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Favoriting March 30, 2009: Try on for Size

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Yo La Tengo  Sea Urchins   Favoriting The Sounds of the Sounds of Science      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
mountains  mp table   Favoriting Choral    *   0:10:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
a small good thing 

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Tim Hecker  her black horizon/currents of electrostasy   Favoriting imaginary country      0:23:24 (Pop-up)
Astral Social Club  Flamingo Moon   Favoriting Plug Music Ramoon      0:27:28 (Pop-up)
Hochman and Hopkins  chamber   Favoriting Bent Broom Rehearsal Tapes      0:31:35 (Pop-up)
phil kline  hear my prayer   Favoriting       0:35:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
prefuse 73 

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy  without work you are nothing   Favoriting beware      0:45:57 (Pop-up)
julie doiron  je e savois   Favoriting i can wonder what you did with your day      0:46:47 (Pop-up)
Ilya monosov  my dear   Favoriting Seven Lucky Plays or How to Fix Songs for a Broken Heart    *   0:50:38 (Pop-up)
tiny concept  so, here we go the end of the party   Favoriting       0:51:58 (Pop-up)
Steve Gunn  Over the Hill   Favoriting Sundowner      0:55:30 (Pop-up)
aranos  i pay tax   Favoriting pieros      0:58:19 (Pop-up)
 
aranos  you pay tax   Favoriting       1:10:16 (Pop-up)
?  baa baa black sheep   willow songs      1:11:56 (Pop-up)
rosswell rudd  astro slyde   Favoriting trombone tribe      1:13:12 (Pop-up)
Byard Lancaster  just test   Favoriting funky funky rib crib      1:16:43 (Pop-up)
 
joe bataan  Special Girl   Favoriting king of latin soul      1:27:58 (Pop-up)
?  ?   new ethiopian dance music      1:30:09 (Pop-up)
chairman mao  gramma's hands   Favoriting       1:31:28 (Pop-up)
ofege  its not easy   Favoriting Try and Love      1:36:50 (Pop-up)
Panel of Judges  all this could be yours   Favoriting       1:44:48 (Pop-up)
das  where are you?   Favoriting non chalant      1:50:52 (Pop-up)
Henry Flynt & The Insurrections  goodbye wall st   Favoriting       1:53:50 (Pop-up)
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound  track one   Favoriting When Sweet Sleep Returned      1:58:15 (Pop-up)
droids  do you have the force part one   Favoriting       2:00:24 (Pop-up)
Blanketship  The St John River   Favoriting       2:06:22 (Pop-up)
Hikashu  koukin in manhattan   Favoriting ikirukoto      2:07:39 (Pop-up)
Dan Deacon  red f   Favoriting bromst      2:09:33 (Pop-up)
 
transmittens  cow clouds   Favoriting       2:20:09 (Pop-up)
Crystal Castles  Alice Practice   Favoriting       2:21:19 (Pop-up)
Saing Saing Maw  Lah Ley Cham   Favoriting       2:24:49 (Pop-up)
Hefner  greedy ugly people   Favoriting       2:26:23 (Pop-up)
drunks with guns  wonderful subdivision   Favoriting second verses      2:38:38 (Pop-up)
happy burger  pizza all around the world   Favoriting       2:41:51 (Pop-up)
personal and the pizzas  i don't wanna be no personal pizza   Favoriting       2:43:52 (Pop-up)
thee oh sees  the freak was clean   Favoriting       2:46:41 (Pop-up)
the no goods  wonder   Favoriting       2:51:44 (Pop-up)
jonathan richman  Affection   Favoriting       2:56:26 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:09am
annie:

wooohooo!
  9:12am
boss says to me...:

boss: why do you get in before 9am on Mondays?
me: because i wanna start the week off right
boss: really?
me: no, there is actually a 9am radio show i don't wanna miss out on.
  9:14am
bw:

hi everyone!!!

I missed you all last week -

man oh man you don't want to know what my boss says to me!!
  9:14am
annie:

see what good citizens fmu has made us?? .. no please tell us bw..
  9:20am
Parq:

We missed you too, Benj, but the "Day of Subs" was a big success, and a lotta fun.
  9:21am
BW:

my boss wonders where I am every monday morning! hah
  9:26am
backdrifting:

Listening in from Frederick County, MD. Love the Tim Hecker. Thanks for playing that.

-backdrifting
  9:29am
richard:

Yes that Hecker piece was a heck oh a piece
  9:31am
jason:

hecker? I hardly know her!
  9:33am
Parq:

Remarkably, Dick Cheney was also hoping to harness the power of giant vultures to conquer the earth.
  9:34am
bw:

its tax time once again and once again I am totally screwed.. any one got any accountants in nyc area to recommend?
  9:35am
annie:

why do the french only have one egg for breakfast?
  9:37am
Nick vdK:

I think Stardust's superpower is the ability to have a neck larger than his head.
  9:43am
backdrifting:

Forgive me for asking - but what are "drop-outs"?

backdrifting
  9:45am
bw:

dropouts are fade outs in songs put in on PURPOSE
  9:45am
J'ai curiosite:

Dites-moi le reponse.
  9:45am
karao:

yeah! it's kind of like stardust has a permanent neckbrace!

mornin' nick and bw
  9:46am
Joe Steele:

Crime detectors, thought recorders, view plates, has Stardust ever heard of a warrant?
  9:46am
Nakedfoul:

The new Bill Callahan promo has these weird honking sounds that pop up every song.
Also, Fletcher Hanks rules.
  9:48am
Boss Ken:

Parce que one egg, c'est en oeuf.
  9:49am
annie:

ok. ok i'll tell you. because in france one egg is un oeuf. hahaha you win boss man
  9:56am
Nat King Cole:

And now the purple dusk of twilight time,
Steals across the meadows of my heart at terrific speed on accelerated supersolar lightwaves...
  9:56am
martynique:

ça suffit!
  9:59am
Cecile:

mornin'
  10:00am
Cecile:

man, benjy, if you could post some Alex Raymond era Flash Gordon strips some Monday, that would be awesome. What a stylist!
  10:00am
BW:

mornin karaoooo mornin cecile
and boss man! how goes the squirlls?
  10:00am
Nick vdK:

mornin' kare!
  10:02am
Nakedfoul:

I totally thought that guy was saying, "Ducks."
  10:05am
Doug from DC:

I paint ducks on my toothbrush.
  10:08am
Cecile:

great! Ben, are you having a theme in the comments this AM?

HOMAGOD - is there are tribute album for the Sounds of Science series?
  10:10am
Cecile:

i mean, is there a ?
I'm talking like a lolcat this AM.
  10:11am
bw:

Cecile
the only theme I got is how scared I am of the tax man this year... due to 1099
  10:12am
Cecile:

dude, write everything off.
  10:14am
Cecile:

well, next week can be stupid bar pick up line comment discussion, maybe? Because I heard a doozy of a soliliquy this weekend.
  10:14am
bw:

yes Cecile
I think I will stress out less when I actually get to it...
  10:14am
still b/p:

Theory of Writing Off Everything.
  10:15am
Cecile:

yis!
  10:16am
north guinea hills:

i've never heard rosswell rudd so jaunty!
  10:18am
annie:

hehe cecile, i was told by a young italian stud sunday that i looked like i graduated high school in 2000!!!! what a hoot! he was sporting this white turtle neck which he says attracts the girls like fly paper,.along with the fact that he wears three shirts at a time..
  10:19am
Cecile:

BWAH.
Awesome Annie.
Did he just graduate from Italian Gigolo School?
(line totally stolen from the NY Daily News of last week)
  10:22am
bw:

yes... I never mastered anything besides Hello!
  10:23am
Joe Steele:

I haven't even mastered "Hello" yet.
  10:24am
annie:

he was among a group of four who were up from the city with their four-wheeler. he was not a small man either.. lots of "manly girth" yet he and his chums just thought they were the cats pajamas.. mid 30's i'd say...we had a good laugh ...seein' as i'm old enough to be their mom...
  10:25am
Parq:

As Woody Allen put it (you see, I don’t only steal from the best), I’m out of practice, and when I was in practice I was out of practice.
  10:26am
annie:

hey parq, have you finished the doctor who set yet??
  10:28am
Cecile:

aw, that sounds hilarious. If my computer will please stop crashing, I will post that soliliquy for you.
  10:28am
still b/p:

"like fly paper" -- a poet as well. I'm sure such terms generate all kinds of southern humidity. You sure he was genyooine Italian? Once saw a couple of guys at a bar working a phony French-guy-and-American-friend routine, worthy of Archie and Jughead, Richie and Potsie, Dobie and Maynard.
  10:30am
Parq:

The daughter has gone back to school, leaving us to make our way through the discs at our own pace. No hurry. The last thing we saw was something about a group of farting aliens taking over the Brit government with a view toward inciting a global nuclear war and then selling the charred cinder of the planet for scrap. Radioactive scrap. To fuel low-end flying saucers. Did I mention they farted?
  10:33am
annie:

oh he was italian.. and there were a group of women off to my right who must have been late 40s or so' the challenge to the guys heritage was strong.. they were out-italian-ing each other.. what a hoot!
  10:36am
Pearlÿ Sweets:

I could very easily hear ween performing this song if you skewed the lyrics some.
  10:36am
Cecile:

Annie, that's comedy gold.

So. me and two girlfriends enjoying a refreshing adult beverage at the back bar of the Local on Friday and this dude rocking the Pat Riley look ca '90 (gelled hair, dark suit, mock turtleneck) and he goes to to my elegant, blond-haired friend something like:

"I know how guys are and how they say lines and blah blah blah and I have no filters and I'm a salesman and I always go up and talk to strangers but (looking at her) you have totally classic features. Completely classic features. Like the Greeks would have sculpted you".

I go "Grace Kelly" . Helpfully.

And he goes, "yeah, but you should smile, I'd bet you look beautiful."

She kind of gives a WTF kind of sick smile, and then he goes "look, isn't she beautiful?"

And I go "yeah, I'm totally gay for her". Which I thought that would make him go away. Even though he was personally cracking me up with
his Tourette's Syndrome-like courtship style

Then he comes back and starts going on about how he's not like other guys. Like "My friend just called me and said "hey, blahblah, come
out with us. We got a Hummer and we're gonna go out and get some p****! And I didn't go with them because..."

and my friend up from Florids goes "Look, this is all great, but I flew up from Florida to see these guys".

And he was all flustered and left.

There was lots more talking in between about seizing the day, but ugh. I was going to tell him to put on a fake British accent and work the Hugh Grant thing with his stammering, but just, yuk.
  10:36am
Rob W:

B-Walker, this sounds like an African (?) take on "Oh Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvets! Quite lovely, and allow me to steal this for a future segue...
  10:39am
Parq:

This is a good point to invoke the viral video, "My New Haircut". Which see.
  10:39am
Cecile:

hola, Rob!
  10:39am
annie:

i love these vain-glorious attempts, so pathetic sometimes.. and sooo transparent.
  10:39am
1mckers:

The hands thing was seriously creepy.
  10:40am
Cecile:

He had pluck, I'll give him that.
  10:41am
Cecile:

we saw a Hummer go by, and were tempted to go, "hey go over to the Local, your boy needs some help."
  10:42am
Carmichael:

Good Monday mornin ... Cecile, the word is not "pluck" but "schmuck".
  10:43am
annie:

must have been mating season. had to pull out the big guns like hummers and four-wheelers with huge tires and big shiny rims...
  10:43am
Cecile:

lmao, Carm. you're probably right, but nothing ventured (even though if he had two braincells to rub together, he would have seen we are all wearing wedding rings)
  10:44am
Cecile:

I mean, Annie.

It's spring and young men's thoughts turn to a little something something...
  10:45am
Carmichael:

Speaking of romance, I wonder how PostmanPaul's tryst this weekend went??? He was preparing the love nest, last I heard.
  10:45am
Cecile:

he was getting a little loopy of the paint fumes, I remember.
  10:46am
annie:

word up charmichael, see i was gonna just drop the subject... wow,,,, did he feather the nest well enough i wonder............
  10:47am
annie:

he can dispense opening lines advice to our studly italians..
  10:47am
Carmichael:

Cecile, I knew a real live goombah who was actually named "Vinnie". his goal in life was to score with every female on this planet, and he didn't care who knew it. His *knockout* line, upon seeing a wedding band, was "Hey, you can't plug a hole with a ring." He was a class act.
  10:49am
bw:

this one is for spring fever!

I have to ride my bike down prince street to work every morning.. oh man.. its in full effect now
  10:52am
annie:

is stardust italian?
  10:52am
Cecile:

aw, yeesh, Carm.
Anyhoo, off to meeting, hopefully catch all ya'll later.
  10:54am
still b/p:

"Stardust suddenly notices that one of the vultures in a turtleneck has a beautiful girl in its talons and is claiming he's not like other blindly destructive super-nourished vultures."
  10:55am
Cecile:

*crying with laughter*
  11:05am
Parq:

Still, Check it out! "The girl begins falling." Oh, if only . . .
  11:06am
north guinea hills:

droids reminds me of the 70's synth-boogie band, 'space'...
  11:10am
Carmichael:

Back to the tax thing, BW. I take it, since you mentioned 1099s, that you are self-employed. You can either opt for the taxes taken out by your client, or itemize the hell out of your business deductions and take your chances.

Most people who opt for earning the untaxed amount, with the intention of paying back the Feds, usually spend it on something else. Just human nature.
  11:11am
Sean Daily:

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!
  11:11am
bw:

it was only half the year of 1099

the other year was 1040

but thanks Charm! I have to figure out if Ican take out for the whole year.. hah thats the issue
  11:16am
Carmichael:

You're going to have to file 1040a. That way you can itemize. Hope you kept your receipts.

If you currently have a job where you get a W2, make certain your withholding levels are dialed in. You don't want to pay the Man a ton of $ at tax time, and you also don't want them to be your bank and pay you a buttload of money.
  11:24am
dc pät:

just checking in--whoa, why did Stardust turn Kaos into a worm??
  11:25am
Joe Steele:

Why didn't he just do it in the first place I wonder. woulda saved the earth a lot of trouble.
  11:26am
Pearlÿ Sweets:

dc pät, so that the vultures can eat Kaos, that fiend!
  11:26am
Joe Steele:

And now Stardust with the pickup line.
  11:26am
Pearlÿ Sweets:

The last time I invited a girl back to my private star I got slapped.
  11:27am
dc pät:

yeah, "restful"
  11:27am
Joe Steele:

Stardust couldn't possibly fit into a white turtleneck by the way.
  11:28am
bw:

what an ending !!! private castle...
  11:28am
dc pät:

I actually wanted to see this comic--I went to an Art Spiegelman talk once and he mentioned this.
  11:29am
Carmichael:

"Would you like to come to my private star for awhile?" Best line ever.
  11:29am
bw:

there are TWO fletcher hanks books now.. well one comes out next month.. so great
  11:30am
Joe Steele:

It's a star, so you know it'll be hot.
  11:30am
annie:

hey baby, i got my four-wheeler in the garage.... wanna see it? it has chrome wheels and i drive it all over my private castle..
  11:30am
Pearlÿ Sweets:

The Baltimore strip is current my new background.
  11:32am
Stardust:

Liz, would you like to come to my private star for a while?
  11:33am
Parq:

Liz, you would get along just swell in our house. On weekends, we are usually still in our PJs at three. ("Oh, there's the Cherry Blossom Clinic theme; I should think about getting in the shower.")
  11:34am
dc pät:

wait until you have kids bw and liz--if you don't get them out of the house by 10am, they tare the place up!
  11:38am
Doug from DC:

I tuned back in just in time for Wonderful Subdivision (an old favorite).
  11:39am
Parq:

dc pät, how was your trip to NY?
  11:40am
north guinea hills:

rock 'n roll is rock 'n roll
  11:42am
dc pät:

Great Parq--we did a lot of touristy crap. Neither the wife nor I ever did any of that stuff before. The kids loved it. We had a huge-assed room a block south of the central park, they're giving rooms away right now folks.
  11:45am
detroitdave:

Great tunes to end the show Ben! All of a sudden I'm hungry.
  11:45am
Carmichael:

Guess this song set settles where I'm going for lunch.
  11:45am
Parq:

Glad you had a good time. My wife, daughter and I always do touristy stuff when we travel, too. I just wish the weather had been better. Oh well, it's March.
  11:55am
d¢ pät:

Yeah, we were a little cold running around town. But it was cool.
  7:16am
Paul Karasik:

Glad you guys like Fletcher Hanks! Me too...in fact the story that you posted will be included in my new SECOND volume of Fletcher Hanks, "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation," out early this Summer. For more Hanks, slide over to the Story page of my Hanks website for another twisted tale.
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