WFMU: The Arbitrarium with Arb: Playlist from February 21, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:27pm chresti: open wide for chunky!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:00pm Mxter Baba: it’s time for dessert!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Arb and citizens, happy humans!
	♥ 3:01pm StringOFperils: What's inside a tart?
	♥ 3:02pm Crafty: yo!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:02pm Mxter Baba: I just picked out my DJ premiums—can’t wait to hear what Arb dishes out??
	♥ 3:03pm StringOFperils: The wedding ring's a nice touch.
	3:06pm arb: hello tarts
	3:07pm arb: todays show is conceptual
	3:07pm wimpy: ↳ StringOFperils @3:03 lol
	3:07pm arb: imagine you are going to see a stage production of Carrie (1976)
	3:07pm arb: you're filing in, getting seated, awaiting the show
	♥ 3:10pm chresti: I better sit in the back
	3:12pm arb: we are recreating the whole experience with no actual music from the film
	♥ 3:13pm StringOFperils: I need to get rid of the last of that Heinz ketchup anyway.
	3:13pm minx: ↳ arb @3:07 yesssssss !!!!
	3:14pm arb: as you're getting seated you find under your program a tampon and a maxi pad
	♥ 3:14pm StringOFperils: Ew. I thought that candy necklace tasted funny.
	♥ 3:15pm Polyus: Huh who left these here?
	3:15pm arb: one of you may notice a certain animal under your seat
	3:15pm minx: heavy flow
	3:16pm Matty Cannabis: wow, this show is delivering the goods
	3:17pm northguineahills: So dug!
	♥ 3:18pm chresti: A gerbil?
	3:18pm arb: is anyone missing a gerbil? one has just been spotted
	♥ 3:20pm WR: mmmmm. pie. Hello arb and folks, I've had the stream playing but was in a work call so it was backgrounded. Now work is backgrounded and The Arbitrarium is foregrounded.
	3:21pm arb: you hear the sounds of the performers warming up their vocals backstage
	3:24pm arb: this is your last chance to grab a drink before the show begins
	♥ 3:25pm StringOFperils: Here, hold my tampon, I have to get a Sprite.
	♥ 3:25pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Don't Challenge Me" by "Makers" <3
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:25pm Hunterian: ↳ arb @3:24 The gloves have already come off, and we're about to dive in!
	♥ 3:26pm Feldy: Guessing you don't slice this pie just grab a fork
	3:27pm arb: shhhhhhh
	3:27pm northguineahills: i heart my goatse in pie-form. apropos arb tips wishful hat
	♥ 3:28pm WR: Carrie (the musical 1988) is a notorious Broadway flop. I've heard some of it on Acid Jazz Hands and liked what I heard. There has been several productions since. Looking forward to the Arbitrarium production.
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:29pm Mxter Baba: OMX Carrie yes. I would lovvvve to see this!!!
	3:29pm northguineahills: i sort of woke up in the late 70s (cognitively)
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:30pm Mxter Baba: ↳ StringOFperils @3:25 I think TAB would be the best beverage for this show
	3:31pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @3:29 i mean, i was three when the 80s started...
	3:31pm arb: first scene: locker room
	3:31pm wimpy: hey arb just curious, during the popcorn show 2 weeks ago you mentioned that you used to do a show that was more popcorn themed. was that on wfmu?
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:31pm Mxter Baba: All you need to know about Carrie is there will be BLOOD
	♥ 3:32pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" maxi pad at the ready
	3:32pm chocolate monk: Just recently went to the cinema to see it with my daughter. We really enjoyed it.
	3:32pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" uuhhhh, my little friend.... not touching that!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:32pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:32 I’m the fat kid lurking anxiously at the back of the girl gang
	3:33pm arb: wow is this what girls locker rooms were really like in the 70s?
	♥ 3:34pm StringOFperils: ↳ wimpy @3:31 wfmu.org...
	3:34pm northguineahills: ↳ wimpy @3:31 real genius! www.youtube.com...
	3:34pm arb: 🧖🏻‍♀️
	3:35pm v-dawg: hello
	3:35pm arb: zoom in on carrie, what a freak
	♥ 3:35pm solo mon: first comes the blood then come the boys
	3:35pm arb: ewwwwwww
	3:36pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" oy, i recognize some of these phrases (pg-13 nippon-go)(nothing to tintillating)
	3:36pm arb: time to throw those tampons
	3:36pm arb: chant with me
	3:36pm arb: PLUG IT UP PLUG IT UP
	♥ 3:36pm StringOFperils: Play some Dick Hyman!
	♥ 3:36pm chresti: as a hs dropout I missed the locker room experience
	♥ 3:36pm Kat in the chat: I feel bad about this but PLUG IT UP
	♥ 3:37pm Kat in the chat: hurls maxipad
	3:37pm arb: I feel bad too, but she made us lose the game
	3:37pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:35 frinkiac.com...
	3:38pm arb: we're all in trouble, busted by miss collins
	3:38pm arb: now miss collins is meeting with the principal
	3:38pm arb: they're calling carries mother
	♥ 3:38pm newton: a friend of mine was in the case a few years earlier when they were workshoping it. Lots of really great music was made for that show, then it flopped like Got2GoDisco!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:39pm Mxter Baba: I shoved my tampon into my training bra. I wuz too scared to throw it.
	♥ 3:40pm StringOFperils: A freeze-frame of countless flying tampons looks conceptual
	♥ 3:40pm solo mon: crying into my dirty pillows rn
	3:40pm arb: "Miss Finch can you bring in Cassie Wright?"
	♥ 3:40pm Feldy: Throw me yours and I'll throw you mine
	♥ 3:40pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:40 were all very sorry cassie
	3:40pm wimpy: ↳ Song: "Does Your Mama Know" by "Rudy Love & The Love Fam... hey Rudy Love is from the same town as me! i actually got to see one of his final shows, it was a blast. unfortunately his son is addicted to koch money and is tarnishing the rudy love name
	♥ 3:41pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @3:40 Swimming toward the light
	3:41pm arb: Carrie does not like being called Cassie
	3:41pm arb: inanimate objects start to move, seemingly on their own
	♥ 3:42pm solo mon: beautiful?! like oh beautiful for spacious skies? that kind of beautifull?!?!
	3:42pm arb: carrie is dismissed early, walking home a cyclist starts taunting her
	♥ 3:43pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:42 creepy carrie creepy carrie (ree ree ree)
	♥ 3:43pm Polyus: ↳ Song: "I Get Lifted" by "George McCrae" This drum beat is really cool btw
	3:43pm arb: the stupid little kid on his bike flies off for seemingly no reason
	♥ 3:43pm StringOFperils: Cycles portend bloody horror
	3:44pm arb: uh oh the rest of the girls are in BIG TROUBLE
	3:44pm arb: they might get banned from prom
	3:44pm arb: and they have to do detention with miss collins every day for a week
	♥ 3:45pm StringOFperils: Detention is increasing
	3:45pm arb: that means exercise
	3:45pm arb: chris doesn't wanna do the exercises and miss collins slaps her
	3:46pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:40 oh, and solo! happy hallos! miss ya!😀
	♥ 3:46pm chresti: ↳ StringOFperils @3:45 Lol
	3:46pm arb: this is all so unfair
	♥ 3:46pm Kat in the chat: I wish I'd gotten telekinetic abilities with MY period. I just got cramps.
	3:47pm arb: time to plot
	♥ 3:47pm solo mon: Theyre all gonna laugh at you!
	3:47pm arb: chris hargensen wants revenge
	3:47pm arb: sue snell wants to repair
	♥ 3:48pm solo mon: ↳ northguineahills @3:46 hello stranger!
	♥ 3:48pm Little Danny: hellooooooo
	3:48pm arb: they find their respective boyfriends
	♥ 3:48pm StringOFperils: Respective boyfrieeds in high school are pretty rare
	3:49pm arb: sue asks tommy to take carrie white to to prom. how selfless of her
	♥ 3:50pm StringOFperils: Wish I'd hung onto that tampon. The loftiness of this plot is making my nose bleed.
	3:50pm arb: (carrie liked tommy's poem, we skipped over that part)
	♥ 3:50pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:50 but he didnt write it
	3:51pm arb: meanwhile.....chris has a different idea about prom. cut to chris and billy
	♥ 3:51pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Little Pig" by "Swimmers" lol
	3:52pm arb: who has the pig under their seat? 🐷
	3:52pm arb: sorry piggy
	3:52pm arb: 🩸
	3:53pm arb: tommy has finally convinced carrie to be his date
	3:53pm arb: but how will carrie ever convince her mom?
	♥ 3:53pm StringOFperils: Which Odorama card # are we on now?
	3:54pm arb: ↳ StringOFperils @3:53 #13 apple cake
	♥ 3:54pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Mama" by "Dion Sorrel" Theyre breast mama, every woman has them
	♥ 3:54pm Feldy: I'm keeping my plastic sheet on my lap BTW
	♥ 3:55pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:54 carrie youve hardly touched your apple cake
	♥ 3:55pm StringOFperils: Oh I was on #11. Canned tuna
	3:55pm arb: ↳ Feldy @3:54 oh yeah, we're recycling the old cha cha heels splash ponchos tonight
	♥ 3:56pm solo mon: this would be a good show to bring out ya old splash ponchos
	♥ 3:56pm StringOFperils: Splash and Carrie
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:57pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:46 word
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:58pm Mxter Baba: ↳ arb @3:55 Whew, I just unpacked my splash poncho!
	♥ 3:59pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Mama" by "Dion Sorrel" Selections are remarkably on point
	♥ 3:59pm chresti: I don't miss having periods
	♥ 3:59pm Kat in the chat: ↳ chresti @3:59 Me. Neither.
	4:00pm HyperDose: Hey ARB and friendlies
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:00pm Mxter Baba: You know, there was SO MUCH media about menarche and telekinesis when I was on the cusp of puberty. Even the WALTONS had an episode about it.
	4:00pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:48 hello stranger! found this song via harry smith! abrazos. www.youtube.com...
	4:00pm arb: Carrie & Tommy enter together, and Miss Collins pulls Carrie aside to reminisce about her past
	♥ 4:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ chresti @3:59 Not gonna miss pap smears either.
	4:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:59 someone like you should do a wfmu RAD-io show on GTDS stream. yer music tastes are un compare
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:03pm Mxter Baba: ↳ northguineahills @4:02 yeah!!!
	4:03pm arb: finally carrie gets a chance to dance with tommy and enjoy herself
	♥ 4:03pm Doop: ↳ Song: "I Bought My Wedding Dress At The Drugstore" by "F... from CVS? Bet that receipt was a mile long
	♥ 4:03pm Kat in the chat: ↳ northguineahills @4:02 so I've been told haha
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:04pm Mxter Baba: True fact: I found my first training bra in a closet in a squat.
	♥ 4:04pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Doop @4:03 they had a bridesmaid hold it up like a train
	4:04pm arb: along with your tampons which you no longer have you should have found a ballot on your seat when you came in
	♥ 4:04pm Doop: ↳ Kat in the chat @4:04 sweet!
	4:04pm arb: it's time to cast your vote for prom queen and king
	4:05pm arb: who will it be? let me see those ballots
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:05pm Rich in Washington: TAMPON?! I thought it was a complimentary headrest pad.
	♥ 4:06pm chresti: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:04 How convenient!
	4:06pm arb: Norma is coming through to collect your votes, get them in fast
	♥ 4:07pm Feldy: shit I wrote Cornholdt by accident
	4:08pm arb: Ok everybody it's time for the announcement
	♥ 4:08pm solo mon: nowadays ppl pay good money for a pig blood shower
	4:09pm arb: This is unbelievable, how did this happen?
	4:09pm arb: was there a miscount? did norma tamper with the votes?
	4:09pm arb: Carrie is prom queen and Tommy is prom king
	4:10pm arb: and just as they are getting crowned......
	♥ 4:10pm chresti: ↳ solo mon @4:08 OLO
	4:10pm arb: can someone explain what is happening right now?
	4:11pm arb: ↳ Song: "Rip Her To Shreds" by "Blondie" In the broadway musical Chris sings this
	♥ 4:12pm solo mon: in slow motion “noooooooooooooooooo”
	4:13pm arb: just as carrie got crowned a bucket of pig blood poured from above and covered her in her pink dress which is now red as portended by her religious mother who told her not come.
	♥ 4:13pm chresti: uh oh
	4:13pm arb: chris orchestrated this horrible prank, she's such a bully
	4:13pm arb: carrie's telekinesis powers are going out of control
	♥ 4:13pm solo mon: follow the string with your eyes, up into the rafters and focus on a dripping bucket
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:14pm Mxter Baba: ↳ chresti @4:06 much nicer than high school locker rooms!
	♥ 4:14pm StringOFperils: Gymnasium-size for those heavy flow days
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:14pm Mxter Baba: I really felt ripped-off that I didn’t get telekinesis!!!
	♥ 4:14pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Telekinesis" by "Robert Calvert" Wow you found a telekinesis song
	4:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: just arrived & perfect timing. Calvert is my spirit animal.
	4:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: also. hello.
	4:15pm arb: "we're all very sorry cassie"
	4:15pm arb: "trust me carrie, you can trust me"
	♥ 4:16pm StringOFperils: Finally something that rhymes with Jackie Onassis
	4:16pm arb: I know this is horrific but we can't help laughing at carrie
	4:17pm northguineahills: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:03 miss ya baba!
	4:18pm northguineahills: ↳ Kat in the chat @4:03 will tell ya again!
	4:18pm arb: everyone's laughing at carrie, just like her mama said they would
	4:19pm arb: her powers are going homicidal now
	4:20pm northguineahills: ↳ arb @4:18 johnny cash "mamma tried"
	♥ 4:20pm chresti: watch out mama!
	♥ 4:20pm Kat in the chat: ↳ northguineahills @4:18 🥰
	4:20pm arb: it's total chaos in the gymnasium, laughing, crying, screaming, dying....
	♥ 4:21pm Kat in the chat: ↳ arb @4:20 I haven't seen the stage show, wondering now how they handled this. Seen the movie three times.
	4:21pm arb: everyone is dying.....
	4:21pm arb: ....everyone except carrie
	4:22pm arb: carrie walks home, drenched in blood
	4:23pm arb: she showers and turns to her mother for comfort
	4:23pm arb: mama isn't having it
	4:23pm arb: "I should've given you to god when you were born"
	4:23pm arb: and now....she does
	4:24pm arb: but before carrie dies, she uses the last of her power to commit matricide
	♥ 4:24pm solo mon: AND EVE WAS WEAK
	4:25pm arb: the entire town burns to the ground
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:25pm Mxter Baba: YAY!!!
	♥ 4:26pm Polyus: The fire marshall is going to have a heck of a time explaining this one.
	♥ 4:26pm solo mon: this movie has stopped me from putting flowers on any graves ✋
	♥ 4:27pm Polyus: (with one L, sorry)
	4:27pm arb: but guess who didn't die?
	♥ 4:27pm chresti: but sue survived
	4:27pm arb: the only person who wasn't at prom
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:27pm Mxter Baba: oh YES Poppy Family!
	♥ 4:28pm StringOFperils: Drop-pitched. Nice!
	4:29pm arb: Sue Snell visits the grave of Carrie
	4:29pm arb: Bringing her flowers
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:29pm Mxter Baba: I was also deprived of a prom to destroy. I shall go on a rampage NOW
	4:29pm arb: But even Sue can't escape Carrie's wrath
	♥ 4:29pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Where Evil Grows" by "The Poppy Family" everytime i hear this song i must point out that this is where kurt cobain got the riff from teen spirit, that little fucker
	4:29pm arb: from beyond the grave
	♥ 4:30pm Feldy: Evil grows where the sun don't shine
	4:30pm arb: hand reach up from the dirt grasping at sue, who screams in terror
	♥ 4:30pm chresti: and carrie grabs her arm
	♥ 4:31pm Yvang: Great narration, I was caught.
	4:32pm wimpy: yeah this was really fun. I just got over a stomach bug like literal minutes before the show started, so this was a fun welcome back to reality
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:32pm Mxter Baba: ↳ solo mon @4:29 he didn’t even make up the title himself, whatta poser
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:33pm Mxter Baba: now it’s time to Mis-Carrie!
	♥ 4:33pm chresti: I saw Carrie in 76-77
	4:34pm arb: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:33 YES lol
	♥ 4:35pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Blood and Honey" by "Amanda Lear" Amanda! static1.purepeople.com...
	♥ 4:39pm solo mon: moon cycle in in synch w this show
	♥ 4:40pm Feldy: ↳ Song: "Teeny Bopper Lady" by "Frankie Smith" I keep thinking Seinfeld is starting
	4:41pm arb: next week feldy :)
	♥ 4:41pm Feldy: ↳ arb @4:41 "No tampons for you"
	4:42pm northguineahills: thanks arb! enjoy the weekend!
	♥ 4:42pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Feldy @4:41 LOL
	4:42pm arb: class isn't over ngh
	4:43pm arb: no one is excused
	4:43pm northguineahills: ↳ chresti @4:33 89 for me in japan (me brain was still formulating)
	4:44pm arb: I didn't see carrie until 2024
	4:44pm arb: I listened to the audiobook this year for character study. it's not good
	4:44pm northguineahills: ↳ arb @4:42 i needs to get some ice cream from a xtian cult (its good) before they close at 5:30. (I'm on foot)
	♥ 4:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Arb and practitioners of Arbcraft!
	♥ 4:48pm Feldy: ↳ northguineahills @4:44 @NGH okay but no wine
	♥ 4:49pm StringOFperils: ↳ northguineahills @4:44 Brush your teeth after so you don't get caries
	♥ 4:50pm Kat in the chat: There's the dirty pillow talk
	4:51pm kev: Hi
	4:53pm arb: party's over, lights are coming up
	♥ 4:54pm WR: ↳ Song: "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" by "John Cale" Here we are with the lesson learned.
	♥ 4:54pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" by "John Cale" Ahhhh.... an old favourite. thanks :)
	4:54pm arb: i'm sweeping up tampons and maxi pads
	4:54pm minx: Standing O
	4:54pm arb: ↳ StringOFperils @4:54 I thought this would get u :)
	4:54pm arb: bringing in some dogs to lap up the blood
	♥ 4:55pm chresti: what happened to the gerbil?
	4:56pm arb: last I saw it was levitating in the gym
	4:56pm wimpy: i know john cale is as much of a rocker as lou reed was but its kind of surprising to me he didn't end up doing more stuff like the dream syndicate as opposed to the more roxy music style stuff I feel like he occupied himself with
	4:56pm HyperDose: ↳ arb @4:53 thanks ARB!!! have a WILD weekend!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:56pm Mxter Baba: I often say, “They’re called breasts, mama, and every woman has them!"
	♥ 4:57pm Kat in the chat: Bravo arb!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:57pm Mxter Baba: My splash poncho needs a splash poncho
	4:57pm v-dawg: Thank, arb. (I did not have much to contribute today.)
	♥ 4:58pm Yvang: Thanks for the fun Carrie-trarium Arb!
	♥ 4:58pm Feldy: Great show, ARB. In was on the edge of my bloody seat!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:58pm Mxter Baba: Thank you, Arb. xoxox
	♥ 4:59pm StringOFperils: So long and thanks for all the hemoglobster!
	♥ 4:59pm chresti: Thanks arb!
	4:59pm wimpy: thanks a million arb!
	♥ 5:00pm WR: Thank you! arb! Fun episode.

The Arbitrarium with Arb: Playlist from February 21, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Approx. start time
Lard Free	Warinobaril "Warinobaril" by "Lard Free"	Gilbert Artman's	1973	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Goblin	L'Alba Dei Morti Viventi (Alternate Take)	Zombi - Dawn Of The Dead	1978	0:04:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Karl Heinz Loges & His Music	Feeling Your Touch	Colours In Rhythm Volume 2	1973	0:10:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pete Drake	The Spook "The Spook" by "Pete Drake"	7"	1962	0:12:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alpha III	Spectro "Spectro" by "Alpha III"	Spectro	1974	0:14:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gian Piero Reverberi	Cat Cassanova	The Fantastic Sound Of Gian Piero Reverberi & His Orchestra	1976	0:20:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Makers	Don't Challenge Me "Don't Challenge Me" by "Makers"	7"	1972	0:24:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Andrea Centazzo	Anthropomorphic Prelude	Ictus	1974	0:27:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Petite M'Amie	Shower "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie"	Girl Friend Baby Doll	1971	0:31:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Roger Roger	Period Rhythm "Period Rhythm" by "Roger Roger"	Electric Lemonade	1977	0:35:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rudy Love & The Love Family	Does Your Mama Know	7"	1975	0:38:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George McCrae	I Get Lifted "I Get Lifted" by "George McCrae"	7"	1974	0:41:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frat Cat Disco Band	Come On Girls, And Shake Your Pom Pom	12"	1978	0:43:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Madelaine	Who Is She And What Is She To You	Who Is She...	1978	0:47:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Swimmers	Little Pig "Little Pig" by "Swimmers"	7"	1974	0:51:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dion Sorrel	Mama "Mama" by "Dion Sorrel"	12"	1984	0:53:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Scott & The L.A. Express	Sneakin' In The Back	Tom Scott & The L.A. Express	1974	0:57:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fred & Anna Mae Vagle	I Bought My Wedding Dress At The Drugstore	I Bought My Wedding Dress At The Drug Store	1978	1:00:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Su Kramer	Magic Dance "Magic Dance" by "Su Kramer"	Die Zwei Gesichter	1978	1:03:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harpo	My Teenage Queen "My Teenage Queen" by "Harpo"	7"	1974	1:07:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Blondie	Rip Her To Shreds "Rip Her To Shreds" by "Blondie"	7"	1977	1:10:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robert Calvert	Telekinesis "Telekinesis" by "Robert Calvert"	Test-Tube Conceived	1986	1:13:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Can	Laugh Till You Cry, Live Till You Die	Flow Motion	1976	1:16:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ernie Story	Sinners Lament "Sinners Lament" by "Ernie Story"	Meditation Blue	1976	1:22:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sister Irene O'Connor	Fire (Luke 12:49)	Fire Of God's Love	1973	1:24:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Poppy Family	Where Evil Grows	Poppy Seeds	1971	1:27:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catharsis	Solstice "Solstice" by "Catharsis"	Catharsis	1972	1:30:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Amanda Lear	Blood and Honey "Blood and Honey" by "Amanda Lear"	I Am A Photograph	1977	1:33:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frankie Smith	Teeny Bopper Lady "Teeny Bopper Lady" by "Frankie Smith"	Double Dutch Bus	1981	1:38:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
20th Century Steel Band	Heaven And Hell Is On Earth	7"	1975	1:41:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Mystery Kindaichi Band	Yatsuhakamura (Eight Village Grave)	横溝正史ＭＭ（ミュージック・ミステリー）の世界　金田一耕助の冒険	1977	1:46:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Myrian Ross	Pillow Talk "Pillow Talk" by "Myrian Ross"	7"	1973	1:50:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Cale	Fear Is A Man's Best Friend	Fear	1974	1:53:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dan Lacksman	Lonely Days "Lonely Days" by "Dan Lacksman"	Flamenco Moog	1972	1:57:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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	♥ 2:27pm chresti: open wide for chunky!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:00pm Mxter Baba: it’s time for dessert!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Arb and citizens, happy humans!
	♥ 3:01pm StringOFperils: What's inside a tart?
	♥ 3:02pm Crafty: yo!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:02pm Mxter Baba: I just picked out my DJ premiums—can’t wait to hear what Arb dishes out??
	♥ 3:03pm StringOFperils: The wedding ring's a nice touch.
	3:06pm arb: hello tarts
	3:07pm arb: todays show is conceptual
	3:07pm wimpy: ↳ StringOFperils @3:03 lol
	3:07pm arb: imagine you are going to see a stage production of Carrie (1976)
	3:07pm arb: you're filing in, getting seated, awaiting the show
	♥ 3:10pm chresti: I better sit in the back
	3:12pm arb: we are recreating the whole experience with no actual music from the film
	♥ 3:13pm StringOFperils: I need to get rid of the last of that Heinz ketchup anyway.
	3:13pm minx: ↳ arb @3:07 yesssssss !!!!
	3:14pm arb: as you're getting seated you find under your program a tampon and a maxi pad
	♥ 3:14pm StringOFperils: Ew. I thought that candy necklace tasted funny.
	♥ 3:15pm Polyus: Huh who left these here?
	3:15pm arb: one of you may notice a certain animal under your seat
	3:15pm minx: heavy flow
	3:16pm Matty Cannabis: wow, this show is delivering the goods
	3:17pm northguineahills: So dug!
	♥ 3:18pm chresti: A gerbil?
	3:18pm arb: is anyone missing a gerbil? one has just been spotted
	♥ 3:20pm WR: mmmmm. pie. Hello arb and folks, I've had the stream playing but was in a work call so it was backgrounded. Now work is backgrounded and The Arbitrarium is foregrounded.
	3:21pm arb: you hear the sounds of the performers warming up their vocals backstage
	3:24pm arb: this is your last chance to grab a drink before the show begins
	♥ 3:25pm StringOFperils: Here, hold my tampon, I have to get a Sprite.
	♥ 3:25pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Don't Challenge Me" by "Makers" <3
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:25pm Hunterian: ↳ arb @3:24 The gloves have already come off, and we're about to dive in!
	♥ 3:26pm Feldy: Guessing you don't slice this pie just grab a fork
	3:27pm arb: shhhhhhh
	3:27pm northguineahills: i heart my goatse in pie-form. apropos arb tips wishful hat
	♥ 3:28pm WR: Carrie (the musical 1988) is a notorious Broadway flop. I've heard some of it on Acid Jazz Hands and liked what I heard. There has been several productions since. Looking forward to the Arbitrarium production.
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:29pm Mxter Baba: OMX Carrie yes. I would lovvvve to see this!!!
	3:29pm northguineahills: i sort of woke up in the late 70s (cognitively)
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:30pm Mxter Baba: ↳ StringOFperils @3:25 I think TAB would be the best beverage for this show
	3:31pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @3:29 i mean, i was three when the 80s started...
	3:31pm arb: first scene: locker room
	3:31pm wimpy: hey arb just curious, during the popcorn show 2 weeks ago you mentioned that you used to do a show that was more popcorn themed. was that on wfmu?
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:31pm Mxter Baba: All you need to know about Carrie is there will be BLOOD
	♥ 3:32pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" maxi pad at the ready
	3:32pm chocolate monk: Just recently went to the cinema to see it with my daughter. We really enjoyed it.
	3:32pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" uuhhhh, my little friend.... not touching that!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:32pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:32 I’m the fat kid lurking anxiously at the back of the girl gang
	3:33pm arb: wow is this what girls locker rooms were really like in the 70s?
	♥ 3:34pm StringOFperils: ↳ wimpy @3:31 wfmu.org...
	3:34pm northguineahills: ↳ wimpy @3:31 real genius! www.youtube.com...
	3:34pm arb: 🧖🏻‍♀️
	3:35pm v-dawg: hello
	3:35pm arb: zoom in on carrie, what a freak
	♥ 3:35pm solo mon: first comes the blood then come the boys
	3:35pm arb: ewwwwwww
	3:36pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Shower" by "Petite M'Amie" oy, i recognize some of these phrases (pg-13 nippon-go)(nothing to tintillating)
	3:36pm arb: time to throw those tampons
	3:36pm arb: chant with me
	3:36pm arb: PLUG IT UP PLUG IT UP
	♥ 3:36pm StringOFperils: Play some Dick Hyman!
	♥ 3:36pm chresti: as a hs dropout I missed the locker room experience
	♥ 3:36pm Kat in the chat: I feel bad about this but PLUG IT UP
	♥ 3:37pm Kat in the chat: hurls maxipad
	3:37pm arb: I feel bad too, but she made us lose the game
	3:37pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:35 frinkiac.com...
	3:38pm arb: we're all in trouble, busted by miss collins
	3:38pm arb: now miss collins is meeting with the principal
	3:38pm arb: they're calling carries mother
	♥ 3:38pm newton: a friend of mine was in the case a few years earlier when they were workshoping it. Lots of really great music was made for that show, then it flopped like Got2GoDisco!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:39pm Mxter Baba: I shoved my tampon into my training bra. I wuz too scared to throw it.
	♥ 3:40pm StringOFperils: A freeze-frame of countless flying tampons looks conceptual
	♥ 3:40pm solo mon: crying into my dirty pillows rn
	3:40pm arb: "Miss Finch can you bring in Cassie Wright?"
	♥ 3:40pm Feldy: Throw me yours and I'll throw you mine
	♥ 3:40pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:40 were all very sorry cassie
	3:40pm wimpy: ↳ Song: "Does Your Mama Know" by "Rudy Love & The Love Fam... hey Rudy Love is from the same town as me! i actually got to see one of his final shows, it was a blast. unfortunately his son is addicted to koch money and is tarnishing the rudy love name
	♥ 3:41pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @3:40 Swimming toward the light
	3:41pm arb: Carrie does not like being called Cassie
	3:41pm arb: inanimate objects start to move, seemingly on their own
	♥ 3:42pm solo mon: beautiful?! like oh beautiful for spacious skies? that kind of beautifull?!?!
	3:42pm arb: carrie is dismissed early, walking home a cyclist starts taunting her
	♥ 3:43pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:42 creepy carrie creepy carrie (ree ree ree)
	♥ 3:43pm Polyus: ↳ Song: "I Get Lifted" by "George McCrae" This drum beat is really cool btw
	3:43pm arb: the stupid little kid on his bike flies off for seemingly no reason
	♥ 3:43pm StringOFperils: Cycles portend bloody horror
	3:44pm arb: uh oh the rest of the girls are in BIG TROUBLE
	3:44pm arb: they might get banned from prom
	3:44pm arb: and they have to do detention with miss collins every day for a week
	♥ 3:45pm StringOFperils: Detention is increasing
	3:45pm arb: that means exercise
	3:45pm arb: chris doesn't wanna do the exercises and miss collins slaps her
	3:46pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:40 oh, and solo! happy hallos! miss ya!😀
	♥ 3:46pm chresti: ↳ StringOFperils @3:45 Lol
	3:46pm arb: this is all so unfair
	♥ 3:46pm Kat in the chat: I wish I'd gotten telekinetic abilities with MY period. I just got cramps.
	3:47pm arb: time to plot
	♥ 3:47pm solo mon: Theyre all gonna laugh at you!
	3:47pm arb: chris hargensen wants revenge
	3:47pm arb: sue snell wants to repair
	♥ 3:48pm solo mon: ↳ northguineahills @3:46 hello stranger!
	♥ 3:48pm Little Danny: hellooooooo
	3:48pm arb: they find their respective boyfriends
	♥ 3:48pm StringOFperils: Respective boyfrieeds in high school are pretty rare
	3:49pm arb: sue asks tommy to take carrie white to to prom. how selfless of her
	♥ 3:50pm StringOFperils: Wish I'd hung onto that tampon. The loftiness of this plot is making my nose bleed.
	3:50pm arb: (carrie liked tommy's poem, we skipped over that part)
	♥ 3:50pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:50 but he didnt write it
	3:51pm arb: meanwhile.....chris has a different idea about prom. cut to chris and billy
	♥ 3:51pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Little Pig" by "Swimmers" lol
	3:52pm arb: who has the pig under their seat? 🐷
	3:52pm arb: sorry piggy
	3:52pm arb: 🩸
	3:53pm arb: tommy has finally convinced carrie to be his date
	3:53pm arb: but how will carrie ever convince her mom?
	♥ 3:53pm StringOFperils: Which Odorama card # are we on now?
	3:54pm arb: ↳ StringOFperils @3:53 #13 apple cake
	♥ 3:54pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Mama" by "Dion Sorrel" Theyre breast mama, every woman has them
	♥ 3:54pm Feldy: I'm keeping my plastic sheet on my lap BTW
	♥ 3:55pm solo mon: ↳ arb @3:54 carrie youve hardly touched your apple cake
	♥ 3:55pm StringOFperils: Oh I was on #11. Canned tuna
	3:55pm arb: ↳ Feldy @3:54 oh yeah, we're recycling the old cha cha heels splash ponchos tonight
	♥ 3:56pm solo mon: this would be a good show to bring out ya old splash ponchos
	♥ 3:56pm StringOFperils: Splash and Carrie
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:57pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:46 word
	🙇🏻 ♥ 3:58pm Mxter Baba: ↳ arb @3:55 Whew, I just unpacked my splash poncho!
	♥ 3:59pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Mama" by "Dion Sorrel" Selections are remarkably on point
	♥ 3:59pm chresti: I don't miss having periods
	♥ 3:59pm Kat in the chat: ↳ chresti @3:59 Me. Neither.
	4:00pm HyperDose: Hey ARB and friendlies
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:00pm Mxter Baba: You know, there was SO MUCH media about menarche and telekinesis when I was on the cusp of puberty. Even the WALTONS had an episode about it.
	4:00pm northguineahills: ↳ solo mon @3:48 hello stranger! found this song via harry smith! abrazos. www.youtube.com...
	4:00pm arb: Carrie & Tommy enter together, and Miss Collins pulls Carrie aside to reminisce about her past
	♥ 4:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ chresti @3:59 Not gonna miss pap smears either.
	4:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Kat in the chat @3:59 someone like you should do a wfmu RAD-io show on GTDS stream. yer music tastes are un compare
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:03pm Mxter Baba: ↳ northguineahills @4:02 yeah!!!
	4:03pm arb: finally carrie gets a chance to dance with tommy and enjoy herself
	♥ 4:03pm Doop: ↳ Song: "I Bought My Wedding Dress At The Drugstore" by "F... from CVS? Bet that receipt was a mile long
	♥ 4:03pm Kat in the chat: ↳ northguineahills @4:02 so I've been told haha
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:04pm Mxter Baba: True fact: I found my first training bra in a closet in a squat.
	♥ 4:04pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Doop @4:03 they had a bridesmaid hold it up like a train
	4:04pm arb: along with your tampons which you no longer have you should have found a ballot on your seat when you came in
	♥ 4:04pm Doop: ↳ Kat in the chat @4:04 sweet!
	4:04pm arb: it's time to cast your vote for prom queen and king
	4:05pm arb: who will it be? let me see those ballots
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:05pm Rich in Washington: TAMPON?! I thought it was a complimentary headrest pad.
	♥ 4:06pm chresti: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:04 How convenient!
	4:06pm arb: Norma is coming through to collect your votes, get them in fast
	♥ 4:07pm Feldy: shit I wrote Cornholdt by accident
	4:08pm arb: Ok everybody it's time for the announcement
	♥ 4:08pm solo mon: nowadays ppl pay good money for a pig blood shower
	4:09pm arb: This is unbelievable, how did this happen?
	4:09pm arb: was there a miscount? did norma tamper with the votes?
	4:09pm arb: Carrie is prom queen and Tommy is prom king
	4:10pm arb: and just as they are getting crowned......
	♥ 4:10pm chresti: ↳ solo mon @4:08 OLO
	4:10pm arb: can someone explain what is happening right now?
	4:11pm arb: ↳ Song: "Rip Her To Shreds" by "Blondie" In the broadway musical Chris sings this
	♥ 4:12pm solo mon: in slow motion “noooooooooooooooooo”
	4:13pm arb: just as carrie got crowned a bucket of pig blood poured from above and covered her in her pink dress which is now red as portended by her religious mother who told her not come.
	♥ 4:13pm chresti: uh oh
	4:13pm arb: chris orchestrated this horrible prank, she's such a bully
	4:13pm arb: carrie's telekinesis powers are going out of control
	♥ 4:13pm solo mon: follow the string with your eyes, up into the rafters and focus on a dripping bucket
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:14pm Mxter Baba: ↳ chresti @4:06 much nicer than high school locker rooms!
	♥ 4:14pm StringOFperils: Gymnasium-size for those heavy flow days
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:14pm Mxter Baba: I really felt ripped-off that I didn’t get telekinesis!!!
	♥ 4:14pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Telekinesis" by "Robert Calvert" Wow you found a telekinesis song
	4:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: just arrived & perfect timing. Calvert is my spirit animal.
	4:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: also. hello.
	4:15pm arb: "we're all very sorry cassie"
	4:15pm arb: "trust me carrie, you can trust me"
	♥ 4:16pm StringOFperils: Finally something that rhymes with Jackie Onassis
	4:16pm arb: I know this is horrific but we can't help laughing at carrie
	4:17pm northguineahills: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:03 miss ya baba!
	4:18pm northguineahills: ↳ Kat in the chat @4:03 will tell ya again!
	4:18pm arb: everyone's laughing at carrie, just like her mama said they would
	4:19pm arb: her powers are going homicidal now
	4:20pm northguineahills: ↳ arb @4:18 johnny cash "mamma tried"
	♥ 4:20pm chresti: watch out mama!
	♥ 4:20pm Kat in the chat: ↳ northguineahills @4:18 🥰
	4:20pm arb: it's total chaos in the gymnasium, laughing, crying, screaming, dying....
	♥ 4:21pm Kat in the chat: ↳ arb @4:20 I haven't seen the stage show, wondering now how they handled this. Seen the movie three times.
	4:21pm arb: everyone is dying.....
	4:21pm arb: ....everyone except carrie
	4:22pm arb: carrie walks home, drenched in blood
	4:23pm arb: she showers and turns to her mother for comfort
	4:23pm arb: mama isn't having it
	4:23pm arb: "I should've given you to god when you were born"
	4:23pm arb: and now....she does
	4:24pm arb: but before carrie dies, she uses the last of her power to commit matricide
	♥ 4:24pm solo mon: AND EVE WAS WEAK
	4:25pm arb: the entire town burns to the ground
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:25pm Mxter Baba: YAY!!!
	♥ 4:26pm Polyus: The fire marshall is going to have a heck of a time explaining this one.
	♥ 4:26pm solo mon: this movie has stopped me from putting flowers on any graves ✋
	♥ 4:27pm Polyus: (with one L, sorry)
	4:27pm arb: but guess who didn't die?
	♥ 4:27pm chresti: but sue survived
	4:27pm arb: the only person who wasn't at prom
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:27pm Mxter Baba: oh YES Poppy Family!
	♥ 4:28pm StringOFperils: Drop-pitched. Nice!
	4:29pm arb: Sue Snell visits the grave of Carrie
	4:29pm arb: Bringing her flowers
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:29pm Mxter Baba: I was also deprived of a prom to destroy. I shall go on a rampage NOW
	4:29pm arb: But even Sue can't escape Carrie's wrath
	♥ 4:29pm solo mon: ↳ Song: "Where Evil Grows" by "The Poppy Family" everytime i hear this song i must point out that this is where kurt cobain got the riff from teen spirit, that little fucker
	4:29pm arb: from beyond the grave
	♥ 4:30pm Feldy: Evil grows where the sun don't shine
	4:30pm arb: hand reach up from the dirt grasping at sue, who screams in terror
	♥ 4:30pm chresti: and carrie grabs her arm
	♥ 4:31pm Yvang: Great narration, I was caught.
	4:32pm wimpy: yeah this was really fun. I just got over a stomach bug like literal minutes before the show started, so this was a fun welcome back to reality
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:32pm Mxter Baba: ↳ solo mon @4:29 he didn’t even make up the title himself, whatta poser
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:33pm Mxter Baba: now it’s time to Mis-Carrie!
	♥ 4:33pm chresti: I saw Carrie in 76-77
	4:34pm arb: ↳ Mxter Baba @4:33 YES lol
	♥ 4:35pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Blood and Honey" by "Amanda Lear" Amanda! static1.purepeople.com...
	♥ 4:39pm solo mon: moon cycle in in synch w this show
	♥ 4:40pm Feldy: ↳ Song: "Teeny Bopper Lady" by "Frankie Smith" I keep thinking Seinfeld is starting
	4:41pm arb: next week feldy :)
	♥ 4:41pm Feldy: ↳ arb @4:41 "No tampons for you"
	4:42pm northguineahills: thanks arb! enjoy the weekend!
	♥ 4:42pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Feldy @4:41 LOL
	4:42pm arb: class isn't over ngh
	4:43pm arb: no one is excused
	4:43pm northguineahills: ↳ chresti @4:33 89 for me in japan (me brain was still formulating)
	4:44pm arb: I didn't see carrie until 2024
	4:44pm arb: I listened to the audiobook this year for character study. it's not good
	4:44pm northguineahills: ↳ arb @4:42 i needs to get some ice cream from a xtian cult (its good) before they close at 5:30. (I'm on foot)
	♥ 4:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Arb and practitioners of Arbcraft!
	♥ 4:48pm Feldy: ↳ northguineahills @4:44 @NGH okay but no wine
	♥ 4:49pm StringOFperils: ↳ northguineahills @4:44 Brush your teeth after so you don't get caries
	♥ 4:50pm Kat in the chat: There's the dirty pillow talk
	4:51pm kev: Hi
	4:53pm arb: party's over, lights are coming up
	♥ 4:54pm WR: ↳ Song: "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" by "John Cale" Here we are with the lesson learned.
	♥ 4:54pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" by "John Cale" Ahhhh.... an old favourite. thanks :)
	4:54pm arb: i'm sweeping up tampons and maxi pads
	4:54pm minx: Standing O
	4:54pm arb: ↳ StringOFperils @4:54 I thought this would get u :)
	4:54pm arb: bringing in some dogs to lap up the blood
	♥ 4:55pm chresti: what happened to the gerbil?
	4:56pm arb: last I saw it was levitating in the gym
	4:56pm wimpy: i know john cale is as much of a rocker as lou reed was but its kind of surprising to me he didn't end up doing more stuff like the dream syndicate as opposed to the more roxy music style stuff I feel like he occupied himself with
	4:56pm HyperDose: ↳ arb @4:53 thanks ARB!!! have a WILD weekend!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:56pm Mxter Baba: I often say, “They’re called breasts, mama, and every woman has them!"
	♥ 4:57pm Kat in the chat: Bravo arb!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:57pm Mxter Baba: My splash poncho needs a splash poncho
	4:57pm v-dawg: Thank, arb. (I did not have much to contribute today.)
	♥ 4:58pm Yvang: Thanks for the fun Carrie-trarium Arb!
	♥ 4:58pm Feldy: Great show, ARB. In was on the edge of my bloody seat!
	🙇🏻 ♥ 4:58pm Mxter Baba: Thank you, Arb. xoxox
	♥ 4:59pm StringOFperils: So long and thanks for all the hemoglobster!
	♥ 4:59pm chresti: Thanks arb!
	4:59pm wimpy: thanks a million arb!
	♥ 5:00pm WR: Thank you! arb! Fun episode.

The Arbitrarium with Arb: Playlist from February 21, 2025

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