Your name, before you had a face: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

12:00pm listener james from westwood:

Hey hey, Charlie and all!

12:00pm βrian:

Just swung in over the transom. Got my to-do list ready, and boy is it empty!

12:01pm Charlie:

Greetings, James and ßrian. How y'all doing today?

12:01pm listener james from westwood:

Better than earlier this week, so we're starting out well!

12:01pm βrian:

Blue skies over the isthmus. Can't complain.

12:02pm Charlie:

Isthmus. Nice word, that.

12:03pm thatpatsmith:

hye charlie no pressure but last week's show was a masterpiece

12:05pm Michael:

Hiya Charlie and all.

12:06pm Charlie:

Well, thanks, and Hi, thatpat!
And welcome, Michael!

12:07pm listener james from westwood:

Hey, that guy's covering Petra Haden!
::ducks thrown CD case::

12:07pm Listening Out There:

Is this Nino Rota from "Juliet of the Spirits"...or?

12:08pm Jeff:

Word associations are funny. I'm trying to think of ithsmusses I know which aren't of Panama.

12:09pm listener james from westwood:

And dis guy's covering Klaus Nomi!
::ducks thrown Joey Arias::

12:09pm Parq:

Late, but not as late as I thought I would be. Crunch day for your faithful Parqbench, so not much time to comment, but in here digging the name game.

12:10pm Parq:

James from Westwood, you so crazy.

12:10pm βrian:

It's a ballroom chair dance on this end.

12:10pm Michael Shelley:

...why Greg Hawkes?

12:10pm geezerette:

This never ocurred to me before but I rhink Nino Rota must have been a Charlie Chaplin fan.

12:11pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!

12:12pm Uncle Michael:

Was just about to ask if that was Greg Hawkes...

12:13pm Listening Out There:

Oh, "8 1/2". Thanks, Mr. Host Sir....

12:16pm sphere:

hello Charlie & company - don't think i have visited yet :)

12:16pm Charlie:

Big Busy Doing Nothing greetings to Listening Out There, Jeff, Parq, Michael Shelley, geezerette, ndBob, Uncle Michael (that makes three), sphere -- very glad to see you all!

12:19pm famous original icecreamwolf:

Hello hello

12:19pm Jeff Golick:

Can't believe I missed "Bob the Bob," but I faved it anyway. Hi Charlie and BDNers.

12:20pm Charlie:

geezerette: Interesting connection there re: Nino Rota - Charlie Chaplin.

12:21pm Charlie:

yay, famous original icecreamwolf is here :)
and Jeff the Jeff!

12:22pm βrian:

And here I am without neither beret nor turtleneck!

12:24pm βrian:

Eh, with neither ...

12:24pm Listening Out There:

In the beginning, there was Max Roach. And it was good...

12:25pm Michael:

Alpha pattern it appears.

12:27pm Michael:

Noble Sissle seems like a Bob and Ray name.

12:27pm Charlie:

Haha, yes, Michael!

12:28pm Charlie:

And what about his partner, Eubie Blake?

12:28pm Listening Out There:

Noble Sissel...the brand you've known and loved for over 40 years...

12:28pm Charlie:

Does the picture look like Greg Hawkes? That's actually a friend of mine from college.

12:30pm Listening Out There:

Always loved this tune from "Shoot the Piano Player"...

12:31pm Uncle Michael:

Yes, it looks *just* like Greg Hawkes.

12:32pm βrian:

Like honorable hemp. (A source of moral fiber.)

12:33pm Listening Out There:

Maybe Charlie went to college with Greg Hawkes? Yeah, that's the ticket...

12:33pm Uncle Michael:

No bad versions of Jessica?

12:35pm Webhamster Henry:

I have this EP ! (I'm a big Singing Science fan)

12:36pm Charlie:

Hy, Henry! The sun *is* a mass of incandescent gas. (And so, sometimes, am I.)

12:38pm Charlie:

Uncle M -- Jessica is such a happy song. I wish I had the single edit (is there a single edit?). I would've played it.

12:41pm βrian:

Elemental Pea.

12:42pm Webhamster Henry:

TMBG's scientific song update retcons it to "The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma"

12:43pm βrian:

Q, Orestes UVX, Why Z?

12:44pm βrian:

Sorry, that's "Cue Orestes."

12:44pm Charlie:

Que? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Pourquoi? Pourquoi non?

12:48pm βrian:

"Ah, Bach!"

12:48pm rf:

great thanks

12:49pm Mayuko:

Late but now listening! Hello Charlie and everyone.

12:54pm Charlie:

Hello, rf, and Mayuko! I think we need to send out for more snacks and beverages.

12:55pm Webhamster Henry:

I made up those two letter codes, and for some reason, the idea has stuck around. It was just so I could have a neat looking list of playlist directories!

12:56pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Perhaps Babe Ruth candy bars, Charlie. Howdy everyone!

12:56pm βrian:

Untidy directories are the Devil's playground!

12:57pm Charlie:

Well, Henry, we all need organizing principles! (Like songs w. names in the titles, played alphabetically.)

1:00pm Webhamster Henry:

It's a little tough to do in Russian, nothing starts with ы,ъ, or ь.
And Mayuko can tell you how hard it is in Japanese.

1:02pm βrian:

UTF-8 sort order comes to the rescue.

1:07pm Charlie:

At first, most of those 2-letter codes matched the DJs' initials or the show's name. Now they're sometimes rather random. How many 2-letter combos are there altogether?

1:09pm sphere:

2 * 26^2 combinations, according to Wikipedia.

1:10pm βrian:

cummings sorts after Cummings. Sorry, Ed.

1:13pm βrian:

Godfrey Reggio?

1:14pm Webhamster Henry:

Yes, if lowercase is allowed, yes (2*26)^2 = 2704. I bet WFMU will exhaust that number in the not too distant future.

1:15pm βrian:

Not "Tammy's in Love"? Well ok, then.

1:16pm Parq:

Is that a reference to Cafe Regio on MacDougal? I confess, I've never seen Shaft.

1:16pm Jeff:

Yep. Especially because lowercase isn't currently allowed, so you can axe the "2*".

1:17pm Parq:

"Reggio", 'scuse.

1:17pm listener james from westwood:

Some quality samples in this quality cut.

1:17pm Charlie:

Parq -- yes, that Cafe Reggio.
That's ok, on the album they misspell it "Regio"

1:20pm Jeff:

...but I'm told numeric digits won't break the current Kenzo code. I expect the next frontier (before going hog-wild and expanding beyond two characters) might be moving into digits (maybe just for the second character at first). So 26 * 36, unless digits which look too much like letters get forbidden.

1:20pm Webhamster Henry:

Nice to work in a little Partch.

1:20pm Charlie:

Some "pet" samples (pet sounds that is).
Also, I think the main sample was from Dana Gillespie's version of "Pay You Back with Interest."

1:21pm Charlie:

"going hog-wild and expanding beyond two characters" -- I like your idea of going hog-wild, Jeff;)

1:21pm Charlie:

Henry -- yes, and nice to hear Partch with saxophones!

1:24pm Katya:

Great playlist today, Charlie (as usual)

1:25pm schmutz:

sneaking in a very late hello (i first typed that as "hate lello" which made me very uncomfortable)

1:25pm geezerette:

Charlie you're playing such great stuff!

1:26pm βrian:

And now Charlie has schmutz on his playlist, dear me.

1:27pm βrian:

Yvette? Yvonne? Yves? Yasmin? ...

1:28pm Jeff:

@Charlie: I'm a bottomless cesspool of depravity.

1:28pm Charlie:

Hey there, Katya and schmutz!
I don't mind being a little schmutzig:)

1:28pm Charlie:

Thanks, geezerette!
Jeff -- aren't we all?

1:36pm βrian:

Hah!

1:42pm geezerette:

Nice Z!

1:42pm βrian:

Listening in my 1972 Chevy Vega ...

1:43pm Mike East:

I was hoping my Z prediction was correct :)

1:43pm Roberto:

I remember this version of ASZ being used during a pivotal scene in the movie Being There.

1:44pm Webhamster Henry:

I was exactly looking for On Beyond Zebra recordings to finish this off. See? I don't need a show at all!

1:44pm Mike East:

great show, Charlie!

1:44pm listener james from westwood:

On Beyond Zebra!! My favorite Dr. Seuss book!!

1:44pm ndbob:

M is for mouse and R is for rat sounds just right to me

1:48pm Charlie:

belated greetings to Roberto and Mike East!

1:49pm Charlie:

yes, bob!

1:51pm Jeff:

Also Sprach Dr. Seusstra!

1:52pm βrian:

Thanks, Charlie. I really enjoyed this — though I have nothing to show.

1:53pm Mike East:

nice one, Jeff

1:54pm geezerette:

Wonderful show Charlie! :D

1:54pm Webhamster Henry:

Doin' the PigPen dance here.

1:55pm βrian:

And why not the schmutz? All in the family.

1:56pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:57pm Charlie:

Jeff -- hah!

1:57pm Charlie:

Thanks, everyone for being here today. I had fun:)

1:59pm listener james from westwood:

Fun as hell on this side too; thanks, Charlie!

1:59pm Michael:

Very nice - Thanks Charlie!

9:33pm Charlie:

addendum (or just dumdum): Actually, maybe it was Greg Hawkes after all, whose face I would not have recognized at the time my friend sent me that picture (c. 1980). It looks a lot like my friend, and was something I thought he did as a self-portrait. I removed the picture (which is now at the bottom of the playlist) from the top of the playlist and replaced it with the one that's there now. Good eyes, Michaels Shelley and Uncle!