WFMU: Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from November 16, 2013

Listener comments!
	3:05am w41: Whazzup Bill & fellow listeners!
	3:07am Bill Mac: Dubbuhyew!!! How we doing this morning?
	3:07am Looms: whaaazzuuuup!
	3:08am Jay/London: Sunny good Morning Bill coffee Zzzzzzero Hour
	3:08am Andy in Berlin: Good morning Bill and everybody! Hey I scored the strudel this week!
	3:08am KP: morning! Was just telling martha i just got in from a geeg and still a little pumped up.
	3:09am KP: Great start here.
	3:09am w41: Well, it's a lonely post-birthday weekend w/ all celebrations moved to the next one... Coffee/first snow/academical work/no more booze!!! (till next weekend)
	3:10am mauri: KaBang!
	3:10am Bill Mac: Aaaaargh!!!! Playin' KP?
	3:11am Jay/London: @ w41 I know just how you feel my birthday was last week too
	3:12am Bill Mac: Morning all, seems we're in sync for the moment. Sorry to here all the partying and various supplements needed for entertainment are stalled til next week W41. Latch on to some friends to tide you over. No worries guys, there's always another bday round the corner.
	3:12am w41: Congrats! Did the celebration go well?
	3:13am Bill Mac: Kebang & whazzup - WHAZZUP!!! No strudel for me, a quick nanner and some pretzels til sun up...
	3:15am Jay/London: yeah went very well ended up having a sing song into the early hours
	3:18am w41: No Bill, it's only for the best -- people will have more time to think and give me more cool presents! :) @Jay that's going to have to be at some friend's house -- my neighbours take seconds to call the cops at the sounds of saxophone at 5 am
	3:20am Bill Mac: @Jay That's the way to do it, neighbors willing.
	3:20am Jay/London: @w41 its was at my place just a guitar and a lot of singing sometimes to a backing track
	3:22am Jay/London: my did we make a lot of noise
	3:23am KP: Yes. just a LI bar but it was fun
	3:25am Jay/London: I like to see a band in a small place KP :)
	3:27am Bill Mac: Was it King Penguin playing Pretties, or a variety of the Fruts de Mer material?
	3:31am Andy in Berlin: @Bill - Pretzels Till Sunup should be the title of your autobiography. Knocking it out of the park so far today by the way.
	3:35am Bill Mac: Thanks Andy - I actually have two working titles (ok, now three) for my autobiography - 'contemplating baldness & acne' is one, and 'between the big dipper and mars' is the other. I may have to reconsider though.
	3:37am mauri: voih zits and stars I'm going bald in mars
	3:40am Looms: The Big Dipper is named "La Grande Ourse" (the big female bear) in France; please don't ask...
	3:41am Andy in Berlin: Contemplating Baldness and Acne sounds too much like a young adult novel. I like Between The Big Dipper and Mars. It sort of makes sense till you actually think about it.:)
	3:41am w41: well maybe because the constellation is called Ursala Major or something like that
	3:42am mauri: yah part of the big bear in finnish.
	3:42am Andy in Berlin: @ W41 - That's Ursa Major. Ursala Major was the girl you sat next to me in Chemistry.
	3:43am mauri: Otava. we call it
	3:44am w41: Sure. You don't have to thank me
	♥ 3:45am Brian in UK: Hello boss, boys 'n girls. Happy birthday w41.
	♥ 3:46am Brian in UK: 'I shuda Worked at Skool'
	3:46am KP: Autobiography? Hmmm.
	3:48am KP: I was born in the Bronx but grew up in luscious Levittpwn, LI.
	3:49am KP: We played curb ball back when few families had more than one car. Baseball card flipping ...
	3:51am Martha: I think it is Recommended Records, but I can't be sure -
	3:51am w41: Thank you Brian!
	3:51am KP: I knew i had a standing answer to the autobiography question, which is "Too Late for Lunch, Too Early for Dinner."
	3:55am w41: The name would be "Happily ever after... or probably not"
	♥ 3:55am Brian in UK: Hey Jay how long did it take to recover?
	3:56am Bill Mac: @KP/W41 - Difference between yours and mine is that you put some thought behind it!
	3:57am CDToaster: I was born and raised in da Bronx and was a champion at playing skelly if anyone cares to challenge me. Melted crayon inside hollowed checkers were good pieces. I played ALL NYC games including ringolevio and Chinese box ball (aka Chinese handball). I don't think flipping baseball cards and curb ball were limited to NYC.
	3:57am w41: Damn it, I think you win
	3:57am Andy in Berlin: I thought I'd call mine, I'm Me, Who The Hell Are You?
	♥ 3:59am Brian in UK: I heard a good one the other day 'Do Not Look Back, We Are Not Going That Way'
	3:59am KP: Guy in band tonight pointed out that Billy Joel and I share an embarrassment of being from Hicksville and prefer to say Leviittown. I put Levittown on my Facebook profile because more people know it. But unlike Billy Joel, I actually lived there. He just wants to sound working class but he is def.from Hicksville. A newspaper would say youre from where you went to high school and by that measure im from Hicksvile, same as Joel. I saw him play the high school there, but i didnt go to that one. sorry about all the Piano Man drivel.
	4:00am Jay/London: @ Brian I took the Monday off still a bit hungover on Tuesday but well worth it after all we only have one birthday per year
	4:01am Bill Mac: @CDToaster - That's what I'm talking about! Flipping cards - topsies for keepsies.... isn't chinese boxball the PC name for... chinese boxball?
	4:01am Andy in Berlin: Though I was born in NYC, I grew up in the country and we were playing mumbleypeg - in the days when all kids carried knives (well, pocket knives...) and there was no threat of danger. :)
	4:02am Looms: So far, my autobiography is called "Let's have another cup of coffee". btw, Ursa Major comes from Greek mythology
	4:02am KP: Yeah Cd toaster, i was born in the Bronx but im from Long Island. first Levittown, then neighboring Hicksville. Never really knew the city but just moved to Manhattan and love it.
	4:02am Andy in Berlin: If you don't know what mumbleypeg is, it's kind of like Twister but you play it with a knife.
	4:02am Jay/London: story’s of someone who should have known better ! is mine
	4:02am KP: Yeah Cd toaster, i was born in the Bronx but im from Long Island. first Levittown, then neighboring Hicksville. Never really knew the city but just moved to Manhattan and love it.
	♥ 4:02am Brian in UK: Did you used to do splits with knives, thowing them at feet to spread legs.
	4:03am Jay/London: yeah I used to do that Brian
	4:04am KP: Yeah Brian we did that on Long island.
	4:04am KP: Shell breathing?
	4:08am Andy in Berlin: @ Jay, Brian, and KP - yep that's mumbleypeg
	4:08am Bill Mac: I got hit in the shin with a dart by the neighborhood stoner guy back in the day.... good times.
	4:10am Bill Mac: @Andy ... like twister with a knife... hoo boy...
	4:13am CDToaster: @Bill + KP: the Chinese box ball is the game played against a w-i-d-e wall with 4' boxes drawn vertically named, "Ace," "King," "Queen," "Jack," etc. and a pink Spaulding ball. The best player was the king of the killers which were the balls that hit the wall and ground simultaneously. Also, putting the "english" on (like with Pong) was fun, too. Remember these?
	4:15am w41: I shall use this opportunity to say -- beautiful music today, Bill!
	4:15am Bill Mac: It's working today dubbuhyuh!
	♥ 4:17am Brian in UK: We used to race cars in the playground at skool. If you put plasticene on the underneath they had more stability and went faster. More downforce!!!! Bent axles when someone trod on them (normally a girl) tented to screw the race.
	4:17am KP: Andy, our mumbly peg was more close up than that. Like tricks and trying to get knife to stick in ground. The foot thing was something else, at least on Long Island and a little north of citt, where we hd a bungalow.
	4:19am Bill Mac: @CDToaster - OK, I stand corrected, this sound more complicated than what we used to play in Philly (called chink, which sounds like a variety of what you're talking about. Come to think of it, a chink referred to the ball that hit the base of the wall and ground simultaneously). Played a lot of handball with either a pinkie or a pimple ball
	♥ 4:21am Brian in UK: @KP here is a link to Joe McGasko's show yesterday at 2:51 another version of 'Feel a Whole Lot Better' www.wfmu.org...
	4:22am CDToaster: Bill, the kids today don't have any idea of what real fun is.
	4:24am Bill Mac: I think you're right Toaster - I would imagine a few of these games have been totally forgotten for at least a generation.
	4:25am CDToaster: Bill, since you're into handball, it just so happens that my dad won the world championship in handball at the games on Coney Island. He actually beat the existing world champion back in the mid-40's.
	4:27am KP: Thanks CDToaster, we did that tonight, as always. The Flamin Groovies do a nice straight forward version.
	4:28am Bill Mac: I was into street handball myself - I think that was known as boxball when I was coming up. You played it like baseball, with a 4 base field, but you used your hand to hit the ball. I only played REAL handball once of twice, not easy - cool that your dad beat the champ.
	4:29am KP: DJ Heat, who shows up on boards here, is big fan of Potty Mouth/
	4:32am KP: Of course Bill there is a "new" real handball. It's unknown here but played in Olympics. It's like basketball but the goal is a small one like in soccer and there is a goaltender. There are pro leagues in Europe and it's on TV alot there.
	4:34am Andy in Berlin: I personally used to play paddleball, but only much later. My son, was big into handball when he was in junior high and got me to play with him once, but I didn't have sneakers with me. It's hard to hold your own on the handball court in sandals. Getting your ass handed to you by an 13 year old is not fun.
	4:35am Bill Mac: @KP I really like that particular Potty Mouth tune
	4:35am Bill Mac: Note to self, do not wear sandals while playing any kind of impact sports.
	4:41am Jay/London: this is good " look it up "
	4:45am Emile: Hey Bill and all his Mac daddies...
	4:46am Bill Mac: Hey Emile - quickly give me the name of your autobiography!
	4:48am KP: The Blind Shake! Still mystifying record store employees in my corner of the village.
	4:48am Emile: "Slight Improvements"
	4:49am Bill Mac: Thanks..... pass....
	4:50am Bill Mac: They're the new drug round the household these days...
	4:58am Looms: Ha, just found my autobiography name: "Whistle while you may" Thx for the inspiration, Bill.
	5:01am Bill Mac: You guys all have really cool ideas for book names. You can blame it on Andy, who's probably drunk on strudel by now... there's a title for you Andy!
	5:01am KP: Good one Looms.
	5:02am KP: Anyone know what the colors of the hearts mean?
	5:04am w41: If you have visited the person's profile, the heart changes its color :)
	5:04am KP: THe heart over here --------------------------------------------------------------------------->
	5:05am KP: aha. thanks w41. I keep forgetting that one. It's sort of tattle tale, no?
	5:06am KP: The Flamin Groovies played in Brooklyn tonight with the Sonics. Reports were excellemt
	5:07am KP: And I saw the Flaming Groovies in the Village couple months ago. They were great.
	5:10am KP: How about Hawkwind?
	5:10am KP: We all need our stools.
	5:11am KP: We saw My Bloody Valentine Monday. All i know is the opening band was louder.
	5:13am Andy in Berlin: @ Bill - Drunk on Strudel is the title of part two: The Berlin Years
	5:14am w41: How about Sonic f'n Youth?
	5:14am Bill Mac: @Andy Love it!
	5:15am Andy in Berlin: ...or alternatively "No Beer...Strudel"
	5:15am Andy in Berlin: @Bill - actually, yours is better
	5:16am Bill Mac: @W41 Lemmee see...
	5:16am b k: did 91.1 just go off air?
	5:16am Bill Mac: @KP Opening bands always seem to be louder.
	♥ 5:19am Brian in UK: Kelley is Kool.
	5:19am Andy in Berlin: @ Bill - they WISH they were louder
	5:19am Bill Mac: BK I'm on it
	5:20am Bill Mac: @BK Call is in
	5:21am Looms: Speaking of Sparks, John Allen did a very interesting interview with Russel Mael a couple years ago: wfmu.org...
	5:22am Andy in Berlin: Bill, since you're talking about opening bands, can you play We're The Support Band by I, Ludicrous?
	5:23am Bill Mac: I'll need to check this one out, thanks Looms!
	5:27am KP: The opening band - heavy metal - were much louder than MBV probably because they had screechy guitars and the treble is a killer. i could not stay in room w/o ear plugs with them. I could with MBV but of course did use them
	5:29am KP: Best opening acts ive seen: MC5 for Boz Scaggs, the original and brand new at time Mott the Hoople for Ten Years After. Both at Stony Brook. Both unfreakingbelievable. I also saw Bruce Springsteen open for Anne Murray and he was pretty good.
	5:32am Bill Mac: Bruce who?
	5:34am Jay/London: Springsteen bill think he is well known around the place !
	5:34am Andy in Berlin: This is a hilarious song. I read somewhere that they are considered to be sort of like a Fall joke band. Aparently Mark E. Smith wanted them to open for them but he didn't know how to contact them so he just started advertizing the show, and they saw it and showed up.
	5:34am Liz B.: Ken is on the scene for the 91.1 FM transmitter problems. We had an electricity spike up there a few days ago and things have been iffy ever since. We'll get it fixed, so hang in there.
	5:35am marc: Not on FM
	5:35am KP: Oh back to loud openimg bands. When the Who first toured as a four piece with Zak Starkey, they were shockingly low key. They called them the Who unplugged. I saw them twice like that and each time the opening act was UnAmerican. They were unbelievably loud. you could not be in same room.
	5:35am Bill Mac: Tanks Liz!
	5:36am Andy in Berlin: I saw Twisted Sister open for Alice Cooper at Wembley and Alice was louder. Didn't matter though.
	5:37am Bill Mac: @KP Would've liked to been at Ten Years After Show. Had a lot of people asked me about the last Ian Hunter 'tour'.
	5:37am KP: Liz didnt notice that i mentioned Bruce Springsteen, did she?
	5:38am Jay/London: did anyone go to the human rights concerts in 1988 ?
	5:39am w41: Thank you Bill!
	5:39am KP: Well it helped i loved the first album and still do. Why do you put quotes around "tour."
	5:39am Jay/London: nothing bad about mentioning him KP after all this is free-form
	5:40am KP: Ha! There's free and there's form. But early early Bruce was great.
	5:42am Jay/London: darkness is/was the best me thinks KP
	5:44am Looms: The opening act I enjoyed the most, I think, was by alternative and unclassifiable French band Double Nelson. It was totally weird and I became an instant fan. I was 16 at the time but still remember that moment.
	5:44am KP: i was in a Bruce/reggae/soul band in those days. Anything with horns and a gravely voiced singer (not me).
	5:46am Andy in Berlin: Ok everybody, gotta bail! Chalk up another good one, Bill!
	5:47am Bill Mac: Figures Andy I found that song! Art Phag!
	5:48am Andy in Berlin: busted!
	5:48am Bill Mac: Next week I'll play it.
	♥ 5:52am Brian in UK: Nice one, Bill. My internet radio has been here and there. How about 'Dipping in and Out' for a biog?
	5:53am KP: I saw Elvis Costello on his first American tour. The opening act clocked him. It was a trio and rhe guitarist moved like Townshend. I thin they well called Street People and were from NJ.
	5:53am Looms: Bye, have a nice week!
	5:54am w41: Thank you for the show, Bill!
	5:55am KP: See ya looms/ im headed in same direction Bill. Guess i made up for absence. Lemme know about Hawkwind
	5:56am Jay/London: well time to go out into the big bad world ... till next week
	5:57am Bill Mac: Thanks all. I'm gonna have to check KPs stories after the show. I'm racking (wracking?) my brain trying to this of any opening bands that made big impressions. I DO know that Blind Shake were awesome last month. Anyways, see you guys next week. Now that you have a title, get crackin on that book!
	♥ 5:59am Brian in UK: Have a great day w41.

Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from November 16, 2013

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Lullabies and reveilles. Something for the late nighters and early risers.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Faust	Track 1 "Track 1" by "Faust"	ReR USA 2004 Sampler	ReR		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Can	Half Past One "Half Past One" by "Can"	Landed	Spoon		0:04:29 (Pop-up)
Ghost	Guru in the Echo "Guru in the Echo" by "Ghost"	Ghost	PSFD	*	0:09:25 (Pop-up)
Mohammed	Neporiniai Kakaowa "Neporiniai Kakaowa" by "Mohammed"	Spiriti	Antifrost	*	0:14:12 (Pop-up)
Biota	Walk Aside "Walk Aside" by "Biota"	ReR Quarterly Volume 4	ReR		0:18:02 (Pop-up)
5uu's	The Birth of Compromisation	ReR Quarterly Volume 1	ReR		0:21:51 (Pop-up)
David Thomas and the Accordion Club	Egg & I	ReR Quarterly Volume 2	ReR		0:26:19 (Pop-up)
Califone	Chinese Actor "Chinese Actor" by "Califone"	Roots and Crowns	Thrill Jockey		0:27:52 (Pop-up)
Brian Woodburys Variety Orchestra	Shenandoah/Innsbruck	ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 2	ReR		0:32:13 (Pop-up)
Cave	Shikaakwa "Shikaakwa" by "Cave"	Threace	Drag City	*	0:39:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit			0:43:00 (Pop-up)
Chrome	Sound and Light "Sound and Light" by "Chrome"	Half Machine from the Sun	King of Spades	*	0:53:46 (Pop-up)
Love at a Psychedelic Velocity	Optical Sound	Love at a Psychedelic Velocity	Mississippi	*	0:58:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit			1:02:53 (Pop-up)
Psapp	Everything Belongs to the Sun	What makes Us Grow	The State 51 Conspiracy	*	1:07:26 (Pop-up)
Orchis	Innocence "Innocence" by "Orchis"	Audio Odditions 2	Influx Communication		1:10:30 (Pop-up)
Tulipomania	Hold On "Hold On" by "Tulipomania"	Wire Tapper 33	The Wire		1:14:53 (Pop-up)
Blam Blam Blam	There's No Depression in New Zealand	it's Bigger Than Both of Us: NZ Singles 1979-82	Huh/FM	*	1:19:57 (Pop-up)
Nicky Romance	Black Panther "Black Panther" by "Nicky Romance"	Neighbors Noise: Kaminsky Kamoutsky 2013 Premium	None	*	1:22:11 (Pop-up)
Potty mouth	The Better End "The Better End" by "Potty mouth"	Hell Bent	Old Flame/Marshall Teller	*	1:24:40 (Pop-up)
Liars	Housecloude "Housecloude" by "Liars"	Liars	Mute		1:29:32 (Pop-up)
Lace Curtain	Running "Running" by "Lace Curtain"	Fallin/Running EP	Mexican Summer		1:33:53 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit			1:36:34 (Pop-up)
Ultra Bide	Look You Up "Look You Up" by "Ultra Bide"	DNA vs DNA-c	Alternative Tentacles	*	1:40:06 (Pop-up)
The Blind Shake	555 Fade "555 Fade" by "The Blind Shake"	Key to a False Door	Castle face	*	1:45:40 (Pop-up)
Melt Banana	Zero "Zero" by "Melt Banana"	Fetch	A-Zap	*	1:49:07 (Pop-up)
King Khan and the Shrines	Pray for Lil	Idle No More	Merge	*	1:51:54 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson/Eric Idle	Harry "Harry" by "Harry Nilsson/Eric Idle"	Flash Harry	Varese Sarabande	*	1:55:32 (Pop-up)
Flamin Groovies	City Lights "City Lights" by "Flamin Groovies"	Teenage Head	Buddha		1:57:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit			2:01:58 (Pop-up)
Sparks	Excerpts from The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman	Two Heads One Mouth	Lil Beethoven	*	2:12:57 (Pop-up)
Kelley Stoltz	Storms "Storms" by "Kelley Stoltz"	Double Exposure	Third Man	*	2:17:27 (Pop-up)
Mekons	Blue Arse "Blue Arse" by "Mekons"	Curse of the Mekons	Blast First		2:21:57 (Pop-up)
Sir Douglas Quintet	She's About a Mover	Nuevo Wave Live	Fuel	*	2:23:56 (Pop-up)
The Electric Peanut Butter Co	The Devil	Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol.2	Ubiquity	*	2:28:24 (Pop-up)
I Ludicrous	We're the Support Band	20 years in Show Business	Castle	*	2:31:40 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Drunken Butterfly "Drunken Butterfly" by "Sonic Youth"	Dirty	Geffen		2:34:26 (Pop-up)
	a song	Organs in Orbit			2:38:31 (Pop-up)
Nico	Facing the Wind "Facing the Wind" by "Nico"	Ebony and Ivory revisited	None	*	2:44:02 (Pop-up)
Rick McClellan	Frozen Sunshine "Frozen Sunshine" by "Rick McClellan"	Le Beat Bespoke	Circle		2:48:57 (Pop-up)
Rita Lee	Eu Vou Me Salvar "Eu Vou Me Salvar" by "Rita Lee"	Build Up	Polygram		2:53:05 (Pop-up)
Fairfield Ski	Time Is Fast Approaching/Goodnight	Fairfield Ski	Guerssen	*	2:53:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:05am w41: Whazzup Bill & fellow listeners!
	3:07am Bill Mac: Dubbuhyew!!! How we doing this morning?
	3:07am Looms: whaaazzuuuup!
	3:08am Jay/London: Sunny good Morning Bill coffee Zzzzzzero Hour
	3:08am Andy in Berlin: Good morning Bill and everybody! Hey I scored the strudel this week!
	3:08am KP: morning! Was just telling martha i just got in from a geeg and still a little pumped up.
	3:09am KP: Great start here.
	3:09am w41: Well, it's a lonely post-birthday weekend w/ all celebrations moved to the next one... Coffee/first snow/academical work/no more booze!!! (till next weekend)
	3:10am mauri: KaBang!
	3:10am Bill Mac: Aaaaargh!!!! Playin' KP?
	3:11am Jay/London: @ w41 I know just how you feel my birthday was last week too
	3:12am Bill Mac: Morning all, seems we're in sync for the moment. Sorry to here all the partying and various supplements needed for entertainment are stalled til next week W41. Latch on to some friends to tide you over. No worries guys, there's always another bday round the corner.
	3:12am w41: Congrats! Did the celebration go well?
	3:13am Bill Mac: Kebang & whazzup - WHAZZUP!!! No strudel for me, a quick nanner and some pretzels til sun up...
	3:15am Jay/London: yeah went very well ended up having a sing song into the early hours
	3:18am w41: No Bill, it's only for the best -- people will have more time to think and give me more cool presents! :) @Jay that's going to have to be at some friend's house -- my neighbours take seconds to call the cops at the sounds of saxophone at 5 am
	3:20am Bill Mac: @Jay That's the way to do it, neighbors willing.
	3:20am Jay/London: @w41 its was at my place just a guitar and a lot of singing sometimes to a backing track
	3:22am Jay/London: my did we make a lot of noise
	3:23am KP: Yes. just a LI bar but it was fun
	3:25am Jay/London: I like to see a band in a small place KP :)
	3:27am Bill Mac: Was it King Penguin playing Pretties, or a variety of the Fruts de Mer material?
	3:31am Andy in Berlin: @Bill - Pretzels Till Sunup should be the title of your autobiography. Knocking it out of the park so far today by the way.
	3:35am Bill Mac: Thanks Andy - I actually have two working titles (ok, now three) for my autobiography - 'contemplating baldness & acne' is one, and 'between the big dipper and mars' is the other. I may have to reconsider though.
	3:37am mauri: voih zits and stars I'm going bald in mars
	3:40am Looms: The Big Dipper is named "La Grande Ourse" (the big female bear) in France; please don't ask...
	3:41am Andy in Berlin: Contemplating Baldness and Acne sounds too much like a young adult novel. I like Between The Big Dipper and Mars. It sort of makes sense till you actually think about it.:)
	3:41am w41: well maybe because the constellation is called Ursala Major or something like that
	3:42am mauri: yah part of the big bear in finnish.
	3:42am Andy in Berlin: @ W41 - That's Ursa Major. Ursala Major was the girl you sat next to me in Chemistry.
	3:43am mauri: Otava. we call it
	3:44am w41: Sure. You don't have to thank me
	♥ 3:45am Brian in UK: Hello boss, boys 'n girls. Happy birthday w41.
	♥ 3:46am Brian in UK: 'I shuda Worked at Skool'
	3:46am KP: Autobiography? Hmmm.
	3:48am KP: I was born in the Bronx but grew up in luscious Levittpwn, LI.
	3:49am KP: We played curb ball back when few families had more than one car. Baseball card flipping ...
	3:51am Martha: I think it is Recommended Records, but I can't be sure -
	3:51am w41: Thank you Brian!
	3:51am KP: I knew i had a standing answer to the autobiography question, which is "Too Late for Lunch, Too Early for Dinner."
	3:55am w41: The name would be "Happily ever after... or probably not"
	♥ 3:55am Brian in UK: Hey Jay how long did it take to recover?
	3:56am Bill Mac: @KP/W41 - Difference between yours and mine is that you put some thought behind it!
	3:57am CDToaster: I was born and raised in da Bronx and was a champion at playing skelly if anyone cares to challenge me. Melted crayon inside hollowed checkers were good pieces. I played ALL NYC games including ringolevio and Chinese box ball (aka Chinese handball). I don't think flipping baseball cards and curb ball were limited to NYC.
	3:57am w41: Damn it, I think you win
	3:57am Andy in Berlin: I thought I'd call mine, I'm Me, Who The Hell Are You?
	♥ 3:59am Brian in UK: I heard a good one the other day 'Do Not Look Back, We Are Not Going That Way'
	3:59am KP: Guy in band tonight pointed out that Billy Joel and I share an embarrassment of being from Hicksville and prefer to say Leviittown. I put Levittown on my Facebook profile because more people know it. But unlike Billy Joel, I actually lived there. He just wants to sound working class but he is def.from Hicksville. A newspaper would say youre from where you went to high school and by that measure im from Hicksvile, same as Joel. I saw him play the high school there, but i didnt go to that one. sorry about all the Piano Man drivel.
	4:00am Jay/London: @ Brian I took the Monday off still a bit hungover on Tuesday but well worth it after all we only have one birthday per year
	4:01am Bill Mac: @CDToaster - That's what I'm talking about! Flipping cards - topsies for keepsies.... isn't chinese boxball the PC name for... chinese boxball?
	4:01am Andy in Berlin: Though I was born in NYC, I grew up in the country and we were playing mumbleypeg - in the days when all kids carried knives (well, pocket knives...) and there was no threat of danger. :)
	4:02am Looms: So far, my autobiography is called "Let's have another cup of coffee". btw, Ursa Major comes from Greek mythology
	4:02am KP: Yeah Cd toaster, i was born in the Bronx but im from Long Island. first Levittown, then neighboring Hicksville. Never really knew the city but just moved to Manhattan and love it.
	4:02am Andy in Berlin: If you don't know what mumbleypeg is, it's kind of like Twister but you play it with a knife.
	4:02am Jay/London: story’s of someone who should have known better ! is mine
	4:02am KP: Yeah Cd toaster, i was born in the Bronx but im from Long Island. first Levittown, then neighboring Hicksville. Never really knew the city but just moved to Manhattan and love it.
	♥ 4:02am Brian in UK: Did you used to do splits with knives, thowing them at feet to spread legs.
	4:03am Jay/London: yeah I used to do that Brian
	4:04am KP: Yeah Brian we did that on Long island.
	4:04am KP: Shell breathing?
	4:08am Andy in Berlin: @ Jay, Brian, and KP - yep that's mumbleypeg
	4:08am Bill Mac: I got hit in the shin with a dart by the neighborhood stoner guy back in the day.... good times.
	4:10am Bill Mac: @Andy ... like twister with a knife... hoo boy...
	4:13am CDToaster: @Bill + KP: the Chinese box ball is the game played against a w-i-d-e wall with 4' boxes drawn vertically named, "Ace," "King," "Queen," "Jack," etc. and a pink Spaulding ball. The best player was the king of the killers which were the balls that hit the wall and ground simultaneously. Also, putting the "english" on (like with Pong) was fun, too. Remember these?
	4:15am w41: I shall use this opportunity to say -- beautiful music today, Bill!
	4:15am Bill Mac: It's working today dubbuhyuh!
	♥ 4:17am Brian in UK: We used to race cars in the playground at skool. If you put plasticene on the underneath they had more stability and went faster. More downforce!!!! Bent axles when someone trod on them (normally a girl) tented to screw the race.
	4:17am KP: Andy, our mumbly peg was more close up than that. Like tricks and trying to get knife to stick in ground. The foot thing was something else, at least on Long Island and a little north of citt, where we hd a bungalow.
	4:19am Bill Mac: @CDToaster - OK, I stand corrected, this sound more complicated than what we used to play in Philly (called chink, which sounds like a variety of what you're talking about. Come to think of it, a chink referred to the ball that hit the base of the wall and ground simultaneously). Played a lot of handball with either a pinkie or a pimple ball
	♥ 4:21am Brian in UK: @KP here is a link to Joe McGasko's show yesterday at 2:51 another version of 'Feel a Whole Lot Better' www.wfmu.org...
	4:22am CDToaster: Bill, the kids today don't have any idea of what real fun is.
	4:24am Bill Mac: I think you're right Toaster - I would imagine a few of these games have been totally forgotten for at least a generation.
	4:25am CDToaster: Bill, since you're into handball, it just so happens that my dad won the world championship in handball at the games on Coney Island. He actually beat the existing world champion back in the mid-40's.
	4:27am KP: Thanks CDToaster, we did that tonight, as always. The Flamin Groovies do a nice straight forward version.
	4:28am Bill Mac: I was into street handball myself - I think that was known as boxball when I was coming up. You played it like baseball, with a 4 base field, but you used your hand to hit the ball. I only played REAL handball once of twice, not easy - cool that your dad beat the champ.
	4:29am KP: DJ Heat, who shows up on boards here, is big fan of Potty Mouth/
	4:32am KP: Of course Bill there is a "new" real handball. It's unknown here but played in Olympics. It's like basketball but the goal is a small one like in soccer and there is a goaltender. There are pro leagues in Europe and it's on TV alot there.
	4:34am Andy in Berlin: I personally used to play paddleball, but only much later. My son, was big into handball when he was in junior high and got me to play with him once, but I didn't have sneakers with me. It's hard to hold your own on the handball court in sandals. Getting your ass handed to you by an 13 year old is not fun.
	4:35am Bill Mac: @KP I really like that particular Potty Mouth tune
	4:35am Bill Mac: Note to self, do not wear sandals while playing any kind of impact sports.
	4:41am Jay/London: this is good " look it up "
	4:45am Emile: Hey Bill and all his Mac daddies...
	4:46am Bill Mac: Hey Emile - quickly give me the name of your autobiography!
	4:48am KP: The Blind Shake! Still mystifying record store employees in my corner of the village.
	4:48am Emile: "Slight Improvements"
	4:49am Bill Mac: Thanks..... pass....
	4:50am Bill Mac: They're the new drug round the household these days...
	4:58am Looms: Ha, just found my autobiography name: "Whistle while you may" Thx for the inspiration, Bill.
	5:01am Bill Mac: You guys all have really cool ideas for book names. You can blame it on Andy, who's probably drunk on strudel by now... there's a title for you Andy!
	5:01am KP: Good one Looms.
	5:02am KP: Anyone know what the colors of the hearts mean?
	5:04am w41: If you have visited the person's profile, the heart changes its color :)
	5:04am KP: THe heart over here --------------------------------------------------------------------------->
	5:05am KP: aha. thanks w41. I keep forgetting that one. It's sort of tattle tale, no?
	5:06am KP: The Flamin Groovies played in Brooklyn tonight with the Sonics. Reports were excellemt
	5:07am KP: And I saw the Flaming Groovies in the Village couple months ago. They were great.
	5:10am KP: How about Hawkwind?
	5:10am KP: We all need our stools.
	5:11am KP: We saw My Bloody Valentine Monday. All i know is the opening band was louder.
	5:13am Andy in Berlin: @ Bill - Drunk on Strudel is the title of part two: The Berlin Years
	5:14am w41: How about Sonic f'n Youth?
	5:14am Bill Mac: @Andy Love it!
	5:15am Andy in Berlin: ...or alternatively "No Beer...Strudel"
	5:15am Andy in Berlin: @Bill - actually, yours is better
	5:16am Bill Mac: @W41 Lemmee see...
	5:16am b k: did 91.1 just go off air?
	5:16am Bill Mac: @KP Opening bands always seem to be louder.
	♥ 5:19am Brian in UK: Kelley is Kool.
	5:19am Andy in Berlin: @ Bill - they WISH they were louder
	5:19am Bill Mac: BK I'm on it
	5:20am Bill Mac: @BK Call is in
	5:21am Looms: Speaking of Sparks, John Allen did a very interesting interview with Russel Mael a couple years ago: wfmu.org...
	5:22am Andy in Berlin: Bill, since you're talking about opening bands, can you play We're The Support Band by I, Ludicrous?
	5:23am Bill Mac: I'll need to check this one out, thanks Looms!
	5:27am KP: The opening band - heavy metal - were much louder than MBV probably because they had screechy guitars and the treble is a killer. i could not stay in room w/o ear plugs with them. I could with MBV but of course did use them
	5:29am KP: Best opening acts ive seen: MC5 for Boz Scaggs, the original and brand new at time Mott the Hoople for Ten Years After. Both at Stony Brook. Both unfreakingbelievable. I also saw Bruce Springsteen open for Anne Murray and he was pretty good.
	5:32am Bill Mac: Bruce who?
	5:34am Jay/London: Springsteen bill think he is well known around the place !
	5:34am Andy in Berlin: This is a hilarious song. I read somewhere that they are considered to be sort of like a Fall joke band. Aparently Mark E. Smith wanted them to open for them but he didn't know how to contact them so he just started advertizing the show, and they saw it and showed up.
	5:34am Liz B.: Ken is on the scene for the 91.1 FM transmitter problems. We had an electricity spike up there a few days ago and things have been iffy ever since. We'll get it fixed, so hang in there.
	5:35am marc: Not on FM
	5:35am KP: Oh back to loud openimg bands. When the Who first toured as a four piece with Zak Starkey, they were shockingly low key. They called them the Who unplugged. I saw them twice like that and each time the opening act was UnAmerican. They were unbelievably loud. you could not be in same room.
	5:35am Bill Mac: Tanks Liz!
	5:36am Andy in Berlin: I saw Twisted Sister open for Alice Cooper at Wembley and Alice was louder. Didn't matter though.
	5:37am Bill Mac: @KP Would've liked to been at Ten Years After Show. Had a lot of people asked me about the last Ian Hunter 'tour'.
	5:37am KP: Liz didnt notice that i mentioned Bruce Springsteen, did she?
	5:38am Jay/London: did anyone go to the human rights concerts in 1988 ?
	5:39am w41: Thank you Bill!
	5:39am KP: Well it helped i loved the first album and still do. Why do you put quotes around "tour."
	5:39am Jay/London: nothing bad about mentioning him KP after all this is free-form
	5:40am KP: Ha! There's free and there's form. But early early Bruce was great.
	5:42am Jay/London: darkness is/was the best me thinks KP
	5:44am Looms: The opening act I enjoyed the most, I think, was by alternative and unclassifiable French band Double Nelson. It was totally weird and I became an instant fan. I was 16 at the time but still remember that moment.
	5:44am KP: i was in a Bruce/reggae/soul band in those days. Anything with horns and a gravely voiced singer (not me).
	5:46am Andy in Berlin: Ok everybody, gotta bail! Chalk up another good one, Bill!
	5:47am Bill Mac: Figures Andy I found that song! Art Phag!
	5:48am Andy in Berlin: busted!
	5:48am Bill Mac: Next week I'll play it.
	♥ 5:52am Brian in UK: Nice one, Bill. My internet radio has been here and there. How about 'Dipping in and Out' for a biog?
	5:53am KP: I saw Elvis Costello on his first American tour. The opening act clocked him. It was a trio and rhe guitarist moved like Townshend. I thin they well called Street People and were from NJ.
	5:53am Looms: Bye, have a nice week!
	5:54am w41: Thank you for the show, Bill!
	5:55am KP: See ya looms/ im headed in same direction Bill. Guess i made up for absence. Lemme know about Hawkwind
	5:56am Jay/London: well time to go out into the big bad world ... till next week
	5:57am Bill Mac: Thanks all. I'm gonna have to check KPs stories after the show. I'm racking (wracking?) my brain trying to this of any opening bands that made big impressions. I DO know that Blind Shake were awesome last month. Anyways, see you guys next week. Now that you have a title, get crackin on that book!
	♥ 5:59am Brian in UK: Have a great day w41.

Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from November 16, 2013

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