WFMU: Mr. Fab: Playlist from September 28, 2023

Listener comments!
	♥ 11:54am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	12:01pm Mr Fab: Greetings, all you guys n dolls! We're exploring other kinds of darkness. Not the type you usually hear at this time. But there are many shades of darkness...
	♥ 12:05pm MHLee: Hi fab, too me a minute to find this
	♥ 12:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @12:05 This department is flying the seat of our pants. Now get out there and close some cases, MHLee!
	12:07pm Mr Fab: Just posted a link in the Bill Zebub chat.
	♥ 12:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh, yeah. I remember now that Bill said he'd be out this week.
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: ConFABulations, Mr. Fab! Tuned in! Hey, it’s Rondo Hatton!
	12:08pm Mr Fab: Starting my work day, so am literally in my own vortex of chaos right now!
	♥ 12:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:07 Detective Rich. Nice to see you on the beat.
	12:09pm DJ Guin: ↳ Song: "Dragnet Mambo" by "Machito" makes it sound like they're going to arrest a perp whilst doing the Mambo
	12:09pm Mr Fab: I have three chapters of this hardboiled radio paperback lined up today. We're starting off on the bad side of town. And by "bad" we might mean "fun"...
	♥ 12:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pasties And A G-String" by "Andre Williams" There should just be more Andre Williams in general. Always worth it.
	♥ 12:11pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Austin Rich @12:08 Hiya, Austin! Hi everyone!
	12:12pm Ike-O: Tha ks for filling in this afternoon- definitely digging this
	12:18pm Mr Fab: Austin is running this while i'm here at the office trying to "work" so forgive me if my playlist updating goes a bit kerflooy sometimes.
	♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 Don't worry, Chief. I'm on the case, this time, with my Partner Mitch. My Name is Rich. I carry a pair of headphones.
	12:20pm Mr Fab: anyway, i doff my fedora at all you hard-boiled dicks and femme fatales here today: Austin! MH! Ken! Ike-O! Guin! Rich! The usual suspects. You know your rights...
	12:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Black Dahlia" by "Johnny Legend" not to be confused with John Legend
	♥ 12:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:29 I came across a short-lived punk band called The Smiths, not to be confused with Morrissey's band, or the one from the 60's, just called "Smith." Sort of makes them google-proof, in a way.
	12:31pm Mr Fab: we'll be hearing a number of other true-life tales of Hollywood noir from John Gilmore thru out this chapter
	12:32pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:30 Weird!?! Never heard of them. But I'm sure I'd prefer them to Moz, haha.
	♥ 12:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:32 Certainly the better "Smiths." There was a PDX punk band in the 70's called The Descendent too, not connected to the more famous one, and again, not around for long. I know my old band - Cathead - discovered a few bands since then who have taken the name. Not to mention The Catheads, who we are not connected to.
	12:34pm Mr Fab: Jack Webb/Sgt Friday repeatedly pops up unexpectedly thru out this chapter.
	♥ 12:34pm Austin Rich: "Descendents," pardon.
	♥ 12:34pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" by "Dada" This sounds weirdly like some kind of Marc Ribot project but I looked them up and nope. Very cool.
	12:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:34 LA band - I worked with a girl who's boyfriend was in DADA. And she was in a band called The Descendants! They had to change their name of course.
	♥ 12:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:35 Ha! Band names are hard. I keep waiting for someone to say some of mine have already been used.
	♥ 12:37pm Rich in Washington: I’ve been sporadically rewatching Dragnet ’69, 70, etc. lately. It’s a hoot.
	12:39pm Dean: My band M, aka Sound of M, produced a single on Flipside Records (the first in the catalog, way before Beck), precisely when M had a global hit with "Pop Music." Der.
	♥ 12:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:37 I watched a bunch when I was working on a song about cops. It's pretty corny.
	♥ 12:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @12:39 D'oh!
	♥ 12:41pm Rich in Washington: (Rev.) Mr. F Lemur did some great Dragnet cutups years ago. I believe they’re all on Archive dot org.
	♥ 12:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:41 Nice! I'll have to dig those up.
	12:42pm Dean: I was also in a band, Akimbo, long before the famous one emerged. But then there are the multitude of "insta-bands," one night stand ensembles gathered to play a party: Shit From Shinola, Sweet Pudd'nheads, Goddamn Tractor, Elephants Dupree... Pretty sure they are low risk dupes.
	12:59pm Mr Fab: Chapter Four, er FOIR is up next.
	1:00pm Mr Fab: and still no closer to cracking this case. I reached for a can of Red Bull I keep in my bottom drawer. Then SHE walked in...
	1:07pm Dean: Gilmore is the author of Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder? Way back in the early '90s I was working on a system migration at a public library. I had to be onsite late one night to keep in touch with the vendor performing the migration. I was in the basement, my office, with the server. Unless the remote vendor made a request, I had nothing to do, so I grabbed the then new book, Severed, from the shelf where it was awaiting cataloging, and I read the whole thing. Left the office well past midnight.
	1:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @1:07 Did those excerpts sound familiar? I assume they were from that book.
	1:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Lounge Lizards" by "Incident On South Street" Arto Lindsay on noise guitar, Anton Fig of The Feelies on drums
	1:12pm Dean: Oh, shoot, I actually missed the airing. He wrote a second book about the murder, so could be from that one, too.
	1:14pm egould: Total organization.
	♥ 1:14pm Austin Rich: My wife, who works from the room next to the Lava Lamp Lounge, wanted me to know that I was listening to some excellent tunes this morning. (She never comments on my radio shows.) So... sorry, Mr. Fab... I'm taking credit for this one. Hope you don't mind!
	1:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:14 haha, go for it!
	♥ 1:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:15 Someday I'll tell her the truth. But... what harm could come from one little white lie...
	1:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Audrey’s Dance" by "Xiu Xiu" This is from an entire "Twin Peaks" tribute album by Xiu Xiu.
	♥ 1:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:18 I am learning about this album NOW, and realizing I need to own it. Thank you!
	♥ 1:21pm Austin Rich: I spent a lot of time in college reading and watching noir, and this show is really giving me "college years" vibes for me. Thank you!
	♥ 1:21pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @1:18 This is good. Need more in my lit.
	1:22pm Dean: Anton Fig wasn't in The Feelies. Anton Fier was.
	1:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:21 My mom was a big H Bogart fan, so saw some noir classics growing up . Discovered Raymond Chandler at around age 17 and was obsessed. Would read his books over and over. But the audio equivalent was pretty obscure. Didn't really start to get a handle on it til years later.
	♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: If you are listening, and you like Bogart, and you aren't listening to Dimestore Radio Theater on Monday's, you should tune in! We have Bogart and Bacall every week!
	♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:23 Yeah, you are covering ground I wouldn't have thought of. It's very nice.
	1:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @1:22 damn I always get them mixed up!
	♥ 1:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:24 Time for a mash-up?
	♥ 1:25pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @1:21 Yeah. I’m kinda obsessed with noir/hard-boiled/detective fiction. I’m working my way through the ‘Travis McGee’ series right now. It’s wonderful; highly recommend.
	♥ 1:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @1:25 That has been on my radar. Haven't dug in yet, but... winter is coming, and I'll have lots of free time...
	1:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:24 Indeed, and yes I did tell Mama Fab about the super cool Bogie and Bacall radio show you run. She had no idea that it had existed.
	♥ 1:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:26 New fans! Hell yeah.
	1:27pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Darkstalker" by "Bohren & Der Club of Gore" if any "Vortex of Chaos" listeners are out there, this band actually started off metal (hence the "Gore") before swapping guitars for noir atmospherics
	♥ 1:28pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @1:26 Not to tell you your business, but I would recommend reading the series in order. Travis grows, changes, gets new scars, etc.
	1:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:25 haven't read those - but thx for the tip!
	♥ 1:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @1:28 That makes sense. The Parker novels are the same... I picked up the second one, and realized: I should go back.
	1:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:28 roger that
	1:32pm Mr Fab: i've been meaning to find a copy of Ed Wood's (yes, THAT Ed Wood) "Blood Spatters Quickly."
	1:37pm Mr Fab: Blues in the Night, 'Round Midnight, Harlem Nocturne - the noir standards. There's a million versions, but they're all good. Bulletproof tunes. blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:39pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @1:32 Did not know the Ed Wood book existed. Now I must have a copy.
	1:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:39 his novel "Killer In Drag" is great
	♥ 1:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick)" by "Tom... I need to see "Night on Earth" again. It's been too long.
	♥ 1:42pm spodiodi: greetings, Mr Fab and all
	1:44pm Mr Fab: a tip of the fedora to you, spodi
	1:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "After Dark In The Ghetto" by "Victor Johnson" discovered this track via DJ Little Danny
	♥ 1:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Pink Room" by "angelo badalamenti, david lynch" I get this song stuck in my head ALL the time.
	1:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:47 who needs three chords when you can use just ONE?!?
	1:52pm Mr Fab: i don't hear too many peple called "yellow" for cowardice nowadays. Like: "Ah, yer yella!"
	1:55pm Mr Fab: stay tuned for Chapter 5!
	♥ 1:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:52 I think the last time I heard that used earnestly was in the movie, "Popeye."
	2:00pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "The Blues" by "Henry Mancini and His Orchestra" also a one-chord song - the inspiration for "The Pink Room"?
	♥ 2:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:00 Hmmmmmm. Maybe?
	2:02pm Mr Fab: have you heard the Philip Marlowe radio series, Austin? warning: It deviates pretty far from Chandler.
	♥ 2:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:02 I have, and while I agree that it deviates a lot, I like it. They got a good cast, and even the "lighter" stories are fun. I'll run it on Dimestore someday, but I figured I'd run a few other things first.
	♥ 2:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:02 Here's a secret about the Radio Noir that I wrote: I took a few episodes of the Philip Marlowe show, and deconstructed them, to get a sense of the formula. Then I wrote my show following that formula. (Probably not as well... but... it seemed like a good place to start.) After that I did a lot of revising, but the basic outline came from that show.
	2:08pm erik-O-vert: It just doesn’t get any better than Peggy w/ black coffee … in bed … would be asking for too much I suppose. Yet a guy can dream. (Or CAN he anymore ?!).
	2:09pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:07 You cracked the code! that could be very useful.
	♥ 2:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:08 How did Mink Deville put it? "Let me dream if I want to..."
	2:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:08 Peggy Lee def tops the sultry-omoter like few can.
	2:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Mood Indigo" by "Yvonne De Carlo" Lily Munster sings!
	♥ 2:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:09 That's all we ever did in college. "You wanna write something? Study the source." I keep meaning to write more radio plays, but I'm already doing a lot. Someday.
	2:12pm Mr Fab: which reminds me - still haven't seen the Rob Zombie "Munsters." It is All Spooky Movie's Eve a-coming, so may have to correct that...
	♥ 2:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:11 I had no idea! Need to track this down.
	♥ 2:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:12 I haven't seen it yet either, but I did read about the MANY OTHER Munsters movies that have come before it, none of which I was familiar with. (All made for TV, but certainly weird artifacts from a different era.)
	♥ 2:19pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab will be excited to know that I now have, in the can, enough shows to cover both Dimesore and MVM through to the end of the year. There are three in that run that aren't finished, only because they are holiday shows, and I'd like to wait a little more before I work on those.
	2:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:19 Dude! Way to provide that content!
	♥ 2:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:22 I had a sudden influx of free time, and I got a fun job for October... so I wanted to build a bit of a cushion so I could mindlessly wander into the lounge and push "play." (I got a tiny movie job, makings sounds for them, and that's gonna eat up a few weeks.)
	♥ 2:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Falling" by "Xiu Xiu" Damn, I need this album.
	2:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Spillane" by "John Zorn" now settle back for a LEEEENGTHY John Zorn epic here. (And I can really get some work done, haha)
	♥ 2:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:29 I'm so glad you played this!
	2:32pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Spillane" by "John Zorn" speaking of the Lounge lizards who we heard earlier, pretty sure that's head Lizard John Lurie on hardboiled dialogue.
	♥ 2:34pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @2:14 The wife and I just watched 'Marineland Carnival: The Munsters Visit Marineland'. It sucks. But we enjoy schlocky movies and general stupidity, so it was perfect. A real stinkeroo! lostmediawiki.com...
	♥ 2:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @2:34 That was my take-away: some real cheap schlock, but it's the Munsters, so... you like them, right?
	2:38pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @2:34 Whaa..?! Nothing about that makes any sense, haha. So of course gotta see it.
	2:39pm Mr Fab: I used to love Marineland.And wasnt a big fan of Disneyland. Real dolphins over people dressed like mice any day.
	♥ 2:43pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @2:39 I never got to Marineland. It was closed by the time I moved to LA in 1993. My wife used to go there as a kid; she liked it.
	♥ 2:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:39 My wife is a big Disneyland fan. Up here, in The Mid-Valley, we have The Enchanted Forest, which is an OG theme park, with home-made gimmicks, and cheap rides. It's WONDERFUL. (And: cheaper than Disney.)
	♥ 2:53pm Austin Rich: Another great show, Mr. Fab! You better now do this too often, or we'll start to expect it!
	2:56pm erik-O-vert: Is it correct that your 9/22/2023 “Spaced in Vegas” show is the only archived Mr Fab thus far ?! Or is there another moniker ?
	2:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:53 Thank YOU, Captain Austin! Always a bit of a gamble trying to run the playlist and chat from the office. Never know when I might have to attend a meeting or sumthin, but it's been working out so far.
	♥ 2:57pm egould: Thank you, Mr. Fab. That was pretty awesome.
	♥ 2:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:57 Any time. I'm often around... when I'm not on a case.
	2:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:56 Nope, there's more: www.wfmu.org...
	3:00pm Mr Fab: Thanks, all! So glad you could make it. But don't leave town, in case there's a need for further questioning...
	♥ 3:00pm Barno in Akron: Oh Shoot! I just got done with my meetings and missed the show
	♥ 3:01pm spodiodi: thanks Mr Fab!
	12:05pm OSS: Hi to all!
	♥ 1:31pm WR: Busy work day yesterday so I missed this absolutely FAB presentation. Many thanks.
	♥ 1:32pm WR: ↳ egould @2:34 thank you for the link about Munsters / Marineland, will be tracking that down and watching soon.
	6:43pm OSS: This is weird, I was here at Noon EST on Thursday and it seemed the show had already happened! Oh well...

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September 28, 2023: Radio Noir chapters 3-5: filling in for "Vortex of Chaos"

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Paul Tanner	The D.A.'s Man Theme "The D.A.'s Man Theme" by "Paul Tanner"
Radio Noir chapter 3: Stripper Gang!	"Radio Noir chapter 3: Stripper Gang!"
Toledo	Downtown "Downtown" by "Toledo"
Machito	Dragnet Mambo "Dragnet Mambo" by "Machito"
Andre Williams	Pasties And A G-String
Jimmy Vargas And The Black Dahlias	Striptease In Noir
Stewart Winter/Joseph Saba	Stripper Attack	0:16:55 (Pop-up)
Johnny Legend	Black Dahlia "Black Dahlia" by "Johnny Legend"	0:17:20 (Pop-up)
John Gilmore, Skip Heller	Haunted	0:20:19 (Pop-up)
Henry Mancini and His Orchestra	Fallout!	0:27:16 (Pop-up)
Dada	Here Today, Gone Tomorrow "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" by "Dada"	0:30:23 (Pop-up)
Ry Cooder	Don’t Call Me Red "Don’t Call Me Red" by "Ry Cooder"	0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Art of Noise	DRAGNET AND PETER GUNN HAVE A DAY AT THE RACES	0:40:30 (Pop-up)
John Gilmore, Skip Heller	I Am Not Ashamed	0:45:01 (Pop-up)
Reg Tilsley	Underworld 2 "Underworld 2" by "Reg Tilsley"	0:45:25 (Pop-up)
Reg Tilsley	Comedy Set - Variation # 5	0:47:22 (Pop-up)
Heller Corporation	This Is L.A. "This Is L.A." by "Heller Corporation"	0:47:49 (Pop-up)
John Gilmore, Skip Heller	I Am (Still) Not Ashamed	0:49:19 (Pop-up)
Amy Winehouse	Back To Black "Back To Black" by "Amy Winehouse"	0:54:39 (Pop-up)
STAN KENTON And His Orchestra	Cool	0:58:55 (Pop-up)
Radio Noir: Chapter Foir	"Radio Noir: Chapter Foir"	1:02:41 (Pop-up)
Bernard Herrmann	Taxi Driver Main Title	1:03:17 (Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	The New York Taxi Driver - Occupational Hazards	1:05:24 (Pop-up)
Incident On South Street	Lounge Lizards	1:08:06 (Pop-up)
Bernard Herrmann/Robert DeNiro	Diary of a Taxi Driver	1:11:55 (Pop-up)
Xiu Xiu	Audrey’s Dance "Audrey’s Dance" by "Xiu Xiu"	1:16:34 (Pop-up)
June Christy	Night People "Night People" by "June Christy"	1:20:22 (Pop-up)
Bohren & Der Club of Gore	Darkstalker	1:24:19 (Pop-up)
Ted Heath and His Music	Blues in the Night	1:28:59 (Pop-up)
Betty Carter	'Round Midnight "'Round Midnight" by "Betty Carter"	1:32:27 (Pop-up)
Harry James	Harlem Nocturne "Harlem Nocturne" by "Harry James"	1:35:40 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick)	1:39:48 (Pop-up)
Victor Johnson	After Dark In The Ghetto	1:41:41 (Pop-up)
angelo badalamenti, david lynch	The Pink Room	1:47:06 (Pop-up)
Mike Minor	Rumble In The Night "Rumble In The Night" by "Mike Minor"	1:50:39 (Pop-up)
Roger Roger	Saints And Sinners "Saints And Sinners" by "Roger Roger"	1:53:08 (Pop-up)
John Keating Orchestra & Singers	Laura	1:55:05 (Pop-up)
CHAPTER 5: One For Spillane (And One More For The Road)		1:58:30 (Pop-up)
Henry Mancini and His Orchestra	The Blues	1:59:07 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe	Red Wind	2:01:45 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Black Coffee "Black Coffee" by "Peggy Lee"	2:02:06 (Pop-up)
Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra	Staccato's Theme	2:04:38 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe	Red Wind 2	2:07:30 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny	Cool "Cool" by "Martin Denny"	2:07:54 (Pop-up)
Yvonne De Carlo	Mood Indigo "Mood Indigo" by "Yvonne De Carlo"	2:10:21 (Pop-up)
Enoch Light & Light Brigade	The Creep	2:12:55 (Pop-up)
Franklyn MacCormack	Easy Come Easy Go Lover	2:15:18 (Pop-up)
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan	The Man With The Golden Arm (Main Title Theme)	2:18:23 (Pop-up)
Xiu Xiu	Falling "Falling" by "Xiu Xiu"	2:21:07 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus	Daybreak "Daybreak" by "Charles Mingus"	2:27:10 (Pop-up)
John Zorn	Spillane "Spillane" by "John Zorn"	2:28:20 (Pop-up)
Earl Grant	One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)	2:53:43 (Pop-up)
Al Hirt	T.H.E Cat "T.H.E Cat" by "Al Hirt"	2:57:58 (Pop-up)
A9 IB GLINDERMANN	VICTORIOUS "VICTORIOUS" by "A9 IB GLINDERMANN"	2:59:35 (Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	♥ 11:54am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	12:01pm Mr Fab: Greetings, all you guys n dolls! We're exploring other kinds of darkness. Not the type you usually hear at this time. But there are many shades of darkness...
	♥ 12:05pm MHLee: Hi fab, too me a minute to find this
	♥ 12:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @12:05 This department is flying the seat of our pants. Now get out there and close some cases, MHLee!
	12:07pm Mr Fab: Just posted a link in the Bill Zebub chat.
	♥ 12:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh, yeah. I remember now that Bill said he'd be out this week.
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: ConFABulations, Mr. Fab! Tuned in! Hey, it’s Rondo Hatton!
	12:08pm Mr Fab: Starting my work day, so am literally in my own vortex of chaos right now!
	♥ 12:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:07 Detective Rich. Nice to see you on the beat.
	12:09pm DJ Guin: ↳ Song: "Dragnet Mambo" by "Machito" makes it sound like they're going to arrest a perp whilst doing the Mambo
	12:09pm Mr Fab: I have three chapters of this hardboiled radio paperback lined up today. We're starting off on the bad side of town. And by "bad" we might mean "fun"...
	♥ 12:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pasties And A G-String" by "Andre Williams" There should just be more Andre Williams in general. Always worth it.
	♥ 12:11pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Austin Rich @12:08 Hiya, Austin! Hi everyone!
	12:12pm Ike-O: Tha ks for filling in this afternoon- definitely digging this
	12:18pm Mr Fab: Austin is running this while i'm here at the office trying to "work" so forgive me if my playlist updating goes a bit kerflooy sometimes.
	♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 Don't worry, Chief. I'm on the case, this time, with my Partner Mitch. My Name is Rich. I carry a pair of headphones.
	12:20pm Mr Fab: anyway, i doff my fedora at all you hard-boiled dicks and femme fatales here today: Austin! MH! Ken! Ike-O! Guin! Rich! The usual suspects. You know your rights...
	12:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Black Dahlia" by "Johnny Legend" not to be confused with John Legend
	♥ 12:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:29 I came across a short-lived punk band called The Smiths, not to be confused with Morrissey's band, or the one from the 60's, just called "Smith." Sort of makes them google-proof, in a way.
	12:31pm Mr Fab: we'll be hearing a number of other true-life tales of Hollywood noir from John Gilmore thru out this chapter
	12:32pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:30 Weird!?! Never heard of them. But I'm sure I'd prefer them to Moz, haha.
	♥ 12:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:32 Certainly the better "Smiths." There was a PDX punk band in the 70's called The Descendent too, not connected to the more famous one, and again, not around for long. I know my old band - Cathead - discovered a few bands since then who have taken the name. Not to mention The Catheads, who we are not connected to.
	12:34pm Mr Fab: Jack Webb/Sgt Friday repeatedly pops up unexpectedly thru out this chapter.
	♥ 12:34pm Austin Rich: "Descendents," pardon.
	♥ 12:34pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" by "Dada" This sounds weirdly like some kind of Marc Ribot project but I looked them up and nope. Very cool.
	12:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:34 LA band - I worked with a girl who's boyfriend was in DADA. And she was in a band called The Descendants! They had to change their name of course.
	♥ 12:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:35 Ha! Band names are hard. I keep waiting for someone to say some of mine have already been used.
	♥ 12:37pm Rich in Washington: I’ve been sporadically rewatching Dragnet ’69, 70, etc. lately. It’s a hoot.
	12:39pm Dean: My band M, aka Sound of M, produced a single on Flipside Records (the first in the catalog, way before Beck), precisely when M had a global hit with "Pop Music." Der.
	♥ 12:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:37 I watched a bunch when I was working on a song about cops. It's pretty corny.
	♥ 12:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @12:39 D'oh!
	♥ 12:41pm Rich in Washington: (Rev.) Mr. F Lemur did some great Dragnet cutups years ago. I believe they’re all on Archive dot org.
	♥ 12:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:41 Nice! I'll have to dig those up.
	12:42pm Dean: I was also in a band, Akimbo, long before the famous one emerged. But then there are the multitude of "insta-bands," one night stand ensembles gathered to play a party: Shit From Shinola, Sweet Pudd'nheads, Goddamn Tractor, Elephants Dupree... Pretty sure they are low risk dupes.
	12:59pm Mr Fab: Chapter Four, er FOIR is up next.
	1:00pm Mr Fab: and still no closer to cracking this case. I reached for a can of Red Bull I keep in my bottom drawer. Then SHE walked in...
	1:07pm Dean: Gilmore is the author of Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder? Way back in the early '90s I was working on a system migration at a public library. I had to be onsite late one night to keep in touch with the vendor performing the migration. I was in the basement, my office, with the server. Unless the remote vendor made a request, I had nothing to do, so I grabbed the then new book, Severed, from the shelf where it was awaiting cataloging, and I read the whole thing. Left the office well past midnight.
	1:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @1:07 Did those excerpts sound familiar? I assume they were from that book.
	1:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Lounge Lizards" by "Incident On South Street" Arto Lindsay on noise guitar, Anton Fig of The Feelies on drums
	1:12pm Dean: Oh, shoot, I actually missed the airing. He wrote a second book about the murder, so could be from that one, too.
	1:14pm egould: Total organization.
	♥ 1:14pm Austin Rich: My wife, who works from the room next to the Lava Lamp Lounge, wanted me to know that I was listening to some excellent tunes this morning. (She never comments on my radio shows.) So... sorry, Mr. Fab... I'm taking credit for this one. Hope you don't mind!
	1:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:14 haha, go for it!
	♥ 1:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:15 Someday I'll tell her the truth. But... what harm could come from one little white lie...
	1:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Audrey’s Dance" by "Xiu Xiu" This is from an entire "Twin Peaks" tribute album by Xiu Xiu.
	♥ 1:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:18 I am learning about this album NOW, and realizing I need to own it. Thank you!
	♥ 1:21pm Austin Rich: I spent a lot of time in college reading and watching noir, and this show is really giving me "college years" vibes for me. Thank you!
	♥ 1:21pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @1:18 This is good. Need more in my lit.
	1:22pm Dean: Anton Fig wasn't in The Feelies. Anton Fier was.
	1:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:21 My mom was a big H Bogart fan, so saw some noir classics growing up . Discovered Raymond Chandler at around age 17 and was obsessed. Would read his books over and over. But the audio equivalent was pretty obscure. Didn't really start to get a handle on it til years later.
	♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: If you are listening, and you like Bogart, and you aren't listening to Dimestore Radio Theater on Monday's, you should tune in! We have Bogart and Bacall every week!
	♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:23 Yeah, you are covering ground I wouldn't have thought of. It's very nice.
	1:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @1:22 damn I always get them mixed up!
	♥ 1:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:24 Time for a mash-up?
	♥ 1:25pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @1:21 Yeah. I’m kinda obsessed with noir/hard-boiled/detective fiction. I’m working my way through the ‘Travis McGee’ series right now. It’s wonderful; highly recommend.
	♥ 1:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @1:25 That has been on my radar. Haven't dug in yet, but... winter is coming, and I'll have lots of free time...
	1:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:24 Indeed, and yes I did tell Mama Fab about the super cool Bogie and Bacall radio show you run. She had no idea that it had existed.
	♥ 1:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:26 New fans! Hell yeah.
	1:27pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Darkstalker" by "Bohren & Der Club of Gore" if any "Vortex of Chaos" listeners are out there, this band actually started off metal (hence the "Gore") before swapping guitars for noir atmospherics
	♥ 1:28pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @1:26 Not to tell you your business, but I would recommend reading the series in order. Travis grows, changes, gets new scars, etc.
	1:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:25 haven't read those - but thx for the tip!
	♥ 1:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @1:28 That makes sense. The Parker novels are the same... I picked up the second one, and realized: I should go back.
	1:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:28 roger that
	1:32pm Mr Fab: i've been meaning to find a copy of Ed Wood's (yes, THAT Ed Wood) "Blood Spatters Quickly."
	1:37pm Mr Fab: Blues in the Night, 'Round Midnight, Harlem Nocturne - the noir standards. There's a million versions, but they're all good. Bulletproof tunes. blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:39pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @1:32 Did not know the Ed Wood book existed. Now I must have a copy.
	1:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @1:39 his novel "Killer In Drag" is great
	♥ 1:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick)" by "Tom... I need to see "Night on Earth" again. It's been too long.
	♥ 1:42pm spodiodi: greetings, Mr Fab and all
	1:44pm Mr Fab: a tip of the fedora to you, spodi
	1:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "After Dark In The Ghetto" by "Victor Johnson" discovered this track via DJ Little Danny
	♥ 1:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Pink Room" by "angelo badalamenti, david lynch" I get this song stuck in my head ALL the time.
	1:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @1:47 who needs three chords when you can use just ONE?!?
	1:52pm Mr Fab: i don't hear too many peple called "yellow" for cowardice nowadays. Like: "Ah, yer yella!"
	1:55pm Mr Fab: stay tuned for Chapter 5!
	♥ 1:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:52 I think the last time I heard that used earnestly was in the movie, "Popeye."
	2:00pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "The Blues" by "Henry Mancini and His Orchestra" also a one-chord song - the inspiration for "The Pink Room"?
	♥ 2:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:00 Hmmmmmm. Maybe?
	2:02pm Mr Fab: have you heard the Philip Marlowe radio series, Austin? warning: It deviates pretty far from Chandler.
	♥ 2:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:02 I have, and while I agree that it deviates a lot, I like it. They got a good cast, and even the "lighter" stories are fun. I'll run it on Dimestore someday, but I figured I'd run a few other things first.
	♥ 2:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:02 Here's a secret about the Radio Noir that I wrote: I took a few episodes of the Philip Marlowe show, and deconstructed them, to get a sense of the formula. Then I wrote my show following that formula. (Probably not as well... but... it seemed like a good place to start.) After that I did a lot of revising, but the basic outline came from that show.
	2:08pm erik-O-vert: It just doesn’t get any better than Peggy w/ black coffee … in bed … would be asking for too much I suppose. Yet a guy can dream. (Or CAN he anymore ?!).
	2:09pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:07 You cracked the code! that could be very useful.
	♥ 2:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:08 How did Mink Deville put it? "Let me dream if I want to..."
	2:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:08 Peggy Lee def tops the sultry-omoter like few can.
	2:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Mood Indigo" by "Yvonne De Carlo" Lily Munster sings!
	♥ 2:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:09 That's all we ever did in college. "You wanna write something? Study the source." I keep meaning to write more radio plays, but I'm already doing a lot. Someday.
	2:12pm Mr Fab: which reminds me - still haven't seen the Rob Zombie "Munsters." It is All Spooky Movie's Eve a-coming, so may have to correct that...
	♥ 2:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:11 I had no idea! Need to track this down.
	♥ 2:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:12 I haven't seen it yet either, but I did read about the MANY OTHER Munsters movies that have come before it, none of which I was familiar with. (All made for TV, but certainly weird artifacts from a different era.)
	♥ 2:19pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab will be excited to know that I now have, in the can, enough shows to cover both Dimesore and MVM through to the end of the year. There are three in that run that aren't finished, only because they are holiday shows, and I'd like to wait a little more before I work on those.
	2:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:19 Dude! Way to provide that content!
	♥ 2:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:22 I had a sudden influx of free time, and I got a fun job for October... so I wanted to build a bit of a cushion so I could mindlessly wander into the lounge and push "play." (I got a tiny movie job, makings sounds for them, and that's gonna eat up a few weeks.)
	♥ 2:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Falling" by "Xiu Xiu" Damn, I need this album.
	2:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Spillane" by "John Zorn" now settle back for a LEEEENGTHY John Zorn epic here. (And I can really get some work done, haha)
	♥ 2:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:29 I'm so glad you played this!
	2:32pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Spillane" by "John Zorn" speaking of the Lounge lizards who we heard earlier, pretty sure that's head Lizard John Lurie on hardboiled dialogue.
	♥ 2:34pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @2:14 The wife and I just watched 'Marineland Carnival: The Munsters Visit Marineland'. It sucks. But we enjoy schlocky movies and general stupidity, so it was perfect. A real stinkeroo! lostmediawiki.com...
	♥ 2:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @2:34 That was my take-away: some real cheap schlock, but it's the Munsters, so... you like them, right?
	2:38pm Mr Fab: ↳ egould @2:34 Whaa..?! Nothing about that makes any sense, haha. So of course gotta see it.
	2:39pm Mr Fab: I used to love Marineland.And wasnt a big fan of Disneyland. Real dolphins over people dressed like mice any day.
	♥ 2:43pm egould: ↳ Mr Fab @2:39 I never got to Marineland. It was closed by the time I moved to LA in 1993. My wife used to go there as a kid; she liked it.
	♥ 2:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:39 My wife is a big Disneyland fan. Up here, in The Mid-Valley, we have The Enchanted Forest, which is an OG theme park, with home-made gimmicks, and cheap rides. It's WONDERFUL. (And: cheaper than Disney.)
	♥ 2:53pm Austin Rich: Another great show, Mr. Fab! You better now do this too often, or we'll start to expect it!
	2:56pm erik-O-vert: Is it correct that your 9/22/2023 “Spaced in Vegas” show is the only archived Mr Fab thus far ?! Or is there another moniker ?
	2:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:53 Thank YOU, Captain Austin! Always a bit of a gamble trying to run the playlist and chat from the office. Never know when I might have to attend a meeting or sumthin, but it's been working out so far.
	♥ 2:57pm egould: Thank you, Mr. Fab. That was pretty awesome.
	♥ 2:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:57 Any time. I'm often around... when I'm not on a case.
	2:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ erik-O-vert @2:56 Nope, there's more: www.wfmu.org...
	3:00pm Mr Fab: Thanks, all! So glad you could make it. But don't leave town, in case there's a need for further questioning...
	♥ 3:00pm Barno in Akron: Oh Shoot! I just got done with my meetings and missed the show
	♥ 3:01pm spodiodi: thanks Mr Fab!
	12:05pm OSS: Hi to all!
	♥ 1:31pm WR: Busy work day yesterday so I missed this absolutely FAB presentation. Many thanks.
	♥ 1:32pm WR: ↳ egould @2:34 thank you for the link about Munsters / Marineland, will be tracking that down and watching soon.
	6:43pm OSS: This is weird, I was here at Noon EST on Thursday and it seemed the show had already happened! Oh well...

Mr. Fab: Playlist from September 28, 2023

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