WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 28, 2017

Listener comments!
	9:01am NotARealDoctor: Good morning DJ Trouble! Hope you've had a great week so far!
	9:01am melinda: Hi Trouble and all
	9:03am Trouble: good morning, thursday icicles!
	9:03am thriftstoreleather: mornin folks, its cold and I don't want to take my dog out...
	9:03am AndrewC.: Brrrrr.
	9:05am steveo: good morning; nice iceberg!
	9:08am Kerbo: love this sound
	9:14am mb: Hello All. Dub us out of this fridged weather, please, DJ Trouble.
	9:14am adampsyche: hey all!
	9:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Archive viewers of the future: In the early 21st century, there were chunks of frozen water in the polar regions that you call the tropics in your time.
	9:15am Webhamster Henry: Hi Trouble! Thanks for this Alice Coltrane!
	9:16am Trouble: today's art work is by canadian Lawren S Harris. kind of a wild guy...
	9:17am northguineahills: Alice!
	9:20am thatpatsmith: Brrrrrr! Om
	9:25am kevlicki: Good morning trouble! Off to the dentist, maybe I can listen while I get my cleaning. That makes me wonder if there are dentist/doctors offices in the broadcast range that play wfmu. Anyone in the Hudson Valley? You’ll have another client in me, if you do!
	9:27am Trouble: good luck with that Kevlicki, the dentist visit and finding one who will play WFMU!
	9:31am Woo: Last week my dentist was playing country Christmas music, one of the worst categories of music. I didn't say anything. It's his place, he can play what he wants.
	9:32am Papayo: jean roche
	9:32am Papayo: i think so
	9:33am Sem: Good morning,Trouble, and hello, Modern Worlders.
	9:35am andyplants: Top of the morning to you all
	9:35am Scraps deSelby: h’lo hey
	9:36am Ken From Hyde Park: When I'm at the dentist, I dredge up various earworms and tune out whatever radio stuff they're playing.
	9:37am steveo: fantastic opening set. is the F-word "cotton"?
	9:37am Sam: Good morning. J'adore le painting de l'iceberg!
	9:38am queems: agreed about the wool. i have a million hats but i only wear the wool ones i’ve made during weather like this
	9:38am melinda: I need weather variety too. But I wouldn't mind if it never got below 25 or so. It's 1º here and I don't want to go outside, but one needs daylight contact w/eyeballs for proper melatonin production.
	9:38am Trouble: no steveo, cotton is s grand knit for summer. the f word is fleece
	9:38am Scraps: When I’m at the dentist, I bring headphones. It’s his office, but I’m paying.
	9:38am melinda: Holy crap, I just saw my neighbor outside in short sleeves.
	9:40am The Oscar: Morning all! Trouble, when you were in Western Mass, did you go to Webs? It's the biggest yarn store in New England, if not the country.
	9:40am Shagalov: Good morning Trouble, Iceberg, everyone
	9:41am A Better Me: omg i love this show so far omg
	9:41am LCBD: @The Oscar, I love Webs! Very hard not to spend hundreds of dollars each time I’m there.
	9:42am OTB: Wow, somebody sure likes 'Trane... Sounds great, though. Wonderful sounds on this frigid AM.
	9:42am steveo: What, the French don't have their own word for iceberg, Sam? Fleece, ah fleece. Well I think i deserve half a point because isn't fleece made of cotton?
	9:43am bobdoesthings: good morning
	9:44am The Oscar: @LCBD I was just there! Every year my girlfriend gets a giftcard there from my folks, so we usually make the pilgrimage shortly after Christmas (as well as several other times a year). I'm not a knitter myself, but I do enjoy wandering the aisles touching things :)
	9:47am judy from croton: How wonderful. Davy graham. Really started something over there in england.
	9:48am judy from croton: Fleece is made entirely of synthetics in our modern parlance (10$ word!)
	9:50am Trouble: no, oscar. i saw it from the highway, but resisted a visit. I did not know that it was so huge! now perhaps i should regret my decision... I am trying to knit out of my stash for now, there is a lot of wool piling up...
	9:50am LCBD: @The Oscar, nice! What a great gift. We pass it on our frequent trips from CT to VT. I am a knitter (with a big stash of yarn so I need to stay away.)!
	9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Fleece fibers wind up in the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans where they get into the food supply. Who knows what the effects of that are?
	9:51am Trouble: fleece is made from polyester. polyester never breaks down, never.
	9:55am The Oscar: @Trouble It truly is massive! There's also Northampton Wools, which is not as impressive, but is notable as the namesake of a Thurston Moore side project.
	9:57am Trouble: I love that part of the world @ oscar. so i will be back. we also discovered a killer bbq place and local gluten free bear!
	9:58am Webhamster Henry: Fleece is a kind of artificial felt; perhaps in the near future there can be a felt made of mycoTEX fibers that you grow new every week or so. www.fungal-futures.com...
	9:59am melinda: I think I need someone to custom knit me a couple of wool hats. The ones in stores and at craft fairs are either too scratchy or don't fit comfortably.
	10:00am melinda: @Henry fungus is the future!
	10:00am Fernando P: Hi Trouble! please, dont ever stop playing Gal! Her voice is sunshine to my ears.
	10:01am melinda: I saw Paul Stamets the mycologist wearing a fungus hat on a podcast video, actually. It looked like leather or felt.
	10:03am bobdoesthings: @melinda- that guy is kinda a nut though.. i saw him on JRE and did a little research and it seems like the mycology community, by and large, rolls their eyes at that guy., but i dunno, was an amusing podcast at least
	10:03am northguineahills: It's cold enough for me to wear a hoody today! (I had one morning where I got to wear my winter coat). Wife called me from Brooklyn, to tell me her building's heat is out, ouch!
	10:04am Webhamster Henry: It's 8° here in Kingston, but my steam heat is blasting away.
	10:04am melinda: @bob that's kind of disappointing. I didn't watch the whole thing.
	10:04am Webhamster Henry: Paul Stamets may actually BE a mushroom!
	10:05am Ken From Hyde Park: There are mushroom-based packaging materials that can take the place of styrofoam, so that's cool.
	10:06am northguineahills: I believe SA is +2 UTC, so 7 hours ahead of us in EST?
	10:07am Trouble: thanks north guinea hills!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: @melinda - I could be wrong , I just remember I scrolled through a ton of comments on a mycology online forum about him as being self-aggrandizing and a a guy who spins a lot of yarns.. but then again.. these were comments on the internet. so a bit unfair of me to judge. but that podcast was amusing and did get me to look into mycology more, so theres that.
	10:08am Trouble: no worries, Fernando P, i will never stop playing gal costa!
	10:09am northguineahills: I may be a 1000 miles away, but I'm still in the same time zone as my old hood.
	10:09am steveo: oh polyester; thanks for filling me in
	10:13am CeeDubbles: karen Allen has a nice store in the Berkshires, uses a Japanese loom www.nytimes.com...
	10:19am blee: STEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!
	10:20am northguineahills: blee said it best!
	10:21am The Oscar: @CeeDubbles Whoa-- did not know about that one! Also, the Montague Book Mill (maybe half an hour out of the Pioneer Valley) is one of the most special places on earth.
	10:21am steveo: great stevie song; i wonder why i never heard it on the radio growing up...
	10:22am whomst’ve: @ledack
	10:24am Morgan: steveo I was just thinking that
	10:25am queems: that one made me emotional
	10:25am cklequ: I just got my swag from the last fundraiser, and WFMU changed my listener number. What the hell are you guys up to over there? I've had that number memorized for years. It's a lower number, so for now I'm just going to assume I'm moving up in the ranks.
	10:32am Webhamster Henry: I got my WFMU turtle t-shirt in the mail the other day! IT'S NOT MADE OF FLEECE OR MYCELIUM!
	10:34am BronwynB: good morning trouble and everyone!
	10:35am Lixiviated Life: End of days?? (We should be so lucky)
	10:36am Lixiviated Life: Ok now youre just making up these pronunciations
	10:39am Lixiviated Life: Reading Haruki Murakami’s ‘Wind/Pinball’
	10:39am Jeezy: The young lady named Marissa in my living room is reading "What She Ate" by Laura Shapiro. Apparently she's pleased with it!
	10:39am melinda: I just started reading Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51.
	10:39am Trouble: true! @lixiviated life: i make up a lot. it's how i get through the day
	10:41am Woo: This year I read Secrets of the Amazing Kreskin. I've yet to employ those secrets in my daily life. Something to look forward to next year.
	10:41am NewB T: Lincoln in the Bardo - a beautiful book about life and death, hopes and dreams, good and evil. Won the Man Booker Prize this year.
	10:41am Ken From Hyde Park: @Lix - It's a WFMU tradition. See DJ Keily's "Ken Pronouncing Things" segments in the archives.
	10:41am BronwynB: I'm reading a playwrights guidebook right now since im in the midst of writing a play, but the novel im cheating on with the guidebook is Robert Coover's Huck Out West, which is supposed to be about Huck Finn as an adult, but it's really about some dark n'gritty dude who bears little resemblance to the original character (he shoots a guy, for fuck's sake). Kind of like Luke Skywalker in the Last Jedi.
	10:42am Trouble: duhhhh, i just finished 'the little virtues' by natalia ginzburg
	10:42am kevlicki: Sadly they play a commercial Hudson valley station which, typically, is playing cheesy 90’s rock and 80’s pop tunes. Radio here is stuck 20 Years in the past
	10:42am Thelma: I'm reading Keys to the Rain, the definitive Dylan encyclopedia by Oliver Trager, and I just finished A Friend of the Devil, the Glorification of the Outlaw from Robin Hood to Rap, by John Kruth. Both books are highly recommended for music freaks.
	10:42am sugarplumfairywolf: My knitting coven talks about going to WEBS soon. It is cold enough for my rainbow balaclava.
	10:44am steveo: the original 7" art for all american band properly encapsulates america (maybe) www.discogs.com...
	10:45am redkayak: Happy Inter-holiday Thursday! Stay warm out there :)
	10:46am glenn: lawren harris. a genius.
	10:46am Slaboch: Great show Trouble!!!!
	10:47am Trouble: hey michael! gracias!
	10:50am Webhamster Henry: I'm reading a Project Gutenberg book: War the Creator by Gillette Burgess (yes, the Purple Cow poet). It's a memoir of the First World War; it really should have been the War to End All Wars, but wasn't.
	10:50am Lixiviated Life: @NewB T I read Lincoln in the Bardo. I agree. I would recommend anything that G Saunders writes.
	10:51am Lixiviated Life: @NewB T Check out "Civilwarland in Bad Decline"
	10:53am glenn: you might like alex janvier's art. an alberta chipewayan, influenced by klee and kandinsky. mcmichael.com...
	10:53am BronwynB: I love George Saunders. I was first introduced to him as a child via a story he wrote called Lars Farf. Great story.
	10:54am Webhamster Henry: I'm a huge Saunders fan! His (kind of) children's books The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp and The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil are enduring fables.
	10:54am Webhamster Henry: There are a few recordings out there of him reading some of his short stories too, for those who want to rest their eyes.
	10:55am Adrian in London: Hello all. tuning in late, having left the house. I'm not doing that again in a hurry, I can tell you.
	10:57am Trouble: thanks @glenn. i discovered harris' work in a calendar i bought of the group of 7 he was in, or some such. great stuff, but i know nothing about him. i need to do some digging.
	10:58am melinda: George Saunders is an author I should have read but haven't, I went to a reading years ago and it was hilarious.
	10:59am herb.nyc: Reading "arbitrary stupid goal" by Tamara shopsin. I've never even eaten at shopsin's(and not sure if I want to deal with it). This is both a funny and serious book. ($1 at thrift shop!). Then will skim thru Simon Doonan's "extreme glamour" for he's gayly funny, and wanna start the new Sal Maida book (I bought bec of Todd's recent interview on wfmu).
	11:01am Adrian in London: @Lixiviated Life @BronwynB @Webmaster Happy On your recommendation I have just bought Lincoln in the Bardo. £1.99 on Kindle so not too big a punt if I don't like it. My current reading, since that seems to be what we're chatting about, is My Hundred Lovers by Australian writer Susan Johnson, which is very good, and next will be The Power by Naomi Alderman, a novel about a world in which roles are reversed and women have, well, the power.
	11:01am glenn: well, the mcmichael has a permanent group of seven exhibit. i've seen it many times. mcmichael.com...
	11:02am glenn: and manhattan beach by jennifer egan is a great book.
	11:04am redkayak: Yes....George Saunders is a favorite!
	11:05am redkayak: Have not (yet) read the new Lincoln book....
	11:06am Woo: Re-read The Catcher in the Rye this year. I had forgotten the actual story. Very glad to have picked it up again. "I can't explain what I mean and even if I could I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
	11:13am Fox: I've just started reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and it's fascinating. I seem to be more drawn to non-fiction than fiction these days.
	11:26am Fernando P: Its summer in Brazil but I havent played any of my samba records yet. Thanks for all the samba today, Trouble. Now I will unshelf them.
	11:26am WFMU listener WADE: quick question: Why is reception iffy on perfectly beautiful days yet reception is perfect on iffy weather days?
	11:28am WFMU listener WADE: Also, I'm reading Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinski.
	11:28am coelacanth∅: when it's inclement the government trolls stay in bed.
	11:30am Mandy: @Fox, I love anything by Mary Roach (medical history/science) and John Ronson (conspiracy theories and general weirdness)
	11:33am coelacanth∅: i'm reading the crossing...but i've decided to skip through it a bit - which i've only done with maybe 2 books before.
	11:37am Morgan: bird texture
	11:37am GListener MW: I’m digging the double birds!
	11:37am GListener MW: “Doubirds”
	11:37am WFMU listener WADE: @coelacantho: try McCarthy's Sutree.
	11:38am Mandy: Greek!! sagapou agapemou (I love you...my love.....)lol
	11:38am Yvang: Birds roast!
	11:39am Lixiviated Life: "ah-GAH-Pay"
	11:41am glenn: yep. -21c in little malta today.
	11:42am Mandy: the thing is I'm glad we don't do Celcius in the US because it's so easy to get into the negative numbers in celcius... having multiple days have negative temps would be a big downer. 18F still feels like you have something lol
	11:44am melinda: @Mandy I plan on reading Jon Ronson after I finish my Area 51 book.
	11:44am coelacanth∅: wade, Thanks - i'll look into it. i liked child of god and really liked all the pretty horses. did not like the road much; and this one, well... as expected the imagery is as good as it gets; the insight to human nature also extraordinary... - maybe i'm just tired of reading about stupid people with fucked up lives making grave mistakes.
	11:44am northguineahills: Many versions of the creator has a master plan has been played this week on wfmu, and that's a good thing!
	11:44am glenn: -21c = -6 f.
	11:46am Mandy: oh Glenn I'm so sorry
	11:47am Ken From Hyde Park: Wonder what Station Manager Ken is up to on vacation? I heard he went skiing. www.woodtv.com...
	11:48am Listener Gregory: The Creator's master plan seems to have gone about as well this year as most plans do.
	11:48am WFMU listener WADE: Also read 2 books by Ottessa Moshfegh this fall (Eileen & Homesick for Another World). Not sure I get why Eileen was on a literary shortlist. I got bored. Also..can't really promise that Sutree is full of hope and promise.
	11:48am glenn: meh. it'll warm up to -15.
	11:51am coelacanth∅: i'm wondering where my heating oil levels are at. my basement door is frozen shut and being in that basement is not fun to begin with. i guess i should chip at it though, before i'm in trouble.
	11:51am Trouble: huh, that's crazy@ north guinea hills./ i have been listening to bachfest on wkcr all week, so i haven't heard anything but bach since christmas eve.
	11:52am melinda: @Ken haha
	11:53am glenn: got an electric blanket? hang that over the door, crank it up and leave it for an hour or so. boom done.
	11:54am mandy: I am so happy WFMu is playing more Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith these days.
	11:54am WFMU listener WADE: on days this cold, I kiss my Puerto Rican landlord for her total disdain of all temps under 60 degrees.
	11:55am coelacanth∅: haha wade it's McCarthy! i think i just need to read a few books with some humor in them and then pick that one up.
	11:55am coelacanth∅: glenn that's a great idea!
	11:55am northguineahills: It's a super balmy 55F/13C here in FL (cold for us). Thanks Trouble!
	11:56am glenn: electric blankets are handy. i had to put one over my car motor a couple times, since i don't have a block heater.
	11:58am coelacanth∅: have you tried dipstick heaters? (i think some are cheap crap but some are decent)
	11:59am glenn: leave my dipstick out of this.
	11:59am glenn: but no, i haven't.
	11:59am WFMU listener WADE: Humor: David Foster Farter? Tristan Egolf's Lord of the Barnyard? Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich? All things Vonnegut?
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Trouble!
	9:40am Kirios Panos: S'Agapo (Ti'en afto pou to lene agapi) = I love you (What is this thing called love)

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 28, 2017

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December 28, 2017: icebergs

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	New	Approx. start time
islaja	sun luona taas "sun luona taas" by "islaja"	tarratula	svart		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
the green child	destroyer "destroyer" by "the green child"	the green child	upset the rhythm		*	0:03:28 (Pop-up)
bad dreams fancy dress	rave up "rave up" by "bad dreams fancy dress"	girl talk v/a				0:08:54 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda	om rama	The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda				0:12:13 (Pop-up)
aretha franklin	don't let me lose this dream	gaylord fields presents fayelord '66 v/a				0:21:36 (Pop-up)
jono ma & dreems	can't stop dreaming(of you)		kompakt	12"	*	0:23:50 (Pop-up)
julie london	desafinado "desafinado" by "julie london"	the hits of joao gilberto				0:29:07 (Pop-up)

mankunku quartet	yakhal' inkomo "yakhal' inkomo" by "mankunku quartet"	yakhal' inkomo	jazzman		*	0:37:07 (Pop-up)
davy graham	leavin' blues "leavin' blues" by "davy graham"	folk, blues & beyond...				0:45:09 (Pop-up)
chloe	recall featuring Ben Shemie ( original mix)	endless revisions			*	0:48:02 (Pop-up)
donna regina	driftwood "driftwood" by "donna regina"	late				0:54:12 (Pop-up)
gal costa	que pena "que pena" by "gal costa"	Gal Revistada				0:57:39 (Pop-up)

nick drake	black eyed dog "black eyed dog" by "nick drake"	inward bound fabio's 2017 wfmu marathon premium v/a				1:05:19 (Pop-up)
asha bhosle	mujhko bhi radha banale	the greatest hits of				1:07:01 (Pop-up)
cinema	sem teto "sem teto" by "cinema"	Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978–1992	Music from Memory		*	1:13:19 (Pop-up)
stevie wonder	black man "black man" by "stevie wonder"	songs in the key of life				1:16:00 (Pop-up)
beryl bryden	moanin' "moanin'" by "beryl bryden"	It's A Scandal! Songs For Soho Blondes v/a				1:24:21 (Pop-up)
ghetto reality	james brown "james brown" by "ghetto reality"	Black & Proud Vol. 1: The Soul Of The Black Panther Era				1:27:23 (Pop-up)
fumio nunoya	mizu tamari "mizu tamari" by "fumio nunoya"	Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 (V/a)	light inthe attic		*	1:30:11 (Pop-up)

all american band	ain't gonna be pretty	Abaton Book Company 20th Anniversary Compilation	Abaton Book Co.		*	1:38:14 (Pop-up)
Bossacucanova	A Pedida E Samba feat elza soares	nossa onda e essa				1:41:13 (Pop-up)
promise	i'm not ready for love "i'm not ready for love" by "promise"	Home Schooled: ABCs Of Kid Soul				1:44:44 (Pop-up)
melvin sparks	you're gonna make it	i'm funky now	westbound		*	1:47:40 (Pop-up)
carioca	branca "branca" by "carioca"	Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978–1992	music from memory		*	1:50:49 (Pop-up)
jordan rakei	wallflower feat kaya thomas-dyke	wallflower	Ninja Tune		*	1:55:39 (Pop-up)
julie byrne	sleepwalker "sleepwalker" by "julie byrne"	not even happiness				1:59:24 (Pop-up)

soul seekers	swing low sweet chariot	i am on the battlefield for my lord v/a a treasury of jamaican gospel v 3	buked and scorned	Vinyl	*	2:09:13 (Pop-up)
nick lucas	teasing the frets "teasing the frets" by "nick lucas"	pioneers of the jazz guitar v/a				2:11:25 (Pop-up)
maki asakawa	konna funi sugite iku no nara	maki asakawa				2:13:53 (Pop-up)
frank chacksfield orchestra	little red monkey	Saint Etienne Present Songs For The Lyons Cornerhouse				2:18:31 (Pop-up)
agepe	ela nao gosta de mim "ela nao gosta de mim" by "agepe"	o samba v/a brazil classics 2				2:20:57 (Pop-up)
amor de dias	harvest time "harvest time" by "amor de dias"	street of the love of days				2:23:14 (Pop-up)
angel olsen	heart shaped face "heart shaped face" by "angel olsen"	my woman				2:28:23 (Pop-up)
sophia loren and tonis maroudas	ti ein auto pou to lene agapi	ost the lobster				2:33:58 (Pop-up)

pharoah sanders	the creator has a master plan( edit)	red hot on impulse				2:41:06 (Pop-up)
ora cogan	the light "the light" by "ora cogan"	crickets	hand drawn dracula		*	2:48:23 (Pop-up)
kaitlyn aurelia smith	in the world	The Kid	western vinyl		*	2:51:50 (Pop-up)
bwax ft s kide	baba animata natafuta kiki	sounds of sisso	nyege nyege tapes		*	2:56:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am NotARealDoctor: Good morning DJ Trouble! Hope you've had a great week so far!
	9:01am melinda: Hi Trouble and all
	9:03am Trouble: good morning, thursday icicles!
	9:03am thriftstoreleather: mornin folks, its cold and I don't want to take my dog out...
	9:03am AndrewC.: Brrrrr.
	9:05am steveo: good morning; nice iceberg!
	9:08am Kerbo: love this sound
	9:14am mb: Hello All. Dub us out of this fridged weather, please, DJ Trouble.
	9:14am adampsyche: hey all!
	9:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Archive viewers of the future: In the early 21st century, there were chunks of frozen water in the polar regions that you call the tropics in your time.
	9:15am Webhamster Henry: Hi Trouble! Thanks for this Alice Coltrane!
	9:16am Trouble: today's art work is by canadian Lawren S Harris. kind of a wild guy...
	9:17am northguineahills: Alice!
	9:20am thatpatsmith: Brrrrrr! Om
	9:25am kevlicki: Good morning trouble! Off to the dentist, maybe I can listen while I get my cleaning. That makes me wonder if there are dentist/doctors offices in the broadcast range that play wfmu. Anyone in the Hudson Valley? You’ll have another client in me, if you do!
	9:27am Trouble: good luck with that Kevlicki, the dentist visit and finding one who will play WFMU!
	9:31am Woo: Last week my dentist was playing country Christmas music, one of the worst categories of music. I didn't say anything. It's his place, he can play what he wants.
	9:32am Papayo: jean roche
	9:32am Papayo: i think so
	9:33am Sem: Good morning,Trouble, and hello, Modern Worlders.
	9:35am andyplants: Top of the morning to you all
	9:35am Scraps deSelby: h’lo hey
	9:36am Ken From Hyde Park: When I'm at the dentist, I dredge up various earworms and tune out whatever radio stuff they're playing.
	9:37am steveo: fantastic opening set. is the F-word "cotton"?
	9:37am Sam: Good morning. J'adore le painting de l'iceberg!
	9:38am queems: agreed about the wool. i have a million hats but i only wear the wool ones i’ve made during weather like this
	9:38am melinda: I need weather variety too. But I wouldn't mind if it never got below 25 or so. It's 1º here and I don't want to go outside, but one needs daylight contact w/eyeballs for proper melatonin production.
	9:38am Trouble: no steveo, cotton is s grand knit for summer. the f word is fleece
	9:38am Scraps: When I’m at the dentist, I bring headphones. It’s his office, but I’m paying.
	9:38am melinda: Holy crap, I just saw my neighbor outside in short sleeves.
	9:40am The Oscar: Morning all! Trouble, when you were in Western Mass, did you go to Webs? It's the biggest yarn store in New England, if not the country.
	9:40am Shagalov: Good morning Trouble, Iceberg, everyone
	9:41am A Better Me: omg i love this show so far omg
	9:41am LCBD: @The Oscar, I love Webs! Very hard not to spend hundreds of dollars each time I’m there.
	9:42am OTB: Wow, somebody sure likes 'Trane... Sounds great, though. Wonderful sounds on this frigid AM.
	9:42am steveo: What, the French don't have their own word for iceberg, Sam? Fleece, ah fleece. Well I think i deserve half a point because isn't fleece made of cotton?
	9:43am bobdoesthings: good morning
	9:44am The Oscar: @LCBD I was just there! Every year my girlfriend gets a giftcard there from my folks, so we usually make the pilgrimage shortly after Christmas (as well as several other times a year). I'm not a knitter myself, but I do enjoy wandering the aisles touching things :)
	9:47am judy from croton: How wonderful. Davy graham. Really started something over there in england.
	9:48am judy from croton: Fleece is made entirely of synthetics in our modern parlance (10$ word!)
	9:50am Trouble: no, oscar. i saw it from the highway, but resisted a visit. I did not know that it was so huge! now perhaps i should regret my decision... I am trying to knit out of my stash for now, there is a lot of wool piling up...
	9:50am LCBD: @The Oscar, nice! What a great gift. We pass it on our frequent trips from CT to VT. I am a knitter (with a big stash of yarn so I need to stay away.)!
	9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Fleece fibers wind up in the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans where they get into the food supply. Who knows what the effects of that are?
	9:51am Trouble: fleece is made from polyester. polyester never breaks down, never.
	9:55am The Oscar: @Trouble It truly is massive! There's also Northampton Wools, which is not as impressive, but is notable as the namesake of a Thurston Moore side project.
	9:57am Trouble: I love that part of the world @ oscar. so i will be back. we also discovered a killer bbq place and local gluten free bear!
	9:58am Webhamster Henry: Fleece is a kind of artificial felt; perhaps in the near future there can be a felt made of mycoTEX fibers that you grow new every week or so. www.fungal-futures.com...
	9:59am melinda: I think I need someone to custom knit me a couple of wool hats. The ones in stores and at craft fairs are either too scratchy or don't fit comfortably.
	10:00am melinda: @Henry fungus is the future!
	10:00am Fernando P: Hi Trouble! please, dont ever stop playing Gal! Her voice is sunshine to my ears.
	10:01am melinda: I saw Paul Stamets the mycologist wearing a fungus hat on a podcast video, actually. It looked like leather or felt.
	10:03am bobdoesthings: @melinda- that guy is kinda a nut though.. i saw him on JRE and did a little research and it seems like the mycology community, by and large, rolls their eyes at that guy., but i dunno, was an amusing podcast at least
	10:03am northguineahills: It's cold enough for me to wear a hoody today! (I had one morning where I got to wear my winter coat). Wife called me from Brooklyn, to tell me her building's heat is out, ouch!
	10:04am Webhamster Henry: It's 8° here in Kingston, but my steam heat is blasting away.
	10:04am melinda: @bob that's kind of disappointing. I didn't watch the whole thing.
	10:04am Webhamster Henry: Paul Stamets may actually BE a mushroom!
	10:05am Ken From Hyde Park: There are mushroom-based packaging materials that can take the place of styrofoam, so that's cool.
	10:06am northguineahills: I believe SA is +2 UTC, so 7 hours ahead of us in EST?
	10:07am Trouble: thanks north guinea hills!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: @melinda - I could be wrong , I just remember I scrolled through a ton of comments on a mycology online forum about him as being self-aggrandizing and a a guy who spins a lot of yarns.. but then again.. these were comments on the internet. so a bit unfair of me to judge. but that podcast was amusing and did get me to look into mycology more, so theres that.
	10:08am Trouble: no worries, Fernando P, i will never stop playing gal costa!
	10:09am northguineahills: I may be a 1000 miles away, but I'm still in the same time zone as my old hood.
	10:09am steveo: oh polyester; thanks for filling me in
	10:13am CeeDubbles: karen Allen has a nice store in the Berkshires, uses a Japanese loom www.nytimes.com...
	10:19am blee: STEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!
	10:20am northguineahills: blee said it best!
	10:21am The Oscar: @CeeDubbles Whoa-- did not know about that one! Also, the Montague Book Mill (maybe half an hour out of the Pioneer Valley) is one of the most special places on earth.
	10:21am steveo: great stevie song; i wonder why i never heard it on the radio growing up...
	10:22am whomst’ve: @ledack
	10:24am Morgan: steveo I was just thinking that
	10:25am queems: that one made me emotional
	10:25am cklequ: I just got my swag from the last fundraiser, and WFMU changed my listener number. What the hell are you guys up to over there? I've had that number memorized for years. It's a lower number, so for now I'm just going to assume I'm moving up in the ranks.
	10:32am Webhamster Henry: I got my WFMU turtle t-shirt in the mail the other day! IT'S NOT MADE OF FLEECE OR MYCELIUM!
	10:34am BronwynB: good morning trouble and everyone!
	10:35am Lixiviated Life: End of days?? (We should be so lucky)
	10:36am Lixiviated Life: Ok now youre just making up these pronunciations
	10:39am Lixiviated Life: Reading Haruki Murakami’s ‘Wind/Pinball’
	10:39am Jeezy: The young lady named Marissa in my living room is reading "What She Ate" by Laura Shapiro. Apparently she's pleased with it!
	10:39am melinda: I just started reading Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51.
	10:39am Trouble: true! @lixiviated life: i make up a lot. it's how i get through the day
	10:41am Woo: This year I read Secrets of the Amazing Kreskin. I've yet to employ those secrets in my daily life. Something to look forward to next year.
	10:41am NewB T: Lincoln in the Bardo - a beautiful book about life and death, hopes and dreams, good and evil. Won the Man Booker Prize this year.
	10:41am Ken From Hyde Park: @Lix - It's a WFMU tradition. See DJ Keily's "Ken Pronouncing Things" segments in the archives.
	10:41am BronwynB: I'm reading a playwrights guidebook right now since im in the midst of writing a play, but the novel im cheating on with the guidebook is Robert Coover's Huck Out West, which is supposed to be about Huck Finn as an adult, but it's really about some dark n'gritty dude who bears little resemblance to the original character (he shoots a guy, for fuck's sake). Kind of like Luke Skywalker in the Last Jedi.
	10:42am Trouble: duhhhh, i just finished 'the little virtues' by natalia ginzburg
	10:42am kevlicki: Sadly they play a commercial Hudson valley station which, typically, is playing cheesy 90’s rock and 80’s pop tunes. Radio here is stuck 20 Years in the past
	10:42am Thelma: I'm reading Keys to the Rain, the definitive Dylan encyclopedia by Oliver Trager, and I just finished A Friend of the Devil, the Glorification of the Outlaw from Robin Hood to Rap, by John Kruth. Both books are highly recommended for music freaks.
	10:42am sugarplumfairywolf: My knitting coven talks about going to WEBS soon. It is cold enough for my rainbow balaclava.
	10:44am steveo: the original 7" art for all american band properly encapsulates america (maybe) www.discogs.com...
	10:45am redkayak: Happy Inter-holiday Thursday! Stay warm out there :)
	10:46am glenn: lawren harris. a genius.
	10:46am Slaboch: Great show Trouble!!!!
	10:47am Trouble: hey michael! gracias!
	10:50am Webhamster Henry: I'm reading a Project Gutenberg book: War the Creator by Gillette Burgess (yes, the Purple Cow poet). It's a memoir of the First World War; it really should have been the War to End All Wars, but wasn't.
	10:50am Lixiviated Life: @NewB T I read Lincoln in the Bardo. I agree. I would recommend anything that G Saunders writes.
	10:51am Lixiviated Life: @NewB T Check out "Civilwarland in Bad Decline"
	10:53am glenn: you might like alex janvier's art. an alberta chipewayan, influenced by klee and kandinsky. mcmichael.com...
	10:53am BronwynB: I love George Saunders. I was first introduced to him as a child via a story he wrote called Lars Farf. Great story.
	10:54am Webhamster Henry: I'm a huge Saunders fan! His (kind of) children's books The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp and The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil are enduring fables.
	10:54am Webhamster Henry: There are a few recordings out there of him reading some of his short stories too, for those who want to rest their eyes.
	10:55am Adrian in London: Hello all. tuning in late, having left the house. I'm not doing that again in a hurry, I can tell you.
	10:57am Trouble: thanks @glenn. i discovered harris' work in a calendar i bought of the group of 7 he was in, or some such. great stuff, but i know nothing about him. i need to do some digging.
	10:58am melinda: George Saunders is an author I should have read but haven't, I went to a reading years ago and it was hilarious.
	10:59am herb.nyc: Reading "arbitrary stupid goal" by Tamara shopsin. I've never even eaten at shopsin's(and not sure if I want to deal with it). This is both a funny and serious book. ($1 at thrift shop!). Then will skim thru Simon Doonan's "extreme glamour" for he's gayly funny, and wanna start the new Sal Maida book (I bought bec of Todd's recent interview on wfmu).
	11:01am Adrian in London: @Lixiviated Life @BronwynB @Webmaster Happy On your recommendation I have just bought Lincoln in the Bardo. £1.99 on Kindle so not too big a punt if I don't like it. My current reading, since that seems to be what we're chatting about, is My Hundred Lovers by Australian writer Susan Johnson, which is very good, and next will be The Power by Naomi Alderman, a novel about a world in which roles are reversed and women have, well, the power.
	11:01am glenn: well, the mcmichael has a permanent group of seven exhibit. i've seen it many times. mcmichael.com...
	11:02am glenn: and manhattan beach by jennifer egan is a great book.
	11:04am redkayak: Yes....George Saunders is a favorite!
	11:05am redkayak: Have not (yet) read the new Lincoln book....
	11:06am Woo: Re-read The Catcher in the Rye this year. I had forgotten the actual story. Very glad to have picked it up again. "I can't explain what I mean and even if I could I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
	11:13am Fox: I've just started reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and it's fascinating. I seem to be more drawn to non-fiction than fiction these days.
	11:26am Fernando P: Its summer in Brazil but I havent played any of my samba records yet. Thanks for all the samba today, Trouble. Now I will unshelf them.
	11:26am WFMU listener WADE: quick question: Why is reception iffy on perfectly beautiful days yet reception is perfect on iffy weather days?
	11:28am WFMU listener WADE: Also, I'm reading Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinski.
	11:28am coelacanth∅: when it's inclement the government trolls stay in bed.
	11:30am Mandy: @Fox, I love anything by Mary Roach (medical history/science) and John Ronson (conspiracy theories and general weirdness)
	11:33am coelacanth∅: i'm reading the crossing...but i've decided to skip through it a bit - which i've only done with maybe 2 books before.
	11:37am Morgan: bird texture
	11:37am GListener MW: I’m digging the double birds!
	11:37am GListener MW: “Doubirds”
	11:37am WFMU listener WADE: @coelacantho: try McCarthy's Sutree.
	11:38am Mandy: Greek!! sagapou agapemou (I love you...my love.....)lol
	11:38am Yvang: Birds roast!
	11:39am Lixiviated Life: "ah-GAH-Pay"
	11:41am glenn: yep. -21c in little malta today.
	11:42am Mandy: the thing is I'm glad we don't do Celcius in the US because it's so easy to get into the negative numbers in celcius... having multiple days have negative temps would be a big downer. 18F still feels like you have something lol
	11:44am melinda: @Mandy I plan on reading Jon Ronson after I finish my Area 51 book.
	11:44am coelacanth∅: wade, Thanks - i'll look into it. i liked child of god and really liked all the pretty horses. did not like the road much; and this one, well... as expected the imagery is as good as it gets; the insight to human nature also extraordinary... - maybe i'm just tired of reading about stupid people with fucked up lives making grave mistakes.
	11:44am northguineahills: Many versions of the creator has a master plan has been played this week on wfmu, and that's a good thing!
	11:44am glenn: -21c = -6 f.
	11:46am Mandy: oh Glenn I'm so sorry
	11:47am Ken From Hyde Park: Wonder what Station Manager Ken is up to on vacation? I heard he went skiing. www.woodtv.com...
	11:48am Listener Gregory: The Creator's master plan seems to have gone about as well this year as most plans do.
	11:48am WFMU listener WADE: Also read 2 books by Ottessa Moshfegh this fall (Eileen & Homesick for Another World). Not sure I get why Eileen was on a literary shortlist. I got bored. Also..can't really promise that Sutree is full of hope and promise.
	11:48am glenn: meh. it'll warm up to -15.
	11:51am coelacanth∅: i'm wondering where my heating oil levels are at. my basement door is frozen shut and being in that basement is not fun to begin with. i guess i should chip at it though, before i'm in trouble.
	11:51am Trouble: huh, that's crazy@ north guinea hills./ i have been listening to bachfest on wkcr all week, so i haven't heard anything but bach since christmas eve.
	11:52am melinda: @Ken haha
	11:53am glenn: got an electric blanket? hang that over the door, crank it up and leave it for an hour or so. boom done.
	11:54am mandy: I am so happy WFMu is playing more Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith these days.
	11:54am WFMU listener WADE: on days this cold, I kiss my Puerto Rican landlord for her total disdain of all temps under 60 degrees.
	11:55am coelacanth∅: haha wade it's McCarthy! i think i just need to read a few books with some humor in them and then pick that one up.
	11:55am coelacanth∅: glenn that's a great idea!
	11:55am northguineahills: It's a super balmy 55F/13C here in FL (cold for us). Thanks Trouble!
	11:56am glenn: electric blankets are handy. i had to put one over my car motor a couple times, since i don't have a block heater.
	11:58am coelacanth∅: have you tried dipstick heaters? (i think some are cheap crap but some are decent)
	11:59am glenn: leave my dipstick out of this.
	11:59am glenn: but no, i haven't.
	11:59am WFMU listener WADE: Humor: David Foster Farter? Tristan Egolf's Lord of the Barnyard? Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich? All things Vonnegut?
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Trouble!
	9:40am Kirios Panos: S'Agapo (Ti'en afto pou to lene agapi) = I love you (What is this thing called love)

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 28, 2017

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