WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from May 9, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:01am common: hello trouble. hello, everyone.
	9:01am Dan near StL: That’s a wonderful drawing, watercolor. I had my first indigo bunting the other day, really startled me.
	9:01am owlex: Hello from Austin trouble and modern people
	♥ 9:01am love2laf: Flickers are wonderful birds, a woodpecker that's as happy to feast on the ground as in a tree. Good morning Trouble, happy to be here listening to your thoroughly Modern Thursday sounds. Hello Troubled friends.
	♥ 9:01am TDK60: Good morning DJ T. It's T-Day.
	♥ 9:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and those in flight.
	♥ 9:02am chresti: Morning Trouble and troubled!
	♥ 9:02am Zip7: Good morning Troubled modernists! Looking forward to another wonderful three-hour tour
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Bright Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	♥ 9:03am Webhamster Henry: Good Flickery morning, Troubleers!
	♥ 9:03am MarginWalker in Baltimore: Heyhey
	9:03am Dan near StL: Welcome to May, to May, and the woodland gay!
	9:04am Toothgrinder Tom: Never seen an indigo bunting, Basil Bunting, or parade bunting.
	♥ 9:04am Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, DJ Trouble and all.
	♥ 9:04am Trouble: good morning thursday people!
	♥ 9:04am StringOFperils: Good morning, Trouble. That's a very nice drawing.
	♥ 9:04am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all! I love how Chris's flicker seems to be scrutinizing the current track.
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:04 How about Pete Rose bunting?
	9:05am Dan near StL: Blue Jay, Cardinal bunting drove in a run.
	9:06am Dan near StL: I wouldn’t bet on Pete.
	♥ 9:06am bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): hello thursday!!
	♥ 9:08am Crosby in KC: good morning, Trouble and all
	9:09am Dan near StL: Screaming baby flight, typical.
	♥ 9:09am Strandlund: Good Morning, Trouble and everyone tuning in...
	9:09am owlex: Reading the description of penny on bandcamp, sounds like a good movie.
	9:11am Dan near StL: I highly recommend book and movie, “Eileen” with Anne Hathaway.
	9:11am Sarf: Good morning Trouble and all you Troublemakers
	9:11am Dan near StL: Trouble’s my middle name…
	9:12am Toothgrinder Tom: @Ken from Hyde Park ha ha, very clever.
	♥ 9:18am MarginWalker in Baltimore: The name Trouble always reminds me of the TV show Grimm. It was already corny but when they added a spunky young mischievous character in later seasons named her Trouble, I was about done.
	♥ 9:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Vexations! Good morning, Trouble & all troubled troublemakers and modernist modern lovers.
	♥ 9:18am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" Ooh a little Boredcast throwback here!
	♥ 9:18am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" oh i know this one! satie's instructions were to repeat this theme 840 times which would take a long long time. it's been done a few times, i think by john cage IIRC?
	♥ 9:19am TDK60: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" Oh, is this the abridged smash hit 45 RPM version of Vexations?
	♥ 9:19am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:18 John Cage organized and John Cale was a participant. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:19 Vexations (radio edit)
	♥ 9:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:19 "Cage set the admission price at $5 and had a time clock installed in the lobby of the theatre. Each patron checked in with the clock and when leaving the concert, checked out again and received a refund of 5¢ for each 20 minutes attended. "In this way", he told Lloyd, "People will understand that the more art you consume, the less it should cost." But Cage had underestimated the length of time the concert would take. It lasted over 18 hours." - WP
	♥ 9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:19 aka "just a little peeved"
	♥ 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:12 Next-level clever would be to use names like Robin Yount or Jay Buhner in that gag.
	♥ 9:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:19 will watch that John Cale clip later, that looks great
	♥ 9:23am TDK60: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 Hee hee. Good morning LBtP.
	♥ 9:23am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:22 It's fun. Todd Haynes uses it to start his Velvet Underground film.
	9:24am Dan near StL: Actually it’s Mortimer. Name that film
	♥ 9:24am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:23 morning, tdk. about to do a little yoga with the show running in the background. vexations yoga!
	9:28am Dan near StL: Happy 200th(couple days ango) anniversary of first performance of Symphony #9, Ludwig. Wish you could have heard it. Bernstein conducted it in Berlin when the wall came down.
	♥ 9:28am chresti: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 Vexations pose!
	9:29am Cyn: Love your show. Not the best morning music. This is WAY too long. Not fair!
	9:30am Honest Bernardo in Argentina: Play it!!!
	9:30am Dan near StL: Satie all day long, Monk too.
	9:31am Dan near StL: I got blisters on my fingers
	9:32am Booz: Several people have played Vexations solo, recently Igor Levitt
	9:33am Dan near StL: Omg, are you kidding?!?
	♥ 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: EAS over the stream confirmed.
	♥ 9:34am unpopularfred: bravo!!
	9:34am blee: i heard it, breep brerp, then bird chirp
	9:34am Dan near StL: The audible radish to your show
	♥ 9:34am BillyLundun: we heard it over here!
	♥ 9:34am Zip7: I wonder how many folks were introduced to Satie through the closing music of "My Dinner with Andre."
	9:34am Honest Bernardo in Argentina: WFMU has led me to enjoy the EAS testing and embrace it
	9:35am blee: on high alert, heard that brerp
	9:35am headcleaner: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" "Never by one performer in a single sitting" - Not true! Igor Levit in 2020, during the depths of lockdown - www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 9:35am Charles in Chicago: actually couldn't wait, just watched it. damn that was cool. "Mr Cale thank you very much, you have a whim of iron, I admire you very much".
	♥ 9:35am love2laf: I heard the emergency signal, and I am still sad that I cannot clicky star it, it's on the WFMU hit list ;)
	9:36am Dan near StL: I own the 27 disc box set
	♥ 9:37am Booz: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 That's a long suvasana
	♥ 9:38am Booz: ↳ headcleaner @9:35 youtu.be... Levitt livestream
	9:38am Dan near StL: Slouvaki King, Times Square.
	9:40am Dan near StL: Love those inbred harmonies. Opened for The Roches.
	♥ 9:42am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:35 The Cale clip reminds me a little of that clip of young clean-cut Frank Zappa on Steve Allen's show, except that John Cale is about 10,000 times cooler than Frank Zappa
	9:45am Philip: Sounds like Jolie Holland
	♥ 9:46am TDK60: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:42 Morning, Charles. I might disagree about that. They were groovy in different areas of the coolness spectrum, one could say.
	9:47am Dan near StL: Wasn’t Cale classically trained? I could be wrong.
	♥ 9:50am TDK60: I wasn't lookin' at the playlist, thought V. Sola was Myriam Gendron at first. And what is it about J. Foster? Her sound is usually a bit eerie. Though I haven't placed it on my eerie spectrum yet.
	9:52am Dan near StL: Tribute to Obscure or Bizarre record labels? ECM?
	♥ 9:52am TDK60: Always have dug Eberhard Weber; has a distinctive bass sound.
	9:53am Dan near StL: Perhaps the John Abercrombie of bass?
	♥ 9:57am Zip7: ↳ TDK60 @9:52 Yeah, he has a great "round" tone, like Jaco and Fernando Saunders
	♥ 9:57am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @9:46 I expected someone to disagree! Thanks TDK. You can always count on the Zappa fans :-)
	♥ 9:58am Ben in Newark: Good morning everyone! Trouble, Liz and I installed a bird feeder in our backyard last week. We've started seeing all types of birds that we've never noticed before in our neighborhood
	9:58am Matty cannabis: So cool to hear some Eberhard Weber, especially this album “The Following Morning”. What a master work.
	9:58am bobobobob palindrome plasticland: went to see E weber in Amazing Grace. Evanston Illinois..extra added attraction...John Marshall.. soft machine on Drums!!!
	♥ 9:58am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan near StL @9:53 nice comparison
	♥ 10:00am TDK60: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:57 C. in Chi-ville: I'm not a total Frankhead and it's not "all good" -- have some criticisms of FZ, too.
	10:00am Dan near StL: That was as close to Haight/Ashbury as Evanston ever got. I remember it well. Heartland Cafe (Rogers Park) survives.
	♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @10:00 understood
	10:02am Dan near StL: Tanks Charles, later I’ll put on Distant Fields by Oregon.
	10:02am Dan near StL: Distant Hills?
	♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @10:00 Occasionally I hear some instrumental music by Zappa without knowing what it is and I like it. I think he's better without the juvenille lyrics.
	10:03am Sarf: ↳ Song: "leave it open" by "kate bush" Thank you!
	♥ 10:05am Mxter Baba: Well, this is a fine how do you do! Greetings, Trouble and all! heeeeHAWWWHEEHAWWW!
	10:05am Dan near StL: Zappa may have learned from Chuck Berry. Whose only #1 record was, “My Ding a ling”. Crap sells.
	♥ 10:06am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Song: "leave it open" by "kate bush" ǝʌǝᴉlǝq ʇ’uoʍ ʎǝɥʇ pᴉɐs ʎǝɥʇ puɐ
	♥ 10:06am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan near StL @10:05 #sadbuttrue
	♥ 10:07am βrian: Bonjour, les oiseaux !
	10:08am Dan near StL: Grammy for, “Afternoon Delight”, I rest my case your honor.
	♥ 10:08am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:03 I did some freelance editing of a D&D-ish adventure a few years ago. It wasn't a great piece, but there was one encounter in it that was just kind of misogynist and puerile and pointless (and bad -- really poorly worked in to the surrounding area). So that one I just totally rewrote, and I made it an extended allusion to "Camarillo Brillo," figuring if you're going to go for twelve-year-old-boy humor, you may as well go with the master. I was pretty proud of it!
	♥ 10:08am Zip7: Well, the NY Times has settled the question once and for all. According to Caryn Ganz, "Madonna is the most important and influential solo figure in pop history" www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 10:10am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:05 Hey there Mx. Baba. I'm going out for sushi tonight, gonna have some spicy tuna :-)
	10:10am Dan near StL: I love Bongo Fury with DVV, live. Sure, it’s funny too.
	♥ 10:11am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:08 "Cultural cannibalism at its fleshiest: such is the gripe of musician and theorist Terre Thaemlitz, a.k.a. DJ Sprinkles, on her album Midtown 120 Blues, a strange avant-garde masterpiece that is equal parts agitprop and seductive house. On the track “Ball’r (Madonna-Free Zone),” she expresses hatred of this cooptation: "'When Madonna came out with her hit “Vogue,” you knew it was over. She had taken a very specifically queer, transgender, Latino, and African-American phenomenon and totally erased that context with lyrics about how “it makes no difference if you’re black or white, if you’re a boy or a girl.” Madonna was taking in tons of money, while the Queen who actually taught her how to vogue was sitting at a table in front of me, broke. So if anybody requested any “Vogue” or any other Madonna track, I’d just tell them, “No, this is a Madonna free zone! And as long as I’m DJing you will not be allowed to vogue to the decontextualized, reified, corporatized, liberalized, neutralized, asexualized, re-genderized, pop reflection of this dancefloor’s reality!”'" thebaffler.com...
	♥ 10:11am lpfnrobin: ↳ Song: "l'amour de marbre" by "foret" Beautiful and great song, thanks Trouble. Im keeping this one close
	10:12am Dan near StL: Weird series of children’s books, “The Night Before Mother’s Day”, yes, mirroring, “The Night Before Christmas”.
	♥ 10:13am love2laf: That #1 cause of death for pregnant woman just makes me breakdown and cry every damn time.
	♥ 10:13am Mxter Baba: Sing it, Trouble! Happy mother's day. We each came out of a uterus, and there's no other way into this world.
	10:14am Dan near StL: Fingers crossed- I hope that issue wins an election, along with others.
	♥ 10:15am Zip7: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 Pretty much sez it all. Terre Thaemitz does a great instrumental version of Gary Numan's "Cars," too
	10:15am Dan near StL: Dem. obviously.
	♥ 10:16am Yes: <3
	♥ 10:16am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:15 That article also has a pretty strong takedown of the Detroit electronic scene as a bourgeois-based culture that worked had to keep out working-class fans and artists.
	10:17am Sarf: Appreciate the sobering statistics, Trouble. Happy Mother's Day to you and all who mother
	♥ 10:23am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:13 L'Origine du monde
	♥ 10:23am xtrakrispy: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 That’s one hell of an article and covers a lot of ground. Thanks, Handy.
	♥ 10:23am Yes: ↳ Song: "Consolacao" by "agustin pereyra lucena" <3
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: I love how this music is a showcase for … an acoustic guitar!
	♥ 10:25am Zip7: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:16 This is the push I needed to finally get a sub to The Baffler. Thanks, Handy!
	♥ 10:25am lpfnrobin: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 Great article. A lot to parse through. Without pissing off anyone, I prefer performers when they stay true and don't conflate the balloon they were given.
	♥ 10:26am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:23 ... ou de la comédie humaine au moins ...
	♥ 10:27am Charles in Chicago: ↳ xtrakrispy @10:23 Oh, shots fired!!! "There was the mediocre album of café music by SAULT, which was praised for its faux-revolutionary lyrics."
	♥ 10:27am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:25 Newest issue has been my reading the past couple of days.
	♥ 10:27am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:27 I have to take this article with a large grain of SAULT
	10:27am Dan 2: LOVING theme 3
	10:27am Pol Pot: My mind gets broader whenever I listen. I looked up Terre Thaemlitz and wow! I never knew that xhe participated in panel discussions!
	10:31am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	♥ 10:33am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:27 "Lil Baby released a song with lyrics that stated “every colored person ain’t dumb, and all whites not racist.” " Well I know that song and I though it was great. You have to listen to the whole thing, not just take one line out of context. "It's bigger than black and white It's a problem with the whole way of life It can't change overnight But we gotta start somewhere Might as well go ahead and start here" - I thought that was pretty powerful.
	♥ 10:34am Charles in Chicago: anyhow ... that article touched a nerve here. but i gotta get to work. later listeners!
	♥ 10:35am Dan 2: ↳ Ben in Newark @9:58 Like what? NYC is having a good spring migration so far this year
	10:37am Chief Guy: Which article?
	♥ 10:42am HyperDose: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:33 My favorite rap lyric is "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" - "Sleepy" Joe Biden www.youtube.com...
	10:48am Yes: 😎
	♥ 10:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Dan 2 @10:35 I haven't seen too much in our backyard. The usual suspects of sparrows, doves, bluejays. Saw a house finch and a hermit thrush. No towhees or titmice this year, though.
	♥ 10:52am peter_h_christ: ↳ Song: "hey disc jockey" by "black juniors" Did Ken play this yesterday? I'm being pulled toward the same Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam feelings..
	10:58am rx "rexy" scabin: Beautiful.
	♥ 11:00am ldbl: ↳ peter_h_christ @10:52 he sure did - a rare(ish) Ken / Trouble crossover!
	11:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Doesn’t surprise me that these are the people who want to end school lunches.
	♥ 11:07am chresti: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:05 Mxter Babakins!
	♥ 11:08am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:07 SOME of us want to begin school brunches!
	♥ 11:09am Rory: Hello all! Listening in and just want to say Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
	♥ 11:09am HyperDose: No Child Left Behind took Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton's beautiful soul from us. Down with Washington! In other news, the Butterfly in the Sky Reading Rainbow doc is AMAZING. Streaming now! Trailer: www.youtube.com...
	11:09am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Their ultimate goal is to take over all public and private higher education. They know stage legislatures will do the work for them in Republican states.
	11:10am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Handy: YES!
	11:10am Arlene: Yes; the attack on education is an attack on democracy.
	♥ 11:12am HyperDose: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:09 If the schools are controlled, you know religious influence is next
	♥ 11:12am tom tom the pipers son: good to hear about the public school educators
	11:12am Arlene: Gorgeous bird drawing, too. The artist is brilliant.
	♥ 11:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rory @11:09 Rory! Long time!
	11:13am Listener Bryan (the Professor): I posted elsewhere about our daughter’s grad yesterday from Bank Street but they absolutely rocked it at Commencement. Their president was awesome. Honorary degree recipient, Robin DG Kelley, awesome. A student speaker called for Bank St to divest and no one cut their mic. They felt like a real college, maybe because they are so closely focused on training teachers. I was super impressed.
	11:13am Carmen: As a always I appreciate hearing your voice on the big issues we as humans face right now
	♥ 11:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:13 Congrats to your daughter!
	11:14am ArizonaK: Damn girl. Rite-on
	11:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): So-called elite institutions can’t even hold commencement they’re so afraid of their students.
	♥ 11:14am Dan 2: ↳ Song: "second introduction" by "ziad rahbani" this is the greatest!
	11:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Handy - thanks! We’re so proud!
	11:14am Chief Guy: The importance of teachers and educators to our communities cannot be underestimated. They are just as much essential workers as firefighters. Like firefighters, their refusal to work can cripple a community, so their right to strike must be eliminated.
	♥ 11:16am Trouble: I dont think they are afraid of their students @ bryan: they are afraid of losing their donors.
	♥ 11:16am Handy Haversack: Elsewhere on the unequal treatment front, protestors from Columbia are being charged with misdemeanors, those from CUNY with felonies: hellgatenyc.com...
	♥ 11:17am Noir Lover: The toothpaste is out of the tube, as they say.
	11:17am Sparkles: 1st year public school teacher hailing from Houston here! There is a state takeover in the Houston public school district and there is much speculation that the higher ups want to switch the public schools to either charter schools or a private school voucher system. They have removed libraries from the most underperforming schools this year, teachers are leaving in droves, the list goes on and on. Many teachers and staff are afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all educators!
	11:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Trouble - of course. But they’re afraid the students will offend the donors, so they’ve thrown the students and faculty under the bus. Some parents booed the Bank St student speaker. I’m sure everyone will get through it alive. Schools can handle diverse opinions just fine.
	♥ 11:19am TDK60: I think some college faculty and students are to boycott grad events this spring. They may prefer /not/ to see the faces of administrators. I just heard, there's a faculty camp at the New School now.
	11:19am rx "rexy" scabin: @Trouble indeed.
	♥ 11:19am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:16 They certainly are afraid of their donors, but I think there's real fear of the students as well. The (racist, dated, tired, false) trope of blaming "outside agitators" shows that the idea that these students have political agency and considered positions is too much for the school administrations and the city to confront. They dismiss the entire idea of political resistance and political community by blaming "outsiders" so they don't have to grapple with the possibility of engaging in political action rather than mere fund raising.
	11:20am Andres: ↳ Song: "Gozame Ya!" by "susan estrada" It got hot in here! So good. So breezey.
	11:20am headcleaner: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:16 The Columbia protestors were also threatened with felony charges when they were arraigned, but they were immediately withdrawn (perhaps due to a vigorous defense from the lawyers present). Same thing might end up happening for the CUNY protestors, but with some delay.
	♥ 11:20am HyperDose: ↳ Sparkles @11:17 Would that leave no public school options? Thinking about multi-child, single parent, or families living below the poverty line. Would they receive vouchers for the private prison-, sorry...schools? I believe it's nurses week too, no? Huzzah to the essential workers! 💜
	11:21am Lindsey: Sorry, Bryan. I’d back down. I think Trouble is right and has the better point
	11:24am rx "rexy" scabin: @Sparkles given the position of the governor in TX, it will be vouchers if he has his way. Congratulations on getting through first year, almost.
	♥ 11:26am joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "stay" by "the blue nile" I just heard The Blue Nile on KALX last week and was like, "I know who this is but can't remember" thanks for the refresh Trouble!
	♥ 11:26am Trouble: kudos to you @sparkles for following in a life changing path( for the young people you work with)!!
	11:27am rx "rexy" scabin: @HyperDose that's the point of it. Erasing public education.
	♥ 11:28am Handy Haversack: ↳ headcleaner @11:20 Right -- could be. But so far, the disparity remains. We'll have to see what kind of shakedown each administration wants to engage in to stifle dissent and political community moving forward -- that will determine how they weaponize the legal system (hey, look at that! it IS real!) against their students.
	11:28am Lindsey: Sparkles, are you worried about the Republican elimination of protections for trans kids in your grade?
	11:28am Sparkles: ↳ HyperDose @11:20 My understanding is that the idea is that students in low socioeconomic statuses will also receive these vouchers? but I am still beginning to understand this system. Some of these schools are already like prisons from what I have heard. It is discouraging to witness! There is all sorts of speculation and criticisms including that the board has manipulated the data to reflect higher test scores since they have implemented their systems. Happy Nurses' week! Thank you to all the essential workers!
	♥ 11:30am Trouble: i think the fear of agency from today's young people is a real fear: our politicians fear it, so they are trying to leave young people with little reason to vote, or in some cases preventing students at universities from registering to vote.
	11:30am Sparkles: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:24 Oh yes absolutely. His positions on all sorts of things are terrifying. And it doesn't help that it is illegal for teachers to strike in Texas. And thank you!
	♥ 11:30am love2laf: In the continued outpouring of love for Steve Albini, this article he wrote was shared on Bluesky. He was a great man, he will be remembered by people who may never have known he was a musician. www.huffpost.com...
	11:31am rx "rexy" scabin: @rx "rexy" scabin I have to stop. I have strong feelings about public education, teachers, and teacher education. I can go on and on.
	11:31am Sparkles: ↳ Trouble @11:26 Thank you so much! I often play your show for my high school students (I teach art) and enjoy listening during my planning periods as well. Thank you for all you do!
	11:33am rx "rexy" scabin: @Sparkles it is illegal in NY too.
	♥ 11:33am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Repatriation-Of-The-Midnight-Moors (Oakanda rmx-2... i was just going to say rest in power greg tate, but trouble beat me to it.
	♥ 11:33am chresti: Are there PTAs anymore? The one meeting I went when my son was in 1st grade had like 4 people attending..
	11:33am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsay - Not sure why you think I’m beefing with Trouble (a dear friend). I think our points are complementary. Can’t think of much I disagree with Trouble on ha ha.
	♥ 11:33am HyperDose: ↳ Sparkles @11:28 Most likely rationalizing removing libraries by saying "well, everything is online now" and controlling the flow of information to benefit a blatantly curated narrative. Not to mention schools will be for-profit. I fear for every already underfunded arts department. Thank you for responsibly molding impressionable young minds and keep fighting the good fight!
	♥ 11:34am northguineahills: i just inhaled a dried birds eye chili down the wrong pipe. that was an adventure (still coughing).
	11:34am Chief Guy: I dunno. Maybe giving a poor kid a voucher to pay for a school that a rich kid would pay for might help a little.
	11:34am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsey - sorry for the misspelling!
	11:34am Sparkles: ↳ Lindsey @11:28 Absolutely, I heard there have been some measures taken at the district levels in neighboring school districts in which students must choose between him/her and some other things. It is scary
	11:36am Sparkles: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:33 :0
	♥ 11:37am Trouble: because privatizing the power grid has worked so well in texas: oy, public school should not be minimized like that.
	♥ 11:38am northguineahills: ↳ love2laf @11:30 thanks for the link, love2laf!
	11:38am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy https://nepc.colorado.edu/topic-name/vouchers
	11:40am Sparkles: ↳ HyperDose @11:33 I guess they are calling them "Learning Centers" or something like that. I think they are using them to send disruptive students during class?? And thank you!
	11:42am Lindsey: Sorry Bryan. I thought that you were having an argument when she was just correcting you. Cheers!
	11:43am Joe: Just discovered WFMU over here in Liverpool, England. Where have you been all my life?!
	11:43am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsey - I just took it as friendly conversation not correction. No worries!
	♥ 11:44am Barney Grubbs: ↳ chresti @11:33 The ones out here (Stony Brook, LI area) are scheduled when only stay-at-home parents can easily attend them, so there seems to be a lot of insularity (but also a lot of general support for the public schools, though there have been a couple of close budget votes in the last couple of years). A couple of right-wing school board candidates ran last year, but were soundly defeated, but I think situations are more tenuous at districts that are further from the university.
	♥ 11:44am Trouble: @ joe: we've been here patiently waiting... lucky for you we have decades of archives you can listen to! welcome!
	♥ 11:45am northguineahills: ↳ Trouble @11:37 privatizing the tx power grid really mussed it up, but the bigger problem is the the TX gov't won't allow their grid to be connected to other states. the only state to do so (even FL isn't so crazy)
	♥ 11:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome to your forever home, Joe!
	♥ 11:45am HyperDose: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome, Joe! One of us! One of us! 👽🛸
	♥ 11:45am northguineahills: ↳ Joe @11:43 bienvenidos joe!
	♥ 11:46am newton: sorry I've missed most of the set, it was on, but I can't hear it over the table saw and dust collector
	♥ 11:46am northguineahills: ↳ newton @11:46 that's just part of your own personal mix...
	11:46am Chief Guy: Thanks Rexy!
	♥ 11:47am newton: very industrial set this morning!
	♥ 11:47am love2laf: ↳ northguineahills @11:38 Glad you liked the article ngh, he's a great writer as well as a great human. @Joe welcome, there's a wealth of amazing music, DJs, and humans. You'll just have to put up with not hearing commercials ;)
	♥ 11:47am chresti: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome to the next chapter of your life. Enjoy your stay!
	11:48am Chief Guy: @rexy. So if this article is correct then if the program is expanded then more kids could take advantage of it?
	♥ 11:50am newton: oh wow, the big rabbit is back in my back yard! grown so much this last week
	♥ 11:50am love2laf: Oh my, look at the time! Thank you Trouble, every week you remind me there are good people in the world. And some of them are teaching the young people to see things about their world. Thanks everyone, you always bring excellent company and commentary to this Modern World.
	11:50am Sparkles: I have to go back to work but I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! It's my first time posting on the comments board, thank you all for the kind words and engaging conversation. I love WFMU! And I love This Is The Modern World with Trouble!
	♥ 11:51am love2laf: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Hope to see you again on the comments board, have a great work day!
	♥ 11:51am northguineahills: ↳ newton @11:50 better than a big lizard in your back yard!
	♥ 11:51am northguineahills: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 see ya soon!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Keep fighting the good fight, Sparkles! We'll be here!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Trouble! Grand stuff.
	♥ 11:52am Trouble: thank you @sparkles!!
	♥ 11:52am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "more than words can say" by "June Lodge" i still don't know how trouble digs up lovers rock i've never heard. thanks again trouble, everyone have an amazing rest of the day!
	11:53am Fred and Alan: Love2laf. How are you love Fred and Alan
	♥ 11:54am Mick: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Thank you for a wonderful show, Trouble! Welcome aboard Sparkles
	♥ 11:55am love2laf: ↳ Fred and Alan @11:53 The sun is out, making it a better day. Hope all is well with you, much love to you both!
	11:55am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Trouble and Everyone.
	♥ 11:55am Trouble: thanks for listening today! if you are in NJ make sure you are registered to vote in the primary. we have a very competitive primary race for senate and congressperson
	♥ 11:56am common: thank you, trouble! as always.
	11:56am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy no.
	♥ 11:56am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Thanks for a great show Trouble! Hear you next week!
	11:57am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy some day with more time, I would be happy to list the issues with vouchers.
	♥ 11:57am HyperDose: Thanks for the exquisite tunes and sparkling conversation, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am listener james from westwood: Thanks, trouble!
	♥ 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Thank you, Trouble. Keep ruffling those feathers! 🪶
	11:59am headcleaner: ↳ Song: "marfa public library" by "Nina Katchadourian" Now this is library music

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from May 9, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
maya hardinge & david louis Zuckerman	side A	OST penny	daksina			*	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
alan marks	vexations/ erik satie "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks"	erik satie: vexations					0:16:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

the kawakabanis brothers	wa mogarred bi wadi aldoore	music from yemen arabia					0:34:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Vera Sola	is that you? "is that you?" by "Vera Sola"	peacemaker	city slang			*	0:40:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
josephine foster	How happy is the little Stone	Graphic As A Star					0:44:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
eberhard weber	T. on a white horse	the following morning		1977			0:45:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
foret	l'amour de marbre "l'amour de marbre" by "foret"	foret					0:56:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
kate bush	leave it open "leave it open" by "kate bush"	the dreaming					1:02:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

sonic mud	ugav nights "ugav nights" by "sonic mud"	above ground	sonicmud.com			*	1:06:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
sibylle baier	forget about "forget about" by "sibylle baier"	colour green					1:14:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
agustin pereyra lucena	Consolacao	agustin pereya lucena	far out				1:17:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
curtis godena	theme 3 "theme 3" by "curtis godena"	discorporation	Feeding Tube Records			*	1:24:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Salinas	a song for a helping hand	Atlantis	mr bongo			*	1:27:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
the means of production	blank "blank" by "the means of production"	the means of production	The Royal Potato Family			*	1:30:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
lee harvey	only true love "only true love" by "lee harvey"	Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol.1	numero group			*	1:34:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tramuntanas	best of both worlds "best of both worlds" by "Tramuntanas"	Tramuntanas	dischord records			*	1:37:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
yelka	i like what i see "i like what i see" by "yelka"	nowhere jive	fun in the church			*	1:39:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Lou Williams collective	zodiac suite revisted	zodiac? sweet!					1:45:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
black juniors	hey disc jockey "hey disc jockey" by "black juniors"	Revolução			bodega pop marathon premium 2024		1:47:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
the philly devotions	i just can't say goodbye	Groove Machine: v/a The Earl Young Drum Sessions	ace			*	1:51:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
os brazoes	planador "planador" by "os brazoes"	os brazoes					1:54:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
dorothy ashby	alone together "alone together" by "dorothy ashby"	In A Minor Groove					1:57:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

ziad rahbani	second introduction "second introduction" by "ziad rahbani"	sahriye 2					2:11:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
papudinho	Ye Mele "Ye Mele" by "papudinho"	Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 5 v/a					2:14:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
susan estrada	Gozame Ya! "Gozame Ya!" by "susan estrada"	Amor y Libertad					2:17:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
the blue nile	stay "stay" by "the blue nile"	a walk across the rooftops					2:20:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
eiki nonaka	phlanged vortex "phlanged vortex" by "eiki nonaka"	Heisei No Oto: Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)					2:25:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
burnt sugar the arkestra chamber	Repatriation-Of-The-Midnight-Moors (Oakanda rmx-2)	angels over			rest in power greg tate		2:32:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
hugo filho	meu sol "meu sol" by "hugo filho"	paraibo					2:44:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
June Lodge	more than words can say	someone loves you honey					2:47:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
antena	seaside weekend escort remix	antena versions speciales camino del sol					2:51:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nina Katchadourian	marfa public library	the marfa jingles					2:58:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:01am common: hello trouble. hello, everyone.
	9:01am Dan near StL: That’s a wonderful drawing, watercolor. I had my first indigo bunting the other day, really startled me.
	9:01am owlex: Hello from Austin trouble and modern people
	♥ 9:01am love2laf: Flickers are wonderful birds, a woodpecker that's as happy to feast on the ground as in a tree. Good morning Trouble, happy to be here listening to your thoroughly Modern Thursday sounds. Hello Troubled friends.
	♥ 9:01am TDK60: Good morning DJ T. It's T-Day.
	♥ 9:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and those in flight.
	♥ 9:02am chresti: Morning Trouble and troubled!
	♥ 9:02am Zip7: Good morning Troubled modernists! Looking forward to another wonderful three-hour tour
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Bright Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	♥ 9:03am Webhamster Henry: Good Flickery morning, Troubleers!
	♥ 9:03am MarginWalker in Baltimore: Heyhey
	9:03am Dan near StL: Welcome to May, to May, and the woodland gay!
	9:04am Toothgrinder Tom: Never seen an indigo bunting, Basil Bunting, or parade bunting.
	♥ 9:04am Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, DJ Trouble and all.
	♥ 9:04am Trouble: good morning thursday people!
	♥ 9:04am StringOFperils: Good morning, Trouble. That's a very nice drawing.
	♥ 9:04am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all! I love how Chris's flicker seems to be scrutinizing the current track.
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:04 How about Pete Rose bunting?
	9:05am Dan near StL: Blue Jay, Cardinal bunting drove in a run.
	9:06am Dan near StL: I wouldn’t bet on Pete.
	♥ 9:06am bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): hello thursday!!
	♥ 9:08am Crosby in KC: good morning, Trouble and all
	9:09am Dan near StL: Screaming baby flight, typical.
	♥ 9:09am Strandlund: Good Morning, Trouble and everyone tuning in...
	9:09am owlex: Reading the description of penny on bandcamp, sounds like a good movie.
	9:11am Dan near StL: I highly recommend book and movie, “Eileen” with Anne Hathaway.
	9:11am Sarf: Good morning Trouble and all you Troublemakers
	9:11am Dan near StL: Trouble’s my middle name…
	9:12am Toothgrinder Tom: @Ken from Hyde Park ha ha, very clever.
	♥ 9:18am MarginWalker in Baltimore: The name Trouble always reminds me of the TV show Grimm. It was already corny but when they added a spunky young mischievous character in later seasons named her Trouble, I was about done.
	♥ 9:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Vexations! Good morning, Trouble & all troubled troublemakers and modernist modern lovers.
	♥ 9:18am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" Ooh a little Boredcast throwback here!
	♥ 9:18am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" oh i know this one! satie's instructions were to repeat this theme 840 times which would take a long long time. it's been done a few times, i think by john cage IIRC?
	♥ 9:19am TDK60: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" Oh, is this the abridged smash hit 45 RPM version of Vexations?
	♥ 9:19am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:18 John Cage organized and John Cale was a participant. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:19 Vexations (radio edit)
	♥ 9:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:19 "Cage set the admission price at $5 and had a time clock installed in the lobby of the theatre. Each patron checked in with the clock and when leaving the concert, checked out again and received a refund of 5¢ for each 20 minutes attended. "In this way", he told Lloyd, "People will understand that the more art you consume, the less it should cost." But Cage had underestimated the length of time the concert would take. It lasted over 18 hours." - WP
	♥ 9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:19 aka "just a little peeved"
	♥ 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:12 Next-level clever would be to use names like Robin Yount or Jay Buhner in that gag.
	♥ 9:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:19 will watch that John Cale clip later, that looks great
	♥ 9:23am TDK60: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 Hee hee. Good morning LBtP.
	♥ 9:23am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:22 It's fun. Todd Haynes uses it to start his Velvet Underground film.
	9:24am Dan near StL: Actually it’s Mortimer. Name that film
	♥ 9:24am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ TDK60 @9:23 morning, tdk. about to do a little yoga with the show running in the background. vexations yoga!
	9:28am Dan near StL: Happy 200th(couple days ango) anniversary of first performance of Symphony #9, Ludwig. Wish you could have heard it. Bernstein conducted it in Berlin when the wall came down.
	♥ 9:28am chresti: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 Vexations pose!
	9:29am Cyn: Love your show. Not the best morning music. This is WAY too long. Not fair!
	9:30am Honest Bernardo in Argentina: Play it!!!
	9:30am Dan near StL: Satie all day long, Monk too.
	9:31am Dan near StL: I got blisters on my fingers
	9:32am Booz: Several people have played Vexations solo, recently Igor Levitt
	9:33am Dan near StL: Omg, are you kidding?!?
	♥ 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: EAS over the stream confirmed.
	♥ 9:34am unpopularfred: bravo!!
	9:34am blee: i heard it, breep brerp, then bird chirp
	9:34am Dan near StL: The audible radish to your show
	♥ 9:34am BillyLundun: we heard it over here!
	♥ 9:34am Zip7: I wonder how many folks were introduced to Satie through the closing music of "My Dinner with Andre."
	9:34am Honest Bernardo in Argentina: WFMU has led me to enjoy the EAS testing and embrace it
	9:35am blee: on high alert, heard that brerp
	9:35am headcleaner: ↳ Song: "vexations/ erik satie" by "alan marks" "Never by one performer in a single sitting" - Not true! Igor Levit in 2020, during the depths of lockdown - www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 9:35am Charles in Chicago: actually couldn't wait, just watched it. damn that was cool. "Mr Cale thank you very much, you have a whim of iron, I admire you very much".
	♥ 9:35am love2laf: I heard the emergency signal, and I am still sad that I cannot clicky star it, it's on the WFMU hit list ;)
	9:36am Dan near StL: I own the 27 disc box set
	♥ 9:37am Booz: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 That's a long suvasana
	♥ 9:38am Booz: ↳ headcleaner @9:35 youtu.be... Levitt livestream
	9:38am Dan near StL: Slouvaki King, Times Square.
	9:40am Dan near StL: Love those inbred harmonies. Opened for The Roches.
	♥ 9:42am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:35 The Cale clip reminds me a little of that clip of young clean-cut Frank Zappa on Steve Allen's show, except that John Cale is about 10,000 times cooler than Frank Zappa
	9:45am Philip: Sounds like Jolie Holland
	♥ 9:46am TDK60: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:42 Morning, Charles. I might disagree about that. They were groovy in different areas of the coolness spectrum, one could say.
	9:47am Dan near StL: Wasn’t Cale classically trained? I could be wrong.
	♥ 9:50am TDK60: I wasn't lookin' at the playlist, thought V. Sola was Myriam Gendron at first. And what is it about J. Foster? Her sound is usually a bit eerie. Though I haven't placed it on my eerie spectrum yet.
	9:52am Dan near StL: Tribute to Obscure or Bizarre record labels? ECM?
	♥ 9:52am TDK60: Always have dug Eberhard Weber; has a distinctive bass sound.
	9:53am Dan near StL: Perhaps the John Abercrombie of bass?
	♥ 9:57am Zip7: ↳ TDK60 @9:52 Yeah, he has a great "round" tone, like Jaco and Fernando Saunders
	♥ 9:57am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @9:46 I expected someone to disagree! Thanks TDK. You can always count on the Zappa fans :-)
	♥ 9:58am Ben in Newark: Good morning everyone! Trouble, Liz and I installed a bird feeder in our backyard last week. We've started seeing all types of birds that we've never noticed before in our neighborhood
	9:58am Matty cannabis: So cool to hear some Eberhard Weber, especially this album “The Following Morning”. What a master work.
	9:58am bobobobob palindrome plasticland: went to see E weber in Amazing Grace. Evanston Illinois..extra added attraction...John Marshall.. soft machine on Drums!!!
	♥ 9:58am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan near StL @9:53 nice comparison
	♥ 10:00am TDK60: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:57 C. in Chi-ville: I'm not a total Frankhead and it's not "all good" -- have some criticisms of FZ, too.
	10:00am Dan near StL: That was as close to Haight/Ashbury as Evanston ever got. I remember it well. Heartland Cafe (Rogers Park) survives.
	♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @10:00 understood
	10:02am Dan near StL: Tanks Charles, later I’ll put on Distant Fields by Oregon.
	10:02am Dan near StL: Distant Hills?
	♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ TDK60 @10:00 Occasionally I hear some instrumental music by Zappa without knowing what it is and I like it. I think he's better without the juvenille lyrics.
	10:03am Sarf: ↳ Song: "leave it open" by "kate bush" Thank you!
	♥ 10:05am Mxter Baba: Well, this is a fine how do you do! Greetings, Trouble and all! heeeeHAWWWHEEHAWWW!
	10:05am Dan near StL: Zappa may have learned from Chuck Berry. Whose only #1 record was, “My Ding a ling”. Crap sells.
	♥ 10:06am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Song: "leave it open" by "kate bush" ǝʌǝᴉlǝq ʇ’uoʍ ʎǝɥʇ pᴉɐs ʎǝɥʇ puɐ
	♥ 10:06am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan near StL @10:05 #sadbuttrue
	♥ 10:07am βrian: Bonjour, les oiseaux !
	10:08am Dan near StL: Grammy for, “Afternoon Delight”, I rest my case your honor.
	♥ 10:08am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:03 I did some freelance editing of a D&D-ish adventure a few years ago. It wasn't a great piece, but there was one encounter in it that was just kind of misogynist and puerile and pointless (and bad -- really poorly worked in to the surrounding area). So that one I just totally rewrote, and I made it an extended allusion to "Camarillo Brillo," figuring if you're going to go for twelve-year-old-boy humor, you may as well go with the master. I was pretty proud of it!
	♥ 10:08am Zip7: Well, the NY Times has settled the question once and for all. According to Caryn Ganz, "Madonna is the most important and influential solo figure in pop history" www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 10:10am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:05 Hey there Mx. Baba. I'm going out for sushi tonight, gonna have some spicy tuna :-)
	10:10am Dan near StL: I love Bongo Fury with DVV, live. Sure, it’s funny too.
	♥ 10:11am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:08 "Cultural cannibalism at its fleshiest: such is the gripe of musician and theorist Terre Thaemlitz, a.k.a. DJ Sprinkles, on her album Midtown 120 Blues, a strange avant-garde masterpiece that is equal parts agitprop and seductive house. On the track “Ball’r (Madonna-Free Zone),” she expresses hatred of this cooptation: "'When Madonna came out with her hit “Vogue,” you knew it was over. She had taken a very specifically queer, transgender, Latino, and African-American phenomenon and totally erased that context with lyrics about how “it makes no difference if you’re black or white, if you’re a boy or a girl.” Madonna was taking in tons of money, while the Queen who actually taught her how to vogue was sitting at a table in front of me, broke. So if anybody requested any “Vogue” or any other Madonna track, I’d just tell them, “No, this is a Madonna free zone! And as long as I’m DJing you will not be allowed to vogue to the decontextualized, reified, corporatized, liberalized, neutralized, asexualized, re-genderized, pop reflection of this dancefloor’s reality!”'" thebaffler.com...
	♥ 10:11am lpfnrobin: ↳ Song: "l'amour de marbre" by "foret" Beautiful and great song, thanks Trouble. Im keeping this one close
	10:12am Dan near StL: Weird series of children’s books, “The Night Before Mother’s Day”, yes, mirroring, “The Night Before Christmas”.
	♥ 10:13am love2laf: That #1 cause of death for pregnant woman just makes me breakdown and cry every damn time.
	♥ 10:13am Mxter Baba: Sing it, Trouble! Happy mother's day. We each came out of a uterus, and there's no other way into this world.
	10:14am Dan near StL: Fingers crossed- I hope that issue wins an election, along with others.
	♥ 10:15am Zip7: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 Pretty much sez it all. Terre Thaemitz does a great instrumental version of Gary Numan's "Cars," too
	10:15am Dan near StL: Dem. obviously.
	♥ 10:16am Yes: <3
	♥ 10:16am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:15 That article also has a pretty strong takedown of the Detroit electronic scene as a bourgeois-based culture that worked had to keep out working-class fans and artists.
	10:17am Sarf: Appreciate the sobering statistics, Trouble. Happy Mother's Day to you and all who mother
	♥ 10:23am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:13 L'Origine du monde
	♥ 10:23am xtrakrispy: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 That’s one hell of an article and covers a lot of ground. Thanks, Handy.
	♥ 10:23am Yes: ↳ Song: "Consolacao" by "agustin pereyra lucena" <3
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: I love how this music is a showcase for … an acoustic guitar!
	♥ 10:25am Zip7: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:16 This is the push I needed to finally get a sub to The Baffler. Thanks, Handy!
	♥ 10:25am lpfnrobin: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:11 Great article. A lot to parse through. Without pissing off anyone, I prefer performers when they stay true and don't conflate the balloon they were given.
	♥ 10:26am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:23 ... ou de la comédie humaine au moins ...
	♥ 10:27am Charles in Chicago: ↳ xtrakrispy @10:23 Oh, shots fired!!! "There was the mediocre album of café music by SAULT, which was praised for its faux-revolutionary lyrics."
	♥ 10:27am Handy Haversack: ↳ Zip7 @10:25 Newest issue has been my reading the past couple of days.
	♥ 10:27am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:27 I have to take this article with a large grain of SAULT
	10:27am Dan 2: LOVING theme 3
	10:27am Pol Pot: My mind gets broader whenever I listen. I looked up Terre Thaemlitz and wow! I never knew that xhe participated in panel discussions!
	10:31am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	♥ 10:33am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:27 "Lil Baby released a song with lyrics that stated “every colored person ain’t dumb, and all whites not racist.” " Well I know that song and I though it was great. You have to listen to the whole thing, not just take one line out of context. "It's bigger than black and white It's a problem with the whole way of life It can't change overnight But we gotta start somewhere Might as well go ahead and start here" - I thought that was pretty powerful.
	♥ 10:34am Charles in Chicago: anyhow ... that article touched a nerve here. but i gotta get to work. later listeners!
	♥ 10:35am Dan 2: ↳ Ben in Newark @9:58 Like what? NYC is having a good spring migration so far this year
	10:37am Chief Guy: Which article?
	♥ 10:42am HyperDose: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:33 My favorite rap lyric is "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" - "Sleepy" Joe Biden www.youtube.com...
	10:48am Yes: 😎
	♥ 10:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Dan 2 @10:35 I haven't seen too much in our backyard. The usual suspects of sparrows, doves, bluejays. Saw a house finch and a hermit thrush. No towhees or titmice this year, though.
	♥ 10:52am peter_h_christ: ↳ Song: "hey disc jockey" by "black juniors" Did Ken play this yesterday? I'm being pulled toward the same Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam feelings..
	10:58am rx "rexy" scabin: Beautiful.
	♥ 11:00am ldbl: ↳ peter_h_christ @10:52 he sure did - a rare(ish) Ken / Trouble crossover!
	11:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Doesn’t surprise me that these are the people who want to end school lunches.
	♥ 11:07am chresti: ↳ Mxter Baba @10:05 Mxter Babakins!
	♥ 11:08am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:07 SOME of us want to begin school brunches!
	♥ 11:09am Rory: Hello all! Listening in and just want to say Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
	♥ 11:09am HyperDose: No Child Left Behind took Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton's beautiful soul from us. Down with Washington! In other news, the Butterfly in the Sky Reading Rainbow doc is AMAZING. Streaming now! Trailer: www.youtube.com...
	11:09am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Their ultimate goal is to take over all public and private higher education. They know stage legislatures will do the work for them in Republican states.
	11:10am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Handy: YES!
	11:10am Arlene: Yes; the attack on education is an attack on democracy.
	♥ 11:12am HyperDose: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:09 If the schools are controlled, you know religious influence is next
	♥ 11:12am tom tom the pipers son: good to hear about the public school educators
	11:12am Arlene: Gorgeous bird drawing, too. The artist is brilliant.
	♥ 11:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rory @11:09 Rory! Long time!
	11:13am Listener Bryan (the Professor): I posted elsewhere about our daughter’s grad yesterday from Bank Street but they absolutely rocked it at Commencement. Their president was awesome. Honorary degree recipient, Robin DG Kelley, awesome. A student speaker called for Bank St to divest and no one cut their mic. They felt like a real college, maybe because they are so closely focused on training teachers. I was super impressed.
	11:13am Carmen: As a always I appreciate hearing your voice on the big issues we as humans face right now
	♥ 11:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:13 Congrats to your daughter!
	11:14am ArizonaK: Damn girl. Rite-on
	11:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): So-called elite institutions can’t even hold commencement they’re so afraid of their students.
	♥ 11:14am Dan 2: ↳ Song: "second introduction" by "ziad rahbani" this is the greatest!
	11:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Handy - thanks! We’re so proud!
	11:14am Chief Guy: The importance of teachers and educators to our communities cannot be underestimated. They are just as much essential workers as firefighters. Like firefighters, their refusal to work can cripple a community, so their right to strike must be eliminated.
	♥ 11:16am Trouble: I dont think they are afraid of their students @ bryan: they are afraid of losing their donors.
	♥ 11:16am Handy Haversack: Elsewhere on the unequal treatment front, protestors from Columbia are being charged with misdemeanors, those from CUNY with felonies: hellgatenyc.com...
	♥ 11:17am Noir Lover: The toothpaste is out of the tube, as they say.
	11:17am Sparkles: 1st year public school teacher hailing from Houston here! There is a state takeover in the Houston public school district and there is much speculation that the higher ups want to switch the public schools to either charter schools or a private school voucher system. They have removed libraries from the most underperforming schools this year, teachers are leaving in droves, the list goes on and on. Many teachers and staff are afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all educators!
	11:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Trouble - of course. But they’re afraid the students will offend the donors, so they’ve thrown the students and faculty under the bus. Some parents booed the Bank St student speaker. I’m sure everyone will get through it alive. Schools can handle diverse opinions just fine.
	♥ 11:19am TDK60: I think some college faculty and students are to boycott grad events this spring. They may prefer /not/ to see the faces of administrators. I just heard, there's a faculty camp at the New School now.
	11:19am rx "rexy" scabin: @Trouble indeed.
	♥ 11:19am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:16 They certainly are afraid of their donors, but I think there's real fear of the students as well. The (racist, dated, tired, false) trope of blaming "outside agitators" shows that the idea that these students have political agency and considered positions is too much for the school administrations and the city to confront. They dismiss the entire idea of political resistance and political community by blaming "outsiders" so they don't have to grapple with the possibility of engaging in political action rather than mere fund raising.
	11:20am Andres: ↳ Song: "Gozame Ya!" by "susan estrada" It got hot in here! So good. So breezey.
	11:20am headcleaner: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:16 The Columbia protestors were also threatened with felony charges when they were arraigned, but they were immediately withdrawn (perhaps due to a vigorous defense from the lawyers present). Same thing might end up happening for the CUNY protestors, but with some delay.
	♥ 11:20am HyperDose: ↳ Sparkles @11:17 Would that leave no public school options? Thinking about multi-child, single parent, or families living below the poverty line. Would they receive vouchers for the private prison-, sorry...schools? I believe it's nurses week too, no? Huzzah to the essential workers! 💜
	11:21am Lindsey: Sorry, Bryan. I’d back down. I think Trouble is right and has the better point
	11:24am rx "rexy" scabin: @Sparkles given the position of the governor in TX, it will be vouchers if he has his way. Congratulations on getting through first year, almost.
	♥ 11:26am joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "stay" by "the blue nile" I just heard The Blue Nile on KALX last week and was like, "I know who this is but can't remember" thanks for the refresh Trouble!
	♥ 11:26am Trouble: kudos to you @sparkles for following in a life changing path( for the young people you work with)!!
	11:27am rx "rexy" scabin: @HyperDose that's the point of it. Erasing public education.
	♥ 11:28am Handy Haversack: ↳ headcleaner @11:20 Right -- could be. But so far, the disparity remains. We'll have to see what kind of shakedown each administration wants to engage in to stifle dissent and political community moving forward -- that will determine how they weaponize the legal system (hey, look at that! it IS real!) against their students.
	11:28am Lindsey: Sparkles, are you worried about the Republican elimination of protections for trans kids in your grade?
	11:28am Sparkles: ↳ HyperDose @11:20 My understanding is that the idea is that students in low socioeconomic statuses will also receive these vouchers? but I am still beginning to understand this system. Some of these schools are already like prisons from what I have heard. It is discouraging to witness! There is all sorts of speculation and criticisms including that the board has manipulated the data to reflect higher test scores since they have implemented their systems. Happy Nurses' week! Thank you to all the essential workers!
	♥ 11:30am Trouble: i think the fear of agency from today's young people is a real fear: our politicians fear it, so they are trying to leave young people with little reason to vote, or in some cases preventing students at universities from registering to vote.
	11:30am Sparkles: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:24 Oh yes absolutely. His positions on all sorts of things are terrifying. And it doesn't help that it is illegal for teachers to strike in Texas. And thank you!
	♥ 11:30am love2laf: In the continued outpouring of love for Steve Albini, this article he wrote was shared on Bluesky. He was a great man, he will be remembered by people who may never have known he was a musician. www.huffpost.com...
	11:31am rx "rexy" scabin: @rx "rexy" scabin I have to stop. I have strong feelings about public education, teachers, and teacher education. I can go on and on.
	11:31am Sparkles: ↳ Trouble @11:26 Thank you so much! I often play your show for my high school students (I teach art) and enjoy listening during my planning periods as well. Thank you for all you do!
	11:33am rx "rexy" scabin: @Sparkles it is illegal in NY too.
	♥ 11:33am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Repatriation-Of-The-Midnight-Moors (Oakanda rmx-2... i was just going to say rest in power greg tate, but trouble beat me to it.
	♥ 11:33am chresti: Are there PTAs anymore? The one meeting I went when my son was in 1st grade had like 4 people attending..
	11:33am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsay - Not sure why you think I’m beefing with Trouble (a dear friend). I think our points are complementary. Can’t think of much I disagree with Trouble on ha ha.
	♥ 11:33am HyperDose: ↳ Sparkles @11:28 Most likely rationalizing removing libraries by saying "well, everything is online now" and controlling the flow of information to benefit a blatantly curated narrative. Not to mention schools will be for-profit. I fear for every already underfunded arts department. Thank you for responsibly molding impressionable young minds and keep fighting the good fight!
	♥ 11:34am northguineahills: i just inhaled a dried birds eye chili down the wrong pipe. that was an adventure (still coughing).
	11:34am Chief Guy: I dunno. Maybe giving a poor kid a voucher to pay for a school that a rich kid would pay for might help a little.
	11:34am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsey - sorry for the misspelling!
	11:34am Sparkles: ↳ Lindsey @11:28 Absolutely, I heard there have been some measures taken at the district levels in neighboring school districts in which students must choose between him/her and some other things. It is scary
	11:36am Sparkles: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:33 :0
	♥ 11:37am Trouble: because privatizing the power grid has worked so well in texas: oy, public school should not be minimized like that.
	♥ 11:38am northguineahills: ↳ love2laf @11:30 thanks for the link, love2laf!
	11:38am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy https://nepc.colorado.edu/topic-name/vouchers
	11:40am Sparkles: ↳ HyperDose @11:33 I guess they are calling them "Learning Centers" or something like that. I think they are using them to send disruptive students during class?? And thank you!
	11:42am Lindsey: Sorry Bryan. I thought that you were having an argument when she was just correcting you. Cheers!
	11:43am Joe: Just discovered WFMU over here in Liverpool, England. Where have you been all my life?!
	11:43am Listener Bryan (the Professor): @Lindsey - I just took it as friendly conversation not correction. No worries!
	♥ 11:44am Barney Grubbs: ↳ chresti @11:33 The ones out here (Stony Brook, LI area) are scheduled when only stay-at-home parents can easily attend them, so there seems to be a lot of insularity (but also a lot of general support for the public schools, though there have been a couple of close budget votes in the last couple of years). A couple of right-wing school board candidates ran last year, but were soundly defeated, but I think situations are more tenuous at districts that are further from the university.
	♥ 11:44am Trouble: @ joe: we've been here patiently waiting... lucky for you we have decades of archives you can listen to! welcome!
	♥ 11:45am northguineahills: ↳ Trouble @11:37 privatizing the tx power grid really mussed it up, but the bigger problem is the the TX gov't won't allow their grid to be connected to other states. the only state to do so (even FL isn't so crazy)
	♥ 11:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome to your forever home, Joe!
	♥ 11:45am HyperDose: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome, Joe! One of us! One of us! 👽🛸
	♥ 11:45am northguineahills: ↳ Joe @11:43 bienvenidos joe!
	♥ 11:46am newton: sorry I've missed most of the set, it was on, but I can't hear it over the table saw and dust collector
	♥ 11:46am northguineahills: ↳ newton @11:46 that's just part of your own personal mix...
	11:46am Chief Guy: Thanks Rexy!
	♥ 11:47am newton: very industrial set this morning!
	♥ 11:47am love2laf: ↳ northguineahills @11:38 Glad you liked the article ngh, he's a great writer as well as a great human. @Joe welcome, there's a wealth of amazing music, DJs, and humans. You'll just have to put up with not hearing commercials ;)
	♥ 11:47am chresti: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Joe @11:43 Welcome to the next chapter of your life. Enjoy your stay!
	11:48am Chief Guy: @rexy. So if this article is correct then if the program is expanded then more kids could take advantage of it?
	♥ 11:50am newton: oh wow, the big rabbit is back in my back yard! grown so much this last week
	♥ 11:50am love2laf: Oh my, look at the time! Thank you Trouble, every week you remind me there are good people in the world. And some of them are teaching the young people to see things about their world. Thanks everyone, you always bring excellent company and commentary to this Modern World.
	11:50am Sparkles: I have to go back to work but I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! It's my first time posting on the comments board, thank you all for the kind words and engaging conversation. I love WFMU! And I love This Is The Modern World with Trouble!
	♥ 11:51am love2laf: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Hope to see you again on the comments board, have a great work day!
	♥ 11:51am northguineahills: ↳ newton @11:50 better than a big lizard in your back yard!
	♥ 11:51am northguineahills: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 see ya soon!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Keep fighting the good fight, Sparkles! We'll be here!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Trouble! Grand stuff.
	♥ 11:52am Trouble: thank you @sparkles!!
	♥ 11:52am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "more than words can say" by "June Lodge" i still don't know how trouble digs up lovers rock i've never heard. thanks again trouble, everyone have an amazing rest of the day!
	11:53am Fred and Alan: Love2laf. How are you love Fred and Alan
	♥ 11:54am Mick: ↳ Sparkles @11:50 Thank you for a wonderful show, Trouble! Welcome aboard Sparkles
	♥ 11:55am love2laf: ↳ Fred and Alan @11:53 The sun is out, making it a better day. Hope all is well with you, much love to you both!
	11:55am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Trouble and Everyone.
	♥ 11:55am Trouble: thanks for listening today! if you are in NJ make sure you are registered to vote in the primary. we have a very competitive primary race for senate and congressperson
	♥ 11:56am common: thank you, trouble! as always.
	11:56am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy no.
	♥ 11:56am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Thanks for a great show Trouble! Hear you next week!
	11:57am rx "rexy" scabin: @Chief Guy some day with more time, I would be happy to list the issues with vouchers.
	♥ 11:57am HyperDose: Thanks for the exquisite tunes and sparkling conversation, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am listener james from westwood: Thanks, trouble!
	♥ 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Thank you, Trouble. Keep ruffling those feathers! 🪶
	11:59am headcleaner: ↳ Song: "marfa public library" by "Nina Katchadourian" Now this is library music

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