WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 29, 2015

Listener comments!
	9:03am Gibier: 'Morning Trouble!
	9:05am Stu: Moika Trouble!
	9:05am annie: good morning trouble!
	♥ 9:05am Trouble: bonjour gibier! good morning grey tuesday world!
	9:06am Gibier: Actually Tuesday is blue on that side of the planet.
	9:08am annie: i look out my south-facing window into the sky - Sun-dog!
	9:13am Howard F: Loved that Blue Nile track! I've been wanting to check them out, thanks!
	9:14am sugarplum fairywolf: Well, looks like winter is here, back to the dreary weather Tuesdays again :(
	9:20am bobdoesthings: good morning.
	9:26am Utopiast: Medeski Martin & Wood are missing their commas, but are hitting good notes
	9:31am Gibier: The birds!
	9:35am Ike: ROTFL @ calling out Rex
	9:35am Neil, Wild: Like North Pole Records, located in the basement under the armed forces recruiting station in Times Square....
	9:35am bobdoesthings: google image search for lil bub - videos.revision3.com...
	9:35am glenn: well, there's grumpy cat.
	9:36am Roberto: Yes, Li'l Bub is the perpetually drooling feline.
	9:37am bobdoesthings: I THINK lil bub is one specific cat that is an 'internet celebrity'.. and I could be making this up but I think I recall hearing that there is something wrong with the cat.. FWIW
	9:38am glenn: but personally, i feel that henri le chat noir is the cream of the internet cat crop.
	9:39am annie: oui!!^
	9:46am glenn: today, in "it is to laugh" lemmy has died at age 70, while justin bieber's manager is worried about his "chaotic lifestyle" www.nationalpost.com...
	9:49am bobdoesthings: you got any hawkwind cued up Troubs?
	♥ 9:51am Trouble: stu!! thank you for my moomin card!! i love it, per usual!
	♥ 9:51am Trouble: www.youtube.com...
	9:54am bobdoesthings: if only radio had subtitles.. hehehe. i gotta watch me some henri la chat noir heh
	9:55am Adrian in London: Happy New Year to Trouble and all Troublees! (I'm at the Albert Hall watching a nice show so not listening live but seen the playlist and Blue Nile and Eglantine Gouzy is a fine way to bid farewell to 2015!)
	9:55am testingwithfire: happy snowy morning to all from Cape Ann, MA. freezing rain right now but even that is welcome.
	9:58am testingwithfire: henri le chat noir, as sage as he is, has nothing on the Wagnerian glories of Black Metal Cats on Twitter.
	9:58am smallybiggs: What's that other song sherry sang, about space travel and disobeying her mother?
	9:58am smallybiggs: Shirley ***
	♥ 10:01am Trouble: merci for checking in adrian!!!
	10:02am annie: i'm pleasantly surprised to find Patachou on spotify, which means that mirielle matthieu will also be in there. can you tell spotify is my new favorite toy?
	♥ 10:03am Trouble: smallybiggs: it was called space girl. i put it on a premium a few years back.
	10:04am Roberto: Li'l Bub Yule Log www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'i pity the country' - wow.
	10:04am Roberto: My mistake. No apostrophe in Lil Bub.
	♥ 10:08am Risky: Goodmorning Trouble!
	10:11am Bill W: bonjour! i just finished listening to last week's show at 3am, so i'm having a Troubled Tuesday.
	10:11am Neil, Wild: Go Set a Watchman. Nowhere NEARLY as good as To Kill a Mokckingbird.
	♥ 10:11am Ken From Hyde Park: I checked out a book from Lewis Black and expected it to be funny like his rants. It was boring.
	10:12am Eric: I couldn't finish Anna Karenina
	10:12am frenchee: Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES--really wanted to like it. Did not.
	♥ 10:12am Asheville Jon: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance. yawn.
	10:12am LizGig: Dutifully working through The World Acccording to Garp. I'm really not interested, but I feel obliged to finish it.
	♥ 10:12am Asheville Jon: I've tried it several times, never finished it
	10:12am Gibier: Not that I hated it, but I could never finish Man's Fate by Malraux. I'll give it another try.
	♥ 10:12am Planet Tyler: The Corrections (ok that was a while ago) and The Martian (real science people liked it so...I dont get it...)
	10:12am judy from croton: girl with the dragon tattoo.
	10:13am kwhitehead: Marilynne Robinson. I'm super confused what the big deal is. I find her books boring and her attitude in interviews and essays sanctimonious.
	♥ 10:13am Risky: Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
	♥ 10:13am Risky: EL STINKO GRANDE
	♥ 10:13am listener james from westwood: Book I hated/did not finish: Confederacy of Dunces. Tried twice. Picked up a copy for a quarter from a guy selling books on an NYC sidewalk, thinking maybe a decade might have put me in a more receptive mindset. Nope. for Detested the protagonist anew and rage-quit it for good.
	10:14am frenchee: @LizGig: try THE CIDER HOUSE RULES instead. GARP was (imo) a novel of its time not a classic. Also A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY is terrific.
	10:14am Bill W: I lasted about 50 pages with both "Mrs Dalloway" and "Jane Eyre." About a third of the book with "In Cold Blood" before I remembered i don't like true-crime.
	10:14am chromaphone: I just tried Last Child in the Woods on a recommendation but its preachy nature bothered me, even though I seem to agree with everything that Louv is saying.
	♥ 10:15am Planet Tyler: The Road! I love(d) Cormac McCarthy but he jumped the shark with All The Pretty Horses and well, that's that.
	10:15am LizGig: Also We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. We sold lots of them, and everyone thought it was amazing. I think it did little for me because simian communication experiments was one of my favourite areas when I was in secondary school.
	10:16am sugarplum fairywolf: Norwegian Wood, bleh.
	10:16am LizGig: Were. Simian communication experiments were.
	10:17am testingwithfire: books I hated? The Goldfinch. Somewhat promising start but ran out of steam. .. those Las Vegas chapters were excruciating.
	♥ 10:17am Devin B.: Like Listener James, I have tried Confederacy of Dunces several times and never gotten hooked. Same goes for The Master and Margarita - many people whose opinion I admire love this book and I don't get it.
	♥ 10:18am Trouble: bonjour bill w!!
	♥ 10:19am Devin B.: kwhitehead, which Robinson books have you read? I liked Gilead ok, but her first book, Housekeeping is the one that stays with me.
	10:19am annie: i LOVED master and margarita.. if you have a hard time reading it, you can see the russian movie series, which is almost word for word.... and CoD??? i also tried several times to read it.. went right over my head
	10:19am kwhitehead: Bill W. I think that with some books 50 pages isn't quite enough...
	♥ 10:20am geegee vindaloo: Morning Trouble, do you think anyone is playing Hawkwind today?
	10:20am sugarplum fairywolf: @Bill W: read Mrs. Dalloway for a class with a teacher who was REALLY into it and I... was not. Jane Eyre is one of the few 19th century novels I would want to read/reread though.
	10:20am LizGig: @frenchee, I've noted both of those, but I don't know if I want to spend any more time on John Irving. The first book I read by him was In One Person. He reuses some of the same scenes that appear in Garp (for example, a lecturer at the boarding school slipping on ice), and I don't know that I want to see them again. And Again. There are so many books out there!
	♥ 10:21am Trouble: i felt similarly about norwegian wood @sugarwolf! @kwhitehead i loved housekeeping and haven't been able to get through anything of marilynne's since that...
	10:22am sugarplum fairywolf: Richard Price's Lush Life. There are a thousand more interesting books about NY. Plus I still have a burning hatred for all the characters in The Wanderers.
	10:22am brandon: i like this 80s "french boogie" compilation faye and scott williams played a bit of
	10:23am Neil, Wild: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!Owen Meany. Blech.
	10:23am annie: Audiobook for MaM: www.youtube.com... and video series: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:23am Trouble: @judy from croton: i finished that book and felt like i wanted to steam clean my mind for at least a month: ugh
	10:23am Utopiast: Let's not forget the worst novel of all time - Atlas Shrugged. It's pretty hard to make unchecked market capitalism redeeming. Talk about transparent, predictable, and preachy!
	10:23am testingwithfire: @DevinB @ListenerJames loved Confederacy as a kid, not recently ... but just returned from NOLA where there is a great bike tour company called A Confederacy of Cruisers.
	10:24am LizGig: I adored Jane Eyre as a teenager. Read it first at 13 and then reread and reread. When I reread it in my early 30s I had a completely different experience and probably won't reread it again. I loved all the gothicism as a teen, but after a break of a few decades it just became trite. On the same note, The Phantom Tollbooth was a terrible disappointment as an adult!
	10:24am annie: lately i've been gobbling up Jose Saramago's books..
	10:24am glenn: v. i couldn't get past the first page. and anything by dan brown might just as well go in the incinerator.
	10:24am smallybiggs: Oh man I thought that was some dope, rare bird call at the beginning
	10:25am Neil, Wild: Neal Stephenson Anathem. Blech.
	10:25am annie: and one of Saramago's books, "The Stone Raft", was made into a film. all in portuguese, which would get you immersed, so to speak, trouble. no subtitles.
	10:26am Ike: "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- interminable, w/way too much fluff. Tolkien had the right length w/"Hobbit" then over-indulged severely. A rare case where the movies were better than the book(s) because they had to edit out heaps of stupid pointless waffle.
	10:26am Utopiast: And while I am an atheist and believe in objective reality, Rand took a big crap on social engineering and forgot the most important premise: The world is what we make of it. Yes, we can not regulate and let things spin the way they will, which is usually toward greed and division, or we can create something more palatable for all.
	10:28am annie: Ike: i read LotR when i was in highschool, gobbled that up too, even studied the runic symbols and did my homework in them.. drove my teacher english crazy
	10:28am kwhitehead: "My Valve!"- Ignatius P. Reilly
	10:28am glenn: i remember watching ants and thinking - this seems familiar, and then realizing it was ayn rand's book anthem.
	♥ 10:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm sure I read 'Zen & Motorcycle Main.'...don't remember a thing... Tolkien was the original world-maker & not so much a dramatist. Different sort of novelist. Ayn Rand was very young when the Bolshis took her Dad's shop. I get it. Not relevant to my reality, which is basically the opposite.
	10:29am frenchee: @Ike: I will be saying "heaps of pointless waffle" all day.
	10:30am annie: loved the "dancing woo li masters"
	10:30am annie: (the sound of pens hurriedly scribbling names of books)
	♥ 10:31am Trouble: @geeegeevindaloo: surely brian turner and maybe liz berg will play some lemmy. sorry i am just not feeling it
	10:31am Ike: Also "The Magicians". Barely any plot and horrendous, uninterestingly unpleasant characters. Blandly grim. Bizarrely overrated and overhyped.
	10:31am annie: (wu)
	10:33am Utopiast: @glenn You make a good point about Rand and context of her experience, but I just get tired of right-wingers relying on Shrugged to buttress their weak arguements
	10:34am kwhitehead: Listening to today's program while weeding the North American history collection. There are way too many books about Lincoln, fwiw.
	10:34am Utopiast: @Revolution Rabbit. Sorry Rabbit, it was you who made the good point about Rand and context
	♥ 10:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Our reality is basically the opposite : the Capitalists have run rampant & the almighty Dollar has replaced all Human Value.
	♥ 10:36am Devin B.: Thanks for the links Annie. I'll check those out!
	♥ 10:36am Ken From Hyde Park: Later this week, I'm sure Diane Kamikaze will have plenty of Lemmy. She put forth quite a bit in November when Phil Taylor died. It's in the archives.
	10:36am Utopiast: @RevRabbit Agreed, obviously. Thanks
	♥ 10:37am melinda: hi Trouble and everyone. Home with a snow day today! Interesting discussion and good tunes.
	10:37am annie: i found alot of great ideas in A.Shrugged; i don't blindly adhere to them as much as i cull ideas and ponder on them. my pleasure Devin, you might grok it better under those formats.
	10:39am Neil, Wild: Rand had some brilliant passages, and can really write a page turner (after all , her favorite author was....Mickey Spillane!)....but as a person, she was a turd. Like Salvador Dali whose work I like, but as a person despise...strongly....I look around at semi-deserted small town downtowns and it strongly reminds me of Rand scenarios....unlike in Poland where 500 year old downtowns will be re-utilized for anything like cell phone stores and cafes...unlike our strip mall mentality.....rant off...
	♥ 10:39am Devin B.: Anyone else read Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh? That and her novella McGlue are my favorite reads in recent memory.
	10:40am Neil, Wild: I will second Lord of the Rings...pure bloatfest...was he paid by the word?
	10:41am Utopiast: @Annie. Yes, picking and choosing valid info is a good thing, just as picking and choosing invalid info is the opposite and that is what I was whining about. Great sow and thanks for the conversashun. Logging off to take Karl Marx (Oscar) for a walk and then ceeing Starz War, duh Force Awakens (yawn) Later.
	♥ 10:41am listener james from westwood: I got as far as a very long monologue by John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, and then just stalled. Or possibly schoolwork beckoned; it was freshman year and the life of a new English major has enough arduous reading as it is!
	10:43am wc: I started Caro's biography of LBJ a couple of weeks ago and thought young Lyndon was such a horrible little shit as a boy and young man that I couldn't finish it. I might jump ahead to the presidential years, or I might not.
	10:44am annie: john galt's soliloquy was the meat of the book..
	10:45am annie: and i'd love to hear the quote, "Who's John Galt?" used correctly..very rare.
	10:50am Neil, Wild: Oh, well...who's John Galt, right?
	10:51am DaveinPA: tee hee hee
	10:56am annie: :-p
	10:57am Neil, Wild: I have a tough time reconciling Ayn Rand's precepts with my Catholic faith.....so Ayn must go....
	11:01am annie: and i've felt very comfortable with dostoyevsky and tolstoy's philosophies..
	11:03am KP: This 4th Coming is pretty cool.
	11:03am Neil, Wild: Ann Peebles sounds a lot like Aretha Franklin...
	11:11am Neil, Wild: Infinite Jest. Yuk.
	11:15am DaveinPA: perfect song - here's to a better new year
	11:18am DaveinPA: I feel suddenly compelled to increase my productivity
	11:23am DaveinPA: ... and this is what increased productivity sounds like...
	11:25am LizGig: I star The Missing Brazilians.
	11:25am Neil, Wild: I was an architecture student in another life at Cooper Union (before I burned out due to overwork)...when another student started acting a bit erratically we just said "Well, they just read The Fountainhead, so it needs a little time to wear off"...heh...
	♥ 11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& Ayn Rand got Medicare & all the rest...as John signed off to Paul, 'get well soon'...
	11:31am annie: man, Abbey lincoln has such a distinctive style...
	11:31am judy from croton: oh excellent! Abbey Lincoln, Golden Lady.
	♥ 11:32am coelacanth: olá Trouble and modernairs
	♥ 11:35am Trouble: ola coelacanth!
	11:38am Tom G: Abby Lincoln Song reminds me of Liz Lemon
	♥ 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Would it be cheating to get the Cliff's Notes text for all these books? I'm a busy guy.
	♥ 11:40am coelacanth: i wasn't sure at first but yes, i like that rendition. i don't know much Abbey Lincoln and it's a whole different vibe than the original. ...but,yes.
	♥ 11:41am Devin B.: Lifetones! Nice!
	♥ 11:42am Trouble: just started this book: www.theparisreview.org...
	♥ 11:44am listener james from westwood: Incidentally, all, thanks for understanding re: my not liking "Dunces." I mentioned this on FB after my attempt, to people I theoretically know in the flesh, and got dogpiled like I'd slandered everyone's firstborn. Was thus hesitant to mention it here. Like most things in life, if it's not for me, it's for someone else, for sure! (Literally: I ended up mailing my copy to one of the FB folks who didn't jump down my throat b/c she said it was her favorite book and was lacking a copy.)
	♥ 11:45am listener james from westwood: @Trouble: I have that incoming via interlibrary loan. Loved loved loved "Low Life" and have high expectations of this new Sante.
	♥ 11:46am Trouble: @listener james...me too! although i have yet to read low life: gasp!
	11:48am judy from croton: I think we confuse writing with reading sometimes. Randall Jarell? He said (paraphrased) "I loved Alice in Wonderland. It's the best thing I ever wrote".
	♥ 11:48am listener james from westwood: @Trouble: Definitely a good one if you're composing your 2016 reading list. Current reading: Carrie Brownstein's bio; also have a mighty pile of new books via Amazon. 2016 will be a good reading year.
	♥ 11:51am coelacanth: that looks interesting.(Trouble @11:42) it's now on my list. ...there are several in front of it; and "autumn of the patriarch" is very slow-going.
	11:55am FernandoBelmondo: great novos baianos track! I heard they are putting up a reunion tour for 2016.
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: adios!!
	♥ 11:56am coelacanth: i just realised "confederacy of dunces" is also on my list - recommended to me when i was up against a clan of power hungry old gardeners trying to kick me out of the community garden!
	11:57am annie: well, another morning spent in bliss.. from 5 up 'til now.. and now i'm swithing to patachou. Liz, i love you, but later for you in the archives..<3
	11:59am bobdoesthings: thanks trouble!!
	♥ 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Wow...three hours already. Happy New Year, Trouble. Success in 2016!
	♥ 12:00pm coelacanth: Thank you Trouble! ciao people.
	12:00pm LizGig: Too short! Hope to tune in next week.
	♥ 1:49pm stefica: Ha! I immediately recognized the inconsolate tone of Henri le chat!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 29, 2015

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
julia kent	invitation to the voyage	asperities				*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
the blue nile	a walk across the rooftops	A Walk Across The Rooftops					0:04:50 (Pop-up)
eglantine gouzy	mr spoon ( two stones)	Versions Of The Prepared Piano v/a					0:10:07 (Pop-up)
pascal comelade	ti amo "ti amo" by "pascal comelade"	Danses et Chants de Syldavie					0:12:58 (Pop-up)
terry adams	gallop's gallop "gallop's gallop" by "terry adams"	Talk Thelonious	clang!			*	0:15:38 (Pop-up)
april march	parisville "parisville" by "april march"	Tribute to Alain Delon and Jean-Pierre Melville (various artists)					0:18:42 (Pop-up)
Medeski, Martin & Wood	intoxicated man	Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg v/a					0:23:22 (Pop-up)
li"l bub	new gravity "new gravity" by "li"l bub"	Science and Magic	joyful noise			*	0:27:10 (Pop-up)

prefuse 73	See More Than Just Stars (ft Helado Negro)	Rivington Não Rio	Temporary Residence Ltd.				0:40:08 (Pop-up)
soap kills	tango "tango" by "soap kills"	cheftak					0:43:09 (Pop-up)
Christina Vantzou	the way out is back	Pod Tune: Whale/Human Music	pod labs			*	0:47:20 (Pop-up)
henri le chat, paw de deux	"henri le chat, paw de deux"				https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M		0:51:33 (Pop-up)
Nawa	mowash al refku be maftoon "mowash al refku be maftoon" by "Nawa"	ancient sufi	lost origin productions			*	0:53:35 (Pop-up)
shirley collins	pretty saro "pretty saro" by "shirley collins"	sweet england					0:56:26 (Pop-up)
willie dunn	i pity the country "i pity the country" by "willie dunn"	Native North America (Vol. 1) : Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-1985	light in the attic				0:58:42 (Pop-up)
the band	twilight ( song sketch) "twilight ( song sketch)" by "the band"	A Musical History					1:01:00 (Pop-up)

colin blunstone	misty roses "misty roses" by "colin blunstone"	i don't believe in miracles					1:11:49 (Pop-up)
joyce	pesadelo "pesadelo" by "joyce"	Passarinho Urbano					1:16:03 (Pop-up)
kutiman	inner galactic lovers (kuiman mixes fiverr)						1:19:31 (Pop-up)
asha bosle	aaja o mere raja "aaja o mere raja" by "asha bosle"	ost apna desh					1:23:54 (Pop-up)
creole	skylarking "skylarking" by "creole"	channel 1 well charge v/a					1:29:27 (Pop-up)
Un Festin Sagital	El Vuelo De La Medusa	Kosmodynamomos	Beta-lactam Ring Records			*	1:32:45 (Pop-up)
kupu	miuku "miuku" by "kupu"	sous juju					1:35:16 (Pop-up)
dinah washington	pacific coast blues	mellow mama					1:38:05 (Pop-up)
clara nunes	meu lema "meu lema" by "clara nunes"	clara nunes					1:43:33 (Pop-up)
camera obscura	troublemaker "troublemaker" by "camera obscura"	desire lines					1:43:54 (Pop-up)
Peter Stringer-Hye	sunday girls "sunday girls" by "Peter Stringer-Hye"		trouble in mind	7"		*	1:47:51 (Pop-up)
arthur russell	your motion says "your motion says" by "arthur russell"	love is overtaking me					1:50:21 (Pop-up)
boysage	Be Your R. Stevie Moore "Be Your R. Stevie Moore" by "boysage"		bleeding gold	7"		*	1:52:42 (Pop-up)
Courtney Barnett	shivers "shivers" by "Courtney Barnett"	boxing day blues (revisited)	third man	7"		*	1:55:41 (Pop-up)
4th coming	heaven & earth "heaven & earth" by "4th coming"	strange things 1970-1974	now-again			*	1:59:20 (Pop-up)
ann peebles	part time love "part time love" by "ann peebles"	this is ann peebles					2:02:31 (Pop-up)
syl johnson	thank you baby "thank you baby" by "syl johnson"	complete twinight 45's	numero group			*	2:05:28 (Pop-up)
kurtis blow	the breaks "the breaks" by "kurtis blow"			12"			2:07:59 (Pop-up)
wink D	get busy "get busy" by "wink D"	ladies first v/a					2:15:46 (Pop-up)
The Missing Brazilians	frequency feast	warzone					2:18:01 (Pop-up)

abbey lincoln	golden lady "golden lady" by "abbey lincoln"	golden lady					2:29:16 (Pop-up)
marcia	brilha "brilha" by "marcia"	casulo					2:37:12 (Pop-up)
lifetones	for a reason "for a reason" by "lifetones"	for a reason					2:40:01 (Pop-up)
Omar Souleyman	Atabat (a style of sung folk poetry)	Dabke 2020: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria					2:47:04 (Pop-up)
Novos Baianos	juventude sexta e sabado	The Brasileiro Treasure Box of Funk & Soul	cultures of soul			*	2:50:52 (Pop-up)
glass	broken bones "broken bones" by "glass"					*	2:53:45 (Pop-up)
hood	This Is What We Do To Sell Out(s)	cold house					2:57:50 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am Gibier: 'Morning Trouble!
	9:05am Stu: Moika Trouble!
	9:05am annie: good morning trouble!
	♥ 9:05am Trouble: bonjour gibier! good morning grey tuesday world!
	9:06am Gibier: Actually Tuesday is blue on that side of the planet.
	9:08am annie: i look out my south-facing window into the sky - Sun-dog!
	9:13am Howard F: Loved that Blue Nile track! I've been wanting to check them out, thanks!
	9:14am sugarplum fairywolf: Well, looks like winter is here, back to the dreary weather Tuesdays again :(
	9:20am bobdoesthings: good morning.
	9:26am Utopiast: Medeski Martin & Wood are missing their commas, but are hitting good notes
	9:31am Gibier: The birds!
	9:35am Ike: ROTFL @ calling out Rex
	9:35am Neil, Wild: Like North Pole Records, located in the basement under the armed forces recruiting station in Times Square....
	9:35am bobdoesthings: google image search for lil bub - videos.revision3.com...
	9:35am glenn: well, there's grumpy cat.
	9:36am Roberto: Yes, Li'l Bub is the perpetually drooling feline.
	9:37am bobdoesthings: I THINK lil bub is one specific cat that is an 'internet celebrity'.. and I could be making this up but I think I recall hearing that there is something wrong with the cat.. FWIW
	9:38am glenn: but personally, i feel that henri le chat noir is the cream of the internet cat crop.
	9:39am annie: oui!!^
	9:46am glenn: today, in "it is to laugh" lemmy has died at age 70, while justin bieber's manager is worried about his "chaotic lifestyle" www.nationalpost.com...
	9:49am bobdoesthings: you got any hawkwind cued up Troubs?
	♥ 9:51am Trouble: stu!! thank you for my moomin card!! i love it, per usual!
	♥ 9:51am Trouble: www.youtube.com...
	9:54am bobdoesthings: if only radio had subtitles.. hehehe. i gotta watch me some henri la chat noir heh
	9:55am Adrian in London: Happy New Year to Trouble and all Troublees! (I'm at the Albert Hall watching a nice show so not listening live but seen the playlist and Blue Nile and Eglantine Gouzy is a fine way to bid farewell to 2015!)
	9:55am testingwithfire: happy snowy morning to all from Cape Ann, MA. freezing rain right now but even that is welcome.
	9:58am testingwithfire: henri le chat noir, as sage as he is, has nothing on the Wagnerian glories of Black Metal Cats on Twitter.
	9:58am smallybiggs: What's that other song sherry sang, about space travel and disobeying her mother?
	9:58am smallybiggs: Shirley ***
	♥ 10:01am Trouble: merci for checking in adrian!!!
	10:02am annie: i'm pleasantly surprised to find Patachou on spotify, which means that mirielle matthieu will also be in there. can you tell spotify is my new favorite toy?
	♥ 10:03am Trouble: smallybiggs: it was called space girl. i put it on a premium a few years back.
	10:04am Roberto: Li'l Bub Yule Log www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'i pity the country' - wow.
	10:04am Roberto: My mistake. No apostrophe in Lil Bub.
	♥ 10:08am Risky: Goodmorning Trouble!
	10:11am Bill W: bonjour! i just finished listening to last week's show at 3am, so i'm having a Troubled Tuesday.
	10:11am Neil, Wild: Go Set a Watchman. Nowhere NEARLY as good as To Kill a Mokckingbird.
	♥ 10:11am Ken From Hyde Park: I checked out a book from Lewis Black and expected it to be funny like his rants. It was boring.
	10:12am Eric: I couldn't finish Anna Karenina
	10:12am frenchee: Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES--really wanted to like it. Did not.
	♥ 10:12am Asheville Jon: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance. yawn.
	10:12am LizGig: Dutifully working through The World Acccording to Garp. I'm really not interested, but I feel obliged to finish it.
	♥ 10:12am Asheville Jon: I've tried it several times, never finished it
	10:12am Gibier: Not that I hated it, but I could never finish Man's Fate by Malraux. I'll give it another try.
	♥ 10:12am Planet Tyler: The Corrections (ok that was a while ago) and The Martian (real science people liked it so...I dont get it...)
	10:12am judy from croton: girl with the dragon tattoo.
	10:13am kwhitehead: Marilynne Robinson. I'm super confused what the big deal is. I find her books boring and her attitude in interviews and essays sanctimonious.
	♥ 10:13am Risky: Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
	♥ 10:13am Risky: EL STINKO GRANDE
	♥ 10:13am listener james from westwood: Book I hated/did not finish: Confederacy of Dunces. Tried twice. Picked up a copy for a quarter from a guy selling books on an NYC sidewalk, thinking maybe a decade might have put me in a more receptive mindset. Nope. for Detested the protagonist anew and rage-quit it for good.
	10:14am frenchee: @LizGig: try THE CIDER HOUSE RULES instead. GARP was (imo) a novel of its time not a classic. Also A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY is terrific.
	10:14am Bill W: I lasted about 50 pages with both "Mrs Dalloway" and "Jane Eyre." About a third of the book with "In Cold Blood" before I remembered i don't like true-crime.
	10:14am chromaphone: I just tried Last Child in the Woods on a recommendation but its preachy nature bothered me, even though I seem to agree with everything that Louv is saying.
	♥ 10:15am Planet Tyler: The Road! I love(d) Cormac McCarthy but he jumped the shark with All The Pretty Horses and well, that's that.
	10:15am LizGig: Also We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. We sold lots of them, and everyone thought it was amazing. I think it did little for me because simian communication experiments was one of my favourite areas when I was in secondary school.
	10:16am sugarplum fairywolf: Norwegian Wood, bleh.
	10:16am LizGig: Were. Simian communication experiments were.
	10:17am testingwithfire: books I hated? The Goldfinch. Somewhat promising start but ran out of steam. .. those Las Vegas chapters were excruciating.
	♥ 10:17am Devin B.: Like Listener James, I have tried Confederacy of Dunces several times and never gotten hooked. Same goes for The Master and Margarita - many people whose opinion I admire love this book and I don't get it.
	♥ 10:18am Trouble: bonjour bill w!!
	♥ 10:19am Devin B.: kwhitehead, which Robinson books have you read? I liked Gilead ok, but her first book, Housekeeping is the one that stays with me.
	10:19am annie: i LOVED master and margarita.. if you have a hard time reading it, you can see the russian movie series, which is almost word for word.... and CoD??? i also tried several times to read it.. went right over my head
	10:19am kwhitehead: Bill W. I think that with some books 50 pages isn't quite enough...
	♥ 10:20am geegee vindaloo: Morning Trouble, do you think anyone is playing Hawkwind today?
	10:20am sugarplum fairywolf: @Bill W: read Mrs. Dalloway for a class with a teacher who was REALLY into it and I... was not. Jane Eyre is one of the few 19th century novels I would want to read/reread though.
	10:20am LizGig: @frenchee, I've noted both of those, but I don't know if I want to spend any more time on John Irving. The first book I read by him was In One Person. He reuses some of the same scenes that appear in Garp (for example, a lecturer at the boarding school slipping on ice), and I don't know that I want to see them again. And Again. There are so many books out there!
	♥ 10:21am Trouble: i felt similarly about norwegian wood @sugarwolf! @kwhitehead i loved housekeeping and haven't been able to get through anything of marilynne's since that...
	10:22am sugarplum fairywolf: Richard Price's Lush Life. There are a thousand more interesting books about NY. Plus I still have a burning hatred for all the characters in The Wanderers.
	10:22am brandon: i like this 80s "french boogie" compilation faye and scott williams played a bit of
	10:23am Neil, Wild: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!Owen Meany. Blech.
	10:23am annie: Audiobook for MaM: www.youtube.com... and video series: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:23am Trouble: @judy from croton: i finished that book and felt like i wanted to steam clean my mind for at least a month: ugh
	10:23am Utopiast: Let's not forget the worst novel of all time - Atlas Shrugged. It's pretty hard to make unchecked market capitalism redeeming. Talk about transparent, predictable, and preachy!
	10:23am testingwithfire: @DevinB @ListenerJames loved Confederacy as a kid, not recently ... but just returned from NOLA where there is a great bike tour company called A Confederacy of Cruisers.
	10:24am LizGig: I adored Jane Eyre as a teenager. Read it first at 13 and then reread and reread. When I reread it in my early 30s I had a completely different experience and probably won't reread it again. I loved all the gothicism as a teen, but after a break of a few decades it just became trite. On the same note, The Phantom Tollbooth was a terrible disappointment as an adult!
	10:24am annie: lately i've been gobbling up Jose Saramago's books..
	10:24am glenn: v. i couldn't get past the first page. and anything by dan brown might just as well go in the incinerator.
	10:24am smallybiggs: Oh man I thought that was some dope, rare bird call at the beginning
	10:25am Neil, Wild: Neal Stephenson Anathem. Blech.
	10:25am annie: and one of Saramago's books, "The Stone Raft", was made into a film. all in portuguese, which would get you immersed, so to speak, trouble. no subtitles.
	10:26am Ike: "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- interminable, w/way too much fluff. Tolkien had the right length w/"Hobbit" then over-indulged severely. A rare case where the movies were better than the book(s) because they had to edit out heaps of stupid pointless waffle.
	10:26am Utopiast: And while I am an atheist and believe in objective reality, Rand took a big crap on social engineering and forgot the most important premise: The world is what we make of it. Yes, we can not regulate and let things spin the way they will, which is usually toward greed and division, or we can create something more palatable for all.
	10:28am annie: Ike: i read LotR when i was in highschool, gobbled that up too, even studied the runic symbols and did my homework in them.. drove my teacher english crazy
	10:28am kwhitehead: "My Valve!"- Ignatius P. Reilly
	10:28am glenn: i remember watching ants and thinking - this seems familiar, and then realizing it was ayn rand's book anthem.
	♥ 10:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm sure I read 'Zen & Motorcycle Main.'...don't remember a thing... Tolkien was the original world-maker & not so much a dramatist. Different sort of novelist. Ayn Rand was very young when the Bolshis took her Dad's shop. I get it. Not relevant to my reality, which is basically the opposite.
	10:29am frenchee: @Ike: I will be saying "heaps of pointless waffle" all day.
	10:30am annie: loved the "dancing woo li masters"
	10:30am annie: (the sound of pens hurriedly scribbling names of books)
	♥ 10:31am Trouble: @geeegeevindaloo: surely brian turner and maybe liz berg will play some lemmy. sorry i am just not feeling it
	10:31am Ike: Also "The Magicians". Barely any plot and horrendous, uninterestingly unpleasant characters. Blandly grim. Bizarrely overrated and overhyped.
	10:31am annie: (wu)
	10:33am Utopiast: @glenn You make a good point about Rand and context of her experience, but I just get tired of right-wingers relying on Shrugged to buttress their weak arguements
	10:34am kwhitehead: Listening to today's program while weeding the North American history collection. There are way too many books about Lincoln, fwiw.
	10:34am Utopiast: @Revolution Rabbit. Sorry Rabbit, it was you who made the good point about Rand and context
	♥ 10:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Our reality is basically the opposite : the Capitalists have run rampant & the almighty Dollar has replaced all Human Value.
	♥ 10:36am Devin B.: Thanks for the links Annie. I'll check those out!
	♥ 10:36am Ken From Hyde Park: Later this week, I'm sure Diane Kamikaze will have plenty of Lemmy. She put forth quite a bit in November when Phil Taylor died. It's in the archives.
	10:36am Utopiast: @RevRabbit Agreed, obviously. Thanks
	♥ 10:37am melinda: hi Trouble and everyone. Home with a snow day today! Interesting discussion and good tunes.
	10:37am annie: i found alot of great ideas in A.Shrugged; i don't blindly adhere to them as much as i cull ideas and ponder on them. my pleasure Devin, you might grok it better under those formats.
	10:39am Neil, Wild: Rand had some brilliant passages, and can really write a page turner (after all , her favorite author was....Mickey Spillane!)....but as a person, she was a turd. Like Salvador Dali whose work I like, but as a person despise...strongly....I look around at semi-deserted small town downtowns and it strongly reminds me of Rand scenarios....unlike in Poland where 500 year old downtowns will be re-utilized for anything like cell phone stores and cafes...unlike our strip mall mentality.....rant off...
	♥ 10:39am Devin B.: Anyone else read Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh? That and her novella McGlue are my favorite reads in recent memory.
	10:40am Neil, Wild: I will second Lord of the Rings...pure bloatfest...was he paid by the word?
	10:41am Utopiast: @Annie. Yes, picking and choosing valid info is a good thing, just as picking and choosing invalid info is the opposite and that is what I was whining about. Great sow and thanks for the conversashun. Logging off to take Karl Marx (Oscar) for a walk and then ceeing Starz War, duh Force Awakens (yawn) Later.
	♥ 10:41am listener james from westwood: I got as far as a very long monologue by John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, and then just stalled. Or possibly schoolwork beckoned; it was freshman year and the life of a new English major has enough arduous reading as it is!
	10:43am wc: I started Caro's biography of LBJ a couple of weeks ago and thought young Lyndon was such a horrible little shit as a boy and young man that I couldn't finish it. I might jump ahead to the presidential years, or I might not.
	10:44am annie: john galt's soliloquy was the meat of the book..
	10:45am annie: and i'd love to hear the quote, "Who's John Galt?" used correctly..very rare.
	10:50am Neil, Wild: Oh, well...who's John Galt, right?
	10:51am DaveinPA: tee hee hee
	10:56am annie: :-p
	10:57am Neil, Wild: I have a tough time reconciling Ayn Rand's precepts with my Catholic faith.....so Ayn must go....
	11:01am annie: and i've felt very comfortable with dostoyevsky and tolstoy's philosophies..
	11:03am KP: This 4th Coming is pretty cool.
	11:03am Neil, Wild: Ann Peebles sounds a lot like Aretha Franklin...
	11:11am Neil, Wild: Infinite Jest. Yuk.
	11:15am DaveinPA: perfect song - here's to a better new year
	11:18am DaveinPA: I feel suddenly compelled to increase my productivity
	11:23am DaveinPA: ... and this is what increased productivity sounds like...
	11:25am LizGig: I star The Missing Brazilians.
	11:25am Neil, Wild: I was an architecture student in another life at Cooper Union (before I burned out due to overwork)...when another student started acting a bit erratically we just said "Well, they just read The Fountainhead, so it needs a little time to wear off"...heh...
	♥ 11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& Ayn Rand got Medicare & all the rest...as John signed off to Paul, 'get well soon'...
	11:31am annie: man, Abbey lincoln has such a distinctive style...
	11:31am judy from croton: oh excellent! Abbey Lincoln, Golden Lady.
	♥ 11:32am coelacanth: olá Trouble and modernairs
	♥ 11:35am Trouble: ola coelacanth!
	11:38am Tom G: Abby Lincoln Song reminds me of Liz Lemon
	♥ 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Would it be cheating to get the Cliff's Notes text for all these books? I'm a busy guy.
	♥ 11:40am coelacanth: i wasn't sure at first but yes, i like that rendition. i don't know much Abbey Lincoln and it's a whole different vibe than the original. ...but,yes.
	♥ 11:41am Devin B.: Lifetones! Nice!
	♥ 11:42am Trouble: just started this book: www.theparisreview.org...
	♥ 11:44am listener james from westwood: Incidentally, all, thanks for understanding re: my not liking "Dunces." I mentioned this on FB after my attempt, to people I theoretically know in the flesh, and got dogpiled like I'd slandered everyone's firstborn. Was thus hesitant to mention it here. Like most things in life, if it's not for me, it's for someone else, for sure! (Literally: I ended up mailing my copy to one of the FB folks who didn't jump down my throat b/c she said it was her favorite book and was lacking a copy.)
	♥ 11:45am listener james from westwood: @Trouble: I have that incoming via interlibrary loan. Loved loved loved "Low Life" and have high expectations of this new Sante.
	♥ 11:46am Trouble: @listener james...me too! although i have yet to read low life: gasp!
	11:48am judy from croton: I think we confuse writing with reading sometimes. Randall Jarell? He said (paraphrased) "I loved Alice in Wonderland. It's the best thing I ever wrote".
	♥ 11:48am listener james from westwood: @Trouble: Definitely a good one if you're composing your 2016 reading list. Current reading: Carrie Brownstein's bio; also have a mighty pile of new books via Amazon. 2016 will be a good reading year.
	♥ 11:51am coelacanth: that looks interesting.(Trouble @11:42) it's now on my list. ...there are several in front of it; and "autumn of the patriarch" is very slow-going.
	11:55am FernandoBelmondo: great novos baianos track! I heard they are putting up a reunion tour for 2016.
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: adios!!
	♥ 11:56am coelacanth: i just realised "confederacy of dunces" is also on my list - recommended to me when i was up against a clan of power hungry old gardeners trying to kick me out of the community garden!
	11:57am annie: well, another morning spent in bliss.. from 5 up 'til now.. and now i'm swithing to patachou. Liz, i love you, but later for you in the archives..<3
	11:59am bobdoesthings: thanks trouble!!
	♥ 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Wow...three hours already. Happy New Year, Trouble. Success in 2016!
	♥ 12:00pm coelacanth: Thank you Trouble! ciao people.
	12:00pm LizGig: Too short! Hope to tune in next week.
	♥ 1:49pm stefica: Ha! I immediately recognized the inconsolate tone of Henri le chat!

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