WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from September 23, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning, brian, people...
	6:02am TDK60: Good morning Brian.
	6:03am Brian D: Greetings Tom Tom, TDK. Welcome in.
	6:04am StringOFperils: Remember when we dance divinely? Nice idea while it lasted.
	6:04am LiXiviated Life: The worst thing about rainy days is knowing that I got to get up & walk the dog
	6:05am StringOFperils: But it's still a good morning. Can't take that which can't be taken. So Good morning!
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:04 I actually like walking my dogs in the rain, Lix, but understand the feeling.
	6:09am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Dance Me to the End of Love" by "Leonard Cohen" Leonard 🖤🖤🖤 greetings, Brian, Everyone! gotta get back to wurk/lurk mode, but i will be listening and embracing and dreading this rainy day 😺😺
	6:10am Brian D: ↳ slugluv1313 @6:09 Would have been 89 this week, Slug.
	6:18am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Dance Me to the End of Love" by "Leonard Cohen" I nearly brushed elbows with Leonard once, in the 1980s, in an underground concourse beneath the Sheraton Hotel, where we walked right by one another, extremely close. Lost in thought, I raised my eyes and he was right there with me for a moment. He exuded charisma. Impeccably dressed in an expensive yet sombre dark blue pin-striped suit. On hi arm, the most beautiful woman. I seemed to drift into a dream, and then there was just the shoe-shine stands and fluorescent lighting, and places to get your keys cut, etc..and I stood there, alone with my prose...
	⚡ 6:19am tom tom the pipers son: one of the crazy things going on in india is the official change of name to bharat, the names were always used simultaneously, but now there's an opposition group to modi using i.n.d.ia. as an acronym, so that's why modi wants to change the name regardless of cost.
	6:19am Bort Simpson: Boy am I glad to catch Currents. I've nothing else to say so I'm gonna shut up and listen.
	6:22am slugluv1313: ↳ Brian D @6:10 WOW no matter his age in years, he has always been ageless, timeless -- at least for me
	⚡ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:19 one false argument for the change is that india is a colonial name which apparently is not true, it was used as far back as alexander the great
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:19 Tom Tom, also religious and political reasons behind the name: www.cnn.com...
	⚡ 6:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:26 yes, of course
	6:32am StringOFperils: India is an agglomeration of independent states of both polity and mind, with all the internecine conflicts and suspicions and tensions that any place with an untold number of tribes has. The maps and the names are ephemeral, and the struggles are eternal. The Sikhs here in my country now appear to be unsafe if they express certain opinions, as are the Chinese. Political power and the wealth that is driving it is becoming increasingly draconian, or perhaps it's just that I was once a child who could not see.
	6:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:29 Wasn't aware of the i.n.d.i.a. group. Going to look into that.
	⚡ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:32 saw it on democracy now
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 Huh. Must have missed that. This past week?
	⚡ 6:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:36 i think so.
	⚡ 6:38am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday, Brian & all. Missed your program last week; was in Vienna.
	⚡ 6:41am tom tom the pipers son: i think this is it www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ 6:42am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael...
	6:42am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:38 Good morning/afternoon, Michael! How was Austria?
	6:43am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 Thanks! I'll read it later.
	6:43am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:32 Sadly, the Sikhs came to Canada thinking they were leaving all that behind...
	6:47am TDK60: ↳ Brian D @6:43 Another big target of Modi's party's bigotry, are Muslims.
	6:47am tom from Manchester: neat stuff
	6:49am tom from Manchester: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:47 this show, i mean. not the politico-religious strife of India.
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:47 Thanks Tom. Is this Tom formerly of Glasgow?
	6:50am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Good morning Brian
	6:50am tom from Manchester: ↳ Brian D @6:50 yes sir! i moved March '22
	⚡ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: sorry brian this is it, same interviewee www.democracynow.org...
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ Danny in Poughkeepsie @6:50 Danny! Greetings sir.
	6:51am Soggy Donkey: Brian, this is a wonderful show. Perfect vibe. Thanks for putting this together!
	6:54am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and all other currentators! Thank you for these amazing super vibey ethereal guitar sounds... perfect for my Saturday morning Uni teaching prep session! Thank you!
	⚡ 6:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:42 Hi Tom Tom! Apart from a lousy experience with our host due to airbnb's deceptive advertising with hidden charges (never again!!), Vienna was great! And the less said about that, the better. Apart from that, we were able to take in some of the riches Vienna has to offer. With two and a half million inhabitants, it's the world's second-largest German speaking city after Berlin, and its elegance and sophistication show. On the way there by car, we stayed overnight on Sunday in the pleasant, historically significant town of Regensburg, where we had an exceptional meal at the Hotel d'Orphée (fabulous escargot!). Driving into Vienna on the second day, Monday, was traumatic due to the chaotic, congested intertwining of Autobahnen that makes life difficult even for seasoned Viennese drivers. On Tuesday evening we were invited to dinner at a first-rate Lebanese restaurant, Ellisar, in the Johannesgasse by a long-standing translation customer of mine, a photo journalist, and his Russian wife, Masha. The rest of our time was spent walking each day from our accommodation in the Jewish Quarter (with its many orthodox Jews) of Leopoldstadt, located adjacent to the city centre, to various attractions such as Momuk (Museum of Modern Art, showing inter alia a large exhibition by Black NYC artist, Adam Pendleton), Freud's house at Berggasse 19, the Strudelhofstiege (von Doderer!). the Porcelain Manufactory, the Kunst-Historisches Museum with all its many, many gems, the Albertina with, among other exquisite works, its overwhelming collection of impressionist art (Monet!!), the Arnold Schönberg Center (which absolutely inspired me with its well-thought-out exhibition). The Jewish Mea-Shearim restaurant near our accommodation was very tasty and had a very fine Kosher red. On the last two nights (it was so good) we ate at a delicious, family-run Croatian fish restaurant, Briuni at Blumenaugasse 2. The 900+km drive back on Sunday took eleven hours, without too many jams and congestion, but I'm glad to be back home and off those horribly congested Autobahnen. It only gets worse from year to year, and I am getting too old.
	6:55am fred: Good morning Brian and all. I think I should adjust my grocery run strategy: going earlier takes so much longer I should learn to miss the middle of the show (I end up missing as much anyway)
	7:00am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and Currents eventers. Looking forward to the interview upon your return.🌎
	⚡ 7:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 thanks for the post, feel like i took a vicarious mental trip through vienna, where i've never been, btw, in germany do they still post mitwohnen (sp) ads since the advent of air b and b
	⚡ 7:02am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @6:18 "On his arm, the most beautiful woman." Ahhh, the most exquisite consolation for a hetero man! And vice versa?
	7:04am Toothgrinder Tom: I do appreciate Brian’s calm tone of voice (though I have the volume down low so I don’t know always what he’s talking about).
	7:04am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 I was told Vienna in Winter is less crowded (but really cold)
	⚡ 7:05am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Your Design" by "Charles Gayle Trio" loving this charles gayle so spare and deliberate
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:50 Hope it's been a good move for you. Though I love Glasgow, as I'm sure I've mentioned when we've met.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ Soggy Donkey @6:51 Thanks Soggy! Good morning.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:54 LCF, greetings, sir.
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:55 Fred!
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @7:00 Good morning, Cooh. Happy Saturday.
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:04 Most people don't know what I'm talking about, regardless of volume.
	7:09am fred: @Brian: this rider guiding elephants does not portray McCarthy leading the house GOP. Though an updated pic might be too gory at this hour
	7:09am rich in angleton: good morning Brian!
	7:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:09 Ha! Good one, Fred. McCarthy wishes his elephants could be so organized.
	⚡ 7:10am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:02 I fear that aribnb has unfolded monopolistic powers, but the next time I'm looking for accommodation somewhere, if it's not a hotel, I'll be scouring the internet for Mitwohngelegenheiten, etc. They used to be available. Between 2016 and 2022 I booked 5 airbnb apartments (with double bed, kitchen, bathroom...), and there was never a charge for a second guest. This time, there suddenly was, but it was hidden as an extra charge! That's airbnb becoming devious and deceptive.
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:09 Hello Rich! How's tricks?
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:09 ha! considering that the image looks old, yhought you were referring to joe mccarthy at first
	7:12am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:02 Ha ha. Perhaps. Speaking personally, as said hetero male, I have never found beautiful women to be much consolation, as much as they may appeal to that which is barely under my control. As with case of most all illusions, there's a whole world of trouble behind the allure.
	7:13am Toothgrinder Tom: I’m trying to do a news blackout fir the time being, so Currents will have to be my only source of news of the wider world.
	7:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:11 Two peas in a pod.
	7:14am rich in angleton: so far so good Brian. just waiting to see if the sun will rise today. I have $$$ riding on that bet.
	7:14am Toothgrinder Tom: I thought Paul.
	7:14am fred: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:13 At least Brian's news come with good music
	⚡ 7:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:13 did you see my demo now correction?
	7:15am TDK60: Also occurring now in the news: Following the big march last Saturday in NYC to end fossil fuels, various direct actions in NYC and globally to block offices of fossil fuel funders. Peaceful civil disobedience protests with arrests.
	7:15am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:14 I hope not too much.
	7:16am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14 I did, aye. Thank you.
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: WION-China passes law protecting its “feeli... this is amazing... so the government is the sensitive one
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 It's surreal: time.com...
	7:19am dale: morning. the world is a pressure cooker and we're all just the potatos and carrots.
	7:20am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @7:19 It's a new form of Socialist Realism. All imagery will be controlled. All messaging is controlled.
	7:22am Cooh John: Toothgrinder Tom, I went into a news blackout in 2008 after being in the business 20 years. I came out in 2016 to watch the dystrumpian melodrama for a year. Unfortunately this soap opera has legs.🫨
	⚡ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:19 wonder if xi says 'this hurts me more than it hurts you'
	7:22am dale: ↳ dale @7:19 d'oh - potatoEs...
	7:23am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 There is no 'you'. There is the State. You are a gesture of the State.
	7:24am ?: Photos [and a cold beer] while you wait... I could live with that... https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/marvin-e-newman
	⚡ 7:24am tom tom the pipers son: like that 42nd street image, the marquees look like post minimalist sculpture
	7:24am ?: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 or listen Mon-Fri. 12P- 12:30P here: https://wjffradio.org/new-schedule/
	7:24am Toothgrinder Tom: A lot of my angst is Trump-related but my mindless overconsumption of Internet-delivered news would be a problem even if (or even when) he’s out of the picture.
	7:25am StringOFperils: Trump is just a symptom.
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:23 gabba gabba one of 'us'
	7:25am Cooh John: StringOFperils, 1984 delayed.
	7:25am fred: It's not unprecedented: Xi previously banned cartoon bears who don't wear pants
	7:26am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:25 Ha ha! Freaks indeed.
	7:26am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:25 Were they after his picnic basket?
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Nassim Taleb: ‘to be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading last week’s newspapers.’
	7:27am ?: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 Xi has serious problems with Winnie the Pooh Ts China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi
	⚡ 7:27am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @7:12 That tallies with my experience, but if the beauty (the irresistable surface illusiong) is combined with Geist, then (for me) it's worth the trouble, the heartache...
	⚡ 7:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:25 guess something that would get you into trouble in china is a teddy bear with a huge schlong
	7:29am morphe': That was me ... not listener ? Photos [and a cold beer] while you wait... I could live with that... https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/marvin-e-newman
	7:29am ?: ↳ StringOFperils @7:25 more like cancer
	7:30am TDK60: Let's not forget the banners and censors right here in the USA. Librarians under threat anyone? Banning books?
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 Very true, TDK. We can make fun of Xi all we want but...
	7:31am ?: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 soon be a theocratic dictatorship
	7:31am ?: But this Cave/Ellis is beautiful
	⚡ 7:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ @7:27 yes, on last week w/ john oliver opening there's an image of xi and winnie the pooh
	7:32am StringOFperils: ↳ @7:29 Quite so. You remove the tumor next year, but discover the illness remains. What to do? What to do? I have reached the place where I am grateful for my limited life-span.
	7:32am ?: ↳ StringOFperils @7:32 I'm for removal. It's a good start
	7:33am morphe': ↳ @7:31 Recently watched the newer version of 1984 for the first time ...
	7:34am StringOFperils: ↳ @7:32 It's imperative. I'm (privately) pretty f***ing worried about that outcome.
	7:34am TDK60: Hola morphe' Is that later 1984 movie good?
	7:34am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 Not a new story, but a Texas school banning Anne Frank's diary as pornographic? And firing the teacher who assigned it? Trouble, and neither WFMU's or the wider good one
	7:35am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:33 on VHS? ;) I've always liked this TZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3quruHpcuo
	7:36am morphe': Re: the baseball photo - why would there be different scoreboards if the teams playing were either American League or National League???
	7:37am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:36 From 1960s. The two leagues didn't play each other then until the "World" Series.
	7:37am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:37 That's #9 Bill Mazeroski at bat I Belive
	7:37am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:34 Yessir.
	7:38am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "L'Apparition/We Are Not Alone" by "Nick Cave & Wa... Happy Birthday, Nick Cave 🖤🖤🖤
	7:38am StringOFperils: Utah parent upset by book bans gets Bible pulled from school shelves to expose 'bad faith process' "You'll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. 76-10-1227, has 'no serious values for minors' because it's pornographic by our new definition,” the parent wrote.
	7:38am Brian D: ↳ @7:37 It is indeed. Hitting the game-wining homer in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
	7:39am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:36 Or maybe it's the all-star game? American vs National would make sense then
	7:39am ?: This from a state that supports polygamous child abuse via forced marriages. So progressive that Utah
	7:39am morphe': ↳ @7:35 not VHS, was given a link for free films = almost anything with no commercials ... but I am suspicious of it as it emanates from Russia and could be a virus/hack vehicle ... ok ru [film title]... and free????????????
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:38 Ah yes, Friday. Good shout, slug.
	7:40am slugluv1313: ↳ fred @7:34 right? i have not had the chance to follow up on the story, but i think it was a graphic novel version of Anne Frank's diary?
	7:40am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:38 man I got lots of stuff stored in these memory files :)
	⚡ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:38 actually, thought that was at yankee stadium
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:40 Forbes Field. Pittsburgh.
	7:41am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:39 Just joking about the VHS. The last time I watched it in 1984 it was via a VHS rental
	7:41am slugluv1313: ↳ @7:27 yikes! what an insult to Winnie the Pooh!
	7:41am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those listening in...
	7:42am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:39 Sounds fishy. I'm sure it obtainable elsewhere
	7:42am fred: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 I read so, but based on the original text, not the censored one available in the US, which is part of the issue
	7:43am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Galveston" by "Dagno Gorham" Well, Dagno Gorham, you get my Most Odd Sound Heard So Far Today award, at least for the 7 O'clock hour, so far. It is a long day ahead on WFMU so...
	7:43am fred: ↳ fred @7:42 So that censorship goes way back
	7:44am morphe': ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 "..graphic novel version of Anne Frank's diary?" That edition has the sexuality portion omitted by most editions ... the alleged crux in the story is that the teacher specifically had the students read that passage aloud???? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban
	7:44am Toothgrinder Tom: I made some lovely butternut squash soup yesterday.
	7:45am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:40 Thinking other teams used the field?
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:45 No. Out of town scores...
	7:46am Robm: morning fellow current listeners
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:44 Man, I love butternut squash soup.
	⚡ 7:47am tom tom the pipers son: anne frank ban... covering up the (not) obscene to cover up the truly obscene
	7:47am StringOFperils: There is no sex in the land of the free. Amen.
	7:47am Robm: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 morning slugluv how was the protest the other day?
	7:47am slugluv1313: @fred, @morphe' -- thank you! yes, i did not know these details, had not had the chance to follow up on the story
	⚡ 7:50am tom tom the pipers son: last two tracks have been pleasingly disorienting, but then again my head is susceptible w/ a cold
	7:50am slugluv1313: ↳ Robm @7:47 hello Robm! i did not go to the protests, but attended the two events at The New School (online, not in person -- no crazy covid fevers, but have not been feeling great this week)
	7:51am Robm: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:50 ouch hope your better this weekend
	7:51am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 More to the point: banning the not obscene to rile up the obscene who might vote for us if we give louder yet deniable support to nazis
	⚡ 7:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @7:46 My special this week was fried vegetables with slices of aubergine (egg plant) and then, with some added water, spaghetti broken into three thrown in to complete the dish. Lots of oriental spices, of course. Simple and hot.
	7:52am Toothgrinder Tom: @Brian D I know, right? It’s so luscious.
	7:52am TDK60: The photograph of 42nd Street (with Night Beats): Did anyone else here experience that time-place? I recall walking along there as a teen. It was seedy and a bit scary, to me at least.
	⚡ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:51 true
	7:53am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:52 Yum!
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 I remember it well. Seedy yes, but I miss it in some ways.
	7:55am StringOFperils: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 Yes. In my twenties. As lurid as can be. That chapter of NYNY was really something.
	7:55am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:50 Morning tom tom: yes, Mole Suit Choir as serious runner-up. They may also win Weird Band Name for the day...
	7:55am fred: Sorry. I've gone too angry and lashing out at allies. Next week maybe, if I cool down
	7:56am morphe': Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition Sexual Cultures by Samuel R. Delany is an interesting read..
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:55 hi tdk60...
	7:57am rich in angleton: TDK.. I remember walking through there as a teenager at the end of that era. it was totally seedy and creepy and I yeah I miss it.
	7:58am morphe': Delany's Graphic [both style and content] Biography/Autobio??? is also a great read..
	7:58am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:46 and carott
	7:58am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:56 Richard Sandler's "The Gods of Times Square."
	7:59am morphe': El palillo del Tío Roque Kind of Folk Vol. 4: Iberia ... is that in the new bin or a recent find/fav
	8:00am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:59 New Bin.
	8:00am StringOFperils: I used to kind of enjoy watching how the 3 Card Monte scams worked around Time Square. Identifying the shills, the second and third persons involved. The short con. The pickpockets. The guy's selling VCRs really cheap on the fly, with a brick inside the box. It was poetry in motion.
	8:00am ?: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 Pre-Disney & Giulianni
	8:01am TDK60: ↳ morphe' @7:56 Today, if I dare walk through Times Square, I get creeped out in a very different way. The Spectacle. At least there are still the CD street hustlers.
	⚡ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 walked through a deserted times square on 9-ll with only the video screens flickering images
	8:03am BnowB: Good Morning. Making my morning coffee and this show is sounding sooooo great. Thank you and howdy
	8:04am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 And they're wearing suits.
	8:05am morphe': ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 mark "ok.. let me see it." him"No man.. I can't open the box - then people will think it's used.."
	8:05am StringOFperils: Ha ha. Yeah. You got it.
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:03 Hey BnowB. Milk and sugar, please.
	8:07am StringOFperils: Genuine Rolex. For you, thirty bucks. C'mon! What I gotta do?!
	⚡ 8:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Squid" by "RVG" reminds me of big blood, a wee bit
	8:09am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:06 You got it mate.... Its a special BMX coffee Maker and this flavor is called "Dark Lords of the Stoke" Enjoy :)
	8:09am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:09 Wow. You're a serious coffee person there.
	8:10am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:09 There are some things you just can't skimp on. hehe
	8:11am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "History of the World (Part 1)" by "The Damned" So great to hear this again.
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky: British PM reverses environmental stan... tories nostalgic for smogggy/ foggy victorian england
	8:12am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning
	8:12am slugluv1313: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 right? same here -- i remember being in the area at various times in the 1970s, 80s (when i was first venturing into NYC) -- was kinda creepy, but i find the sanitized atmosphere nowadays even creepier (if that makes any sense) worked in the area, too, in the 1990s -- i remember we were sent home early after the Rodney King verdict -- two coworkers/friends only had to go to LIC and Astoria, and i was headed home to Hoboken -- but the lines at Port Authority for buses going further out to suburban NJ/NY were insane! and the steps leading up to a second floor at Show World that had flashing neon "Live Nude Girls!" on each step always killed me -- like what, as opposed to dead ones?
	8:12am BnowB: ↳ Aaron Working In Newark @8:12 Aaron :) good morning
	8:13am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:10 I'm with you on that, particularly with coffee.
	8:14am slugluv1313: ↳ morphe' @8:05 😹😹😹 always!
	8:17am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:13 It's so true. Some beans are just a fresher better quality bean then others Not to be bean biased. :)
	8:18am Jim the Poet: Loving this
	8:19am Toothgrinder Tom: I find the story of how ‘americano’ coffee came to be fascinating. Story goes that American GI’s stationed in Italy detested the local espresso (huh?) so they asked the barristas to water it down with hot water and this the ‘americano’ was born.
	⚡ 8:19am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky: British PM reverses environmental stan... when i spent time in london thought the english sentimentalize the land scape, going into art galleries you would see so much landscape based art, even minimalist/ conceptual artist like richard long, andy goldsworthy dealt in landscape
	8:19am Toothgrinder Tom: thus
	8:20am Toothgrinder Tom: Andy Goldsworthy - haven’t heard that name in a while. Have a book of his upstairs.
	8:21am BnowB: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:19 interesting... sounds legit lol
	8:22am ?: ↳ Song: "L'Apparition/We Are Not Alone" by "Nick Cave & Wa... Just now caught Nick Cave being interviewed on WCBS-TV (NY) CBS Saturday Morning by Anthony Mason. Very good interview.
	⚡ 8:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 yeah just an example of what i was trying to express, not an interesting artist imo
	8:23am I'm with the banned: Good morning Brian, I fell asleep around 7am. Glad I woke up before your show ended ☺
	8:24am JB: Remember how terrible cars were in the 50s, 60s, 70s 80s (emissions , not looks)? The smog was fun.
	8:25am Toothgrinder Tom: I just remember him messing around with icicles.
	⚡ 8:25am tom tom the pipers son: funny to call a fill in drag, it works
	8:26am StringOFperils: ↳ JB @8:24 You should (re) watch John Cassavettes' 'Gloria'. What a snapshot of all that.
	8:27am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 LOVE Andy Goldsworthy.
	8:27am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:25 Ha! Master of the malaprops, me.
	8:29am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @8:27 Radio is the finest platform for that, Brian! :)
	8:30am Jim the Poet: I want a fake human embryo
	8:30am JB: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:19 I think American soldiers wanted their coffee like home, not a big surprise. It's cool how the final product is quite delicious.
	⚡ 8:31am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:27 no wasn't a malaprop, you said something like, speaking of drag, i have a fill in next week, more of a re-appropriation than misappropriation... i think
	8:31am dale: i wonder what kind of thing you get if you let that embryo grow. the blob?
	8:31am ?: ↳ JB @8:24 Tripped into NYC to catch Elton John's free Central Park show in 1980. We also had tix to see Bob Seger at MSG that evening. As I always did before tripping in I checked all of my 70 Chevy Nova's vitals & changed out the air filter. Drove in, parked in a lot, drove home. Next morning the car would not start. The new Air filter was clogged to the ma
	8:31am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:31 The President.
	8:31am Jim the Poet: My acupuncturist makes me drink americanos now so I don't just chug espresso
	8:32am gauche knee: Morning Brian D! 1st time tuning in, intrigued to say the least!
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ Jim the Poet @8:31 They're just needling you, though.
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ gauche knee @8:32 Greetings Gauche.
	8:33am pgalub: Good morning Brian and everyone!
	8:33am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @8:33 Mr. Galub!
	8:33am dale: ↳ Song: "The Two Loneliest People in the World" by "Movie ... mister embryo needs a missus embryo. 'if only this petri dish didn't separate us....'
	8:34am Jim the Poet: ↳ Brian D @8:32 well it's mostly back hickeys from cupping
	8:34am The Rock: It's pledge time!
	8:35am StringOFperils: On of the few foremost specialists in that area of genetic research went on record saying that he couldn't tell the difference. When asked to consult, he was skeptical, because he'd seen all forms of non-viable embryonic structures, but he was surprised; he said they were very good, and that any difference was indiscernible. He didn't specifically state that they WERE human embryos, but his restraint seemed to imply that was what he was saying.
	8:35am JB: ↳ StringOFperils @8:26 Ooh I'll look it up, thanks for the tip. My father in law is an amateur car historian but more with cars of the 30s and 40s. I've learned a ton just from osmosis
	8:35am Brian D: ↳ Jim the Poet @8:34 Ah yes. Helping?
	8:36am StringOFperils: ↳ JB @8:35 It's the 70s. In New York. Lot's of BIG cars.
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @8:36 We had a '55 Ford. In 1978.
	⚡ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" this kind of flattened effect type of singing is very popular these days
	8:38am Toothgrinder Tom: Yeah I switched from capuccino to americano recently, and haven’t looked back.
	8:38am BnowB: ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" Digg'n this tune!
	8:39am rich in angleton: Brian I was avoided checking out this water from your eyes band cause I didn't like the band name. but this is great!
	8:40am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @8:37 The flathead 6 was immortal. You can keep 1950s cars going forever.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @8:40 Everything else was falling apart, through.
	8:43am StringOFperils: Natch. I had several friends in high school with cars like that. The bad old days.
	⚡ 8:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Score to a Recurring Problem" by "Ici Chien Chien" this is interesting
	8:46am Karmalize: Well I'm dancing!!!
	8:47am BnowB: I miss my old 68 bug convertible. It had this lawnmower engine that always seemed possible to fix.
	8:49am rich in angleton: mark mob!!!!
	8:50am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:49 That's for you.
	8:50am morphe': Thanks BD and all ... on the move...
	8:51am erik(vt): ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" I’m very surprised that WFYEyes is performing next Friday near my sleepy town! (Well…@Dartmouth, close enough). Still sleepy these days (especially since pandemic - so many early closings and reduced hours! = depleted workers!).
	8:51am ?: ↳ Song: "Witch Hunt" by "Mark Mob" Surprised this song isn't being used for all U.S. Republican candidate appearances ;)
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: thx brian, it did go fast...
	8:53am BnowB: Thanks Brian, Great show as always.
	8:54am erik(vt): ↳ Song: "Up on the Wire" by "Lloyds" What’s with that “Lloyds” re-release? & how did I never hear of them during my peak collecting youth days(1979-1984!?)
	8:54am I'm with the banned: Thank you!
	8:55am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. And for the great discussion on here. Give PGB a listen next week (9/30) and I'll be back with Meryl Meisler (www.merylmeisler.com) on 10/7. Have a great fortnight and stay safe.
	8:55am StringOFperils: Thank YOU!
	8:57am dale: i second the goodness of that lloyds track. never heard that.
	8:57am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" by "Sonic Youth" still kicking myself for missing this show! excellent show, Brian -- these three hours flew by -- thanks so much!
	8:58am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	8:58am Barbie: Thanks for another great show. Love the new time slot.
	⚡ 8:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" by "Sonic Youth" sy, they were sound poets
	9:00am Oppenheimer: I love the show - yet really miss the old wee hours overnight slot !
	9:00am Toothgrinder Tom: PGB?
	9:01am ?: Peanuts Glue Blubber
	9:09am erik(vt): I’d benefit from sleep 💤.

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from September 23, 2023

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September 23, 2023: "Throw my thoughts like tomahawks / Into this world which I disown..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Leonard Cohen	Dance Me to the End of Love	More Best of Leonard Cohen		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Cat Stevens (NKA Yusuf Islam)	Moonshadow	Teaser and the Firecat		0:05:53 (Pop-up)
Silver Jews	My Pillow Is The Threshold	Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea		0:08:45 (Pop-up)
William Tyler and the Impossible Truth	We Can't Go Home Again	Secret Stratosphere		0:13:20 (Pop-up)
	Clips: NBC/CBC-Canada concerned about Sikh community following shooting			0:20:27 (Pop-up)
Chris Brokaw	Say Hi To Mousie, Say Hi To Bird	The Coyote of Deadhorse Canyon		0:21:46 (Pop-up)
Rick Deitrick	Racing the Sun "Racing the Sun" by "Rick Deitrick"	The Unguitarist: Complete Works, 1969-2022		0:31:46 (Pop-up)
Black Market Brass	Doom Country "Doom Country" by "Black Market Brass"	Hox		0:44:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lynlee	The Taste of Rainy Dawn "The Taste of Rainy Dawn" by "Lynlee"	Lynlee 13		0:51:29 (Pop-up)
Charles Gayle Trio	Your Design "Your Design" by "Charles Gayle Trio"	Homeless	R.I.P. Charles Gayle https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/arts/music/charles-gayle-dead.html	1:01:37 (Pop-up)
Mark Lotz Trio	Bring Delight "Bring Delight" by "Mark Lotz Trio"	Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!	R.I.P. Photojournalist Marvin Newman: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/marvin-newman-dead.html	1:10:37 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WION-China passes law protecting its “feelings”			1:14:44 (Pop-up)
Night Beats	Anxious Mind "Anxious Mind" by "Night Beats"	Rajan		1:15:53 (Pop-up)
Blonde Redhead	Before "Before" by "Blonde Redhead"	Sit Down for Dinner		1:19:42 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-can/should scientists resurrect the Tasmanian tiger?			1:23:58 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis	L'Apparition/We Are Not Alone	La Panthere des Neiges soundtrack		1:25:10 (Pop-up)
Dagno Gorham	Galveston "Galveston" by "Dagno Gorham"	I Love You Forever and I Mean It		1:34:41 (Pop-up)
Mole Suit Choir	Scissors Corner The Sky	Doomsday Lamp		1:44:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lynlee	The Taste of Rainy Dawn "The Taste of Rainy Dawn" by "Lynlee"	Lynlee 13		1:47:33 (Pop-up)
Groupa	El palillo del Tío Roque "El palillo del Tío Roque" by "Groupa"	Kind of Folk Vol. 4: Iberia		1:52:07 (Pop-up)
Alice Phoebe Lou	Hammer "Hammer" by "Alice Phoebe Lou"	Shelter		1:56:31 (Pop-up)
RVG	Squid "Squid" by "RVG"	Brain Worms		2:02:27 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Sky: British PM reverses environmental standards for cars			2:07:13 (Pop-up)
The Damned	History of the World (Part 1)	Best of		2:08:23 (Pop-up)
The Crystal Furs	Neon Heart "Neon Heart" by "The Crystal Furs"	Neon Heart EP		2:12:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lynnlee	The Taste of Rainy Dawn "The Taste of Rainy Dawn" by "Lynnlee"	Lynlee 13		2:18:32 (Pop-up)
Lloyds	Up on the Wire "Up on the Wire" by "Lloyds"	Attitude Check (1979-1984)		2:25:26 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-scientists make complete model of human embryo			2:28:58 (Pop-up)
Movie Movie	The Two Loneliest People in the World	Storyboards		2:29:56 (Pop-up)
Snooper	Town Topic "Town Topic" by "Snooper"	Super Snõõper		2:34:33 (Pop-up)
Water From Your Eyes	True Life "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes"	Everyone's Crushed		2:36:02 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CGTN-Bird flu strikes the Galapagos			2:39:45 (Pop-up)
Ici Chien Chien	Score to a Recurring Problem	Mi Casa Es Su Casa		2:41:17 (Pop-up)
Human League	Hard Times "Hard Times" by "Human League"	Autonomy: The Productions of Martin Rushent		2:43:27 (Pop-up)
Mark Mob	Witch Hunt "Witch Hunt" by "Mark Mob"	Witch Hunt / Life Kicks In		2:48:25 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Brave Men Run (In My Family)	Live in Brooklyn 2011		2:52:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lynnlee	The Taste of Rainy Dawn "The Taste of Rainy Dawn" by "Lynnlee"	Lynlee 13		2:57:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning, brian, people...
	6:02am TDK60: Good morning Brian.
	6:03am Brian D: Greetings Tom Tom, TDK. Welcome in.
	6:04am StringOFperils: Remember when we dance divinely? Nice idea while it lasted.
	6:04am LiXiviated Life: The worst thing about rainy days is knowing that I got to get up & walk the dog
	6:05am StringOFperils: But it's still a good morning. Can't take that which can't be taken. So Good morning!
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:04 I actually like walking my dogs in the rain, Lix, but understand the feeling.
	6:09am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Dance Me to the End of Love" by "Leonard Cohen" Leonard 🖤🖤🖤 greetings, Brian, Everyone! gotta get back to wurk/lurk mode, but i will be listening and embracing and dreading this rainy day 😺😺
	6:10am Brian D: ↳ slugluv1313 @6:09 Would have been 89 this week, Slug.
	6:18am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Dance Me to the End of Love" by "Leonard Cohen" I nearly brushed elbows with Leonard once, in the 1980s, in an underground concourse beneath the Sheraton Hotel, where we walked right by one another, extremely close. Lost in thought, I raised my eyes and he was right there with me for a moment. He exuded charisma. Impeccably dressed in an expensive yet sombre dark blue pin-striped suit. On hi arm, the most beautiful woman. I seemed to drift into a dream, and then there was just the shoe-shine stands and fluorescent lighting, and places to get your keys cut, etc..and I stood there, alone with my prose...
	⚡ 6:19am tom tom the pipers son: one of the crazy things going on in india is the official change of name to bharat, the names were always used simultaneously, but now there's an opposition group to modi using i.n.d.ia. as an acronym, so that's why modi wants to change the name regardless of cost.
	6:19am Bort Simpson: Boy am I glad to catch Currents. I've nothing else to say so I'm gonna shut up and listen.
	6:22am slugluv1313: ↳ Brian D @6:10 WOW no matter his age in years, he has always been ageless, timeless -- at least for me
	⚡ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:19 one false argument for the change is that india is a colonial name which apparently is not true, it was used as far back as alexander the great
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:19 Tom Tom, also religious and political reasons behind the name: www.cnn.com...
	⚡ 6:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:26 yes, of course
	6:32am StringOFperils: India is an agglomeration of independent states of both polity and mind, with all the internecine conflicts and suspicions and tensions that any place with an untold number of tribes has. The maps and the names are ephemeral, and the struggles are eternal. The Sikhs here in my country now appear to be unsafe if they express certain opinions, as are the Chinese. Political power and the wealth that is driving it is becoming increasingly draconian, or perhaps it's just that I was once a child who could not see.
	6:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:29 Wasn't aware of the i.n.d.i.a. group. Going to look into that.
	⚡ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:32 saw it on democracy now
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 Huh. Must have missed that. This past week?
	⚡ 6:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:36 i think so.
	⚡ 6:38am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday, Brian & all. Missed your program last week; was in Vienna.
	⚡ 6:41am tom tom the pipers son: i think this is it www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ 6:42am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael...
	6:42am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:38 Good morning/afternoon, Michael! How was Austria?
	6:43am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 Thanks! I'll read it later.
	6:43am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:32 Sadly, the Sikhs came to Canada thinking they were leaving all that behind...
	6:47am TDK60: ↳ Brian D @6:43 Another big target of Modi's party's bigotry, are Muslims.
	6:47am tom from Manchester: neat stuff
	6:49am tom from Manchester: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:47 this show, i mean. not the politico-religious strife of India.
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:47 Thanks Tom. Is this Tom formerly of Glasgow?
	6:50am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Good morning Brian
	6:50am tom from Manchester: ↳ Brian D @6:50 yes sir! i moved March '22
	⚡ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: sorry brian this is it, same interviewee www.democracynow.org...
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ Danny in Poughkeepsie @6:50 Danny! Greetings sir.
	6:51am Soggy Donkey: Brian, this is a wonderful show. Perfect vibe. Thanks for putting this together!
	6:54am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and all other currentators! Thank you for these amazing super vibey ethereal guitar sounds... perfect for my Saturday morning Uni teaching prep session! Thank you!
	⚡ 6:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:42 Hi Tom Tom! Apart from a lousy experience with our host due to airbnb's deceptive advertising with hidden charges (never again!!), Vienna was great! And the less said about that, the better. Apart from that, we were able to take in some of the riches Vienna has to offer. With two and a half million inhabitants, it's the world's second-largest German speaking city after Berlin, and its elegance and sophistication show. On the way there by car, we stayed overnight on Sunday in the pleasant, historically significant town of Regensburg, where we had an exceptional meal at the Hotel d'Orphée (fabulous escargot!). Driving into Vienna on the second day, Monday, was traumatic due to the chaotic, congested intertwining of Autobahnen that makes life difficult even for seasoned Viennese drivers. On Tuesday evening we were invited to dinner at a first-rate Lebanese restaurant, Ellisar, in the Johannesgasse by a long-standing translation customer of mine, a photo journalist, and his Russian wife, Masha. The rest of our time was spent walking each day from our accommodation in the Jewish Quarter (with its many orthodox Jews) of Leopoldstadt, located adjacent to the city centre, to various attractions such as Momuk (Museum of Modern Art, showing inter alia a large exhibition by Black NYC artist, Adam Pendleton), Freud's house at Berggasse 19, the Strudelhofstiege (von Doderer!). the Porcelain Manufactory, the Kunst-Historisches Museum with all its many, many gems, the Albertina with, among other exquisite works, its overwhelming collection of impressionist art (Monet!!), the Arnold Schönberg Center (which absolutely inspired me with its well-thought-out exhibition). The Jewish Mea-Shearim restaurant near our accommodation was very tasty and had a very fine Kosher red. On the last two nights (it was so good) we ate at a delicious, family-run Croatian fish restaurant, Briuni at Blumenaugasse 2. The 900+km drive back on Sunday took eleven hours, without too many jams and congestion, but I'm glad to be back home and off those horribly congested Autobahnen. It only gets worse from year to year, and I am getting too old.
	6:55am fred: Good morning Brian and all. I think I should adjust my grocery run strategy: going earlier takes so much longer I should learn to miss the middle of the show (I end up missing as much anyway)
	7:00am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and Currents eventers. Looking forward to the interview upon your return.🌎
	⚡ 7:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 thanks for the post, feel like i took a vicarious mental trip through vienna, where i've never been, btw, in germany do they still post mitwohnen (sp) ads since the advent of air b and b
	⚡ 7:02am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @6:18 "On his arm, the most beautiful woman." Ahhh, the most exquisite consolation for a hetero man! And vice versa?
	7:04am Toothgrinder Tom: I do appreciate Brian’s calm tone of voice (though I have the volume down low so I don’t know always what he’s talking about).
	7:04am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:55 I was told Vienna in Winter is less crowded (but really cold)
	⚡ 7:05am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Your Design" by "Charles Gayle Trio" loving this charles gayle so spare and deliberate
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ tom from Manchester @6:50 Hope it's been a good move for you. Though I love Glasgow, as I'm sure I've mentioned when we've met.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ Soggy Donkey @6:51 Thanks Soggy! Good morning.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:54 LCF, greetings, sir.
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:55 Fred!
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @7:00 Good morning, Cooh. Happy Saturday.
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:04 Most people don't know what I'm talking about, regardless of volume.
	7:09am fred: @Brian: this rider guiding elephants does not portray McCarthy leading the house GOP. Though an updated pic might be too gory at this hour
	7:09am rich in angleton: good morning Brian!
	7:10am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:09 Ha! Good one, Fred. McCarthy wishes his elephants could be so organized.
	⚡ 7:10am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:02 I fear that aribnb has unfolded monopolistic powers, but the next time I'm looking for accommodation somewhere, if it's not a hotel, I'll be scouring the internet for Mitwohngelegenheiten, etc. They used to be available. Between 2016 and 2022 I booked 5 airbnb apartments (with double bed, kitchen, bathroom...), and there was never a charge for a second guest. This time, there suddenly was, but it was hidden as an extra charge! That's airbnb becoming devious and deceptive.
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:09 Hello Rich! How's tricks?
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:09 ha! considering that the image looks old, yhought you were referring to joe mccarthy at first
	7:12am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:02 Ha ha. Perhaps. Speaking personally, as said hetero male, I have never found beautiful women to be much consolation, as much as they may appeal to that which is barely under my control. As with case of most all illusions, there's a whole world of trouble behind the allure.
	7:13am Toothgrinder Tom: I’m trying to do a news blackout fir the time being, so Currents will have to be my only source of news of the wider world.
	7:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:11 Two peas in a pod.
	7:14am rich in angleton: so far so good Brian. just waiting to see if the sun will rise today. I have $$$ riding on that bet.
	7:14am Toothgrinder Tom: I thought Paul.
	7:14am fred: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:13 At least Brian's news come with good music
	⚡ 7:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:13 did you see my demo now correction?
	7:15am TDK60: Also occurring now in the news: Following the big march last Saturday in NYC to end fossil fuels, various direct actions in NYC and globally to block offices of fossil fuel funders. Peaceful civil disobedience protests with arrests.
	7:15am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:14 I hope not too much.
	7:16am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14 I did, aye. Thank you.
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: WION-China passes law protecting its “feeli... this is amazing... so the government is the sensitive one
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 It's surreal: time.com...
	7:19am dale: morning. the world is a pressure cooker and we're all just the potatos and carrots.
	7:20am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @7:19 It's a new form of Socialist Realism. All imagery will be controlled. All messaging is controlled.
	7:22am Cooh John: Toothgrinder Tom, I went into a news blackout in 2008 after being in the business 20 years. I came out in 2016 to watch the dystrumpian melodrama for a year. Unfortunately this soap opera has legs.🫨
	⚡ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:19 wonder if xi says 'this hurts me more than it hurts you'
	7:22am dale: ↳ dale @7:19 d'oh - potatoEs...
	7:23am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 There is no 'you'. There is the State. You are a gesture of the State.
	7:24am ?: Photos [and a cold beer] while you wait... I could live with that... https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/marvin-e-newman
	⚡ 7:24am tom tom the pipers son: like that 42nd street image, the marquees look like post minimalist sculpture
	7:24am ?: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 or listen Mon-Fri. 12P- 12:30P here: https://wjffradio.org/new-schedule/
	7:24am Toothgrinder Tom: A lot of my angst is Trump-related but my mindless overconsumption of Internet-delivered news would be a problem even if (or even when) he’s out of the picture.
	7:25am StringOFperils: Trump is just a symptom.
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:23 gabba gabba one of 'us'
	7:25am Cooh John: StringOFperils, 1984 delayed.
	7:25am fred: It's not unprecedented: Xi previously banned cartoon bears who don't wear pants
	7:26am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:25 Ha ha! Freaks indeed.
	7:26am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:25 Were they after his picnic basket?
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Nassim Taleb: ‘to be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading last week’s newspapers.’
	7:27am ?: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 Xi has serious problems with Winnie the Pooh Ts China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi
	⚡ 7:27am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @7:12 That tallies with my experience, but if the beauty (the irresistable surface illusiong) is combined with Geist, then (for me) it's worth the trouble, the heartache...
	⚡ 7:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:25 guess something that would get you into trouble in china is a teddy bear with a huge schlong
	7:29am morphe': That was me ... not listener ? Photos [and a cold beer] while you wait... I could live with that... https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/marvin-e-newman
	7:29am ?: ↳ StringOFperils @7:25 more like cancer
	7:30am TDK60: Let's not forget the banners and censors right here in the USA. Librarians under threat anyone? Banning books?
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 Very true, TDK. We can make fun of Xi all we want but...
	7:31am ?: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 soon be a theocratic dictatorship
	7:31am ?: But this Cave/Ellis is beautiful
	⚡ 7:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ @7:27 yes, on last week w/ john oliver opening there's an image of xi and winnie the pooh
	7:32am StringOFperils: ↳ @7:29 Quite so. You remove the tumor next year, but discover the illness remains. What to do? What to do? I have reached the place where I am grateful for my limited life-span.
	7:32am ?: ↳ StringOFperils @7:32 I'm for removal. It's a good start
	7:33am morphe': ↳ @7:31 Recently watched the newer version of 1984 for the first time ...
	7:34am StringOFperils: ↳ @7:32 It's imperative. I'm (privately) pretty f***ing worried about that outcome.
	7:34am TDK60: Hola morphe' Is that later 1984 movie good?
	7:34am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:30 Not a new story, but a Texas school banning Anne Frank's diary as pornographic? And firing the teacher who assigned it? Trouble, and neither WFMU's or the wider good one
	7:35am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:33 on VHS? ;) I've always liked this TZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3quruHpcuo
	7:36am morphe': Re: the baseball photo - why would there be different scoreboards if the teams playing were either American League or National League???
	7:37am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:36 From 1960s. The two leagues didn't play each other then until the "World" Series.
	7:37am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:37 That's #9 Bill Mazeroski at bat I Belive
	7:37am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:34 Yessir.
	7:38am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "L'Apparition/We Are Not Alone" by "Nick Cave & Wa... Happy Birthday, Nick Cave 🖤🖤🖤
	7:38am StringOFperils: Utah parent upset by book bans gets Bible pulled from school shelves to expose 'bad faith process' "You'll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. 76-10-1227, has 'no serious values for minors' because it's pornographic by our new definition,” the parent wrote.
	7:38am Brian D: ↳ @7:37 It is indeed. Hitting the game-wining homer in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
	7:39am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:36 Or maybe it's the all-star game? American vs National would make sense then
	7:39am ?: This from a state that supports polygamous child abuse via forced marriages. So progressive that Utah
	7:39am morphe': ↳ @7:35 not VHS, was given a link for free films = almost anything with no commercials ... but I am suspicious of it as it emanates from Russia and could be a virus/hack vehicle ... ok ru [film title]... and free????????????
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:38 Ah yes, Friday. Good shout, slug.
	7:40am slugluv1313: ↳ fred @7:34 right? i have not had the chance to follow up on the story, but i think it was a graphic novel version of Anne Frank's diary?
	7:40am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:38 man I got lots of stuff stored in these memory files :)
	⚡ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:38 actually, thought that was at yankee stadium
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:40 Forbes Field. Pittsburgh.
	7:41am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:39 Just joking about the VHS. The last time I watched it in 1984 it was via a VHS rental
	7:41am slugluv1313: ↳ @7:27 yikes! what an insult to Winnie the Pooh!
	7:41am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those listening in...
	7:42am ?: ↳ morphe' @7:39 Sounds fishy. I'm sure it obtainable elsewhere
	7:42am fred: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 I read so, but based on the original text, not the censored one available in the US, which is part of the issue
	7:43am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Galveston" by "Dagno Gorham" Well, Dagno Gorham, you get my Most Odd Sound Heard So Far Today award, at least for the 7 O'clock hour, so far. It is a long day ahead on WFMU so...
	7:43am fred: ↳ fred @7:42 So that censorship goes way back
	7:44am morphe': ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 "..graphic novel version of Anne Frank's diary?" That edition has the sexuality portion omitted by most editions ... the alleged crux in the story is that the teacher specifically had the students read that passage aloud???? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban
	7:44am Toothgrinder Tom: I made some lovely butternut squash soup yesterday.
	7:45am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:40 Thinking other teams used the field?
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:45 No. Out of town scores...
	7:46am Robm: morning fellow current listeners
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @7:44 Man, I love butternut squash soup.
	⚡ 7:47am tom tom the pipers son: anne frank ban... covering up the (not) obscene to cover up the truly obscene
	7:47am StringOFperils: There is no sex in the land of the free. Amen.
	7:47am Robm: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:40 morning slugluv how was the protest the other day?
	7:47am slugluv1313: @fred, @morphe' -- thank you! yes, i did not know these details, had not had the chance to follow up on the story
	⚡ 7:50am tom tom the pipers son: last two tracks have been pleasingly disorienting, but then again my head is susceptible w/ a cold
	7:50am slugluv1313: ↳ Robm @7:47 hello Robm! i did not go to the protests, but attended the two events at The New School (online, not in person -- no crazy covid fevers, but have not been feeling great this week)
	7:51am Robm: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:50 ouch hope your better this weekend
	7:51am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 More to the point: banning the not obscene to rile up the obscene who might vote for us if we give louder yet deniable support to nazis
	⚡ 7:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @7:46 My special this week was fried vegetables with slices of aubergine (egg plant) and then, with some added water, spaghetti broken into three thrown in to complete the dish. Lots of oriental spices, of course. Simple and hot.
	7:52am Toothgrinder Tom: @Brian D I know, right? It’s so luscious.
	7:52am TDK60: The photograph of 42nd Street (with Night Beats): Did anyone else here experience that time-place? I recall walking along there as a teen. It was seedy and a bit scary, to me at least.
	⚡ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:51 true
	7:53am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:52 Yum!
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 I remember it well. Seedy yes, but I miss it in some ways.
	7:55am StringOFperils: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 Yes. In my twenties. As lurid as can be. That chapter of NYNY was really something.
	7:55am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:50 Morning tom tom: yes, Mole Suit Choir as serious runner-up. They may also win Weird Band Name for the day...
	7:55am fred: Sorry. I've gone too angry and lashing out at allies. Next week maybe, if I cool down
	7:56am morphe': Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition Sexual Cultures by Samuel R. Delany is an interesting read..
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:55 hi tdk60...
	7:57am rich in angleton: TDK.. I remember walking through there as a teenager at the end of that era. it was totally seedy and creepy and I yeah I miss it.
	7:58am morphe': Delany's Graphic [both style and content] Biography/Autobio??? is also a great read..
	7:58am ?: ↳ Brian D @7:46 and carott
	7:58am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:56 Richard Sandler's "The Gods of Times Square."
	7:59am morphe': El palillo del Tío Roque Kind of Folk Vol. 4: Iberia ... is that in the new bin or a recent find/fav
	8:00am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:59 New Bin.
	8:00am StringOFperils: I used to kind of enjoy watching how the 3 Card Monte scams worked around Time Square. Identifying the shills, the second and third persons involved. The short con. The pickpockets. The guy's selling VCRs really cheap on the fly, with a brick inside the box. It was poetry in motion.
	8:00am ?: ↳ TDK60 @7:52 Pre-Disney & Giulianni
	8:01am TDK60: ↳ morphe' @7:56 Today, if I dare walk through Times Square, I get creeped out in a very different way. The Spectacle. At least there are still the CD street hustlers.
	⚡ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 walked through a deserted times square on 9-ll with only the video screens flickering images
	8:03am BnowB: Good Morning. Making my morning coffee and this show is sounding sooooo great. Thank you and howdy
	8:04am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 And they're wearing suits.
	8:05am morphe': ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 mark "ok.. let me see it." him"No man.. I can't open the box - then people will think it's used.."
	8:05am StringOFperils: Ha ha. Yeah. You got it.
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:03 Hey BnowB. Milk and sugar, please.
	8:07am StringOFperils: Genuine Rolex. For you, thirty bucks. C'mon! What I gotta do?!
	⚡ 8:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Squid" by "RVG" reminds me of big blood, a wee bit
	8:09am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:06 You got it mate.... Its a special BMX coffee Maker and this flavor is called "Dark Lords of the Stoke" Enjoy :)
	8:09am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:09 Wow. You're a serious coffee person there.
	8:10am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:09 There are some things you just can't skimp on. hehe
	8:11am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "History of the World (Part 1)" by "The Damned" So great to hear this again.
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky: British PM reverses environmental stan... tories nostalgic for smogggy/ foggy victorian england
	8:12am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning
	8:12am slugluv1313: ↳ TDK60 @8:01 right? same here -- i remember being in the area at various times in the 1970s, 80s (when i was first venturing into NYC) -- was kinda creepy, but i find the sanitized atmosphere nowadays even creepier (if that makes any sense) worked in the area, too, in the 1990s -- i remember we were sent home early after the Rodney King verdict -- two coworkers/friends only had to go to LIC and Astoria, and i was headed home to Hoboken -- but the lines at Port Authority for buses going further out to suburban NJ/NY were insane! and the steps leading up to a second floor at Show World that had flashing neon "Live Nude Girls!" on each step always killed me -- like what, as opposed to dead ones?
	8:12am BnowB: ↳ Aaron Working In Newark @8:12 Aaron :) good morning
	8:13am Brian D: ↳ BnowB @8:10 I'm with you on that, particularly with coffee.
	8:14am slugluv1313: ↳ morphe' @8:05 😹😹😹 always!
	8:17am BnowB: ↳ Brian D @8:13 It's so true. Some beans are just a fresher better quality bean then others Not to be bean biased. :)
	8:18am Jim the Poet: Loving this
	8:19am Toothgrinder Tom: I find the story of how ‘americano’ coffee came to be fascinating. Story goes that American GI’s stationed in Italy detested the local espresso (huh?) so they asked the barristas to water it down with hot water and this the ‘americano’ was born.
	⚡ 8:19am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky: British PM reverses environmental stan... when i spent time in london thought the english sentimentalize the land scape, going into art galleries you would see so much landscape based art, even minimalist/ conceptual artist like richard long, andy goldsworthy dealt in landscape
	8:19am Toothgrinder Tom: thus
	8:20am Toothgrinder Tom: Andy Goldsworthy - haven’t heard that name in a while. Have a book of his upstairs.
	8:21am BnowB: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:19 interesting... sounds legit lol
	8:22am ?: ↳ Song: "L'Apparition/We Are Not Alone" by "Nick Cave & Wa... Just now caught Nick Cave being interviewed on WCBS-TV (NY) CBS Saturday Morning by Anthony Mason. Very good interview.
	⚡ 8:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 yeah just an example of what i was trying to express, not an interesting artist imo
	8:23am I'm with the banned: Good morning Brian, I fell asleep around 7am. Glad I woke up before your show ended ☺
	8:24am JB: Remember how terrible cars were in the 50s, 60s, 70s 80s (emissions , not looks)? The smog was fun.
	8:25am Toothgrinder Tom: I just remember him messing around with icicles.
	⚡ 8:25am tom tom the pipers son: funny to call a fill in drag, it works
	8:26am StringOFperils: ↳ JB @8:24 You should (re) watch John Cassavettes' 'Gloria'. What a snapshot of all that.
	8:27am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 LOVE Andy Goldsworthy.
	8:27am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:25 Ha! Master of the malaprops, me.
	8:29am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @8:27 Radio is the finest platform for that, Brian! :)
	8:30am Jim the Poet: I want a fake human embryo
	8:30am JB: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:19 I think American soldiers wanted their coffee like home, not a big surprise. It's cool how the final product is quite delicious.
	⚡ 8:31am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:27 no wasn't a malaprop, you said something like, speaking of drag, i have a fill in next week, more of a re-appropriation than misappropriation... i think
	8:31am dale: i wonder what kind of thing you get if you let that embryo grow. the blob?
	8:31am ?: ↳ JB @8:24 Tripped into NYC to catch Elton John's free Central Park show in 1980. We also had tix to see Bob Seger at MSG that evening. As I always did before tripping in I checked all of my 70 Chevy Nova's vitals & changed out the air filter. Drove in, parked in a lot, drove home. Next morning the car would not start. The new Air filter was clogged to the ma
	8:31am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:31 The President.
	8:31am Jim the Poet: My acupuncturist makes me drink americanos now so I don't just chug espresso
	8:32am gauche knee: Morning Brian D! 1st time tuning in, intrigued to say the least!
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ Jim the Poet @8:31 They're just needling you, though.
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ gauche knee @8:32 Greetings Gauche.
	8:33am pgalub: Good morning Brian and everyone!
	8:33am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @8:33 Mr. Galub!
	8:33am dale: ↳ Song: "The Two Loneliest People in the World" by "Movie ... mister embryo needs a missus embryo. 'if only this petri dish didn't separate us....'
	8:34am Jim the Poet: ↳ Brian D @8:32 well it's mostly back hickeys from cupping
	8:34am The Rock: It's pledge time!
	8:35am StringOFperils: On of the few foremost specialists in that area of genetic research went on record saying that he couldn't tell the difference. When asked to consult, he was skeptical, because he'd seen all forms of non-viable embryonic structures, but he was surprised; he said they were very good, and that any difference was indiscernible. He didn't specifically state that they WERE human embryos, but his restraint seemed to imply that was what he was saying.
	8:35am JB: ↳ StringOFperils @8:26 Ooh I'll look it up, thanks for the tip. My father in law is an amateur car historian but more with cars of the 30s and 40s. I've learned a ton just from osmosis
	8:35am Brian D: ↳ Jim the Poet @8:34 Ah yes. Helping?
	8:36am StringOFperils: ↳ JB @8:35 It's the 70s. In New York. Lot's of BIG cars.
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @8:36 We had a '55 Ford. In 1978.
	⚡ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" this kind of flattened effect type of singing is very popular these days
	8:38am Toothgrinder Tom: Yeah I switched from capuccino to americano recently, and haven’t looked back.
	8:38am BnowB: ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" Digg'n this tune!
	8:39am rich in angleton: Brian I was avoided checking out this water from your eyes band cause I didn't like the band name. but this is great!
	8:40am StringOFperils: ↳ Brian D @8:37 The flathead 6 was immortal. You can keep 1950s cars going forever.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @8:40 Everything else was falling apart, through.
	8:43am StringOFperils: Natch. I had several friends in high school with cars like that. The bad old days.
	⚡ 8:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Score to a Recurring Problem" by "Ici Chien Chien" this is interesting
	8:46am Karmalize: Well I'm dancing!!!
	8:47am BnowB: I miss my old 68 bug convertible. It had this lawnmower engine that always seemed possible to fix.
	8:49am rich in angleton: mark mob!!!!
	8:50am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:49 That's for you.
	8:50am morphe': Thanks BD and all ... on the move...
	8:51am erik(vt): ↳ Song: "True Life" by "Water From Your Eyes" I’m very surprised that WFYEyes is performing next Friday near my sleepy town! (Well…@Dartmouth, close enough). Still sleepy these days (especially since pandemic - so many early closings and reduced hours! = depleted workers!).
	8:51am ?: ↳ Song: "Witch Hunt" by "Mark Mob" Surprised this song isn't being used for all U.S. Republican candidate appearances ;)
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: thx brian, it did go fast...
	8:53am BnowB: Thanks Brian, Great show as always.
	8:54am erik(vt): ↳ Song: "Up on the Wire" by "Lloyds" What’s with that “Lloyds” re-release? & how did I never hear of them during my peak collecting youth days(1979-1984!?)
	8:54am I'm with the banned: Thank you!
	8:55am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. And for the great discussion on here. Give PGB a listen next week (9/30) and I'll be back with Meryl Meisler (www.merylmeisler.com) on 10/7. Have a great fortnight and stay safe.
	8:55am StringOFperils: Thank YOU!
	8:57am dale: i second the goodness of that lloyds track. never heard that.
	8:57am slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" by "Sonic Youth" still kicking myself for missing this show! excellent show, Brian -- these three hours flew by -- thanks so much!
	8:58am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	8:58am Barbie: Thanks for another great show. Love the new time slot.
	⚡ 8:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Brave Men Run (In My Family)" by "Sonic Youth" sy, they were sound poets
	9:00am Oppenheimer: I love the show - yet really miss the old wee hours overnight slot !
	9:00am Toothgrinder Tom: PGB?
	9:01am ?: Peanuts Glue Blubber
	9:09am erik(vt): I’d benefit from sleep 💤.

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