Platypus of Doom: Ken's show

Listener comments!

9:02am rob t:

Is this thing on?

9:02am Detroit Mac:

Morning Music Master

♥ 9:02am Ike:

Digging. How deep?

♥ 9:03am G:

We can diggit.

9:03am rob t:

why not China?

♥ 9:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Finally: Pressure of coming up w/ a bad jifjoke made him shout: 'Giff me a break!'...

9:04am rob t:

i'll just WAV you goodbye, rabbit. :P

9:05am I X Key!:

LOL or whatever you sau

9:07am Dave B:

hey!

9:08am Rev. Turnip Druid:

digging the shindig.

♥ 9:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's the WoofMoo Merekat Monochrome Mafia...

9:08am Detroit Mac:

It was Cyrus who was the leader of the Giffs

♥ 9:08am Ken:

Morning all!

9:09am I X Key!:

OK one, good on ya, I have to go over here, & support the station over here--

9:09am I X Key!:

Morning!

♥ 9:09am Rob (from Mt Hope):

watching Merekat 'pop-ups'

♥ 9:09am Ken:

The anti-request line is open! Tell me what you would never in a million years want to hear por favor.

9:10am Detroit Mac:

Toad- by Cream

9:10am I X Key!:

@K#?

♥ 9:11am Mike East:

I'd never like to hear "The Heat Is On" ever again, please. Thank you.

♥ 9:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nope: Dig Ginger Baker.

♥ 9:11am cklequ:

I'd absolutely hate to hear something like this:
www.youtube.com...

9:11am rob t:

"Send In The Clowns." Oh never ever ever.

9:14am F❀F❀:

Ken you dig it!? Ken you dig it!?

Hola tod@s!

9:15am jan:

Is that a photo of the Fleetwood Mac concert at Madison Square Garden- Damn. I missed it. Read all about it today in the Times.
First missed Woodstock, now this.

9:15am Scott T:

Henry Buzzglass' - The Rain Keeps Falling song

9:15am the glowing one:

Yes, we Ken!

9:15am Cheri Pi:

Ken! Dave B.! RTD, All you all!

9:16am Dan B From Upstate:

Dave Perlis put a record up on band camp. You should never play that. daveperlis.bandcamp.com Especially the first track. It's garbage.

♥ 9:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh - 'over & over' - hmm
- cklequ! Found yer head! Sort of...Kenny Loggins needs to be reserved for GuiltathonTorture...

♥ 9:18am Fine-aight:

I'd like to never hear whatever's played on other stations, thanks.

9:19am common:

i like this wire song. There's a good live version on the yootoobs.

9:19am Cheri Pi:

Are you dissing Loggins??? This Wire cut is dreamy.

9:20am F❀F❀:

Ken, Jennique, and anyone interested,

I did my homework and here it is:

Hermanos Calatrava - Odisea Espacial (Space Oddity by David Bowie)
http://pastebin.com/j0kvRE5E

I also created an BIO entry and added the song (but song will take 24 hours before showing up)
http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/137439063383/

9:21am Rev. Turnip Druid:

We want to be free to dig it without being hassled by the man.

♥ 9:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I think of nothing but the Good of the Station, Cheri Pi! You know that!

♥ 9:22am Fine-aight:

I'd like to thank David Byrne for turning me on to Juana Molina. Is he here somewhere?

9:22am amEdeo:

Twiddle them thumbs!

9:22am F❀F❀:

I'd never paid attention nor listen closely the Bowie's Space Oddity before listening the Hermanos Calatrava. Good because David Bowie's version sucks!!!!

9:23am Dr. Goot:

Morning all. Speaking of Byrne, did anyone see his musical about Imelda Marcos, "Here Lies Love"?

9:23am groucho:

well, this is nice

9:24am Dave B:

My anti request - side one of 2112 unless it is done by Tony

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/02/canada-as-long.html

9:27am the glowing one:

it's from this album

www.discogs.com...

♥ 9:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx, F❀F❀ - !

♥ 9:31am Asheville Jon:

when is there going to be a corn weenie/dr bootygrabber remix?

9:31am thedunkel:

morning Cyrus Freedman and fellow Van Cortland Rangers!

♥ 9:32am Ken:

Asheville John, you are just the man to do it! Let me know if you need source material.

9:33am F❀F❀:

Thanks Revolution Rabbit Nov63. My Spanish-English translation skillz are amaesing, so I had no problemo at al.

♥ 9:35am Skirkie:

I was looking for a .gif of the DJ from the movie that kept covertly giving the gangs updates on the Warrior's whereabouts. Is there a station like that by the way?

9:35am Dan B From Upstate:

I like this... backanouncing the gifs instead of the music.

♥ 9:36am Rob (from Mt Hope):

my favorite gif is on white toast

♥ 9:37am G:

It's always the goddam boiler.

9:37am F❀F❀ (:

Gifs are taking over the world. Forget about robots, gifs soon are going to replace us.

9:37am Dave B:

@skirkie - I think you're listening to it

9:37am Sam:

What's an animated jif?? Is that when you're out of peanuts so you make peanut butter out of Mexican jumping beans?

9:37am Rev. Turnip Druid:

BOILER ALERT!

9:37am hamburger:

voluntary in-coil-nesis?

9:37am Chris T.:

I think the "gangs taking over the city" thing is the plot of the last Batman movie...

♥ 9:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...No Second Opinion on that, Ken? 'Course, another Contractor could be a Crook...

9:38am groucho:

Boiler guy got your email saying you got loads of money donated to the station, invents a problem and charges you money to fix it.

9:38am thedunkel:

agree fully with Dan B From Upstate on back announcing the gifs

9:39am Chris T.:

It was "The Dark Knight Rises" and Bane took his whole act from Cyrus in the "Warriors"...

♥ 9:39am G:

A boiler is a glorified teakettle. Just fix it so it stays fixed more than 24h, Mr Prophylactic Salesman.

♥ 9:39am Rob (from Mt Hope):

boiler juice seals the concrete so the radon gas doesn't seep back up into the basement

9:39am Sam:

No G, there's nothing glorified about a boiler

♥ 9:40am G:

The boiler spooged on the floor?

9:40am the glowing one:

never change a running system - no need to fix things that aren't broken ... and so on

♥ 9:40am Mike East:

I think you're right, Chris T.

9:41am Cheri Pi:

CV!

9:42am listener mark:

What's leaking? Water or fuel oil?

♥ 9:42am Skirkie:

I found Baseball Furies stuff too: miss-pacina.tumblr.com...

9:43am F❀F❀ (:

I hope this is not a trap. Having said that this is my anti-request:

- Anything from Mariah Carey.

9:44am paulWCBN:

YES.

9:45am Cheri Pi:

Yep.

9:45am Ralphine:

That WWE gif reminds me that Paul Bearer died not too long ago. R.I.P.

♥ 9:47am Caryn:

Hello all! Can't figure out if the anti-request is really for stuff we can't stand, or "something we don't want played" a la Ken... If it's the first, then Paul McCartney & Wings' "Bip Bop".
And seriously, Ken? "Warriors" holds a record for quality level shift between start and the rest of the movie? Oh come on! Not only is "Warriors" a fine movie, there are certainly plenty of movies with really promising starts that then descend into crap.

9:47am Tom from Detroit:

Greetings Ken. I recommend recently built prefab modular structures bearing parts identical to those of numerous adjacent structures. I dig em young, uniform and without prophylactics.

9:47am Chris T.:

Just remember "Rust never sleeps". I'm facing a possible replacement of my boiler, too. The question is: how do you find someone to give you an honest appraisal and not just sell you a new boiler?

9:48am rob t:

one more antii-request: the Kingston Trio's version of Seasons In The Sun.

9:49am r i s k y:

Go Ken!!!

9:49am dale:

boiler guy hosed you. if he had new replacement parts with different part numbers why not just replace them when time came? problem is, that would be when it's 5 degrees out.

♥ 9:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...many an aspiring Popette has listened to Mariah @ this speed to pick up on her amazing riffs...

9:50am steve from Reykjavik:

first time i've listened to a whole mariah Carey song. good job.

♥ 9:50am Andrew Waterloo:

I wonder what this would sound like autotuned

9:50am listener mark:

Close the cold water feed valve and turn off the electric.

♥ 9:51am Fine-aight:

F❀F❀ (: IT WAS A TRAP!!! :(

9:51am rob t:

i wish i could melisma like Mariah!

9:52am F❀F❀ (:

Have tons of great movies with crappy endings it was about time to counterbalance that.

By the way, I was listening to this great slowed down song until I realised who was singing.

9:52am hamburger:

what next? poco-tune?

9:52am F❀F❀ (:

*Having

9:52am Sam:

Is she going to start singing in hebrew?

♥ 9:52am G:

This is from the "What Not to Do with Autotune" tutorial CD

9:53am Uke Goldberg:

Just turned the sound off. Auto tune is the new yodeling.

♥ 9:53am cklequ:

That Mariah Carey reminded me of another song i would hate to hear: soundcloud.com...

9:53am groucho:

Did he really play Mariah? I was hoovering

9:53am Rev. Turnip Druid:

great scott.

9:54am groucho:

Did he really play Mariah? I was hoovering

9:54am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Quinoa Nose?

♥ 9:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...we'll be replaced by autotuned gifs...
- Is there a gif of Mariah melissma-ing - ?? The Monochrome Mafia wanna know...

9:54am groucho:

oops, double post, browser said first one didn't go through

♥ 9:54am Fine-aight:

That's not auto-tune youse guys, the poor girl needs to sing through a computer a lá Hawking.

♥ 9:55am G:

I've heard of this kid, Honey Boo Autotune

9:55am Robert:

The opening credits sequence of the movie of "Watchmen" I can watch over & over. The rest of the movie, produced by another company, not so much.

♥ 9:55am Sem Chumbo:

This sure goes on.

9:55am Cheri Pi:

Ken, have I hurt you?

9:55am the glowing one:

But look how proud mom and dad are, look at it!

9:55am d:

i'm glad i listened to Trans on the way to work this AM. kind of a warm up i guess.

9:56am Uke Goldberg:

Is it over yet?

♥ 9:56am Caryn:

Beyond the "Warriors" gifs, not much to report on the gif front, movie-wise. Except the bannister gif, which is from the 1925 Lon Chaney movie "The Monster".

9:56am F❀F❀ (:

Calm down, people. Ken is just giving us examples of anti-request songs so we can know better.

9:56am the glowing one:

Mmmm--mmm-m-m-mm-mm-uuuuu---uu-uuuuua-aaaahhhh-aaa...

9:56am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Quinoa Nose... a terrible condition afflicting so many children whose parents have money to burn at Guitar Center...

9:57am groucho:

I've never turned this show off before, sorry Ken, love you, see you next week x

9:57am Christina love3r:

Thank you.

9:57am lee:

This song makes me cry.

9:57am Rev. Turnip Druid:

...and to think we had just cured Couscous Face just ten years ago.

♥ 9:57am G:

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Staten Island's own, CHRISTINA AGUILLERRRAAAAAA

♥ 9:58am SeanG:

hell yes!

9:58am fudge:

Your ruining my day ken.

9:58am Sam:

Don't worry, Ken's playing this IRONICALLY!! It's ok!

♥ 9:58am G:

@fudge: it'll put hair on your chest

9:58am Dan B From Upstate:

Ahh! That shift was jarring! I love it!

9:58am the glowing one:

Hm, sped down it reminds me of a Beatles song. OMG!

9:59am Cheri Pi:

haha RTD. Im hanging in w/ken!

9:59am F❀F❀ (:

I thought I was going to die undefeated without listen to Christina Aguilera.

♥ 9:59am Fine-aight:

Beautiful Gif!
Hahaha, only those 2 seconds at slower speed?

♥ 9:59am Rob (from Mt Hope):

Was that Rahmstein? Beautiful Ken

♥ 9:59am Ken:

No Sam, I like this song. That's why I sang it during the marathon.

♥ 9:59am Caryn:

@Sam: well, Ken did perform this at the H&M, so maybe he just really likes the song?

9:59am Uke Goldberg:

Ken is punishing us for not giving enough during the fund raiser.

9:59am Dave B:

this song makes me wanna...

25.media.tumblr.com...

9:59am Cheri Pi:

there was promise for 2 seconds.

10:00am Cheri Pi:

I'll join you Dave B.

10:01am Uke Goldberg:

Do the monster mash.

10:01am the glowing one:

"You've got mail."

10:01am fudge:

Are you sure this isn't Irwin djing?

10:01am Rev. Turnip Druid:

I figure if I survived the 30 minutes (or whatever it was) of deliberate, un-attended feedback before the Swans gig at the 9:30 club (circa 1989), I can take a bit of Savage Ken...

♥ 10:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...thot Xtina put on weight for a coupla seconds there...

10:02am Dave B:

@the glowing one - I thought that was me getting a farcebook notification...

10:02am Nickleback love3r:

Any chance we'll hear Chad?

♥ 10:02am Ken:

haha glowing one, good ear! I had the evil facebook open on my traktor machine....

10:02am Sam:

Does Andy Breckman like Christina Aguilera? Maybe you now have a band in common besides The Beach Boys.

10:02am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Honestly I think that might have been the first time I heard something by that Aguilera thing all the way through. It's been a weird life.

♥ 10:03am Fine-aight:

The amazing thing about this gif is that you can actually SEE her lisp.

10:04am Tom from Detroit:

J5 fade in genius.

♥ 10:04am SeanG:

Beautiful is an epic song

10:04am braveness23:

I'm pretty sure satan has taken over my media player

10:06am KevinfromBayRidge:

Show me the anti-Eagles!

10:06am Yair Yona:

Hi everyone

10:07am hamburger:

so instead of a pig impression, if ken did a british accent, he'd sound like Bane

♥ 10:07am G:

Didn't this announcer used to do voiceovers for Coast 2 Coast AM?

10:08am F❀F❀ (:

Hi yair

Excuse the Aguileras and the Careys. It's not what it seems. I swear.

♥ 10:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it was Ken who went down to the boiler
- but how do we *know* it was Ken who came back - ??...

10:10am Tom from Detroit:

"annoying annoying were really really annoying....annoying annoying were really really annoying.....annoying annoying were really really annoying....annoying annoying were really really annoying.....

10:10am Dave B:

Holy crap - we're dying here in my office. My colleagues were wondering "what the hell are you listening to".

since the boss is out today, I'm able to stream it to our big plasma and sound system.

10:11am Ralphine:

Does Facebook say "you've got mail" now? Yuck.

♥ 10:11am Rob (from Mt Hope):

so it's Lonnie Holley and GIF review week here at WFMU

♥ 10:12am Sem Chumbo:

Ken's been experimenting with the Haitian zombie cucumber. I sounded just like this, I remember.

10:12am Ralphine:

By the way, that gif of Commander Shepard yelling "UNACCEPTABLE!" is from one of the Mass Effect games, I don't know which.

♥ 10:12am G:

@Dave B: Does something sound weird? I must be missing something.

10:12am Bill W:

I was not wild about The Master, my Dark Lord, but I thought it justified itself with the line "PIGFUCK!"

10:14am Dave B:

Just the back announce on the corn dog gif, and the satanic vocorder

10:14am braveness23:

Great mix on this Anika song

10:14am the glowing one:

A JPEG?!?!?

♥ 10:15am G:

Book covers are so rarely animated.

♥ 10:15am Ken:

Yes Bill W, it had its moments, but after reading "Going Clear" and the Miscavige niece book, I realized even more what a missed opportunity that movie was.

10:16am F❀F❀ (:

the glowing one,

If you fast rotate the screen of your computer it looks like an animated JPEG.

10:18am F❀F❀ (:

Tony Mason Cox or Iggy Pop ?

♥ 10:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...can Autotune make it move? Make the movie end better?
- Soon there will be flexible screens, & we can Autotune our ugly faces...

♥ 10:19am Dave the Spazz:

Hello--long time listener, first time commenter. Just wanted to put to rest the Larry Storch death rumors...STORCH LIVES!

♥ 10:20am Webhamster Henry:

He's going to put Spigoni to sleep.

10:20am Roberto:

Ah yes, Tony Mason-Cox, definitely didn't want to hear that.

♥ 10:20am Ken:

Are there Storch death rumors really Dave?

10:20am Ralphine:

Thank goodness.

10:21am Jeezy:

Must...get... coffeeeee....

10:21am Chris T.:

Drew Friedman reported the death of Storch on his Facebook page.

10:22am Neg-guh-tor:

Wtf?

♥ 10:22am G:

www.deadoraliveinfo.com...

♥ 10:22am Fine-aight:

Now that's what I call auto-tune!

10:22am Ralphine:

I just saw Storch on a rerun of a Columbo episode not too long ago, and he looked fine.

10:23am Neg-guh-tor:

Storch death is a hoax! Repeat: Storch death is a confirmed hoax.

10:23am Man in the Macintosh:

Don't listen to a word this man says.

10:24am Jeezy:

Hahaha @ Ralphine

10:25am Dr. Goot:

David Liebe Hart is looking for a place to crash in the LA area.

10:28am F❀F❀ (:

it's about time Bjork enrolls David Lieve Hart in one of her projects.

♥ 10:29am Dave the Spazz:

Storch's wiki page had his death date (April 8th) for several hours before it was taken down. He's reportedly alive and well and playing a saxophone!

10:31am Neg-guh-tor:

Wow! Never heard this Meek song! Love!

10:31am Gretchen:

Good morning from the left coast

10:31am Ralphine:

I just checked Storch's official Myspace page. No information there.

10:32am Ralphine:

I will look on Friendster next.

10:32am the glowing one:

I wonder if Beck was inspired by this record...

♥ 10:37am G:

The Storch wiki page has between in a minor edit war since April 8, with people adding the death date over and over, and others reverting multiple times. They currently have him alive till someone changes it again.

en.wikipedia.org...

10:37am Gretchen:

doorstop

10:37am johnforz:

Ken!! it's a HARD G! GIF...

10:38am johnforz:

JIF is a peanut butter brand

10:38am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Meercat or no, methinks this violates the bylaws of your cat-free Internet, master Ken. SIX DEMERITS.

10:39am fred von helsing:

I love it when the DJ says sproing

♥ 10:39am Webhamster Henry:

www.olsenhome.com...

♥ 10:39am G:

Attention, this is your regularly scheduled gif pronunciation comments debate.

10:39am Chris T.:

For those of you who use Vine, here's a link to a Mac program that lets you convert your Vine video to an animated GIF: github.com...

10:40am johnforz:

threeframes.net/ is pretty good too

10:41am the glowing one:

cats seem to love these things, or hate:

www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...

10:41am F❀F❀ (:

I once saw a guy in the street giving away flyers about a short film that was going to be exhibited for free. The flyer featured this cool black panther and it looked like I was going to see an independent thriller. The venue was the headquarter of Scientology and I ended up watching a 30 min advertorial. Obviously I stayed there just few months. We were only allowed to drink water, we didn't washed ourselves, etc. Thank Xenu I wasn't brainwashed.

On an unrelated note, I have all Tom Cruise films and hearted the song.

True story.

♥ 10:42am Mike Noble:

now that I follow gifmovie on tumblr, the joyous wonder of ken's weekly gif fest is slightly marred.

♥ 10:42am G:

Death is news. Staying alive is not news. News is more interesting than not-news.

10:42am common:

whew!

♥ 10:43am Mike Noble:

can Les Blank be #1 in that death trinity?

10:43am Fern:

Hey Ken, wasn't Roger Ebert the first celebrity death? That makes Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello numbers 2 & 3, respectively.

♥ 10:43am G:

terrible midwestern prog aka STARFUCKINGCASTLE

10:44am benefit coordinator:

Modo says the third death was Lily Pulitzer http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/dowd-a-tale-of-three-women.html?hp&_r=0

10:44am Ralphine:

Thatcher, Funicello, Pulitzer, and Ebert. Everybody knows that celebrity deaths come in fours.

10:44am Jennique:

Hey fofo - Thanks for that translation of Hermanos Calatrava! Their lyrics are so much more political. I had no idea. Thanks for the bio too.
I fear posting my most hated song here on Ken's show. It's like falling for the "pull my finger" trick.

10:45am earrie:

Death according to media? It's both content and a content marker.
Past tense follows from this point on.

♥ 10:46am G:

I was one of the major fixers of the embarrassingly sloppy junkheap that was the wiki Ebert article at the time of his death last week. Dude wrote well, and deserved a decent article. I'm expecting a check for my editing work later this month.

♥ 10:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

This just in: Reported Death of the Death Hoax is confirmed a hoax...

10:48am F❀F❀ (:

No, thanks to you Jennique!

I had never heard of Hermanos Calatrava before. Now I am their biggest fan (at least of that song).

10:52am John McCabe:

perverted.tumblr.com... now here is a gif

♥ 10:53am Ike:

The hazy definition of "celebrity" means that celebrity deaths come in 259s, not threes. I mean, if you count everybody who ever appeared in a Bollywood film or did a guest spot on some bullshit detective show on TV. Where do you draw the line on who is a celebrity and who isn't? Who decides?

10:55am Gretchen:

is he starting a medley of songs containing "sproing?"

10:55am Ralphine:

If the death makes the nightly news, it's a celebrity.

♥ 10:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ike is Famous for saying that.

10:55am Jennique:

You know what is weird, the same guy who is the gif from Full Metal Jacket was also the possessed alien in the first Men in Black film and the lead in Law & Order Criminal Intent. Vincent D'Onofrio.

10:56am F❀F❀ (:

I dunno, Ike. But the guy swimming in the hall to our left looks celebrity enough for me. Animated gifs are the new films.

♥ 10:56am Rob (from Mt Hope):

or is Ike a celebrity?

♥ 10:57am Ken:

Yes Ike, it's the old "Who Shall Play God" question. We could argue about that for days. Which is why I nominate ME. After all, I have a lot of GIFS and a laptop running Traktor. Which is about as God-like as you can get.

♥ 10:57am G:

I like this hommage to Edwin Starr's "War"

10:58am F❀F❀ (:

Ike is such a celebrity that there's even a sculpture of his head in a museum somewhere. Just check his profile for more details.

♥ 10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Who on earth do you think you are? A superstar? Well right you are. & we all shine on.

♥ 10:59am Rob (from Mt Hope):

crazy diamonds

10:59am Gretchen:

which museum has a sculpture of your head ken?

♥ 11:01am Rob (from Mt Hope):

Ike's sculture is so lifelike

♥ 11:01am Ken:

The marshmallow rice kricpie treat sculpture of my head is on loan right now to the Cooter Museum.

11:01am the glowing one:

If there's ever going to be a WFMU museum it should have a sculpture of Ken's head.

11:02am earrie:

I haven't seen a star in the sky in months.

11:02am the glowing one:

Although a voodoo doll of Ken would be more fun.

11:02am Jennique:

Does WFMU have a velvet painting of you Ken? Better get on that.

♥ 11:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

IkeArt :
www.wfmu.org...
...'SyntheticGenetix' - just you wait!...

11:03am F❀F❀ (:

The glowing one,

Make it an animated sculpture.

♥ 11:03am Rob (from Mt Hope):

at least a black velvet portrait

11:05am Gretchen:

Pogo dog seeking dance partners for doggie mosh pit

11:05am F❀F❀ (:

Being portrayed on a black velvet portrait is the ultimate status symbol.

♥ 11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Museum should *be* Ken's head...

11:06am Jennique:

I'd like to see a rice crispy treat bust covered with ants. THAT is art.

11:06am F❀F❀ (:

But that won't be a Museum, Rev. It would be more like a Amusement Park .

11:08am fred von helsing:

bubble gum beach ball !

♥ 11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Arf!-Oi!-Arf!-Oi!

♥ 11:08am Ike:

I don't know where my head is. Anybody recognize the location?

Bryce is the main contributor to that mysterious museum, wherever it is.

♥ 11:12am G:

Tulip bubble was just for a few months in the early 18th century, fwiw :)

11:12am fred von helsing:

what no S&H green stamps

♥ 11:12am Rob (from Mt Hope):

can 'bitcoin' be used at a 'dirty water dog' stand?

11:12am Gretchen:

but bitcoins are not as pretty as tulips. were people flipping tulips back then?

11:12am the glowing one:

AND IT'S NOT ANIMATED!

♥ 11:13am G:

They were selling bulbs and "bulb futures" only

11:13am Listening Out There:

The woman in the animated GIF has realized that she forgot to brush...

♥ 11:13am Rob (from Mt Hope):

and to review previous 'gifs'

11:14am Gretchen:

bulb futures = incandescent

♥ 11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...for real: They were mortgaging homes to buy one bulb, & one day someone said - 'It's just a tulip'...wunna the classic Bubble&Crashes...

11:16am GGG:

Giving good /ɡɪf/ ?

11:16am kham:

Someone needs to turn Ken's descriptions into loops to make them more accurate.

♥ 11:16am Vivian:

Left field question! Gretchen did you grow up in Georgia?

♥ 11:16am Mike Noble:

Ken, are we going start hearing you phoning it in to the WFMU Tumblr any time soon?

11:17am Gretchen:

sorry, rochester new york

11:17am Jennique:

This guy, Wayne White, should build a gargantuan Ken head.
www.youtube.com...

♥ 11:18am Rob (from Mt Hope):

silly Dutch

11:19am Gretchen:

you have an old friend named gretchen from georgia? that would have been much more exciting, i should have just said "yes" :)

♥ 11:21am Ken:

G, tulip mania was in the early 17th century - it peaked in 1637

♥ 11:22am Vivian:

@ Gretchen. No, I'm glad you aren't the same Gretchen. The Gretchen I knew was looney-not in a good way. And elitist when it came to music.

11:23am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Digging.

11:24am Yair Yona (Tel Aviv, Israel, Earth):

@Ken - the writing in Arabic says : "The Woman says: It's Charming, Amazing, Cool - Aspirin! Pain killer".

Brought to you by the guys who lives in the middle east ;)

11:25am Gretchen:

Do many music listener elitists gravitate toward Ken's show?

♥ 11:26am Ken:

Thank you Yair! Any idea which country it might be from?

11:27am Rev. Turnip Druid:

YAY! RELEASE THE VIKINGS!

11:28am Carmichael:

Good morning, Kenneth. Hello everyone.

♥ 11:29am Vivian:

Hope not, that is why I was so surprised to see Gretchen in the comments board. She was a hipster - you know, I can only like what is obscure and only on vinyl.

11:30am Yair Yona:

@Ken - because it was translated to me by an Israeli, It's Lebanese-Syrian-Jordanian lingo I guess. Probably not Persian or Iraqi

♥ 11:30am Vivian:

Sorry folks, good morning and Ken, thank you for Brigitte Fontaine!

♥ 11:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...the personalized FAQs T-Shirt is a brilliant idea...

11:31am Ralphine:

I'm surprised that the person at the computer has to worry about being disturbed by other people.

♥ 11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...if I could have my FMU ProfilePage on a T...

♥ 11:34am G:

@Ken: My bad, working from memory. I read some book chapters last year about the South Sea Bubble (1720) and Tulip Bubble, and got it in my head they were the same period.

♥ 11:34am Ken:

Rev Rabbit, what is this FAQ T-shirt idea? I missed it.

11:35am Gretchen:

@ V: hipsters be gone! Ken can play whatever he likes and I will sometimes just not like it. but no elitism here, just a PhD in dorkiness. He could whip out some Reo Speedwagon and I'd still be singing along.

♥ 11:36am Lizardner Dave:

There's a .gif here that needs a better home than Deadspin: deadspin.com...

11:38am Rev. Turnip Druid:

ok, now with the Düül, I think we can overlook the Aguilera track and the CAT gif...

♥ 11:38am Ken:

@Gretchen, right on! REO Speedwagon coming right up

♥ 11:38am Vivian:

@ Gretchen: Right there with you! I applaud your PhD.

♥ 11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I think it says 'FAQ' on the paper taped to the kid - but eyes are getting better...

11:41am Gretchen:

Ken you wouldn't dare!

11:41am Carmichael:

It's classic morning Ken rock! Glad I wore my sombrero!

♥ 11:41am G:

Don't dare the man :)

11:42am Dan B From Upstate:

If you're having difficulty seeing a gif, you can click on it to enlarge it a bit. If this still isn't enough, you can hit the f button on your keyboard to make it bigger!

11:42am Rev. Turnip Druid:

OK, and for some reason, the Foghat takes care of the 6 demerits. Go to the head of the class and accept your gilded goose. The king has risen.

♥ 11:42am Ken:

aw shit, I went for the REO Speedwagon and up came Foghat.

♥ 11:42am crateslinger:

well it's about time...

♥ 11:43am Vivian:

What no Reo but Foghat? I bet Rush is coming up. Double shot from the Subdivisions album!

11:43am Carmichael:

It's OK, Ken. Lonesome Dave beats 2 Kevin Cronins anytime.

♥ 11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- areN't...

- In *my* FAQs :
- JourneyStyxForeignerKansasReoSpeedwagon:
- ARRRGH!NO!

♥ 11:43am crateslinger:

REO Suckwagon. FOGHAT! I see a black van with mags and flames on the side.

11:44am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Screw REO. It's time for Steve Miller.

11:44am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Abracadabra.

11:44am Gretchen:

I am still laughing

♥ 11:44am Ike:

My disembodied head farts on Foghat.

11:44am Ralphine:

Foghat. Somewhere, Clay Pigeon is smiling.

♥ 11:45am SeanG:

fuck me gently with a chainsaw

11:47am Gretchen:

that's quite a sizeable swag crowd upstairs

11:48am thedunkel:

we havent heard flipper's hahahahohoho in a while Cyrus Freedman

♥ 11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Foghat's a kind of Rockband...It's the General Overplaying that gets me most of all...

11:49am Dan B From Upstate:

Today, shouldn't you be a GJ? You know.. because of gifs instead of discs?

11:50am Uke Goldberg:

Wow, no mention, song or GiF in tribute/disparagement of Annette or Thatcher.

11:51am Uke Goldberg:

If you want bad, Foghat!

11:51am Carmichael:

Don't play that dogshit, Ken. PLEASE?!?!?!?

♥ 11:52am Vivian:

Don't forget Roll With The Changes!

♥ 11:52am rsj:

scott, whole stole the kishka?

♥ 11:53am AnAnonymousParty:

They weren't so much 'songs' as they were 'tunes'.

♥ 11:53am Rob (from Mt Hope):

have a great day all.

11:53am F❀F❀ (:

Play all REO Speedwagon material for long as an animated gif loops! No more, no less.

♥ 11:53am Brian C.:

1981-1985 Cultural blackout? About the only thing you missed was the A-team, fool.

♥ 11:54am Vivian:

Last summer, we walked upon a Journey cover band. Down to the much older Steve Perry lookalike. What made me smile was how much the crowd was into it-as if it was truly Journey. It was very cool.

11:54am outofluck70:

Ken playing role of angry overlord: itz teh awesum!!

11:55am Gretchen:

only 6 more minutes, so sad! glad I finally caught the show live for once. (and I know you'll play REO next week once you locate it)

♥ 11:56am rsj:

journey, foreigner, boston, kansas are they all the same band?

11:56am kham:

Finally, some T.A.T.U. I can't get this on any of my Paid Premium Streaming Services.

11:56am Ralphine:

My grandfather owned an REO Speed Wagon back in the 1930s, and I have a letter from Marshall Tucker to my mother telling her that he was leaving Rice Music House and starting his own piano tuning business.

11:57am Gretchen:

@V
I was in the most wonderful local small town mosh pit last night (some punk band with the lead doing indonesian throat singing) and the dancers were dominated by those of us in the overthehill crowd, too funny!

11:57am Rob:

whats this smith edit?

11:57am F❀F❀ (:

Vivian,

If they played like Journey, sound liked Journey, the singer looked like Steve Perry, but in an older version, then, perhaps it was Journey?

11:57am Fre:

More Foghat! Are you a fool for the city or what?

11:57am the glowing one:

when my computer gets broken, then times stops!

11:57am outofluck70:

<blackout>
I caiint fight diss feeeling anymooooooooooore!
</blackout>
What happened to my ROCKABYE BABY RECORDS!?!?!?!!

11:58am Carmichael:

The Steve Perry Project?

♥ 11:59am Vivian:

@G: Sounds like a fun time, those were my 80's.
@F: Trust me, it wasn't Journey. My husband's eyes are better than mine.

♥ 11:59am Vivian:

I think the band's name was Departure.

♥ 12:00pm Ken:

Bye all! I love you very very much

12:00pm F❀F❀ (:

Shows is over. A blockout period starts now but ends next Wednesday. See you all then!! Thanks Ken!

12:01pm F❀F❀ (:

*blackout!

♥ 2:19pm Caryn:

Damn atmospheric disturbances blocking signals!
Final gif roundup: So, after the game gif and the Tums commercial gif, we return to movies: Drew Barrymore in her directorial debut, "Whip It". And then of course "Full Metal Jacket" and "The Wild Ones". Not a lot today. But I did love the cat in the "Battlefield Earth" gif!