Nothing says fear, loss, sadness, and war like something Russian.Merry Krampus!
9:07am
mooose:
hello from jersey city, morningtime here.
9:08am
BillyJam:
Is this the Chipmunks really really slowed down?
9:10am
john from oslo:
http://www.sockandawe.com/
9:11am
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:
My favorite Wednesday morning game has begun... Guess Ken's Mood! Who wants to play?
9:12am
Lizardner Dave:
I'll say merry. It's Krampus time, after all.
9:12am
JJZ:
Festive?
9:12am
texas scott:
I do I do....let's see...um probably a little sleepy..
9:15am
Bad Ronald:
nonplussed.
9:15am
Ghengis Jung:
Pia Zadora filling in for Ken today?
9:15am
annie:
we have to get pia hooked up with larry
9:17am
annie:
BR- i'm with you
9:18am
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:
Larry deserves better
9:19am
Ghengis Jung:
Is this from Animal's solo album after he left Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem?
9:20am
listener mark:
Pia Zadora starred in "Santa Claus conquers the Martians" a classic. Speaking of classics try Pia Zadora on google images with safe search off. Wow
9:21am
Gigantor:
Oh no! I missed 19 minutes of Christmasy badness!
9:24am
Faith:
Is this stomach Krampus or menstrual Krampus?
9:26am
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:
Did Ken break into Prof. Dum Dum's locker?
9:26am
sugarwolf:
yay, I finally have a Wednesday morning off so I can listen to Ken's to show.
9:26am
molerat:
What have they done to poor Larry?
9:31am
dictater:
Is this the hippy noise. Another Thai Krampus; ;jingin ben jingin ben jingin ben da den...
9:32am
trrrish:
-tobogganing w/ krampus
-penguin and bagpiper
..great first visuals to the audios
9:33am
detroitdave:
Wow Ken, psychoholiday madness today!
9:38am
annie:
i found it!! http://www.geocities.com/baby-lemonade/randolf.html
9:40am
dc pat:
what is that annie? John Lennon thing?
9:41am
annie:
yes, one of my favorites
9:41am
Bad Ronald:
Nice one Annie, Lennon!
9:42am
annie:
for many years i have been talking like that kindof and it is all some big inside joke til you meet someone who has read the same book..
9:44am
dc pat:
nice, I always break out the Beatles fan club records (mp3s) this time of year...
9:47am
Bad Ronald:
In His Own Write:
http://tinyurl.com/johnlennonihor
9:47am
annie:
i waited each year for those pat, what fun.. i am so hoping to get ahold of the NYT page that yoko takes out each year.. if anyone gets one i will gladly pay to have it sent to me!~!?/
9:50am
Laurie:
I prefer the Saint Etienne fan club records.
9:51am
dave in vermont:
this reminds me of sissy spacek in some movie-badlands?
9:51am
annie:
BR- you have made me smile, isn't he wonderful?? we were neurotic and strange youth and that kind of humour set us going!!
9:52am
Ahmad Mechanic:
Seasons Greetings from the Dark Side
Speaking from my bowels.The steam from my breathe turns deep green in the freezing air.It is the dark cold season and even my eyes are filled with bile.I awake at the crack of noon to beat the dead horse in the middle of room into further submission."Lay down... ,down....".The cold metal rod sticks to the remaining moisture in my fingers as I flail. "Lie flatter" "Be still my puppy." The mice scurry to take cover in the rubble of broken pipes and bottles.They will return in an instant to gnaw on more cardboard and bits of fiberglass as soon my back is turned. "Ah" the beating does warm my cold blood just enough to think about being hungry.I would just open an fresh can of worms,but I suppose there are other options.There is that dead eel I caught in the fall ripening in a bucket in the driveway outside."Hmm?"What is this? No maggots ! It looks almost fresh even after months. Sniff,sniff ."Not enough stink !" "Intolerable ! "It must have been all that salt water and dry air.It has almost cured itself. Perhaps this technique could yield results like some kind of eel prosciutto or fish salami. T'is true world is full of disappointments all I wanted was bit of putrid slithering and some bones and or a few sharp teeth for contemplation but I can not even get any thingy to rot properly in this weather.Well then again there still is that one quart of rotting clams I got back in September I believe they are now all ooze and stinking properly. An nice hor devours Yes,but maybe not enough chew to satisfy this dark heart of mine.
What then? More time I guess ..to ruminate.
On what ? Something worthy! ....On love and transgression?...Maybe.
Perhaps I should take a stroll along the shore at low tide and crawl into the large and darkest of rocks to feed the crabs more of my misanthropic ways.
I do miss the summers warm air and sweet pungent smell of trash rotting in the alley,the wasteful ways of the decadent, the towering mounds of young flies laying seed and burrowing into decay,the green stagnant waters brooding with mosquitoes in rusty black steel drums,the hot sleepless humidity and haze.But to me summers verdant and blithe is still too foggy.The long lit days are vague and fleeting months and full of deceit and false promises of leisure time and fruit full harvest.Sweat and toil maybe there own reward but the heat and dull ache of labor is so unenlightening.I say that the cold and dark quiet of winter brings new and vital comforts.The door way in which I crafted years ago into the roof may still be too flat and too open to be considered proper architecture or even anything less than an hole the size of door but in due time it is an pathway to the stars.The cool wind now may coil downward to wrap my limbs and sting the bones. There is nothing like the night on the icy precipice to bring clarity,fresh madness ,new poisons to feed the pain, powers to rout out the demons and make them whole.The cold and darkest of hours(Dec.21) is soon upon us if not the end of the world and an eternity of heat.
Hoping that you create peace and able to make merry with all of yours demons in this coming season.
love Ali
9:54am
Mark:
You expect me to read all that?
9:56am
annie:
i love copy and paste
9:57am
Ahmad Mechanic:
Have you lost your to ability to read ?I am so sorry.
9:59am
Ken:
Sorry I'm so scarce folks!! Trying to mix a lot...
9:59am
Bad Ronald:
No Ahmad, it's rather egregiously verbose.
10:00am
Ken:
Ahmad, if you're going to cut and paste it better be funny. Is it funny? I dont even have time to read it.
10:01am
Mark:
Exactly Bad Ronald and Ken
10:01am
dictater:
Spell check and a dictionary go a long way when writing about 'beating the dead horse in the middle of room' oh ye green breathed one.
10:02am
annie:
ken, it isn't so much the humour, it is the writing
10:04am
Ahmad Mechanic:
I believe it is funny and appropriate .Corporeal tunneling doesnt improve my spelling.
Sorry if it is too long for this venue.
10:04am
north guinea hills:
ken mixs a lot?
10:05am
john from oslo:
Hi Ahmat, I sorta read it - in glimpses - some kinda Crowley meets Tales from the Crypt meets Death Metal meets Erazorhead meets A Zed & Two Naughts meets Krampus? Not?
10:06am
listener mark:
Yes, he has a laptop.
10:07am
Phil:
Is it me or does God sound like Joe Frank?
10:09am
dictater:
Does that mean Ahmad wrote that? All by himself? and has tunnel problems, like the tunnels to hell; did Jesus come to you with a Jewish haircut.
10:10am
Phil:
Is Psycho Santa a cover of Elvis Costello's Psycho, or maybe the other way around?
10:10am
dc pat:
man, I gotta get to the Alps on Dec. 5 next year.
10:11am
john from oslo:
whoops, there goes the soundcard
10:11am
risky!:
morning ken?
10:12am
john from oslo:
oh, sorry - all ok now
10:12am
Bad Ronald:
Jack Kittel wrote "Psycho".
10:15am
Joe:
Joe Morris in the house!
I think this is the best work by the cats, personally..
Beatle barkers rule tho!
10:16am
Ahmad Mechanic:
Hello All'
Yes I did write Seasons Greetings from the Dark Side a few days ago as general greeting to all my friends this coming season.Yes the nerves in my hands are degrading
and I never really learned to type .
10:17am
annie:
i liked it ahmad.. very clever..
10:21am
anne:
happy krampus to all! and merry birching for all the young ladies!
10:24am
GP:
Morning Ken,
Let the birching begin.
shout out to SinterKlass as well!
10:25am
happy listener:
Great images, Ken! Happy Krampus! Keep doing a good show.
10:25am
Ahmad Mechanic:
I could not ask for a better sound track for Season Greetings.Thank you Annie.
10:26am
?:
Google reveals that "Psycho Santa" is by Western Caravan. Hm... Can't find anything out there besides lyrics, though.
10:31am
Brian C.:
Krampus Helles Lager - From a brewery featured on Scott's old 2:40 beer tasting segment - http://www.southerntierbrewing.com/beers.html - it's a nice, big, bitter brew from Chautauqua Co., NY
10:34am
C:
I used to like Christmas music
10:34am
Brick Road:
they should have used the dogs from beatle barkers instead also they need employment
10:35am
annie:
i wonder if they hit the animal each time for the sound or do they just record the first yelp and leave the beast alone after that.
10:38am
Cecile:
I saw this in Bark magazine. A sound engineer who hated dogs because they wrecked his field recordings spliced all the barks he clipped out together as a joke.
10:39am
Mayor Bill Pirkle:
According to the 5-disc deluxe edition of Beatle Barkers Anthology, those dogs and other animals use a special MIDI interface that is concealed in a tasty can of their favorite food. I was pretty reassured at least
10:39am
Cecile:
we could use Ellington's Jazz Nutcracker.
That Nutcracker story is just pagan, warped and beautiful.
10:40am
ferd berfle:
well, that's a relief!!!
10:41am
dc pat:
look at this Krampus card--those Alps dwellers are nuts:
Wishing all the joy and relief of the season to you, Ferd.
10:44am
GP:
Ken, ok, now we need some whistling Germans or Austrians.
10:44am
Gigantor:
Yes, according to Wikipedia, the Krampus engages in "slight birching, especially of young females"
10:44am
Mac:
Let us not have this Holiday Fest be a Sexist Season. Krampus needs a mate. I nominate La Befana from Italy (she is a witch).
10:45am
Cecile:
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
Nutcracker! The official ballet of Krampus!
10:45am
dc pat:
yeah but what's that got to do with a little devil sticking up a naked lady in the bathroom? There's a whole crazy world here we don't know about...
10:46am
LI'l bobby:
Yeah, i thought god sounded alot like joe frank, too...with a slight head cold.
my favorite christmas song as a kid was walter brennan's Henry had a Merry x-mas. it was about the turkey who gets spared from the chopping block.Seems to have some resonance this winter. happy holidays every body.
10:46am
GP:
DC PAt...great now we have Krampus gangsta style...even has the Glock...
Mac...Fear not check out: Frau Perchta
10:48am
Cecile:
*twirls around* hurray for rats, sugar rushes, and delusions!
10:49am
dc pat:
my daughter is in the Washington Ballet's performance of the Nutcracker this year...she's a bee
10:50am
annie:
is she bearing up? all that flitting and all.
10:51am
dc pat:
she's doing great--she loves being on stage. Now I just need to replace that tutu with a guitar...
10:51am
Ryan B:
This isn't Gae Bolg & the Church of Fand is it?
10:52am
Bad Ronald:
Hah ha "flitting", I love that word!
Or she can be like Cheech, DCP - tutu AND a guitar!
10:52am
annie:
in good time, pat, in good time...... or an arrow for her head ala steve martin..
10:53am
gigantor:
This, this is...wonderful?!
10:53am
Excitable Boy:
Yah, John (Johann?) Birch Society...yah, yah! We are the Krampus...Weeee are the Krampus...no time for losers, 'cuz we are the Krampus...of the girrrrls!
10:53am
PMD:
Oh, I remember the days of you doing an entire show on this!
10:54am
dc pat:
OH YEAH, Alice Bowie!
10:54am
trrrrrish:
wwundderbar
10:56am
Bad Ronald:
"Earache My Eye"!
10:57am
annie:
you'll shoot yer eye out!!
10:57am
dc pat:
Man, I haven't heard that since I was about 10, Bad Ron.
10:57am
Negator:
Windy up in this piece.
10:58am
Sean Daily:
Not even close to first comment!
10:59am
PMD:
Wait, I heard the word arschloch I think. FCC doesn't care about that??
10:59am
Gigantor:
Why does this sound like Paul Simon?
10:59am
Bad Ronald:
DCP - http://preview.tinyurl.com/earachemyeye
11:00am
Lee:
Is Professor Dumb Dumb in the house?!
11:02am
dc pat:
thanks, aaaaa!
11:03am
Vodka:
Daddy's drinking up our Christmas.
11:03am
dc pat:
it cracks me up to see where these conversations end up: Krampuis>Nutcracker>Alice Bowie
11:04am
dr freud:
does the listener dialogue influence the dj or vice versa???
11:06am
Bad Ronald:
Symbiosis...
11:06am
Negator:
yOKO! She sounds lovely, doesn't she? I didn't know she made an Krampus record.
11:07am
Cecile:
it's one long mobius strip of inspiration, freudie.
11:07am
dc pat:
well then where the hell is Alice Bowie, KEN?!
11:07am
Lizardner Dave:
Wayne Butane! Get your finger on the button...Johnny Mathis.
11:08am
Cecile:
johnny mathis does have all the answers!
11:09am
Lizardner Dave:
Does "Christmas" from Tommy fit the Krampus spirit?
11:09am
Negator:
Hark.
11:10am
GP:
Birch me baby!
11:10am
dc pat:
LOT of Beatles in this piece. WHOA is that postcard scary!!
11:11am
dc pat:
yeah, Christmas from Tommy--my fave song from that album.
11:12am
IntangibleArts:
I've gotta get me one of those "lady muskrat housekeepers"...
11:12am
Negator:
We are on "the fucking" moon.
11:12am
annie:
did anyone see the story about the birthday boy denied the cake due to his name??
11:12am
GP:
I think that is Gene Simmons.
Emmanuel "Lewis" LOL
11:13am
GP:
Yea Annie..those parents need to be birched.
11:14am
?:
Hey, what are ya, Negator, a lunadick?
11:15am
elvie:
ken, do you have anything with hannukah harry in it?
11:16am
Ike:
Did Popeye just denounce "Chinese junk?" Did I hear that right? Am I crazy? (Wait, don't answer that last one.)
I'm with Popeye. I buy no gifts made in China. Plus, they just banned the BBC again.
11:16am
Negator:
Just a fan of RIAA. Heard a sample in this Wayne Butane thang. I just consider myself a big dick.
11:19am
Cecile:
oh, jeez.
der lutefisk.
I am told that gallons of butter is crucial to getting it down.
11:19am
Sean Daily:
Ist der lutefisk?
Ja! Ist der lutefisk!
11:21am
annie:
yeah, i watcheed one of those travel shows .. it takes forever to make that shit..
11:22am
detroitdave:
Sean Daily, Ja das ist der lutefisk! (learned it in germam class)
11:24am
detroitdave:
These Krampus postcards are psychotic
11:24am
Ahmad Mechanic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
11:24am
bbell:
I guess the Germans acquired a taste for Lutefisk one of the many times they "visited" Norway.
11:26am
Cecile:
Yeah, it's an old Viking tradition.
LIke burying food in the ground for six months in Iceland and digging it up for a big feast.
Give me some pemmican, and beef jerky, plz.
11:26am
detroitdave:
yes,yes only a visit hahahahahahahahhhaaaaaaa!
11:31am
Negator:
I AM THE ANTICHRIST! MERRY KRAMPUS!
11:32am
Sean Daily:
Bet that tongue makes Gruss vom Krampus popular with the ladies.
11:34am
Bad Ronald:
With a tongue like that he doesn't need any ladies!
11:34am
GP:
Mom: " I repel you foul Krampus with the sign of the Fonzi"
11:35am
The Dean:
Makes him a Big Man On Kampus.
11:46am
stingy d:
hey these are great pictures ken!
in particular i liked jerry goldsmith, kornkator and anny aoao
11:48am
Cecile:
Nice, ken!
Will it be archived at WCBN if I can't listen?
11:49am
annie:
fantastic show ken!!!! top ten!!
11:50am
detroitdave:
Good question Cecile, what city is the station at Ken?
11:50am
Negator:
I feel so exposed. Is that Sinatra singing on "Women's Underwear"?
11:51am
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:
There are loads of great Krampus in "The Devil in Design" by Beauchamp
11:51am
Webhamster Henry:
Have a happy vacation Ken! Next year: a little Krampus parade in Jersey City!
11:52am
Cecile:
detroitdave - Ann Arbor!
11:52am
GP:
WCBN is 88.3 Ann Arbor, MI
11:53am
GP:
Slow on the server...thanks Cecile : )
11:54am
detroitdave:
Thanks Cecile and GP, I can listen then, what time on Jan 1?
11:54am
Cecile:
I used to DJ there in the mid 80s myself.
11:56am
dc pat:
man, those Alpians must really like to scare the living shit out of their kids.
11:58am
detroitdave:
yeah, I was thinkin the same thing.....Krampus seems hard on the children (when sitting close)
12:01pm
shuffler:
Musk rap
Sparkum
Markups
Sum park
Sump ark
Krampus
12:03pm
Mac:
I would pay real money to see Jacque Tati as Krampus
12:04pm
GP:
Have a great holiday Larry and Ken.
9:36am
Pamela R.:
I meant to email you, Ken, much before this... Was hoping you'd again play The Little Drummer Boy, by Jonathan Kane, in your Krampas Special. Yes, I know you did play it, but just a little clip, and overdubbed, too. Last year when you did, that is, play the full fabulous version, I, over time, played it, oh, perhaps 80 times. I even bought it and later all of J.K.'s CDs (and even LPs), I was so enamored. I now go to every Jonathan Kane gig in the city... It's an amazing song. I thank you for giving it air time. Perhaps next week, xmas eve, you can play the full version. No, I am not a shill for Jon.
Peas....
1:02am
bw:
23 min in - why is Larry crying???? its KRISTMAS!!!!
1:12am
bw:
34 min in and now I am cryin!! this Krampus is terrrrifyin!