WFMU: Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from July 25, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:04am Really. Lisa.: Hello Jeffrey. Hope you had a peaceful, safe week.
	6:05am VincentNifigance: Good morning, shrunken siblings.
	6:06am LiXiviated Life: “That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” - W.W.
	6:07am fred: Good morning Jeffrey and all. This reminds me of Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic
	6:09am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Really Lisa, VincentNifigance, LiXiviated Life (thank you, as always; W.W always hits the spot), and fred (yes, I can see that. I don't know why, but I think of Arvo Part also, though I can't recall if anything of his sounds like this...)
	6:09am Heidee: Oh, this is beautiful... serene... Hi all.
	6:10am Cooh John: Good morning Jeffrey and planeteers. Up early and part of the first stanza. Thanks, LL for the inspiration that goes so well with the music.
	6:10am Heidee: Makes me wanna sing in harmonies...
	6:11am Jeffrey Davison: Heidee, good morning. Btw, gentle listeners, a few weeks ago I played a song by an obscure German singer, Maike Hamman, and Heidee was kind enough to translate it for me. I was happy to discover that it was poetic, not dumb! Thanks, Heidee!
	6:12am Heidee: Oh you are so welcome. I am sending kisses over!
	6:13am Jeffrey Davison: Hey, Cooh John! Nice to have you here early... FYI, all, most of the photographs I have been posting to the top of the playlist are mine, all iphone shots. Trying to gather crumbs for Instagram. This shot, taken last night, is in East Williamsburg, my neighborhood.
	6:19am Stanley: Good morning Jeffrey. This is just what I need after another sleepless night. I hope you are keeping well.
	6:21am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, Stanley. Sorry about your sleepless night. I seem to wake up more frequently now, and on some nights three or four times. Don't know if it's stress, or what...
	6:27am TDK60: Good morning Jeffrey and planeteers.
	6:28am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome aboard, TDK60...
	6:29am WelshRarebit: Haven’t heard this Emeralds track in a while. Getting some Fripp & Eno vibes. Thx Jeffrey.
	6:30am Jeffrey Davison: WelshRarebit...thanks. Yeah, maybe they recently posted it to Bandcamp. From 2007.
	6:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tempting to say that photo says something about lives in U.S.America that's left out of the jingoism or discourse. I'd hope & wish this music for example does too. I spend a lot of time on the boards jealous of people's urban lives - I try to remember to be grateful I'm in a fairly green place. Well - when it isnt winter...
	6:34am Stanley: I feel for you, Jeffrey. For me, it's stress that is always there but in these times, I think it has got stronger. I need to make more time for meditation and deep relaxation and I seriously need a break from work, the news and the pandemic. This music is so meditative and calming. Thanks.
	6:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: FrippandEno ✔
	6:34am ignatatus666: Greetings Listening to app and fm It’s great right now the delay is barely noticeable with this track Had a great night my Borrachos are back( though that could really be bad) Headed to Putnam for my dog and some chill time
	6:36am Stanley: Rev - I've spent the last four months envying my friends and family who live in the countryside. Enjoy and profit from it, my friend.
	6:37am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Jeffrey and all other Planeteers.
	6:38am Jeffrey Davison: Revolution Rabbit...welcome. I do often envy those who live in greener places. I follow writer/photographer Amanda Petrusich on IG, and she has a house upstate. Her photos make me long for a long sojourn in a beautiful place...and NYC ain't all that beautiful, tbh. (By the way, listeners, if you don't know Amanda's work, she writes for the New Yorker. Also has some marvelous books; the one on 78 collectors is especially wonderful.) However, I think I'm a city boy through and through...
	6:39am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus666, good morning. Glad you have some business again...
	6:40am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Andrew in Toronto!
	6:40am deborah: Good Morning WFMUniverse! Stress might be here for most of us. Just finished developing a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course for the community college where I teach. I hope it will run. If I can teach it, I will practice methods that will lessen my stress, for sure. Meditation, qigong are my basic ways; a steady paycheck would certainly be another. But we have this music and our collective awareness and consciousness. That helps!
	6:41am Jeffrey Davison: Stanley...yes, there is an underlying stress that we can't shake free of very easily, for obvious reasons. I need to follow your cue and do more relaxing/stress reducing things for myself. Good luck!
	6:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well William Irwin Thompson said the city has culture & the country has life. He also wrote of the phases of civilization's relation to the divine but I kinda think in the Age of Aquarius we're all gonna hafta individuate rather than get bailed out by messiahs or heroes...
	6:43am Jeffrey Davison: deborah...we seem to have hit on today's theme. Just because businesses are open and all of that, it may not lessen stress. Yes, we are now meeting up with friends for a meal, a drink...but the concern never leaves. If I get a morning or an evening, even a short while, taking photographs, it helps a lot.
	6:45am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, I guess that's one reason that a place in the city and one in the country was always the ideal. You do go mad in the city, if you're here without enough breaks. NYC, despite all of its charms, does wear you down.
	6:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I was listening to great Audio Dharma podcasts by practical common sense Buddhists - my 2020 way of relating to Meditation or anything of the kind - but somehow the pandemic distracted me just when I had nothing but time. It's been such a weird space.
	6:49am thelastdaysofourpast: Hi everyone. Many thanks for playing "The Photograph", Jeffrey! I really appreciate your support. Btw, this playlist is stunning!
	6:49am Dan: checking in from Minneapolis Enjoying
	6:49am Cooh John: RRN63: thanks for the insight from William Irwin Thompson. How appropriate his initials are WIT.
	6:50am VincentNifigance: If the New Normal means constantly evading viruses, I’m thinking you can have the City. I’m literally on my way to scout out somewhere 90 mins outside the City I live, which is a world away in the UK, so much so I’m in a different country.
	6:50am Jeffrey Davison: thelastdaysofourpast, welcome, and thank you. Dan, welcome, and thank you, too!
	6:51am TDK60: Making the city more green and collectively just would be good, too.
	6:53am Jeffrey Davison: VinceNifigance...I hear you loud and clear, and there are a significant number of people who agree with you. Real estate in the suburbs is enjoying a nice little bump. And the rural areas as well... TDK60: yes, by all means. Bloomberg's Million Trees project was a start, but we have a long way to go!
	6:54am Cooh John: Putting my daughter on a plane to Ireland next week. I think she will be in a calmer and more stable place.
	6:57am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John...good idea. By the way, there was an article in the NYT this week by a reporter in Ireland...this person was not always made to feel welcome, and she has an Irish passport as well.
	6:58am queems: good morning!
	7:00am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, queems!
	7:00am duke: Hello Shrunken heads
	7:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One has hoped the pandemic would open the Overton window on several things by putting civilisation on pause - exposing interrelations & essential workers - supply chains, health care, environment & on & on. Resistance & denialism are great - but perhaps there will be impact too. In fact we possibly all minimalize it in our heads. I speak of it like it will end soon & we actually don't know. Winter is coming - as the expression goes - & there's no reason to think conditions that enabled the virus won't continue...
	7:01am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome, duke!
	7:03am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, it is a deep wish for many of us that the pandemic will generate a new kind of world society, one that takes care of people and the planet, with an emphasis on community and creativity and a lot less on conflict and greed.
	7:06am TDK60: Morning Queems. / I'm not holding my breath for the rich 1% to make this city better. Especially now as eviction moratoriums are about to end, and as pandemic unemployment assistance ends.
	7:06am Cooh John: Thanks, Jeffrey I will look that up. Americans abroad are attracting disdain perhaps from years of arrogance. My daughter likes the Irish culture better than American culture. She will charm them forthwith.
	7:07am Really. Lisa.: Isn’t there still a US to Europe travel ban? I thought I’d been following up-to-date info on that front.
	7:08am deborah: Van Vleck Gardens is my place of meditation and peace. Luckily, I can walk there and escape the studio apartment for a while. Avis Campbell Gardens in Montclair are also stunning. Missing the museums etc. and nonstop college life. This pandemic teaches but I, like millions of others, would appreciate a break. Love the Fordell Research Unit.
	7:08am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60, this is a grave issue. People have been talking about rent forgiveness (and similar issues) since day one of this, and next to nothing was done. The moratorium was helpful, but just held things in check, which clearly wasn't enough. DeBlasio danced around this issue the whole time.
	7:10am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, I found the article: www.nytimes.com...
	7:11am Jeffrey Davison: Really Lisa, good point. Cooh John, is your daughter going indirectly to Ireland?
	7:12am Jeffrey Davison: deborah, I've been past Van Vleck Gardens. I'll have to stop there one of these days. Missing all of the cultural and other offerings as well. My bread and butter.
	7:13am Cooh John: RRN63: I am with you. Just before he died, Hawking said capitalism was the biggest threat to the planet. I am waiting for the collective realization that the stimulus checks were created out of thin air.
	7:15am Really. Lisa.: If anyone can share a url for as close as possible to real time travel ban data, I’d be grateful.
	7:16am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, I agree with Hawking (or he with me, har har). Lots of "don't look at the man behind the curtain" going on now in D.C. The unemployment and extra $600 is what has kept the wolf away for many, many people, and as of now, that has ceased. I dread to think what is next, and another single stimulus check isn't going to stretch for another four months. The check was welcome, for sure, but not a realistic amount for anyone.
	7:16am Cooh John: Yes, Jeffrey a direct flight from Newark next week. I will be in the neighborhood. Her husband is already there and this is a permanent move so no major problems are anticipated.
	7:16am clarke: howdy monsieur un madames
	7:18am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, good to hear, and good luck to all. Welcome clarke, bonjour...
	7:19am Aaron Working in Newark: good morning Jeffrey
	7:20am Jeffrey Davison: Aaron, welcome! How dare you sleep in! ;)
	7:22am Jeffrey Davison: By the way, listeners, WFMU continues to expand its list of movies to stream, all music documentaries, all really excellent. The latest to be added is Danny Says, a riveting film about the great Danny Fields. magnoliapictures.vhx.tv...
	7:23am TDK60: I do think of places I'd rather be. Ireland might be good, never been! The next several months may be dire in the US, and here I am.
	7:23am Jeffrey Davison: No idea how FMU would still be here except for the courage of the fearless crew, the Skeleton Crew to be precise. Thanks again, Ruth!! xx
	7:24am clarke: reading up, i must report one of the better nights of sleep i have had in a while. these are few, tho.
	7:25am clarke: ruth is a TROOOOOPER!!!
	7:25am fred: @Cooh John: Even US citizens are allowed into the EU if their "legally recognized" spouse is already there, so she should be OK.
	7:26am clarke: allowed but not 'welcomed' maybe??
	7:27am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: that's kinda what the NYT article describes...
	7:28am clarke: yeah, it seems like a few horrible nights will garner a decent one, ha ha.
	7:29am clarke: most of the time, i will just get up and do some light recording, so am getting stuff DONE. (but it is still frustrating, i should learn to go with it more, as we all have the time - or most of us).
	7:31am clarke: oddly, reading has taken more of a backseat than i would like, though?????
	7:32am TDK60: Last night, luckily, I got good sleep although the car racers that have been roaring at night since April were out there. (They've likely never heard of the early 20th Century Futurists, but they are similar in their love of speed, noise, aggression.)
	7:33am fred: @Cooh John: She may have to quarantine for a couple of weeks though. Refusal to do so has been part of why US people are not welcome, if she does, it should help her fit in
	7:34am clarke: tdk - i try to create my own sound environment - sometimes THAT keeps me awake, tho, ha ha
	7:35am clarke: i certainly appreciate THIS show for breaking me into the day in a nice way - wish it were on EVERY day.
	7:38am Sylvia (France-NYC): Hello Jeffrey and shrunken listeners, a beautiful playlist to wake up to
	7:38am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: agreed! Let's get rid of Wake with Clay Pigeon and one of the Sunday shows! (Actually, now that we have Wake, following the amazing Dusty Show, it's hard to imagine FMU without Clay in the morning. Essential listening!) And also, if you haven't seen the doc featuring Clay Pigeon, it's great... vimeo.com...
	7:40am clarke: that wasn't to put clay down, by any means. he does play great music - just a little too perky por moi in the a.m.
	7:41am clarke: i just never got into the "morning zoo" kinda thing - have never been a 'morning person' so am reluctantly awake then.
	7:41am TDK60: This show helps for sure. Clarke, I tried foam in the ears, didn't work. Old building. Plus the noise reverberates along the building facades.
	7:42am Jeffrey Davison: clarke...no, I know. I was just playing around. And yes, he is high energy! Even shows that I like, I sometimes turn off, for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that the radio is on a lot, and sometimes I just need a break. And thank you.
	7:43am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia (France-NYC), welcome and thank you... And thanks TDK60. I love sharing music.
	7:43am clarke: i usually listen to 'radio' through the night. in recent years, i have discovered Antioch Broadcast Network - old radio shows (mostly detective shows at night). sometimes this can backire, ha ha.
	7:45am Jeffrey Davison: clarke, ah yes, I can see how it might...!
	7:45am clarke: well, oddly.. sometimes when i am really liking a certain plot, i will fall asleep. i am weird.
	7:47am clarke: i guess the motto to take from here is "sleep when you can".
	7:47am TDK60: Cooh John, might I ask where to in Eire your daughter is journeying?
	7:48am Jeffrey Davison: Listeners, if you haven't seen the documentary about Arthur Russell, who was an amazing musician, you really ought to rent it. It will make you a fan, I believe... wildcombination.vhx.tv...
	7:49am clarke: already a russell fan, will have to check it - but, i am wearing thin on docs, lately.
	7:50am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: I hear you. I've seen a lot in the last couple of months. I'm also a subscriber to Criterion Channel, for a dose of great films. An amazing offering, and not that expensive.
	7:50am TDK60: Thanks for the movie plugs Jeffrey. I have to check out some of those, keep forgetting.
	7:51am snoochienucci: Good morning all! Hope everyone’s staying cool out there
	7:51am clarke: criterion is where It's at!! not that i have the channel.
	7:52am Jeffrey Davison: Criterion is cheaper than Netflix, and I don't have to wade through a lot of junk to find something really good, though they do have some decent stuff. Probably will drop it, though.
	7:52am Jeffrey Davison: snoochienucci...welcome!
	7:53am clarke: will have to say that netflix finances some great series - they are not as great with movie selections, tho.
	7:54am clarke: criterion is one place where (i think) you can just randomly select something and be pleased.
	7:55am deborah: @clarke I love Clay Pigeon but the format and the noise gets to me so, at times, I turn to that classical station way up the dial. I would love to see/hear a weekday show like Jeffrey's and Carol's Serious Sonatas. Clay's show would do well in most time slots.
	7:57am clarke: hey, i can't imagine a better time slot for clay - and again, he has great musical taste!! it is just not my cuppa at that time. as i must say the same about DDR
	7:58am clarke: also, i never have been a huge fan of dj's who yell over the music, ha ha. except maybe Dewey Phillips!!
	7:59am clarke: just cracking up imagining JD screaming over his sets, ha ha ha ha.
	8:00am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: my screaming is done in private, mostly inspired by technical issues and lapses in attention.
	8:01am clarke: ha ha ha ha!!
	8:01am clarke: internal screams.
	8:02am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: i have enjoyed some Netflix series, but the movies are lacking. Mostly mediocre stuff...
	8:03am clarke: infernal streams.
	8:03am TDK60: An educational site, Open Culture, has about 1,000 free movies, mostly older. public domain.
	8:05am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60, thanks! I completely forgot about that. Someone sent me the link early in the lockdown, and I watched a bunch of films, both shorts and features... www.openculture.com...
	8:05am clarke: speaking of public domain, i haven't done this in a while, but there was a site that was broadcasting old nasa radio transmissions from astronauts - it was relaxing and soothing, actually.
	8:06am TDK60: Via Open Culture, I saw a great old English film from the '30s, "Rembrandt" with Charles Laughlin.
	8:06am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: I have heard bits of those NASA transmissions, and they are somehow soothing.
	8:07am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60...ah, I meant to watch that one! By the great Alexander Korda.
	8:07am clarke: yeah, you wouldn't think it would be like that. love me some Laughton!!!
	8:09am clarke: if you mean charles laughton - and if you haven't yet seen his ONE directorial film - SEEK: Night Of The Hunter!!!!! five stars!!
	8:09am deborah: @clarke Yes, Clay is a genius! DDR goes off immediately. Time to switch to that classical station.
	8:10am clarke: agreed deb!!!
	8:12am Jeffrey Davison: clarke, oh yeah, that's a great one. With the great Robert Mitchum at his most sinister. Agreed that Clay is amazing...And I am a fan of DDR. It's mostly geared to the younger set, but they play great music, and Roger and Amanda are great on air.
	8:12am clarke: actually what i have been doing most saturdays is choosing a full album of one of the artists i discover through the Planet and listening to the full albums. righteous!!
	8:13am clarke: i can't think of better programming for a saturday morning slot, like that; however, to ME, brainen used to break the day GENTLY to me, ha ha.
	8:14am clarke: by the time Shelley Show comes on - i am ready to rock!!
	8:14am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: Ah, nice. Sometimes, though, I find only one track on an album that I like, but I play it nonetheless. I used to sometimes mention that such tracks were atypical, but have not done that in a long while.
	8:15am clarke: i am the same way. the albums i choose are more guitar oriented, usually.
	8:17am clarke: as a youth, i was all about cartoons on sat morn!! it was the ONE day i actually enjoyed waking early! not so much, any more, ha ha.
	8:18am Sem: Hello and good morning, Jeffrey, and time zone appropriate greetings to all riding this stream. Idyllic day here on the shores of the mighty pacific Bay of Fundy.
	8:18am clarke: love your own love!!
	8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Sem, good morning! Enjoy your idyllic day... clarke: I'm with you on cartoons...my education!
	8:19am clarke: this is a little frightening. ; ]
	8:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Be ironic if Wake & Bake was so successful it had to expand to the other streams! Deffo designed to keep you from sleeping in. Really - look @ this utter madness & disruption of our world - & here's WFMU hardly missing a beat - adapting even. It's damned remarkable in fact.
	8:21am TDK60: Clarke, yeh I meant Laughton. I've seen "Hunter" too, great.
	8:21am clarke: i was reminiscing recently about the non-cartoon programming on sat morns - The Hudson Brothers, HR Puffinstuff, Land Of The Lost, et al
	8:21am deborah: I am so weird. Never liked cartoons much but was addicted to morning news and this show called Daywatch which no one has ever seen, I think. It was an early newsfeed which broadcast news, features, time and weather. As a supposed grown up, I liked Ren and Stimpy so all was not lost.
	8:22am clarke: i was always more of a tex avery kinda guy
	8:23am melinda: Morning everyone
	8:24am clarke: dunno about Daywatch - tell us more
	8:24am clarke: mawnin!!!
	8:24am Jeffrey Davison: Rev: what FMU is doing is nothing short of amazing. It's not like we have an NPR budget! deborah: don't know that show... clarke: I didn't appreciate Tex Avery until later. melinda: welcome...
	8:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: When I was a kid ya had yer three or so antenna channels - the networks - & in the fall the new Saturday cartoon schedule would come out - TV Guide I suppose. & I'd get paper & a ruler & graph it all out. Always a media head - & here I am now! A stream & podcast addict.
	8:26am deborah: That is all, basically. It was a scroll and sometimes full screen. No one knows Daywatch but it did exist. I was an information-driven kid who had no patience for "kiddie shows" either. That is probably why I ended up hanging around colleges forever and still teaching at one.
	8:27am clarke: ha ha - that's wild RR11/63
	8:27am Jeffrey Davison: Don't know if anyone remembers this...you'd have to be of a certain age, but as I recall the first cartoon on in the morning was about a farmer. Very primitive cartoon, for early risers like me. There was also a kind of informative show called Modern Farmer. Riveting.
	8:28am clarke: don't recall that - captain kangaroo was my intro and mister greenjeans to farming
	8:29am clarke: but of course KC was on weekdays
	8:29am TDK60: Jeffrey, I remember those! Simple line drawings, a farmer running along, cows, the horizon in the background. How to find? / I used to go to a movie and see a Bugs Bunny cartoon before the main feature. No more.
	8:30am clarke: the best bugs bunny is tex avery driven!
	8:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & of course in the 1970s these franchises would give you the whole 20thCentury to that point - Marx Bros., Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Tom & Jerry - The Beatles' movies : see - they'd show everything like once a year. Monterey Pop!...stay up late & see Midnight Cowboy. As a little kid. PBS wasn't sold out yet. Things about Modern Art. PYTHON. Animation Festival of the weird stuff...
	8:31am deborah: Yes, the cartoon might have been Farmer Grey or Felix the Cat. I watched Modern Farmer, themes to Lamp Unto My Feet and would stare at test patterns. Captain Kangaroo was okay but found him cloying (even though I didn't know what the word meant).
	8:31am clarke: lol
	8:31am tranewreck: @jd. I was only allowed to watch tv on Saturday morning so woke up for the test pattern (riveting!) and then the modern farmer where I learned about wind breaks , irrigation and other valuable stuff for a 6 year old
	8:32am melinda: I liked watching Julia Child on Saturdays along with cartoons.
	8:33am clarke: not intended to be sexist, but most gals don't 'get' cartoons and/or three stooges.
	8:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, shrunken beings. For a while, we had Kulka, Fran & Ollie reruns on Saturday mornings.
	8:34am clarke: or should i say that only some gals DO get things like that.
	8:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'm the baby of the family & stuck to stuff even when I was bothered by the cloying. Thru Captain K I was initiated into the Rabbit Mysteries. That Rabbit that didn't speak. Later I learn I'm Hare in the Chinese Calendar bit I always identified w/ the Rabbit. :) it's something to get this old & feel the distance...
	8:35am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, yeah there was lots of good stuff that was freely available. I didn't like Felix the Cat. Jonny Quest, though, that seemed really cool! tranewreck: yeah, I guess as kids we're so hungry for stimulation we'd watch anything. Ken From Hyde Park: welcome...I didn't watch Kukla, Fran & Ollie much...
	8:36am clarke: Mr. Bunny!!!
	8:36am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): greetings, Jeffrey and WFMU folx, such a delight to listen live today
	8:37am Jeffrey Davison: I do love seeing a cartoon before a movie. So old-fashioned. The repertory houses used to do that sometimes. Maybe the Thalia? Bleecker? Granny! Nice to have you with us today...
	8:37am TDK60: In NYC/NJ there was a local TV station (WOR? at channel 9?) That had a Million Dollar Movie feature most nights. They'd play a movie twice or more each night, and for a week. I would watch them over and over.
	8:38am clarke: the resurgence of (some) drive-in theaters brought back the cartoon before the flick.
	8:39am Jeffrey Davison: I didn't watch Julia Child then, but she was astonishing. Always glad to see some old clip of that show. I did love The Galloping Gourmet! Probably a big reason that I got into the food business, though there were a number of other factors. Yes, Million Dollar Movie!
	8:39am deborah: Kukla and crew had undertone jokes, I think. I agree about need for stimulation. Somehow drawing on a plastic screen with Winky Dink and You and Romper Room didn't work for me, at all. Started to love radio at an early age since I could always listen to news and talk. Then got into Clavan and Finch on WNEW and Herb Oscar Anderson on WABC, who was legendary. Okay, almost getting psyched to teach Intro to Journalism so I could talk about radio for a couple of weeks and drive students crazy. Stll love radio!
	8:39am Sylvia (France-NYC): @clarke that's sexist, period.
	8:39am G: Yes, 9 WOR tv -- Million Dollar Movie was on the schedule till at least the early 80s, I think...
	8:40am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, I think that clarke was trying to walk his statement back...
	8:41am TDK60: One time Million Dollar Movie had Fellini's "La Strada" on. I watched it for a week! I was a child, mayb 8, but it maybe gave me a window into the tragedy that adult life could be.
	8:41am Jeffrey Davison: ...possibly not enough!
	8:41am clarke: likewise, i didn't 'get' julia child back in the day - but, i enjoy seeing her broadcasts now.
	8:42am clarke: she is/was a genius
	8:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Course it characterizes my GenX we grew up with all the Boomer fallout - & in fact in my very earliest years I was all into The Beatles Saturday cartoon show! Which they won't even rerelease now it's so goofy....Batman - original Star Trek & Twilight Zone....not even broaching Monster & Sci-fi movies but that's a whole Culture. Had to realize I'm a Monster Kid just like I identify Rawker.
	8:43am Sylvia (France-NYC): yeah, @Jeffrey, I know everyone here is a nice fellow. It's all the little things we've come to accept in every day life and language that made it possible for a guy like 45 to be President, so I'm working on being better than all we did before.
	8:43am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60...wow, La Strada at 8 years old. Fellini films do have a kind of innocence (or something like that) at their core, and maybe can even speak volumes to someone so young.
	8:43am deborah: Okay. I think cartoons were crafted to an early stereotypical "masculine" mentality. This is what boys were supposed to like etc. That is one of the reasons I could not resonate, although I did not like what girls were supposed to like. I was too busy reading or pretending I was a teacher or doctor. This goes into Women's Studies theory etc so I am not going any deeper etc. If Cartoons were late to evolve; Sesame Street was the beginning of change, in some ways.
	8:44am deborah: @Sylvia (France-NYC) I get it.
	8:44am clarke: i figured my statement might ruffle feathers - ALL i meant is that girls and boys were different. it is not a putdown, by any means. there!!
	8:44am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, I take your point completely. All of our language is inherited, so we have to pay attention, as best we can, to the biases inherent in language and received ideas.
	8:46am Jeffrey Davison: deborah, and Rev: yeah, the modern cartoons (at least many) seem more equitable in terms of boy-girl depictions. And yeah, Boomer fallout is a big deal.
	8:47am Sylvia (France-NYC): If we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves first (Saturday Morning Comments' Board Philosophy)
	8:48am deborah: Interesting discussion; fabulous music! Now, for a second cup of coffee. Thanks, Jeffrey, everyone!
	8:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like saying girls may typically have an equestrian phase & boys not so much. Is it inherent or pressure? Now we're questioning the whole construction of gender - which we should !! Did girls really like the slapstick violence of the Three Stooges but couldn't say so? Was that really what was happening? See - I'm a boy - but I wasn't into it either. I was into the Surrealism of the Marx Bros. It happens a lot of smart people are into the Three Stooges - & I can see how much was there in fact...
	8:51am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i'm all for being more mindful of our language choices and how they affect our thoughts, actions, beliefs… don't get me started on gender and media!!! ;-P
	8:52am TDK60: Thanks, merci, for your points Sylvia. Often a challenge to un-learn and try to change but we have to be open to it. / Funny how I don't believe in any of the culture of the old cartoons (violence, sexism). I enjoyed Sesame Street when it arrived, obviously pushing new ideas.
	8:52am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i happen to be reading the memoirs of Harpo Marx!
	8:52am Jeffrey Davison: It's a huge subject, one and all! Thanks to everyone for listening, commenting on the music, and sharing your thoughts about other subjects.
	8:52am clarke: well, i had an equestrian phase, myself!! not every statement is designed as a barb! GREAT ShOW this morning - AS ALWAYS!
	8:52am Sylvia (France-NYC): you need a 4 hour show, Jeffrey! this is ending too soon!
	8:53am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): my mom pressured me into an equestrian phase, but it didn't take
	8:53am TDK60: Thanks DJ JD. Next time! ..
	8:53am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, thanks, but sometimes 3 hours seems more than enough! Thanks clarke...
	8:54am Stanley: Really nice show Jeffrey. Just the thing for me this morning. Thanks and take care.
	8:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think there's science on how male & female brains differ & perhaps especially before / as they mature. Females probably have a jump on the game in maturity - & males may have things culturally that compensate or maybe even aid them! Of course when discussing gender - it is also always too generalized - & also too binary.
	8:56am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks, Stanley... Thanks TDK60... Thanks again Ruth!!
	8:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ JD. Thx for wake up convo all ! :)
	8:57am Really. Lisa.: Thank you, Jeffrey. And thanks to Ruth. Peace, and safe weekend, all.
	8:57am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): <biting tongue to avoid last minute gender rant>i do appreciate the discussions we have here—as wild and wooly as they get sometimes, i have found the WFMU boards to be the most considerate online
	8:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay Ruth !
	8:57am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks RRN63. Thanks Really. Lisa.
	8:58am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): thanks, Jeffrey! i really look forward to digging this out of the archives. i make my bandcamp shopping list from your playlists

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

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July 25, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Fordell Research Unit	Twelve Past Six	Twelve Past Six	Fordell Research Unit	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Emeralds	Nereus (Spirits Over the Lake)	Allegory of Allergies	Gods of Tundra	0:13:32 (Pop-up)
The Last Days of Our Past	The Photograph	SLOW	The Last Days of Our Past	0:29:19 (Pop-up)
Oliviaway	Heavenly Host "Heavenly Host" by "Oliviaway"	Immersion	Oliviaway	0:45:09 (Pop-up)
Endless Melancholy	Long Days "Long Days" by "Endless Melancholy"	Escapist Sessions	Sound In Silence	0:53:17 (Pop-up)

Shehryar Ahmad	Inspiring Normality	A Study of Place	Shehryar Ahmad	1:03:11 (Pop-up)
The Silent Boy	Eclipsed, pt. I "Eclipsed, pt. I" by "The Silent Boy"	Nocturnity	The Silent Boy	1:08:32 (Pop-up)
Gurdymania	I Heard a Voice Like the Sound of the Ocean	The Strangewool EP	Gurdymania	1:13:35 (Pop-up)
earlymorningever	The Last "The Last" by "earlymorningever"	Unreleased 01	earlymorningever	1:18:22 (Pop-up)
Hidden Sky	True "True" by "Hidden Sky"	Find	Hidden Sky	1:24:25 (Pop-up)
Shuta Yasukochi & Carlos Ferreira	Floating	Quiet Reminders	Archives	1:30:08 (Pop-up)
BOTN	Zapah Syrogo Peska "Zapah Syrogo Peska" by "BOTN"	Zapah Syrogo Peska	Sonus Fora	1:44:33 (Pop-up)
Utem Kaure	Hailstorm "Hailstorm" by "Utem Kaure"	Miracle	Utem Kaure	1:50:02 (Pop-up)

Xavier Tort	armenia "armenia" by "Xavier Tort"	últims dies dalt les golfes	Xavier Tort	2:01:46 (Pop-up)
No Naime	Soham "Soham" by "No Naime"	Srishti	No Naime	2:05:38 (Pop-up)
Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris	Ownness	EarthSeed	FPE Records	2:13:59 (Pop-up)
Roberto Carlos Lange	Suede House "Suede House" by "Roberto Carlos Lange"	Kite Symphony, Four Variations	Ballroom Marfa	2:20:31 (Pop-up)
Nicolas Jaar	Telallás "Telallás" by "Nicolas Jaar"	Telas	Other People	2:27:54 (Pop-up)
Mary Lattimore	Mary, You Were Wrong	(single)	Mary Lattimore	2:40:51 (Pop-up)
Powers/Rolin Duo	Caterwauls "Caterwauls" by "Powers/Rolin Duo"	Powers/Rolin Duo	Feeding Tube	2:45:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:04am Really. Lisa.: Hello Jeffrey. Hope you had a peaceful, safe week.
	6:05am VincentNifigance: Good morning, shrunken siblings.
	6:06am LiXiviated Life: “That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” - W.W.
	6:07am fred: Good morning Jeffrey and all. This reminds me of Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic
	6:09am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Really Lisa, VincentNifigance, LiXiviated Life (thank you, as always; W.W always hits the spot), and fred (yes, I can see that. I don't know why, but I think of Arvo Part also, though I can't recall if anything of his sounds like this...)
	6:09am Heidee: Oh, this is beautiful... serene... Hi all.
	6:10am Cooh John: Good morning Jeffrey and planeteers. Up early and part of the first stanza. Thanks, LL for the inspiration that goes so well with the music.
	6:10am Heidee: Makes me wanna sing in harmonies...
	6:11am Jeffrey Davison: Heidee, good morning. Btw, gentle listeners, a few weeks ago I played a song by an obscure German singer, Maike Hamman, and Heidee was kind enough to translate it for me. I was happy to discover that it was poetic, not dumb! Thanks, Heidee!
	6:12am Heidee: Oh you are so welcome. I am sending kisses over!
	6:13am Jeffrey Davison: Hey, Cooh John! Nice to have you here early... FYI, all, most of the photographs I have been posting to the top of the playlist are mine, all iphone shots. Trying to gather crumbs for Instagram. This shot, taken last night, is in East Williamsburg, my neighborhood.
	6:19am Stanley: Good morning Jeffrey. This is just what I need after another sleepless night. I hope you are keeping well.
	6:21am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, Stanley. Sorry about your sleepless night. I seem to wake up more frequently now, and on some nights three or four times. Don't know if it's stress, or what...
	6:27am TDK60: Good morning Jeffrey and planeteers.
	6:28am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome aboard, TDK60...
	6:29am WelshRarebit: Haven’t heard this Emeralds track in a while. Getting some Fripp & Eno vibes. Thx Jeffrey.
	6:30am Jeffrey Davison: WelshRarebit...thanks. Yeah, maybe they recently posted it to Bandcamp. From 2007.
	6:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tempting to say that photo says something about lives in U.S.America that's left out of the jingoism or discourse. I'd hope & wish this music for example does too. I spend a lot of time on the boards jealous of people's urban lives - I try to remember to be grateful I'm in a fairly green place. Well - when it isnt winter...
	6:34am Stanley: I feel for you, Jeffrey. For me, it's stress that is always there but in these times, I think it has got stronger. I need to make more time for meditation and deep relaxation and I seriously need a break from work, the news and the pandemic. This music is so meditative and calming. Thanks.
	6:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: FrippandEno ✔
	6:34am ignatatus666: Greetings Listening to app and fm It’s great right now the delay is barely noticeable with this track Had a great night my Borrachos are back( though that could really be bad) Headed to Putnam for my dog and some chill time
	6:36am Stanley: Rev - I've spent the last four months envying my friends and family who live in the countryside. Enjoy and profit from it, my friend.
	6:37am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Jeffrey and all other Planeteers.
	6:38am Jeffrey Davison: Revolution Rabbit...welcome. I do often envy those who live in greener places. I follow writer/photographer Amanda Petrusich on IG, and she has a house upstate. Her photos make me long for a long sojourn in a beautiful place...and NYC ain't all that beautiful, tbh. (By the way, listeners, if you don't know Amanda's work, she writes for the New Yorker. Also has some marvelous books; the one on 78 collectors is especially wonderful.) However, I think I'm a city boy through and through...
	6:39am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus666, good morning. Glad you have some business again...
	6:40am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Andrew in Toronto!
	6:40am deborah: Good Morning WFMUniverse! Stress might be here for most of us. Just finished developing a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course for the community college where I teach. I hope it will run. If I can teach it, I will practice methods that will lessen my stress, for sure. Meditation, qigong are my basic ways; a steady paycheck would certainly be another. But we have this music and our collective awareness and consciousness. That helps!
	6:41am Jeffrey Davison: Stanley...yes, there is an underlying stress that we can't shake free of very easily, for obvious reasons. I need to follow your cue and do more relaxing/stress reducing things for myself. Good luck!
	6:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well William Irwin Thompson said the city has culture & the country has life. He also wrote of the phases of civilization's relation to the divine but I kinda think in the Age of Aquarius we're all gonna hafta individuate rather than get bailed out by messiahs or heroes...
	6:43am Jeffrey Davison: deborah...we seem to have hit on today's theme. Just because businesses are open and all of that, it may not lessen stress. Yes, we are now meeting up with friends for a meal, a drink...but the concern never leaves. If I get a morning or an evening, even a short while, taking photographs, it helps a lot.
	6:45am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, I guess that's one reason that a place in the city and one in the country was always the ideal. You do go mad in the city, if you're here without enough breaks. NYC, despite all of its charms, does wear you down.
	6:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I was listening to great Audio Dharma podcasts by practical common sense Buddhists - my 2020 way of relating to Meditation or anything of the kind - but somehow the pandemic distracted me just when I had nothing but time. It's been such a weird space.
	6:49am thelastdaysofourpast: Hi everyone. Many thanks for playing "The Photograph", Jeffrey! I really appreciate your support. Btw, this playlist is stunning!
	6:49am Dan: checking in from Minneapolis Enjoying
	6:49am Cooh John: RRN63: thanks for the insight from William Irwin Thompson. How appropriate his initials are WIT.
	6:50am VincentNifigance: If the New Normal means constantly evading viruses, I’m thinking you can have the City. I’m literally on my way to scout out somewhere 90 mins outside the City I live, which is a world away in the UK, so much so I’m in a different country.
	6:50am Jeffrey Davison: thelastdaysofourpast, welcome, and thank you. Dan, welcome, and thank you, too!
	6:51am TDK60: Making the city more green and collectively just would be good, too.
	6:53am Jeffrey Davison: VinceNifigance...I hear you loud and clear, and there are a significant number of people who agree with you. Real estate in the suburbs is enjoying a nice little bump. And the rural areas as well... TDK60: yes, by all means. Bloomberg's Million Trees project was a start, but we have a long way to go!
	6:54am Cooh John: Putting my daughter on a plane to Ireland next week. I think she will be in a calmer and more stable place.
	6:57am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John...good idea. By the way, there was an article in the NYT this week by a reporter in Ireland...this person was not always made to feel welcome, and she has an Irish passport as well.
	6:58am queems: good morning!
	7:00am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, queems!
	7:00am duke: Hello Shrunken heads
	7:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One has hoped the pandemic would open the Overton window on several things by putting civilisation on pause - exposing interrelations & essential workers - supply chains, health care, environment & on & on. Resistance & denialism are great - but perhaps there will be impact too. In fact we possibly all minimalize it in our heads. I speak of it like it will end soon & we actually don't know. Winter is coming - as the expression goes - & there's no reason to think conditions that enabled the virus won't continue...
	7:01am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome, duke!
	7:03am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, it is a deep wish for many of us that the pandemic will generate a new kind of world society, one that takes care of people and the planet, with an emphasis on community and creativity and a lot less on conflict and greed.
	7:06am TDK60: Morning Queems. / I'm not holding my breath for the rich 1% to make this city better. Especially now as eviction moratoriums are about to end, and as pandemic unemployment assistance ends.
	7:06am Cooh John: Thanks, Jeffrey I will look that up. Americans abroad are attracting disdain perhaps from years of arrogance. My daughter likes the Irish culture better than American culture. She will charm them forthwith.
	7:07am Really. Lisa.: Isn’t there still a US to Europe travel ban? I thought I’d been following up-to-date info on that front.
	7:08am deborah: Van Vleck Gardens is my place of meditation and peace. Luckily, I can walk there and escape the studio apartment for a while. Avis Campbell Gardens in Montclair are also stunning. Missing the museums etc. and nonstop college life. This pandemic teaches but I, like millions of others, would appreciate a break. Love the Fordell Research Unit.
	7:08am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60, this is a grave issue. People have been talking about rent forgiveness (and similar issues) since day one of this, and next to nothing was done. The moratorium was helpful, but just held things in check, which clearly wasn't enough. DeBlasio danced around this issue the whole time.
	7:10am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, I found the article: www.nytimes.com...
	7:11am Jeffrey Davison: Really Lisa, good point. Cooh John, is your daughter going indirectly to Ireland?
	7:12am Jeffrey Davison: deborah, I've been past Van Vleck Gardens. I'll have to stop there one of these days. Missing all of the cultural and other offerings as well. My bread and butter.
	7:13am Cooh John: RRN63: I am with you. Just before he died, Hawking said capitalism was the biggest threat to the planet. I am waiting for the collective realization that the stimulus checks were created out of thin air.
	7:15am Really. Lisa.: If anyone can share a url for as close as possible to real time travel ban data, I’d be grateful.
	7:16am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, I agree with Hawking (or he with me, har har). Lots of "don't look at the man behind the curtain" going on now in D.C. The unemployment and extra $600 is what has kept the wolf away for many, many people, and as of now, that has ceased. I dread to think what is next, and another single stimulus check isn't going to stretch for another four months. The check was welcome, for sure, but not a realistic amount for anyone.
	7:16am Cooh John: Yes, Jeffrey a direct flight from Newark next week. I will be in the neighborhood. Her husband is already there and this is a permanent move so no major problems are anticipated.
	7:16am clarke: howdy monsieur un madames
	7:18am Jeffrey Davison: Cooh John, good to hear, and good luck to all. Welcome clarke, bonjour...
	7:19am Aaron Working in Newark: good morning Jeffrey
	7:20am Jeffrey Davison: Aaron, welcome! How dare you sleep in! ;)
	7:22am Jeffrey Davison: By the way, listeners, WFMU continues to expand its list of movies to stream, all music documentaries, all really excellent. The latest to be added is Danny Says, a riveting film about the great Danny Fields. magnoliapictures.vhx.tv...
	7:23am TDK60: I do think of places I'd rather be. Ireland might be good, never been! The next several months may be dire in the US, and here I am.
	7:23am Jeffrey Davison: No idea how FMU would still be here except for the courage of the fearless crew, the Skeleton Crew to be precise. Thanks again, Ruth!! xx
	7:24am clarke: reading up, i must report one of the better nights of sleep i have had in a while. these are few, tho.
	7:25am clarke: ruth is a TROOOOOPER!!!
	7:25am fred: @Cooh John: Even US citizens are allowed into the EU if their "legally recognized" spouse is already there, so she should be OK.
	7:26am clarke: allowed but not 'welcomed' maybe??
	7:27am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: that's kinda what the NYT article describes...
	7:28am clarke: yeah, it seems like a few horrible nights will garner a decent one, ha ha.
	7:29am clarke: most of the time, i will just get up and do some light recording, so am getting stuff DONE. (but it is still frustrating, i should learn to go with it more, as we all have the time - or most of us).
	7:31am clarke: oddly, reading has taken more of a backseat than i would like, though?????
	7:32am TDK60: Last night, luckily, I got good sleep although the car racers that have been roaring at night since April were out there. (They've likely never heard of the early 20th Century Futurists, but they are similar in their love of speed, noise, aggression.)
	7:33am fred: @Cooh John: She may have to quarantine for a couple of weeks though. Refusal to do so has been part of why US people are not welcome, if she does, it should help her fit in
	7:34am clarke: tdk - i try to create my own sound environment - sometimes THAT keeps me awake, tho, ha ha
	7:35am clarke: i certainly appreciate THIS show for breaking me into the day in a nice way - wish it were on EVERY day.
	7:38am Sylvia (France-NYC): Hello Jeffrey and shrunken listeners, a beautiful playlist to wake up to
	7:38am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: agreed! Let's get rid of Wake with Clay Pigeon and one of the Sunday shows! (Actually, now that we have Wake, following the amazing Dusty Show, it's hard to imagine FMU without Clay in the morning. Essential listening!) And also, if you haven't seen the doc featuring Clay Pigeon, it's great... vimeo.com...
	7:40am clarke: that wasn't to put clay down, by any means. he does play great music - just a little too perky por moi in the a.m.
	7:41am clarke: i just never got into the "morning zoo" kinda thing - have never been a 'morning person' so am reluctantly awake then.
	7:41am TDK60: This show helps for sure. Clarke, I tried foam in the ears, didn't work. Old building. Plus the noise reverberates along the building facades.
	7:42am Jeffrey Davison: clarke...no, I know. I was just playing around. And yes, he is high energy! Even shows that I like, I sometimes turn off, for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that the radio is on a lot, and sometimes I just need a break. And thank you.
	7:43am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia (France-NYC), welcome and thank you... And thanks TDK60. I love sharing music.
	7:43am clarke: i usually listen to 'radio' through the night. in recent years, i have discovered Antioch Broadcast Network - old radio shows (mostly detective shows at night). sometimes this can backire, ha ha.
	7:45am Jeffrey Davison: clarke, ah yes, I can see how it might...!
	7:45am clarke: well, oddly.. sometimes when i am really liking a certain plot, i will fall asleep. i am weird.
	7:47am clarke: i guess the motto to take from here is "sleep when you can".
	7:47am TDK60: Cooh John, might I ask where to in Eire your daughter is journeying?
	7:48am Jeffrey Davison: Listeners, if you haven't seen the documentary about Arthur Russell, who was an amazing musician, you really ought to rent it. It will make you a fan, I believe... wildcombination.vhx.tv...
	7:49am clarke: already a russell fan, will have to check it - but, i am wearing thin on docs, lately.
	7:50am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: I hear you. I've seen a lot in the last couple of months. I'm also a subscriber to Criterion Channel, for a dose of great films. An amazing offering, and not that expensive.
	7:50am TDK60: Thanks for the movie plugs Jeffrey. I have to check out some of those, keep forgetting.
	7:51am snoochienucci: Good morning all! Hope everyone’s staying cool out there
	7:51am clarke: criterion is where It's at!! not that i have the channel.
	7:52am Jeffrey Davison: Criterion is cheaper than Netflix, and I don't have to wade through a lot of junk to find something really good, though they do have some decent stuff. Probably will drop it, though.
	7:52am Jeffrey Davison: snoochienucci...welcome!
	7:53am clarke: will have to say that netflix finances some great series - they are not as great with movie selections, tho.
	7:54am clarke: criterion is one place where (i think) you can just randomly select something and be pleased.
	7:55am deborah: @clarke I love Clay Pigeon but the format and the noise gets to me so, at times, I turn to that classical station way up the dial. I would love to see/hear a weekday show like Jeffrey's and Carol's Serious Sonatas. Clay's show would do well in most time slots.
	7:57am clarke: hey, i can't imagine a better time slot for clay - and again, he has great musical taste!! it is just not my cuppa at that time. as i must say the same about DDR
	7:58am clarke: also, i never have been a huge fan of dj's who yell over the music, ha ha. except maybe Dewey Phillips!!
	7:59am clarke: just cracking up imagining JD screaming over his sets, ha ha ha ha.
	8:00am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: my screaming is done in private, mostly inspired by technical issues and lapses in attention.
	8:01am clarke: ha ha ha ha!!
	8:01am clarke: internal screams.
	8:02am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: i have enjoyed some Netflix series, but the movies are lacking. Mostly mediocre stuff...
	8:03am clarke: infernal streams.
	8:03am TDK60: An educational site, Open Culture, has about 1,000 free movies, mostly older. public domain.
	8:05am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60, thanks! I completely forgot about that. Someone sent me the link early in the lockdown, and I watched a bunch of films, both shorts and features... www.openculture.com...
	8:05am clarke: speaking of public domain, i haven't done this in a while, but there was a site that was broadcasting old nasa radio transmissions from astronauts - it was relaxing and soothing, actually.
	8:06am TDK60: Via Open Culture, I saw a great old English film from the '30s, "Rembrandt" with Charles Laughlin.
	8:06am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: I have heard bits of those NASA transmissions, and they are somehow soothing.
	8:07am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60...ah, I meant to watch that one! By the great Alexander Korda.
	8:07am clarke: yeah, you wouldn't think it would be like that. love me some Laughton!!!
	8:09am clarke: if you mean charles laughton - and if you haven't yet seen his ONE directorial film - SEEK: Night Of The Hunter!!!!! five stars!!
	8:09am deborah: @clarke Yes, Clay is a genius! DDR goes off immediately. Time to switch to that classical station.
	8:10am clarke: agreed deb!!!
	8:12am Jeffrey Davison: clarke, oh yeah, that's a great one. With the great Robert Mitchum at his most sinister. Agreed that Clay is amazing...And I am a fan of DDR. It's mostly geared to the younger set, but they play great music, and Roger and Amanda are great on air.
	8:12am clarke: actually what i have been doing most saturdays is choosing a full album of one of the artists i discover through the Planet and listening to the full albums. righteous!!
	8:13am clarke: i can't think of better programming for a saturday morning slot, like that; however, to ME, brainen used to break the day GENTLY to me, ha ha.
	8:14am clarke: by the time Shelley Show comes on - i am ready to rock!!
	8:14am Jeffrey Davison: clarke: Ah, nice. Sometimes, though, I find only one track on an album that I like, but I play it nonetheless. I used to sometimes mention that such tracks were atypical, but have not done that in a long while.
	8:15am clarke: i am the same way. the albums i choose are more guitar oriented, usually.
	8:17am clarke: as a youth, i was all about cartoons on sat morn!! it was the ONE day i actually enjoyed waking early! not so much, any more, ha ha.
	8:18am Sem: Hello and good morning, Jeffrey, and time zone appropriate greetings to all riding this stream. Idyllic day here on the shores of the mighty pacific Bay of Fundy.
	8:18am clarke: love your own love!!
	8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Sem, good morning! Enjoy your idyllic day... clarke: I'm with you on cartoons...my education!
	8:19am clarke: this is a little frightening. ; ]
	8:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Be ironic if Wake & Bake was so successful it had to expand to the other streams! Deffo designed to keep you from sleeping in. Really - look @ this utter madness & disruption of our world - & here's WFMU hardly missing a beat - adapting even. It's damned remarkable in fact.
	8:21am TDK60: Clarke, yeh I meant Laughton. I've seen "Hunter" too, great.
	8:21am clarke: i was reminiscing recently about the non-cartoon programming on sat morns - The Hudson Brothers, HR Puffinstuff, Land Of The Lost, et al
	8:21am deborah: I am so weird. Never liked cartoons much but was addicted to morning news and this show called Daywatch which no one has ever seen, I think. It was an early newsfeed which broadcast news, features, time and weather. As a supposed grown up, I liked Ren and Stimpy so all was not lost.
	8:22am clarke: i was always more of a tex avery kinda guy
	8:23am melinda: Morning everyone
	8:24am clarke: dunno about Daywatch - tell us more
	8:24am clarke: mawnin!!!
	8:24am Jeffrey Davison: Rev: what FMU is doing is nothing short of amazing. It's not like we have an NPR budget! deborah: don't know that show... clarke: I didn't appreciate Tex Avery until later. melinda: welcome...
	8:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: When I was a kid ya had yer three or so antenna channels - the networks - & in the fall the new Saturday cartoon schedule would come out - TV Guide I suppose. & I'd get paper & a ruler & graph it all out. Always a media head - & here I am now! A stream & podcast addict.
	8:26am deborah: That is all, basically. It was a scroll and sometimes full screen. No one knows Daywatch but it did exist. I was an information-driven kid who had no patience for "kiddie shows" either. That is probably why I ended up hanging around colleges forever and still teaching at one.
	8:27am clarke: ha ha - that's wild RR11/63
	8:27am Jeffrey Davison: Don't know if anyone remembers this...you'd have to be of a certain age, but as I recall the first cartoon on in the morning was about a farmer. Very primitive cartoon, for early risers like me. There was also a kind of informative show called Modern Farmer. Riveting.
	8:28am clarke: don't recall that - captain kangaroo was my intro and mister greenjeans to farming
	8:29am clarke: but of course KC was on weekdays
	8:29am TDK60: Jeffrey, I remember those! Simple line drawings, a farmer running along, cows, the horizon in the background. How to find? / I used to go to a movie and see a Bugs Bunny cartoon before the main feature. No more.
	8:30am clarke: the best bugs bunny is tex avery driven!
	8:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & of course in the 1970s these franchises would give you the whole 20thCentury to that point - Marx Bros., Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Tom & Jerry - The Beatles' movies : see - they'd show everything like once a year. Monterey Pop!...stay up late & see Midnight Cowboy. As a little kid. PBS wasn't sold out yet. Things about Modern Art. PYTHON. Animation Festival of the weird stuff...
	8:31am deborah: Yes, the cartoon might have been Farmer Grey or Felix the Cat. I watched Modern Farmer, themes to Lamp Unto My Feet and would stare at test patterns. Captain Kangaroo was okay but found him cloying (even though I didn't know what the word meant).
	8:31am clarke: lol
	8:31am tranewreck: @jd. I was only allowed to watch tv on Saturday morning so woke up for the test pattern (riveting!) and then the modern farmer where I learned about wind breaks , irrigation and other valuable stuff for a 6 year old
	8:32am melinda: I liked watching Julia Child on Saturdays along with cartoons.
	8:33am clarke: not intended to be sexist, but most gals don't 'get' cartoons and/or three stooges.
	8:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, shrunken beings. For a while, we had Kulka, Fran & Ollie reruns on Saturday mornings.
	8:34am clarke: or should i say that only some gals DO get things like that.
	8:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'm the baby of the family & stuck to stuff even when I was bothered by the cloying. Thru Captain K I was initiated into the Rabbit Mysteries. That Rabbit that didn't speak. Later I learn I'm Hare in the Chinese Calendar bit I always identified w/ the Rabbit. :) it's something to get this old & feel the distance...
	8:35am Jeffrey Davison: Rev, yeah there was lots of good stuff that was freely available. I didn't like Felix the Cat. Jonny Quest, though, that seemed really cool! tranewreck: yeah, I guess as kids we're so hungry for stimulation we'd watch anything. Ken From Hyde Park: welcome...I didn't watch Kukla, Fran & Ollie much...
	8:36am clarke: Mr. Bunny!!!
	8:36am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): greetings, Jeffrey and WFMU folx, such a delight to listen live today
	8:37am Jeffrey Davison: I do love seeing a cartoon before a movie. So old-fashioned. The repertory houses used to do that sometimes. Maybe the Thalia? Bleecker? Granny! Nice to have you with us today...
	8:37am TDK60: In NYC/NJ there was a local TV station (WOR? at channel 9?) That had a Million Dollar Movie feature most nights. They'd play a movie twice or more each night, and for a week. I would watch them over and over.
	8:38am clarke: the resurgence of (some) drive-in theaters brought back the cartoon before the flick.
	8:39am Jeffrey Davison: I didn't watch Julia Child then, but she was astonishing. Always glad to see some old clip of that show. I did love The Galloping Gourmet! Probably a big reason that I got into the food business, though there were a number of other factors. Yes, Million Dollar Movie!
	8:39am deborah: Kukla and crew had undertone jokes, I think. I agree about need for stimulation. Somehow drawing on a plastic screen with Winky Dink and You and Romper Room didn't work for me, at all. Started to love radio at an early age since I could always listen to news and talk. Then got into Clavan and Finch on WNEW and Herb Oscar Anderson on WABC, who was legendary. Okay, almost getting psyched to teach Intro to Journalism so I could talk about radio for a couple of weeks and drive students crazy. Stll love radio!
	8:39am Sylvia (France-NYC): @clarke that's sexist, period.
	8:39am G: Yes, 9 WOR tv -- Million Dollar Movie was on the schedule till at least the early 80s, I think...
	8:40am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, I think that clarke was trying to walk his statement back...
	8:41am TDK60: One time Million Dollar Movie had Fellini's "La Strada" on. I watched it for a week! I was a child, mayb 8, but it maybe gave me a window into the tragedy that adult life could be.
	8:41am Jeffrey Davison: ...possibly not enough!
	8:41am clarke: likewise, i didn't 'get' julia child back in the day - but, i enjoy seeing her broadcasts now.
	8:42am clarke: she is/was a genius
	8:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Course it characterizes my GenX we grew up with all the Boomer fallout - & in fact in my very earliest years I was all into The Beatles Saturday cartoon show! Which they won't even rerelease now it's so goofy....Batman - original Star Trek & Twilight Zone....not even broaching Monster & Sci-fi movies but that's a whole Culture. Had to realize I'm a Monster Kid just like I identify Rawker.
	8:43am Sylvia (France-NYC): yeah, @Jeffrey, I know everyone here is a nice fellow. It's all the little things we've come to accept in every day life and language that made it possible for a guy like 45 to be President, so I'm working on being better than all we did before.
	8:43am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60...wow, La Strada at 8 years old. Fellini films do have a kind of innocence (or something like that) at their core, and maybe can even speak volumes to someone so young.
	8:43am deborah: Okay. I think cartoons were crafted to an early stereotypical "masculine" mentality. This is what boys were supposed to like etc. That is one of the reasons I could not resonate, although I did not like what girls were supposed to like. I was too busy reading or pretending I was a teacher or doctor. This goes into Women's Studies theory etc so I am not going any deeper etc. If Cartoons were late to evolve; Sesame Street was the beginning of change, in some ways.
	8:44am deborah: @Sylvia (France-NYC) I get it.
	8:44am clarke: i figured my statement might ruffle feathers - ALL i meant is that girls and boys were different. it is not a putdown, by any means. there!!
	8:44am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, I take your point completely. All of our language is inherited, so we have to pay attention, as best we can, to the biases inherent in language and received ideas.
	8:46am Jeffrey Davison: deborah, and Rev: yeah, the modern cartoons (at least many) seem more equitable in terms of boy-girl depictions. And yeah, Boomer fallout is a big deal.
	8:47am Sylvia (France-NYC): If we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves first (Saturday Morning Comments' Board Philosophy)
	8:48am deborah: Interesting discussion; fabulous music! Now, for a second cup of coffee. Thanks, Jeffrey, everyone!
	8:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like saying girls may typically have an equestrian phase & boys not so much. Is it inherent or pressure? Now we're questioning the whole construction of gender - which we should !! Did girls really like the slapstick violence of the Three Stooges but couldn't say so? Was that really what was happening? See - I'm a boy - but I wasn't into it either. I was into the Surrealism of the Marx Bros. It happens a lot of smart people are into the Three Stooges - & I can see how much was there in fact...
	8:51am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i'm all for being more mindful of our language choices and how they affect our thoughts, actions, beliefs… don't get me started on gender and media!!! ;-P
	8:52am TDK60: Thanks, merci, for your points Sylvia. Often a challenge to un-learn and try to change but we have to be open to it. / Funny how I don't believe in any of the culture of the old cartoons (violence, sexism). I enjoyed Sesame Street when it arrived, obviously pushing new ideas.
	8:52am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i happen to be reading the memoirs of Harpo Marx!
	8:52am Jeffrey Davison: It's a huge subject, one and all! Thanks to everyone for listening, commenting on the music, and sharing your thoughts about other subjects.
	8:52am clarke: well, i had an equestrian phase, myself!! not every statement is designed as a barb! GREAT ShOW this morning - AS ALWAYS!
	8:52am Sylvia (France-NYC): you need a 4 hour show, Jeffrey! this is ending too soon!
	8:53am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): my mom pressured me into an equestrian phase, but it didn't take
	8:53am TDK60: Thanks DJ JD. Next time! ..
	8:53am Jeffrey Davison: Sylvia, thanks, but sometimes 3 hours seems more than enough! Thanks clarke...
	8:54am Stanley: Really nice show Jeffrey. Just the thing for me this morning. Thanks and take care.
	8:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think there's science on how male & female brains differ & perhaps especially before / as they mature. Females probably have a jump on the game in maturity - & males may have things culturally that compensate or maybe even aid them! Of course when discussing gender - it is also always too generalized - & also too binary.
	8:56am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks, Stanley... Thanks TDK60... Thanks again Ruth!!
	8:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ JD. Thx for wake up convo all ! :)
	8:57am Really. Lisa.: Thank you, Jeffrey. And thanks to Ruth. Peace, and safe weekend, all.
	8:57am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): <biting tongue to avoid last minute gender rant>i do appreciate the discussions we have here—as wild and wooly as they get sometimes, i have found the WFMU boards to be the most considerate online
	8:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay Ruth !
	8:57am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks RRN63. Thanks Really. Lisa.
	8:58am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): thanks, Jeffrey! i really look forward to digging this out of the archives. i make my bandcamp shopping list from your playlists

Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from July 25, 2020

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