Morning everybody! Just starting the playlist early, as an experiment. No July 4th special today per se, but I am very interested in good songs about surveillance, dystopia and the post-Orwellian world in which we live.
"Drones over BKLYN" by El-P comes to mind too, if RU(bib)SH doesn't make the cut.
Tehran, Summer of 1977 I was kid and spent the summer there.
9:40am
jan:
Ken: According to the Times, Lou Reed Reviews Kanye West's 'Yeezus,' and He Likes It. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/lou-reed-reviews-kanye-wests-yeezus-and-he-likes-it/Your thoughts? And more to the point, can you play some of his music for those of us who haven't heard it yet?
Really very nice live version from the Relatives!!
9:43am
Michael:
Re. Khomeini: Story idea: The mediævally-minded who reject science suddenly can't use any of the technology that are its fruits...paradoxical, as that's kind of mediævally-minded itself, the Universe acting as if it were moral and its morals coïncidentally matching mine....
hello hello sexy WFMU folk. Just checking in from northern England to say: Sounding good! bloody love you all. Now I have to clean out/feed 8 parrots and 2 pensioners, if your NSA are watching me today they're in luck! Truck on Keepin' x
"Clampdown" by The Clash -- it's always fresh and relevant!
9:51am
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You know which song I found overrides/kills any earworm/eyeworm!? That one Ken played along the marching poodles from The Ex & Getachew Mekurya two or three weeks ago.
9:54am
Jeff:
Hi Ken, Summer boat show this year? Always enjoyable listening!
Here in Watertown, Ma, 'soldiers in the streets' feels different after the APC in the street and the guys with ARs checking out our shed and trying to see if we were being held hostage, a couple of months back. I could see the point, but hated the sight.
Gosh dangit! I thought that Dengue Fever did a Khmer version of Both Sides Now on the City of God soundtrack - can anybody confirm and let me know what its called?
Morning Ken, just joining now. Re songs about surveillance there is a great hip-hop track by Azeem with Variable Unit titled "Under Surveillance" that was originally on the album "Mayhem Mystics" and that I included on my 2006 WFMU Marathon Mix ("Bring that beat back 2006 Surveillance Mix - WFMU/BIllyJam") - Love all the animated gifs today
Only thing better than a Joni Mitchell tune? A Joni Mitchell tune in another language.
10:20am
Jeff:
Those boat shows are fun! I'm sure they're a pain in the ass though. Always welcome to broadcast from the bosom of central NJ in my screened in porch. Swampy ass remote works too! Try to make it happen!
How can I get the NSA to surveil me? I'm not religious but sometimes feel that confession would be good for me. I think an NSA surveillance would be ideal for that need.
Jolly and surveilling impulses can work together...and, as ever, for our own good:
He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows if you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake.
"I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts! I must not think bad thoughts I must not think bad thoughts!"
Security State Soundtrack: how about some Conet Project Number Stations .. followed by Owada?
11:08am
Lucy:
Good morning western people's, greetings from a New Yorker currently in Istanbul! I'm learning acrobatic accordion playing street performance with a sweet German guy on Istiklal street. Have a good show Mr Ken!
Oy I remember these radio spots from when I was about seven years old. In one of them a guy was told his son had died of an overdose. Except to a seven-year-old it sounded like "overghost."
...I sometimes give heroin to my cat whilst listening to this show & staring @ her unnaturally perfect dentition...but that's just me
...NSB goes a long way towards relieving my missing Zoogz Rift these days...not all the way - but a long way...
Hi all! Finally here!
Gif check:
-"Little Rascals"
-Geraldine character in "The Flip Wilson Show"
-"Meatballs"
-"Hackers"
-That's the back of Gene Hackman's head as he talks with Harrison Ford in "The Conversation"
-Herzog in "Julien Donkey-Boy"
-Near the end of Hitchcock's "Saboteur"
-"Chillerama"
And the Lee Morgan gif is from 1972 splatter fest "The Gore Gore Girls". Start is reasonably promising, but as a whole, an utter bore unworthy of its cult status.
Yeah, the poodle thing was a parody of a Susan Powter exercise video, and was part of Panasonic's series of shorts made when they were preparing for the Athens Olympics.
The "war gif" was the Brigitte Bardot gif from "Babette Goes to War" (by the Marzipan Marzipan track).