WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 19, 2025

Listener comments!
	6:01am Barbie: Good morning Brian!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentors from a grey London Town! Happy to be here!
	6:03am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. Never a slow news week with the current regime.
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am NotARealDoctor: Good morning Brian D and all my fellow surfers of the currents, checking in from down in Norfolk VA
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: Barbie, LCF, Cooh, ALL... good morning. How about that Chinn, huh? Great stuff.
	♥ 6:04am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Dark Sun" by "Sally Timms" This is great! Good morning fiends!!!
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:03 Just missed you, NARD... And William H, good morning.
	♥ 6:05am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:07am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:05 Greetings, Fred. How are you feeling?
	⚡ ♥ 6:09am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:04 Yep lovely show by DJ Chinn! And you appear to be very much continuing with the loveliness DJ Brian, despite the continuous horrible puking of the news!
	⚡ ♥ 6:12am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	♥ 6:12am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:09 We try, LCF.
	♥ 6:13am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:07 Pretty good. The shit hits the fan in two weeks (not literally, hopefully). I'll need blood-thinner injections for a few days, but with May Day and holidays, I'll have to do these myself. I did that 9 years ago, it wasn't that hard, I hope I'll remember
	♥ 6:15am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Tide Keeps Turning" by "Justin Adams and Mauro Du... !!!!!
	6:17am Cooh John: Like that last one. Tide and world keeps turning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ fred @6:13 I feel for you Brian! Litterally! Because of the full immobilisation of my Achilles, I am on a 6 weeks course of blood thinners daily self-injections! I have done 4 and a half weeks already and my tummy is now so blue I look like a smurf!
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am TDK60: Good day, Brian, Currentistas.
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:18 Good morning, TDK.
	⚡ ♥ 6:20am London Calling Francky: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 I meant I feel for you fred*! Not only I have a blue tum but also a hazy brain! :)
	♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 I know how that goes... To think I was happy to have shed some weight. I guess I need to rebuild that beer belly STAT
	⚡ ♥ 6:23am London Calling Francky: ↳ fred @6:21 Just have a few, reasonably of course, and you will be fully set for the anti-coagulants!
	⚡ ♥ 6:26am Brian in UK: Hello Brian. He's not the son of god.......
	⚡ ♥ 6:27am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian in UK @6:26 He is a naughty boy!
	♥ 6:28am Brian D: ↳ bradford @6:12 Missed you there, bradford. Good morning.
	♥ 6:29am fred: WFMU DJ Tom Dash has a shop called Gowanus Wine Merchants. The parsing of that name is crucial (I guess the pun was intended)
	♥ 6:29am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @6:26 Greetings, Brian. You'll have to be more specific...
	6:32am Fred and Alan: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:27 LONDON CALLIng FRANCKY HELLO AND LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	6:33am Fred and Alan: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:03 NOTAREALDOCTOR LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	♥ 6:35am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "The Truths" by "Deepstaria Enigmatica" This is amazing!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:38am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:32 Hey Fred and Alan! Lots of love to you guys! How are things down your end?
	♥ 6:39am duke: ↳ William Hellfire @6:35 Amen to that. Fits my mood today.
	⚡ ♥ 6:43am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those tuning in...
	6:43am Dave V: Extreme hairdressing.
	♥ 6:44am Brian D: ↳ Dave V @6:43 I've yet to meet a hairdresser who doesn't spread misinformation.
	♥ 6:44am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @6:43 Greetings Strand... and Duke.
	♥ 6:45am William Hellfire: ↳ Brian D @6:44 Hahaha!!! Thinking Girl Trouble now.
	6:45am Dave V: Hahaha! Good thing I'm cutting my own hair these days.
	♥ 6:46am Brian D: ↳ Dave V @6:45 Me too. Doesn't take me long.
	6:46am Fred and Alan: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:38 WORKING WORKING WORKING EVEN EASTER SUNDAY
	6:47am Fred and Alan: ↳ Strandlund @6:43 STRANDLUND LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:46 Oh Fred & Alan, guys, that sounds like intense! How are things at the deli?
	♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:46 Last time I got a haircut was in January 1995, right before I started at my first real job (also when I last wore a tie or a suit)
	6:52am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone out in radioland! it's good to be here.
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am Strandlund: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:47 Hey Boys!!Good to see you!! Don't work too hard!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:54am NotARealDoctor: Hey good morning Fred and Alan, sorry to hear that, do you at least get a short day on Easter?
	♥ 6:58am William Hellfire: Everyone should watch Fear No Evil for Easter. Great Easter horror flick. Punk rock soundtrack. Very violent dodge ball scene.
	⚡ ♥ 6:58am TDK60: As usual, I don't know any of the artists being played this morn. A WFMU reality. Wait...I do know of Sally T. and Anne B. That's it. Apparently I'm not up on the latest smash hits.
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am NotARealDoctor: ↳ TDK60 @6:58 That's my favorite part of WFMU.
	⚡ ♥ 7:03am Tooth: ↳ TDK60 @6:58 I guess that’s why we listen.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am TDK60: ↳ NotARealDoctor @7:02 Good day, NARD. I like it too. But sometimes I feel overwhelmed and need to hear Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love five times in a row. {smile}
	♥ 7:05am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:05 Don't tempt me!
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:52 Rich!
	⚡ ♥ 7:06am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and fellow travelers.
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:59 Good day, Will.
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:06 Good morning, Peter.
	7:08am Bob in North Carolina: Good morning radio listeners!
	7:08am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:20 Bartholomew Cubbins ·Yesterday (edited) The Blues? 1) Uncharted Blue 2) the color of the later Revolutionary War uniforms (once they could afford more than just their own civilian clothes) 3) Union Army's uniforms were blue 4) the sky is blue, contrary to what the Q people believe 5) the enemy's color in 1775 and 2025? Red
	7:09am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 Why blood thinners for an Achilles tendon?
	⚡ ♥ 7:10am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:08 hahaha! That made me chuckle!
	⚡ ♥ 7:11am dale: good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 7:12am dale: i remember taking the F train back in the 1980s and the lights of the kentile sign sometimes went out in certain places. kentile FLOOPS was my favorite.
	⚡ ♥ 7:12am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:09 I ruptured the Achilles tendon! I was in a super tight cast for 3 weeks and now in a super heavy duty techno-boot for 12 weeks! The orthopedics surgeon has prescribed blood thinners to prevent a blood clot that could be created by the immobilisation and lack of movement...
	⚡ ♥ 7:15am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The Power's Out" by "St. Vincent" Ah, you saw St. Vincent. I saw her with David Byrne during their co-tour back in the Teens.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am TDK60: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:12 Best for your healing, London Calling Francky.
	7:17am Cooh John: Saw St. Vincent on my birthday on her Masseduction tour. Amazed at how the audience misinterpreted her message.
	⚡ ♥ 7:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @7:17 Oh thank you for the kind words TDK, so much appreciated!
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am London Calling Francky: ↳ Song: "Clip: France 24-French prisons targeted with arso... Attacks on jails in Tarascon and Toulon... all around my hometown of Marseille where I grew up... gee, always something happening down there!
	7:19am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:10 Excellent. Good for blood flow!
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:12 Oh geez. Best wishes for your recovery, London Calling Francky.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:19 Yeah it is a good idea... it is just that puncturing my tum every day for the past month is starting to get a little tedious...
	⚡ ♥ 7:22am London Calling Francky: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:19 Oh thank you Peter, very nice of you! I really appreciate all the love and support on here!
	7:22am Cooh John: Oobleck, Fredericks?
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:11 Belated good morning, Dale. Who hasn't been on a subway when the power goes out?
	7:22am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:17 How so, Cooh?
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am TDK60: If anyone is in NYC or near, there will be two pro-immigrant protests today. One at Bryant Park at noon. It ties in with the climate too. And another at 3 at 157th & Broadway. www.summerofheat.org...
	7:25am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:22 The oobleck "that was capable of gumming up a whole kingdom."
	⚡ ♥ 7:26am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @7:24 Thank you for posting this TDK! Hope the turnout will be strong!
	7:27am Cooh John: Time to bring oobleck into the mainstream vocabulary.
	♥ 7:28am Crafty: ↳ Song: "Only the Lonely" by "The Motels" always snatches the attention
	7:28am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:27 I'll do my part.
	7:31am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "On Broadway (long version)" by "Esko Affair" Frigid Pink!
	7:35am Fred and Alan: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:19 PETER LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	7:35am Cooh John: Seeing Nick next month.
	7:37am Fred and Alan: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:54 NOTAREALDOCTOR NO ITS A REGULAR SCHEDULE
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Fred and Alan @7:35 Good morning Fred and Alan, sending love from the north country!
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am London Calling Francky: Re. the conditions in French prisons, I am not entirely sure the conditions are that great any longer... overcrowding is a huge issue and violence is rife... of course, it is all relative... I am not sure how it compares with the prisons in the US but I am not sure the French ones are that much better... also I think it really varies from prison to prison... the one not far from where I grew up in Marseille was famously atrocious!
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: For more on the film: www.gowanuscurrent.com
	⚡ ♥ 7:45am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Fredericks @7:25 I was gonna make chili crisp chicken tonight. Ya had to post about oobleck, and now I've gone down a rabbit hole.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: Info on the showings at Cobble Hill Cinema: www.cobblehilltheatre.com...
	⚡ ♥ 7:46am TDK60: There's a local canoe club there. One WFMU regular commenter hosts their "public paddles" each summer. And you get a feel for the Gowanus Canal.
	♥ 7:48am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:46 Yes, I've always wanted to do that. Physical limitations, however.
	⚡ ♥ 7:56am TDK60: ↳ Brian D @7:48 I'm sorry. That canoe club I mentioned is along the also-polluted Newtown Creek further north in Brooklyn. Not the Gowanus.
	♥ 7:56am Brian D: Jamie's web site: www.jamiecourville.com
	♥ 7:57am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:56 Oh, I thought it was the Gowanus too.
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @7:56 Great interview, Brian. Gowanus Current could be a microcosm of the gentrification problem in the whole dang NYC metro area.
	♥ 8:06am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:04 Indeed it is. And most if not all without input from the people who live here.
	8:13am Bluesman: Wow! This Ernie Vega wild man is Vliet-rageous!
	8:15am Jeff: Tuning in with semantics of Samantha on our vacation in Belize! It’s the morning without the Pidge!!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @8:06 Morristown NJ (I used not live in Morris County): Luxury apartment buildings built in a formerly working class neighborhood. Rents at $3200 / month and up. Where are the people that cut your lawn, replace your roof etc, where are they gonna live? It's out of control.
	8:20am Bluesman: Ahhhhhhh Belize! Enjoy Jeff! Me and my better half honeymooned there in......Oct. 2001! A perfect place to be - especially after going through 9/11!
	♥ 8:22am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:19 On the eastern end of Long Island, a lot of the workers in stores, restaurants, hotels etc. have resorted to camping in the woods. Out of control, indeed.
	⚡ ♥ 8:23am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The Great Trap in the Creek" by "Martin Bisi" I just looked at studio engineer/musician Bisi's website. He's been involved in civic actions around the Gowanus.
	♥ 8:27am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:23 Yes, the canal appears on the album art for Feral Myths.
	8:31am maureen: ok. I tried to hang in there.. but I gotta turn the radio off.
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Michael of Cologne: G'day Brian. Thanks for the Gowanus interview.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:33 Good morning, Michael. Truly my pleasure.
	⚡ ♥ 8:36am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "INTERVIEW WITH: Jamie Courville and Chris Reynold... Crap. Woke at 7.55 and missed the bulk of Gowanus segment. Glug. So hello to archives later. (Also later, noon rally at Bryant park, against f’n trump Vance musk Rubio johnson…perjury traitor Greene…)
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @8:22 There are unhoused people living in tents in the woods in Dover NJ and Morris Township. Some commenters on other forums want them to "go away." SMDH.
	♥ 8:37am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:36 You needed to rest up, Herb. Rally on today.
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @8:22 Imagine a monster call The Medium that has enveloped and sucked up the Earth.
	⚡ ♥ 8:39am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Thx, Brian, zzz
	⚡ ♥ 8:40am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Thank you Brian. Great show.
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Clip: DW News-Hungary effectively bans LGBTQ events" There's another country crossed off my To Visit List.
	♥ 8:47am Ciggy: Good morning to you
	8:48am Scott from Boston: Nilufer song???
	8:49am Scott from Boston: Too good
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ TDK60 @8:45 I'm an American, but my background is 50% Hungarian. It's troubling to see what's going on over there, here, and other parts of the world. Hopefully stuff gets better.
	8:52am Fredericks: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:37 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?ueid=cc82b5ee89f6c1b371417699a18201a6
	8:52am ?: gentrification has been a persistent problem for at least 200 years. The west village used to be lovely farm land. What is shocking is that in all this time no one has come up with practical means to check and balance this. It is a side effect of economic disparity. The rich get richer and (ab)use that enhanced position to manipulate governmental powers at all levels to their advantage, making them richer and even more powerful. This becomes a 2 fanged power, on the one hand they have the government officials making laws and rulings in their favor, on the other hand being rich puts them in control of a larger portion of the general economy than a regular person. There is the key - they control the economy, they control people's access to a living wage and they control (manipulate) the costs of things which they can easily afford in all economies. Make the rich pay a larger portion of the larger percentage of the economy that they control in taxes. Their wealth makes their individual vote unequal to the vote of a laborer; they manipulate behind the scenes so much with their wealth that their vote is a secondary consideration.
	♥ 8:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Rebel Girl" by "Bikini Kill" Kathleen Hanna is as close as it gets to a deity to me
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am Strandlund: Thanks Brian!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am bradford: Many thanks, Brian!
	♥ 8:56am chresti: ↳ Song: "Adventures Close To Home" by "The Raincoats" Slits!
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D!!! Be safe everyone, be well!!!
	♥ 8:56am Brian D: ↳ chresti @8:56 Palmolive wrote the song.
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias deejay Brian.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me, as always. Hope to see some of you at the record/CD sale today. Stay safe and have a great weekend.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ @8:52 As I say, imagine a monster called The Medium that has enveloped and sucked up the Earth. The wealthy are its slaves to make it grow.
	♥ 8:59am Wendy del Formaggio: Hi Brian. I caught the last ten minutes of your show. I'm glad I'm awake and home so I can tune in and hear your voice. Have a splendid day.
	♥ 8:59am chinn: ↳ Song: "Long Dark Night" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" Thanks for this, especially. Great show, as always!
	9:12am Fredericks: The playlist fell apart at the end.

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 19, 2025

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April 19, 2025: "And I've got by for so long just on fear and trust..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Sally Timms	Dark Sun "Dark Sun" by "Sally Timms"	Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Big Bend	Fast Moon "Fast Moon" by "Big Bend"	Last Circle in a Slowdown	0:03:38 (Pop-up)
Anne Briggs	Cruel Mother "Cruel Mother" by "Anne Briggs"	One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium	0:08:29 (Pop-up)
Justin Adams and Mauro Durante	Tide Keeps Turning	Sweet Release	0:12:31 (Pop-up)

Deepstaria Enigmatica	The Truths "The Truths" by "Deepstaria Enigmatica"	The Eternal Now Is the Heart of the New Tomorrow	0:18:20 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-Russian journalists and hairdresser convicted of extremism		0:41:16 (Pop-up)
Private Joke	Peaceful Traffic "Peaceful Traffic" by "Private Joke"	Ambientale (compiled by Charles Bals)	0:42:37 (Pop-up)
Banha Da Cobra	Guayota "Guayota" by "Banha Da Cobra"	Lava Love	0:45:29 (Pop-up)
Autumna	The Days Before "The Days Before" by "Autumna"	Family Portrait	0:49:42 (Pop-up)
Lynlee	Traceless Land "Traceless Land" by "Lynlee"	The Changeover	0:53:22 (Pop-up)

Able Noise	Tumbling "Tumbling" by "Able Noise"	High Tide	1:02:55 (Pop-up)
Pom Pom Squad	Montauk "Montauk" by "Pom Pom Squad"	Mirror Starts Moving Without Me	1:07:57 (Pop-up)
St. Vincent	The Power's Out "The Power's Out" by "St. Vincent"	All Born Screaming	1:11:41 (Pop-up)
	Clip: France 24-French prisons targeted with arson and gunfire		1:16:17 (Pop-up)
Kim Gordon & Bill Nace	Strong and Foolish Heart	The Suzanne Langille Songbook	1:17:22 (Pop-up)
The Motels	Only the Lonely "Only the Lonely" by "The Motels"	All Four One	1:24:29 (Pop-up)
Esko Affair	On Broadway (long version)	Mid-Winter's Afternoon	1:27:47 (Pop-up)

INTERVIEW WITH: Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds, filmmakers behind "Gowanus Current" https://www.gowanuscurrent.com
Bob Lukomski	The Visitors (QV edit)	Outside Music	1:56:33 (Pop-up)

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir	Change Without Us	Change Without Us	2:03:29 (Pop-up)
Structured Silence Artist—Ernie Vega	Gwine Dig a Hole in a Mountain	Ernie Vega	2:07:45 (Pop-up)
Martin Bisi	The Great Trap in the Creek	Feral Myths	2:15:36 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Arirang News-Violence escalates as Sudan conflict passes two-year mark		2:24:04 (Pop-up)
Elliott Sharp Carbon with Charles K. Noyes, Zeena Parkins, Bobby Previte, Jim Staley, et al	Turbulence	The Age of Carbon	2:24:52 (Pop-up)
The Resistance Company	The Land Defiled	Activist Therapy Session	2:30:05 (Pop-up)

Sugarcubes	Birthday (Justin Robertson 12" Mix)	It's It	2:36:08 (Pop-up)
	Clip: DW News-Hungary effectively bans LGBTQ events		2:43:27 (Pop-up)
Militia Vox	Rid Of Me "Rid Of Me" by "Militia Vox"	Bait EP	2:44:02 (Pop-up)
Bikini Kill	Rebel Girl "Rebel Girl" by "Bikini Kill"	The Singles	2:48:26 (Pop-up)
The Raincoats	Adventures Close To Home	The Raincoats	2:51:04 (Pop-up)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Long Dark Night	Wild God	2:54:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01am Barbie: Good morning Brian!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentors from a grey London Town! Happy to be here!
	6:03am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. Never a slow news week with the current regime.
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am NotARealDoctor: Good morning Brian D and all my fellow surfers of the currents, checking in from down in Norfolk VA
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: Barbie, LCF, Cooh, ALL... good morning. How about that Chinn, huh? Great stuff.
	♥ 6:04am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Dark Sun" by "Sally Timms" This is great! Good morning fiends!!!
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:03 Just missed you, NARD... And William H, good morning.
	♥ 6:05am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:07am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:05 Greetings, Fred. How are you feeling?
	⚡ ♥ 6:09am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:04 Yep lovely show by DJ Chinn! And you appear to be very much continuing with the loveliness DJ Brian, despite the continuous horrible puking of the news!
	⚡ ♥ 6:12am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	♥ 6:12am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:09 We try, LCF.
	♥ 6:13am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:07 Pretty good. The shit hits the fan in two weeks (not literally, hopefully). I'll need blood-thinner injections for a few days, but with May Day and holidays, I'll have to do these myself. I did that 9 years ago, it wasn't that hard, I hope I'll remember
	♥ 6:15am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Tide Keeps Turning" by "Justin Adams and Mauro Du... !!!!!
	6:17am Cooh John: Like that last one. Tide and world keeps turning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ fred @6:13 I feel for you Brian! Litterally! Because of the full immobilisation of my Achilles, I am on a 6 weeks course of blood thinners daily self-injections! I have done 4 and a half weeks already and my tummy is now so blue I look like a smurf!
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am TDK60: Good day, Brian, Currentistas.
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:18 Good morning, TDK.
	⚡ ♥ 6:20am London Calling Francky: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 I meant I feel for you fred*! Not only I have a blue tum but also a hazy brain! :)
	♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 I know how that goes... To think I was happy to have shed some weight. I guess I need to rebuild that beer belly STAT
	⚡ ♥ 6:23am London Calling Francky: ↳ fred @6:21 Just have a few, reasonably of course, and you will be fully set for the anti-coagulants!
	⚡ ♥ 6:26am Brian in UK: Hello Brian. He's not the son of god.......
	⚡ ♥ 6:27am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian in UK @6:26 He is a naughty boy!
	♥ 6:28am Brian D: ↳ bradford @6:12 Missed you there, bradford. Good morning.
	♥ 6:29am fred: WFMU DJ Tom Dash has a shop called Gowanus Wine Merchants. The parsing of that name is crucial (I guess the pun was intended)
	♥ 6:29am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @6:26 Greetings, Brian. You'll have to be more specific...
	6:32am Fred and Alan: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:27 LONDON CALLIng FRANCKY HELLO AND LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	6:33am Fred and Alan: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:03 NOTAREALDOCTOR LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	♥ 6:35am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "The Truths" by "Deepstaria Enigmatica" This is amazing!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:38am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:32 Hey Fred and Alan! Lots of love to you guys! How are things down your end?
	♥ 6:39am duke: ↳ William Hellfire @6:35 Amen to that. Fits my mood today.
	⚡ ♥ 6:43am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those tuning in...
	6:43am Dave V: Extreme hairdressing.
	♥ 6:44am Brian D: ↳ Dave V @6:43 I've yet to meet a hairdresser who doesn't spread misinformation.
	♥ 6:44am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @6:43 Greetings Strand... and Duke.
	♥ 6:45am William Hellfire: ↳ Brian D @6:44 Hahaha!!! Thinking Girl Trouble now.
	6:45am Dave V: Hahaha! Good thing I'm cutting my own hair these days.
	♥ 6:46am Brian D: ↳ Dave V @6:45 Me too. Doesn't take me long.
	6:46am Fred and Alan: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:38 WORKING WORKING WORKING EVEN EASTER SUNDAY
	6:47am Fred and Alan: ↳ Strandlund @6:43 STRANDLUND LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:46 Oh Fred & Alan, guys, that sounds like intense! How are things at the deli?
	♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:46 Last time I got a haircut was in January 1995, right before I started at my first real job (also when I last wore a tie or a suit)
	6:52am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone out in radioland! it's good to be here.
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am Strandlund: ↳ Fred and Alan @6:47 Hey Boys!!Good to see you!! Don't work too hard!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:54am NotARealDoctor: Hey good morning Fred and Alan, sorry to hear that, do you at least get a short day on Easter?
	♥ 6:58am William Hellfire: Everyone should watch Fear No Evil for Easter. Great Easter horror flick. Punk rock soundtrack. Very violent dodge ball scene.
	⚡ ♥ 6:58am TDK60: As usual, I don't know any of the artists being played this morn. A WFMU reality. Wait...I do know of Sally T. and Anne B. That's it. Apparently I'm not up on the latest smash hits.
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am NotARealDoctor: ↳ TDK60 @6:58 That's my favorite part of WFMU.
	⚡ ♥ 7:03am Tooth: ↳ TDK60 @6:58 I guess that’s why we listen.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am TDK60: ↳ NotARealDoctor @7:02 Good day, NARD. I like it too. But sometimes I feel overwhelmed and need to hear Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love five times in a row. {smile}
	♥ 7:05am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:05 Don't tempt me!
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:52 Rich!
	⚡ ♥ 7:06am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and fellow travelers.
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:59 Good day, Will.
	♥ 7:06am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:06 Good morning, Peter.
	7:08am Bob in North Carolina: Good morning radio listeners!
	7:08am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:20 Bartholomew Cubbins ·Yesterday (edited) The Blues? 1) Uncharted Blue 2) the color of the later Revolutionary War uniforms (once they could afford more than just their own civilian clothes) 3) Union Army's uniforms were blue 4) the sky is blue, contrary to what the Q people believe 5) the enemy's color in 1775 and 2025? Red
	7:09am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:18 Why blood thinners for an Achilles tendon?
	⚡ ♥ 7:10am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:08 hahaha! That made me chuckle!
	⚡ ♥ 7:11am dale: good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 7:12am dale: i remember taking the F train back in the 1980s and the lights of the kentile sign sometimes went out in certain places. kentile FLOOPS was my favorite.
	⚡ ♥ 7:12am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:09 I ruptured the Achilles tendon! I was in a super tight cast for 3 weeks and now in a super heavy duty techno-boot for 12 weeks! The orthopedics surgeon has prescribed blood thinners to prevent a blood clot that could be created by the immobilisation and lack of movement...
	⚡ ♥ 7:15am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The Power's Out" by "St. Vincent" Ah, you saw St. Vincent. I saw her with David Byrne during their co-tour back in the Teens.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am TDK60: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:12 Best for your healing, London Calling Francky.
	7:17am Cooh John: Saw St. Vincent on my birthday on her Masseduction tour. Amazed at how the audience misinterpreted her message.
	⚡ ♥ 7:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @7:17 Oh thank you for the kind words TDK, so much appreciated!
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am London Calling Francky: ↳ Song: "Clip: France 24-French prisons targeted with arso... Attacks on jails in Tarascon and Toulon... all around my hometown of Marseille where I grew up... gee, always something happening down there!
	7:19am Fredericks: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:10 Excellent. Good for blood flow!
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ London Calling Francky @7:12 Oh geez. Best wishes for your recovery, London Calling Francky.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am London Calling Francky: ↳ Fredericks @7:19 Yeah it is a good idea... it is just that puncturing my tum every day for the past month is starting to get a little tedious...
	⚡ ♥ 7:22am London Calling Francky: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:19 Oh thank you Peter, very nice of you! I really appreciate all the love and support on here!
	7:22am Cooh John: Oobleck, Fredericks?
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:11 Belated good morning, Dale. Who hasn't been on a subway when the power goes out?
	7:22am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:17 How so, Cooh?
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am TDK60: If anyone is in NYC or near, there will be two pro-immigrant protests today. One at Bryant Park at noon. It ties in with the climate too. And another at 3 at 157th & Broadway. www.summerofheat.org...
	7:25am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:22 The oobleck "that was capable of gumming up a whole kingdom."
	⚡ ♥ 7:26am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @7:24 Thank you for posting this TDK! Hope the turnout will be strong!
	7:27am Cooh John: Time to bring oobleck into the mainstream vocabulary.
	♥ 7:28am Crafty: ↳ Song: "Only the Lonely" by "The Motels" always snatches the attention
	7:28am Fredericks: ↳ Cooh John @7:27 I'll do my part.
	7:31am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "On Broadway (long version)" by "Esko Affair" Frigid Pink!
	7:35am Fred and Alan: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:19 PETER LOVE FROM FRED AND ALAN
	7:35am Cooh John: Seeing Nick next month.
	7:37am Fred and Alan: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:54 NOTAREALDOCTOR NO ITS A REGULAR SCHEDULE
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Fred and Alan @7:35 Good morning Fred and Alan, sending love from the north country!
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am London Calling Francky: Re. the conditions in French prisons, I am not entirely sure the conditions are that great any longer... overcrowding is a huge issue and violence is rife... of course, it is all relative... I am not sure how it compares with the prisons in the US but I am not sure the French ones are that much better... also I think it really varies from prison to prison... the one not far from where I grew up in Marseille was famously atrocious!
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: For more on the film: www.gowanuscurrent.com
	⚡ ♥ 7:45am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Fredericks @7:25 I was gonna make chili crisp chicken tonight. Ya had to post about oobleck, and now I've gone down a rabbit hole.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: Info on the showings at Cobble Hill Cinema: www.cobblehilltheatre.com...
	⚡ ♥ 7:46am TDK60: There's a local canoe club there. One WFMU regular commenter hosts their "public paddles" each summer. And you get a feel for the Gowanus Canal.
	♥ 7:48am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:46 Yes, I've always wanted to do that. Physical limitations, however.
	⚡ ♥ 7:56am TDK60: ↳ Brian D @7:48 I'm sorry. That canoe club I mentioned is along the also-polluted Newtown Creek further north in Brooklyn. Not the Gowanus.
	♥ 7:56am Brian D: Jamie's web site: www.jamiecourville.com
	♥ 7:57am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:56 Oh, I thought it was the Gowanus too.
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @7:56 Great interview, Brian. Gowanus Current could be a microcosm of the gentrification problem in the whole dang NYC metro area.
	♥ 8:06am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:04 Indeed it is. And most if not all without input from the people who live here.
	8:13am Bluesman: Wow! This Ernie Vega wild man is Vliet-rageous!
	8:15am Jeff: Tuning in with semantics of Samantha on our vacation in Belize! It’s the morning without the Pidge!!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @8:06 Morristown NJ (I used not live in Morris County): Luxury apartment buildings built in a formerly working class neighborhood. Rents at $3200 / month and up. Where are the people that cut your lawn, replace your roof etc, where are they gonna live? It's out of control.
	8:20am Bluesman: Ahhhhhhh Belize! Enjoy Jeff! Me and my better half honeymooned there in......Oct. 2001! A perfect place to be - especially after going through 9/11!
	♥ 8:22am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:19 On the eastern end of Long Island, a lot of the workers in stores, restaurants, hotels etc. have resorted to camping in the woods. Out of control, indeed.
	⚡ ♥ 8:23am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The Great Trap in the Creek" by "Martin Bisi" I just looked at studio engineer/musician Bisi's website. He's been involved in civic actions around the Gowanus.
	♥ 8:27am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:23 Yes, the canal appears on the album art for Feral Myths.
	8:31am maureen: ok. I tried to hang in there.. but I gotta turn the radio off.
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Michael of Cologne: G'day Brian. Thanks for the Gowanus interview.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:33 Good morning, Michael. Truly my pleasure.
	⚡ ♥ 8:36am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "INTERVIEW WITH: Jamie Courville and Chris Reynold... Crap. Woke at 7.55 and missed the bulk of Gowanus segment. Glug. So hello to archives later. (Also later, noon rally at Bryant park, against f’n trump Vance musk Rubio johnson…perjury traitor Greene…)
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @8:22 There are unhoused people living in tents in the woods in Dover NJ and Morris Township. Some commenters on other forums want them to "go away." SMDH.
	♥ 8:37am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:36 You needed to rest up, Herb. Rally on today.
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @8:22 Imagine a monster call The Medium that has enveloped and sucked up the Earth.
	⚡ ♥ 8:39am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Thx, Brian, zzz
	⚡ ♥ 8:40am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Thank you Brian. Great show.
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Clip: DW News-Hungary effectively bans LGBTQ events" There's another country crossed off my To Visit List.
	♥ 8:47am Ciggy: Good morning to you
	8:48am Scott from Boston: Nilufer song???
	8:49am Scott from Boston: Too good
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ TDK60 @8:45 I'm an American, but my background is 50% Hungarian. It's troubling to see what's going on over there, here, and other parts of the world. Hopefully stuff gets better.
	8:52am Fredericks: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:37 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?ueid=cc82b5ee89f6c1b371417699a18201a6
	8:52am ?: gentrification has been a persistent problem for at least 200 years. The west village used to be lovely farm land. What is shocking is that in all this time no one has come up with practical means to check and balance this. It is a side effect of economic disparity. The rich get richer and (ab)use that enhanced position to manipulate governmental powers at all levels to their advantage, making them richer and even more powerful. This becomes a 2 fanged power, on the one hand they have the government officials making laws and rulings in their favor, on the other hand being rich puts them in control of a larger portion of the general economy than a regular person. There is the key - they control the economy, they control people's access to a living wage and they control (manipulate) the costs of things which they can easily afford in all economies. Make the rich pay a larger portion of the larger percentage of the economy that they control in taxes. Their wealth makes their individual vote unequal to the vote of a laborer; they manipulate behind the scenes so much with their wealth that their vote is a secondary consideration.
	♥ 8:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Rebel Girl" by "Bikini Kill" Kathleen Hanna is as close as it gets to a deity to me
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am Strandlund: Thanks Brian!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am bradford: Many thanks, Brian!
	♥ 8:56am chresti: ↳ Song: "Adventures Close To Home" by "The Raincoats" Slits!
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D!!! Be safe everyone, be well!!!
	♥ 8:56am Brian D: ↳ chresti @8:56 Palmolive wrote the song.
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias deejay Brian.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me, as always. Hope to see some of you at the record/CD sale today. Stay safe and have a great weekend.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ @8:52 As I say, imagine a monster called The Medium that has enveloped and sucked up the Earth. The wealthy are its slaves to make it grow.
	♥ 8:59am Wendy del Formaggio: Hi Brian. I caught the last ten minutes of your show. I'm glad I'm awake and home so I can tune in and hear your voice. Have a splendid day.
	♥ 8:59am chinn: ↳ Song: "Long Dark Night" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" Thanks for this, especially. Great show, as always!
	9:12am Fredericks: The playlist fell apart at the end.

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