Blue room: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:29am Peter Nelson:

Shhhh....it's quiet in here.

11:30am Charlie:

two hours in the anechoic chamber...

11:36am Peter Nelson:

I had to look up that word. Sounds good, though. I'll take it. Do I need special equipment?

11:45am Charlie:

Well, Admiral, I'm sure you can have one constructed for you.

11:51am Peter Nelson:

No relation. Interesting man, though. You've got to admire a man with a column that big.

11:57am Michael:

Hiya Charlie. And Peter. And all who will wander in shortly.

11:57am Sarah N:

Boo!

11:58am Sarah N:

Michael from Rockport!

12:00pm Uncle Michael:

Am I blue?

12:00pm Michael:

Ha! That's right. You guys were there a couple of weeks ago, right?

12:00pm Peter Nelson:

Good name for a pub...The Wonder Inn.

12:03pm Sarah N:

@Michael - Yes, we stayed in the Yankee Clipper Inn. Great views. What a pretty town.

12:04pm Peter Nelson:

Hi Uncle M.

12:04pm Charlie:

Hi Peter, Michael, Sarah, Uncle Michael.

12:05pm bobdoesthings:

good afternoon!

12:05pm Sarah N:

Hello Charlie, Michael, Uncle Michael, Bob and him indoors!

12:05pm Charlie:

I thought that was an amazing coincidence that Peter and Sarah were in Rockport a few weeks ago, and Michael, who lives there, was in New Mexico! And both tuned in to the show. Didn't pick that up until I read comments after the show.

12:05pm bobdoesthings:

I think I missed doing nothing past week or two.. feels like forever!

12:06pm Michael:

Yes Sarah, a charming New England town for sure.

12:06pm Sarah N:

Yeah Charlie. Perhaps we should all swap towns each week!

12:07pm Peter Nelson:

Charming town, but not great for veggie food. Went a bit hungry.

12:07pm Listening Out There:

It's BuDoNo time. I'm late...

12:07pm Michael:

I was equally amazed at them being in our sleepy town.

12:08pm Michael:

The town is not a culinary destination for sure. And believe it or not, it was a "dry" town until quite recently. There are still a few left in Massachusetts.

12:08pm Charlie:

Hi Listening Out There.
And welcome back to the BuDoNO, bobdoesthings!

12:10pm bobdoesthings:

12:10pm Sarah N:

@Michael - sadly The Brothers Brew Coffee Shop was closed for a few days so we didn't get to try their doughnuts.

12:12pm Peter Nelson:

A 'dry' town? How quaint. That might explain why the hotel room contained a champaigne bucket but they didn't have a bar.

12:14pm bobdoesthings:

gotta love that jug player huh..

12:16pm Parq:

Have only made day trips to Rockport. Great place to take pictures. My kid's second serious boyfriend was from nearby Gloucester.

12:16pm mauri:

uu this sounds good. houdi.

12:18pm Sarah N:

This is a groovy track Charlie.

12:19pm Gary Mitchell:

fukuokan great

12:19pm Charlie:

Hi Parq, Mauri, Gary!

12:21pm Michael:

I've lived in Rockport about 12 years and still not quite up on the quirks the small town. Quite the alien place coming from years of city living. The spousal unit paints and she appreciates the light very much. I just wish they had a liquor store and some good restaurants. But as Parq notes - Gloucester is nearby.

12:23pm Charlie:

Sarah: It's groovy 'cause I stole it from Peter :)

12:25pm mauri:

just watched a movie called the assasination classroom. some japanese emotions there.

12:26pm Sarah N:

@Michael, I did notice the beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Took some fine photos.

12:30pm Gary Mitchell:

wall of sound

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12:32pm doctorjazz:

Hi, great sounds of nothingness drifting into the abyss.

12:32pm Mister Dobalina:

Awesome track!

12:32pm Parq:

Michael, from what my kid's old beau used to tell me, Gloucester is not what you would call a swingin' town, but I'm glad it served your purposes.

12:35pm Sarah N:

Is blue language required in the blue room...?? @**fkcc**$$£@@

12:36pm Charlie:

hello, doctorjazz and Mister Dobalina.

12:36pm Charlie:

fyi, Jake McKelvie will play a solo set live on my show on October 8!

12:37pm Peter Nelson:

We got a bit lost in Gloucester....one way systems. Went to a terrible Mexican restaurant which claimed to be 'authentic' but admitted they toned down the spices for tourists.

12:37pm Charlie:

Sarah: updating this song with some blue language ;)

12:38pm Parq:

"You don't do shit, now"?

12:40pm Sarah N:

I hear you Charlie! ;) Here's some more for you - turquoise, cyan, azure, viridian, indigo, cobalt, navy...!

12:42pm Charlie:

I love cobalt! Also the blue of airport landing strip lights at night.

12:42pm Peter Nelson:

Arrogant, wife-abandoning sod that he is, Mr Young still grabs me.

12:42pm Michael:

Parq, Gloucester is sometimes known as America's Oldest Seaport whatever that means. There are a handful of good places to eat and drink. The rest cater to tourists or the fishermen/women. Definitely not rocking though.

12:43pm jan:

Hearing you loud and clear in Amagansett, L.I. till we pack up and go home!

12:43pm bobdoesthings:

@sarah... cerulean!

12:44pm Sarah N:

My favourite blue is the eyes of my beloved, aw ♥︎

12:44pm Peter Nelson:

Bob does blues.

12:44pm doyle:

flutterin' by butterfly...

12:45pm Parq:

I remember buying my copy of Harvest. I paid the going "sale" rate at the time, $3.49. That seems impossibly long ago.

12:46pm doyle:

my family had 5 records when i was growing up. harvest was one. the others were herb alpert and a couple from the mornon tabernacles....

12:48pm Peter Nelson:

Alpert fan here.

12:51pm frenchee:

AQUA, thou cobalt is a great one also--We painted our hallway light cobalt and it's blue-tee-ful

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12:52pm doctorjazz:

The set has just been mind blowingly great!

12:52pm bobdoesthings:

img.weburbanist.com...

12:53pm Charlie:

hi doyle -- well, at least you had records :)

12:54pm Charlie:

Hi Frenchee! Blue-tee-ful blue.

12:54pm bobdoesthings:

a favorite artist/photographers of mine -- Dan Tobin Smith -- www.corkboard.it...

12:56pm bobdoesthings:

and the first one i posted at 12:52 was Sandy Skoglund.

12:56pm Webhamster Henry:

Hi there Charlie. I've never been to Rockport.

1:03pm Parq:

Tried to look up the original author of "Blues for Dixie" (I'm a fan of the well-known Lyle Lovett/Asleep at the Wheel version) on Wikipedia. They don't have a page for the song, but I feel moved to mention that the home-page auto suggested a page for "Blues for Dracula".

1:04pm Sarah N:

@bob - that's some groovy blueness!
@all - yeah, we both sat in the DJ's chair! What a treat.

1:05pm Peter Nelson:

& Charlie made us a tasty Mexicanish breakfast. Your hospitality was much appreciated.

1:06pm Charlie:

found on a youtube video: Blues for Dixie" was written around about 1947 by Cindy Walker. Cindy Walker gave authorship of Blues for Dixie, as a gift, to her friend O. W. Mayo, who was Bob Wills's manager. [ THE HISTORY OF TEXAS MUSIC by Gary Hartman; pg.184 ]

1:07pm Webhamster Henry:

Back when I was doing video art, my partner and I decided that blue was the best phosphor, so we tried to use it as much as possible.

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1:09pm doctorjazz:

Someone covering Pee Wee, cool!

1:10pm Charlie:

Yes, Peter took a break from his show so he could come over for breakfast ;)

1:10pm Charlie:

Pee Wee Russell, yes!

1:12pm Peter Nelson:

Your turn next.

1:14pm Sarah N:

Dosas for brekkie Charlie!

1:14pm Charlie:

Yes, I'd love some dosas for brekkie!

1:16pm Sarah N:

Blue Blue King and his guitar Blue-cille

1:16pm Gary Mitchell:

grown folks music

1:18pm Mister Dobalina:

Grown & sexy music!

1:19pm Charlie:

Hey there, Webhamster Henry! Didn't see you come in, I was in the kitchen...

1:20pm Charlie:

Tell me more about phosphor.

1:22pm bobdoesthings:

this is fantastic... I'm guessing from Mali area..?

1:23pm b may:

so good always and thanks!

1:24pm Parq:

It turns out that "Blues for Dracula" is the first Philly Jo Jones album. Too bad Charlie doesn't have the title track from that one handy. Or am I just assuming?

1:24pm Charlie:

hi b(rian)! glad to see you.
Yes, bobdoes, from Mauritania, just west of Mali, and sounding very Malian.

1:25pm schmutz:

sneaking in between meetings! great show (as always) Charlie!

1:25pm Charlie:

I do not, Parq, but that would be cool. Drac deserves blues.

1:25pm Peter Nelson:

Today's blue images are most tranquil.

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1:27pm doctorjazz:

WE're all invited for breakfast at Charlie's...

1:27pm bobdoesthings:

@charlie -- ahh cool.. so much great music from both countries.. I think Noura Mint Seymali is mauritanian too.. heard her before? DJ Trouble played some gems.. chekc her if you havent before..

1:29pm Charlie:

Peter -- all images are from installations by James Turrell (link at top of playlist)

1:31pm Peter Nelson:

Apropos of nothing, I just found this pretty funny parody of the famous 'Whipped Cream' LP cover:www.gotmedieval.com...

1:38pm Listening Out There:

Ah. Les Baxter. Thought it might have been Acker Bilk.

1:39pm Listening Out There:

Pet Sounds is one of the Wrecking Crew's finer moments, IMHO...

1:39pm Charlie:

Funny pic, but it makes no sense that the monk is covered in whipped cream!

1:41pm Peter Nelson:

Well, monking isn't really supposed to make sense.

1:41pm Parq:

Peter N, that's hilarious. Thanks for posting. On a sad parenthetical note, this 2009 piece talks about finding album art for iPod tracks. The family and I were just talking about iTunes last night, and I remarked ruefully how each new version eliminates some feature that I thought made it fun to use. Jerks.

1:43pm Peter Nelson:

itunes sucks. There are alternatives.

1:43pm Gary Mitchell:

ripples... positive ripples

1:44pm mauri:

In finland you can buy creamdonuts and we call those munkkis which is the same as a monk so it works in finnish...kermamunkki, creammonk.

1:49pm northguineahills:

Ah, I saw that "sky" environmental piece. All I remember is that is was really frickin' cold that day, so, we didn't stay too long.

1:51pm bobdoesthings:

whoa... instant love for these tahitians..

1:51pm Peter Nelson:

Ahhhh...the pacific islands...my spiritual home.

1:52pm Charlie:

thank you mauri for making the monk - whipped cream connection. i don't think i would have slept tonight otherwise.

1:53pm northguineahills:

@Peter: Around 2005, there was a group exhibition where the building block for each piece were LP albums, hence the name, "the LP show". Some artists used LPs as a pixels to make large pictures, while Christian Marclay used 'Whipped Cream & other delights", and all of the other copies and parodies of the album cover in a giant mozaic. There must have been 60 different albums that used that theme, and he had hundreds.

1:54pm Peter Nelson:

I would like to have seen that.

1:54pm Matt F:

Hey Charlie! 1) I am really digging this tahitian music and B) I had "Walking on the Water" pulled too but decided (before you played it) not to play it today. I think that covers everything...

1:55pm Charlie:

Peter - I got that Tahitian track from your collection :)

1:55pm Peter Nelson:

I'm sure many of us regret the passing of the LP cover art form. @ Charlie...yep, got that. Rare stuff.

1:58pm bobdoesthings:

whoa.. time is flying - THANKS CHARLIE! great show as always

1:58pm Peter Nelson:

And I'm sure many of us regret the passing of this creamy show.

1:59pm northguineahills:

Thanks Charlie!

2:00pm Michael:

My hands are moving and saying thanks Charlie.

2:00pm Gary Mitchell:

packed almost too good

2:03pm Charlie:

Thanks all for playing today!