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Favoriting August 20, 2023: "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as to its victims: the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”—Simone Weil

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Images Approx. start time
Romeo Void  Guards   Favoriting Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980  Liberation Hall      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Stiff Little Fingers  Alternative Ulster   Favoriting Pure Fingers        0:03:12 (Pop-up)
GG King  God's Chalk   Favoriting Remain Intact  Total Punk      0:06:27 (Pop-up)
Stan Clear and the Closing Doors  Radio Free Entropy   Favoriting Brambles & Barricades EP        0:09:34 (Pop-up)
Altin Gün  Su Sızıyor (Water Leaks)   Favoriting Ask        0:12:19 (Pop-up)
Gwenno  Tonnow   Favoriting Tresor        0:16:18 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Al Jazeera-African migrants rescued off Cape Verde           0:22:06 (Pop-up)
New Pornographers  Continue as a Guest   Favoriting Continue as a Guest        0:22:47 (Pop-up)
Mari Dangerfield  Ruins   Favoriting Eco-Fever EP        0:27:11 (Pop-up)
  Clip: CP24-wildfires in the Canadian Yukon           0:30:59 (Pop-up)
US Girls  Bless This Mess   Favoriting Bless This Mess        0:31:30 (Pop-up)
Desert Sharks  Black Tongue   Favoriting Cool Kids Belong Together: A Tribute to Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs        0:35:30 (Pop-up)
Gina Birch  Pussy Riot   Favoriting I Play My Bass Loud        0:38:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
James Murphy 
Golden Years   Favoriting
While We're Young motion picture soundtrack 
 
 
 
0:43:22 (Pop-up)
Thin Lizzy  Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)   Favoriting Bad Reputation        0:49:47 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones  Can't You Hear Me Knocking   Favoriting Sticky Fingers        0:53:06 (Pop-up)
 
Tom Besley Interview, Part I (https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008463563/control.html)
R. Ring  Exit Music   Favoriting War Poems, We Rested        1:24:07 (Pop-up)
Gang of Four  Ether   Favoriting 100 Flowers Bloom        1:26:56 (Pop-up)
Stiff Little Fingers  White Noise   Favoriting Inflammable Material        1:30:43 (Pop-up)
Pavement  Two States   Favoriting Slanted And Enchanted    R.I.P. Gary Young: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/gary-young-pavements-original-drummer-has-died/    1:32:40 (Pop-up)
 
Tom Besley Interview, Part II (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hlj7/hooded-men-britains-torture-playbook)
Tanya Tagaq  Uja   Favoriting Animism        1:59:32 (Pop-up)
Ernst Reijseger/Mola Sylla  Libra Me, Domine   Favoriting Requiem for a Dying Planet: Sounds for Two Films by Werner Herzog        2:02:11 (Pop-up)
  Clip: TRT-Ukraine ships grain out of Odessa           2:09:38 (Pop-up)
Stars of the Lid  Anchor States, Part 1   Favoriting Per Aspera Ad Astra        2:10:20 (Pop-up)
Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra  Eureka (studio version)   Favoriting ONJO        2:14:48 (Pop-up)
  Clips: WAPT/WJTV-Mississippi "goon squad" meets justice           2:24:44 (Pop-up)
FIS  Patupaiarehe   Favoriting The Commons        2:26:25 (Pop-up)
Sensate Focus  Y   Favoriting Sensate Focus 1.666666666        2:32:01 (Pop-up)
Camile  Ta douleur   Favoriting Le Fil        2:47:03 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Can You Hear Me   Favoriting Young Americans    R.I.P.: Bobby Eli https://www.stereogum.com/2233544/mfsb-guitarist-bobby-eli-an-architect-of-philly-soul-has-died/news/    2:50:11 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad  Dawn   Favoriting Jazz Is Dead 17        2:55:10 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:00am
devlawn:

Hi, hello.
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tom tom the pipers son:

hi brian...
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nidrian:

howdy!
  3:07am
mr 6:

Pink? Oi? Yes
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tom tom the pipers son:

believe it's "cleer"
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Brian D:

Damn autocorrect. Hello all!
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tom tom the pipers son:

ah
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:11
Nope Clear.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:12
oh, could have sworn...
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Brian D:

The WFMU playlist system is never wrong.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:14
ha!... i see w/ a search it's clear, everything is clear ;)
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tom tom the pipers son:

did you get my email regarding talking w/ an a. i. professor about my thought about foster book?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:21
Yessir. Still plan to read it. So thanks.
Avatar ⚡ 3:23am
Michael of Cologne:

Gd morning Brian, Tom Tom & all.
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Brian D:

Hallo Michael!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:22
the professor's name is mihai nadin, he has a website, you might find his work interesting...
Avatar ⚡ Swag For Life Member 3:25am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Michael of Cologne @3:23
hello michael.
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:25
UT Dallas?
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:26
yes
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tom tom the pipers son:

do you know about him?
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:27
No, but his site looks interesting.
  3:31am
Chris Crisco:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:27
What is the difference between a falling stone and a falling cat?
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Brian in UK:

Hello Brian & Co. Quick greeting before a dog walk in the sunshine. Seems to have been wheat harvesting here this week.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Chris Crisco @3:31
don't know...
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Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @3:34
Hello Brian. Enjoy the walk.
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:34
en.wikipedia.org...
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radioronan:

Good morning Brian & all..just tuning in..look forward to the interview..
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Brian D:

↳ Brian D @3:36
I had to look it up. But I knew Chris wasn't just being a wise guy.
  3:39am
Chris Crisco:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:34
I did a search on Mihai Nadin and that came up.
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Brian D:

↳ radioronan @3:39
Greetings Ronan.
  3:40am
Chris Crisco:

↳ Brian D @3:39
Way above my pay grade. I have enough trouble doing the math problem so my post shows up.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:36
oh interesting...
c. crisco thanks
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Brian D:

↳ Chris Crisco @3:40
Ha! You and me both. I nearly flunked a class called "Math for Liberal Arts" in college. 'Course, I rarely attended...
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tom tom the pipers son:

@ brian: this is an essay of nadin's about a.i., for the most part he writes in simple non- technical language.
nadin.ws...
  3:49am
Chris Crisco:

↳ Song: "Pussy Riot" by "Gina Birch"
Have to remember this for next October Hell Raiser Joe M always does a show about songs with titles that reference other people/bands.
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Brian D:

↳ Chris Crisco @3:49
Right. Wonder if he'll play that one.
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Brian D:

"Control" can be found here: www.nytimes.com...
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tom tom the pipers son:

recent piece on democracy now on how dogs are used in prisons, nationally and internationally, to terrorize prisoners even when compliant.
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:15
Right: www.democracynow.org...
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Brian D:

Article on Jim Auld, subject of the film "Control:" www.theguardian.com...
  4:21am
devlawn:

This interview makes me want to hear Barbaric by Blur.
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tom tom the pipers son:

wonder how old are these torture techniques are and if they were used during britain's colonial period?
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @4:19
so much for mc gruff the crime dog...
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:21
i think he just said it was?
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:24
The film goes into more detail, but yes, some of the torture methods were used in east Africa and the "Punjab," while the "hooded man" technique was developed especially for the Irish.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @4:26
will watch, thanks for link.
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tom tom the pipers son:

ohhh... saw pavement with gary young, different than what came after
  4:35am
Chris Crisco:

They must be using this type of shit on Navalny. Yet they can't break him.
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radioronan:

Every report and thesis op that I had in hs & college years, I incorporated reports and facts about british military operations in northern ireland and how they had perfected many types of torture there and spread across subjugated everywhere..
  4:49am
morphe':

CBC = Missing and Murdered Native Women

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/
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Brian D:

Link to "Vanished," the film we're discussing now: www.tombesley.com...
  4:54am
morphe':

Just an FYI: Not sure if most people outside of Ireland and UK know that a way to show peaceful opposition to UK occupation of the North of Ireland [past and present] is to say/write "the North of Ireland" instead of NI and Derry not LD ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55am
Brian D:

↳ morphe' @4:54
Right, morphe. I should have explained that's why I keep referring to it as the "north of Ireland."
  4:58am
morphe':

I tuned in late ... thanks as always for the show... cannot open "Control" outside of the US... will watch the other docs ...
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radioronan:

As Tom said, "It doesn't stick."
All these stats, no one wants to hear it and when they do - it's denial..for mos. I believe maybe.. maybe one person will get involved. And we keep having discussions. Great stuff tonight, thanks Brian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:03am
Brian D:

↳ radioronan @5:02
Sadly, probably true. Thanks Ronan.
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radioronan:

↳ Brian D @5:03
But beauty of radio..hopefully thousands hearing! Just takes one..
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Andrea C:

↳ Song: "Libra Me, Domine" by "Ernst Reijseger/Mola Sylla"
Hi Brian and everyone, just to share a great version of Libera Me Domine -> www.youtube.com...
  5:15am
morphe':

I'll have to back and listen in full and also watch the docs.... Did Tom talk about the hooded technique of taking detainees that they wanted to turn into informers up in helicopters and then hovering a few feet off the ground and then throwing them out = "....inform or next time for real..."
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Fredericks:

Nice to see a quote from Simone Weil.
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Brian D:

↳ morphe' @5:15
No, actually. But he describes other equally shocking things.
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Brian D:

↳ Fredericks @5:16
New biography out now.
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Brian D:

↳ Andrea C @5:12
Thank you Andrea!
  5:22am
devlawn:

40 minutes until the world cup final, I stayed up listening instead of sleeping, monday will hate me.
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Brian D:

↳ devlawn @5:22
Viva Espana!
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tom tom the pipers son:

fading thanks brian, g'nite
  5:30am
mr 6:

Trying to step out and get gas this song is not letting me
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Andrea C:

↳ Brian D @5:21
You are welcome Brian! My pleasure. Go Spain! I hope they win the World Cup.
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Mr. Pumpy:

↳ Song: "Patupaiarehe" by "FIS"
Morning, Brian and all! I'm digging this. It sounds like African Head Charge sped up and put through an H.P. Lovecraft machine.
  5:32am
morphe':

↳ Brian D @5:19
All of it and especially physical stuff, but I learned of that at a youngish age and it always struck me as frightening ... seems like some of the British security forces studied at The School of Argentina ...
Avatar ⚡ 5:32am
Michael of Cologne:

Last night sat in conversation with friends in their garden until 4 a.m. Unusual for me. If the sky had been clear, Saturn would have been visible in the southern sky, and at 9 p.m. a thin crescent moon visible in the north-west. Time gives a home also to all that could have happened.
  5:41am
morphe':

↳ Michael of Cologne @5:32
Saw the waxing crescent late Fri/early Sat sitting perfectly low and centered at the western edge of a Madrid street ... magical ...
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Brian D:

"Our Body"/"Notre Corps:" www.cinemaguild.com...
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Julie:

this is surprisingly danceable
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Brian D:

↳ Julie @5:48
I do happy, too, now and again. ;-)
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radioronan:

Thank you Brian! Cheers y'all!
  5:55am
morphe':

Thanks Brain and all .. lots of viewing HW for tonight ...
ps.new doc on Giuliani - not sure to watch for free?
"Giuliani: What Happened to America's Mayor?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56am
Brian D:

Thank you all for joining me this week. And, my thanks to Tom Besley as well. Be sure to check out his work. Stay safe and have a great week.
  5:58am
morphe':

pss... Long ago ... FMU used to do a StupidBowl Show .. watch the game amd listen to FMU..
Not clling the World Cup stupid, ya can watch with no vol and listen to Dark Night of the Soul
with Julie..
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