WFMU: Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from June 11, 2020

Listener comments!
	👻 3:04pm Bas NL: Hi Fabio! Hi Failurites!
	👻 3:05pm chresti: Hi Fabio and strong ones, here to dance the giant way.
	3:05pm TDK60: Hi Fabio. How's Queens?
	3:06pm G: Curtis Mayfield?
	3:07pm duke: Thank you for Curtis.
	3:08pm steveo: big clap of thunder here, just as mr. giant man made his appearance today -- or was it his giant footsteps?
	👻 3:09pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Who has carrot cake?
	3:09pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Fabio and strong persons everywhere.
	3:11pm JtotheK: Hi Fabio & failures. Thanks for the Curtis track.
	3:11pm kpx: which direction is that storm moving to.
	3:11pm Mike Sin: Hey Fab! Always amazed by this track -- Curtis leaves the Impressions and his whole new original sound from this point is encapsulated in the opening track of his first solo LP.
	3:15pm Jim the Poet: Hey Fabio! Looking forward to the show. I always feel happy when Giant Man comes on.
	3:17pm listener phillip in PAIN: Fabio! I failed again hurt my back putting up the AC. went to the hosp ER this morning.
	3:21pm TDK60: kpx: I believe the storm in NJ/NYC is moving east now.
	3:21pm ben abs: Evening (or afternoon) all, this reminded me of Alice Coltrane
	3:24pm ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Mighty sounds.Sorry to hear listener phillip I feel your pain.
	3:25pm kpx: PHEW, Thx TDK60.
	3:25pm ami ad: It's raining in the BK.
	3:28pm mariano: Hey Fabio, crew, failures.
	3:29pm Fabio: @ listener phillip: Sorry to hear about your back. Hot baths work really well for strained backs with epsome salts
	3:29pm steveo: Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world I feel like it's rainin' all over the world
	3:30pm markie_post: One time, during a pool party at my house, I tripped on a crack in the pavement and fell directly in my right knee cap, shattered it. horrible pain..
	3:32pm markie_post: @ listener phillip I feel your pain!
	3:36pm David in London: I’m into the Lounge of Failure. Greetings esteemed Fabio. Hey Mariano, steveo, ben abs, ami ad et al!
	3:36pm northguineahills: I like how Coltrane's "Alabama" was on "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane" , and the content is anything but gentle. It makes me weep every time....
	3:37pm David in London: ...+ TDK!
	3:37pm northguineahills: Fabio's audio salve should help you, philip, feel better!
	3:37pm kpx: people with joint injuries can predict the weather. I did for a lot of years and then eventually stopped. @ listener Phillip, tough break sorry to hear.
	3:37pm goyim in the am: Brother Ah was also a fantastic dj on WPFW in DC for many years.
	3:38pm ami ad: @David in London:How do?Glad I could help Handy understand what you told him the other day.Cheers.
	3:38pm coelacanth∅: greetings Fabio and utter Failures
	3:39pm northguineahills: @kpx: footie injuries allowed me that priviledge, since my eaely twenties.
	3:39pm David in London: Ami ad. Who needs online translation services when we have you, eh?
	3:39pm Devin B.: Yay!
	3:39pm TDK60: Hello David in London. // Rough ride, Fabio? We can handle.
	3:39pm northguineahills: did Fabio just express emotion? It is indeed unreal times....
	3:40pm ami ad: @David in London:Eh?Come again?
	3:41pm peckinpah: @northguineahills Gentle Side of Coltrane is a comp... Live at Birdland, where it was 1st released on, is the goods.
	3:42pm northguineahills: @peckinah: mine is on a bootleg....
	👻 3:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @goyim: dang! I grew up here & yet seems like I completely missed out on WPFW. Much great stuff...
	3:43pm listener phillip in pain: hopefully this muscle relaxant will help. would you believe the doctors name was Jeremiah robinson.
	3:44pm mariano: Hey David, how's tricks. I just took the longest walk I've taken in a while, 4 miles or so to Canal St through the French Quarter and back, and even though it's typically muggy for this time of year it's a glorious day: flowers in full bloom, foliage at its peak lushness, the breeze laden with hints of jasmine and magnolia. Ok I'll stop there before I start sounding like some third-rate Southern poet with a first name like Beauregard.
	3:44pm Jack: Wow--so great. I have to listen to this again to try to absorb his ideas about time passing faster
	3:45pm northguineahills: beauregard mariano, it has a nice ring to it...
	3:45pm Bryce: the words of sam melville fwiw
	3:46pm WR: Familiar with Noah Howard but this is ringing bells i don't recall hearing before. Nice.
	👻 3:46pm chresti: Unreal times indeed, but then, have the times ever been real?
	3:46pm mariano: Haha, ngh!
	3:47pm doctorrock: Love this Rzewski track
	3:48pm listener 126464: Cheers all. Is anyone in ny/nj/philly area planning on going to Franklinville NJ rally saturday morning?
	3:48pm David in London: A Mint julep Beauregard?
	3:49pm WR: My bad, it is Frederic Rzewski l am hearing and commenting on.
	3:50pm mariano: Oof. Two sips of a julep (ie bourbon slushy) and I'd be out cold till tomorrow morning.
	3:50pm jeanlil: oh never heard this verison before--I am used to this orignal one with voice by Steve Ben Israle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuuwJFw4wU&feature=emb_logo
	3:51pm Santos L. Halper: @peckinpah/ngh: Missed the version Fabio played, but my Gentle Side Alabama seems to be just the 2nd half of the Birdland take FWIW
	3:51pm goyim in the am: @Rev. Turnip: the station started slipping as Pacifica drama grew around the turn of the century, but it was an astonishing station for a ling time.
	3:51pm jeanlil: They also collaborated on ATTICA https://qualityofmercy.com/blog/2018/09/27/attica-coming-together/
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: uh oh - weird failure of reception here
	3:52pm ben abs: Anybody else getting dips in the stream?
	3:53pm common: hey fabio! all!
	3:53pm coelacanth∅: ...but it works fairly well with this piece!
	👻 3:53pm royvis: love that drop out sound.
	3:53pm jeanli: yep, its LIVE RADIO!!
	3:54pm WR: www.laphil.com... One of those was Samuel Melville (born Grossman; he borrowed Melville from the American novelist), a draftsman who became radicalized by apartheid when his company put him to work on new bank offices in South Africa. He became increas- ingly active in political demonstrations, which escalated into a series of bombings in 1969. Melville pleaded guilty to conspira- cy and bombing the Federal Office Building in Manhattan and was transferred to Attica, where he became one of the leaders of the prison rebellion. He was shot and killed during the retaking of the complex. A book of letters he wrote from prison was posthu- mously published, and Rzewski took his text for Coming Together from Melville’s letter of May 16, 1971 (which was first published separately in a magazine): I think the combination of age and the greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. it’s six months now and i can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so quickly. i am in excellent physical and emotional health. there are doubtless subtle surprises ahead but i feel secure and ready. As lovers will contrast their emotions in times of crisis, so am i dealing with my environment. in the indifferent brutality, incessant noise, the experimental chem- istry of food, the ravings of lost hysterical men, i can act with clarity and meaning. i am deliberate – sometimes even cal- culating – seldom employing histrionics except as a test of the reactions of oth- ers. i read much, exercise, talk to guards and inmates, feeling for the inevitable direction of my life
	3:54pm northguineahills: I just noticed the 'worty of hearing' at the top of the page...
	3:54pm ben abs: Bryce has hijacked the show!
	👻 3:55pm royvis: He said it would be rough.
	3:56pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you for the source info on Coming Together, WR.
	3:57pm northguineahills: oops, 'worthy of hearing' im Deustch...
	3:58pm David in London: It’s great when none of us are whether its programming or interference. A good steady crackle for dancing....
	3:58pm kpx: @Northguineahills, pretty much the same thing with me. in my twenties. the right knee, nothing like what happened to yours. in my twenties. and when I would tell people it's going to rain, even though the skies were as clear as can be, they wouldn't believe me. and then several hours later it would be pouring down rain.
	👻 3:58pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @goyim: I know Thomas Stanley (aka Bushmeat) had a show there for a while ... a top chap & fixture in the adventurous music scene; I guess in the '70s/'80s I had my ears so full of WMUC/WCVT/WHFS i didn't cruise the dial as much as I could have...
	4:00pm jeanli: Just ant to reiterate that thegreat Living Theater actor and activist Steve Ben Israel did the original voice/recoordng with Rweski himslef , also Attica. REally great record. RIP Steve Ben Israel
	4:00pm Carmichael: Heya Fabs and crew. I've had both knees worked on, and my back, and my shoulder ...
	4:00pm northguineahills: and thanks again as per usual w/ WR w/ the knowledge...
	4:00pm nic: great love this!!!
	4:01pm David in London: Hey Carmichael.
	4:02pm goyim in the am: @Rev. Turnip: I was a WCVT and WHFS kid, with heavy doses of PFW and the good stuff (Dick Spottswood) on WAMU thanks to my dad. Annapolis was tinytown, but what a great radio environment to come up in.
	4:03pm David in London: Perhaps play ‘Institutionalised’ while we wait..?
	4:04pm TDK60: jeanli: I met Steve Ben Israel in the '80s and again once around 2010.
	4:06pm TDK60: Hello Matt, in the almost empty WFMU office towers.
	👻 4:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: If Mr. Giant Man were 500 miles tall, the coronavirus would be the size of a tennis ball, approximately.
	4:08pm kpx: stupid piece of crap phone is out to make me look like an idiot. I proof read what I typed and still yet it repeated.
	4:09pm Carmichael: Heya David.
	4:10pm ami ad: Had an Earth Walk today,mostly on pavement,made it to the Williamsburg,most everything was still shut down.Had a beer and 2 spliffs at the east river park.
	4:11pm Carmichael: Fabio, I was perusing Jim Price's Flickr account, and you're in a bunch of WFMU Holiday party pics from the late 80s. You (and Irwin) look like kids ...
	4:12pm northguineahills: @kpx: I'm usually use a keyboard, and am summarily looked like an idgit (I can't spell/grammar).
	4:12pm maestroso: I love this Rzewski piece!
	4:14pm northguineahills: Rzewski is amazing, and his work Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza is amazing as well (and Fabio plays more then most of us could ever find in the wild).
	4:18pm Zetti: Can't go to the Theater... Eastern Europe Apocalypse films of the 80's in HD! On the Silver Globe O-bi O-ba: The End of Civilization Dead Man's Letters / Letters from a Dead Man Stalker Direct link exmilitai.re...
	4:24pm duke: Thanks @Zetti!
	4:24pm northguineahills: Thanks, Zetti (yes, Stalker is nice!) oh, and Astral Social Club!
	4:25pm spanatopika: beautiful!
	👻 4:25pm royvis: What Christina Kubisch track was played?
	👻 4:26pm Rev. Turnip Druid: FINALLY got to see Stalker for the first time, recently. It did not, i say enthusiastically, disappoint.
	4:27pm duke: The book, Roadside Picnic, that Stalker is based on is pretty amazing also.
	4:28pm YETI BOB: @Rev: Really, every film by Tarkovsky is worth seeing. A few years ago there was a Tarkovsky festival at a theatre near me and it was phenomenal. Andrei Rublev. Solaris. ....
	👻 4:29pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I'm also a complete & utter TART for Artemiev soundtracks, so there's also that...
	4:30pm David in London: Rev, it’s such a doozy, isn’t it? I took a train in Russia last summer, and played the soundtrack whilst gazing out of the window. It was a transcendent ‘living the Tark’ experience.
	👻 4:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Failure. This is why I pledge.™
	4:38pm Miss G: Listening intently! We appreciate such a well-thought-out set
	👻 4:38pm Bas NL: Sharing is caring.
	4:38pm TDK60: Fabio, these audio problems fit in with the overall Failure sound anyway.
	4:38pm mariano: As long as you're not jumping the Tark amirite, waka waka! Seriously though, the scene from Andrei Rublev of the pagan ceremony in the woods is one of the most beautiful scenes in all of cinema.
	4:38pm hydrant: truly interesting and great failure
	4:38pm steveo: strike a poas
	4:38pm wolfette: Fabio, there ain't nothing else we'd rather be listening to!
	4:39pm hydrant: variegated sound failure
	4:39pm Kat in Chicago: Freedom to Fail
	4:39pm steveo: yes exactly, where else could we go?
	4:39pm People Like Us: I got a cease and desist for sampling Stalker
	👻 4:39pm chresti: Still hear, start to finish.
	4:39pm ami ad: Failure is my life.
	4:39pm People Like Us: and I took it down.... and then years later Criterion got in touch...
	4:39pm David in London: I would pay good money to see the Fonz jumping the Tark. Mariano, gag of the day to you sir.
	4:41pm People Like Us: and they asked to show my film that had gotten the cease and desist that was sampling Stalker... and I said but I can't because I got a cease and desist, and they said "well we own it now, and the Russian company MosFilm had been sending out cease and desists for years for Tarkovsky films and...
	4:41pm People Like Us: they are crooks! Never owned them :)
	4:41pm WoodsOfNH: I saw Belle Du Jour on Criterion last weekend. That was fun in its full-o-dream sequences way.
	4:41pm Jonah: just saw Foxy Brown--really fun
	4:42pm Miss G: People Like Us, that is a wild story about Stalker! Thank you for telling us!
	4:42pm People Like Us: yes I was pretty cross because I had to take it out of a a festival
	4:42pm Jonah: Duvall is one of my all-time fave actors
	4:43pm mariano: Hah! That would be so funny David, an episode of Happy Days guest-directed by Tarkovsky. Anyone who knows how to do this stuff who might be reading this, please make it happen.
	4:44pm markinbrooklyn: Hey Fabio, thanks for the cinephobe recommendation. Been watching constantly since early may when you announced screening of “More”.... just wanted to say that theyve been having some IP problems recently , but are hoping to get up and running soon.
	4:44pm People Like Us: a pile of doggy
	4:45pm juan: I love this quote from Bunuel "thank god I am an atheist". But interestingly despite his anti-church feelings he had a close friend who was a priest, Julian Pablo
	4:46pm David in London: Mariano, have you even the ‘if Dirty Dancing had been directed by David Lynch’ clip? It’s outstanding. If not, check out a notable video content site (and don’t tell Mark Hurst...)
	👻 4:46pm Jason from Houston: From my buddy Peter Lucas... Yesterday, the Criterion Channel opened up free access to stream about a dozen films in their collection that were either made by African American directors or convey something of the Black experience. I found that information on these free films was a little difficult to gather/navigate, so I’ve compiled an easy guide here with info, abridged descriptions, and direct links for viewing each (no subscription or sign up necessary), in case its helpful. Feel free to save/share by copy-and-paste. Early cinema: BODY AND SOUL (1925, Dir. Oscar Micheaux) Directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, this 1925 silent film is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, starring Paul Robeson (in his film debut) in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor. www.criterionchannel.com... Narrative Feature Films, 1980s-90s: CANE RIVER (1982, Dir. Horace Jenkins) A recently re-discovered and restored landmark of American independent cinema written and directed by Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew. This charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana centers on a forbidden romance caught between two black communities: wealthy Creoles and working-class descendants of slaves. www.criterionchannel.com... MY BROTHER’S WEDDING (1983, Dir. Charles Burnett) Charles Burnett’s second feature (after his 1978 film, Killer of Sheep) is wise, funny, and heartbreaking. Pierce works at his parents’ South Central dry cleaners, with no prospects for the future and his childhood buddies in prison or dead, and navigates conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life. www.criterionchannel.com... LOSING GROUND (1982, Dir. Kathleen Collins) A landmark of independent cinema and one of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Losing Ground is a deeply personal exploration of love, race, and gender through the story of a marriage between two remarkable people at crossroads in their lives. www.criterionchannel.com... DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991, Dir. Julie Dash) Julie Dash’s vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community struggle to maintain their cultural heritage while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. www.criterionchannel.com... THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996, Dir. Cheryl Dunye) Cheryl Dunye’s funny, deeply personal feature film debut is a landmark look at the black lesbian experience. The director herself stars as Cheryl, a twenty-something lesbian struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, a beautiful and elusive 1930s black film actress popularly known as the Watermelon Woman. www.criterionchannel.com... DOWN IN THE DELTA (1998, Dir. Maya Angelou) The only film directed by writer, poet, and activist Maya Angelou. A warm, bittersweet drama celebrating the resilience of black southern family. A floundering, drug-addicted mother living in Chicago is sent to stay with an uncle in the Mississippi Delta, where she gradually reconnects with her heritage and discovers strength in her roots. www.criterionchannel.com... Documentary Films, 1970s-2010s: BLACK PANTHERS (1970, Dir. Agnès Varda) French filmmaker Agnès Varda documents a 1968 Oakland demonstration protesting the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton, as well as a conversation with Newton, filmed in jail. www.criterionchannel.com... A WELL SPENT LIFE (1971, Dir. Les Blank) Les Blank’s intimate 45-minute film portrait of the Navasota, Texas blues singer, guitarist, and violinist Mance Lipscomb (1895–1976). www.criterionchannel.com... PORTRAIT OF JASON (1967, Dir. Shirley Clarke) Underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew spent 12 straight hours in her Chelsea Hotel apartment filming this documentary portrait of remarkable, charming, and tortured former gay hustler and aspiring cabaret performer, Jason Holliday. www.criterionchannel.com... SUZANNE, SUZZANNE (1982, Dir. Camille Billops and James Hatch) A 30-minute documentary film by African American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Camille Billops (with her husband James Hatch) about her niece who’s haunted by abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of family members who allowed it to continue. www.criterionchannel.com... AND WHEN I DIE, I WON’T STAY DEAD (2015, Dir. Billy Woodberry) Feature-length documentary about the life and work of African American Beat poet Bob Kaufman, directed by Billy Woodberry (whose 1983 LA Rebellion landmark film Bless Their Little Hearts is also available to stream on the Criterion Channel, though not for free). www.criterionchannel.com... BLACK MOTHER (2018, Dir. Khalik Allah) Feature-length experimental documentary–a deep-dive into Jamaican identity by photographer/filmmaker Khalik Allah (who directed the daring essay film “Field Niggas” and did cinematography work on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.”) www.criterionchannel.com...
	4:49pm mariano: No, David, I'm putting it on my Watch Later list right now though, thanks for the scoop! There's a really funny trailer of Ant Man if Herzog had directed, then there's the famous trailer of The Shining as a feel-good flick, complete with "Salisbury Hill" as the soundtrack.
	4:50pm WoodsOfNH: Does anybody know the reason why places like Criterion have stuff for a bit...and then it disappears? Just contracts? They're "renting" from the content owner(s)?
	4:51pm Chris from DC: @Mariano, if you haven't seen Bergman directing The Flash, that's also great.
	4:52pm whiteslice: "hanging in there" refers to the ear bleeding frequency in this track
	4:54pm mariano: Ooh thanks Chris!
	4:54pm WoodsOfNH: I've always been fascinated by ear bleeding frequencies.
	4:55pm ami ad: https://www.change.org/p/richmond-richmond-erect-a-gwar-oderus-urungus-statue-in-place-of-robert-e-lee-statue
	4:58pm dale: hi fabs. sounding good over the electrobrand all in one stereophonic system.
	5:00pm Chris from DC: This is amazing.
	5:00pm John from Madison: Close and Play+
	5:01pm dale: i switched up from my tivoli radio to a bookshelf mini system in the kitchen. this stuff is so much better in stereo with some separation.
	👻 5:01pm Bas NL: Nice wooly organs in the Ferrari track.
	5:02pm John from Madison: Just kidding, hey Dale
	5:03pm Miss G: @Jason from Houston, just to add re: Criterion "Losing Ground" another thing I appreciated about it was the description of living life in the arts/as an artist
	5:03pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Fabio, Failsafes. Sorry I'm late!
	5:03pm ami ad: Handy
	5:05pm Handy Haversack: Hey, ami ad! @Mariano (4:38): Agreed!
	5:05pm ami ad: halLo
	5:06pm dale: john from madison - i wonder if an fmu deejay has ever done his/her show with a close and play....
	5:07pm Handy Haversack: Stalker, vodka, pickles, pumpernickel was one of my favorite afternoons until the VCR died. Gonna have to bring home the emergency backup VCR from work. One day ...
	5:07pm mariano: Hey Handy!
	5:07pm dale: PLAY SOME NOVALIS. i like my krautrock wagnerian and bloviated.
	5:09pm ami ad: Watched a Melvins Doc. last night,51 states in 51 days,but they didn't play in 51 states,in the movie at least.The past normal perhaps.
	5:11pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Mariano! There have been some nice pbk. editions of the Strugatsky bros. novels published in the last few years. Roadside Picnic is excellent. Chicago Review Press, 2012.
	5:12pm TDK60: I think that's a D-major chord.
	👻 5:15pm Bas NL: I've never seen the Stalker film, but it was the inspired Robert Rich and Brian Lustmord release Stalker that headbutted me into Dark Ambient.
	👻 5:16pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Wagnerian & bloviated it might be, but Sommarabend (by Novalis) is quite a jammer.
	5:18pm dale: rev - i only have brandung. i'm a krautrock poser.
	5:19pm David in London: Wagnerian and bloviated describes me well after a night on the vodka, pickle and pumpernickel. Hey again Handloid.
	👻 5:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dale: gotta admit that one didn't win me over like the other. Recommended bloviation.
	5:20pm dale: actually i do have sommarabend too...now that i see the cover art
	5:23pm dale: progarchives.com is a delightful rabbit hole
	👻 5:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: totally unapologetic krautrock nerd here. And semi-reformed prog nerd. Many skeletons in the closet/LP collections. Love my skeletons.
	5:25pm Handy Haversack: Der Stokenewingtoningen is a master work. Hey, David.
	5:26pm Handy Haversack: Rev. Turnip Druid, if you're gonna danse, danse macabre!
	5:27pm dale: love wenn nicht from brandung... www.youtube.com...
	5:28pm David in London: Rev, you might like this lots then, for reasons both musical and skeletal. https://youtu.be/h3QgTYm_ohw
	5:30pm dale: this makes me want to get out the radio shack patrolman.
	5:31pm Bryce: that's a 10-74, big dummy, you copy?
	5:34pm Tome: "Outfits for agony"==corporate business suits?
	5:35pm Bryce: www.k-state.edu...
	5:35pm johnzo: hey fabio! fellow listeners... strange comments eh? A squid eating dough in a polyethylene back is fast and bulbous?
	5:35pm Megaroni: Fab being fabulous
	5:36pm listener phillip in pain: I was hoping it was john schnall and midnight movie matinee. I loved that
	👻 5:36pm Bas NL: 10-74's a 'negative'?
	5:37pm dale: 'negatory' is a 'negative.'
	5:37pm johnzo: bag*
	5:39pm Bryce: bas, that's police ten codes. truckers' & CBers' differ a little
	5:39pm Bryce: you have to be careful — it's wall to wall bears out there
	5:40pm dale: copy that
	5:41pm steveo: where I come from 10-74 is a jail break
	👻 5:42pm Bas NL: See, that's what made me avoid CB.. you got to know the talk.
	👻 5:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Child of the '70s here. Dad had an active CB habit AND the obligatory corvette stingray with the K40 antenna. Such a childhood leaves very weird scars.
	👻 5:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ALSO: huge appreciation for the Tricoli piece here. Serious yay.
	5:45pm listener phillip in pain: in CB talk the call the cops "smokeys" and if it's a helicopter? it's called "a bear in the air"
	5:45pm David in London: Rev, you should have seen it here in England at that time. People putting CBs in their Morris Marinas (clue: the shittest, slowest car of all time).
	5:46pm dale: a corvette is fiberglass - what did he use for a ground plane?
	👻 5:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: HAH! I do recall some of the jargon as well. Particularly the creepy sexist stuff (seat cover = attractive female driver visible from trucker's perspective)
	5:48pm Bryce: my german grandpop lived in a trailer park and wiled the days away, eating head cheese and blabbing on a CB. i think that's what made me obsessed with getting a ham license.
	👻 5:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @dale: no idea. He was enough of a CB nerd to have a huge antenna on the back of the house & full base-station setup. After the Corvette got munched, he graduated to the Pontiac Trans-Am (gold with gold interior & refracting disco dashboard surface) ... also with CB..
	5:48pm DrHeinrich: I don't always like it, but I love what you do, Fabio.
	5:48pm dale: i'd like to get a technician class. but when i listen to ham nets i ask myself 'why bother?'
	5:49pm listener phillip In pain: I'd never talkon an open channel where anyone can hear me. even when I had a GMRS liscence
	5:49pm Jennica: @David (iL): I love your skeleton suggestion; thank you.
	👻 5:49pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Indeed, Bryce. His CB experience blew my mind with the whole skip-signal idea, where he'd be receiving signals from millions of miles away..
	5:49pm Tome: This sounds like a kind of Werner Herzog nightmare
	5:50pm Tome: (and mine too)
	5:50pm johnzo: keep keepin it real Fab!
	5:50pm hoeg: GROOOOOVE
	5:50pm dale: i do enjoy listening to the contests when they see how many contacts they can make and from where.
	5:51pm nic: love this!!!
	5:51pm dale: the movie 'gargoyles' (70s abc movie of the week) was on a couple of weeks ago and this has that vibe.
	5:52pm David in London: England was a land truly, truly appalling cars at that time. Post Rockford Files I DREAMED of having a gold Trans Am. Perhaps I still do sometimes.
	5:52pm TDK60: Thanks Fabio.
	5:52pm listener phillip in pain: this sounds like the bowels of hell.or my stomach after I've had ramen noodles
	👻 5:53pm Bas NL: I recently lost an good acquaintance from Oregon. I was told he spent his last days a happy man with his HAM set next to his bed..
	5:53pm steveo: thanks Fabio, i've enjoyed listening today
	5:53pm David in London: Bryce, there is a show-stopper of a US / UK English mistranslation in your last comment there. I nearly choked on my G&T.
	5:54pm Jennica: I'm loving the end of this one.
	👻 5:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Trans Ams with the screaming chicken hood (bonnet) decals were the most ut.
	5:54pm northguineahills: thanks, Fabio!
	5:54pm dale: the decal on the hood of a trans am must have been a bitch to apply. i always screwed up the tiny ones on my amt models. a 4 ft long one must have been hell.
	5:54pm listener 126464: Thanks Fabio, FMU crew.
	5:54pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Fabio! Take it easy, all.
	5:55pm Bryce: oh yeah, right! the DXing....that was the other thing that really captivated my imagination. the internet isn't quite as romantic, hey
	👻 5:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: aye, we had the flaming chicken as well. It may have been a heavy rubbish car but it was a total work of art.
	5:55pm Bryce: sorry to hear that, bas
	5:56pm David in London: Jennica, hey! How are you? Glad you liked them. They were on the same bill as us some years back, and I was blown away by how good they were.
	👻 5:56pm Bas NL: Thanks for the fantastic home brew Fabio! It's raining clicky-stars!
	5:56pm Jennica: @David (iL): work meeting on deck, but solid, thanks. I hope you are having a fab day.
	5:57pm coelacanth∅: Stellar program Fabio Thanks! ciao
	👻 5:57pm chresti: Thanks Fabio!
	5:57pm Carmichael: Duplexing. Haven't heard that technology in a while. Kinda like a busy signal.
	5:57pm ami ad: Thank you D.J. , Thank you board op.Cheers.
	5:57pm dale: bas - sorry for your loss. glad he had his love by his side.
	5:58pm David in London: These Swans have a good steady beat for flagellating.
	5:58pm Bryce: lmaooo david. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE TRAILER STAYS IN THE TRAILER thank you, dark lord fabio!
	5:59pm Carmichael: 10-4 Fabio and good buddies. Catch you on the flip flop.
	6:00pm dale: see you at the pickle park!
	6:00pm David in London: Great show Fabio, thanks. Later Groovers.
	6:00pm mariano: Thank you Fabio!!!

Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from June 11, 2020

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The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

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June 11, 2020: Plague Failure program #9 ALIVE!

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
James Last	Mr. Giant Man "Mr. Giant Man" by "James Last"	Voodoo Party	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield	We People Who Are Darker Than Blue	Curtis	0:08:34 (Pop-up)
Arthur Doyle, Edward Perraud & Dan Warburton	A Prayer For Peace	The Basement Tapes	0:10:37 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane	Alabama "Alabama" by "John Coltrane"	The Gentle Side Of John Coltrane	0:15:19 (Pop-up)
Brother Ah	Celestial Strings "Celestial Strings" by "Brother Ah"	Move Ever Onward	0:17:29 (Pop-up)
Noah Howard Quartet	Apotheosis "Apotheosis" by "Noah Howard Quartet"	Noah Howard Quartet	0:26:31 (Pop-up)

Frederic Rzewski	Coming Together "Coming Together" by "Frederic Rzewski"	Coming Together / Attica / Les Moutons De Panurge	0:44:10 (Pop-up)

L. Voag	The Tuned Knife and Fork Toned Down to a Light Lunch	The Way Out	1:16:57 (Pop-up)
Astral Social Club	Neon Pibroch (excerpt)	Neon Pibroch	1:17:35 (Pop-up)
Band of Holy Joy	Mental "Mental" by "Band of Holy Joy"	More Favourite Fairytales	1:34:45 (Pop-up)

BJ Nilsen	Let Me KNow when it's over	Fade to White	1:43:48 (Pop-up)
Pierre Henry	La Religion "La Religion" by "Pierre Henry"	Fragments Pour Artaud	1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Brunhild Ferrari	Tranquilles Impatiences edit	Tranquilles Impatiences	1:55:48 (Pop-up)

Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers	Supertramp	Heroin	2:08:27 (Pop-up)
Biota	Old Reason Road (Part 5) "Old Reason Road (Part 5)" by "Biota"	Almost Never	2:13:18 (Pop-up)
Broadcast	chord simple "chord simple" by "Broadcast"	The Future Crayon	2:16:58 (Pop-up)
GUM	Outfits For Agony "Outfits For Agony" by "GUM"	Vinyl Anthology	2:21:13 (Pop-up)

Valerio Tricoli / Thomas Ankersmit	Takht-e Tâvus	Forma II	2:36:28 (Pop-up)
Andrew Wilkes-Krier	Untitled "Untitled" by "Andrew Wilkes-Krier"	Labyrinths And Jokes	2:46:48 (Pop-up)
Genken & Craig	Laminator Unplugged	Live Radio	2:51:21 (Pop-up)
SWANS	COP "COP" by "SWANS"	FILTH	2:52:30 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 3:04pm Bas NL: Hi Fabio! Hi Failurites!
	👻 3:05pm chresti: Hi Fabio and strong ones, here to dance the giant way.
	3:05pm TDK60: Hi Fabio. How's Queens?
	3:06pm G: Curtis Mayfield?
	3:07pm duke: Thank you for Curtis.
	3:08pm steveo: big clap of thunder here, just as mr. giant man made his appearance today -- or was it his giant footsteps?
	👻 3:09pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Who has carrot cake?
	3:09pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Fabio and strong persons everywhere.
	3:11pm JtotheK: Hi Fabio & failures. Thanks for the Curtis track.
	3:11pm kpx: which direction is that storm moving to.
	3:11pm Mike Sin: Hey Fab! Always amazed by this track -- Curtis leaves the Impressions and his whole new original sound from this point is encapsulated in the opening track of his first solo LP.
	3:15pm Jim the Poet: Hey Fabio! Looking forward to the show. I always feel happy when Giant Man comes on.
	3:17pm listener phillip in PAIN: Fabio! I failed again hurt my back putting up the AC. went to the hosp ER this morning.
	3:21pm TDK60: kpx: I believe the storm in NJ/NYC is moving east now.
	3:21pm ben abs: Evening (or afternoon) all, this reminded me of Alice Coltrane
	3:24pm ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Mighty sounds.Sorry to hear listener phillip I feel your pain.
	3:25pm kpx: PHEW, Thx TDK60.
	3:25pm ami ad: It's raining in the BK.
	3:28pm mariano: Hey Fabio, crew, failures.
	3:29pm Fabio: @ listener phillip: Sorry to hear about your back. Hot baths work really well for strained backs with epsome salts
	3:29pm steveo: Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world I feel like it's rainin' all over the world
	3:30pm markie_post: One time, during a pool party at my house, I tripped on a crack in the pavement and fell directly in my right knee cap, shattered it. horrible pain..
	3:32pm markie_post: @ listener phillip I feel your pain!
	3:36pm David in London: I’m into the Lounge of Failure. Greetings esteemed Fabio. Hey Mariano, steveo, ben abs, ami ad et al!
	3:36pm northguineahills: I like how Coltrane's "Alabama" was on "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane" , and the content is anything but gentle. It makes me weep every time....
	3:37pm David in London: ...+ TDK!
	3:37pm northguineahills: Fabio's audio salve should help you, philip, feel better!
	3:37pm kpx: people with joint injuries can predict the weather. I did for a lot of years and then eventually stopped. @ listener Phillip, tough break sorry to hear.
	3:37pm goyim in the am: Brother Ah was also a fantastic dj on WPFW in DC for many years.
	3:38pm ami ad: @David in London:How do?Glad I could help Handy understand what you told him the other day.Cheers.
	3:38pm coelacanth∅: greetings Fabio and utter Failures
	3:39pm northguineahills: @kpx: footie injuries allowed me that priviledge, since my eaely twenties.
	3:39pm David in London: Ami ad. Who needs online translation services when we have you, eh?
	3:39pm Devin B.: Yay!
	3:39pm TDK60: Hello David in London. // Rough ride, Fabio? We can handle.
	3:39pm northguineahills: did Fabio just express emotion? It is indeed unreal times....
	3:40pm ami ad: @David in London:Eh?Come again?
	3:41pm peckinpah: @northguineahills Gentle Side of Coltrane is a comp... Live at Birdland, where it was 1st released on, is the goods.
	3:42pm northguineahills: @peckinah: mine is on a bootleg....
	👻 3:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @goyim: dang! I grew up here & yet seems like I completely missed out on WPFW. Much great stuff...
	3:43pm listener phillip in pain: hopefully this muscle relaxant will help. would you believe the doctors name was Jeremiah robinson.
	3:44pm mariano: Hey David, how's tricks. I just took the longest walk I've taken in a while, 4 miles or so to Canal St through the French Quarter and back, and even though it's typically muggy for this time of year it's a glorious day: flowers in full bloom, foliage at its peak lushness, the breeze laden with hints of jasmine and magnolia. Ok I'll stop there before I start sounding like some third-rate Southern poet with a first name like Beauregard.
	3:44pm Jack: Wow--so great. I have to listen to this again to try to absorb his ideas about time passing faster
	3:45pm northguineahills: beauregard mariano, it has a nice ring to it...
	3:45pm Bryce: the words of sam melville fwiw
	3:46pm WR: Familiar with Noah Howard but this is ringing bells i don't recall hearing before. Nice.
	👻 3:46pm chresti: Unreal times indeed, but then, have the times ever been real?
	3:46pm mariano: Haha, ngh!
	3:47pm doctorrock: Love this Rzewski track
	3:48pm listener 126464: Cheers all. Is anyone in ny/nj/philly area planning on going to Franklinville NJ rally saturday morning?
	3:48pm David in London: A Mint julep Beauregard?
	3:49pm WR: My bad, it is Frederic Rzewski l am hearing and commenting on.
	3:50pm mariano: Oof. Two sips of a julep (ie bourbon slushy) and I'd be out cold till tomorrow morning.
	3:50pm jeanlil: oh never heard this verison before--I am used to this orignal one with voice by Steve Ben Israle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuuwJFw4wU&feature=emb_logo
	3:51pm Santos L. Halper: @peckinpah/ngh: Missed the version Fabio played, but my Gentle Side Alabama seems to be just the 2nd half of the Birdland take FWIW
	3:51pm goyim in the am: @Rev. Turnip: the station started slipping as Pacifica drama grew around the turn of the century, but it was an astonishing station for a ling time.
	3:51pm jeanlil: They also collaborated on ATTICA https://qualityofmercy.com/blog/2018/09/27/attica-coming-together/
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: uh oh - weird failure of reception here
	3:52pm ben abs: Anybody else getting dips in the stream?
	3:53pm common: hey fabio! all!
	3:53pm coelacanth∅: ...but it works fairly well with this piece!
	👻 3:53pm royvis: love that drop out sound.
	3:53pm jeanli: yep, its LIVE RADIO!!
	3:54pm WR: www.laphil.com... One of those was Samuel Melville (born Grossman; he borrowed Melville from the American novelist), a draftsman who became radicalized by apartheid when his company put him to work on new bank offices in South Africa. He became increas- ingly active in political demonstrations, which escalated into a series of bombings in 1969. Melville pleaded guilty to conspira- cy and bombing the Federal Office Building in Manhattan and was transferred to Attica, where he became one of the leaders of the prison rebellion. He was shot and killed during the retaking of the complex. A book of letters he wrote from prison was posthu- mously published, and Rzewski took his text for Coming Together from Melville’s letter of May 16, 1971 (which was first published separately in a magazine): I think the combination of age and the greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. it’s six months now and i can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so quickly. i am in excellent physical and emotional health. there are doubtless subtle surprises ahead but i feel secure and ready. As lovers will contrast their emotions in times of crisis, so am i dealing with my environment. in the indifferent brutality, incessant noise, the experimental chem- istry of food, the ravings of lost hysterical men, i can act with clarity and meaning. i am deliberate – sometimes even cal- culating – seldom employing histrionics except as a test of the reactions of oth- ers. i read much, exercise, talk to guards and inmates, feeling for the inevitable direction of my life
	3:54pm northguineahills: I just noticed the 'worty of hearing' at the top of the page...
	3:54pm ben abs: Bryce has hijacked the show!
	👻 3:55pm royvis: He said it would be rough.
	3:56pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you for the source info on Coming Together, WR.
	3:57pm northguineahills: oops, 'worthy of hearing' im Deustch...
	3:58pm David in London: It’s great when none of us are whether its programming or interference. A good steady crackle for dancing....
	3:58pm kpx: @Northguineahills, pretty much the same thing with me. in my twenties. the right knee, nothing like what happened to yours. in my twenties. and when I would tell people it's going to rain, even though the skies were as clear as can be, they wouldn't believe me. and then several hours later it would be pouring down rain.
	👻 3:58pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @goyim: I know Thomas Stanley (aka Bushmeat) had a show there for a while ... a top chap & fixture in the adventurous music scene; I guess in the '70s/'80s I had my ears so full of WMUC/WCVT/WHFS i didn't cruise the dial as much as I could have...
	4:00pm jeanli: Just ant to reiterate that thegreat Living Theater actor and activist Steve Ben Israel did the original voice/recoordng with Rweski himslef , also Attica. REally great record. RIP Steve Ben Israel
	4:00pm Carmichael: Heya Fabs and crew. I've had both knees worked on, and my back, and my shoulder ...
	4:00pm northguineahills: and thanks again as per usual w/ WR w/ the knowledge...
	4:00pm nic: great love this!!!
	4:01pm David in London: Hey Carmichael.
	4:02pm goyim in the am: @Rev. Turnip: I was a WCVT and WHFS kid, with heavy doses of PFW and the good stuff (Dick Spottswood) on WAMU thanks to my dad. Annapolis was tinytown, but what a great radio environment to come up in.
	4:03pm David in London: Perhaps play ‘Institutionalised’ while we wait..?
	4:04pm TDK60: jeanli: I met Steve Ben Israel in the '80s and again once around 2010.
	4:06pm TDK60: Hello Matt, in the almost empty WFMU office towers.
	👻 4:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: If Mr. Giant Man were 500 miles tall, the coronavirus would be the size of a tennis ball, approximately.
	4:08pm kpx: stupid piece of crap phone is out to make me look like an idiot. I proof read what I typed and still yet it repeated.
	4:09pm Carmichael: Heya David.
	4:10pm ami ad: Had an Earth Walk today,mostly on pavement,made it to the Williamsburg,most everything was still shut down.Had a beer and 2 spliffs at the east river park.
	4:11pm Carmichael: Fabio, I was perusing Jim Price's Flickr account, and you're in a bunch of WFMU Holiday party pics from the late 80s. You (and Irwin) look like kids ...
	4:12pm northguineahills: @kpx: I'm usually use a keyboard, and am summarily looked like an idgit (I can't spell/grammar).
	4:12pm maestroso: I love this Rzewski piece!
	4:14pm northguineahills: Rzewski is amazing, and his work Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza is amazing as well (and Fabio plays more then most of us could ever find in the wild).
	4:18pm Zetti: Can't go to the Theater... Eastern Europe Apocalypse films of the 80's in HD! On the Silver Globe O-bi O-ba: The End of Civilization Dead Man's Letters / Letters from a Dead Man Stalker Direct link exmilitai.re...
	4:24pm duke: Thanks @Zetti!
	4:24pm northguineahills: Thanks, Zetti (yes, Stalker is nice!) oh, and Astral Social Club!
	4:25pm spanatopika: beautiful!
	👻 4:25pm royvis: What Christina Kubisch track was played?
	👻 4:26pm Rev. Turnip Druid: FINALLY got to see Stalker for the first time, recently. It did not, i say enthusiastically, disappoint.
	4:27pm duke: The book, Roadside Picnic, that Stalker is based on is pretty amazing also.
	4:28pm YETI BOB: @Rev: Really, every film by Tarkovsky is worth seeing. A few years ago there was a Tarkovsky festival at a theatre near me and it was phenomenal. Andrei Rublev. Solaris. ....
	👻 4:29pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I'm also a complete & utter TART for Artemiev soundtracks, so there's also that...
	4:30pm David in London: Rev, it’s such a doozy, isn’t it? I took a train in Russia last summer, and played the soundtrack whilst gazing out of the window. It was a transcendent ‘living the Tark’ experience.
	👻 4:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Failure. This is why I pledge.™
	4:38pm Miss G: Listening intently! We appreciate such a well-thought-out set
	👻 4:38pm Bas NL: Sharing is caring.
	4:38pm TDK60: Fabio, these audio problems fit in with the overall Failure sound anyway.
	4:38pm mariano: As long as you're not jumping the Tark amirite, waka waka! Seriously though, the scene from Andrei Rublev of the pagan ceremony in the woods is one of the most beautiful scenes in all of cinema.
	4:38pm hydrant: truly interesting and great failure
	4:38pm steveo: strike a poas
	4:38pm wolfette: Fabio, there ain't nothing else we'd rather be listening to!
	4:39pm hydrant: variegated sound failure
	4:39pm Kat in Chicago: Freedom to Fail
	4:39pm steveo: yes exactly, where else could we go?
	4:39pm People Like Us: I got a cease and desist for sampling Stalker
	👻 4:39pm chresti: Still hear, start to finish.
	4:39pm ami ad: Failure is my life.
	4:39pm People Like Us: and I took it down.... and then years later Criterion got in touch...
	4:39pm David in London: I would pay good money to see the Fonz jumping the Tark. Mariano, gag of the day to you sir.
	4:41pm People Like Us: and they asked to show my film that had gotten the cease and desist that was sampling Stalker... and I said but I can't because I got a cease and desist, and they said "well we own it now, and the Russian company MosFilm had been sending out cease and desists for years for Tarkovsky films and...
	4:41pm People Like Us: they are crooks! Never owned them :)
	4:41pm WoodsOfNH: I saw Belle Du Jour on Criterion last weekend. That was fun in its full-o-dream sequences way.
	4:41pm Jonah: just saw Foxy Brown--really fun
	4:42pm Miss G: People Like Us, that is a wild story about Stalker! Thank you for telling us!
	4:42pm People Like Us: yes I was pretty cross because I had to take it out of a a festival
	4:42pm Jonah: Duvall is one of my all-time fave actors
	4:43pm mariano: Hah! That would be so funny David, an episode of Happy Days guest-directed by Tarkovsky. Anyone who knows how to do this stuff who might be reading this, please make it happen.
	4:44pm markinbrooklyn: Hey Fabio, thanks for the cinephobe recommendation. Been watching constantly since early may when you announced screening of “More”.... just wanted to say that theyve been having some IP problems recently , but are hoping to get up and running soon.
	4:44pm People Like Us: a pile of doggy
	4:45pm juan: I love this quote from Bunuel "thank god I am an atheist". But interestingly despite his anti-church feelings he had a close friend who was a priest, Julian Pablo
	4:46pm David in London: Mariano, have you even the ‘if Dirty Dancing had been directed by David Lynch’ clip? It’s outstanding. If not, check out a notable video content site (and don’t tell Mark Hurst...)
	👻 4:46pm Jason from Houston: From my buddy Peter Lucas... Yesterday, the Criterion Channel opened up free access to stream about a dozen films in their collection that were either made by African American directors or convey something of the Black experience. I found that information on these free films was a little difficult to gather/navigate, so I’ve compiled an easy guide here with info, abridged descriptions, and direct links for viewing each (no subscription or sign up necessary), in case its helpful. Feel free to save/share by copy-and-paste. Early cinema: BODY AND SOUL (1925, Dir. Oscar Micheaux) Directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, this 1925 silent film is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, starring Paul Robeson (in his film debut) in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor. www.criterionchannel.com... Narrative Feature Films, 1980s-90s: CANE RIVER (1982, Dir. Horace Jenkins) A recently re-discovered and restored landmark of American independent cinema written and directed by Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew. This charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana centers on a forbidden romance caught between two black communities: wealthy Creoles and working-class descendants of slaves. www.criterionchannel.com... MY BROTHER’S WEDDING (1983, Dir. Charles Burnett) Charles Burnett’s second feature (after his 1978 film, Killer of Sheep) is wise, funny, and heartbreaking. Pierce works at his parents’ South Central dry cleaners, with no prospects for the future and his childhood buddies in prison or dead, and navigates conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life. www.criterionchannel.com... LOSING GROUND (1982, Dir. Kathleen Collins) A landmark of independent cinema and one of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Losing Ground is a deeply personal exploration of love, race, and gender through the story of a marriage between two remarkable people at crossroads in their lives. www.criterionchannel.com... DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991, Dir. Julie Dash) Julie Dash’s vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community struggle to maintain their cultural heritage while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. www.criterionchannel.com... THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996, Dir. Cheryl Dunye) Cheryl Dunye’s funny, deeply personal feature film debut is a landmark look at the black lesbian experience. The director herself stars as Cheryl, a twenty-something lesbian struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, a beautiful and elusive 1930s black film actress popularly known as the Watermelon Woman. www.criterionchannel.com... DOWN IN THE DELTA (1998, Dir. Maya Angelou) The only film directed by writer, poet, and activist Maya Angelou. A warm, bittersweet drama celebrating the resilience of black southern family. A floundering, drug-addicted mother living in Chicago is sent to stay with an uncle in the Mississippi Delta, where she gradually reconnects with her heritage and discovers strength in her roots. www.criterionchannel.com... Documentary Films, 1970s-2010s: BLACK PANTHERS (1970, Dir. Agnès Varda) French filmmaker Agnès Varda documents a 1968 Oakland demonstration protesting the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton, as well as a conversation with Newton, filmed in jail. www.criterionchannel.com... A WELL SPENT LIFE (1971, Dir. Les Blank) Les Blank’s intimate 45-minute film portrait of the Navasota, Texas blues singer, guitarist, and violinist Mance Lipscomb (1895–1976). www.criterionchannel.com... PORTRAIT OF JASON (1967, Dir. Shirley Clarke) Underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew spent 12 straight hours in her Chelsea Hotel apartment filming this documentary portrait of remarkable, charming, and tortured former gay hustler and aspiring cabaret performer, Jason Holliday. www.criterionchannel.com... SUZANNE, SUZZANNE (1982, Dir. Camille Billops and James Hatch) A 30-minute documentary film by African American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Camille Billops (with her husband James Hatch) about her niece who’s haunted by abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of family members who allowed it to continue. www.criterionchannel.com... AND WHEN I DIE, I WON’T STAY DEAD (2015, Dir. Billy Woodberry) Feature-length documentary about the life and work of African American Beat poet Bob Kaufman, directed by Billy Woodberry (whose 1983 LA Rebellion landmark film Bless Their Little Hearts is also available to stream on the Criterion Channel, though not for free). www.criterionchannel.com... BLACK MOTHER (2018, Dir. Khalik Allah) Feature-length experimental documentary–a deep-dive into Jamaican identity by photographer/filmmaker Khalik Allah (who directed the daring essay film “Field Niggas” and did cinematography work on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.”) www.criterionchannel.com...
	4:49pm mariano: No, David, I'm putting it on my Watch Later list right now though, thanks for the scoop! There's a really funny trailer of Ant Man if Herzog had directed, then there's the famous trailer of The Shining as a feel-good flick, complete with "Salisbury Hill" as the soundtrack.
	4:50pm WoodsOfNH: Does anybody know the reason why places like Criterion have stuff for a bit...and then it disappears? Just contracts? They're "renting" from the content owner(s)?
	4:51pm Chris from DC: @Mariano, if you haven't seen Bergman directing The Flash, that's also great.
	4:52pm whiteslice: "hanging in there" refers to the ear bleeding frequency in this track
	4:54pm mariano: Ooh thanks Chris!
	4:54pm WoodsOfNH: I've always been fascinated by ear bleeding frequencies.
	4:55pm ami ad: https://www.change.org/p/richmond-richmond-erect-a-gwar-oderus-urungus-statue-in-place-of-robert-e-lee-statue
	4:58pm dale: hi fabs. sounding good over the electrobrand all in one stereophonic system.
	5:00pm Chris from DC: This is amazing.
	5:00pm John from Madison: Close and Play+
	5:01pm dale: i switched up from my tivoli radio to a bookshelf mini system in the kitchen. this stuff is so much better in stereo with some separation.
	👻 5:01pm Bas NL: Nice wooly organs in the Ferrari track.
	5:02pm John from Madison: Just kidding, hey Dale
	5:03pm Miss G: @Jason from Houston, just to add re: Criterion "Losing Ground" another thing I appreciated about it was the description of living life in the arts/as an artist
	5:03pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Fabio, Failsafes. Sorry I'm late!
	5:03pm ami ad: Handy
	5:05pm Handy Haversack: Hey, ami ad! @Mariano (4:38): Agreed!
	5:05pm ami ad: halLo
	5:06pm dale: john from madison - i wonder if an fmu deejay has ever done his/her show with a close and play....
	5:07pm Handy Haversack: Stalker, vodka, pickles, pumpernickel was one of my favorite afternoons until the VCR died. Gonna have to bring home the emergency backup VCR from work. One day ...
	5:07pm mariano: Hey Handy!
	5:07pm dale: PLAY SOME NOVALIS. i like my krautrock wagnerian and bloviated.
	5:09pm ami ad: Watched a Melvins Doc. last night,51 states in 51 days,but they didn't play in 51 states,in the movie at least.The past normal perhaps.
	5:11pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Mariano! There have been some nice pbk. editions of the Strugatsky bros. novels published in the last few years. Roadside Picnic is excellent. Chicago Review Press, 2012.
	5:12pm TDK60: I think that's a D-major chord.
	👻 5:15pm Bas NL: I've never seen the Stalker film, but it was the inspired Robert Rich and Brian Lustmord release Stalker that headbutted me into Dark Ambient.
	👻 5:16pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Wagnerian & bloviated it might be, but Sommarabend (by Novalis) is quite a jammer.
	5:18pm dale: rev - i only have brandung. i'm a krautrock poser.
	5:19pm David in London: Wagnerian and bloviated describes me well after a night on the vodka, pickle and pumpernickel. Hey again Handloid.
	👻 5:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dale: gotta admit that one didn't win me over like the other. Recommended bloviation.
	5:20pm dale: actually i do have sommarabend too...now that i see the cover art
	5:23pm dale: progarchives.com is a delightful rabbit hole
	👻 5:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: totally unapologetic krautrock nerd here. And semi-reformed prog nerd. Many skeletons in the closet/LP collections. Love my skeletons.
	5:25pm Handy Haversack: Der Stokenewingtoningen is a master work. Hey, David.
	5:26pm Handy Haversack: Rev. Turnip Druid, if you're gonna danse, danse macabre!
	5:27pm dale: love wenn nicht from brandung... www.youtube.com...
	5:28pm David in London: Rev, you might like this lots then, for reasons both musical and skeletal. https://youtu.be/h3QgTYm_ohw
	5:30pm dale: this makes me want to get out the radio shack patrolman.
	5:31pm Bryce: that's a 10-74, big dummy, you copy?
	5:34pm Tome: "Outfits for agony"==corporate business suits?
	5:35pm Bryce: www.k-state.edu...
	5:35pm johnzo: hey fabio! fellow listeners... strange comments eh? A squid eating dough in a polyethylene back is fast and bulbous?
	5:35pm Megaroni: Fab being fabulous
	5:36pm listener phillip in pain: I was hoping it was john schnall and midnight movie matinee. I loved that
	👻 5:36pm Bas NL: 10-74's a 'negative'?
	5:37pm dale: 'negatory' is a 'negative.'
	5:37pm johnzo: bag*
	5:39pm Bryce: bas, that's police ten codes. truckers' & CBers' differ a little
	5:39pm Bryce: you have to be careful — it's wall to wall bears out there
	5:40pm dale: copy that
	5:41pm steveo: where I come from 10-74 is a jail break
	👻 5:42pm Bas NL: See, that's what made me avoid CB.. you got to know the talk.
	👻 5:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Child of the '70s here. Dad had an active CB habit AND the obligatory corvette stingray with the K40 antenna. Such a childhood leaves very weird scars.
	👻 5:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ALSO: huge appreciation for the Tricoli piece here. Serious yay.
	5:45pm listener phillip in pain: in CB talk the call the cops "smokeys" and if it's a helicopter? it's called "a bear in the air"
	5:45pm David in London: Rev, you should have seen it here in England at that time. People putting CBs in their Morris Marinas (clue: the shittest, slowest car of all time).
	5:46pm dale: a corvette is fiberglass - what did he use for a ground plane?
	👻 5:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: HAH! I do recall some of the jargon as well. Particularly the creepy sexist stuff (seat cover = attractive female driver visible from trucker's perspective)
	5:48pm Bryce: my german grandpop lived in a trailer park and wiled the days away, eating head cheese and blabbing on a CB. i think that's what made me obsessed with getting a ham license.
	👻 5:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @dale: no idea. He was enough of a CB nerd to have a huge antenna on the back of the house & full base-station setup. After the Corvette got munched, he graduated to the Pontiac Trans-Am (gold with gold interior & refracting disco dashboard surface) ... also with CB..
	5:48pm DrHeinrich: I don't always like it, but I love what you do, Fabio.
	5:48pm dale: i'd like to get a technician class. but when i listen to ham nets i ask myself 'why bother?'
	5:49pm listener phillip In pain: I'd never talkon an open channel where anyone can hear me. even when I had a GMRS liscence
	5:49pm Jennica: @David (iL): I love your skeleton suggestion; thank you.
	👻 5:49pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Indeed, Bryce. His CB experience blew my mind with the whole skip-signal idea, where he'd be receiving signals from millions of miles away..
	5:49pm Tome: This sounds like a kind of Werner Herzog nightmare
	5:50pm Tome: (and mine too)
	5:50pm johnzo: keep keepin it real Fab!
	5:50pm hoeg: GROOOOOVE
	5:50pm dale: i do enjoy listening to the contests when they see how many contacts they can make and from where.
	5:51pm nic: love this!!!
	5:51pm dale: the movie 'gargoyles' (70s abc movie of the week) was on a couple of weeks ago and this has that vibe.
	5:52pm David in London: England was a land truly, truly appalling cars at that time. Post Rockford Files I DREAMED of having a gold Trans Am. Perhaps I still do sometimes.
	5:52pm TDK60: Thanks Fabio.
	5:52pm listener phillip in pain: this sounds like the bowels of hell.or my stomach after I've had ramen noodles
	👻 5:53pm Bas NL: I recently lost an good acquaintance from Oregon. I was told he spent his last days a happy man with his HAM set next to his bed..
	5:53pm steveo: thanks Fabio, i've enjoyed listening today
	5:53pm David in London: Bryce, there is a show-stopper of a US / UK English mistranslation in your last comment there. I nearly choked on my G&T.
	5:54pm Jennica: I'm loving the end of this one.
	👻 5:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Trans Ams with the screaming chicken hood (bonnet) decals were the most ut.
	5:54pm northguineahills: thanks, Fabio!
	5:54pm dale: the decal on the hood of a trans am must have been a bitch to apply. i always screwed up the tiny ones on my amt models. a 4 ft long one must have been hell.
	5:54pm listener 126464: Thanks Fabio, FMU crew.
	5:54pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Fabio! Take it easy, all.
	5:55pm Bryce: oh yeah, right! the DXing....that was the other thing that really captivated my imagination. the internet isn't quite as romantic, hey
	👻 5:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: aye, we had the flaming chicken as well. It may have been a heavy rubbish car but it was a total work of art.
	5:55pm Bryce: sorry to hear that, bas
	5:56pm David in London: Jennica, hey! How are you? Glad you liked them. They were on the same bill as us some years back, and I was blown away by how good they were.
	👻 5:56pm Bas NL: Thanks for the fantastic home brew Fabio! It's raining clicky-stars!
	5:56pm Jennica: @David (iL): work meeting on deck, but solid, thanks. I hope you are having a fab day.
	5:57pm coelacanth∅: Stellar program Fabio Thanks! ciao
	👻 5:57pm chresti: Thanks Fabio!
	5:57pm Carmichael: Duplexing. Haven't heard that technology in a while. Kinda like a busy signal.
	5:57pm ami ad: Thank you D.J. , Thank you board op.Cheers.
	5:57pm dale: bas - sorry for your loss. glad he had his love by his side.
	5:58pm David in London: These Swans have a good steady beat for flagellating.
	5:58pm Bryce: lmaooo david. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE TRAILER STAYS IN THE TRAILER thank you, dark lord fabio!
	5:59pm Carmichael: 10-4 Fabio and good buddies. Catch you on the flip flop.
	6:00pm dale: see you at the pickle park!
	6:00pm David in London: Great show Fabio, thanks. Later Groovers.
	6:00pm mariano: Thank you Fabio!!!

Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from June 11, 2020

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