Kenny G's Hour of Pain playlist

Listener comments!

12:11pm ee:

this is very scary

12:12pm Craigslist:

We dropped erotic services today, rushie baby.

Try to hide your Viagra better next time you take a week off and travel to Central America...

12:12pm BSI:

Ken, you're gonna need one muther of an herbal cleanse when this is done.

12:14pm Andy:

You're going to tell me what this is all about? As an immigrant I resist giving birth to Ken. I do not give birth to Kenny. I give birth to Buck. I give birth to mini-Buck, who is prototypically NOT HERE. He's in Baltimore.

12:15pm Peanut Gallery:

I am loving this. Thank you!

12:15pm Ken:

We are doing show. about birth. about space. a call in show.

12:16pm Obama's TelepromptR:

Oooooh, you're being so mean to Rushiepoo. He says the same thing every day since November, so it'd be hard to tell this reading from his actual *current* show on some other channel and band...

12:17pm J-Mar:

I just noticed that the playlist says "Chanel" instead of "Channel" -- do you think that's a typo? Or is this all some kind of fashion statement?

12:17pm Andy:

This is a call-in show. About bent text. All over the place. Don't hurt me. I am a member of the American left, unlike you, Ken. Ken...you have a reputation to uphold, I understand that.

12:18pm BSI:

...come to think of it, I'M gonna need the herbal cleans when this is done.

12:18pm Ken:

What are you doing, Nick. Our. first caller. Nick. he is a man. he is on the phone now. andy is asking him questions now.

12:19pm Nick:

I don't know what a man is.

12:19pm Coco Chanel:

Gentlemen, you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

12:19pm Bloomingdale's:

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12:20pm Nick:

If you ask me about a man and it is totally different if I am from Britian?

12:20pm Nancy Pelosi:

I thought we'd gotten rid of torture. Fuck.

12:21pm Ken:

Buck. We lost buck and now we have lost Nick.

12:22pm Andy:

Nick hates us.

12:23pm dc pat:

man, it would be just great if those creeps tried Sarah Palin again...I can't wait for that..

12:23pm Barry:

Dude thinks I'm cute. Man crush. Word.

12:23pm Ken:

nudity of the rough sketch
vocabulary of rioting seized by history
he sorts the acts
then regroups them

12:24pm Nick:

Art is dumb. Art is dead.

12:24pm Ike:

Rush thinks health care reform means making it easier to go doctor shopping.

12:24pm J-Mar:

Oh, wait, I'm beginning to hear it now -- this is actually a cover of Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge," isn't it? Only instead of German choir boys, it's ranting American nutjobs.

12:25pm Art Garfunkel:

Am not.

12:25pm andrea:

coming and going from an appointment

12:26pm Nancy Pelosi:

I like this song!

12:27pm Andy:

Do you think theatrical space has a geological dimension?

12:27pm Ken:

andy. we now lost andrea. we need a caller. call 970-290-7893 we will interview you. call in about wrapping text.

12:27pm Mark Levin:

What am I, chopped liver? Get off my phone, you lowlife.

12:29pm Andy:

So: Let's get this straight. Buck's feelings have been hurt. Nick hates us and thinks Art is Dumb; Andrea sends her apologies. As call-in radio, Ken, this sucks. I need someone to talk to with whom I can discuss bent text.

12:29pm Andy:

Ken, can I interview you?

12:30pm Marshall Stacks:

Cue the chirping crickets.

12:30pm Ike:

The only problem in wishing kidney failure on Rush is that he'd then steal some poor bastard's kidneys.

12:30pm Andy:

Ken?

12:30pm steve:

Could you shut thfe f**k up and play music?!

12:30pm Bush I:

Read my lips. No new transcripts.

12:31pm stingy d:

tramadol is really cool by the way

12:31pm Ken:

yes. interview me.

12:31pm Andy:

Ken, are you willing to go on a teaching tour?

12:31pm evets:

!?cisum yalp dna pu k**f efht tuhs uoy dluoC

12:31pm Andy:

So, Ken, how do you bushwack space?

12:32pm BSI:

Magnificent!
Viva SpongeFest!

12:33pm Ken:

space. is not longer a material. we have free the space of the body and its form. invisible space, the space of the mind to emotion. the totality of being. but to bushwach that. we need a new type of knife.

12:33pm Andy:

To free the body from its form is definition of vibration. This is music. How do you slice a dark space, Ken?

12:34pm Schrodinger's Cat:

I wish I were *dead*.

12:34pm Ken:

was it said. everything makes a vibration. cheeze. heart cells.

12:35pm Andy:

Ken, I disagree. I refer you to: brie.

12:35pm Mark Levin:

Thank you. Finally!!!!!

12:36pm Marshall Stacks:

Fascinating. This is the only way I'd ever hear this stuff.

And the only time I ever do, I hope.

12:36pm Andy:

Ken, I refer you to the BOWELS OF THE BUNKER.

12:36pm Ken:

If there is to be a government. what type of area does the concept of it take up. what is the being of space that allows a folding of broadcast?

12:37pm Andy 2.0:

go to hell!!!

12:37pm Harvey Levin:

i'm the fucking ignoramous interviewing folks on the street for judge marilyn milian's people's court.

12:38pm BSI:

MORE SHEEP!
MORE SHEEP!
I was on the verge of a really groovy EL TOPO flashback there...

12:38pm Sean Hannity:

Note to self: Mr. Nice Guy schtick is way old. Flamethrowing is the new nice. O:-)

12:38pm Andy:

There are figures we haven't seen in three decades, and I'm not talking about your mother, Ken.

12:40pm Andy:

What about the balcony? does space of a geological dimension?

12:41pm rush:

i used credit cards to pay for my vicoden

12:41pm Buck:

theatrical space is just a canvass. we work in a black box theater. it is a re-setable space.

12:42pm andy:

is theaterical space erotic?

12:42pm Buck:

yes space is erotic. yes a box is erotic.

12:43pm andy:

what is a threshold?

12:43pm buck:

a thershold is an access way to another world. changing scenes. moving into new spaces.

12:44pm andy:

the way of behaving. transitions.

12:44pm Lizardner Dave:

This must be what Air America and MSNBC sound like to conservatives.

12:45pm buck:

the journey is between scenes. taking audience and moving them between spaces.

12:45pm dc guy:

all that was once directly lived has become mere representation

12:45pm Andy:

I have on stage in London.

12:46pm stingy d:

this is what air america and msnbc sound like to me.

12:47pm Ken:

buck saw Ina Mckellen Panto?

12:47pm Travis Bickle:

You talkin to me?? You talkin to *me*?????

12:48pm Exhausted:

Time to surf on over to WWOZ

12:48pm Ike:

Reports from the Pentagon brass indicate that Afghanistan could be stabilized if Rush could kick his drug habit.

12:48pm buck:

we very serious clowns. inventing serious moments. the structure of clowning. clowning is a science. it depends on steps. language of the clowns. how we see it. cartoon. we can't avoid elements. how we bring it out. Not waiting for clowns or such.

12:49pm Mark Levin:

Don't listen to these backbenchers! They stink!

12:49pm andy:

clowns are not funny. write that down Ken. buck who are you.

12:50pm Saul Alinsky:

Ixnay. Don't drag me into this.

12:51pm Ken:

Buck who are you? Andy where are we and how do you bend text.

12:51pm BSI:

A blissfully hypnotic swirl of poison.
Please do this forever.
Bless you.

12:52pm gim:

I think they are afraid to go full-on fractal.

12:52pm Willie Sutton:

i don't understand. Is our DJ channeling Mark Levine. Much more of this and i'll have to become a community organizer.

12:52pm The State:

Wow, listen to the trash taIk!!!!!! I didn't mean to do anything bad!!!!!!

12:53pm dc pat:

I'm watching a Guy Debord film on Kenny's site while listening to this.

12:53pm Buck:

I am buck in baltimore: http://www.singlecarrot.com/

12:54pm Andy:

It's essentially bending the function: this is what it means to bend text. Says Buck. Remove the clues. Bend text. In Baltimore. We recently did Ricahrd #rd by Shakespeare. We put him the appple garden. We used a more Nietchean interpretation; that he was a member of the Far Right. That he had different values. He was not evil. Other people thoguht he was evil. This is interpretation. We are using the text slightly differently. I like cutting Shakespeare. Sez BUCK

12:55pm Andy:

Thank you BUCK. WE loved having you on the show. "It's a new space." -- Ken.

12:56pm Ken:

Yes. buck. thank for calling in. lets give out the number again. 970-290-7893andy

12:57pm gim:

Shakespear + Borroughs == ?

12:57pm Ken:

The proposition, and precisely it, must itself be based on its
foundation. It must be a basic principle -- the basic principle
absolutely. One must therefore find such a principle of all positing,
i.e., a proposition in which that about which it says something, the
subjectum, is not just taken from somewhere else.

12:57pm Andy:

"There would be violence if we let her into the country."
The home secretary was DOUGLAS HURD.
He came to Haberdasher's Aske's School for Girls.
Buck called in and we interviewed him in the comment stream. Ken says it doesn't make any sense. Ken, don't be a rifle butt. Don't be a cricket.

12:58pm Ken:

Andy. I will fight to the death your right to say it, but not cricket. tomorrow it is someone else.

12:59pm Andy:

You call in and we will document you in this comment stream. Because we, Ken and Andy, have become bored of radio. The fact that we can't type doesn't help. We want this radio. Side radio. What kind of space is th

12:59pm Andy:

"Is Jarvis banned from England?"

1:00pm Andy:

Ken, I am sleepy now. Shall we stop and just listen to Kenny G?

1:00pm Gardening:

Why not talk about me, dudes? I have nothing to do with the radio? O:-)

1:00pm Ken:

does she not think that this will bring harm to me. liberals. they love us in London

1:01pm Peanut Gallery:

MFU to you, too.

1:01pm Ken:

These words are the opposite of
verisimilitude.

1:02pm Andy:

London. I used to eat Polish food in a velvet-covered basement rounf the corner from the dinosaur museum.

1:02pm Peanut Gallery:

A 'tude I like!

1:02pm Megan:

Hey, pass the laughing gas. This is very educational!

1:03pm Ken:

dinosaurs? you don't like dinosaurs.

1:03pm paul:

spiderman!

1:04pm Andy:

Orwell wrote 1984 in Hayes< Middlesex, which he described as a "godforsaken place." PS. No, Ken, I love dinosaurs.

1:04pm Mark Levin:

Michael Alan Weiner is Savage's real name. Yeah, a big tough guy. Wiener Nation.

We right wing talkers are one big lovefest!

1:04pm KEn:

verses of banned books. why stop at knowledge. let the mind simply wrap itself in the cling wrap of newspaper words. This is not David Letterman, cut it up into sounds and images. it would be more meaningful.

1:04pm Peanut Gallery:

I may already be a weiner!

1:05pm Ken:

Between his location and mine is
white space constituting the flow of
emotion on which we travel, when
moving awareness from a place
to a moment.

1:06pm gim:

ok. there's the fractal...

1:06pm Obama's Mama:

MUSIC PLEASE!

1:07pm Andy:

J'adore Le Cling Wrap. I wrap New Hampshire in cling wrap. Like a cell mebrane. When I see trash, or hear trashy ripped music of Kenny G with the screeches and the crickets, I go; right. This is cell function. I should mention that I am very beautiful. For a man. Also, I saw Iranian Knights at the Royal Court. We spilled out. It was theater in honor of Rushdie. Written by Tariq Ali. There is an eco-broadcast going on. I hate it. I hate myself. I hate myself for not being more of a radio lover. I find radio calming, which is not natural. Ken, are we banned from England yet, do you think?

1:07pm will:

Everyone's a weiner!

1:07pm ken:

Do you think there is anti-theater or erasure in live preformance

Says Buck. Remove the clues. Bend text. In Baltimore. We recently did Ricahrd #rd by Shakespeare. We put him the appple garden. We used a more Nietchean interpretation; that he was a member of the Far Right. That he had different values. He was not evil. Other people thoguht he was evil. This is interpretation. We are using the text slightly differently. I like cutting Shakespeare. Sez BUCK

1:08pm bb:

wheres yr ragin' cajun impression ken?

1:08pm Andy:

Anit-theater in the comment stream. I want to lie down with Serpent Head.

1:08pm Andy:

Ken, don't be an arrogant sod. Speak to us, Ken.

1:09pm Ken:

good morning. wrapping news. putting inside it some type of prize. if you open it there will a puppy. how can we stop this. no pause. it is just reading like a text of conciousness.

1:09pm RSTVMO:

Wilhelm Berger called me an ASS on Fasebook! what should I do? Enema?

1:09pm Ken:

Mired by economic turmoil, Ansel Smith and his family squeeze into a small trailer on the outskirts of Dallas, TX.

1:10pm BSI:

Thresholds crossed, space upon space, serpent head burned to a cinder in a field of pigs, abortion mister speaker.

1:10pm Peanut Gallery:

Whaddaya call that image/logo, where the serpent head eats the weiner and so on?

1:11pm Probability Theory:

If you get enough numbers in a row on the air, maybe they'll randomly answer the math question and post a comment.

1:11pm Andy:

Well done, BSI. Peanut Gallery, that's called oroborealis: or rahu-ketu in the Hindu tradition. This is music for the way you live today.

1:11pm KEn:

01 Well, in conjunction with the big holiday weekend, we start out with the Hudson River horror show right now. Big delays in the Holland Tunnel either way with roadwork, only one lane will be getting by. You're talking about, at least, twenty to thirty minutes worth of traffic either way, possibly even more than that. Meanwhile the Lincoln Tunnel, not great back to Jersey but still your best option. And the GW Bridge your worst possible option. Thirty to forty minute delays, and that's just going into town. Lower level closed,

1:12pm Art Smass:

Oscar Meyer Ourobouros.

Tell me, what did I win/

1:12pm Ken:

hello this is a recording. can we get a caller? 970 290 7893

1:12pm Andy:

Well done BSI. You deserve a free taco. Art Smass, I think we should start a theater company in the outlying areas of Baltimore.

1:14pm Andy:

Art, you win a free taco, a lot of money, some treacle pudding in a can, and some kind of profoundly nice partnership that makes you feel gorgeous. Like with another human being, prefer. fr New England. This is bent text, which is not queer text, but it should be; let's test BUCK next time.

1:14pm Ken:

Andy please make me a taco. there is no food in the dusty attic of the dismemberment. can we have a radio?

1:14pm KEn:

andy is having more trouble with the math

1:14pm Andy:

Ken, that's nice. How do you think I feel to be exposed an an adulterous dunce?

1:15pm Marshall Stacks:

Will this be on the final?

1:15pm Andy:

Ken is sighing.

1:15pm B J Snowden:

Um aren't I Irwin's girl?

1:16pm Andy:

Nah. I'm putting the grades in today. My heart is trembling. Yes, you're his girl, BJ.

1:16pm Peanut Gallery:

Art Smass -- thanks for the help. You win a fried sandwich. Report directly to Irwin's show to collect.

1:17pm KEn:

you will have expose yourself to math. take a bath in numbers. take a bath in wwf wrestling.:

The official theme song for Judgment Day is “Rescue Me” by Buckcherry. The song can be found on the album Black Butterfly, which is in stores now on Atlantic Records

1:17pm Andy:

Okay, I can do that. Darling....

1:18pm Andy:

Ne manges pas les cochonniers avec du ketchup! [Dont eat piglets with ketchup!]

1:18pm Andy:

One is the loneliest number.

1:18pm ken:

this reminds me of a novel I was in once. where the debate of long life vs. creativity is like a hawthrone in a long row of french alleys.

1:19pm Andy:

I just pricked my finger on a hawthorne. It's basically a paper cut.

1:20pm ken:

mix reggie. that is weird al. welcome to the jungle. god is great if you live in a pop song. sweet emotion - cut sweet. now rap. cut by the paper of sound a vibration.

1:20pm Ken and Andy:

This'll teach you to make huge drama with the comments issue, dude.

1:20pm paul:

i had this mashup stuck in my head this morning. nice.

1:20pm Andy:

Ken: "Thank god we don't have to carry any ones."

1:21pm Rodney:

Andy, can you help me straighten out my Longfellow?

1:21pm ken:

ne manges loneliest number is cut my finger.

1:22pm Andy:

Okay, first of all Longfellow only works with the really LONG poem, you do know that, don't you, Andy?

1:22pm Andy:

I mean: Rodney. "Talking to yourself?" -- Ken.

1:23pm Nothing Is Real:

Real Is Nothing

1:25pm The Chipmunks:

Sounds nothing like Alvin, really.

1:25pm Andy:

I studied and treated what I’d written until, like the silver geometry on a store-bought skirt, it was no longer elegant. It was no longer metropolitan. It no longer possessed the qualities of a safeguard, of a formal barrier, of bad snow.

1:26pm Andy:

I am hungry, Ken.

1:26pm ken:

Color is a mirror where we see
ourselves with living things, scarlet
neck feathers, infant asleep across
your heart, like-to-like.

1:27pm Strawberry Fields:

You'll be hearing from my solicitor in the morning.

1:27pm ken:

what should we have lunch? we should have to go now, yes?

1:28pm Andy:

I don't know. Stewed tatties? (POTATOES, not boobs.) Okay, signing off from our mini chat show inside a chat show.....love, Andy and Ken. Ken?

1:29pm BSI:

You shall not be permitted to leave if you're about to talk stewed tatties.

1:29pm ken:

singing off now. leave you with song. thanks to our callers.

dazzle
faced with the nature of the crime
a simulacrum depletes the soil

1:30pm Andy:

I seem to have accidentally turned on one of our listeners; I refer you to the erotics of contemporary theater. What Buck said.

1:34pm He's So Fine:

Watch yourself, Georgie. I know your tricks. I have a solicitor too, you may recall.

1:51pm Andy:

J'adore le reprise

1:53pm jan:

I had to be away from the radio- now that I'm back and enjoying the show, I wonder what I missed at the beginning.

1:56pm El Rushbo:

Jan, nothing but "excellence in broadcasting" and talent putatively on loan from the deity. No biggie. Try me another day; it's always the same. The antifree-form.

1:59pm British Schoolkids' Rhymes:

Shit. We're public domain, and have no intellectual-property legal recourse :-( :-( Damn you, John Lennon.

2:06pm Elkita:

Koons would look good in Staten Island

2:08pm Mobbed Up Fist Pumping Guidos:

Don't fuck wid de Island. Jus don't go dere.

2:08pm Andy:

Pre-announce a commodity, don't bad-mouth it.

2:08pm dc pat:

isn't there something non-FCC-ok about forward-announcing a song?

2:09pm John:

Let me out of this Cage, please!!!!!

2:09pm Dirty:

Since you fore announced, I want to back announce that Radiohole did this piece Cage/Mertens recording as a "talk back" at the Kitchen last fall in a show called ANGER.NATION

2:11pm Voice Analysis Software:

Sounds more like decomposition.

2:14pm Visit thatslamethatsucks.com:

Dedicated to allowing any horse's ass with an internet connection to mock and ridicule the accomplishments of others. Musicians, politicians, whoever; if they do something, make fun of them for it. Being informative or even entertaining is discouraged; just say things suck while never actually doing something yourself. Take that, people who do stuff!

2:17pm The Man:

Great idea for a site. Do you have funding?

2:17pm doug from dc:

I have a friend who would live on a site like that. But sometimes he ahs a point. Cage is voicing that sort of argument: "He's just a name." But is this fair?

2:18pm Thatslamethatsucks.com:

We'll be 100 times bigger than twitter. Die, facebook trash.

2:22pm doug from dc:

oh gross, a utilitarian argument for musical value.

2:25pm Porno Actor:

I try to avoid climaxes, too. Till the director gives me the high five.

2:25pm dc pat:

John: I'll take all yer sustained climaxes, thanks.

2:26pm Ike:

And now my employer's algorithm will actually buy that address and fill it with stupid ads. Sigh. Where are the classifieds?

2:27pm dc pat:

well I like cage but I'll take Branca over him any day.

2:27pm The Buddha:

All things contain dukkha. Certainly listening to this does.

2:29pm clarke:

nice.

2:30pm Art Smass:

@Ike: thereby fulfilling the promise of the domain name.

2:31pm Ike:

Hmm. Good point.

2:35pm dc pat:

now THAT's a climax

2:35pm Don't worry I'll wipe out all those timesuck sites:

justdontfriendmeperiod.com, a social networking site where the point is to have as few people as possible be your eletronic fake friend. Everyone starts with zero, but the coolest members don't even join. Until, of course, so many people have not joined that they all feel mainstream, and join just to avoid that label, thus creating a quantum-mechanics logical contradiction that destroys the internet, and incidentally the cosmos.

You're welcome.

2:35pm Marshall Stacks:

I like this Branca piece. I'd be interested to hear the one ("Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses") that Cage so disliked.

2:36pm jan:

I remember literally sprinting from the 3rd row of the Brooklyn Academy
of Music Hall after being physically assaulted by the indescribably loud Glenn Branca Symphony #? My rib cage was vibrating and I thought it would be hazardous to my health to remain in the audience.

2:37pm Marshall Stacks:

This is Easy Listening by comparison.

Or maybe I just have the volume set low.

2:37pm Sodium Pentathol Cage:

I'm really very competitive. Duh. That's really all that rant was about O:-)

2:39pm jan:

Yeah, "spectacular commodity" is very nice- I turned up the stereo for that>

2:39pm bb:

branca on record is almost unrelated to actually seeing a piece played.

does anyone know anything about Stephen Wischerth. hes the percussionist on this piece and a few of the symphonies..but i dont know his story

2:47pm doug from dc:

But what about Cecil Taylor? No one else can play Cecil Taylor but Taylor himself. Yet his work in my opinion has the highest musical value. So what is the value of Cage's modernism-meets-the-Buddha criticism? Give me individual expression any day.

2:49pm dc pat:

right on doug>dc

2:52pm God:

Don't bargain with me, you little douche.

2:53pm Parq:

Take me!

2:54pm Jim M.:

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!

2:54pm God:

And now who will support them?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2:56pm jan:

Too bad God didn't listen to his prayer before he was able to record the song, "the deal." How is it some of us labor all our lives in obscurity and this guy gets a recording contract with one prayer.

2:58pm BSI:

That's Colonel K in Toad Hall...

2:58pm Dave:

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
"Dave? Dave's not here!"

2:59pm HAL:

That John Cage dude makes *me* sound so enthusiastic.

3:00pm HAL:

"You're an asshole, Dave."

3:01pm Yakov Smirnoff:

I am funny as heartattack, nyet?

3:03pm Ike:

Wow, that guy will be disappointed when he discovers that he actually sold his soul to Ray Wise to save his wife and kid.

5:22pm RSTVMO:

Enema?