Popping the Earth Pimple: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:07am -Ken:

Morning all!

6:34am Brian in UK:

Mornin' Boss

6:57am Jack Tourette:

Hi Ken! Howdy everyone!

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7:01am -Ken:

Hi Jack, Hi Brian - any requests this AM?

7:13am Jack Tourette:

Requests? How about self-referential rock songs, or singers who sing about themselves, e.g., Pato Banton.

7:51am Listener Robert:

Is that Robert Mitchum HATE fist as it actually appeared in a movie?

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8:04am Ken From Hyde Park:

When Bob Dylan & the IBM Watson computer put their song out, I'll request that.

8:15am cory:

g' morning Kens and non-Kens

8:21am Dan B From Upstate:

I'm looking at my profile page. It's cool to see that hearts for marathon donations are starting to stack up.

8:25am cory:

will you crazy cats need cookies again?

8:28am cory:

oh and could you play some negativland?

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8:48am -Ken:

Negativland in the bin cory!

8:55am Okasa:

Good morning, everyone!

8:55am redkayak:

Good morning all :)

8:56am cory:

thanks dude!

9:00am Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Ken!

9:02am Brendan:

All systems a gogo, Ken.

9:02am MD:

YO!

9:02am Asheville Jon:

Ken Friedman
über alles
über alles
Ken Friedman!

9:03am Chris M.:

great start!

9:03am MD:

I like the Neon Ken!

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9:04am -Ken:

Yes MD! We must all obey the Neon Ken this morning.

9:09am thedunkel:

Morning Ken and Ken's friends!

9:11am cory:

great soundtrack for a foggy as funk morning

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9:11am Webhamster Henry:

Translation "...A colorful bouquet of rhythmic music" .. or words to that effect.

9:11am bobdoesthings:

good morning. cool banner!

9:12am Marcel M:

Morning Ken and all.

9:12am V Priceless:

mornin' Ken and peeples

9:13am Phillip:

Morning ken
I'm still in the hospital fighting a staph infection in my left foot 2 weeks now

9:14am Brendan:

Peeples ...who need peepholes ...are the yuckiest peeple of all.

9:17am Wawa the Hut:

sheeple....sheeple who need sheeple...

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9:17am -Ken:

Oh man Philip sorry to hear it -that very thing happened to me once. Hope you're OK. Hopefully you can listen and hang out while your in der h'opital.

9:17am Brendan:

Get well wishes Phillip and hope you get out of there soon. Hospitals are well staphed.

9:22am bobdoesthings:

love the fox gif!!

9:24am Brendan:

@Phillip...Never been admitted to a dang hospital in my life. Got hit on my bike by a car last month and woke up in the same hospital I was born in. Surreal. Not sure (both times were kind of fuzzy)but I think they changed the wallpaper since I was last in .

9:24am Bronwyn Bishop:

Yay Negativland!

9:25am Phillip:

Thank you the foot isn't as swollen as it was before but it still hurts like heck but I'm getting low doses of morphine

9:25am cory:

thank you sir.
@phillip hope you get well soon

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9:25am -Ken:

Folks, I would love to get over the 20% mark during my show today, if you haven't pledge to the silent fundraiser yet. Two great new T-shirts: www.wfmu.org...

9:26am Phillip:

I'm over at Columbia Presbyterian here on 168 street in Manhattan

9:29am Phillip:

The food isn't bad it's better than the one hot meal at the fort washington shelter

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9:30am Ken From Hyde Park:

People Like Us' Vicky plays Negativland. She's coming stateside 10/24 to premiere Citation City at Monty Hall.

9:32am Listener Robert:

Phillip, if it'll make you feel any better, you can listen to Chris T.'s foot pain experience as recorded in the hosp. a few days ago. OTOH, that might make you feel worse. It's intense either way.

9:32am Brendan:

Whitey Bolger in this band?

9:35am Slazenger:

Ken has the best show in the world. Don't play any crap today, Ken.

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9:36am -Ken:

I've never played crap for no reason, Slazzy. But thank you.

9:37am Brendan:

@Phillip , Ken is playing a shoegazer band in honor of your foot!

9:38am Phillip:

:-) thanks ken

9:40am Listener Robert:

I didn't even know about Nachum's foot!

9:41am bobdoesthings:

nice alliteration ken! two tone type tendencies..

9:41am Listener Robert:

Ctrl-A if it's actual text, Ken.

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9:43am Ken From Hyde Park:

Is the bed music actually Isi? Seems like a different song.

9:44am bobdoesthings:

nice dead boys cover!

9:44am Listener Robert:

Oh, never mind, I gather that the Deutsche Elektronische thing is an actual recording label on physical stuff, not a file whose text you can highlight.

9:45am Stevel:

Holy crap this is good RFTT!

9:45am Brendan:

Badass mf'ing show.

9:46am Marcel M:

Bob: Members of RFTT's split of to form Dead Boys and Pere Ubu

9:46am cory:

i think my neighbors are going to dig this show. i should play it for them.

9:46am Marcel M:

And now they are apparently recording songs from back then now on a new record... interesting.

9:46am Losermom:

From my hometown. Brings back such memories!

9:48am bobdoesthings:

@marcel - ah shows you how much I know! haha

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9:48am Ken From Hyde Park:

Aha...Floaters. Accuplaylist is accurate!

9:51am Marcel M:

@Bob: well now you know and you can correct the next person! ;-)

9:52am bobdoesthings:

@marcel - nah.

9:53am Marcel M:

@Bob: Just been itching to get you back since you corrected my grammar on here.

9:53am Losermom:

Holy crap just listened to this song like, two days ago.

9:54am cory:

Peaches did an awesome WTF this week

9:54am egal:

Kim is lord.

9:54am bobdoesthings:

@marcel - haha! I don't remember that.. but we're cool now? haha.

this song is making me nauseous....

9:54am Phillip:

A good follow up to this song is the "warm leatherette" tune

9:55am Brendan:

Some herb would nicely compliment this Peaches. Bong hit anyone?

9:55am Marcel M:

@Bob: Haha. Yes, cool now.

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9:56am -Ken:

Good call Philip.

9:56am Phillip:

Warm leatherette

9:57am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

I'll say, Phillip. Hi peoples.

9:57am Dan B From Upstate:

So many duckfaces in the selfie gif.

9:58am Brendan:

Reminds me winter is coming . Need to order some nice warm leather pajamas.

10:01am Bronwyn Bishop:

Loved the Peaches

10:03am Pip Von Birmingham:

Guten Morgen WFMUlande!

10:04am cory:

of course prince can make autotune sound good

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10:05am -Ken:

If anybody has not pledged to the silent marathon yet, now would be a great time to do so. I am lagging the station's total. Dont want to have to suspend myself. But I will if I have to.

10:06am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

can't decide between the bird shirt or the chipmunk shirt...

10:07am Brendan:

Would be cool to have Prince knock at your door (even if it is as a Jehovah's witness)
http://www.ew.com/article/2003/10/15/prince-goes-door-door-jehovahs-witnesses

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10:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

The best girl is the one in the lower right. Doesn't care about selfies and just has a bite of pie.

10:08am Wawa the Hut:

yeh she's the smart one

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10:09am -Ken:

Thanks for the pledge John from Brooklyn! You rock. ("Rocking" is "good")

10:09am Listener Robert:

Sorry, Ken, you'll have to wait until I have more of the earnings I'm dedicating from my PineCone-Nielsen survey responses. I get $3 each, and may still get a few more this mo.

10:10am cory:

ken, do you have the new bowie?

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10:11am -Ken:

I do not cory.

10:12am SeanG:

great gif synch

10:12am cory:

hrm, was wondering if it is worth the click. this one is w/ eno and visconti, right?

10:14am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

ok, decisions made.

10:14am Asheville Jon:

puhlease

10:20am Sam:

Wow, great mix!

10:28am βrian:

Dublin Core, Pat? That's so meta!

10:30am Pip Von Birmingham:

I've got a fever, and the only cure is more corn weenie

10:31am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

this song rules.

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10:33am -Ken:

DC Pat and Pip! You are the best! Thanks for pledging.

10:34am ----|douche camouflage (pät)|----:

pleasure. Thanks for the tunes, SMKen

10:36am SeanG:

looks like a big earth zit

10:37am Listener Robert:

When Ken uses his stalling tapes & talkover music as selections, I don't know whether that's a sign of great confidence or of desperation.

10:37am bobdoesthings:

@seang- ewwwww. someone popped the earth pimple.

10:37am Lewis:

@SeanG - it is...

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10:38am Ken From Hyde Park:

That volcano gif is amazing. Just by luck, the space station was passing over a volcano that had begun an eruption. The heat opened up a hole in the cloud cover. www.livescience.com...

10:39am Listener Robert:

I like how during Hoof & Mouth, the bed music becomes DJ leitmotif.

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10:42am -Ken:

It's a sign of greatly confident desperation Robert.

10:42am Andy in Maine:

Love the "Trump's hair" graphic. :)

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10:46am -Ken:

Why did I choose a Wednesday to stop smoking again?!!

10:48am Pip Von Birmingham:

Are you doing the show 'straight'? Brave call....

10:49am Brian C.:

Just go for the edibles, longer lasting buzz

10:49am rsj:

maybe hit the glue

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10:50am -Ken:

Im talking about CIGARETTES people. Tobacky!

10:51am Pip Von Birmingham:

Suuuuuure you are!

10:53am Jeezy:

The Flat's BKSpeed Coffee in the heart of South Williamsburg is streaming WFMU LIVE... Come on down y'all!

10:53am βrian:

Stay away from the chaw, in any case. Makes for a messy microphone.

10:53am bobdoesthings:

@ken - a year ago I was at the SUW/7SD meetup and I had a cigarette outside.. you asked me for one.. and then I soon found out that it was your first one in years! ... I hope I didn't single-handedly throw you back into the throws of addiction!?

10:54am Dan B From Upstate:

Worst decision of my life was starting smoking. Finally kicked it about two years ago after a scare. I couldn't breathe. It was enough to put me off of cigarettes forever. Haven't even been tempted, and I breathe a lot better now.

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10:55am Ken From Hyde Park:

Smoking bad. Avoid at all costs. Zero stars.

10:55am βrian:

Do the Ass-CAP folks ever harass the cafe? That always struck me as a shakedown.

10:56am Jack:

Cigarettes= >$10/day. Need extra $$$? Quit and save $70/week, or cut back. Forget about the health issues.

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10:56am -Ken:

No BobDT, I start and stop constantly.

10:58am bobdoesthings:

@ken -ahh phfeww.. It honestly made me feel a bit guilty when other DJs saw you and said "Ken you're back to smoking?!?!" I felt like the bad uncle at a family party.

10:58am Pip Von Birmingham:

I got pleurisy- that helped me to stop. I still love lovely lovely fags tho.

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10:58am bbell:

Oh, Ken, I didn't know you smoked, sorry to hear that. It wreaks havoc on many of the systems. Start a breath practice (seriously), I'll look for a link to send to you. And, you could play that Courtney Barnet track about having trouble breathing in.

11:01am poet,tony seymour:

THE Patch works wonders. THEY say vivid dreams from it are a "side-effect" --i say they are a bonus! 3 D - technicolor and totally scripted......and it gets the job done in 3 months.

11:02am Claw!:

This reminds me of Ugly Duckling's "Opening Act." I love it!

Morning, Ken! Howdy, Pardners!

11:03am βrian:

Is that the patch that has the pretty unicorn printed on it?

11:03am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Alright, the song about WFMU!! PLEDGE!!!

11:04am bobdoesthings:

PLEDGE!!

11:04am Pip Von Birmingham:

Mark E Smith sez PLEDGE!

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11:04am Guido from Cologne:

we do we do we do

11:05am bobdoesthings:

Mark E convinced me

11:05am Torbjørn:

Can we make this the official fundraising theme ?

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11:06am Webhamster Henry:

I have this "How to stop smoking without using Willpower" instruction LP, but I see it's also on the internets. Just in case you have no Willpower!
www.youtube.com...

11:06am Pip Von Birmingham:

Oh man, this is my last Weds off for ages- guna miss you crazy feckers

11:07am poet,tony seymour:

Nah Brian that is the micro-dot patch .....the one you do when you wake up.....be Well Armed.....for the day.

11:07am bobdoesthings:

2 0 1 oh pledgeee. (mark e knows we know the rest of the number)

11:08am bobdoesthings:

@bbell - breathe practice.. like meditating?

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11:17am bbell:

Breathe practice is a path towards meditation, but it is a very deliberate way of putting a control on the breath, guiding it physically and mentally, gradually expanding one's lung capacity (over time), and it has all sorts of great physiological and psychological benefits. And no hangover the next day.

11:19am Dan B From Upstate:

I think I could use a link to that, too, bbell.

11:20am Mdurek:

Ahh, the winking coffee reminds me I have some espresso to drink

11:21am bobdoesthings:

@bbell . hm interesting. still sounds like a form of meditation to me. but Im into it.. I'll google around.
Ever heard of holotropic breathing.. trying to purposely hyperventilate while taking intense breathes to reach an altered transcendental state//trip out to some extent.. . from what I understand. never tried myself..

11:22am Dan B From Upstate:

This song makes me think of Mizu by Kiyohiko Senba et all.

11:22am βrian:

Love it when my crema winks at me.

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11:22am bbell:

here is a link to an advanced practitioner doing nauli breath (not for a beginner!) but interesting: www.youtube.com... At 2:40 he starts the practice that massages internal organs.

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11:25am bbell:

"Yoga Breathing" CD set by Richard Freeman. For those of you who want to try it and learn more.

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11:26am bbell:

p.s.-bobdoesthings: I don't recommend hyperventilating!

11:28am bobdoesthings:

@bbell - yeah. wasn't planning on trying ti

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11:34am Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm pretty sure those electronic cigarettes are a one-way ticket to nowhere if you don't smoke yet. Don't get started on those things.

11:34am JakeGould:

@Ken: E-cigarettes and vaping!

11:35am FˠFˠ (:

Hello, Ken and good people!

11:36am FˠFˠ (:

Hello, Ken and good people!

11:38am Carmichael:

Heya Ken and assembled listenerage.

11:41am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Oh man, that M. Jackson pic is cracking me up. Thanks Ken, gotta go...

11:42am Brendan:

Fünkengroovin

11:45am FˠFˠ (:

Amazing giffery, Ken. A show on its own.

11:48am βrian:

Gang of Four? Good lord, I'm back in Ann Arbor ...

11:49am steve:

if anyone missed it - animals attacking drones: digg.com...

11:51am SeanG:

cocktail bar

11:52am cee:

this tune certainly drives the premise home

11:52am FˠFˠ (:

Was she really working in a cocktail bar?

11:52am Parq:

The Human League remix is brilliant. The GIF accompanying it puts it completely over the top. The two together fully justify my having gotten out of bed this morning, and will make tolerable anything else that might happen to me today.

11:53am rf:

11:53am chris:

I miss Vicki

11:53am chris:

but i still love you, Ken

11:55am Pat Byrne:

Please play this remix on loop at my funeral.

11:55am bobdoesthings:

thanks ken! great show. till next week.

11:55am Lt. Columbo:

Im still a bit confused , let me get this straight because I can never remember. And things just dont add up...She was working as a waitress . In a cocktail bar.? Boy oh boy thing like that are as clear as mud to me.... Jeez you know what...You know my wife was a waitress in a cocktail bar once . Funniest thing. Anyway ...have a nice day.

11:56am Brendan:

Thanks Ken.

11:56am Listener Robert:

Ken from Hyde, I'm a non-smoker who within the past year took up vaping, both w & w/o nicotine, in an attempt to lose weight. I haven't done any for about the past month or two, though. It might be a ticket to nowhere, but it's not a ticket to anywhere bad.

11:57am FˠFˠ (:

The cocktail bar was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

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11:57am -Ken:

Bye everybody!

11:57am Asheville Jon:

Ken, if you keep playing this song every week, one day you might figure out what they are talking about.

11:57am cee:

love the chorus in particular

11:57am JakeGould:

Bye Ken and others!

11:58am FˠFˠ (:

Thanks Ken, everyone! Till next episode!!

11:58am βrian:

I think it may be "cocktail bah," actually.

11:58am ryab:

thos song is starting to become torture

11:58am FˠFˠ (:

One more time please!! Plus the encore!

11:59am drewo:

I need a cocktail.

11:59am Carmichael:

Now if you could do this to the Dylan Christmas album, then you'd have something.

11:59am Listener Robert:

Yay!

12:00pm FˠFˠ (:

I need a waitress.