WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from March 22, 2018

Listener comments!
	♥ 4:32pm Trouble: good snowy springness!
	9:02am exile-on-hicks-st: Looking fwd to this show. Wake was a bit of a bummer for me...
	9:02am TDK60: Bonjour Disc Jockey Trouble. Like the wintry painting. Don't mind the snow. It'll be hot soon enough...
	9:03am Linda Lee: good morning Trouble! so glad to hear you.
	♥ 9:03am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble, hello Troubled minds.
	9:03am Linda Lee: very cool painting.
	9:04am exile-on-hicks-st: IOS Appsters like myself miss out. Desktop experience is richer.
	9:07am jdaFromCologne: guten morgen trouble…
	9:07am northguineahills: Just another day w/ Trouble in Paradise.... wait, that didn't go as well as it did in my head, help me out!
	9:09am Leelee: @NGH, mine was gonna be, 'came to Wake, got into Trouble'.. so there's that
	9:09am TDK60: Hello Linda, NGH, Adrian. We're here with one of the best DJs.
	♥ 9:09am Sem: Hello, Trouble and all here in the midst of the Modern World.
	9:10am TDK60: And Sem up in Nova Scotia.
	♥ 9:11am MD: gOOD sNOWY MORNING FREEFORM FIGHTERS..
	♥ 9:11am Adrian in London: @TDK60 Indeed we are. And in accordance with the title of today's show, the novel I am reading is Greatest Hits, by Laura barton; about the life of a (fictional) musician. What's everyone else reading?
	♥ 9:12am Trouble: thanks tdk60, kind of you to say!
	9:12am northguineahills: @Leelee: Much better then mine (this is why I don't brain until at least 11am).
	♥ 9:12am MD: @northguineahills:We are living the Dream...
	♥ 9:13am MD: you guys know it's just a dream...right???
	♥ 9:14am Trouble: i just finished happiness the novel by aminatta forna. set in london, foxes are star players, it was super, didn't want to put it down.
	9:16am Leelee: Thanks @ngh; I only managed to brain bc I has the coffee :)
	♥ 9:16am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and modern people. May sunshine and snowmelt greet you today.
	♥ 9:17am melinda: Morning all!
	♥ 9:17am Adrian in London: @Trouble That book, about London, isn't out yet… in London!
	9:17am queems: i heard this one the other day and it was mind blowing
	9:18am mr_mike: Some Springy snowness. Thanks Trouble for picking me a Rob Weisbrg prize on Sat. @London . Middlemarch. don't tell me how they turn out
	9:18am TDK60: I'm reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
	9:18am themutante: This song is sooo damn good!
	9:19am queems: i have a tab open on my phone so i can try to find a copy of this ep somehow
	9:20am northguineahills: @themutante: Lil' Matty played it Tuesday.
	9:20am northguineahills: and yes, it's sublime.
	♥ 9:20am Adrian in London: Clicky star for Rock Your Baby! @queems Juno in the UK have it on vinyl if you can't find it in the US
	9:20am themutante: Yeah, @northguineahills. That's when I first heard it.
	9:21am Roger: I LOVE this.
	9:21am queems: thanks adrian!
	9:22am themutante: This would work well with Kid A.
	9:22am northguineahills: Yes, I'm an Enophile!
	♥ 9:22am Trouble: today's g**gle doodle honors Katsuko Saruhashi , who was a Japanese geochemist who made some of the first measurements of carbon dioxide levels in seawater and subsequently showed the evidence in seawater and the atmosphere of the dangers of radioactive fallout
	9:24am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble and everyone. First rule of book club: talk to everyone about book club. I'm reading Pat Conroy's "The Prince of Tides" and in wonderment at every word. Genius. Nothing short. I miss that guy.
	9:24am TDK60: Oh, this one from Eno; I still have this cassette, it works! Some say ambient is background only, but this is emotional to me.
	9:25am themutante: Lovely blend to this opening set.
	9:25am northguineahills: y mi tambien, TDK60 /my version is on vinyl.
	9:27am Linda Lee: ahhh... the most relaxing recording ever made. thank you Trouble!
	9:28am TDK60: Almost never read novels. Usually non-fiction: politics, history. Reading a Murray Bookchin at the same time.
	♥ 9:28am Adrian in London: @TDK60 I think Eno said ambient can be background but also the subject of deep emotional listening, so you've got it right
	♥ 9:29am melinda: Great snow music. I recently bought this cd and the guy at the register said he has just listened to it while at an airport and it was quite the experience.
	9:30am TDK60: But, those books y'all mention do sound interesting.
	♥ 9:30am Ken From Hyde Park: The doodle for you-dle: www.google.com...
	9:31am Linda Lee: i'm staying at a home with almost no books ~ while my collection sits in storage in various places. ergo rereading Garcia Marquez ".. Cholera." not as surreal as i recall!
	9:31am northguineahills: I think it was 2006ish when they did a live version for the opening of a new terminal at JFK, and Eno was present.
	♥ 9:32am Trouble: merci@themutant
	♥ 9:32am tomasz.: "Music Theory for Dummies" and "Leningrad: Siege and Symphony". can't read fiction any more, for whatever reason. feels like the world is too urgent for it.
	9:32am thriftstoreleather: good morning everyone! we got some snow yesterday in, Cincinnati...all pretty much melted away now.
	♥ 9:32am maestroso in Tokyo: This is a truly lovely set.
	9:33am Linda Lee: that could be the actual reason to read fiction, tomasz. the world is too urgent for it.
	♥ 9:33am Adrian in London: @Trouble Have you read A Manual for Cleaning Women, short stories by Lucia Berlin? It's incredibly good. I'm trying to limit myself to one story a day, but it's difficult.
	9:33am TDK60: Oh, it's The Ecology of Freedom--that Bookchin; massive work.
	9:34am queems: this is so pretty
	♥ 9:35am tallbuildings: enjoying this post-spring nor'easter set this morning.
	9:35am Leelee: Voice reminds me of Margo Timmins from Cowboy Junkies
	9:36am David in London: I’m currently reading The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, about the two hemispheres of the brain. Taxing but utterly fascinating. Would nicely explain /support that Eno concept of what ambient music is doing.
	9:36am TDK60: Good to hear that several folks are still reading books.
	9:37am Linda Lee: experiencing some difficulty with sleep in my temporary digs & just realizing i'm not surrounded by books. ;-)
	9:38am northguineahills: No snow in FL, but i had to take the plants inside. (38F/3C at dawn(
	9:38am Linda Lee: no snow in the central catskllls today. the coast got all the snow.
	♥ 9:39am steveo: good morning. beautiful end of that set (i came in late)
	♥ 9:39am MD: THANK YOU TROUBLE!
	9:39am TDK60: Back to Woolf: Can see how she broke new ground in the 1920s (like Joyce?, etc.) Bringing out the private mind into view.
	♥ 9:40am officina: Gorgeous show Trouble...
	9:41am BronwynB: hey trouble and everyone!
	9:41am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Officina-who drew your avatar, I used to know. I think she is a Hungarian artist?
	9:42am Marc15: Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain. Oh, and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God, it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
	9:42am TDK60: Linda, checked out your remote village on WikiP yesterday. It has a photo of that big mountain near you. 4,ooo ft!
	♥ 9:42am Sem: @Adrian, @ 9:11, excuse this late response to your question about reading (head down in spreadsheets whilst listening): David Yaffe's biography of Joni Mitchell. Serious musical scholarship, engaging style.
	9:43am Jack: We got 7" of snow, there's a robin in the driveway and there were just 2 geese at the bird feeder.
	9:43am Linda Lee: lovely Italian there Trouble! perfetto!
	9:45am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ so you found us! :-)
	9:45am TDK60: Sem: Bio of Joni, hmmm.
	9:46am Jack: We used to play Tontos Expanding Headband at half speed, 16rpm.
	9:46am TDK60: Well, you mentioned its name yesterday. // Any good tent camping up round there?
	♥ 9:48am Vivian: Trouble, I couldn't find Happiness in our library system. Ended up request Aminatta Forna's 'The Hired Man'. Finished Jeanette Walls ' The Glass Castle' last week, time to pick up another title. WFMU- come for the tunes, stay for the great book suggestions.
	9:48am themutante: Aminatta Forna was born in Bellshill? How exotic!
	9:49am Linda Lee: sure, if you know a landowner. most of the wide open spaces are owned by NYC & NYS, as we're in the watershed & the interest is in suppressing development, to keep city water clean. there's no chemical filtration at all & they'd like to keep it that way. no camping allowed on public lands here, even though we're actually a state park!
	♥ 9:49am Vivian: Urgh, requesting, not request. Hope DJ Icepack is Barcelona bound later today!
	♥ 9:50am Adrian in London: I'm trying to go out for lunch but the sounds are gluing me to my chair. Play some Oasis or someting so I can break away in horror please!
	9:52am Linda Lee: @Adrian in London ~ i know that tune better than i'll admit :-D
	♥ 9:52am Adrian in London: God, this Chip Wickham track is LOVELY! Thanks Trouble
	9:52am TDK60: Good enough reason! Watershed. Plenty of camping elsewhere. NY is a big state.
	9:53am Linda Lee: there are public campgrounds, but they're not places you'd necessarily like to hang out. most court cases here in town originate in the camping areas. sad but true.
	9:54am northguineahills: East River Pipe!
	♥ 9:58am cccinkc: I always enjoy tuning in on Tuesday mornings, but your show is exceptionally excellent today, Trouble!
	♥ 9:59am cccinkc: Thursday mornings, I mean. Ugh.
	10:00am TDK60: Cardamom Garden. Mmm, my fave spice in black tea.
	♥ 10:01am Ken From Hyde Park: @Wild Neil - How goes the gluten-free life today?
	♥ 10:02am Trouble: tak and thanks for all your compliments on today's show!
	10:04am Lewis: Patches!
	10:06am Listener Gregory: Patches!!
	10:06am Lewis: a real tear-jerker that one!
	10:06am TDK60: That C. Carter was a Hit.
	♥ 10:06am uıʇsn∀: a beautiful thursday morning!
	10:08am TDK60: That France '70-'76 V/A looks intriguing; good comp, Trouble?
	♥ 10:08am bore: glad to be tuning in trouble, better late than never
	10:09am Stashu: Before I "Google-it" how do I type upside down?!
	♥ 10:10am melinda: Great set.
	10:10am Stashu: Thank you for the very nice music and show Trouble!
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble and Stashu and melinda and all!
	♥ 10:10am uıʇsn∀: i just google-d!
	10:13am themutante: Gorgeous!
	♥ 10:16am tomasz.: hey Stash <3
	♥ 10:16am tomasz.: hi Trouble also, hi fellow commenters also
	♥ 10:17am ifeelfatnsassy: Oof. This is great.
	10:17am βrian: This is perfect. I dreamed in French last night, apparently to ready myself for Trouble.
	10:18am sugarplumfairywolf: Who DIDN'T do a version of Bang Bang?
	♥ 10:18am steveo: if i were a french language teacher we'd study this song in class
	10:19am βrian: @sugarplumfairywolf: Moi !
	10:19am TDK60: Bang Bang for US national anthem? Sorry..
	10:20am Lewis: @TDK60 - sometimes the truth hurts...
	10:21am themutante: Ouch! @TDK60
	10:21am TDK60: Trouble: Maybe this was discussed before: What's the origin of your French interest?
	♥ 10:23am uıʇsn∀: twin peaks-y!
	10:23am themutante: This is delicious, bordering on too good!
	10:23am Itzall Ablurr: Fruit Molecules is dreamy.
	10:23am mary: always reading novels. Just finishing Mann's Dr Faustus. Such wonderful complexity. In between- Eric Bogosian's Operation Nemesis, non fiction- if you really want to understand WW1 I recommend it. And it is not unrelated to Mann's Faustus Next is Richard Wright's -Pagan Spain. Was supposed to go to Madrid in February to visit friends and practice my espanol. But another time maybe in Nov. Love your show!!!!
	♥ 10:23am melinda: @sugarplumfairywolf I've been thinking that too. I found a 45 of Cher singing it but haven't listened yet. New to me but maybe not others, who knows.
	10:26am Leelee: perfect soothing music for watching remote assist trying to fix my work MS Outlook. Far safer, and more pleasant, than xanax and wine :)
	10:26am northguineahills: I think it's been four years since I've read fiction. I usually read non-fiction, music, critical theory, cosmology, linguistics, spatial theories (including urban), and history. I have too much on my queue as it is. (history and music make the majority of my reading).
	10:27am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Linda Lee-what kind of court cases come from campgrounds? My family and I go camping occasionally in the summer.
	10:28am Itzall Ablurr: How's everybody's color recognition today? my donor-heart has become a noirish shade of blue; perhaps "Presidential" or maybe even "Midnight".
	10:29am themutante: Heyzeus Christie, this is the best show I've heard in quite a while.
	♥ 10:29am steveo: you can turn it maroon by clicking on your Name to follow your profile link. HTH.
	10:30am northguineahills: @Itzall: mine is deep sangria.
	10:31am themutante: Eisbar!!!
	10:32am Itzall Ablurr: I'm enjoying the blue, but thanks!
	♥ 10:33am Ike: Here's another one I haven't read yet, but it looks really interesting: www.amazon.com...
	10:33am Magda: Let's see if mine registered.
	♥ 10:33am steveo: ok i just hope you're getting enough oxygen
	10:34am jdaFromCologne: didnt know there was an english version. is that for clay and his polar bear story?
	10:36am meredith: <3 <3 Delta 5!! woot
	♥ 10:36am Passaic River Blues: @Ike: that looks pretty interesting. I read Powers' last book "Orfeo" and really enjoyed it. I should investigate further.
	♥ 10:36am Asheville Jon: we need another littleMattyWarwick / Trouble show. that was greatly hilarious
	♥ 10:36am steveo: library hold placed on Ike's book rec, because Ike has good taste
	10:38am Itzall Ablurr: Dear Ike, just a quick look at that book and it does look interesting. Would you put that in the category of "magical reality"?
	10:40am chris echo: These tunes are awesome!!! Nice work dj
	10:41am chris echo: Super party good times!
	♥ 10:41am Ike: Gosh, thanks @steveo! I may have good taste in book descriptions but I rarely get a chance to read the actual books, ha ha. I did just finish "Good Guys" by Steven Brust but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It's a B or B minus. It starts strong but doesn't quite live up to the beginning, or the description.
	♥ 10:43am steveo: Haha. OK, I'll just see how it goes :)
	10:44am chris echo: 'So the clock on the wall is broken' that's the book title.
	10:44am Brendan: The clock may be moving , albeit very slow..
	10:44am βrian: Blue skies over the isthmus today. No snow to be seen.
	10:45am Lewis: Mira - definitely true of my time in the Dominican neighborhoods of upper Manhattan!
	10:45am Stephanie: Trouble, the bird songs are especially nice today in snowy NY. Glad to be listening Live today as I work from home.
	♥ 10:46am Joe C from Brooklyn In Staten Island: Trouble, your show is good. Thanks.
	♥ 10:46am steveo: "digame"="tell me" is how they answer the phone in spain (or just "diga")
	10:46am Roberto: "Dime" (tell me) is a common response in Spanish. It's also how one answers the phone in Spain (dime or digame).
	10:46am Lewis: @ßrian - grey here in the Twin Cities with those lines on the road that indicate the DoT folks are expecting snow...
	10:46am Marc15: I believe that I was a Big Band Leader in a previous life
	10:46am Roberto: Oops steveo beat me to it.
	♥ 10:47am steveo: tie goes to the runner
	10:47am duke: "So" - when teaching large classes, I use an online forum-like system. Students would start messages "So, I was trying homework 6 and ...." The "So" used to drive me crazy.
	10:49am Roberto: To be fair, Clarence is probably best known around WFMU for strokin'. However, that Patches song is sincerely heartbreaking.
	10:49am TDK60: Oh, no reason for the French interest, it just is!
	♥ 10:50am steveo: "Because it is good."
	10:50am Brendan: The broken clock is still valuable as long as you look at it the two times every day that it is correct. I’ve tried the same with the supreme leader to no avail.
	10:50am Itzall Ablurr: Please eschew "SO". Listen to very young, inexperienced NPR reporters for a minute or two. They respond to EVERY line of inquiry during the story with the dreaded... SO. It's a mental placeholder akin to "ummm" or "well," but it sounds pretentious to my ears. As if the next words out of their mouths are worthy of laser focus.
	10:52am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I deleted my Facebook account and LinkedIn account. China just came out with their social score, which is partly based on online postings. Hope that does not come here, but it could! It might! And people will sign up for it for a $50 gift card to Panera or something, just like we rely on smartphones.
	10:54am βrian: @Lewis: Do they spray de-icer beforehand?
	♥ 10:54am Asheville Jon: a broken clock is accurate twice a day......
	10:54am Magda: I don't think we know how to use all the social media apps in a meaningful way to communicate with another. I took a lent break from it, and feel less stressed and annoyed.
	10:55am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Magda-I think Facebook is too much like soundbites. Email is under rated imho.
	♥ 10:56am ɨkɛ: @WN, I'm just gonig to lie to Fa(r)cebook and constantly tell it I'm a bank employee who dresses like a chicken and hands out free pens shaped like chickens and puts up the dancing streamer thingies in front of car dealerships and other fake info about myself. Also I give free hugs but then secretly slip bank pens into people's pockets. And I'm a useless spy for Lichtenstein's Ministry of Potatoes.
	10:56am Lewis: @ßrain - yup , that is often my leading indicator. Is Mendota open yet?
	10:59am TDK60: Sorry for any past initial "So"s. Will attempt dropping use of henceforth.
	10:59am βrian: All the lakes are still closed. It's been kind of chilly.
	♥ 11:02am melinda: @Itzall I hadn't really given it much thought but you're right.
	11:03am themutante: Sounds like Blonde Redhead.
	♥ 11:03am tomasz.: here's a few cool facts about Future Pilot AKA. 1. he lives in Glasgow, home of me. 2. he works, or at least used to as a driving instructor. 3. he was asked to play bass on tour with Kylie Minogue but had to turn it down because he had prior commitments to his driving pupils. 4. the album he did with the Bill Wells Octet is really excellent
	11:04am themutante: Damn, @tomasz. Dropping knowledge!
	♥ 11:04am Passaic River Blues: I hope Ms. Prochet is far along the road to recovery. Felt terrible for her last year.
	11:06am Itzall Ablurr: Dear melinda, it's a personal thing but it just seems to be an annoying trend in language, much like "Rilly!" or "Y'know", et al. from the past. It will be with us forever I'm sure. I bonded (as if) with Pseu Braun over this very discussion a few weeks ago! She delivered an enjoyable screed about it on one of her shows and I concurred.
	♥ 11:06am melinda: I decided to live on the edge and have some tasty black tea, but 1/2 cup seems to have made me agitated. I remember caffeine making me happy when I was drinking it regularly but maybe I just read the wrong email while consuming.
	♥ 11:07am Adrian in London: Good grief, this whole show has been incredible. Thanks, Trouble.
	♥ 11:07am tomasz.: in linguistics they're called "discourse markers". they're pretty much a permanent feature, yeah.
	11:07am TDK60: If everyone is in a such hurry today why do folks say, "Right, right, right"? We used to just say it once.
	♥ 11:08am Trouble: thanks @adrian!
	11:08am βrian: Tea usually tastes like plain hot water to me, which is too bad. I used to like it. Maybe my triple espressos have incinerated my taste buds.
	♥ 11:08am melinda: @itzall I missed that rant. If you felt a bond, that's what matters!
	11:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Melinda-i must drink at least 3 cups of coffee a day to feel normal. By the way, what is happening in campgrounds?
	11:09am βrian: Discourse marker vs dat course marker.
	11:10am Magda: @Wild Neil It's too many options. I think email and text are good standards and need to be synced. Next thing is smoke signals on the roof. That is how we will connect with one another.
	11:10am TDK60: Neil: Campgrounds? In reference to Linda Lee earlier? She didn't elaborate but I assume she means bad behavior.
	11:11am Itzall Ablurr: haha. Yeah, I know melinda that was such a tender moment... I do think she's awesome but wow is she scratchy!
	♥ 11:11am melinda: @Neil I used to do that to, but I realized for me the side effects outweighed the benefits eventually, and I'm trying to get to the root of why I'm always groggy.
	11:12am Listener Gregory: Duke!
	♥ 11:12am melinda: itzall that's probably why it felt satisfying!
	11:12am βrian: We probably shouldn't even mention tapeworms.
	11:12am Itzall Ablurr: Of course!
	11:13am frenchee: Ivie backed by Duke Ellington & co.? Jazzy!
	11:13am TDK60: Melinda, ever tried yerba mate? If you can get past the bitter taste, not as edgy a feel as the coffee bean drug.
	♥ 11:15am Mick: Happy Modern Morning, all. Late entry to the book discussion - in the middle of 3 or 4 books as usual, most recent is David Goodwin's Left Bank of the Hudson, which I learned about on this show. Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness is waiting for me at the library.
	11:17am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Melinda-I feel much more normal now that I eschew gluten and dairy with lactose (but still eat cheese and butter). MUCH better. My GI track is now running like a train schedule.
	11:17am Itzall Ablurr: βrian; what's all this about tapewoims?!?
	11:17am queems: i drink decaf everything because caffeine makes my hands shake and then i can’t do my job
	♥ 11:17am Webhamster Henry: This has an oddly Van Dyke Parksianiaty about it.
	11:17am Itzall Ablurr: queems, that is SUCH a great straight line.
	11:18am queems: as it is i already burned all the hair off my hand today
	♥ 11:18am melinda: @TDK I tried it a while back, the effect was similar to tea, since they both have relaxing constituents. Less edge than coffee, but I'm pretty sensitive. I think if I focus on things that make me happy I'll be ok. I had fired off a response to a group mailing from an online health guy who pissed me off, which is out of character for me so I blamed the tea :D
	11:18am TDK60: Mick: LeGuin one of my fave authors, just left us.
	11:18am frenchee: Speaking about what we're reading and recommending, a reviewer of mine had good things to say about Rachel Ingalls's MRS. CALIBAN, which he said is much like the plot of THE SHAPE OF WATER.
	11:18am queems: @itzall FINALLY someone appreciates my work THANK YOU
	11:18am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Renata Zeiguer reminds me of Flying Lizards ("Money" and "Mandalay Song") from 1982. And Renata is a Polish name I think....
	11:21am Itzall Ablurr: Oh that queems! Sorry that I'm still (OK, not sorry) laughing about the hair on your hands. Always funny when it's someone else, right?
	♥ 11:22am steveo: @TDK can you recommend a LeGuin? I tried Left Hand of Darkness but couldn't get into it.
	11:22am SG: what a coincidence - I just ordered Old Ghost this morning !!
	11:23am queems: @itzall haha it is funny to me too, once i got past the actual skin burn. and also the smell.
	♥ 11:24am melinda: @Neil that's good news about your gluten/dairy free experiment. I avoid them too. I think dramatically reducing sugar helped me the most. @queems I like good decaf coffee but decaf tea really blows.
	♥ 11:24am Mick: TDK60: I was saddened by her passing; this will be the first of her books that I've actually read (or to paraphrase Born Yesterday - I've only read about her, not by her)
	11:24am Itzall Ablurr: Aww. queems I thought you were only kidding. Hope you're alright.
	11:24am thedunkel: thank you trouble for the great sounds this morning!
	11:25am Magda: Yo thedunkel!
	11:27am thedunkel: Yo Magda - GREAT BEER! Thank you!
	11:28am queems: @itzall hahaha no! i am actually serious but honestly it’s barely anything. thanks for your concern!!
	11:30am TDK60: steveo: Hard to say. Her most famous ("Left Hand" and "Dispossessed") are from the '70s. Maybe try "Four Ways To Forgiveness"? 4 short stories on issues like slavery, sexism. Most of her sci-fi books are political. She also wrote fantasy.
	11:36am Magda: You are welcome.
	11:39am Itzall Ablurr: Thanks for the fine show today, Trouble! My shopping list grows with every star.
	♥ 11:39am Zulnutt: I've been working through the Earthsea Cycle. Really really enjoyable young adult fantasy literature. The only thing "YA" about it is maybe the accessibility of the language but the content is solid, affirming stuff. Beautifully written and realized worlds.
	11:42am sphere: hello. forgot to sign in today. thanks trouble, great show. i always love how you really put the "free" in freeform!
	♥ 11:43am steveo: thanks @TDK; will give that a try (I might have just been having a bad day when tried Left Hand, too. Mick, don't let my review put you off)
	♥ 11:44am Mick: What sphere said!
	11:45am sphere: A great place to start with Le Guin is a late-period book called "Changing Planes." It's a standalone book that is an easy read. If you like that, take the deep dive!
	11:45am βrian: No wholesome discourse today, Trouble?
	♥ 11:45am Mick: And steveo, I'll definitely approach Left Hand with an open mind. Really looking forward to it!
	11:45am themutante: Helluva set!
	♥ 11:46am steveo: nice; i'll also look for that one, sphere.
	11:46am TDK60: I like Left Hand, but read it long ago. A love story within a look at gender.
	♥ 11:47am Priscilla: Noice!
	11:50am TDK60: That '80s drum sound.
	♥ 11:51am tomasz.: wowwww
	♥ 11:51am Trouble: thanks for tuning in everybody! see you next week
	♥ 11:52am ⓔⓘⓚ: HAAA! I loved this in the 90s. These guys were also known as the KLF, and also as the Timelords.
	11:52am themutante: Amazing selection, Trubz!
	11:52am βrian: Coming up on the hour: Dark Night of the Soul, with Julie (Filling in for Meghan) wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:52am Priscilla: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:53am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble.
	11:54am sphere: The KLF crew are totally into Discordianism, a bunch of weirdos indeed. :)
	11:54am TDK60: Merci Trouble DJ.
	11:54am queems: thank you trouble!
	♥ 11:54am Mick: Thanks for the terrific show Trouble!
	11:55am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I heard The KLF burned up 1 million dollars.
	♥ 11:56am tomasz.: cheers Trouble!
	♥ 11:56am Rich in Washington: @Wild Neil: What a way to shed pounds, no?
	♥ 11:57am ⓔⓘⓚ: @WN, I think that was a funny rumor they started for publicity. IIRC they actually burned up a bunch of their records (mainly as a PR stunt) which were banned for copyright violations due to illicit sampling (as you can hear in this song). They were early masters of starting crazy rumors for publicity.
	♥ 11:58am melinda: @eik this is the same as KLF? They did a number with Tammy Wynette and I've always been curious about the rest of their output.
	♥ 11:58am tomasz.: nah, they literally actually burned one million pounds
	♥ 11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am melinda: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:59am tomasz.: what you said about them burning the records is also true (the copyright dispute was with ABBA) but that was only a handful of albums. most of them were thrown into the North Sea off a ferry.
	♥ 11:59am ⓔⓘⓚ: @tomasz, seriously??? @melinda, yep same awesome jokers
	♥ 11:59am ⓔⓘⓚ: ROTFL, I hadn't heard about the ferry
	12:00pm βrian: Thanks, Trouble. Maybe next week on the commentary? — Just to remind some of us that we ain't crazy.
	♥ 12:00pm tomasz.: i would recommend Bill Drummond's book "45", easily one of the best music books i've ever read
	♥ 12:00pm steveo: thanks trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Adrian in London: Thanks, great show!
	8:47pm jp: listening to this after the fact.. one of the best shows I have heard in 20 some years!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from March 22, 2018

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A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Alice Coltrane carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

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Thu. Feb 27th, 9am - Noon: Jennifer Higgie (More info...)
This is the Modern World with Trouble welcomes Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side, a Story of Women in Art and the Spiritual World. Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer living in London. She wrote fabulously for Frieze Magazine for over 2 decades, is a curator and hosted the podcast Bow Down. In honor of The Other Side coming out in paperback in the US, Jennifer and trouble will discuss women artists, seances and spiritualism.

March 22, 2018: happiness, a novel

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
egisto macchi	laboratori "laboratori" by "egisto macchi"	bioritmi	The Roundtable	1971	Vinyl		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
herbie hancock/ron carter/tony williams/bobby mcferrin	chan's song ( never said)	ost round midnight						0:03:42 (Pop-up)
tonto's expanding head band	riversong	zero time						0:08:32 (Pop-up)
emerson kitamura	rock your baby ( featuring mmm)	the countryside is great	EM				*	0:15:49 (Pop-up)
brian eno	#2 "#2" by "brian eno"	music for airports						0:22:16 (Pop-up)
loma	sundogs "sundogs" by "loma"	loma	sub pop				*	0:30:16 (Pop-up)

Jacques dutronc	Amour, Toujours, Tendresse, Caresses …							0:44:52 (Pop-up)
chip wickham	pushed too far "pushed too far" by "chip wickham"	la sombra	lovemonk	2016			*	0:47:07 (Pop-up)
east river pipe	she's a real good time	east river pipe	sarah records		CD			0:52:35 (Pop-up)
habibi	khodaya "khodaya" by "habibi"	cardamom garden double 7"	modern sky usa				*	0:57:19 (Pop-up)
alfred panou & art ensemble of chicago	je suis un savage	MOBILISATION GENERALE Protest and Spirit Jazz from FRANCE 1970-1976 v/a	digger's digest					0:59:12 (Pop-up)
Clarence Carter	patches "patches" by "Clarence Carter"	testifyin/patches	kent soul				*	1:05:10 (Pop-up)
zanagoria	Cancrizzante in Ritmo "Cancrizzante in Ritmo" by "zanagoria"	insight modulation	creel pone	1972			*	1:06:16 (Pop-up)
ilyas ahmed	zero for below "zero for below" by "ilyas ahmed"	closer to stranger	mie				*	1:08:51 (Pop-up)
the bid-on	sow "sow" by "the bid-on"	sorry puppet	Cinedelic		Vinyl		*	1:12:48 (Pop-up)
sheila	Bang Bang "Bang Bang" by "sheila"				7"			1:15:09 (Pop-up)
Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom	broke and blue	j. jasmine my new music	Unseen Worlds	1978		orig released as j. jasmine'my new music'	*	1:18:22 (Pop-up)
mark van hoen	fruit molecules "fruit molecules" by "mark van hoen"	electronic music(1982-1987)	Wayside & Woodland				*	1:21:12 (Pop-up)
Sandra Bell	at the place "at the place" by "Sandra Bell"	Net	drawing room			1992-95	*	1:25:24 (Pop-up)
mind spiders	ice bear "ice bear" by "mind spiders"	furies	dirtnap				*	1:30:13 (Pop-up)
Delta 5	anticipation "anticipation" by "Delta 5"				7"			1:33:47 (Pop-up)
vernons girls	lover please "lover please" by "vernons girls"							1:37:34 (Pop-up)
lio	banana split "banana split" by "lio"				7"			1:42:31 (Pop-up)

jeri southern	run "run" by "jeri southern"	It's A Scandal! Songs For Soho Blondes v/a						1:51:21 (Pop-up)
richard hayman and his orchestra	Incantation Afro	madness the feast of the drum: explorers room 2017 marathon premium	wfmu					1:54:15 (Pop-up)
future pilot aka	tu mera mata "tu mera mata" by "future pilot aka"	secrets from the clockhouse						1:56:59 (Pop-up)
Melody's Echo Chamber	bisou magique	melody's echo chamber						2:00:48 (Pop-up)
amy raasch	girls get cold "girls get cold" by "amy raasch"	girls get cold	secret latina music				*	2:04:48 (Pop-up)
another sunny day	i'm in love with a girl who doesn't know i exist	air balloon road v/a						2:08:20 (Pop-up)
ivie anderson	rocks in my bed "rocks in my bed" by "ivie anderson"	i got it bad and that ain't bad!						2:10:11 (Pop-up)
cyrus lee	instr. "instr." by "cyrus lee"	a quick six months	Greedy Dilettante/					2:13:26 (Pop-up)
renata zeiguer	below "below" by "renata zeiguer"	old ghost	northern spy				*	2:15:35 (Pop-up)
delvon lamarr organ trio	can i change my mind?	close but no cigar						2:19:32 (Pop-up)
the crystals	i love you eddy "i love you eddy" by "the crystals"				7"			2:23:29 (Pop-up)
perlita de huelva	mi almohada "mi almohada" by "perlita de huelva"	Naino! spanish gipsy soul funk disco 1974-1984	adarce				*	2:25:38 (Pop-up)
marco bosco	madeira II (mae terra)	Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978–1992 v/a	music from memory					2:27:56 (Pop-up)
oluko imo	praise jah 12 version "praise jah 12 version" by "oluko imo"	praise jah	invisible city	1979			*	2:30:57 (Pop-up)
captain planet feat chico mann	aquacero		wonderwheel recordings		7"			2:36:13 (Pop-up)
Madfilth (Alberto Macario & Mariangela Rodin)	nuclear in	Madfilth	cache cache	1979			*	2:41:01 (Pop-up)
krootchey	hot voodoo dub "hot voodoo dub" by "krootchey"	qu'est-ce qu'ila	dark entries	1984			*	2:45:05 (Pop-up)
J.A.M.M.S.	whitney joins the jamms							2:50:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 4:32pm Trouble: good snowy springness!
	9:02am exile-on-hicks-st: Looking fwd to this show. Wake was a bit of a bummer for me...
	9:02am TDK60: Bonjour Disc Jockey Trouble. Like the wintry painting. Don't mind the snow. It'll be hot soon enough...
	9:03am Linda Lee: good morning Trouble! so glad to hear you.
	♥ 9:03am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble, hello Troubled minds.
	9:03am Linda Lee: very cool painting.
	9:04am exile-on-hicks-st: IOS Appsters like myself miss out. Desktop experience is richer.
	9:07am jdaFromCologne: guten morgen trouble…
	9:07am northguineahills: Just another day w/ Trouble in Paradise.... wait, that didn't go as well as it did in my head, help me out!
	9:09am Leelee: @NGH, mine was gonna be, 'came to Wake, got into Trouble'.. so there's that
	9:09am TDK60: Hello Linda, NGH, Adrian. We're here with one of the best DJs.
	♥ 9:09am Sem: Hello, Trouble and all here in the midst of the Modern World.
	9:10am TDK60: And Sem up in Nova Scotia.
	♥ 9:11am MD: gOOD sNOWY MORNING FREEFORM FIGHTERS..
	♥ 9:11am Adrian in London: @TDK60 Indeed we are. And in accordance with the title of today's show, the novel I am reading is Greatest Hits, by Laura barton; about the life of a (fictional) musician. What's everyone else reading?
	♥ 9:12am Trouble: thanks tdk60, kind of you to say!
	9:12am northguineahills: @Leelee: Much better then mine (this is why I don't brain until at least 11am).
	♥ 9:12am MD: @northguineahills:We are living the Dream...
	♥ 9:13am MD: you guys know it's just a dream...right???
	♥ 9:14am Trouble: i just finished happiness the novel by aminatta forna. set in london, foxes are star players, it was super, didn't want to put it down.
	9:16am Leelee: Thanks @ngh; I only managed to brain bc I has the coffee :)
	♥ 9:16am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and modern people. May sunshine and snowmelt greet you today.
	♥ 9:17am melinda: Morning all!
	♥ 9:17am Adrian in London: @Trouble That book, about London, isn't out yet… in London!
	9:17am queems: i heard this one the other day and it was mind blowing
	9:18am mr_mike: Some Springy snowness. Thanks Trouble for picking me a Rob Weisbrg prize on Sat. @London . Middlemarch. don't tell me how they turn out
	9:18am TDK60: I'm reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
	9:18am themutante: This song is sooo damn good!
	9:19am queems: i have a tab open on my phone so i can try to find a copy of this ep somehow
	9:20am northguineahills: @themutante: Lil' Matty played it Tuesday.
	9:20am northguineahills: and yes, it's sublime.
	♥ 9:20am Adrian in London: Clicky star for Rock Your Baby! @queems Juno in the UK have it on vinyl if you can't find it in the US
	9:20am themutante: Yeah, @northguineahills. That's when I first heard it.
	9:21am Roger: I LOVE this.
	9:21am queems: thanks adrian!
	9:22am themutante: This would work well with Kid A.
	9:22am northguineahills: Yes, I'm an Enophile!
	♥ 9:22am Trouble: today's g**gle doodle honors Katsuko Saruhashi , who was a Japanese geochemist who made some of the first measurements of carbon dioxide levels in seawater and subsequently showed the evidence in seawater and the atmosphere of the dangers of radioactive fallout
	9:24am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble and everyone. First rule of book club: talk to everyone about book club. I'm reading Pat Conroy's "The Prince of Tides" and in wonderment at every word. Genius. Nothing short. I miss that guy.
	9:24am TDK60: Oh, this one from Eno; I still have this cassette, it works! Some say ambient is background only, but this is emotional to me.
	9:25am themutante: Lovely blend to this opening set.
	9:25am northguineahills: y mi tambien, TDK60 /my version is on vinyl.
	9:27am Linda Lee: ahhh... the most relaxing recording ever made. thank you Trouble!
	9:28am TDK60: Almost never read novels. Usually non-fiction: politics, history. Reading a Murray Bookchin at the same time.
	♥ 9:28am Adrian in London: @TDK60 I think Eno said ambient can be background but also the subject of deep emotional listening, so you've got it right
	♥ 9:29am melinda: Great snow music. I recently bought this cd and the guy at the register said he has just listened to it while at an airport and it was quite the experience.
	9:30am TDK60: But, those books y'all mention do sound interesting.
	♥ 9:30am Ken From Hyde Park: The doodle for you-dle: www.google.com...
	9:31am Linda Lee: i'm staying at a home with almost no books ~ while my collection sits in storage in various places. ergo rereading Garcia Marquez ".. Cholera." not as surreal as i recall!
	9:31am northguineahills: I think it was 2006ish when they did a live version for the opening of a new terminal at JFK, and Eno was present.
	♥ 9:32am Trouble: merci@themutant
	♥ 9:32am tomasz.: "Music Theory for Dummies" and "Leningrad: Siege and Symphony". can't read fiction any more, for whatever reason. feels like the world is too urgent for it.
	9:32am thriftstoreleather: good morning everyone! we got some snow yesterday in, Cincinnati...all pretty much melted away now.
	♥ 9:32am maestroso in Tokyo: This is a truly lovely set.
	9:33am Linda Lee: that could be the actual reason to read fiction, tomasz. the world is too urgent for it.
	♥ 9:33am Adrian in London: @Trouble Have you read A Manual for Cleaning Women, short stories by Lucia Berlin? It's incredibly good. I'm trying to limit myself to one story a day, but it's difficult.
	9:33am TDK60: Oh, it's The Ecology of Freedom--that Bookchin; massive work.
	9:34am queems: this is so pretty
	♥ 9:35am tallbuildings: enjoying this post-spring nor'easter set this morning.
	9:35am Leelee: Voice reminds me of Margo Timmins from Cowboy Junkies
	9:36am David in London: I’m currently reading The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, about the two hemispheres of the brain. Taxing but utterly fascinating. Would nicely explain /support that Eno concept of what ambient music is doing.
	9:36am TDK60: Good to hear that several folks are still reading books.
	9:37am Linda Lee: experiencing some difficulty with sleep in my temporary digs & just realizing i'm not surrounded by books. ;-)
	9:38am northguineahills: No snow in FL, but i had to take the plants inside. (38F/3C at dawn(
	9:38am Linda Lee: no snow in the central catskllls today. the coast got all the snow.
	♥ 9:39am steveo: good morning. beautiful end of that set (i came in late)
	♥ 9:39am MD: THANK YOU TROUBLE!
	9:39am TDK60: Back to Woolf: Can see how she broke new ground in the 1920s (like Joyce?, etc.) Bringing out the private mind into view.
	♥ 9:40am officina: Gorgeous show Trouble...
	9:41am BronwynB: hey trouble and everyone!
	9:41am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Officina-who drew your avatar, I used to know. I think she is a Hungarian artist?
	9:42am Marc15: Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain. Oh, and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God, it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
	9:42am TDK60: Linda, checked out your remote village on WikiP yesterday. It has a photo of that big mountain near you. 4,ooo ft!
	♥ 9:42am Sem: @Adrian, @ 9:11, excuse this late response to your question about reading (head down in spreadsheets whilst listening): David Yaffe's biography of Joni Mitchell. Serious musical scholarship, engaging style.
	9:43am Jack: We got 7" of snow, there's a robin in the driveway and there were just 2 geese at the bird feeder.
	9:43am Linda Lee: lovely Italian there Trouble! perfetto!
	9:45am Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ so you found us! :-)
	9:45am TDK60: Sem: Bio of Joni, hmmm.
	9:46am Jack: We used to play Tontos Expanding Headband at half speed, 16rpm.
	9:46am TDK60: Well, you mentioned its name yesterday. // Any good tent camping up round there?
	♥ 9:48am Vivian: Trouble, I couldn't find Happiness in our library system. Ended up request Aminatta Forna's 'The Hired Man'. Finished Jeanette Walls ' The Glass Castle' last week, time to pick up another title. WFMU- come for the tunes, stay for the great book suggestions.
	9:48am themutante: Aminatta Forna was born in Bellshill? How exotic!
	9:49am Linda Lee: sure, if you know a landowner. most of the wide open spaces are owned by NYC & NYS, as we're in the watershed & the interest is in suppressing development, to keep city water clean. there's no chemical filtration at all & they'd like to keep it that way. no camping allowed on public lands here, even though we're actually a state park!
	♥ 9:49am Vivian: Urgh, requesting, not request. Hope DJ Icepack is Barcelona bound later today!
	♥ 9:50am Adrian in London: I'm trying to go out for lunch but the sounds are gluing me to my chair. Play some Oasis or someting so I can break away in horror please!
	9:52am Linda Lee: @Adrian in London ~ i know that tune better than i'll admit :-D
	♥ 9:52am Adrian in London: God, this Chip Wickham track is LOVELY! Thanks Trouble
	9:52am TDK60: Good enough reason! Watershed. Plenty of camping elsewhere. NY is a big state.
	9:53am Linda Lee: there are public campgrounds, but they're not places you'd necessarily like to hang out. most court cases here in town originate in the camping areas. sad but true.
	9:54am northguineahills: East River Pipe!
	♥ 9:58am cccinkc: I always enjoy tuning in on Tuesday mornings, but your show is exceptionally excellent today, Trouble!
	♥ 9:59am cccinkc: Thursday mornings, I mean. Ugh.
	10:00am TDK60: Cardamom Garden. Mmm, my fave spice in black tea.
	♥ 10:01am Ken From Hyde Park: @Wild Neil - How goes the gluten-free life today?
	♥ 10:02am Trouble: tak and thanks for all your compliments on today's show!
	10:04am Lewis: Patches!
	10:06am Listener Gregory: Patches!!
	10:06am Lewis: a real tear-jerker that one!
	10:06am TDK60: That C. Carter was a Hit.
	♥ 10:06am uıʇsn∀: a beautiful thursday morning!
	10:08am TDK60: That France '70-'76 V/A looks intriguing; good comp, Trouble?
	♥ 10:08am bore: glad to be tuning in trouble, better late than never
	10:09am Stashu: Before I "Google-it" how do I type upside down?!
	♥ 10:10am melinda: Great set.
	10:10am Stashu: Thank you for the very nice music and show Trouble!
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble and Stashu and melinda and all!
	♥ 10:10am uıʇsn∀: i just google-d!
	10:13am themutante: Gorgeous!
	♥ 10:16am tomasz.: hey Stash <3
	♥ 10:16am tomasz.: hi Trouble also, hi fellow commenters also
	♥ 10:17am ifeelfatnsassy: Oof. This is great.
	10:17am βrian: This is perfect. I dreamed in French last night, apparently to ready myself for Trouble.
	10:18am sugarplumfairywolf: Who DIDN'T do a version of Bang Bang?
	♥ 10:18am steveo: if i were a french language teacher we'd study this song in class
	10:19am βrian: @sugarplumfairywolf: Moi !
	10:19am TDK60: Bang Bang for US national anthem? Sorry..
	10:20am Lewis: @TDK60 - sometimes the truth hurts...
	10:21am themutante: Ouch! @TDK60
	10:21am TDK60: Trouble: Maybe this was discussed before: What's the origin of your French interest?
	♥ 10:23am uıʇsn∀: twin peaks-y!
	10:23am themutante: This is delicious, bordering on too good!
	10:23am Itzall Ablurr: Fruit Molecules is dreamy.
	10:23am mary: always reading novels. Just finishing Mann's Dr Faustus. Such wonderful complexity. In between- Eric Bogosian's Operation Nemesis, non fiction- if you really want to understand WW1 I recommend it. And it is not unrelated to Mann's Faustus Next is Richard Wright's -Pagan Spain. Was supposed to go to Madrid in February to visit friends and practice my espanol. But another time maybe in Nov. Love your show!!!!
	♥ 10:23am melinda: @sugarplumfairywolf I've been thinking that too. I found a 45 of Cher singing it but haven't listened yet. New to me but maybe not others, who knows.
	10:26am Leelee: perfect soothing music for watching remote assist trying to fix my work MS Outlook. Far safer, and more pleasant, than xanax and wine :)
	10:26am northguineahills: I think it's been four years since I've read fiction. I usually read non-fiction, music, critical theory, cosmology, linguistics, spatial theories (including urban), and history. I have too much on my queue as it is. (history and music make the majority of my reading).
	10:27am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Linda Lee-what kind of court cases come from campgrounds? My family and I go camping occasionally in the summer.
	10:28am Itzall Ablurr: How's everybody's color recognition today? my donor-heart has become a noirish shade of blue; perhaps "Presidential" or maybe even "Midnight".
	10:29am themutante: Heyzeus Christie, this is the best show I've heard in quite a while.
	♥ 10:29am steveo: you can turn it maroon by clicking on your Name to follow your profile link. HTH.
	10:30am northguineahills: @Itzall: mine is deep sangria.
	10:31am themutante: Eisbar!!!
	10:32am Itzall Ablurr: I'm enjoying the blue, but thanks!
	♥ 10:33am Ike: Here's another one I haven't read yet, but it looks really interesting: www.amazon.com...
	10:33am Magda: Let's see if mine registered.
	♥ 10:33am steveo: ok i just hope you're getting enough oxygen
	10:34am jdaFromCologne: didnt know there was an english version. is that for clay and his polar bear story?
	10:36am meredith: <3 <3 Delta 5!! woot
	♥ 10:36am Passaic River Blues: @Ike: that looks pretty interesting. I read Powers' last book "Orfeo" and really enjoyed it. I should investigate further.
	♥ 10:36am Asheville Jon: we need another littleMattyWarwick / Trouble show. that was greatly hilarious
	♥ 10:36am steveo: library hold placed on Ike's book rec, because Ike has good taste
	10:38am Itzall Ablurr: Dear Ike, just a quick look at that book and it does look interesting. Would you put that in the category of "magical reality"?
	10:40am chris echo: These tunes are awesome!!! Nice work dj
	10:41am chris echo: Super party good times!
	♥ 10:41am Ike: Gosh, thanks @steveo! I may have good taste in book descriptions but I rarely get a chance to read the actual books, ha ha. I did just finish "Good Guys" by Steven Brust but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It's a B or B minus. It starts strong but doesn't quite live up to the beginning, or the description.
	♥ 10:43am steveo: Haha. OK, I'll just see how it goes :)
	10:44am chris echo: 'So the clock on the wall is broken' that's the book title.
	10:44am Brendan: The clock may be moving , albeit very slow..
	10:44am βrian: Blue skies over the isthmus today. No snow to be seen.
	10:45am Lewis: Mira - definitely true of my time in the Dominican neighborhoods of upper Manhattan!
	10:45am Stephanie: Trouble, the bird songs are especially nice today in snowy NY. Glad to be listening Live today as I work from home.
	♥ 10:46am Joe C from Brooklyn In Staten Island: Trouble, your show is good. Thanks.
	♥ 10:46am steveo: "digame"="tell me" is how they answer the phone in spain (or just "diga")
	10:46am Roberto: "Dime" (tell me) is a common response in Spanish. It's also how one answers the phone in Spain (dime or digame).
	10:46am Lewis: @ßrian - grey here in the Twin Cities with those lines on the road that indicate the DoT folks are expecting snow...
	10:46am Marc15: I believe that I was a Big Band Leader in a previous life
	10:46am Roberto: Oops steveo beat me to it.
	♥ 10:47am steveo: tie goes to the runner
	10:47am duke: "So" - when teaching large classes, I use an online forum-like system. Students would start messages "So, I was trying homework 6 and ...." The "So" used to drive me crazy.
	10:49am Roberto: To be fair, Clarence is probably best known around WFMU for strokin'. However, that Patches song is sincerely heartbreaking.
	10:49am TDK60: Oh, no reason for the French interest, it just is!
	♥ 10:50am steveo: "Because it is good."
	10:50am Brendan: The broken clock is still valuable as long as you look at it the two times every day that it is correct. I’ve tried the same with the supreme leader to no avail.
	10:50am Itzall Ablurr: Please eschew "SO". Listen to very young, inexperienced NPR reporters for a minute or two. They respond to EVERY line of inquiry during the story with the dreaded... SO. It's a mental placeholder akin to "ummm" or "well," but it sounds pretentious to my ears. As if the next words out of their mouths are worthy of laser focus.
	10:52am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I deleted my Facebook account and LinkedIn account. China just came out with their social score, which is partly based on online postings. Hope that does not come here, but it could! It might! And people will sign up for it for a $50 gift card to Panera or something, just like we rely on smartphones.
	10:54am βrian: @Lewis: Do they spray de-icer beforehand?
	♥ 10:54am Asheville Jon: a broken clock is accurate twice a day......
	10:54am Magda: I don't think we know how to use all the social media apps in a meaningful way to communicate with another. I took a lent break from it, and feel less stressed and annoyed.
	10:55am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Magda-I think Facebook is too much like soundbites. Email is under rated imho.
	♥ 10:56am ɨkɛ: @WN, I'm just gonig to lie to Fa(r)cebook and constantly tell it I'm a bank employee who dresses like a chicken and hands out free pens shaped like chickens and puts up the dancing streamer thingies in front of car dealerships and other fake info about myself. Also I give free hugs but then secretly slip bank pens into people's pockets. And I'm a useless spy for Lichtenstein's Ministry of Potatoes.
	10:56am Lewis: @ßrain - yup , that is often my leading indicator. Is Mendota open yet?
	10:59am TDK60: Sorry for any past initial "So"s. Will attempt dropping use of henceforth.
	10:59am βrian: All the lakes are still closed. It's been kind of chilly.
	♥ 11:02am melinda: @Itzall I hadn't really given it much thought but you're right.
	11:03am themutante: Sounds like Blonde Redhead.
	♥ 11:03am tomasz.: here's a few cool facts about Future Pilot AKA. 1. he lives in Glasgow, home of me. 2. he works, or at least used to as a driving instructor. 3. he was asked to play bass on tour with Kylie Minogue but had to turn it down because he had prior commitments to his driving pupils. 4. the album he did with the Bill Wells Octet is really excellent
	11:04am themutante: Damn, @tomasz. Dropping knowledge!
	♥ 11:04am Passaic River Blues: I hope Ms. Prochet is far along the road to recovery. Felt terrible for her last year.
	11:06am Itzall Ablurr: Dear melinda, it's a personal thing but it just seems to be an annoying trend in language, much like "Rilly!" or "Y'know", et al. from the past. It will be with us forever I'm sure. I bonded (as if) with Pseu Braun over this very discussion a few weeks ago! She delivered an enjoyable screed about it on one of her shows and I concurred.
	♥ 11:06am melinda: I decided to live on the edge and have some tasty black tea, but 1/2 cup seems to have made me agitated. I remember caffeine making me happy when I was drinking it regularly but maybe I just read the wrong email while consuming.
	♥ 11:07am Adrian in London: Good grief, this whole show has been incredible. Thanks, Trouble.
	♥ 11:07am tomasz.: in linguistics they're called "discourse markers". they're pretty much a permanent feature, yeah.
	11:07am TDK60: If everyone is in a such hurry today why do folks say, "Right, right, right"? We used to just say it once.
	♥ 11:08am Trouble: thanks @adrian!
	11:08am βrian: Tea usually tastes like plain hot water to me, which is too bad. I used to like it. Maybe my triple espressos have incinerated my taste buds.
	♥ 11:08am melinda: @itzall I missed that rant. If you felt a bond, that's what matters!
	11:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Melinda-i must drink at least 3 cups of coffee a day to feel normal. By the way, what is happening in campgrounds?
	11:09am βrian: Discourse marker vs dat course marker.
	11:10am Magda: @Wild Neil It's too many options. I think email and text are good standards and need to be synced. Next thing is smoke signals on the roof. That is how we will connect with one another.
	11:10am TDK60: Neil: Campgrounds? In reference to Linda Lee earlier? She didn't elaborate but I assume she means bad behavior.
	11:11am Itzall Ablurr: haha. Yeah, I know melinda that was such a tender moment... I do think she's awesome but wow is she scratchy!
	♥ 11:11am melinda: @Neil I used to do that to, but I realized for me the side effects outweighed the benefits eventually, and I'm trying to get to the root of why I'm always groggy.
	11:12am Listener Gregory: Duke!
	♥ 11:12am melinda: itzall that's probably why it felt satisfying!
	11:12am βrian: We probably shouldn't even mention tapeworms.
	11:12am Itzall Ablurr: Of course!
	11:13am frenchee: Ivie backed by Duke Ellington & co.? Jazzy!
	11:13am TDK60: Melinda, ever tried yerba mate? If you can get past the bitter taste, not as edgy a feel as the coffee bean drug.
	♥ 11:15am Mick: Happy Modern Morning, all. Late entry to the book discussion - in the middle of 3 or 4 books as usual, most recent is David Goodwin's Left Bank of the Hudson, which I learned about on this show. Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness is waiting for me at the library.
	11:17am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Melinda-I feel much more normal now that I eschew gluten and dairy with lactose (but still eat cheese and butter). MUCH better. My GI track is now running like a train schedule.
	11:17am Itzall Ablurr: βrian; what's all this about tapewoims?!?
	11:17am queems: i drink decaf everything because caffeine makes my hands shake and then i can’t do my job
	♥ 11:17am Webhamster Henry: This has an oddly Van Dyke Parksianiaty about it.
	11:17am Itzall Ablurr: queems, that is SUCH a great straight line.
	11:18am queems: as it is i already burned all the hair off my hand today
	♥ 11:18am melinda: @TDK I tried it a while back, the effect was similar to tea, since they both have relaxing constituents. Less edge than coffee, but I'm pretty sensitive. I think if I focus on things that make me happy I'll be ok. I had fired off a response to a group mailing from an online health guy who pissed me off, which is out of character for me so I blamed the tea :D
	11:18am TDK60: Mick: LeGuin one of my fave authors, just left us.
	11:18am frenchee: Speaking about what we're reading and recommending, a reviewer of mine had good things to say about Rachel Ingalls's MRS. CALIBAN, which he said is much like the plot of THE SHAPE OF WATER.
	11:18am queems: @itzall FINALLY someone appreciates my work THANK YOU
	11:18am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Renata Zeiguer reminds me of Flying Lizards ("Money" and "Mandalay Song") from 1982. And Renata is a Polish name I think....
	11:21am Itzall Ablurr: Oh that queems! Sorry that I'm still (OK, not sorry) laughing about the hair on your hands. Always funny when it's someone else, right?
	♥ 11:22am steveo: @TDK can you recommend a LeGuin? I tried Left Hand of Darkness but couldn't get into it.
	11:22am SG: what a coincidence - I just ordered Old Ghost this morning !!
	11:23am queems: @itzall haha it is funny to me too, once i got past the actual skin burn. and also the smell.
	♥ 11:24am melinda: @Neil that's good news about your gluten/dairy free experiment. I avoid them too. I think dramatically reducing sugar helped me the most. @queems I like good decaf coffee but decaf tea really blows.
	♥ 11:24am Mick: TDK60: I was saddened by her passing; this will be the first of her books that I've actually read (or to paraphrase Born Yesterday - I've only read about her, not by her)
	11:24am Itzall Ablurr: Aww. queems I thought you were only kidding. Hope you're alright.
	11:24am thedunkel: thank you trouble for the great sounds this morning!
	11:25am Magda: Yo thedunkel!
	11:27am thedunkel: Yo Magda - GREAT BEER! Thank you!
	11:28am queems: @itzall hahaha no! i am actually serious but honestly it’s barely anything. thanks for your concern!!
	11:30am TDK60: steveo: Hard to say. Her most famous ("Left Hand" and "Dispossessed") are from the '70s. Maybe try "Four Ways To Forgiveness"? 4 short stories on issues like slavery, sexism. Most of her sci-fi books are political. She also wrote fantasy.
	11:36am Magda: You are welcome.
	11:39am Itzall Ablurr: Thanks for the fine show today, Trouble! My shopping list grows with every star.
	♥ 11:39am Zulnutt: I've been working through the Earthsea Cycle. Really really enjoyable young adult fantasy literature. The only thing "YA" about it is maybe the accessibility of the language but the content is solid, affirming stuff. Beautifully written and realized worlds.
	11:42am sphere: hello. forgot to sign in today. thanks trouble, great show. i always love how you really put the "free" in freeform!
	♥ 11:43am steveo: thanks @TDK; will give that a try (I might have just been having a bad day when tried Left Hand, too. Mick, don't let my review put you off)
	♥ 11:44am Mick: What sphere said!
	11:45am sphere: A great place to start with Le Guin is a late-period book called "Changing Planes." It's a standalone book that is an easy read. If you like that, take the deep dive!
	11:45am βrian: No wholesome discourse today, Trouble?
	♥ 11:45am Mick: And steveo, I'll definitely approach Left Hand with an open mind. Really looking forward to it!
	11:45am themutante: Helluva set!
	♥ 11:46am steveo: nice; i'll also look for that one, sphere.
	11:46am TDK60: I like Left Hand, but read it long ago. A love story within a look at gender.
	♥ 11:47am Priscilla: Noice!
	11:50am TDK60: That '80s drum sound.
	♥ 11:51am tomasz.: wowwww
	♥ 11:51am Trouble: thanks for tuning in everybody! see you next week
	♥ 11:52am ⓔⓘⓚ: HAAA! I loved this in the 90s. These guys were also known as the KLF, and also as the Timelords.
	11:52am themutante: Amazing selection, Trubz!
	11:52am βrian: Coming up on the hour: Dark Night of the Soul, with Julie (Filling in for Meghan) wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:52am Priscilla: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:53am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble.
	11:54am sphere: The KLF crew are totally into Discordianism, a bunch of weirdos indeed. :)
	11:54am TDK60: Merci Trouble DJ.
	11:54am queems: thank you trouble!
	♥ 11:54am Mick: Thanks for the terrific show Trouble!
	11:55am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I heard The KLF burned up 1 million dollars.
	♥ 11:56am tomasz.: cheers Trouble!
	♥ 11:56am Rich in Washington: @Wild Neil: What a way to shed pounds, no?
	♥ 11:57am ⓔⓘⓚ: @WN, I think that was a funny rumor they started for publicity. IIRC they actually burned up a bunch of their records (mainly as a PR stunt) which were banned for copyright violations due to illicit sampling (as you can hear in this song). They were early masters of starting crazy rumors for publicity.
	♥ 11:58am melinda: @eik this is the same as KLF? They did a number with Tammy Wynette and I've always been curious about the rest of their output.
	♥ 11:58am tomasz.: nah, they literally actually burned one million pounds
	♥ 11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am melinda: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:59am tomasz.: what you said about them burning the records is also true (the copyright dispute was with ABBA) but that was only a handful of albums. most of them were thrown into the North Sea off a ferry.
	♥ 11:59am ⓔⓘⓚ: @tomasz, seriously??? @melinda, yep same awesome jokers
	♥ 11:59am ⓔⓘⓚ: ROTFL, I hadn't heard about the ferry
	12:00pm βrian: Thanks, Trouble. Maybe next week on the commentary? — Just to remind some of us that we ain't crazy.
	♥ 12:00pm tomasz.: i would recommend Bill Drummond's book "45", easily one of the best music books i've ever read
	♥ 12:00pm steveo: thanks trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Adrian in London: Thanks, great show!
	8:47pm jp: listening to this after the fact.. one of the best shows I have heard in 20 some years!

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