WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from December 29, 2020

Listener comments!
	7:46am People Like Us: Hello from Tomorrow!
	♥ 10:10am Charlie: Hello, PLU of the future!
	♥ 6:11pm schmutz: yay Charlie!
	♥ 6:57pm Charlie: Yay schmutz!
	♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood: Charlie!
	♥ 7:01pm Charlie: hello, james!
	♥ 7:01pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I am SO ready to do nothing.
	7:02pm northguineahills: Charlie!
	7:03pm Mike: bonjour Charles!
	♥ 7:03pm Charlie: Me too, Wendy! hiya, northguineahills:)
	♥ 7:04pm listener james from westwood: Yeeehaaa Neneh!
	♥ 7:05pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm glad Neneh introduced us to the hi-hat. I may not have recognized it!
	♥ 7:05pm Charlie: haha
	♥ 7:05pm Charlie: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in 1970 any more...
	7:05pm Michael: Yo Charlie!
	7:06pm Julie: charlie I was just gonna say that
	7:07pm northguineahills: I've been digging Neneh and the Thing collabs lately...
	♥ 7:07pm Charlie: heh heh, hi Julie! Yo Michael, right back at ya:)
	7:07pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, Busybodies!
	♥ 7:07pm Charlie: NGH - yeah, those collabs are tops
	♥ 7:08pm Charlie: Hey Mr Drummer-Doug!
	7:08pm Julie: that picture is fab. hiya doug!
	♥ 7:09pm chresti: Hi Charlie and busy people!
	♥ 7:10pm listener james from westwood: Scritti Politti!! Holy crap, you're bringin' it!
	♥ 7:11pm Charlie: Howdy, chresti!
	♥ 7:11pm Charlie: Julie, it's from a collection from around 1900 imagining the world in 2000: publicdomainreview.org...
	♥ 7:12pm chresti: I liked that little snippet of Organ Transplants
	♥ 7:12pm Charlie: chresti with the i.d.!
	7:13pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Good Evening, Charlei! You could have all my Xmas presents for the sake of this track, but then again The Selfish 80s Me did something else, like, sorry.
	7:16pm northguineahills: I've been getting into J-pop lately. I blame sheilab, and the antecedents I heard consistently as kid in Japan.
	♥ 7:16pm Charlie: Hey, Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Thanks, you can keep your presents! Just happy for your presence. (get it?)
	♥ 7:16pm Charlie: NGH - I dig a spot of J-pop myself.
	♥ 7:22pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Oh, I love this Beach Boys cover! Nice choice, Charlie.
	♥ 7:25pm chresti: Ooh cheese balls!
	7:25pm northguineahills: OK, how did I miss SY covering the BBs??!!!! (brain self-destructs).
	7:26pm Mike: Hi Wendy! Charlie, are you sure you have a license to drive this thing?
	♥ 7:28pm chresti: At first I thought it was the Who, Sonic Youth. Charlie, with that bed it's a smooth ride with great scenery.
	♥ 7:29pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Mike!
	♥ 7:30pm Uncle Michael: You're not a loan, Charlie!
	♥ 7:30pm doctorjazz: Hi Charlie! Hi Nothing-Doers!
	♥ 7:33pm Charlie: Hi Mike (formerly from Alaska?) and Uncle Michael! Now we've got Michael, Mike, and Uncle Michael. And my mic:)
	♥ 7:33pm Charlie: hey, doctorjazz!
	7:35pm northguineahills: I'm considering selling my Uptown Ranking (thank ye godesses I finally got unemployment).
	7:38pm northguineahills: Gilberto Gil!
	♥ 7:39pm melinda: hi all!
	♥ 7:40pm Charlie: welcome, melinda. how are you this evening?
	♥ 7:41pm chresti: Nice twist on Taxman.
	♥ 7:47pm chresti: It lit up another part of my brain, the Taxman cover.
	♥ 7:47pm melinda: doin' pretty good
	♥ 7:49pm chresti: Hi melinda, glad to hear that!
	♥ 7:50pm melinda: I'm about to make a birthday card for my mom, her 80th is next week and I want to add a little something special for such a milestone during pandemic times
	♥ 7:50pm Charlie: chresti -- that's a good way of putting what a good cover does in the brain!
	♥ 7:50pm Charlie: happy 80th to your moms, melinda!
	7:51pm northguineahills: oh scheisse, it's my mother's 72nd bday next week! Thanks for the reminder, melinda!
	♥ 7:52pm chresti: I have a Pere Ubu cup, but have not listened to the music until recently.
	7:55pm Jeannette Mullarkey-Killea: Great to hear your fascinating musical selections Charlie! Steve and Thomson and I are enjoying listening to your show!!!
	♥ 7:56pm chresti: We enjoy listening to you back announce.
	♥ 7:59pm chresti: It's not easy to inhale laugh.
	♥ 7:59pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm very excited about hearing some nonsense.
	♥ 8:01pm WR: chresti, the cup features Pere Ubu from Jarry's Ubu Roi or the band from Cleveland?
	♥ 8:02pm Scott67: G'day Charlie & all good do nothing's!
	♥ 8:03pm Charlie: Jeannette! lovely to see you:) hi to Steve and Thomson.
	♥ 8:03pm melinda: Nice wall of sound
	♥ 8:05pm Charlie: hi WR and Scott67
	♥ 8:05pm Charlie: thank you chresti, most kind:)
	♥ 8:07pm chresti: It's an Ubu Roi WR.
	8:08pm listener James from Westwood: Roxanne Roxanne!
	♥ 8:09pm Charlie: Shannie!
	♥ 8:10pm Charlie: I love these Marley Marl productions
	8:12pm northguineahills: gonna grab some grub, will listen in the car and be back soon....
	♥ 8:13pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I totally wore out my LP of "Fear of Music." I guess it doesn't help that I bought it for $1.99 from Princeton Record Exchange in 1993 and it was already in kinda rough shape.
	♥ 8:14pm melinda: My mom has the same birthday as Elvis and Bowie
	8:16pm northguineahills: uh, me mum has the same bday as Marilyn Manson and Diane Keaton....
	♥ 8:16pm chresti: Jeez this L-seven
	♥ 8:18pm Ike: Hi there, all!
	♥ 8:19pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm eating ice cream and listening to the radio. Soon I will continue listening to the radio while I write a letter.
	♥ 8:19pm melinda: That was pretty good fake English.
	8:21pm Mike: I have a fear of no music
	♥ 8:22pm chresti: Yeah that was great with the wall of sound, melinda.
	♥ 8:23pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I never knew that's what "Fear of Music" was about. So, it's really "'Fear of' Music"? Is that how one would punctuate that?
	♥ 8:24pm Charlie: Thanks for keeping us posted, Wendy! (get it? posted? post a letter... I kill me...)
	♥ 8:25pm Charlie: Hi there, Ike! thanks for dropping by
	♥ 8:25pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie: HAR HAR. :-)
	♥ 8:31pm WR: @chresyi @8:07 \\^^^//
	♥ 8:31pm Charlie: Wendy - It was suggested to me in Jonathan Lethem's book on Fear of Music in the 33 1/3 series. An odd book, but worth reading.
	8:36pm northguineahills: I sometimes go from English to Spanish to German to Scots to Japanese in the same sentence. It drives my partner nuts.
	♥ 8:37pm Charlie: that must be funny! (for you) (maybe for your partner too)
	♥ 8:37pm Charlie: me, I just like talking to myself in various accents...
	♥ 8:38pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie: Oh! Yeah, I read that book. Or, I tried. I found it mostly incomprehensible, unlike his "Motherless Brooklyn" which is still one of my favorite novels. Garden State Stick-face and Bucko!
	♥ 8:38pm schmutz: I want an Ubu Roi mug! (9and also Also David Thomas mug on a mug)
	8:39pm Mike: I loved "Motherless Brooklyn" too, what a great book
	♥ 8:40pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I also love this Purple Playmate song.
	♥ 8:41pm melinda: I really liked Jonathan Lethem's book of essays, I forget the title.
	♥ 8:42pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I just noticed the title of the Mouse on Mars song Charlie used for his music bed. Pinwheel Herman?! haha. My nephew sent me a Chairy action figure, which arrived in the mail today. Yay!
	♥ 8:44pm Charlie: a lot of the motherless bklyn was set in my (our) old neighborhood!
	♥ 8:47pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie, that's true! The first time I read it was a few years before I moved there. The next time I read it was a few years after I moved away from there.
	♥ 8:48pm Ike: @Wendy@8:23, I'd wager you are correct about the punctuation! Although maybe "Of" would be capitalized if you're going to be a real stickler, because it's the final word of that phrase, cut off from "Music". I think. Maybe. It's been a long damn day.
	♥ 8:51pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Ike: You might be right about the capitalization. I was trained in AP Style at my old news job, and that still guides my capitalization choices. And yes, it has been a long damn day! Why not treat yourself to a nice coagulated dairy product?
	♥ 8:52pm chresti: \\⩔⩔//Ⅰ⇱
	♥ 8:53pm chresti: Yes, I like the Optiganally Yours.
	♥ 8:54pm Charlie: maybe "Fear-of" Music, with a hyphen
	8:54pm DL in LA: Love your fill-ins!
	♥ 8:55pm Ike: @Wendy, damn, I'm all out of Honey Bee Goat Gouda!
	♥ 8:56pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Charlie: Hmm, possibly. I think you're more of an editor than I am, so I'll defer to you.
	♥ 8:57pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Ike: Mmm...goat gouda...
	♥ 8:58pm Charlie: Hi DL in LA! Thanks:)
	♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Charlie and busybodies
	♥ 9:03pm Charlie: hey, coelacanth∅, welcome your nothing-doing-ness
	♥ 9:03pm coelacanth∅: i've been busy
	♥ 9:04pm Charlie: lol
	♥ 9:11pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: That's a lot of kvetching. It's good to know I'm not alone.
	9:13pm Mike: I don't think I like my bedspread anymore, either
	9:13pm Jeff Moore: I like all these very specific misfortunes.
	♥ 9:13pm Ike: Most relatable complaint: Restaurant playing soft rock Least relatable complaint, even though I have cats: no cat has ever licked my socks
	♥ 9:13pm Charlie: Whew, Mike, I didn't want to be the one to bring that thing up...
	9:14pm northguineahills: Back, going to eat and sleep!
	♥ 9:14pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Psychic DJ Connection! I played Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 on my show last night.
	♥ 9:16pm melinda: I didn't know SM & B66 sounded like this
	♥ 9:18pm coelacanth∅: i felt like i was right there in Lydia Davis' house
	♥ 9:19pm chresti: Goat gouda ❗❗💗
	♥ 9:20pm coelacanth∅: the elastic of my base layer pants is shot
	♥ 9:22pm chresti: Haha
	9:24pm Jeff Moore: Sometimes the espresso towels get used for other purposes.
	♥ 9:24pm Charlie: Hi, Jeff! Didn't see you come in. Pull up a beanbag chair.
	9:25pm Jeff Moore: Hey, Charles!
	9:25pm Jeff Moore: I hope I can get back up offa this thing.
	♥ 9:26pm coelacanth∅: i wont risk it. i'll stand.
	♥ 9:27pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: What was the line about playing folk music in the waiting room? I liked that one.
	♥ 9:28pm Uncle Michael: Oh how I love this EJ track.
	♥ 9:28pm Charlie: Me too, Uncle Michael!
	♥ 9:29pm chresti: I missed that, Wendy. I must listen again.
	♥ 9:29pm Charlie: and he picked it for that recent box set
	♥ 9:29pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @chresti: I must listen again, too. To catch the line, and because it's so good.
	♥ 9:29pm Uncle Michael: Been quietly listening and working on my premium.
	♥ 9:30pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: This era of Elton John is so effin' good.
	♥ 9:31pm Uncle Michael: Tumbleweed is peak Elton for me.
	♥ 9:31pm Charlie: Wendy, chresti -- read the book! It's one of my fave things evah.
	♥ 9:33pm Charlie: Agreed re EJ. Amoreena slays me.
	♥ 9:33pm melinda: @Uncle Michael speaking of premiums I've been enjoying your library musique compilation
	♥ 9:33pm chresti: Wow Budo Grape.
	♥ 9:34pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie, I just wrote it down. I'll call Brooks tomorrow and have them put it on hold for me. Also, have you read the David Cavanagh book about John Peel called "Good Night and Good Riddance"? I just bought it at Turn It Up on Saturday. It's really fun.
	♥ 9:35pm Charlie: Ooh, that sounds like fun; I'll look for it.
	♥ 9:35pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: If you don't find it by the time I finish with it, I'll set it aside for you.
	♥ 9:36pm Charlie: thanks!
	9:39pm listener James from Westwood: Georgina always sounds so worried in this cover.
	♥ 9:39pm chresti: ❗❗❗
	♥ 9:39pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: WHOA. This version of The Message. It's like the Lydia Davis track, but if she were her grandparents.
	♥ 9:40pm chresti: Haha Wendy.
	9:40pm Mike: nowhere to sit? pull up that bean bag over there...
	♥ 9:41pm schmutz: YES!
	9:41pm Jeff Moore: Is this Hermione Gingold?
	♥ 9:41pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I had to stop writing my letter so I could pay attention.
	♥ 9:41pm chresti: Very urgent message.
	9:41pm Mike: oh, don't go under, please...
	♥ 9:42pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, melinda!
	♥ 9:43pm chresti: Now I want a record full of The Message covers.
	♥ 9:43pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @chresti: right?! Where do we get one of those?
	♥ 9:44pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Okay, everybody, sing along!
	9:44pm Mike: my favorite version of Brazil! Great soundtrack
	♥ 9:46pm WR: Hmmmmm. I have yet to place my request for Uncle Michael all request show this week. Try to ask for something i don't have but know enough about that I know I want to hear it.
	♥ 9:47pm Uncle Michael: WR, I'm very very close to full up. Don't delay.
	♥ 9:47pm Uncle Michael: My favorite Groucho...for obvious reasons.
	♥ 9:48pm Uncle Michael: Charlie, you and I are the only DJs that have played this during the playlist era.
	♥ 9:49pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I watched "Cocoanuts" the other night. There's a very funny line in there about my last name, albeit not pronounced the way we do.
	♥ 9:49pm chresti: I was just thinking about the Marx Bros, gee!
	♥ 9:50pm Uncle Michael: How many ways can one pronounce Cheese Ball?
	♥ 9:50pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: UM: Oh, you'd be surprised.
	♥ 9:50pm WR: Perfect example of my dilemma, if I knew this Groucho song existed I would have requested it but did know it existed...
	♥ 9:52pm Charlie: Yes, UM! We're playlist twins:) The rest of the station will catch up some day...
	♥ 9:54pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for a lovely time, Charlie. G'night, everyone. Off to feed the furball...
	♥ 9:56pm Charlie: Thanks, everyone, for joining me tonight!
	9:57pm Mike: oops, I pulled the speaker off... sorry, Charlie, I'll leave it at the concession stand. Thanks for everything!
	♥ 9:57pm WR: Thank you Charlie!
	♥ 9:57pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Thank you, Charlie! It's been lovely, as usual. I know I "saw" you the other day, but I sure miss hanging out with you, in-person. Like a person!
	9:58pm listener James from Westwood: Always a treat, Charlie—kind and safe tidings into 2021!
	♥ 9:59pm schmutz: ❣️❣️
	♥ 9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Charlie! you'd be proud of me - i have nothing to show for all my busyness.
	9:59pm Chuck: Nice baritone sax!!!...:)
	10:00pm Michael: Thanks Charlie. Hope all is well out your way!
	♥ 10:01pm Charlie: All good, Michael! Thanks:)
	♥ 10:01pm Charlie: Chuck -- actually a tenor --it's a 45 played at 33!
	♥ 10:04pm chresti: Thank you Charlie! It was great to see you again, have a happy busy New Year!
	♥ 10:13pm Charlie: Thanks, Chresti, you too!
	10:35am People Like Us: listening now

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from December 29, 2020

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A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Leonard Bernstein/Benjamin Britten/Henry Purcell	The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (narration: Jared Gilman)	Moonrise Kingdom (soundtrack)	ABKCO	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance "Buffalo Stance" by "Neneh Cherry"	Raw Like Sushi	Virgin	0:03:02 (Pop-up)
Scritti Politti	Perfect Way "Perfect Way" by "Scritti Politti"	Cupid & Psyche 85	Warner Bros.	0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Perfume	Natural ni Koishite (Fall in Love Naturally)	JPN	Tokuma Japan Communications	0:13:03 (Pop-up)
Paul McCartney	Find My Way "Find My Way" by "Paul McCartney"	McCartney III	Capitol	0:16:02 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	I Know There's An Answer	Smiles, Vibes, and Harmony: A Tribute to Brian Wilson (various artists)	De Milo Records	0:20:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:22:53 (Pop-up)
Sudan Archives	Nont for Sale "Nont for Sale" by "Sudan Archives"	Sink	Stones Throw	0:29:15 (Pop-up)
Althea and Donna	Uptown Top Ranking	7-inch single (originally)	Lightning; Joe Gibbs; Warners	0:32:43 (Pop-up)
Gilberto Gil	Coragem Pra Suportar	Gilberto Gil (1968)	Polygram	0:36:30 (Pop-up)
Barbara Casini Quartet	Taxman "Taxman" by "Barbara Casini Quartet"	Stasera Beatles	Philology	0:39:17 (Pop-up)
Bratko Bibič & The Madleys	Jane "Jane" by "Bratko Bibič & The Madleys"	Bratko Bibič & The Madleys of Bridko Bebic	LabelUsineS	0:42:28 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	Miss You "Miss You" by "Pere Ubu"	The Tenement Year	Enigma	0:46:49 (Pop-up)
Yves Simon	Au pays des merveilles de Juliet	Vol. 1 (Au Pays Des Merveilles de Juliet)	RCA Victor	0:51:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mouse on Mars	Pinwheel Herman "Pinwheel Herman" by "Mouse on Mars"	Niun Niggung	Thrill Jockey	0:53:24 (Pop-up)
Adriano Celentano	Prisencolinensinainciusol	7-inch single (originally)	Clan Celentano; Columbia	0:58:59 (Pop-up)
Slapp Happy	Everybody's Slimmin' "Everybody's Slimmin'" by "Slapp Happy"	Acnalbasac Noom (reissue)	ReR	1:02:51 (Pop-up)
Roxanne Shante	Go On Girl "Go On Girl" by "Roxanne Shante"	12-inch single	Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.	1:06:39 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads	Paper "Paper" by "Talking Heads"	Fear of Music	Sire	1:10:14 (Pop-up)
L-Seven	Flowers of Romance "Flowers of Romance" by "L-Seven"	L-Seven	Third Man Records	1:12:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Shudder to Think	pH Balanced "pH Balanced" by "Shudder to Think"	High Art (soundtrack)	Velvel	1:16:09 (Pop-up)
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos	Aquí Como Allá	Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans)	Warner Bros.	1:21:50 (Pop-up)
Tipsy	See the Beauty, Touch the Magic	Buzzz	Ipecac	1:26:24 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	Back in Your Own Backyard	Billie Holiday & Lester Young - A Musical Romance	Columbia Legacy	1:29:33 (Pop-up)
Dolly Mixture	Grass Is Greener "Grass Is Greener" by "Dolly Mixture"	The Demonstration Tapes	Dead Good Dolly Platters	1:32:14 (Pop-up)
The Split Level	Can't Complain "Can't Complain" by "The Split Level"	The Split Level	Dot	1:35:14 (Pop-up)
Charles Wilp	Purple Playmate "Purple Playmate" by "Charles Wilp"	Charles Wilp Fotografiert Bunny	Ata Tak	1:37:31 (Pop-up)
The Shangri-Las	The Dum Dum Ditty	'65!	Red Bird	1:39:08 (Pop-up)
Optiganally Yours	Compressor/Expander	Spotlight on	Cargo	1:42:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Las Comadrejas	Oaxacatelas "Oaxacatelas" by "Las Comadrejas"	We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music	Comad	1:44:48 (Pop-up)
Los Demonios del Mantaro	La Chichera	Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes - Huayno, Carnaval, & Cumbia 1968 to 1978	Tiger's Milk	1:50:18 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra	Rockin' in Rhythm	The Ellington Era 1927-1940	Columbia	1:53:10 (Pop-up)
Noname	Yesterday "Yesterday" by "Noname"	Telefone	Noname	1:56:29 (Pop-up)
Anita Kerr Singers	Snowbound "Snowbound" by "Anita Kerr Singers"	Love: Well Seasoned	and more bears	1:59:16 (Pop-up)
Donna Regina	My Many Options "My Many Options" by "Donna Regina"	Transient	Karaoke Kalk	2:02:04 (Pop-up)
Lydia Davis	I'm pretty comfortable, but I could be more comfortable	Can't and Won't (read by Janet Metzger)	Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Tantor Audio	2:07:13 (Pop-up)
Aphex Twin	Weathered Stone "Weathered Stone" by "Aphex Twin"	Selected Ambient Works Vol. II	Sire	2:09:00 (Pop-up)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	Righteous Life	Stillness	A&M	2:11:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: World Standard	The Lonely Driver 1952	Country Gazette	Asphodel	2:14:41 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	Here to Fall "Here to Fall" by "Yo La Tengo"	Popular Songs	Matador	2:20:52 (Pop-up)
Elton John	Where to Now St. Peter?	Tumbleweed Connection	Uni	2:26:28 (Pop-up)
Budo Grape	Watashi Wa No Message "Watashi Wa No Message" by "Budo Grape"	Otona Tachi x Kodomo Tachi	Vivid Sound	2:30:41 (Pop-up)
Big Boy Pete	Knit Me a Kiss "Knit Me a Kiss" by "Big Boy Pete"	Homage to Catatonia	Dionysus/Bacchus Archives	2:33:07 (Pop-up)
Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon	The Message	Misfits (various artists)	Volume	2:36:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stereolab	Blaue Milch "Blaue Milch" by "Stereolab"	Warp Back to Earth 66/99 (various artists)	Bungalow	2:39:45 (Pop-up)
Geoff & Maria Muldaur	Brazil "Brazil" by "Geoff & Maria Muldaur"	Pottery Pie	Hannibal	2:42:42 (Pop-up)
Groucho Marx with Ken Lane Singers and Orchestra	Omaha, Nebraska	7-inch single	Decca	2:45:57 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim	My What a Funny Little World This Is (live at The Hunt Club (festival green room)	Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances (DVD box)	Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Inc.; Criterion Collection	2:48:51 (Pop-up)
Grace Braun	What Wondrous Love Is This	It Won't Hurt	Slow River	2:52:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	2:55:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:46am People Like Us: Hello from Tomorrow!
	♥ 10:10am Charlie: Hello, PLU of the future!
	♥ 6:11pm schmutz: yay Charlie!
	♥ 6:57pm Charlie: Yay schmutz!
	♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood: Charlie!
	♥ 7:01pm Charlie: hello, james!
	♥ 7:01pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I am SO ready to do nothing.
	7:02pm northguineahills: Charlie!
	7:03pm Mike: bonjour Charles!
	♥ 7:03pm Charlie: Me too, Wendy! hiya, northguineahills:)
	♥ 7:04pm listener james from westwood: Yeeehaaa Neneh!
	♥ 7:05pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm glad Neneh introduced us to the hi-hat. I may not have recognized it!
	♥ 7:05pm Charlie: haha
	♥ 7:05pm Charlie: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in 1970 any more...
	7:05pm Michael: Yo Charlie!
	7:06pm Julie: charlie I was just gonna say that
	7:07pm northguineahills: I've been digging Neneh and the Thing collabs lately...
	♥ 7:07pm Charlie: heh heh, hi Julie! Yo Michael, right back at ya:)
	7:07pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, Busybodies!
	♥ 7:07pm Charlie: NGH - yeah, those collabs are tops
	♥ 7:08pm Charlie: Hey Mr Drummer-Doug!
	7:08pm Julie: that picture is fab. hiya doug!
	♥ 7:09pm chresti: Hi Charlie and busy people!
	♥ 7:10pm listener james from westwood: Scritti Politti!! Holy crap, you're bringin' it!
	♥ 7:11pm Charlie: Howdy, chresti!
	♥ 7:11pm Charlie: Julie, it's from a collection from around 1900 imagining the world in 2000: publicdomainreview.org...
	♥ 7:12pm chresti: I liked that little snippet of Organ Transplants
	♥ 7:12pm Charlie: chresti with the i.d.!
	7:13pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Good Evening, Charlei! You could have all my Xmas presents for the sake of this track, but then again The Selfish 80s Me did something else, like, sorry.
	7:16pm northguineahills: I've been getting into J-pop lately. I blame sheilab, and the antecedents I heard consistently as kid in Japan.
	♥ 7:16pm Charlie: Hey, Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Thanks, you can keep your presents! Just happy for your presence. (get it?)
	♥ 7:16pm Charlie: NGH - I dig a spot of J-pop myself.
	♥ 7:22pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Oh, I love this Beach Boys cover! Nice choice, Charlie.
	♥ 7:25pm chresti: Ooh cheese balls!
	7:25pm northguineahills: OK, how did I miss SY covering the BBs??!!!! (brain self-destructs).
	7:26pm Mike: Hi Wendy! Charlie, are you sure you have a license to drive this thing?
	♥ 7:28pm chresti: At first I thought it was the Who, Sonic Youth. Charlie, with that bed it's a smooth ride with great scenery.
	♥ 7:29pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Mike!
	♥ 7:30pm Uncle Michael: You're not a loan, Charlie!
	♥ 7:30pm doctorjazz: Hi Charlie! Hi Nothing-Doers!
	♥ 7:33pm Charlie: Hi Mike (formerly from Alaska?) and Uncle Michael! Now we've got Michael, Mike, and Uncle Michael. And my mic:)
	♥ 7:33pm Charlie: hey, doctorjazz!
	7:35pm northguineahills: I'm considering selling my Uptown Ranking (thank ye godesses I finally got unemployment).
	7:38pm northguineahills: Gilberto Gil!
	♥ 7:39pm melinda: hi all!
	♥ 7:40pm Charlie: welcome, melinda. how are you this evening?
	♥ 7:41pm chresti: Nice twist on Taxman.
	♥ 7:47pm chresti: It lit up another part of my brain, the Taxman cover.
	♥ 7:47pm melinda: doin' pretty good
	♥ 7:49pm chresti: Hi melinda, glad to hear that!
	♥ 7:50pm melinda: I'm about to make a birthday card for my mom, her 80th is next week and I want to add a little something special for such a milestone during pandemic times
	♥ 7:50pm Charlie: chresti -- that's a good way of putting what a good cover does in the brain!
	♥ 7:50pm Charlie: happy 80th to your moms, melinda!
	7:51pm northguineahills: oh scheisse, it's my mother's 72nd bday next week! Thanks for the reminder, melinda!
	♥ 7:52pm chresti: I have a Pere Ubu cup, but have not listened to the music until recently.
	7:55pm Jeannette Mullarkey-Killea: Great to hear your fascinating musical selections Charlie! Steve and Thomson and I are enjoying listening to your show!!!
	♥ 7:56pm chresti: We enjoy listening to you back announce.
	♥ 7:59pm chresti: It's not easy to inhale laugh.
	♥ 7:59pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm very excited about hearing some nonsense.
	♥ 8:01pm WR: chresti, the cup features Pere Ubu from Jarry's Ubu Roi or the band from Cleveland?
	♥ 8:02pm Scott67: G'day Charlie & all good do nothing's!
	♥ 8:03pm Charlie: Jeannette! lovely to see you:) hi to Steve and Thomson.
	♥ 8:03pm melinda: Nice wall of sound
	♥ 8:05pm Charlie: hi WR and Scott67
	♥ 8:05pm Charlie: thank you chresti, most kind:)
	♥ 8:07pm chresti: It's an Ubu Roi WR.
	8:08pm listener James from Westwood: Roxanne Roxanne!
	♥ 8:09pm Charlie: Shannie!
	♥ 8:10pm Charlie: I love these Marley Marl productions
	8:12pm northguineahills: gonna grab some grub, will listen in the car and be back soon....
	♥ 8:13pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I totally wore out my LP of "Fear of Music." I guess it doesn't help that I bought it for $1.99 from Princeton Record Exchange in 1993 and it was already in kinda rough shape.
	♥ 8:14pm melinda: My mom has the same birthday as Elvis and Bowie
	8:16pm northguineahills: uh, me mum has the same bday as Marilyn Manson and Diane Keaton....
	♥ 8:16pm chresti: Jeez this L-seven
	♥ 8:18pm Ike: Hi there, all!
	♥ 8:19pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I'm eating ice cream and listening to the radio. Soon I will continue listening to the radio while I write a letter.
	♥ 8:19pm melinda: That was pretty good fake English.
	8:21pm Mike: I have a fear of no music
	♥ 8:22pm chresti: Yeah that was great with the wall of sound, melinda.
	♥ 8:23pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I never knew that's what "Fear of Music" was about. So, it's really "'Fear of' Music"? Is that how one would punctuate that?
	♥ 8:24pm Charlie: Thanks for keeping us posted, Wendy! (get it? posted? post a letter... I kill me...)
	♥ 8:25pm Charlie: Hi there, Ike! thanks for dropping by
	♥ 8:25pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie: HAR HAR. :-)
	♥ 8:31pm WR: @chresyi @8:07 \\^^^//
	♥ 8:31pm Charlie: Wendy - It was suggested to me in Jonathan Lethem's book on Fear of Music in the 33 1/3 series. An odd book, but worth reading.
	8:36pm northguineahills: I sometimes go from English to Spanish to German to Scots to Japanese in the same sentence. It drives my partner nuts.
	♥ 8:37pm Charlie: that must be funny! (for you) (maybe for your partner too)
	♥ 8:37pm Charlie: me, I just like talking to myself in various accents...
	♥ 8:38pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie: Oh! Yeah, I read that book. Or, I tried. I found it mostly incomprehensible, unlike his "Motherless Brooklyn" which is still one of my favorite novels. Garden State Stick-face and Bucko!
	♥ 8:38pm schmutz: I want an Ubu Roi mug! (9and also Also David Thomas mug on a mug)
	8:39pm Mike: I loved "Motherless Brooklyn" too, what a great book
	♥ 8:40pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I also love this Purple Playmate song.
	♥ 8:41pm melinda: I really liked Jonathan Lethem's book of essays, I forget the title.
	♥ 8:42pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I just noticed the title of the Mouse on Mars song Charlie used for his music bed. Pinwheel Herman?! haha. My nephew sent me a Chairy action figure, which arrived in the mail today. Yay!
	♥ 8:44pm Charlie: a lot of the motherless bklyn was set in my (our) old neighborhood!
	♥ 8:47pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie, that's true! The first time I read it was a few years before I moved there. The next time I read it was a few years after I moved away from there.
	♥ 8:48pm Ike: @Wendy@8:23, I'd wager you are correct about the punctuation! Although maybe "Of" would be capitalized if you're going to be a real stickler, because it's the final word of that phrase, cut off from "Music". I think. Maybe. It's been a long damn day.
	♥ 8:51pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Ike: You might be right about the capitalization. I was trained in AP Style at my old news job, and that still guides my capitalization choices. And yes, it has been a long damn day! Why not treat yourself to a nice coagulated dairy product?
	♥ 8:52pm chresti: \\⩔⩔//Ⅰ⇱
	♥ 8:53pm chresti: Yes, I like the Optiganally Yours.
	♥ 8:54pm Charlie: maybe "Fear-of" Music, with a hyphen
	8:54pm DL in LA: Love your fill-ins!
	♥ 8:55pm Ike: @Wendy, damn, I'm all out of Honey Bee Goat Gouda!
	♥ 8:56pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Charlie: Hmm, possibly. I think you're more of an editor than I am, so I'll defer to you.
	♥ 8:57pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @Ike: Mmm...goat gouda...
	♥ 8:58pm Charlie: Hi DL in LA! Thanks:)
	♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Charlie and busybodies
	♥ 9:03pm Charlie: hey, coelacanth∅, welcome your nothing-doing-ness
	♥ 9:03pm coelacanth∅: i've been busy
	♥ 9:04pm Charlie: lol
	♥ 9:11pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: That's a lot of kvetching. It's good to know I'm not alone.
	9:13pm Mike: I don't think I like my bedspread anymore, either
	9:13pm Jeff Moore: I like all these very specific misfortunes.
	♥ 9:13pm Ike: Most relatable complaint: Restaurant playing soft rock Least relatable complaint, even though I have cats: no cat has ever licked my socks
	♥ 9:13pm Charlie: Whew, Mike, I didn't want to be the one to bring that thing up...
	9:14pm northguineahills: Back, going to eat and sleep!
	♥ 9:14pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Psychic DJ Connection! I played Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 on my show last night.
	♥ 9:16pm melinda: I didn't know SM & B66 sounded like this
	♥ 9:18pm coelacanth∅: i felt like i was right there in Lydia Davis' house
	♥ 9:19pm chresti: Goat gouda ❗❗💗
	♥ 9:20pm coelacanth∅: the elastic of my base layer pants is shot
	♥ 9:22pm chresti: Haha
	9:24pm Jeff Moore: Sometimes the espresso towels get used for other purposes.
	♥ 9:24pm Charlie: Hi, Jeff! Didn't see you come in. Pull up a beanbag chair.
	9:25pm Jeff Moore: Hey, Charles!
	9:25pm Jeff Moore: I hope I can get back up offa this thing.
	♥ 9:26pm coelacanth∅: i wont risk it. i'll stand.
	♥ 9:27pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: What was the line about playing folk music in the waiting room? I liked that one.
	♥ 9:28pm Uncle Michael: Oh how I love this EJ track.
	♥ 9:28pm Charlie: Me too, Uncle Michael!
	♥ 9:29pm chresti: I missed that, Wendy. I must listen again.
	♥ 9:29pm Charlie: and he picked it for that recent box set
	♥ 9:29pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @chresti: I must listen again, too. To catch the line, and because it's so good.
	♥ 9:29pm Uncle Michael: Been quietly listening and working on my premium.
	♥ 9:30pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: This era of Elton John is so effin' good.
	♥ 9:31pm Uncle Michael: Tumbleweed is peak Elton for me.
	♥ 9:31pm Charlie: Wendy, chresti -- read the book! It's one of my fave things evah.
	♥ 9:33pm Charlie: Agreed re EJ. Amoreena slays me.
	♥ 9:33pm melinda: @Uncle Michael speaking of premiums I've been enjoying your library musique compilation
	♥ 9:33pm chresti: Wow Budo Grape.
	♥ 9:34pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Charlie, I just wrote it down. I'll call Brooks tomorrow and have them put it on hold for me. Also, have you read the David Cavanagh book about John Peel called "Good Night and Good Riddance"? I just bought it at Turn It Up on Saturday. It's really fun.
	♥ 9:35pm Charlie: Ooh, that sounds like fun; I'll look for it.
	♥ 9:35pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: If you don't find it by the time I finish with it, I'll set it aside for you.
	♥ 9:36pm Charlie: thanks!
	9:39pm listener James from Westwood: Georgina always sounds so worried in this cover.
	♥ 9:39pm chresti: ❗❗❗
	♥ 9:39pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: WHOA. This version of The Message. It's like the Lydia Davis track, but if she were her grandparents.
	♥ 9:40pm chresti: Haha Wendy.
	9:40pm Mike: nowhere to sit? pull up that bean bag over there...
	♥ 9:41pm schmutz: YES!
	9:41pm Jeff Moore: Is this Hermione Gingold?
	♥ 9:41pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I had to stop writing my letter so I could pay attention.
	♥ 9:41pm chresti: Very urgent message.
	9:41pm Mike: oh, don't go under, please...
	♥ 9:42pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, melinda!
	♥ 9:43pm chresti: Now I want a record full of The Message covers.
	♥ 9:43pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: @chresti: right?! Where do we get one of those?
	♥ 9:44pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Okay, everybody, sing along!
	9:44pm Mike: my favorite version of Brazil! Great soundtrack
	♥ 9:46pm WR: Hmmmmm. I have yet to place my request for Uncle Michael all request show this week. Try to ask for something i don't have but know enough about that I know I want to hear it.
	♥ 9:47pm Uncle Michael: WR, I'm very very close to full up. Don't delay.
	♥ 9:47pm Uncle Michael: My favorite Groucho...for obvious reasons.
	♥ 9:48pm Uncle Michael: Charlie, you and I are the only DJs that have played this during the playlist era.
	♥ 9:49pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: I watched "Cocoanuts" the other night. There's a very funny line in there about my last name, albeit not pronounced the way we do.
	♥ 9:49pm chresti: I was just thinking about the Marx Bros, gee!
	♥ 9:50pm Uncle Michael: How many ways can one pronounce Cheese Ball?
	♥ 9:50pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: UM: Oh, you'd be surprised.
	♥ 9:50pm WR: Perfect example of my dilemma, if I knew this Groucho song existed I would have requested it but did know it existed...
	♥ 9:52pm Charlie: Yes, UM! We're playlist twins:) The rest of the station will catch up some day...
	♥ 9:54pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for a lovely time, Charlie. G'night, everyone. Off to feed the furball...
	♥ 9:56pm Charlie: Thanks, everyone, for joining me tonight!
	9:57pm Mike: oops, I pulled the speaker off... sorry, Charlie, I'll leave it at the concession stand. Thanks for everything!
	♥ 9:57pm WR: Thank you Charlie!
	♥ 9:57pm Wendy del Hickory Farms Cheese Ball: Thank you, Charlie! It's been lovely, as usual. I know I "saw" you the other day, but I sure miss hanging out with you, in-person. Like a person!
	9:58pm listener James from Westwood: Always a treat, Charlie—kind and safe tidings into 2021!
	♥ 9:59pm schmutz: ❣️❣️
	♥ 9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Charlie! you'd be proud of me - i have nothing to show for all my busyness.
	9:59pm Chuck: Nice baritone sax!!!...:)
	10:00pm Michael: Thanks Charlie. Hope all is well out your way!
	♥ 10:01pm Charlie: All good, Michael! Thanks:)
	♥ 10:01pm Charlie: Chuck -- actually a tenor --it's a 45 played at 33!
	♥ 10:04pm chresti: Thank you Charlie! It was great to see you again, have a happy busy New Year!
	♥ 10:13pm Charlie: Thanks, Chresti, you too!
	10:35am People Like Us: listening now

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from December 29, 2020

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