WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from March 5, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ 3:05am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, funny seeing you on michele's chat board.
	3:09am Richy4619: Sick Snake 1 signage.
	3:16am Brian D: Hey Tom Tom and all. Yes, I didn't have to share my cringeworthy story either.
	3:16am Brian D: ↳ Richy4619 @3:09 Part of a recent show at Howl Arts.
	3:18am tak: YEAH
	⚡ 3:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:16 yes, i went looking for it in the archives.
	⚡ 3:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Glam Racket" by "The Fall" i went to a wedding in the mid nineties where there was a preponderance of bald men with close cropped facial hair. the fall song league of bald headed men which came out about that time popped into my head.
	⚡ 3:24am tom tom the pipers son: including the groom
	⚡ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: whats up with the usual comments contingent?
	3:27am devlawn: My main problem with WFMU is that it has good shows 24 hours a day. It's impossible to listen to everything.
	3:34am mr 6: I went to the Bronx doc website There are no hours/days listed and no prices of as listed Very confusing website
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:34 www.bronxdoc.org...
	3:34am mr 6: Sorry No prices of admission posted
	⚡ 3:34am Don in Tampere: Good morning! This part of the comments contingent overslept.....
	3:36am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:34 It's free, Mr. 6.
	3:36am Brian D: Greetings Don!
	3:37am mr 6: Thanks, the only hours on that exhibition are from the reception
	⚡ 3:38am tom tom the pipers son: ha! hi don!
	3:44am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:37 Yeah, that's weird. I think they're open from 1-5 pm daily, but you may want to call and check.
	3:44am Ciggy: Listening to Amy Goodman & Democracy Now Since 1996
	3:46am Brian D: ↳ Ciggy @3:44 Me too, Cig.
	3:47am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:37 Gallery Hours: Thur-Fri 3-7PM & Sat-Sun 1-5PM
	3:49am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & all! 25% raised and the marathon hasn't even started! Insane Clown is having a fundraising marathon too! Insane Clown Jr. premium is a coke straw!
	⚡ 3:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Indigneous environmental act... the american indian community house in nyc has been downsized so severely it hardly exists. when they were on lafayette street they were really vital
	3:51am Brian D: Hello Chris! Yes, the support has been amazing already.
	⚡ 3:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:34 Morning Don, Brian & all. Currently still oversleeping here in grey Cologne. Yaaawn. Gääähn.
	⚡ 3:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:50 through aich i became aquainted with ingrid washinawatok who was assasinated in colombia by farc guerrilas
	4:04am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:50 Exhibition is also online: americanindian.si.edu...
	⚡ 4:06am tom tom the pipers son: native americans were/are also given government numbers without which they can't get government funding. a woman that i knew couldn't get her artwork shown in the a. i. c. h. gallery because she didn't have a government number.
	⚡ 4:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:04 thanks brian.
	⚡ 4:09am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 a native woman
	4:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 Crazy, right? I had been blissfully ignorant of some of this stuff.
	4:12am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:58 Belated good morning, Michael!
	⚡ 4:13am tom tom the pipers son: gov't number based on race, what does that remnd you of?
	4:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:13 Exactly.
	⚡ 4:15am Don in Tampere: Though Russia has its hands full at the moment in Ukraine, and even has moved troops and supplies away form the Finnish border, there is certainly a history of Finland's border being invaded from the east, so don't blame them for securing the border these days. But they aren't asking Russia to pay for it......
	⚡ 4:16am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & pre-Marathon funsters.
	⚡ 4:17am tom tom the pipers son: that's funny don...
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:15 Ha! Totally get why they're doing it, Don.
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Hey Brian!
	4:20am Brian D: Article on letter to UN: www.theguardian.com...
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: i'll finish reading about adolfo kaminsky later, interesting, thanks for the link brian
	4:37am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:37 Yeah, it's a long read for 4:30 am.
	⚡ 4:39am tom tom the pipers son: oui
	⚡ 4:43am tom tom the pipers son: some of these images look like film stills
	4:44am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:43 I know. He had a very noir sensibility.
	⚡ 4:45am tom tom the pipers son: yes, noir
	⚡ 4:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Up And Down" by "Colpitts" the drummer from oneida, a band i saw a lot of back in the day but not recently
	4:53am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:52 Yep. They had a record out last year.
	4:55am LiXiviated Life: wigwam
	⚡ 4:55am tom tom the pipers son: yes, it got a lot of fmu airplay, success i think it was called.
	4:55am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @4:55 Good morning, Lix.
	⚡ 4:56am Brian in UK: Brian, like Kaminsky's images. Black & White is so effective. Similar to Cartier-Bresson & Ara Guler.
	5:04am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:56 Very much so. Sort of a contemporary of Cartier-Bresson.
	5:10am Cosmic: Good morning Brian and listening massive! Who wants coffee?!
	⚡ 5:11am tom tom the pipers son: cartier-bresson... the decisive moment... existentialism in photography
	5:11am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @5:10 Hello Cosmic!
	5:13am drew: Ooooh! I love this one! 111!
	⚡ 5:15am tom tom the pipers son: brian, is this a shorter composition?
	5:17am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:15 Yessir.
	5:22am Hi from Holland: Aloha! Christina Vantzou is really interesting, thanks for the introduction!
	5:25am Brian D: My pleasure, Hi from Holland. Welcome.
	⚡ 5:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Aja" by "Steely Dan" someone once told me they thought steely dan wrote their songs with a dictionary open next to them which i thought was funny whether you like them or not
	5:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:27 A dictionary or William Burroughs novel.
	⚡ 5:35am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @5:29 Or both. Which suddenly made me wonder about the idea of trying to write a song with a copy of Finnegan's Wake beside me. In any case, that novel gave the name to a famous subatomic particle....
	5:36am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:35 In the doc, Revenge of the Mekons, it shows the band writing songs for their album, with source material (books, journals, etc.).
	5:40am knob: Feels about right listening to this reclining in a wait area at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, watching the gray sky while a dude in a white khobe coughs next to me and does his Duolingo and we watch the cargo handlers scoot to the left and right between planes
	⚡ 5:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ knob @5:40 nice picture for the music, knob.
	5:43am Brian D: ↳ knob @5:40 Indeed. Safe travels.
	5:47am knob: Thanks :) meant to write ‘thobe’ and a kufi hat. Yes, nothing like a wide gray sky to get the mind wandering….
	⚡ 5:47am Brian in UK: Ah the Necks, we could be some time!
	5:48am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @5:47 That's the shortest track on the new record.
	⚡ 5:50am Brian in UK: ↳ knob @5:40 knob, safe journey, are you travelling far?
	⚡ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Last Walk" by "Harvey Mandel" "the king of sustain" it says on the interwebs
	5:55am Ryansterlingvirtue: great show today. Thanks
	5:56am Brian D: Folks, that's about it for me. My thanks to you all. Stay well and have a great week -- it's Marathon time!
	⚡ 5:57am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian
	⚡ 5:59am Michael of Cologne: Thanks once again, Brian.
	7:25am TDK60: Finalnd to build border wall? Another step backwards in an increasingly fascist world.
	7:29am TDK60: [Finland]

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from March 5, 2023

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March 5, 2023: "It's too loud..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Screaming Females	Brass Bed "Brass Bed" by "Screaming Females"	Desire Pathway	Don Giovanni Records		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Death Valley Girls	I'm A Man Too "I'm A Man Too" by "Death Valley Girls"	Glow in the Dark			0:04:31 (Pop-up)
Fugazi	Waiting Room "Waiting Room" by "Fugazi"	First Demo	Dischord		0:07:20 (Pop-up)
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads	It's Lonely In This World All Alone	Hank Wood and the Hammerheads			0:10:29 (Pop-up)
The Raincoats	You're A Million "You're A Million" by "The Raincoats"	Guerilla Girls! She-Punks and Beyond 1975-2016	Ace		0:13:37 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Glam Racket "Glam Racket" by "The Fall"	Oxymoron	Sanctuary	(Time Enough At Last)	0:17:25 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-oil protests in Colombia				0:21:04 (Pop-up)
The Minutemen	Sell Or Be Sold "Sell Or Be Sold" by "The Minutemen"	What Makes a Man Start Fires?	SST	R.I.P. SPOT: https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/glen-spot-lockett-dead-producer-engineer-punk-sst-releases-1235543155/	0:22:24 (Pop-up)
Pulp	Babies "Babies" by "Pulp"	His 'n' Hers	Island	R.I.P. Steve Mackey: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/others/pulp-bassist-steve-mackey-dies-aged-56/ar-AA188xaQ	0:29:02 (Pop-up)
Stella Rose	Muddled Man "Muddled Man" by "Stella Rose"	MP3	KRO Records		0:33:41 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Celtic fans sing Depeche Mode "Clip: Celtic fans sing Depeche Mode"				0:38:37 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough	Catching up with Depeche Mode	Rhino/Warner Records		0:39:19 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-Indigneous environmental activist killed in Ecuador				0:42:50 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Stay "Stay" by "David Bowie"	Station To Station	RCA		0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Helicon	Flume "Flume" by "Helicon"	God Intentions	Fuzz Club Records		0:50:04 (Pop-up)
Amber Arcades	Life Is Coming Home	Barefoot on Diamond Road	Fire		1:03:55 (Pop-up)
Frankie Rose	Come Back "Come Back" by "Frankie Rose"	Love As Projection	Night School		1:07:39 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Ticker News-Finland to build border wall				1:11:57 (Pop-up)
George Fitzgerald	The Last Transmission (feat. London Grammar)	Stellar Drifting	Double Six		1:12:53 (Pop-up)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Warrior "Warrior" by "Yeah Yeah Yeahs"	Show Your Bones	Dress Up/Interscope	Open letter urges UN to intervene on abortion rights in US: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un	1:19:42 (Pop-up)
Wilderness	Emergency "Emergency" by "Wilderness"	Vessel States	Jagjaguwar	R.I.P. Adolfo Kaminsky: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n04/adam-shatz/beyond-borders	1:25:44 (Pop-up)
Luminous Rift	Outer Space "Outer Space" by "Luminous Rift"	Hag Stone			1:30:39 (Pop-up)
Heron Oblivion	Your Hollows "Your Hollows" by "Heron Oblivion"	Heron Oblivion			1:35:52 (Pop-up)
HTRK	Sunlight Feels Like Bee Stings	Rhinestones			1:41:59 (Pop-up)
Colpitts	Up And Down "Up And Down" by "Colpitts"	Music from the Accident	Thrill Jockey		1:46:07 (Pop-up)
	Clip: ABC-Dozens lost in migrant boat sinking off coast of Italy				1:51:32 (Pop-up)
James Yorkston/Nina Persson and the Secondhand Orchestra	A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing	The Great White Sea Eagle			1:52:27 (Pop-up)
Christina Vantzou	Red Eel Dream "Red Eel Dream" by "Christina Vantzou"	N.5	Kranky		2:03:51 (Pop-up)
The Comet Is Coming	Mystik "Mystik" by "The Comet Is Coming"	Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam	Impulse!		2:07:54 (Pop-up)
	Clip: DW-Violence erupts in West Bank "Clip: DW-Violence erupts in West Bank"				2:11:56 (Pop-up)
Weather Report	Mysterious Traveller	Mysterious Traveller	Columbia	R.I.P. Wayne Shorter: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html	2:13:26 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan	Aja "Aja" by "Steely Dan"	Aja	ABC		2:20:43 (Pop-up)
	Clip: AFP-Release of Fukushima wastewater				2:28:34 (Pop-up)
The Necks	Imprinting "Imprinting" by "The Necks"	Travel	Northern Spy		2:29:59 (Pop-up)
Jeff Parker	Ugly Beauty "Ugly Beauty" by "Jeff Parker"	Forfolks	International Anthem		2:47:05 (Pop-up)
Harvey Mandel	Last Walk "Last Walk" by "Harvey Mandel"	Who's Calling	Tompkins Square		2:50:28 (Pop-up)
Columbia Icefield	(...................)	Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes	Pyroclastic		2:54:20 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 3:05am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, funny seeing you on michele's chat board.
	3:09am Richy4619: Sick Snake 1 signage.
	3:16am Brian D: Hey Tom Tom and all. Yes, I didn't have to share my cringeworthy story either.
	3:16am Brian D: ↳ Richy4619 @3:09 Part of a recent show at Howl Arts.
	3:18am tak: YEAH
	⚡ 3:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:16 yes, i went looking for it in the archives.
	⚡ 3:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Glam Racket" by "The Fall" i went to a wedding in the mid nineties where there was a preponderance of bald men with close cropped facial hair. the fall song league of bald headed men which came out about that time popped into my head.
	⚡ 3:24am tom tom the pipers son: including the groom
	⚡ 3:27am tom tom the pipers son: whats up with the usual comments contingent?
	3:27am devlawn: My main problem with WFMU is that it has good shows 24 hours a day. It's impossible to listen to everything.
	3:34am mr 6: I went to the Bronx doc website There are no hours/days listed and no prices of as listed Very confusing website
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:34 www.bronxdoc.org...
	3:34am mr 6: Sorry No prices of admission posted
	⚡ 3:34am Don in Tampere: Good morning! This part of the comments contingent overslept.....
	3:36am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:34 It's free, Mr. 6.
	3:36am Brian D: Greetings Don!
	3:37am mr 6: Thanks, the only hours on that exhibition are from the reception
	⚡ 3:38am tom tom the pipers son: ha! hi don!
	3:44am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:37 Yeah, that's weird. I think they're open from 1-5 pm daily, but you may want to call and check.
	3:44am Ciggy: Listening to Amy Goodman & Democracy Now Since 1996
	3:46am Brian D: ↳ Ciggy @3:44 Me too, Cig.
	3:47am Brian D: ↳ mr 6 @3:37 Gallery Hours: Thur-Fri 3-7PM & Sat-Sun 1-5PM
	3:49am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & all! 25% raised and the marathon hasn't even started! Insane Clown is having a fundraising marathon too! Insane Clown Jr. premium is a coke straw!
	⚡ 3:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Democracy Now!-Indigneous environmental act... the american indian community house in nyc has been downsized so severely it hardly exists. when they were on lafayette street they were really vital
	3:51am Brian D: Hello Chris! Yes, the support has been amazing already.
	⚡ 3:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:34 Morning Don, Brian & all. Currently still oversleeping here in grey Cologne. Yaaawn. Gääähn.
	⚡ 3:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:50 through aich i became aquainted with ingrid washinawatok who was assasinated in colombia by farc guerrilas
	4:04am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:50 Exhibition is also online: americanindian.si.edu...
	⚡ 4:06am tom tom the pipers son: native americans were/are also given government numbers without which they can't get government funding. a woman that i knew couldn't get her artwork shown in the a. i. c. h. gallery because she didn't have a government number.
	⚡ 4:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:04 thanks brian.
	⚡ 4:09am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 a native woman
	4:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:06 Crazy, right? I had been blissfully ignorant of some of this stuff.
	4:12am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:58 Belated good morning, Michael!
	⚡ 4:13am tom tom the pipers son: gov't number based on race, what does that remnd you of?
	4:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:13 Exactly.
	⚡ 4:15am Don in Tampere: Though Russia has its hands full at the moment in Ukraine, and even has moved troops and supplies away form the Finnish border, there is certainly a history of Finland's border being invaded from the east, so don't blame them for securing the border these days. But they aren't asking Russia to pay for it......
	⚡ 4:16am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & pre-Marathon funsters.
	⚡ 4:17am tom tom the pipers son: that's funny don...
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:15 Ha! Totally get why they're doing it, Don.
	4:20am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Hey Brian!
	4:20am Brian D: Article on letter to UN: www.theguardian.com...
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: i'll finish reading about adolfo kaminsky later, interesting, thanks for the link brian
	4:37am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:37 Yeah, it's a long read for 4:30 am.
	⚡ 4:39am tom tom the pipers son: oui
	⚡ 4:43am tom tom the pipers son: some of these images look like film stills
	4:44am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:43 I know. He had a very noir sensibility.
	⚡ 4:45am tom tom the pipers son: yes, noir
	⚡ 4:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Up And Down" by "Colpitts" the drummer from oneida, a band i saw a lot of back in the day but not recently
	4:53am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:52 Yep. They had a record out last year.
	4:55am LiXiviated Life: wigwam
	⚡ 4:55am tom tom the pipers son: yes, it got a lot of fmu airplay, success i think it was called.
	4:55am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @4:55 Good morning, Lix.
	⚡ 4:56am Brian in UK: Brian, like Kaminsky's images. Black & White is so effective. Similar to Cartier-Bresson & Ara Guler.
	5:04am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:56 Very much so. Sort of a contemporary of Cartier-Bresson.
	5:10am Cosmic: Good morning Brian and listening massive! Who wants coffee?!
	⚡ 5:11am tom tom the pipers son: cartier-bresson... the decisive moment... existentialism in photography
	5:11am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @5:10 Hello Cosmic!
	5:13am drew: Ooooh! I love this one! 111!
	⚡ 5:15am tom tom the pipers son: brian, is this a shorter composition?
	5:17am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:15 Yessir.
	5:22am Hi from Holland: Aloha! Christina Vantzou is really interesting, thanks for the introduction!
	5:25am Brian D: My pleasure, Hi from Holland. Welcome.
	⚡ 5:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Aja" by "Steely Dan" someone once told me they thought steely dan wrote their songs with a dictionary open next to them which i thought was funny whether you like them or not
	5:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:27 A dictionary or William Burroughs novel.
	⚡ 5:35am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @5:29 Or both. Which suddenly made me wonder about the idea of trying to write a song with a copy of Finnegan's Wake beside me. In any case, that novel gave the name to a famous subatomic particle....
	5:36am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:35 In the doc, Revenge of the Mekons, it shows the band writing songs for their album, with source material (books, journals, etc.).
	5:40am knob: Feels about right listening to this reclining in a wait area at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, watching the gray sky while a dude in a white khobe coughs next to me and does his Duolingo and we watch the cargo handlers scoot to the left and right between planes
	⚡ 5:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ knob @5:40 nice picture for the music, knob.
	5:43am Brian D: ↳ knob @5:40 Indeed. Safe travels.
	5:47am knob: Thanks :) meant to write ‘thobe’ and a kufi hat. Yes, nothing like a wide gray sky to get the mind wandering….
	⚡ 5:47am Brian in UK: Ah the Necks, we could be some time!
	5:48am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @5:47 That's the shortest track on the new record.
	⚡ 5:50am Brian in UK: ↳ knob @5:40 knob, safe journey, are you travelling far?
	⚡ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Last Walk" by "Harvey Mandel" "the king of sustain" it says on the interwebs
	5:55am Ryansterlingvirtue: great show today. Thanks
	5:56am Brian D: Folks, that's about it for me. My thanks to you all. Stay well and have a great week -- it's Marathon time!
	⚡ 5:57am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian
	⚡ 5:59am Michael of Cologne: Thanks once again, Brian.
	7:25am TDK60: Finalnd to build border wall? Another step backwards in an increasingly fascist world.
	7:29am TDK60: [Finland]

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