You and your folk, me and my folk: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:51am Michael:

Thursday! Charlie! How goes it Mr. MC?

11:52am listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Michael, Charlie, all! I'll be in the kitchen making chili, so PLAY LOUD.

11:58am βrian:

Pintos or kidneys, James?

12:00pm Roberto:

Kittehz!

12:01pm βrian:

@Roberto: like a day with sunshine.

12:02pm thatpatsmith:

oh yay thursday afternoon

12:03pm annie:

ok, i made it..

12:05pm βrian:

Forestalling hunger ... all for Nothing. Thanks.

12:07pm Charlie:

Good day to all you nothing-doing-busy-ers!

12:09pm Webhamster Henry:

I'm doing something, but hope to be doing nothing soon.

12:09pm Mike East:

I think Irene played some Laura Gibson the other night. Is this new?

12:09pm Charlie:

that is: Michael, LJFW, ßrian, Roberto, thatpat, annie, Henry, and Mike East! We've got enough to play volleyball.

12:10pm Charlie:

Yes, Mike East, this is brand new.

12:10pm βrian:

I'll get my spandex shorts.

12:12pm annie:

i'm busy doing many things, soon going to make lunch..

12:12pm Jeff Golick:

Lunch is a bag of cheeze-its and you, Charlie. Nourish me, pleeze!

12:14pm annie:

i watched a great movie last night: "Sunset Song", telling the story of the coming-of-age of a scottish lass in the early 1900s.. it was very very good

12:15pm Mike East:

I like it, Charlie.

12:15pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Yay! ISB!

12:16pm Charlie:

Hi Jeff! I can't imagine what nutrition you need more than cheeze-its, but I can provide some toppings :)

12:17pm annie:

i'm making guac!! adding it to the table

12:17pm Charlie:

annie -- sounds good!
hi Canterbury wood-elf -- right up your alley :)
Mike East -- it's really good (laura gibson), as was her previous album

12:18pm βrian:

@annie: Added to the netflix list, but "availability unknown."

12:18pm Parq:

Charlie, I assume that a million people have already forwarded yesterday's "Mutts" strip to you, but believing as I do in overkill, I am making it a million and one.
www.mutts.com...

12:19pm βrian:

I don't think I've heard the Bothy Band in decades.

12:21pm mauri:

Hey charlie. Damn I had a Mutts t-shirt... and I hate you milkman Dan Redmeat t-shirt... No idea where they are now.

12:22pm annie:

βrian: i watched it on Putlocker; would you like a link?

this is a beautiful tune

12:24pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Joe McGasko played a 60s band with the most terrible name a few weeks ago: "Folkal Point" (it was a pretty good Joni Mitchell cover tho')

12:26pm βrian:

@annie: Sure thing. I'm not familiar with the service.

12:27pm annie:

"Sunset Song":

putlocker.is... be sure to play the player on the first selection, the rest are of dubious sources.

12:28pm βrian:

Merci.

12:28pm annie:

there are many walware embeds on that site, so be sure to just watch the movie there...

12:29pm Charlie:

Hey Parq -- believe it or not, you are the first! Thanks, that's a keeper, which will probably surface here at some point :)

12:29pm rf:

YAYYY

12:29pm Parq:

Lavender Diamond's "Garden Rose" is coming up, I bet.

12:30pm Charlie:

hi mauri -- "ou sont les t-shirts d'antan," eh?

12:31pm annie:

the overview:

www.imdb.com...

why are you playing such great music??? i have to leave the headphones.. will you be playing something terrible?

12:32pm Charlie:

yay, rf

12:34pm ndbob:

Heya Charlie and everyone!

12:35pm Charlie:

@Canterbury wood-elf -- that is a silly band name. Joe McG sure digs out some winners, tho.

12:35pm annie:

the housemate is sitting in the room with me and has put the teevee on and blasted the volume.. how can people be so oblivious and/or passive agressive?

hi ndbob!

12:36pm Charlie:

Hi there, nd bob!

12:36pm ifny:

Wow, Sainkho Namtchylak, my new favourite everything.

12:39pm βrian:

@ifny: N'est-ce pas ?

12:40pm Charlie:

ifny -- she's something else, ain't she?

12:40pm Webhamster Henry:

Sir Paul -> Madagascar is a classic WFMU segue!

12:40pm βrian:

Leaping Lemurs!

12:40pm Michael:

Hearing Macca - have any seen this: Boomers Coachella:
www.theguardian.com...

12:41pm ndbob:

Lemurs are great - almost as good as rodents

12:41pm Charlie:

Henry - ikr? where else?

12:42pm Charlie:

maybe lemurs could be honorary rodents...

12:43pm annie:

hurtling: one verb that means business!!

12:45pm annie:

βrian: if you end up watching that, i'd love to know how many hankies you had to use..

12:45pm βrian:

A professor used to ask his students, when watching footage of lemurs in their habitat, to count the fecal pellets. It was kind of like an in-class raffle, though I don't recall the prize.

12:46pm ndbob:

@Charlie - the honorary rodent of the month - but they are always busy doing something

12:47pm βrian:

@annie: I'll stock up on bandanas.

12:48pm annie:

...or shirtsleeves...

12:48pm ifny:

@βrian @Charlie Mais oui! Elle est une chanteuse fantastique! I could listen to her on a jewelled loop...

12:50pm annie:

man, you sure are takin' me back to the great days...

12:50pm βrian:

Philo records! I just visited the old Philo barn a few months ago.

12:51pm annie:

back in the days when college radio was the source of all things diverse.. and djs took requests

12:51pm Charlie:

ßrian -- the pellets are reward enough, no?

12:51pm JP from KC:

The pedal steel in this track is on point.

12:55pm βrian:

"I should kill you!"
--Big Night (1996 )

12:56pm Charlie:

Howdy, JP from KC.

12:57pm βrian:

This is too damn good, in other words.

12:57pm JP from KC:

Hiya, Charlie! I believe this is my second time doing nothing. I must say, it's rapidly becoming a favorite pastime.

12:58pm annie:

oh yes, brian, i loved that movie

12:58pm Charlie:

JP -- thank you for making time for nothing ;)

12:58pm βrian:

I'm not sure, but I may have enticed JP to sneak past the curtain.

1:00pm Charlie:

bob -- maybe we could all be honorary rodents. I'll volunteer to be the lemming (not too many letters removed from lemur)

1:01pm JP from KC:

@Brian: You and Uncle Michael both played a part in my travels to the GTD stream. I just wish I had more ears, and more hours in the day, to listen to all of FMU's programming, all the time.

1:02pm JP from KC:

This Joel Grey is amazing! I might like it better than the original, but this never was my favorite Cream tune.

1:02pm Charlie:

He certainly brings something to it, or brings something out in it.

1:02pm Uncle Michael:

I'd like to have heard Joel's dad take a stab at this one.

1:05pm Michael:

Seeing reports that Prince has died. Can anyone confirm?

1:05pm JP from KC:

Uh, WTF?! Can anyone confirm or deny that Prince died this morning?

1:05pm Charlie:

hi Uncle Michael! Oy, what Mickey Katz could have done with that song! And many other rock era numbers.

1:06pm Charlie:

holy cow, no?

1:06pm βrian:

Reports are that there's been "a fatality" at Prince's estate.

1:07pm annie:

i imagine a 12-step program for an addiction to FMU would include the step of succumbing to the force...

1:08pm listener james from westwood:

TMZ's the sole source thus far. Crossing fingers that a legit source will debunk.

1:08pm annie:

THAT'S why i see his pic all over FB!!

1:08pm βrian:

Love that mallard.

1:09pm Michael:

Yeah saw that James.

1:09pm βrian:

And TMZ's site seems to have crashed.

1:11pm βrian:

Be sure to listen to Duane's show next Wednesday.

1:11pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie

It is true
www.billboard.com...

1:14pm JP from KC:

Yeah, but Billboard is only citing the TMZ article, just like everyone else. As far as I know, there are only reports that someone has been found dead on Prince's estate. No confirmation from any other sources that it is, in fact, Prince.

1:15pm Parq:

Fox and the usual gossip sites are calling him dead. The rest of the media are being more cautious. Man, we went through exactly the same thing with MJ.

1:16pm Parq:

Fox says AP has confirmed it, but I can't find anything to confirm that.

1:16pm βrian:

Nothing from NYT, but they're usually more careful.

1:16pm Parq:

The Good Grey didn't go with MJ until hours after everyone else had.

1:18pm βrian:

New York Daily News is on board now.

1:18pm rf:

yay yay

1:19pm Parq:

Given how it went with MJ, my money's on it being true.

1:19pm listener james from westwood:

AP says they got it from his publicist. WaPo carried the wire alert. Also waiting for LA Times and NYT to confirm. How fucking awful.

1:20pm Brian in UK:

If the BBC says it, that is good enough for me, sad to say.
www.bbc.co.uk...

1:20pm Parq:

Back on topic -- great version of TB&P.

1:22pm ndbob:

indeed Brian

1:22pm Brian in UK:

@parq I always liked Billy J Kramer's version.

1:23pm Roberto:

Well shit.

1:24pm Listening Out There:

BBC on Prince: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36106778

1:24pm Mike East:

Jesus Christ...who's next, Bob Dylan?

1:25pm Charlie:

kinda speechless and mind-blown, esp. bc prince and mj an me were all born within a couple months of each other.

1:25pm listener james from westwood:

@Parq: Agreed. Need a sweet show like this one to buffer life's shittier moments.

1:25pm JP from KC:

You shut your fucking mouth, Mike East.

1:26pm JP from KC:

Sorry, Mike East. We're all a little emotional right now. :)

1:26pm JP from KC:

And facetiousness doesn't always communicate well via comment post,

1:27pm Parq:

All I know is, if I were one of Zimmerman's loved ones, I'd be telling him to take *real* good care of himself.

1:29pm Michael:

Well your show helps a lot C, as it always does. But hasn't 2016 been loaded with many noted deaths? And it's only April.

1:29pm Mike East:

Understood, JP. Its just...so many ICONS. What the hell?

1:31pm JP from KC:

Yeah. Almost TOO many... I'm starting to think Randy Quaid is on to something. and that REALLY scares me.

1:31pm listener james from westwood:

Plus it's a US election year, which makes it feel like a shovel of shit with a side of, well, more shit.

1:32pm annie:

sitting on the sidelines now....not sayin' a word

1:34pm JP from KC:

Watchin' the wheels go round and round, annie?

👻

1:34pm doctorjazz:

Just heard about Prince, WOW!

1:35pm Mike East:

On a brighter note, that's one of my favorite Wailers tracks.

1:37pm annie:

yep, jp.... i was never into prince's music, so i'll just watch the march from here

1:39pm Uncle Michael:

This is one of the best records. This is one of the best tracks on it.

1:39pm annie:

this is quite apt, charlie

1:39pm Charlie:

"Don't let the blues make you bad," folks...

1:40pm JP from KC:

This is both beautiful, and fitting.

1:43pm annie:

if those was scheduled to be played ... well kismet ...serendipity and very cosmic

1:43pm Charlie:

UM -- love that record.

1:44pm βrian:

Ok, a little Salmon Navarin with harissa, and I feel much better.

1:45pm Charlie:

This song (Joe Peel) always gets me choked up. Lyrics and bg here: mainlynorfolk.info...

1:45pm ndbob:

even CNBC is talking about Prince

1:45pm JP from KC:

The news of Prince's untimely passing brings a hypothetical to mind: does anyone have a favorite artist that, if you heard of their passing, you would be so moved as to need to leave work for the rest of the day, or take the day off from work to mourn?

1:46pm Brian in UK:

If you want diction, June Tabor is your gal.

1:46pm Roberto:

Yeah I haven't been able to work for the last 20 minutes. And I have a very tight deadline. Whatcha gonna do.

1:47pm βrian:

@BUK: Or Laurie Anderson.

1:48pm Brian in UK:

@βrian at least Laurie has a sense of humour.

1:48pm JP from KC:

Joe Peel was wonderful, Charlie. Thank you for sharing that with us.

1:51pm Brian in UK:

Thanks Charlie, must dig out some Sparklehorse.

1:53pm annie:

not really JP, my view of death is not really mainstream.

1:53pm Brian in UK:

These words are as true today as when they were first written.

1:54pm ndbob:

when I was working at Frontier Village in Jamestown some kids were skateboarding by the buffalo pasture so I thought of saying You can skateboard in a buffalo herd

1:54pm Charlie:

Deep.

1:55pm βrian:

I texted my wife kisses, but she received bisons!
(bisous)

1:55pm listener james from westwood:

@JP: Yeah, and unfortunately they're Bowie and Prince! Only mercy for Bowie's is I heard when I was already in bed. Today's going to be really rough for me.

1:56pm annie:

ok, NOW i'm getting up to make lunch..

1:56pm listener james from westwood:

I can't think of any other examples right now b/c I think my brain hides that possibility for self-preservation.

1:56pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:56pm Brian in UK:

What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

1:57pm doyle:

great show. but any show w/ Daniel Johnston = great!

1:57pm ndbob:

@Brian :)

1:58pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Charlie.

1:58pm Charlie:

hey doyle! Thanks everyone for being here today. Looking forward to catching up on your comments later. Yeah, annie, I had all those songs lined up for the end of the show, as it happened... See y'all next week :)

1:59pm JP from KC:

There are three that come to mind for me. John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan.

2:00pm listener james from westwood:

Extra-appreciative of the fine show today, Charlie. Greatly thankful for what you do. You never know when you might lose good things.

2:00pm Mike East:

very nice show today, sir. Thanks for the sounds.

2:00pm βrian:

I thought of John Prine, too.

2:01pm annie:

...now john prine, yes, a little.. yep..

2:02pm βrian:

It's a big ol' goofy world.

2:02pm JP from KC:

Yeah. When Prine goes, I may not be able to handle it.

2:03pm Charlie:

Sometimes it snows in April...

2:13pm Michael:

Thanks so much Charlie!

4:36pm People Like Us:

just been listening to this while driving across the countryside, totally fantastic show!

10:18pm Charlie:

Thanks :)