WFMU: Play Vertigo with Mayuko: Playlist from December 23, 2017

Listener comments!
	11:36am Scraps: h’lo h’lo hey
	11:39am fred: Good morning Scraps, hope you're well
	11:40am Scraps: listening, though mostly lying down listening. cheers
	11:41am Scraps: hi fred, hey
	11:53am listener james from westwood: Morning, Scraps, fred, and the incoming Mayuko!
	12:01pm fred: Good afternoon Mayuko
	12:02pm Jesse k: Morning all!
	12:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Mayuko; Mayuklings
	12:02pm Barnaby: hi Mayuko, beautiful start
	12:03pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh Christmas tunes from Mayuko!
	12:04pm listener james from westwood: Sounds clear on this end!
	12:05pm fred: This Tenno track is fantastic
	12:05pm tmoyo: Hi Mayuko & listeners!
	12:05pm Mayuko: Hallos, fred, james, Jesse, coelacanth∅ & Barnaby! And Henry! Thanks for tuning in! Hope you're doing well, my radio family Scraps!
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: i just realised i had not turned off my pre-Mayuko selections. off now, but it did work well together.
	12:07pm Mayuko: Welcome, fellow subject of the Japanese Empire, tmoyo san!
	12:08pm Mayuko: @fred Tenno is a project of Tori Kudo, from Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
	12:09pm tmoyo: Amid the end of the year craziness, i completely forgot today was his birthday until now...
	12:09pm fred: Nice! Maher Shalal Hash Baz will be part of next year's Sonic Protest festival
	12:11pm rbrt: "Imperial Household Agency" is a great name lol
	12:12pm rbrt: hope everyone is having a good weekend :D
	12:17pm Rickwaukee: Oooh-ooh, back on the chain gang
	12:17pm Mayuko: Hi rbrt! YOU'RE FISH!!!
	12:18pm Mayuko: Hi Rickwaukee! Welcome to the birthday party.
	12:19pm gloomsday: hello friends and strangers alike!
	12:20pm coelacanth∅: translucent fish?
	12:20pm rbrt: x-rayed fish lol
	12:21pm Mayuko: @coelacanth∅ You're fish too that's as old as the emperor's family tree!!!
	12:21pm Rickwaukee: toots on a party blower and gets nothing a couple times and then when it finally unrolls it goes straight down instead of out
	12:21pm Mayuko: Welcome on board, gloomsday! Thanks for tuning in.
	12:22pm Brian in UK: Hello Mayuko. What side of the road do the Japanese drive on?
	12:23pm rbrt: so today is the birthday of the Japanese Emperor?
	12:23pm coelacanth∅: Mayuko, we go way back. i taught the emperor's ancestors how to walk!
	12:23pm tmoyo: @Brian, same as in the UK, the left side.
	12:24pm Mayuko: @Brian I'm late and question already answered! Thanks for tuning in.
	12:25pm tmoyo: beautiful track!
	12:25pm Brian in UK: @tmoyo thank you.
	12:26pm rbrt: www.quora.com... interesting
	12:27pm Mayuko: @rbrt yup, Dec 23rd. Jesus is not the only one who was born this weekend!!!!!!!!!!
	12:28pm rbrt: @Mayuko lol
	12:30pm Brian in UK: @rbrt interesting. It also implies that most samurai were right handed or dexters. Hence the term dexterous.
	12:30pm fred: I remember seeing an amazing performance of a Cage piece on Sho
	12:30pm coelacanth∅: (today's the anniversary of my niece's birth, as well)
	12:30pm rbrt: @brian yeah!
	12:33pm rbrt: I really have no idea how Japan's government works, is the emperor just symbolic like queen of england?
	12:33pm tmoyo: @rbrt interesting! I didn't know samurai swords were involved.
	12:34pm tmoyo: Yes, just a symbol.
	12:35pm rbrt: @tmoyo yeah assuming who ever answered this question is right? lol
	12:36pm tmoyo: Haha, true Mayuko.
	12:37pm Webhamster Henry: from Reuters: He is due to step down on April 30, 2019 after spending much of his nearly three decades on Japan's throne seeking to soothe the wounds of World War Two. His abdication is the first by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries. He will be succeeded by his heir, 57-year old Crown Prince Naruhito. Once considered divine, Japan's emperor is defined in the post-war constitution as a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people", but has no political power.
	12:38pm rbrt: "The constitution provides for a parliamentary system of government and guarantees certain fundamental rights. Under its terms, the Emperor of Japan is "the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people" and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty."
	12:39pm rbrt: oh thanks Henry!...answering my own questions lol
	12:40pm tmoyo: I think the emperor gives "permission" on important legislations, and also performs sacred shinto rituals.
	12:40pm rbrt: I'm sure he has some kind of political "influence"
	12:42pm tmoyo: Yeah, I think he's quite liberal, but isn't allowed to speak out his personal feelings.
	12:42pm rbrt: was there ever an "empress"?, seems like Japane is a very male oriented society though
	12:43pm gloomsday: well this is all very good and fascinating. so glad i tuned in this morning :) just what my saturday was missing.
	12:45pm rbrt: oh this is an actual thing "The Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁 Kunai-chō) is an agency of the government of Japan in charge of state matters concerning the Imperial Family"
	12:46pm fred: I think Japan had a few empresses, and they came close to changing the succession law until a male grandson of the current emperor was born
	12:46pm tmoyo: Women can't ascend to the throne. The next emperor only has a daughter so there are some talks of making changes, but it seems unlikely that it will actually happen.
	12:50pm Doug Schulkind: Hello! Hooray! Howdy!
	12:51pm rbrt: kings, queens, emperors...archaic systems in a modern world
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: With stem cell technology, I wonder if they'd consider cloning the emperor to create male succession?
	12:51pm Mayuko: Suiko was an empress but she's from 6th century, and the actual political leader was more like Shotoku taishi? I spent all my history class sleeping so I don't remember anything.
	12:54pm rbrt: ??? what is going on in this children's song?
	12:54pm listener james from westwood: LOL at whatever is agitating this guy over the "Sing a Song" chorus!
	12:55pm rbrt: oh ok wrong track lol! I'm assuming this is Violent Onsen Geisha
	12:55pm Mayuko: Children's innocent singing makes me lose it and this is what needs to happen.
	12:55pm Mayuko: Doug!!!
	12:56pm Webhamster Henry: More children!
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: @Mayuko: One of my earliest proofreading jobs for one of my clients was a college textbook on modern Japanese history. I stayed very awake during it (lots was new to me!), but remembering my time as a college student, I'm likely the person who will end up having read it most closely, aside from the author and the copy editor!
	12:57pm listener james from westwood: Jeez, hoping this guy doesn't go after the Americans with Disabilities Act next!
	12:57pm coelacanth∅: i can totally relate to this guy
	12:57pm fred: @Mayuko: maybe you could play Junko when that happens. She kinda sounds like a child at times, yet also like that Violent Onsen Geisha guy
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: haha just saw what he's going on about! Fuck him then!
	12:58pm rbrt: I need to get this recording and blast it all week lol
	1:00pm rbrt: is Mayuko just smashing things to pieces as we speak
	1:01pm northguineahills: The Body full of Hell, new to me!
	1:02pm rbrt: hi ngh
	1:04pm Mayuko: I actually thought it hilarious that gloomsday said those Akihito's bday songs from 1933 were "just what my saturday was missing" I appreciate WFMU listenership at times like that!
	1:04pm Mayuko: Hey northguineahills!
	1:06pm listener james from westwood: Oh, wow, Blind Idiot God, good choice!
	1:11pm redkayak: Happy Holidays all :)
	1:12pm rbrt: same to you redkayak :D
	1:14pm Mayuko: @james I probably would have enjoyed modern Japanese history more. In my experience, in elementary school and middle school, we always started from ancient times, and then ran out of time at the end of year, so we would do modern times super briefly. Now that I think, maybe teachers didn't know how to deliver that time period without being political?, I don't understand.
	1:15pm Mayuko: Hi, redkayak! Glad to have you here!
	1:16pm northguineahills: I got to see Hirohito when he made his balcony appearance New Years 1988. I was maybe 150m away, but I could see him (and had binoculars)
	1:17pm northguineahills: @Mayuko: So, like American History classes, where they are lucky to get to WWII (and we have much less written history to cover).
	1:20pm rbrt: yeah I've had same experience with history in school
	1:20pm Mayuko: @northguineahills haha! that's true we at least have more excuses for not getting there in time. That's funny you saw him! I've never seen any emperor in person!
	1:20pm redkayak: @mayuko @rbrt Thanks :)
	1:26pm northguineahills: hellos rbrt!
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: If personality cults and creepy children's choruses are what you're looking for, Station Mgr Ken has played a bit of North Korean music now and again that combines both. Can't recall the title....
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: @Mayuko: That political aspect of it may be the case. And echoing ngh, my experience was similar—if we started in grammar school with the Pilgrims, we barely made it out of the Depression and into WWII.
	1:34pm Webhamster Henry: Saturday is so empty on the Drummer stream! Stick around!
	1:34pm listener james from westwood: And I for one dig hearing your perspective in addition to the music, so I'm happy to be here for both!
	1:35pm fred: So US keeping the emperor indirectly led to an extra hour of this show? Good move!
	1:36pm Mayuko: @fred haha!
	1:36pm Doug Schulkind: Extra Play Vertigo!
	1:39pm fred: It's time for me to clicky-star the whole show, and we're only halfway through
	1:40pm Rickwaukee: After decades have passed, the sins of one's forefathers need to be acknowledged and their true role in history settled - the people / culture who needed their security blanket (pride savers) should have taken to their graves by that point. Thinking about American South as I write this.
	1:40pm listener james from westwood: Macarthur: "Old soldiers never die, they just listen longer to GTDR on the weekends."
	1:40pm Mayuko: It's a wife talking about killing herself and children so that her husband has nothing to worry about while he's away to the frontline of the war.
	1:43pm Rickwaukee: So soldier receives word of family's suicide and can go through war with an extra spring in his step - maybe just knit him some warm socks?
	1:44pm fred: Was that written in 1995 or an older text recorded that year?
	1:45pm Doctorjazz: Hi all!
	1:50pm P-90: Merry Christmas Mayuko and Mayukologists!
	1:51pm Mayuko: @fred 1995 is the year the compilation came out - the words must have been written around ww2, assuming from the fact that the guy who made the piece famous died in 1949.
	1:59pm tmoyo: what a great set!!
	2:03pm rbrt: water copy was wonderful
	2:08pm fred: @rbrt: I agree wholeheartedly
	2:08pm Rickwaukee: Was getting a vibe from this - and that vibe turned out to be Laurie Anderson Big Science
	2:13pm rbrt: soave.bandcamp.com...
	2:15pm northguineahills: I know Akihito is considered an ichthyology expert.
	2:15pm rbrt: ohhh they're named after him
	2:18pm fred: As long as you don't play Phish, I'm fine with it
	2:18pm Rickwaukee: How many millions of homes at Christmas have been filled with the sounds of a plastic bass fish singing Take Me to the River?
	2:20pm Mayuko: Hi Doctorjazz! Merry Christmas to you too, P-90! @Rickwaukee @1:40 "security blanket" is a good way of explaining this! I do feel like keeping an emperor was like having that to tuck many Japanese people in. Sounds especially funny if I think about the fact that maternal logic being dominant in the Japanese culture. I personally prefer the path Germans took - to make a clear break from the past - but I think it's interesting how different people react differently, and some people don't seem to be capable of handling some difficult history.
	2:21pm Mayuko: Thanks for posting the link rbrt!
	2:22pm Mayuko: @northguineahills yes he's a well-known "ichthyologist"! I saw it in the dictionary but I decided not to use that term cos I had zero confidence in pronouncing that word haha.
	2:23pm Mayuko: BTW Is my mic volume too small again?
	2:24pm rbrt: sounded ok to me
	2:24pm Mayuko: Good! thanks.
	2:25pm rbrt: you're welcome! :D
	2:27pm northguineahills: Bonus Mayuko is the best Mayuko (ok, any Mayuko is the best Mayuko!) Banks Bailey, new to me and clicky starred!
	2:27pm Rickwaukee: @Mayuko Some descendants have a harder time giving up their cultural "pride" than the actual do-bads - they don't have any direct personal actions to feel guilty about, so they shrug and say, No big deal, I'm just keeping MY history alive. When they should be running as fast as they can from it - like the Germans.
	2:28pm P-90: Mic volume was fine in the break
	2:29pm rbrt: I love those field recordings
	2:31pm northguineahills: Oddly enough, it was through MacArthur's initiative that help convince others in the State Dept to convince Truman to exonerate and keep the emperor, as a means of unification and keep the Japanese anti-communist. Considering how utterly destroyed Japan was, and the post-war trauma they endured, I believe it was probably the right move in the short term. Otherwise, MacArthur was a blowhard dick, but hey, even dicks can make the right considered decision.
	2:31pm northguineahills: Now I'm hungry for tako.
	2:31pm fred: @Rickwaukee: Do you think Germans gave up their cultural pride? I have German bosses, and if they did I didn't notice
	2:34pm Mayuko: Thanks P-90 too!
	2:35pm rbrt: I'm more impresssed with the fact that Akihito discovered new fish than the fact he is emperor lol
	2:36pm northguineahills: me too, rbrt.
	2:36pm northguineahills: Time to make some dim sum!
	2:36pm Rickwaukee: @fred Was referring to acceptance of, if not actual pride in, the icky bad behavior of their elders - rather than making a clean break from it. Germans don't even allow swastikas in WWII video games.
	2:37pm Mayuko: @rbrt haha I agree! Being born to be an emperor wasn't his choice and I don't even know if he likes it, whereas we know he LOVES fish.
	2:37pm fred: Did he actually discover new fish? Species are often named after people who had nothing to do with the actual discovery
	2:38pm rbrt: @Mayuko yeah!
	2:38pm rbrt: oh good point fred hrmmm
	2:39pm rbrt: and he is the emperor....do you think there is some poor scientist somewhere who gave up his fish discovery
	2:40pm tmoyo: yeah, i feel sorry for the royal family.. its like being in captivity. @fred: like Brian May's meteor or what was it??
	2:40pm Rickwaukee: Emperor's fave movie. https://youtu.be/1Uvt83YWWWY?t=7s
	2:41pm Mayuko: @northguineahills ah you're right! the decision was probably mainly part of the cold war thing.
	2:42pm rbrt: now I'm bummed if he stole someone's fish discovery lol
	2:43pm fred: @rbrt: naming a species can be an homage. I think there's a spider species named after Bowie, and a bacteria named after Zappa. I'm pretty sure no scientist had to give up anything for that
	2:45pm Mayuko: @fred hmm, that's actually a good question! I just automatically assumed he discovered it since it was named after him!
	2:47pm Rickwaukee: brb, sudden urge
	2:47pm coelacanth∅: (or like columbus spotting land first, when apparently it was a crew member.)
	2:48pm listener james from westwood: Mmm, glad to have both Stetson and Lattimore in this set.
	2:49pm fred: I think naming a species you discovered after your own name would be considered bad form. I don't think it would fly. But emperors probably go by different rules
	2:50pm rbrt: fred yeah I think you're prob right
	2:50pm fred: I so want to see Mary Lattimore someday
	2:51pm rbrt: humans make things so complicated lol, I'm just gonna enjoy the fishys
	2:52pm coelacanth∅: there are many animal and plant species named after the person who "discovered" them.
	2:53pm listener james from westwood: Thought experiment: What do you thinks the animals call us? Do you think they had a meeting and arrived at a consensus?
	2:54pm coelacanth∅: "assholes"?
	2:55pm fred: @coel: my first guess too. It has to be an insult anyway
	2:57pm northguineahills: Thanks Mayuko, enjoy the holidays everyone!
	2:58pm mzz: oh no i missed it.
	2:59pm rbrt: haha I just say "fish experts"
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Ick-thee-o-lo-gist!
	2:59pm rbrt: you too ngh!
	3:00pm Webhamster Henry: Hear you next time! Thanks Mayuko!
	3:00pm fred: Extra thanks for the extra hour Mayuko
	3:01pm Rickwaukee: Thanks, Mayuko. Like Elvis said, I'll have a Christmas that blows without you. Stay warm.
	3:01pm coelacanth∅: the closing passage in Tom Robbins' book "villa incognito" ... tanuki, regarding what "men" are doing: "global hara-kiri" ...kitsune:"they call it progress".
	3:02pm Doug Schulkind: Such a gorgeous broadcast, Mayuko. Thank you!
	3:03pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mayuko happy solstice & happy birthdays! Stellar program! tchau camaradas
	3:06pm rbrt: Have a good weekend and holiday everyone
	3:06pm tmoyo: thanks mayuko! oyasuminasai
	3:06pm rbrt: thanks Mayuko great show :)
	3:06pm listener james from westwood: This program is a weekly Christmas. That it precedes the actual one is icing on the gingerbread cookie. Thanks Mayuko! Laters, all!
	3:09pm Mayuko: Thanks again all for listening! Stay warm and have a beautiful week.
	3:10pm mzz: hi Mayu, i recommend reading this if you like: https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4093897573/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
	3:13pm Mayuko: oh hey, thanks mzz, I'll look into it!

Play Vertigo with Mayuko: Playlist from December 23, 2017

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December 23, 2017: The Emperor's Magic

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Miyoko Hirayama 平山美代子	Kotaishi sama oumare natta 皇太子さまお生まれなった (Crown Prince was born)		Victor	1934		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Tenno 天皇	Mizu 水 "Mizu 水" by "Tenno 天皇"	Noise	Alchemy	2005	Original 1980	0:01:13 (Pop-up)
Music Section, Imperial Household Agency (Kunaisho Shikiburyo Gagakuka/宮内庁式部寮雅楽課)	Taishikicho Choshi Bongen 太食調調子・品玄	日本音楽集 (Japan: Gagaku - Buddhist Chant - 1941)	World Arbiter	2008		0:09:04 (Pop-up)
The Kyoto Nohgaku Kai (京都能楽会)	Makiginu - Kagura (巻絹 - 神楽)	Japanese Noh Music (日本の伝統音楽：能楽)	Lyrichord			0:12:15 (Pop-up)
Sarah Peebles	Resinous Fold 2 + 4 + 3	Delicate Paths - Music For Shô たおやかな歩み	Unsounds	2014		0:18:32 (Pop-up)
John Bell	Collapse & Nanoclaptocracy	Cambridge Supreme Minor and Other Peals	Kendra Steiner Editions	2017		0:26:41 (Pop-up)
Ross Bolleter	Save What You Can "Save What You Can" by "Ross Bolleter"	Secret Sandhills and satellites	Emanem	2006		0:29:46 (Pop-up)

Ichiro Fujimura 藤村一郎	Kotaishi-denka goseitan houshuku-ka 皇太子殿下御生誕奉祝歌		Victor	1933		0:42:36 (Pop-up)
Hiroshi Yuki (Shigeo Kusunoki) 結城浩（楠木繁夫）	Kotaishi-denka goseitan no uta 皇太子殿下御生誕の歌			1933		0:45:42 (Pop-up)
Kichimaru 吉丸	Hoshuku odori kouta 奉祝踊り小唄		Teichiku	1933		0:48:37 (Pop-up)
Yokkaichi Doyo Aikoukai 四日市童謡愛好会	Children’s Song: Ko-taishi sama 童謡皇太子さま	Kodomo no hi doyo-shu 子供の日童謡集				0:51:53 (Pop-up)
Violent Onsen Geisha 暴力温泉芸者	Destroy The Disabled Persons Welfare Law	Garbage Sandwich	Beast 666 Tapes	1992		0:53:50 (Pop-up)
The Body & Full Of Hell	Farewell, Man	Ascending A Mountain Of Heavy Light	Thrill Jockey	2017		0:58:37 (Pop-up)
Blind Idiot God	Dubbing In The Sinai	Undertow	Enemy	1989		1:03:00 (Pop-up)
Tandaapushi	Part 2 "Part 2" by "Tandaapushi"	Borromean Rings	Jvtlandt	2017		1:06:50 (Pop-up)

Mangetsu Tenkoken 天光軒満月	Shoshu-rei 召集令 (Draft)	Sensou no omote to ura 戦争の表と裏	Teichiku	1995		1:34:07 (Pop-up)
Thuch Savanj	Jivit Rongkroh Proh Songkream (My Life As A Victim Of War)	Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry	Glitterbeat	2016		1:48:10 (Pop-up)
Sandcatchers	To Sleeping "To Sleeping" by "Sandcatchers"	What We Found Along The Way	Self-Released	2017		1:50:32 (Pop-up)
Norberto Lobo	Colheres "Colheres" by "Norberto Lobo"	Muxama	Three:four	2016		1:52:03 (Pop-up)
Anohni	Violent Men "Violent Men" by "Anohni"	Hopelessness	Secretly Canadian	2016		1:53:27 (Pop-up)
Hiroshi Yoshimura	Water Copy "Water Copy" by "Hiroshi Yoshimura"	Music for Nine Post Cards	Empire of Signs	2017	Original 1982	1:55:30 (Pop-up)
Tiziano Popoli, Marco Dalpane	Moving objects slow dance	Scorie	Soave	2018	Original 1985	2:01:41 (Pop-up)

Banks Bailey	The Pool part 4 "The Pool part 4" by "Banks Bailey"	The Pool	Unfathomless	2017		2:18:16 (Pop-up)
Unknown	Octopus Fishing (Lofanga Island)	South Pacific Island Music	Nonesuch	1981		2:29:59 (Pop-up)
Unknown	Geemaanoe (Little Bird Mask); Geeyibo (Mask That Eats Water)	Côte-D'Ivoire: Masques Dan				2:31:41 (Pop-up)
abAna	Alphabet Of Fishes "Alphabet Of Fishes" by "abAna"	Playing With Words: An Audio Compilation	Gruenrekorder	2010		2:36:00 (Pop-up)
Colin Stetson	Between Water And Wind	All This I Do For Glory	52Hz	2017		2:38:37 (Pop-up)
Ramón del Riego	Juegos de agua en El Rinconín. Gijón	Agua \| Costa	Mapa Sonoru	2016		2:44:43 (Pop-up)
Mary Lattimore	Wawa By The Ocean "Wawa By The Ocean" by "Mary Lattimore"	Collected Pieces	Ghostly International	2017		2:47:27 (Pop-up)

Taco	Naisho no Emperor Magic な・い・しょ・のエンペラーマジック	WAKA WAVE: Japanese Post-Punk & Experimental Music from the 80's (Tony Coulter's 2016 Marathon Premium)	WFMU	2016		3:05:57 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:36am Scraps: h’lo h’lo hey
	11:39am fred: Good morning Scraps, hope you're well
	11:40am Scraps: listening, though mostly lying down listening. cheers
	11:41am Scraps: hi fred, hey
	11:53am listener james from westwood: Morning, Scraps, fred, and the incoming Mayuko!
	12:01pm fred: Good afternoon Mayuko
	12:02pm Jesse k: Morning all!
	12:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Mayuko; Mayuklings
	12:02pm Barnaby: hi Mayuko, beautiful start
	12:03pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh Christmas tunes from Mayuko!
	12:04pm listener james from westwood: Sounds clear on this end!
	12:05pm fred: This Tenno track is fantastic
	12:05pm tmoyo: Hi Mayuko & listeners!
	12:05pm Mayuko: Hallos, fred, james, Jesse, coelacanth∅ & Barnaby! And Henry! Thanks for tuning in! Hope you're doing well, my radio family Scraps!
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: i just realised i had not turned off my pre-Mayuko selections. off now, but it did work well together.
	12:07pm Mayuko: Welcome, fellow subject of the Japanese Empire, tmoyo san!
	12:08pm Mayuko: @fred Tenno is a project of Tori Kudo, from Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
	12:09pm tmoyo: Amid the end of the year craziness, i completely forgot today was his birthday until now...
	12:09pm fred: Nice! Maher Shalal Hash Baz will be part of next year's Sonic Protest festival
	12:11pm rbrt: "Imperial Household Agency" is a great name lol
	12:12pm rbrt: hope everyone is having a good weekend :D
	12:17pm Rickwaukee: Oooh-ooh, back on the chain gang
	12:17pm Mayuko: Hi rbrt! YOU'RE FISH!!!
	12:18pm Mayuko: Hi Rickwaukee! Welcome to the birthday party.
	12:19pm gloomsday: hello friends and strangers alike!
	12:20pm coelacanth∅: translucent fish?
	12:20pm rbrt: x-rayed fish lol
	12:21pm Mayuko: @coelacanth∅ You're fish too that's as old as the emperor's family tree!!!
	12:21pm Rickwaukee: toots on a party blower and gets nothing a couple times and then when it finally unrolls it goes straight down instead of out
	12:21pm Mayuko: Welcome on board, gloomsday! Thanks for tuning in.
	12:22pm Brian in UK: Hello Mayuko. What side of the road do the Japanese drive on?
	12:23pm rbrt: so today is the birthday of the Japanese Emperor?
	12:23pm coelacanth∅: Mayuko, we go way back. i taught the emperor's ancestors how to walk!
	12:23pm tmoyo: @Brian, same as in the UK, the left side.
	12:24pm Mayuko: @Brian I'm late and question already answered! Thanks for tuning in.
	12:25pm tmoyo: beautiful track!
	12:25pm Brian in UK: @tmoyo thank you.
	12:26pm rbrt: www.quora.com... interesting
	12:27pm Mayuko: @rbrt yup, Dec 23rd. Jesus is not the only one who was born this weekend!!!!!!!!!!
	12:28pm rbrt: @Mayuko lol
	12:30pm Brian in UK: @rbrt interesting. It also implies that most samurai were right handed or dexters. Hence the term dexterous.
	12:30pm fred: I remember seeing an amazing performance of a Cage piece on Sho
	12:30pm coelacanth∅: (today's the anniversary of my niece's birth, as well)
	12:30pm rbrt: @brian yeah!
	12:33pm rbrt: I really have no idea how Japan's government works, is the emperor just symbolic like queen of england?
	12:33pm tmoyo: @rbrt interesting! I didn't know samurai swords were involved.
	12:34pm tmoyo: Yes, just a symbol.
	12:35pm rbrt: @tmoyo yeah assuming who ever answered this question is right? lol
	12:36pm tmoyo: Haha, true Mayuko.
	12:37pm Webhamster Henry: from Reuters: He is due to step down on April 30, 2019 after spending much of his nearly three decades on Japan's throne seeking to soothe the wounds of World War Two. His abdication is the first by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries. He will be succeeded by his heir, 57-year old Crown Prince Naruhito. Once considered divine, Japan's emperor is defined in the post-war constitution as a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people", but has no political power.
	12:38pm rbrt: "The constitution provides for a parliamentary system of government and guarantees certain fundamental rights. Under its terms, the Emperor of Japan is "the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people" and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty."
	12:39pm rbrt: oh thanks Henry!...answering my own questions lol
	12:40pm tmoyo: I think the emperor gives "permission" on important legislations, and also performs sacred shinto rituals.
	12:40pm rbrt: I'm sure he has some kind of political "influence"
	12:42pm tmoyo: Yeah, I think he's quite liberal, but isn't allowed to speak out his personal feelings.
	12:42pm rbrt: was there ever an "empress"?, seems like Japane is a very male oriented society though
	12:43pm gloomsday: well this is all very good and fascinating. so glad i tuned in this morning :) just what my saturday was missing.
	12:45pm rbrt: oh this is an actual thing "The Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁 Kunai-chō) is an agency of the government of Japan in charge of state matters concerning the Imperial Family"
	12:46pm fred: I think Japan had a few empresses, and they came close to changing the succession law until a male grandson of the current emperor was born
	12:46pm tmoyo: Women can't ascend to the throne. The next emperor only has a daughter so there are some talks of making changes, but it seems unlikely that it will actually happen.
	12:50pm Doug Schulkind: Hello! Hooray! Howdy!
	12:51pm rbrt: kings, queens, emperors...archaic systems in a modern world
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: With stem cell technology, I wonder if they'd consider cloning the emperor to create male succession?
	12:51pm Mayuko: Suiko was an empress but she's from 6th century, and the actual political leader was more like Shotoku taishi? I spent all my history class sleeping so I don't remember anything.
	12:54pm rbrt: ??? what is going on in this children's song?
	12:54pm listener james from westwood: LOL at whatever is agitating this guy over the "Sing a Song" chorus!
	12:55pm rbrt: oh ok wrong track lol! I'm assuming this is Violent Onsen Geisha
	12:55pm Mayuko: Children's innocent singing makes me lose it and this is what needs to happen.
	12:55pm Mayuko: Doug!!!
	12:56pm Webhamster Henry: More children!
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: @Mayuko: One of my earliest proofreading jobs for one of my clients was a college textbook on modern Japanese history. I stayed very awake during it (lots was new to me!), but remembering my time as a college student, I'm likely the person who will end up having read it most closely, aside from the author and the copy editor!
	12:57pm listener james from westwood: Jeez, hoping this guy doesn't go after the Americans with Disabilities Act next!
	12:57pm coelacanth∅: i can totally relate to this guy
	12:57pm fred: @Mayuko: maybe you could play Junko when that happens. She kinda sounds like a child at times, yet also like that Violent Onsen Geisha guy
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: haha just saw what he's going on about! Fuck him then!
	12:58pm rbrt: I need to get this recording and blast it all week lol
	1:00pm rbrt: is Mayuko just smashing things to pieces as we speak
	1:01pm northguineahills: The Body full of Hell, new to me!
	1:02pm rbrt: hi ngh
	1:04pm Mayuko: I actually thought it hilarious that gloomsday said those Akihito's bday songs from 1933 were "just what my saturday was missing" I appreciate WFMU listenership at times like that!
	1:04pm Mayuko: Hey northguineahills!
	1:06pm listener james from westwood: Oh, wow, Blind Idiot God, good choice!
	1:11pm redkayak: Happy Holidays all :)
	1:12pm rbrt: same to you redkayak :D
	1:14pm Mayuko: @james I probably would have enjoyed modern Japanese history more. In my experience, in elementary school and middle school, we always started from ancient times, and then ran out of time at the end of year, so we would do modern times super briefly. Now that I think, maybe teachers didn't know how to deliver that time period without being political?, I don't understand.
	1:15pm Mayuko: Hi, redkayak! Glad to have you here!
	1:16pm northguineahills: I got to see Hirohito when he made his balcony appearance New Years 1988. I was maybe 150m away, but I could see him (and had binoculars)
	1:17pm northguineahills: @Mayuko: So, like American History classes, where they are lucky to get to WWII (and we have much less written history to cover).
	1:20pm rbrt: yeah I've had same experience with history in school
	1:20pm Mayuko: @northguineahills haha! that's true we at least have more excuses for not getting there in time. That's funny you saw him! I've never seen any emperor in person!
	1:20pm redkayak: @mayuko @rbrt Thanks :)
	1:26pm northguineahills: hellos rbrt!
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: If personality cults and creepy children's choruses are what you're looking for, Station Mgr Ken has played a bit of North Korean music now and again that combines both. Can't recall the title....
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: @Mayuko: That political aspect of it may be the case. And echoing ngh, my experience was similar—if we started in grammar school with the Pilgrims, we barely made it out of the Depression and into WWII.
	1:34pm Webhamster Henry: Saturday is so empty on the Drummer stream! Stick around!
	1:34pm listener james from westwood: And I for one dig hearing your perspective in addition to the music, so I'm happy to be here for both!
	1:35pm fred: So US keeping the emperor indirectly led to an extra hour of this show? Good move!
	1:36pm Mayuko: @fred haha!
	1:36pm Doug Schulkind: Extra Play Vertigo!
	1:39pm fred: It's time for me to clicky-star the whole show, and we're only halfway through
	1:40pm Rickwaukee: After decades have passed, the sins of one's forefathers need to be acknowledged and their true role in history settled - the people / culture who needed their security blanket (pride savers) should have taken to their graves by that point. Thinking about American South as I write this.
	1:40pm listener james from westwood: Macarthur: "Old soldiers never die, they just listen longer to GTDR on the weekends."
	1:40pm Mayuko: It's a wife talking about killing herself and children so that her husband has nothing to worry about while he's away to the frontline of the war.
	1:43pm Rickwaukee: So soldier receives word of family's suicide and can go through war with an extra spring in his step - maybe just knit him some warm socks?
	1:44pm fred: Was that written in 1995 or an older text recorded that year?
	1:45pm Doctorjazz: Hi all!
	1:50pm P-90: Merry Christmas Mayuko and Mayukologists!
	1:51pm Mayuko: @fred 1995 is the year the compilation came out - the words must have been written around ww2, assuming from the fact that the guy who made the piece famous died in 1949.
	1:59pm tmoyo: what a great set!!
	2:03pm rbrt: water copy was wonderful
	2:08pm fred: @rbrt: I agree wholeheartedly
	2:08pm Rickwaukee: Was getting a vibe from this - and that vibe turned out to be Laurie Anderson Big Science
	2:13pm rbrt: soave.bandcamp.com...
	2:15pm northguineahills: I know Akihito is considered an ichthyology expert.
	2:15pm rbrt: ohhh they're named after him
	2:18pm fred: As long as you don't play Phish, I'm fine with it
	2:18pm Rickwaukee: How many millions of homes at Christmas have been filled with the sounds of a plastic bass fish singing Take Me to the River?
	2:20pm Mayuko: Hi Doctorjazz! Merry Christmas to you too, P-90! @Rickwaukee @1:40 "security blanket" is a good way of explaining this! I do feel like keeping an emperor was like having that to tuck many Japanese people in. Sounds especially funny if I think about the fact that maternal logic being dominant in the Japanese culture. I personally prefer the path Germans took - to make a clear break from the past - but I think it's interesting how different people react differently, and some people don't seem to be capable of handling some difficult history.
	2:21pm Mayuko: Thanks for posting the link rbrt!
	2:22pm Mayuko: @northguineahills yes he's a well-known "ichthyologist"! I saw it in the dictionary but I decided not to use that term cos I had zero confidence in pronouncing that word haha.
	2:23pm Mayuko: BTW Is my mic volume too small again?
	2:24pm rbrt: sounded ok to me
	2:24pm Mayuko: Good! thanks.
	2:25pm rbrt: you're welcome! :D
	2:27pm northguineahills: Bonus Mayuko is the best Mayuko (ok, any Mayuko is the best Mayuko!) Banks Bailey, new to me and clicky starred!
	2:27pm Rickwaukee: @Mayuko Some descendants have a harder time giving up their cultural "pride" than the actual do-bads - they don't have any direct personal actions to feel guilty about, so they shrug and say, No big deal, I'm just keeping MY history alive. When they should be running as fast as they can from it - like the Germans.
	2:28pm P-90: Mic volume was fine in the break
	2:29pm rbrt: I love those field recordings
	2:31pm northguineahills: Oddly enough, it was through MacArthur's initiative that help convince others in the State Dept to convince Truman to exonerate and keep the emperor, as a means of unification and keep the Japanese anti-communist. Considering how utterly destroyed Japan was, and the post-war trauma they endured, I believe it was probably the right move in the short term. Otherwise, MacArthur was a blowhard dick, but hey, even dicks can make the right considered decision.
	2:31pm northguineahills: Now I'm hungry for tako.
	2:31pm fred: @Rickwaukee: Do you think Germans gave up their cultural pride? I have German bosses, and if they did I didn't notice
	2:34pm Mayuko: Thanks P-90 too!
	2:35pm rbrt: I'm more impresssed with the fact that Akihito discovered new fish than the fact he is emperor lol
	2:36pm northguineahills: me too, rbrt.
	2:36pm northguineahills: Time to make some dim sum!
	2:36pm Rickwaukee: @fred Was referring to acceptance of, if not actual pride in, the icky bad behavior of their elders - rather than making a clean break from it. Germans don't even allow swastikas in WWII video games.
	2:37pm Mayuko: @rbrt haha I agree! Being born to be an emperor wasn't his choice and I don't even know if he likes it, whereas we know he LOVES fish.
	2:37pm fred: Did he actually discover new fish? Species are often named after people who had nothing to do with the actual discovery
	2:38pm rbrt: @Mayuko yeah!
	2:38pm rbrt: oh good point fred hrmmm
	2:39pm rbrt: and he is the emperor....do you think there is some poor scientist somewhere who gave up his fish discovery
	2:40pm tmoyo: yeah, i feel sorry for the royal family.. its like being in captivity. @fred: like Brian May's meteor or what was it??
	2:40pm Rickwaukee: Emperor's fave movie. https://youtu.be/1Uvt83YWWWY?t=7s
	2:41pm Mayuko: @northguineahills ah you're right! the decision was probably mainly part of the cold war thing.
	2:42pm rbrt: now I'm bummed if he stole someone's fish discovery lol
	2:43pm fred: @rbrt: naming a species can be an homage. I think there's a spider species named after Bowie, and a bacteria named after Zappa. I'm pretty sure no scientist had to give up anything for that
	2:45pm Mayuko: @fred hmm, that's actually a good question! I just automatically assumed he discovered it since it was named after him!
	2:47pm Rickwaukee: brb, sudden urge
	2:47pm coelacanth∅: (or like columbus spotting land first, when apparently it was a crew member.)
	2:48pm listener james from westwood: Mmm, glad to have both Stetson and Lattimore in this set.
	2:49pm fred: I think naming a species you discovered after your own name would be considered bad form. I don't think it would fly. But emperors probably go by different rules
	2:50pm rbrt: fred yeah I think you're prob right
	2:50pm fred: I so want to see Mary Lattimore someday
	2:51pm rbrt: humans make things so complicated lol, I'm just gonna enjoy the fishys
	2:52pm coelacanth∅: there are many animal and plant species named after the person who "discovered" them.
	2:53pm listener james from westwood: Thought experiment: What do you thinks the animals call us? Do you think they had a meeting and arrived at a consensus?
	2:54pm coelacanth∅: "assholes"?
	2:55pm fred: @coel: my first guess too. It has to be an insult anyway
	2:57pm northguineahills: Thanks Mayuko, enjoy the holidays everyone!
	2:58pm mzz: oh no i missed it.
	2:59pm rbrt: haha I just say "fish experts"
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Ick-thee-o-lo-gist!
	2:59pm rbrt: you too ngh!
	3:00pm Webhamster Henry: Hear you next time! Thanks Mayuko!
	3:00pm fred: Extra thanks for the extra hour Mayuko
	3:01pm Rickwaukee: Thanks, Mayuko. Like Elvis said, I'll have a Christmas that blows without you. Stay warm.
	3:01pm coelacanth∅: the closing passage in Tom Robbins' book "villa incognito" ... tanuki, regarding what "men" are doing: "global hara-kiri" ...kitsune:"they call it progress".
	3:02pm Doug Schulkind: Such a gorgeous broadcast, Mayuko. Thank you!
	3:03pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mayuko happy solstice & happy birthdays! Stellar program! tchau camaradas
	3:06pm rbrt: Have a good weekend and holiday everyone
	3:06pm tmoyo: thanks mayuko! oyasuminasai
	3:06pm rbrt: thanks Mayuko great show :)
	3:06pm listener james from westwood: This program is a weekly Christmas. That it precedes the actual one is icing on the gingerbread cookie. Thanks Mayuko! Laters, all!
	3:09pm Mayuko: Thanks again all for listening! Stay warm and have a beautiful week.
	3:10pm mzz: hi Mayu, i recommend reading this if you like: https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4093897573/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
	3:13pm Mayuko: oh hey, thanks mzz, I'll look into it!

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