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Favoriting June 12, 2013: I'm not a real DJ but I play one on the radio.

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"Here’s a question I asked myself: Would I rather have my phone records collected and readied for possible inspection by the National Security Agency, or have my genitalia scrutinized by the Transportation Security Administration? One answer is, why choose? In today’s America you can have both." — Jeffrey Goldberg

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Natalia Lafourcade and Devendra Banhart  Amor, Amor de Mis Amores   Favoriting Mujer Divina - Homenaje a Agustín Lara  0:03:59 (Pop-up)
The Beatles vs. Goldfrapp vs. Norman Greenbaum (ccc mix)  I Want a Spirit Machine   Favoriting Revolved (ccc mash-up of Revolver album)  0:07:27 (Pop-up)
Veronica Falls  My Heart Beats   Favoriting Waiting for Something to Happen  0:11:08 (Pop-up)
Suthrn Cuzn  Sonofabitch   Favoriting Kiss'n Cuzns  0:14:20 (Pop-up)
Prince Ness  Grungy Doll   Favoriting Grungy Doll EP  0:16:56 (Pop-up)
 
Suthrn Cuzn with DJ Hellvetica  Sonofabitch   Favoriting SOB NRG  0:25:19 (Pop-up)
Tera Melos  Surf Nazis   Favoriting X'ed Out  0:26:34 (Pop-up)
Dixon DeVore  Nefertiti   Favoriting The Dixon DeVore Collection  0:30:13 (Pop-up)
Gong  Pothead Pixies   Favoriting Flying Teapot: Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 1  0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Wild Nothing  The Body in Rainfall   Favoriting Empty Estate  0:38:26 (Pop-up)
 
Horace Silver  The Outlaw   Favoriting Further Explorations  0:44:54 (Pop-up)
Carol Saboya  Bola de Meia, Bola de Gude (Sock Ball and Marbles)   Favoriting Belezas  0:50:21 (Pop-up)
Ahmad Jamal  Rica Pulpa   Favoriting The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings  0:55:01 (Pop-up)
 
Milcho Leviev  Ice Cream Truck (comp. Eddie Harris)   Favoriting Bulgarian Piano Blues  1:27:48 (Pop-up)
 
Metric  Help I'm Alive (iTunes Session)   Favoriting iTunes Session  1:36:46 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground  Walk and Talk   Favoriting Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition)  1:41:26 (Pop-up)
Brothers in Law  Childhood   Favoriting Hard Times for Dreamers  1:44:35 (Pop-up)
Django Bates  Teach Me Tonight   Favoriting Quiet Nights  1:48:25 (Pop-up)
Anderson East  Better   Favoriting Flowers of the Broken Hearted  1:51:51 (Pop-up)
Sendam Rawkustra  Musical Cheers   Favoriting Greatest Hits!/Who's Mad?  1:55:09 (Pop-up)
 
Marshall Crenshaw  Ready Right Now   Favoriting #447  2:04:47 (Pop-up)
The Anderson Council  Gardening Man   Favoriting Looking at the Stars  2:09:05 (Pop-up)
Luke Bryan  All My Friends Say   Favoriting I'll Stay Me  2:12:38 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and the Arkestra  Reflections in Blue   Favoriting Sound of Joy  2:16:28 (Pop-up)
Ocobar featuring Geert Chatrou (world champion whistler)  Whistle Sizzle   Favoriting Strange Flute  2:23:23 (Pop-up)
Shake Some Action!  The Girl with the Sun in Her Eyes   Favoriting Full Fathom Five  2:26:54 (Pop-up)
Claire Judice and Caleb  Yuck Yogurt Bar   Favoriting Space and Other Stories  2:30:35 (Pop-up)
Loftin  So What   Favoriting Retro Carnival  2:31:34 (Pop-up)
Monty Python  Lifeboat   Favoriting Another Monty Python Record  2:36:31 (Pop-up)
Koichi Sugii  Yagi-Bushi   Favoriting Japanese Jazz & Salon Music 1936-1941, Vol. 3  2:37:22 (Pop-up)
Gil Evans Orchestra (actually the Cecil Taylor Septet)  Pots   Favoriting Into the Hot  2:40:26 (Pop-up)
 
Lightships  Muddy Rivers   Favoriting Electric Cables  2:51:00 (Pop-up)
Electric Willy  Her Father's Love   Favoriting Blorp Essette (L.A.F.M.S.)  2:55:38 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
G:

seems real to me. he just started a record and everything.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
rrg:

So far I'm the only one here.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
G:

yeah, you and what army? :p
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
rrg:

Me and my friend Gee, I mean.
Avatar 3:01pm
fleep:

Hoping for some space age bachelor pad in the lineup today. Hear that, NSA?
Avatar 3:02pm
hamburger:

me too, only one >here<
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
G:

that's more like it, buster :p and the NSA and BAH are here, too, trust me on that. i have a relative by marriage who's a BAH partner. i know what those dudes do, even though he only says with a smile, "well, if i told you, i'd have to kill you, and i don't want to do that." i'm sure that's what they tell them to say.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
rrg:

Latin!

I mean, Spanish.
Avatar 3:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

-OMG - you mean - someone might actually be *LISTENING* to this Broadcast - or reading what I Post on an open website - ?!? No one told me *this*...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
G:

Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori (actual Latin :p)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
rrg:

On Coronation Street, "Devendra" is a man's name. Is that true here as well? Sounds like it.

Corrie's Devendra is not a Spanish speaker, though. And everyone calls him "Dev".
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
AnAnonymousParty:

If they are listening to the same conversations I overhear people having on their cellphones, just walking around ... well, they got their work cut out out trying to derive 'intelligence' from all that crap.
Avatar 3:09pm
Sem Chumbo:

'It is unbelievable, to what extent one must betray a people in order to rule it.'
Just quoting a guy who ought to know.
Avatar 3:09pm
chhodgkins:

crazy mashup
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
rrg:

This CCC fellow, he's pretty good.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
G:

well, we could start referring to them as unintelligence services, then :)
Avatar 3:10pm
chhodgkins:

and here it is, the whole Revolver lp pashup:
archive.org...
Avatar 3:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- 'we want information - *information* - !'
...careful what you wish for...
Avatar 3:12pm
fleep:

I am not a number ... no wait, I am. Sorry.
Avatar 3:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx chhodgkins!
  Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
phat:

Great mix today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Ike:

RRG, in this case, yes, Devendra is a male, or more specifically, a squeaky, wildly overrated beardo hippie. Great set so far nonetheless!
Avatar 3:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- one hair from your head - or less, what you leave on utensils from a meal - anyone can have your entire genetic profile.
- It will be another interesting Century...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Could you play some "Betty Stands Up"?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
G:

Music hath charms to sooth the savage commeneter
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
rrg:

It's nice to have the stuff on archive.org.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
rrg:

I remember a time, in my lifetime, when one could not say "son of a bitch" on the radio.
  3:17pm
common:

quite a voice.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
G:

Progress, rrg :p
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Caryn:

Is this FCC-approved? Or do you figure, "hell, with the NSA listening, who cares about the FCC!?"
  Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
phat:

This is awful. It's not even awfulsome. But I guess it's entertaining, or something. :-)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
rrg:

Thus Joey Bishop said "Son of a gun". A whole different feel to it, see? Nicer. More pleasant.
  3:17pm
Listening Out There:

Gentle Musics for Our Times...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
AnAnonymousParty:

The only way Sonofabitch could be better would be if Yosemite Sam was singing.
  3:18pm
Alison Porchnik:

Notice the unmistakable homoeroticism of it.
Avatar 3:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & more anatomically accurate...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
rrg:

It WASN'T Yosemite Sam?
Avatar 3:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Porky Pig *did* say 'sonnafabitch' once!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Ike:

Caryn, for some reason, the word "bitch" does not run afoul of the authorities, at least not in the last 20-25 years or so. You have to head into "shit" or "fuck" or the nuclear-level C-word (the one that Brits throw around recklessly to our ears) to get their attention.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
rrg:

"Homoeroticism" means "self-love", right? I mean, looking at the Greek roots and all that.
Avatar 3:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- the Puritans came over here to found a Nation, whilst *they* all grow up in pubs...
- & autoeroticism is sex w/ cars...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
rrg:

The Brits also say "shag" but I don't think they say it on television.
Avatar 3:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- yeah - you can get away w/ Briticisms over here - I say 'buggery crumpets!!' a lot...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
rrg:

Double You Ef Em Blah.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Caryn:

@Ike: well, I figured the word was fine, but suspected there might be a quota as to how many times in can be said in a given time.

@rrg: they do say it on tv. Many is the pun about a long shag...
Avatar 3:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Eff Eff Eff Eff
Eff Cee Cee - !!
  3:24pm
Laura L:

My dad used to say "Cripes" to avoid saying "Christ"; Lutheran upbringing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

THEY couldn't possibly be monitoring Irwin. THEY couldn't handle the truth!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
G:

Criminy.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
rrg:

Ah. On Corrie they blanch at even saying "bloody", though once in a while they'll descend to those depths.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
rrg:

And no arithmetic if you're in the Friendship Society, Irwin. Don't forget that.
  Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
phat:

so, that was entertaining.
Avatar 3:27pm
Droll:

Shame on everyone who gives all their contacts, conversations, pictures, etc., to Facebook but complains about government monitoring. FB not only tricks users into doing all the information gathering for free, but cash in on it themselves.
Avatar 3:27pm
Carmichael:

So we can curse more frequently.
  3:29pm
common:

Drummer! Yep!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
Ike:

Droll, I just give Farcebook lots of false info. If I'm doing it right, Zuckerberg and the NSA think I'm a lumberjack.
Avatar 3:29pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Army invented the Internet in the 1st place.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Caryn:

@rrg: bless their hearts, Corrie is in many ways the most quaintly old-timey of the soaps, I feel. Heck, even The Archers is edgier nowadays...
Avatar 3:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- yeah - I feel PunkDrumnmers got short shrift on the DrummersSpecial ('Only Need a Beat')...
Avatar 3:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- some Writer said (crap paraphrase) - Punk Drummers proceeded like Keith Moon was the only drummer ever.
- YeeeHawww - ! : ) ....
Avatar 3:33pm
Jeezy:

Soooooooo excited for Joe Frank!
Talk about a throwback to the ol' days of WFMU...
Makes me long for some... KEN NORDINE too!!!
  3:33pm
Haircut Swelch:

Neferti is the best song I've heard all day
Avatar 3:34pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

SchoolHouseRock History! Cartoons Kick Ass...
Avatar 3:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nefertiti was very tidy.
  Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
phat:

I've never heard anyone pronounce Nefertiti that way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Caryn:

Considering that Akhenaten had at least 4 wives, I think Nefertiti was used to him hanging out with other women from time to time. As long as she was number 1 wife, she didn't really mind.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
rrg:

Nor I, phat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Ike:

Today's playlist image is not inaccurate, but could be misleading since the spying is fully bipartisan. Try this:
www.latinopost.com...
Avatar 3:37pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & petite.
Avatar 3:37pm
Droll:

phat, Forget the pronunciation, I don't think those are even the lyrics from Miles' version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Caryn:

@phat & rrg: maybe they tried to avoid the pronunciation that sounds too much like "titty"... leading us back to our rude language discussion.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
rrg:

I have a story about Finland but it's too long to write here.

In that respect I guess it's like Fermat's Last Theorem.
  Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
phat:

I was just obsessing about that Zep drum track with a bunch of friends the other day.
Avatar 3:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wow Ike - !
...Comes out looking like has Average Intelligence.
...Altho' 'Intelligence' in pertinent sense: Points to fact that Realities of 9/11 & War on Terror predated Obama Admin. buy a good bit
- PBS' Frontline tells of how gobsmackingly vast the Intelligence Agencies have become since then : &www.pbs.org...
  Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
phat:

caryn probaby were trying to avoid sounding naughty!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
rrg:

Silver, not SIlver.
  3:48pm
Irwin:

FIxed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
fred:

That W/Obama picture has been used *a lot* in scientific publications about morphing in the past, even when the morphing was of sounds and not images
  3:50pm
Laura L:

Uh-oh, here we go--"I Want A Spirit Machine"--fer cripessake, lowercase that indefinite article, would ya.
Avatar 3:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- it's a well-done & affecting example.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
rrg:

THanks.
  3:52pm
Irwin:

LL: dAmn, now looK what, I've starte.d
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
rrg:

Thank you for not accusing ME of having started it. I'm just doing my job.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Irwin:

and I wasSN"t even singed in,
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
rrg:

How did that happen?

Yeah, I get signed out too. Could be a Safari thing but I don't have enough evidence to sling my arrows at anyone in particular.
Avatar 3:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & of course, the technology zips along vertiginously; the issue of Privacy would be front & center even w/out 'The War on Terror'...

- 1st capitalized articles in songnames - & next they'll be alphabetizing collections by Artists' *1st* names...huff huff...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
rrg:

That was a metaphor.

How I hate having to explain myself.
Avatar 3:57pm
Droll:

rrg, Shouldn't that be "RRG"? Also, I believe the rule is to blame the user when software is faulty, not the other way around.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
G:

Never complain, never explain.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
G:

It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Avatar 3:59pm
fleep:

Got a feeling inside. Can't explain.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
rrg:

If I don't know your tongue was in your cheek, I'd, why, I'd....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
rrg:

That's ANOTHER metaphor.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:00pm
rrg:

But not a sports metaphor. Let's stay away from those.
Avatar 4:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

⬆⬆...⬆.oO (...''twas brillig & the slithey toves'...)
- these are literal arrows.
...Only the last one can read, tho'. He is a literate arrow...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:00pm
G:

My tongue is no goddam rhetorical figure or trope, I'll thank you to know ---> :P
Avatar 4:02pm
fleep:

"Work in Progress," then "In The Dark," followed by "Somewhere out There", and finally "The Other Side."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
rrg:

Stereo!
  4:03pm
Laura L:

Don't think I have ever been disappointed in Joe Frank. Got to see him in NYC couple of years (or more?) ago. Now everybody's gonna stop typing.
Avatar 4:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Thx fleep.
  4:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

also heard as the voice of the Computer in Galaxy Quest
Avatar 4:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

W.Henry - literally or metaphorically?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
Caryn:

@RRN63: oh, literally
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
AnAnonymousParty:

This is just a computer program spitting out random, but connected phrases, right?
Avatar 4:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- who Programmed it?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Stevel:

Wow. Joe Frank. Holy Fuck.

Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Caryn:

@RRN63: since Joe Frank was also in "The Game", maybe he programmed it himself as part of some overly-complicated, paranoia-inducing plot?
Avatar 4:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'random, but connected' ?
- This is like a 'comeback album' by a band you loved that is actually as good as the old stuff & all of us a different age...
- Coming from you, Caryn? :P (metaphorical tongue)...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
AnAnonymousParty:

"What? You say I'm getting a brain scan from Spinal Tap?"
  4:19pm
common:

this is scary. i've been feeling super lethargic of late and have thought about something like this. oh good.
Avatar 4:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- it *is* as well-'Programmed' as Written...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Caryn:

@RRN63; I will remain enigmatically silent on that matter, thus adding to the confusion. Whether this is part of the same plot, a different plot or no plot at all... we'll see.
Avatar 4:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...will we?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
Caryn:

*enigmatic silence*

or maybe I'm just *processing*
Avatar 4:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- of course, he's been doing stuff - I just haven't been hearing it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
G:

ever heard of the supersecret consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynolds?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Time is like a mean drunk.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
rrg:

Jeebus but this is depressing.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Alison Porchnik:

I love this ice cream truck music. Excellent way to bring us back from the dark precipice of Joe Frank
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
rrg:

Yes, AP. But slowly back.
Avatar 4:31pm
Droll:

Are all the Joe Frank shows that heavy?
Avatar 4:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- does he (still??) live in L.A.? Strikes me as very L.A.
- Yeah rrg, it's like what Lennon did for Marx, JoeFrank does for the Existentialists (& the Jewish dialecticians) - w/out the nice FreeWill affirmations part...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Caryn:

@G: I'm aware of Booz Allen Hamilton, and I'm aware of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, but any similar combo? No.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
rrg:

I think I'll listen to some George Winston after this.
Avatar 4:33pm
fleep:

Droll: there is humor, of a dark nature. My favorite episode is him playing a helicopter traffic reporter, and what starts as a minor accident on one freeway leads to a slow utter breakdown of civilization below, as he reports in the same AM radio drone.
Avatar 4:34pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- some have more or less Humor or Uplift - but not guaranteed on the Thinky label...
  4:34pm
Laura L:

Look on the bright side: the dark precipice is reliable.
Avatar 4:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Aging appropriate topic to being reintro'd after years (for me)...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
rrg:

"Even as you draw your terminal breath..."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Maybe we could get some Joe Franklin too?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
rrg:

And our youngster, RRN63, speaks of aging...
Avatar 4:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

50 in Nov. is - 50.
Avatar 4:42pm
fleep:

RRN and shortly thereafter, the letter from AARP will arrive. Because they know. Of course.
Avatar 4:42pm
Carmichael:

That's Joe Frank, droll. Intense, but funny.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
G:

@fleep: NSA just pulls them a list
  4:44pm
Amos:

I can't believe you're going to air A Conversation. Then again, Ken and Andy consistently offend their listeners every week, to great acclaim.
Avatar 4:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Are Answers better than Questions?'
- hell - I think that *is* JoeFrank
...like when George Carlin died & I went over his stuff & realized how much I'd taken on was his...
Avatar 4:46pm
Carmichael:

AARP came after me when I was 47 or 48. I have yet to give in.
Avatar 4:49pm
Droll:

I see the dark humor in Joe Frank, but that was my first listen and I didn't expect it to be that heavy.

And please stop it with the NSA surveillance! NSA may have weak and/or ineffective oversight, but Facebook only answers to shareholders whose only stated goal is to sell out the users. I know which one I trust less.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
AnAnonymousParty:

"Questions are a burden to others. Answers are a burden to oneself."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Caryn:

I can't think of a single FB "recommendation" or targeted ad that has fit me. Always makes me feel good, like I've managed to outsmart their profiling software.
Avatar 4:52pm
Droll:

Caryn, I do not find that kind of incompetence reassuring.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
AnAnonymousParty:

If the NSA wanted to save money, and get better intel, they could just contract with google.
Avatar 4:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Obama ended the Torture & Secret Prisons, & has admitted no one to Guantanamo
- & kept us pretty safe.
- Yeah - hold admin.s accountable, w/ you all the way - but a little cred. where due?
- Reassuring incompetence? Not what we thot in the J.Edgar/Nixon days - or the Reagan - or the Duhbya days...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
G:

wasn't it clear already in the late 90s that self-termed web 2.0 was mainly a way to get "muppets" to volunteer to create and aggregate terabyte upon endless terabyte of web content for free, just to be "famous" -- which in turn in copiable, savable, and parsable for whatever reason forever, if nothing changes? on one of my liter. discussion lists back then there was a palo alto dude who was clanging the alarm about that nearly every week.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
G:

why should they contract with google when they can mandate google to give them whatever. much easier and cheaper
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
rrg:

Same old story. It's only an outrage when the other guy (not "my guy") is doing it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Caryn:

@Droll: incompetence in many authorities wouldn't reassure me (except in the sense that they make vast conspiracies way less likely to occur - at least successfully), but when the point of a company in many ways is to delve into your data to try and sell you stuff and they fail at it miserably? Then it's a delight.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
G:

the younguns will save us from this. they are not gonna stand for having every keystroke of their online presence and every cell call recorded for parsing forever. polling already shows that older people fall for the security argument much more so than under 40s
Avatar 5:00pm
other david:

Well worth checking out talks by William Binney & Thomas Drake on youtube - dubya era whistleblowers, the move towards mass collection of telecom/net data was happening even before 9/11,

The kicker is, the public can't be roused to do anything about it, game over.
Avatar 5:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Google's Lawyer was on PBSNewshour last night :www.pbs.org...
- in case you want to hear his Statement (perhaps to hold accountable).
rrg: I do feel there's enuff History to make a judgement on each Party - & *abundant* material to do so (for each one). My ethical judgement, given a choice between only two: Left.
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rrg:

There are more than two. You don't have to choose either of those two.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- but worth having this discussion: Oh yes!
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Listening Out There:

"We're not in Kansas anymore, Tornodo..."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- two that can Win (& have Won) (realpolitick) - altho' worth quoting Ron Paul or Ralph Nader occasionaly or something...
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fleep:

Just don't let Colussus talk to Guardian and everything'll be fine.
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Caryn:

After being transported to Oz by a tornoto, Dorothy says, "We're not in Tornoto anymore, Tornoto." It's like "smurf" in The Smurfs, works everywhere.
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Caryn:

Of course, Listening Out There was faster.
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Droll:

Caryn, The only "analysis" you see at FB is on behalf of deodorant, insurance and car companies, which is hardly representative of the information FB collects, mines, re-mines, re-re-mines, and sells to others to mine. Even if they suck today, they'll get better and they'll have more information by then, too. You do not have any say in the control of the records they keep on you, what they're used for, or how long they're kept.

Mark my words: In the very near future all commercial telecommunications will be operated and paid for by advertising companies. Google is already in the phone business, and they already transcribe phone messages. In the future, they will offer free phone service and pay for it by listening in on your conversation and sending you ads about your conversation topics later.
  5:11pm
Listening Out There:

Goes to show, Caryn, that great thinks mind alike...
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fleep:

I think I see what Droll is saying. The government collecting data is there ostensbily to protect us, but it might be abused. Corporatism is there to specifically exploit us, it has no benefit to us, it's a vampire.
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rrg:

It's a stylistic choice that I don't dispute but will merely ask: why are JOE FRANK and DREAMERS capitalized where they appear in the playlist?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- If they know I like blueberry yoghurt & Fender Stratocasters - even Playboy Playmates' bottoms
- & I get Ads for those instead of laxatives
- how is this bad??
- However :
- Opt In is presumed, not Opt Out.
- Long scrolling 'Contracts' don't count for real human beings.
- The Civil Rights we already have (read the Bill of Rights lately? 'Search & Seizure'?? Digitally??) need to be correlated to the changing tech.
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Caryn:

@Droll: true, but I guess speaking a relatively obscure language and being poor as dirt, I'm less concerned about those matters than you might be. "Yeah, sure, spend your time and money trying to sell me stuff! Doesn't matter, since I can't afford it anyway."
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Irwin:

@rrg: SPECIAL FEATURE
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Caryn:

@rrg: because he's so great? Or because broadcasting his stuff is a capital idea?
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rrg:

If one doesn't think there is any benefit to using FB or Google or whatever, then surely one shouldn't use them.
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Amos:

Because it's an excuse for Irwin to write in all caps. A rare treat indeed.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- we all know that 'but it might be abused' means it *will* be abused, here or there, sooner or later.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Justice so often goes to the HighestBidder.
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blee:

Ah.... Sun Ra.
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northguineahills:

Caryn, you speak Kusunda as well as Finnish? Didn't know you were so old! hotword.dictionary.com...
(obscure language).
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fleep:

Thank you, Davey Downer.
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rrg:

Caryn's not old. Unless she's been dissembling.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- as has been noted - a FreeMarket can be dandy
- but what we have is a MarketSociety
- in which not a thing counts but the Price of anything or anyone
- & the changing Tech follows along...
- As Sun Ra said - this Planet isn't ready yet for the LivingMyth!...
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northguineahills:

The last speaker of Kasunda is 76 years old.
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Caryn:

@ngh: that's why I said "relatively obscure" and not "obscure" ;)

BTW, congrats on the interviews!
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rrg:

Is it Kusunda or Kasunda? Don't make me look it up!
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Caryn:

Kusunda
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Carmichael:

Man, I came back to a heavy argument. A friend of mine still pays his bills by check, by U.S. Mail. He says he doesn't want his information "to get online". I don't even know where to begin a conversation about the inanity of that idea.
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rrg:

Sometimes I feel proud of my whistling competence. Then Irwin plays THIS guy.
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northguineahills:

link provided, trying to multitask....

Thanks, Caryn!
  5:27pm
blee:

Ocobar drummer is bad ass!
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Carmichael:

When I was a kid, I was awed by the whistling prowess of the guy in the supermarket who watered the vegetables. He was truly awesome, and put on a show for the housewives.
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rrg:

I don't know why you would say he has a bad ass. Why would you say such a thing? How can you know?
  5:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

Note: cat is enjoying this music.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- his intonation & phrasing sound like an instrument - which of course it is...
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rrg:

I'm not a cat person but I co-exist peacefully with them as long as we can all agree that those Meow Mix commercials are REPULSIVE.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- named of course for Flamin'Groovies song&album
- bitchin' PsychPop! ☆
  5:32pm
Laura L:

Ok, this cat talk means I have to point out the 2-faced kitten born in Oregon (Irwin doesn't like it--too creepy)... http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50148770n
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Irwin:

NO!! DON'T LOOK!!!11!
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northguineahills:

I like chicken, ...... I like liver...... Meow Mix, Meow Mix, .... please deliver (as if done as a piano ballad).
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rrg:

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hopes and a world of fears. There's so much that we share that it's time we're aware: it's a small world after all!
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rrg:

Oh, my goodness. I'm happy to hear this.
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Caryn:

@Laura L: there's a famous adult cat like that. They sadly very seldom live for very long. But the kitten seems to clearly have one main, functioning head, and a secondary face. I wonder whether this will change with time, or is how it will remain.
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G:

I can't face that.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I thot that just happened on Melvins albumcovers...
  5:38pm
blee:

@rrg I could smell the funk on the beats.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- you mean you can't faceface that...
  5:38pm
Listening Out There:

RE Python: I hope to see the Graham Chapman documentary soon.
  5:38pm
Laura L:

That's right, they usually don't make it, but this one may have a chance, with all the parts otherwise in good working order. Meow mixup!
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rrg:

This is the kind of radio I would want to do if I did radio.
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fleep:

Call it Ray'n'Rosey
  5:41pm
Listening Out There:

Years back, I saw Chapman at a university. He showed slides of bungie jumping. First I'd heard of it, it was that long ago.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- the highest praise.

- I kept ☆ing Python, it kept going out - like a trick birthday candle...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- in reverse, I suppose...
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Caryn:

@Laura L: yeah, I think if the kitten really has only one functioning head, and the other is more just for appearances, it stands a better chance at survival. With two functioning faces, feeding, brain function and such become problematic. Although the famous adult one has two functioning faces.
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rrg:

That's a good idea. I'll star it too. Except there are other things I like just as much and didn't star. Oh, well.
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rrg:

You-all can all talk about freak cats. The rest of us will talk about the radio program.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- more ammo for Neil deGrasse Tyson's argument against Intelligent Design (birth defects)...
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Laura L:

Well, some of these jazz musicians are kinda freaky cats.
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fleep:

maybe Intelligent Design has Mondays like everyone else
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rrg:

And how about this gorgeous weather? Finally some sunshine at last!
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rrg:

And those cicadas! Oh my goodness the NOISE! And they still haven't peaked.
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fleep:

I am looking forward to a regular dose of Horace Silver for the remaining decade and beyond.
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rrg:

We need some tree work done but the tree guy came today, and sonofagun he quoted us a real good price.
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Caryn:

@rrg: well, if the theory floated earlier about cat videos being full of covert intel turns out to be correct, paying attention to them can't be a bad thing.
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northguineahills:

I wonder what would cut short the career of a young Japanese male jazz musician in 1942?
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Laura L:

I got a "Service Call" today with a message that said I could get a discount on a security system if I let them put a sign in my YARD. My yard. In downtown Manhattan.
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rrg:

The Arkestra in the Arkives. Heh.
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rrg:

Demand the discount anyway, Laura.
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northguineahills:

My yard is my fire escape.
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Droll:

If Rashaan Roland Kirk was a two-faced cat, he could have played four horns at once -- an entire sax section.
Lots of great jazz today.
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Caryn:

I'm almost expecting a bad joke about "Yeah, we're all in this lifeboat together, but no-one will eat me."
  5:52pm
Listening Out There:

I got a telemarketing call a little while ago. The usual call center noise in the background and the fella on the other end said "Hi, my name is Honda" and he hung up. Bit of an identity problem there, that...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I'm gonna be all Overt, 'cause *I* didn't get it ;

Pink Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson‎
Pink Anderson or Floyd Council - these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with ...

- 'Pink Floyd' contracted the 1st names...
  5:55pm
bloopy:

is this teenage fancluB>?>
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rrg:

Wow, look at the time. What happened? Who knows where the time goes? Which makes me hope that we'll hear some Sandy Denny next time.
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rrg:

Au revoir, fellow travellers. Or travelers. Whatever we are. Eat hearty. Sleep well.
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fleep:

Thanks, Irwin.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- poor telemarketers - to resort to such a job...
- I did it to try & survive in Santa Barbara, CA (pricey, few jobs)
- not 'cold-calling' where they call you
- but B.S. nonetheless...
- I'm proud to say I'm a totally crap salesman...
- 1st, the answering machine: I will answer if I please...
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Caryn:

A co-worker today told me about his days as a telemarketer, and how they would get so bored with the job, they'd start making comedic calls with fake names. (Using their mobile phones, not the headsets, to avoid having the calls recorded.) And how they'd especially look forward to Friday afternoons, when the bosses would go home early, and they could goof off on the phone very freely.
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rrg:

Yes, okay, thanks, Irwin. But that's understood. (Isn't it?)
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Droll:

Have a fun week all. Remember to apply risk/reward, cost/benefit, and love/outrage reasoning uniformly.
...and that a laptop is not a musical instrument! Listen to more jazz (and orchestral) music between Irwin shows!
  5:58pm
Laura L:

To add to RRG: and if you see the dark precipice, as the Yes We Scan has it: Deal with it.
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fleep:

Brush your teeth and floss!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- they busted all those places in Santa Barbara wide open.
  7:43am
Chris from Stroud, England:

Enjoyed the show whilst working at my desk at home in England. Particularly liked Joe Frank, Horace Silver and that Velvet Underground cut. Thanks for a great vibe dude!
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