WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 18, 2017

Listener comments!
	3:03pm Alison Porchnik: It always rains in Northern California
	3:06pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin and everyone! It's true, us graveyard shift DJs are never lonely.
	3:06pm Undead83: Oh, gosh, I missed Lee Morgan xP
	3:07pm BennettCap: "It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours."
	3:07pm Linda Lee: hello Irwin! please open up that magazine & tell us why! :-D
	3:09pm Irwin: Bronwynne: {wink wink}
	3:16pm Cliff in Prague: Rowwwrrr, I need to get a gig as an all-night disc jockey
	3:18pm dgg: I bet its becuase they have lots of radio to listen to, and no one is lonely with a radio.
	👻 3:19pm βrian: You can peek inside here: www.terapeak.com...
	3:20pm Cliff in Prague: Any smooth jazz today Irwin? I hear Pat Metheny is real popular
	👻 3:20pm βrian: "Wild Women to Avoid," for example.
	3:21pm Linda Lee: wow. super steamy!
	3:23pm Cliff in Prague: Those error messages sound more authoritative when read in a robot voice
	3:23pm Jeff: Irwins and other "regular people" should not be allowed to operate technology.
	3:24pm Undead83: I feel the playlist today is indeed pretty sharp
	3:25pm Jeff: In the good old days, only people in white lab coats could touch the computers. You knew they must be Trained and Authorized if they had white lab coats on.
	3:25pm Cliff in Prague: They even wore skinny ties, black-framed glasses, and pocket protectors
	3:26pm Linda Lee: i used to wear a white lab coat for my own amusement!
	3:26pm Roberto: Oh that's my cat all right. This guy here. <--
	👻 3:26pm βrian: Actually, it was the computers themselves who wore the lab coats. Back in the day.
	3:26pm naked short: Listening to Irwin's show > working
	3:27pm Roberto: If he's outside the closed bathroom door, he demands to be let in. If he's inside and the door is closed, he demands to be let out.
	3:27pm Irwin: Need a SUBJECT LINE for today's show. Suggestions? Oh, and please please please, nothing about DT. No really, nothing. I be bored.
	3:27pm Linda Lee: that's just part of feline DNA Roberto. nothing unusual. :-)
	3:28pm Linda Lee: subject line: Where Are You Now, Barbara Gowant?
	3:29pm Listening Out There: Possible subject line: You don't have to have a point to have a point.
	👻 3:29pm βrian: Humans are assistive devices that open doors, emanate warmth, toss catnip pouches, etc.
	3:29pm 67tele: the loneliness of the long distance disk jockey?
	3:30pm Cliff in Prague: "Strč prst skrz krk." That's Czech for "stick your finger through your throat." (I wanted to post it on Ken's show but was afraid it would crash the computer.)
	3:30pm Linda Lee: let's not forget the prime role of can-opener.
	3:30pm Irwin: Cliff ftw.
	3:30pm JakeGould: Hey!
	👻 3:33pm βrian: @Cliff: Sounds like the very definition of the glottal stop.
	3:33pm Listening Out There: @Cliff: Romantic!
	3:43pm Cliff in Prague: "The sentence is well known for being a semantically and syntactically sound clause without a single vowel, the nucleus of each syllable being a syllabic r, a common feature amongst many Slavic languages.... There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak language, a longer one being 'Škrt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn čtvrthrst zrn.'" - from Wikipedia
	3:45pm Carmichael: I have arrived to participate in the rockin'.
	3:50pm Undead83: @ Cliff in Prague Fascinating phrase, and what does it mean Cliff?
	3:50pm Cliff in Prague: I haven't got a clue Undead83. Czech crashes my brain.
	3:51pm -Ken: Hello everybody. I am also here for the rock. and also to test out new robots for the radio program that begins at 6 o'clock pee em.
	3:52pm Jeff: Smiley face :)
	3:52pm Irwin: The best song about the Donner Party that Neil Young didn't record.
	3:54pm sweeks: The beautiful Cascades
	👻 3:54pm βrian: Should've never signed that Organ Donner card ...
	3:54pm Wilson K: Sweet fuckin song dude
	3:55pm -Ken: Is this thing on?
	3:56pm JakeGould: Organ Donner is so delicious! Right in a pita with white sauce! I wish I could share with you!
	3:57pm Josh: Ken, is it working for you?
	3:58pm Irwin: Kenbot is on the boards.
	3:59pm ?: Yes, it is working. I love the music that Irwin plays on his radio show more than life itself.
	4:00pm Wild Neil: PEACE all from my new job...on an APPLE Computer no less! They use them here "because it works better". It is a pretty nifty piece of tech! Did a BIG fire test today, I thought I would MELT. Hey Ken! Hey Irwin! Hey all! Ken last week's 7sd was a real pisser! BJM! Right on!!!! I LOVE Brian Jonestown Massacre!
	4:01pm -Ken: I love a good pisser. Really, I do. I am not just saying that.
	4:01pm Fire Testing Lab Director: Back to work, Neil or you're fired!
	4:02pm Cliff in Prague: Congrats on the new job Wild Neil!
	4:02pm Wild Neil: LOL. My shift is over...Thanks Cliff!
	4:02pm Fox (Rā-chul): Ken - I hope the robots have been fully updated on Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" for your own safety.
	👻 4:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Irwin. I am going to write Shana Falana so the robot can practice saying her name. @Wild Neil - Congrats on the job. Please don't melt.
	4:03pm Wild Neil: Yeah, anybody seen "Ex Machina?" Phew!
	4:03pm Timothy Sisters: Always rains in Northern California? You should try South Wales for size. X
	👻 4:03pm βrian: Do folks bring in their weinies for some of the fire tests?
	4:03pm Cliff in Prague: I'm gonna try to stay up for 7SD tonight. Only 2 more hours to go!
	4:04pm Susan Calvin: 3 Laws? What a joke! You don't need a lawyer to find the loopholes in the 3 Laws.
	4:07pm Carmichael: It's raining like a bastard right now in northern California.
	4:07pm Fox (Rā-chul): Somewhere I think I still have a bunch of Joe Frank and Alan Watts tapes I recorded off the radio, in the 90's.
	4:08pm -Ken: I sometimes think it would be nice to put Alan Watts back on the schedule. But then I remember what a dick his son is, and then I say naaaaah.
	4:09pm Linda Lee: i'd love hearing Alan Watts on fmu again. who cares about his son?
	4:09pm -Ken: His son controls everything.
	4:09pm Linda Lee: shoot ..
	4:10pm Cliff in Prague: I got into listening to WFMU by hearing the Joe Frank/Alan Watts combo on Thursday nights. And then after that, it was MUSIC TO SPAZZ BY with DAVE THE SPAZZ!!!
	4:16pm Irwin: Dave the Spazz will help you achieve the same heights of Zen wisdom as Alan Watts without the annoying contemplative discipline.
	4:16pm asheville jon: Joe Frank rocks (Hi Linda Lee)
	4:16pm Cliff in Prague: Boy, Joe's got a potty-mouth in this episode.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: i'm never happier to be aromantic than when listening to Joe Frank. hi Jon!
	4:19pm asheville jon: This sounds a lot like my life
	4:22pm Cliff in Prague: AUDIENCE RESPONSE Ben was once asked how he expected anyone to take some of his teachings seriously when they provoked so much laughter from his listeners. He replied, "Laughter is the only genuine form of applause." - from Zen Without Zen Masters
	4:22pm Linda Lee: holy cow!
	4:22pm Dean: When in Aroma, do as the Aromans.
	4:23pm Linda Lee: Ben who? he's right!
	4:24pm Cliff in Prague: I don't know Linda! It just says "Ben". This book was published in the Seventies, man.
	4:24pm Linda Lee: ah ok! :-D
	4:25pm Cliff in Prague: There's an entire chapter called "The Zen of Sex".
	4:26pm Dean: If Google Maps is correct, Watts broadcast from a former KPFA site located where a copy shop now resides, across the street from what would become the Keystone Berkeley. (The current KPFA site is now across the street from a Trader Joe's.)
	4:26pm Linda Lee: i can imagine ..
	4:26pm Hoboken Jack: Now I tried to type "robot" on my phone and it came out... yup... Ribot.
	4:30pm Linda Lee: .. people are just insane. ..
	4:30pm Cliff in Prague: This is one of the more overtly angry & sarcastic Joe Frank episodes I've heard.
	4:34pm Dean: Correction: the former KPFA is now a FedEx.
	4:48pm -Ken: I am testing the new profanity filter for the show tonight. It had fucking better work.
	4:48pm -Ken: Shit, it works!
	4:49pm Josh: It works just as well as Nina Totenberg did
	4:49pm Mac: Snap snap snap...
	4:49pm -Ken: I'd say it works even better than Nina Totenberg.
	4:51pm Linda Lee: can't wait to test that filter Ken!
	4:54pm Irwin: Is "-Ken" different from "Ken"?
	4:54pm asheville jon: Congrats on playing Freebird this morning Ken. Looking forward to some jazz after joe
	4:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - but - everything's OK if you're a Buddhist - because you don't really exist & there's nothing to do & nowhere to go anyhow. - So fuck you.
	4:55pm Cliff in Prague: "We all had the problems associated with bodies, personalities, families, community. We saw our common humanity."
	4:56pm Linda Lee: hmm .. not quite, Rev! :-D
	4:57pm Jeff: And why exactly would we want to subject ourselves to this unrelenting nasty Joe Frank darkness? I'm so over it. I'm so over being stuck in a room where it comes out of the ceiling.
	4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Very 1st Principle of Buddhism: Suffering is Universal ...Paramount had some pretty lousy movies too...
	4:57pm Cliff in Prague: Jack Kornfield, the third wheel in the Joe Frank/Alan Watts combo.
	4:58pm Irwin: Yeah, Jack's sort of the spiritual bridge between Alan and Joe.
	4:58pm common: hey irwin. hello
	5:00pm Linda Lee: 'Approximately Alternate Wednesdays' is a great title for something ..
	5:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Listen to Alan a lot these days. Really - he tends to debunk dogmatic pretensions as misunderstandings...he was British, academic & erudite, but also psychedelicised.
	5:03pm Linda Lee: yep!! love hearing him.
	5:04pm Cliff in Prague: Alan knew what was up.....but then he drank himself to death. Doesn't fill me with a lot of hope....
	5:04pm wild neil: you play jazz i like Irwin , better than my local toronto station thats "world famous".
	5:05pm Hoboken Jack: I saw a woman this week who looked just like Nicole. It was a Dollanganger doppelgänger.
	5:06pm Linda Lee: ah, but would you rather drink yourself to death as a garden variety asshole, or as Alan Watts?
	5:06pm Irwin: Jack, glad you finally got your avatar reattached.
	5:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kerouac: ' I like alcohol because I like ecstasy of mind.' Watts was a working stiff as a lecturer...In the East, Buddhist mendicants (free beggars) can't refuse what people give them - & some are actually dealing w/ serious weight problems...
	5:09pm Fox (Rā-chul): I loved Alan's smoker's laugh.
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watt's autobiography: 'In My Own Way' (think about it).
	5:11pm Private Presley: +Ken ... FWIW my WFMU App feature request: an alarm clock function. Gotta Wake n Bake on time.
	5:11pm Linda Lee: i've been scolded for identifying as vegan while accepting meat at others' homes ~ but it's good karma for all to accept gifts without whining.
	5:12pm Linda Lee: why be a jerk about it?
	5:13pm Cliff in Prague: It just bothers me as lots of other psychedelic users end up as either alcoholics or addicted to opiates, it's a common pattern, and I tend to drink too much myself.
	5:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The legend is Buddha died from accepting food he knew wasn't safe. Jerk? Terence McKenna says 'Culture is not your friend'. & would probably make a joke about picking your poison...
	5:15pm Linda Lee: he's right!
	5:17pm Fox (Rā-chul): Linda Lee - I've been doing the same. Vegan at home, whatever when offered as long as it won't make me ill.
	5:19pm Linda Lee: former junkie doesn't see the problem with choosing one drug or the other. the impulse is the same. yes, Fox (Ra-chul)! hear you clearly. that's sensible!
	5:20pm Linda Lee: it's all so precious sometimes, really.
	5:20pm laughingacademy: WHOA. "Pale Blue Skies" is amazing.
	5:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aldous Huxley spelled it all out. We get middle-aged & become Homer Simpson. I gotta work. Then I wanna drink. I don't wanna expand my consciousness of this world - the 6 O'Clock News is more than too much already...I could say I used to be an idealistic youth into mind-expansion - but honestly we were little DeeDee Ramones & would huff garbage if there was no dope. If you have good enuff mind-expanders, that can certainly hold your attention - but people just want to feel good & get out of it. Till it doesn't work, or becomes a problem.
	5:24pm Michael 98145: @LL, i made the mistake of agreeing to share a pizza on gluten-free crust. once. :)
	5:25pm Linda Lee: i'm of the less-is-more school of engagement for sure. imbibe shit & i feel shitty. then i need to imbibe more shit to counter that other shit. how about just cutting back in the first place? watching the f*cking news isn't mandatory yet! in fact at this moment it's driving people right around the bend ..
	5:25pm Cliff in Prague: INFLATION It may seem, in times of inflation, that all prices are going up, but the price of living remains the same---death. It may seem like a high price to those who don't understand it, but it only has to be paid once, and never in advance. - Zen Without Zen Masters
	5:25pm Irwin: Speaking of Zen, this Tame Impala tune puts me in a trance.
	5:26pm Michael 98145: nice, Cliff
	5:26pm Linda Lee: paid once, eh? :-D
	5:26pm JakeGould: If Buddha was a dog, how would he wear his pants? Like this? Or like this?
	5:26pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dig.
	5:26pm Cliff in Prague: But you're not supposed to go into a trance when practicing Zen, Irwin! That's why the guy goes around smacking people on the back with the Enouragement Stick!
	5:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great set. Psychedelia is not all wah-wah pedals.
	5:27pm Michael 98145: * whack *
	5:27pm Linda Lee: that's right Cliff! :-)
	5:27pm Cliff in Prague: And whack to me for misspelling "encouragement"
	5:27pm Mac: Fun set Irwin/
	5:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's also fuzzboxes & echo...
	5:28pm Linda Lee: sorry about the crust Michael 98145! some of that stuff is hard to deal with.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: ( we aren't pedantic, Cliff :)
	👻 5:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: One time, I had a really big problem: My karma ran over my dogma.
	5:30pm Cliff in Prague: LOL Linda, I guess they don't believe in reincarnation ;)
	5:30pm Marshall Stacks: Birds of Fire, a great track from a great band. Thanks, Irwin!
	5:31pm Parq: What Marshall said.
	5:33pm Linda Lee: there's reincarnation & then there's rebirth! www.youtube.com...
	5:33pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Rabbit, don't forget th'Phaser. My god, man, don't forget the phaser... 1971 would never have been possible without it.
	5:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McLaughlin - gobsmacking discipline - but it never made him cold. Seem to me.
	5:34pm Marshall Stacks: And the hits just keep comin'!
	5:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Phase/Flange - among the Doubling effects, no?
	5:35pm Cliff in Prague: There's a story that Chogyam Trungpa was asked what exactly gets reborn, and he replied, "Your bad habits!"
	5:35pm Linda Lee: thank you BRMC!! i'm alive again!!! :-D
	5:36pm Linda Lee: love that one Cliff!!
	5:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Cliff: Kerouac: 'The quivering meat wheel'...
	5:36pm Cliff in Prague: Is there a difference between phasing and flanging?
	5:38pm Linda Lee: let's get all our spiritual ducks in a row for Ken & Andy!
	5:38pm Linda Lee: i want to hear robot Suzuki!
	5:38pm Cliff in Prague: "...and safe in heaven dead." - That's a good one RRN63
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Cliff: ...the effectiveness of the pedal knobs...& don't ask where the term 'flange' came from - it's not our karma to accurately know...
	5:41pm Cliff in Prague: Ken do you have a Ponderous Buddhist Nonsense filter for the robots ready?
	5:41pm wild neil: "in meatspace" "its a meat thing" William Gibson in Nueromancer...
	5:43pm Linda Lee: poor Jack was ultimately so depressive.
	5:43pm Cliff in Prague: Neuromancer! I need to reread that now that VR is a thing again
	5:44pm Linda Lee: Gibson is fun.
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have loved Gibson but jeezus it's all already happened.
	5:45pm Linda Lee: Burroughs had it right as well. 'the reality studio' indeed!
	5:46pm Cliff in Prague: I saw a comment on reddit that the history of Oculus is straight out of cyberpunk - theft of tech IP, billionaires funding online political trolls, ...
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Burroughs was a f*cking Prophet, let's face it.
	5:47pm Linda Lee: absolutely.
	5:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hot damn, I need spiritual ducks now.
	5:49pm berbo: W S Burroguths' cutups ==> sampling, mashups
	5:50pm Michael 98145: no Pâté of Illusions
	5:50pm Linda Lee: absolutely. will Ken have a Beat filter?
	5:50pm Jack: Thanks Irwin, Super Sessions is a fave.
	5:51pm Jack: Oh isn't that an ondioline at the end of the Dylan song?
	5:51pm Cliff in Prague: As good as Axl!
	5:51pm Irwin: Jack: evidently!
	5:53pm Linda Lee: .. wow .. it's an actual child! :-D
	5:53pm Michael 98145: this is putting a cap on it !
	5:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rachel Sweet X the Eraserhead radiator girl...
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wah-wah!...
	5:56pm Michael 98145: * ay ay ay ay *
	👻 5:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Very nice. She's taking the mantle from Amanda?
	5:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: She needs a 'Punk' band like yesterday. She's too distinctive for this karaoke.
	5:59pm AndyBreck: This is my first comment ever!
	5:59pm wild neil: we love you Irwin!!!
	5:59pm Linda Lee: thank you for a great show Irwin!
	6:01pm Cliff in Prague: Thank you Irwin!

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January 18, 2017: Strč prst skrz krk.

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Shrink	Mr. Car "Mr. Car" by "Shrink"	I Am A Doll (A&M single, 1979)	0:03:32 (Pop-up)
Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs	Maze "Maze" by "Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs"	Cats, Dogs and Ghosts	0:06:24 (Pop-up)
Slapp Happy & Henry Cow	Strayed "Strayed" by "Slapp Happy & Henry Cow"	Desperate Straights	0:11:40 (Pop-up)
Le Villejuif Underground	Cat He Don't Like Closed Doors	Le Villejuif Underground	0:13:21 (Pop-up)
Kenny Garrett	Laviso, I Bon? "Laviso, I Bon?" by "Kenny Garrett"	Seeds from the Underground	0:16:17 (Pop-up)

The Growlers	Night Ride "Night Ride" by "The Growlers"	City Club	0:24:10 (Pop-up)
Hayzee Faytanzee	John Wayne Is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)	Battle Hymns for Children Singing	0:28:17 (Pop-up)
Stanton Moore	In the Keyhole "In the Keyhole" by "Stanton Moore"	Conversations	0:35:00 (Pop-up)

Harry Hosono & the World Shyness	Miracle Light	Flying Saucer 1947	0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Thomas Anderson	The Cascades of Oregon	The Moon in Transit	0:48:40 (Pop-up)
Brian Jonestown Massacre	All Around You	Tepid Peppermint Wonderland	0:54:19 (Pop-up)

Nicole Dollanganger	Pumped Up Kicks	Covers	2:01:00 (Pop-up)
Susie Ibarra	Drum Sketch 4 "Drum Sketch 4" by "Susie Ibarra"	Drum Sketches	2:02:57 (Pop-up)
Dmitri Tymoczko	Loop & Swing "Loop & Swing" by "Dmitri Tymoczko"	Beat Therapy	2:05:52 (Pop-up)
Black Arabs	Black Arabs "Black Arabs" by "Black Arabs"	The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle	2:11:51 (Pop-up)
Sunshine & the Rain	Pale Blue Skies	Sunshine & the Rain 7"	2:16:41 (Pop-up)
Tame Impala	Keep on Lying "Keep on Lying" by "Tame Impala"	Lonerism	2:21:09 (Pop-up)
Mahavishnu Orchestra	Birds of Fire	Birds of Fire	2:26:14 (Pop-up)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll	B.R.M.C.	2:31:49 (Pop-up)

Herbie Hancock	Jack Rabbit "Jack Rabbit" by "Herbie Hancock"	Inventions and Dimensions	2:39:47 (Pop-up)
Al Kooper & Steve Stills	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry	Super Session	2:45:15 (Pop-up)
Michelle Lemay and Guns N' Roses	Sweet Child of Mine	Burning Up!!! Red Hot Covers of Today's Hottest Hits	2:48:34 (Pop-up)
76% Uncertain	Coffee Achiever "Coffee Achiever" by "76% Uncertain"	Estimated Monkey Time	2:54:12 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:03pm Alison Porchnik: It always rains in Northern California
	3:06pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin and everyone! It's true, us graveyard shift DJs are never lonely.
	3:06pm Undead83: Oh, gosh, I missed Lee Morgan xP
	3:07pm BennettCap: "It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours."
	3:07pm Linda Lee: hello Irwin! please open up that magazine & tell us why! :-D
	3:09pm Irwin: Bronwynne: {wink wink}
	3:16pm Cliff in Prague: Rowwwrrr, I need to get a gig as an all-night disc jockey
	3:18pm dgg: I bet its becuase they have lots of radio to listen to, and no one is lonely with a radio.
	👻 3:19pm βrian: You can peek inside here: www.terapeak.com...
	3:20pm Cliff in Prague: Any smooth jazz today Irwin? I hear Pat Metheny is real popular
	👻 3:20pm βrian: "Wild Women to Avoid," for example.
	3:21pm Linda Lee: wow. super steamy!
	3:23pm Cliff in Prague: Those error messages sound more authoritative when read in a robot voice
	3:23pm Jeff: Irwins and other "regular people" should not be allowed to operate technology.
	3:24pm Undead83: I feel the playlist today is indeed pretty sharp
	3:25pm Jeff: In the good old days, only people in white lab coats could touch the computers. You knew they must be Trained and Authorized if they had white lab coats on.
	3:25pm Cliff in Prague: They even wore skinny ties, black-framed glasses, and pocket protectors
	3:26pm Linda Lee: i used to wear a white lab coat for my own amusement!
	3:26pm Roberto: Oh that's my cat all right. This guy here. <--
	👻 3:26pm βrian: Actually, it was the computers themselves who wore the lab coats. Back in the day.
	3:26pm naked short: Listening to Irwin's show > working
	3:27pm Roberto: If he's outside the closed bathroom door, he demands to be let in. If he's inside and the door is closed, he demands to be let out.
	3:27pm Irwin: Need a SUBJECT LINE for today's show. Suggestions? Oh, and please please please, nothing about DT. No really, nothing. I be bored.
	3:27pm Linda Lee: that's just part of feline DNA Roberto. nothing unusual. :-)
	3:28pm Linda Lee: subject line: Where Are You Now, Barbara Gowant?
	3:29pm Listening Out There: Possible subject line: You don't have to have a point to have a point.
	👻 3:29pm βrian: Humans are assistive devices that open doors, emanate warmth, toss catnip pouches, etc.
	3:29pm 67tele: the loneliness of the long distance disk jockey?
	3:30pm Cliff in Prague: "Strč prst skrz krk." That's Czech for "stick your finger through your throat." (I wanted to post it on Ken's show but was afraid it would crash the computer.)
	3:30pm Linda Lee: let's not forget the prime role of can-opener.
	3:30pm Irwin: Cliff ftw.
	3:30pm JakeGould: Hey!
	👻 3:33pm βrian: @Cliff: Sounds like the very definition of the glottal stop.
	3:33pm Listening Out There: @Cliff: Romantic!
	3:43pm Cliff in Prague: "The sentence is well known for being a semantically and syntactically sound clause without a single vowel, the nucleus of each syllable being a syllabic r, a common feature amongst many Slavic languages.... There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak language, a longer one being 'Škrt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn čtvrthrst zrn.'" - from Wikipedia
	3:45pm Carmichael: I have arrived to participate in the rockin'.
	3:50pm Undead83: @ Cliff in Prague Fascinating phrase, and what does it mean Cliff?
	3:50pm Cliff in Prague: I haven't got a clue Undead83. Czech crashes my brain.
	3:51pm -Ken: Hello everybody. I am also here for the rock. and also to test out new robots for the radio program that begins at 6 o'clock pee em.
	3:52pm Jeff: Smiley face :)
	3:52pm Irwin: The best song about the Donner Party that Neil Young didn't record.
	3:54pm sweeks: The beautiful Cascades
	👻 3:54pm βrian: Should've never signed that Organ Donner card ...
	3:54pm Wilson K: Sweet fuckin song dude
	3:55pm -Ken: Is this thing on?
	3:56pm JakeGould: Organ Donner is so delicious! Right in a pita with white sauce! I wish I could share with you!
	3:57pm Josh: Ken, is it working for you?
	3:58pm Irwin: Kenbot is on the boards.
	3:59pm ?: Yes, it is working. I love the music that Irwin plays on his radio show more than life itself.
	4:00pm Wild Neil: PEACE all from my new job...on an APPLE Computer no less! They use them here "because it works better". It is a pretty nifty piece of tech! Did a BIG fire test today, I thought I would MELT. Hey Ken! Hey Irwin! Hey all! Ken last week's 7sd was a real pisser! BJM! Right on!!!! I LOVE Brian Jonestown Massacre!
	4:01pm -Ken: I love a good pisser. Really, I do. I am not just saying that.
	4:01pm Fire Testing Lab Director: Back to work, Neil or you're fired!
	4:02pm Cliff in Prague: Congrats on the new job Wild Neil!
	4:02pm Wild Neil: LOL. My shift is over...Thanks Cliff!
	4:02pm Fox (Rā-chul): Ken - I hope the robots have been fully updated on Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" for your own safety.
	👻 4:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Irwin. I am going to write Shana Falana so the robot can practice saying her name. @Wild Neil - Congrats on the job. Please don't melt.
	4:03pm Wild Neil: Yeah, anybody seen "Ex Machina?" Phew!
	4:03pm Timothy Sisters: Always rains in Northern California? You should try South Wales for size. X
	👻 4:03pm βrian: Do folks bring in their weinies for some of the fire tests?
	4:03pm Cliff in Prague: I'm gonna try to stay up for 7SD tonight. Only 2 more hours to go!
	4:04pm Susan Calvin: 3 Laws? What a joke! You don't need a lawyer to find the loopholes in the 3 Laws.
	4:07pm Carmichael: It's raining like a bastard right now in northern California.
	4:07pm Fox (Rā-chul): Somewhere I think I still have a bunch of Joe Frank and Alan Watts tapes I recorded off the radio, in the 90's.
	4:08pm -Ken: I sometimes think it would be nice to put Alan Watts back on the schedule. But then I remember what a dick his son is, and then I say naaaaah.
	4:09pm Linda Lee: i'd love hearing Alan Watts on fmu again. who cares about his son?
	4:09pm -Ken: His son controls everything.
	4:09pm Linda Lee: shoot ..
	4:10pm Cliff in Prague: I got into listening to WFMU by hearing the Joe Frank/Alan Watts combo on Thursday nights. And then after that, it was MUSIC TO SPAZZ BY with DAVE THE SPAZZ!!!
	4:16pm Irwin: Dave the Spazz will help you achieve the same heights of Zen wisdom as Alan Watts without the annoying contemplative discipline.
	4:16pm asheville jon: Joe Frank rocks (Hi Linda Lee)
	4:16pm Cliff in Prague: Boy, Joe's got a potty-mouth in this episode.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: i'm never happier to be aromantic than when listening to Joe Frank. hi Jon!
	4:19pm asheville jon: This sounds a lot like my life
	4:22pm Cliff in Prague: AUDIENCE RESPONSE Ben was once asked how he expected anyone to take some of his teachings seriously when they provoked so much laughter from his listeners. He replied, "Laughter is the only genuine form of applause." - from Zen Without Zen Masters
	4:22pm Linda Lee: holy cow!
	4:22pm Dean: When in Aroma, do as the Aromans.
	4:23pm Linda Lee: Ben who? he's right!
	4:24pm Cliff in Prague: I don't know Linda! It just says "Ben". This book was published in the Seventies, man.
	4:24pm Linda Lee: ah ok! :-D
	4:25pm Cliff in Prague: There's an entire chapter called "The Zen of Sex".
	4:26pm Dean: If Google Maps is correct, Watts broadcast from a former KPFA site located where a copy shop now resides, across the street from what would become the Keystone Berkeley. (The current KPFA site is now across the street from a Trader Joe's.)
	4:26pm Linda Lee: i can imagine ..
	4:26pm Hoboken Jack: Now I tried to type "robot" on my phone and it came out... yup... Ribot.
	4:30pm Linda Lee: .. people are just insane. ..
	4:30pm Cliff in Prague: This is one of the more overtly angry & sarcastic Joe Frank episodes I've heard.
	4:34pm Dean: Correction: the former KPFA is now a FedEx.
	4:48pm -Ken: I am testing the new profanity filter for the show tonight. It had fucking better work.
	4:48pm -Ken: Shit, it works!
	4:49pm Josh: It works just as well as Nina Totenberg did
	4:49pm Mac: Snap snap snap...
	4:49pm -Ken: I'd say it works even better than Nina Totenberg.
	4:51pm Linda Lee: can't wait to test that filter Ken!
	4:54pm Irwin: Is "-Ken" different from "Ken"?
	4:54pm asheville jon: Congrats on playing Freebird this morning Ken. Looking forward to some jazz after joe
	4:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - but - everything's OK if you're a Buddhist - because you don't really exist & there's nothing to do & nowhere to go anyhow. - So fuck you.
	4:55pm Cliff in Prague: "We all had the problems associated with bodies, personalities, families, community. We saw our common humanity."
	4:56pm Linda Lee: hmm .. not quite, Rev! :-D
	4:57pm Jeff: And why exactly would we want to subject ourselves to this unrelenting nasty Joe Frank darkness? I'm so over it. I'm so over being stuck in a room where it comes out of the ceiling.
	4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Very 1st Principle of Buddhism: Suffering is Universal ...Paramount had some pretty lousy movies too...
	4:57pm Cliff in Prague: Jack Kornfield, the third wheel in the Joe Frank/Alan Watts combo.
	4:58pm Irwin: Yeah, Jack's sort of the spiritual bridge between Alan and Joe.
	4:58pm common: hey irwin. hello
	5:00pm Linda Lee: 'Approximately Alternate Wednesdays' is a great title for something ..
	5:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Listen to Alan a lot these days. Really - he tends to debunk dogmatic pretensions as misunderstandings...he was British, academic & erudite, but also psychedelicised.
	5:03pm Linda Lee: yep!! love hearing him.
	5:04pm Cliff in Prague: Alan knew what was up.....but then he drank himself to death. Doesn't fill me with a lot of hope....
	5:04pm wild neil: you play jazz i like Irwin , better than my local toronto station thats "world famous".
	5:05pm Hoboken Jack: I saw a woman this week who looked just like Nicole. It was a Dollanganger doppelgänger.
	5:06pm Linda Lee: ah, but would you rather drink yourself to death as a garden variety asshole, or as Alan Watts?
	5:06pm Irwin: Jack, glad you finally got your avatar reattached.
	5:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kerouac: ' I like alcohol because I like ecstasy of mind.' Watts was a working stiff as a lecturer...In the East, Buddhist mendicants (free beggars) can't refuse what people give them - & some are actually dealing w/ serious weight problems...
	5:09pm Fox (Rā-chul): I loved Alan's smoker's laugh.
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watt's autobiography: 'In My Own Way' (think about it).
	5:11pm Private Presley: +Ken ... FWIW my WFMU App feature request: an alarm clock function. Gotta Wake n Bake on time.
	5:11pm Linda Lee: i've been scolded for identifying as vegan while accepting meat at others' homes ~ but it's good karma for all to accept gifts without whining.
	5:12pm Linda Lee: why be a jerk about it?
	5:13pm Cliff in Prague: It just bothers me as lots of other psychedelic users end up as either alcoholics or addicted to opiates, it's a common pattern, and I tend to drink too much myself.
	5:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The legend is Buddha died from accepting food he knew wasn't safe. Jerk? Terence McKenna says 'Culture is not your friend'. & would probably make a joke about picking your poison...
	5:15pm Linda Lee: he's right!
	5:17pm Fox (Rā-chul): Linda Lee - I've been doing the same. Vegan at home, whatever when offered as long as it won't make me ill.
	5:19pm Linda Lee: former junkie doesn't see the problem with choosing one drug or the other. the impulse is the same. yes, Fox (Ra-chul)! hear you clearly. that's sensible!
	5:20pm Linda Lee: it's all so precious sometimes, really.
	5:20pm laughingacademy: WHOA. "Pale Blue Skies" is amazing.
	5:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aldous Huxley spelled it all out. We get middle-aged & become Homer Simpson. I gotta work. Then I wanna drink. I don't wanna expand my consciousness of this world - the 6 O'Clock News is more than too much already...I could say I used to be an idealistic youth into mind-expansion - but honestly we were little DeeDee Ramones & would huff garbage if there was no dope. If you have good enuff mind-expanders, that can certainly hold your attention - but people just want to feel good & get out of it. Till it doesn't work, or becomes a problem.
	5:24pm Michael 98145: @LL, i made the mistake of agreeing to share a pizza on gluten-free crust. once. :)
	5:25pm Linda Lee: i'm of the less-is-more school of engagement for sure. imbibe shit & i feel shitty. then i need to imbibe more shit to counter that other shit. how about just cutting back in the first place? watching the f*cking news isn't mandatory yet! in fact at this moment it's driving people right around the bend ..
	5:25pm Cliff in Prague: INFLATION It may seem, in times of inflation, that all prices are going up, but the price of living remains the same---death. It may seem like a high price to those who don't understand it, but it only has to be paid once, and never in advance. - Zen Without Zen Masters
	5:25pm Irwin: Speaking of Zen, this Tame Impala tune puts me in a trance.
	5:26pm Michael 98145: nice, Cliff
	5:26pm Linda Lee: paid once, eh? :-D
	5:26pm JakeGould: If Buddha was a dog, how would he wear his pants? Like this? Or like this?
	5:26pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dig.
	5:26pm Cliff in Prague: But you're not supposed to go into a trance when practicing Zen, Irwin! That's why the guy goes around smacking people on the back with the Enouragement Stick!
	5:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great set. Psychedelia is not all wah-wah pedals.
	5:27pm Michael 98145: * whack *
	5:27pm Linda Lee: that's right Cliff! :-)
	5:27pm Cliff in Prague: And whack to me for misspelling "encouragement"
	5:27pm Mac: Fun set Irwin/
	5:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's also fuzzboxes & echo...
	5:28pm Linda Lee: sorry about the crust Michael 98145! some of that stuff is hard to deal with.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: ( we aren't pedantic, Cliff :)
	👻 5:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: One time, I had a really big problem: My karma ran over my dogma.
	5:30pm Cliff in Prague: LOL Linda, I guess they don't believe in reincarnation ;)
	5:30pm Marshall Stacks: Birds of Fire, a great track from a great band. Thanks, Irwin!
	5:31pm Parq: What Marshall said.
	5:33pm Linda Lee: there's reincarnation & then there's rebirth! www.youtube.com...
	5:33pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Rabbit, don't forget th'Phaser. My god, man, don't forget the phaser... 1971 would never have been possible without it.
	5:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McLaughlin - gobsmacking discipline - but it never made him cold. Seem to me.
	5:34pm Marshall Stacks: And the hits just keep comin'!
	5:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Phase/Flange - among the Doubling effects, no?
	5:35pm Cliff in Prague: There's a story that Chogyam Trungpa was asked what exactly gets reborn, and he replied, "Your bad habits!"
	5:35pm Linda Lee: thank you BRMC!! i'm alive again!!! :-D
	5:36pm Linda Lee: love that one Cliff!!
	5:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Cliff: Kerouac: 'The quivering meat wheel'...
	5:36pm Cliff in Prague: Is there a difference between phasing and flanging?
	5:38pm Linda Lee: let's get all our spiritual ducks in a row for Ken & Andy!
	5:38pm Linda Lee: i want to hear robot Suzuki!
	5:38pm Cliff in Prague: "...and safe in heaven dead." - That's a good one RRN63
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Cliff: ...the effectiveness of the pedal knobs...& don't ask where the term 'flange' came from - it's not our karma to accurately know...
	5:41pm Cliff in Prague: Ken do you have a Ponderous Buddhist Nonsense filter for the robots ready?
	5:41pm wild neil: "in meatspace" "its a meat thing" William Gibson in Nueromancer...
	5:43pm Linda Lee: poor Jack was ultimately so depressive.
	5:43pm Cliff in Prague: Neuromancer! I need to reread that now that VR is a thing again
	5:44pm Linda Lee: Gibson is fun.
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have loved Gibson but jeezus it's all already happened.
	5:45pm Linda Lee: Burroughs had it right as well. 'the reality studio' indeed!
	5:46pm Cliff in Prague: I saw a comment on reddit that the history of Oculus is straight out of cyberpunk - theft of tech IP, billionaires funding online political trolls, ...
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Burroughs was a f*cking Prophet, let's face it.
	5:47pm Linda Lee: absolutely.
	5:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hot damn, I need spiritual ducks now.
	5:49pm berbo: W S Burroguths' cutups ==> sampling, mashups
	5:50pm Michael 98145: no Pâté of Illusions
	5:50pm Linda Lee: absolutely. will Ken have a Beat filter?
	5:50pm Jack: Thanks Irwin, Super Sessions is a fave.
	5:51pm Jack: Oh isn't that an ondioline at the end of the Dylan song?
	5:51pm Cliff in Prague: As good as Axl!
	5:51pm Irwin: Jack: evidently!
	5:53pm Linda Lee: .. wow .. it's an actual child! :-D
	5:53pm Michael 98145: this is putting a cap on it !
	5:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rachel Sweet X the Eraserhead radiator girl...
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wah-wah!...
	5:56pm Michael 98145: * ay ay ay ay *
	👻 5:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Very nice. She's taking the mantle from Amanda?
	5:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: She needs a 'Punk' band like yesterday. She's too distinctive for this karaoke.
	5:59pm AndyBreck: This is my first comment ever!
	5:59pm wild neil: we love you Irwin!!!
	5:59pm Linda Lee: thank you for a great show Irwin!
	6:01pm Cliff in Prague: Thank you Irwin!

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 18, 2017

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