signal is fluctuating on Foobarrr (uff! well, now you have bait)
9:05am
Parq:
A lot of us desk jockeys are going to be soaking up the countryside vibes vicariously this morning. Pass the bug spray.
9:05am
Negator:
Mornin' Ken! Got any Glenn Frey? "Drug Smugglers Blues" would be kinda' nice right about now.......
9:07am
Negator:
Oh! You're on the lake! I'll hit you up for the Frey later.
9:07am
Ken:
Weathers great - its hard to type here =- very windy! Here's where I am:
http://tinyurl.com/55sa6w
9:08am
jeff:
bravo... remember, never get out of the boat. absolutely goddamn right. unless you were goin' all the way.
yr cordially invited to bcast from my central jersey screened in porch.
now... start the countdown until don't rock the boat?
9:08am
Lizardner Dave:
That satanicpornocultshop tune reminded me of the background music on those 9/11 coin commercials. You know: "tastefully struck out of pure 18 carat gold, this commemorative collectible will be one you can cherish forever at only $19.95".
9:09am
SWAMI:
I'm getting the vibe I used to get from that XTC album. . . the one with "Summer's Cauldron"
9:09am
Doug:
Wind-related typing accidents are dramatically up this year.
9:10am
Ypsi Doug:
Skylarking! What a great record. I read that they don't like it and they thought Todd Rundgren was a dick.
9:12am
Lizardner Dave:
Ken, I can see you there right under the "A". Looks beautiful. Did you shoot Fredo yet?
9:12am
frenchee:
oh, this is the lake show! Live the dream, Ken!
Some drop-outs during that first piece, tho.
9:12am
Torbjorn from Norway:
Hey, it sounds great !
.. well, Ken sounds like he got a cold, though.
9:14am
gumby:
If you put the towel over your head and computer screen only, you can still get a third degree sunburn on your back.
9:14am
Parq:
Hmm. I just checked the map, qv. He's not nearly as far from the metro area as I would have thought.
9:15am
Ypsi Doug:
We are witnessing radio history here I think.
9:15am
annie:
must be damn cold out there, eh?
9:15am
jan:
Are you really on a lake? There is a sunset or sunrise photo on thour page, but it's already after 9:00. show us the photographs from your location!
9:15am
cat:
What are you fishing,,Ken?
9:17am
Ypsi Doug:
Ken, can you take a photo of yourself?
9:17am
JCityJensen:
Sweet! Give the lake a big hug for me!
Bear Swamp needs to ATONE!
9:18am
Doug:
So, wouldn't it have been easier to just control the studio computer remotely for all of the music ... or is that what you're doing?
9:18am
doron:
he is really on the lake. its hard to do a whole show live from a row boat in the middle of a lake, keep an accuplaylist AND photograph/upload live pictures
9:19am
JCityJensen:
Oh Man! You gotta do this show again when the lake freezes over!
9:19am
annie:
ahhhh, technology
9:19am
Negator:
Ken, you should do a show from a bathroom in a subway OR The "Green Zone"!
9:22am
dei x:
despite 7SD, Kenny just keeps raising the bar. It's his own fault and we must abide!
9:22am
frenchee:
HA, Doron, Ken can do anything. But I bet he's being ably assisted by all of you computer-savvy staffers. Bravo to everybody.PS: A subway bathroom show would be good, a PATH bathroom show even better.
9:22am
jan:
photo forensics strongly indicate that the 2nd picture was made of the same lake and mountain as that shown above. It would help to see the some indication of the boat you are sitting in.
9:23am
Ken:
Sorry, these picks were all taken before the swhow started. I;ll post more pics of the show in progress tomorrow.
9:24am
Lizardner Dave:
All jokes aside: Love the show, love the concept. Thank you Ken.
9:28am
Parq:
Btw, I loves me madly this Regina-Jobim.
9:30am
gumby:
El lago es muy hermosa.
9:31am
Negator:
I have a huge crush on Vikki's work.
9:33am
cat:
me too..
9:33am
axlotl:
How did you get the lake into that little studio?
9:35am
JCityJensen:
beavers love LemonJelly!
9:35am
gareth:
who cares how he done it. this is the best show from a boat on a lake i've ever heard
9:35am
JCityJensen:
but the bass and sunfish love FLIPPER - go figure
9:36am
Lizardner Dave:
And rickets Larry! What about rickets???
9:36am
annie:
just when you think it can't get any better.... it does!
9:36am
TTTTT:
On a boat, in a boat-- radio! That's great!
9:39am
Negator:
Man! Put on Iron Butterfly and piss over the side of the boat, dude! All those fish do it, why can't you?
9:40am
n. ginere:
please lower the background music or raise Ken's volume!
9:41am
jon:
what is a scrimshare etching?
9:42am
Listener Dave from NH:
Fish listen to Iron Butterfly?
9:42am
Jacques Cousteau:
Brilliant show!
9:42am
Ghengis jung:
Too bad about the scrimshaw etchings...
9:42am
Pete:
That's a heckuva ocean going craft there Kenny! This is definitely big-time radio, Clearchannel can't hold a candle......
9:43am
vicki - do or diy:
morning ken! at the gym at the moment so only reading the screen rather than listening too... looks like it's all working....
9:43am
Ghengis jung:
Larry is freaking me out.
9:43am
JCityJensen:
the background music awesome! and SEADONKEY is an AWESOME boat name!
9:44am
jon:
There can't be enough room for a donkey.
9:44am
GP:
Pedal faster Ken...PEDAL faster!!
9:45am
Doug:
This is so cool
9:45am
dei x:
Tell Larry his Dutch uncle is not invited.
9:45am
chooch:
I hope Andy drops by.
9:45am
trent:
the SM58 is more "daisy" than "ken"
9:46am
Sarah:
DDaisy has lost her cute little speech impediment. That makes me a little sad.
9:47am
jeff:
dude, all sides off of the boat are the bathroom!
9:48am
Doug:
"The Sinking of the Titanic" .... "Shipwreck radio" ...
9:48am
Sarah:
Come on, Ken. Just piss over the side. Don't be so dainty.
9:48am
efd:
isn't there a record in the new bin right now by a band called the Sea Donkeys?
9:48am
charles:
It's pronounced DUN-KEY you guys! Like monkey!
9:51am
jon:
Don't go Larry!
9:51am
Listener David:
Ken,
Hope you don't have any bananas on the boat...They're bad luck
9:52am
Lizardner Dave:
It's probably too much to hope for "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald", right?
9:54am
?:
DUN-KEY how are you spelling that? Donkey? now im confused
9:55am
Lewis:
Another radio frontier shattered - loving the row boat show!
9:56am
Doug:
So, are there boats all over that lake broadcasting?
9:58am
GP:
Ken,
D O N O T use that extension cord for backup power out there!
9:58am
gumby:
big ol' beautiful rattle snakes up there in north Jersey
9:59am
Ghengis Jung:
The song, she's not there!
9:59am
paul:
this show reminds me of OCDJ's last show... unfortunately he seems to have deleted all his archives, as well as any other information about him on the internet that he possibly could. that makes me sad. i miss dan.
10:03am
dc pat:
hate to be filled with doom but I predict disaster soon...
10:04am
GP:
Sweet oarlock
10:04am
m:
oh my god, you're right! that must have been recent -- i was just looking through ocdj's shows a month ago or so. very sad if they're gone forever...
10:04am
annie:
2 more hours and alow battery? you will HAVE to put on iron butterfly!
10:06am
jeff:
i would think poisoning & harassing bears is a crime in this state... not a family sport.
10:07am
Paul the K:
How about some self shots and some shots of the radio "equipment" on the vessel.
10:12am
-max-:
WOW!! Note this date and time: KEN PLAYS FRANK ZAPPA!!!? Never thought I'd see the day. Thanks Ken!
10:15am
Steve:
I was supposed to go boating with my father today... I'd kinda rather sit here and listen to Ken's boat broadcast!
10:16am
charlie:
zappa followed by the meat puppets - had the pleasure to see both - not together - god - i'm old
10:17am
jan:
iPod!? I was hoping that you would be spinning vinyl today
10:18am
JCityJensen:
tesla would be proud ken - damn proud
bears also like FLIPPER - FLIPPER also uses less battery power!
10:21am
Jacques Cousteau:
Odd set for a sailor. Keep up the catchy hooks.
10:21am
Ghengis Jung:
Has Larry returned, or did he see into the future? Or is Larry actually... no, I can't bear it.
10:23am
dei x:
I think Larry is closer to the Freedman family than particularly comfortable...
10:24am
TTTTTT:
Rowing power !?
10:25am
Lizardner Dave:
I sense Zatumba approaching the vessel.
10:29am
dei x:
RUN/ROW!!!
10:33am
bwalker:
I close my eyes Ken, and my desk evaporates and I Join you in the boat!
10:33am
Gigantor:
Ivor cutler maybe? I don't recognize the song, but the voice sounds like him.
10:34am
gigantor:
People who died? Oh Ken and family, you rock! I haven't heard this in years!
10:34am
paul:
oh boy, Someone! i bought this Someone record for a dollar at the last WFMU record fair.
10:34am
Parq:
Is there a drowning in this Carroll song?
10:35am
?:
ivor cutler from a lake?
i have hope for the world after all, shaky but i'll make it through the day, i think.
10:35am
PMD:
Darn, I just got here now. Can I swim out to meet you?
Great!!!
10:37am
gumby:
Does drinking drano count Parq?
10:40am
Parq:
Gum, if you drank Drano out on a boat, woud, the whole lake fizz up?
10:40am
paul:
the Beach Boys version is better.
10:40am
JJZ:
You should play the Osymyso version of California Dreaming, I like that one.
10:40am
Jeffersonic:
Hi Ken and Crew, didja bring any crappy old moldy records from the basement, to be frisbeed into the lake and found by future archaeologists?
10:41am
JCityJensen:
the lakeside tavern has awesome chili and JUMBOLAND is just Jumbo!
the great blue heron has atoned!
10:42am
Lewis:
chungking express...
10:42am
Gigantor:
Idunno, but this one seems to be skipping in a record-y way. perhaps it could be skipped across the lake.
10:42am
Rebecca:
Hi Harry and Ken. Beautiful day to be out on a lake!
10:43am
gumby:
No, it would empty, to China or something. That's what Drano does, silly.
10:44am
Swami:
Playing to the base, huh?
10:44am
Gigantor:
So what was that thing that sounded like Ivor? Was that the Chipmunks? Played realllly slow? Maybe Ivor recorded ALL the chipmunks songs?
10:45am
Mike:
My gawd, forget the fact that "California Dreaming" was created before I was born and I've had to endure it thousands upon thousands of times. It is a, uh, great song. It must be. I've had to endure listening to it thousands and thousands of times, completely against my will. I guess I'm dumb and missing something. I'll think about it in the next 24 hours when I'm forced to listen to it yet again.
10:46am
Fantod:
Ken's kids seem so much older suddenly.
10:46am
swami:
Though I have heard this song a ton of times, hearing it on FMU recontextualizes it. For some reason it sounds better here than other places.
10:47am
JCityJensen:
Bears eat people who listen to QUEEN especially guys named Harry or Barry who live near lakes....
10:47am
JJZ:
Because you work at a store called "California Mattress"?
10:48am
?:
There are no other radio stations there is only WFMU
10:48am
?:
there is only ken
10:49am
Mike:
My good friend was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody near Big Bear Lake and a cougar attacked him. Cougars don't even live in that area. Be careful of what you play.
10:50am
annie:
these lids live in the heart of a metro area and there is NO RADIO to listen to? wow.
10:50am
annie:
wait, i meant kids!!!! where are my glasses??
10:54am
JCityJensen:
here is a list of all the mammals in NJ from NJDEP - my fav is the Bridled Spotted Dolphin
http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/chkmamls.htm
Bridled Spotted Dolphin kill people who listen to QUEEN and VAN HALEN
10:55am
Lizardner Dave:
Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby and buy ourselves a snack!
10:55am
gumby:
"Comet it makes you vomit" I love this one!
10:57am
Ypsi Doug:
My mom frequently used to sing "Comet, it makes you vomit" to me when I was wee. I'd forgotten about that.
10:58am
gumby:
"So get some comet & vomit todayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
10:59am
Mickey Mephistopheles:
Harry has his radio priorities right. Be glad, Ken.
In completely unrelated news, there's a nifty new plugin for Winamp that lets you route the input through VST effects. I'm using it to route the stream through NI Reaktor at present.
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/146317
10:59am
SeaDonkey:
Yeah no more Queen please - I'll be at the lakeside tavern waiting for all Queen Fans
11:01am
dc pat:
play something off that new Ex album w/ Mekuria
11:04am
GP:
Miley Cyrus is cool..its the Disney marketing juggarnaut that is annoying..If you watch the Disney channel or Nick you can't avoid the push. Although I draw the line at the "Naked Brothers Band" ( a group of unsupervised, HIGHLY annoying kids that have no talent but somehow got a T.V. show and all of the associated marketing that goes with that)..Our daughters sound like are about the same age. I try to play a lot of alternatives for her , some she likes, most she just thinks are weird.
11:07am
C:
Pat. Were you at the Ex show at the Black Cat last week? Something else, right? As good as the band was, I thought the dancer stole the show.
11:07am
Parq:
My daughter is newly college-age, and I speak from experience when I say that pushing "good" music on them is counterproductive. No kid wants to think of his or her parents as a source of what's cool. Daisy and Harry sound like they are squarely in the eye-rolling and door-slamming stages, respectively. But not at all respectfully.
11:09am
Lizardner Dave:
Have we set the record for most playlist comments to a show from a boat yet?
11:09am
GP:
Parq,
10-4 on that....Don't know why I started that rant.
11:10am
Fred:
Comet has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.
11:10am
dc pat:
Yeah, I was there--I thought the show was the best I've seen in years. That dancer was fekkin wild--my spouse got freaked out by him.
11:10am
annie:
my son went from deep crushes for petula clark at ten to dep crushes on pearl jam at 15. i did my best to grok his need for it and i must say it really opened my eyes to the kids today. he is now 25 and well-adjusted.. whew!!
11:11am
Lewis:
for a long time Junior Brown was my daughter's (Harry's age) favorite. She is also an authority on Lee Hazelwood. But these days our tastes are diverging. that said WFMU has clearly shaped her musical opinions...
11:12am
Vicki - DO or DIY:
Bet Daisy and Harry are going to love everyone talking about them, ha ha. Hi Daisy and Harry :)
11:12am
dc pat:
for now my kids like Beatles, Kinks, Flaming Lips, Sonny Boy Williamson, Beach Boys, Clash, Ramones. They're completely uninterested in official kid music outside of Dan Zanes who is actually kind of good.
11:12am
annie:
at my cafe i played fmu alot and the kids loved it, the young 20s that is.. not eh teens, they just didn't get it.
11:14am
annie:
oh yeah right and he loved. loved, loveed the fat boys!!!!
11:14am
Steve:
Surf's Up KEN ! ! !
11:15am
Lizardner Dave:
Holy crap! A foot washed up in Ken's boat!
11:15am
GP:
Saw Dan Zanes live and actually had a very good time at the show...oh yeah..the kids do too!
11:16am
SWAMI:
PLUG 1! "Tread water"? Is the canoe sinking?
11:16am
SeaDonkey:
the kids will eventually find great music (hopefully) but like all kids they'll figure it out own their own. I'm sure all commenting here didn't dig at one point what their parents or others pushed on them (musically) but eventually you grow up into the big boy pants and realize how cool our parents actually are - at least that what i think of my donkey father and horse mother
11:16am
Steve:
We miss you Vicki. Please come back. Ken won't mind.
11:17am
JCityJensen:
is the foot covering a hole?
11:17am
Kris Kross:
Gotta play "Sailing" by the other Cristopher Cross
11:18am
Bridled Spotted Dolphin:
yeah de la! nice ken
11:19am
d:
"sailing" is a GREAT call.
11:19am
annie:
funny this, i used to listen to alot of coolege radio and my son hated it; really thought he might get it...
11:20am
annie:
ok i'm putting my glasses on......
11:21am
Kris Kross:
I know..It is a bit obvious..but maybe Ken has some weird mashup version
11:21am
Steve:
What's it all a boat?
11:22am
dc pat:
if I play anything w/ scratchy guitars, my son says "I DON' WIKE THIS SONG!!" that includes Woody Guthrie
11:22am
Vicki:
Ken's mic is slightly distorting
11:22am
la la la:
yr mike's a little hot ken....crackle crackle!
11:23am
GP:
I would hate Coolege radio as well...I wish some other presidents had radio shows! ;)
11:24am
BSI:
love me some "faith-based gambling"...!
11:26am
dei x:
I stopped trying to get my parents interested in quality stuff - but they'd rather have Andre Rieu, Huey Lewis, and Nylons over Kronos Quartet, Nina Simone, and Tortoise.
11:28am
annie:
word
11:29am
Lizardner Dave:
Tricky Trays aren't exactly gambling. They're a fund raising gimmick where people buy bunches of tickets used to bid on various items. You bid by placing your tickets in the cup/hat/whatever next to the item and you increase your chances of being picked by increasing the number of tickets you put in for any given item.
It used to be called a "Chinese Auction" but the Spanish basketball team ruined that for everyone.
11:29am
Ypsi Doug:
Shit, Dei X, my parents basically only listen to Rush Limbaugh and shitty smooth jazz, so your folks are doing all right.
11:29am
Jaysie-Waisie:
How bout some Christopher Cross?
11:30am
frequency:
Ween - the mollusk
11:30am
cd pat:
who produced this album? It's a really nice mix. A lot of the Ex albums are muddy..
11:35am
dc or cd pat:
THIS FEKKIN RULES!!
11:37am
GP:
Ken, Hear you on the stream..could not hear Viccki
11:38am
Vicki:
I could hear Ken. That was surreal moment of the day
11:39am
Parq:
KEN, DON'T! "NEVER BEEN TO ME"?? YOU COULD GET CUSTODY TAKEN AWAY FOR THAT!
11:40am
Ike:
For a moment there, it sounded like Ken said, "My son ran off with one of my rowboat whores."
I love the sound of the water lapping against the boat.
11:41am
Vicki:
all I could hear was oars for a while
11:43am
GP:
Everytime I hear this Wax Audio Tract the better it gets.....This took some talent to put together
11:43am
Phil Rachelson:
great show Ken
I'm at my place in Shohola, on twin lakes
maybe I'll take my easel and canvas onn our rowboat and see if I can duplicate your feat in art
11:44am
jamais:
this 'offshore show' is a radio pirate's fantasy as "God" plays...freeform radio IS democracy, isn't it?
11:45am
Sean Daily:
Is that Wax Audio mashup of George W. Bush is available somewhere, Ken?
11:46am
jong:
Larry don't go!
11:49am
Vicki:
Daisy should DJ on fmu
11:50am
bb:
ah..that was great..i almost felt like i was on vacation
11:50am
Vicki:
he's still on skype, his battery hasn't gone!
11:51am
Parq:
Funny you should say that, Vik. I was just sitting here, wistfully thinking that someday, sooner than us midde aged crocks want to think about, she will.
11:51am
K K:
YESSSS!
11:51am
doron:
by request...
11:51am
TTT-TT:
Fantastic! Hooray.
11:52am
PMD:
How about Don Ho - Tiny Bubbles?
11:52am
Vicki:
oh Ken's fallen off of skype too now
hey doron - www.peoplelikeus.org/4ken
11:52am
GP:
Doron,
Nice work!
11:52am
jan:
arrghh- christopher cross- I'd never have thought to hear this-
what next? Sai away Sail Away by....gosh I can't remember who
11:53am
PMD:
Sean Daily - go to their website: http://www.waxaudio.com.au/
11:53am
frequency:
this is good ipod music
11:53am
Bill:
Styx?
11:53am
Lizardner Dave:
So Doron, how about some Rush while Ken's not looking?
11:54am
Vicki:
I'm afraid Sail Away is by Enya
11:54am
GP:
What is the most embarasing song on your Ipod or whatever?
11:54am
Vicki:
KEN'S BACK ON SKYPE!!!
11:54am
jan:
Enya, right - well, Ken?
11:59am
Gigantor:
Great job, Daisy! Ken, you should giver her Kenny G's slot!
12:03pm
Parq:
Vicki, Doron, well done you as well.
12:34pm
Raj:
Missed it! IThis one is worth back-streaming.
Partial to "Sail On" by the Commadores.
2:02pm
Ken:
Whoa, thanks everybody, that was fun but more difficult than I expected! I just added a batch of pics (above) that were shot during the show.
2:48pm
cat:
VERY CUTE ..
3:01pm
Lizardner Dave:
Nice pics. Great show.
9:06am
mouse:
if you see my oar
11:16am
HotRod:
These pics are just wonderful, Ken! Amazing how much your kids look like you!
12:00pm
dei xhrist:
what better way to pitch WFMU to your friends than that last photo?
4:31pm
mary:
I am jealous of Daisy & Harry. Ken is THE coolest dad ever. Fab show.
12:09pm
johN:
Listening to archive. Luvin' it. My desk has almost become a sea donkey.
9:14pm
nondairykramer:
Excellent show, Ken. The only thing missing is "Swan Lake, Minnesota" by the Swan Lake Six.