Whole Lotta Fake Sitar: Ken's show

Listener comments!

9:02am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Hey turkey man!

9:02am f✿f✿:

Uno
Dos
Tres!
Hola a usted Ken!

9:03am The GB Kid:

Morning Ken. Morning everyone.

9:03am Lizardner Dave:

Hey Mayor Daley Turkey Man!

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9:03am Ken:

Hey Aaron and f0f0!

9:04am Lucy:

Mourning! Losing my mind!

9:05am Dan B From Upstate:

Morning, Ken. Your ramp up for Freebird last week was nothing short of phenomenal.

9:06am anne:

Good morning, Ken and everybody! that turkey visual is frightening.

9:06am Aaron in Minneapolis:

One of the rare David Liebe Hart songs that doesnt discuss his abduction apparently

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9:06am Ken:

Thanks you Dan B! Now convince Aaron of that!

9:07am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Sure Dan rub it in my face.....

9:08am Lizardner Dave:

This set has "building up to playing a new Jandek record" all over it.

9:10am Lucy:

Happy Thangstaken aka Thankskillin! Go colonization and genocide!

9:11am common:

who is this jimmy?

9:11am paul:

someone found WCBN's copy of the "spin the bottle" 7" somewhere in the station. there was much rejoicing by me.

9:17am Caryn:

The MP3 came from Kenny G? Have you checked his basement, Ken?

9:17am jan:

Ken: Speaking of Graham Nash, did you see the PBS documentary on David Geffen. More than I ever wanted to know about the man, but certainly interesting.

9:17am Unknown:

Oh thank you Ken for psychosexual poem! Thank you! I love you!

9:21am Ken From Hyde Park:

That's not Shut Up, Weirdo Michele, is it?

9:21am V Balsara:

i was bigger

9:21am Caryn:

Yay! Just when I was about to ask if you were going to play Sitar Power again.

9:23am Michael:

Thriller title: "Die!, Deary Deary, Die!". Lurid paperback about lust and murder among Indian musicians and fans.

9:24am Michael:

Given "Psychosexual Poem", how about Lenny Bruce's "Psychopathia Sexualis"?

9:26am Lucy:

This makes me wanna get in a dance battle at a Krishna feeding. No I don't want your books!

9:27am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Ken do you have an active Arki Guthrie ban on the show?

9:28am Andrew Waterloo:

I think we need to hear Lord Sitar now

9:29am Michael:

There was evidently an impoverished stay among the Krishnas that helped Jim Woodring become the artist he is today; the moment I heard this it seemed completely believable.

9:29am Unctuous Rancid Dwarfman:

Happy Thanksgiving and a merry Hall & Oates morning to you all!

9:30am Dude:

Joke's old now.

9:30am V Balsara:

hey

9:33am Homeland Security:

Ken, we'd like to talk to you about your "biggest rocket" if you have some time.

9:34am Lucy:

The actual Beatles sitar recordings sound a zillion times better than this...

9:34am Lucy:

The actual Beatles sitar recordings sound a zillion times better than this...

9:35am Bill from VT:

Hi Ken, do you have Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers? I think youj'd like it.

9:36am tim from champaign:

According to wikipedia. Lord Sitar passed away last month.

9:37am Bad Ronald:

What did he die of, embarrassment?

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9:38am Ken:

Lucy, that's because George Harrison cheated - he took lessons and practiced and shit.

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9:38am Ken:

My Biggest Rocket? Coming right up.

9:39am f✿f✿:

Rocket Freudental!!!

9:41am AnAnonymousParty:

Anybody got a recipe for turkey stuffing with curry?

9:41am moose:

Bad Ronald made me laugh
Jim Woodring's my favorite

9:42am Andrew Waterloo:

This AC/DC one has to be my favourite of fake sitar set

9:44am Caryn:

@Lucy: yeah, when you get proper teaching from numerous sitar players, including frigging Ravi Shankar, you can be expected to play pretty well.

9:47am Andrew Waterloo:

Harrison also didn't record his album during a half-day of studio down time.

9:50am Detroit Mac:

I was touched by Elmo

9:51am pony:

i wanna be touched by ken

9:51am Mark:

I always wear a butt plug

9:52am Orifi closures:

All the openings, all the time.

9:53am dcp@:

Satanic Rockin 20's Babe is nodding in perfect timing with this Matmos tune. Thanks for that...

9:53am still b/p:

As Karl, the domestic in The Exorcist said, "It wants no straps."

9:56am Detroit Mac:

Who needs a butt plug when I have a puppeteer's hand up my ass?

9:57am Detroit Mac:

Needless to say, I am not speaking for myself here...

9:58am Caryn:

"I am your Twinkie. Thou shalt not have any other baked goods before me. Especially not off-brand knock-offs, dammit!"

10:00am Caryn:

"You can have my Twinkies when you pry them from my cold, dead hands! But, heck, bury them with me, and they'd still be edible if you dug me back up in 50 years time."

10:01am dcp@:

death to Twinkies for hell's sake...

10:01am Detroit Mac:

You may rot, but your twinkies will be stiff

10:03am Stiff Twinkie:

Oh yeah. That's me muthafucka.

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10:03am Ken:

Thanks you Ian in Brooklyn and Brian in Putnam Valley for your Hurricane Recovery Pledges!

10:04am amEdeo:

I like my stiff twinkies with The Limiñanas!

10:04am Dan B From Upstate:

Never cared for twinkies. I always liked zingers. Maybe that's why I listen to 7SD.

10:05am hamburger:

I've never had a Twinkie before. Though I'm not really partial to sugary sugarness, so I guess I'm not missing out?!

10:06am Caryn:

I'm trying to remember if I've ever had a Twinkie. I assume I must have tried one when I visited NY.

10:06am moose:

prefer sno balls

10:06am Neg-guh-tor:

Beware the holiday drunk, you fools! BEWARE! Great show, 'Man on bicycle'. Hope things are normalizing up there.

10:07am Andrew Waterloo:

My absolutest belief in the superiority of chocolate always pushed me toward the cup cake.

10:07am amEdeo:

@hamburger: They are terrible. Like eating sugar foam filled with sugar. Except all the sugar doesn't taste like sugar, but instead tastes like some mad scientist's half-remembered senile memory of sugar.

10:08am dcp@:

all's I have to say is: ick.

10:09am Neg-guh-tor:

King Dongs are my fav Merita snack cake!

10:09am Caryn:

Gotta say, my fave has always been the Ding Dong. Ho Hos are fine too. Evidently chocolate is the key to my pastry heart.

10:09am John McCabe in L.A.:

I'm a Suzy Q fan myself but i think there is some law here in CA aginest them selling them by the box

10:09am amEdeo:

Yes... ick all the way.

10:10am moose:

always been keener on tastykake really

10:10am hamburger:

thanks amEdeo, wowsers now Is gotta gets me some half-remembered senile memory of sugar! and the clerk would say wha?!

10:10am dcp@:

CRAP! I KNEW that was TOm Cora. Very cool...

10:11am adam:

Nice tunes today :)

10:12am SteveL:

Wow. Radio brother/sisterhood is a powerful thing. Very cool.

10:12am moose:

then again devil dogs are by drake's and those are also real good

10:12am Caryn:

I've always been suspicious of sno balls. They look suspect. Of course, my loathing of coconut adds to my never having tried them.

10:13am amEdeo:

@hamburger: Yesss... the clerk would start licking people and thinking they were half-person twinkies filled with salt.

10:15am still b/p:

Between the changes in taste buds and the unfavorable industrial evolution of the recipes, some snack cake memories of childhood are shattered and choked on when you try to eat something like a Devil Dog. And NEVER eat more than one Funny Bone. That way lies your doom.

10:16am moose:

does he have a puppet with him on these recordings?

10:18am Michelle in Green Bay:

Good morning!

10:18am Caryn:

Went to check out Drake's products. Devil Dogs sound good, but I suspect I would prefer a Funny Bone. And think I would like a Pick 'Em Up, if they weren't discontinued.

10:18am amEdeo:

What THE HELL is a Funny Bone?!!

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10:19am Ken:

Oh man, Funny Bones ARE the best!

10:19am Michael:

I loved eating the chocolatoid coating from Yodels, then unrolling them.
I liked the cake in Ring Dings; not the filling, though, though I like the little bits of chocolate-like coating that found their way into the filling and would pepper it.

Another Irwin request!

10:20am NS Andy:

Isn't peanut butter involved?

10:20am Caryn:

@amEdeo: Rectangular chocolate cakes filled with peanut butter flavored creme and covered with milk chocolate frosting.

10:20am Bad Ronald:

Funny Bone = devils food cake w/peanut butter covered in chocolate

10:21am amEdeo:

Wow. Amazing web design on the Drake's site! http://www.drakescakesonline.com/

10:21am Lizardner Dave:

A Funny Bone is just a Yodel with peanut butter instead of creme filling and they haven't been the same since they went from being individually wrapped in foil to being two to a plastic wrapped pack.

10:21am amEdeo:

Ok granted, that DOES sound amazing. But how do they taste? HOW DO THEY TASTE?!!!

10:22am Michael:

10:22am Caryn:

Not being that familiar with NJ and not finding my glow-in-the-dark map right now, in what part of that Jersey map is WFMU? You're not in the "hipsters" part, hopefully?

10:23am Goyim in the AM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xk-HFbDPw

10:26am Michael:

The only get-rich scheme I ever had that had any chance was (the terminology will date it) 'yuppie junk food'---versions of Ring Dings, Yodels, Twinkies, u.s.w. made with good ingredients, like cream instead of 'creme', and chocolate instead of chocolate-y stuff.

Guess what I saw at Bread and Circus (a.k.a. Whole Paycheck) the other day?

10:29am still b/p:

SEE the magic recipes! Bleached flour! Propylene glycol! HFCS orgy...Yumm!

http://tinyurl.com/d3clau4

I think that other Drake's site, too, is not the corporate one; it's set up by someone else for snackquisition.

10:31am f✿f✿:

Puffy! My loved ones!

10:32am amEdeo:

You are spot on still b/p, I was wondering why they'd be advertising a lotto iPhone application and some deli roll place. This is the closest thing they actually have to a site: http://www.hostessbrands.com/brands/drakes.aspx

10:33am amEdeo:

Wait, wait.... WHAAAAT. Ewww. Beef flavored bread?! Someone tell me this is fake.... please. http://www.hostessbrands.com/brands/Beefsteak.aspx

10:37am MD:

hey Ken...gas lines and...When are we going Metric????

10:38am BSI:

The Gunny!

10:38am Caryn:

I don't think it tastes like beef. It's just loaf-like bread made of rye, instead of the typical wheat or oat. Of course I could be wrong. Beefsteak is the brand name, maybe because rye is a more robust, "manly" grain than weakling white bread?

10:39am Vivian:

Ken, I just ate my morning apple!

10:40am Michael:

"Blame it on Obama"? Why not "Blame it on the Stones", preferably a fake-sitar version?

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10:44am Ken:

Thank you Katherine in Connecticutt and Kevin in Maine for their Hell and High Water pledges! You Rock! Well katherine rocks. Kevin rocks a little too but mostly he's rolls.

10:45am John McCabe in L.A.:

its all making sense now the end of the Mayan calendar the end of Hostess brands

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10:46am Ken:

And thanks to Ausland in Berlin and Michael M in California!

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10:49am Ken:

WFMU is now negotiating, or trying to anyway, to buy the Twinkie brand from Hostess. We'll continue manufacturing them, only we will use Rice Krispies instead of pound cake and marshmallows and peanut butter instead of creme filling.

10:49am John McCabe in L.A.:

how do you get the GIFs to go in time with the music?

10:51am John McCabe in L.A.:

put Andy is in charge of the Zingger division

10:54am Jeff:

That song S.Y.P.H. was just like Tusk.

Except for, you know, the ways it wasn't.

10:55am Caryn:

@Ken: that would certainly be a worthy cause to donate to. (Yes, I ended with a preposition. Suck it, pedants.)

11:03am f✿f✿:

Talking about funny bones, sitars and butt plugs...
are you an Incredible String Band fan?
Cus' someone just uploaded to Youtube a documentary that never got aired in the BBC back in 1969 called "Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, a film of the Incredible String Band".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vdAeFHIXBvk#!

11:05am Dan B From Upstate:

Night People had a nice interview with David Liebe Hart back in March of 2010.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35175

11:06am Carmichael:

Happy pre-day Thanksgiving, all y'all. My favorite snack food was the immortal Scooter Pie.

11:06am Caryn:

Is that mask supposed to prevent other players from seeing your facial expressions and possible tells? Is that what Lady Gaga meant when she sang "can't read my poker face"? She would presumably wear some ridiculous mask/hat that covered her face to a simple poker game.

Also, methinks the garage doth protest too much.

11:07am MD:

TEST-TI-FY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11:07am Bad Ronald:

Yeah Fugs!!!!

11:08am MD:

GET HOOKED ON WFMU...THE HANGOVERS ROCK!!!!

11:09am Caryn:

Ooh, Carmichael. I may go for a peanut butter or mint Moon Pie Crunch.

11:09am Thelma blitz:

Ken Weaver, original Fugs-- First Album 1966

11:09am Caryn:

That clown may be more terrifying than Pennywise. And that's saying something.

11:10am Bad Ronald:

"I Shit My Pants"

11:11am Carmichael:

There's a great version of Couldn't Get High on Golden Filth (live).

11:11am giselle:

i'd never heard of David Liebe Hart..AND he was son the Golden Girls apparently

11:12am Thelma blitz:

Not a Fugs songs, Caca Rocka is. Tuli did not put the "F" word into "Nothing," that was Ed. He said he would never put down sex

11:14am Robert:

Thank you for allowing me this morning to find out what sitar music sounds like with one ear filled with H2O2 solution and the other on the pillow. It sounds like sitar, only muffled and bubbly.

11:14am Ike:

So SSD tonight is not some kind of promotion for Fox's forthcoming serial killer show "The Following" with Kevin Bacon, then?

11:15am Robert:

That was so I could hear the rest of the show without ear wax.

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11:15am Ken:

No Ike, there's no "The" in the title of tonight's Seven Sec Delay Episode. So it's totally different.

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11:16am Ken:

Robert, mix some camphor oil in with that peroxide!

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11:16am Ken:

mmmmm Scooter Pies....

11:18am f✿f✿:

Ken follows Kevin. Andy, the bacon.

11:19am Caryn:

@Ike: of course, now that Ken has admitted to systematic stalking of WFMU interns, and Kenny G apparently has a girl trapped in a basement dungeon, if the Bacon show turns out to be Andy Breckman's secret tell-all about serial killers at WFMU, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised.

11:21am seang:

black moldddddddd

11:22am Ike:

BTW, I couldn't comment while on the train, but that Ashwin Batish track was awesome. What were the other big FMU hits in 1986?

11:27am still b/p:

Looking at events in Boston, where I'll visit over the holiday weekend. Would you roll the dice on this: "an explosive cocktail of David Bowie covers and burlesque"...?

11:28am dd:

Oh. No. Blacklist? I was picking up on the 7sd references.

'Free porn! -- for men only' says it all in just five words.

11:31am Carmichael:

Personally, I don't care for "men only" porn. But that's just me.

11:34am f✿f✿:

I second Ike request. It would be interesting to know which were the tracks that made a hit back in the old WFMU days. I think I know for sure at least three of them: Haircut, Secondo Coro delle Lavandaie and Pigmy Divorce.

11:38am fred von helsing:

Oh man

11:39am pony:

this is worse than the boiler stories

11:39am AnAnonymousParty:

You need to get you a Mr. Fusion!

11:39am hamburger:

generator stories ain't got nothing on the boiler stories..

11:40am jojo:

WFMU needs a cogeneration plant
You can power it with gas siphoned from mail trucks

11:40am Andrew Waterloo:

Sounds like a potential episode of SSD

11:40am Ike:

What about a backup transmitter for your roof? If you can get the FCC to approve it, that is. Just a few watts. Not in the Oranges. That's too redundant. I don't want to go without 91.1 again. 91.1 FOREVER.

Wait... I have no idea what I'm talking about.

11:41am fred von helsing:

put a wind turbine on the roof, hit up some tech students to do it up

11:41am Dan B From Upstate:

can always go for more sigh. don't tell rammstein, though.

11:41am MD:

YOU NEED AN OCILLATOR OVERTHUSTER!!!!

11:42am Unctuous Rancid Dwarfman:

is Dr. Bootygrabber a teller at the Booty Bank?

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11:43am Ken:

Do I need an Overhead Valve?

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11:44am Ken:

Fuck no, U.R. Dwarfman, he runs the Employee Health Clinic. Doc Bootygrabber aint no paper pusher. He's a healer and sex machine.

11:44am Unctuous Rancid Dwarfman:

you need a DOHC

11:45am Ike:

You need equipment for synergizing backwards overflow!

11:45am Caryn:

Coming soon to a radio frequency near you: "Boiler Stories II: Generator Stories". This time, it's carbon monoxidal!

Also, very clever, Ken. You've kept that crawl space around as a convenient place for you and Kenny G to dump the bodies. Now you have the perfect excuse to fill it up with concrete to cover your tracks. Ingenious!

11:45am Artingu:

Which bank?

11:46am Unctuous Rancid Dwarfman:

ok. i thought the Dr. would be able to do some major bootygrabbing in the bank vault

11:47am Andrew Waterloo:

Yo! It's in the bank to be safe from the Doc.

11:47am f✿f✿:

He's the real Dr. Feelgood.

11:47am PMD:

Ike told me to visit. The photo of the turkey was bad enough, but an animated gif!!! ack!

11:50am Caryn:

@URD: that would be handy for WFMU fund raising!

11:50am upstatesean:

Ken,on the playlist, are you adding the visuals, or do they somehow come with the song info?

11:52am Caryn:

The "check out my meat" guy looks very Colonel Sanders-y, but that's red meat. Did he switch from steakhouses to chicken shacks, or is this just a coincidence?

11:53am f✿f✿:

I think it's the opposite way, uss. The animated gifs come with songs. That's why they match to their beats.

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11:53am Ken:

Sean, I add 'em manually.

11:53am PMD:

Mmmm... bloody protein.

11:54am PMD:

I am a fish. Do I not bleed?

11:54am Caryn:

I think that movie poster has a typo. It should be "I Ate My Village".

11:54am upstatesean:

wow - just one more amazing service from your hardworking fmu djs

11:55am Ike:

I just realized that movie poster has an obvious typo. Surely it's supposed to be "I *Ate* My Village." Right? See, now it makes sense.

11:56am upstatesean:

contributing more random cultural drivel. I thank you!

11:56am Caryn:

Heh, I misread the band name as "Nihilist Spam Band". Kinda fit the song.

11:56am Ike:

Dammit, Caryn was faster.

11:56am Dr Yum:

Always remember the five basic food groups: Salt, sugar, grease, carbohydrates and alcohol

11:56am tim from champaign:

Man, I played Dr Bootygrabber at a wedding reception I DJ'ed 2 weeks ago. Nobody did shit. Nobody grabbed nobody's booty. It was the crowd's fault for sure.

11:56am BSI:

why, celery IS obnoxious, I must agree.

11:57am PMD:

Thanks Ken! Sorry I only got here for the last 15 minutes.

11:57am Caryn:

@Ike: great minds think alike.

11:58am PMD:

@Caryn, I like that Spam fix! And I thought it too (re Ate) butjust too lazy to write.

11:58am upstatesean:

this song rocks.

11:59am upstatesean:

I'm a meateater!!

11:59am Caryn:

@Dr. Yum: Don't forget the congealed group, or the chocotastic. I'm sure Dr. Nick Riviera can give you a copy of his food pyramid.

11:59am Dan B From Upstate:

Happy thanksgiving, all.

11:59am Carmichael:

I adore Jessica Kane.

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12:00pm Ken:

Bye everybody! Have a great Buy Nothing Day!

12:01pm Caryn:

Will tonight's 7SD include bets on how many people get tasered by fellow shoppers on Friday?

12:01pm f✿f✿:

great show, great gifs! thanks Keno!

12:01pm upstatesean:

my man Duane! bring it.