WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 16, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ 3:06am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, jen did a good job last week, wasn't going to listen but she pulled me in (in al pacino voice) she vibed the 3am to 6am vibe really well, maybe even better than you ;)
	3:07am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	3:08am Brian D: Hello all!
	3:08am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:06 I bet she did, Tom Tom. Jen is great.
	3:09am fred: And yeah, Jen was great. She should try to get a slot on the Drummer stream (if being from Philly doesn't disqualify her)
	3:10am T GRavel: HEy Brian! Hi everyone
	3:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:09 Hello Fred, hardly disqualifies her. I hope she goes for it.
	3:11am Brian D: ↳ T GRavel @3:10 Greetings T.
	⚡ 3:12am tom tom the pipers son: i would like bruce more if maybe he went by "the employee" rather than" the boss".
	3:13am Toothgrinder Tom: Good morning
	3:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:12 And if he were in the union... Though he's an avowed socialist.
	3:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:10 Doug mentioned this week that there is a glaring gap on Fridays between Arb and Bronwyn. Though the time might not work for her (it wouldn't for me, but just knowing she has a regular slot would make me happy)
	⚡ 3:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:14 oh, avowed... i did not know that
	⚡ 3:18am tom tom the pipers son: hope you had a nice vacation.
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:17 Read an interview with him years ago in which he discussed his politics/beliefs in depth.
	⚡ 3:19am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Icky Thump" by "White Stripes" Where did you get that one from, Brian!? Great good morning.
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:18 I did, thanks. Too short.
	3:21am Robm: Morning fellow listeners anyone else can’t sleep?
	3:25am Brian D: I might nod off at any minute, Robm. But good morning.
	3:26am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @3:25 In fact, I just did...
	⚡ 3:26am tom tom the pipers son: ha!
	3:27am Robm: ↳ Brian D @3:25 That would not be good brian, would be a lot of dead air:)
	⚡ 3:28am tom tom the pipers son: seamless recovery
	3:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:28 Seamless is my middle name.
	3:31am fred: ↳ Robm @3:21 I should be asleep. I had a busy week, and might have another one ahead. Might go see Bo Ningen tomorrow to complete the schedule, though being tired for Friday's Phill Niblock show could backfire
	⚡ 3:32am tom tom the pipers son: seamless as opposed to seamus...
	3:33am ERIK / VermonT: Whew, our journey starts off fulla-beans ! - caffeinated vibes ? - what next … “Tonio K.” ?!
	3:33am Robm: ↳ fred @3:31 Yeah and loving this station really screws up your sleep!!!!
	⚡ 3:33am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:31 would have thought phill would have settled on a continent by this time... he must be 90
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:31 Phil Niblock! Enjoy that. One of our old neighbors was friends with Niblock. Allegedly.
	⚡ 3:37am tom tom the pipers son: i don't know if phill niblock still has an answering machine, but when he did he asked you to leave a joke
	3:37am fred: I'll be seeing Baba Commandant the day before, contrast ahead
	3:42am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone. Hope you had a great vacation. You didn't go to Cracker box Palace did you!? Or whatever that place Harlan Crow takes Uncle Clarence to.
	3:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:42 Ha! Greetings Chris, no, we ended up having to go to Plan B.
	3:55am fred: ↳ Song: "Say It Too" by "Death Valley Girls" I would love to see Death Valley Girls. They remind me of early US Girls (the reverb, probably)
	⚡ 3:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:55 was thinking the same thing about us girls... vocals sound like the boy is mine
	3:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:55 They're great... and great live. Played here at Monty Hall a few years ago.
	3:58am Chris Crisco: I used to listen to WPKN when we lived in Centerport LI. It's from Bridgeport CT. I think it might have also originated as a college station similar to FMU.
	3:59am Brian D: University of Bridgeport, Chris but now independent.
	⚡ 4:02am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & Co. Fever In Fever Out was a favourite in this house awhile back.
	4:05am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @3:59 When we moved to Princeton there was some kind of upscale thing going on and my wife wanted to go in but she was embarrassed that I was wearing a WPKN t-shirt and everyone else was all dolled up but I went in with her anyway and this woman walked up to me and said she loved WPKN. I asked her if whe ever listened to WFMU and she walked away. My wife then told me that she was the head of the Princeton library that was nearby.
	4:06am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:02 A good one... Hello Brian.
	4:07am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:05 Weird snobbery. WFMU's Dave the Spazz is a PKN alum.
	4:13am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:07 snobbery is always weird from a distance
	4:16am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:07 No shit! When did Spazz come to FMU? He's been here since I started listening to FMU the early '80s if I'm not mistaken!
	4:17am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:16 Correct. Well, mid 80s.
	⚡ 4:20am tom tom the pipers son: dave's name is no longer politically correct... wasn't there something in a lizzo song about spazzing out that she had to change iirc
	⚡ 4:20am Don in Tampere: Hello Brian and all of you here. went out for live music two nights in a row and stayed up too late, and am feeling all of my many years, but enjoying the show as always. I don't know why stations have to be snobby to each other. Interesting to see how different the patsh can be. I DJ'd at the local campus station WDAV in college, which they suddenly boosted the power on during my senior year. Then the next year they took control away from the students and turned it from a sometimes messy, sometimes great free-form station into a fundraising instrument playing the most inoffensive classical music possible - no Penderecki for them, thank you! Then during grad school I was at WQAX, which was campus-only, but later developed into WFHB.
	4:22am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:20 Yes. I even played a clip about that when it was in the headlines. However, as someone who has spasms, I don't find Dave's moniker offensive.
	⚡ 4:23am tom tom the pipers son: was really just being humorous
	4:24am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 I know...
	4:24am katharsis: Hellos all
	4:25am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "Clip: CNA-Leaks reveal US spying on allies" Funny Insane Clown did the same thing. Hopefully Atlanta DA Fani Willis will get off her Fani already. Or maybe it' like Nixon said it isn't illegal when the president does it.
	4:25am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:20 Hello Don. Quite the history. Isee WDAV still is listed as "classical hits."
	4:26am Brian D: ↳ katharsis @4:24 Hello Katharsis.
	4:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 I've actually been waiting for someone to register a complaint.
	⚡ 4:27am tom tom the pipers son: get an eerie feeling seeing the images of tr**p and koch consecutively. pretty dark time in nyc
	⚡ 4:30am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:26 right
	4:31am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:27 Is Giuliani next?
	⚡ 4:31am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:31 right
	4:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:27 Yessir.
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: don't think that 80's era in nyc has been tackled very well on film or in fiction. i guess bonfire of the vanities and wall street but not whats conveyed in those images of tr**p and koch and by people better than oliver stone
	4:37am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @4:31 I actually voted for Rude Boy twice I'm embarrassed to say. He ran as a Republican / Liberal. Koch the last time ran unopposed on all 4 Democrat / Republican / Conservative / Liberal
	4:39am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:37 You're not alone, Chris.
	⚡ 4:42am tom tom the pipers son: brian, does ms. currents have the covers record of bruce being covered by women?
	4:43am Brian D: She does, courtesy of me.
	4:44am Brian D: About the only thing I've done right.
	⚡ 4:44am tom tom the pipers son: ah. good one
	4:47am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:44 You're humblebragging there. She's still with you, and I don't think a record would be enough
	4:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:47 Maybe true. It's been 30 years...
	⚡ 4:51am tom tom the pipers son: not to harp on one thing too much but those images of t&k remind me of a scene in twin peaks return where there are images of the city at night, lit up and filling the frame that conveys a kind of demonic power it takes to power a city and that it possesses
	⚡ 4:54am tom tom the pipers son: did jimmy breslin run for mayor?
	4:55am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:51 Leave it to Lynch to highlight the demon in the mundane
	⚡ 4:55am tom tom the pipers son: yes
	4:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:54 Breslin ran for president of the city council on the same ticket a Norman Mailer, who ran for mayor. '69 I think.
	4:57am Brian D: *AS Norman Mailer.
	⚡ 4:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:56 ah...
	4:59am Brian D: 1969, according to Wiki. Just fact-checked myself.
	4:59am LiXiviated Life: Hello electronic listeners in the dark morning
	5:00am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:56 Yeah their thing was to make NYC the 51st state and then they would resign
	5:00am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @4:59 Greetings Lix!
	5:00am Rob Gee - Hanoi: Checkin' in.... beautiful afternoon here
	⚡ 5:02am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @4:25 When WDAV was still student-run and free-form, we had t-shirts that featured an image of Karl Marx and the slogan WDAV-FM, the opiate of the masses". After the takeover someone suggested it should be changed to "opiate of the prime fund-raising demographic"
	5:03am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:02 Was it made?
	⚡ 5:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @5:03 No, it was limited to snide remarks
	5:09am Brian D: ↳ Rob Gee - Hanoi @5:00 Hello Rob!
	5:09am fred: Texas to Florida, are you running for President?
	⚡ 5:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Spherical Nightmares" by "Frank Carlberg Trio" a bit like cecil taylor
	5:11am Avrilinmay: thank you for the music
	5:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:09 Haven't we suffered enough?
	⚡ 5:13am tom tom the pipers son: monk quotations
	5:14am Brian D: ↳ Avrilinmay @5:11 My pleasure, Avril.
	5:14am Katharsis: In the 80’s the fountain in washington square park was dry
	5:16am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @5:14 I did my best to fill it...
	5:17am Katharsis: In the 80’s I met Philippe Petit in Washington square park-with his rope strung between two trees
	5:19am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @5:17 Have you read Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin?"
	5:22am kevlicki: Brian not that you’ll be able to enjoy from a conference, but Texas has some amazing flora! My pal Joey of the Crime pays but botany doesn’t podcast, is an incredible resource on such things
	5:23am Brian D: ↳ kevlicki @5:22 Ah, thanks Kev. I shouldn't rag on Texas. There are great places and people there.
	5:32am kevlicki: Nah, it’s easy to do!
	⚡ 5:37am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Baldwin [Vol. 3: THE MAJESTY OF JAH]" by "William... Exceptionally disturbing.
	5:38am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:37 Hello Michael. Yes, indeed. I meant to play that track a few months ago when I did a Baldwin thing.
	⚡ 5:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:38 I guess that's one of the aspects of American exceptionalism, Brian.
	5:49am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:48 We are, indeed, exceptional. Thankfully.
	⚡ 5:52am tom tom the pipers son: brian... until next time, safe travels
	5:54am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:23 What part of Texas?
	5:55am DiscoMystic: The south will sink again.
	5:55am Chris Crisco: Florida would have been better off with the crackhead as Governor
	5:55am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:54 Austin. So it could be worse.
	5:56am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:55 At least the parties would have been good.
	5:57am Brian D: Alright all. That's it for me. Stay safe, stay well, and stay tuned to WFMU. "See" you in two weeks...
	5:59am Chris Crisco: My sister lives outside San Antonio. Yeah Austin is pretty cool 6th St is like the Village. But once when I was down there and was reading in an Austin newspaper about a rape case where the woman said ok I'll let you rape me just use a condom so I won't have to have your baby. The jury said that was consensual and let the rapist off. I said yeah it may be Austin but it's still Texas.

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 16, 2023

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Bruce Springsteen	Candy's Room "Candy's Room" by "Bruce Springsteen"	Darkness on the Edge of Town		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	It's Hard To Be a Saint In the City	MP3		0:02:37 (Pop-up)
Patti Smith	Because the NIght "Because the NIght" by "Patti Smith"	Easter		0:06:29 (Pop-up)
Eliza Shaddad	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood	MP3		0:09:53 (Pop-up)
White Stripes	Icky Thump "Icky Thump" by "White Stripes"	Icky Thump		0:13:54 (Pop-up)
Ga-20	Cracking' Up "Cracking' Up" by "Ga-20"	Live In Loveland!		0:18:04 (Pop-up)
The Clash	Should I Stay or Should I Go	Combat Rock		0:21:33 (Pop-up)
Strange Attractor	I Wanna Be You "I Wanna Be You" by "Strange Attractor"	Good Boy Bad Boy		0:24:54 (Pop-up)
Girls In Synthesis	Cottage Industry	The Rest Is Distraction		0:26:24 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-UN climate resolution			0:29:48 (Pop-up)
Algiers	Irreversible Damage (feat. Zack De La Rocha)	Shook		0:30:46 (Pop-up)
Trigger Cut	Soot Song "Soot Song" by "Trigger Cut"	Soot		0:35:29 (Pop-up)
Death Valley Girls	Say It Too "Say It Too" by "Death Valley Girls"	Island in the Sky		0:51:15 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Sky News-Man throws yogurt on women not wearing hijab in Iran			0:54:59 (Pop-up)
Luscious Jackson	Strongman "Strongman" by "Luscious Jackson"	Natural Ingredients	R.I.P. Viv Trimble https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vivian-trimble-luscious-jackson-obit-1234711229/amp/	0:56:15 (Pop-up)
The Slits	Typical Girls "Typical Girls" by "The Slits"	Cut	R.I.P. Nora Forster: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nora-forster-john-lydon-wife-ari-up-mother-dead-alzheimers-obit-1234710733/	1:01:59 (Pop-up)
The Slits	Wedding Song "Wedding Song" by "The Slits"	The John Peel Sessions		1:04:38 (Pop-up)
Lana Del Rabies	Apocalypse Fatigue	Strego Beat		1:10:55 (Pop-up)
Jane's Addiction	Standing in the Shower Thinking	Nothing's Shocking		1:14:53 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CNA-Leaks reveal US spying on allies			1:17:57 (Pop-up)
Heavy Mother	Government Phone "Government Phone" by "Heavy Mother"	This Time Around		1:19:28 (Pop-up)
King Tuff	The Wheel "The Wheel" by "King Tuff"	Smalltown Stardust		1:22:25 (Pop-up)
Aimee Mann	Save Me "Save Me" by "Aimee Mann"	Magnolia soundtrack		1:27:11 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Tangled Up In Blue "Tangled Up In Blue" by "Bob Dylan"	Blood on the Tracks		1:31:45 (Pop-up)
Juanes	Dancing in the Dark "Dancing in the Dark" by "Juanes"	MP3		1:37:30 (Pop-up)
Juana Molina	The Wrong Song "The Wrong Song" by "Juana Molina"	Segundo (21st Anniversary)		1:41:36 (Pop-up)
	Clip: AfricaNews-Santeria in Cuba "Clip: AfricaNews-Santeria in Cuba"			1:48:30 (Pop-up)
Latest Fad	Consider Yourself Slapped	LSD Spider		1:49:39 (Pop-up)
Peter Garland	The Basketweave Elegies - 8. Bold, emphatic	The Basketweave Elegies		1:55:13 (Pop-up)
Frank Carlberg Trio	Spherical Nightmares	Reflections 1952		2:08:02 (Pop-up)
Dezron Douglas	More Coffee Please	Atalaya		2:13:15 (Pop-up)
Mal Waldron	Here, There and Everywhere	Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert		2:18:37 (Pop-up)
William Parker	Baldwin [Vol. 3: THE MAJESTY OF JAH]	Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World [Volumes 1–10]		2:28:44 (Pop-up)
Anteloper	One Living Genus "One Living Genus" by "Anteloper"	Pink Dolphins		2:36:58 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen	Last Man Standing	Letter To You		2:55:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 3:06am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, jen did a good job last week, wasn't going to listen but she pulled me in (in al pacino voice) she vibed the 3am to 6am vibe really well, maybe even better than you ;)
	3:07am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	3:08am Brian D: Hello all!
	3:08am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:06 I bet she did, Tom Tom. Jen is great.
	3:09am fred: And yeah, Jen was great. She should try to get a slot on the Drummer stream (if being from Philly doesn't disqualify her)
	3:10am T GRavel: HEy Brian! Hi everyone
	3:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:09 Hello Fred, hardly disqualifies her. I hope she goes for it.
	3:11am Brian D: ↳ T GRavel @3:10 Greetings T.
	⚡ 3:12am tom tom the pipers son: i would like bruce more if maybe he went by "the employee" rather than" the boss".
	3:13am Toothgrinder Tom: Good morning
	3:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:12 And if he were in the union... Though he's an avowed socialist.
	3:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:10 Doug mentioned this week that there is a glaring gap on Fridays between Arb and Bronwyn. Though the time might not work for her (it wouldn't for me, but just knowing she has a regular slot would make me happy)
	⚡ 3:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:14 oh, avowed... i did not know that
	⚡ 3:18am tom tom the pipers son: hope you had a nice vacation.
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:17 Read an interview with him years ago in which he discussed his politics/beliefs in depth.
	⚡ 3:19am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Icky Thump" by "White Stripes" Where did you get that one from, Brian!? Great good morning.
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:18 I did, thanks. Too short.
	3:21am Robm: Morning fellow listeners anyone else can’t sleep?
	3:25am Brian D: I might nod off at any minute, Robm. But good morning.
	3:26am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @3:25 In fact, I just did...
	⚡ 3:26am tom tom the pipers son: ha!
	3:27am Robm: ↳ Brian D @3:25 That would not be good brian, would be a lot of dead air:)
	⚡ 3:28am tom tom the pipers son: seamless recovery
	3:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:28 Seamless is my middle name.
	3:31am fred: ↳ Robm @3:21 I should be asleep. I had a busy week, and might have another one ahead. Might go see Bo Ningen tomorrow to complete the schedule, though being tired for Friday's Phill Niblock show could backfire
	⚡ 3:32am tom tom the pipers son: seamless as opposed to seamus...
	3:33am ERIK / VermonT: Whew, our journey starts off fulla-beans ! - caffeinated vibes ? - what next … “Tonio K.” ?!
	3:33am Robm: ↳ fred @3:31 Yeah and loving this station really screws up your sleep!!!!
	⚡ 3:33am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:31 would have thought phill would have settled on a continent by this time... he must be 90
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:31 Phil Niblock! Enjoy that. One of our old neighbors was friends with Niblock. Allegedly.
	⚡ 3:37am tom tom the pipers son: i don't know if phill niblock still has an answering machine, but when he did he asked you to leave a joke
	3:37am fred: I'll be seeing Baba Commandant the day before, contrast ahead
	3:42am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone. Hope you had a great vacation. You didn't go to Cracker box Palace did you!? Or whatever that place Harlan Crow takes Uncle Clarence to.
	3:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:42 Ha! Greetings Chris, no, we ended up having to go to Plan B.
	3:55am fred: ↳ Song: "Say It Too" by "Death Valley Girls" I would love to see Death Valley Girls. They remind me of early US Girls (the reverb, probably)
	⚡ 3:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:55 was thinking the same thing about us girls... vocals sound like the boy is mine
	3:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:55 They're great... and great live. Played here at Monty Hall a few years ago.
	3:58am Chris Crisco: I used to listen to WPKN when we lived in Centerport LI. It's from Bridgeport CT. I think it might have also originated as a college station similar to FMU.
	3:59am Brian D: University of Bridgeport, Chris but now independent.
	⚡ 4:02am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & Co. Fever In Fever Out was a favourite in this house awhile back.
	4:05am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @3:59 When we moved to Princeton there was some kind of upscale thing going on and my wife wanted to go in but she was embarrassed that I was wearing a WPKN t-shirt and everyone else was all dolled up but I went in with her anyway and this woman walked up to me and said she loved WPKN. I asked her if whe ever listened to WFMU and she walked away. My wife then told me that she was the head of the Princeton library that was nearby.
	4:06am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:02 A good one... Hello Brian.
	4:07am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:05 Weird snobbery. WFMU's Dave the Spazz is a PKN alum.
	4:13am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:07 snobbery is always weird from a distance
	4:16am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:07 No shit! When did Spazz come to FMU? He's been here since I started listening to FMU the early '80s if I'm not mistaken!
	4:17am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:16 Correct. Well, mid 80s.
	⚡ 4:20am tom tom the pipers son: dave's name is no longer politically correct... wasn't there something in a lizzo song about spazzing out that she had to change iirc
	⚡ 4:20am Don in Tampere: Hello Brian and all of you here. went out for live music two nights in a row and stayed up too late, and am feeling all of my many years, but enjoying the show as always. I don't know why stations have to be snobby to each other. Interesting to see how different the patsh can be. I DJ'd at the local campus station WDAV in college, which they suddenly boosted the power on during my senior year. Then the next year they took control away from the students and turned it from a sometimes messy, sometimes great free-form station into a fundraising instrument playing the most inoffensive classical music possible - no Penderecki for them, thank you! Then during grad school I was at WQAX, which was campus-only, but later developed into WFHB.
	4:22am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:20 Yes. I even played a clip about that when it was in the headlines. However, as someone who has spasms, I don't find Dave's moniker offensive.
	⚡ 4:23am tom tom the pipers son: was really just being humorous
	4:24am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 I know...
	4:24am katharsis: Hellos all
	4:25am Chris Crisco: ↳ Song: "Clip: CNA-Leaks reveal US spying on allies" Funny Insane Clown did the same thing. Hopefully Atlanta DA Fani Willis will get off her Fani already. Or maybe it' like Nixon said it isn't illegal when the president does it.
	4:25am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:20 Hello Don. Quite the history. Isee WDAV still is listed as "classical hits."
	4:26am Brian D: ↳ katharsis @4:24 Hello Katharsis.
	4:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 I've actually been waiting for someone to register a complaint.
	⚡ 4:27am tom tom the pipers son: get an eerie feeling seeing the images of tr**p and koch consecutively. pretty dark time in nyc
	⚡ 4:30am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:26 right
	4:31am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:27 Is Giuliani next?
	⚡ 4:31am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:31 right
	4:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:27 Yessir.
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: don't think that 80's era in nyc has been tackled very well on film or in fiction. i guess bonfire of the vanities and wall street but not whats conveyed in those images of tr**p and koch and by people better than oliver stone
	4:37am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @4:31 I actually voted for Rude Boy twice I'm embarrassed to say. He ran as a Republican / Liberal. Koch the last time ran unopposed on all 4 Democrat / Republican / Conservative / Liberal
	4:39am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:37 You're not alone, Chris.
	⚡ 4:42am tom tom the pipers son: brian, does ms. currents have the covers record of bruce being covered by women?
	4:43am Brian D: She does, courtesy of me.
	4:44am Brian D: About the only thing I've done right.
	⚡ 4:44am tom tom the pipers son: ah. good one
	4:47am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:44 You're humblebragging there. She's still with you, and I don't think a record would be enough
	4:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:47 Maybe true. It's been 30 years...
	⚡ 4:51am tom tom the pipers son: not to harp on one thing too much but those images of t&k remind me of a scene in twin peaks return where there are images of the city at night, lit up and filling the frame that conveys a kind of demonic power it takes to power a city and that it possesses
	⚡ 4:54am tom tom the pipers son: did jimmy breslin run for mayor?
	4:55am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:51 Leave it to Lynch to highlight the demon in the mundane
	⚡ 4:55am tom tom the pipers son: yes
	4:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:54 Breslin ran for president of the city council on the same ticket a Norman Mailer, who ran for mayor. '69 I think.
	4:57am Brian D: *AS Norman Mailer.
	⚡ 4:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:56 ah...
	4:59am Brian D: 1969, according to Wiki. Just fact-checked myself.
	4:59am LiXiviated Life: Hello electronic listeners in the dark morning
	5:00am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:56 Yeah their thing was to make NYC the 51st state and then they would resign
	5:00am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @4:59 Greetings Lix!
	5:00am Rob Gee - Hanoi: Checkin' in.... beautiful afternoon here
	⚡ 5:02am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @4:25 When WDAV was still student-run and free-form, we had t-shirts that featured an image of Karl Marx and the slogan WDAV-FM, the opiate of the masses". After the takeover someone suggested it should be changed to "opiate of the prime fund-raising demographic"
	5:03am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:02 Was it made?
	⚡ 5:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @5:03 No, it was limited to snide remarks
	5:09am Brian D: ↳ Rob Gee - Hanoi @5:00 Hello Rob!
	5:09am fred: Texas to Florida, are you running for President?
	⚡ 5:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Spherical Nightmares" by "Frank Carlberg Trio" a bit like cecil taylor
	5:11am Avrilinmay: thank you for the music
	5:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:09 Haven't we suffered enough?
	⚡ 5:13am tom tom the pipers son: monk quotations
	5:14am Brian D: ↳ Avrilinmay @5:11 My pleasure, Avril.
	5:14am Katharsis: In the 80’s the fountain in washington square park was dry
	5:16am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @5:14 I did my best to fill it...
	5:17am Katharsis: In the 80’s I met Philippe Petit in Washington square park-with his rope strung between two trees
	5:19am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @5:17 Have you read Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin?"
	5:22am kevlicki: Brian not that you’ll be able to enjoy from a conference, but Texas has some amazing flora! My pal Joey of the Crime pays but botany doesn’t podcast, is an incredible resource on such things
	5:23am Brian D: ↳ kevlicki @5:22 Ah, thanks Kev. I shouldn't rag on Texas. There are great places and people there.
	5:32am kevlicki: Nah, it’s easy to do!
	⚡ 5:37am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Baldwin [Vol. 3: THE MAJESTY OF JAH]" by "William... Exceptionally disturbing.
	5:38am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:37 Hello Michael. Yes, indeed. I meant to play that track a few months ago when I did a Baldwin thing.
	⚡ 5:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:38 I guess that's one of the aspects of American exceptionalism, Brian.
	5:49am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:48 We are, indeed, exceptional. Thankfully.
	⚡ 5:52am tom tom the pipers son: brian... until next time, safe travels
	5:54am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @5:23 What part of Texas?
	5:55am DiscoMystic: The south will sink again.
	5:55am Chris Crisco: Florida would have been better off with the crackhead as Governor
	5:55am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:54 Austin. So it could be worse.
	5:56am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:55 At least the parties would have been good.
	5:57am Brian D: Alright all. That's it for me. Stay safe, stay well, and stay tuned to WFMU. "See" you in two weeks...
	5:59am Chris Crisco: My sister lives outside San Antonio. Yeah Austin is pretty cool 6th St is like the Village. But once when I was down there and was reading in an Austin newspaper about a rape case where the woman said ok I'll let you rape me just use a condom so I won't have to have your baby. The jury said that was consensual and let the rapist off. I said yeah it may be Austin but it's still Texas.

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