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Favoriting July 6, 2023: "It takes less cognitive effort to make sense of the world using preconceived images updated with a small amount of new sensory information than to constantly form entirely new perceptions from scratch." Merlin Sheldrake, 'Entangled Life'

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Artist Track Album Label Format New Approx. start time
greg pope  dipping the bells   Favoriting it goes without saying  greg pope    *   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
wollesen and shore  abaca   Favoriting spirea  Wollesonic Records      0:08:31 (Pop-up)
Hiroshi Yoshimura  clouds   Favoriting music for nine post cards        0:13:43 (Pop-up)
ombre  dawning   Favoriting believe you me        0:19:26 (Pop-up)
Yan Tregger  shamstar   Favoriting Space Oddities 1974-1991  born bad records    *   0:25:04 (Pop-up)
pablo's eye  that night together with her   Favoriting spring break        0:28:48 (Pop-up)
 
eluvium  scatterbrains   Favoriting (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality  Temporary Residence Limited    *   0:38:36 (Pop-up)
siti muharam  machozi ya huba   Favoriting Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)        0:42:26 (Pop-up)
Howard "Youngblood" Bomar  purple rain   Favoriting I Have Nothing  jetstar records    *   0:46:34 (Pop-up)
zomes  instrumental no 2   Favoriting Love's Lesson  feeding tube    *   0:52:26 (Pop-up)
antena  silly things   Favoriting camino del sol        0:56:27 (Pop-up)
nightfall in camp  cada dai   Favoriting Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe (1980-1991) v/a        0:59:43 (Pop-up)
 
vanessa  the line   Favoriting sou        1:07:48 (Pop-up)
forever pavot  au bal des traitres   Favoriting l'idiophone  born bad records    *   1:12:25 (Pop-up)
akira  prayer   Favoriting Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy)  Glossy Mistakes      1:15:34 (Pop-up)
visage  fade to grey   Favoriting     7"    1:23:10 (Pop-up)
cymande  bra   Favoriting Roots Of Hip Hop (v/a)        1:25:56 (Pop-up)
sault  strong   Favoriting untitled (rise)        1:30:55 (Pop-up)
olinga gastson  Ngon Engap   Favoriting Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984        1:37:12 (Pop-up)
nordine staifi  zine ezzinet   Favoriting Planet Disco: transpacific sound paradise premium 2023 v/a        1:41:22 (Pop-up)
Joe Bataan  Rap - O Clap - O   Favoriting     7"    1:46:24 (Pop-up)
sudan archives  freakalizer   Favoriting natural brown prom queen        1:50:09 (Pop-up)
magic merry band  tico tico   Favoriting bimbo jet        1:54:14 (Pop-up)
Haruomi Hosono  japanese rhumba   Favoriting paraiso        1:55:54 (Pop-up)
robert palmer  best of both worlds   Favoriting double fun        1:59:16 (Pop-up)
 
wee  leavin you alone   Favoriting you can fly on my aeroplane        2:10:39 (Pop-up)
ramp  deep velvet   Favoriting come into knowledg        2:13:31 (Pop-up)
Oby Onyioha  nne n'enye   Favoriting i want to feel your love        2:18:07 (Pop-up)
the slits  difficult fun   Favoriting return of the giant slits        2:21:50 (Pop-up)
pierre kwenders  Kilimanjaro   Favoriting José Louis and the Paradox of Love        2:27:34 (Pop-up)
lette mbulu  Kilimandjaro take us higher   Favoriting Mother's Garden: The Funky Sounds Of Female Africa 1975-1984 v/a        2:28:21 (Pop-up)
Antonio Variações  estou alem   Favoriting o melhor de antonio variacoes        2:33:33 (Pop-up)
the smiths  this charming man   Favoriting the smiths        2:38:00 (Pop-up)
sylvie vartan  pure love   Favoriting i don't want the night to end        2:41:08 (Pop-up)
the style council  life at a top people's health farm ( remix)   Favoriting Long Hot Summers/ The Story Of The Style Council        2:44:38 (Pop-up)
miharu koshi  scandal night   Favoriting Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986        2:49:29 (Pop-up)
loving  write a river   Favoriting if i am only my thoughts        2:56:59 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:00am
bradford:

Good morning Trouble & all!
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Handy Haversack:

Hot, steamy Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
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TDK60:

Bonjour, Trouble.
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pot8o:

morning everyone!
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love2laf:

Good morning Trouble, what an opening quote on the playlist, very thought provoking, I love it. Hello to the fellow troubled WFMUers. Hope all are well, and keeping as cool as possible in this heat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am
Crownless Gander:

Good morning, modern troublemakers! Updating sensory information...
  9:04am
Mike in Montreal:

checkin' in
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am
Strandlund:

It's time to get into Trouble...
  9:05am
Otto’s Dad:

Cool track to start the program!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am
Chris Hiatt:

Happy to be listening in.
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Ironside:

Morning Trouble and Moderns!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:07am
Zipperhead7:

Good morning Troubled modernists! Rich sounds this a.m.
  This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:07am
captain beef fart:

it's been a banner season for fungus as pictured
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am
PigeonsAndRust:

It's so humid this is just the sound of normal breathing today
Avatar 9:10am
HyperDose:

↳ Strandlund @9:04
I'm ready!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am
Trouble:

good morning,people, from a very damp thursday.
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tom from Manchester:

very good stuff
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:13am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Trouble and sunny people! 🌞
Avatar 9:18am
TDK60:

It's not just humid, it's smoky in the Jersey City metro area. One air quality index report says "poor."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am
Trouble:

it's so humid that cd player #1 says no thank you to cd's this morning. sorry about that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22am
love2laf:

↳ Trouble @9:21
CD player #1 has been no end of cranky, every DJ had issues with it yesterday.
  Swag For Life Member 9:22am
Zinn The Mood:

Greetings Trouble, and Troublemakers.

Great opener.
Those ringing bells are so therapeutic. Were at the Int’l African Arts Festival in Bklyn last weekend. At the children’s area a Mama Patrice was leading the kids in all sorts of percussion instruments and healing stuff. One was a large metal bowl that she hit with a padded mallet, in which kids would stand and get the vibrations. Got to get in myself and loved it.

Never thought I Ltd be the parent yelling to my kids to “turn it down.” Especially when it’s mostly The Beatles, the initial pathway to a lifelong deep passion for music. Alas, here we are…

Hot as hell again. Not into it. Could use a Trouble rant on the obligatory societal pressures of always having to be doing something “fun” when the summer comes.

This weather gets me in an HST vein, in which all I want to do is drink tall, cold cans of beer just to deal. For now though it’s the usual chicory espresso coffee and a smoothie. Later it’ll be a series of hitting various city parks in which to continually douse my head to stay cool. Good thing we have an excellent big sprinkler park in Astoria Park. Stay cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am
Clincher16":

↳ Zinn The Mood @9:22
Maybe we just refine our ideas of *fun* as we advance through the infinite stages of life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am
melinda:

morning Trouble and all
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:27am
2/3 of the Perrin Family:

good morning, the opening quote is from the next book I have set to read!
Avatar 9:27am
northguineahills:

new aged to me, and digdug!
Avatar 9:28am
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "shamstar" by "Yan Tregger"
^^^^^
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TDK60:

↳ Zinn The Mood @9:22
Good morning Zinn. Well, WFMU is Fun, Fun, Fun, eh? Some people call this station "the fun 91" after its two radio positions 91.1 and 91.9. So there's that, at least.
Avatar 9:30am
northguineahills:

↳ TDK60 @9:28
divertido, no?
Avatar 9:31am
TDK60:

NorthG.H.- Sí. Eso espero. Hee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32am
Handy Haversack:

Was today supposed to be Lusophone day? Am I misremembering?
Avatar 9:32am
northguineahills:

↳ Handy Haversack @9:32
may 5th?
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TDK60:

Hello HH. I am wondering the same, was looking for the date on the Fun 91 info page and got lost.
Olá HH. Estou me perguntando o mesmo, estava procurando a data na página de informações do Fun 91 e me perdi.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33am
Trouble:

yes@ handy: josh had to cancel due to a broken foot in his family. he will reschedule when his family life gets back to normal...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Trouble @9:33
Ouch, oh no! Understood. Glad to be in the Trouble Zone either way.
Avatar 9:36am
TDK60:

Ouch! Good vibes out to Josh and family.
Ai! Boas vibrações para Josh e família.
  9:36am
kevlicki:

Sad news trouble! Was looking forward to a new Josh installment
Avatar 9:39am
TDK60:

Olá kevlicki. Long time.
Muito tempo.
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love2laf:

Healing vibes for the broken foot, looking forward to when Josh can reschedule.
  9:39am
Leslie Karon:

It is my understanding that this is the theme of the new Barbie movie.
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Trouble:

@ kevlickijosh will be back soon as his family is cruising along again at full speed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42am
chresti:

morning Trouble, modern trouble makers and the troubled!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am
Dano59:

by "hell in a handbasket moment" do you mean that something like confirmation bias is just mental laziness, or is that all actually " 'twas ever thus" ?
Anyway, I'd like to see "straight out of the bat" enter the lexicon - via baseball announcing maybe
  Swag For Life Member 9:44am
Zinn The Mood:

↳ TDK60 @9:28
Hey TDK.
It’s still faintly reflexive, even in me all these years later. That one is always expected to be on one’s way to the beach, or vacationing somewhere in the country (class pressure), kids must be in some kind of camp, we all must be barbecuing all the time - and then multiply that unspoken societal pressure on the holidays.

This is where advertising is the most pernicious poison; even things like TimeOut magazine (which I stopped looking at a couple of decades ago) exist both for bourgeois braggarts who seal their status by attending all the coolest events endorsed by the hipster tastemakers, but also, I think, in a deceptive way it can have the opposite effect on those who don’t have the means to make them feel like they’re constantly missing out.

I’ve learned to become more zen about it. Tie up a hammock, grab a few books, and just be in the moment.

Yes, as Trouble just said, there’s an interdependence that we often are blissfully unaware of (but deep down do understand) that has to be continually buried by the capitalists who run the show. Or else we’d all question this system that breeds selfishness, cutthroat opportunism and he-man Individualism.
  9:46am
Will:

Fin de empire?
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TDK60:

I won't speak for Trouble who will speak her own. But my guess as what she means is:
Convergence of factors: hot/humid; smoky; lots of "hot air" coming from reactionaries spouting "liberty" when they really mean tyranny; removing our hard-fought-for rights. Maybe?
But maybe she just means CD Player 1.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:48am
Dances with Moomins:

Hei Trouble and the Moderns the world over.
  9:48am
Tara:

i want to take an art class with trouble
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Dano59:

↳ Zinn The Mood @9:44
Ah, Zinn. FOMO, the pressure to 'have fun' and burn out your family on structure are all definitely real ... but I'd like to add that a show review also benefits those who couldn't be there ... something i always took seriously as an arts journalist.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:49am
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Modernaires! We need music from hot climates to be played when it's hot out.
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Dano59:

↳ TDK60 @9:48
Fair (air) enough. nice summary of what's in the cauldron.
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TDK60:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:49
Good morning Webhamster Henry! I was hoping for some Icelandic space music..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
Trouble:

You are in luck @ tara:
www.eventbrite.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
love2laf:

↳ Song: "purple rain" by "Howard "Youngblood" Bomar"
This has me completely in tears, what a gorgeous rendition.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51am
Trouble:

spot on @tdk
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Dano59:

↳ love2laf @9:50
agreed! I just found a Jetstar comp (soul) and feel like the rock LP is next.
  9:55am
Alan the painter:

Purple Rain always gets me
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listener james from westwood:

In since the jump but berserk with work; lovely stuff in hour 1!
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chresti:

TDK60 knows the score \\//
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Bracelet:

listening to the dj speak, with my dad :)
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TDK60:

Morning/Bom dia chresti!
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Bracelet:

alo from beyond the redwood curtain
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love2laf:

↳ Dano59 @9:51
Nice! Will have to explore the Jetstar label.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:06am
Webhamster Henry:

Folks who have been to a WFMU record fair, these LP decorations have been great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07am
Handy Haversack:

K8 is excited for this event. She's just looking for a companion who's more enthused about it than I am.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ listener james from westwood @10:00
James, the index I am trying to repair is ... well, not good.
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chresti:

La Quatorze!
  10:09am
J.Stanczyk:

you ARE doing it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11am
Dano59:

↳ love2laf @10:05
the 2 comp LPs were Record Store Day '22 9or '21) releases; both inexpensive
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:13am
Zipperhead7:

Album cover project sounds fun! Wish I could be there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am
love2laf:

↳ Dano59 @10:11
I have found it on Bandcamp, so it's added to wish list: sundazedmusic.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am
listener james from westwood:

aw yiss Visage
  10:24am
Carmen:

Loving the music as always! Good morning trouble and fellow listeners. Wish I lived closer and could go to the art class. All the way out in Oregon
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am
Nymor:

↳ Song: "fade to grey" by "visage"
Volume moved to 10!

Great show as always Trouble
  10:25am
Erik/VermonT:

“au bal des traitres” by Forever Pavot (l'idiophone):
This French dude is a legit studio Wizard !
Works under various names (Emile Sornin & Arun Tazieff) … all innovative and worthy. I first heard via WFMU DJ Pedro Fumero’s show. Surprised this artist has been around awhile without prior discovery.
Thanks for your 📻 audio temperament.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am
love2laf:

↳ Song: "fade to grey" by "visage"
Pre-clicky starred from Mona's show, just love everything about this song.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:30am
Micheal:

Thanks for this Thursday vibe, Trouble!
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melinda:

↳ Song: "bra" by "cymande"
I remember hearing this for the first time and making the connection to the De La Soul sample, so satisfying to hear the source.
  10:32am
Hendrix wolfbat:

loving the show today , Trouble,
hey woof moo listeners, happy almost Friday 😁
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:34am
Zipperhead7:

Learned about Sault from Trouble's show. Many thanx!
  Swag For Life Member 10:37am
Zinn The Mood:

↳ Song: "bra" by "cymande"
Was that not the bass groove to Superfly?
  10:39am
duvignau:

DJ Trouble ❤️‍🔥💯
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:39am
Vivian:

Late last year, I met my friend's girlfriend. Her playlist was on during dinner, I turned to her and said 'Is this Sault?' she replied 'You know Sault?!' I made a good impression on her!
  10:40am
Robm:

morning trouble and fellow troublemakers.
Trouble want to thank you again for last week’s show, listened again on the archives
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:41am
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Vivian @10:39
Very nice. "Well played," as Andy Breckman might put it.
  10:44am
Robm:

↳ Zipperhead7 @10:34
Zipperhead7 if it was not for this station and a few others, my musical tastes would not have expanded
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am
love2laf:

↳ Robm @10:40
Good morning Robm, how are you faring today? Last week's show was excellent, and today's is shaping up to be another to relisten too.
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Spikey BXL:

↳ Song: "zine ezzinet" by "nordine staifi"
Love this track, feel like I am driving through my old neighbourhood
  10:45am
rx scabin:

Good morning, Trouble and Everyone. It is going to be a scorcher here and chaos returns.
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Ironside:

Such a good show today Trouble!!
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Trouble:

gracias! @ irondside
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Rap - O Clap - O" by "Joe Bataan"
yep, knew it was joe!
  10:48am
Tara:

oh wow recovering from the shock of hearing my name on air haha! that event sounds very fun. also i was watching a video of bernard purdie playing drums on silent while you were talking about teaching people to see negative space and it seemed totally like a musical equivalent to that . thx been such a great set as always 💙🐦💙
  10:49am
Panther:

This sounds like the rap Deb Harry did in Rapture.
  10:50am
Robm:

↳ love2laf @10:44
yeah going to have to catch the first 90 minutes because i fell asleep and i missed it
@NGH howdy
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sydnius:

Loving the show today Trouble! Good morning Troubled and Troublemakers, stay cool!
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northguineahills:

↳ Robm @10:50
allllllooooha!
  10:53am
Robm:

↳ northguineahills @10:53
:)
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love2laf:

↳ rx scabin @10:45
Good morning rx, stay cool today, and chaos is hard to avoid, but do the best you can. This music is certainly helping.
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unpopularfred:

↳ Song: "tico tico" by "magic merry band"
interestingly (or not), not the first time I've heard Tico Tico this mornong
  10:59am
rx scabin:

@love2laf Apparently, I need chaos as a regular part of my diet. However, I am afraid that I am getting more than the daily requirement. How are things with you?
  11:01am
Fred And Alan:

Hello Zipper head7. Fred and Alan
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love2laf:

↳ rx scabin @10:59
This window a/c unit, an inverter, is simply amazing, keeping the whole house cool. I hear you on the chaos front, I try to sit quietly and not attract it's eye. Hoping that everything goes smoothly tomorrow and Wednesday with the new washer and dryer. Washing by hand in the sink got old fast.
  11:02am
Fred And Alan:

Love 2 laf. How are you. Very hot weather here
  11:02am
Fred And Alan:

Hello Ironside. Fred and Alan
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love2laf:

↳ Fred And Alan @11:02
Very hot here as well. Hope you two stay in the cool places as much as you can. Much love to you both.
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Roberto:

↳ Song: "best of both worlds" by "robert palmer"
Is this a Hannah Montana cover
  11:03am
Fred And Alan:

Hello Sydnius. Fred and Alan
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sydnius:

↳ Fred And Alan @11:03
Greetings Fine Gentlemen!
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Handy Haversack:

A bord de mer ...
  11:04am
Fred And Alan:

Hello SpikeyBXL. Fred and Alan
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steveo:

bon birds a tout
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Ironside:

↳ Fred And Alan @11:02
Hi Fred and Alan! How are you feeling today? Do you have air conditioning where you are?
  11:05am
Robm:

happy birthday trouble, going to be 21 again:)
  11:05am
Carmen:

Happy birthday!!!!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:05am
Ironside:

That's awesome! Happy early birthday Trouble! I hope you have a fun day tmrw!
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love2laf:

Happy early birthday Trouble, hope you have a fabulous celebration, and wishing you all the best for your new year!
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thriftstoreleather:

Happy Almost Birthday, Trouble!
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northguineahills:

oooo, joyeux anniversaire, trouble!
  11:06am
goes211:

Happy Birthday, Trouble!
  11:06am
Fred And Alan:

Yes at home and at work in the supermarket. Freezing fish Dept for Fred and very cold deli Dept for Alan
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Strandlund:

Happy B-Day, Trouble!!
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Handy Haversack:

"You must change your pile." --Troubled Rilke
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Handy Haversack:

And happiest of birthday wishes, Trouble!
  11:07am
Ian:

Hey Trouble. Thanks for recommending The Vanishing of Esme Lennox a few weeks. Audiobook read by Daniela Nardini is fabulous. And HB!
  11:07am
rx scabin:

Happy Birthday! Many happy returns of the day.
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steveo:

"sunday rainy sunday" gonna use that haha
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sydnius:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:04
people turned away
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:08am
2/3 of the Perrin Family:

happy last day of your old year! We love you and your show immensely. Rock on
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10am
listener james from westwood:

Happy almost birthday!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 11:10am
Dances with Moomins:

Read Entangled Lives ( about fungi ) last summer! Great book!
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northguineahills:

considering i learn of all of the pop culture trends going on in the world via wfmu......
  11:11am
cbunny:

i often feel like it’s an ageist thing too, but i’m much happier not trending!
  11:12am
cbunny:

@north guinea hills, it’s the zeitgeist!!
  11:13am
rx scabin:

For better or worse (probably worse), to triangulate/mediate our own and others' identities/positions.
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Stevel:

No reason to attack anyone who is not current or up to date on popular culture. I have friends who grew up without TV being the center of their lives. I have a friend who after he husband's death, has reverted to a TV-free house. Yes, whe still has a computer, but she's not much on conversations about the latest binge watch, so we refocus when I bring up TV references, again and again. If anything, I feel a bit embarrassed (which is unnecessary) because I'm so culturally lazy.
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Adriana DC:

HBD, fellow MoonChild! Yep, big time insecurity. Too many people can only build themselves up by knocking others down. Hurray for the outsiders, wierdos, nerds!
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sydnius:

↳ Stevel @11:13
I love the homeschooled kid on Daria so much. ”Gum!”
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Gregolomania:

Certainly, if you're disengaged from what's the latest Netflix hot thing makes it harder to talk to some people.
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Zinn The Mood:

Excellent, Trouble - thanks!

Will just say briefly that when I worked in an office in the 90’s everybody was all aflutter about the last episode of Cheers or one of those shows. To which I admitted to someone that is never seen in at all (maybe a few seconds), and didn’t care at all about it.
Definitely felt apart from the pack, but only in superficial ways.
Of course to me it was a badge of honor.
There was also the big huddling around the tv for the OJ trial. Which I saw not even one second of.
Nope.
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unpopularfred:

↳ sydnius @11:14
yes
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Andres:

Good morning. When my wife was in high school (late 80’s) her family hosted a German exchange student. They had no television but they rented one so that the student would get a fuller cultural exposure for which she was quite appreciative. They returned the television when the student left.
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Spankyflop:

↳ Stevel @11:13
I lost touch with pop culture sometime in the late 90's. I remember once someone made a remark about "Livin' la Vida Loco" and I had no idea what they were talking about and everyone in the room told me how lucky I was. So I guess it can have its plusses.
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Trouble:

for some people it feels like they are only in it to feel like they are on trend. how very boring
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rx scabin:

@Zinn The Mood not liking golf and saying so during an interview immediately lost me the job. I am glad I did not get the job though as desperate as I was.
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Yes:

where do I know this? was this sampled by salt?
  11:17am
MattT:

Then you try to keep up and find out that the Beatle Barkers isn't even pop culture. ... but seriously - I've been living with ~400W of power, no running water, and pooping in a bucket for 7 years while working in the corporate non-profit world and leading their digital stuff... man, the small talk gets weird. everyone kind of glazes over when I mention not watching shows (I haven't mentioned the poo bucket...yet). also feel like I'm seen as insane for not taking random ass international vacations.
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Spankyflop:

↳ Spankyflop @11:16
I remember thinking - no one is forcing you to listen to songs you don't like.
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love2laf:

I enjoy listening to what people are enthused about, if it's pop culture, or if it's not. I try hard not too sneer or look down on anyone. We can't all enjoy the same things, but we can listen.
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Ironside:

I 1000% agree as well. It's actually what's made discovering WFMU over the last 2 years so musically healing. Before, discovering music I've never heard of would be through dismissive and snobby record store clerks, or acquaintances who were snobby in their own way "oh you haven't heard of .... (rolls eyes)"

But WFMU, both DJ's and Commenters are so so welcoming and sharing. And I've discovered more great music here than all the snobby music folk in my life combine. It's been amazing.
  11:19am
andy the painter:

i grew up in a house without fungi, but now i’m writing a book about video games.
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steveo:

In a minute, I'ma need a sentimental
Man or woman to pump me up
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rx scabin:

@love2laf agreed.
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Dances with Moomins:

People watch TV, movies so much. so much time watching actors reading scripts. And as said what was watched becomes the real conversation of what people have done " I watched that too!" better to go out and play in the streets and all that kinda junk
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Zinn The Mood @11:15
Try not having a spyphone, even a cell phone, if you want to feel judged and rejected. Or even for fun try pointing out the necessity of incorporating ethics into things like whether your workplace should even use social media platforms that base their business model on hate speech and genocide. See how popular you are then!

There are days when I'm all "Why is everyone talking about the same thing?" And then I realize it was probably a Twitter-based gush-up and lose interest. (That said, keep attacking boats, orcas. I'm rooting for you.)
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northguineahills:

i was just thrilled the other day when in the wild at a cafe, I started to talk about a guy about Josephine Baker and dark ambient (two different topics)
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Gregolomania:

Limiting my exposure to social media & 25 hour-a-day news, has been the single best thing I've done for keeping relatively sane. I really think we humans are hitting the limits of how much new info you can safely absorb without becoming neurotic.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:23
we have officially urged white gladis to "go go go!"
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Zipperhead7:

Happy b'day Trouble! I turned 65 yesterday. As to popular culture, Adorno and Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" is still very useful. They'd probably say that with social media, WE have become the culture industry
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Handy Haversack:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:26
Forgot to tell K8 you have a song on the job already.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:27
there's room in the ocean for more songs celebrating our orca friends. #sink-a-yacht-rock
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love2laf:

↳ Zipperhead7 @11:26
Happy belated Zipperhead! Wishing you all the best for your new year, and hope you had a great day.
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TDK60:

Trouble, Happy birthday. I was recycling food scraps to the local compost outpost.
Trouble, Feliz Aniversário. Eu estava reciclando restos de comida para o posto avançado de compostagem local.
  11:29am
LizGig:

Good afternoon, Trouble, from Elizabeth in her bookshop in Tipperary. It is cold, wet and windy here.
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chresti:

↳ Gregolomania @11:25
Right? We stay in our bunkers, fearful of what might happen if we venture out and away from the over hyped news headlines
  11:30am
rx scabin:

@Gregolomania indeed.
  11:31am
miketp:

hi trouble & friends.chiming in from DUNDEE OREGON. in on female funky sounds of africa.mih jaro.
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Zinn The Mood:

↳ rx scabin @11:17
Jfc.
That’s a job I’d *definitely* not want. Whenever I’d find myself at a golf course over the years for a music or driving job I’d love bringing a Magnum Sharpie with which to scrawl some anti-capitalist graffiti in discreet places. I encourage everyone to consider doing the same!

Golf Courses for the Homeless!
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Dances with Moomins:

Hokey smokes Hyvää syntämäpaiva from all the moomins!
  11:32am
rx scabin:

@Ironside yes. WFMU is a good thing.
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northguineahills:

↳ Zipperhead7 @11:26
que chinga! donde estan mis modales? Feliz cumpleanos, Zip!
  11:33am
rx scabin:

@Zinn The Mood it has been sport in general.
  11:34am
rx scabin:

@Zipperhead7 many happy returns of the day.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "estou alem" by "Antonio Variações"
We can Lusophone anyway!
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prof.fuzz:

↳ rx scabin @11:17
until golf adds goalies, it's officially not a real sport.*

*and even if they do add goalies, i'll never watch, and the recent sell-out to the saudis seals the no-deal for me.
  11:36am
Mar from TO:

!!Grew up to these sounds on Portuguese radio in Toronto, love this thanks Trouble!!
  11:37am
John in New Paltz:

Happy Birthday to you Trouble. You've a fine day for it.
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Gregolomania:

↳ chresti @11:30
Kinda nuts really. I know people who just ingest the bad news feed non-stop & then wonder why they're so keyed up & anxious all the time. Especially when virtually all of it is out of your control. I mean, be informed by all means, but after a point, it's practically masochism.
  Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Zinn The Mood:

↳ Dances with Moomins @11:21
Right on, exactly!

So cringe to hear that stuff all the time. I have no qualms at all saying to all and sundry that I’m not that (or at all) interested. Everybody who’s got a big tv on every night obediently watching the latest Hollywood drivel while they lay in bed is now a movie critic. Too cringe for me.

FMU and books for me.
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "this charming man" by "the smiths"
huh, i already faved this. how did that happen? 😜
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Zinn The Mood:

↳ MattT @11:17
I feel you, brother!

Non-profit world can be weird, and not as advertised though, huh?
  11:40am
rx scabin:

There is nothing quite as nourishing as shares interests. Some interests are more nourishing than others for some people.
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Zipperhead7:

↳ love2laf @11:29
It was a nice day until Zipperdawg rolled in something so unspeakably vile and smelly we had to wash him three times!
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northguineahills:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:34
there is footie (soccer) golf (sadly sans goalies).
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rx scabin:

*shared
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northguineahills:

↳ Zipperhead7 @11:41
zipperdawg must have been in hog's heaven!
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UFOspecialist:

I only showed up today because it's Seger summer. Where's my Seger?
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prof.fuzz:

↳ northguineahills @11:41
disc golf needs goalies too. otherwise, not a real sport. :)
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love2laf:

↳ Zipperhead7 @11:41
Oh dear, Zipperdawg just has to do dawg. Unfortunate timing!
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prof.fuzz:

how ya doing, NGH?
  11:44am
rx scabin:

Thank you, Trouble and Everyone for the respite. I must go water the flowers and then the lawyer, unrelated events. Happy Birthday to you, Trouble. I hope it is overflowing with joy.
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Zinn The Mood:

↳ Gregolomania @11:25
I’ve cut out all social media glancing for weeks now. And I feel a ton better.

Cyclical sowing of manufactured crisis. Upon which is built, Propaganda.
  11:45am
rx scabin:

Not watering the lawyer.
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northguineahills:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:43
dislocated my shoulder in my sleep over the weekend (still puzzled by that). Still trying to get the pain manageable, but feeling better. Got my interview rescheduled to next Monday. thanks for asking!
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love2laf:

As always, the chat board in the modern world is interesting. I enjoy people who share my interests, but I will never know the pleasure of a new interest, if I'm not open to why someone else's interests. Even if it is Hollywood glitz. Although I have a smart phone, I like to learn through different people why they don't, and how it's changing our society, and leaving people behind.
  11:46am
Brrr:

Variações!!
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love2laf:

↳ northguineahills @11:45
Ouch, that is a very rude awakening! Lots of pixie for your second round interview.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ northguineahills @11:45
ouch! sleeping is way more risky than i was led to believe. conversely, quicksand hasn't really been much of a problem in my life up to this point.

feel better soon, and good luck with the interview!
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northguineahills:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:47
I lost a shoe to quicksand as a kid..., so, that's been its impact upon me thusfar (now as for the band quicksand....)
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Trouble:

hello stu and all of your moomns!!!
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prof.fuzz:

↳ northguineahills @11:48
thoughts and prayers, for you and the shoe
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northguineahills:

↳ love2laf @11:47
thanks to pixie I've been receiving, i got to spread some to peeps in the wild, and impress upon them the values of wfmu...
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Mick:

Happiest of birthdays Trouble! Thanks for being here week in and week out, and many happy returns of the day.
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D Rok:

Happy birthday, Trouble! Loving this last set!
  11:53am
Ochre Ogre:

↳ Gregolomania @11:25
Indeed, moderate doses of news from reasonable sources only. Upside is when some on the Right in office speak you realize they are the neurotic, unbalanced of mind and extremely unintelligent.
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Trouble, and happy birthday!

Stay Troubled, everyone.
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northguineahills:

Enjoy a happy morrow bday, trouble, thanks for the toons!
  11:54am
MattT:

↳ Zinn The Mood @11:40
Most definitely!!! i think the np world has a really particular way of feeling crazy. Way to cut out the social media... ! ahh, precious human attention reclaimed.
  11:54am
Ochre Ogre:

Thanks Trouble and Happy Birthday!!
  Swag For Life Member 11:55am
Zinn The Mood:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:23
Yes, comrade! You nailed it in all the ways this is scary stuff, and we’re not even scratching the surface (as Mark Hurst might say).

I loathe the surveillance state and the Spyphone. Though admittedly I do have one, I do all I can (which is never enough) to insulate myself. No Google

I respect you for that move (how did you stay so active here, though?). Friends we have are seriously considering giving up theirs for “old” phones for only calls and texts.
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bradford:

Thanks Trouble, have a happy birthday!
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Gregolomania:

↳ Zinn The Mood @11:44
Tumblr seems the only tolerable one, being obscure (tho suffering a post Elon/twitter resurgence) & still full of people with weird, but often interesting obsessive interests. still refreshingly oddball.
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listener james from westwood:

City pop feels very simpático with Style Council.
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sydnius:

J'aime les oiseaux! Joyeux anniversaire!
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TDK60:

Obrigado, Trouble.
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chresti:

Thanks Trouble! Happy birthday!
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listener 126464:

Thanks, Trouble, enjoy your birthday.
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listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Trouble, and HBD!
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pot8o:

thanks trouble! have a great week everyone!

happy birthday trouble!
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love2laf:

Thank you Trouble, such a great 3 hours of music. I hope all goes well for celebrating your birthday tomorrow. Thanks fellow troubled for an interesting chat, as always.
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spodiodi:

thanks, Trouble! happy bday!
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Mar from TO:

Muito obrigada. Good job.

Excellent show HBD <3
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prof.fuzz:

thx trouble
happy happy!
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Dano59:

Sam Green presenting his films is an 'E' ticket, as the kids used to say. Saw his Bucky Fuller doc with YLT live score.
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Yes:

thanks yall
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Trouble:

thanks for sitting in , see you next week.
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Zinn The Mood:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:23
What’s this about orcas attacking boats! Need to hear more…

Everyday I look out into the HellGate channel I hope to see squadrons of jet skis taking down these criminal massive yachts. Where’s the Granma when we need it. Che and Fidel pulled off the greatest uprising in the history of this part of the world .

Someday, someday.
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Roberto:

Surprisingly enough, kitty is not reacting to the bed birds.
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Zipperhead7:

Another delightful show, Trouble!
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