The key sentence from the Huffington post story: "A woman believed to be Chapman, an agent sent home to Russia in 2010 as part of the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, tweeted “Snowden, will you marry me?” from an unverified account on Wednesday." Unverified account being the key phrase.
9:19am
Emile:
Wevie is a spoonerism not a palindrome, but who cares, they are awesome
Hey! I am doing my first REAL NYC standup act Thursday night at 99 Macdougal Street, former home of 99 Records, now the Greenwich Village Comedy Club. 7pm. I am ready to try out my new heckler strategies so hecklers are welcome! It is time!
Anna Chapman was also on an episode of "Dates from Hell" on the ID channel.
Ah, HuffPost, I would wait for that to be verified by at least one other source.
Ken, if you get popular you could come play Convergence, a big science fiction convention here. Stand-Up! Records started programming comedy there, and a young comic actually recorded his first CD there! We were in the audience and he was great...
Look out for Adam Quennell if you like someone who's kind of a cross between Patton Oswalt and Steven Wright with a unique northern midwest sensibility.
Tim, My heckler strategy is secret but I have learned it from an excellent source - my jokewriters in Bangalor who I pay a quarter per joke. I paid one dollar for their heckler strategy and it seems brilliant to me.
Q - What did the wrench say to the threaded fastener?
A - "Are you some kind of a nut?"
Can I get a quarter for that?
9:50am
jan:
"Be Thankful for what you got" reminds me of my school years in Baltimore when the 70s pimpmobiles were ascendent. Great example of auto self expression: http://www.chromjuwelen.com/de/network/247-blogcardomain/29775-a-70s-pimpmobile-reborn.html
The Montgomery NY station is a station owned by another company and they temporarily needed programming and legal IDs on it so we are lending them a hand. Its a temporary situation.
I think Metallica are commended for continually falling on their faces and taking risks. Why not? If you're richer than hell, it beats buying another car.
Is WNYX still owned by Christian radio types? This is an interesting juxtaposition from the previous programming. Maybe they wanted you to scare away their old audience.
it comes in staticky in new hampton. sometimes i get the 91.1 signal too. plus i can turn it on with a delay on my logitech squeezebox, plus itunes, plus the station website, all out of phase!
To be honest, I'd rather listen to Witchcraft at this juncture.
Or the first Black Sabbath album. I mean, it's solid and all, but BS at that time were really unhinged. And if they're not going to be unhinged, I prefer them with Dio...oh, wait.
@Ken- Diamond in the back could be on a Lincoln or Cadillac, the phrase refers to the shape of the rear windows which were reduced in size and reshaped-(as described in the song- like a diamond) by a very thick padded vinyl roof covering. The "TV antas in the back" were the antennae mounted for an actual TV. I've never been quite sure what the gangster lean is, though.
it's under local channels and also under one of the programmers favorite stations. i used it alot when i first got it but honestly fmu over the air is better than 99.9 percent of what i've listened to. i was late to satellite and may dump that. i like david johansen's sunday program, but that's about it
Hello radio professionals! Do you have a failing adult contemporary, news/talk, or Christian station? Want to sell it to NPR or something without getting a lot of complaints? Don't want to bother with the expense of normal stunting? Check out the new Terrify Away Your Old Audience service from WFMU! LOL.
We had a local radio station that tried that same thing. They played nothing but Garth Brooks. The problem is... the locals liked it, and it stayed that way for a couple of years, before becoming another clear channel "Mix" station.
i had an 85 cadillac fleetwood brougham, red, red leather, red vinyl roof. roofing company taking a dumpster out of my drive turnd short and ripped the front clip off. i felt like a fat southern mayor driving that thing.
"gangsta lean" (from the 1970s): when you are driving, and you lean over, resting your right elbow on the center consol, so that your head is in front of the rearview mirror. growing up near Detroit at least taught me that.
Show me a picture of the diamond in the back window please.
10:21am
jan:
@Ken. Do not gainsay me, man. Here are photos found searching Diamond in the back. https://www.google.com/search?q=diamond+in+the+back&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=A23dUZXIN7O14AOT6ICoBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1342&bih=720#facrc=0%3Bdiamond%20in%20the%20back%20cadillac&imgdii=_&imgrc=_
re: The new Black Sabbath - check the ending of "Dear Father"... Ends with a similar church bell/thunder storm much like the opening of "Black Sabbath" on the first album. Give the whole oeuvre a kind of "Planet of the Apes" (original films) circular implosion...
in 1998 i lived in LA and was preparing to move back to NYC. a station was changing formats, and the DJs left on a Spice Girls loop. It was about 5 seconds and jarringly irregular, like 9.45 beats long.
I managed to listen for about 2 days before I had to move on.
Oh i GET IT NOW...!!! I will break out the Crystal radio and see if I can hear them at night!!!! We will have us a regular WFMU "DX" session!!!!
XOXO!!!
and dammit, Pi, that's awesome. The Goblin show in Baltimore conflicts with the DC sonic circuits festival, else I'd be a freakball of whoopa by now...
10:42am
F㊰F㊰ (:
Look what I found the other day in the WFMU YT channel!
WFMU-TV: The Ken Freedman show (April 1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJus2kP8N1A
Man, I thought there were no archived shows before 1996. Are there any more that haven't been digitalised yet, Ken ?
Cecile (10:40): true. But John Harrison was the perfect space-robo-bassist for the first album. Totally different vibe, but it works on the long jams...
Ok everyone I am better now My "Meds" have kicked in!!!
Good morning to Bill and Frank. They are on the morning "FMU Shift" at the NSA...I know 'cause I read their emails!!!!
I just got an email from spotify to let me know there's a rockabye baby version of silverchair.
10:52am
Robot Ghost:
I think the Silverchair lullabye should be played. Or The Ex.
10:52am
upstatesean:
Hey Ken,
thanks for posting my painting about driving and listening to wfmu. It happens to me quite often - I think something is wrong with the car, but it is just some weird music on wfmu.
Well, that's a switch. I actually haven't investigated too much Hawkwind after 1975/the United Artists' years. I think I unconsciously put the brakes on right around "Warrior at the Edge of Time." Any good comps for '80s material?
i'm tuning in late and ENJOYING it. thanks. and i'm tempted to attend ken's 99records show tom'w. however, i'll pull up my chair to face andy breckman, demanding that *he* perform!
you know I was listening to that track of Aguayo's "no I don't smoke" yesterday, and it is awesome.
I think he's getting away from pure dance, and it's not as great as his usual stuff.
Hi all!
So, gif check:
- "Stoker"
-I suppose I could use the photo of Miriam Makeba to plug the Kaurismäki documentary about her, "Mama Africa"
-The baby/chimp film is from 1932 (see it online: archive.org...)
-The swings are from the documentary "Requiem for Detroit" (which can be viewed online here: documentaryheaven.com...
-Yay, Moss from "The IT Crowd"!
-Music vid for Grimes' "Vanessa"
-Louise Brooks in "Pandora's Box"
he walked away from performing. He was disgruntled with the record business. He's a producer. Also, fun fact, kid star Danielle Brisbois plays on this record.
@Dave B: yeah, the drummer thing did make me briefly think the gif came from you :)
But then I realised it was Krupa and thought it was just performance footage.