Good morning! Classes are done and I turned in my semester grades yesterday, so this is the first Wednesday in months that I can listen to the WHOLE SHOW!
9:04am
Michelle in Green Bay:
Ken = my soundtrack for today's cleaning of all the things.
9:04am
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Hola Ken and good people of the Wednesday morning cult!
Even if an animated gif freezes for a bit, it will resume later on AND synchronized to the music beat! This is more scary than the almighty knowledge movie giffing power of Caryn!
9:10am
jan:
Good start to the program today. My wife wanted me to turn off the radio. Tron was making her nervous.
"You're lying on your back in the middle of the floor with your arms outstretched . . ." and I though this was gonna turn into a diatribe about drinking . . .
Ken, if you want switch up your story the next time you beg, tell folks that you lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and need money to stay in a shelter. I used to hear that all the time when I took Marta.
Different shows have different color schemes for everything, Jeezy, just to keep you on your toes. On this show, green means you haven't gone to that profile yet, and robinegg blue means you have.
Listen to this: You and Cheri Pi just won the Wfmu Green Prize Award announced on the front page! Print screen to prove it, tweet about it, share the pic to the world and wait for your prize!
@RR: For some reason, the actual URLs for profiles get adjusted or changed from time to time. The computer is so smart or stupid that it keeps track only of whether or not you've been to that exact URL, not the new URL a given profile has been changed to.
Many times people whose profile I've been on turn virginal again, and I re-befoul them by clicking on them, which changes them back to the "been there done that" color again
A comment on msn.com: "There is nothing wrong with it, I think we need a nice big pair of mascots for breast cancer awareness as well. We could probably do without the prostate cancer mascot though."
...G: Der don'gettit. It's not even Clicking on the same day? FriendlyStarring in the F.S. nothing to do w/ it?...der...will read you later & think hard...
Iggy, Keith Richards and William Burroughs are my elder role models. I am trying to develop a lizard skin like the first two, and a methadone habit like the latter. It is hard work but I am doing my best.
Y'know, while the Velvet Underground more and Stooges both were seminal influences for me and others my age (and the VU moreso really), it's kind of interesting to hear Iggy sing ANYTHING (even now), particularly if it's a little out of his usual milieu - and that's definitely NOT the case with Lou Reed, in my opinion anyway. Not to say Iggy too hasn't done some awful stuff, but it's just that voice... I'm always curious to hear what happens when he applies it to something unusual.
On 'Funhouse' when Iggy says 'take it down!' it's so we can hear hm actually sing. He's a Post-JimMorrison-PostSinatra-PostCrosby *Crooner* - it's a tradition. I said before the Shanty thing reminds me: Iggy said Johnny Cash's minimal intensity was a Stooges influence - which I love for tearing down degrees of seperation...
If a dude had two females kissing his scrotum from opposite sides at once, he might well try to get a pic taken, to avoid hearing the inevitable "pic or it didn't happen" comment later.
That's a Jackson Browne song - & Nico & JimMorrison were quite important to each other - & I read somewhere Nico was a real early Stooges booster, yes...
Remember when Ralphie apologized for insulting Ginny even though Tony specifically told him never to apologize for something he claimed not to have done! And that unleashed a shitstorm.
Backannouncing, increasingly irrelevant?! Feh! What if I was driving? HMM? Also, what if I had the day off and didn't feel like turning on my computer yet? Huh? WHAT THEN, KEN?
Of course, that's not the case at all, and probably won't ever be. Except around Xmas and Turkey Day, maybe.
...having said that - Iggy is great for vocal animalistic interjections...
...Iggy inventing Punk is partly because he was one of many then who came to the conclusion that Blues had already been Mastered perfectly by old AfricanAmerican men (& women)
- & he'd better come up w/ his own expression...
10:15am
Sam:
Andy Breckman used to apologize in advance for what he was about to subject listeners to. And you get the hour back at the end of your life.
Many people in Newark are sick of Cory Booker and say he's overrated and doesn't spend enough time in the city, but his addiction to Twitter and opaque water-rights wrangling issues are looking pretty good by comparison right now.
From NJ.com: "'I think the people of Jersey City get sick of you after a while,' Healy said. 'I guess I'll check to see if my law license is still in good standing.'" Um....
Hello all! So, gif check:
-McGoohan playing drums in the must-see Shakespeare-retelling "All Night Long". Recommended for jazz fans, what with Brubeck, Mingus, Dankworth etc. being in the film.
-Head check lady is historical footage, but you can find it in the mental health documentary "Feed Your Head".
-Electric hoods are from 1956's "The Gamma People", for those who want the non-Hulk version of what happens to people when you expose them to gamma rays. Recommended Brit scifi/horror/evil scientist stuff.
-"Data's Cat" gif is from the 1935 documentary short "Misiones pedagogicas: Vibración de Granada".
@RRN63: Don't know how to answer the "Man w/the Golden Arm" question. Both good, and have fine actors. "MwtGA" is better as a film, and has the Saul Bass titles, but Bernstein's score (though good) is no match for the jazz in "ANL". And I always enjoy McGoohan being an a-hole. So...
Buenos Dias, Herr Kenneth und alle Leuten. I have lots of work and this is sorta Cabaret-ish in a David Lynch way. I'll attempt to monitor the proceedings for course credit. But the 1st sign of Dagmar Krause, and I'm selling my PC.
Caryn, the screaming woman and the telephone reminds me of DW's "Planet of Giants," one of the few William Hartnell episodes I can withstand. I wonder if there are any good GIFs from that.
@Ike: yeah, except in "Planet of Giants" the Doctor and his companions end up about an inch tall, but in "Attack of the Puppet People", they're 6 inches tall.
I once tried to navigate to that long ,0,0,0 URL address on my browser.... By the time I ended up typing all that bunch of characters I was not pizza hungry anymore.
BTW, the organ playing is from the Fredric March version of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". And that's Jean Reno bashing away at the drums in "Subway". Bunch of gifs of actors playing instruments today, interesting.
11:50am
Little Miss Dog Pedant:
Hi, Listner Ralphine! Gonna hear some Ferlin Husky by-and-by.