Sorry, I looked but I'm too distraught for a GIF poem or horoscope. Couldn't find A long-term replacement for the late Listener Steve to share the rent here, now have to move out, don't know where. I think I'd rather pay the whole rent for a while, pending coming up with more income or a later replacement co-tenant, than go thru the trauma of finding a place & moving now.
Mornings are always when a situation like this looks bleakest to me.
Ack, sorry to hear of your predicament, Robert. The station should pursue the possibility of erecting a modest low-cost apartment building in the present-day parking lot in back. It'd be reserved for WFMU patrons only. Or maybe add a couple floors on top of the building for that purpose. Got to fix the leaky roof anyhow.
My sympathies, Listener Robert. Make it through the morning with Ken.
For myself, with the exception of good radio, I've always found mornings worthless…really, if it weren't for external obligations, I'd be asleep between 06:00 and 16:00. My first summer in Pasadena I had a night job, hated the heat, had no air cooler and lived those hours relatively contentedly.
So I guess I'm affirming what you said: come the afternoon, maybe it'll seem tractable.
Hangover-from-last-week requests:
Russian Band Stand, e.g. youtu.be...,
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any cheesy version of Moskovn'ye Vechera from a Russian 'talent' show or prom, e.g. youtu.be... …check-out those singers' cacophagic grins that say 'I hate this but here I am again, those fuckers eat this stuff up—and I damn better not look unpatriotic.'.
It still blows my mind how good each individual member of Kids in the Hall was. I saw Scott Thompson do his Buddy Cole one-man show a couple of months ago, and it was fantastic.
What's on your gravestone? Possible SSD-topic right there, dale - or at least some foreplay
9:10am
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Anyone remember the show where Ken swears? It was a web-based show some years ago. I think it was the one during the hurricane when the FM signal went off.
I dug OLLA, mostly because I like Jarmusch and Swinton and Hiddleston. It's mostly a hangout movie about aging weirdos who happen to be vampires (and one of whom happens to be Christopher Marlowe). Not a lot of plot, but I didn't mind. I'd recommend checking out the first few minutes-- if you like what you see there, you'll probably like the rest.
I'd love to hear Dave's infamous isolated vocal with this if they synched up.
9:41am
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Thanks for playing my request, Ken! I can't wait for my Schlammpeitziger mix of a Wevie Stonder song request from 2009 to be played! I calculate this or next year will be played!.
9:41am
Brendan:
I love that rock-a-bye baby version of running with the dingo
@Henry Yes! And record porn, and weird old tech-curio porn. Part of me feels like it's an excuse for Jarmusch to show off his collections, but again, I'm okay with that.
9:46am
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Before I enter the film discussion going on right now I'd like to know what the heck "ponderous and plodding" means, please. I'm too lazy to grab the dictionary now. Thanks.
@Webhamster Henry ~ what? no kidding! fabulous. our film industry is really getting a bit of steam behind it. do you know where they're filming exactly? i'm in northern Sullivan County.
just before i sold my very old farmhouse last year i was approached by a locations scout who found it pretty evocative .. hmmmm...
9:50am
Sam:
Planet of the Apes was a misleading name. It should have been called Planet of the Bacteria. There were way, way, way more bacteria than apes on that planet.
@Okasa - I saw Pete say that too in a documentary. Todd Haynes went for the legend: a Pete analogue axes the power to the stage as one of the Dylans plays.
I think the myth just confirms/plays to the biases of rock fans in general, especially as regards folk Nazis.
Whatever actually happened with Dylan and Pete on that fateful day, you cannot fault Pete for hoping for a simpler future, given the way things are now. Perhaps you know what I mean.
“Folk Nazis” is a decent phrase. Reminds me of a bizarre conversation I had with an older hippie lady at the Park Slope Food Co-op when Michael Jackson died. I said something casually of getting tired of hearing “Billie Jean” since Michael Jackson died. She then ranted endlessly about how vacuous his music was and how the only good music is folk music and Michael Jackson made garbage music. I responded, “Well, I like Billie Jean” and Michael Jackson… I’m just getting tired of hearing it.” And sh harumphed away from me. Clearly my brain was rotted from listening to too much of “Off the Wall” and “Thriller.”
Aw man-- at first I thought this was Rockabye Baby doing "Crow Jane" by Nick Cave, and I was so excited to see what the cover of that album looked like.
10:35am
Brendan:
That Neneh Cherry ‘Self Titillated’ is a great album. To quote Beavis , ‘if I were Madonna , I’d fondle my boobs constantly.’
@northguineahills: Ha! She’s a classic kinda Park Slope character that I will not miss when they are gone. Bring back the old Italian ladies I dealt with daily when I lived there in the 1990s.
10:38am
Kholodna V'Domiy:
Only good folk music is Russian folk music. Amerikanitz folk music is blecch.
My favorite part of the Dylan '65 performance is that after Dylan left, Mel Lyman (who was with Kweskin's Jug Band), took the stage and did a 20 minute Harmonica improve on Rock of Ages.
10:40am
queems:
what on earth
10:40am
Sam:
There's a double standard here. If Trump had threatened someone with an ax, nobody would bat an eyelash. But when a hippie does it, suddenly it's a big scandal.
@melinda: You are welcome! Also, all Mod Podge is is watered down Elmer’s glue that was made with non-acidic ingredients. Meaning if you want to make something using Mod Podge and items going brown beneath doesn’t matter to you just go get some Elmer’s glue and water it down.
Found it! It's a little long and meandering, but it gets to Lyman on the second page. Funny enough, I found it because the initial focus of the piece is a friend of mine, and was surprised when it wound its way to Lyman and co. www.bostonmagazine.com...
It wasn’t electrification that changed it all. The intro of the piano in the folk scene was the turning point. Used to traveling from town to town with a guitar, musicians had to lug a piano on their back.
One morning in an old apartment I was playing John Jacob Niles when my roommate came in and said, "Hey, you know what's great for a hangover? NOT THIS."
Whoa the new live stream pop up player is great! Just noticing it now so sorry if I'm late on that one but kudos to whoever did the redesign.
11:06am
Brendan:
Ken did you bring the humpback whale in studio again? I think the landlord is gonna fly off the handle.
11:07am
Sam:
Has WFMU considered a Coney Island transmitter to help reach the distant parts of Brooklyn as well as a huge undersea life audience? I think there are a lot of orcas and squids and stuff that would tune in. And obviously dolphins and sharks.
Ken, what about metal straws? Being the bigwig Andy is, surely he's seen them. Or is that too hipster for Andy?
11:12am
Sam:
Now that I think about it, I really miss straws. It's been so long. Carbonation feels nice coming out of a straw. Andy's on to something. That guy is such a genius it's scary.
I read that before plastic went mainstream straws were made of paper. So maybe they will get a comeback. I'd invest in artisanal, organic, fair-trade paper straws. Millenials all over will love them!
oh i guess it's a floppy disk drive, not a printer?
11:19am
Sam:
My great great great great great grandson visited me from the future in his time machine. It's a crappy American time machine, he couldn't afford a state of the art German one. But that's not the point, the thing is, he was completely green and his skin was leafy. Apparently humans evolve to develop photosynthesis in the future, which makes perfect sense, and nobody eats anything anymore and straws are completely obsolete. And you don't need toilets, so that also cuts down on expenses.
Thanks, Ken! Although whales and Nilsson's "Life Line" might be a good mix too!
11:22am
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No one will beat my Kickstarter campaign: Paper straws made from recycled free range Panda poop
11:23am
Sam:
That kid at McDonalds was charged with a salt, and he was peppered with questions by the cops who really relished the opportunity. I'm trying to ketchup on the details of the case.
By the way, people, I have been told this Harry Nilsson and Shelley Duval track can be found in the masterpiece, chef-d'œuvre, magnus opus album of Popeye's sountrack. Yes! Don't be mislead! This album deserves a place in the musical Olympus. I'm writing NASA chiefs to bring back that album sent to space and change it for this one!
Who is going to do the Deeper Into Movies/Comfortably Numb mashup?
11:53am
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That's the attitude, Mayor Frank! Every Wednesday I say FUCK IT, WORK! Grab my laptop, a modem and run to the hills to find the solitude necessary to listen to Ken's show. So far so good! Although not good for my previous 256 bosses.