WFMU: The Blind Tourist with Adriene: Playlist from January 2, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:00pm Carmichael: Heya Adriene and tourists.
	♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: The universe loved it so much it put a bunch of rings on it.
	♥ 6:01pm ParUbi: I'm all caught up with the reading! Haven't been able to listen to these live since the book started.
	6:02pm northguineahills: So, apparently. if you eat all of your kids, the universe puts a ring on it....
	♥ 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings, tourists and ringleader Adriene!
	♥ 6:03pm ParUbi: I'm still wondering about that mysterious military site that was only reopened in 1993
	6:03pm adriene: Hey all, thanks for listening and reading. For anyone reading: Any scenes in the book (so far) standing out to you?
	♥ 6:04pm ultradamno: A Hungry Man dinner i.ytimg.com...
	♥ 6:05pm ParUbi: Michael Hamburger and Anne's dream
	6:06pm northguineahills: Jesse Kaminsky' Neighbors' Noise on GTDS stream on WFMU plays a lot of radio aporee. A good place to find sound walks and field recording....
	♥ 6:06pm ParUbi: I read his translation of Hölderlin in a seminar back in the day
	♥ 6:08pm ParUbi: Oh, also the mysterious Shingle Street site. What happened there?
	6:08pm northguineahills: @ultradamno: jejeje! (reir en voz alto)
	♥ 6:10pm ParUbi: Finally, a general question: It seems that Sebald's writings hover between fiction and nonfiction. Which elements are fictional? That ambiguity, I guess, is part of the work of the text.
	♥ 6:12pm ParUbi: Haha, he had to drink that Cherry Coke at that small town store. Hilarious scene.
	6:13pm choggie: and remember kids, the kindling temperature of Cherry Coke is 462 degrees Fahrenheit
	♥ 6:13pm ParUbi: (I'll stop now-- compensating for missing the last 4 or 5 shows)
	♥ 6:14pm Ken From Hyde Park: I've been attending a martial arts class the last few months and listening en route. No class today, so I ordered a copy from the library system. Will do some catching up with help of the archives in the near future.
	♥ 6:15pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): northguineahills: sitting here with Franco Twinkie and chresti wondering "what's for dinner!?"
	♥ 6:16pm ParUbi: (Right, it's like his long lost spiritual brother. Better, his double.)
	♥ 6:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: ... and if I don't like it, I'll kick the book swiftly across the room. :-)
	♥ 6:17pm dale: i thought i heard henry kissenger in there....
	♥ 6:17pm ParUbi: It's worth it! Doesn't have a conventional plot at all, though. Sustained meditations on place, free association, and dreams.
	6:18pm adriene: @ParUbi Sebald talks about forging some of the pictures in the book and using fictions within the non-fiction in this short segment, you might find it interesting: www.youtube.com...
	6:18pm northguineahills: @GST: Either chorizo/refried beans/seranos//eggs (spices) tacos or tamales....,but my brothers want me to join them for drinks, so, that may curtail that. Tomorrow, I'm making udon soup (w/ tofu and seaweed, etc)
	♥ 6:18pm dale: i stand by my assumption that rick steves is a pot head.
	6:19pm Carmichael: Agreed, Dale.
	♥ 6:19pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): northguineahills:we'll be right over!
	♥ 6:20pm ParUbi: Thanks, @Adriene. Memory is such a huge part of this, I wonder if the forgery is meant to reflect the shifting unreliability of memory...
	6:23pm adriene: In putting the show together I've been able to variety a few fictions, but they really blend in with everything else!
	♥ 6:26pm dale: carmichael - i think it's wonderful if he get's it past american public media or pbs or whomever.
	6:26pm northguineahills: I miss Berlin!
	♥ 6:28pm ParUbi: Narration seems to inevitably simplify and thus fictionalize
	♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: Zucker, Zucker!
	6:30pm choggie: schlagen pop ist eine sugar sugar
	♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: i.ytimg.com...
	♥ 6:31pm ParUbi: I'm fascinated with the way he links the booming sugar trade to inflated prices at art auctions
	♥ 6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Terence McKenna pointedly noted slavery had been abolished until refined sugar. As a Drug - there is nothing as consequential or damaging as sugar.
	6:37pm tak: it's good for ya
	♥ 6:42pm ParUbi: "I think that fiction writing which does not acknowledge the uncertainty of the narrator himself is a form of imposture which I find very, very difficult to take. Any form of authorial writing where the narrator sets himself up as stagehand and director and judge and executor in a text, I find somehow unacceptable. I cannot bear to read books of this kind."
	♥ 6:48pm common: Good eve
	♥ 6:50pm ParUbi: Guess I'll be checking out Thomas Bernhard
	♥ 6:52pm ParUbi: Sheldrake is an interesting case-- something of a black sheep among scientists
	6:53pm Earth Walker: Slavery still exists in American jails Who’s kidding who Extremely low paid workers doing work for corporate America
	♥ 7:00pm ParUbi: Great show- lots to think about!

The Blind Tourist with Adriene: Playlist from January 2, 2020

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January 2, 2020: Part VII & VIII : The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Memories of pre-war Berlin with Michael Hamburger, a beetle swimming shore to shore in a darkened well, Irish country houses and a eerie trip to Orfond Ness. I find myself trapped in the Munich airport thinking of Sebald's connection with the animals throughout The Rings of Saturn.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year
Part VII "Part VII"
Bookworm/KCRW	W.G. Sebald "W.G. Sebald" by "Bookworm/KCRW"
Chris G. Fry	Lost in the Hedge Maze
Tom Outdoors	Dunwich Heatlh Day Walk (7/5/17)
theadrianhart	Getting Lost on A Long Walk in Suffolk!!!
Martha Tilton	I'll Walk Alone "I'll Walk Alone" by "Martha Tilton"
The Haxan Cloak	Consumed "Consumed" by "The Haxan Cloak"
Kurt Mühlhardt	Der Hellseher Bitte, bitte, denk' an mich
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films	Fire: What Makes it Burn
	1936 German Color Film: Berlin in the Year of the Olympic Games
Rick Steves: Germany Audio Tours	Berlin City Walk
	radio aporee ::: maps - Central, Berlin Mitte a song
	radio aporee ::: maps - Diesterweg-Denkmal a song
	Cherry Coke UK: 1987 "Cherry Coke UK: 1987"
Studs Terkel Radio Archive	Connie Kolb and Ursula Bender discuss life in Germany		1986
Bookworm/KCRW	W.G. Sebald "W.G. Sebald" by "Bookworm/KCRW"
Rick Steves: Germany Audio Tours	Berlin City Walk
Ross Alexander	Albert Plays The Flute
	Obituary: Michael Hamburger "Obituary: Michael Hamburger"
	Ludwigsburg, Germany: Returning home after a 55 years absence
Carol Vialogos	What does it mean when you dream of cars and driving? Listen and find out what that dream means.
	radio aporee ::: maps - Diesterweg-Denkmal a song
Part VIII "Part VIII"
Howard Carpendale	Sugar Sugar "Sugar Sugar" by "Howard Carpendale"
Addicted To Pleasure on BBC	Where Did Sugar Come From?
	radio aporee ::: maps - Fen Covert, Suffolk,UK a song
	radio aporee ::: maps - Fen Covert, Suffolk,UK a song
Rings Around Saturn	Portion 22 (Albrecht La'Brooy Bathtime Arrangment)	Erosion
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	Edward Fitzgerald: From 'Rhubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'	Book VI: 18th and 19th Century Poetry (The London Library of Recorded English)
Bookworm/KCRW	W.G. Sebald "W.G. Sebald" by "Bookworm/KCRW"
	A Strand of Silk "A Strand of Silk"
The Open University	The Fate of Country Houses - Ireland: The Arts Past & Present
Marie Sommerville	Eyes Don't Say It
Bookworm/KCRW	W.G. Sebald "W.G. Sebald" by "Bookworm/KCRW"
James Hayward	The Bodies on the Beach (text)
manonabeach journeys	Shingle Street Guest Answer
	radio aporee ::: maps - Orford Ness National Trust nature reserve, Suffolk. a song
	radio aporee ::: maps - Orford Ness National Trust nature reserve, Suffolk. a song
Andrei Tarkovsky	Stalker (excerpt)

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Listener comments!
	6:00pm Carmichael: Heya Adriene and tourists.
	♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: The universe loved it so much it put a bunch of rings on it.
	♥ 6:01pm ParUbi: I'm all caught up with the reading! Haven't been able to listen to these live since the book started.
	6:02pm northguineahills: So, apparently. if you eat all of your kids, the universe puts a ring on it....
	♥ 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings, tourists and ringleader Adriene!
	♥ 6:03pm ParUbi: I'm still wondering about that mysterious military site that was only reopened in 1993
	6:03pm adriene: Hey all, thanks for listening and reading. For anyone reading: Any scenes in the book (so far) standing out to you?
	♥ 6:04pm ultradamno: A Hungry Man dinner i.ytimg.com...
	♥ 6:05pm ParUbi: Michael Hamburger and Anne's dream
	6:06pm northguineahills: Jesse Kaminsky' Neighbors' Noise on GTDS stream on WFMU plays a lot of radio aporee. A good place to find sound walks and field recording....
	♥ 6:06pm ParUbi: I read his translation of Hölderlin in a seminar back in the day
	♥ 6:08pm ParUbi: Oh, also the mysterious Shingle Street site. What happened there?
	6:08pm northguineahills: @ultradamno: jejeje! (reir en voz alto)
	♥ 6:10pm ParUbi: Finally, a general question: It seems that Sebald's writings hover between fiction and nonfiction. Which elements are fictional? That ambiguity, I guess, is part of the work of the text.
	♥ 6:12pm ParUbi: Haha, he had to drink that Cherry Coke at that small town store. Hilarious scene.
	6:13pm choggie: and remember kids, the kindling temperature of Cherry Coke is 462 degrees Fahrenheit
	♥ 6:13pm ParUbi: (I'll stop now-- compensating for missing the last 4 or 5 shows)
	♥ 6:14pm Ken From Hyde Park: I've been attending a martial arts class the last few months and listening en route. No class today, so I ordered a copy from the library system. Will do some catching up with help of the archives in the near future.
	♥ 6:15pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): northguineahills: sitting here with Franco Twinkie and chresti wondering "what's for dinner!?"
	♥ 6:16pm ParUbi: (Right, it's like his long lost spiritual brother. Better, his double.)
	♥ 6:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: ... and if I don't like it, I'll kick the book swiftly across the room. :-)
	♥ 6:17pm dale: i thought i heard henry kissenger in there....
	♥ 6:17pm ParUbi: It's worth it! Doesn't have a conventional plot at all, though. Sustained meditations on place, free association, and dreams.
	6:18pm adriene: @ParUbi Sebald talks about forging some of the pictures in the book and using fictions within the non-fiction in this short segment, you might find it interesting: www.youtube.com...
	6:18pm northguineahills: @GST: Either chorizo/refried beans/seranos//eggs (spices) tacos or tamales....,but my brothers want me to join them for drinks, so, that may curtail that. Tomorrow, I'm making udon soup (w/ tofu and seaweed, etc)
	♥ 6:18pm dale: i stand by my assumption that rick steves is a pot head.
	6:19pm Carmichael: Agreed, Dale.
	♥ 6:19pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): northguineahills:we'll be right over!
	♥ 6:20pm ParUbi: Thanks, @Adriene. Memory is such a huge part of this, I wonder if the forgery is meant to reflect the shifting unreliability of memory...
	6:23pm adriene: In putting the show together I've been able to variety a few fictions, but they really blend in with everything else!
	♥ 6:26pm dale: carmichael - i think it's wonderful if he get's it past american public media or pbs or whomever.
	6:26pm northguineahills: I miss Berlin!
	♥ 6:28pm ParUbi: Narration seems to inevitably simplify and thus fictionalize
	♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: Zucker, Zucker!
	6:30pm choggie: schlagen pop ist eine sugar sugar
	♥ 6:30pm ultradamno: i.ytimg.com...
	♥ 6:31pm ParUbi: I'm fascinated with the way he links the booming sugar trade to inflated prices at art auctions
	♥ 6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Terence McKenna pointedly noted slavery had been abolished until refined sugar. As a Drug - there is nothing as consequential or damaging as sugar.
	6:37pm tak: it's good for ya
	♥ 6:42pm ParUbi: "I think that fiction writing which does not acknowledge the uncertainty of the narrator himself is a form of imposture which I find very, very difficult to take. Any form of authorial writing where the narrator sets himself up as stagehand and director and judge and executor in a text, I find somehow unacceptable. I cannot bear to read books of this kind."
	♥ 6:48pm common: Good eve
	♥ 6:50pm ParUbi: Guess I'll be checking out Thomas Bernhard
	♥ 6:52pm ParUbi: Sheldrake is an interesting case-- something of a black sheep among scientists
	6:53pm Earth Walker: Slavery still exists in American jails Who’s kidding who Extremely low paid workers doing work for corporate America
	♥ 7:00pm ParUbi: Great show- lots to think about!

The Blind Tourist with Adriene: Playlist from January 2, 2020

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