WFMU: Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from February 24, 2018

Listener comments!
	6:03am Sem: Good morning, Jeffrey, from four-weeks-early Spring in Nova Scotia.
	6:05am Dave in Vermont: Good morning.
	6:13am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning earlybirds Sem and Dave in Vermont. We're up in studio B, preparing for the fundraising Marathon, which starts in about a week.
	6:16am PJMcE: Good morning Jeffrey, Sem and Dave. I've listened for years, and here's my 1st hello!
	6:19am duke: Good morning Planeteers
	6:24am Jeffrey Davison: PJMcE: thanks for listening, and surfacing! And welcome once again duke.
	6:27am Sem: Hiya, duke.
	6:28am kimgland: good morning...-great set
	6:30am duke: I'm really enjoying this set. Perfect for a grey morning.
	6:32am 3d-nyc: Good morning-agreed- love this set-perfect for this morning too
	6:41am Jeffrey Davison: And greetings kimgland, 3d-nyc.
	6:43am Zetti: Morning friends.
	6:45am Linda Lee: good morning! what sweet sounds for a chilly grey day!
	6:50am TDK60: Morning Jeffrey and Folks, let me go put on the tea water...
	6:51am Jeffrey Davison: hey there Zetti, Linda Lee, TDK60. Thanks all. Glad you're enjoying the music.
	6:54am upstate sean: Hey all!
	6:55am upstate sean: This show is so good
	6:55am annie: sneaking into class pretty late... i am now here and listening.. good mornng planeteers.!
	6:57am Linda Lee: hi annie! good for you! :-)
	6:59am PJMcE: Hey, Ben McElroy & I share a surname!
	7:00am duke: The google top hits for Captain William Coey are this track. There was a Pvt. William Coey in the SC regiment in the American revolution. Maybe They promted him.
	7:02am Linda Lee: actually a bit of a relief to hear your voice w/o bed music.
	7:04am TDK60: We don't need "bed" music when we're struggling to get outta bed, hee.
	7:04am Linda Lee: ha! i'm not struggling ..
	7:06am Linda Lee: shame on me for missing this show for so long!
	7:07am Jeffrey Davison: hey there annie. Thanks duke. Merits further delving. Linda Lee: thank you, and there are years of archived shows on the WFMU website. TDK60: ha!
	7:07am TDK60: Morning Linda. Let me speak for myself.
	7:08am Linda Lee: you do that. i'm just staying in bed. :-D
	7:08am annie: linda, there's an "open arms" policy on this planet, you are always welcome back after any hiatus.
	7:09am Linda Lee: @annie ~ i'm a first time listener! can't believe it.
	7:09am annie: you'll never look back
	7:10am Linda Lee: i know. :-D
	7:12am Cooh John: Good morning JD and planeteers. How is the garlic looking, Sem?
	7:13am Gavin: Morning Jeff! Perfect radiant calm pre-work listening from Sunny Bristol, UK. Might I enquire how one might get in touch with you personally?
	7:15am Sem: Cooh John: our ground has been snowless for two weeks now, wit intermittent freezing and thawing, and lot of rain. I see other of the alliums coming up---crocii, for example, but no signs of the garlic as yet. Fingers crossed. How's everything where you are?
	7:17am Linda Lee: Sem ~ wow. you make me hungry for spring! we're a month away from the crocii here in the catskills ~ always a time of rejoicing
	7:19am Sem: Forced some forsythia, its cheery yellow flowers greeted me this morning, Linda Lee. Can't stop Spring, but sometimes the timing!
	7:19am Linda Lee: so early for you! amazing. strange & amazing.
	7:20am Linda Lee: forsythia!! my gosh.
	7:20am Jeffrey Davison: hey Cooh John... Sem: I'm waiting for the ramps. Must still be pretty early yet. Gavin: welcome. It's shrink at wfmu dot org
	7:21am Sem: Here on a tidal estuary, we're a zone 6. Up at altitude where you are, everything later, I suppose?
	7:21am duke: I wasn't familiar with Joanna Brouk but I'm going to check her out in teh future
	7:23am Linda Lee: yes, definitely later. lots of little microclimates up in the mountains here ~ i'm currently at 5, half an hour's drive up the mountain & we're at 4 :-)
	7:23am annie: linda, i'm an ex-upstater myself, i hail from del-otse-nango region, hamden was my last home. now i live in asheville, nc..
	7:23am TDK60: Bristol Gavin welcome. // I've seen small white and yellow flowers in Central Park. // Ahhh caffeine.
	7:24am annie: spamoni is running late this am...
	7:24am Linda Lee: @annie ~ do you! i lived there for about 8 years in the 90s. lovely town. just great. i lived in & around. how long have you been there?
	7:25am Linda Lee: just can't leave the appalachian chain :-)
	7:26am Sem: Thanks for a mellow start to the day, Jeffrey. Will catch the rest on the archives. See you and all next time, walking into town now. Bye!
	7:26am Gavin: Thanks Jeff! Will be in touch. Have a great day over there everyone!
	7:26am annie: i've been in asheville 6 years now, march 6th is the day i split. i understand about the hills, yes. i took a ride with a friend out cherokee way a couple of days ago..always breathtaking.. see ya sem!
	7:27am Linda Lee: early spring yet, annie? must be!
	7:28am duke: bye sem
	7:28am spamoni: Good morning to all hi @annie I've been here all along just hiding in the shadows today
	7:29am TDK60: Never been to Asheville, heard it's a fine place. Tho I did live in the Appalachians most my life.
	7:30am Jeffrey Davison: hey spamoni...welcome
	7:31am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ 'san francisco south' they called it when i lived there. amazing town, diverse, peaceful, interesting, incredible music scene. alas, also deeply segregated ~ hope that's changed a bit.
	7:32am Linda Lee: spamoni! mysterious comment by annie now clarified. :-) thought the spamoni were the local river fish there in wnc! i'm new, what can i tell ya
	7:32am TDK60: Thanks for that LL. Our whole country needs more work on that last part.
	7:35am annie: oh yes, linda, spring is here in full force. way too early for my taste, though Mother knows best. rumour has it the redbud are blossoming.. i live in a small high-rise-type building, so no nature to speak of out my window.... linda, there are many leftovers of race issues still here. we are fighting gentrification, and it's winning; the tourist industry is killing what used to be the charm of this locale. in the short time i've been here there have been close to 10 hotels built in the downtown area.. it's awful. it's happening everywhere, even tiny little cooperstown is succumbing, i heard the plea from the town matriarch that the baseball stores have to stop... i say that's closing the barn door way too late.
	7:35am spamoni: A warm welcome Linda Lee you'll find this the best morning crew anywhere !
	7:36am annie: here here spamoni!
	7:37am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ indeed. the depth of racism intrinsic to the culture reveals its ugly face a bit more each day. @annie ~ having been gentrified out of 4 different nyc neighborhoods, i'm pained to hear it. thanks for the welcome, people! :-)
	7:37am TDK60: Quaintness under siege almost everywhere. Annie, what's a "baseball store"?
	7:38am Linda Lee: thinking of the downtown i remember in asheville ~ where in hell did they jam 10 hotels?
	7:38am Linda Lee: i'm guessing baseball stores are like tourist stores on Times Square ~ pricey memorabilia mass-produced in China for the tourist trade.
	7:39am TDK60: Enticing sound there by...Fronds?
	7:40am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ the authentic under siege everywhere indeed ~ so bits of true authenticity are going for astronomical prices wherever it can be found. & the cycle continues.
	7:41am annie: a baseball store is any establishment that sell baseball-related items.. it's beyond me that there can be so many.... i guess it's akin the the many "thrift" stores that sell "vintage" items. anything is commodified now
	7:42am Zetti: zone 5b and my narcissus are breaking ground, hundreds of tiny bright green tips... beautiful.
	7:43am Linda Lee: who'd a thunk it? our history, our community, our uniqueness all monetized & up for grabs, as well as actual experience. @Zetti ~ fantastic. at about this time in the catskills we start to doubt spring will ever come. so nice to get reports of the real thing..
	7:45am Linda Lee: @annie ~ that sure sounds like the nyc tourist stores. 5 stores on one block selling exactly the same items. weird.
	7:47am Linda Lee: at least with vintage stores there's a little variety. speaking of, one of the greatest things about asheville when i lived there were the thrift stores. not vintage stores. thrift stores. coats for a quarter. that sort of thing. habitat had a truly great store there.
	7:49am Jeffrey Davison: It's no surprise that in NYC whole neighborhoods have been completely transformed, and now Long Island City in Queens is morphing by the minute. Giant buildings on the waterfront, huge hotels near Court Square, small hotels everywhere (and growing like fungus in Manhattan also). Not that LIC was beautiful. It's an old neighborhood with some old buildings but mostly industrial over the last century. Condos everywhere now.
	7:50am annie: they still do, but they have fallen to the high-ticket pricing... i will say, though, that there are many ways to get what you ned here. the free food nd sharing community is thriving.. you will NOT go hungry here if you land flat on your ass.. housng is another story; the joke of "affordable" housing is sad.. and they rant on about how it has to be a certain way. acquiescing to a gubmint standard is shameful.. break the mold and stap out of the box!!
	7:51am Linda Lee: @Jeffrye Davidson ~ saddest thing about this: those condos will largely sit empty ~ functioning mainly as investment, often to foreign entities. empty space, no community. & without actual community & actual neighborhoods, what is NYC? why bother? (i was born & raised there.)
	7:52am Linda Lee: @annie ~ lovely to hear about food sharing! i did a little volunteer work for food not bombs there & it's one of the best things i've ever done.
	7:53am Linda Lee: very satisfying just giving people food.
	7:54am TDK60: Yeah, Brooklyn and Lower East Side-- all these mushrooming modern mini-high rises. And lots of empty apts. And 60,000 homeless.
	7:56am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ ugly in many ways. not that nyc has ever been a 'for the people' town ~ but there was balance. now? can't imagine how working people really make it.
	7:57am annie: in 20 years the whole city-scapes will be very different, with the lower classes enmassed in subsidized housing. linda, there is a wonderful group of people, Firestorm, who have literally swung the pandulum back to those in need. they are an anarchist group and have opened a free lunch kitchen down in west asheville.. they are on facebook.. the program they host is called "12 Baskets".... food donations, clothing donations.. the "fighting back" is in the gerosity of those who can help and do.. even restaurants are donating end-of night meals in trays-full of meals... my mobility issues prevent me from actively participating, but the altruist part of me is joyful at the bounty
	7:58am Jeffrey Davison: There were, not too long ago, lots of affordable neighborhoods. Okay, I'm basically going back 20 years or more, in some instances. Even 10 years ago there were some.
	7:59am Linda Lee: @annie ~ nice. very nice. lots of that going on when i was there as well. we do what we can, even if only sharing good will. that's pretty important now.
	7:59am TDK60: NYC was never fair. But in the 1950s thru '80s one could afford rent. Then property owners jacked up rent. Gettin' pullitical here but so did some great folkies we all know.
	8:00am Linda Lee: right. balance in all things ~ even community ~ is essential to the health of the whole.
	8:01am Linda Lee: what good is to to a community or a city when the rapaciousness of landowners is so extreme that it pays them to have living space empty?
	8:03am TDK60: Linda and Annie have already pointed us to the simple but difficult-to-reach solution: a caring society!
	8:03am Linda Lee: forgive the nostalgia, but in nyc 70s - 80s a creative person could live in such a way that selling wasn't the priority ~ you could do the work you wanted to do & survive as well. that made for vital & interesting work.
	8:03am testingwithfire: good morning all. Jeffrey, just awesome show as always. I see we're talking gentrification and ... whew. I live in a small city north of Boston that still has a goodly number of independently-owned small stores and restaurants, even a comix store that seems to be doing OK, and a new bookstore that's part of a small local chain. Where the gentrification is coming in is in housing: the city council seems hellbent on putting in as many apartment buildings as possible: they're cheaply constructed, even the "luxury condos", and residents old and new are not happy. The DSA is doing some good work to resist and combat gentrification, as are many local orgs. But those efforts seem best organized in Boston and cities like Lynn that have been despoiled by white flight and funding drain for decades, leaving the poorer folks to fend for themselves against late-stage capitalism. That's my tome/rant for the morning. I'm off to a DSA meeting today: my hope is that we regular folks can organize and stop the gentrification combine permanently.
	8:04am Linda Lee: wishing you luck!!
	8:07am TDK60: I lean more to the sorts mentioned by Annie in Asheville. But I'm glad DSA is growing. What city, TestingW.F.? Lynn?
	8:12am annie: there was a time when a city's population actually took and interest in its future and the people who lived there. i'm sad that the current generation of "adults" here is unaware of social activism.they hit the hot topics, march and shout, then go home. the activism ends when the action is over. i see very little continuous effort from the millenials, whose focus is on the issue of the moment, ignoring the on-going troubles. no one wants to interact with the dirty smelly old people or homeless. thank god we have our active older folks....
	8:15am TDK60: Gosh, the music is wonderful this morn. Gotta go strengthen the caffeine potion...be right back...
	8:16am annie: i was thinking that very thing TDK
	8:18am Zetti: I remember the NYC squatter wars. In the 1990s, I attended the east village gentrification protest. Giuliani set in the police, beating everyone with badges covered.
	8:18am Linda Lee: just more narcissistic self-expression, seems like. how boring.
	8:21am Kenneth: Happy to hear you playing Dave Deporis.
	8:21am Linda Lee: he-who-shall-not-be-named, as former DA, basically handed the city to the NYPD ~ though he only came out of the fascist closet after 911 (with the rest of them).
	8:21am melinda: Morning all
	8:22am Linda Lee: that comment about narcissistic self-expression is for annie.
	8:22am Linda Lee: hi melinda!
	8:23am Jeffrey Davison: hey melinda, Kenneth.
	8:26am annie: ;-)
	8:26am TDK60: I'm often a fool for the tremolo effect on guitar, piano.
	8:26am andrew in florida: mornin all. very nice jeffrey, thank you
	8:30am Jeffrey Davison: hey andrew in florida...glad you're enjoying the show.
	8:30am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ me too. when i ived with my dad as a little girl, weekends had him playing guitar at home with the tremelo on high. loved it even then.
	8:30am northguineahills: hey andrew , I moved to FL (gainesville) 6 mos ago from Brooklyn. How's all?
	8:30am TDK60: Thanks to Bo Diddley, for the tremolo.
	8:31am Jeffrey Davison: and hello to northguineahills...
	8:32am Linda Lee: hey! actually saw Bo Diddley perform in Vegas in '77! wild show. masterful player. truly fantastic sound. shakes your boots for you.
	8:33am Linda Lee: my dad picked his up from Chet Atkins though.
	8:34am TDK60: Oh, didn't know Chet A. was a tremolo pioneer.
	8:35am northguineahills: Its been a while since I've been awake to hear you live Jeffrey!
	8:36am TDK60: Glad Joan B. is still with us.
	8:36am Linda Lee: my dad thought so :-)
	8:37am annie: aahhh, i thought i recognized that voice..!! if you ever want to read a lovely book, "whistle down the wind" by mary hayley bell, hayley mills mother.... yes, TDK, i am too
	8:37am northguineahills: @Linda Lee: The downtown plaza where music fest/famer markets/etc occur here in gainesville is named Bo Diddley Square. He grew up and lived just a few kms outside of town. As an undergrad I saw him around a few times.
	8:38am TDK60: I often say: folks say Edison or Tesla harnessed electricity. No, it was Link Wray & Bo Diddley!
	8:39am Linda Lee: @northguineahills ~ wow. nice! i'll never forget seeing him play, myself. just great.
	8:42am melinda: @Linda & Annie I agree about the narcissistic self-expression bit. I think most change happens as a result of persistent and often boring work behind the scenes.
	8:46am annie: agreed, melinda..
	8:46am Linda Lee: no doubt. it's a shame, but dissent for too many means marching ~ & there's no understanding there that change isn't about marching (while marching is the prime tool of manufactured consent now.)
	8:47am annie: i prefer the quiet steady activism of volunteerism, it casts a wider ripple
	8:47am Linda Lee: sorry, meant to write 'manufactured dissent' there .. manufactured consent is media, not marching :-D
	8:48am Linda Lee: @annie ~ not so splashy or titillating :-D
	8:49am annie: yes, linda, every marching or protest action now has become another commodity in some ways..
	8:49am Linda Lee: sure.
	8:50am Linda Lee: flash political action without sustained commitment is easy to manifest .. easy to manipulate.
	8:51am Linda Lee: it's a bit of a snooze :-D
	8:51am Linda Lee: plus, by now the powers that be know just how to deal with it.
	8:52am annie: jeffrey, you are SO loved. thnks for all you do. the time has come fo me to hie me to the kitchen and put the morning meal together.... yes, exactly linda^^
	8:52am Linda Lee: have a great morning annie! thank you Jeffrey!
	8:52am annie: formulaic protests..
	8:54am Linda Lee: yep. nearly meaningless. look at the literal millions who protested in feb 2003 before the iraq invasion. meh!
	8:54am TDK60: I think we need both: hellraising and the longterm organizing. // Thanks for the music this morn, Jeffrey.
	8:55am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ just need to lose the complacency, mainly.
	8:56am annie: the machine is in full bore and practically unstoppable.. see all you lurkers in the BBrainen room.
	8:56am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks for listening, and for the various discussions here on the comments board. Eat the rich!
	8:56am Linda Lee: i'll be happy with oatmeal this morning Jeffrey! ;-)
	8:56am duke: Thanks Jeffrey!
	8:56am TDK60: Ah...that great double album again.
	8:56am northguineahills: Super happy thanks, Jeffrey, and Woofmooers!
	9:00am melinda: Thanx Jeffrey!
	9:34am Wendy Smith: Thanks for turning us on to Joanna Brouk. It’s rare that I wish a piece could just go on forever...

Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from February 24, 2018

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Folk; old-timey; blues; psych, avant and acid folk old and new; ambient and electronic; lots of guitar; detours elsewhere.

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February 24, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Aaron Martin	Depth of a Glance "Depth of a Glance" by "Aaron Martin"	A Room Now Empty	Preserved Sound	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Emmanuel Witzthum	Against Tree. Eyes Look To Sunset. In Summer	Songs of Love and Loss	Eilean	0:06:31 (Pop-up)
Visionary Hours	Rippling River Drifts Blue and Green	Beyond the White	Preserved Sound	0:10:29 (Pop-up)
Robert Haigh	European Dusk "European Dusk" by "Robert Haigh"	Creatures of the Deep	Unseen Worlds	0:16:26 (Pop-up)
David Shea	Magnets "Magnets" by "David Shea"	Piano I	Room40	0:18:30 (Pop-up)
Trigg & Gusset	Avant Noir "Avant Noir" by "Trigg & Gusset"	Legacy of the Witty	Preserved Sound	0:22:43 (Pop-up)
REZZETT	Yunus in Ekstasi "Yunus in Ekstasi" by "REZZETT"	Rezzett	Rezzett	0:29:27 (Pop-up)
Meredith Monk	Change "Change" by "Meredith Monk"	Key	Increase	0:32:41 (Pop-up)
Ben McElroy	It Beckoned Across the Yard	1,000 Sewing Machines	Unknown Tone	0:36:30 (Pop-up)
Buck Curran	The Sun Also Rises "The Sun Also Rises" by "Buck Curran"	Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas	ESP-Disk` / Obsolete Recordings	0:45:24 (Pop-up)
United Bible Studies	Captain William Coey	The Shore That Fears the Sea	Deadslackstring/Deserted Village/Truenote	0:50:26 (Pop-up)

Joanna Brouk	The Space Between "The Space Between" by "Joanna Brouk"	Hearing the Music	The Numero Group	1:04:04 (Pop-up)
Delphine Dora	Last Things "Last Things" by "Delphine Dora"	Eudaimon	Three:Four	1:25:39 (Pop-up)
Fronds	Xelia "Xelia" by "Fronds"	Cold Across My Skin	Gold Robot	1:33:24 (Pop-up)
Loma	Who Is Speaking? "Who Is Speaking?" by "Loma"	Loma	Sub Pop	1:39:13 (Pop-up)
Nighttime	Back & Forth "Back & Forth" by "Nighttime"	Summer EP	Nighttime	1:41:40 (Pop-up)
Bipolar Explorer	Lost Life "Lost Life" by "Bipolar Explorer"	Sometimes in Dreams	Slugg	1:44:55 (Pop-up)
Siloah	Road to Laramy "Road to Laramy" by "Siloah"	Folk Music From Obscuristan (Shrunken Planet 2005 WFMU Marathon Premium)	WFMU	1:52:30 (Pop-up)

Ed Askew	Peter and David "Peter and David" by "Ed Askew"	Child of the Sun	Drag City/Galactic Zoo	2:07:39 (Pop-up)
Pat Ament	Right Kind of Lover "Right Kind of Lover" by "Pat Ament"	Pat Ament	Grapefruit	2:13:20 (Pop-up)
Dave Deporis	Swan King in the Snow	(no album)	Dave Deporis	2:18:31 (Pop-up)
VanWyck	Whole Again "Whole Again" by "VanWyck"	An Average Woman	Maiden Name	2:23:05 (Pop-up)
The Weather Station	Trying "Trying" by "The Weather Station"	All of It Was Mine	You've Changed	2:27:16 (Pop-up)
Caitlin Pasko	Favorite Dessert "Favorite Dessert" by "Caitlin Pasko"	Glass Period	Caitlin Pasko	2:30:00 (Pop-up)
Joan Baez	The President Sang Amazing Grace	Whistle Down the Wind	Razor & Tie	2:32:53 (Pop-up)
Wilder Atkins	Smoke Signals "Smoke Signals" by "Wilder Atkins"	Hope & Sorrow	Wilder Adkins	2:35:59 (Pop-up)
Joey Pratt	Visit Soon "Visit Soon" by "Joey Pratt"	Until Then	Joey Pratt	2:41:06 (Pop-up)
Cory Branan	Don't Go "Don't Go" by "Cory Branan"	Adios	Bloodshot	2:43:31 (Pop-up)
Courtney Marie Andrews	Not the End	Honest Life	Mama Bird	2:48:16 (Pop-up)
Alice Boman	Waiting "Waiting" by "Alice Boman"	EP II + Skisser	Adrian Recordings	2:50:41 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	4th Time Around "4th Time Around" by "Bob Dylan"	Blonde on Blonde	Columbia	2:54:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:03am Sem: Good morning, Jeffrey, from four-weeks-early Spring in Nova Scotia.
	6:05am Dave in Vermont: Good morning.
	6:13am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning earlybirds Sem and Dave in Vermont. We're up in studio B, preparing for the fundraising Marathon, which starts in about a week.
	6:16am PJMcE: Good morning Jeffrey, Sem and Dave. I've listened for years, and here's my 1st hello!
	6:19am duke: Good morning Planeteers
	6:24am Jeffrey Davison: PJMcE: thanks for listening, and surfacing! And welcome once again duke.
	6:27am Sem: Hiya, duke.
	6:28am kimgland: good morning...-great set
	6:30am duke: I'm really enjoying this set. Perfect for a grey morning.
	6:32am 3d-nyc: Good morning-agreed- love this set-perfect for this morning too
	6:41am Jeffrey Davison: And greetings kimgland, 3d-nyc.
	6:43am Zetti: Morning friends.
	6:45am Linda Lee: good morning! what sweet sounds for a chilly grey day!
	6:50am TDK60: Morning Jeffrey and Folks, let me go put on the tea water...
	6:51am Jeffrey Davison: hey there Zetti, Linda Lee, TDK60. Thanks all. Glad you're enjoying the music.
	6:54am upstate sean: Hey all!
	6:55am upstate sean: This show is so good
	6:55am annie: sneaking into class pretty late... i am now here and listening.. good mornng planeteers.!
	6:57am Linda Lee: hi annie! good for you! :-)
	6:59am PJMcE: Hey, Ben McElroy & I share a surname!
	7:00am duke: The google top hits for Captain William Coey are this track. There was a Pvt. William Coey in the SC regiment in the American revolution. Maybe They promted him.
	7:02am Linda Lee: actually a bit of a relief to hear your voice w/o bed music.
	7:04am TDK60: We don't need "bed" music when we're struggling to get outta bed, hee.
	7:04am Linda Lee: ha! i'm not struggling ..
	7:06am Linda Lee: shame on me for missing this show for so long!
	7:07am Jeffrey Davison: hey there annie. Thanks duke. Merits further delving. Linda Lee: thank you, and there are years of archived shows on the WFMU website. TDK60: ha!
	7:07am TDK60: Morning Linda. Let me speak for myself.
	7:08am Linda Lee: you do that. i'm just staying in bed. :-D
	7:08am annie: linda, there's an "open arms" policy on this planet, you are always welcome back after any hiatus.
	7:09am Linda Lee: @annie ~ i'm a first time listener! can't believe it.
	7:09am annie: you'll never look back
	7:10am Linda Lee: i know. :-D
	7:12am Cooh John: Good morning JD and planeteers. How is the garlic looking, Sem?
	7:13am Gavin: Morning Jeff! Perfect radiant calm pre-work listening from Sunny Bristol, UK. Might I enquire how one might get in touch with you personally?
	7:15am Sem: Cooh John: our ground has been snowless for two weeks now, wit intermittent freezing and thawing, and lot of rain. I see other of the alliums coming up---crocii, for example, but no signs of the garlic as yet. Fingers crossed. How's everything where you are?
	7:17am Linda Lee: Sem ~ wow. you make me hungry for spring! we're a month away from the crocii here in the catskills ~ always a time of rejoicing
	7:19am Sem: Forced some forsythia, its cheery yellow flowers greeted me this morning, Linda Lee. Can't stop Spring, but sometimes the timing!
	7:19am Linda Lee: so early for you! amazing. strange & amazing.
	7:20am Linda Lee: forsythia!! my gosh.
	7:20am Jeffrey Davison: hey Cooh John... Sem: I'm waiting for the ramps. Must still be pretty early yet. Gavin: welcome. It's shrink at wfmu dot org
	7:21am Sem: Here on a tidal estuary, we're a zone 6. Up at altitude where you are, everything later, I suppose?
	7:21am duke: I wasn't familiar with Joanna Brouk but I'm going to check her out in teh future
	7:23am Linda Lee: yes, definitely later. lots of little microclimates up in the mountains here ~ i'm currently at 5, half an hour's drive up the mountain & we're at 4 :-)
	7:23am annie: linda, i'm an ex-upstater myself, i hail from del-otse-nango region, hamden was my last home. now i live in asheville, nc..
	7:23am TDK60: Bristol Gavin welcome. // I've seen small white and yellow flowers in Central Park. // Ahhh caffeine.
	7:24am annie: spamoni is running late this am...
	7:24am Linda Lee: @annie ~ do you! i lived there for about 8 years in the 90s. lovely town. just great. i lived in & around. how long have you been there?
	7:25am Linda Lee: just can't leave the appalachian chain :-)
	7:26am Sem: Thanks for a mellow start to the day, Jeffrey. Will catch the rest on the archives. See you and all next time, walking into town now. Bye!
	7:26am Gavin: Thanks Jeff! Will be in touch. Have a great day over there everyone!
	7:26am annie: i've been in asheville 6 years now, march 6th is the day i split. i understand about the hills, yes. i took a ride with a friend out cherokee way a couple of days ago..always breathtaking.. see ya sem!
	7:27am Linda Lee: early spring yet, annie? must be!
	7:28am duke: bye sem
	7:28am spamoni: Good morning to all hi @annie I've been here all along just hiding in the shadows today
	7:29am TDK60: Never been to Asheville, heard it's a fine place. Tho I did live in the Appalachians most my life.
	7:30am Jeffrey Davison: hey spamoni...welcome
	7:31am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ 'san francisco south' they called it when i lived there. amazing town, diverse, peaceful, interesting, incredible music scene. alas, also deeply segregated ~ hope that's changed a bit.
	7:32am Linda Lee: spamoni! mysterious comment by annie now clarified. :-) thought the spamoni were the local river fish there in wnc! i'm new, what can i tell ya
	7:32am TDK60: Thanks for that LL. Our whole country needs more work on that last part.
	7:35am annie: oh yes, linda, spring is here in full force. way too early for my taste, though Mother knows best. rumour has it the redbud are blossoming.. i live in a small high-rise-type building, so no nature to speak of out my window.... linda, there are many leftovers of race issues still here. we are fighting gentrification, and it's winning; the tourist industry is killing what used to be the charm of this locale. in the short time i've been here there have been close to 10 hotels built in the downtown area.. it's awful. it's happening everywhere, even tiny little cooperstown is succumbing, i heard the plea from the town matriarch that the baseball stores have to stop... i say that's closing the barn door way too late.
	7:35am spamoni: A warm welcome Linda Lee you'll find this the best morning crew anywhere !
	7:36am annie: here here spamoni!
	7:37am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ indeed. the depth of racism intrinsic to the culture reveals its ugly face a bit more each day. @annie ~ having been gentrified out of 4 different nyc neighborhoods, i'm pained to hear it. thanks for the welcome, people! :-)
	7:37am TDK60: Quaintness under siege almost everywhere. Annie, what's a "baseball store"?
	7:38am Linda Lee: thinking of the downtown i remember in asheville ~ where in hell did they jam 10 hotels?
	7:38am Linda Lee: i'm guessing baseball stores are like tourist stores on Times Square ~ pricey memorabilia mass-produced in China for the tourist trade.
	7:39am TDK60: Enticing sound there by...Fronds?
	7:40am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ the authentic under siege everywhere indeed ~ so bits of true authenticity are going for astronomical prices wherever it can be found. & the cycle continues.
	7:41am annie: a baseball store is any establishment that sell baseball-related items.. it's beyond me that there can be so many.... i guess it's akin the the many "thrift" stores that sell "vintage" items. anything is commodified now
	7:42am Zetti: zone 5b and my narcissus are breaking ground, hundreds of tiny bright green tips... beautiful.
	7:43am Linda Lee: who'd a thunk it? our history, our community, our uniqueness all monetized & up for grabs, as well as actual experience. @Zetti ~ fantastic. at about this time in the catskills we start to doubt spring will ever come. so nice to get reports of the real thing..
	7:45am Linda Lee: @annie ~ that sure sounds like the nyc tourist stores. 5 stores on one block selling exactly the same items. weird.
	7:47am Linda Lee: at least with vintage stores there's a little variety. speaking of, one of the greatest things about asheville when i lived there were the thrift stores. not vintage stores. thrift stores. coats for a quarter. that sort of thing. habitat had a truly great store there.
	7:49am Jeffrey Davison: It's no surprise that in NYC whole neighborhoods have been completely transformed, and now Long Island City in Queens is morphing by the minute. Giant buildings on the waterfront, huge hotels near Court Square, small hotels everywhere (and growing like fungus in Manhattan also). Not that LIC was beautiful. It's an old neighborhood with some old buildings but mostly industrial over the last century. Condos everywhere now.
	7:50am annie: they still do, but they have fallen to the high-ticket pricing... i will say, though, that there are many ways to get what you ned here. the free food nd sharing community is thriving.. you will NOT go hungry here if you land flat on your ass.. housng is another story; the joke of "affordable" housing is sad.. and they rant on about how it has to be a certain way. acquiescing to a gubmint standard is shameful.. break the mold and stap out of the box!!
	7:51am Linda Lee: @Jeffrye Davidson ~ saddest thing about this: those condos will largely sit empty ~ functioning mainly as investment, often to foreign entities. empty space, no community. & without actual community & actual neighborhoods, what is NYC? why bother? (i was born & raised there.)
	7:52am Linda Lee: @annie ~ lovely to hear about food sharing! i did a little volunteer work for food not bombs there & it's one of the best things i've ever done.
	7:53am Linda Lee: very satisfying just giving people food.
	7:54am TDK60: Yeah, Brooklyn and Lower East Side-- all these mushrooming modern mini-high rises. And lots of empty apts. And 60,000 homeless.
	7:56am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ ugly in many ways. not that nyc has ever been a 'for the people' town ~ but there was balance. now? can't imagine how working people really make it.
	7:57am annie: in 20 years the whole city-scapes will be very different, with the lower classes enmassed in subsidized housing. linda, there is a wonderful group of people, Firestorm, who have literally swung the pandulum back to those in need. they are an anarchist group and have opened a free lunch kitchen down in west asheville.. they are on facebook.. the program they host is called "12 Baskets".... food donations, clothing donations.. the "fighting back" is in the gerosity of those who can help and do.. even restaurants are donating end-of night meals in trays-full of meals... my mobility issues prevent me from actively participating, but the altruist part of me is joyful at the bounty
	7:58am Jeffrey Davison: There were, not too long ago, lots of affordable neighborhoods. Okay, I'm basically going back 20 years or more, in some instances. Even 10 years ago there were some.
	7:59am Linda Lee: @annie ~ nice. very nice. lots of that going on when i was there as well. we do what we can, even if only sharing good will. that's pretty important now.
	7:59am TDK60: NYC was never fair. But in the 1950s thru '80s one could afford rent. Then property owners jacked up rent. Gettin' pullitical here but so did some great folkies we all know.
	8:00am Linda Lee: right. balance in all things ~ even community ~ is essential to the health of the whole.
	8:01am Linda Lee: what good is to to a community or a city when the rapaciousness of landowners is so extreme that it pays them to have living space empty?
	8:03am TDK60: Linda and Annie have already pointed us to the simple but difficult-to-reach solution: a caring society!
	8:03am Linda Lee: forgive the nostalgia, but in nyc 70s - 80s a creative person could live in such a way that selling wasn't the priority ~ you could do the work you wanted to do & survive as well. that made for vital & interesting work.
	8:03am testingwithfire: good morning all. Jeffrey, just awesome show as always. I see we're talking gentrification and ... whew. I live in a small city north of Boston that still has a goodly number of independently-owned small stores and restaurants, even a comix store that seems to be doing OK, and a new bookstore that's part of a small local chain. Where the gentrification is coming in is in housing: the city council seems hellbent on putting in as many apartment buildings as possible: they're cheaply constructed, even the "luxury condos", and residents old and new are not happy. The DSA is doing some good work to resist and combat gentrification, as are many local orgs. But those efforts seem best organized in Boston and cities like Lynn that have been despoiled by white flight and funding drain for decades, leaving the poorer folks to fend for themselves against late-stage capitalism. That's my tome/rant for the morning. I'm off to a DSA meeting today: my hope is that we regular folks can organize and stop the gentrification combine permanently.
	8:04am Linda Lee: wishing you luck!!
	8:07am TDK60: I lean more to the sorts mentioned by Annie in Asheville. But I'm glad DSA is growing. What city, TestingW.F.? Lynn?
	8:12am annie: there was a time when a city's population actually took and interest in its future and the people who lived there. i'm sad that the current generation of "adults" here is unaware of social activism.they hit the hot topics, march and shout, then go home. the activism ends when the action is over. i see very little continuous effort from the millenials, whose focus is on the issue of the moment, ignoring the on-going troubles. no one wants to interact with the dirty smelly old people or homeless. thank god we have our active older folks....
	8:15am TDK60: Gosh, the music is wonderful this morn. Gotta go strengthen the caffeine potion...be right back...
	8:16am annie: i was thinking that very thing TDK
	8:18am Zetti: I remember the NYC squatter wars. In the 1990s, I attended the east village gentrification protest. Giuliani set in the police, beating everyone with badges covered.
	8:18am Linda Lee: just more narcissistic self-expression, seems like. how boring.
	8:21am Kenneth: Happy to hear you playing Dave Deporis.
	8:21am Linda Lee: he-who-shall-not-be-named, as former DA, basically handed the city to the NYPD ~ though he only came out of the fascist closet after 911 (with the rest of them).
	8:21am melinda: Morning all
	8:22am Linda Lee: that comment about narcissistic self-expression is for annie.
	8:22am Linda Lee: hi melinda!
	8:23am Jeffrey Davison: hey melinda, Kenneth.
	8:26am annie: ;-)
	8:26am TDK60: I'm often a fool for the tremolo effect on guitar, piano.
	8:26am andrew in florida: mornin all. very nice jeffrey, thank you
	8:30am Jeffrey Davison: hey andrew in florida...glad you're enjoying the show.
	8:30am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ me too. when i ived with my dad as a little girl, weekends had him playing guitar at home with the tremelo on high. loved it even then.
	8:30am northguineahills: hey andrew , I moved to FL (gainesville) 6 mos ago from Brooklyn. How's all?
	8:30am TDK60: Thanks to Bo Diddley, for the tremolo.
	8:31am Jeffrey Davison: and hello to northguineahills...
	8:32am Linda Lee: hey! actually saw Bo Diddley perform in Vegas in '77! wild show. masterful player. truly fantastic sound. shakes your boots for you.
	8:33am Linda Lee: my dad picked his up from Chet Atkins though.
	8:34am TDK60: Oh, didn't know Chet A. was a tremolo pioneer.
	8:35am northguineahills: Its been a while since I've been awake to hear you live Jeffrey!
	8:36am TDK60: Glad Joan B. is still with us.
	8:36am Linda Lee: my dad thought so :-)
	8:37am annie: aahhh, i thought i recognized that voice..!! if you ever want to read a lovely book, "whistle down the wind" by mary hayley bell, hayley mills mother.... yes, TDK, i am too
	8:37am northguineahills: @Linda Lee: The downtown plaza where music fest/famer markets/etc occur here in gainesville is named Bo Diddley Square. He grew up and lived just a few kms outside of town. As an undergrad I saw him around a few times.
	8:38am TDK60: I often say: folks say Edison or Tesla harnessed electricity. No, it was Link Wray & Bo Diddley!
	8:39am Linda Lee: @northguineahills ~ wow. nice! i'll never forget seeing him play, myself. just great.
	8:42am melinda: @Linda & Annie I agree about the narcissistic self-expression bit. I think most change happens as a result of persistent and often boring work behind the scenes.
	8:46am annie: agreed, melinda..
	8:46am Linda Lee: no doubt. it's a shame, but dissent for too many means marching ~ & there's no understanding there that change isn't about marching (while marching is the prime tool of manufactured consent now.)
	8:47am annie: i prefer the quiet steady activism of volunteerism, it casts a wider ripple
	8:47am Linda Lee: sorry, meant to write 'manufactured dissent' there .. manufactured consent is media, not marching :-D
	8:48am Linda Lee: @annie ~ not so splashy or titillating :-D
	8:49am annie: yes, linda, every marching or protest action now has become another commodity in some ways..
	8:49am Linda Lee: sure.
	8:50am Linda Lee: flash political action without sustained commitment is easy to manifest .. easy to manipulate.
	8:51am Linda Lee: it's a bit of a snooze :-D
	8:51am Linda Lee: plus, by now the powers that be know just how to deal with it.
	8:52am annie: jeffrey, you are SO loved. thnks for all you do. the time has come fo me to hie me to the kitchen and put the morning meal together.... yes, exactly linda^^
	8:52am Linda Lee: have a great morning annie! thank you Jeffrey!
	8:52am annie: formulaic protests..
	8:54am Linda Lee: yep. nearly meaningless. look at the literal millions who protested in feb 2003 before the iraq invasion. meh!
	8:54am TDK60: I think we need both: hellraising and the longterm organizing. // Thanks for the music this morn, Jeffrey.
	8:55am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ just need to lose the complacency, mainly.
	8:56am annie: the machine is in full bore and practically unstoppable.. see all you lurkers in the BBrainen room.
	8:56am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks for listening, and for the various discussions here on the comments board. Eat the rich!
	8:56am Linda Lee: i'll be happy with oatmeal this morning Jeffrey! ;-)
	8:56am duke: Thanks Jeffrey!
	8:56am TDK60: Ah...that great double album again.
	8:56am northguineahills: Super happy thanks, Jeffrey, and Woofmooers!
	9:00am melinda: Thanx Jeffrey!
	9:34am Wendy Smith: Thanks for turning us on to Joanna Brouk. It’s rare that I wish a piece could just go on forever...

Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from February 24, 2018

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