WFMU: Dark Night of the Soul with Julie: Playlist from December 24, 2024

Listener comments!
	🦇 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Ultraviolence and Godzilla, the reasons for the season!
	🦇 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Also, how good are the clawed stockings on the mantel?!
	3:00pm luka: hello dark 1s
	🦇 3:02pm Julie: hiya James Hi luka!
	3:02pm dreamyandseedy: hi julie, hi everyone!
	🦇 3:02pm Dan S: Hi Julie and fellow Dark Knights. Happy eve of a holiday!
	🦇 3:02pm bradford: Hello Julie & all!
	🦇 3:03pm Julie: Hi Dreamy, hi Dan, Hi Bradford!
	3:03pm Michael 98145: Hellos!
	🦇 3:03pm Julie: Hi Michael!
	🦇 3:04pm Dan S: I'm glad you're here doing the show today, Julie. On the mothership, just before, they had a fill-in for the scheduled fill-in!
	🦇 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Julie and dark souls!
	🦇 3:05pm Julie: ↳ Dan S @3:04 I know!
	🦇 3:05pm Julie: hiya Yvang!
	3:05pm A2B: Merry Darkmas, Julie & fellow souls! If he shows up, RevRab will be very impressed by that header pic!
	🦇 3:08pm Handy Haversack: Julie! Dark Ones! Home from the wars. Warmer out there. Lots of people about.
	🦇 3:10pm Julie: hi A2B! Hi Handy!
	🦇 3:11pm Midge: Good afternoon Julie and fellow dark souls!
	3:11pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:08 getting a sun break here today ...
	🦇 3:12pm Julie: hi Midge! Hi Michael!
	🦇 3:13pm egould: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:11 I like it better when it's cold and rainy. Send this sun bullshit to Palm Springs.
	🦇 3:13pm Julie: hi egould!
	🦇 3:13pm egould: ↳ Julie @3:13 Hi Julie!
	🦇 3:15pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Julie and everyone.
	🦇 3:15pm Julie: hi Chris!
	🦇 3:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @3:13 Ha! Cheers, egould! Working on a Lunkhead here, the Official Cocktal of Fool's Paradise -- the drink you really shouldn't have poured the night before that you shove in the fridge and then try to resuscitate at some point the next day.
	3:17pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Panic" by "Annie Hamilton" i really like this ep. i was excited for her new record but i listened and didn't like it near as much as this one.
	🦇 3:17pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:11 here, the sun is having a modicum of success telling the storm clouds to bugger off
	3:18pm spodiodi: greetings, Julie and all!
	🦇 3:19pm Julie: hiya spodi!
	3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ egould @3:13 Heh. I'm just happy sunset is getting later.
	3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ chris in the redwoods @3:17 nasty destruction down in Santa Cruz
	3:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:20 again
	3:23pm Andrew Waterloo: HI Julie, Hi everyone
	🦇 3:24pm Julie: Hi Andrew! Long time!
	🦇 3:26pm listener james from westwood: Ooh, Dubstar! A fave of an ex from that era. Made it onto some of her mixtapes.
	🦇 3:26pm JReganK: Hey, Julie! Merry Xmas, All!
	🦇 3:26pm Julie: hi JReganK!
	🦇 3:27pm Julie: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:26 voice reminds me of Kirsty
	🦇 3:27pm listener james from westwood: From their Wikipedia page, it looks like they covered "I'm in Love with a German Film Star," which, goodness, excellent choice. And hell yes on the Kirsty sound!
	🦇 3:27pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @3:27 Ooo, yeah, I can hear that.
	🦇 3:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:27 We've become friends with Barbara from the Passions who sings that one. She's a WFMU listener!
	🦇 3:29pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:28 Oh. nice!
	3:29pm A2B: I expect you'll be playing Cocteau Twin's rendition of "Frosty The Snowman" as part of the Bonus Hour? (Sorry if I gave away a spoiler!)
	🦇 3:29pm Mxter Baba: Hello and howdy, Julie, Dark Souls, WFMU kins of all varieties!
	🦇 3:30pm Julie: ↳ A2B @3:29 no I'm not. and the fact that it's expected is exactly why I'm not
	🦇 3:30pm Julie: hiya Mxter Baba!
	🦇 3:31pm Julie: I've played the two cocteau twins xmas songs to death, so no not today :)
	3:31pm A2B: ↳ Julie @3:30 Gotcha! 😉
	🦇 3:31pm egould: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:15 Cheers Handy! Sipping on a Tito's with ginger juice and Perrier. Whipping up a charcuterie plate to snack on.
	🦇 3:32pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Did I Let You Down?" by "Folksongs for the Afterl... This may be my favorite band name ever.
	3:32pm kev: Hi
	🦇 3:32pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:20 truly battered. lots of coastal carnage yesterday.
	🦇 3:33pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @3:31 Tito's and Dewar's were the last purchases on the epic, two-and-a-half-hour neighborhood odyssey we just went on, which also saw the obtaining of fresh pasta for manicotti, homemade ricotta, frozen artichoke ravioli, and the new Cure record. Also an emergency cocktail stop after the dog run.
	🦇 3:35pm Dan S: No Christmas songs today? Great!
	3:36pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:33 Sounds like a full day. I gotta get outta the house.
	🦇 3:37pm Dan S: It snowed a bit this morning.
	🦇 3:37pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @3:37 Around 8-9 AM.
	🦇 3:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:36 I am infor the rest of today. Maybe the dog gets a nice walk tomorrow if he plays his cards right, but I think I've done my service for the day. Gotta get a sauce on the burble soon over here.
	3:39pm Heydave: Thanks for making my day better! Love from iowa
	🦇 3:40pm Julie: hi kev!
	🦇 3:40pm Julie: Hey Heydave!
	🦇 3:41pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Song: "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (live)" by... many have been influence by Kate, but there ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
	3:41pm Michael 98145: wish i'd ever seen Kate live
	🦇 3:41pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:41 omx for sure
	3:43pm A2B: Y'know...it recently occurred to me that The Smiths tune "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" has sort of a Christmas feel to it. Wouldn't mind hearing it here today. (Otherwise, I can always play it privatey, since I have the original & The Dream Academy's cover of it on mp3.)
	3:44pm dale: hey julie. man, i bought the kate bush live back in the day....SOO many days ago now.
	🦇 3:45pm Julie: hiya dale!
	3:49pm xmas cha cha: Season’s greetings Maestro Julie and friends!
	🦇 3:49pm Julie: hiya xmas cha cha!
	🦇 4:00pm egould: ↳ Song: "Cul De Sac" by "Public Memory" Mad Professor should get ahold of this and do a dub version.
	🦇 4:02pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Knocking On My Door" by "The Wanderer Edit" okay this IS a xmas song
	4:04pm Heydave: Ho ho...
	4:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Fortune Teller" by "Sea Lemon" - nice -
	4:09pm Michael 98145: I'm not a fortune teller I never predict the weather right But the sun comes at last
	4:11pm dale: i have the 12 inch. james and the cold gun is the other side?
	🦇 4:14pm Julie: yes! great version
	🦇 4:15pm Julie: ah okay it was only the heartbrake song I didn't know. L'amour, James & them heavy people
	🦇 4:16pm Dan S: Oh well, Julie. I hope that's at least some good leftover pizza you have. Too bad about the Mexican food non-delivery.
	🦇 4:16pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (live)" by... and if you haven't seen these live performances they are so worth watching. the headphone mic was invented for this tour.
	🦇 4:17pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Place to Be" by "Nick Drake" Such a beautiful, simple song.
	🦇 4:18pm Julie: ↳ Song: "The Itchy Glowbo Blow" by "Cocteau Twins" some dreampop sounds like xmas music anyway. jingle jangle
	4:23pm dale: i once bought an lp of kate bush demo tapes. i opened the sleeve and it looked like the record had no grooves on it. it was the most awful sounding thing i ever paid a lot of money for. i don't know if it was a bootleg or what but it was unlistenable.
	4:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ dale @4:23 cheap manufacture
	4:25pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Streets of Chrome" by "Ozean" oh wow!
	4:26pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Streets of Chrome" by "Ozean" where did this debut? i didn't get a bandcamp notification! or an email from Numero Group
	🦇 4:27pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:26 sometime in the last week. It's not on the regular ozean bandcamp I think someone else owns that release. ozeanband.bandcamp.com...
	4:28pm Sunny: Great show today as always. Hope everyone is healthy and happy for the holiday even if you’re flying solo like me.
	🦇 4:29pm Julie: thanks Sunny! Also flying solo here.
	🦇 4:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Julie and darkenators!
	4:32pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:27 "more music to come"!! i am seeing the light!!
	4:32pm Michael 98145: ↳ Julie @4:29 Hey. We're here 😎
	🦇 4:33pm Julie: hiya Ken!
	🦇 4:33pm Julie: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:32 and so much nicer to me than my family! I'm very grateful!
	4:34pm dreamyandseedy: Joe McG did a great segment on his show this week, I think you might enjoy Julie. it's the last set. www.wfmu.org...
	🦇 4:34pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:32 I've been chatting on and off with Lisa, in fact I think she's in TX. I knew something was coming with Fryer and I'm glad it's finally out!
	4:34pm Michael 98145: ↳ Julie @4:33 i've learned we make our own families.
	4:36pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:34 NICE maybe we'll get a live show! fingers crossed
	4:38pm asheville jon: Julie! BIRDS!! Hello!!!
	🦇 4:39pm egould: Time to pour another vodka and get to the business of braising this pork shoulder. Will be listening.
	🦇 4:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:34 Yerp.
	🦇 4:41pm Julie: hiya asheville!
	🦇 4:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @4:39 Got the red sauce on the burble, so I can listen more intently for a while.
	🦇 4:44pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Christmas Eve, Julie (and all)!
	🦇 4:44pm Julie: hi SMS!
	4:52pm Sunny: Excellency!
	4:53pm JimmyTallow: Great show, thank you for the good vibes ✨
	🦇 4:54pm Julie: hiya JimmyTallow, thank you!
	4:55pm dreamyandseedy: Handy, can you recommend me a couple poetry collections? I've decided in 2025 i'm finally gonna read some poetry. I ordered Keats complete works and i have the complete Emily Dickinson already but i'd love to know what you like.
	🦇 4:56pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:55 sylvia plath!
	🦇 4:56pm Julie: i know you weren't asking me but I just needed to scream Sylvia Plath
	🦇 5:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:55 Those are good things to have! Let's see ... One of my favorites -- and my mentor and semi-adopted father figure -- Thomas Lux: www.poetryfoundation.org... bookshop.org... Larry Levis was someone I found through Tom: bookshop.org... bookshop.org... Anne Sexton is visceral and amazing: bookshop.org... Plath is absolutely essential, of course: bookshop.org... And James Wright's complete poems are so worthwhile: bookshop.org... Also: John Dunne is awesome and sexy and then gets weird and religious, sometimes all in the same poem.
	5:01pm Dean: You didn't ask me, but I am an avid poetry reader. Keats and Dickinson are a super strong foundation. I can't not mention John Ashbery, but also Joe Brainard, whose I Remember isn't exactly poetry. Among the living I read Frederick Seidel. Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, and gosh, yes, Philip Larkin. Donne can be bliss. Lyn Hejinian, RIP.
	5:02pm Dean: (Stevens, etc., were a new sentence. Obvs not among the living.)
	5:03pm Dean: And speaking of New Sentence...Ron Silliman!
	🦇 5:03pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:01 Dean, have you seen this book? I was production editor on it. I can try to find you a working discount code if you're interested. cup.columbia.edu... Yeah, Larkin.
	🦇 5:03pm Julie: hiya Dean!
	🦇 5:04pm Julie: as a kid I read a lot of Rod McKuen my dad had a bunch of his books People seem to consider him a joke for some reason. I have a record by him too
	5:04pm Dean: I had not seen that, Handy! I will definitely explore it. He was a gem, a joy. So much so that I wrote about I Remember for a law school seminar.
	5:05pm Dean: Some--and I stress some--McKuen does the trick. I can't shake the fact that one of his poems mentions "the Palmer Method," which I find hilarious.
	🦇 5:06pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:05 I go back to Robinson Jeffers sometimes and am always amazed by the power and energy (and RAGE) there. Should revisit again soon. Also, Robert Hayden. And Langston Hughes. And Sonia Sanchez. And Hart Crane will break your heart. And probably crane as well.
	5:07pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:56 lol thank you! i did read her when i was a young un. i'll have to revisit.
	5:07pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:03 wow
	5:07pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:00 thank you! saving all this for later researching!
	🦇 5:07pm Julie: I saw a musical about sylvia plath at the NYC fringe one time. It was lovely.
	5:08pm Dean: Hart Crane, yeah. I ebb and flow into Jeffers. A.R. Ammons, Merrill, and of course Kenny G.
	5:08pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Dean @5:01 thank you! i'll look into all these. i just listened to this BBC show that i love called In Our Time and the episode was on John Donne
	5:09pm Michael 98145: sad that so few people actually read poetry ...
	5:09pm Dean: Everybody must read Christopher Smart's poem about his cat Geoffrey.
	🦇 5:09pm egould: ↳ Song: "Buddy" by "Snapper" That was awesome! And motorik.
	🦇 5:10pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:09 Keilidh used to ask us to post poems to her chatboard. The ghouls miss you, Keilidh!
	🦇 5:10pm Julie: ↳ egould @5:09 the whole EP is really good. I need to check out their other stuff
	5:13pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:09 i read a lot of books. i think i am reading too much and too fast. i have to force myself to slow down. i think if i read some poetry (which i've been wanting to do for a long time anyway) that will force me to slow down and breathe.
	🦇 5:14pm egould: ↳ Julie @5:10 Yeah. I mean Flying Nun from 1988? I kinda' remeber this band, but they just did not show up in my ears at all. I'll have to fix that.
	🦇 5:14pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @5:13 reading plays is also nice
	5:15pm Michael 98145: ↳ dreamyandseedy @5:13 i am a slow reader by nature
	5:16pm Erik in VT: Hello All👋. Re Poetry (which unfortunately I no longer really pursue), I always got a kick from Frank O’Hara & Kenward Elmslie. especially if performed by the author.
	5:17pm Sylvia: Hi Julie and all
	🦇 5:17pm Julie: hi Erik!
	🦇 5:17pm egould: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:15 You're not slow, you're thoughtful.
	🦇 5:17pm Julie: heya Sylvia!
	5:18pm Sylvia: I forgot today was Tuesday
	5:22pm Dean: No such thing as reading too much.
	5:22pm adamdoesit: Hi Julie and bats of Christmas past!
	5:23pm laurapanic: merry christmas! I'm in it!
	🦇 5:23pm Julie: hi adam hi laura! how is xmas looking, Laura?
	5:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Julie @5:23 sunny, full of decked halls!
	5:24pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @5:24 I decked them!
	🦇 5:27pm Julie: deck those halls, DECK them hard
	5:33pm laurapanic: ...just watching a movie....what a shock.....like Steve Albini...just....died....
	5:35pm adamdoesit: I go through bouts of reading poetry. I used to study and write it semi-seriously, though not well. John Keats, Samuel Coleridge, Randall Jarrell, Yehuda Amichai, Wallace Stevens, and Marie Ponsot have a booth on permanent reservation at the pub in the back of my mind, where others from time to time drop in.
	🦇 5:41pm egould: ↳ Song: "Földanya Sóhaja" by "The Moon and The Nightspirit" Gothexotica. Gothxotica. Exotigoth.
	🦇 5:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:35 Saw Marie Ponsot read several times in a previous life. Yeah, Jarrell has some all-time greats. Worked on this book: cup.columbia.edu...
	5:42pm w. t.: "ou sont les neiges d'antan""
	🦇 5:43pm Julie: hi w.t.!
	5:44pm dale: ↳ Song: "Voices in the Sky" by "The Moody Blues" love the 45 sleeve for this.
	🦇 5:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~Good ♂︎Tuesday FMUvianz~
	🦇 5:44pm Julie: hiya Rev! did Justin summon you?
	5:44pm Dean: I always confuse RJ Jarrell with Jeffers. The latter wrote the peculiar book about Big Sur, the former "The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner," which was the reading at a wedding of a friend. Donald Justice, W.S. Merwin, Leslie Scalapino...
	5:44pm dale: most of the lads in puffy shirts.
	🦇 5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Julie @5:44 Well sure. If not GoldenDawn from down Texas...
	🦇 5:45pm Julie: ↳ dale @5:44 oh to have been around when men dressed that way
	5:46pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ adamdoesit @5:35 thank you!
	5:47pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ laurapanic @5:33 i am really curious what movie he was watching
	5:47pm Dean: Aren't we around when men dress that way?
	5:47pm laurapanic: making christmas blueberry pancake breakfast to your tunes, in a santa hat and christmas dress
	🦇 5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm still trying to be the 1966 hipster ...too many frills put me off ...well, I wanna be Hendrix & end up more an off-brand Captain Sensible ...oh well...
	🦇 5:47pm Julie: oh yummy!
	🦇 5:48pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:47 I don't know anyone who dresses like that... maybe Matt from rock and soul, a bit?
	🦇 5:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:47 I don't WANNA be a pirate!
	5:50pm dale: my wife got me a pirate shirt at trash and vaudville back in the day. it was just when the puffy shirt episode came out and i asked her to return it. i knew it would just be a joke waiting to happen.
	5:50pm w. t.: Hi Julie, thanks for the sounds..."Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows" anyone? F.X. Enderby!
	5:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:41 Cool, and cool! I got to study with Ponsot when she taught at the 92nd St Y. Here are two of the best things she said: 1) If you don't tell someone what they're doing well, how will they know? 2) The best thing about being old is you can tell people whatever the fuck you want.
	5:51pm A.J. MACHETE: My Xmases are so, so far past that the cobwebs have developed seasonal patterns. Hi Julie and all. I hope the rest of you and yours are still in bloom for the spirit of the day.
	5:51pm Dean: In '69 or thereabouts, when I was in fourth grade, I wanted to be Billy in Easy Rider, so for half a year or so I wore a leather jacket with fringes. We sold baggies of oregano to our classmates. That's the last I recall of ever caring about "dressing like" or, for that matter, so-called drugs. I dunno. People dress in all sorts of ways.
	🦇 5:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:50 She ended up a bit of a mentor to a good friend of mine from college, who was also an advisee of Thomas Lux.
	🦇 5:52pm Julie: hiya AJ!
	🦇 5:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Winter Now" by "Broadcast" First clicky-star for this on the main station is from Wake and Bake!
	5:53pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Julie @5:52 Who is you filling in for tomorrow?
	5:53pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:51 She was a superb mentor, and remains one even from beyond the grave. Your friend lucked out.
	🦇 5:53pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:51 I used to have a jacket with fringe. Suede though. LOVED it. wore it to death.
	🦇 5:54pm Julie: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @5:53 if you lose your horse. 10pm
	5:54pm Sunny: So grateful that you’re on today and tomorrow. My favorite show on WFMU. Great set. I wish I could donate more to the station, but thank you for keeping us company in such a nice way this holiday. Means a lot to have a comfort like good radio
	5:54pm Dean: Right, suede!
	🦇 5:54pm Julie: ↳ Sunny @5:54 thank you so much for the kind words!
	5:55pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Sunny @5:54 Same.
	🦇 5:55pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:54 it wasn't even black. it was...really dark brown. I can smell it just thinking about it.
	🦇 5:55pm Julie: I think I gave it to a friend. very recently.
	5:56pm Dean: Yes, brown. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/426786502189859988/
	5:56pm adamdoesit: ↳ Dean @5:44 Dean, the ball turret gunner's a helluva way to land a spouse. I mix up Jarrell with Delmore Schwartz. I like him, too.
	🦇 5:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...being me ...I try & moderate the Hippe affectations. With whatever else...
	5:58pm Dean: Needless to say, the marriage did not last.
	🦇 6:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:56 Lou Reed's mentor, Delmore. The drink got him.
	🦇 6:00pm Aitch: Happy Xmas Julie and crew
	6:01pm w. t.: ↳ Dean @5:51 Damn Dean, you saw "Easy Rider" when you were in the 4th grade?!
	🦇 6:01pm Midge: ↳ dale @5:50 I bought a ruffled shirt at Judy's in the 80s and it has gotten A LOT at Halloween. In fact I wore it this year when I recycled my Adam Ant costume
	🦇 6:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:00 ' In dreams begin responsibility. '
	🦇 6:01pm Midge: ↳ Midge @6:01 *of use
	🦇 6:02pm Julie: hiya Aitch!
	🦇 6:03pm egould: Got the braise going on the stovetop. Sitting down on the couch and losing my mind to Dark Night.
	6:03pm Dean: I did. My parents, hard-core Midwestern conservatives, rightly did not give a fuck about what I chose to consume. My fourth-grade classmate, he of a family of -- who knows? -- drug dealers and various oddballs, saw Hair in '68 in LA. The soundtrack was the first LP I ever purchased with my own lawn-mowing revenue. We too often make entirely off-base assumptions about our ideological opponents. We are doing it today.
	🦇 6:04pm Dan S: Hey, Julie. I've been listening on and off, but I have to leave soon for a Zoom meeting. I want to wish a very happy and healthy holiday to you, your family, your friends, and of course your birdies! Thanks for all the great music you bring us!
	🦇 6:04pm Julie: thanks so much Dan! Happy holiday to you!
	6:05pm xmas cha cha: In spite of the seasonal username. I am not a fan of Christmas. The usual menu for the holidays is lighting candles at my parents’ grave and listening to WFMU while going there. So glad your shows coincide with it! I hope I will be around for the Christmas Day fill-in - GMT+2 means it’ll be Boxing Day morning already here in Suomi Finland. Some moka pot coffee might keep me awake for the occasion, let’s see!
	6:06pm dale: ↳ Midge @6:01 i didn't have your foresight.
	6:07pm w. t.: ↳ Dean @6:03 That's amazing, you were on a "mission"!
	6:08pm adamdoesit: I saw Easy Rider in maybe 6th grade, but it was with my dad, on VHS, and he was the one who was high.
	🦇 6:08pm Handy Haversack: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 Good to see you, Cha Cha!
	6:08pm A2B: ↳ Song: "December Will Be Magic Again" by "Kate Bush" That's lovely and amusing cover art! Had no idea this even existed! A UK only release, apparently.
	🦇 6:08pm Julie: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 I feel like Xmas is for christians and children (and parents with children) I am none of those things so I'm a little meh on it. Hasn't been the same since mom passed for sure.
	🦇 6:09pm egould: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:47 "off-brand Captain Sensible" Hahaha!
	🦇 6:09pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:08 Ditto!
	6:09pm xmas cha cha: You too Handy, how is your Christmas going aside from listening to this show?
	🦇 6:09pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:08 the b-side is very nice too
	6:11pm Dean: I was a kid who liked stuff. Steppenwolf, Grateful Dead, Gustav Holst, Beatles, Bobby Sherman... After listening to the Hair soundtrack, we wanted to know what "sodomy," "masturbation," "pederasty," etc., meant. We went to the dictionary and learned. Julie: We are all indisputably children. We can't not be children, no matter how much we want our willed identities to take hold like bumper stickers on our big fat bumpers.
	🦇 6:11pm Handy Haversack: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:09 Oh, we don't celebrate. Glad to have some time off and a chance to cook stuff I don't normally cook, but Christmas can go fuck itself as far as I'm concerned. I'm not Christian, and I don't like buying stuff or getting stuff. But glad to have together time with K8 and the monsters and radio time with WFMU and the WFMU family. Merry winter to you!
	🦇 6:11pm Julie: ↳ Dean @6:11 perhaps but not "what did santa bring me" kids
	6:11pm A2B: ↳ Julie @6:09 Was also expecting you to play something off the "50 Words For Snow" album today. I guess that's too played out for you now?
	6:11pm xmas cha cha: Yes, Julie, losing loved ones does permanent changes to how one enjoys Christmas and the like…
	🦇 6:12pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:11 Not played out but wanted to do her xmas tune. I should play it more really, the snow album
	6:13pm Michael 98145: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 gatherings with friends, here
	🦇 6:13pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" Aw, thank you, Julie!!
	🦇 6:14pm Julie: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:13 it's on the xmas album but I have no clue what this song is about
	6:14pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:13 Sounds lovely ! Same here tomorrow.
	6:14pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 like minds
	🦇 6:14pm egould: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" Well, ain't this lovely? As usual for Bipolar Explorer.
	6:14pm Dean: "but not 'what did santa bring me' kids" Got it. You mean adults.
	🦇 6:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:14 Thank you, Egould!
	6:15pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" ⭐
	🦇 6:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:14 If the timing works out, we're going to try to make to LaMonte Young's Dream House tomorrow before I make a manicotti!
	🦇 6:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:15 Thank you, Michael!
	🦇 6:15pm egould: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:15 Dig that album art, too.
	6:16pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:15 checked out of all the birth-of-the-avatar mayhem
	6:16pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 except WFMU swag of course ;)
	🦇 6:17pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:15 That is a wonderful painting by a Slovakian artist named L’udovit Kochol. Thank you, Egould.
	🦇 6:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dreamyandseedy @6:16 As my profile says, "There are three holidays: Marathon, Hellraiser, and SWAGVENT. All others can be erased from the calendar before they cause more harm."
	6:17pm A.J. MACHETE: It really does seem that when we lose close loved ones, it takes away from the embodiment of holidays. It's not my parents in my case (they're still around), but I had a "best ever friend" whose b-day would've been the day after Xmas, and she left us 22 years ago.
	🦇 6:19pm Julie: oh shit that reminds me it's Fox's birthday
	6:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @6:17 sorry
	🦇 6:19pm egould: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:17 Was that commissioned for the album cover?
	6:20pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 Thanks! Yes the seasonal consumer madness is pretty awful but that said, I do like giving away my record collection’s extra copies as Christmas presents to my dear friend - tomorrow I will treat him with some vintage mono Byrds and Jefferson Airplane plus a Teardrop Explodes 12”, Kevin Coyne, Judy Collins etc. (dear recipient sorry for the spoiler if you are reading this ha ha)
	🦇 6:20pm Handy Haversack: I lost my mom at six and my dad at twenty-one, and we were too poor for Christmas to be anything other than excruciating anyways when I was a kid, so I'm glad to be quit of it.
	🦇 6:20pm Julie: (also X-Ray's birthday, miss that guy)
	🦇 6:21pm Julie: ↳ Xmas Cha Cha @6:20 oh how nice!
	6:21pm Dean: Today is X-Ray's birthday?!
	🦇 6:21pm Julie: I got one very nice present from a fellow Elton obsessive. It was a piece from an Elton John pinball machine turned into a night light
	6:22pm A.J. MACHETE: That's the other thing that makes me poo-poo Xmas: the run amuck capitalism disgusts me.
	🦇 6:22pm Julie: ↳ Dean @6:21 yes both he and DJ Fox have xmas eve birthdays
	6:23pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:21 Thanks I hope he enjoys the records! Even if I am struggling financially I would hate to sell those records, giving them away to a friend on the other hand feels so nice.
	6:24pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:21 Now that is a cool gift!
	🦇 6:24pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Hollow Holidays" by "Haermape" the title of this song pretty much says it
	🦇 6:24pm Julie: ↳ Xmas Cha Cha @6:24 yeah it's one of those flat things that the ball hits to score. It's so cool
	🦇 6:25pm egould: Snowshoegaze.
	🦇 6:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @6:24 Bumper?
	6:26pm Dean: X-Ray Burns lives on for having been the impetus for Glen Jones' utterly gracious real-time report on his demise. Those two worked together perfectly, and it's clear they admired and loved each other. So affecting. I'll never forget it.
	6:26pm Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:19 no the painting was made in 1972! We asked the Slovak National Gallery for permission to use.
	🦇 6:27pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:25 yes!
	6:27pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ egould @6:25 brilliant
	6:28pm A2B: ↳ Julie @6:24 By any chance, does the pinball machine in question have anything to do with his song from the "Tommy" movie?
	6:29pm adamdoesit: Me, not a Christmas guy. Not even a goy. But A Charlie Brown Christmas syncs nice on mute with this program.
	🦇 6:31pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 Ooof, we watched it yesterday because K8 loves it and the Vince G. soundtrack, but it's SUPER Christian when you have the sound up. The meaning of Christmas in that one? The Bible. A bit much for me. I'll watch the Community Christmas episodes ... Scrooged ...
	🦇 6:32pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:28 it's called captain fantastic but yeah it's got him in that costume on the back of it. I saw one for sale once but damn I don't have room even if I had the cash
	🦇 6:32pm egould: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 After this show, try "Wizard of Oz" and 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
	6:32pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 My soft spot is Xmas Eve on Sesame Street. I regret that my "best ever friend" couldn't be here for YouTube and DVD's.
	6:33pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @6:32 And there's a link between the two because Joe Raposo did the music for Charlie.
	🦇 6:34pm Julie: pinballmachinesforsale.shop...
	6:36pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:32 I got to see "Dark Side Of The Rainbow" on YT some years ago in it's entirety for the first time. Fascinating how the events roughly sync up with the music.
	6:36pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:31 Could never handle it with sound for that reason. But, yeah, Scrooged (the best xmas movie imo) cued up for after this. me: It is humiliating that Charlie Brown's theme is "Linus and Lucy." Maybe if it were made now, Lucy would be the protagonist, and Charlie Brown would be an ancillary character. Parks and Rec, like. missy: Maybe, but Lucy's been a DICK to a lot of people.
	🦇 6:37pm egould: ↳ A2B @6:36 Take acid, and the events sync up; exactly!
	🦇 6:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:36 Yeah, Hollywood won't forgive a "shrill" woman. I promise: Bill Murray has been a dick to a LOT of people!
	🦇 6:39pm Julie: ↳ adamdoesit @6:36 now I wanna see parks and rec done by the peanuts. who plays April?
	🦇 6:39pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:38 Ellen still has a job last I saw
	🦇 6:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @6:39 Charlie Brown is the April-est. I had Peanuts sheets as a kid, and the thing CB got to say on them was "I feel the need to have the feeling that it's good to be alive."
	🦇 6:40pm egould: ↳ Julie @6:39 Me-owww!
	6:40pm adamdoesit: ↳ Julie @6:39 OMG. Schroeder. It's all in the eyes.
	6:41pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:37 One of these days, I'll try experimenting with edible shrooms. I just need some sort of medical excuse.
	🦇 6:41pm Julie: ↳ egould @6:40 she has a very bad very public reputation. but she's still working
	🦇 6:41pm egould: ↳ A2B @6:41 "Hey Doc. I'm bored."
	🦇 6:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:40 His deconstruction of "Jingle Bells" in that special is WAY the best part.
	6:43pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:41 Can confirm. It's on right now.
	6:44pm A2B: I hear Amy Poehler is a Peanuts fan, which figures, since she had her own cartoon series on Nickelodeon, "The Mighty B!".
	🦇 6:45pm Handy Haversack: I'm going to go start savaging some Brussels sprouts. Many thanks, Julie! Nice to winter with you! Merry happy, everyone! Days are getting longer, so apparently one more year without the sun getting eaten. We'll keep an eye out just in case.
	🦇 6:45pm Julie: see ya handy happy whatever...say hey to k8 for me
	🦇 6:46pm egould: ↳ Julie @6:45 Later, dude.
	6:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 Cheers Handy! Longer days ahead.
	6:50pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ A2B @6:36 i always regret not going to see this in the theater when i lived in Austin. they'd present it every couple years. but if it's on the youtubes...
	6:50pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:41 The younger of my two brothers admitter to me that he did acid once with a friend.
	6:51pm A2B: ↳ A2B @6:50 *admitted
	6:51pm dreamyandseedy: this is such a great xmas set! thank you julie
	🦇 6:52pm Julie: yay thank you dreamy!
	6:53pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Song: "Frosti" by "Bjork" Whoa, I thought that was Rita Ford's music boxes.
	🦇 6:54pm listener james from westwood: These Xmas covers have been a real treat! Many thanks for the whole show, Julie!
	🦇 6:55pm egould: ↳ Song: "Father Christmas" by "Letters To Cleo" Nice. Thank you for hosting a lovely afternoon of music, Julie. I really enjoyed it.
	6:55pm asheville jon: Thanks Julie!
	6:55pm A2B: ↳ Song: "Father Christmas" by "Letters To Cleo" Best Xmas tune cover EVER!
	6:57pm adamdoesit: Thank you, Julie!
	6:57pm A.J. MACHETE: Thank you for keeping it dark, Julie.
	🦇 6:58pm Midge: Thank you Julie! Off to the holiday bike ride. Goodbye all!
	6:58pm A2B: Thanks so much, Julie! Today's show was truly a gift! Won't get to hear your fill-in live tomorrow, so the archive will have to do. Everyone have a great holiday!
	7:00pm Xmas Cha Cha: Thanks for the tunes, it helps to be here as a bah humbug person. Hope to catch your fill-in, if not, until next week!
	🦇 7:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Julie!
	7:09pm Michael 98145: Thank you again!
	7:54pm spodiodi: sorry for the late goodbye, and thank you! there was like 19 minutes left when i got up to run an errand :-B meant to say goodbye mid-errand see you next time. merry christmas etc!

Dark Night of the Soul with Julie: Playlist from December 24, 2024

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Familiar & forgotten gems from 50-plus years of music on the darker side, shoegaze, synthpop, goth, psychedelia, darkwave, with unapologetic detours into 70s pop. In a dark night of the soul, it's always 3 o'clock in the morning.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tori Amos	Winter's Carol "Winter's Carol" by "Tori Amos"	Midwinter Graces	Universal Republic	2009			0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Modern English	After The Snow "After The Snow" by "Modern English"	After The Snow	4AD	1982			0:08:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X Priest X	Isn't It So "Isn't It So" by "X Priest X"	Samurai	Emotion	2014			0:10:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wendy Rule	The Echoing Sky "The Echoing Sky" by "Wendy Rule"	Guided by Venus	Wendy Rule	2010			0:14:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Annie Hamilton	Panic "Panic" by "Annie Hamilton"	Annie Hamilton EP	Annie Hamilton	2020			0:17:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Organi	Babylonia "Babylonia" by "Organi"	Babylonia	Alien Transistor	2024		*	0:21:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dubstar	Just a Girl She Said "Just a Girl She Said" by "Dubstar"	Disgraceful	EMI	1995			0:25:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Folksongs for the Afterlife	Did I Let You Down?	Put Danger Back In Your Life	Hidden Agenda Records	2003			0:29:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Rolling Stones	2000 Light Years From Home (instrumental)						0:34:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kate Bush	Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (live)	On Stage	EMI	1979			0:39:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erika Angell	Never Tried to Run "Never Tried to Run" by "Erika Angell"	The Obsession With Her Voice	Constellation	2024			0:43:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Baby Shakes	Love Machine "Love Machine" by "Baby Shakes"	The First One	Douchemaster Records	2008			0:46:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
SPC ECO	How Did We Get Here? "How Did We Get Here?" by "SPC ECO"	How Did We Get Here?	SPC ECO	2024			0:49:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Room in the Wood	Charmed "Charmed" by "The Room in the Wood"	We're the Martians, Now	A Turntable Friend	2020			0:54:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Public Memory	Cul De Sac "Cul De Sac" by "Public Memory"	Wuthering Drum	Felte	2016			0:58:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Wanderer Edit	Knocking On My Door	Knocking On My Door (single)	The Wanderer Edit	2024		*	1:02:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sea Lemon	Fortune Teller "Fortune Teller" by "Sea Lemon"	Close Up	Spirit Goth Records	2022			1:06:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star	Running Up That HIll (instrumental)						1:09:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nick Drake	Place to Be "Place to Be" by "Nick Drake"	Pink Moon	Island Records	1972			1:17:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cocteau Twins	The Itchy Glowbo Blow	Blue Bell Knoll	4AD/Capitol	1988			1:18:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ozean	Streets of Chrome "Streets of Chrome" by "Ozean"	Streets of Chrome (single)	Ozean	2024	the first new song in over 30 years!	*	1:21:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
TRAITRS	Ghost and the Storm "Ghost and the Storm" by "TRAITRS"	Horses In The Abattoir	Freakwave	2021			1:25:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Loomer	Enchanted "Enchanted" by "Loomer"	Ceiling	Lost Race Records	2010			1:29:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Papercuts	Looking Through Heather	Parallel Universe Blues	Slumberland Records	2018			1:35:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
On Dead Waves	Winter's Child "Winter's Child" by "On Dead Waves"	onDeadWaves	Mute	2016			1:36:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julie Driscoll	Leaving it All Behind	1969	Polydor	1971			1:41:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Plusminusnula (±0)	Přehrada "Přehrada" by "Plusminusnula (±0)"	Plusminusnula (±0)	Fool Moon Magazine	2017			1:44:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd	Snowfall						1:47:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
13th Chime	13th Victim "13th Victim" by "13th Chime"	The Singles: 1981-1983	Sacred Bones Records	2009			1:54:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Nails	Every Time I Touch You "Every Time I Touch You" by "The Nails"	Mood Swing	RCA Victor	1984			1:57:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chanel Beads	Your Day Will Come "Your Day Will Come" by "Chanel Beads"	Your Day Will Come	Jagjaguwar	2024			2:02:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Classé X	The Sanctuary "The Sanctuary" by "Classé X"	Classé X	Ideal Records	1984			2:03:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Snapper	Buddy "Buddy" by "Snapper"	Snapper EP	Flying Nun Records	1988			2:06:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
lovesliescrushing	Brightblueskies	Heart of Fire	Everything Chemical	2011			2:10:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians	Globe of Frogs	Globe of Frogs	A&M Records	1988			2:17:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Implodes	You Wouldn't Know "You Wouldn't Know" by "Implodes"	Recurring Dream	Kranky	2013			2:20:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bamboo Industry	Hypnotized "Hypnotized" by "Bamboo Industry"	Hypnotized 7"	WEA	1985			2:26:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vitamin String Quartet	This Charming Man (instrumental)						2:30:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Golden Dawn	Evolution "Evolution" by "The Golden Dawn"	Power Plant	International Artists	1968			2:35:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Moon and The Nightspirit	Földanya Sóhaja	Ősforrás	Equilibrium Music	2009			2:38:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Moody Blues	Voices in the Sky	In Search of the Lost Chord	Deram	1968			2:42:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Difference	Happiness "Happiness" by "Difference"	Difference	Mercury	1974			2:45:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Broadcast	Winter Now "Winter Now" by "Broadcast"	Haha Sound	Warp Records	2003			2:49:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peach Gardens	Sands of Time "Sands of Time" by "Peach Gardens"	In Time and Eternity	Peach Gardens	2023			2:52:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elton John	Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)	Rare Masters	DJM Records	1992	b-side from 1973		2:56:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Moog Machine	We Wish You a Merry Christmas						2:59:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kate Bush	December Will Be Magic Again	December Will Be Magic Again 7"	EMI	1980			3:02:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Au Revoir Simone	Christmas Time Is Here	I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas	Animal World Recordings	2008			3:07:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Deary	2000 Miles "2000 Miles" by "Deary"	Deary (reissue)	Sonic Cathedral	2023			3:09:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bipolar Explorer	Once... "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer"	Til Morning is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas	Slugg Records	2018			3:13:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Slow Salvation	The Ghost of Last Christmas	The Ghost of Last Christmas	Slow Salvation	2024		*	3:17:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sasami	lil drmr bb "lil drmr bb" by "Sasami"	lil drmr bb	Sasami	2019			3:21:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Haermape	Hollow Holidays "Hollow Holidays" by "Haermape"	Hollow Holidays	Haermape	2024		*	3:24:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Abney Park	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies						3:29:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Lou Reed's Holiday Message	Lou Reed's Holiday Message	No Label				3:31:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paulina Cassidy	Frosty The Snowman	Ice Iris	Projekt Archive	2012			3:31:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cranes	Happy Xmas (War is Over) "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" by "Cranes"	Ancienne Belgique	Dedicated	1996			3:35:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Raveonettes	Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	Wishing You A Rave Christmas	Vice Records	2008			3:38:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Summer Camp	Christmas Wrapping "Christmas Wrapping" by "Summer Camp"	Christmas EP	Moshi Moshi Records	2015			3:42:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Emilie Simon	Last Christmas "Last Christmas" by "Emilie Simon"	Last Christmas (single)	Emilie Simon	2021			3:46:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Saint Etienne	Unwrap Me "Unwrap Me" by "Saint Etienne"	Xmas '11 EP	Heavenly	2011			3:50:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bjork	Frosti "Frosti" by "Bjork"	Vespertine	Elektra	2001			3:52:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Letters To Cleo	Father Christmas "Father Christmas" by "Letters To Cleo"	OK Christmas	Dot Rat Records	2019			3:54:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Syd Barrett	Gigolo Aunt (loop) "Gigolo Aunt (loop)" by "Syd Barrett"						3:57:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🦇 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Ultraviolence and Godzilla, the reasons for the season!
	🦇 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Also, how good are the clawed stockings on the mantel?!
	3:00pm luka: hello dark 1s
	🦇 3:02pm Julie: hiya James Hi luka!
	3:02pm dreamyandseedy: hi julie, hi everyone!
	🦇 3:02pm Dan S: Hi Julie and fellow Dark Knights. Happy eve of a holiday!
	🦇 3:02pm bradford: Hello Julie & all!
	🦇 3:03pm Julie: Hi Dreamy, hi Dan, Hi Bradford!
	3:03pm Michael 98145: Hellos!
	🦇 3:03pm Julie: Hi Michael!
	🦇 3:04pm Dan S: I'm glad you're here doing the show today, Julie. On the mothership, just before, they had a fill-in for the scheduled fill-in!
	🦇 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Julie and dark souls!
	🦇 3:05pm Julie: ↳ Dan S @3:04 I know!
	🦇 3:05pm Julie: hiya Yvang!
	3:05pm A2B: Merry Darkmas, Julie & fellow souls! If he shows up, RevRab will be very impressed by that header pic!
	🦇 3:08pm Handy Haversack: Julie! Dark Ones! Home from the wars. Warmer out there. Lots of people about.
	🦇 3:10pm Julie: hi A2B! Hi Handy!
	🦇 3:11pm Midge: Good afternoon Julie and fellow dark souls!
	3:11pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:08 getting a sun break here today ...
	🦇 3:12pm Julie: hi Midge! Hi Michael!
	🦇 3:13pm egould: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:11 I like it better when it's cold and rainy. Send this sun bullshit to Palm Springs.
	🦇 3:13pm Julie: hi egould!
	🦇 3:13pm egould: ↳ Julie @3:13 Hi Julie!
	🦇 3:15pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Julie and everyone.
	🦇 3:15pm Julie: hi Chris!
	🦇 3:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @3:13 Ha! Cheers, egould! Working on a Lunkhead here, the Official Cocktal of Fool's Paradise -- the drink you really shouldn't have poured the night before that you shove in the fridge and then try to resuscitate at some point the next day.
	3:17pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Panic" by "Annie Hamilton" i really like this ep. i was excited for her new record but i listened and didn't like it near as much as this one.
	🦇 3:17pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:11 here, the sun is having a modicum of success telling the storm clouds to bugger off
	3:18pm spodiodi: greetings, Julie and all!
	🦇 3:19pm Julie: hiya spodi!
	3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ egould @3:13 Heh. I'm just happy sunset is getting later.
	3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ chris in the redwoods @3:17 nasty destruction down in Santa Cruz
	3:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:20 again
	3:23pm Andrew Waterloo: HI Julie, Hi everyone
	🦇 3:24pm Julie: Hi Andrew! Long time!
	🦇 3:26pm listener james from westwood: Ooh, Dubstar! A fave of an ex from that era. Made it onto some of her mixtapes.
	🦇 3:26pm JReganK: Hey, Julie! Merry Xmas, All!
	🦇 3:26pm Julie: hi JReganK!
	🦇 3:27pm Julie: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:26 voice reminds me of Kirsty
	🦇 3:27pm listener james from westwood: From their Wikipedia page, it looks like they covered "I'm in Love with a German Film Star," which, goodness, excellent choice. And hell yes on the Kirsty sound!
	🦇 3:27pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @3:27 Ooo, yeah, I can hear that.
	🦇 3:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:27 We've become friends with Barbara from the Passions who sings that one. She's a WFMU listener!
	🦇 3:29pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:28 Oh. nice!
	3:29pm A2B: I expect you'll be playing Cocteau Twin's rendition of "Frosty The Snowman" as part of the Bonus Hour? (Sorry if I gave away a spoiler!)
	🦇 3:29pm Mxter Baba: Hello and howdy, Julie, Dark Souls, WFMU kins of all varieties!
	🦇 3:30pm Julie: ↳ A2B @3:29 no I'm not. and the fact that it's expected is exactly why I'm not
	🦇 3:30pm Julie: hiya Mxter Baba!
	🦇 3:31pm Julie: I've played the two cocteau twins xmas songs to death, so no not today :)
	3:31pm A2B: ↳ Julie @3:30 Gotcha! 😉
	🦇 3:31pm egould: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:15 Cheers Handy! Sipping on a Tito's with ginger juice and Perrier. Whipping up a charcuterie plate to snack on.
	🦇 3:32pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Did I Let You Down?" by "Folksongs for the Afterl... This may be my favorite band name ever.
	3:32pm kev: Hi
	🦇 3:32pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:20 truly battered. lots of coastal carnage yesterday.
	🦇 3:33pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @3:31 Tito's and Dewar's were the last purchases on the epic, two-and-a-half-hour neighborhood odyssey we just went on, which also saw the obtaining of fresh pasta for manicotti, homemade ricotta, frozen artichoke ravioli, and the new Cure record. Also an emergency cocktail stop after the dog run.
	🦇 3:35pm Dan S: No Christmas songs today? Great!
	3:36pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:33 Sounds like a full day. I gotta get outta the house.
	🦇 3:37pm Dan S: It snowed a bit this morning.
	🦇 3:37pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @3:37 Around 8-9 AM.
	🦇 3:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:36 I am infor the rest of today. Maybe the dog gets a nice walk tomorrow if he plays his cards right, but I think I've done my service for the day. Gotta get a sauce on the burble soon over here.
	3:39pm Heydave: Thanks for making my day better! Love from iowa
	🦇 3:40pm Julie: hi kev!
	🦇 3:40pm Julie: Hey Heydave!
	🦇 3:41pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Song: "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (live)" by... many have been influence by Kate, but there ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
	3:41pm Michael 98145: wish i'd ever seen Kate live
	🦇 3:41pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:41 omx for sure
	3:43pm A2B: Y'know...it recently occurred to me that The Smiths tune "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" has sort of a Christmas feel to it. Wouldn't mind hearing it here today. (Otherwise, I can always play it privatey, since I have the original & The Dream Academy's cover of it on mp3.)
	3:44pm dale: hey julie. man, i bought the kate bush live back in the day....SOO many days ago now.
	🦇 3:45pm Julie: hiya dale!
	3:49pm xmas cha cha: Season’s greetings Maestro Julie and friends!
	🦇 3:49pm Julie: hiya xmas cha cha!
	🦇 4:00pm egould: ↳ Song: "Cul De Sac" by "Public Memory" Mad Professor should get ahold of this and do a dub version.
	🦇 4:02pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Knocking On My Door" by "The Wanderer Edit" okay this IS a xmas song
	4:04pm Heydave: Ho ho...
	4:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Fortune Teller" by "Sea Lemon" - nice -
	4:09pm Michael 98145: I'm not a fortune teller I never predict the weather right But the sun comes at last
	4:11pm dale: i have the 12 inch. james and the cold gun is the other side?
	🦇 4:14pm Julie: yes! great version
	🦇 4:15pm Julie: ah okay it was only the heartbrake song I didn't know. L'amour, James & them heavy people
	🦇 4:16pm Dan S: Oh well, Julie. I hope that's at least some good leftover pizza you have. Too bad about the Mexican food non-delivery.
	🦇 4:16pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (live)" by... and if you haven't seen these live performances they are so worth watching. the headphone mic was invented for this tour.
	🦇 4:17pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Place to Be" by "Nick Drake" Such a beautiful, simple song.
	🦇 4:18pm Julie: ↳ Song: "The Itchy Glowbo Blow" by "Cocteau Twins" some dreampop sounds like xmas music anyway. jingle jangle
	4:23pm dale: i once bought an lp of kate bush demo tapes. i opened the sleeve and it looked like the record had no grooves on it. it was the most awful sounding thing i ever paid a lot of money for. i don't know if it was a bootleg or what but it was unlistenable.
	4:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ dale @4:23 cheap manufacture
	4:25pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Streets of Chrome" by "Ozean" oh wow!
	4:26pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Streets of Chrome" by "Ozean" where did this debut? i didn't get a bandcamp notification! or an email from Numero Group
	🦇 4:27pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:26 sometime in the last week. It's not on the regular ozean bandcamp I think someone else owns that release. ozeanband.bandcamp.com...
	4:28pm Sunny: Great show today as always. Hope everyone is healthy and happy for the holiday even if you’re flying solo like me.
	🦇 4:29pm Julie: thanks Sunny! Also flying solo here.
	🦇 4:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Julie and darkenators!
	4:32pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:27 "more music to come"!! i am seeing the light!!
	4:32pm Michael 98145: ↳ Julie @4:29 Hey. We're here 😎
	🦇 4:33pm Julie: hiya Ken!
	🦇 4:33pm Julie: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:32 and so much nicer to me than my family! I'm very grateful!
	4:34pm dreamyandseedy: Joe McG did a great segment on his show this week, I think you might enjoy Julie. it's the last set. www.wfmu.org...
	🦇 4:34pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:32 I've been chatting on and off with Lisa, in fact I think she's in TX. I knew something was coming with Fryer and I'm glad it's finally out!
	4:34pm Michael 98145: ↳ Julie @4:33 i've learned we make our own families.
	4:36pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:34 NICE maybe we'll get a live show! fingers crossed
	4:38pm asheville jon: Julie! BIRDS!! Hello!!!
	🦇 4:39pm egould: Time to pour another vodka and get to the business of braising this pork shoulder. Will be listening.
	🦇 4:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:34 Yerp.
	🦇 4:41pm Julie: hiya asheville!
	🦇 4:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @4:39 Got the red sauce on the burble, so I can listen more intently for a while.
	🦇 4:44pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Christmas Eve, Julie (and all)!
	🦇 4:44pm Julie: hi SMS!
	4:52pm Sunny: Excellency!
	4:53pm JimmyTallow: Great show, thank you for the good vibes ✨
	🦇 4:54pm Julie: hiya JimmyTallow, thank you!
	4:55pm dreamyandseedy: Handy, can you recommend me a couple poetry collections? I've decided in 2025 i'm finally gonna read some poetry. I ordered Keats complete works and i have the complete Emily Dickinson already but i'd love to know what you like.
	🦇 4:56pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:55 sylvia plath!
	🦇 4:56pm Julie: i know you weren't asking me but I just needed to scream Sylvia Plath
	🦇 5:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:55 Those are good things to have! Let's see ... One of my favorites -- and my mentor and semi-adopted father figure -- Thomas Lux: www.poetryfoundation.org... bookshop.org... Larry Levis was someone I found through Tom: bookshop.org... bookshop.org... Anne Sexton is visceral and amazing: bookshop.org... Plath is absolutely essential, of course: bookshop.org... And James Wright's complete poems are so worthwhile: bookshop.org... Also: John Dunne is awesome and sexy and then gets weird and religious, sometimes all in the same poem.
	5:01pm Dean: You didn't ask me, but I am an avid poetry reader. Keats and Dickinson are a super strong foundation. I can't not mention John Ashbery, but also Joe Brainard, whose I Remember isn't exactly poetry. Among the living I read Frederick Seidel. Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, and gosh, yes, Philip Larkin. Donne can be bliss. Lyn Hejinian, RIP.
	5:02pm Dean: (Stevens, etc., were a new sentence. Obvs not among the living.)
	5:03pm Dean: And speaking of New Sentence...Ron Silliman!
	🦇 5:03pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:01 Dean, have you seen this book? I was production editor on it. I can try to find you a working discount code if you're interested. cup.columbia.edu... Yeah, Larkin.
	🦇 5:03pm Julie: hiya Dean!
	🦇 5:04pm Julie: as a kid I read a lot of Rod McKuen my dad had a bunch of his books People seem to consider him a joke for some reason. I have a record by him too
	5:04pm Dean: I had not seen that, Handy! I will definitely explore it. He was a gem, a joy. So much so that I wrote about I Remember for a law school seminar.
	5:05pm Dean: Some--and I stress some--McKuen does the trick. I can't shake the fact that one of his poems mentions "the Palmer Method," which I find hilarious.
	🦇 5:06pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:05 I go back to Robinson Jeffers sometimes and am always amazed by the power and energy (and RAGE) there. Should revisit again soon. Also, Robert Hayden. And Langston Hughes. And Sonia Sanchez. And Hart Crane will break your heart. And probably crane as well.
	5:07pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Julie @4:56 lol thank you! i did read her when i was a young un. i'll have to revisit.
	5:07pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:03 wow
	5:07pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:00 thank you! saving all this for later researching!
	🦇 5:07pm Julie: I saw a musical about sylvia plath at the NYC fringe one time. It was lovely.
	5:08pm Dean: Hart Crane, yeah. I ebb and flow into Jeffers. A.R. Ammons, Merrill, and of course Kenny G.
	5:08pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Dean @5:01 thank you! i'll look into all these. i just listened to this BBC show that i love called In Our Time and the episode was on John Donne
	5:09pm Michael 98145: sad that so few people actually read poetry ...
	5:09pm Dean: Everybody must read Christopher Smart's poem about his cat Geoffrey.
	🦇 5:09pm egould: ↳ Song: "Buddy" by "Snapper" That was awesome! And motorik.
	🦇 5:10pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:09 Keilidh used to ask us to post poems to her chatboard. The ghouls miss you, Keilidh!
	🦇 5:10pm Julie: ↳ egould @5:09 the whole EP is really good. I need to check out their other stuff
	5:13pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:09 i read a lot of books. i think i am reading too much and too fast. i have to force myself to slow down. i think if i read some poetry (which i've been wanting to do for a long time anyway) that will force me to slow down and breathe.
	🦇 5:14pm egould: ↳ Julie @5:10 Yeah. I mean Flying Nun from 1988? I kinda' remeber this band, but they just did not show up in my ears at all. I'll have to fix that.
	🦇 5:14pm Julie: ↳ dreamyandseedy @5:13 reading plays is also nice
	5:15pm Michael 98145: ↳ dreamyandseedy @5:13 i am a slow reader by nature
	5:16pm Erik in VT: Hello All👋. Re Poetry (which unfortunately I no longer really pursue), I always got a kick from Frank O’Hara & Kenward Elmslie. especially if performed by the author.
	5:17pm Sylvia: Hi Julie and all
	🦇 5:17pm Julie: hi Erik!
	🦇 5:17pm egould: ↳ Michael 98145 @5:15 You're not slow, you're thoughtful.
	🦇 5:17pm Julie: heya Sylvia!
	5:18pm Sylvia: I forgot today was Tuesday
	5:22pm Dean: No such thing as reading too much.
	5:22pm adamdoesit: Hi Julie and bats of Christmas past!
	5:23pm laurapanic: merry christmas! I'm in it!
	🦇 5:23pm Julie: hi adam hi laura! how is xmas looking, Laura?
	5:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Julie @5:23 sunny, full of decked halls!
	5:24pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @5:24 I decked them!
	🦇 5:27pm Julie: deck those halls, DECK them hard
	5:33pm laurapanic: ...just watching a movie....what a shock.....like Steve Albini...just....died....
	5:35pm adamdoesit: I go through bouts of reading poetry. I used to study and write it semi-seriously, though not well. John Keats, Samuel Coleridge, Randall Jarrell, Yehuda Amichai, Wallace Stevens, and Marie Ponsot have a booth on permanent reservation at the pub in the back of my mind, where others from time to time drop in.
	🦇 5:41pm egould: ↳ Song: "Földanya Sóhaja" by "The Moon and The Nightspirit" Gothexotica. Gothxotica. Exotigoth.
	🦇 5:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:35 Saw Marie Ponsot read several times in a previous life. Yeah, Jarrell has some all-time greats. Worked on this book: cup.columbia.edu...
	5:42pm w. t.: "ou sont les neiges d'antan""
	🦇 5:43pm Julie: hi w.t.!
	5:44pm dale: ↳ Song: "Voices in the Sky" by "The Moody Blues" love the 45 sleeve for this.
	🦇 5:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~Good ♂︎Tuesday FMUvianz~
	🦇 5:44pm Julie: hiya Rev! did Justin summon you?
	5:44pm Dean: I always confuse RJ Jarrell with Jeffers. The latter wrote the peculiar book about Big Sur, the former "The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner," which was the reading at a wedding of a friend. Donald Justice, W.S. Merwin, Leslie Scalapino...
	5:44pm dale: most of the lads in puffy shirts.
	🦇 5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Julie @5:44 Well sure. If not GoldenDawn from down Texas...
	🦇 5:45pm Julie: ↳ dale @5:44 oh to have been around when men dressed that way
	5:46pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ adamdoesit @5:35 thank you!
	5:47pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ laurapanic @5:33 i am really curious what movie he was watching
	5:47pm Dean: Aren't we around when men dress that way?
	5:47pm laurapanic: making christmas blueberry pancake breakfast to your tunes, in a santa hat and christmas dress
	🦇 5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm still trying to be the 1966 hipster ...too many frills put me off ...well, I wanna be Hendrix & end up more an off-brand Captain Sensible ...oh well...
	🦇 5:47pm Julie: oh yummy!
	🦇 5:48pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:47 I don't know anyone who dresses like that... maybe Matt from rock and soul, a bit?
	🦇 5:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:47 I don't WANNA be a pirate!
	5:50pm dale: my wife got me a pirate shirt at trash and vaudville back in the day. it was just when the puffy shirt episode came out and i asked her to return it. i knew it would just be a joke waiting to happen.
	5:50pm w. t.: Hi Julie, thanks for the sounds..."Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows" anyone? F.X. Enderby!
	5:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:41 Cool, and cool! I got to study with Ponsot when she taught at the 92nd St Y. Here are two of the best things she said: 1) If you don't tell someone what they're doing well, how will they know? 2) The best thing about being old is you can tell people whatever the fuck you want.
	5:51pm A.J. MACHETE: My Xmases are so, so far past that the cobwebs have developed seasonal patterns. Hi Julie and all. I hope the rest of you and yours are still in bloom for the spirit of the day.
	5:51pm Dean: In '69 or thereabouts, when I was in fourth grade, I wanted to be Billy in Easy Rider, so for half a year or so I wore a leather jacket with fringes. We sold baggies of oregano to our classmates. That's the last I recall of ever caring about "dressing like" or, for that matter, so-called drugs. I dunno. People dress in all sorts of ways.
	🦇 5:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:50 She ended up a bit of a mentor to a good friend of mine from college, who was also an advisee of Thomas Lux.
	🦇 5:52pm Julie: hiya AJ!
	🦇 5:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Winter Now" by "Broadcast" First clicky-star for this on the main station is from Wake and Bake!
	5:53pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Julie @5:52 Who is you filling in for tomorrow?
	5:53pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:51 She was a superb mentor, and remains one even from beyond the grave. Your friend lucked out.
	🦇 5:53pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:51 I used to have a jacket with fringe. Suede though. LOVED it. wore it to death.
	🦇 5:54pm Julie: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @5:53 if you lose your horse. 10pm
	5:54pm Sunny: So grateful that you’re on today and tomorrow. My favorite show on WFMU. Great set. I wish I could donate more to the station, but thank you for keeping us company in such a nice way this holiday. Means a lot to have a comfort like good radio
	5:54pm Dean: Right, suede!
	🦇 5:54pm Julie: ↳ Sunny @5:54 thank you so much for the kind words!
	5:55pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Sunny @5:54 Same.
	🦇 5:55pm Julie: ↳ Dean @5:54 it wasn't even black. it was...really dark brown. I can smell it just thinking about it.
	🦇 5:55pm Julie: I think I gave it to a friend. very recently.
	5:56pm Dean: Yes, brown. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/426786502189859988/
	5:56pm adamdoesit: ↳ Dean @5:44 Dean, the ball turret gunner's a helluva way to land a spouse. I mix up Jarrell with Delmore Schwartz. I like him, too.
	🦇 5:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...being me ...I try & moderate the Hippe affectations. With whatever else...
	5:58pm Dean: Needless to say, the marriage did not last.
	🦇 6:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @5:56 Lou Reed's mentor, Delmore. The drink got him.
	🦇 6:00pm Aitch: Happy Xmas Julie and crew
	6:01pm w. t.: ↳ Dean @5:51 Damn Dean, you saw "Easy Rider" when you were in the 4th grade?!
	🦇 6:01pm Midge: ↳ dale @5:50 I bought a ruffled shirt at Judy's in the 80s and it has gotten A LOT at Halloween. In fact I wore it this year when I recycled my Adam Ant costume
	🦇 6:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:00 ' In dreams begin responsibility. '
	🦇 6:01pm Midge: ↳ Midge @6:01 *of use
	🦇 6:02pm Julie: hiya Aitch!
	🦇 6:03pm egould: Got the braise going on the stovetop. Sitting down on the couch and losing my mind to Dark Night.
	6:03pm Dean: I did. My parents, hard-core Midwestern conservatives, rightly did not give a fuck about what I chose to consume. My fourth-grade classmate, he of a family of -- who knows? -- drug dealers and various oddballs, saw Hair in '68 in LA. The soundtrack was the first LP I ever purchased with my own lawn-mowing revenue. We too often make entirely off-base assumptions about our ideological opponents. We are doing it today.
	🦇 6:04pm Dan S: Hey, Julie. I've been listening on and off, but I have to leave soon for a Zoom meeting. I want to wish a very happy and healthy holiday to you, your family, your friends, and of course your birdies! Thanks for all the great music you bring us!
	🦇 6:04pm Julie: thanks so much Dan! Happy holiday to you!
	6:05pm xmas cha cha: In spite of the seasonal username. I am not a fan of Christmas. The usual menu for the holidays is lighting candles at my parents’ grave and listening to WFMU while going there. So glad your shows coincide with it! I hope I will be around for the Christmas Day fill-in - GMT+2 means it’ll be Boxing Day morning already here in Suomi Finland. Some moka pot coffee might keep me awake for the occasion, let’s see!
	6:06pm dale: ↳ Midge @6:01 i didn't have your foresight.
	6:07pm w. t.: ↳ Dean @6:03 That's amazing, you were on a "mission"!
	6:08pm adamdoesit: I saw Easy Rider in maybe 6th grade, but it was with my dad, on VHS, and he was the one who was high.
	🦇 6:08pm Handy Haversack: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 Good to see you, Cha Cha!
	6:08pm A2B: ↳ Song: "December Will Be Magic Again" by "Kate Bush" That's lovely and amusing cover art! Had no idea this even existed! A UK only release, apparently.
	🦇 6:08pm Julie: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 I feel like Xmas is for christians and children (and parents with children) I am none of those things so I'm a little meh on it. Hasn't been the same since mom passed for sure.
	🦇 6:09pm egould: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:47 "off-brand Captain Sensible" Hahaha!
	🦇 6:09pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:08 Ditto!
	6:09pm xmas cha cha: You too Handy, how is your Christmas going aside from listening to this show?
	🦇 6:09pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:08 the b-side is very nice too
	6:11pm Dean: I was a kid who liked stuff. Steppenwolf, Grateful Dead, Gustav Holst, Beatles, Bobby Sherman... After listening to the Hair soundtrack, we wanted to know what "sodomy," "masturbation," "pederasty," etc., meant. We went to the dictionary and learned. Julie: We are all indisputably children. We can't not be children, no matter how much we want our willed identities to take hold like bumper stickers on our big fat bumpers.
	🦇 6:11pm Handy Haversack: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:09 Oh, we don't celebrate. Glad to have some time off and a chance to cook stuff I don't normally cook, but Christmas can go fuck itself as far as I'm concerned. I'm not Christian, and I don't like buying stuff or getting stuff. But glad to have together time with K8 and the monsters and radio time with WFMU and the WFMU family. Merry winter to you!
	🦇 6:11pm Julie: ↳ Dean @6:11 perhaps but not "what did santa bring me" kids
	6:11pm A2B: ↳ Julie @6:09 Was also expecting you to play something off the "50 Words For Snow" album today. I guess that's too played out for you now?
	6:11pm xmas cha cha: Yes, Julie, losing loved ones does permanent changes to how one enjoys Christmas and the like…
	🦇 6:12pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:11 Not played out but wanted to do her xmas tune. I should play it more really, the snow album
	6:13pm Michael 98145: ↳ xmas cha cha @6:05 gatherings with friends, here
	🦇 6:13pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" Aw, thank you, Julie!!
	🦇 6:14pm Julie: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:13 it's on the xmas album but I have no clue what this song is about
	6:14pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:13 Sounds lovely ! Same here tomorrow.
	6:14pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 like minds
	🦇 6:14pm egould: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" Well, ain't this lovely? As usual for Bipolar Explorer.
	6:14pm Dean: "but not 'what did santa bring me' kids" Got it. You mean adults.
	🦇 6:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:14 Thank you, Egould!
	6:15pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Once..." by "Bipolar Explorer" ⭐
	🦇 6:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:14 If the timing works out, we're going to try to make to LaMonte Young's Dream House tomorrow before I make a manicotti!
	🦇 6:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Michael 98145 @6:15 Thank you, Michael!
	🦇 6:15pm egould: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:15 Dig that album art, too.
	6:16pm Michael 98145: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:15 checked out of all the birth-of-the-avatar mayhem
	6:16pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 except WFMU swag of course ;)
	🦇 6:17pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:15 That is a wonderful painting by a Slovakian artist named L’udovit Kochol. Thank you, Egould.
	🦇 6:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dreamyandseedy @6:16 As my profile says, "There are three holidays: Marathon, Hellraiser, and SWAGVENT. All others can be erased from the calendar before they cause more harm."
	6:17pm A.J. MACHETE: It really does seem that when we lose close loved ones, it takes away from the embodiment of holidays. It's not my parents in my case (they're still around), but I had a "best ever friend" whose b-day would've been the day after Xmas, and she left us 22 years ago.
	🦇 6:19pm Julie: oh shit that reminds me it's Fox's birthday
	6:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @6:17 sorry
	🦇 6:19pm egould: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @6:17 Was that commissioned for the album cover?
	6:20pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:11 Thanks! Yes the seasonal consumer madness is pretty awful but that said, I do like giving away my record collection’s extra copies as Christmas presents to my dear friend - tomorrow I will treat him with some vintage mono Byrds and Jefferson Airplane plus a Teardrop Explodes 12”, Kevin Coyne, Judy Collins etc. (dear recipient sorry for the spoiler if you are reading this ha ha)
	🦇 6:20pm Handy Haversack: I lost my mom at six and my dad at twenty-one, and we were too poor for Christmas to be anything other than excruciating anyways when I was a kid, so I'm glad to be quit of it.
	🦇 6:20pm Julie: (also X-Ray's birthday, miss that guy)
	🦇 6:21pm Julie: ↳ Xmas Cha Cha @6:20 oh how nice!
	6:21pm Dean: Today is X-Ray's birthday?!
	🦇 6:21pm Julie: I got one very nice present from a fellow Elton obsessive. It was a piece from an Elton John pinball machine turned into a night light
	6:22pm A.J. MACHETE: That's the other thing that makes me poo-poo Xmas: the run amuck capitalism disgusts me.
	🦇 6:22pm Julie: ↳ Dean @6:21 yes both he and DJ Fox have xmas eve birthdays
	6:23pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:21 Thanks I hope he enjoys the records! Even if I am struggling financially I would hate to sell those records, giving them away to a friend on the other hand feels so nice.
	6:24pm Xmas Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:21 Now that is a cool gift!
	🦇 6:24pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Hollow Holidays" by "Haermape" the title of this song pretty much says it
	🦇 6:24pm Julie: ↳ Xmas Cha Cha @6:24 yeah it's one of those flat things that the ball hits to score. It's so cool
	🦇 6:25pm egould: Snowshoegaze.
	🦇 6:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @6:24 Bumper?
	6:26pm Dean: X-Ray Burns lives on for having been the impetus for Glen Jones' utterly gracious real-time report on his demise. Those two worked together perfectly, and it's clear they admired and loved each other. So affecting. I'll never forget it.
	6:26pm Sylvia: ↳ egould @6:19 no the painting was made in 1972! We asked the Slovak National Gallery for permission to use.
	🦇 6:27pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:25 yes!
	6:27pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ egould @6:25 brilliant
	6:28pm A2B: ↳ Julie @6:24 By any chance, does the pinball machine in question have anything to do with his song from the "Tommy" movie?
	6:29pm adamdoesit: Me, not a Christmas guy. Not even a goy. But A Charlie Brown Christmas syncs nice on mute with this program.
	🦇 6:31pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 Ooof, we watched it yesterday because K8 loves it and the Vince G. soundtrack, but it's SUPER Christian when you have the sound up. The meaning of Christmas in that one? The Bible. A bit much for me. I'll watch the Community Christmas episodes ... Scrooged ...
	🦇 6:32pm Julie: ↳ A2B @6:28 it's called captain fantastic but yeah it's got him in that costume on the back of it. I saw one for sale once but damn I don't have room even if I had the cash
	🦇 6:32pm egould: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 After this show, try "Wizard of Oz" and 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
	6:32pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ adamdoesit @6:29 My soft spot is Xmas Eve on Sesame Street. I regret that my "best ever friend" couldn't be here for YouTube and DVD's.
	6:33pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @6:32 And there's a link between the two because Joe Raposo did the music for Charlie.
	🦇 6:34pm Julie: pinballmachinesforsale.shop...
	6:36pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:32 I got to see "Dark Side Of The Rainbow" on YT some years ago in it's entirety for the first time. Fascinating how the events roughly sync up with the music.
	6:36pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:31 Could never handle it with sound for that reason. But, yeah, Scrooged (the best xmas movie imo) cued up for after this. me: It is humiliating that Charlie Brown's theme is "Linus and Lucy." Maybe if it were made now, Lucy would be the protagonist, and Charlie Brown would be an ancillary character. Parks and Rec, like. missy: Maybe, but Lucy's been a DICK to a lot of people.
	🦇 6:37pm egould: ↳ A2B @6:36 Take acid, and the events sync up; exactly!
	🦇 6:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:36 Yeah, Hollywood won't forgive a "shrill" woman. I promise: Bill Murray has been a dick to a LOT of people!
	🦇 6:39pm Julie: ↳ adamdoesit @6:36 now I wanna see parks and rec done by the peanuts. who plays April?
	🦇 6:39pm Julie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:38 Ellen still has a job last I saw
	🦇 6:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julie @6:39 Charlie Brown is the April-est. I had Peanuts sheets as a kid, and the thing CB got to say on them was "I feel the need to have the feeling that it's good to be alive."
	🦇 6:40pm egould: ↳ Julie @6:39 Me-owww!
	6:40pm adamdoesit: ↳ Julie @6:39 OMG. Schroeder. It's all in the eyes.
	6:41pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:37 One of these days, I'll try experimenting with edible shrooms. I just need some sort of medical excuse.
	🦇 6:41pm Julie: ↳ egould @6:40 she has a very bad very public reputation. but she's still working
	🦇 6:41pm egould: ↳ A2B @6:41 "Hey Doc. I'm bored."
	🦇 6:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ adamdoesit @6:40 His deconstruction of "Jingle Bells" in that special is WAY the best part.
	6:43pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:41 Can confirm. It's on right now.
	6:44pm A2B: I hear Amy Poehler is a Peanuts fan, which figures, since she had her own cartoon series on Nickelodeon, "The Mighty B!".
	🦇 6:45pm Handy Haversack: I'm going to go start savaging some Brussels sprouts. Many thanks, Julie! Nice to winter with you! Merry happy, everyone! Days are getting longer, so apparently one more year without the sun getting eaten. We'll keep an eye out just in case.
	🦇 6:45pm Julie: see ya handy happy whatever...say hey to k8 for me
	🦇 6:46pm egould: ↳ Julie @6:45 Later, dude.
	6:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 Cheers Handy! Longer days ahead.
	6:50pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ A2B @6:36 i always regret not going to see this in the theater when i lived in Austin. they'd present it every couple years. but if it's on the youtubes...
	6:50pm A2B: ↳ egould @6:41 The younger of my two brothers admitter to me that he did acid once with a friend.
	6:51pm A2B: ↳ A2B @6:50 *admitted
	6:51pm dreamyandseedy: this is such a great xmas set! thank you julie
	🦇 6:52pm Julie: yay thank you dreamy!
	6:53pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Song: "Frosti" by "Bjork" Whoa, I thought that was Rita Ford's music boxes.
	🦇 6:54pm listener james from westwood: These Xmas covers have been a real treat! Many thanks for the whole show, Julie!
	🦇 6:55pm egould: ↳ Song: "Father Christmas" by "Letters To Cleo" Nice. Thank you for hosting a lovely afternoon of music, Julie. I really enjoyed it.
	6:55pm asheville jon: Thanks Julie!
	6:55pm A2B: ↳ Song: "Father Christmas" by "Letters To Cleo" Best Xmas tune cover EVER!
	6:57pm adamdoesit: Thank you, Julie!
	6:57pm A.J. MACHETE: Thank you for keeping it dark, Julie.
	🦇 6:58pm Midge: Thank you Julie! Off to the holiday bike ride. Goodbye all!
	6:58pm A2B: Thanks so much, Julie! Today's show was truly a gift! Won't get to hear your fill-in live tomorrow, so the archive will have to do. Everyone have a great holiday!
	7:00pm Xmas Cha Cha: Thanks for the tunes, it helps to be here as a bah humbug person. Hope to catch your fill-in, if not, until next week!
	🦇 7:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Julie!
	7:09pm Michael 98145: Thank you again!
	7:54pm spodiodi: sorry for the late goodbye, and thank you! there was like 19 minutes left when i got up to run an errand :-B meant to say goodbye mid-errand see you next time. merry christmas etc!

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