Silent Fundraiser Final Week: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:34am -Ken:

Morning folks!

6:41am cory:

mornin' Ken. how goes today?

♥ 6:59am -Ken:

Hi Cory - I got the plague that's going around but Im on the mend today and I cant miss two shows in a row. How you doing?

7:04am cory:

i'm healthy even though everyone i work with has been sick. i credit my unhealthy lifestyle with keeping me well.

7:07am cory:

it's nice having you back

♥ 7:14am -Ken:

Its good to be back. I missed a lot of good stuff last week - The Ex, People Like Us and Singles Going Steady Week. Oh well.

7:18am cory:

i miss all that stuff being in IN. I'd love to see People Like Us live sometime.

8:05am LandOfJƏrƏmy:

happy wednesday to all party people

8:20am Dan B From Upstate:

Ken. I started watching the leftovers on your (unborn) child's advice. This is pretty much my reaction the whole time. i.imgur.com...

♥ 8:37am -Ken:

Dan, did you start at the beginning of Season 1?

8:38am Dan B From Upstate:

I did, Ken. I finished episode 6 (the Nora-centric episode) on Monday night. I'm enjoying the show. It's just purposely not explaining a lot, and it's kind of frustrating, but I'm being patient.

♥ 8:43am Marcel M:

Morning Ken! Welcome back.

♥ 8:47am -Ken:

Thanks Marcel! Dan, they never explain *anything* so dont get your hopes up for that.

♥ 8:48am Marcel M:

@Ken: Did you guys abandon the secret word thing? I'm stuck at 9!!!!

8:48am Dan B From Upstate:

Excellent... ¬_¬

♥ 8:52am Jason:

hey Ken & everyone.

V. pleasant surprise that Sex & Broadcasting is showing in Brighton (UK) next month, in spitting distance for me; did Vicki B have a hand in that? The new PLU film is also showing during the festival.

♥ 8:55am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Hey Ken sorry you missed Singles going Steady this year can you at least play Strokin by Clarence Carter this fine morning to make up for it?

8:59am Okasa:

Can't believe it is Wed. already! Good morning Ken(s), good morning non-Kens!

♥ 9:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

Goooood morning!

♥ 9:03am -Ken:

I will try Aaron. Second good morning everybody! Wait till you hear my voice...

♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park:

@-Ken - What particular strain of plague is it, if you know?

9:05am BEAVO:

I'm confused,why are all these comments here at the beginning of the show?

♥ 9:06am -Ken:

I thought it was a cold but then I did get a fever yesterday and sweated it out so I guess it's a very mild form of Ebola.

♥ 9:07am -Ken:

Can somebody explain to Beavo?

♥ 9:07am -Ken:

I have two goals today:

1) To not pass out.

2) To get to 100% of my silent fundraising goal.

♥ 9:07am Marcel M:

@Beavo: Ken creates an alternate dimension early each morning for us all to chat over coffee.

9:07am cory:

Ken fires up the playlist very early in the morning. i think he's as lonely as we are.

9:08am Mark S:

check the tine stamp at the right of the comments

9:08am BEAVO:

No big deal I haven't had coffee yet

9:09am Dan B From Upstate:

BEAVO, Ken also posts extra-intense gifs that would bog down the computers of the masses for the enjoyment of the people who check in early. They're usually pretty great.

♥ 9:10am Marcel M:

@Beavo: Now you have been initiated into our eldritch cult... be here early next Wednesday and really SEE!

♥ 9:11am Ken From Hyde Park:

The early GIFs this morning included a gorilla throwing something and a star falling into a black hole.

9:12am BEAVO:

Well I was listing to John Allen. Guess he's just streaming only. Thanks.

♥ 9:12am Marcel M:

@Beavo: The trick is to listen to John Allen, and pull up both playlists simultaneously. Ok, I've already said too much.

9:14am BEAVO:

Romy Schnieder from Cluzot's failed Inferno.

9:15am BEAVO:

I get it now. thanx

♥ 9:17am Marcel M:

My wife just submitted our cat Henry to the contest, along with the pumpkin we carved last night, that is also... A CAT!! www.wfmu.org...

9:24am bbell:

The plague crept over our threshold, too. On the mend, but it started as a sore throat, cold, chills, sweating, and now it is just leaving me with a raspy voice. Ken, it is good of you to venture out to entertain us!

9:25am the infected foot:

Morning Ken. Welcome back we missed you.

9:26am cory:

good tunes for watching a space walk

9:26am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. That is clearly the plague.

9:26am Losermom:

Wow you sound like shit, Ken.

9:26am Okasa:

Hello Beavo!

♥ 9:27am Marcel M:

Oh man... you weren't kidding Ken!

9:27am LandOfJƏrƏmy:

Affects or effects? so confused

♥ 9:27am Marcel M:

I started to feel sick but I think I killed it with vitamin C and sleep. I.E. The Can song and the band.

9:28am bbell:

oh, yeah, I have that cough, too.

9:28am BEAVO:

Then you sound like Rex

♥ 9:28am Mark the Sardine:

Ahh Ken, I feel like sending some chicken soup to the studio.. hope you feel better!

9:29am Dan B From Upstate:

If you feel as bad as you sound, you should go home and get into bed. Find a fill in.

9:29am Roberto:

You can do it, Ken. You've done some of your best shows under the influence of one thing or another.

9:30am thedunkel:

I didnt get a tattoo - but i lost my hair for wfmu!

♥ 9:30am Ken From Hyde Park:

I dearly hope your wretched condition results in a battery of sympathy pledges. Only a few days of crunch time to go.

9:30am LandOfJƏrƏmy:

Would be interesting to have listeners queue up the music...

9:31am Murakami Whywolf:

Feel better, Ken.

♥ 9:31am Marcel M:

Any harp held by a true Jew is a Jew's harp.

9:31am bobdoesthings:

good morning.

9:31am muwf:

Just play the electro Blues, man.

♥ 9:33am Guido from Cologne:

Hello Ken!

♥ 9:33am Ken From Hyde Park:

Is it possible to do throat singing and play the Jew's harp at the same time? That's what this sounds like.

♥ 9:35am Marcel M:

@Ken: Yes! I have a friend that actually does that.

♥ 9:36am -Ken:

I came in sick as a dog for one reason folks: to make 100% on the silent marathon, something i have NEVER done. Help me do it! Make a pledge up there to the left.

♥ 9:36am -Ken:

Oh, and also to infect my fellow DJs. Two reasons.

♥ 9:36am -Ken:

And Andy Breckman. Must infect him as well.

9:37am bobdoesthings:

@ken - yeah says the guy who moves the goalposts.

♥ 9:37am Webhamster Henry:

Make sure you wipe down the microphone when you are done, Ken!

♥ 9:37am AnAnonymousParty:

The didgeridoo: Australia's answer to the bagpipes.

9:39am LandOfJƏrƏmy:

Ken, if we reach 100% of your show's goal, will you go home?

♥ 9:39am Ken From Hyde Park:

World's hardest job: The person responsible for tuning bagpipes. I mean, how can you tell if they're in tune or not?

9:41am lloyd michigan:

Ken, where is that first image from?

9:42am redkayak:

THIS song makes me want to visit Russia :)

9:42am Losermom:

Wow, sounds like this band has the flu, too.

♥ 9:43am AnAnonymousParty:

@KFHP That's a trick question, who sticks around long enough to find out if the bagpipes are in tune or not?

9:44am Neanderthal Head:

Lockjaw!

♥ 9:45am SeanG:

Nick Cave should cover this song

♥ 9:46am -Ken:

Alright!!! Yvan in France and Michael in Massachusetts pledged! THANK YOU!

♥ 9:46am Ken From Hyde Park:

Another tough job: Protesting against ISIS destroying ancient Syrian relics. They tie you up to the relic and blow you up along with it.

♥ 9:49am common:

good day!

9:49am bobdoesthings:

velvet underdog!

9:49am Listener Robert:

Fuller explanation: A few yrs. ago as an experiment, Ken started starting this playlist a little early, maybe by half an hour, to take requests. That seemed to work.

There'd been times during the show when some of the bigger animated GIF files in the playlist frame were crashing it as HIS end, causing him to have to restart it with a substitute graphic. So Ken saved up 1 or 2 of those to post pre-show, with a SCHEDULED restart with the show itself.

That worked so well, Ken started starting the page from home at about 6 AM, adding more GIFs (to near capacity) before he got into the office, still soliciting requests.

♥ 9:49am Marcel M:

Yo Common!

♥ 9:50am common:

marce! been missin ken of late cause of work. this is a treat!

♥ 9:51am Marcel M:

@Listener Robert: You've been waiting a loooooong time to give that explanation, haven't you?

@Common: Good to have you!

9:51am Labradoer:

There playing this at BARK shelter as we speak, boy.

9:51am bobdoesthings:

the howls are my favorite part of velvet underdog.

♥ 9:52am Marcel M:

@Labradoer: BARC? in Williamsburg? Or is there some other BARK shelter?

♥ 9:53am AnAnonymousParty:

Any song that has dogs barking gets a thumbs up from me. It reminds me of Christmas as a kid somehow.

9:53am Neanderthal Head:

This song makes me howl.

♥ 9:53am SeanG:

get that stick doogie!

9:53am Listener Robert:

My friends Ralph & Kathy participate in fundraisers for BARKS. I'd no idea that was legit until you mentioned it now, Labradoer. I'd thought maybe Kathy & Ralph had made it up.

♥ 9:55am Ken From Hyde Park:

McGruff the Crime Dog should put out an album.

♥ 9:56am AnAnonymousParty:

Did Lester Moran (the old Roadhog) take over the show?

9:56am Listener Robert:

After they moved to Hampton Twp. & the last of their shitzus died, Kathy slowly turned their home into an animal shelter of sorts. They got up to 20 cats at peak, straining the limits of my antihistamine.

9:57am Labradoer:

Indeed. BARC shelter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

♥ 9:57am Marcel M:

@Labradoer: Cool! I have a friend who works there, Colin.

9:59am bobdoesthings:

ken - it only takes one spittle

♥ 9:59am AnAnonymousParty:

Does the microphone smell like a beer?

9:59am Brendan:

Oh shure

10:00am Listener Robert:

And my payment (dedicated to here) for the surveys I'm a panelist on came thru this AM. Do I pledge it toward Ken's goal? Hard not to when he's so sick. OTOH, the Old Codger nearly choked on his costume last night.

♥ 10:00am -Ken:

Ana from Brooklyn checked in with a mighty pledge! I salute you Ana!!

♥ 10:01am Marcel M:

That'd be my Wiz. Brooklyn Zoo!

♥ 10:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

Invention idea: Dishwasher-safe microphones.

♥ 10:03am common:

@marcel: thank you! and the beer smells like a microphone.

♥ 10:04am Marcel M:

Microphone smell is a very very gross thing. Always good to roll in with your own.

♥ 10:04am -Ken:

Robert, the answer you seek is YES. Pledge it right now, my brother.

10:05am meowcow:

@Ken: Now I can has radio icon!!

10:12am bobdoesthings:

@meowcow - mewwwwww

10:13am Sam:

Morning. Thank god it's wednesday. Thank god for ken.

10:14am Kevlicki:

Morning Ken and WFMU radioland.

10:14am egal:

Weekend at Bernie's.

♥ 10:16am -Ken:

Wilkommen Kevlicki, Sam and egal!

10:16am Kevlicki:

@Ken, The Ex were incredible at Monty Hall. The sound in the venue was totally perfect, and as always they played a great set.

♥ 10:16am -Ken:

Thank you Clare in Livingston Manor for your pledge!

♥ 10:17am -Ken:

Great to hear Kevlicki. I'm really sorry I was out of town for that.

10:17am r i s k y:

Feel better, Station Manager Ken.
I feel for you.

10:18am bobdoesthings:

Oh I saw that GIF for this Foetus track... for any wondering that gif is a depiction of what a star being sucked into a blackhole looks like.

♥ 10:19am Polyus:

Jeez, my friend came back from the NYC area last week and has been sick ever since. It's a plague!

♥ 10:20am Greg from ZONE 5:

Ed Wood! Easily in my all-time Top 3.

♥ 10:20am Webhamster Henry:

Hearing the real Criswell is much better!

10:21am Sam:

A star being sucked into a black hole - like Tony Shaloub's appearance with Andy and wasted Ken

♥ 10:21am common:

with you, greg!

10:21am Mark R:

I liked when Ed Wood and Orson Welles were commiserating as peers.

10:22am david from ks:

,,,,oh and danger: 4 LEAKING JAPANESE NUCLEAR REACTORS FROM 100%MELTDOWN !& GOODSTUFF DJK

10:24am Listener Robert:

I was going to credit my pledge to Dave Mandl, but it's not enough to spread over 2 shows, and Ken's irresistible when suffering like this for his art.

♥ 10:25am Greg from ZONE 5:

"They want Charlton Heston to play a Mexican…"

♥ 10:26am Marcel M:

@Greg: Along with Marlene Dietrich

10:27am Listener Robert:

Maurice LaMarche's appearance in that as Orson Welles is what confirmed my friend Davar's belief that the voice of the Brain on the mouse cartoons was a Welles caricature. I told Davar that the mouse sounded like Peter Lorre to me. On interview, LaMarche said he did the voice as a combination of Lorre & Welles.

10:28am P-90:

Ass-kissing compliments dept:
1.) I, for one , found Tony Shaloub's appearance funny and entertaining. I hope he did too (one can always hope, right?)
2.) While the gifs on Ken's page are always enjoyable, may I opine that the selection this morning is particularly excellent?

♥ 10:29am Webhamster Henry:

P&B did an entire episode based on Welles' frozen peas rant tape that was an underground classic!

♥ 10:32am -Ken:

Robert and Wolfie! Thanks for the pledge!

10:34am Sam:

Yeah I LOVED the Tony Shaloub interview. I wasn't trying to diss. That was a great achievement that Ken paid for with his own body.

10:36am Dan B From Upstate:

"Rosebud peas. Yes, full of country goodness, and green pea-ness. Wait a minute. That's terrible."

10:36am Billy Jam:

morning Ken, and all tuned into FMU this morn inc. Common, bobdoesthings, Marcel M, Dan B, HydePark ken -

♥ 10:36am Mick:

Ken, you really are outdoing yourself with the GIFs today. And an amazing set for the spooky season!

10:36am P-90:

Question: Did anyone here make it to the People Like Us event at Monty on Saturday? Comments?
I got blindsided by a rotten flu bug that kept me from both that event and the SUW meetup in Brooklyn (which I hear was a scorchingly good time.)

♥ 10:37am Webhamster Henry:

Hey: It's Kosmischer Laeufer: Cosmic runners, not Komischer Laeufer: Peculiar Runners

10:37am JakeGhould:

We all ready for the rain today? I already have cancelled my meager plans to grouse.

10:38am P-90:

Rain? Today? Fuck.

♥ 10:39am Nasty Les:

What's the general verdict on whether this Kosmischer Läufer record is a "hoax" or not. Seems like it must be to me, but I guess it has still not been revealed one way or the other?

10:42am Brendan:

Ken, You are a sick man.

♥ 10:43am Guido from Cologne:

It is a hoax!

♥ 10:43am Ken From Hyde Park:

Hey there, Billy Jam!

10:44am Brendan:

On the bright side, this would be a great opportunity to prank phone call the other DJs as Leonard Cohen.

♥ 10:44am Nasty Les:

@Guido Thought it must be, the story is a bit too far-fetched. Its a pretty flawless pastiche though.

10:45am JakeGhould:

@P-90: Yup, we are getting like a consistent rain today that only ends tomorrow afternoon. My sundries are fine. And I have a horses hit tech problem that I can occupy myself with. So hey!

10:46am pocket vito:

Ken, this new voice agrees with you. It's kind of sexy.

♥ 10:46am Guido from Cologne:

the surname of the musician behind Kosmischer Läufer is "Zeichnete", which in return is a direct translation of one of the publishers surname: "Drew".
"Zeichnete" would be a very unusual German surname.

♥ 10:47am Guido from Cologne:

.. pretty creative guy though ... very authentic synth sounds ...

10:48am DeaconDave:

I hear frogs

10:48am JakeGhould:

@Ken: Say “Donate money or we kill the dog.” with that voice.

10:49am DeaconDave:

Maybe it's the troll from the Ernest movie "Scared Stupid"

♥ 10:49am Webhamster Henry:

If you like Kosmischer Laeufer (and they are on Bandcamp...) you may also like to listen to the excellent Bedroom Cassette Masters compilations of 80s-90s synth music made with 4-tracks and other prosumer equipment and distributed on cassette: bedroomcassettemasters.bandcamp.com

10:49am Dan B From Upstate:

Sick demon voice Ken sounds exactly like healthy demon voice Ken. If Ken had embraced the halloween theme and gone demon voice all day, we never would've known he was sick.

He also wouldn't be able to garner sympathy pledges, so... being sick worked out in the end.

♥ 10:50am Nasty Les:

Yeah, I had read that. Apparently the record label said "Well, of course that is not his real name...", but I hadn't heard the bit about the publisher's surname being "Drew" - seems to be the final nail in the coffin

10:51am P-90:

@Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the link. Curious; will investigate.

♥ 10:54am Ken From Hyde Park:

Goooooaaallll!

10:54am Cecile:

Ken, can you play Jr. Dad when you have a chance? Mine passed about 10 days ago.

♥ 10:54am CornerTavern:

Nice avatar Ken from Hyde Park

♥ 10:55am dale:

love dolls full of helium? great idea!

10:55am Billy Jam:

be sure to disinfectant spray that mic well Ken as u sure should sick as hell…:) .but your voice sounds so good and deep and gravely that u should take advantage of its deep tone and jump into prod studio after show to record some future mic breaks -

♥ 10:55am Planet Tyler:

Best Bernie Sanders quote ever!

10:55am P-90:

Congratulations Ken Show and thanks Ken Show supporters.!
Woof, Moo, etc...

♥ 10:56am -Ken:

Thank you everybody who pledged! This is the first time I've ever made my October goal and it feels great. Thank you!

10:56am Cecile:

hurray!

♥ 10:58am Ken From Hyde Park:

@CornerTavern - Thanks. It's Hamburger Mario that my son found and then built on the Lego website.

11:02am Brendan:

Congrats Ken on the goal and thanks for being there for us when we are feeling not up to snuff.

11:02am Kevlicki:

Ha! took me a second to realize this was a cheap trick cover.
very entertaining

11:06am Ziggy:

Carl-ton Melt-on!!!

11:08am MenfussMike:

Some of CM's stuff is incredible and powerful, like this.

11:14am Cecile:

sounds like you had some Vicodin already.

11:14am Brendan:

Ibupropane works

11:15am Cecile:

yes! Hotty.

11:15am P-90:

Interesting: The "Leonard Cohen flu voice" combined with the "Gene Simmons harmonizer". Cool.

11:17am Brendan:

Far from normal, warrior Ken. I saw you playing chess with death in the FMU parking lot this morning just so you could do this show.

11:24am steve:

id probably go for the Vicodin

11:27am Death:

Ken was cheating at chess his morning, but I always pretend not to notice because his naive audacity amuses me.

11:27am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Holy fucking shit am I late.

11:28am Carmichael:

Good morning Kenneth and several others.

11:29am JakeGhould:

OMFG! Whose Chinchilla is a card carrying WFMU member?

11:30am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

That Hillary gif is horrifying.

11:30am pocket vito:

How do you cheat at chess? Aside from moving your opponent's pieces around when she gets up to go to the bathroom or get more beer.

♥ 11:30am Guido from Cologne:

Ha!
The movie "The Wicker Man" was shot in october!
NOT in May!
;-)

11:31am JakeGhould:

@pocketvito: You stand up at the table, and tell your opponent… “I know what life is and it’s not staring at some black and white board moving pieces around all day. Bye!” and walk away.

♥ 11:35am Ken From Hyde Park:

$47k to the overall goal and then Ken can introduce the redesigned website!

11:36am pocket vito:

Wow. That's good. Like in War Games, the only way to win is not to play.

11:40am Brendan:

The sabre dance is a great hyperactive song when you have to go #2 and the bathroom is occupied

11:42am P-90:

Last Call: did anyone make it to the People Like Us event at Monty Hall and has a comment/mini-review to offer?

11:43am Brendan:

The secret to chess is to never let your opponent see your pieces- Zapp Brannigan

11:43am P-90:

...not that there's anything wrong with that.

♥ 11:44am Planet Tyler:

Brain Candy, good call

11:44am JakeGhould:

This track from “Brain Candy” is so great!

11:45am JakeGhould:

@pocketvito: No disrespect to anyone who likes to play chess—even kids—but I have found that adults that are still into chess (like really into it) are as worse or as bad as sports fans go as far as seeing all of life as an endless, polarized conflict. I mean Bobby Fischer was a lunatic.

11:49am Kevlicki:

I always associate the credit section to the "I'm Gay" track
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