The new Placebo song is hilarious. it's about iPhones. there's actually a lyric in it that says 'the applications are to blame, for all my sorrow and my pain' ...not a brilliant request but it's the funniest thing I've heard in music this week. Other than that I've just been listening to Strachan by Hitchers and Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star (they're like Rock A Bye Baby) 's Radiohead covers. Hello by the way.
8:25am
Ken:
Got a link Groucho? I feel a Carlos fixation coming on... I got some Cheap Trick (Bun E Carlos) and Im now looking for that Portugeuse guitar player Carlos Gardel. What other Carloses are there? And Wazmo Nariz of course, whose name SHOULD be Carlos Nariz.
...&/or something that let's them damnLiberals really know we'll have fewer guns not when their whelpin' spolied offspring get shot - but when they've pried them from our cold dead hands &/or we're outta ▇▇▇ ammo - whichever come 1st...
Sure do, here's Fake Plastic Trees, but they have a big back catalogue, just like Rockabye Baby's. open.spotify.com... coincidentally A friend's just sent me this too, Pearl Jam for Babies! open.spotify.com...
Hello Ken and listeners-in.
It was Walter when this wonderful Clockwork Orange soundtrack was recorded. 'I want to marry a lighthouse keeper and live by the side of the sea'
This sounds like Joe McGaskos intro.
Paul Major from Endless Boogie is going to be selling thousands of records & CDs cheap, from his house. I just downsized in big way but thinking of going.
9:19am
bill:
Kenny G wants to fill a gallery with printout of the entire internet. There's a petition out to stop him.
Hi all!
Working an hour extra today, but will try to sneak on the computer every now and then.
Quick gif check:
-1967's "Branded to Kill". Funny fact: the director, Seijun Suzuki, got fired by the studio once they saw the finished film. So you know it's right up Ken's street.
-The corn eating is from "Troll 2", and the mention of that title alone should make some of you giggle at the memory of the most ridiculous moment from that film.
-"A Royal Affair", which I'd recommend even for people who generally don't like costume dramas.
Funny, I've never felt the need to text anyone (in code or not) that I'm prolapsing my colon. BTW, "sex barbeque"? I think most parents would need a decoder to decode the messages after they've decoded the actual codes.
I found out this this morning: If you put leftover taco meat into an omelet, it tastes very salty. Next time, I'm going to buy the low-sodium taco flavoring.
9:39am
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Don Carlos, the Jamaican reggae singer and composer
Brian in UK, then he should play the Walter Carlos Clockwork Orange with the entire Timesteps, not just the Kubrick excerpt. But he probably "doesn't have" that either
Dammit, missed a gif! The Luis Carlos Vinhas gif is from arty French scifi animation Fantastic Planet. Interesting soundtrack, too, though maybe a little proggy for Ken's tastes.
@Duvid: did you use any "teen TXT lingo" in your tweet?
9:59am
Michael:
For real early Hawkwind cheese, try Michael Moorcock's "Time of the Hawklords"---Hawkwind as near-superheroes in an apocalyptic hellscape threatened by the music of Wings. (Honestly...I think Moorcock [whose porn name is his birth name] toured with them for awhile, and/or wrote for them.)
"The tour commemorates the anniversary and re-release of the band’s landmark 1975 album, “Warrior on the Edge of Time”. Hawkwind will perform the album in it’s entirety along with classic tracks selected from their 40+ year history. The tour will include a full light show, cosmic space dancers and psychedelic projections and is sure to be a far out experience"
Yeah- Ken, I did see the Kenny G interview this AM on DVR. I am so glad that you are here to help us through the cognitive dissonance his appearance has brought.
From what I know of their system, Spotify would probably block anything WFMU-related, and that includes playlists that include Khlam. Not kidding: that's how I weaseled my way out of user tests at work. They call it "long tail"
@Mike: hey, you're just lulling him into a false sense of security by providing this. After you keep doing this stuff for just a little while longer, the punking will be better.
i don't know, i think colbert sort of unnerved Kenny near the end of that interview. and colbert does that silent treatment when he finds a guest really interesting.
I know Colbert was playing devil's advocate but it seemed he was still pandering to the middle brow "well, that's different" viewer sensibilities. I don't get the appeal of late night shows at all.
Colbert's in Character - sustained & brilliant. He put Kenny G & his book on national 'TV'. ...He's *playing* playing devil's advocate...altho' I see the truthiness of your point...
'The Wild Raid of Gibbon's LacePanty Commandos'
...well tim - maybe Colbert *is* trying to have it both ways a little - but still great - reflects the geist &tc. ...
Yeah, Jeanne's Artichokes are big sellers, along with the asparagus and broccoli. I went old school and had the deep-fried brisket burger. Later, it was the chocolate-covered bacon cheesecake.
@Stevel: I'm still thinking there's an abusive component to that I won't endorse. David Thomas' behavior as part of Pere Ubu and on with Two Pale Boys was too different
11:33am
Cecile:
Carlos Rendezvous Band!
11:33am
Rob:
Hey Ken, don't often get to catch your show because of work, but always glad when I do!
Oh yeah! City Slang is one of my top 5 jams of all time.
11:33am
Sam:
The home depot scares the hell out of me. They don't even have normal shopping carts, they have these massive dirty metal gurneys that you push through aisle after aisle of bewildering stuff that you have no idea what anybody would do with.
108581:This project is about a multi-contextual interactive toilet experience providing both entertainment and relaxation. This toilet is very human-friendly, joyful, entertaining ...
youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2UgyVOr-U More from youtube.com
thanks peaceprayer.. I spent about 40 mins trying to find a purchasable copy online... to no avail. I was hoping someone knew a record store carrying it..
ah fuckin fuck! Missed Khlam. Must figure out how to get that gaddom CD!
11:53am
Jan:
Back to Kenny G: Until his appearances with President Obama and last night's Colbert show, we only new him with his face and costume for radio- looking more like
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed than the Dandy wearing a pink suit and port and starboard colored socks he was on the Colbert show. Ken- have you thought of visiting Kenny G's Tailor?
11:54am
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I know how to pronouce Khlam!!
A Russian guy I know told me!! And ha! The K is not at all pronounced like in English. It has a weird sound. But I don't know how I would explain that to an English speaker here!
But for the Spanish listeners, this is how it is pronounced: the K is pronounced like the J as in 'Joder'. So it sounds like 'J-lam. '
@fred of course it's okay, i usually spell most of foregin band names like a stupid. wrote it just in case someone wants to try spell it a'la russe ; )
Home from work!
Final gif check:
-lots of gifs I've covered in previous weeks, so just go there
-monkey drummer is from The Avalanches' music video for "Frontier Psychiatrist"
-laptop rage from Jeunet's "Micmacs"
-aah, my darling David McCallum in the Outer Limits classic "The Forms of Things Unknown". That room of his with the clocks is unforgettable.
-And more "Branded to Kill"