by just listening: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:41am People Like Us:

herro

11:42am Charlie:

well, helloo to you too :)

11:43am annie:

totally slipped my mind it was thursday!!

11:46am listener james from westwood:

The spirit of Yogi is hovering over the pic today, Charlie!

11:47am Charlie:

wait, what day is it?

11:57am Charlie:

Thanks for reminding me, Annie!
@James: Berra or Bear?

11:58am Peter Nelson:

Paramhansa Yogibearananda

11:59am bobdoesthings:

hello all.

12:00pm mauri:

Whats going on?!

12:00pm Michael:

Hiya Charlie. Hiya everyone.

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12:01pm doctorjazz:

Hey all!

12:02pm Sarah N:

Nada Dada Nada Dada Nada Dada Nada Dada !

12:02pm Charlie:

Hello Peter, bobdoesthings, mauri, Michael, doctorjazz, Sarah!

12:04pm listener james from westwood:

Oh, GOOD CALL on this cut!

12:05pm hortense:

hell-o!

12:10pm mauri:

ui ui bob hund

12:10pm Charlie:

holla, hortense!
glad you dug that, james.

12:10pm annie:

the guy who was renting the downstairs "apartment" moved out this week and left behind some of his work mementoes: a commercial coffee grinder and 2 of those fancy starbucks/keurig-style cappuccino makers..

12:11pm Charlie:

mauri -- I'm going through a Bob Hund resurgence here.

12:13pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Hi Charlie! For right now at least, I can listen live. Hooray!

12:13pm Perri:

Hi Charlie! Hello, everyone!

12:13pm mauri:

sounds like a spastic swede

12:13pm Ike:

K-cups are of Satan. Or Santa, if he's evil.

12:14pm Artie Haywire:

I like a little crunch in my groove.

12:14pm Carmichael:

Hey ho, Charlie-o. Doin' waaay too much this morning to be doing nothing. Maybe something will change and the too much will turn out to be nothing at all.

12:15pm Charlie:

Yay, Wendy! Hi Perri! Agreed, Ike! Allo, Artie! Howdy, Carmichael!

12:17pm coelacanth:

greetings Charlie and all

12:18pm mauri:

you see santa claus. santa claus summons greater undead.

12:19pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!

12:23pm listener james from westwood:

@mauri: My cleric attempts to turn the undead. I got an 18.

12:24pm Charlie:

Carmichael -- may all your somethings be nothing.

12:24pm Perri:

This making me happily dizzy!

12:25pm Charlie:

hey there, coelacanth -- and welcome, ndBob!

12:27pm Charlie:

@Perri -- that track is swoony :)

12:28pm Perri:

I'm getting dizzier...

12:29pm mauri:

mouth of morgoth shuts up and floats away. great lich flees. santa clause blinks away "ho ho ho"

12:30pm listener james from westwood:

@mauri! Excellent! Treasures and presents for all!

12:31pm Wendy del Formaggio:

The more I hear from Land of the Loops, the more I like them. And now I have to sign off and go back to work. Catch you on the archives, Charlie! Or better yet, in person soon...? :-)

12:33pm Charlie:

'twould be nice, Wendy!

12:39pm Carmichael:

Wendy, we were just talking abou0t you yesterday on Sportsy Talk.

12:43pm Mike East:

@Carm - to be more specific - the talk was of cheese, which of course leads to wfmu's minister of cheeses, Ms. Del Formaggio

12:44pm Charlie:

Carmichael, I think Wendy's gone. But she is Sportsy:)

12:44pm Charlie:

Well, @Mike East -- she is cheesy!

12:47pm jan:

I was late for the party! What did I miss?

12:47pm Carmichael:

The discussion was about something called "bread cheese". No one knew what it was, and we needed an expert. Does she have a hotline?

12:48pm coelacanth:

i observe these holidays from a distance.

12:50pm Mike East:

@Carmichael - I've been thinkin' about that bread cheese since. I really wanna find some

12:52pm Parq:

The extra "I saw her" on the last go-round was an inadvertent goof that they decided to leave in. I read that recently. Apologies if, as sometimes happens, I am the last one to know this.

12:53pm coelacanth:

well,I never knew it.

12:54pm listener james from westwood:

I didn't know it! So you're not the last!

12:54pm Charlie:

@jan -- well, the canapes are almost gone, but we still have some pinot grigio

12:55pm Charlie:

hi Parq -- whether new or old, it's a fun fact.

12:55pm Charlie:

We sometimes make a recipe for a hollowed-out loaf of bread baked with brie in the middle.

12:56pm northguineahills:

I had no idea either. Incidental moments has really made many musical moments, even in pop.

12:57pm coelacanth:

i'm always good to hear music trivia, even if i knew it already. music geeks need a support system!

12:57pm Sarah N:

Monty baby!

1:00pm Charlie:

Claude!

1:00pm coelacanth:

what northguineahills said. (like on "revolution 1")
...and it's the m.o. for some folks, like Eno.

1:01pm coelacanth:

great radiohead song!

1:01pm Listening Out There:

I kept checking that playlist. Once I saw it was updated for the artist the Monteverdis and the Papas, I knew that all was right in the world...

1:03pm Charlie:

hello, NGH -- little musical moments, "errors," are so memorable, sometimes just the sound of a note hit too hard or a little feedback really stays with me...

1:03pm Charlie:

yes, Listening Out There -- you are definitely in the right place :)

1:03pm northguineahills:

This Scala, not to be confused w/ the Scala that was shoegazey triphop side-project of Seefeel.

1:04pm Charlie:

did not even know about that side project, ngh

1:04pm Listener Lynn from Virginia:

I'm excited to listen live today!
I always stream the archives and will be listening to this one again. Just wanted to say thanks "in person" and not just with my biannual cash.

1:05pm Mike East:

This is a Radiohead cover, right?

1:06pm Mike East:

yes, it is. thanks google.

1:06pm Charlie:

Hello, Lynn! I'm happy you can be here "live" today. Thanks for saying hi :)

1:07pm Charlie:

Yes, and the people who put out the Scala CD are nice enough to say who the original artist was on each song.

1:08pm coelacanth:

i'm having difficulty finding a "scala" that i think that could be.
- an electric string quartet? no...

1:08pm listener james from westwood:

A teensy bit "Alone Again Or"-ish in spots, this John cut!

1:09pm coelacanth:

oh- from belgium?

1:09pm Charlie:

James -- I was just about to say, this song has sort of a bad rep for basing the verses on Love's "Alone Again Or" riff!

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1:09pm doctorjazz:

Like the Love track, no Listener James?

1:10pm Charlie:

yes, from Belgium

1:11pm northguineahills:

Did Scala play on WFMU years ago?I seem to remember them coming by someone's show a while back.

The Seefeel Scala is actually really nice. They only put out one album, and a bunch of eps.

I get up and leave in a few minutes. Thanks again Charlie!

1:11pm listener james from westwood:

As the book title says, "Steal Like an Artist."

1:12pm Charlie:

there wouldn't be any art without stealing!

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1:13pm doctorjazz:

"Influenced by.." is the way to politically correctly describe it...(though, that was pretty blatant).

1:14pm coelacanth:

i think of myself more as a cheater than a stealer.

1:15pm northguineahills:

here coelacanth: www.discogs.com...

1:15pm listener james from westwood:

"You vant trousers, ve got trousers..."

1:15pm coelacanth:

doctorjazz- or "derivative of..."

1:16pm coelacanth:

Woody was brilliant.

- Thanks ngh!

1:17pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Yes...Vintage Woody! Shoulda stuck to standup?

1:17pm Ike:

Oh wow, Woody Allen was funny once!

1:19pm Michael:

very difficult to work this afternoon! Thank you Charlie.

1:19pm listener james from westwood:

BTW, speaking of stand-up comics, former WFMU blogger Kliph Nesteroff's "The Comedians" is well worth the read if you enjoyed his mega-posts on said blog.

1:20pm Charlie:

Hi Kevin!
Yes, Ike, he really was...
@Michael -- I'm glad (your bosses may not be so glad, though)

1:20pm coelacanth:

maybe, but he probably stopped when he felt he was stagnating,no?
...maybe now he could have a second wind!

1:22pm coelacanth:

...i've met funny 90-year-olds!
(he must be about that,right?)

1:23pm coelacanth:

oops! sorry- only 80! - he's young yet!

1:24pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Well Coelacanth, THAT makes me feel old!

1:26pm listener james from westwood:

I think Brooks & Reiner have Woody beat on age, right?

1:26pm Listener Lynn from Virginia:

I've always loved this bed music. Google is only giving me nature videos about opposums.
Please elaborate! Thanks.

1:27pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie. Doing nothing but listening. (and typing)

Played Forever Changes the other day. Timeless.

1:28pm KevinfromBayRidge:

@James-Brooks-89;Reiner-93

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1:28pm doctorjazz:

www.newyorker.com...
speaking of funny, love this guys posts...
This male chorus is great, by the way.

1:29pm Listening Out There:

Amazing rendition of "In the Mood"! Have not heard this before...

1:30pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Allen and Mort Sahl were the next gen of comedy.

1:31pm Charlie:

Well, wasn't Carl Reiner the 100-yr old man years ago? No, wait, that was Mel Brooks...

1:31pm coelacanth:

Kevin, you over 80?!
(kidding...i know what you mean, i think!...and me too.)

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1:31pm doctorjazz:

Weren't they both on the record (Reiner does the interview)?

1:33pm coelacanth:

didn't George Burns perform right up to his 100th year?

1:33pm KevinfromBayRidge:

-20!

1:33pm Charlie:

Lynn - just googled "comadreja" too -- apparently Spanish for a kind of weasel. So maybe they're "The Weasels"

1:34pm Charlie:

hi Brian in UK, btw!

1:34pm Listening Out There:

Speaking of comedians, I just finished reading "The Comedians" by Kliph Nesteroff. Good book. Guess he's been on FMU in the past?

1:35pm Parq:

I have this "Il-Loh "Boogie" track on one of Doug's first marathon premiums, an album of non-western performers attempting western modern musical forms. (Can't remember the title). Same album has an Asian fellow's wonderfully bizarre attempt at rapping. Must-have stuff.

1:35pm ndbob:

@listening Great book - just read it as well

1:37pm Parq:

Listening Out: I just finished that too. Great, isn't it? Kliph was a correspondent for many years on Beware of the Blog. His posts are all still available, and great reading too.
blog.wfmu.org...

1:37pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Problem is that I remember him as young and upcoming , although I was very young at the time( guess i had older tastes).

1:39pm Listening Out There:

Parq: Thanks for the tip RE the blog! I remember reading what were likely many of his posts. Didn't know it was the same writer. Very well done. Each seemed like the chapter of a book. No wonder... :)

1:40pm coelacanth:

i remember him on tv when i was little. i thought he was hilarious, though surely i didn't get half his jokes.
his red pajamas routine stands out in my memory.

1:40pm Sarah N:

I knew I recognised that tune.....mmm rum and cherry juice, yum!

1:40pm Parq:

Kev, he posted recently (on FB or IG, can't remember which) that one of the questions he gets asked most is "how do you know all this stuff?" Hey, some of us just dig that scene.

1:43pm Charlie:

drjazz -- they were both on the record, but mel brooks played the 100-yr old man, carl reiner was the interviewer.

1:44pm coelacanth:

www.youtube.com...
there's another of my favorite Woody Allen.

1:44pm Charlie:

I must catch up on all this comments reading later!

1:48pm sugarplum fairywolf:

I just took out "The Comedians" from the library today!

Also a book about the Magna Carta because I'm a nerd.

1:51pm People Like Us:

lovely song

1:52pm Carmichael:

It was the 2,000 year old man: www.youtube.com...

1:52pm Listening Out There:

PLU: Hi, Vicki! Yeah, it is. Good thing he didn't join Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Recently read that they tried to get John Sebastian to join up. Would have been a loss musically, IMO...

1:53pm coelacanth:

actually, for anyone who cares; i think this telling of the same Woody Allen routine is better, even though there's no visual...
www.youtube.com...

1:54pm Webhamster Henry:

Whoa - Don't know this Free Designer!

1:55pm People Like Us:

oooh wasntborntofollow10.blogspot.co.uk

1:56pm Charlie:

hey, sugarwolf fairyplum!
yes, vicki
hi henry!

1:56pm Carmichael:

Nice ending with the Bothys, Charlie!

1:57pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:57pm Charlie:

Thanks for being here (so to speak) today! See you next week.

1:58pm coelacanth:

damn - all these windows on hold! i guess i should bookmark them all for a rainy day.
...well, a rainy late night.

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1:58pm doctorjazz:

Great show, fun posts as well.

1:58pm KevinfromBayRidge:

@Coelacanth,I seem to remember Woody and Mort on The Jack Paar show. Didn't catch the 2000( or 100 for that matter!) year old man until I was a lot older.

1:59pm listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Charlie!

1:59pm Michael:

Most excellent show Charlie. Thanks so much!

1:59pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Thanks agin, Charles!

2:00pm Listening Out There:

Thanks, host!

2:00pm coelacanth:

Thanks Charlie Great to hear it as it unfolds,for a change!
later on folks!