I'd like to kindly request political commentary about Trump's comeback, Nicholas Miglio's 'Hurray for the USA' to celebrate it, the customary Vinyl recap, the talking Egg GIF and the return of the squeaky chair.
I heard Drumpf did pretty well yesterday. Lots of registered Democrats purged from voter rolls apparently dented Bernie's numbers in Brooklyn, reports say.
There were two people when I went to vote who could not be found on the list, despite how much they insisted they were supposed to be there...
8:37am
Torbjørn:
Morning, Ken and non-Kens. Tongue-in-cheek jazz-rock outfit Cloroform has released a new album, "Grrr", which might be worth a listen. I was at their show last weekend, and when they played "This is a hit", I was reminded that it might be a good fit for this show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaaBeVH5XB4. As for 420 references, one could play the whole of Sleep - Dopesmoker. Might even make time for both a bathroom break and an apple !
8:38am
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My favourite Jodorowski anecdote is when he declared himself being the founder of the analmancy, the art of reading the anus which required the subjects to sit in a photocopy machine and print a copy of their buttholes. Some crazy fans took that for serious and promptly send him photocopies of their buttocks hoping Alejandro will reveal them something.
Having said that I hope is now your favourite Jodorowski anecdote as well.
I associate 4/20 with WFMU because of driving in Branch Brook Park during cherry blossom time with WFMU on. When WFMU wasn't on, it was because we were in Dr. Hill's car & listening to the news about the Okla. City bombing.
That was NOT a request of "Cherry Blossom Time", however.
8:43am
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I predict Bernie Sanders' resented Democrats are going vote for Trump and eventually take him to the White House in their attempt to prevent a Hillary presidency.
Ken, if you played Dopesmoker in its entirety you'd be the coolest dopesmoker in town. But you could also just play Dragonaut by Sleep for a nice 420 shoutout.
Also, don't interpret my remark as a request of "Oklahoma". If someone recorded Don Meinshausen's version with the lyrics about the Okla. City bombing, though, be my guest.
Oklahoma, where the sound blast comes sweeping down the plain
And the broken glass is up to my ass, and the rubble keeps slowing down my crane;
Oklahoma, where each night my honey lamb & I
Sit alone & talk, & watch like a hawk for the Ryder trucks coming by.
Now we don't want your guns to be banned,
But in case you have something else planned,
That's when we say, "I wish you'd go away."
We're saying, "Please stop bombing Oklahoma, Oklahoma KOed."
@Ken-I SECOND Marcels suggestion for I'm Straight. Perfect for 4/20. Maybe also Okie From Muskogee by Merl Haggard? ("We don't take LSD in Texas" or something....)
8:56am
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I have another Jodorowski anecdote you might also like, Cliff.
John Lennon and George Harrison were big Jodorowski fans and friends as well. Anyway, the latter wanted to take a role in the Holy Mountain but then he later backpedaled when the scene he was supposed to film required him to show his butthole next to an hippopotamus. Jodorowski replied Harrison: 'You need to overcome your ego and show your anus'.
PEACE everybody. Back in the 80's everyday was 420...and if I ever get cancer you better bet edibles are in my diet, legal or not. I hear Chemo sometimes isn't so clear cut....
I couldn't get my mother to smoke while she was going through Chemo... My sister and I tried but she just refused. Still feel like it would have helped her (she is alive and well FYI).
I know, Edge seems at 1st like it's sharp, but then you'll find there are many things you can't do while you're on it. And then one day your brain just freezes up & the world stands still, and you wonder why you went there.
Seriously, Cliff, I can't say Win 10 is that bad per se, but the browser it comes with, Edge, is pretty awful -- although I'm not sure whether it was Edge or Win 10 that was finally responsible for the jam in disc R/W traffic. I didn't try another browser with it. I rolled back to Win 8.1 & am using MSIE.
I was a Linux user, but Windows came pre-installed on this laptop that I don't own, and I was afraid to make it dual-boot because it didn't come with Windows install'n media, nor a removable disc drive to reinstall it, in case I messed up the partitioning.
Oh ok, I don't even bother with MS browsers, I put Opera on my Win10 machine. And I'd love to be using *nix but there aren't any drivers for the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive :(
9:17am
Chris:
Mr. Freddy Jack - "Tijuana Grass" (Gold Standard Records)
Too bad, Marcel. The neighborhood used to use Linksys from somebody across the street who kept a chicken (that crossed the road to get to the other side when somebody put out chicken feed) and got his back shaved in the upstairs window.
i let someone wipe my xp out (years ago) for linux. with no support that i could comprehend. it was like having my hands tied up. after trying and giving up for over a year i gave up and reinstalled xp. (only WITHOUT all the "virus protection") and it still works now. but it's very slow, as it always was; & big, and loud.
I'm trying to remember if I ever visited WFMU's site when I used to dial in to a shell to use its Lynx. I was told the compression was enough to stream WFMU audio over an audio modem cx, but didn't want to tie up my phone line.
@Aaron in Minneapolis: the carousel gif is from the climactic scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel), in which the operator of a merry-go-round at an amusement park is accidently shot during the pursuit of a murderer, and it spins wildly out of control, to the distress of many of the adult passengers on the ride, and the delight of one or two kids who think it's the coolest thing ever.
I love these lyrics..."I want a treat...I wanna go out!"
9:41am
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Is this free-range dog music? Because I only listen to happy dogs music.
9:41am
Sam:
What would Bach have composed if he could have sampled dogs?
9:41am
dei xhrist:
Oh Kenneth, how I have missed your Kermit like voice now that I have a job where I can't peanut gallery all Wednesday morning. But as my closest co-worker is out, let the confusing audio distractions fly!
I can only image what it would be like if my dog could talk. "Can we go outside and play ball? Can we? Can we? I know where there's a racket ball under the deck. I can go get it? Can we go ride in the car? I love to ride in the car. I didn't chew up your shoe, I think I saw your wife with it behind the garage. Oh look, a squirrel. Let's get it!"
Bob, Andy Breckmanman want to learn how to make a viral video and that is the topic for SSD tonight. So I want everybody to call up and say that the surefire way to make a video go viral is to INCLUDE FERRETS.
when I was a youngster I would imagine a world where dogs tranformed into people with developed human personalities and tried to imagine what their individual characteristics would be if they were indeed human..like the last dog we had.. I imagined we would have been very tall, a bit dismissive, kinda sarcastic, with a bit of a quarky side where he'd make faces and stuff.
Ken, I enjoyed your questions in yesterday's Andy Breckman Reddit AMA. Pretty much the only thing that disappointed me about his AMA is that his reddit username wasn't AndyBreckmanMan
Nah, cats would be, "Let me out. Nope, now let me in. No that's not right either, let me back out. Oops, now I want back in. Hmmm, no, let me out after all. Hey, what's that?" Licks left rear knee for 5 minutes.
Andrew - they're generally very good with children, and not likely to get violent, so yeah...i like your analogy. i wouldn't want my child in-between a golden retriever and a chunk of bread though!
10:11am
Sam:
Maybe ferrets infected with the Zika virus? Cover Andy with peanut butter and let them loose on him?
I hope Ken and all Ken's Krew enjoy a happy April 20th, which has absolutely no special significance beyond being a normal Wed morning, as far as I know.
I hope this segment gets spun off into it's own podcast like simpsons time.
10:14am
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Richie Finestra is more like a time traveler than music producer. He's always there to witness every musical milestone coming out of the late 20th century.
I've never seen this godawful-sounding show. Now that I've heard the recap, I retract my previous comment. Even a new showrunner probably can't help. Especially if Mick Jagger is not-so-secretly really in charge anyway.
Oh! And I totally forgot the part where Richie engages in two minutes of name dropping, mentioning Alsion Steele, Carol Miller, Lester Bangs, Pat St John, Jimmy Fink, Scott Muni and on and on. Two minutes!
10:26am
Polyus:
@Neil - kidding aside, I was not as horrified by the real thing as I thought I would be. I saw some really, really disgusting things when I used to tour though. Sinks full of vomit from the night before, clouds of flies, that sort of thing.
10:26am
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My favourite Vinyl's recap so far was from last week when, according to our narrator Ken, Richie Finestra and friends invented disco.
Surely they've kept pushing that pretentiousness over the borderline
10:29am
Blix:
Should petition Ken's observation..."Vinyl" to be re-titled "How Cool Is That?!?" for season 2. Of the so many little scenes that epitomize Vinyl's oeuvre and ethos, the one of grown men giddily spray painting cursewords to moronic cheers is perhaps the best metaphor for the whole series.
OH MY GOD.... I cleaned my bong out last night with rubbing alcohol.. and I just dumped the rubbing alcohol out and washed it out in my sink.... and couldnt figure out why it still smells... the pipe underneath the sink is poorly assembled and all the rubbing alchol bong water poured out udner my sink. :( bad start to my 4/20
10:35am
Sam:
Bobdoesthings - it's good that you discovered your sink is leaking though.
@Polyus-I was a taxi driver for one day in Buffalo. Hanging out in a McDonalds parking lot [on the East Side of Buffalo] in the shade I was invaded by a couple of junkies. Also, the McDonalds urinal had poop in it. Yuk! The East Side is not the best part of Buffalo....kinda like the South Bronx in the 80's...
bobdoesthings, I had my sink leak like that once. I learned the hard way not to use a bucket taller than the pipes to catch the drip...
10:55am
Sam:
Bob, my theory is that making a mess is good, because then you clean, which you probably needed to do anyway. I spilled wine all over my floor, and now my floor looks better than it has in a while.
We used to just use analog tape to produce a drunk sound by slowing it by that factor, but apparently the drunk effect still works if it's digitally pitch corrected.
Does anyone here remember the pre-GIF times when Ken used to put a video for each of the songs played in the playlist?
11:14am
Brendan:
Thanks Ken havent heard Joy Wellboy since you rotated it awhile back. My wife hated her voice saying she sounded drunk, to which I said 'exactly'.Beautiful controlled voice, like drunk style kung fu. And now Dva . You are the man.
Clay Pigeon has no shortage of material for his Dusty Show tomorrow. Between the primary election and 4/20 activities, there is much to chose from. Here is his Bernie Sanders show that didn't air last Thursday. www.wfmu.org...
Yes Sam, but they call them gorges there. Hence the t-shirt, "Ithaca is Gorges". (One year at the Ithaca Fest parade, I saw a gal in the Chainsaw Marching Band wearing a t-shirt that said, "Vagina is Gorges", ha!)
They want the Unofficial English name to be "Czechia", so it fits on posters and Tschochkes (Czechskes?) more easily. In German , Czechoslovakia used to be "die Tschechei", which was a lot easier on the tongue (if you can already do "ch").
I just tell people I'm moving to Bohemia in the summer, and when they go "Huh?!", I start singing, "Is this the real life...or is it just fantasy......"
Supposedly in (The) Czech(ia) (Republic) you can have in your possesion up to 15 grams of pot, 5 hits of LSD, and/or 10 grams of cocaine without getting arrested.
Hey Murakami, what a great idea! I should post links to all the TOO BIG GIFS
11:37am
P-90:
Isn't "Czechia" so close to "Chechnya" that it could cause confusion? Also, didn't they already shorten their name, from "Szpellczech Republic" or something?
Was that a song about the Pulitzer-winning New Yorker article about the inevitable earthquake that will destroy the Pacific Northwest?!? Cool. That's so topical of Tacocat.
@bobdoesthings: the Szpellczech Republic isn't full of grammar Nazis, it was full of grammar Commies. May seem like no big difference to you and me, but don't get them started on the subject...
Also, New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum won a Pulitzer for her epic takedown of Vinyl. Well, not specifically for that article but I'm sure it didn't hurt. All her work is excellent.
11:58am
P-90:
And that New Yorker article an the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault is a brilliant, quick and easy read, highly reccommended; because it tells you all about something important, and is a Hell of an example of how to tell all about something important.