picture number eight is unsettling, and maybe slightly sinister
9:20am
Listener James from Westwood:
That Star Wars shot is truly bizarre. Dig the slides! (Now that I think of it, I guess "slide" is one of those words like "cc:" now, for which one never actually handles a piece of film or glass in a cardboard frame -- or a carousel full of them -- or literal carbon paper to make a carbon copy via typewriter, but the metaphor endures. Just my rumination on defunct tech.)
9:21am
giselle:
why do i feel like i'm stuck in an endless loop? aaaaahh. stop it ken! please?
9:22am
mouse:
please stop
9:23am
Parq:
This is a lot more repetitive than I remember it.
9:23am
Listener Dave:
Carbon copy in the true sense is not entirely defunct. There are a few stands at the Union Square farmer's market that use the old credit card things where they take an impression of your card and have you sign since there's no phone line in the middle of the park....yet.
9:25am
seanh:
surely virtual slideshow technology has advanced to the point where "shuffling" is possible?
9:25am
jan:
Your slide shows are just as enjoyable as your broadcast. But what about picture credits? On the playlist, you note the artists- please attribute the photos and art if possible.
9:26am
Doug:
I hope this never stops ...
9:31am
Parq:
Ah, a John Deere letter! Ken, it just slays me when you talk like that.
9:31am
John from Oslo:
This is great!
Just a note on the slideshow; it restarts after the star wars picture... but as I just discovered if I push the right arrow, I get a whole new set, and when that set is done it restarts with the initial loop again... but I'm on firefox - so that might be it... the pictures are great though
9:36am
weiterso:
you can give it an extra tab and slide away
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/slideshow/loader.swf
i don't like slideshows in the morning
9:38am
listener scott:
agreed with john from oslo - slideshow is problematic on firefox; it only loops the first set, and even if you advance slider, it reloops to first pic after whichever picture you chose
9:40am
-max-:
Hello Jersey City!!
9:50am
dei x:
I've been listening to the Wesensteen myself, and wondering what words they are using.
9:55am
HotRod:
Thanks for the Vorpal track. What a nice surprise! :)
9:58am
Wes:
I want the original bubble blower back
9:58am
Will:
Tying it all together, I have fond days of the show that was your laryngeal free-zone a few years back, in which you (Ken) gave up on us the listeners as back-announcers and brought in the TTS solution. He (it) even has a name if I remember correctly. Was it Javier? I forget. In any case, I hunted fruitlessly for that voice among the several TTS webhavens of the day and never got around to asking. But I will ask now: is Javier still reading live text, or are all the Javier-ism canned at this point? For instance, could Javier say "I want the original bubble blower back?" if he needed to?
10:00am
john from oslo:
Hi Dei X
Wesensteen consists of Rolf Wesenlund and Harald Heide Steen jr - they are Norwegetarians. Sprottfox is taken from the album "Live at Kaffistova", where they on a couple of tracks talk and sing in "made up" English - English that doesnt make sense...
10:02am
Ken:
Will - No, it broke my heart, but the voice of Julio was discontinued and I have never found a replacement. I would even PAY for a TTS program with Julio's voice.
10:02am
toni daytona:
hiya ken-- i have to talk to you,,,last week i sent you some mail and you never gave me feedback,,,any reason why?? also just 2 more things---on the next live 7 second delay show you & andy should talk about FAMILY GUY and how great a show it is,,,,lastly some fmu deejays are not fair,,,they delete some of the comments,,WHY KEN??? SEE YOU NEXT WEEK,,,,
10:03am
Ken:
Dont know what happened - the slideshow aint working for me anymore. Is it working for anybody else?
10:04am
HotRod:
Slideshow is not working.
10:05am
Mark:
not working on IE 7.0
10:05am
sahak:
hey ken have you any armenian music? that would be pleasant :)
10:07am
fishmonekystew:
The slideshow has crapped the bed.
10:07am
weiterso:
i hope, it was not me, huh!
10:11am
Listener Dave:
Hello Sweden! Goodbye Slideshow! Doesn't work for me anymore either.
Speaking of Sweden, anyone know any good hotels in Stockholm? Seriously, I'm going to be there the end of July.
10:13am
Wes:
This choir piece is amazing.
10:15am
Ken:
Yep, ye olde slideshow crashed! I will try putting it back up there after the show is over. Back to the drawing board!!
10:15am
dei x:
Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. Crrrrrazy English-sounding-speaking types.
10:18am
Laurie:
Dei X, are you talking about the Dutch language?
10:18am
-max-:
aacplus.wfmu.org just went down. First thought that it might be connected to the slideshow crashing. I switched to 128k version and that is working.
10:20am
Ike:
The aacPLUS stream isn't working for me either. I'm worried that if I continue listening to the 128k version here at my horrible new job, they'll think I'm downloading torrents, and rap my knuckles.
10:20am
bwalker:
last thursday? was the day? I will send you a late card
10:22am
dei x:
Dave NH - http://info.aos.se/E/V/STOSE/0004/48/57/ and http://www.clarionstockholm.com/art.asp for the land of Ikea. No I've not stayed at either.
Laurie, the Dutch (& Swedes) are all borq bork borq. But Finnish - that's a language with vowels 5-1, as compound as German, and half the length of English.
No sound through Foobar.
10:27am
bwalker:
I had read once that Mahmood Ahmed was having trouble getting into the country - I wonder what changed? perhaps our gov has calmed down and we will have no more problems with artists and musicians and filmmakers getting into our land
10:28am
Listener Dave:
Del X , thanks for the links
(just plain Dave, not Dave NH). Going to Finland too but already have a lead on a hotel there.
10:28am
Ken:
Damn, the slideshow is breaking every damn thing!
10:30am
Negator:
Screw the slideshow! Sell the house! Sell the kids!
10:31am
weiterso:
that was great, the ex wakes me up
10:32am
The slideshow:
It's not my fault! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!
10:34am
john from oslo:
Dave! Finland is great! Make sure to visit http://www.andorra.fi/en/moskova/index.html
The Keurismäki bar!
10:36am
Wes:
Some Elizabeth Clare Prophet mixed into this would be quite lovely.
10:36am
Laurie:
I think "Foobar" just refused to play John Zorn. That's why you have no sound.
I am happy to say that I have not had a single rebuffering pause! (And I tried to listen last night, around midnight before I knocked off, and it was Buffer City. So yay! I think!
10:38am
SueB:
I was wondering if your were going to play the MUSE song straight, but HAHA it wasn't. you COULDN't. you wouldn't.
10:38am
bwalker:
I have always wondered how "ASS" is ok to play on the radio - somewhere there is a proposal to add that word to the list of nos -
but until then KEEP KICKING ASS
10:41am
Laurie:
Hey Mayor Daley Man never gets old.
10:43am
catarina:
Hi everyone!
I am showing work tomorrow - if any of you in Berlin, please join us :
BLIND SPOT
Installation by
CATARINA SIMOES
Thursday 05.01.08 from 19:00
22:00 // decks: Armin V. Milch / Maria Tokyo
KIM Brunnenstrasse 10 (Rosenthaler Platz) - Berlin
free
10:45am
m:
i was looking through the news and getting the usual knot in my stomach but then i heard cl lewis and things got better. thanks ken.
10:45am
Ken:
Yes, Benjamen - It's OK to kick ass but it's not OK to suck ass. It's OK to shake your ass but not to expose your ass. It's OK to be President on your ass but not Governor IN your ass.
10:46am
bwalker:
I wanna meet the man who sorted all this ASS stuff out!
10:47am
SKUNKHAMMER:
I am 46 yrs old from Sonora Ca. If there are any ladies from my area listening to this wonderful radio station, I would love to get an e-mail from you. skunkhammer@gmail.com
10:48am
Ken:
Sorry Skunhammer, no trolling for tang here.
10:48am
mouse:
please don't
10:48am
Laurie:
I'm sorry, SKUNKHAMMER, my mom told me never to go out with strange men named SKUNKHAMMER who solicit attention from the ladies on WFMU's comment boards.
She was very specific about that.
10:48am
Dominick:
It never ceases to amaze me how anyone could think Family Guy is funny
10:48am
Trish:
Slideshow was good except for the refresh/restart. It'd probably have the same effect week after week, too with the same start image.
How about setting it so it's a linked page from a single playlist image and the thing starts from some image# that's handed from a href=link? Or a jquery slideshow (eg. thickbox). Or something.
10:48am
Parq:
Oh, thank God, this song was starting to fade out of my mind, I was afraid I might not be able to have it running through my head all day.
10:50am
bwalker:
man - if I had a name like Skunkhammer I would totally get more action
10:52am
Trish:
fuuuuuuck
10:52am
Listener Dave from NH:
Skunkhammer's 46? If Skunkhammer was born in the US, I know who I'm casting my write-in vote for president for this year.
10:53am
gene shallot:
Gene Shallot is the messiah. Especially when he eats chocolate ice cream in bed wearing white gloves.
10:53am
Laurie:
Maybe you should change your name to Mr. Awesome. That guy gets action from tons of ladies. Of course, he has to pay them for the attention, but that's just a small detail.
10:53am
Listener Dave:
Tough titties? Ah, this won't get read.
10:54am
Negator:
'trolling for tang' aww shit that's funny, Ken. But while we're at it....
I'm a 56 year old tranny who likes Joyce and Cheetos. I like hairy bears and The Stylistics. Anyone listening to Ken trolling for tranny Ken can help with my contacts. See you after the show, Ken! Look forward....
10:54am
dei x:
spot on impression of Toni
10:54am
Laurie:
I want Julio back.
10:55am
bwalker:
skee bop a WEE BOP
10:55am
SueB:
i like having the posts read to me by a robotic voice while i work.
10:56am
Pivi:
What's all this then?
10:56am
Ghengis Jung:
Suburban
The more the comma's nine mates simper boldly, the more they broke italian flapdoodle?
It's better to steal than squander.
Perturbed mote was without my curly touchdowns and sir irregular!
Or sir irregular over three prostitutes does slaps them.
Options are fascist.
We nudge!
Mister scissors-like scissors-end jerks!
You sunscreening my racial clergy.
I punt softly...
The less pernicious corners kick another many more honkeys, the more they route them...
Then i do veto peed-cousins on queen pit and my zero cashiers and president protestant and a peed's magenta metal-wagons...
You do schedule the peed!
But if you have pranksters, insistently swept sir irregular on one more menses and the peed's preserved pool and the three nudists and sir irregular and the peed's lassie and pygmies...
Sir irregular won't be pedantic.
Then who does sir irregular eschew?
If this was 2001, Keir Dullea would have a chubby!
10:57am
Listener Dave:
Can you help me with my melons?
10:57am
dave in australa:
let the bubbleblower go free if it returns it will be yours
10:58am
o:
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
10:58am
Will:
Ken,
Ha! I love it! I know how you feel (about Julio). I do know a guy in Ithaca who might be able to find out more about where Julio went. Do you have the reference code for the voice profile? Ken,
Ha! I love it! I know how you feel (about Julio). I do know a guy in Ithaca who might be able to find out more about where Julio went. Do you have the reference code for the voice profile? Ken,
Ha! I love it! I know how you feel (about Julio). I do know a guy in Ithaca who might be able to find out more about where Julio went. Do you have the reference code for the voice profile? (I guess this would be a conversation for off-the-list.)
Skunkhammer, please learn from the best. This is my favorite Craigslist ad ever:
I have a simple request: Would someone like to come over to my place dressed in a long, beige trenchcoat, panama hat, and dark sunglasses, smoking a cigarette? When I open the door (I'll be wearing a polka-dotted dress and wiping my hands on an apron), you will be looking away. You will say, "Is the cake in the oven?" I will hang my head, fight back tears, and invite you in.
We shall move to the bedroom and I shall undress awkwardly, looking upset and ashamed. You will throw me up against the wall and I will scream "Maim me!" as you bite through my strand of cultured (but we'll pretend they're real) pearls, which will fall to the ground and scatter. You will think I've said "Mamie" (as in Eisenhower).
At this point, you will stroke my hair gently and become romantic and tender, renderng unto the First Lady the respect to which she is entitled. Slowly and carefully, you will rub your hand up my thigh. When you reach my genitalia and discover I am genetically male, you will fly into a rage and "rape" me (condoms and lube will be located in an antique snuff box at arm's length; please be discreet in procuring them).
Prior to climaxing, you will push me to the floor, remove your condom (again, discreetly), and ejaculate into my eyes. I will lie in a crumpled, sobbing heap at your feet, softly singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President." When your semen has dried my eyelashes together (this might take a while; I will have prepared a selection of cold cuts, assorted beverages, and glossy magazines for your entertainment), you will softly clean it out with a sponge dipped in warm milk.
You will hold me in your arms as we await the coming night. When (and whether?) we part again will be determined from that point.
Other than the above, I am not really looking for a specific "scene." Just a chill bro I can kick it with and see where things go.
Laterz
11:00am
Laurie:
Whoa, that was kind of salty!
11:02am
Listener Dave:
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
11:04am
Listener Poutine:
Hi Ken, thanks again for continuing to provide the greatest soundtrack a Wednesday morning could ever have. I'm looking forward to tonight's 7 Second Delay, and would like to add a suggestion to your text-to-speech idea - you can add a very surreal element to it if you take your English text and run it through BabelFish into another language and back into English again. This is what happens to this letter when it's run through the Japanese language mill and back:
For the second time appreciation to the thing which continues to offer the largest sound track where morning of Wednesday of ケン can today have. I seeing first in 2nd lag of tonight 7, desire the fact that it adds proposition to the thought of converting your text to sound, - you take your English text and if you move to another language and English for the second time due to BabelFish, it is possible very to add the surrealistic element to that. As for this when moving through the plant those which happen are this letter:
11:07am
dei x:
ooh ooh! I don't know what we're listening to in the background. Varese? Ives?
11:07am
dc pat:
sounds like Charles Ives played backwords...
11:07am
don pubah:
the soundtrack to pinnoccio backwards?
11:07am
Trish:
huuuuuuck
11:09am
SueB:
cool. creepy chipmunk child stars as grown ups.
11:09am
Rachel:
Hahahaha this is excellent. I've never heard them slow.
11:09am
dc pat:
chipmunks played at normal speed..interesting
11:15am
Ken:
Not a bad guess, but it wasnt Ives or Varese. I will send a shirt to the first person who can ID the composer!
11:17am
dc pat:
wasn't Stravinsky was it?
11:19am
Pumpy:
Merle Haggard?
11:22am
don pubah:
Satie
11:25am
Sean Daily:
Your asking a math question to post on the listener comments is discriminating against stupid people! GET WITH IT!
11:27am
C:
Is there an mp3 of that pissed off caller from Boston? I want to send it to my dad. That was great
11:27am
Wes:
Computers have built-in calculators, there is no excuse to fail (although i do at times)
11:29am
Listener Poutine:
"Eighteen Nuns"... thanks Ken, you've contributed to the Internet's tendency to subject my monitor to sprays of coffee and other beverages.
11:32am
Laurie:
These Cackle broads sound like chickens.
11:32am
Ken:
Nope, I will play the mysery composer again next time I talk..
11:33am
Ken:
Also dont forget I will repost the slideshow as soon as the show ends... and I think it will work properly after the show ends.
11:33am
Gregg:
The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist" would do nicely right about now......great show.....first time listener.
11:33am
Carmichael:
More yodeling ladies! I'm in hog heaven!
11:40am
Listener Poutine:
Wonderful, acid-dipped version of Ticket to Ride, right here!
11:41am
dc pat:
vanilla fudge always sounded overly-dramatic to me.
11:42am
Lysergic Poutine:
I'm talking about the treatment... flashbacktastic!
11:43am
dc pat:
Oh yeah, I like it too...just sayin..
11:44am
Lysergic Poutine:
I hear you, but nobody did overdramatic psych quite like H.P. Lovecraft
11:44am
Lysergic Poutine:
Mandrake Memorial is pretty drippy-trippy audio, too.
11:46am
m:
doesn't sound like there's THAT many bars he hasn't been in
11:48am
skunkhammer:
Aww, the chemist who discovered LSD has died at the age of 102. RIP my hero
11:49am
Lysergic Poutine:
can your synth say Lysergic Poutine on the radio?
11:49am
Bad Ronald:
A Hendrix tune like "Are You Experienced" would be a nice tribute to Albert Hofmann...
11:51am
Laurie:
I hope the Jimi Hendrix sex tape is called The Jimi Hendrix Sexperience.
11:51am
Lysergic Poutine:
I'm partial to "Try a Little Sunshine" by the Factory
11:52am
Listener Dave:
Remember when?
11:52am
Sueb:
hey. i am supposed to be working at home but i just found myself sewing up a record bag made out of an old raincoat.... what is in this stuff??
11:52am
Lysergic Poutine:
What? Last summer?
11:55am
Vivian:
Danny Elfman?
11:55am
g:
sounds like Berlioz mixed with JP Sousa in the background
11:55am
Listener Poutine:
I wish ;)
11:55am
dei x:
I don't think its my hero, the late Stockhausen, or the soundtrack guys in the studio with Svenkmejer...
11:57am
dc pat:
Benjamin Britten?
11:58am
don pubah:
Shostakovich?
11:59am
Bad Ronald:
TX Ken!
11:59am
dc pat:
daaa! Was about to say Shostakovich but I don't think it's him. How about Bartok?
11:59am
megan:
orff?
11:59am
Ghengis Jung:
schoenberg
11:59am
Laurie:
Ooooooohhh, free tee shirt!
11:59am
Ken:
No No No! Guess! Tony Coulter named the exact piece~!
12:00pm
nEGATOR:
jOHN wILLIAMS
12:00pm
Bad Ronald:
Bugs Bunny?
12:00pm
Laurie:
I don't know. John Williams?
12:00pm
Listener Dave:
Afternoon.
12:01pm
Laurie:
Jonny Greenwood?
12:01pm
dc pat:
Berg!! just throwin stuff out now..
12:01pm
Ed:
Pithopracter (sp) by Xenakis
12:02pm
megan:
dvorak?
12:02pm
m:
penderecki
12:03pm
dc pat:
give us a hint?
12:04pm
C:
L Ron Hubbard?
12:04pm
dc pat:
Wagner!
12:05pm
don pubah:
Pierre Boulez?
12:05pm
dc pat:
Mahler
12:07pm
don pubah:
Last GUESS, Miklos Rozsa
12:09pm
m:
tony coulter
12:10pm
megan:
john cage
12:12pm
dc pat:
ok my last guess too: Copland
12:14pm
megan:
roger sessions
12:20pm
C:
Tchaikovsky?
2:21pm
Ozzy Skateboard:
this show is a cd, in my opinion.
i'd buy it and cherish it,
how awesome it was free!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS, i will cherish it!
4:11pm
Ken:
Sorry, nobody has guessed this morning's mystery composer. Free FMU T-shirt to anybody who guesses it. I was playing one of his famous pieces both forward and backwards at the same time, although I was playing the first part of a symphony forward, and the last part backwards. That's all the hint yer gettin! Lots of great guesses, just not any correct ones!
5:23pm
C:
this is driving me nuts!!
6:29pm
ducky chuck:
I hear theres a lot of money in kicking cats, is this true?
7:57pm
Steve in AZ:
I was checking out Ken's show while listening to 7SD and discovered the challenge. It is one of my favorites, Olivier Messiaen's "Turangalila Symphony"
9:05pm
Ken:
Steve nails it! Regarding the slideshow this morning, the damn thing crashed our server! So I can't put it back up just yet, and for right now, that was an experiment that wont be repeated again anytime soon! Next week, it's either back to pics throughout the playlist or a popup slideshow or something...
5:35am
Gus:
Saying `Hello Sweden' is really not funny at all you know.
8:20am
guido:
Hi Ken, your show is a gift.
for Hofmann's tribute, I'd liked best
"Are you experienced" by Shockebilly
(Eugene Chadbourne, Kramer, David Licht)! ...as everything of this beautiful 80th noise and KING MISSILE "mystical shit"...
play it soon, cause soon I'll live in Jakarta with very slow Internet....
have ;---)
9:27am
Melissa:
Hi Ken, it's me. I'm pregnant. Please give me your phone number and address so I can have your pay docked for child support. Thank you for the lovely memory.
9:30am
mt:
This is my bubble blower. My bubble blower is my best friend. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.