A Chaos Borne of Too Many Macaroons: Ken's show

Listener comments!

6:24am P-90:

And eye-rolling early Good Morning to you too, DJ Ken.

♥ 6:25am Ken:

Hello there P-90, you beat me to it!

6:28am P-90:

Just happened to be peeking to see if you were underway at the very moment today's page sprang to life. it was like witnessing the birth of a new Kardashian by serendipity. Or something.

6:40am cory:

mornin' P and Ken

♥ 7:02am Ken:

Hey Cory.

7:19am cory:

who's ready for a full day of laundry and cleaning 78s?

7:59am P-90:

What's your preferred method for cleaning 78s? I've watched collector friends flushing them with tapwater in the kitchen sink, explaining that it's still the best way. Do you just toss yours in with the laundry? "Delicate" cycle with the pantyhose, etc.?

8:00am cory:

has anyone tried that wood glue cleaning? p-90 i just got a rca cleaning kit. new to this so i don't really know

♥ 8:06am Ken:

I've only ever done soap and water which does a good job. I imagine wood glue, if done right would work well.

8:06am P-90:

I read about that wood-glue thing somewhere recently. If you're interested in some experienced advice, you might email MAC and Mike of Ragged Antique Phonograph fame, I'd bet they'd be very generous with some well-seasoned advice.

8:11am cory:

oh wow! thanks for the ideas and leads gents. oddly the copy of goofy gold i scored is in perfect shape

♥ 8:26am Marcel M:

Morning Ken and all

♥ 8:27am Marcel M:

Ah, Bob! Laughin' it up per usual..

8:40am P-90:

Is it me, or is the floating guy in the fourth gif on the playlist almost a dead ringer for actor/singer/60's teen idol James Darren?

8:48am fleep:

It's you.

♥ 9:01am Marcel M:

It's time!

♥ 9:01am Ken From Hyde Park:

Yes, the time has come.

♥ 9:02am MD:

Has Spring Really Sprung?!?!

9:03am Berg:

that's funny.. "people bark"! Sounds Belgian

9:03am Okasa:

Hey all.

♥ 9:03am MD:

In this Brave New world it is hard to tell!

9:08am P-90:

Ol' Nancy looks a little caught off guard there, kind of like me every April...

♥ 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park:

That's probably Sluggo speaking through a hidden microphone.

9:10am pierre:

C'est le show de Ken,
bonjour Ken and kenanigans

♥ 9:11am Sem Chumbo:

Sluggo is the Hidden Persuader.

9:13am OTB:

This is an outstanding first set, Ken.

♥ 9:15am Polyus:

@cory: I have heard multiple people getting really good results from a combination isopropyl alcohol, distilled water, and a few drops of either Dawn dishwashing detergent or Photoflo - the amount of each seems to vary widely, depending on who you ask. Have not tried it myself.

9:16am weiterso:

one organ after another

9:18am cory:

i'm using palmolive and warm water. three in and my water is brownish

♥ 9:19am AnAnonymousParty:

Cleaning records? When I was a kid I remember going to the library, where you could actually check out records like books, and watching the librarians scrub the returned records with Fantastic spray and a sponge.

9:20am Ghost of Posts Past:

stop your giggling!

9:22am w41:

Sup Ken and listeners.

9:25am bobdoesthings:

heyy

♥ 9:25am Marcel M:

Dang thats fuzzy

9:26am Dan B From Upstate:

I only pretend I'm jewish, and I love chocolate macaroons.

♥ 9:27am Andrew Waterloo:

My record store friends recommend a tiny amount of 70% alcohol in distilled water and one of the green dust cloths from the dollar store.

9:27am Ghost of Posts Past:

i love macaroons :3

♥ 9:31am Webhamster Henry:

We used to have a case of macaroons that we kept in the basement. "Hey, let's get some macaroons!" REALLY GOOD and a little too convenient. Rather like a stockpile of Thin Mints in the freezer.

9:33am P-90:

It's genuinely fascinating to hear how many "folk recipes" for cleaning 78s there are. I think one of the times I saw this done, it was a sponge used to apply a week solution of Palmolive (or similar) to the grooves, which were then flushed directly under the tap, avoiding the "brown water build-up"issue. I remember remarking upon the precision with which he avoided wetting the labels, and being told that became second nature with practice.

9:34am bbell:

god morgon!

9:35am OTB:

Have you tried using chocolate macaroons to clean your 78s?

9:36am cory:

i don't know about that. sounds more like a hydrox job

9:38am P-90:

@OTB -Or washing down chocolate macaroons with that 70% alcohol in distilled water...?

9:39am fleep:

That cat has built in heels. Disturbing.

♥ 9:40am Andrew Waterloo:

Macaroons are best enjoyed with a clean pallet. For the best macaroon enjoyment you should be in the perfect center of a clean unfurnished room.

9:40am P-90:

I remember my first hydox job, in the back of a customized van, "More than a Feeling" by Boston was playing...

9:40am OTB:

@P-90: I've tried that. I don't recommend it.

9:42am Mark S:

(it is called "Gliss Riffer)

♥ 9:44am MD:

I feel like i'm in Brighton Beech!

♥ 9:44am ken:

ugh. now i feel sick.

♥ 9:44am Ken:

I just ate 38 macaroons.

♥ 9:45am Marcel M:

Sick but with good blood sugar levels, eh Ken?

♥ 9:45am ken:

why do i do this to myself?

♥ 9:45am MD:

Breakfast of Champs My Friend!!!

9:45am fleep:

That's coconuts.

♥ 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park:

At what time of year do Scotcheroos appear?

9:45am P-90:

In the future, there will be genetically engineered high-heeled cats. And they will wear bright red hypoallergenic lipstick.

♥ 9:45am Marcel M:

I ate about a jar of Nutela last night.. I feel ya Ken. For me its the weed. Just can't stop after.

♥ 9:46am MD:

River Rapid Surfing...Nice...but when you wipe out it's not so fun!!!

9:46am cory:

it's okay ken, i had 20 red velvet chocolate chip cookies last night. you'll feel better in 10 or so hours

9:46am P-90:

@DJ Ken: Gotta learn to stop at 35.

♥ 9:47am MD:

FOOOOOD COMA!!!

9:48am fleep:

Actual comic is "Willie" marvel.wikia.com...

9:52am P-90:

Thanks. I was guessing it might be WFMU patriarch Archie Friedman.

♥ 9:52am New in Town:

Hiya, fleep. Come here often?

9:53am FernandoBelmondo:

I'm here for my weekly dose of stunning gifs.

9:53am cory:

ken, here's something for your next video show www.facebook.com...

9:54am P-90:

Why, it's Bismarck, the Pepto-Bismol pink porpoise

9:55am fleep:

Might look like a pink river dolphin, but smells like a catfish. Hey, Sem.

♥ 9:56am In the Pink:

Hooked and landed, fleepster.

10:02am Roberto:

I was born telephone phobic. Email, text, and instant messaging are my salvation.

10:03am Roberto:

Sometimes people still call me when they could just as easily text. All I can think is, why the f are you calling me when you could just as easily text?

10:05am Dan B From Upstate:

This is a good jam.

10:07am OTB:

@ Roberto - I dislike the phone, but I dislike the texteses so much more....

♥ 10:08am Marcel M:

Just ordered my Cambodian Rocks tix!

♥ 10:09am Ken:

The only reason I dont completely hate getting calls on my cell phone is because half the time it's actually something important or somebody I want to speak to. But the percentage of 'wanted' calls on my cell just keeps getting lower and lower.

10:10am Roberto:

Caller ID helps. It helps a lot.

♥ 10:10am Marcel M:

I get anxiety when my phone rings. Depends when though... at night the anxiety is more gripping.

♥ 10:11am ken:

Caller ID tends to be a built in feature to cell phones Roberto. It feels like a moot point.

♥ 10:12am Webhamster Henry:

Hey - how about video call-ins on on your next Video show? get a burner smartphone to call into!

10:13am Roberto:

I mean it helps as compared to pre-1990s when I had to guess whether or not I wanted to talk to the person who was calling.

10:13am Neg-guh-tor:

Put your phone on vibrate and keep it in the front pocket of your slacks.

♥ 10:15am Ken:

Negator, I've been doing that and now my leg vibrates all the freakin time whether I have a call or not.

♥ 10:15am Webhamster Henry:

In the 90s, I used my elaborate tape-based answering machine for call screening. I produced a lot of funny outgoing messages with my 4-track!

10:17am Neg-guh-tor:

Ken, you got to switch pockets so both legs vibrate a little all the time. She's nice.

10:20am Mark S:

Phantom vibration

en.wikipedia.org...

10:21am slb:

I almost never feel my phone vibrate. but when i do, it isnt

♥ 10:23am common:

i'm vibrating right now.

10:28am V Priceless:

Greets Ken and gang! I was getting that phantom leg vibration thing for a while, no bs.

Yo, comm!

♥ 10:30am MD:

De La that is!!!

10:31am MONEYBAG$:

One of these days, Uncut Magazine is going to do a story about how the Judgment Night soundtrack is on par with On The Beach and Pet Sounds

10:35am Mark S:

Except the Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul track is the only good song

10:36am P-90:

EVERYbody is raving about "Ex Machina"

10:37am bobdoesthings:

creepy robot sex.... I'm sold!

10:37am Sam:

Oh god, I HATE robot sex! Now I can't get that image out of my mind. Help!

10:37am dodo:

Sexy fembots will always be able to manipulate.

♥ 10:38am Marcel M:

@Sam: Don't look at the cover. You may start to like it.

♥ 10:39am Polyus:

There was a Futurama episode about that.

10:39am Okasa:

The wiki entry on Phantom Vibration leads to the page on Pareidolia, which is vague and random stimulus (image or sound) being perceived as significant. Seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing messages while listening to records backwards. en.wikipedia.org...

10:39am Okasa:

Pareidolia!

10:39am herb.nyc:

(since KEN mentions him, i'm stealing a lot of wfmu jokes, and wrote down this HEARTY WHITE line - "this is SHOW & TELL and the show is your rectum".)

♥ 10:40am Webhamster Henry:

Fellini's Casanova ends with a fembot sex scene.

10:43am PMD:

Damn. Can't see gifs on the app so can't be sure the cats are there. Long distance parenting is so hard.

♥ 10:45am Ken:

PMD is my adoptive mother everybody and she has ordered me to do a show where I use only cat GIFs but clearly she cant even see if I am doing that or not, so how does everybody like all the cat GIFSs today?

10:46am Chris M.:

track 5 is Maidenhair Spleenwort

10:47am thedunkel:

knuckles disco!

♥ 10:48am ken:

You're punking me Chris. That's not the name of the song. Youre just seeing if you can say ANYTHING and I will put it into the playlist, right? This is your own little twisted Turing test, isn't it?

10:48am Chris M.:

am i a robot or human? just don't ask me about the concept of love.

10:48am Okasa:

I couldn't love the cat GIFs more. Certainly every single GIF is of a cat. Thanks Ken!

10:49am bobdoesthings:

Sandy Skoglund!

10:51am herb.nyc:

i'm not sure what the ROBOT talk is on here, but on wnyc earlier (oh stop hissing), they had a segment on CHEF WATSON. i liked!

♥ 10:52am common:

i too am enjoying the cat gifs. hey up there, vp! everyone!

10:53am P-90:

Some KILLER cat gifs today, DJ Ken!

10:56am Okasa:

I feel like this is Ken getting hyped up for "Avengers 2, Age of Ultron."

10:59am P-90:

"paredolid rose":
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/05/skull-flower/#.VR2XOXOJYw1

10:59am JoeRay:

All you're missing is Stochausen's Pluharmon section of Hymnen!

11:00am groucho:

plu

11:00am P-90:

Yeah! The first Avengers sequel with an all-feline cast!

11:01am P-90:

Voice of HAL: Douglas Rain.

11:03am Lewis:

why does it not surprise me that Andy is a bad driver…?

♥ 11:03am Mike East:

oh man...I think he's talking about me...

♥ 11:03am Mike East:

weird..

11:03am P-90:

No one "sires" anyone any more. *sigh*

11:03am Sam:

He has a borderline personality. It's almost a personality, but not quite.

11:04am herb.nyc:

cute idea - BRINGING swag to people. (but seriously, maybe have a PICKUP point for swag. like, maybe a cool record store will say "sure, we can hold 50packages and if they come here within a week, no problem")

♥ 11:05am Polyus:

Okay, now this is an inspired cover.

♥ 11:06am Marcel M:

Oh lord! I just realized what this was. Cool!

11:08am Kevlicki:

Ken, did you go to the bathroom? The track is skipping

11:09am Lewis:

@kevlick - that is the stream. Stop and start again…

11:10am Cubeman420:

WFMU - when you don't know if it's the song or the stream.

11:10am Momo:

Can you slurp a slice of pizza on NJ's 'Great American Main Street"?

11:10am Mary Wing:

Wow, I didn't know the stream could do that, it was weirdly cool!

♥ 11:10am Ken:

Sorry Kevlicki - We were just moshing here in the studio. Mustve skipped the CD player.

11:11am Kevlicki:

Ah, thanks!

♥ 11:11am Ken:

Wait something really happened to the stream? What happened?

11:12am Mary Wing:

The Big Blood track sounded like it was skipping and lagging. Kept doing it until I stopped and restarted the pop-up player.

♥ 11:13am Marcel M:

Dammit Ken can you play something I don't like so I can go to work?

♥ 11:13am Marcel M:

It was doing that digital burp lag thing for a bit.

♥ 11:14am Webhamster Henry:

(My stream was fine..)

11:14am Berlusconis nose:

Today must be Pizza Wednesday

♥ 11:14am Mike East:

yeah, I had a stream fart, too.

11:14am Chris M.:

i'm gonna eat some pizza.

♥ 11:15am Webhamster Henry:

Which is to say I wasn't listening too closely.

11:15am P-90:

Had to restart pop-up a couple times in a row, seems fine now.

♥ 11:15am Mike East:

@Webhamster - you would notice cuz you'd have to restart the stream.

♥ 11:16am Mike East:

though as its been said, it can be hard to tell if its just "that crazy FMU programming"

11:16am mary:

wpw, Renaldo singing Revolution Blues sounds better than ever...but the song is of course...

11:16am thedunkel:

rebuffering stream…………………………

♥ 11:16am MD:

Hand Grenades!

♥ 11:16am Ken:

Very odd that so many people had the same problem with the popup stream - must be our stupid flash server.

♥ 11:17am Marcel M:

Oh man I just put this on last night.. hadn't heard it in forever.

11:17am bobdoesthings:

I get the burpy/glitchy pop-up player all the time.. usually after listening for a few hours though..

♥ 11:17am MD:

Wait Pizza is not the Anti Christ!!! It is the Budda!!!
BUDDAFUL!!!!

♥ 11:18am Polyus:

App sounding fine.

♥ 11:18am Mike East:

its a common-ish occurrence, Ken. Its a similar glitch as when the GTDS switches to a different show or from live back to robot programming.

♥ 11:19am Marcel M:

They call it a digital burp in the industry

♥ 11:20am Ken:

Sure, digital burps are nothing unusual but this one sounds like it was server side.

11:20am Mary Wing:

This is the first time it's happened to me, and I, too, thought the CD was just skipping, so I heard it for over a minute at least.

11:20am herb.nyc:

more HEARTY WHITE-isms, inspired by the skip/burp that was happening. hearty read some poetry and said "now, am i a genius or a charlatan? well, since i like you i'll tell you the truth, i'm a charlatan"

11:22am Mark S:

it was more like the hiccups

11:25am Mary Wing:

And now it's hiccuping! WTF?

11:27am Sam:

And EVERY DOG WENT INSANE!

♥ 11:30am Ken:

Can everybody who is hearing the stream hiccuping weigh in here and let me know EXACT details about how you are listening - which stream, which browser, computer or phone, etc etc.

11:32am Okasa:

I have been listening most of the morning on the 128k mp3 stream, and it has been solid for me. No problems.

11:32am Cooh John:

I heard this song on Irwin's show. I feel fortunate to hear it again. Thanks Ken.

♥ 11:32am Irwin:

Listening online, no hiccups.

11:33am Roberto:

He steals from the poor and gives to the rich...stupid bitch!

11:34am Mark S:

pop-up chrome desktop pc

11:34am bobdoesthings:

YAY! Corn weenie !!

11:34am Lewis:

@Ken - It was like when the drummer stream swaps over from Doug to Matt. I am on safari 6.2.4 on a mac 10.8.5

11:35am P-90:

The pop-up player (via Firefox) "burped" during the "Big Blood", in a way that happens occasionally and is always reported by a few people simultaneously on Comments Board, and usually responds to restarting the player. It hasn't happened again, for me, since then.

♥ 11:35am Webhamster Henry:

AU CONTRAIRE!

11:35am Andy in DC:

Ken -- hiccuping occurs often when i listen via the pop-up through Chrome. on a PC. Today I am experimenting with the 128K MP3 stream, also through chrome on a PC, and it is very steady.

11:35am Roberto:

So great to have corn weenie back in our lives.

11:35am Mark S:

not hiccuping now

11:35am Mary Wing:

I'm on the pop-up player in Firefox on Mac OS 10.10.2. It's fine right now.

♥ 11:36am Webhamster Henry:

No glitch for me on the 128K stream.

11:37am Laura L:

Ken, we should have snuck the term "Corn Weenie" into the "Radio Alphabet" book--what were we thinking!

11:37am Roberto:

Really really! On the ceiling!

11:37am herb.nyc:

is there a skip here, it keeps on saying CORN WEENIE?

11:37am P-90:

I don't recall ever hearing the "hiccupping" when using the 128K on iTunes on Mac. Only on the Pop-Up player.

11:39am peter:

10 years on really feeling the Corn Weenie

11:39am Mary Wing:

I do so love this remix of corn weenie, really really.

11:40am Jeff:

That Leonard Lopate / Corn Weenie remix is one of the best things in the history of ever.

11:41am P-90:

I remember when he was "Lenny Lopate" on WBAI. That's how ancient I am.

♥ 11:42am Yvang:

Mac OS 10 5 streaming on Itunes 10 6 here no hiccup & no sugar hiccup at all

11:43am P-90:

Didn't Freud say "Sometimes, a corn weenie is just a corn weenie" or words to that effect?

11:44am quinn:

I don't think I've ever heard this ACTUAL song!

11:45am paula pc:

non-Rileyized this is wonderful

♥ 11:48am fred:

I started the pop-up player in addition to a stream, hoping that hiccups would further Rileyize that song, but no luck

♥ 11:48am PMD:

Ha Ken, I can see now. Go sit in the corner all day for that lie.

11:50am P-90:

The only way out of the blood-sugar crash is to go back to the macaroons to bring it back up again.

11:51am Lewis:

ken- would be so kind as to post the source docs for the white punks on dope marching band version?

11:53am Roberto:

Does a middle-aged white guy who likes punk music on Adderall count?

11:53am fred:

are they laughing at me?

♥ 11:56am Webhamster Henry:

Feed that Baby Animal a Corn Weenie!

11:56am bobdoesthings:

@roberto - the punk music is on adderall? or you only like punk music while on adderall?

11:56am Mary Wing:

Lewis, it's here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_zVaGY-xM

11:57am bobdoesthings:

thanks Ken! great show.

11:57am Okasa:

I just recently found out that Leland Stanford had a son, (Jr.), who died in childhood. So Sr. named Stanford University after him. The band isn't a Junior band, it is "Leland Stanford Junior" University Marching Band.

♥ 11:58am PMD:

Thanks Ken!

11:58am Roberto:

Yeah that was a bit ambiguous.

♥ 11:59am Ken:

Bye everybody! Thanks for hanging.

2:00pm Listener Robert:

I remember the Nancy from which that was a frame. It was pretty funny. She figures her taxes kid style, goes to IRS to file, and the clerk concludes she's owed a 5 cent refund, which he dispenses on the spot. The last frame is the clerk deluged with a line of children w tax forms.