WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 23, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:01am Davee: Good morning
	9:02am TDK60: Bonjour DJ Trouble. Can you write me up an excuse so I can miss work?
	9:02am Dropof Goldensun: Greetings
	9:02am Cabbage: "When you can't find a friend, you still got the radio."
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Carrington and Jodorowsky. Fantabulous. Feels like a day for a psychopomp.
	9:04am jayjay à Montréal: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.
	9:04am Cabbage: Praise be to Monty Python!!!!!
	9:04am Peter in SEA: Major influence ....Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!.....in my youth. Rest in Power, Terrance!
	♥ 9:04am pantz: A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat
	9:04am Listener Bop Monroe: I had the sapnish flu once
	9:05am duke: He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
	9:05am Roberto: Nodoby epxects teh sapnish inquisition!
	9:06am Dave from Brooklyn: Damn I miss the Pythons
	9:06am Peter in SEA: Dennis Moore, Dennis, Moore riding through the woods!....On his horse Concord!
	9:07am jayjay: Your life or your lupins, my lord!
	9:07am sphere: hullo
	♥ 9:07am Webhamster Henry: I have a nice collection of Send In the Clowns in all different styles, but I think this one is not on the list!
	9:08am Listener Bop Monroe: What a senseless waste of human life.
	♥ 9:09am alanr: my first smile, a big smile, of the day! Thank you Grace and Trouble!
	9:09am Listener Bop Monroe: Btw good morning Ms. Trouble!
	♥ 9:09am Webhamster Henry: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
	9:11am Roberto: ...and garnished with lark's vomit.
	♥ 9:11am pantz: This is my wife Audrey. She smells a bit but has a heart of gold.
	9:12am sugarwolf: Love Grace Jones’ disco show tunes!
	9:12am sphere: Ralph Melish, a file clerk at an insurance company, was on his way to work as usual when...nothing happened!
	9:12am Listener Bop Monroe: Curtailing my Walpoling
	♥ 9:13am steveo: hello! so many clowns :(
	9:13am Lixiviated Life: Ok, ok. What's all this then?
	9:14am Emily Waters: hello hello hello
	♥ 9:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Elect a clown, expect a circus.
	9:15am jayjay à Montréal: it's getting far too silly
	9:16am TDK60: Trouble, will you bump into Fabio later in the WFMU library? Let us know if he's wearing some flashy surrealist sneakers, okay? (It's radio, we can't see.)
	9:16am stephen adams in the uk: hello
	9:17am thormagma: YES
	9:18am sphere: Roy! My heart is starting to flutter.
	9:18am Listener Bop Monroe: You're so f'g suave, frank
	9:18am Cabbage: Thank u for the circus morning !!! Perfect timing !!! (Says this clown !!!)
	9:18am Lixiviated Life: ok, you just made it weird (as if that could be possible). Visions of Blue Velvet & Dennis Hopper float through my head.
	♥ 9:18am Trouble: good morning good people of the thursday sector. moderness to all.
	9:18am anna: favorite clown of all time...gelsomina from La Strada...I feel some Fellini music is on the dripping horizon....the show feels like a circus in a puptent...groovy
	♥ 9:19am Andrew_in_WI: Immediately thought of Blue Velvet...
	9:19am Dave from Brooklyn: I remember the airport scene,as Michael Palin scurried along whilst the PA speaker bellowed"Paging Mr Ellis Dee!"
	9:20am popgoestheworld: Thank you. I needed that.
	9:20am Magda: Good Morning.
	♥ 9:21am Webhamster Henry: Fellini's 100th was last Tuesday...
	9:21am Listener Bop Monroe: Let's all drink to the death of a clown...
	9:23am Magda: clown is too kind a term for the occupier of the white house
	9:24am Listener Bop Monroe: Oh no not clown shoes!
	9:24am sphere: Oh! Cathy's Clown is totally one of my ultimate faves! Top 10 for sure.
	♥ 9:24am steveo: @dave f.b. do they spell out Ellis Dee on the screen because if I only heard it i might not get the joke
	9:25am TDK60: Anna: La Strada is a great movie.
	9:26am Davee: quit clowning around
	♥ 9:27am Planet Tyler: Is this an impeachment themed set?
	♥ 9:27am G: Keep clowning around
	9:27am waters7: just remembered I made an avatar. what a clown!
	9:28am Magda: Oh I see we are goping in memory of Terry. I really loved the bit from the movie "The Meaning of Lif" Where he did that odd fishy fish bit.
	♥ 9:28am Ken From Hyde Park: Evil clown wants to add pollution to our rivers and streams - www.slate.com...
	♥ 9:28am Strandlund: How many of these clown songs can fit into a small car?
	9:29am Listener Bop Monroe: A thousand clowns of course!
	9:29am Magda: Good Question Strandlund.
	9:30am waters7: did Bob Dylan say that Smokey was Americas greatest poet?
	9:30am still b/p: Speakin' o' clowns -- anyone in Boston area should take a look at exhibit of Kay Nielsen illustrations at MFA, which includes a few just wonderful Pierrot scenes among the pieces. Saw them the other day and ALL the show's illustrations are 5G quality -- great great great great great. Extraordinarily satisfying and remarkable.
	9:30am Dave from Brooklyn: Steveo,no,one was left to their own imagination to decipher that one. There was also a skit that pronounced: We need to get some LSD in the AM for the PM.
	♥ 9:30am John from NP: So we gonna hear Iron Maiden with Tears of a Clown?
	♥ 9:31am steveo: i shudder to think what AM stands for :)
	9:32am Magda: Clown Strike by Elvis Costello?
	♥ 9:33am Webhamster Henry: You're probably not going to get to Wolf Biermann's album Der Friedensclown, but there are some excellent songs there, some with his then youthful stepdaughter Nina Hagen.
	9:35am Listener Bop Monroe: ..and there it is, the Nina Hagen Nino Rota connection!
	♥ 9:35am steveo: alleged still from 8 1/2 (i never saw it) andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com...
	♥ 9:36am Webhamster Henry: Fellini's I Clowns .... is full of clowns.
	♥ 9:37am Strandlund: The Clown that dreaded sundown...
	9:37am jayjay à Montréal: Dave!
	♥ 9:38am Ken From Hyde Park: Memories of an epic sit-com clown - youtu.be...
	9:38am Listener Bop Monroe: Now I'm gonna cry...
	♥ 9:38am Planet Tyler: The Clown of boggy creek
	♥ 9:40am steveo: i guess bart simpson's method would be "hello, may i speak to mr. dee, mr. ellis dee?"
	9:40am vanya moscow: Moving
	9:40am Terry in DE: my single is just Dave Davis. there might have been band friction at that time
	9:40am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Good morning Trouble, good morning all. Just signed in to pay my respects to the dear departed clown. Rest in greasepaint, good sir.
	♥ 9:42am Strandlund: How about "Clowny Clown Clown" by Crispin Glover?
	♥ 9:42am Handy Haversack: @steveo, I think he'd say he's looking to pay the bar tab of his friend, Mr. Dee. Mr. Ellis Dee. So that Moe would have to shout "I'm looking for a tab of Ellis Dee!"
	9:43am franny: I'm getting a Clown vibe today.
	♥ 9:43am Planet Tyler: @Strand - good one
	♥ 9:44am Strandlund: I'm loving this set...PIE FIGHT!!!
	♥ 9:44am Handy Haversack: Maybe Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" ...
	9:44am still b/p: Working -- without audience -- with improv group years ago, I threw a Fellini references into a game/scene where film critics do a Siskel/Ebert thing after an improv movie scene. Member of the troupe said no one would get that reference and you'd lose audience with it. And I was all like "Huh-whaaaa...?" No, no...I ain't settin' the bar THAT low! The objector was fairly young but funny and fairly aware of popular culture going back some years. How he missed the boat...and frequent mentions and wide enduring currency...I don't know.
	9:45am franny: Wait....what Clown died?
	9:46am franny: I don't know why I'm capitalizing the c in clown.
	♥ 9:46am Webhamster Henry: Terry Jones, RIP!
	9:47am franny: Oh that's sad. I kept getting Bozo the clown who died last year.
	♥ 9:48am Strandlund: I think we're all bozos on this bus...
	9:49am Magda: Nice write up news.wfsu.org...
	9:49am Peter in SEA: E arrivato Zampano!
	9:49am Listener Bop Monroe: Squeeze the wheeze
	9:50am Magda: Better a clown than a mime?
	9:51am Davee: Mimes are quieter
	9:51am Micheal: Watching Python on mute this AM with radio on. Thank you, Trouble.
	9:51am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Celebrated Fellini's 100th by re-watching my favorite of his, "Amarcord". Funny thing was, I had NO idea it was his birthday, just had a strong compulsion to watch the movie and saw a post about it (his birthday) later on a popular "social" media site.
	9:53am Magda: Their body language is so loud. @davee
	9:53am βrian: It all depends on the mime type.
	♥ 9:55am Webhamster Henry: Be A Clown / Make 'Em Laugh mashup please.
	9:55am Magda: What other Mime types ares there?
	♥ 9:55am pantz: Alas poor Yorick. I knew him well, Horatio.
	9:56am Snoochienucci: Mooooring Trouble and all
	9:56am Snoochienucci: got stuck in a meeting, at least i made it back for the birds!
	♥ 9:57am Strandlund: Modern Clown World...
	♥ 9:58am Handy Haversack: Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est.
	9:58am Listener Bop Monroe: Terry Jones WAS a Chaucer scholar!
	10:00am Magda: And Welsh
	10:01am Listener Bop Monroe: :-)
	10:01am Davee: I like traffic lights
	♥ 10:02am mariano: Oh man, today's comedians have nothing on Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Rabelais in terms of "working blue".
	♥ 10:03am Manana: Enjoyed that set much. RIP Terry Jones.
	10:04am ran: most terrifying clown movie ever made...He who gets Slapped from 1924...starting Lon Chaney
	♥ 10:04am pantz: I went to a Catholic elementary school and had a nun that absolutely LOVED reading to us The Miller's Tale. Scandalous for her.
	10:04am still b/p: Looking for different part of a Python sketch that a friend and I keep referencing reecntly, I happened to learn a moment ago that the "Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink" sketch is known in German as "Knick Knack, Zwinker Zwinker." Which is nice.
	♥ 10:07am Webhamster Henry: Deep drive credits: released September 13, 2019 Joyce Leigh Bowden - voice on Prepare For Docking Ernie Books - bass guitar Oliver Coates - cello and electronics Ralph Cumbers - electronics, trombone on Deep Drone and Leapfrog a Local Keith McIvor - turntables Bill Ruyle - hammered dulcimer and drums Peter Zummo - trombone, voice, keyboards
	♥ 10:07am Phillippe Bastille: good morning
	10:08am waters7: dyin' here, trouble. such a lovely song and rendition (in a sentimental mood)
	♥ 10:09am Strandlund: Such a great show Trouble!! I LOVE IT!!
	♥ 10:09am melinda: hi Trouble and everyone
	♥ 10:10am melinda: dig the fantasia photo
	10:15am Magda: What else was Carla Dal Forno in?
	10:16am Dances with Moomins: Good Morning NEW Jersey!
	10:20am Dave from Brooklyn: Ran@ He Who Gets Slapped was shown in Prospect Park with accompaniment of a great little ensemble as it is a silent film. It was fantastic
	10:20am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: das ist aber eine wilde mischung… i like
	10:20am Mike Wolf: Trouble, good news, i finally upgraded my iphone -2 to one that can handle apps so i don’t have to leave TITMW behind when i go to work
	10:21am kevlicki: Hi trouble and all! Happy 1232020
	10:21am henry: love this GOOD VIBES ANTHEM!!
	10:21am Mike Wolf: that is one of the Wake’s three or four best songs
	♥ 10:23am Phillippe Bastille: Lovin' this jurgen paape
	♥ 10:24am Passaic River Blues: Flashes of putting this Jurgen Paape on a very old mixtape for my wife.
	♥ 10:28am Ike: This set so far is great for treating my cold. Almost as good as splashing myself with White Flower analgesic balm from Hong Kong!
	♥ 10:28am steveo: fwiw, the radiorethink pop-up ("play" button on wfmu home page) works great on my android phone
	10:29am Magda: @ike get back to work or Joey will be on you.
	♥ 10:31am Webhamster Henry: You don't Nomi!
	10:31am Roberto: You think you Nomi? You don't Nomi!
	10:31am Roberto: Oops lolz
	♥ 10:31am Trouble: gracias@strundland
	10:31am blee: This is my mood.
	10:32am JakeGould: This Klas Nomi is perfectly derpy.
	♥ 10:32am Phillippe Bastille: Nobody owns Klaus Nomi. Nobody.
	10:32am Davee: I like this clown stuff
	10:33am Lixiviated Life: Oh My !
	10:33am Magda: I'm glad we did not go down the Pennywise Route with the clown stuff.
	♥ 10:34am Trouble: oops, sorry: thanks @ strandlund.
	♥ 10:35am Ike: @Magda@10:29, ha ha ha, Joe O. is not the boss of me anymore! Too bad, I liked working for him. He still sits across from me though.
	10:35am meredith: It's cold here in NC. Tracey Thorn always warms my heart <3
	10:38am Magda: Good to know. He wanted to volunteer at MH.
	♥ 10:38am Handy Haversack: That was a great set.
	♥ 10:41am steveo: ooh dave nelson
	10:42am Hatter: Listening in UK - currently a dreary afternoon brightened by Trouble, thank you.
	♥ 10:42am Trouble: www.artfund.org
	10:43am Hatter: Fully support the Prospect Cottage appeal...it is a wonderful place
	♥ 10:43am mariano: Really love Jarman's Caravaggio and Edward II. Jubilee is also really good, a snapshot of the punk era in Britain.
	♥ 10:49am steveo: anyone know how to find out the lyrics of the sachiko kanenobu? beautiful song; compelling title
	♥ 10:55am Joe McG: @steveo: Sachiko says that it's about her and her husband to be, Paul Williams. He's the falcon, about to take her away to America from Japan.
	♥ 10:56am pantz: Paul Williams was quite the smooth operator, but a falcon?
	♥ 11:01am Trouble: not paul williams the singer songwrite, paul willimas the head of a rock mag that i can't remember title of...
	11:02am Bill W: There's no crying with mushrooms, Trouble.
	11:03am sphere: I took a look and the magazine was Crawdaddy. BTW, that Paul Williams was also good friends with Phillip K. Dick.
	11:10am JakeGould: @Trouble: You mean Crawdaddy?
	♥ 11:12am Trouble: yes that's him. sachiko also talked about being friends with philip k dick when she played here on joe mcgasko's show
	♥ 11:17am steveo: hey @Joe McG That's really great, thanks for your reply!
	11:26am choggie: Someone left a huge wad of bubblegum on the sidewalk, watch out!!
	♥ 11:28am Adrian in London: Hi Trouble, tuning in late. I was taking a late lunch at the Anselm Kiefer show at White Cube. Loved the Françoise Hardy set last week, by the way.
	♥ 11:30am Trouble: bonjour adrian! nice to hear from you. art first!
	♥ 11:31am Yes: this is all very nice
	11:34am Listener Gregory: I have been lurking but very much enjoying the show. Must leave now to lurk elsewhere, so thanks, Trouble!
	11:35am waters7: you're killing it today, girl
	11:35am Magda: Farwell everyone on the comment board.
	11:35am franny: White. Cube. Mama.
	11:36am Magda: Thank you DJ Trouble for the set.
	♥ 11:37am steveo: Well, I managed to find a Japanese page with what seems to be the lyrics by Sachiko Kanenobu, but let's just say that google translate may not be so good at Japanese song lyrics; but I think I get an impression of the ideas at least -- here's what i got: imgur.com...
	♥ 11:43am Passaic River Blues: This was played last week on the Explorers' Room and I was reminded of how truly wonderful it is.
	11:46am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Thank you for another thoroughly enjoyable show today, Trouble.
	11:51am choggie: Boo boo boo, boo boo boo, boo boo boo boo boo-boo, Boogertown
	11:52am waters7: my memory of Sugartown is at the second Wigstock where a very pretty drag queen did the sweetest little dance to this with a clean umbrella. A bittersweet memory as it was early days of the AIDS epidemic.
	♥ 11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the clownish programming today, Trouble. For folks flipping over to the Drummer Stream at noon, Julie has a neat show with an Australian focus and also guest Anna Copa Cabanna - www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:53am Trouble: thanks for listening and for all the good vibes today!
	11:54am choggie: Was Crystal Waters at that wigstock? Love that hit she had....
	♥ 11:56am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	11:57am waters7: I loved that song, too. she mustn't have been or I would have remembered
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: Shoot, almost noon! Trouble, what a great show. Always so much new stuff for me. That was a great tribute at the beginning, too. Thanks!
	♥ 11:58am Yes: au revoir
	11:59am Tennessee Jeb: Sweaters yea!
	♥ 2:10pm Andrew_in_WI: Is that new Big Blood?

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 23, 2020

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A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Alice Coltrane carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Èlg	marche "marche" by "Èlg"	les particules	three: four				*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Monty Python	Spanish Inquisition "Spanish Inquisition" by "Monty Python"	the worst best						0:02:42 (Pop-up)
grace jones	send in the clowns "send in the clowns" by "grace jones"	portfolio						0:04:43 (Pop-up)
The United States Of America	The American Metaphysical Circus	the united states of america						0:12:15 (Pop-up)
roy orbison	in dreams "in dreams" by "roy orbison"	in dreams						0:16:26 (Pop-up)
nino rota	amor de poeta "amor de poeta" by "nino rota"	34 film music rarities						0:19:34 (Pop-up)
manfred mann	ha ha said the clown							0:20:40 (Pop-up)
the everly brothers	cathy's clown							0:22:58 (Pop-up)
smokey robinson & the miracles	tears of a clown							0:25:24 (Pop-up)
the carla bley band	8 1/2 "8 1/2" by "the carla bley band"	amarcord nino rota v/a						0:28:21 (Pop-up)
kinks	death of a clown "death of a clown" by "kinks"	Something Else By The Kinks						0:37:29 (Pop-up)
the apartments	not every clown can be in the circus	a life full of farewells						0:41:13 (Pop-up)
carla bley band	8 1/2 (continued)					mixed in with a clip from "the clowns" by fellini		0:46:01 (Pop-up)
the lounge lizards	my clown's on fire	no pain for cakes						0:49:59 (Pop-up)
judy garland	be a clown "be a clown" by "judy garland"	jazz in the afternoon: the songs of cole porter						0:53:48 (Pop-up)

peter zummo	actual serpentine "actual serpentine" by "peter zummo"	deep drive	unheard of hope				*	1:01:30 (Pop-up)
duke ellington john coltrane	In a Sentimental Mood	duke ellington & john coltrane						1:06:59 (Pop-up)
carla dal forno	no trace "no trace" by "carla dal forno"	look up sharp	kallista records				*	1:11:11 (Pop-up)
the wake	english rain "english rain" by "the wake"	sarah 100 there and back again lane v/a						1:15:57 (Pop-up)
jurgen paape	So Weit Wie Noch Nie					thanks laura!		1:19:58 (Pop-up)
ritmos tropicosmos	tumba de la momia		discos mas		7"		*	1:25:02 (Pop-up)
klaus nomi	you don't own me "you don't own me" by "klaus nomi"	Eclipsed/ The Best of Klaus Nomi						1:29:38 (Pop-up)
tracey thorn	queen "queen" by "tracey thorn"	record						1:33:03 (Pop-up)

alla	sigue tu corazon "sigue tu corazon" by "alla"	es tiempo						1:43:08 (Pop-up)
Sachiko Kanenobu	falcon and i "falcon and i" by "Sachiko Kanenobu"	misora						1:46:41 (Pop-up)
iris	fever "fever" by "iris"	Monika Barchen: Songs For Bruno, Knut & Tom v/a						1:54:09 (Pop-up)
a girl called eddy	been around "been around" by "a girl called eddy"	been around	elefant				*	1:57:20 (Pop-up)
chicano batman & caloncho	Corazón de Roca		ATO records		7"		*	2:03:10 (Pop-up)
durand jones	listen to your heart	american love call						2:06:27 (Pop-up)
sofiane sadie & mazalda	wahdi ana w galbi	el ndjoum	airfono				*	2:11:18 (Pop-up)
yo la tengo	autumn sweater "autumn sweater" by "yo la tengo"	i can hear the heart beating as one						2:16:29 (Pop-up)
trembling blue stars	doo-wop music	lights on a darkening shore v/a						2:21:44 (Pop-up)
mmm with Emerson Kitamura	#4 "#4" by "mmm with Emerson Kitamura"	chasing giants	bubblingnotes				*	2:27:26 (Pop-up)
mmm	i'd rather be "i'd rather be" by "mmm"	safe mode		2017				2:30:24 (Pop-up)
the yearning	airplane(fly me to mexico)	take me all over the world\						2:33:29 (Pop-up)

Margo Guryan	love "love" by "Margo Guryan"	Take A Picture						2:42:10 (Pop-up)
miriam makeba	westwind "westwind" by "miriam makeba"	pata pata	strut				*	2:47:41 (Pop-up)
nancy sinatra	sugartown "sugartown" by "nancy sinatra"	all time hits						2:49:51 (Pop-up)
the left banke	shadows breaking over my head	there' s gonna be a storm						2:52:31 (Pop-up)
the stark reality	blue pillow "blue pillow" by "the stark reality"	acting thinking feeling						2:55:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Davee: Good morning
	9:02am TDK60: Bonjour DJ Trouble. Can you write me up an excuse so I can miss work?
	9:02am Dropof Goldensun: Greetings
	9:02am Cabbage: "When you can't find a friend, you still got the radio."
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Carrington and Jodorowsky. Fantabulous. Feels like a day for a psychopomp.
	9:04am jayjay à Montréal: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.
	9:04am Cabbage: Praise be to Monty Python!!!!!
	9:04am Peter in SEA: Major influence ....Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!.....in my youth. Rest in Power, Terrance!
	♥ 9:04am pantz: A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat
	9:04am Listener Bop Monroe: I had the sapnish flu once
	9:05am duke: He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
	9:05am Roberto: Nodoby epxects teh sapnish inquisition!
	9:06am Dave from Brooklyn: Damn I miss the Pythons
	9:06am Peter in SEA: Dennis Moore, Dennis, Moore riding through the woods!....On his horse Concord!
	9:07am jayjay: Your life or your lupins, my lord!
	9:07am sphere: hullo
	♥ 9:07am Webhamster Henry: I have a nice collection of Send In the Clowns in all different styles, but I think this one is not on the list!
	9:08am Listener Bop Monroe: What a senseless waste of human life.
	♥ 9:09am alanr: my first smile, a big smile, of the day! Thank you Grace and Trouble!
	9:09am Listener Bop Monroe: Btw good morning Ms. Trouble!
	♥ 9:09am Webhamster Henry: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
	9:11am Roberto: ...and garnished with lark's vomit.
	♥ 9:11am pantz: This is my wife Audrey. She smells a bit but has a heart of gold.
	9:12am sugarwolf: Love Grace Jones’ disco show tunes!
	9:12am sphere: Ralph Melish, a file clerk at an insurance company, was on his way to work as usual when...nothing happened!
	9:12am Listener Bop Monroe: Curtailing my Walpoling
	♥ 9:13am steveo: hello! so many clowns :(
	9:13am Lixiviated Life: Ok, ok. What's all this then?
	9:14am Emily Waters: hello hello hello
	♥ 9:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Elect a clown, expect a circus.
	9:15am jayjay à Montréal: it's getting far too silly
	9:16am TDK60: Trouble, will you bump into Fabio later in the WFMU library? Let us know if he's wearing some flashy surrealist sneakers, okay? (It's radio, we can't see.)
	9:16am stephen adams in the uk: hello
	9:17am thormagma: YES
	9:18am sphere: Roy! My heart is starting to flutter.
	9:18am Listener Bop Monroe: You're so f'g suave, frank
	9:18am Cabbage: Thank u for the circus morning !!! Perfect timing !!! (Says this clown !!!)
	9:18am Lixiviated Life: ok, you just made it weird (as if that could be possible). Visions of Blue Velvet & Dennis Hopper float through my head.
	♥ 9:18am Trouble: good morning good people of the thursday sector. moderness to all.
	9:18am anna: favorite clown of all time...gelsomina from La Strada...I feel some Fellini music is on the dripping horizon....the show feels like a circus in a puptent...groovy
	♥ 9:19am Andrew_in_WI: Immediately thought of Blue Velvet...
	9:19am Dave from Brooklyn: I remember the airport scene,as Michael Palin scurried along whilst the PA speaker bellowed"Paging Mr Ellis Dee!"
	9:20am popgoestheworld: Thank you. I needed that.
	9:20am Magda: Good Morning.
	♥ 9:21am Webhamster Henry: Fellini's 100th was last Tuesday...
	9:21am Listener Bop Monroe: Let's all drink to the death of a clown...
	9:23am Magda: clown is too kind a term for the occupier of the white house
	9:24am Listener Bop Monroe: Oh no not clown shoes!
	9:24am sphere: Oh! Cathy's Clown is totally one of my ultimate faves! Top 10 for sure.
	♥ 9:24am steveo: @dave f.b. do they spell out Ellis Dee on the screen because if I only heard it i might not get the joke
	9:25am TDK60: Anna: La Strada is a great movie.
	9:26am Davee: quit clowning around
	♥ 9:27am Planet Tyler: Is this an impeachment themed set?
	♥ 9:27am G: Keep clowning around
	9:27am waters7: just remembered I made an avatar. what a clown!
	9:28am Magda: Oh I see we are goping in memory of Terry. I really loved the bit from the movie "The Meaning of Lif" Where he did that odd fishy fish bit.
	♥ 9:28am Ken From Hyde Park: Evil clown wants to add pollution to our rivers and streams - www.slate.com...
	♥ 9:28am Strandlund: How many of these clown songs can fit into a small car?
	9:29am Listener Bop Monroe: A thousand clowns of course!
	9:29am Magda: Good Question Strandlund.
	9:30am waters7: did Bob Dylan say that Smokey was Americas greatest poet?
	9:30am still b/p: Speakin' o' clowns -- anyone in Boston area should take a look at exhibit of Kay Nielsen illustrations at MFA, which includes a few just wonderful Pierrot scenes among the pieces. Saw them the other day and ALL the show's illustrations are 5G quality -- great great great great great. Extraordinarily satisfying and remarkable.
	9:30am Dave from Brooklyn: Steveo,no,one was left to their own imagination to decipher that one. There was also a skit that pronounced: We need to get some LSD in the AM for the PM.
	♥ 9:30am John from NP: So we gonna hear Iron Maiden with Tears of a Clown?
	♥ 9:31am steveo: i shudder to think what AM stands for :)
	9:32am Magda: Clown Strike by Elvis Costello?
	♥ 9:33am Webhamster Henry: You're probably not going to get to Wolf Biermann's album Der Friedensclown, but there are some excellent songs there, some with his then youthful stepdaughter Nina Hagen.
	9:35am Listener Bop Monroe: ..and there it is, the Nina Hagen Nino Rota connection!
	♥ 9:35am steveo: alleged still from 8 1/2 (i never saw it) andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com...
	♥ 9:36am Webhamster Henry: Fellini's I Clowns .... is full of clowns.
	♥ 9:37am Strandlund: The Clown that dreaded sundown...
	9:37am jayjay à Montréal: Dave!
	♥ 9:38am Ken From Hyde Park: Memories of an epic sit-com clown - youtu.be...
	9:38am Listener Bop Monroe: Now I'm gonna cry...
	♥ 9:38am Planet Tyler: The Clown of boggy creek
	♥ 9:40am steveo: i guess bart simpson's method would be "hello, may i speak to mr. dee, mr. ellis dee?"
	9:40am vanya moscow: Moving
	9:40am Terry in DE: my single is just Dave Davis. there might have been band friction at that time
	9:40am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Good morning Trouble, good morning all. Just signed in to pay my respects to the dear departed clown. Rest in greasepaint, good sir.
	♥ 9:42am Strandlund: How about "Clowny Clown Clown" by Crispin Glover?
	♥ 9:42am Handy Haversack: @steveo, I think he'd say he's looking to pay the bar tab of his friend, Mr. Dee. Mr. Ellis Dee. So that Moe would have to shout "I'm looking for a tab of Ellis Dee!"
	9:43am franny: I'm getting a Clown vibe today.
	♥ 9:43am Planet Tyler: @Strand - good one
	♥ 9:44am Strandlund: I'm loving this set...PIE FIGHT!!!
	♥ 9:44am Handy Haversack: Maybe Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" ...
	9:44am still b/p: Working -- without audience -- with improv group years ago, I threw a Fellini references into a game/scene where film critics do a Siskel/Ebert thing after an improv movie scene. Member of the troupe said no one would get that reference and you'd lose audience with it. And I was all like "Huh-whaaaa...?" No, no...I ain't settin' the bar THAT low! The objector was fairly young but funny and fairly aware of popular culture going back some years. How he missed the boat...and frequent mentions and wide enduring currency...I don't know.
	9:45am franny: Wait....what Clown died?
	9:46am franny: I don't know why I'm capitalizing the c in clown.
	♥ 9:46am Webhamster Henry: Terry Jones, RIP!
	9:47am franny: Oh that's sad. I kept getting Bozo the clown who died last year.
	♥ 9:48am Strandlund: I think we're all bozos on this bus...
	9:49am Magda: Nice write up news.wfsu.org...
	9:49am Peter in SEA: E arrivato Zampano!
	9:49am Listener Bop Monroe: Squeeze the wheeze
	9:50am Magda: Better a clown than a mime?
	9:51am Davee: Mimes are quieter
	9:51am Micheal: Watching Python on mute this AM with radio on. Thank you, Trouble.
	9:51am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Celebrated Fellini's 100th by re-watching my favorite of his, "Amarcord". Funny thing was, I had NO idea it was his birthday, just had a strong compulsion to watch the movie and saw a post about it (his birthday) later on a popular "social" media site.
	9:53am Magda: Their body language is so loud. @davee
	9:53am βrian: It all depends on the mime type.
	♥ 9:55am Webhamster Henry: Be A Clown / Make 'Em Laugh mashup please.
	9:55am Magda: What other Mime types ares there?
	♥ 9:55am pantz: Alas poor Yorick. I knew him well, Horatio.
	9:56am Snoochienucci: Mooooring Trouble and all
	9:56am Snoochienucci: got stuck in a meeting, at least i made it back for the birds!
	♥ 9:57am Strandlund: Modern Clown World...
	♥ 9:58am Handy Haversack: Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est.
	9:58am Listener Bop Monroe: Terry Jones WAS a Chaucer scholar!
	10:00am Magda: And Welsh
	10:01am Listener Bop Monroe: :-)
	10:01am Davee: I like traffic lights
	♥ 10:02am mariano: Oh man, today's comedians have nothing on Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Rabelais in terms of "working blue".
	♥ 10:03am Manana: Enjoyed that set much. RIP Terry Jones.
	10:04am ran: most terrifying clown movie ever made...He who gets Slapped from 1924...starting Lon Chaney
	♥ 10:04am pantz: I went to a Catholic elementary school and had a nun that absolutely LOVED reading to us The Miller's Tale. Scandalous for her.
	10:04am still b/p: Looking for different part of a Python sketch that a friend and I keep referencing reecntly, I happened to learn a moment ago that the "Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink" sketch is known in German as "Knick Knack, Zwinker Zwinker." Which is nice.
	♥ 10:07am Webhamster Henry: Deep drive credits: released September 13, 2019 Joyce Leigh Bowden - voice on Prepare For Docking Ernie Books - bass guitar Oliver Coates - cello and electronics Ralph Cumbers - electronics, trombone on Deep Drone and Leapfrog a Local Keith McIvor - turntables Bill Ruyle - hammered dulcimer and drums Peter Zummo - trombone, voice, keyboards
	♥ 10:07am Phillippe Bastille: good morning
	10:08am waters7: dyin' here, trouble. such a lovely song and rendition (in a sentimental mood)
	♥ 10:09am Strandlund: Such a great show Trouble!! I LOVE IT!!
	♥ 10:09am melinda: hi Trouble and everyone
	♥ 10:10am melinda: dig the fantasia photo
	10:15am Magda: What else was Carla Dal Forno in?
	10:16am Dances with Moomins: Good Morning NEW Jersey!
	10:20am Dave from Brooklyn: Ran@ He Who Gets Slapped was shown in Prospect Park with accompaniment of a great little ensemble as it is a silent film. It was fantastic
	10:20am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: das ist aber eine wilde mischung… i like
	10:20am Mike Wolf: Trouble, good news, i finally upgraded my iphone -2 to one that can handle apps so i don’t have to leave TITMW behind when i go to work
	10:21am kevlicki: Hi trouble and all! Happy 1232020
	10:21am henry: love this GOOD VIBES ANTHEM!!
	10:21am Mike Wolf: that is one of the Wake’s three or four best songs
	♥ 10:23am Phillippe Bastille: Lovin' this jurgen paape
	♥ 10:24am Passaic River Blues: Flashes of putting this Jurgen Paape on a very old mixtape for my wife.
	♥ 10:28am Ike: This set so far is great for treating my cold. Almost as good as splashing myself with White Flower analgesic balm from Hong Kong!
	♥ 10:28am steveo: fwiw, the radiorethink pop-up ("play" button on wfmu home page) works great on my android phone
	10:29am Magda: @ike get back to work or Joey will be on you.
	♥ 10:31am Webhamster Henry: You don't Nomi!
	10:31am Roberto: You think you Nomi? You don't Nomi!
	10:31am Roberto: Oops lolz
	♥ 10:31am Trouble: gracias@strundland
	10:31am blee: This is my mood.
	10:32am JakeGould: This Klas Nomi is perfectly derpy.
	♥ 10:32am Phillippe Bastille: Nobody owns Klaus Nomi. Nobody.
	10:32am Davee: I like this clown stuff
	10:33am Lixiviated Life: Oh My !
	10:33am Magda: I'm glad we did not go down the Pennywise Route with the clown stuff.
	♥ 10:34am Trouble: oops, sorry: thanks @ strandlund.
	♥ 10:35am Ike: @Magda@10:29, ha ha ha, Joe O. is not the boss of me anymore! Too bad, I liked working for him. He still sits across from me though.
	10:35am meredith: It's cold here in NC. Tracey Thorn always warms my heart <3
	10:38am Magda: Good to know. He wanted to volunteer at MH.
	♥ 10:38am Handy Haversack: That was a great set.
	♥ 10:41am steveo: ooh dave nelson
	10:42am Hatter: Listening in UK - currently a dreary afternoon brightened by Trouble, thank you.
	♥ 10:42am Trouble: www.artfund.org
	10:43am Hatter: Fully support the Prospect Cottage appeal...it is a wonderful place
	♥ 10:43am mariano: Really love Jarman's Caravaggio and Edward II. Jubilee is also really good, a snapshot of the punk era in Britain.
	♥ 10:49am steveo: anyone know how to find out the lyrics of the sachiko kanenobu? beautiful song; compelling title
	♥ 10:55am Joe McG: @steveo: Sachiko says that it's about her and her husband to be, Paul Williams. He's the falcon, about to take her away to America from Japan.
	♥ 10:56am pantz: Paul Williams was quite the smooth operator, but a falcon?
	♥ 11:01am Trouble: not paul williams the singer songwrite, paul willimas the head of a rock mag that i can't remember title of...
	11:02am Bill W: There's no crying with mushrooms, Trouble.
	11:03am sphere: I took a look and the magazine was Crawdaddy. BTW, that Paul Williams was also good friends with Phillip K. Dick.
	11:10am JakeGould: @Trouble: You mean Crawdaddy?
	♥ 11:12am Trouble: yes that's him. sachiko also talked about being friends with philip k dick when she played here on joe mcgasko's show
	♥ 11:17am steveo: hey @Joe McG That's really great, thanks for your reply!
	11:26am choggie: Someone left a huge wad of bubblegum on the sidewalk, watch out!!
	♥ 11:28am Adrian in London: Hi Trouble, tuning in late. I was taking a late lunch at the Anselm Kiefer show at White Cube. Loved the Françoise Hardy set last week, by the way.
	♥ 11:30am Trouble: bonjour adrian! nice to hear from you. art first!
	♥ 11:31am Yes: this is all very nice
	11:34am Listener Gregory: I have been lurking but very much enjoying the show. Must leave now to lurk elsewhere, so thanks, Trouble!
	11:35am waters7: you're killing it today, girl
	11:35am Magda: Farwell everyone on the comment board.
	11:35am franny: White. Cube. Mama.
	11:36am Magda: Thank you DJ Trouble for the set.
	♥ 11:37am steveo: Well, I managed to find a Japanese page with what seems to be the lyrics by Sachiko Kanenobu, but let's just say that google translate may not be so good at Japanese song lyrics; but I think I get an impression of the ideas at least -- here's what i got: imgur.com...
	♥ 11:43am Passaic River Blues: This was played last week on the Explorers' Room and I was reminded of how truly wonderful it is.
	11:46am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: Thank you for another thoroughly enjoyable show today, Trouble.
	11:51am choggie: Boo boo boo, boo boo boo, boo boo boo boo boo-boo, Boogertown
	11:52am waters7: my memory of Sugartown is at the second Wigstock where a very pretty drag queen did the sweetest little dance to this with a clean umbrella. A bittersweet memory as it was early days of the AIDS epidemic.
	♥ 11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the clownish programming today, Trouble. For folks flipping over to the Drummer Stream at noon, Julie has a neat show with an Australian focus and also guest Anna Copa Cabanna - www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:53am Trouble: thanks for listening and for all the good vibes today!
	11:54am choggie: Was Crystal Waters at that wigstock? Love that hit she had....
	♥ 11:56am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	11:57am waters7: I loved that song, too. she mustn't have been or I would have remembered
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: Shoot, almost noon! Trouble, what a great show. Always so much new stuff for me. That was a great tribute at the beginning, too. Thanks!
	♥ 11:58am Yes: au revoir
	11:59am Tennessee Jeb: Sweaters yea!
	♥ 2:10pm Andrew_in_WI: Is that new Big Blood?

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 23, 2020

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