Is that an Umlaut over that 'I,&quot; or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 7:43am -Ken:

Morning everybody, sorry for the lack of rpe-show giffery, it's been a very rough week. But humpday is finally here!

♥ 7:47am Ken From Hyde Park:

Hump Day, you say? I'll buy that for a dollar!

7:55am fɊfɊ (:

Good morning, beloved leader Ken Freemang-un and Ken von Hyke Parkeren!

8:18am Clïff in Prägůe:

I like octopuses

♥ 8:22am -Ken:

So do I Cliff, so do I.

♥ 8:37am AnAnonymousParty:

Morning all. So if I was off work on mon and again on fri, it makes for a strange feeling work week. Yesterday felt like Mon, and I think tomorrow will feel like Fri. But today still feels like Wed. I blame WFMU for anchoring me in today.

♥ 8:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

What happened to the bridge?
I was watching. I saw the whole thing. First it started falling over. Then it fell over.

8:43am The Bridge:

I've fallen, and I can't get up!

8:57am Clïff in Prägůe:

The Victorian lady changing into an owl has been added to my favorites. I hope nobody tries to load my favorites page, because it's got like 200 animgifs on it (including the gigantic anti-drinking one from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Propaganda) and will probably crash your browser

9:00am Derek in Atlantic City:

Great show today, Jones!

♥ 9:03am Polyus:

Cephlapods are the best pods.

9:03am annie:

ok, i'm ready for the shouting.

9:04am zm:

did you start show 8am??

9:05am Clïff in Prägůe:

Yes zm, but it was only transmitted telepathically to us devoted listeners

♥ 9:06am Ken From Hyde Park:

@Cliff - I've encountered that, too. Maybe the GIF collection needs a Kenzo update. Like 20 GIFs on a user's main page and then subsequent sets of GIFs on page 2 of X kind of thing.

♥ 9:06am MD:

Good Morning Freeform Land...

♥ 9:07am MD:

That little Girl loves her Radio!

♥ 9:08am MD:

When you have good Radio you have it all!!!
Et al...

9:09am Nick from Indy:

Good morning all

9:11am annie:

wow i love the flood gif with the u-turn cars

9:11am Brendan:

Woof

9:12am Clïff in Prägůe:

KenHP - I've been thinking of making my own webpage with my favorited album covers from Marty's and Sheila's shows, arranged as I like...that would probably take care of about 100 of them right there :)

♥ 9:13am -Ken:

That's the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, Annie. The one that flooded the fukushima nuclear plant.

♥ 9:13am pantz:

And disco. And disco. And disco.

9:14am SeanG:

Morning Folks! freeform baby

9:15am fleep:

L.A. Dawn Patrol represents

♥ 9:16am Brian C.:

Sounds like the Duane train is running early this morning?

♥ 9:16am melinda:

Buenos morgen, Ken y otros

♥ 9:17am Michele:

My theme song. Losing my mind trying to get dressed. Morning everyone!

9:18am Brendan:

I have that u turn gif on my desktop. Whenever I think I think I've had a hectic commute, I look at that and laugh. I especially like the pause when they look at it before getting the heck out of there.

♥ 9:19am Michele:

new M.I.A. so good!

9:19am Clïff in Prägůe:

Loving how much M.I.A. is getting played on the station lately

And now I want a Finnish passport!

♥ 9:20am Polyus:

Finnish passport is so cool. I wonder at what point US passports are just going to have a big ugly image of Trump on every page.

♥ 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park:

@Polyus - Each page will also advertise various Ivanka products.

9:22am Nick from Indy:

Potatos!!

♥ 9:22am Michele:

I need some Tonetta today

9:22am Clïff in Prägůe:

So glad mine doesn't expire until 2026.... hopefully we'll have a slightly more competent person in charge by then

9:23am annie:

i think mine expires in '18

9:24am Nick from Indy:

Stars & Hank Forever!

♥ 9:25am Ken From Hyde Park:

@Cliff - Do you consider Vladimir Putin to be a competent person? Because that's the guy.

♥ 9:25am -Ken:

Morning everybody! Settling in to the Boxcar Studio here...

♥ 9:26am Guido from Cologne:

Good morning Can!
... ooops
Good morning Ken!

9:27am Nick from Indy:

Request: Rhythm & Noise's "Berta's Hammer" and/or Negativland's "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" from the LP "Potatoes (A Collection Of Folk Songs From Ralph Records - Vol. 1)"

9:30am Clïff in Prägůe:

Well, ok, competency isn't the *only* thing needed in a leader.

9:30am Cheri Pi:

I'm ready for some Aztec Camera

9:31am zm:

falco

♥ 9:32am pantz:

fIREHOSE

9:34am zm:

btw, aren't we missing State of Station for while, are we??? I'm more listening GTD channels often. What is the position with main mfu channel? How /why it's created? Am I missing some?

9:35am Rev. Turnip Druid:

PEEPLE.

9:36am Michael:

Get the cones!

♥ 9:37am Ken From Hyde Park:

Is this DJ Monica's bed music, slowed down?

9:37am Clïff in Prägůe:

Did the overturned tractor trailer cause a debris spill? That then caught on fire? Because that would be awesome

♥ 9:38am Andrew Waterloo:

Bondage!

9:39am NotARealDoctor:

Ken, I feel like it's important to know that when you play the original animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" followed by the Star Wars Christmas Special on mute it syncs up in a meaningful way with your episode from December 16, 2015. Did you intend it that way?

♥ 9:40am -Ken:

zm, yes, I will do a State of the Station during the upcoming marathon. Not sure when yet

9:40am Cecile:

Can you play Verka Seduchka's Dancing Lassa Tumbai?

♥ 9:42am Fuzzy:

Yay Pups!

9:43am Cecile:

Ah, the Meat Puppets. Ah, the weird Spot production.

♥ 9:43am Polyus:

Haven't heard this in forever. About to irritate the shit out of co-workers with whistling.

9:43am Cecile:

Still one of the greatest live bands I ever saw.

9:44am zm:

missing Jason show alot

9:44am Cecile:

Oh! Was/Not Was! That was my Ann Arbor jam.

♥ 9:44am Polyus:

I think they were the first 'punk' band I ever saw, though by that time they were in Grateful Dead mode.

♥ 9:44am melinda:

So this is what the Meat Puppets sound like, I dig it.

9:46am Cecile:

I would start with Meat Puppets II, Melinda. Their peak, I think, although lots of great moments afterward.

♥ 9:47am -Ken:

zm, we'll always have Paris. And the archives.

9:50am NotARealDoctor:

Whoops I got that backwards, actually. First you have to play the Star Wars Christmas Special, THEN you play How the Grinch Stole Christmas and it syncs. Copious amounts of egg nog are involved in the synchronization, too.

♥ 9:56am pantz:

The banjo-the Melungeon Makeout Machine

9:57am βrian:

Does the WFMU snack bar have kippered herring?

9:57am Brendan:

Lovely tune

9:58am Blix:

Anna Hillberg has a lovely Feist delivery about her.

9:59am Cecile:

Bic Runga! Another Wellington, NZ super-talent.

10:00am βrian:

Wellington? Isn't that where Bootsy was from?

10:02am fɊfɊ (:

I'd like to know what NOtARealDoctor is talking about. It sounds very interesting!

10:02am Cecile:

Different New Zealand.

10:03am Clïff in Prägůe:

Wait, there's a different New Zealand?

10:03am FMthatguy:

This sounds like it should be a Christmas song lol

10:04am fɊfɊ (:

Well, the just discovered the Zealandia continent. So technically thre's a new zea-land.

10:04am Cheri Pi:

Oh yeah, baby

10:05am Parq:

Perfect choice for gif accompanying the Aztec Camera.

10:05am FMthatguy:

Ken I just got the pamphlet in the mail about the Station. I wish I had more money at the time.

10:06am Cecile:

Yes, Cliff. The part of New Zealand known as Florida.

♥ 10:06am MD:

RIGHT THRU THE EYE SOCKET BABY!!!

10:06am FMthatguy:

Lol

10:06am Clïff in Prägůe:

If you look up the "Mandela Effect", there's this conspiracy theory that our reality is being changed surrepetitiously. In particular, some people believe that they were taught in school that New Zealand is to the west of Australia, and are confounded to see maps now with it being to the east.

♥ 10:07am tadpoles:

There's an Old Zealand - in Denmark.

♥ 10:07am MD:

No more Forehead scars anymore!!!

10:07am βrian:

I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.

10:07am Cecile:

You say it "Beck" because they only have like 2 vowels in NZ.

♥ 10:07am Andrew Waterloo:

@Cliff. Some people have the worst excuses for being wrong.

10:08am Cecile:

You say it "Beck" because they only have like 2 vowels in NZ. Or it might be "Bic" because they only have like 2 vowels in NZ.

10:09am Cecile:

Trepanation is an important plot point in the fine movie Frankenhooker.

10:09am Okasa:

Good morning Ken and the Ken at heart.

♥ 10:09am MD:

Don't be rude...Say NO Thank you!!!

10:10am FRANGRY:

But ken, I wanna say yes.

10:10am Clïff in Prägůe:

No, I can't be wrong! It's parallel realities changing our history!!

Cecile - The NZ vowel shift goes in the opposite direction of the Northern Cities vowel shift in the US, I find that pleasingly symmetrical for my linguistic OCD

10:10am Kurt Gottschalk:

cosmetic lobotomy

♥ 10:11am tadpoles:

@Cecile - growing up in Enz- Bic was a ball point pen!

10:11am Okasa:

In these bleak times, there is at least one small piece of good news. The new MST3K reboot premiers April 14th on Netflix!

10:11am Cecile:

Cliff, I am told that part of the ANZAC accent comes from trying to keep flies out of one's mouth.

♥ 10:12am MD:

Tuck Frump...

10:12am pierre:

that song

10:12am βrian:

I read a New Yorker medical account of someone with a chronic itch, who eventually scratched a hole through the skull. Yeesh.

10:13am sphere:

hi folks. you can be trepanned without having a lobotomy, right? interested parties want to know....

10:13am Clïff in Prägůe:

I thought that's what they tied the corks on the brims of their hats for? Must be a damn lot of flies to deal with down under

10:13am fɊfɊ (:

I read that, Brian. And she was sleeping when she did it.

♥ 10:13am AnAnonymousParty:

That's not an itch. That's a compulsion.

♥ 10:14am tadpoles:

Cecile & Cliff .. that's the Aussies!

10:15am Cecile:

Yes, there are a lot of flies. I was out in the country a couple of times while I lived there. I was more down with cities and beaches.

10:15am Blix:

Much thanks to Ken. I watched Wild in the Streets after last week's show. What a wonderfully dumb crackpot film. Perhaps the best final line in cinema history.

10:16am Clïff in Prägůe:

sphere, there's at least one woman who self-trepanned w/out causing major brain damage: www.vice.com...

10:18am Clïff in Prägůe:

She even filmed herself doing it.

♥ 10:18am -Ken:

Blix, what was the final line? I dont remember it.

10:18am βrian:

Sounds like Sonny Bono.

(Whom I always confuse with the other Bono.)

10:21am sphere:

thanks, Cliff! (i think....)

10:23am Blix:

Something to the effect of, "We're gonna take out everyone older than 10." Fade to black.

♥ 10:24am AnAnonymousParty:

Sounds like Cloudy Bono to me.

10:25am βrian:

Wow. Spooky.

♥ 10:25am -Ken:

@Blix, was it like an 8 year old saying that?!

10:25am fɊfɊ (:

That's nothing, Brain. I sometimes confuse Frank Zappa with Sonny Bono.

10:26am Clïff in Prägůe:

And let's not get started on bonobos

10:26am Frank Zappa:

WTF?

10:26am Sonny Bono:

WTF?

10:26am βrian:

At least Sonny knew how to pronounce his last name.

10:27am Blix:

Three of them. After Max Frost had just killed their pet crawdad.

10:28am DaveinPA:

One tree disliked this song...

10:29am Stuart Rose:

Sounds like Sonny doing his poor man's Lee Hazelwood.
Boy, the lyrics really don't scan. But who said Sonny was Cole Porter.

♥ 10:29am doctorjazz:

Stones, from the psychedelic album, love this tune.

10:30am Clïff in Prägůe:

Always liked the psychedelic version of the Stones

♥ 10:31am doctorjazz:

(the long version)

♥ 10:31am doctorjazz:

Cool, the Brainen version!

10:31am fɊfɊ (:

Beautiful song. Never heard it before! Damn, I didn't even know Rolling Stones had a psychedilic album!

10:31am βrian:

@Cliff: you mean like opal and lapis lazuli?

10:32am Va ubu:

Hello, thank you for a great show! Would you be so inclined to play something newish by Speed the Plough?

10:32am (Murakami Whywolf))):

My parents were actually able to stand each other long enough to both attend when _I_ graduated to tripping. As I threw my cap into the air, they were both smiling at the same time at the first time for years; I felt so proud.

(Of course, I hallucinated all that.)

10:32am Clïff in Prägůe:

Exactly. Granite is just so boring.

10:33am o viking:

a sonny and Cher song came on the radio one day, and my father in law says- aw not that tree hugger again

♥ 10:33am rsj:

bought the real album after watching Performance some years back, though this track always reminds me of the 40 yo virgin
performance is great with mick jagger as a dead ringer for michael jackson

♥ 10:34am Fuzzy:

Nice segue!

10:36am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Clïff in Prägůe:
Is that an umlaut over that 'ı', or a misplaced dieresis?

10:36am Stuart Rose:

FQFQ, check out Their Satanic Majesties Request. That's the name of the Stones foray into psychedelia.

10:37am billyiswilliam:

Really feeling these mashups

10:38am (Murakami Whywolf))):

o viking:
Suggestion: if he offers to 'hug' you, proceed with caution—he might use his car.

♥ 10:38am tadpoles:

Is this People Like Us Ken?

10:39am Clïff in Prägůe:

It's an umlaut. I'm trying to be more European.

♥ 10:39am ɛɨk:

Those damn HIPPIES!!!

10:40am herb.nyc:

PROPAGANDA!? yep, I grew up so believing that those over 30yo were not to be trusted. I think I got over it, like, well, yesterday.

10:41am zm:

hi Kurt. I will make measly donation to your show.

10:41am o viking:

Mura...why...
that is some solid advice I will heed. when he said it I really didn't what to do, laughing seemed weird. note to self, no hugs from kevin

♥ 10:41am rsj:

nothing is more distasteful than hippies on speed

10:42am fɊfɊ (:

Thanks, Stuart Rose. Even though my father's nickname is Rolling (because he used to listen to the Rolling Stones when he met my mom) he ended up indoctrinating me into Yes, Gentle Giant, King Crimson (the wrong rock prog bands), and Pink Floyd (thank goodness) from a very early age.

10:42am (((Murakami Whywolf):

All the `won't life be terrible when noöne works any more?' propaganda made it still seem so much better than having a job.

♥ 10:42am melinda:

I heard Diarrhea of a Teenage Prostitute.

♥ 10:44am melinda:

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker was the propaganda that made an impression on me as a child.

♥ 10:44am AnAnonymousParty:

I came from the generation who had to watch 'Go Ask Alice' in school more times than necessary. That was our "so, drugs are bad, um-kay" indoctrination.

10:44am Clïff in Prägůe:

Now I'm thinking of that gal from Buffalo in the Woodstock movie who couldn't find her sister after she was taking speed, and said, I dunno, hopefully I'll find her before the end of the festival.

10:45am Listener142985:

Phun phact: guy who directed ''Maybe I'll Come Home...'' did ''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'' couple years later.

10:45am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Will the toy-pitch S.S.D. be called 'Drunk Tank'?

10:45am Fox (Rā-chul):

In the anti-drug rallies we had all the time in grade school in the early 80's, they gave us these pamplets, like comics, with a grid that told you the real name of the drug, the street names of the drug, what effects it had, and a cartoon character embodying the drug effects.

From that moment on, I was looking forward to psychedelics.

10:48am βrian:

EU membership. Now there's something to lose.

10:48am Okasa:

Good catch, Ken!

10:49am groucho:

Saw Brix & The Extricated at an Indie All-Dayer in Nottingham last year. She was supporting The Wedding Present, Echo & The Bunnymen and the Sultans Of Ping F.C. One of the best gigs I've ever seen.

10:49am fɊfɊ (:

I don't know what to love more. The Brix song or Ken finally hitting the dump button in the song's right moment.

♥ 10:49am Guido from Cologne:

thought it was Fall upspeed

10:50am sphere:

i'm really digging this Brix & The Extricated tune. awesome.

10:51am (Murakami Whywolf))):

For a more mature version of hippie dream propaganda, see Iain M. Banks' 'Culture' novels—"Consider Phlebas" was first, but "Excessions" is better-written and also spends more time in The Culture. (No involuntary work. Massively extended life and health. Free love. No gods. A second 'puberty' grows consciously-controllable drug glands in your brain. Free energy.)

10:56am fɊfɊ (:

Talking about psychedelics I have a great documentary suggestion for Ken et al. It is a film called Pharmacopeia. Have you seen it, Ken? It has something for everyone. People that like drug addicts/dealers/chemists, people that like Apartheid nazi experiments, people that like psyched fish, etc.

♥ 10:57am -Ken:

We need to have an After School Special Film Festival at Monty Hall, with:

Dawn Diary of a Teenage Prostitute
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Bubble Boy (THE ORIGINAL!!)

what else?

10:58am fɊfɊ (:

Pharmacopeia ^

10:59am Fox (Rā-chul):

The Day My Kid Went Punk.

10:59am pierre:

If you guys wanna have fun :

affinelayer.com...

11:00am zm:

once I saw Katherine Harris anal-ing W while smoking tho

11:01am fɊfɊ (:

That's f* awesome, pierre! Finally a great use of Artificial Intelligence.

11:01am Clïff in Prägůe:

That episode of Saved By The Bell when Zack finds out that Jessie's been binging on uppers to study for her exams

♥ 11:02am pantz:

Mazes & Monsters! For sure!

11:03am Clïff in Prägůe:

pierre - that's really cool, I did some machine learning stuff at my last job so I can take a guess at how they do it, but still it's really impressive

11:04am lawrence:

All right, Kenny Boy! Finally!

11:06am (((Murakami Whywolf):

How about an episode of "James at 16" as filler?

11:06am fɊfɊ (:

Cliff,
That would explain why Jessie ends up being a campy stripgirl in Showgirls.

11:07am Bronwyn Bishop:

every time i hear a song that was on leonard cohen's "more best of" album (like this one) i am transported back to being a 6-year-old in the backseat of my parents' car

11:08am Bronwyn Bishop:

that record and "mock tudor" by richard thompson got a lot of play in our shitty old toyota

♥ 11:10am -Ken:

Bronwyn, did your parents let you hear the anal sex line? I used to cough loudly over that one to protect the chikdren.

♥ 11:10am dale:

leonard sounds like a muppet character here

11:11am dfb:

great was wasnt song -- kinda the only one i like

11:12am Bronwyn Bishop:

@Ken: Either they didn't notice or didn't care. My money's on didn't notice because my mom gave me sex pistols and rage against the machine albums for christmas when i was like 12.

11:12am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Cohen later seemed to have decided that 'aimless sex' was more apt….

11:12am Bronwyn Bishop:

*i meant didn't care

11:14am Roberto:

But what about the chikdren?

11:15am Sam:

You get an 18 year grace period. Then you have to pay for that tranquility by being subject to limitless abuse.

11:17am Fox (Rā-chul):

He's a cowboy? I thought he was a mountie or a park ranger.

11:18am Sam:

He's a hipster farmer planting organic jicamas.

11:19am dfb:

anyone know the movie that gif beside the bic runga track is from -- i t reminds me of demon seed, but i think i wrong?

♥ 11:19am AnAnonymousParty:

I thought it was 'Torgo' from "Manos: The Hands of Fate".

11:19am deszack:

he never looked like a dude crawling in the desert to me. I just thought he was some legless fellow dancing with joy in front of the pyramids...

11:20am Sam:

Oh man AAP, that was like the best MST3K ever!

11:20am deszack:

and making me do complicated math problems to register my comment isnt fair!

11:21am Sam:

I still remember that music from Manos

11:22am Listening Out There:

Do Pea Time

♥ 11:22am Rich in Washington:

That Torgo walks loop was my ringtone until I got really sick of it, which wasn't that long.

♥ 11:23am melinda:

@Murakami: I loved James at 16. I think there was a 15, too.

♥ 11:25am -Ken:

Yes, it started as James at 15. And when he lost his virginity on TV in 1977 it was very very controversial, due to the use of the reverse cowgirl on NBC in primetime.

11:25am fɊfɊ (:

I thought the animated Cowboy was an hommage to Brokeback Mountain, and I genuinely waited for the animation to finish download to see the another cowboy coming from behind.

♥ 11:26am dgg:

If everyone used the image feature like Ken, the world would be a more awesome place.

♥ 11:26am dgg:

and possibly the most awesome

11:26am dfb:

i remember that show so well ---i was like 14 or something

♥ 11:27am dale:

i'll bet lance kerwin was in tiger beat a lot.

♥ 11:27am melinda:

Most of what I saw of the James series was reruns on cable.

♥ 11:28am melinda:

I liked Fast Times At Ridgemont High but I think movies and shows about teens took a turn for the worse after it. Teensploitation, maybe. James was a different era, same with My Bodyguard.

11:30am Cecile:

I saw the James series. It was cringe-worthy and addicting. Being 15 at the time, it was probably apropos

♥ 11:33am pantz:

I think that guy doing karate moves might be crazy, or something.

11:35am dfb:

he's not crazy everyone else is

11:37am Clïff in Prägůe:

I liked the Electric Six song "Escape from Ohio", with the line "Why does every city start with C?"

11:38am Cecile:

Lance Kerwin ended up with a lot of drug problems, but got clean and now sells timeshares in Hawaii.

11:39am Cecile:

the best version.

11:39am pierre:

I'm glad you enjoy it Cliff and FOFO

♥ 11:45am dale:

if you don't say 'cat' or 'groovy' several times it is not an interview.

♥ 11:45am doctorjazz:

Love that Killdozer cover, "starred" it.

11:47am (((Murakami Whywolf):

I remember most of the controversy being over whether they should mention birth control or not. The country still had a mess of troglodytes in't, GOOD THING WE'RE OVER *THAT* NOW.

11:48am fɊfɊ (:

Thank you, pierre! Nice to see you here

11:48am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Ken:
I just heard you say '"The Internationale" dance hit.'.