WFMU: Therese: Playlist from December 28, 2015

Listener comments!
	12:00am Matt: Howdy....Diggin it!
	12:04am Therese: Thanks, Matt!
	12:05am Tome: Heloooww Therese ! nice start waking up now weeeee !!!
	12:05am Therese: Helllooooww to you, Tome!
	12:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Therese. Glad to see you survived Christmas 2015! Nice rousing start you have going on here.
	12:08am tinkle bear: gave away my copy of crying of lot 49. need to find another.
	12:11am BadGuyZero: Welcome back, Therese! I trust you had a pleasant holiday.
	12:11am JakeGould: “I got mortgages and homes. I got stiffness in my bones. Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality!” One of the most amazing lyrics of all time.
	12:12am JakeGould: @Therese: So is “Bicycle Race” happening? “Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars.”
	12:12am MONEYBAG$: no bicycle race?
	12:15am BadGuyZero: It's not two-fer Tuesday.
	12:15am Therese: Hello Ken FHP & tinkle bear and BadGuyZero and JakeGould and Moneybag$! Thanks for stopping by.
	12:16am Therese: No, no bicycle race today.
	12:18am tinkle bear from FUCKING PASADENA, MF-er: um, this is just a test.
	12:19am MONEYBAG$: Mary Wing should play an hour of Bicycle Race covers one of these days...there must be dozens
	12:24am Tome: YEAH!!! love this one !
	12:27am tinkle bear from well-mannered pasadena: sigh freedumb, demonstrated. herrow, therese, evvybody.
	12:29am BadGuyZero: Cheyenne did an outstanding job filling in last week.
	12:33am BadGuyZero: "Anywho" is one of Robert Pollard's least-favorite words.
	12:47am pacific standard simon: I had to Google "Robert Pollard".
	12:51am pacific standard simon: Listening to Amara Touré is better than listening to '80s Tom Waits, gotta say.
	12:59am JakeGould: Robert Pollard is my least favorite Robert Pollard.
	1:03am pacific standard simon: Therese's bed music is my favorite porn soundtrack.
	1:03am MONEYBAG$: I paid to see his band "Guided by Voices" and he made disparaging remarks about Billy Squier. The nerve!
	1:08am ! I X Key !: !
	1:10am Bill C: I saw GBV too and they drank Busch beer onstage. Yikes.
	1:11am BadGuyZero: How many high kicks did he do?
	1:12am pacific standard simon: £££
	1:14am pacific standard simon: Mark R and Jeff Conklin are two of my favorite DJs.
	1:14am MONEYBAG$: too many to count...what a perplexing figure
	1:15am BadGuyZero: The remake of "A New Hope?"
	1:15am ! I X Key !: ! One time I saw David Lang he drank a beer onstage (o:
	1:16am Tome: that's pretty much it.... ___
	1:16am pacific standard simon: I am one of the eleven. My 40-something nephew saw it and told me, though
	1:19am Tome: ... there is really only one reason I willnot see it in the theater ,, too many grown adults behaving like mean spirited 12 year olds ,, ___
	1:19am pacific standard simon: There's one actor who doesn't like the franchise in the first place, and won't have to appear in another one of the movies.
	1:19am Bill C: They could of at least drank PBR
	1:19am BadGuyZero: I liked it a lot. It was better than I expected. I'm looking forward to the next two because Rian Johnson ["Brick" and "Looper"] is directing them.
	1:22am pacific standard simon: They should have worked in a product placement for Heineken. Like, Heineken Skywalker.
	1:24am BadGuyZero: Star Wars beer: R2-D-Brew
	1:25am pacific standard simon: LOL. That would be a PBR, for sure.
	1:25am MONEYBAG$: Did they reveal that Power Droid is related to IG-88?
	1:26am coelacanth: hello Therese and all
	1:34am ! I X Key !: !!! I could have seen Star Wars by now but haven't yet Please don't ruin my life with spoilers !!!
	1:35am JakeGould: “The Force Awakens” is just a remake of “A New Hope” but it’s also more. Disney owns Marvel and now owns Lucasfilm. In the Marvel universe they just regurgitate the same story over and over again. And the fact “The Avegners” worked is a wet dream: Each character can have their own series and minor characters (like “Antman”) have a reason to be revived. Which is to say this new “Star Wars” series is going to be less about pushing new stories and better story telling to the world than rather just elevate fan fiction to an art AND create tie-in products. Like how C-3PO had a red arm? They won’t reveal that in the film. But for $5 you can buy a comic that explains that small backstory if you wish. The new films will just be barely built frameworks to hook into other media. Like “Star Wars: Battlefront” is considered a part of the “Star Wars” canon now. The marketing cross-pollination is bigger than the Death Star now.
	1:36am philospider: WHOA that patrick cowley song rules
	1:37am JakeGould: @!IXKey!: FWIW, C-3PO’s red arm is not a spoiler since he’s wearing it in tons of commercials. www.youtube.com...
	1:39am MONEYBAG$: The red arm is to promote awareness. For something.
	1:39am ! I X Key !: I cannot read that long comment that started star wars is just a remakeI didn't want to have remake of anything to be in my mind even
	1:40am JakeGould: @MONEYBAG$: Awareness of other products being available. Ever see pink garbage cans for breast cancer? They exist.
	1:41am pacific standard simon: The red arm is due to excessive masturbation. Whoops! Spoiler alert!
	1:41am slugluv1313: LIL BUB!!!!!! awwww
	1:42am JakeGould: @PSS: Maybe C-3PO is mainlining WD-40 again?
	1:43am pacific standard simon: @Jake - or listening to Nick Cave?
	1:46am BadGuyZero: The red arm will be explained in a comic book coming out in February that reunites the 1990s DC Comics Starman's writer and artist [James Robinson and Tony Harris respectively].
	1:46am JakeGould: @PSS: Red Arm = Red Army? C-3PO is a Commie? Or in the “Star Wars” universe he would be known as a sympathizer to the “Collective?”
	1:47am MONEYBAG$: Robert Pollard's cat has a 43 song debut album coming out soon
	1:47am pacific standard simon: My "secret Santa" this year gave me a bottle of Bombay Sapphire and a bunch of chocolates. Such a girly gift, yet I'm enjoying regardless...
	1:48am JakeGould: @BadGuyZero: Yeah, I mentioned that in my wordy comment. So now you have to pay $10-15 for the movie and then buy a comic on top of that to have plot pieces put together? This is all getting crass. I want movies not platforms for “synergy” between media.
	1:48am BadGuyZero: Lil Bub was on the cover of "Super Bowl Shuffle" that came out a couple of years ago.
	1:50am pacific standard simon: Except for the white chocolates. Screw them.
	1:50am BadGuyZero: @JakeGould: I didn't see your comment until after I had posted mine. At least the comic isn't vital to enjoying the film. I thought it was dumb that DC Comics released their Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comics AFTER the movie came out since those comics provided the backstory for the new characters.
	1:50am ! I X Key !: I can't read any more comments until after I watch Star Wars Ill read any more comments until 178 minutes from now please don't say how long it actually is before I have watched it
	1:51am pacific standard simon: Cass McCombs sounds like The Bongos!
	1:54am JakeGould: @BadGuyZero: Yeah, but still… Those are trees in a forest. In the original trilogy there was no need to cross-pollinate content across media. Nowadays, all of these movies are just true 2 hour commercials for other product. This article explains the Disney mentality quite well. My best thought? Maybe the “Disney Vault” can see fit to officially release Blu-Ray versions of the original/unspecial trilogy films for the rest of us old folks to enjoy. www.vox.com...
	1:55am JakeGould: Anyway, need a topic change. John Amos’s b-day is today! Wishing him good times!
	1:56am Therese: It's also my mom's birthday!
	1:59am BadGuyZero: @JakeGould: Search "Star Wars despecialized" using the search engine of your choice and you'll find links to download meticulously-restored versions of the original, unaltered trilogy in HD that a group of fans put together.
	1:59am pacific standard simon: Had to Google John Amos, but recognized him. My new hero!
	1:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy birthday, Therese's mom!
	2:01am BadGuyZero: Happy birthday to Therese's mom!
	2:01am egal: Hildegard Knef, Guy Debord, Linus Torvalds...
	2:02am BadGuyZero: Alex Chilton would have been 65 today.
	2:02am pacific standard simon: I have something more to say about Star Wars -- it sucks. Star Trek rules, still.
	2:03am Ken From Hyde Park: The ASCII art folks need to get a move on. They haven't even finished A New Hope yet. www.asciimation.co.nz
	2:04am pacific standard simon: Happy Alex Chilton Day!
	2:06am BadGuyZero: Two-thirds of the song titles in the previous set contained the first names of "Lost" actors. #JJAbrams
	2:07am pacific standard simon: My ex could not watch James Bond movies, because a Bond girl always got killed. She took it as an affront to the female gender, and I can't argue.
	2:08am JakeGould: @BGZ Yes, I know those fanmade despecialized editions exist. I have DVD transfers of the letterboxed laserdiscs. That's still not the point. Officially releasing the original films in a modern media format by Disney would be a nice way to make old school fans feel welcome. If they are just rebooting things for a new generation then it makes sense to make the original films available; one won't compete with another.
	2:10am JakeGould: @PSS: Star Trek is great as an ongoing story since there has always been a vast structure for the characters to exist in. Next Generation was not a reboot of the original series and both series work well together.
	2:11am JakeGould: And... Happy b-day to Therese's mom as well!
	2:19am BadGuyZero: I'm still waiting for the sequel to "The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension" and the TV series.
	2:20am pacific standard simon: The problem with Star Wars begins with the beginning: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." You start from there, you lose the first-hand connection to the intelligent reader.
	2:22am JakeGould: @PSS To be fair, George Lucas got the idea for that from Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time..." films.
	2:24am pacific standard simon: My 1st or 2nd favorite Beatles song -- this take is my favorite alternate.
	2:31am pacific standard simon: @Jake - well, that's the problem with George Lucas: none of his ideas ever sound like his own ideas. Not since American Graffiti, anyway.
	2:36am egal: Few directors develop films from their "own ideas."
	2:39am pacific standard simon: George Lucas was one of the few who had the power to do it. There are others who did it.
	2:41am Tome: wicked !! yea
	2:45am JakeGould: @PSS Samuel R. Delaney (sci-fi author) has a great review of the new film up on Facebook. His main complaint was at least with the 1977 film there was an effort to truly pick and choose good ideas for the film. And the end result was something that was an homage to tons of things while feeling new. This 2015 film is just so self referential and the few moments new ideas pop up, they are not really played out well.
	2:48am JakeGould: Also Scorsese and Spielberg constantly create new things that might reference the past and things they admire but create completely new things.
	2:50am BadGuyZero: Quentin Tarantino's entire film career has been built on "borrowing" elements from other movies he likes.
	2:51am Steve-O: Hi guys! First of all, welcome back, Therese! Secondly, I'm glad you're okay, BadGuyZero; that was some rough weather we had in D/FW on Saturday, huh?
	2:51am JakeGould: Tarantino is better at mixing those ideas into something new than others. Not to sure about this new film though.
	2:52am BadGuyZero: @Steve-O: Indeed it was. Did you make it through unscathed?
	2:52am BadGuyZero: That special remix of "Water World" sounded like noises from Sonic The Hedgehog.
	2:54am pacific standard simon: I'll have to look that up, Jake. My gripe with Star Wars is that the whole franchise is about mythic hero epics with nothing new added except special effects and weapons.
	2:55am egal: What made Star Wars was the special effects. Without them, it is a well worn story.
	2:56am Steve-O: @BGZ: Yeah, we're okay here in Frisco; no real damage to speak of.
	2:58am Steve-O: @BGZ: I only wish I could say the same for Rowlett-I grew up there and it was pretty saddening hearing about the destruction there, on top of that in Garland and in eastern Collin Co.
	2:59am pacific standard simon: Give me a Blade Runner, or a Brazil, any day.
	2:59am Steve-O: @BGZ: Good news for us, though, is that all of my family's friends and acquaintances in the area are accounted for and safe and sound, as far as we can tell.
	3:00am JakeGould: @PSS The thing is at least "The Empire Strikes Back" showed some maturity. Based on the new film and the prequels it seems like that one film might been a mistake.
	3:00am Steve-O: @BGZ: So, hopefully, nothing else happens for a while in terms of severe weather.....bring on wintertime!
	3:01am Steve-O: Anyway, thanks again for the great tunes, Therese, and I hope you all have a happy, fun and safe New Year. =)

Therese: Playlist from December 28, 2015

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Tanya Tucker	Delta Dawn "Delta Dawn" by "Tanya Tucker"	Delta Dawn	Columbia		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Link Wray	In the Pines "In the Pines" by "Link Wray"	3-Track Shack	Ace	*	0:02:37 (Pop-up)
Queen	Fat-Bottomed Girls "Fat-Bottomed Girls" by "Queen"	Jazz	EMI		0:10:34 (Pop-up)
Peter Stringer-Hye	When My Eyes Are Closed	Sunday Girls	Trouble In Mind	*	0:13:52 (Pop-up)
Suzi Quatro	I Wanna Be Your Man "I Wanna Be Your Man" by "Suzi Quatro"	Suzi Quatro	Bell		0:17:37 (Pop-up)
Chris Knox	My Dumb Luck "My Dumb Luck" by "Chris Knox"	Seizure	Captured Tracks / Flying Nun		0:20:52 (Pop-up)
George Harrison	Ding Dong; Ding Dong	Dark Horse	EMI		0:23:34 (Pop-up)

Style	Play Boy en Detresse "Play Boy en Detresse" by "Style"	France Chebran: French Boogie 1981-1985 (V/A)	Born Bad	*	0:35:14 (Pop-up)
Third World War	M.I.5.'s Alive "M.I.5.'s Alive" by "Third World War"	Third World War	Esoteric / Cherry Red	*	0:40:25 (Pop-up)
Amara Touré et le Star Band de Dakar	El Carretero	Senegal 70: Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70's	Analog Africa	*	0:48:22 (Pop-up)
Wooden Shjips	Auld Lang Syne "Auld Lang Syne" by "Wooden Shjips"	Holiday Cassingle	Self Released		0:54:16 (Pop-up)

Grimes	Pin "Pin" by "Grimes"	Art Angels	4AD	*	1:20:47 (Pop-up)
Sunshine & the Rain	Can't Stop Thinking About You	7"	Ernest Jenning Record Co.		1:24:24 (Pop-up)
Patrick Cowley	Don't Ask "Don't Ask" by "Patrick Cowley"	Muscle Up	Dark Entries	*	1:28:08 (Pop-up)
Scientist	Scientific "Scientific" by "Scientist"	Introducing Scientist (The Best Dub Album in the World)	Superior Viaduct	*	1:35:05 (Pop-up)
Lil Bub	Space Sister "Space Sister" by "Lil Bub"	Science and Magic	Joyful Noise	*	1:38:13 (Pop-up)

Cass McCombs	Evangeline "Evangeline" by "Cass McCombs"	A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides, Space Junk, etc.	Domino	*	1:48:26 (Pop-up)
The Chills	Aurora Corona "Aurora Corona" by "The Chills"	The Chills	Fire Records	*	1:51:41 (Pop-up)
Terry	Talk About Terry "Talk About Terry" by "Terry"	Talk About Terry 7"	Upset! The Rhythm	*	1:56:08 (Pop-up)

The Edge of Daybreak	I Wanna Dance with You	Eyes of Love	Numero Group	*	2:06:56 (Pop-up)
Margie Joseph	Don't Turn the Lights Off	Hear the Words, Feel the Feeling	Cotillion		2:11:34 (Pop-up)
Hector Guerra	What Up? "What Up?" by "Hector Guerra"	What Up? 7"	Discos Mas	*	2:16:00 (Pop-up)
The Kitchen Cinq	Still in Love with You Baby	When the Rainbow Disappears: An Anthology 1965-68	Light in the Attic	*	2:19:35 (Pop-up)
The Beatles	And Your Bird Can Sing	Anthology 2	Capitol / Apple		2:22:23 (Pop-up)
The War on Drugs	Under the Pressure	Lost in the Dream	Secretly Canadian		2:24:51 (Pop-up)

Lucid Sins	Occultation "Occultation" by "Lucid Sins"	Occultation	Totem Cat	*	2:39:12 (Pop-up)
Dead Moon	Black September "Black September" by "Dead Moon"	Black September 7"	Voodoo Doughnut	*	2:43:55 (Pop-up)
Destruction Unit	Nightfall "Nightfall" by "Destruction Unit"	Two Strong Hits 7"	Suicide Squeeze		2:46:54 (Pop-up)
Sam Spence	Water World "Water World" by "Sam Spence"	Sam Spence Sounds	Finders Keepers	*	2:50:39 (Pop-up)

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks	Little Dream I Had	Country Agenda	Sinerlyn	*	2:55:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:00am Matt: Howdy....Diggin it!
	12:04am Therese: Thanks, Matt!
	12:05am Tome: Heloooww Therese ! nice start waking up now weeeee !!!
	12:05am Therese: Helllooooww to you, Tome!
	12:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Therese. Glad to see you survived Christmas 2015! Nice rousing start you have going on here.
	12:08am tinkle bear: gave away my copy of crying of lot 49. need to find another.
	12:11am BadGuyZero: Welcome back, Therese! I trust you had a pleasant holiday.
	12:11am JakeGould: “I got mortgages and homes. I got stiffness in my bones. Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality!” One of the most amazing lyrics of all time.
	12:12am JakeGould: @Therese: So is “Bicycle Race” happening? “Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars.”
	12:12am MONEYBAG$: no bicycle race?
	12:15am BadGuyZero: It's not two-fer Tuesday.
	12:15am Therese: Hello Ken FHP & tinkle bear and BadGuyZero and JakeGould and Moneybag$! Thanks for stopping by.
	12:16am Therese: No, no bicycle race today.
	12:18am tinkle bear from FUCKING PASADENA, MF-er: um, this is just a test.
	12:19am MONEYBAG$: Mary Wing should play an hour of Bicycle Race covers one of these days...there must be dozens
	12:24am Tome: YEAH!!! love this one !
	12:27am tinkle bear from well-mannered pasadena: sigh freedumb, demonstrated. herrow, therese, evvybody.
	12:29am BadGuyZero: Cheyenne did an outstanding job filling in last week.
	12:33am BadGuyZero: "Anywho" is one of Robert Pollard's least-favorite words.
	12:47am pacific standard simon: I had to Google "Robert Pollard".
	12:51am pacific standard simon: Listening to Amara Touré is better than listening to '80s Tom Waits, gotta say.
	12:59am JakeGould: Robert Pollard is my least favorite Robert Pollard.
	1:03am pacific standard simon: Therese's bed music is my favorite porn soundtrack.
	1:03am MONEYBAG$: I paid to see his band "Guided by Voices" and he made disparaging remarks about Billy Squier. The nerve!
	1:08am ! I X Key !: !
	1:10am Bill C: I saw GBV too and they drank Busch beer onstage. Yikes.
	1:11am BadGuyZero: How many high kicks did he do?
	1:12am pacific standard simon: £££
	1:14am pacific standard simon: Mark R and Jeff Conklin are two of my favorite DJs.
	1:14am MONEYBAG$: too many to count...what a perplexing figure
	1:15am BadGuyZero: The remake of "A New Hope?"
	1:15am ! I X Key !: ! One time I saw David Lang he drank a beer onstage (o:
	1:16am Tome: that's pretty much it.... ___
	1:16am pacific standard simon: I am one of the eleven. My 40-something nephew saw it and told me, though
	1:19am Tome: ... there is really only one reason I willnot see it in the theater ,, too many grown adults behaving like mean spirited 12 year olds ,, ___
	1:19am pacific standard simon: There's one actor who doesn't like the franchise in the first place, and won't have to appear in another one of the movies.
	1:19am Bill C: They could of at least drank PBR
	1:19am BadGuyZero: I liked it a lot. It was better than I expected. I'm looking forward to the next two because Rian Johnson ["Brick" and "Looper"] is directing them.
	1:22am pacific standard simon: They should have worked in a product placement for Heineken. Like, Heineken Skywalker.
	1:24am BadGuyZero: Star Wars beer: R2-D-Brew
	1:25am pacific standard simon: LOL. That would be a PBR, for sure.
	1:25am MONEYBAG$: Did they reveal that Power Droid is related to IG-88?
	1:26am coelacanth: hello Therese and all
	1:34am ! I X Key !: !!! I could have seen Star Wars by now but haven't yet Please don't ruin my life with spoilers !!!
	1:35am JakeGould: “The Force Awakens” is just a remake of “A New Hope” but it’s also more. Disney owns Marvel and now owns Lucasfilm. In the Marvel universe they just regurgitate the same story over and over again. And the fact “The Avegners” worked is a wet dream: Each character can have their own series and minor characters (like “Antman”) have a reason to be revived. Which is to say this new “Star Wars” series is going to be less about pushing new stories and better story telling to the world than rather just elevate fan fiction to an art AND create tie-in products. Like how C-3PO had a red arm? They won’t reveal that in the film. But for $5 you can buy a comic that explains that small backstory if you wish. The new films will just be barely built frameworks to hook into other media. Like “Star Wars: Battlefront” is considered a part of the “Star Wars” canon now. The marketing cross-pollination is bigger than the Death Star now.
	1:36am philospider: WHOA that patrick cowley song rules
	1:37am JakeGould: @!IXKey!: FWIW, C-3PO’s red arm is not a spoiler since he’s wearing it in tons of commercials. www.youtube.com...
	1:39am MONEYBAG$: The red arm is to promote awareness. For something.
	1:39am ! I X Key !: I cannot read that long comment that started star wars is just a remakeI didn't want to have remake of anything to be in my mind even
	1:40am JakeGould: @MONEYBAG$: Awareness of other products being available. Ever see pink garbage cans for breast cancer? They exist.
	1:41am pacific standard simon: The red arm is due to excessive masturbation. Whoops! Spoiler alert!
	1:41am slugluv1313: LIL BUB!!!!!! awwww
	1:42am JakeGould: @PSS: Maybe C-3PO is mainlining WD-40 again?
	1:43am pacific standard simon: @Jake - or listening to Nick Cave?
	1:46am BadGuyZero: The red arm will be explained in a comic book coming out in February that reunites the 1990s DC Comics Starman's writer and artist [James Robinson and Tony Harris respectively].
	1:46am JakeGould: @PSS: Red Arm = Red Army? C-3PO is a Commie? Or in the “Star Wars” universe he would be known as a sympathizer to the “Collective?”
	1:47am MONEYBAG$: Robert Pollard's cat has a 43 song debut album coming out soon
	1:47am pacific standard simon: My "secret Santa" this year gave me a bottle of Bombay Sapphire and a bunch of chocolates. Such a girly gift, yet I'm enjoying regardless...
	1:48am JakeGould: @BadGuyZero: Yeah, I mentioned that in my wordy comment. So now you have to pay $10-15 for the movie and then buy a comic on top of that to have plot pieces put together? This is all getting crass. I want movies not platforms for “synergy” between media.
	1:48am BadGuyZero: Lil Bub was on the cover of "Super Bowl Shuffle" that came out a couple of years ago.
	1:50am pacific standard simon: Except for the white chocolates. Screw them.
	1:50am BadGuyZero: @JakeGould: I didn't see your comment until after I had posted mine. At least the comic isn't vital to enjoying the film. I thought it was dumb that DC Comics released their Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comics AFTER the movie came out since those comics provided the backstory for the new characters.
	1:50am ! I X Key !: I can't read any more comments until after I watch Star Wars Ill read any more comments until 178 minutes from now please don't say how long it actually is before I have watched it
	1:51am pacific standard simon: Cass McCombs sounds like The Bongos!
	1:54am JakeGould: @BadGuyZero: Yeah, but still… Those are trees in a forest. In the original trilogy there was no need to cross-pollinate content across media. Nowadays, all of these movies are just true 2 hour commercials for other product. This article explains the Disney mentality quite well. My best thought? Maybe the “Disney Vault” can see fit to officially release Blu-Ray versions of the original/unspecial trilogy films for the rest of us old folks to enjoy. www.vox.com...
	1:55am JakeGould: Anyway, need a topic change. John Amos’s b-day is today! Wishing him good times!
	1:56am Therese: It's also my mom's birthday!
	1:59am BadGuyZero: @JakeGould: Search "Star Wars despecialized" using the search engine of your choice and you'll find links to download meticulously-restored versions of the original, unaltered trilogy in HD that a group of fans put together.
	1:59am pacific standard simon: Had to Google John Amos, but recognized him. My new hero!
	1:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy birthday, Therese's mom!
	2:01am BadGuyZero: Happy birthday to Therese's mom!
	2:01am egal: Hildegard Knef, Guy Debord, Linus Torvalds...
	2:02am BadGuyZero: Alex Chilton would have been 65 today.
	2:02am pacific standard simon: I have something more to say about Star Wars -- it sucks. Star Trek rules, still.
	2:03am Ken From Hyde Park: The ASCII art folks need to get a move on. They haven't even finished A New Hope yet. www.asciimation.co.nz
	2:04am pacific standard simon: Happy Alex Chilton Day!
	2:06am BadGuyZero: Two-thirds of the song titles in the previous set contained the first names of "Lost" actors. #JJAbrams
	2:07am pacific standard simon: My ex could not watch James Bond movies, because a Bond girl always got killed. She took it as an affront to the female gender, and I can't argue.
	2:08am JakeGould: @BGZ Yes, I know those fanmade despecialized editions exist. I have DVD transfers of the letterboxed laserdiscs. That's still not the point. Officially releasing the original films in a modern media format by Disney would be a nice way to make old school fans feel welcome. If they are just rebooting things for a new generation then it makes sense to make the original films available; one won't compete with another.
	2:10am JakeGould: @PSS: Star Trek is great as an ongoing story since there has always been a vast structure for the characters to exist in. Next Generation was not a reboot of the original series and both series work well together.
	2:11am JakeGould: And... Happy b-day to Therese's mom as well!
	2:19am BadGuyZero: I'm still waiting for the sequel to "The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension" and the TV series.
	2:20am pacific standard simon: The problem with Star Wars begins with the beginning: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." You start from there, you lose the first-hand connection to the intelligent reader.
	2:22am JakeGould: @PSS To be fair, George Lucas got the idea for that from Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time..." films.
	2:24am pacific standard simon: My 1st or 2nd favorite Beatles song -- this take is my favorite alternate.
	2:31am pacific standard simon: @Jake - well, that's the problem with George Lucas: none of his ideas ever sound like his own ideas. Not since American Graffiti, anyway.
	2:36am egal: Few directors develop films from their "own ideas."
	2:39am pacific standard simon: George Lucas was one of the few who had the power to do it. There are others who did it.
	2:41am Tome: wicked !! yea
	2:45am JakeGould: @PSS Samuel R. Delaney (sci-fi author) has a great review of the new film up on Facebook. His main complaint was at least with the 1977 film there was an effort to truly pick and choose good ideas for the film. And the end result was something that was an homage to tons of things while feeling new. This 2015 film is just so self referential and the few moments new ideas pop up, they are not really played out well.
	2:48am JakeGould: Also Scorsese and Spielberg constantly create new things that might reference the past and things they admire but create completely new things.
	2:50am BadGuyZero: Quentin Tarantino's entire film career has been built on "borrowing" elements from other movies he likes.
	2:51am Steve-O: Hi guys! First of all, welcome back, Therese! Secondly, I'm glad you're okay, BadGuyZero; that was some rough weather we had in D/FW on Saturday, huh?
	2:51am JakeGould: Tarantino is better at mixing those ideas into something new than others. Not to sure about this new film though.
	2:52am BadGuyZero: @Steve-O: Indeed it was. Did you make it through unscathed?
	2:52am BadGuyZero: That special remix of "Water World" sounded like noises from Sonic The Hedgehog.
	2:54am pacific standard simon: I'll have to look that up, Jake. My gripe with Star Wars is that the whole franchise is about mythic hero epics with nothing new added except special effects and weapons.
	2:55am egal: What made Star Wars was the special effects. Without them, it is a well worn story.
	2:56am Steve-O: @BGZ: Yeah, we're okay here in Frisco; no real damage to speak of.
	2:58am Steve-O: @BGZ: I only wish I could say the same for Rowlett-I grew up there and it was pretty saddening hearing about the destruction there, on top of that in Garland and in eastern Collin Co.
	2:59am pacific standard simon: Give me a Blade Runner, or a Brazil, any day.
	2:59am Steve-O: @BGZ: Good news for us, though, is that all of my family's friends and acquaintances in the area are accounted for and safe and sound, as far as we can tell.
	3:00am JakeGould: @PSS The thing is at least "The Empire Strikes Back" showed some maturity. Based on the new film and the prequels it seems like that one film might been a mistake.
	3:00am Steve-O: @BGZ: So, hopefully, nothing else happens for a while in terms of severe weather.....bring on wintertime!
	3:01am Steve-O: Anyway, thanks again for the great tunes, Therese, and I hope you all have a happy, fun and safe New Year. =)

Therese: Playlist from December 28, 2015

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