WFMU: Daniel Blumin: Playlist from November 11, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:07pm SeanG: Hey DB!
	♥ 9:08pm Folsom: Greetings to Mr. Blumin!
	9:08pm Kimzilla: Hey Dan, James and I are hanging here enjoying your music pics this week. Feeling it. Thanks.
	♥ 9:11pm Daniel Blumin: Ahoy SeanG! Folsom! Kimzilla! Lurkaz and the Freeform Massive (FM)! Good to have you here!
	♥ 9:11pm Tome: you go Dan ,,, Set the Controls !!!!! ...
	♥ 9:14pm Daniel Blumin: Tome!
	9:14pm fleep: Well, enough reality for awhile, let's spelunk and plunk. Greetings DB and Bluminauts.
	9:14pm steve: hello!
	♥ 9:16pm Daniel Blumin: steve! fleep! reality!
	♥ 9:22pm Folsom: @Daniel Do you have any Robert Vaughn songs?
	♥ 9:32pm Philthy woman: THis show has been deliriously fabulous so far, I was too entranced to comment or move for a long time , thank you Daniel Blumin
	9:32pm fleep: Wolves and Birds and One Squeaky Toy
	♥ 9:40pm Daniel Blumin: My first exposure to him was The Magnificent Seven, Folsom. Maybe something from U.N.C.L.E? I'll see what I can do... Thank you very much, Philthy!
	9:42pm Scraps deSelby: eskimomomomo...
	9:44pm Mallowram: giggin digging the sounds
	♥ 9:46pm Folsom: @Daniel U.N.C.L.E would do. Thanks!
	♥ 9:53pm melinda: hello Bluminati
	9:55pm alexander: hi everyone, hallo herr daniei, back to the 80´s , great
	🌫 ♥ 9:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good evening, Blumintroids.
	9:57pm muhrvis: Hello from Corvallis, OR, Cascadia, USA.
	♥ 9:57pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you fer the earzzz, Mallowram! Hallo Scraps, melinda, muhrv, Ken und alexander!
	10:00pm slawooy: Morning!
	♥ 10:01pm Daniel Blumin: Evening!
	♥ 10:02pm Philthy woman: lovin
	10:03pm fleep: Stunning, what a way to end a set.
	♥ 10:05pm Philthy woman: THNKY
	♥ 10:07pm Folsom: I found the Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. www.dailymotion.com...
	10:07pm Scraps: Oh! Didn't know
	♥ 10:14pm Philthy woman: So many words lately and people need to do it but I am really appreciating the lack of words in these songs your playing tonight
	10:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great re Cohen: www.sfchronicle.com... ...here's to straightening out the brainicles...can't seem to find a light bright enuff to see in there just now... + Pw.
	♥ 10:17pm melinda: Cool bed music for the subject matter.
	10:19pm JakeGould: Daniel! Just came in to hear you talk about your dad and World War II. Hits close to home. My parents are Holocaust survivors and met in the literal rubble of Poland. They too never talked much about their experience and at the end of the day I recognize their PTSD was something real. Which is all to say, heartfelt feelings going back to you.
	♥ 10:27pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you, Philthy! I'll check it out, Rev! Thx!
	♥ 10:29pm luthorvondoom: Suddenly remembered one of the first ever book reports I wrote for school was on a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." novelisation. (British spelling in honour of Vaughn's work on "Hustle")
	10:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY & Jake & Simon for the stories of human digntiy & courage & beauty. Remember: People are feeling humbled & alone - but - I still believe We outnumber them.
	♥ 10:31pm coelacanth: hello Daniel; Bluminaries...
	♥ 10:33pm coelacanth: ...had to sit in my car, where my radio is dependable, in my driveway till you finished your grandpa story.
	♥ 10:33pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you, JakeG. A couple who met in Poland as the war ended lived in my building - first time I ever saw the number tattoos... They were inseparable - always walking around the block together. One day she was gone. A few months later he followed... I couldn't speak to them due to the language barrier, but still think of them both and what they must've gone through...
	♥ 10:35pm Daniel Blumin: thanks, coela!
	♥ 10:35pm Daniel Blumin: luthor! I hope you still have it!
	♥ 10:35pm melinda: hi coel
	10:38pm JakeGould: @DanielBlumin: Indeed. Great yo hear about your neighbors. At the end of the day you realize your desire to know the details will always take a backseat to the need to respect space.
	♥ 10:38pm coelacanth: ...and crap. Robert Vaughn. rest in peace Mr. Vaughn. rest in peace Mr. Cohen. - it's weird, but my sister read a statement from Leonard's son which stated he died on the 7th.
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth: yes, Thank you for that story too, Daniel. ...i guess i ought to scroll up for other stories.
	10:41pm muwf: Ahh! Hula
	♥ 10:46pm Folsom: coelacanth is here, I thought I heard him dirive in his Chevy Blumina
	10:47pm Scraps: KILLING JOKE AARRRRGGGGHH!
	10:48pm Retard Riot: 1980 1980 1980 1980 Halo Mr Blumin
	♥ 10:48pm SeanG: YAAAAAAH!
	10:48pm Scraps: I so love this album, the first. I was sixteen. There was no album like that before.
	♥ 10:49pm George of Troy: Aloha, Daniel and crew! Good evening.
	10:52pm Scraps: There is something familiar in these chords of this Fall song....
	10:53pm Scraps: the a part, at least
	10:54pm Scraps: all right, they're changing it a little bit
	10:55pm Scraps: oh, it's another 1980 song...
	♥ 10:55pm Philthy woman: The stories of our families especially if they involved trauma are hard to come by sometimes and seeking them out seems to make them hide deeper in the shadows from what I have seen. On my dad's side my family came here running away from the Nazi's after running away from the communists but I still don't understand it all. The one person open with me, my Baba told me stories openly when she was alive and I was too young to contextualize. I think she liked that I didn't understand enough to box up her stories and I just listened. But now I have these confused memories and I wish I could talk with her and hear her tell them again,
	🌫 ♥ 10:56pm Andrew Waterloo: wow... I just copied Tipsy's Trip Tease to my tablet. One of the songs sample this JJP heavily.
	10:57pm Scraps: yep! Trip Tease is a great album, too
	10:58pm P-90: Love this 60's sci-fi a-go-go sound. Hi Daniel and Bluminstigators.
	🌫 ♥ 10:59pm Andrew Waterloo: Trip Tease is one of my all time favourites always fun to discover a sample from it.
	♥ 11:06pm coelacanth: Scraps @1052 'maybe not what you were thinking of but there's a pavement song with a similar chord sequence.
	11:08pm Scraps: that's probably it!
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth: thy woman, i strongly relate in that i was too young to appreciate what my grandparents had to say. i was just about ready to be focused enough to listen to them when they died and i knew it.
	♥ 11:11pm Philthy woman: NIIICE. yes.
	11:15pm Scraps: coelacanth, you're right: i was thinking of "conduit for sale" from slanted & enchanted. thanks!
	♥ 11:18pm coelacanth: Scraps - cool, closure! i didn't want to go on a limb to say it was that album.
	♥ 11:19pm coelacanth: that was intense Daniel.
	11:24pm muhrvis: So poignant and painful to hear these poems and stories... As a teen, my late father was a German soldier on the Russian front in Finland after 1941. He grew up in a German-speaking village in Yugoslavia, and was conscripted when the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia in '41. When it was over, he just wanted to get the fuck out of Europe for good. First he had to find his mom and sister (my grandma and aunt) who had escaped from a prison camp where they were held by the newly formed communist government in Yugoslavia. They fled to Hungary, then Austria essentially in their bare feet. He eventually found them in a Red Cross refugee camp in Austria and they made their way to the US a couple years later. He was so good to me and such a nice person.
	♥ 11:30pm coelacanth: Thank you muhrvis.
	11:37pm Retard Riot: uh no, i spilt peanut butter on my dancey pants
	11:38pm muhrvis: One of my fave Xmas gifts was a Man From U.N.C.L.E. briefcase with periscopes and guns and invisible ink in it!
	🌫 ♥ 11:40pm Ken From Hyde Park: I don't recall seeing Man From U.N.C.L.E. at our house. I think my dad liked Rat Patrol better.
	11:40pm JakeGould: These stories are great! Thanks for everyone for sharing and for Daniel Blumin sharing on air as well. As for me my dad gave me a glimpse of what he went through when we went to see “The Empire Strikes Back” for a second time in 1980. It was second time for me; first for him. Anyway, he didn’t give a shit about the film going in… Until one key scene at the beginning of the film. When Han Solo cut open the dead Tauntaun to keep Luke warm in the cold on Hoth? THAT is when my dad became engaged. On the bus ride home he told me explicitly he liked that scene because it was exactly what soldiers in Europe would do if they needed warmth/shelter and there was no other choice: Find a dead animal, cut out it’s guts and crawl in. I was 12 when he told me that and it was one of the few glimpses at his personal hell he shared with the family. So I guess “Star Wars” helped my dad lessen his PTSD?
	♥ 11:41pm Daniel Blumin: muhrv, wish I could participate more in these stories too but this music and reading business... ay yi yi. It's great to hear these stories, though. My grandfather was also in Finland but in 1939 when the Soviets invaded. Think he was also just a teen. He was wounded. Once he recovered, he trained as a medic, and was sent back out when the USSR was invaded in '41. One of a very small number who made it through the war to '45 (though he was wounded again along the way)...
	♥ 11:44pm coelacanth: Thank you Jake.
	11:47pm JakeGould: You’re welcome, Coelacanth!
	11:49pm muhrvis: Unfortunately, I didn't hear the segment where you told the story Daniel. I will listen to it later... I have to be honest and say that I think the PTSD suffered by my parents was passed on to me in some ways through the way they taught me to deal with situations.
	11:49pm Scraps: Wow. I haven't listened to this in thirty years. I had this on LP, but not CD.
	11:50pm muhrvis: OK, I am done being sensitive and shit. Back to reveling in the dark music!
	🌫 ♥ 11:52pm Ken From Hyde Park: My dad was in the army in the 50s and was told his unit was shipping out to Korea. He and some buddies drove home for a couple days to say goodbye to their families. As luck would have it, they got back to their base and found that the mission was cancelled.
	♥ 11:54pm coelacanth: haha muhrvis, you're not done being sensitive! (at least you better not be!)
	♥ 11:55pm coelacanth: and that's Lucky Ken or you mightn't be here.
	11:57pm Dean: Kate Fucking Smith, bitches!
	♥ 11:57pm melinda: Thanks for the stories, everyone. @muhrvis: I've read that PTSD by proxy (or something akin to it) is a real phenomenon.
	11:59pm fleep: Thanks, DB!
	11:59pm Scraps: thank you, people.
	11:59pm Dean: Almost over? Or almost officially?
	♥ 11:59pm coelacanth: oh man that was fucking Amazing!
	🌫 ♥ 12:00am Ike: Thanks DB!
	🌫 ♥ 12:00am Kwon Eun Eun From Dangjin: @coelacanth - Yeah, no kidding!
	♥ 12:01am coelacanth: Thanks Daniel and Thanks everyone for stories. tchau camaradas stay strong.
	12:04am muhrvis: Thank you all. Brilliant program.
	♥ 2:59pm Daniel Blumin: It's been a hell of a week. Thanks for all the stories, the listens, and the company, everyone! And keep supporting your freeform station! pledge.wfmu.org...

Daniel Blumin: Playlist from November 11, 2016

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The run-around drill sergeant of love meets the freeform radio nurse in an international popularity crisis. Twang, dub, noise, rockers, aliens, drum machines, foreigners, imported goods, songs, rumbles, hollers, blips and squiggles, along with an occasional musical number.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Angola Vocal Group	Rise and Fly "Rise and Fly" by "Angola Vocal Group"	Angola Prison Spirituals	Arhoolie	2003		50's	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd	A Saucerful of Secrets	A Saucerful of Secrets	Tower	1968	LP		0:07:58 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	Treaty "Treaty" by "Leonard Cohen"	You Want It Darker	Sony	2016			0:19:44 (Pop-up)
Tazartes/Romanczuk/Zaleski	Wolves and Birds	Carp's Head	Monotype	2016			0:24:06 (Pop-up)
Supersilent	13.1 "13.1" by "Supersilent"	13	Smalltown Supersound	2016			0:32:26 (Pop-up)
The Residents	The Festival of Death	Eskimo	Ralph	1979	LP		0:40:35 (Pop-up)
Paolo Tecon	Con Cocaina "Con Cocaina" by "Paolo Tecon"	Con Cocaina	Soundcloud	2016			0:49:45 (Pop-up)
Syrinx	Melina's Torch (solo) "Melina's Torch (solo)" by "Syrinx"	Tumblers from the Vault 1970-72	RVNG Intl.	2016		from Long Lost Relics CD	0:54:28 (Pop-up)
Jerry Goldsmith	Meet Mr. Solo "Meet Mr. Solo" by "Jerry Goldsmith"	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	TCM	2002			1:03:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Apache 61	Invocation of Mantra "Invocation of Mantra" by "Apache 61"	Hmm	Sprawl	2000			1:04:38 (Pop-up)
Simon Joyner	Veteran's Hospital Song	EP No1	Hayfever	1995	7"		1:16:37 (Pop-up)
Brume	Panzerfaust "Panzerfaust" by "Brume"	Mother Blast	Grautag	2016			1:20:40 (Pop-up)
The Modern Institute	They Shaved My Head and Curled the Rest off	Another Exhibition	Domestic Exile	2016	Cassette		1:30:20 (Pop-up)
Hula	Ghost Rattle "Ghost Rattle" by "Hula"	Murmur	Red Rhino	1984	LP		1:37:11 (Pop-up)
Pink Military	Degenerated Man "Degenerated Man" by "Pink Military"	Do Animals Believe In God?	Eric's	1980	LP		1:41:16 (Pop-up)
Killing Joke	Primitive "Primitive" by "Killing Joke"	Killing Joke	EG	1980			1:45:17 (Pop-up)
The Fall	New Face in Hell "New Face in Hell" by "The Fall"	Grotesque	Superior Viaduct	2016	LP	'80	1:48:51 (Pop-up)
Jean Jacques Perrey	Cat in the Night	The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Moog Indigo	Electronic Vanguard	1995		'70	1:54:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tazartes/Romanczuk/Zaleski	Wolves and Birds 2	Carp's Head	Monotype	2016			1:57:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gordon Monahan	Excerpt from Speaker Swinging	Imaginary Landscapes	Elektra/Nonesuch	1989		+ Epictetus "How to Behave toward Tyrants"	2:18:17 (Pop-up)
Chaitanya Hari Deuter / Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh	Kundalini Meditation - First Stage	Kundalini Meditation Music	Polydor	1979	LP		2:19:22 (Pop-up)
Rashad Becker	Chants/Dances VI "Chants/Dances VI" by "Rashad Becker"	Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II	PAN	2016			2:30:14 (Pop-up)
Tomutonttu	Hydran Kielikoulu "Hydran Kielikoulu" by "Tomutonttu"	Trarat	Leaving	2016	Cassette		2:34:27 (Pop-up)
Okzharp & Manthe Ribane	Teleported	Tell Your Vision	Hyperdub	2016			2:38:41 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag	Voice of America (Part 1)	Voice of America	Rift	1982	LP		2:42:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:07pm SeanG: Hey DB!
	♥ 9:08pm Folsom: Greetings to Mr. Blumin!
	9:08pm Kimzilla: Hey Dan, James and I are hanging here enjoying your music pics this week. Feeling it. Thanks.
	♥ 9:11pm Daniel Blumin: Ahoy SeanG! Folsom! Kimzilla! Lurkaz and the Freeform Massive (FM)! Good to have you here!
	♥ 9:11pm Tome: you go Dan ,,, Set the Controls !!!!! ...
	♥ 9:14pm Daniel Blumin: Tome!
	9:14pm fleep: Well, enough reality for awhile, let's spelunk and plunk. Greetings DB and Bluminauts.
	9:14pm steve: hello!
	♥ 9:16pm Daniel Blumin: steve! fleep! reality!
	♥ 9:22pm Folsom: @Daniel Do you have any Robert Vaughn songs?
	♥ 9:32pm Philthy woman: THis show has been deliriously fabulous so far, I was too entranced to comment or move for a long time , thank you Daniel Blumin
	9:32pm fleep: Wolves and Birds and One Squeaky Toy
	♥ 9:40pm Daniel Blumin: My first exposure to him was The Magnificent Seven, Folsom. Maybe something from U.N.C.L.E? I'll see what I can do... Thank you very much, Philthy!
	9:42pm Scraps deSelby: eskimomomomo...
	9:44pm Mallowram: giggin digging the sounds
	♥ 9:46pm Folsom: @Daniel U.N.C.L.E would do. Thanks!
	♥ 9:53pm melinda: hello Bluminati
	9:55pm alexander: hi everyone, hallo herr daniei, back to the 80´s , great
	🌫 ♥ 9:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good evening, Blumintroids.
	9:57pm muhrvis: Hello from Corvallis, OR, Cascadia, USA.
	♥ 9:57pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you fer the earzzz, Mallowram! Hallo Scraps, melinda, muhrv, Ken und alexander!
	10:00pm slawooy: Morning!
	♥ 10:01pm Daniel Blumin: Evening!
	♥ 10:02pm Philthy woman: lovin
	10:03pm fleep: Stunning, what a way to end a set.
	♥ 10:05pm Philthy woman: THNKY
	♥ 10:07pm Folsom: I found the Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. www.dailymotion.com...
	10:07pm Scraps: Oh! Didn't know
	♥ 10:14pm Philthy woman: So many words lately and people need to do it but I am really appreciating the lack of words in these songs your playing tonight
	10:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great re Cohen: www.sfchronicle.com... ...here's to straightening out the brainicles...can't seem to find a light bright enuff to see in there just now... + Pw.
	♥ 10:17pm melinda: Cool bed music for the subject matter.
	10:19pm JakeGould: Daniel! Just came in to hear you talk about your dad and World War II. Hits close to home. My parents are Holocaust survivors and met in the literal rubble of Poland. They too never talked much about their experience and at the end of the day I recognize their PTSD was something real. Which is all to say, heartfelt feelings going back to you.
	♥ 10:27pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you, Philthy! I'll check it out, Rev! Thx!
	♥ 10:29pm luthorvondoom: Suddenly remembered one of the first ever book reports I wrote for school was on a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." novelisation. (British spelling in honour of Vaughn's work on "Hustle")
	10:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY & Jake & Simon for the stories of human digntiy & courage & beauty. Remember: People are feeling humbled & alone - but - I still believe We outnumber them.
	♥ 10:31pm coelacanth: hello Daniel; Bluminaries...
	♥ 10:33pm coelacanth: ...had to sit in my car, where my radio is dependable, in my driveway till you finished your grandpa story.
	♥ 10:33pm Daniel Blumin: Thank you, JakeG. A couple who met in Poland as the war ended lived in my building - first time I ever saw the number tattoos... They were inseparable - always walking around the block together. One day she was gone. A few months later he followed... I couldn't speak to them due to the language barrier, but still think of them both and what they must've gone through...
	♥ 10:35pm Daniel Blumin: thanks, coela!
	♥ 10:35pm Daniel Blumin: luthor! I hope you still have it!
	♥ 10:35pm melinda: hi coel
	10:38pm JakeGould: @DanielBlumin: Indeed. Great yo hear about your neighbors. At the end of the day you realize your desire to know the details will always take a backseat to the need to respect space.
	♥ 10:38pm coelacanth: ...and crap. Robert Vaughn. rest in peace Mr. Vaughn. rest in peace Mr. Cohen. - it's weird, but my sister read a statement from Leonard's son which stated he died on the 7th.
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth: yes, Thank you for that story too, Daniel. ...i guess i ought to scroll up for other stories.
	10:41pm muwf: Ahh! Hula
	♥ 10:46pm Folsom: coelacanth is here, I thought I heard him dirive in his Chevy Blumina
	10:47pm Scraps: KILLING JOKE AARRRRGGGGHH!
	10:48pm Retard Riot: 1980 1980 1980 1980 Halo Mr Blumin
	♥ 10:48pm SeanG: YAAAAAAH!
	10:48pm Scraps: I so love this album, the first. I was sixteen. There was no album like that before.
	♥ 10:49pm George of Troy: Aloha, Daniel and crew! Good evening.
	10:52pm Scraps: There is something familiar in these chords of this Fall song....
	10:53pm Scraps: the a part, at least
	10:54pm Scraps: all right, they're changing it a little bit
	10:55pm Scraps: oh, it's another 1980 song...
	♥ 10:55pm Philthy woman: The stories of our families especially if they involved trauma are hard to come by sometimes and seeking them out seems to make them hide deeper in the shadows from what I have seen. On my dad's side my family came here running away from the Nazi's after running away from the communists but I still don't understand it all. The one person open with me, my Baba told me stories openly when she was alive and I was too young to contextualize. I think she liked that I didn't understand enough to box up her stories and I just listened. But now I have these confused memories and I wish I could talk with her and hear her tell them again,
	🌫 ♥ 10:56pm Andrew Waterloo: wow... I just copied Tipsy's Trip Tease to my tablet. One of the songs sample this JJP heavily.
	10:57pm Scraps: yep! Trip Tease is a great album, too
	10:58pm P-90: Love this 60's sci-fi a-go-go sound. Hi Daniel and Bluminstigators.
	🌫 ♥ 10:59pm Andrew Waterloo: Trip Tease is one of my all time favourites always fun to discover a sample from it.
	♥ 11:06pm coelacanth: Scraps @1052 'maybe not what you were thinking of but there's a pavement song with a similar chord sequence.
	11:08pm Scraps: that's probably it!
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth: thy woman, i strongly relate in that i was too young to appreciate what my grandparents had to say. i was just about ready to be focused enough to listen to them when they died and i knew it.
	♥ 11:11pm Philthy woman: NIIICE. yes.
	11:15pm Scraps: coelacanth, you're right: i was thinking of "conduit for sale" from slanted & enchanted. thanks!
	♥ 11:18pm coelacanth: Scraps - cool, closure! i didn't want to go on a limb to say it was that album.
	♥ 11:19pm coelacanth: that was intense Daniel.
	11:24pm muhrvis: So poignant and painful to hear these poems and stories... As a teen, my late father was a German soldier on the Russian front in Finland after 1941. He grew up in a German-speaking village in Yugoslavia, and was conscripted when the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia in '41. When it was over, he just wanted to get the fuck out of Europe for good. First he had to find his mom and sister (my grandma and aunt) who had escaped from a prison camp where they were held by the newly formed communist government in Yugoslavia. They fled to Hungary, then Austria essentially in their bare feet. He eventually found them in a Red Cross refugee camp in Austria and they made their way to the US a couple years later. He was so good to me and such a nice person.
	♥ 11:30pm coelacanth: Thank you muhrvis.
	11:37pm Retard Riot: uh no, i spilt peanut butter on my dancey pants
	11:38pm muhrvis: One of my fave Xmas gifts was a Man From U.N.C.L.E. briefcase with periscopes and guns and invisible ink in it!
	🌫 ♥ 11:40pm Ken From Hyde Park: I don't recall seeing Man From U.N.C.L.E. at our house. I think my dad liked Rat Patrol better.
	11:40pm JakeGould: These stories are great! Thanks for everyone for sharing and for Daniel Blumin sharing on air as well. As for me my dad gave me a glimpse of what he went through when we went to see “The Empire Strikes Back” for a second time in 1980. It was second time for me; first for him. Anyway, he didn’t give a shit about the film going in… Until one key scene at the beginning of the film. When Han Solo cut open the dead Tauntaun to keep Luke warm in the cold on Hoth? THAT is when my dad became engaged. On the bus ride home he told me explicitly he liked that scene because it was exactly what soldiers in Europe would do if they needed warmth/shelter and there was no other choice: Find a dead animal, cut out it’s guts and crawl in. I was 12 when he told me that and it was one of the few glimpses at his personal hell he shared with the family. So I guess “Star Wars” helped my dad lessen his PTSD?
	♥ 11:41pm Daniel Blumin: muhrv, wish I could participate more in these stories too but this music and reading business... ay yi yi. It's great to hear these stories, though. My grandfather was also in Finland but in 1939 when the Soviets invaded. Think he was also just a teen. He was wounded. Once he recovered, he trained as a medic, and was sent back out when the USSR was invaded in '41. One of a very small number who made it through the war to '45 (though he was wounded again along the way)...
	♥ 11:44pm coelacanth: Thank you Jake.
	11:47pm JakeGould: You’re welcome, Coelacanth!
	11:49pm muhrvis: Unfortunately, I didn't hear the segment where you told the story Daniel. I will listen to it later... I have to be honest and say that I think the PTSD suffered by my parents was passed on to me in some ways through the way they taught me to deal with situations.
	11:49pm Scraps: Wow. I haven't listened to this in thirty years. I had this on LP, but not CD.
	11:50pm muhrvis: OK, I am done being sensitive and shit. Back to reveling in the dark music!
	🌫 ♥ 11:52pm Ken From Hyde Park: My dad was in the army in the 50s and was told his unit was shipping out to Korea. He and some buddies drove home for a couple days to say goodbye to their families. As luck would have it, they got back to their base and found that the mission was cancelled.
	♥ 11:54pm coelacanth: haha muhrvis, you're not done being sensitive! (at least you better not be!)
	♥ 11:55pm coelacanth: and that's Lucky Ken or you mightn't be here.
	11:57pm Dean: Kate Fucking Smith, bitches!
	♥ 11:57pm melinda: Thanks for the stories, everyone. @muhrvis: I've read that PTSD by proxy (or something akin to it) is a real phenomenon.
	11:59pm fleep: Thanks, DB!
	11:59pm Scraps: thank you, people.
	11:59pm Dean: Almost over? Or almost officially?
	♥ 11:59pm coelacanth: oh man that was fucking Amazing!
	🌫 ♥ 12:00am Ike: Thanks DB!
	🌫 ♥ 12:00am Kwon Eun Eun From Dangjin: @coelacanth - Yeah, no kidding!
	♥ 12:01am coelacanth: Thanks Daniel and Thanks everyone for stories. tchau camaradas stay strong.
	12:04am muhrvis: Thank you all. Brilliant program.
	♥ 2:59pm Daniel Blumin: It's been a hell of a week. Thanks for all the stories, the listens, and the company, everyone! And keep supporting your freeform station! pledge.wfmu.org...

Daniel Blumin: Playlist from November 11, 2016

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