WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from May 5, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ha ha! I got here first! Hi Charlie!
	♥ 9:01pm Aitch: Doing nothing busy
	♥ 9:02pm Charlie: Hi Wendy! You even got here before me:)
	♥ 9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie and listeners...
	♥ 9:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Diamond Jubilee" by "Cindy Lee" OMG I'm so glad you're playing this. It's my new favorite album, and this track is especially glorious.
	♥ 9:03pm Charlie: Hello Aitch! and tom tom!
	♥ 9:03pm chresti: Wow nice playlist pic! Hi Charlie and nothing doingers!
	♥ 9:03pm tom tom the pipers son: i'm confounded by top image and like it
	9:04pm neveract: Hi Charlie!
	9:04pm neveract: Hi tom tom and chresti!
	♥ 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ neveract @9:04 hello...
	♥ 9:05pm Charlie: welcome, chresti! and neveract, nice to meetcha:)
	♥ 9:05pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:03 Right? is that a backdrop? Hi nerveract!
	9:07pm Gaylord Fields: How-do, Chazz! Goo to hear you!
	♥ 9:07pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @9:05 and nice segue from Peter's show!
	♥ 9:08pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @9:05 The photographer has done a series of such photos (check their site), all of the photographer posing with a mannequin. Quite arresting.
	♥ 9:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:05 not sure, at first thought it was on site..it's somewhere betweena fashion shot, selfie, and landscape...
	♥ 9:08pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Charlie, busybodies
	♥ 9:08pm Charlie: Howdy, Gaylord! Well met, my freeform friend.
	♥ 9:09pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Charlie @9:08 i was thinking androids
	♥ 9:10pm Charlie: hey there, coelacanth∅!
	♥ 9:11pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:07 Gaylord Fields! <3 <3 <3
	9:11pm neveract: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:08 Hi coelacanth∅
	♥ 9:12pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Charlie!
	♥ 9:12pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Small Car" by "Marvin Pontiac (aka John Lurie)" John Lurie has done so much cool stuff. Including this track!
	♥ 9:12pm schmutz: howdy hi! this reminds me i need to finish painting with john.
	♥ 9:13pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @9:08 yes quite! thanks!
	♥ 9:13pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:11 Signing in just so I can thread this: <3<3<3<3
	♥ 9:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:08 interesting artist
	♥ 9:14pm Charlie: Hiya Franco and schmutz!
	♥ 9:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ neveract @9:11 olá, neveract!
	♥ 9:15pm Charlie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:13 It''s a <3-fest!
	♥ 9:17pm Doug Schulkind: Chazzola!
	♥ 9:18pm Charlie: Dougalissimo!
	♥ 9:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:13 i thought the sex doll photos totally recontextualized the interiors that the were in making them unreal/hyperreal as well
	♥ 9:19pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:18 Speaking of recontextualizing, unreal/hyperreal, regarding gender, check out Cindy Lee.
	♥ 9:19pm Gaylord Fields: In that case: <3
	♥ 9:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:13 Aww, my dear Gaylord! smooch
	♥ 9:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @9:15 It is! <3
	♥ 9:22pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:08 it also reminds me of a series of photos taken at the la county fair
	♥ 9:23pm tom tom the pipers son: idk, all power to her, seems tome gutierrez is dealing in newer territory
	♥ 9:23pm Charlie: For those interested in odd time signatures (I'm lookin' at you, Gaylord), this song could be heard as a straight 9/8, or it could be a measure of 3/4 + a measure of 3/8.
	♥ 9:24pm Charlie: And yesterday was 5/4 day! (cue theme from Mission: Impossible)
	♥ 9:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:22 there. were hiroshi sugimoto's photos od dioramas in natiral history museum
	♥ 9:24pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Charlie @9:23 I do like time signatures that are scribbles!
	♥ 9:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:24 Now I'm thinking of that fabulous marathon premium you did way back when, with all those songs with unusual time-signatures. I still play that one in the car!
	♥ 9:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:24 typos, typos, typos
	♥ 9:28pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:26 I had such fun doing that one! And I especially enjoy the artwork my friend Jon did of the conductor with his arm all tied in knots!
	♥ 9:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:28 That artwork is a joy! Your friend Jon did a mitzvah, for sure.
	♥ 9:32pm Little Danny: great segue into peter zummo!
	♥ 9:32pm Doug Schulkind: Jessie just said to me, "Charlie does such a great show. Can't you get him back on the air?" I nodded in silent, but outrageous agreement.
	♥ 9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Little Danny @9:32 it slipped by me thanks for pointing it out
	♥ 9:34pm Charlie: ↳ Doug Schulkind @9:32 Aw, shucks, thanks and Hi Jesse!
	♥ 9:34pm Charlie: How now, Little Danny!
	♥ 9:35pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Doug Schulkind @9:32 Wendy is now saying the same thing to you, Doug. And yes, I just referred to myself in the third person. She does that now and again. :-)
	♥ 9:35pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:31 He’s a multitalented cat! I asked him for a Stokowski type getting his arm all knotted, and he did it as a perfect Jim Flora homage!
	♥ 9:36pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:35 Hey Wendy, if you see yourself, say hi for me;)
	♥ 9:37pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:35 You are the Rickey Henderson of WFMU!
	9:37pm Listening Out There: Well all rooty….
	♥ 9:38pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:35 OMG, that IS a Flora homage! I never thought of it that way, but now I see it. Very nice.
	♥ 9:38pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @9:36 Haha, I shall. :-D
	♥ 9:39pm tom tom the pipers son: i played this when i did a show
	♥ 9:40pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:37 Hahaha! Wendy likes this.
	9:45pm Jk: Hey Charlie
	9:45pm jerry: Great to listen to you
	♥ 9:46pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:40 <3
	♥ 9:47pm Charlie: Nice to see you, Jk, and jerry! What's happnin' out there?
	♥ 9:48pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Moon River" by "Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers" I just picked up a new (to me) Art Blakey LP yesterday at the excellent junk shop in my town. It's 1957's "Drum Suite."
	♥ 9:50pm doctorjazz: Quick hi (early morning, listen a bit, then catch up tomorrow). Hi Charlie and nothing-doers!
	9:50pm neveract: ↳ doctorjazz @9:50 hi doc!
	♥ 9:51pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:48 Bueno! It's great. Maybe my fave all-time drummer. And bandleader.
	♥ 9:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ doctorjazz @9:50 Hey docjazz!
	♥ 9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: i look at blakey's groups with young players as a platform for them to be show off's, just because they can... imho blakey could be a bit show off-y as well not necessarily here though
	♥ 9:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: THAT (Blakey into Ornette) was a killer segue!
	♥ 9:52pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:51 I hear ya. I like it when Blakey shows off though:)
	♥ 9:52pm doctorjazz: Got to see Blakely way back (with the Marsalis Boys,)
	♥ 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:52 it's joyful
	♥ 9:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:51 Hi Wendy!
	♥ 9:54pm Charlie: Hi doctorjazz! Cool you got to see Blakey play!
	♥ 9:55pm doctorjazz: Saw Ormette too (ok, I'll go away now...))
	♥ 9:55pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @9:52 That's why they call you doctorjazz;)
	♥ 9:56pm tom tom the pipers son: look like charlie haden in b/g of image, has to be
	♥ 9:56pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @9:55 Stop, you're killing me!
	♥ 9:57pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:56 L-R: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ornette, Ed Blackwell
	♥ 9:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:57 dressed to the nines
	♥ 10:00pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:59 Oh yes! Had to wear a sharp suit while blowing that harmolodic jazz!
	10:00pm Roberto: CHarleS!
	♥ 10:00pm Charlie: Good evening, Roberto!
	♥ 10:01pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @10:00 do not doubt it...!
	♥ 10:03pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "Johannesburg" by "Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson" I love Gil Scott-Heron. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was such an FM staple in the early '70's, when I first got the bug for radio subversion.
	♥ 10:03pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "It's All Right" by "The Impressions" Hey there, Charlie! It's All Right!
	♥ 10:05pm Charlie: ↳ StringOFperils @10:03 It's alright now that you're here, StringOFperils!
	♥ 10:06pm Charlie: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:03 I love him too. The picture on the playlist is from when he did that song on Saturday Night Live during its first year!
	♥ 10:08pm Franco Twinkie: What a amazing person. With troubles like the rest of us - but the rest of us aren't that brilliant.
	10:08pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:06 Was it the first season? I remember watching that performance. If it was the first season, I must have been watching a rerun.
	♥ 10:09pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:08 I'm pretty sure it was the first year, but I'd have to double check.
	10:11pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:09 I don't think I ever saw an episode until around the third season, when my brother introduced me to it.
	♥ 10:12pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:11 The first year corresponded to my senior year of high school. My friends and I were all into it. It was edgy then!
	10:13pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:12 Whoa, you're older than I thought! No offense.
	♥ 10:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Kiss Off" by "Violent Femmes" This was my favorite album when I was in 8th Grade. :-) And I still love it!
	10:15pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:13 Unless you were some kind of child prodigy.
	♥ 10:15pm StringOFperils: This record sounds really great when it gets played LOUD
	♥ 10:15pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Charlie @10:12 It sure was! I loved Gilda Radner so much. I still like to say 'It's always something!' in THAT voice. Much to the annoyance of everybody around me.
	♥ 10:15pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:14 "I forget what eighth grade was for"
	♥ 10:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @10:15 Hahaha! So do I, other than listening to the Violent Femmes.
	10:17pm Roberto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:15 Rosanne Rosannadanna and Emily Litella are two of the most quotable characters of all time.
	♥ 10:17pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:13 I stay young by listening to the youth music;)
	10:18pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:17 WFMU: old farts, young music!
	♥ 10:18pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:17 Of course! Nevermind!
	♥ 10:18pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:18 Haha!
	♥ 10:20pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:18 So true, but having said that - it beats the pants off what the kids like.
	♥ 10:20pm StringOFperils: Old farts huddled around an oil-drum fire of burning yearning for the evaporating holy grail of the smoking record
	♥ 10:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @10:20 ha! just don't start singing aqualung...;)
	10:22pm Roberto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:20 Yeah the kids like shite.
	10:24pm Roberto: We invented that divest now shit at Wesleyan. At least we thought we did.
	10:26pm neveract: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:18 ... bitch.
	♥ 10:27pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thanks for the plug, Charlie!
	10:29pm Roberto: If you've ever seen that crap movie PCU, it's based on the producers' experiences at Wesleyan around the time I was there. Some of it is not inaccurate.
	10:29pm David Shortell: Those anti-Apartheid protests that didn't result in mass arrests occurred during the good ol' days of the Reagan administration!
	♥ 10:30pm StringOFperils: Aww good ol' Gipper
	10:30pm Roberto: ↳ David Shortell @10:29 That they did! Although there were some arrests.
	10:33pm Roberto: I was bored one Sunday morning my sophomore year and thought I'd check out a Divest Now rally. I ended up at the front of the line of protesters with my face front and center in one of the school papers. It's one of the best photos of me ever taken.
	♥ 10:36pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:33 Around 10 yrs ago, my pic was in the paper, speaking to the board of a company I worked for, when the workers were trying to unionize. (we succeeded btw)
	10:37pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:36 Yas Charlie! Slay!
	10:37pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:33 Didn't hurt that I was 20 years old and not ugly yet.
	♥ 10:38pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:37 You look good in your avatar picture!
	10:38pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:38 I always look good in catface.
	10:39pm neveract: ↳ Charlie @10:38 .. needs to do something about that ear hair tho..
	10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Roberto @10:17 Gilda Radner played other great (albeit less remembered) characters: Colleen Fernman, Rhonda Weiss, Bobbi Farber, Rosa Santangelo, Candy Slice, Judy Miller, Lisa Loopner.
	10:41pm Roberto: ↳ neveract @10:39 The razor-sharp claws are the more pressing problem.
	10:42pm Roberto: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Stretch marks Stretch marks Footprints of time upon my skin
	♥ 10:44pm Charlie: Oh hey a belated hello to David Shortell!
	10:45pm neveract: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 .. the bain of the Norge repaiman.
	♥ 10:46pm Charlie: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Also, her Live from New York album, of her Broadway(?) show, is wonderful:)
	10:46pm neveract: ↳ neveract @10:45 duh! "BANE"
	♥ 10:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:42 Put 'um in a high chair Feed 'um with a spoon Our team can beat your team Any afternoon
	10:48pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:46 Oh now I remember, you played a track from that album around 2010.
	♥ 10:49pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:48 I've played a bunch of tracks from it. Notably "Let's talk dirty to the animals"
	10:49pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:49 The one I remember your playing was some kind of audition.
	10:51pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:49 Her imagining herself auditioning.
	10:53pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:51 I remember that program because it was the same day I had a flight to L.A. and I was anxious about that and your show happened to have a set about anxiety.
	10:54pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:53 I don't have any fear of flying, traveling in general just makes me anxious.
	♥ 10:54pm Wendy del Formaggio: I love that Cindy Lee and Daniel Johnston are getting lots of love on tonight's show.
	♥ 10:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Walking the Cow" by "K. McCarty" i can hear this being done as opera... maybe a dan'l johnston opera one day
	♥ 10:55pm StringOFperils: I always think this is going to be Mississippi John Hurt record when it starts up...
	10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Sign of Judgement" by "Marianne Faithfull" I instantly recognized the voice. Does any other recording artist sound like her?
	10:56pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:54 I worry about leaving my kitties.
	♥ 10:57pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:53 All my sets are about anxiety (jk)
	♥ 10:57pm Charlie: That was The Worry Show: wfmu.org...
	10:57pm neveract: Thanks for a beautiful show Charlie!
	10:58pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:57 THEY ARE?? oh shit
	♥ 10:58pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 a little bit earha kitt+lotte lenya
	10:58pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:57 Nailed it!
	♥ 10:58pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:54 I loves 'em both <3
	♥ 10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Extra nice Charlie!
	♥ 10:58pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:54 Looking forward to that opera!
	♥ 10:58pm tom tom the pipers son: oh bye charkie fun was had
	10:59pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:58 Did I comment that day?
	♥ 10:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @10:58 thanks
	♥ 10:59pm Charlie: Thanks everyone for hanging out! Going a few minutes over:)
	♥ 10:59pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, Charlie! Lots of love to you! Come back soon!
	10:59pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:59 Apparently not. I guess I was too anxious.
	♥ 11:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks Charlie. Good to go out with a boop
	11:01pm Roberto: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:58 Lol Charkie. See you on the 30th, Charkie!
	♥ 11:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Charlie, when you just said, "Yay!" I heard it in a Kermit the Frog voice. If that's what you were going for, IT WORKED!
	11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:58 And Marlene Deitrich maybe?
	♥ 11:01pm chresti: thanks Charlie!
	♥ 11:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 u huh
	♥ 11:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: YAY GENDERFUCK!
	♥ 11:03pm schmutz: yayy, thanks Charlie!
	♥ 11:03pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Roberto @11:01 if that's what gets you amused happy to oblige
	♥ 11:04pm Charlie: Thanks everyone! See you on May 30:)
	♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: Caught up with the show this morning, fun show, thanks Charlie!
	12:48pm Michael: Hey Charlie - caught up this morning too. Completely forgot! But just like the old show on Monday. Be well.

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from May 5, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Cindy Lee	Diamond Jubilee "Diamond Jubilee" by "Cindy Lee"	Diamond Jubilee	Realistik Studios	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Marvin Pontiac (aka John Lurie)	Small Car	The Legendary Marvin Pontiac - Greatest Hits	Strange And Beautiful	0:05:02 (Pop-up)
Nomo	Bumbo "Bumbo" by "Nomo"	Invisible Cities	Ubiquity	0:10:47 (Pop-up)
Tom Zé	Mã "Mã" by "Tom Zé"	Brazil Classics 4: The Best of Tom Zé	Luaka Bop	0:14:03 (Pop-up)
Bidziliba	Tejina (Magic Trick) "Tejina (Magic Trick)" by "Bidziliba"	Bidziliba	FMN Sound Factory	0:17:53 (Pop-up)
Eve Beglarian	Landscaping for Privacy	Tell the Birds	New World	0:22:49 (Pop-up)
Peter Zummo	Sci Fi, from Lateral Pass	Zummo With an X	New World	0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Aki Takahashi	Monk's Intermezzo (I Want You) (arranged by Guy Klucevsek)	Norwegian Wood: Hyper Music From Lennon & McCartney	Eastworld	0:31:35 (Pop-up)
Daniel Johnston	Walking the Cow "Walking the Cow" by "Daniel Johnston"	Hi How Are You	Eternal Yip Eye Music	0:35:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:38:15 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Moon River	Buhaina's Delight	Blue Note	0:44:20 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman Quartet	Humpty Dumpty	This Is Our Music	Atlantic	0:49:28 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson	Johannesburg	From South Africa to South Carolina	Arista	0:54:46 (Pop-up)
The Impressions	It's All Right "It's All Right" by "The Impressions"	7-inch single	ABC-Paramount	0:59:22 (Pop-up)
Corridor	Phase IV "Phase IV" by "Corridor"	Mimi	Sub Pop	1:02:19 (Pop-up)
Metá Metá	Oranian "Oranian" by "Metá Metá"	Metá Metá		1:07:11 (Pop-up)
Violent Femmes	Kiss Off "Kiss Off" by "Violent Femmes"	Violent Femmes	Slash	1:11:08 (Pop-up)
Tomek	Susie H. "Susie H." by "Tomek"	Love & Hate	ATL Records	1:13:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Piero Umiliani	Power Stations "Power Stations" by "Piero Umiliani"	The Man and The City	Right Tempo	1:18:58 (Pop-up)
MizSkoden	Fruto de Sonoran "Fruto de Sonoran" by "MizSkoden"	Back to (Barrio) Basics		1:25:15 (Pop-up)
David Earle Johnson	Rebel Trot "Rebel Trot" by "David Earle Johnson"	Skin Deep - Yeah!	CMP Records	1:29:24 (Pop-up)
A to Austr	Thumbquake and Earthscrew	A to Austr (Musics from Holyground)	Holyground	1:34:27 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricoe	Matto, Caldo, Soldi, Morto . . . Girotondo, from Vergogna Schifosi	Eviva! Morricone	Avanz	1:37:05 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Hatherley	Down "Down" by "Charlotte Hatherley"	Grey Will Fade	Double Dragon	1:40:18 (Pop-up)
Cindy Lee	Always Dreaming "Always Dreaming" by "Cindy Lee"	Diamond Jubilee	Realistik Studios	1:44:49 (Pop-up)
K. McCarty	Walking the Cow "Walking the Cow" by "K. McCarty"	Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs Of Daniel Johnston	Bar None	1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Marianne Faithfull	Sign of Judgement	Strange Weather	Island	1:51:51 (Pop-up)
Della Reese	Low "Low" by "Della Reese"	I Gotta Be Me . . . This Trip Out	ABC	1:54:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	1:57:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ha ha! I got here first! Hi Charlie!
	♥ 9:01pm Aitch: Doing nothing busy
	♥ 9:02pm Charlie: Hi Wendy! You even got here before me:)
	♥ 9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie and listeners...
	♥ 9:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Diamond Jubilee" by "Cindy Lee" OMG I'm so glad you're playing this. It's my new favorite album, and this track is especially glorious.
	♥ 9:03pm Charlie: Hello Aitch! and tom tom!
	♥ 9:03pm chresti: Wow nice playlist pic! Hi Charlie and nothing doingers!
	♥ 9:03pm tom tom the pipers son: i'm confounded by top image and like it
	9:04pm neveract: Hi Charlie!
	9:04pm neveract: Hi tom tom and chresti!
	♥ 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ neveract @9:04 hello...
	♥ 9:05pm Charlie: welcome, chresti! and neveract, nice to meetcha:)
	♥ 9:05pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:03 Right? is that a backdrop? Hi nerveract!
	9:07pm Gaylord Fields: How-do, Chazz! Goo to hear you!
	♥ 9:07pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @9:05 and nice segue from Peter's show!
	♥ 9:08pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @9:05 The photographer has done a series of such photos (check their site), all of the photographer posing with a mannequin. Quite arresting.
	♥ 9:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:05 not sure, at first thought it was on site..it's somewhere betweena fashion shot, selfie, and landscape...
	♥ 9:08pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Charlie, busybodies
	♥ 9:08pm Charlie: Howdy, Gaylord! Well met, my freeform friend.
	♥ 9:09pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Charlie @9:08 i was thinking androids
	♥ 9:10pm Charlie: hey there, coelacanth∅!
	♥ 9:11pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:07 Gaylord Fields! <3 <3 <3
	9:11pm neveract: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:08 Hi coelacanth∅
	♥ 9:12pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Charlie!
	♥ 9:12pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Small Car" by "Marvin Pontiac (aka John Lurie)" John Lurie has done so much cool stuff. Including this track!
	♥ 9:12pm schmutz: howdy hi! this reminds me i need to finish painting with john.
	♥ 9:13pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @9:08 yes quite! thanks!
	♥ 9:13pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:11 Signing in just so I can thread this: <3<3<3<3
	♥ 9:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:08 interesting artist
	♥ 9:14pm Charlie: Hiya Franco and schmutz!
	♥ 9:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ neveract @9:11 olá, neveract!
	♥ 9:15pm Charlie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:13 It''s a <3-fest!
	♥ 9:17pm Doug Schulkind: Chazzola!
	♥ 9:18pm Charlie: Dougalissimo!
	♥ 9:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:13 i thought the sex doll photos totally recontextualized the interiors that the were in making them unreal/hyperreal as well
	♥ 9:19pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:18 Speaking of recontextualizing, unreal/hyperreal, regarding gender, check out Cindy Lee.
	♥ 9:19pm Gaylord Fields: In that case: <3
	♥ 9:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:13 Aww, my dear Gaylord! smooch
	♥ 9:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @9:15 It is! <3
	♥ 9:22pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:08 it also reminds me of a series of photos taken at the la county fair
	♥ 9:23pm tom tom the pipers son: idk, all power to her, seems tome gutierrez is dealing in newer territory
	♥ 9:23pm Charlie: For those interested in odd time signatures (I'm lookin' at you, Gaylord), this song could be heard as a straight 9/8, or it could be a measure of 3/4 + a measure of 3/8.
	♥ 9:24pm Charlie: And yesterday was 5/4 day! (cue theme from Mission: Impossible)
	♥ 9:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @9:22 there. were hiroshi sugimoto's photos od dioramas in natiral history museum
	♥ 9:24pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Charlie @9:23 I do like time signatures that are scribbles!
	♥ 9:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:24 Now I'm thinking of that fabulous marathon premium you did way back when, with all those songs with unusual time-signatures. I still play that one in the car!
	♥ 9:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:24 typos, typos, typos
	♥ 9:28pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:26 I had such fun doing that one! And I especially enjoy the artwork my friend Jon did of the conductor with his arm all tied in knots!
	♥ 9:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:28 That artwork is a joy! Your friend Jon did a mitzvah, for sure.
	♥ 9:32pm Little Danny: great segue into peter zummo!
	♥ 9:32pm Doug Schulkind: Jessie just said to me, "Charlie does such a great show. Can't you get him back on the air?" I nodded in silent, but outrageous agreement.
	♥ 9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Little Danny @9:32 it slipped by me thanks for pointing it out
	♥ 9:34pm Charlie: ↳ Doug Schulkind @9:32 Aw, shucks, thanks and Hi Jesse!
	♥ 9:34pm Charlie: How now, Little Danny!
	♥ 9:35pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Doug Schulkind @9:32 Wendy is now saying the same thing to you, Doug. And yes, I just referred to myself in the third person. She does that now and again. :-)
	♥ 9:35pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:31 He’s a multitalented cat! I asked him for a Stokowski type getting his arm all knotted, and he did it as a perfect Jim Flora homage!
	♥ 9:36pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:35 Hey Wendy, if you see yourself, say hi for me;)
	♥ 9:37pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:35 You are the Rickey Henderson of WFMU!
	9:37pm Listening Out There: Well all rooty….
	♥ 9:38pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:35 OMG, that IS a Flora homage! I never thought of it that way, but now I see it. Very nice.
	♥ 9:38pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @9:36 Haha, I shall. :-D
	♥ 9:39pm tom tom the pipers son: i played this when i did a show
	♥ 9:40pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:37 Hahaha! Wendy likes this.
	9:45pm Jk: Hey Charlie
	9:45pm jerry: Great to listen to you
	♥ 9:46pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:40 <3
	♥ 9:47pm Charlie: Nice to see you, Jk, and jerry! What's happnin' out there?
	♥ 9:48pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Moon River" by "Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers" I just picked up a new (to me) Art Blakey LP yesterday at the excellent junk shop in my town. It's 1957's "Drum Suite."
	♥ 9:50pm doctorjazz: Quick hi (early morning, listen a bit, then catch up tomorrow). Hi Charlie and nothing-doers!
	9:50pm neveract: ↳ doctorjazz @9:50 hi doc!
	♥ 9:51pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:48 Bueno! It's great. Maybe my fave all-time drummer. And bandleader.
	♥ 9:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ doctorjazz @9:50 Hey docjazz!
	♥ 9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: i look at blakey's groups with young players as a platform for them to be show off's, just because they can... imho blakey could be a bit show off-y as well not necessarily here though
	♥ 9:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: THAT (Blakey into Ornette) was a killer segue!
	♥ 9:52pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:51 I hear ya. I like it when Blakey shows off though:)
	♥ 9:52pm doctorjazz: Got to see Blakely way back (with the Marsalis Boys,)
	♥ 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:52 it's joyful
	♥ 9:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:51 Hi Wendy!
	♥ 9:54pm Charlie: Hi doctorjazz! Cool you got to see Blakey play!
	♥ 9:55pm doctorjazz: Saw Ormette too (ok, I'll go away now...))
	♥ 9:55pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @9:52 That's why they call you doctorjazz;)
	♥ 9:56pm tom tom the pipers son: look like charlie haden in b/g of image, has to be
	♥ 9:56pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @9:55 Stop, you're killing me!
	♥ 9:57pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:56 L-R: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ornette, Ed Blackwell
	♥ 9:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @9:57 dressed to the nines
	♥ 10:00pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:59 Oh yes! Had to wear a sharp suit while blowing that harmolodic jazz!
	10:00pm Roberto: CHarleS!
	♥ 10:00pm Charlie: Good evening, Roberto!
	♥ 10:01pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @10:00 do not doubt it...!
	♥ 10:03pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "Johannesburg" by "Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson" I love Gil Scott-Heron. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was such an FM staple in the early '70's, when I first got the bug for radio subversion.
	♥ 10:03pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "It's All Right" by "The Impressions" Hey there, Charlie! It's All Right!
	♥ 10:05pm Charlie: ↳ StringOFperils @10:03 It's alright now that you're here, StringOFperils!
	♥ 10:06pm Charlie: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:03 I love him too. The picture on the playlist is from when he did that song on Saturday Night Live during its first year!
	♥ 10:08pm Franco Twinkie: What a amazing person. With troubles like the rest of us - but the rest of us aren't that brilliant.
	10:08pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:06 Was it the first season? I remember watching that performance. If it was the first season, I must have been watching a rerun.
	♥ 10:09pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:08 I'm pretty sure it was the first year, but I'd have to double check.
	10:11pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:09 I don't think I ever saw an episode until around the third season, when my brother introduced me to it.
	♥ 10:12pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:11 The first year corresponded to my senior year of high school. My friends and I were all into it. It was edgy then!
	10:13pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:12 Whoa, you're older than I thought! No offense.
	♥ 10:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Kiss Off" by "Violent Femmes" This was my favorite album when I was in 8th Grade. :-) And I still love it!
	10:15pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:13 Unless you were some kind of child prodigy.
	♥ 10:15pm StringOFperils: This record sounds really great when it gets played LOUD
	♥ 10:15pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Charlie @10:12 It sure was! I loved Gilda Radner so much. I still like to say 'It's always something!' in THAT voice. Much to the annoyance of everybody around me.
	♥ 10:15pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:14 "I forget what eighth grade was for"
	♥ 10:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @10:15 Hahaha! So do I, other than listening to the Violent Femmes.
	10:17pm Roberto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:15 Rosanne Rosannadanna and Emily Litella are two of the most quotable characters of all time.
	♥ 10:17pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:13 I stay young by listening to the youth music;)
	10:18pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:17 WFMU: old farts, young music!
	♥ 10:18pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:17 Of course! Nevermind!
	♥ 10:18pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:18 Haha!
	♥ 10:20pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:18 So true, but having said that - it beats the pants off what the kids like.
	♥ 10:20pm StringOFperils: Old farts huddled around an oil-drum fire of burning yearning for the evaporating holy grail of the smoking record
	♥ 10:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @10:20 ha! just don't start singing aqualung...;)
	10:22pm Roberto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:20 Yeah the kids like shite.
	10:24pm Roberto: We invented that divest now shit at Wesleyan. At least we thought we did.
	10:26pm neveract: ↳ Franco Twinkie @10:18 ... bitch.
	♥ 10:27pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thanks for the plug, Charlie!
	10:29pm Roberto: If you've ever seen that crap movie PCU, it's based on the producers' experiences at Wesleyan around the time I was there. Some of it is not inaccurate.
	10:29pm David Shortell: Those anti-Apartheid protests that didn't result in mass arrests occurred during the good ol' days of the Reagan administration!
	♥ 10:30pm StringOFperils: Aww good ol' Gipper
	10:30pm Roberto: ↳ David Shortell @10:29 That they did! Although there were some arrests.
	10:33pm Roberto: I was bored one Sunday morning my sophomore year and thought I'd check out a Divest Now rally. I ended up at the front of the line of protesters with my face front and center in one of the school papers. It's one of the best photos of me ever taken.
	♥ 10:36pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:33 Around 10 yrs ago, my pic was in the paper, speaking to the board of a company I worked for, when the workers were trying to unionize. (we succeeded btw)
	10:37pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:36 Yas Charlie! Slay!
	10:37pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:33 Didn't hurt that I was 20 years old and not ugly yet.
	♥ 10:38pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:37 You look good in your avatar picture!
	10:38pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:38 I always look good in catface.
	10:39pm neveract: ↳ Charlie @10:38 .. needs to do something about that ear hair tho..
	10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Roberto @10:17 Gilda Radner played other great (albeit less remembered) characters: Colleen Fernman, Rhonda Weiss, Bobbi Farber, Rosa Santangelo, Candy Slice, Judy Miller, Lisa Loopner.
	10:41pm Roberto: ↳ neveract @10:39 The razor-sharp claws are the more pressing problem.
	10:42pm Roberto: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Stretch marks Stretch marks Footprints of time upon my skin
	♥ 10:44pm Charlie: Oh hey a belated hello to David Shortell!
	10:45pm neveract: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 .. the bain of the Norge repaiman.
	♥ 10:46pm Charlie: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Also, her Live from New York album, of her Broadway(?) show, is wonderful:)
	10:46pm neveract: ↳ neveract @10:45 duh! "BANE"
	♥ 10:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Roberto @10:42 Put 'um in a high chair Feed 'um with a spoon Our team can beat your team Any afternoon
	10:48pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:46 Oh now I remember, you played a track from that album around 2010.
	♥ 10:49pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:48 I've played a bunch of tracks from it. Notably "Let's talk dirty to the animals"
	10:49pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:49 The one I remember your playing was some kind of audition.
	10:51pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:49 Her imagining herself auditioning.
	10:53pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:51 I remember that program because it was the same day I had a flight to L.A. and I was anxious about that and your show happened to have a set about anxiety.
	10:54pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:53 I don't have any fear of flying, traveling in general just makes me anxious.
	♥ 10:54pm Wendy del Formaggio: I love that Cindy Lee and Daniel Johnston are getting lots of love on tonight's show.
	♥ 10:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Walking the Cow" by "K. McCarty" i can hear this being done as opera... maybe a dan'l johnston opera one day
	♥ 10:55pm StringOFperils: I always think this is going to be Mississippi John Hurt record when it starts up...
	10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Sign of Judgement" by "Marianne Faithfull" I instantly recognized the voice. Does any other recording artist sound like her?
	10:56pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:54 I worry about leaving my kitties.
	♥ 10:57pm Charlie: ↳ Roberto @10:53 All my sets are about anxiety (jk)
	♥ 10:57pm Charlie: That was The Worry Show: wfmu.org...
	10:57pm neveract: Thanks for a beautiful show Charlie!
	10:58pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:57 THEY ARE?? oh shit
	♥ 10:58pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 a little bit earha kitt+lotte lenya
	10:58pm Roberto: ↳ Charlie @10:57 Nailed it!
	♥ 10:58pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:54 I loves 'em both <3
	♥ 10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Extra nice Charlie!
	♥ 10:58pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:54 Looking forward to that opera!
	♥ 10:58pm tom tom the pipers son: oh bye charkie fun was had
	10:59pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:58 Did I comment that day?
	♥ 10:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @10:58 thanks
	♥ 10:59pm Charlie: Thanks everyone for hanging out! Going a few minutes over:)
	♥ 10:59pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, Charlie! Lots of love to you! Come back soon!
	10:59pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @10:59 Apparently not. I guess I was too anxious.
	♥ 11:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks Charlie. Good to go out with a boop
	11:01pm Roberto: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:58 Lol Charkie. See you on the 30th, Charkie!
	♥ 11:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Charlie, when you just said, "Yay!" I heard it in a Kermit the Frog voice. If that's what you were going for, IT WORKED!
	11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:58 And Marlene Deitrich maybe?
	♥ 11:01pm chresti: thanks Charlie!
	♥ 11:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 u huh
	♥ 11:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: YAY GENDERFUCK!
	♥ 11:03pm schmutz: yayy, thanks Charlie!
	♥ 11:03pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Roberto @11:01 if that's what gets you amused happy to oblige
	♥ 11:04pm Charlie: Thanks everyone! See you on May 30:)
	♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: Caught up with the show this morning, fun show, thanks Charlie!
	12:48pm Michael: Hey Charlie - caught up this morning too. Completely forgot! But just like the old show on Monday. Be well.

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from May 5, 2024

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