That Untitled August 1, 2018 Program: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 5:32am -Ken:

Morning friends!

Today jells as a hoppy yet wet experience despite your umbrella, then flames up into an endless parade bridging tail and heads, before rolling over into endless praise and a great leap forward. Vermeer (or his daughter) could not paint a sexier way to wind up behind the woodpile wearing a ring.

7:04am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Morning, all.

… and so, to bed.

7:04am Listener Robert:

...and solving Rubik's Cube, like this was.

8:02am Wild Neil||Peace All:

My 20 year old niece saw a youtube video a couple of times and now she can solve a Rubik's cube in 1 minute 40 seconds if it's well lubricated, longer if it's not. Silicone spray is supposed to work well.

♥ 8:17am Nymor:

I've had a few cubes but the only one I have left that hasn't fallen apart is ~35 years old and still turns beautifully (with no maintenance)

The "pros" just see it but I use a formula/plan - top layer, middle layer, cross on the bottom and then the final bottom corners. It's all muscle memory now and 1-2 minutes is about the norm - although I got some lucky breaks once to do it in 46 secs.

World record is x10 fater than that at an insane 4.22 secs - what!!

8:24am Wild Neil||Peace All:

As a kid I spent a WEEK reading a BOOK about how to solve it and got ONE COLOR done and that is about all I could muster. Wow.

8:26am Wild Neil||Peace All:

The top gif reminds me that in the 60's hippies would fill a bathtub with jello and then climb in to fell weird.

8:28am chrizzi:

Morning <3

♥ 8:42am AnAnonymousParty:

GM all. Might get to listen to enjoy show today for a change, no more soldering, just software all day. BTW, I really like this video: www.youtube.com...

9:03am TDK60:

Morning Ken, play a serious song or two? heheh

9:04am ben abs:

Morning SMK & Alles

♥ 9:05am melinda:

hi Ken and all!

9:05am Yahoo Serious:

Yes, please play some of my songs.

♥ 9:06am Henry in Hopatcong:

Good morning Ken and everyone!

9:07am Betsy O:

Ken, are the rumors and innuendoes true that you actually once wore a Earth Shoes while walking down State Street on your way to Discount Records while also reading Creem Magazine?

9:08am noel:

Dump owes some money to Ten Years After "If You Should Love Me" from Shhh!

9:08am Aaron Working In Newark:

Good morning SMK

9:09am zopa:

Guten tag, alles.

9:11am Betsy O:

I wonder how Montovani would have interpreted this song?

9:12am TDK60:

Ann Arbor used to have street news boxes of the Socialist Labor Party paper- '70s!

9:12am noel:

I had to turn the volume to get the song.

♥ 9:13am Yvang:

Morning WFMU!

9:13am TDK60:

This song and the last are in A-major. Now you know.

9:13am zopa:

@Betsy O: Ken's silence speaks volumes.

♥ 9:13am -Ken:

@BetsyO, wrong on all counts. I woulda been on my way to Schoolkids or Wazoo Records and I woulda been reading Op magazine and wearing Sears workboots.

♥ 9:14am Yvang:

I've met this tower, it's in Lisbon...

9:14am noel:

go by ear and memory

♥ 9:14am -Ken:

Good call Noel!!

9:14am Betsy O:

@TDK,... yes, and the Sun newspaper, then there was John Sinclair and the Rainbow Peoples Party.

9:15am noel:

Thanks Ken this is from one of my most favourtie albums.

9:15am noel:

It keeps going up and up like a lot of great songs.

9:16am TDK60:

Betsy, I used to visit longhair lefty pals in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti. Good times!

9:17am noel:

Witchi Ti Thaks Ken

9:17am ben abs:

oooof, one of my faves

9:18am Betsy O:

Ken, it figures, can’t believe in rumors, Wazoo was great, and thank you for going with the Sears work boots.

9:18am Will:

Gee, and Ken doesn't like "Heavy Metal" by Don Felder?

9:19am TDK60:

Ken, I can say for sure, the Everything Is Everything (band) version of this (w/Jim Pepper on board) was played *a lot* on WFMU back then! I was in Nutley, could pick up East Orange.

9:21am Betsy O:

@TDK,... A2 was a world unto itself, I would go there to de-stress from living in Detroit and visit friends. The Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival were grand events to go to.

9:21am noel:

Try picking up FMU when you live across the street from Fordham in the Bronx. After midnight most of the time. back in 68 and 69

9:22am People Like Us:

herro

9:22am TDK60:

When me and a pal first heard Witchi it was over WBAI. We called the DJ to say 'Wow." He said about 30 had done the same so he played it @ 10 times in a row!

9:22am northguineahills:

I like Jim Pepper, but I prefer Harper's Bizarre's version.

♥ 9:22am -Ken:

I had great times in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit back then. Ann Arbor was an incredible music town. Alas, it is no longer.

♥ 9:23am Webhamster Henry:

Has anyone done this at the Hoof 'n' Mouth?

9:23am People Like Us:

nice segue

9:24am noel:

BAI is where we heard a lot of stuff back then.

9:25am noel:

Fass played Atlantis for an hour on a loop.

9:25am Linda Lee:

absolutely right on BAI. good morning Ken!

♥ 9:25am -Ken:

Poor WBAI

♥ 9:25am Webhamster Henry:

For me, BAI music discovery was mostly on Peter Bochan's show, the freeformiest one.

♥ 9:25am -Ken:

Poor Bob Fass

9:26am noel:

Too much politics and fighting.

9:26am zopa:

I am loving the Cage gifs, Ken. Loving them!

9:27am noel:

Loving this Heroes

♥ 9:27am Irwin:

From Wiki:
Bowie's vocal was recorded with a "multi-latch" system devised by Visconti that creatively misused gating. Three microphones were used to capture the vocal, with one microphone nine inches from Bowie, one 20 feet away and one 50 feet away. Each microphone was muted as the next one was triggered. As the music built, Bowie was forced to sing at increased volumes to overcome the gating effect, leading to an increasingly impassioned vocal performance as the song progresses. Jay Hodgson writes, "Bowie's performance thus grows in intensity precisely as ever more ambience infuses his delivery until, by the final verse, he has to shout just to be heard....The more Bowie shouts just to be heard, in fact, the further back in the mix Visconti's multi-latch system pushes his vocal tracks, creating a stark metaphor for the situation of Bowie's doomed lovers".

9:28am TDK60:

Everything Is Everything's album was "jazz-rock" before the term "fusion" got coined. // I still listen to some WBAI. Some news shows. And that medieval/Early/classical music show with the English fellow Sunday morns.

9:28am noel:

Thanks Irwin. This version is Killer

9:29am Linda Lee:

wow! not just over-emoting, then.

9:30am noel:

Mike Fader was incredible back in the 80's

9:30am Betsy O:

@Ken,... did you ever catch the Sonic's Rendezvous Band in A2 or Detroit in that time period? Fred Sonic Smith, Scott Ashton and Scotty Morgan,... what a great under the radar band.

9:30am northguineahills:

Ok, who puts a children's zoo in a railway station?

♥ 9:30am Webhamster Henry:

I love creative studio technique!

♥ 9:30am Sebastian:

the German lyrics are absolute bonkers, lovely stuff
WIA KONNEN SIE SHLAGÄN!

hey Ken and everybody

9:30am Linda Lee:

recently saw 'Christiane F'. a more sophisticated 'Go Ask Alice' ~ as is suitable.

9:32am Linda Lee:

still having fun with my dyslexia. i read 'golden shower'.

9:32am TDK60:

Ken, didja ever see Sproton Layer? Roger Miller's (Mission of Burma) old prog rock band from A2?

♥ 9:34am Webhamster Henry:

I kind of liked WBAI's EMRA (Early Morning Radio Alliance) and Morning Serial, which occasionally had newly produced material like Our Life Among The Artists or whatever that was called.

9:35am Linda Lee:

what's up with all the GIFs w/ Nick Cave?

♥ 9:35am melinda:

Dig the Golden Flower.
@Linda Lee I have some golden flowers named Golden Showers, it's a variety of coreopsis.

♥ 9:36am Webhamster Henry:

Today is Swiss National Day, so playing some Christian Marclay would be appropriate.

9:36am Linda Lee:

bet they smell fantastic!

♥ 9:37am Henry in Hopatcong:

Been really diggin Wooden Shjips!

9:37am Vincent Nifigance:

Not enough songs about historical personages these days.

9:38am ben abs:

What happened to WBAI?

♥ 9:38am steveo:

hi ken; john cale sounds great

9:38am Linda Lee:

@ben abs - human frailty.

♥ 9:39am -Ken:

Saw Sonics Rendezvous Band a bunch, bue saw the Asheton/Niagara version of Destroy All Monsters a LOT. They were incredible. Still haunted and bewitched by Niagara

9:40am northguineahills:

@Webhamster: I've had the pleasure to meet Christian Marclay on many occasion due to mutual friends....

9:41am Rover James:

Goddam! How many people DID Led Zeppelin rip-off?!?!?!

9:43am cee Dubbles:

Nothing like some good Morning Dump!

♥ 9:43am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

noting pleases me more than wednesday morning with nick cage gifs

9:44am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Why, it's Cagemass in August!

9:44am Linda Lee:

Christiane F was as much of documentary as Go Ask Alice, i believe.

9:44am mb:

Good Morning Ken till 12 o' clock today

9:45am Linda Lee:

Brief Brigade?

9:46am Linda Lee:

trailer for sale or rent/room for just 50 cents ...

♥ 9:47am Webhamster Henry:

A whole Corn Weenie set would be good here!

9:47am noel:

Roger Miller lives.

♥ 9:47am Webhamster Henry:

After all - the Ulster County Fair is on!

9:47am Betsy O:

@Ken,... Niagara and Destroy All Monsters were amazing, so was her later band Dark Carnival. She would design all the band’s posters and print outs, plus had had a nice career as a visual artist since then.

9:49am otto:

jurgen mueller? under the sea?

♥ 9:49am steveo:

no lemon, no melon

9:51am TDK60:

Is Roger Miller doing other music these days, aside from his movie music outfit Alloy Orchestra?

9:51am Gordon FM:

Good morning, Ken. Enjoying the show. Playing all the hits!

9:51am JakeGould:

So we feeling sorry for WBAI losing Jay Smooth because Leonard Lopate is now a DJ there?

9:51am Linda Lee:

hope the bad hipster-Lichtenstein isn't representative ..

♥ 9:52am -Ken:

Dates on the Ulster County Fair Henry? New Jersey State Fair starts Friday night in Augusta New Jersey right up Route 206 from the Chatterbox

9:53am Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Ken-I was in Ann Arbor back in 2000. Was it ruined by then? I thought it was a neat college town myself with a very cool music shop.

♥ 9:53am -Ken:

Jake you ignorant slut there are many reasons to feel sorry for WBAI, and the fact that their staff is walking out now over Lopate's return in merely the latest sad occurence in a terribly long downhill slide towards oblivian.

9:53am TDK60:

This song is in D. Now you know.

9:54am TDK60:

...maybe D minor?

♥ 9:54am steveo:

is this a mashup? what's the other song? this is fantastic

9:54am Wild Neil||Peace All:

Was Lopate a bad actor?

9:55am fՋfՋ (:

Hello, Ken, people!

♥ 9:55am Megaroni:

Servin' it up a la Sir Ken!

9:55am JakeGould:

@-Ken: Okay. Also, I used to listen to WBAI back in the 1990s. Remember the “Personal Computer Show”, “Off the Hook” as well as “Hour of the Wolf”, “Back of the Book” and other nonsense.

So yeah, they are really in sad shape. The real downhill happened around 2001 and 9-11.

Anyway, keep on posting Nic Cage GIFs.

9:56am Wild Neil||Peace All:

Never mind, google to the rescue: inappropriate conduct.

9:56am JakeGould:

I LIKE THIS MIX!!!

9:56am noel:

Lopate started there and became BMOC at NYC can't believe he's back he must have donated a packet o' money

♥ 9:56am Megaroni:

Omg! Nicholas Cage eclipse on air

9:57am berbo:

I never understood why accomplished artlist Bowie and Mercury felt they had to rip off Vanilla Ice for this track.

9:57am TDK60:

I now nothing of Lopate. One show that's really important on WBAI is "Law and Disorder" : lefty lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild document the slide into authoritariansm.

♥ 9:57am -Ken:

I heard rumors that Amy Goodman and Gary Null just quit BAI over Lopate also but Im not sure if that is true.

9:57am Linda Lee:

hasn't Amy been gone for a while now? i can't keep track.

9:58am Colleen:

My God this is fantastic

♥ 9:58am -Ken:

Amy took the show solo but BAI had still been airing it

9:58am Nick Cave:

WTH are you talking about? There are no videos of me.

9:59am noel:

Gary and Amy have their own things going on. The station obviously got bread from Lenny.

9:59am JakeGould:

Well, I will say this: Outside of Amy Goodman, WBAI has really turned more paranoid over the years. Which is to say maybe if they cut down on the tin foil budget they could scrape by?

Also, if Gary Null is off the air where will people go to listen to 3 hour infomercials for “The Green Stuff?” WHERE CAN WE HEAR ABOUT THE GREEN STUFF AND THE RED STUFF!!!

9:59am Buddha of Suburbia:

Hi folks

9:59am TDK60:

"Democracy Now" is now its own syndicated show, but still on BAI. // I'm a WFMU freak but I don't like *every* show here. Maybe 65- to 75%?

10:00am JakeGould:

Also, Ken have you seen this painting? Trump crossing the swamp! a57.foxnews.com...

10:01am Linda Lee:

guess they know where their bread is buttered..

10:01am northguineahills:

@Jake: That's worse then a garrison cartoon...

10:01am Linda Lee:

Buddha! Yin Infusion right on time!

10:02am JakeGould:

It was painted by Jon McNaughton. What a talent!

10:03am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Now all of which I can think is an extended reminiscence about "Zardoz" by Sean Connery on one "Flop House" episode or another: 'I had a MASK!—and a DIAPER!!!'.

Links (and a good image) here: flophousepodcast.wikia.com...

♥ 10:03am steveo:

PEOPLE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CLASSIC STATION MANAGER KEN JAM

♥ 10:03am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

Ken will you please buy WBAI or take it over or whatever ffs. Please. God. Bring some of your WFMU charm to that shit. How can NYC not have a great leftie political station. It's a disgrace.

10:03am Linda Lee:

Jake ~ more paranoid seems apt, atm

10:04am noel:

I have to put Zardoz on my Netflix list. Thanks.

10:04am JakeGould:

I’m sorry folks, I am genuinely entranced by all of these Nic Cage GIFs. Wowowowowowowowowowowowow!

10:05am noel:

Just saw "Three Days of the Condor" a great movie.

♥ 10:05am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

Imagine someone tying themselves to balloons to their potential doom over the Atlantic for WBAI... its impossible.

10:06am Lewis:

that sounded a lot like Larry absent what ever meds slow him down...

♥ 10:06am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

currently I mean. If Ken got a hold of it, who knows.

10:06am duke:

Our Lord and Savior Nicholas Cage

10:07am Linda Lee:

FMU won't be taking over any other station 'til they hit the mother lode in the parking lot.

♥ 10:07am steveo:

jerseydigs.com...

10:09am (Murakami Whywolf))):

"Hour of the Wolf" is still on; if WBAI ever can it, I wish Freund comes a-calling to WFMU, in which case I wish there's room for it.

(I stopped using the word 'hope' because I realised that never for a moment have I believed that my wishes directly influenced the probabilities of future events, which is what I understand 'hoping' to mean.)

♥ 10:10am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

that parking lot money, and when Andy makes a WFMU Monopoly rip-off. Then its easy living.

10:10am Mailman Tom:

Ken, Big Planet Noise has not been archived yet. Why?

♥ 10:11am -Ken:

bob ross I agree but I already tried and failed.

10:12am Lewis:

@Murakami Whywolf) - I would relax a bit on "hope" I find it to be a creative state of mind where I place myself in a better future... wrt to effecting change, mostly that is internal and hope can do that...

10:12am Sigurður:

Sparks.

10:12am Linda Lee:

rather glad about that, Ken. i worry for your health as it is.

♥ 10:12am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

try try try again ken. there's many proverbs and other short sayings about trying things that address this.

10:13am Lewis:

chance favors the well prepared...

♥ 10:13am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

not to butter your roll but you're a genius ken. you have made people want to actually listen to radio fundraisers. this is... magic.

10:15am Linda Lee:

let us now join together & flirt with Ken. :-D

♥ 10:15am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

what's worse than a radio fundraiser. nothing.

10:16am Sigurður:

.. IN A TEMPORARY swimming pool, Uppsala

10:17am Linda Lee:

plenty of things worse than an FMU fundraiser. like a BAI fundraiser.

10:18am noel:

I love the marathons it really gives the station a community feel.

10:19am Linda Lee:

i'm hoping to show up someday & help. dispel the mystery a bit.

♥ 10:19am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

Totally. I look forward to FMUs. BAI fundraisers are not only awful, they're at this point interminable. They're self defeating at this point.

10:19am noel:

SpongeBob has a Squirrel friend named Sandy. Coincidence?

10:19am Linda Lee:

it's a shame.

♥ 10:20am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

SpongeBob RossSquarepants

♥ 10:20am melinda:

I love marathons, too.

10:20am fՋfՋ (:

There is no such thing as a WFMU Marathon. It's a WFMU Triathlon (record fair, silent marathon + normal marathon).

10:21am JakeGould:

You know folks you can always give WFMU money anytime of the year and still get that year’s premiums, right? pledge.wfmu.org...

♥ 10:22am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

But BAI is important. Especially now. Which is why it sucks that it kind of sucks.

10:22am Buddha of Suburbia:

I'm imagining Ken blushing in the corner.

10:22am Lewis:

@bob ross etc - well said...

10:22am Dale:

this playlist is what i needed this morning thank you

10:23am Linda Lee:

he's a cool customer, that Ken.
can't help but see BAI as a picture of the American Left. though the station actually exists..

♥ 10:24am Webhamster Henry:

@Ken and people who want to get out of town:
The Ulster County Fair runs July 31- Aug 5
ulstercountyfair.com

♥ 10:24am -Ken:

BAI is kind of like WFMU's parent station. It hugely inspired our original freeform days: Bob Fass, Steve Post, Larry Josephson directly influenced Vin Scelsa, Danny Fields and Kokaine Kharma. So it feels like Im watching a parent slowly die of Alzheimers.

10:25am noel:

The Blessed Trinity.

10:25am Buddha of Suburbia:

Dale, I had a bad case of roll call withdrawal this morning. Can everyone shout out my name in unison for me? And adding a little pump fisting would be lovely.

♥ 10:25am crateslinger:

Conduct aside, Lopate is a donkey's bottom. I like a pun as much as the next guy, but he's just talking to himself most of the time.

♥ 10:25am -Ken:

Fresh out of Nic Cage GIFs!

10:26am noel:

all different personalities with different shows but all true entertainers.

10:26am Linda Lee:

hey there's Buddha of Suburbia!

10:27am Buddha of Suburbia:

The last one is not such a good look on Nic. He should lay off the cheeseburgers.

10:27am JakeGould:

@-Ken: Nonsense! You missed this one… THE BEES!!! giphy.com...

10:27am zopa:

Your efforts are much appreciated, SMK. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

10:27am Buddha of Suburbia:

(acting modest). Oh shucks, Hi Linda Lee!

10:27am Dale:

@Buddha of Suburbia: consider it done

♥ 10:27am karlward:

Why does everyone leave off the initial W in radio station names? I don't think I ever heard anyone do that with the K stations in Texas.

♥ 10:28am -Ken:

Any other GIF themes to completely overdo? I have to have them in my GIF vault though..

♥ 10:28am Webhamster Henry:

WBAI should have sold their frequency decades ago and gone either to another channel or all digital. Another channel is hard to do in the NYC market, though.

10:28am fՋfՋ (:

I don't think so, Ken!

That's clearly a Nicpopotamus Cage.

10:29am Buddha of Suburbia:

Ken, I'm doing the Dyn-o-mite shimmy'! Great tunes!

10:29am Linda Lee:

@karlward ~ because it's W not K.

♥ 10:29am melinda:

@Linda there does seem to be a parallel. Sad.

10:30am noel:

It's habit FMU, FUV, BAI like MCA and NEW-fm

10:30am Linda Lee:

more of a direct relation, i think,melinda. one born of the other ..

10:31am noel:

PIX and Rock and Roll

♥ 10:31am steveo:

because W is 10 syllables?

10:32am JakeGould:

@-Ken: What about row boat GIFs?

10:32am TDK60:

Ken: I recall those "original freeform days": Fass, Post, Josephson; as a teen. BAI is a mess but NYC still needs a lefty station, just an opinion.

10:32am Buddha of Suburbia:

I love the SF Reaper GIF but heard he didn't like how he appeared in it, so, now you can find him onCastro Street selling his Origami and for $5 extra he'll take selfies with ya.

10:33am Linda Lee:

deeeeeyooooaaahbullllayooooyaaaayaaayooooooaah.
i count 11.

10:33am queems:

big blood has such incredible vocals

10:33am fՋfՋ (:

karlward.

It is actually spelled WWWWFMU. But after the enactment Renaming Act 1996 they dropped three W's from the name. URL addresses follow the same convention.

10:33am Buddha of Suburbia:

Queems hey there

10:33am TDK60:

Will Big Blood return to Monty Hall someday?

♥ 10:34am Webhamster Henry:

I listened to a lot of WBAI when I moved to NYC and was a guest on the air there a few times at 505 8th Ave. You can get a feel for what was possible by checking out Irene Trudel's yearly Shulcoth Citizen Kafka reminiscences in her archives!

10:34am Linda Lee:

who was in there sounding like an older Cynthia Sley?

10:34am northguineahills:

Damn, missed The Blood during my commute.

10:35am queems:

hey @buddha. how’s it going

10:35am Linda Lee:

this Jayne Cortez is just fabulous.

♥ 10:35am melinda:

@Linda exactly

10:35am Linda Lee:

bring it, Yin Contingent! :-)

10:36am ben abs:

@ Linda Lee - agreed, it's a jam!

♥ 10:36am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

There It Is
www.poetryfoundation.org...

10:36am zopa:

And there it is...

♥ 10:37am Megaroni:

She's right! I was at protest outside Amazon last night in front of Empire State Blgd, scary scene

10:38am northguineahills:

(Don't tell anyone I got to work at 10:30 [not that my coworkers would be surprised, luckily, none of them are here]).

10:38am Linda Lee:

Yoko!! fantastic

10:39am Linda Lee:

how were the police, Megaroni?

10:39am TDK60:

Linda L. Didja hear Ken & Andy will bring the Yin tonight?

10:39am northguineahills:

Ken needs some Omsk winged bird of doom memes, the bringer of krokodil....

10:39am Buddha of Suburbia:

Hi ya Queems. Have an interview tomorrow. Don't know how but I scored an interview on my vacation. As you know I moved into new crib. Now I'm bored, but stare fondly at my decor and North Star painted walls.
.

♥ 10:39am MD:

the visual set list this morning is very cagy!!!!

10:40am Linda Lee:

no! how?

10:40am northguineahills:

There can never be to much Yoko...or Frida!

10:40am noel:

that damn shivering jelly is putting me in the mood for Blancmange.

10:40am Buddha of Suburbia:

TDK60, I'm the Yin Master - Buddha

10:40am queems:

@buddha awesome! knock em dead

10:40am northguineahills:

(my wife once went as Frida for Halloween).

♥ 10:40am MD:

even the young Nicholas swimming with his mommy

10:40am Buddha of Suburbia:

I am digging this Yoko song.

10:41am noel:

Found the rent check time to pay the factor.

10:41am Linda Lee:

really good. brilliant woman, really. & the haters can suck an egg.

10:41am Buddha of Suburbia:

Thanks Queems what would we do without our ACCU garden variety fellow misfits?

♥ 10:41am steveo:

one of the great accomplishments of wfmu is teaching my poor abused mind that yoko ono is amazing contrary what the prevailing sick culture insists

10:42am MUWFinMA:

implog wow! missed that

10:42am zopa:

I demand PUPPIES!!!!!

♥ 10:42am MD:

OH THAT'S A HIPPO! THE LACK OF HAIR THRU ME OFF!

10:42am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Ah, Citizen Kafka.

Actually, I would take Null leaving as an encouraging sign. A station with a some commitment to truth, reason and not living for money shouldn't have a self-deceived con-man daily pushing nonsensical and dangerous consumer woo as 'anti-Establishment'.

There's a reason the John Birch Society literature was a fixture of Orange County 'health food' stores, and for that matter in Pasadena as well.

10:43am Linda Lee:

that would largely be Ken, i think. i don't hear Yoko at all on other shows.

10:43am Buddha of Suburbia:

Linda Lee, I didn't like her back in the day. Blamed her for breaking up the Beatles, etc, but maybe John just was done and went out for pizza and bowling night with his wifey. Yoko's an artist and I can respect that.

♥ 10:43am fred:

The old site had a random greeting I always loved: "Where Grudges Are Still Harbored Against John Lennon For Breaking Up Fluxus"

10:43am zopa:

ROBOT PUPPIES NOW!!!!!

♥ 10:43am Webhamster Henry:

The loop under this rant is from Singing Science's "Electricity" - which I played on WBAI in a "educational songs" special I did.
C O I N C I D E N C E ?

♥ 10:43am The Oscar:

Been busy working, but had to chime in for the grade-A "punk rock Quincy episode" reference!

10:44am fՋfՋ (:

Can someone please tell me what is the word or words towards the end of this track when he says something like "I do an ??? exit!". I always wondered. Thanks.

10:44am Linda Lee:

darlng if they weren't ready to break up they wouldn't have broken up.

10:44am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Now it sounds like David Cross riffing on "Institutionalized".

10:44am TDK60:

The Beatles broke up because they realized they could never be The Dave Clark 5.

10:44am Buddha of Suburbia:

Weirdly appealing

10:44am fՋfՋ (:

Forget about it. Ken just ended the song too early.

10:45am berbo:

I demand the right to fondle my food.

10:45am lixiviated life:

semper tyrannis indeed

10:45am fՋfՋ (:

No, wait! the song is back!

10:45am noel:

Hey Dude Where's My Safe Space?

10:45am fՋfՋ (:

Ohj, dammit! He did it again! Ken just ended the song too early again.

10:45am Buddha of Suburbia:

TDK60, oh okay. That answers that. (scrutinizing eyebrow). Where do you want me to send you your pet rock?

10:45am northguineahills:

@Linda: I hear Yoko at least four times a week on WFMU. I know Kurt plays her often....

10:46am Linda Lee:

that's good!

10:46am Buddha of Suburbia:

I was having a 3 hour convo about safe space with my girlfriend last night.

♥ 10:47am The Oscar:

The fact that Yoko is not only not bad, but AWESOME, was a secret of the universe revealed to me in my first week as a record store clerk.

♥ 10:47am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

troll safe doors.

10:47am andaloudog:

Nice to hear Yoko is still voobalizing.

10:47am noel:

reality is overrated I like my life like I like my martinis with a Twist. Oh Oliver over here!

10:48am Buddha of Suburbia:

Oscar, that's interesting. Took me a while to warm up to her.

10:48am Buddha of Suburbia:

Noel, clever

10:49am Linda Lee:

'safe space' is a somewhat troubling concept for sensitive types.

10:49am noel:

On no it took me a while to warm up to Yo ko too.

10:49am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Parker and Stone have always seemed to me like people bullied into believing in Bullyism.

10:50am Buddha of Suburbia:

Noel, I think I'm going to make you a friendship bracelet or just send you a pocket Buddha.

10:50am Linda Lee:

isn't everyone?

10:51am noel:

Buddha and the Chocolate Box with psylocin please.

♥ 10:51am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

oh I love this.

♥ 10:51am The Oscar:

@Buddha The record that turned me was her first Plastic Ono Band album (the one that looks almost identical to John's). It's honest-to-god proto-punk, with some of John's nastiest guitar work ever.

♥ 10:51am Matt Warwick:

Good morning Ken.

10:52am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Ms Ono's work has often defined for me the difference between 'enjoy' and 'like', or maybe it's "between 'like' and 'appreciate'".

Now give that man a twenty-dollar coin for his watch-chain.

10:53am fՋfՋ (:

I was also warming up to Yoko Ono but then I listened to her Walking on Thin ICE and everything went cold again.

10:54am northguineahills:

I don't need a safe space, as only one person can successfully, insult me, and I take that w/ a grain of salt as she has a fiery Latina temper.....

♥ 10:55am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

a flag of every enemy country

10:55am Buddha of Suburbia:

Matt Warwick!! Thee Matt Warwick? Hi! You and Clay's 10 minute jibba jabba fest is everything!

10:55am Linda Lee:

(Murakami Whywolf))): very well said. yes.

10:55am fՋfՋ (:

Matt Warwick,

Welcome, Sir. Please have a seat.

Ken, people!

Matt is here! Prepare our Anti-Felder defense system!

10:55am TDK60:

Buddha: Idea! Send my pet rock to Swag coordinator Scott @ WFMU; they'll stick it in my still-to-be-mailed Swag. Better hurry! And gracias.

10:56am Buddha of Suburbia:

I must take a listen, Oscar. Thanks for sharing that info.

♥ 10:56am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

that's getting to be a lot of flags

10:56am Linda Lee:

bring it on.

♥ 10:56am melinda:

Murakami I agree

10:58am noel:

It's a swamp outside. Those clouds are moving really fast.

10:59am Buddha of Suburbia:

TDK60, sorry to hear you STILL didn't get your swag. That's terrible! I am too new to the gang to be receiving any FMU loot just yet. Although you would never know this since I am the chattiest Buddha in all the land. (FMU land).

♥ 10:59am AnAnonymousParty:

Where I live a safe space is your basement or root cellar or other dedicated underground tornado shelter.

10:59am noel:

No pool guy today so it's AC and Huevos Rancheros.

11:00am Buddha of Suburbia:

AnAnonymousParty, thanks, but we were discussing another type of "safe space".

11:01am noel:

57 varieties Heinz died at 57 years old

11:01am TDK60:

Idea Ken: Someone interview Bob Fass on a WFMU show, but which show? // Buddha, believe it or not I'm not sitting around twiddling my thumbs, pouting about my un-mailed Swag. I know it'll come someday and be a surprise.

11:02am noel:

When your fed up with the Animals and War that's what happens.

11:02am Linda Lee:

TDK60 ~ don't mope. call Joe!

♥ 11:03am joe mulligan:

anyone remember the old laserdisc video arcade game from the 80s Dragon's Lair, where Dirk had to save the princess from the dragon? the whole laserdisc set of scenes is out there on youtube. you basically queued the next scene by joystick controls.

11:03am noel:

I order minimum swag these days I'm one of the lucky ones to have the FMU truck that plays LP's.

11:04am TDK60:

Linda: really, I know Scott & his Elves will come through. I have other tofu to fry.

11:04am Buddha of Suburbia:

TDK60, your Burt Reynolds swagger tells me you're not moping at all. I just am surprised you didn't get it yet while some people in London have already received theirs.

11:04am northguineahills:

@TDK60: I also have yet to get my swag. In NYC, I used to get it by mid-July at the latest. But now in FL, I'd add another 5 business days (but we're in Aug).

11:04am queems:

my swag still hasn’t come yet but i figure it will eventually

♥ 11:04am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

@joe yes, I do. I wasted... wasn't it a $0.50 game? It was completely opaque what you had to do as far as my 7 year old self could tell. But I wanted to play it so bad because it was a cartoon.

11:04am Linda Lee:

yes, they will.

11:05am northguineahills:

@joe: Oh, I remember!

11:05am noel:

Bring back the magnetic Bumper Stickers. They have a life of about 3 years.

11:05am sugarplumfairywolf:

I'm late to the discussion but: the Chatterbox!!!

I think I read it closed though.

♥ 11:05am mondocurry:

joe, that's awesome will definitely be checking that out. i think i've only ever seen the first 4 or 5 frames. a handful of quarters did not get me far back in those days.

11:05am Buddha of Suburbia:

I feel like selling bootleg FMU swag in the back of a van...and sending all the proceeds to the station. Not really gangsta.

♥ 11:06am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

man, whatever happened to the cent symbol, huh?

11:06am noel:

Got my Sputnik tee shirt.

11:06am David in London:

@TDK - perhaps there’s so much swag for you they’ve had to lay on a special truck to get it to you... much slower, natch...

11:06am northguineahills:

Good idea, noel!

11:07am noel:

Thyme to introduce V-Neck T's less choking on my ancient neck.

11:07am northguineahills:

(my last one is still on my brooklyn fridge...)

11:07am sugarplumfairywolf:

I'm wrong, it's that the owner was going to sell it to Wawa.

11:08am noel:

I have my Obama Biden's on the Fridge.

11:10am noel:

The Brooklyn Fridge with Johnny Maestro?

11:10am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Anyone offering guarantied safety is to be ignored, but a limited domain of reasonable expectation of relative safety is part of what civilisation's about and what makes it possible. Fear is, in fact, a mind-killer.

Noöne should go into a classroom expecting only agreement and support, but 'You don' t belong here!, and here's why….',for example, is primate territory-claiming-by-excrement-throwing disguised as argument.

♥ 11:11am AnAnonymousParty:

I have some "white van" speakers I bought at a garage sale from the unsuspecting sap who actually bought them from a guys in a white van. If you are going to sell WFMU swag that way you'll have to come up with a convoluted story about how it's worth much more than you are offering it for while still selling it for way more than it is worth. You may be on to a great new fund raising source. We just need folks with white vans to pull it off.

11:11am TDK60:

I forget what the order is, maybe an extra CD? // Buddha, my Burt Reynolds SWAGger? Hee. He's such a hero to me, heh. // In all seriousness dear Woofmooers, I've volunteered several times at Swag Central in the WFMU Office Towers with Scott and crew, mailing out envelopes and boxes. Everyone works hard and has a good time.

♥ 11:12am joe mulligan:

@bob ross haha yep that was a money-sucking machine. you either knew all the moves by spending a ton of money or learned from someone else. or had very short games if you didnt know what to do

11:12am Buddha of Suburbia:

TDK60, you're so nice!? Forget what I said about the Burt Reynolds swagger.

♥ 11:14am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

@joe yes I had very short games. but boy did it look cooler than Elevator Action!

11:14am TDK60:

Buddha: Bert Reynolds...having trouble recalling...which band was he in...? early '80s hardcore? Goth?

♥ 11:14am joe mulligan:

@ngh were you good? I wasnt for sure! @mondocurry I watched all 22 minutes of the youtube clip - kind of cathartically getting my money back!

♥ 11:14am Goyim in the AM:

I spent a couple of days wondering where my swag was, decided to contact Joe McG and ask, pulled up my pledge info, and discovered I had forgotten to order any. Oops! (I was able to retrospectively, Joe was very helpful.)

11:14am FՋFՋ (:

Murakami,

The opposite feeling I experienced moving from 4chan to Reddit.

11:15am Linda Lee:

(((Murakami Whywolf): absolutely.

11:16am northguineahills:

@joe: No, just like everyone else here, they were frustrating short games. I finally just spent more time watching other people play.

11:16am Linda Lee:

Goyim in the AM: this is why i advised calling Joe.

11:19am (Murakami Whywolf))):

FՋFՋ:
I felt like 4chan moved from being populated by people committed to a bit to people deadly serious about it.

♥ 11:21am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

hawkwind is so good. i got way into black sabbath when I was a teenager but should have gotten way into this. but that's what happened pre-internet when people in tulsa oklahoma didn't necessarily have instant access to things that occurred in stoke-on-trent without knowing someone cool.

♥ 11:21am AnAnonymousParty:

Free! A girl with perhaps blonde hair trying to get water out of her ear. But, if you call right now you'll get a second girl with possibly blonde hair sneezing uncontrollably! Call now, supplies are limited!

♥ 11:22am steveo:

Relics!

♥ 11:23am joe mulligan:

@ngh, ha!! that sums it up for all of us then

11:23am FՋFՋ (:

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWKKKKWINDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!

P.S. PINK FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYDDDD!

11:23am Spaceman One:

Roger Water's finest song.

11:24am Linda Lee:

indeed ~ a very doobies-behind-the-gym type set. :-D

♥ 11:24am steveo:

heavy floyd!

11:25am JakeGould:

Has anyone said anything about Yoko Ono’s singing abilities yet?

11:26am PKNY:

I say it all the time if classic rock stations had snuck in some pre-Darkside Floyd every now and again, I wouldn't have grown up with such a dislike for them.

11:26am Buddha of Suburbia:

I'm leaving now. *Virtually slapping hands* with all of you as I make my way down to the Price is Right stage of my day. Bye everyone. Ken, sorry I mentioned the whole roll call withdrawal. I am kind of big deal on here....in my head. ;)

11:26am FՋFՋ (:

Murakami,

I don't know about that. I jumped ship in 2008 when 4chan became mainstream because of its anti-scientology stance.

♥ 11:28am crateslinger:

This is my safe space - as long as I don't say anything.

11:28am berbo:

Falling through the skylight, just like Nick Cage would!

♥ 11:29am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

a fun thing to do is write a message in sharpie to your doctor on your colon.

11:29am Buddha of Suburbia:

Ken, please DO NOT make GIF of your colonoscopy. Going away now.

11:29am FՋFՋ (:

PKNY,

Oh, man. Feel sorry for you. Pink Floyd is much better before the Dark Side/the Wall eras.

11:29am noel:

My doctor lost my records from two colonoscopies I found out when I went for my appointment for my 3rd colonoscopy. 3 in 5 years

11:29am Linda Lee:

colonoscopy videos are intellectual property?

11:29am Buddha of Suburbia:

Noel, I would sue.

11:29am northguineahills:

In college, I worked for a physician during summers and holidays. One day, I found a fiber-optic cable hooked up to a monitor. So, I put it down my throat to look at my stomach. The Doctor walked in and informed me that it was used for colonoscopies.

♥ 11:29am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

@noel um... I think I'd wonder about that.

♥ 11:30am Rich in Washington:

Oh. I'm scheduled to have a colonoscopy and I don't want to see it. Not even a bit. And I'm one of those 'make art out of weird elements of my life' kind of person.

♥ 11:30am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

@ngh lol ugh

11:30am northguineahills:

(I assumed it was sterilized beforehand).

11:31am Linda Lee:

you did not. LOL

♥ 11:31am AnAnonymousParty:

@Ken, that's weird that you didn't get a copy of you colonoscopy video. I was offered a copy of mine and, roller coaster ride though it was, I declined, my wife wasn't going to let me put it on our Plex server.

♥ 11:31am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

@linda colonoscopy videos are scatalogical property

11:31am noel:

Not worried since she didn't call me to tell me what the results were from my last colonoscopy and they called me 6 months later for another one. Go figure?

♥ 11:31am Rich in Washington:

Scott Williams played an amazing youtube video on his last show of some kid covering The Nile Song and now I wanna see it.

11:32am FՋFՋ (:

I'm pretty sure this colonoscopy chatter is a way to segue into The Reveries, the only band in the world where their bandmates play their instruments through their colons. Or something like that. Ken knows what I'm talking about, right?

11:32am Linda Lee:

not sure i want to know about Andy's internal Yin ~ but at least it's not video.

11:32am noel:

Now that's the kind of doctor who's a real pain in the ass.

♥ 11:32am Passaic River Blues:

Deft transposition.

♥ 11:33am steveo:

a segue for the ages

11:33am le petomane:

@FՋFՋ: I got you covered.

11:34am Buddha of Suburbia:

Noel is this a Scottish accent?

11:34am noel:

yes it is

♥ 11:34am AnAnonymousParty:

Yay! More Pink Floyd! This took place in a cave, right?

11:35am Linda Lee:

sure sounds like one!

♥ 11:35am joe mulligan:

while we're on the topic of the nile song I'd also like to hear a re-reading of the end dialogue from "several species." was the "Pict" the person yelling in gaelic or scottish?

11:36am noel:

wearing my tartan sombrero after those wonderful Huevos Rancheros. What no Rosenstolz?

11:36am FՋFՋ (:

Le petomane,

Thank you for making me Google your name. Thank you very much, really.

People,

How do I delete my browser search history?

♥ 11:36am joe mulligan:

or was that what Ken played

11:37am Buddha of Suburbia:

Noel, I think we are becoming ACCU besties. Aren't you originally from Scotland? I think you should send me a pocket Noel in exchange for your pocket Buddha.

11:37am noel:

Pictish was Brythonic, Not Irish Gaelic like the Scots spoke.

♥ 11:38am Brian C.:

The Doc who gave me my first few colonoscopies got sent to prison for a few years on some kind of kickback scheme.

11:38am noel:

Dinnae Ken whit a pocket is lassie.

11:39am northguineahills:

I suppose I should have a colonoscopy, never had one. Then again, I haven't seen a doctor in 8 years.

♥ 11:39am joe mulligan:

@noel impressive language knowledge!

11:39am noel:

I had a doctor who swindled his mother's inheritance that was meant for his sister.

♥ 11:40am AnAnonymousParty:

That's why whenever I get referred to a new Doctor I always ask whether or not they have a prison record. Saves everybody a lot of embarrassment.

11:40am noel:

I'm up on a lot of miscellany Joe. Can't stop myself from sucking up information.

11:41am Linda Lee:

good lord, all the tushy talk ..

11:41am zopa:

große Radiosendung, SMK. Wunderbar!

11:42am noel:

Thought that was Sinead for a second.

11:42am noel:

It's a bit more cavernous Linda.

♥ 11:44am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

right linda? time for tuchus nation.

11:44am Linda Lee:

the interior yin, you mean?

11:44am queems:

i’m into this

11:45am noel:

Big Yin Wee Yin youse Yin's

11:45am zopa:

Rrrrrr, SMK. Rrrrr.

11:45am Buddha of Suburbia:

I had to return. Is this Serge?

11:46am noel:

Yan hill ooer there hen

11:46am Linda Lee:

no, not serge

11:47am Linda Lee:

they've heard him, though.

♥ 11:47am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

Andy has an interior Yen.

11:47am mzzmz:

I thought this woman's umbrella on the swing would impale the man on next few frames....

11:48am noel:

Andy has a masturbatorium too.

11:48am mzzmz:

doe andy have extra orifice!?

♥ 11:49am melinda:

Great show, Ken! Gotta split now.

11:49am noel:

Ojos Asi middle eastern version is a good choon.

11:50am Linda Lee:

amazing track, this one..

11:50am zopa:

hee hee hee. rrrrrr

11:50am noel:

There are a couple of Orifices one in Summit the other in Morristown.

11:51am mzzmz:

andy loves to poke them

11:51am noel:

9 minutes to kitchen patrol.

11:51am northguineahills:

Ok, making a doctor's appointment today, I've had insurance for the last year, might as well use it.

11:52am FՋFՋ (:

I agree, Linda Lee. What langauge is that ? Welsh? Irish?

11:52am noel:

Glesga slang in that lot.

♥ 11:52am bob ross had a pet squirrel named peapod:

is he speaking in tongues

11:54am noel:

he's using the Scottish style on many words even US words. But Kee-ch is shit.

11:54am noel:

tumshie is turnip

11:55am Linda Lee:

it's scottishish.

11:55am noel:

You got it Linda

11:55am FՋFՋ (:

He sounds a bit like Ivor Cutler. So it might be a Scott

♥ 11:55am maestroso:

Ivor Cutler?

11:58am zopa:

Nooooo! Don't go SMK!

♥ 11:58am AnAnonymousParty:

Uzebek. I knew it. I'll bet they drank all the acid out of their neighbor's car batteries before recording that.

11:58am noel:

In Mono hopefully

11:58am FՋFՋ (:

Did Ken say DJ Somebody Fantastic is playing next week? I love his work!

11:59am FՋFՋ (:

Thanks so much, Mr Ken and Mr People! Great shows, Nic Cages, Music, etc! Till next episode and remember: BE HAPPY. NOW!

12:00pm Betsy O:

Thank you Ken, from A2 and beyond!

12:00pm bobo:

Hello Sorry if im a bit late!!! I have some songs to requests if you don't mind please. At least one, cmon!