WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from July 27, 2024

Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas
	6:01am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian and all... miss the days of the village voice in more ways than one...agree with the quote
	⚡ ♥ 6:02am fred: Hello Brian and all! @Brian: Didn't you work at the Village Voice at some point?
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Peace" by "Ornette Coleman" Good noonday, Brian & Tom Tom & everybody
	♥ 6:03am Brian D: Good morning all. I'll be airing the interview with Tricia in the second hour.
	♥ 6:04am TDK60: Good morning, Brian.
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:02 Freelance contributor -- to the sports section -- for 8 years (96-04). High point of my career.
	⚡ ♥ 6:04am Strandlund: Morning Brian!! Hello all!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:06am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael... now that you're here ....reminds me... i received an email about verso books book club... 50 percent off books for ten dollars a month...seems like a good deal
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:02 I used to read the American Conservative (even Dreher) but I lost interest (their cutting the urbanism/architecture section was a factor). I bookmarked National Review instead. Not that I'd subscribe or send them any money
	⚡ ♥ 6:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:07 well the voice had little if any conservative point of view, just argument on the left. but i see your point and it's a good one... btw a segment on democracy now this week about the olympics catching up to things you were talking about that were/are happening
	♥ 6:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 Nat Hentoff was conservative on a number of issues, but he was an outlier. There were a few others.
	⚡ ♥ 6:14am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 right here for the DN piece on Paris Olympics www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ ♥ 6:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:14 oh u huh...
	⚡ ♥ 6:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:14 thx spikey
	6:20am morphe': VV - I've said before, Stanley Crouch used to visit St Marks Bookshop in the 80s seemingly to just complain about the music being played [most dolks were pleased or intrigued] .. we called him Stanley Grouch ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 I shouldn't have said "even Dreher", it should have been "especially Dreher", as his writing was good and made his ideas clear (not my thing, but there was a coherent worldview articulated). His divorce sent him into a tailspin (and Hungary), but I did learn a lot
	♥ 6:22am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:20 Crouch also had "conservative" views. And was notoriously cranky, to put it mildly. Never met him, but he apparently routinely had fistfights in the Voice offices.
	⚡ ♥ 6:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:21 i don't know anything about dreher...i'll have to look him up
	♥ 6:23am WR: "because there is this great impatience for reading anything you disagree with." Interesting capsule perspective on what drives information communication. I lean more towards many people's preference for reading what confirms their thoughts and fears has gotten into a feed back loop with "social media" and "click bait" driven communications systems. This has been decreasing demand for reliable information. In parallel there have long been present issues of limited attention span, of what information is deemed of importance and of the forces of special interests.
	⚡ ♥ 6:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:06 Thnx for tip, Tom Tom. I have quite a few Verso books in my bookcase, today decades old. Hardly buy any book these days; have enough stuffed into the bookcase to keep me busy until I drop off the perch. The older I get, the more I go back and back, before there was any English.
	♥ 6:25am WR: ↳ Song: "Kondo" by "William Parker / Cooper-Moore / Hamid ... Interesting to listen to this after hearing about 30 minutes of kora music on Give the Drummer yesterday morning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:31am Paulo AD: Brian my main man :)
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:21 i could see how dreher would be an interesting read...and that he started as a film critic
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:23 Maybe not worth it by now. I think it's worth it to find a good writer you totally disagree with and see how they evolve (still looking, not the best time)
	⚡ ♥ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:32 right, sound advice...
	6:34am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:25 Some of us at St Marks [I was 82-87] argued for creating a section of important but severely offensive titles, rather than not carrying them or just shelving in their section, but the idea did not pass ... so Mein Kampf was just there in History under "H"... There is also an argument for just using the alphabet ...
	♥ 6:38am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @6:31 Paulo!!! Hello sir.
	♥ 6:39am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:32 That was the thing about the Voice. You would want to read writers you disagreed with because they wrote well and provided context for their beliefs. You could understand their perspective, even if you disagreed with it. They weren't just trolling.
	⚡ ♥ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: the lebanese photojournalist was in an induced com for twelve days and it will be a year before she can walk again. the journalists were being observed by an israeli drone before they were attacked so the attack was clearly targeted and noe "collateral"
	⚡ ♥ 6:40am tom tom the pipers son: induced coma
	6:43am Barbie: Good morning from the West Village (not cat)
	♥ 6:43am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:43 Hi Barbie! Good morning.
	6:44am pmcWhenever: beautiful morn’ all
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am Spikey BXL: Watched a great documentary on the BBC this week: Hell Jumper. It's about a British volunteer who did evac missions in Ukraine and rescued an estimate 400 people from warzone before perishing during one of his missions. Highly recommend trying to watch it if possible where you are. www.bbc.com...
	⚡ ♥ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:39 a former professor that i've been in touch with said to me, after pointing out areas where i disagreed with him, disagreement is the greatest gift we can give each other
	⚡ ♥ 6:45am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:39 Also, actually knowing opposite viewpoints can turn screaming matches into conversations, or shut them down, both good outcomes. People can be disarmed by someone who knows where they're coming from (works with religion too, usually makes Jehovah's witnesses and LDS elders flee, but LDS women are quite fun)
	♥ 6:47am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Peace" by "Ornette Coleman" I got coffee at a shop with him. He was wearing a cape.
	⚡ ♥ 6:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Again)" by "John ... wonder if this title is based off of the larry cohen film...
	♥ 6:48am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Again)" by "John ... God made me do it is in my drive-in movie pile.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ William Hellfire @6:47 Some heroes do, though not all
	⚡ ♥ 6:51am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @6:34 I spent time in the 80s reading that conservative German Catholic, Carl Schmitt, who was so influential in the 30s and thereafter as a jurist and political philosopher. A very sharp (Fascist) mind, with a savage critique of the Weimar Republic.
	♥ 6:52am mdashkin: Don't forget the Village Voice cartoonists!
	♥ 6:53am TDK60: Yes, Brian. The last few days' weather in the Jersey City metro have been agreeable. Unusual. I usually don't agree with the weather. Nor most folks either. Hee.
	♥ 6:53am William Hellfire: ↳ fred @6:49 I tried to bring back casual cape Fridays. Didn't catch on.
	⚡ ♥ 6:55am tom tom the pipers son: walter gurbo...back page
	⚡ ♥ 6:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 Agreement and disagreement presuppose argument. I prefer to think in terms of trying to show something or other to someone else, and more often than not failing.
	♥ 6:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:55 YES!
	♥ 6:59am TDK60: Tom Tomorrow; I forgot about him. Are the cartoons still out there? When I left the Jersey City Metro in the '70s the Voice began to be available in places nationally. I could read music reviews and club ads to see what I was missing.
	6:59am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Kaliedoscope" by "Chappell Roan" I recognized her style.
	6:59am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:51 Just had to recommend Boll's "The Clown" to some German folks I met last week ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am fred: I'm on staycation for the duration of the games to avoid Paris. My workplace closed at 5pm yesterday, already military patrols everywhere, dreadful
	7:00am morphe': ↳ Song: "PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" What was her column name you said ?? "Fly Light?"
	♥ 7:01am TDK60: ↳ fred @6:59 Bonjour, Fred. Liberté! Égalité!
	⚡ ♥ 7:01am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 i think what the professor was getting at was something like disagreement makes you articulate your point of view
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:01 Which comes next? Fraternité or Beyoncé?
	⚡ ♥ 7:03am tom tom the pipers son: flambe
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am ∫ydniuß: Meow. 🐈‍⬛
	♥ 7:05am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:02 Fred, I use 'solidarité' to replace 'fraternité (to include the sisters). But Beyoncé is fab too!
	⚡ ♥ 7:06am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:01 For me that's mostly carrying on a dialogue with my self. That's one of our human 'virtues' of having a self.
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and fellow travelers. Cool interview.
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning from the dog park we overslept this morning but thankfully not too late for this interview!
	♥ 7:09am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:00 Fly Life
	⚡ ♥ 7:09am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:05 I'm all for solidarité, good point. But the "liberté egalité Beyoncé" isn't just a fun WFMU front page pic. There's one on utility poles nearby
	⚡ ♥ 7:10am tom tom the pipers son: the absence of these weeklies she's talking about is essentially censorship by corporatism
	♥ 7:11am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:09 Fred - Ah, a sense of humor still exists in Paris?!
	♥ 7:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 We get into that, and the book definitely does.
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @6:59 I love Heinrich Mann's 'Der Untertan' (The Subject?). The sad story of how the 1848 revolution failed and was absorbed in the 1880s by the rise of Social Democracy and Bismarck.
	7:14am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everybody in radioland! I'm enjoying this interview!
	7:15am morphe': ↳ fred @7:02 Liberté! Égalité! Argent !!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 and the constant convenience if flow of information through digital media. the convenience being swapped for content...the content of the weeklies was hand in hand with the fact the you had go to looking for it
	⚡ ♥ 7:16am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:11 I never lived there, I think people with it are being kicked out. Most people really, it trends to either ultra-rich, airbnb or slums
	♥ 7:18am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:16 Fred. Oh, I thought you do. Nearby town? Don't you work there?
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:18 I've spent almost all my life in the suburbs, which here are closer to what inner city or projects mean in the US. I work and was born there
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:06 but no self is an island and is at least partially a construct, contingent on others
	7:22am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 Yes.
	7:22am Toothgrinder Tom: @TDK60 6:59 I still see Tom Tomorrow in the ‘cartoon carousel’ on the Politico website every Friday so he’s still out there and hasn’t changed much if at all.
	♥ 7:23am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:14 Rich! Are you back online?
	⚡ ♥ 7:25am Spikey BXL: Tell you what, red chili haloumi is something else! Great interview with Tricia, look fwd to pt 2
	⚡ ♥ 7:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 I see the self as a reflection from the world, especially the world of others. No self without others.
	♥ 7:26am TDK60: Don't forget the popular VV back page personals. "I saw you on the 1 Train Tuesday. You were smirking as you read Crawdaddy. I like to smirk too! Call-------"
	⚡ ♥ 7:26am Spikey BXL: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:25 L'enfer c'est Sartre - Les Autres
	7:26am rich in angleton: hi brian - unfortunately no.. i'm listening on my phone... the hurricane won't seem to end down here...
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: @Michael so if you are stranded on a desert island a la Robinson Crusoe your self ceases to exist?
	♥ 7:28am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:16 Oh yes, Fred. I've been there and seen the socio-geographic layout.
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:27 hopefully you have a wilson volleyball
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am fred: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:26 I didn't know about that De Beauvoir pseudonym
	⚡ ♥ 7:30am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:27 Physical presence in the present is only one form of presence, a very restricted one. Most of what comes to presence in my mind is not physically, sensuously present, but that's no deficiency at all.
	7:30am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom ha!
	7:31am Ruth Booth: Happy Good Morning? Brian
	♥ 7:33am Brian D: ↳ Ruth Booth @7:31 Hi Ruth!
	♥ 7:35am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:26 Ugh. Sorry.
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: got turned on to authors by the voice...p k dick, patricia highsmith, blaise cendrars...etc
	7:36am Fredericks: This is a great interview, Brian.
	⚡ ♥ 7:38am dale: morning. who's playing at the lone star cafe tonight?
	♥ 7:38am Brian D: ↳ Fredericks @7:36 Thank you, Fredericks. Glad you're enjoying.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:38 Ha! Don't know. I'll be at Brownie's.
	♥ 7:40am WR: Interesting to hear of Christgau as an editor. As a music reviewer I've long found him lacking empathy.
	7:41am pmcWhenever: it’s the difference between conversation and argument, the bubbles of the net are mined with argument…
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am tom tom the pipers son: ny times is an information "pusher" in counter to news "junkies"
	♥ 7:42am Brian D: ↳ WR @7:40 Yes, as a reviewer he was divisive. But he mentored so many greats as an editor.
	♥ 7:42am JohnEBGood: wow. all this nonsense. just stop the hate : )
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pmcWhenever @7:41 but "conversation" often ends up in relativism
	⚡ ♥ 7:46am dale: i put an add in the personals once and got a response from a coco mcpherson. typed out on a manual typewriter. gave me her number and i called, but i must have failed that test because she was suddenly too busy to meet. later she acted in who shot andy warhol and is a photojournalist/author.
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am dale: ad.....not add.
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:43 Not if you actually listen, as opposed to looking for an opening or desperately looking for agreement. If it's open-ended, it can end up anywhere. Usually where you started, but with better understanding
	♥ 7:49am Tome: Great interview !<>!
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:48 i agree with that, as long as each person wants their point of view to evolve and the conversation is dialectical
	7:52am Fredericks: ↳ TDK60 @6:59 Yes, indeed!
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am tom tom the pipers son: great subject for an interview brian
	7:55am rich in angleton: I loved that interview
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:52 The good thing is that closed minds can't deal with an open approach so you don't waste time. Just listening will freak them out
	7:56am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:39 Brownie's [uuggghhh] was living proof of Gary Null's statement: "most Vegetarian restaurants have 2 cooks at all times in the kitchen ... one to overcook everything and the other to ensure the food has no flavor..." ps. I lived on 16th between 6th-5th 1980-> into 90s with time away
	♥ 7:56am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Emerge" by "Fischerspooner" That was a fun interview. I'd like to read Tricia's book...
	7:57am morphe': ↳ Song: "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" Great interview...
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:55 dealing with solipsism basically
	♥ 7:59am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:56 Tricia is a great interview, and the book is really terrific. Highly recommend.
	7:59am WSJ: Yeah booooy!
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am dale: brian - 'advertisement in the voice' by the good rats would be a nice listen.
	⚡ ♥ 8:00am dale: ↳ dale @7:59 ...no social outrage in it though.
	♥ 8:01am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @7:59 Right on, WSJ. Great line in the Freaks Came Out To Write: Greg Tate, I think, is being edited, and his editor is typing, and Tate says, "How are you such a great editor when you spell like Flavor Flav?"
	♥ 8:01am WR: Interesting interview, look forward to reading the book. I was an active reader of "the voice" in the early 70s, long before I moved to NYC in 92.
	8:01am WSJ: ↳ Brian D @8:01 Nice
	♥ 8:02am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:59 Don't have it here, unfortunately. I checked.
	⚡ ♥ 8:02am ∫ydniuß: silly wabbit is the best line
	8:03am modern blaze: ignorant
	8:03am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:01 Tate came in the bookshop a lot and was always pleasant and unassuming ... RIP..
	⚡ ♥ 8:03am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:02 dang library!
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am fred: I heard one person ask Chuck D how to get official support and funding to do things. He said it was the wrong way: do, then get it. He explained they wouldn't get anything by asking (not exactly true, but right idea). That's maybe relevant to how to live without the Village Voice
	♥ 8:04am john_zilla: ↳ Song: "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" by "Ice-T" wow haven't heard this in forever
	♥ 8:06am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:03 To be fair, I didn't try the 45 bins.
	8:07am modern blaze: Young Tee
	8:08am morphe': Ruth Reichl .. an article with an aside about Brownie's .. "No wonder: the vegetarian restaurants I knew were dreary places. I often stopped in at Brownie’s at 21 east 16th Street (the site of the first Union Square Cafe) on my way home from school to stare at a menu featuring vegetable bacon, wheat germ, and soy powder. I can still remember the smell of the place, which struck me as weird and rather grim. I’d look around and hurry out; you could not have paid me to dine there...." https://ruthreichl.substack.com/p/the-first-great-vegetarian-restaurant
	⚡ ♥ 8:08am Spikey BXL: ↳ modern blaze @8:07 Back in college i'd play O.G. so often I basically still know the whole album by heart
	♥ 8:10am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @8:08 www.nytimes.com...
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am ∫ydniuß: Lips like sugar soundalike?
	8:10am ?: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Netanyahu’s Invite to Addres... Well, here's another perspective on the outrage against Israel: https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/11/21/the-true-side-of-resistance-outnumbered-jews-are-the-underdog-in-the-real-world/?share=aerenrnwmreddhlrngci https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-806317 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/isnt-this-actually-the-narrative-of-redemption/
	♥ 8:11am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Netanyahu’s Invite to Addres... Yeah, Bernie. A sad, despicable week in U.S. history.
	♥ 8:11am Karl: ↳ Song: "In World" by "Television" See, that’s what I’m talking about
	♥ 8:19am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Paulo AD @6:31 Happy birthday, Paulo! 🎂
	⚡ ♥ 8:20am Spikey BXL: current generation barely knows who PE is anymore
	8:20am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:10 Forgot about that Brownies ... LoneStar reference led me to the teens and 5th Ave..
	8:21am Toothgrinder Tom: @Spikey there’s a lot they don’t know.
	⚡ ♥ 8:21am fred: ↳ @8:10 Bibi is a crook who knows he needs war to avoid prosecution. Almost anyone else would be better
	♥ 8:21am Tome: ↳ Song: "Loudmouth" by "Ramones" Punk it out yea until you ,,,, !<> !
	8:22am modern blaze: power chords
	⚡ ♥ 8:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Loudmouth" by "Ramones" great fade out
	⚡ ♥ 8:25am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" Thx for the long and insightful interview, Brian. We miss the Village Voice. On a lesser (?) level, Paul Lukas had a sports uniform column, Uni Watch. He of Inconspicuous Consumption. And thx for mention of The City and Hell Gate online newspapers (I just contributed to the latter). we need more RESPONSIBLE journalism. (VV once printed part of my letter to them, when I criticized nypd for driving a cop car into a park, right by a basketball game going on. IF ONLY that was the worst of nypd’s offenses to society.) Also, Tricia Romano was interviewed on wnyc and it too was vg. I found this but my memory was that it was longer than 8+ mins- www.npr.org...
	♥ 8:26am William Hellfire: Great show Brian!!! Thank you!.
	8:27am Billybob: I enjoy looking at R Christgau's album reviews from back then. So much more interesting than modern-day revised reviews of old albums. Blondie always got good reviews. So, too, the Ramones. Christgau hated Black Sabbath, tho, as did the NY FM radio stations, which wouldn't even play them. That always annoyed me.
	8:28am modern blaze: barely remember my publishing time years in USA
	♥ 8:28am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:25 Thank you, Herb. Yes, Paul was a contributor to the sports section at the same time I was. (His work was much better than mine.)
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ dale @7:59 Totally. Good Rats were under appreciated and ahead of their time.
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am tom tom the pipers son: follower of uniwatch and the poetry of phil rizzuto...
	♥ 8:33am WR: ↳ Song: "Clip: Indian Express-Bangladesh Protest_ UAE Sent... wow, life sentence in UAE for protesting about government policies in Bangladesh by Bangladeshi living in UAE. apnews.com...
	♥ 8:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:30 Yes! Scooter poetry excerpted in The Freaks Came Out To Write.
	8:36am modern blaze: but what i do remember so i studied literature in Boston and paved the way to many as on TV and in dig...
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:34 when i get proper reading glasses, i'm going to get book. i think i'll read it in. 2-3 sittings
	8:41am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:08 What is O.G.?
	⚡ ♥ 8:41am Spikey BXL: ↳ Fredericks @8:41 Original Gangster
	8:42am modern blaze: couldn't get my tickets right on time as i were on in regular U.S. Army and by the time i got by to legal life i was in punk bands and then off
	8:44am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:41 I knew that, but is it an album?
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ Fredericks @8:44 yup, 1991
	8:47am modern blaze: i've been to India and Bangladesh doing reports by diff forces of how people get by in jails and almost spent my embassy time not to get in there for that too
	♥ 8:48am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @8:47 Interesting, MB. That must have been something.
	8:48am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:45 Ahhh, thanks.
	8:49am Barbie: o/ (waving to mrs currents)
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show today, Brian. Thank you.
	8:49am WSJ: Hail Asbury
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by "Bruce Sprin... I forgot how to better phrase this (I need a village voice editor)-“what music person placed the first ad in the village voice?” Know?
	8:50am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @8:48 sure! i got 'em strong memories!
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am Robini: ↳ Song: "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by "Bruce Sprin... Such a good song, First Springsteen song I've heard on FMU
	8:51am WSJ: Definitely the first Springsteen song played on Currents
	8:51am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Thanks Brian. Love your show!
	♥ 8:52am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @8:51 Not true! Fake news!
	⚡ ♥ 8:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:44 Bumping this one that got lost just as conversations picked up. 🇺🇦Слава Україні! Героям слава!🇺🇦 Thanks Brian, top stuff again.
	8:52am morphe': Thanks again for the interview BD and the sounds ... and all !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am tom tom the pipers son: springsteen cover of dream baby dream played on fmu alot
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am Robini: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:53 That's True. He admired Suicide (the band)
	8:54am WSJ: ↳ Brian D @8:52 HA. Hope it’s not the last
	8:54am modern blaze: first time i hear 12 Rods on the radio
	♥ 8:55am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:49 Tell her I said hi.
	♥ 8:56am radioronan: Thanks, Brian! Cheers, y'all!
	8:57am modern blaze: some shook but not hungry
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today. And my thanks again to Tricia Romano. Read The Freaks Came Out to Write. And stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian..
	8:58am rich in angleton: Great show Brian! I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D, great show!!!
	♥ 8:59am TDK60: Gracias, Brian, Tricia.
	♥ 9:00am WR: Thank you, Brian.

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July 27, 2024: "I don’t think the culture could sustain anything like the Voice today because there is this great impatience for reading anything you disagree with."--Richard Goldstein in The Freaks Came Out To Write

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Ornette Coleman	Peace "Peace" by "Ornette Coleman"	Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

William Parker / Cooper-Moore / Hamid Drake	Kondo	Heart Trio		0:11:38 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Euronews-Wounded photojournalist carries Olympic flame in Paris			0:26:16 (Pop-up)
Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion	Who Turns Out The Light	Rectangles and Circumstance		0:26:51 (Pop-up)
Auric Echoes	All Your Bets in All the Wrong Places	Division for Human Ascension		0:32:10 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WION-UK experts claim Apple failing to monitor child abuse material on its platform			0:36:50 (Pop-up)
Marina Allen	Easy "Easy" by "Marina Allen"	Eight-Pointed Star		0:37:44 (Pop-up)
John Cale	God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Again)	POPtical Illusion		0:42:11 (Pop-up)

Chappell Roan	Kaliedoscope "Kaliedoscope" by "Chappell Roan"	Single		0:54:09 (Pop-up)

PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano "PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano"
Interpol	Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down	Turn on the Bright Lights		1:22:06 (Pop-up)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Warrior "Warrior" by "Yeah Yeah Yeahs"	Show Your Bones		1:28:32 (Pop-up)

PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano"
Fischerspooner	Emerge "Emerge" by "Fischerspooner"	Emerge		1:53:12 (Pop-up)
Public Enemy	Don't Believe The Hype	It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back		1:58:09 (Pop-up)
Ice-T	New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)	New Jack City motion picture soundtrack	Radio edit	2:03:28 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-Netanyahu’s Invite to Address Congress			2:08:12 (Pop-up)
Television	In World "In World" by "Television"	Television		2:09:21 (Pop-up)
Blondie	Dreaming "Dreaming" by "Blondie"	Eat to the Beat		2:13:30 (Pop-up)

Ramones	Loudmouth "Loudmouth" by "Ramones"	Ramones		2:20:51 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Indian Express-Bangladesh Protest_ UAE Sentences Bangladeshi Nationals to Prison Due to Quota Clashes			2:23:02 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music	Do The Strand "Do The Strand" by "Roxy Music"	For Your Pleasure		2:24:06 (Pop-up)
Crime and the City Solution	The Wailing Wall	Just South of Heaven		2:28:06 (Pop-up)
Swans	No Words No Thoughts "No Words No Thoughts" by "Swans"	My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky		2:33:49 (Pop-up)

Bruce Springsteen	4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)	The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle		2:47:33 (Pop-up)
12 Rods	My Year (This is Going to Be)	If We Stayed Alive		2:53:07 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Long Dark Night	Wild God		2:56:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas
	6:01am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian and all... miss the days of the village voice in more ways than one...agree with the quote
	⚡ ♥ 6:02am fred: Hello Brian and all! @Brian: Didn't you work at the Village Voice at some point?
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Peace" by "Ornette Coleman" Good noonday, Brian & Tom Tom & everybody
	♥ 6:03am Brian D: Good morning all. I'll be airing the interview with Tricia in the second hour.
	♥ 6:04am TDK60: Good morning, Brian.
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:02 Freelance contributor -- to the sports section -- for 8 years (96-04). High point of my career.
	⚡ ♥ 6:04am Strandlund: Morning Brian!! Hello all!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:06am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael... now that you're here ....reminds me... i received an email about verso books book club... 50 percent off books for ten dollars a month...seems like a good deal
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:02 I used to read the American Conservative (even Dreher) but I lost interest (their cutting the urbanism/architecture section was a factor). I bookmarked National Review instead. Not that I'd subscribe or send them any money
	⚡ ♥ 6:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:07 well the voice had little if any conservative point of view, just argument on the left. but i see your point and it's a good one... btw a segment on democracy now this week about the olympics catching up to things you were talking about that were/are happening
	♥ 6:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 Nat Hentoff was conservative on a number of issues, but he was an outlier. There were a few others.
	⚡ ♥ 6:14am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 right here for the DN piece on Paris Olympics www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ ♥ 6:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:14 oh u huh...
	⚡ ♥ 6:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:14 thx spikey
	6:20am morphe': VV - I've said before, Stanley Crouch used to visit St Marks Bookshop in the 80s seemingly to just complain about the music being played [most dolks were pleased or intrigued] .. we called him Stanley Grouch ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:12 I shouldn't have said "even Dreher", it should have been "especially Dreher", as his writing was good and made his ideas clear (not my thing, but there was a coherent worldview articulated). His divorce sent him into a tailspin (and Hungary), but I did learn a lot
	♥ 6:22am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:20 Crouch also had "conservative" views. And was notoriously cranky, to put it mildly. Never met him, but he apparently routinely had fistfights in the Voice offices.
	⚡ ♥ 6:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:21 i don't know anything about dreher...i'll have to look him up
	♥ 6:23am WR: "because there is this great impatience for reading anything you disagree with." Interesting capsule perspective on what drives information communication. I lean more towards many people's preference for reading what confirms their thoughts and fears has gotten into a feed back loop with "social media" and "click bait" driven communications systems. This has been decreasing demand for reliable information. In parallel there have long been present issues of limited attention span, of what information is deemed of importance and of the forces of special interests.
	⚡ ♥ 6:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:06 Thnx for tip, Tom Tom. I have quite a few Verso books in my bookcase, today decades old. Hardly buy any book these days; have enough stuffed into the bookcase to keep me busy until I drop off the perch. The older I get, the more I go back and back, before there was any English.
	♥ 6:25am WR: ↳ Song: "Kondo" by "William Parker / Cooper-Moore / Hamid ... Interesting to listen to this after hearing about 30 minutes of kora music on Give the Drummer yesterday morning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:31am Paulo AD: Brian my main man :)
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:21 i could see how dreher would be an interesting read...and that he started as a film critic
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:23 Maybe not worth it by now. I think it's worth it to find a good writer you totally disagree with and see how they evolve (still looking, not the best time)
	⚡ ♥ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:32 right, sound advice...
	6:34am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:25 Some of us at St Marks [I was 82-87] argued for creating a section of important but severely offensive titles, rather than not carrying them or just shelving in their section, but the idea did not pass ... so Mein Kampf was just there in History under "H"... There is also an argument for just using the alphabet ...
	♥ 6:38am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @6:31 Paulo!!! Hello sir.
	♥ 6:39am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:32 That was the thing about the Voice. You would want to read writers you disagreed with because they wrote well and provided context for their beliefs. You could understand their perspective, even if you disagreed with it. They weren't just trolling.
	⚡ ♥ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: the lebanese photojournalist was in an induced com for twelve days and it will be a year before she can walk again. the journalists were being observed by an israeli drone before they were attacked so the attack was clearly targeted and noe "collateral"
	⚡ ♥ 6:40am tom tom the pipers son: induced coma
	6:43am Barbie: Good morning from the West Village (not cat)
	♥ 6:43am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:43 Hi Barbie! Good morning.
	6:44am pmcWhenever: beautiful morn’ all
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am Spikey BXL: Watched a great documentary on the BBC this week: Hell Jumper. It's about a British volunteer who did evac missions in Ukraine and rescued an estimate 400 people from warzone before perishing during one of his missions. Highly recommend trying to watch it if possible where you are. www.bbc.com...
	⚡ ♥ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:39 a former professor that i've been in touch with said to me, after pointing out areas where i disagreed with him, disagreement is the greatest gift we can give each other
	⚡ ♥ 6:45am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:39 Also, actually knowing opposite viewpoints can turn screaming matches into conversations, or shut them down, both good outcomes. People can be disarmed by someone who knows where they're coming from (works with religion too, usually makes Jehovah's witnesses and LDS elders flee, but LDS women are quite fun)
	♥ 6:47am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Peace" by "Ornette Coleman" I got coffee at a shop with him. He was wearing a cape.
	⚡ ♥ 6:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Again)" by "John ... wonder if this title is based off of the larry cohen film...
	♥ 6:48am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Again)" by "John ... God made me do it is in my drive-in movie pile.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ William Hellfire @6:47 Some heroes do, though not all
	⚡ ♥ 6:51am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @6:34 I spent time in the 80s reading that conservative German Catholic, Carl Schmitt, who was so influential in the 30s and thereafter as a jurist and political philosopher. A very sharp (Fascist) mind, with a savage critique of the Weimar Republic.
	♥ 6:52am mdashkin: Don't forget the Village Voice cartoonists!
	♥ 6:53am TDK60: Yes, Brian. The last few days' weather in the Jersey City metro have been agreeable. Unusual. I usually don't agree with the weather. Nor most folks either. Hee.
	♥ 6:53am William Hellfire: ↳ fred @6:49 I tried to bring back casual cape Fridays. Didn't catch on.
	⚡ ♥ 6:55am tom tom the pipers son: walter gurbo...back page
	⚡ ♥ 6:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 Agreement and disagreement presuppose argument. I prefer to think in terms of trying to show something or other to someone else, and more often than not failing.
	♥ 6:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:55 YES!
	♥ 6:59am TDK60: Tom Tomorrow; I forgot about him. Are the cartoons still out there? When I left the Jersey City Metro in the '70s the Voice began to be available in places nationally. I could read music reviews and club ads to see what I was missing.
	6:59am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Kaliedoscope" by "Chappell Roan" I recognized her style.
	6:59am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:51 Just had to recommend Boll's "The Clown" to some German folks I met last week ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am fred: I'm on staycation for the duration of the games to avoid Paris. My workplace closed at 5pm yesterday, already military patrols everywhere, dreadful
	7:00am morphe': ↳ Song: "PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" What was her column name you said ?? "Fly Light?"
	♥ 7:01am TDK60: ↳ fred @6:59 Bonjour, Fred. Liberté! Égalité!
	⚡ ♥ 7:01am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 i think what the professor was getting at was something like disagreement makes you articulate your point of view
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:01 Which comes next? Fraternité or Beyoncé?
	⚡ ♥ 7:03am tom tom the pipers son: flambe
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am ∫ydniuß: Meow. 🐈‍⬛
	♥ 7:05am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:02 Fred, I use 'solidarité' to replace 'fraternité (to include the sisters). But Beyoncé is fab too!
	⚡ ♥ 7:06am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:01 For me that's mostly carrying on a dialogue with my self. That's one of our human 'virtues' of having a self.
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and fellow travelers. Cool interview.
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning from the dog park we overslept this morning but thankfully not too late for this interview!
	♥ 7:09am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:00 Fly Life
	⚡ ♥ 7:09am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:05 I'm all for solidarité, good point. But the "liberté egalité Beyoncé" isn't just a fun WFMU front page pic. There's one on utility poles nearby
	⚡ ♥ 7:10am tom tom the pipers son: the absence of these weeklies she's talking about is essentially censorship by corporatism
	♥ 7:11am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:09 Fred - Ah, a sense of humor still exists in Paris?!
	♥ 7:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 We get into that, and the book definitely does.
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @6:59 I love Heinrich Mann's 'Der Untertan' (The Subject?). The sad story of how the 1848 revolution failed and was absorbed in the 1880s by the rise of Social Democracy and Bismarck.
	7:14am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everybody in radioland! I'm enjoying this interview!
	7:15am morphe': ↳ fred @7:02 Liberté! Égalité! Argent !!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 and the constant convenience if flow of information through digital media. the convenience being swapped for content...the content of the weeklies was hand in hand with the fact the you had go to looking for it
	⚡ ♥ 7:16am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:11 I never lived there, I think people with it are being kicked out. Most people really, it trends to either ultra-rich, airbnb or slums
	♥ 7:18am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:16 Fred. Oh, I thought you do. Nearby town? Don't you work there?
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:18 I've spent almost all my life in the suburbs, which here are closer to what inner city or projects mean in the US. I work and was born there
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:06 but no self is an island and is at least partially a construct, contingent on others
	7:22am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 Yes.
	7:22am Toothgrinder Tom: @TDK60 6:59 I still see Tom Tomorrow in the ‘cartoon carousel’ on the Politico website every Friday so he’s still out there and hasn’t changed much if at all.
	♥ 7:23am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:14 Rich! Are you back online?
	⚡ ♥ 7:25am Spikey BXL: Tell you what, red chili haloumi is something else! Great interview with Tricia, look fwd to pt 2
	⚡ ♥ 7:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 I see the self as a reflection from the world, especially the world of others. No self without others.
	♥ 7:26am TDK60: Don't forget the popular VV back page personals. "I saw you on the 1 Train Tuesday. You were smirking as you read Crawdaddy. I like to smirk too! Call-------"
	⚡ ♥ 7:26am Spikey BXL: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:25 L'enfer c'est Sartre - Les Autres
	7:26am rich in angleton: hi brian - unfortunately no.. i'm listening on my phone... the hurricane won't seem to end down here...
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: @Michael so if you are stranded on a desert island a la Robinson Crusoe your self ceases to exist?
	♥ 7:28am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:16 Oh yes, Fred. I've been there and seen the socio-geographic layout.
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:27 hopefully you have a wilson volleyball
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am fred: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:26 I didn't know about that De Beauvoir pseudonym
	⚡ ♥ 7:30am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:27 Physical presence in the present is only one form of presence, a very restricted one. Most of what comes to presence in my mind is not physically, sensuously present, but that's no deficiency at all.
	7:30am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom ha!
	7:31am Ruth Booth: Happy Good Morning? Brian
	♥ 7:33am Brian D: ↳ Ruth Booth @7:31 Hi Ruth!
	♥ 7:35am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:26 Ugh. Sorry.
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: got turned on to authors by the voice...p k dick, patricia highsmith, blaise cendrars...etc
	7:36am Fredericks: This is a great interview, Brian.
	⚡ ♥ 7:38am dale: morning. who's playing at the lone star cafe tonight?
	♥ 7:38am Brian D: ↳ Fredericks @7:36 Thank you, Fredericks. Glad you're enjoying.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:38 Ha! Don't know. I'll be at Brownie's.
	♥ 7:40am WR: Interesting to hear of Christgau as an editor. As a music reviewer I've long found him lacking empathy.
	7:41am pmcWhenever: it’s the difference between conversation and argument, the bubbles of the net are mined with argument…
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am tom tom the pipers son: ny times is an information "pusher" in counter to news "junkies"
	♥ 7:42am Brian D: ↳ WR @7:40 Yes, as a reviewer he was divisive. But he mentored so many greats as an editor.
	♥ 7:42am JohnEBGood: wow. all this nonsense. just stop the hate : )
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pmcWhenever @7:41 but "conversation" often ends up in relativism
	⚡ ♥ 7:46am dale: i put an add in the personals once and got a response from a coco mcpherson. typed out on a manual typewriter. gave me her number and i called, but i must have failed that test because she was suddenly too busy to meet. later she acted in who shot andy warhol and is a photojournalist/author.
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am dale: ad.....not add.
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:43 Not if you actually listen, as opposed to looking for an opening or desperately looking for agreement. If it's open-ended, it can end up anywhere. Usually where you started, but with better understanding
	♥ 7:49am Tome: Great interview !<>!
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:48 i agree with that, as long as each person wants their point of view to evolve and the conversation is dialectical
	7:52am Fredericks: ↳ TDK60 @6:59 Yes, indeed!
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am tom tom the pipers son: great subject for an interview brian
	7:55am rich in angleton: I loved that interview
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:52 The good thing is that closed minds can't deal with an open approach so you don't waste time. Just listening will freak them out
	7:56am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:39 Brownie's [uuggghhh] was living proof of Gary Null's statement: "most Vegetarian restaurants have 2 cooks at all times in the kitchen ... one to overcook everything and the other to ensure the food has no flavor..." ps. I lived on 16th between 6th-5th 1980-> into 90s with time away
	♥ 7:56am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Emerge" by "Fischerspooner" That was a fun interview. I'd like to read Tricia's book...
	7:57am morphe': ↳ Song: "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" Great interview...
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:55 dealing with solipsism basically
	♥ 7:59am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:56 Tricia is a great interview, and the book is really terrific. Highly recommend.
	7:59am WSJ: Yeah booooy!
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am dale: brian - 'advertisement in the voice' by the good rats would be a nice listen.
	⚡ ♥ 8:00am dale: ↳ dale @7:59 ...no social outrage in it though.
	♥ 8:01am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @7:59 Right on, WSJ. Great line in the Freaks Came Out To Write: Greg Tate, I think, is being edited, and his editor is typing, and Tate says, "How are you such a great editor when you spell like Flavor Flav?"
	♥ 8:01am WR: Interesting interview, look forward to reading the book. I was an active reader of "the voice" in the early 70s, long before I moved to NYC in 92.
	8:01am WSJ: ↳ Brian D @8:01 Nice
	♥ 8:02am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:59 Don't have it here, unfortunately. I checked.
	⚡ ♥ 8:02am ∫ydniuß: silly wabbit is the best line
	8:03am modern blaze: ignorant
	8:03am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:01 Tate came in the bookshop a lot and was always pleasant and unassuming ... RIP..
	⚡ ♥ 8:03am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:02 dang library!
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am fred: I heard one person ask Chuck D how to get official support and funding to do things. He said it was the wrong way: do, then get it. He explained they wouldn't get anything by asking (not exactly true, but right idea). That's maybe relevant to how to live without the Village Voice
	♥ 8:04am john_zilla: ↳ Song: "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" by "Ice-T" wow haven't heard this in forever
	♥ 8:06am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:03 To be fair, I didn't try the 45 bins.
	8:07am modern blaze: Young Tee
	8:08am morphe': Ruth Reichl .. an article with an aside about Brownie's .. "No wonder: the vegetarian restaurants I knew were dreary places. I often stopped in at Brownie’s at 21 east 16th Street (the site of the first Union Square Cafe) on my way home from school to stare at a menu featuring vegetable bacon, wheat germ, and soy powder. I can still remember the smell of the place, which struck me as weird and rather grim. I’d look around and hurry out; you could not have paid me to dine there...." https://ruthreichl.substack.com/p/the-first-great-vegetarian-restaurant
	⚡ ♥ 8:08am Spikey BXL: ↳ modern blaze @8:07 Back in college i'd play O.G. so often I basically still know the whole album by heart
	♥ 8:10am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @8:08 www.nytimes.com...
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am ∫ydniuß: Lips like sugar soundalike?
	8:10am ?: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Netanyahu’s Invite to Addres... Well, here's another perspective on the outrage against Israel: https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/11/21/the-true-side-of-resistance-outnumbered-jews-are-the-underdog-in-the-real-world/?share=aerenrnwmreddhlrngci https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-806317 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/isnt-this-actually-the-narrative-of-redemption/
	♥ 8:11am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Netanyahu’s Invite to Addres... Yeah, Bernie. A sad, despicable week in U.S. history.
	♥ 8:11am Karl: ↳ Song: "In World" by "Television" See, that’s what I’m talking about
	♥ 8:19am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Paulo AD @6:31 Happy birthday, Paulo! 🎂
	⚡ ♥ 8:20am Spikey BXL: current generation barely knows who PE is anymore
	8:20am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:10 Forgot about that Brownies ... LoneStar reference led me to the teens and 5th Ave..
	8:21am Toothgrinder Tom: @Spikey there’s a lot they don’t know.
	⚡ ♥ 8:21am fred: ↳ @8:10 Bibi is a crook who knows he needs war to avoid prosecution. Almost anyone else would be better
	♥ 8:21am Tome: ↳ Song: "Loudmouth" by "Ramones" Punk it out yea until you ,,,, !<> !
	8:22am modern blaze: power chords
	⚡ ♥ 8:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Loudmouth" by "Ramones" great fade out
	⚡ ♥ 8:25am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH Tricia Romano" Thx for the long and insightful interview, Brian. We miss the Village Voice. On a lesser (?) level, Paul Lukas had a sports uniform column, Uni Watch. He of Inconspicuous Consumption. And thx for mention of The City and Hell Gate online newspapers (I just contributed to the latter). we need more RESPONSIBLE journalism. (VV once printed part of my letter to them, when I criticized nypd for driving a cop car into a park, right by a basketball game going on. IF ONLY that was the worst of nypd’s offenses to society.) Also, Tricia Romano was interviewed on wnyc and it too was vg. I found this but my memory was that it was longer than 8+ mins- www.npr.org...
	♥ 8:26am William Hellfire: Great show Brian!!! Thank you!.
	8:27am Billybob: I enjoy looking at R Christgau's album reviews from back then. So much more interesting than modern-day revised reviews of old albums. Blondie always got good reviews. So, too, the Ramones. Christgau hated Black Sabbath, tho, as did the NY FM radio stations, which wouldn't even play them. That always annoyed me.
	8:28am modern blaze: barely remember my publishing time years in USA
	♥ 8:28am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:25 Thank you, Herb. Yes, Paul was a contributor to the sports section at the same time I was. (His work was much better than mine.)
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ dale @7:59 Totally. Good Rats were under appreciated and ahead of their time.
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am tom tom the pipers son: follower of uniwatch and the poetry of phil rizzuto...
	♥ 8:33am WR: ↳ Song: "Clip: Indian Express-Bangladesh Protest_ UAE Sent... wow, life sentence in UAE for protesting about government policies in Bangladesh by Bangladeshi living in UAE. apnews.com...
	♥ 8:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:30 Yes! Scooter poetry excerpted in The Freaks Came Out To Write.
	8:36am modern blaze: but what i do remember so i studied literature in Boston and paved the way to many as on TV and in dig...
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:34 when i get proper reading glasses, i'm going to get book. i think i'll read it in. 2-3 sittings
	8:41am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:08 What is O.G.?
	⚡ ♥ 8:41am Spikey BXL: ↳ Fredericks @8:41 Original Gangster
	8:42am modern blaze: couldn't get my tickets right on time as i were on in regular U.S. Army and by the time i got by to legal life i was in punk bands and then off
	8:44am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:41 I knew that, but is it an album?
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ Fredericks @8:44 yup, 1991
	8:47am modern blaze: i've been to India and Bangladesh doing reports by diff forces of how people get by in jails and almost spent my embassy time not to get in there for that too
	♥ 8:48am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @8:47 Interesting, MB. That must have been something.
	8:48am Fredericks: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:45 Ahhh, thanks.
	8:49am Barbie: o/ (waving to mrs currents)
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show today, Brian. Thank you.
	8:49am WSJ: Hail Asbury
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by "Bruce Sprin... I forgot how to better phrase this (I need a village voice editor)-“what music person placed the first ad in the village voice?” Know?
	8:50am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @8:48 sure! i got 'em strong memories!
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am Robini: ↳ Song: "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by "Bruce Sprin... Such a good song, First Springsteen song I've heard on FMU
	8:51am WSJ: Definitely the first Springsteen song played on Currents
	8:51am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Thanks Brian. Love your show!
	♥ 8:52am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @8:51 Not true! Fake news!
	⚡ ♥ 8:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:44 Bumping this one that got lost just as conversations picked up. 🇺🇦Слава Україні! Героям слава!🇺🇦 Thanks Brian, top stuff again.
	8:52am morphe': Thanks again for the interview BD and the sounds ... and all !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am tom tom the pipers son: springsteen cover of dream baby dream played on fmu alot
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am Robini: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:53 That's True. He admired Suicide (the band)
	8:54am WSJ: ↳ Brian D @8:52 HA. Hope it’s not the last
	8:54am modern blaze: first time i hear 12 Rods on the radio
	♥ 8:55am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:49 Tell her I said hi.
	♥ 8:56am radioronan: Thanks, Brian! Cheers, y'all!
	8:57am modern blaze: some shook but not hungry
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today. And my thanks again to Tricia Romano. Read The Freaks Came Out to Write. And stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian..
	8:58am rich in angleton: Great show Brian! I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D, great show!!!
	♥ 8:59am TDK60: Gracias, Brian, Tricia.
	♥ 9:00am WR: Thank you, Brian.

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from July 27, 2024

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