House arrest: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:50am annie:

...don't fence me in...

12:00pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie. Those Rutles fans get everywhere.

12:00pm mauri:

screamin for nothing.

12:00pm listener james from westwood:

All they need is cash!

12:02pm Uncle Michael:

Nothin' doin'.

12:02pm Charlie:

Greetings to you, annie, Brian in UK, mauri, james, and Uncle Michael.

12:03pm Charlie:

fyi: Today will be less song-y and more sound-y than the previous few weeks :)

12:04pm Peter Nelson:

I got nut in.

12:04pm frenchee:

vuvuzela?

12:05pm Michael:

Greetings to our host and all.

12:05pm Brian in UK:

Is it true that the vuvuzela was/is an instrument of torture?

12:06pm Charlie:

hi Peter - I got plenty o' nuttin' to share with you all
hi frenchee !

12:07pm Charlie:

had to look up vuvuzela -- more like tibetan oboes ?

12:07pm Charlie:

those monks sure made a holy racket though, didn't they?

12:09pm frenchee:

Yeah! I figured it was the wrong continent, but I just wanted to bring up Vuvuzelas. I miss em.

12:09pm mauri:

vuvuzela jones.

12:10pm Charlie:

basically blowing into a big tube through pursed lips

12:10pm Brian in UK:

Will somebody get the door.

12:11pm Parq:

Choking flies would require reeeely small scarves.

12:12pm Charlie:

Yes, Isadora (hi Parq)

12:13pm frenchee:

@Brian in UK: I don't know about instruments of torture, but a little Googling shows that THERE'S AN APP.

12:13pm listener james from westwood:

Sound-y is nice! Just caught up with Jeff and Jeff's fine show yesterday and I'm in a sound-y mood!

12:14pm Brian in UK:

Apparition?

12:15pm listener james from westwood:

Ah, "Venus in Furs." Sound-y with a capital Y!

12:16pm Brian in UK:

I am tempt to think that Jefferson Airplane listened to the Farinas in their early days.

12:17pm Charlie:

wouldn't be surprised, Brian. wouldn't be surprised if Lou did too.

12:20pm Mayuko:

I'm at the office letting interns run around do work and myself is listening to your show. Hello Charlie and everyone!

12:21pm frenchee:

Listening to Lou through headphones maybe for the first time ever and loving the chuckles and lingering Lou sighs. Shiver.

12:22pm Charlie:

Hi Mayuko! Yes, delegate to the interns so you can be busy doing nothing! btw, first heard that opening monks track on your show a few weeks ago...

12:23pm Brian in UK:

Did Andre 3000 ever make that film about Jimi Hendrix.

12:25pm Mayuko:

That Men of Dharamsala is great. I'm stealing your idea all the time so I'm glad I was able to give back once in a while, haha!

12:28pm Charlie:

12:29pm Brian in UK:

I was lucky enough to win this Angel Olsen in the Marathon. The odd thing is it always sounds better when I hear it on FMU than when I play it at home.

12:29pm Gaylord Fields:

Hi, Charlie! After appropriately listening to last week's thematic program while working from a pastoral "home away from home," I'm back at my Lower Manhattan office, with its panoramic view of Ground Zero and Downtown Jersey City.

12:29pm Charlie:

it's creative personal re-purposing and appropriation, not stealing!

12:33pm listener james from westwood:

That is genuinely difficult work, Charlie, both physically and emotionally. Good on ya for being there for him.

12:33pm listener james from westwood:

@Brian, likewise re: Olsen. Great win.

12:36pm Gaylord Fields:

@Mayuko: I believe that if you're not stealing, you're not caring enough.

12:37pm frenchee:

I like philosophical Charlie! Examining the depths.

12:38pm famous original sugarwolf:

If sharing is caring, why can't stealing be too??

12:39pm Charlie:

Hello Gaylord! Welcome back to ground zero.

12:39pm Brian in UK:

Charlie, I sympathise. It's a bugger getting older, my mum had dementia, when I visited her I never knew who I was going to be to her. First husband killed in the war, second husband, brother, rarely me though!!

12:40pm Brian in UK:

Tooooba.

12:40pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!

12:42pm Mayuko:

@Gaylord Japanese masters never teach, and students need to observe them super carefully and steal their skills. I guess I'm living my tradition.

12:43pm Charlie:

Hello famous original sugarwolf! Is that like famous original Ray's pizza? Or are you like the Original Originals?

12:43pm Charlie:

hi there, ndBob!

12:44pm famous original sugarwolf:

I'm the original world famous sugarwolf!!

12:45pm Charlie:

well, you're legend in these parts!

12:46pm famous original sugarwolf:

As long as I'm not merely a legend in my own mind.

12:48pm Charlie:

Yes, Brian, it's difficult. My dad knows who I am, but has a whole catalog of stories from our past that are fabrications. For instance, I recently learned that we went to the (original) Woodstock festival together!

12:49pm Gaylord Fields:

@Charlie: Thanks for sharing two stories with us — the one with your words, and the one with your musical selections.

12:49pm Charlie:

Mayuko -- I had to follow around WFMU DJs for ten years before I could do a show.

12:50pm Brian in UK:

A backdated wishlist perhaps.

12:52pm Gaylord Fields:

@Mayuko: I agree with you completely. I'm a big believer in apprenticeships for creative work. There are some things that can't be taught as a lesson, and some that can but shouldn't. Otherwise, you'll just become a copy of the master rather than taking some of the master's ways and applying them to your own art.

12:53pm listener james from westwood:

Hey, Charlie, did you just top 100%, or were you always there? Congrats either way!!

12:54pm Gaylord Fields:

@famous original sugarwolf: Stealing is feeling!

12:54pm Mayuko:

It is interesting that those esoteric buddhist stuff like Tibetans' feels to me way more intense than other types of buddhist chants and stuff. They seem to have many ideas and trainings to go back and forth between life and death, maybe it's like an extension of what you experienced. I liked how you made segue from such intense place to the level of our reality musically. They're def contiguous.

12:54pm Brian in UK:

Well spotted james.

12:54pm frenchee:

Is it me or is everybody exceptionally profound and bright today? Heady company and excellent music to go with it. YAY for Charlie, making his goal!

12:55pm Stanley:

Hi Charlie, esteemed listeners.

12:56pm famous original sugarwolf:

@gaylord: my favorite thing to steal is hearts

12:56pm Mayuko:

hooray! congrats on reaching goal!!!

12:58pm famous original sugarwolf:

gooooooooooooooooal!!!!!

12:59pm Charlie:

thanks to Brian in UK, and Robert in Amsterdam for pushing me over the goal! yay!!!!!

12:59pm Brian in UK:

Charlie your show is not helping, I have no interns to make my out turns into full terms.

1:00pm Brian in UK:

STANLEY, fireworks have started already. Did you see the email I sent the other day?

1:01pm Mayuko:

@Gaylord it can be annoying sometimes though. especially when you have an incompetent boss who uses that logic and never teach you anything efficiently. Happens a lot in Japan, haha.

1:01pm Charlie:

Hi Stanley ~
@Brian -- maybe you can borrow some of Mayuko's interns.

1:03pm Brian in UK:

@Mayuko. It is easy being a manager/boss Easier being a bad one. The skill is being a good one and not letting it show.

1:06pm listener james from westwood:

Fireworks aside from those launched by professionals are verboten in New Jersey, on the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July and every other damn day. NYC, too, after Ghouliani. Of course, right over the NJ–Pennsylvania border, you're confronted with a huge fireworks warehouse, of the type Milhouse despaired of Itchy & Scratchy ever reaching. They're just begging New Jerseyans to hop across the line, drop a paycheck on some rockets, and risk getting pulled on the return trip by some west Jersey Roscoe P. Coltrane–type.

1:07pm Mayuko:

@Brian Very true. in fact I'm being a bad manager busy doing nothing right now. This is easy.

1:07pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

That was a bewitching Syd cover.
Hey Charlie and listeners...

1:07pm Sarah N:

A change is as good as arrest. If you want me I'll be at the bars.

Hello fellow inmates...

1:09pm Stanley:

Hi Brian. Sure did, when I got back from France Tuesday. My timing is indeed crap but don't let that stop you getting down to Brighton for the DOUBLE BILL. I can't imagine it'll sell out. I remember it was a low turnout when Ken and Andy were hassling those in the queue live on Seven Second Delay and that was in New Jersey!

1:11pm coelacanth:

hi Charlie and idol humans

1:11pm coelacanth:

...i mean idle.

1:12pm Brian in UK:

@coelacanth You were right first time. I am a god in this house!!!!

1:12pm Mayuko:

ohh, is this Testpattern from Japan that you're talking over or is there other Testpattern??

1:13pm Brian in UK:

....I mean dog

1:13pm coelacanth:

haha!

1:17pm Brian in UK:

Great show Charlie; time for a beer and a bath. Who says men cannot multitask.

1:21pm Stanley:

Cheers Brian!

1:21pm Charlie:

hello there, Canterbury wood-elf, Sarah N, coelacanth

1:22pm Charlie:

sounds good, Brian, i could use both !

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1:24pm doctorjazz:

This is cool, nice covers, This Betty Lavette is great!

1:27pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Haven't heard this SY for 20+ years. Wow, sounds so fresh and familiar...

1:30pm northguineahills:

I think the only tracks on Goo I've heard on WFMU is Kool Thing and My Friend Goo.

1:34pm Charlie:

NGH -- I love the whole Goo album. Have played many tracks from it over the years.

1:36pm northguineahills:

I still have my original cassette of Goo, and still play it.

1:38pm ìkƎ:

Hi everybody!

1:46pm Brian in UK:

I was dead chuffed when I discovered that I had one of the tracks on Endtroducing.

1:46pm Charlie:

hello, ikE, ik3, ìkƎ, i like, how do you make that backwards E?

1:48pm Ĩkє:

The lazy way: By copying and pasting it from somewhere else on the Intertubes!

1:49pm Sarah N:

Chazaloo melted in perfectly....

1:49pm Charlie:

@ Brian -- I can't ID any samples from this album, although I guess this is Lenny Bruce talking.

1:50pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Thanks for another great show, Charlie.Was nice to hear that Jack Bruce earlier.

1:50pm Peter Nelson:

Do you mean 'aloo' as in Hindi for potato?

1:51pm Brian in UK:

Charlie cheats guide scroll down to track listing
en.wikipedia.org...

1:52pm Charlie:

Yes, Peter, I have turned myself into an Indian dish.

1:53pm Charlie:

Ah, thanks, Brian!

1:54pm Charlie:

Hi Kevin ~
thanks, Sarah :)

1:54pm Sarah N:

Chaz aloo go be do be do be do.....

1:55pm Brian in UK:

Charlie the crazy Ingerlish, there was a group that went out and played Endtroducing LIVE and called it INTRODUCING. A break off from that was Laroca.

1:57pm northguineahills:

Beautiful show for a beautiful afternoon. Thanks Charlie!

1:57pm Charlie:

Brian, did you ever see that high school orchestra that reproduced a couple of tracks from the album? it's pretty cool. if i can find the link, i'll add it in comments later.

1:58pm Charlie:

Thanks all for joining me here today!

1:58pm Listening Out There:

James Brown with strings...

1:58pm Listening Out There:

Thanks, Host!

1:59pm Brian in UK:

Charlie here is something to be going on with
www.youtube.com...

1:59pm Mayuko:

Thanks Charlie! Glad I got to hear the show all live.

1:59pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie! - great closer

1:59pm listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Charlie!

2:00pm coelacanth:

Thanks Charlie!
ciao everyone

2:01pm Michael:

Yup, excellent show Charlie. Thanks for sharing!

2:09pm Charlie:

Michael! I think I missed you when you first joined in. Hi also, LOT. See you all next week.

10:57pm Charlie:

Thanks, Brian, that IntroducingLive is pretty cool! Here's a track:
www.youtube.com...
And here's a link to the Shadow Percussion Project, an after-school percussion group at Minnetonka High School, Minneapolis:
archive.org...