The birds in the music are mixing with the birds outside and totally messing with my head lol
	♥ 5:19am fred: Single payer would probably help a lot (when I had heart surgery I only paid for ambulance fees). But it's not going to wipe away greed
	5:20am Michael of Cologne: Huge full moon last night and this coming one.
	5:21am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:19 Right. Unfortunately, greed is an all too common human trait.
	5:21am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:20 The moon has been unusually bright and clear here. Normally the ambient pollution dulls its shine a bit.
	5:22am Brian D: ↳ Claire from Montclair @5:18 Apologies, Claire. Tell those birds to pipe down ;-)
	5:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:21 It's only human greed induced by the relentless accumulation of thingified value. This is the hidden god whom all worship.
	5:22am Claire from Montclair: I’m a bird nerd so I love it!
	♥ 5:23am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:21 The bright side of the US health care system is that you have nowhere to go but up
	⚡ ♥ 5:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:20 here in nyc it turned cantelope(sp) color before it set
	5:25am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:23 Sadly, I'm not sure that's true. If they scrap the Affordable Care Act and keep cutting Medicare/Medicaid, millions will be uninsured and, thus, unable to afford care at all.
	5:26am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "See You Later, I’m Gone" by "Bria" Bria sings what?
	5:27am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:26 Not a typo.
	5:28am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:27 ok just making sure
	♥ 5:28am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:25 Yeah, things can always get worse. You should get single-payer though
	5:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:28 No doubt. If only we had more politicians with the will to make that happen.
	5:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:23 Last night as it rose, it was orange near the horizon and I sang the first lines of Tom Waits' Grapefruit Moon. Romantic, huh?
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:59 one other detail abut this unilever campus as they called it were these glass enclosed pedestals withe little crystal figures like jeff koons with plaques saying things like"teamship" , "innovation" and other bulshit. there was one pedestal with "caring", that pedestal was empty.
	5:33am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:28 You reckon it's a matter of will power?
	♥ 5:33am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:28 Vote them in. Tough when they have to beg for money for their campaign. Applies to many issues, of course those with money to spend like things as they are
	⚡ ♥ 5:33am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:31 very
	5:36am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:33 I do, believe me. But the people I vote for never win.
	5:36am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @5:28 Still trying to figure out New Zealand's healthcare. Got flu shots free. Going for annual physical this week I think it's $80. My wife was getting Monovisc knee injections in US covered by Medicare but here they have something similar Durolane $500 each knee. You can get private insurance but we haven't done that.
	♥ 5:36am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:32 I'm sure they filled it by now, but nice catch
	⚡ ♥ 5:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:36 maybe with a jar of mayonaise
	5:38am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:33 The moon rose a little to the east of the Volksbank Köln Bonn, behind which it temporarily disappeared thereafter. For years I've wanted to blow up that ugly building completely lacking in imagination, like those who work in it.
	5:39am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:36 Bernie would have kicked Insane Clown's ass if Hillary would have just put country over self. Insane Clown's own pollster admits that.
	♥ 5:41am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:38 That's some ugly building indeed. An insult to architecture as an art
	5:41am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:39 We'll never know for sure... And, frankly, it's "ancient" history at this point.
	⚡ ♥ 5:41am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:38 luckily, i live pretty high up, so no blocking though there's an empty lot adjacent to me, who known what's going to get built
	5:46am Brian D: ↳ Song: "Summer Samba" by "Combustible Edison" Have to admit this is making me think of Eddie Layton...
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:46 the organist at yankee stadium, former?
	5:48am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:48 Yes. Not sure why.
	♥ 5:49am fred: Well, I'll know soon enough what it is to live under a fascist government
	5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:49 Yeah, it's not trending well there, is it, Fred?
	5:50am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:41 Yeah but what we do know is Hillary basically let Insane Clown run uoppposed. Letting him bash her night after night on national TV. No demand for equal time. Nothing but lame Stronger Together / I'm With Her ads. That wouldn't have been the case with Bernie. You're right it doesn't matter now still it's a damn shame when you think of this shit we have now maybe could have been avoided.
	⚡ ♥ 5:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:48 per my sanford association ha!
	5:51am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @5:41 Köln is full of new architecture lacking in imagination, probably to save money. The tallest building, the Cologne Tower (Kölner Turm), is a monstrosity by a famous Italian architect. Its windows have cirrus clouds projected onto them and -- wait for it -- a jet liner flying into the building. It was built before 11 Sept. 2001, of course. Was it prescient?
	5:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Shine Hear" by "Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, Will... The slinky jazz loop recurs. Thanks, Brian.
	5:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:50 Agree 100%.
	5:54am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:52 I try, Michael.
	♥ 5:54am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:50 Problem is the left is divided (surprise!) and its populist flagbearer would switch to far-right if it would serve his ambition. Familiar story
	5:54am Brian D: Folks, that's almost it for me. Thank you for joining me. Have a great week and stay safe.
	⚡ ♥ 5:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks, brian!
	5:56am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "There'll Always Be Music" by "Tina Turner" Joe McGasko also closed his show last week with this. Great minds think alike!
	5:57am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:41 Luckily, high-rise is restricted in Cologne, and our sixth-floor loft is higher than most buildings around -- except that damned ugly bank.
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:57 sixth floor also
	♥ 5:58am Listener Jonny... in the woods of MA: ↳ Brian D @5:54 Great set! So nice to have this as my sleepmusic.

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