WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from June 11, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ 2:52am herb.nyc: Hi Brian and all, oops, currents to begin soon but i to (try and) sleep. The radio is on and I hope to soak in some of the music and tawk. Thx.
	⚡ 3:02am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian everybody to come, just went out and got my coffee
	3:03am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	⚡ 3:04am tom tom the pipers son: tried watching moonage daydream but couldn't hack it. i'm not a bowie "believer" although i like a lot of his music
	3:06am devlawn: Ted and Pat.
	3:06am Brian D: Hello all! I've heard mixed reviews of Moonage Daydream, from Bowie diehards. Haven't seen it yet, but plan to.
	3:07am Mr. Pumpy: Going down to the casino for the third time in my entire. Grabbed a room to rest on the way back jersey. I by location and price. I didn't know there was a mega-casino here with about 6 hotels until I pulled in. Gonna pull a few handles and drink a few beers.
	3:07am ryansterlingvirtue: That hey had me dancing around my room; thx
	3:08am fred: Freshly out of high school, I was offered a ticket to see Pixies. I declined, because I didn't know them (and logistics were daunting). But that stuck in my mind and I bought a record. Been kicking myself for my lack of curiosity ever since
	3:09am Brian D: ↳ ryansterlingvirtue @3:07 My pleasure...
	⚡ 3:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:06 my reaction to moonage was knee-jerk but didn't like its worshipful tone from the beginning
	⚡ 3:10am Michael of Cologne: Good very early morning Brian & all at other times. Cologne's already at 23°C before 9 a.m. Weather seems to have lost any sense of moderation. Extremism.
	3:11am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:10 Greetings Michael.
	3:12am devlawn: I haven't read Dante's recently enough to know which layer of hell ted and pat are at now.
	3:12am Brian D: ↳ devlawn @3:12 I doubt they're sharing a room, although maybe.
	⚡ 3:14am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @3:08 The Pixies proved their mettle with great staying power.
	3:14am fred: A frequent take I hear in art circles is that Jeff Koons is the heir to Warhol. I see that, but I think there was a deeper and darker side to Warhol that Koons lacks and replaces with frat boy vibes
	3:15am Erik/VermonT: ↳ fred @3:08 re Pixies: familiar vibe here as well, was just a bit too old (a punk era fan) to appreciate pixies at their early peak. Their music really holds up nicely!
	3:18am fred: Is Matmos' "Tract for Valerie Solanas" coming?
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:08 I have too many "misses" like that to count, Fred.
	⚡ 3:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:14 there seems to be a change in koons before and after ciccolina, the earlier stuff seemed to be more commodity critical wher the liter stuff is pure commodity, i hear ya on frat boy vibes
	3:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:18 I thought about it...
	⚡ 3:24am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Almost Everything" by "Mudhoney" wow, this is new..sounds great
	3:30am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:20 There was an exhibition in Paris, Koons was very controlling, as is his right, but he had a "porn room" there and insisted on having women staffers there, who were subjected to much abuse. I think that was his plan, hence the frat boy label
	⚡ 3:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:30 interesting anecdote
	3:34am fred: This picture reminds me of DeLillo's Mao II
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:30 Ick
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:24 GREAT new record.
	3:37am fred: ↳ fred @3:34 A friend who was organizing concerts at the time had a crossed out pic of Koons on his flyers from then on (he worked at that museum and was pissed off)
	⚡ 3:37am tom tom the pipers son: i don't like the jazz that irwin plays, he commented on ira k show the other day that he was playing jazz presumingly just like him, ira wisely sidestepped the comment saying "its all jazz to me" ha!
	3:41am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:37 Doug had a cool Mingus gif about that: www.wfmu.org...
	⚡ 3:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:41 right very funny, ha!
	3:43am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:41 He's lookin' like the Rev. Gene Scott there.
	3:44am Erik/VermonT: re Bowie & “art docu” Moonage Daydream (2022) by the director Brett Morgan (who did that diff K.Cobain docu & the fascinating Robert Evans art-bio!). Well, must disclose i am a Bowie-boy from the moment my jaw slacked as i watched a ‘72-‘73 live TV performance as a young kid = Ziggy mode. Never looked back! Find joy, delight and beauty in ALL the diverse phases of Bowie. So admittedly, I’m not that objective. However, I was able to get to a large screen theatre to view Moonage Daydream 🤩😍. It’s one of those art docu’s that is partially a film-studies geekfest (includes a lotta vintage film clips & refs). It will not be as exciting on the tv flatscreen. Plays-out like an experience, as compared to the 3 other recent-ish excellent traditional BBC bio-documentaries that span his entire life & career. For those more factual bios, try the following: the Francis Whatley docu Trilogy = David Bowie docu’s : 1. Five Years (2013) 2. Last 5 Years (2017) 3. Finding Fame (2019). - all fabulous content. * More than ya bargained for - huh ?! 🙃😉😜
	3:45am Brian D: ↳ Erik/VermonT @3:44 Noted Erik. Your "review" matches some I've heard
	3:47am Paulo AD: What's up current buns
	⚡ 3:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @3:37 Prefer a sculpture by Georg Baselitz or Markus Lüpertz to a Koon kitsch any day.
	⚡ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: former walter de maria studio
	3:59am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:47 Paulo!
	3:59am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:47 Hey Paulo! Did you pay tribute to the water god on that new course?
	4:02am Paulo AD: First hole with a brand new ball !!!
	4:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:52 Yes! Great place to see art, but the "foundation" gives me the willies.
	4:03am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @3:59 What’s up Bri ? That’s football done for the season then
	4:05am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:03 Yeah, with @#$%^ City taking home the big prize.
	4:05am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:02 That's the way to show respect
	4:07am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:05 It ridiculous with the 119 ffp irregularities ,,
	⚡ 4:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:03 yes a great contrast maybe politically is the word between past and present lives of a space
	4:07am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @4:05 As is correct. Last time I played there I got 60, 53 yesterday so there’s progression
	4:09am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:07 That and some of their fans.
	4:12am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:09 You mean the fans they’ve had since 2010
	4:12am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:12 Ha!
	4:13am fred: More than progression, it's a breakthrough! (please forgive the DFW bit)
	⚡ 4:20am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & folks. Humidity rules here this morning.
	4:21am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:20 Here, too, Brian. Good morning.
	4:21am fred: ↳ Song: "Territories" by "Gerald Cleaver" I missed Cleaver a couple of weeks ago, with Cooper-Moore to boot. Dance comes first, but with a price
	4:23am Paulo AD: Currently 38c here with 40% humidity. Thats me in the house all day with the a/c on ball freezer
	⚡ 4:24am tom tom the pipers son: a long time ago went to see a warhol retrospective with an aunt. she said she didn't like the marilyns because they made her look like a decaying corpse, don't know if i agree with her, but an interesting take
	4:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:24 To me, she seems to have a look of despair.
	4:33am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:24 an insightful take on many Warhol portraits, including his own
	⚡ 4:34am Heidee: Delightful music, hi Brian, hi all.
	⚡ 4:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:32 i don't really look at them psychologically but find multiple interps interesting and valid
	4:36am fred: ↳ Heidee @4:34 Hey Heidee! Is grading over yet?
	⚡ 4:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:33 yeah i thought so, glad you did too
	4:36am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:34 Cheers, Heidee and hallo!
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: hi heidee...
	4:38am Erik/VermonT: Attended a surprise/barely advertised William Parker/Mayan Space Station concert at Dartmouth (abt 50 peeps there). Never had seen Parker in power trio mode before. Ava Mendoza & Cleaver so freakin excellent ! Parker always his inimitable self ! I’d attend any of those anywhere. Mendoza is my kinda “jazZ” Guitarist = whoa !
	4:39am Brian D: ↳ Erik/VermonT @4:38 Love Ava. And Parker.
	⚡ 4:39am Heidee: ↳ fred @4:36 Guten Morgen all, Brian, Tom Tom, fred! ☀️ Lovely bright and warm summer morning here, my last day of the Pentecost school break, no grading! :-)
	⚡ 4:40am Heidee: ↳ Song: "Come On Home" by "Fred again and Brian Eno" I just realize how similar they sound to Alt-J. One of my favourite bands. Great live.
	4:42am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:40 Alt-J are great. Not seen them live.
	⚡ 4:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "FOX-Unabomber dies in prison" did math drive him crazy?
	⚡ 4:43am Heidee: ↳ Brian D @4:42 There are some wonderful "Tiny Desk" concerts on YT. Very skilled.
	⚡ 4:44am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @4:43 But then, the actual big concerts are smashing. Light shows and all.
	4:45am relegated to: Hi everyone!
	4:47am relegated to: I'm new. Hi. I like George Winston.
	4:48am relegated to: Consatnly learning to love and appreciate Jim Morrison, that's never a bad thing?
	4:49am Erik/VermonT: That docu titled “All the Beauty & the Bloodshed” 2022 - part Nan Goldin bio, part Sackler opioid family dismantling protest, part art museum reparations ! Very intense worthy docu (via HBO ?!).
	⚡ 4:49am Don in Tampere: Hi Brians, Tom, Fred, Heidee (herzliche Gruesse aus Finnland!), Paolo, Erik, Relegated, and anyone I might have missed. Looks like I missed some good chats by getting up too late.
	4:49am relegated to: But then you put them together and you're like HELLO. Hi! Super fun.
	⚡ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: hello don!
	⚡ 4:50am Heidee: Don! Hi-hurray!
	4:50am Brian D: ↳ relegated to @4:48 Welcome relegated. I like Winston's interpretations of the Doors.
	4:50am relegated to: You know what.
	4:51am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:43 math can do that, sometimes in good ways, though society will kill you anyway (Turing)
	4:51am relegated to: When it becomes the size of Belgium. You're fucked officially.
	⚡ 4:51am Don in Tampere: How long will it take until someone tells Canada they should rake their forests.......
	4:51am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:49 Good morning, Don! Better late...
	4:52am relegated to: ↳ Brian D @4:50 A news that quantifies looks at all the garbage, they welcome this rain. Thanks!!
	⚡ 4:52am Don in Tampere: BTW, if anyone is interested, the premiere of the banjo-jouhikko project at the Finnish Sauna Day celebration went really well. I hope the recording and video came out well so I can upload some of the set.
	⚡ 4:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:51 right...
	⚡ 4:54am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Congratulations! 👏
	4:54am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Do post a link somewhere if it came out right
	4:55am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Wonderful, Don. Congrats. Look forward to hearing it!
	⚡ 4:56am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 How are the saunas celebrated in Finland?
	⚡ 4:56am tom tom the pipers son: a recently re discovered bowie song via fmu is the candidate off of diamond dogs, look forward to berlin period
	4:57am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:56 I've been meaning to ask, too!
	4:58am fred: ↳ Song: "Ashes to Ashes" by "Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff" Amanda Palmer is interesting; though hit and miss
	4:59am fred: ↳ Song: "All Jokes Aside" by "Billy Woods and Messiah Musik" This is great!
	⚡ 5:01am Don in Tampere: Sauna is so much a part of Finnish culture that it's been named a UNESCO cultural heritage; unric.org... Since Tampere has declared itself (with some justification) to be the sauna capitol of Finland, the oldest public sauna in the country, Rajaportti, always puts on a celebration featuring local artists. It's fun playing for people who are standing around wearing towels and drinking beer. My friend took a couple of short loops with her phone so I might upload them to Instagtram pretty soon, but I'll check the proper video and recording later today and, if Pekko approves, upload some video to Youtube (ldonohkami account)
	⚡ 5:02am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:59 Lamentoso.
	5:03am relegated to: Let's say Jim Morrison and George Winston got together for 3 mo. in the San Juans to record their collaboration together. As a snot nosed teenager in the 90s i think I would have hated it. Why did I love it just a few moments ago? Maybe there's a sound that also sounds like you've made it through, so it'll be alright.
	⚡ 5:04am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:01 Wonderful. I love the sauna. In Estonia me and my Estonian friends were also having beer inside. And sometimes they threw some of the beer onto the hot stones, to "drouse". It smelled like freshly baked bread. What fun.
	⚡ 5:05am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @5:04 *douse
	5:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:01 Had no idea. What a great thing.
	5:06am fred: ↳ Heidee @5:05 Next years' lesson: drouse vs douse
	⚡ 5:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Heidee @5:05 combination of drink an douse, funny, nice that it smelled like bread not stale beer
	5:08am relegated to: plus, the San Juan Islands are really pretty and super romantic, so...misty I get misty...
	⚡ 5:08am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @5:05 löyly :-)
	⚡ 5:09am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @5:06 To say nothing of drowse.
	⚡ 5:11am Don in Tampere: I think it smells more like burnt toast,but since my dear best friend really likes it, I have gotten used to it when she's visiting. I love the word löyly. It encompasses so much: the act of throwing water on the stones, the rising of the steam, the way the heat spreads, usually from the top down, and the whole spirit of the thing. People rate saunas by the quality of the löyly, and Rajaportti, with 8 metric tons of rocks, is one of the best.
	5:12am Erik/VermonT: Yea, I haven’t found that A.Palmer,etc Bowie tribute yet. Only briefly sampled it. Is that a Hedwig guy collaborating (?). That Bowie one and the Lou Reed tribute album came out similar years - I mist em both. Sumpin to look forward to listening to completely. One of the WFMU dance DJ’s (i forget) played a stellar ‘ashes to ashes‘ Russian remix version I had never heard. Sent me down a serious rabbit🐇hole🕳️ with those ear-opening All-instrumental-versions of Bowie’s Berlin and beyond years mixes ! (His vocals dropped out of the mixes). It’s wonderful to focus-in on just the creative music isolated. The tunes are really quite strange as they are without Bowie singing. There a so many of them. I particularly recommend trying the denser last gasp art period of “Lodger” (1979) & ‘Scary Monsters’ (1980). They still sound so great even without the vocals. They are my pet faves - especially ‘Lodger’. Imo, way under-listened to & yet much appreciated. I posit that it truly influenced T.Heads’ ‘Remain in Light’ !
	5:12am Brian D: Damn autocorrect.
	⚡ 5:13am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Heidee @5:04 Hi Heidee. Once sauna'ed many moons ago on Insel Reichenau in the Bodensee (Lake Constance,) in winter. Cooled off by jumping into the wintry lake.
	⚡ 5:14am Heidee: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 Hi Michael, superb! The real McCoy experience.
	5:17am relegated to: We love you East Coast radio
	5:19am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 It's been 10 years for me -- a hammam in Istanbul.
	⚡ 5:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 There <re two public saunas in town that are right on the shore of the lake Näsijärvi, and in winter they cut about a 10m hole in the ice and pump the water so that it doesn't re-freeze. There are heated steps from the sauna to the water (to avoid slipping on ice) sio you can go straight from above 90C to just above 0 C in a few seconds. It's incredibly invigorating, though not recommended with a severe hangover.
	5:31am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:27 My heart stopped thinking about it.
	⚡ 5:32am tom tom the pipers son: never been to a sauna but the one thing this convo is reminding of was a swimming pool in berlin that was half indoor half outdoors so you could go swimming in the winter air, it was a pleasant experience but not sauna
	5:33am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:32 I'm told the heated outdoor pools in Iceland are something.
	⚡ 5:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:33 ah, never been to iceland on a layover or otherwise
	5:35am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:34 Me neither.
	⚡ 5:38am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:27 That's a sophisticated sauna culture! The Bodensee sauna was in a house of friends on the shore, an old subdivided Bauernhaus with low ceilings, rickety stairs, etc.
	⚡ 5:40am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Opus #3" by "D.B. Shrier Quartet" Oh dat sax!
	5:42am LiXiviated Life: Sweat is over rated.
	5:43am LiXiviated Life: (as is hard work)
	5:44am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @5:43 I wouldn't know, Lix. Good morning.
	5:47am LiXiviated Life: to be cool is the goal (hence bossa nova)
	5:48am Erik/VermonT: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:56 for some reason ‘Diamond Dogs’ 1974 didn’t send me like the albums surrounding it. I highly recommend, without equivocation: Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Station to Station, Low, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Let’s Dance, Heathan, The Next Day, Blackstar. Btw: that cult film that somebody recommended via Abbie/Mars show titled “Abby” 1974 looks pretty wild !
	⚡ 5:49am Heidee: Great show, Brian, thank you! Take care, all.
	⚡ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Erik/VermonT @5:48 don't really care about diamond dogs, just that one song, yes abby does look interesting
	⚡ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: bye heidee
	5:52am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @5:49 Thank you, Heidee. You too!
	⚡ 5:53am tom tom the pipers son: bye brian, everybody, have a good day/ week
	⚡ 5:54am Don in Tampere: What I heard of the show was great; thanks Brian! Have a good week, everybody!
	5:56am Brian D: Always a pleasure, folks. Thank you for listening. As always, stay safe. See you next week!

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
David Bowie	Andy Warhol "Andy Warhol" by "David Bowie"	Hunky Dory		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pixies	Hey "Hey" by "Pixies"	Doolittle		0:03:33 (Pop-up)
Transvision Vamp	Andy Warhol's Dead	Pop Art		0:07:03 (Pop-up)
John Cale and Lou Reed	Forever Changed	Songs For Drella		0:10:54 (Pop-up)
Simple Minds	Killing Andy Warhol "Killing Andy Warhol" by "Simple Minds"	Neapolis		0:16:23 (Pop-up)
	Clip: MSNBC-Robert Hanssen dies in prison			0:21:48 (Pop-up)
Mudhoney	Almost Everything "Almost Everything" by "Mudhoney"	Plastic Eternity		0:22:09 (Pop-up)
The Senders	Please Give Me Something	Seven Song Super Single	R.I.P. Phil Marcade	0:26:35 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground	Femme Fatale "Femme Fatale" by "Velvet Underground"	Velvet Underground and Nico		0:29:30 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	Fallout "Fallout" by "Yo La Tengo"	This Stupid World		0:32:08 (Pop-up)
Map 71	Box Angel "Box Angel" by "Map 71"	Blood Fruit		0:36:44 (Pop-up)
	Clip: ABC-shooting at graduation party in Virginia			0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Big Blood	Never Ending Nightmare "Never Ending Nightmare" by "Big Blood"	First Aid Kit		0:41:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		0:46:01 (Pop-up)
Glorious Din	Narrow Streets "Narrow Streets" by "Glorious Din"	Closely Watched Trains		0:57:01 (Pop-up)
Cell/Borg	Waking Working Sleeping	Cell/Borg		1:02:34 (Pop-up)
	Clip: ABC-autopsy in LAPD taser death released			1:07:54 (Pop-up)
Gerald Cleaver	Territories "Territories" by "Gerald Cleaver"	2022-23		1:08:32 (Pop-up)
Christine and the Queens	Tears Can Be So Soft	Paranoia, Angels, True Love		1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Bright Horses	Ghosteen		1:20:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		1:25:15 (Pop-up)
William Tyler and the Impossible Truth	Our Lady of the Desert	Secret Stratosphere		1:31:05 (Pop-up)
Fred again and Brian Eno	Come On Home	Secret Life		1:36:03 (Pop-up)
	FOX-Unabomber dies in prison "FOX-Unabomber dies in prison"			1:41:15 (Pop-up)
George Winston	Riders on the Storm	Night Divides the Day: The Music of the Doors	R.I.P.: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/george-winston-the-quiet-giant-of-solo-piano-music-dead-at-73/ar-AA1cdfAY	1:41:49 (Pop-up)
	Clips: CBC/CTV-wildfires in Canada "Clips: CBC/CTV-wildfires in Canada"			1:49:37 (Pop-up)
Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff	Ashes to Ashes	Strung Out in Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute		1:53:06 (Pop-up)
Billy Woods and Messiah Musik	All Jokes Aside	Church		1:57:49 (Pop-up)
Glenn Whitehead	Dream of the Din "Dream of the Din" by "Glenn Whitehead"	Pale Blue		2:00:20 (Pop-up)
Brandon López	The Real Bad Vibe "The Real Bad Vibe" by "Brandon López"	vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile		2:09:11 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CGTN-10-year anniversary of Snowden disclosures		https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowden-mi5-nsa-prism-ghcq ------------------------------------ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowden-10-years-surveillance-revelations -------------------------------------- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/no-regrets-says-edward-snowden-after-10-years-in-exile	2:16:17 (Pop-up)
Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker, Francisco Mela	Glisten Up	Shine Hear, Vol. 1		2:17:12 (Pop-up)
D.B. Shrier Quartet	Opus #3 "Opus #3" by "D.B. Shrier Quartet"	D.B. Shrier Emerges		2:34:40 (Pop-up)
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto	The Girl From Ipanema		R.I.P. Astrud Gilberto https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65818566	2:42:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		2:48:04 (Pop-up)
Sarah Albu and Gayle Young	Sweet Summer Salad	According to the Moon		2:51:47 (Pop-up)
Michael Stipe	Sunday Morning "Sunday Morning" by "Michael Stipe"	I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico		2:55:33 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 2:52am herb.nyc: Hi Brian and all, oops, currents to begin soon but i to (try and) sleep. The radio is on and I hope to soak in some of the music and tawk. Thx.
	⚡ 3:02am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian everybody to come, just went out and got my coffee
	3:03am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	⚡ 3:04am tom tom the pipers son: tried watching moonage daydream but couldn't hack it. i'm not a bowie "believer" although i like a lot of his music
	3:06am devlawn: Ted and Pat.
	3:06am Brian D: Hello all! I've heard mixed reviews of Moonage Daydream, from Bowie diehards. Haven't seen it yet, but plan to.
	3:07am Mr. Pumpy: Going down to the casino for the third time in my entire. Grabbed a room to rest on the way back jersey. I by location and price. I didn't know there was a mega-casino here with about 6 hotels until I pulled in. Gonna pull a few handles and drink a few beers.
	3:07am ryansterlingvirtue: That hey had me dancing around my room; thx
	3:08am fred: Freshly out of high school, I was offered a ticket to see Pixies. I declined, because I didn't know them (and logistics were daunting). But that stuck in my mind and I bought a record. Been kicking myself for my lack of curiosity ever since
	3:09am Brian D: ↳ ryansterlingvirtue @3:07 My pleasure...
	⚡ 3:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:06 my reaction to moonage was knee-jerk but didn't like its worshipful tone from the beginning
	⚡ 3:10am Michael of Cologne: Good very early morning Brian & all at other times. Cologne's already at 23°C before 9 a.m. Weather seems to have lost any sense of moderation. Extremism.
	3:11am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @3:10 Greetings Michael.
	3:12am devlawn: I haven't read Dante's recently enough to know which layer of hell ted and pat are at now.
	3:12am Brian D: ↳ devlawn @3:12 I doubt they're sharing a room, although maybe.
	⚡ 3:14am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @3:08 The Pixies proved their mettle with great staying power.
	3:14am fred: A frequent take I hear in art circles is that Jeff Koons is the heir to Warhol. I see that, but I think there was a deeper and darker side to Warhol that Koons lacks and replaces with frat boy vibes
	3:15am Erik/VermonT: ↳ fred @3:08 re Pixies: familiar vibe here as well, was just a bit too old (a punk era fan) to appreciate pixies at their early peak. Their music really holds up nicely!
	3:18am fred: Is Matmos' "Tract for Valerie Solanas" coming?
	3:19am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:08 I have too many "misses" like that to count, Fred.
	⚡ 3:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:14 there seems to be a change in koons before and after ciccolina, the earlier stuff seemed to be more commodity critical wher the liter stuff is pure commodity, i hear ya on frat boy vibes
	3:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:18 I thought about it...
	⚡ 3:24am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Almost Everything" by "Mudhoney" wow, this is new..sounds great
	3:30am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:20 There was an exhibition in Paris, Koons was very controlling, as is his right, but he had a "porn room" there and insisted on having women staffers there, who were subjected to much abuse. I think that was his plan, hence the frat boy label
	⚡ 3:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:30 interesting anecdote
	3:34am fred: This picture reminds me of DeLillo's Mao II
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:30 Ick
	3:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:24 GREAT new record.
	3:37am fred: ↳ fred @3:34 A friend who was organizing concerts at the time had a crossed out pic of Koons on his flyers from then on (he worked at that museum and was pissed off)
	⚡ 3:37am tom tom the pipers son: i don't like the jazz that irwin plays, he commented on ira k show the other day that he was playing jazz presumingly just like him, ira wisely sidestepped the comment saying "its all jazz to me" ha!
	3:41am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:37 Doug had a cool Mingus gif about that: www.wfmu.org...
	⚡ 3:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:41 right very funny, ha!
	3:43am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:41 He's lookin' like the Rev. Gene Scott there.
	3:44am Erik/VermonT: re Bowie & “art docu” Moonage Daydream (2022) by the director Brett Morgan (who did that diff K.Cobain docu & the fascinating Robert Evans art-bio!). Well, must disclose i am a Bowie-boy from the moment my jaw slacked as i watched a ‘72-‘73 live TV performance as a young kid = Ziggy mode. Never looked back! Find joy, delight and beauty in ALL the diverse phases of Bowie. So admittedly, I’m not that objective. However, I was able to get to a large screen theatre to view Moonage Daydream 🤩😍. It’s one of those art docu’s that is partially a film-studies geekfest (includes a lotta vintage film clips & refs). It will not be as exciting on the tv flatscreen. Plays-out like an experience, as compared to the 3 other recent-ish excellent traditional BBC bio-documentaries that span his entire life & career. For those more factual bios, try the following: the Francis Whatley docu Trilogy = David Bowie docu’s : 1. Five Years (2013) 2. Last 5 Years (2017) 3. Finding Fame (2019). - all fabulous content. * More than ya bargained for - huh ?! 🙃😉😜
	3:45am Brian D: ↳ Erik/VermonT @3:44 Noted Erik. Your "review" matches some I've heard
	3:47am Paulo AD: What's up current buns
	⚡ 3:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @3:37 Prefer a sculpture by Georg Baselitz or Markus Lüpertz to a Koon kitsch any day.
	⚡ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: former walter de maria studio
	3:59am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:47 Paulo!
	3:59am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:47 Hey Paulo! Did you pay tribute to the water god on that new course?
	4:02am Paulo AD: First hole with a brand new ball !!!
	4:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:52 Yes! Great place to see art, but the "foundation" gives me the willies.
	4:03am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @3:59 What’s up Bri ? That’s football done for the season then
	4:05am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:03 Yeah, with @#$%^ City taking home the big prize.
	4:05am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:02 That's the way to show respect
	4:07am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:05 It ridiculous with the 119 ffp irregularities ,,
	⚡ 4:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:03 yes a great contrast maybe politically is the word between past and present lives of a space
	4:07am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @4:05 As is correct. Last time I played there I got 60, 53 yesterday so there’s progression
	4:09am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:07 That and some of their fans.
	4:12am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:09 You mean the fans they’ve had since 2010
	4:12am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:12 Ha!
	4:13am fred: More than progression, it's a breakthrough! (please forgive the DFW bit)
	⚡ 4:20am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & folks. Humidity rules here this morning.
	4:21am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:20 Here, too, Brian. Good morning.
	4:21am fred: ↳ Song: "Territories" by "Gerald Cleaver" I missed Cleaver a couple of weeks ago, with Cooper-Moore to boot. Dance comes first, but with a price
	4:23am Paulo AD: Currently 38c here with 40% humidity. Thats me in the house all day with the a/c on ball freezer
	⚡ 4:24am tom tom the pipers son: a long time ago went to see a warhol retrospective with an aunt. she said she didn't like the marilyns because they made her look like a decaying corpse, don't know if i agree with her, but an interesting take
	4:32am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:24 To me, she seems to have a look of despair.
	4:33am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:24 an insightful take on many Warhol portraits, including his own
	⚡ 4:34am Heidee: Delightful music, hi Brian, hi all.
	⚡ 4:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:32 i don't really look at them psychologically but find multiple interps interesting and valid
	4:36am fred: ↳ Heidee @4:34 Hey Heidee! Is grading over yet?
	⚡ 4:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:33 yeah i thought so, glad you did too
	4:36am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:34 Cheers, Heidee and hallo!
	⚡ 4:37am tom tom the pipers son: hi heidee...
	4:38am Erik/VermonT: Attended a surprise/barely advertised William Parker/Mayan Space Station concert at Dartmouth (abt 50 peeps there). Never had seen Parker in power trio mode before. Ava Mendoza & Cleaver so freakin excellent ! Parker always his inimitable self ! I’d attend any of those anywhere. Mendoza is my kinda “jazZ” Guitarist = whoa !
	4:39am Brian D: ↳ Erik/VermonT @4:38 Love Ava. And Parker.
	⚡ 4:39am Heidee: ↳ fred @4:36 Guten Morgen all, Brian, Tom Tom, fred! ☀️ Lovely bright and warm summer morning here, my last day of the Pentecost school break, no grading! :-)
	⚡ 4:40am Heidee: ↳ Song: "Come On Home" by "Fred again and Brian Eno" I just realize how similar they sound to Alt-J. One of my favourite bands. Great live.
	4:42am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:40 Alt-J are great. Not seen them live.
	⚡ 4:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "FOX-Unabomber dies in prison" did math drive him crazy?
	⚡ 4:43am Heidee: ↳ Brian D @4:42 There are some wonderful "Tiny Desk" concerts on YT. Very skilled.
	⚡ 4:44am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @4:43 But then, the actual big concerts are smashing. Light shows and all.
	4:45am relegated to: Hi everyone!
	4:47am relegated to: I'm new. Hi. I like George Winston.
	4:48am relegated to: Consatnly learning to love and appreciate Jim Morrison, that's never a bad thing?
	4:49am Erik/VermonT: That docu titled “All the Beauty & the Bloodshed” 2022 - part Nan Goldin bio, part Sackler opioid family dismantling protest, part art museum reparations ! Very intense worthy docu (via HBO ?!).
	⚡ 4:49am Don in Tampere: Hi Brians, Tom, Fred, Heidee (herzliche Gruesse aus Finnland!), Paolo, Erik, Relegated, and anyone I might have missed. Looks like I missed some good chats by getting up too late.
	4:49am relegated to: But then you put them together and you're like HELLO. Hi! Super fun.
	⚡ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: hello don!
	⚡ 4:50am Heidee: Don! Hi-hurray!
	4:50am Brian D: ↳ relegated to @4:48 Welcome relegated. I like Winston's interpretations of the Doors.
	4:50am relegated to: You know what.
	4:51am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:43 math can do that, sometimes in good ways, though society will kill you anyway (Turing)
	4:51am relegated to: When it becomes the size of Belgium. You're fucked officially.
	⚡ 4:51am Don in Tampere: How long will it take until someone tells Canada they should rake their forests.......
	4:51am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:49 Good morning, Don! Better late...
	4:52am relegated to: ↳ Brian D @4:50 A news that quantifies looks at all the garbage, they welcome this rain. Thanks!!
	⚡ 4:52am Don in Tampere: BTW, if anyone is interested, the premiere of the banjo-jouhikko project at the Finnish Sauna Day celebration went really well. I hope the recording and video came out well so I can upload some of the set.
	⚡ 4:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:51 right...
	⚡ 4:54am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Congratulations! 👏
	4:54am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Do post a link somewhere if it came out right
	4:55am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 Wonderful, Don. Congrats. Look forward to hearing it!
	⚡ 4:56am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:52 How are the saunas celebrated in Finland?
	⚡ 4:56am tom tom the pipers son: a recently re discovered bowie song via fmu is the candidate off of diamond dogs, look forward to berlin period
	4:57am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @4:56 I've been meaning to ask, too!
	4:58am fred: ↳ Song: "Ashes to Ashes" by "Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff" Amanda Palmer is interesting; though hit and miss
	4:59am fred: ↳ Song: "All Jokes Aside" by "Billy Woods and Messiah Musik" This is great!
	⚡ 5:01am Don in Tampere: Sauna is so much a part of Finnish culture that it's been named a UNESCO cultural heritage; unric.org... Since Tampere has declared itself (with some justification) to be the sauna capitol of Finland, the oldest public sauna in the country, Rajaportti, always puts on a celebration featuring local artists. It's fun playing for people who are standing around wearing towels and drinking beer. My friend took a couple of short loops with her phone so I might upload them to Instagtram pretty soon, but I'll check the proper video and recording later today and, if Pekko approves, upload some video to Youtube (ldonohkami account)
	⚡ 5:02am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @4:59 Lamentoso.
	5:03am relegated to: Let's say Jim Morrison and George Winston got together for 3 mo. in the San Juans to record their collaboration together. As a snot nosed teenager in the 90s i think I would have hated it. Why did I love it just a few moments ago? Maybe there's a sound that also sounds like you've made it through, so it'll be alright.
	⚡ 5:04am Heidee: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:01 Wonderful. I love the sauna. In Estonia me and my Estonian friends were also having beer inside. And sometimes they threw some of the beer onto the hot stones, to "drouse". It smelled like freshly baked bread. What fun.
	⚡ 5:05am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @5:04 *douse
	5:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:01 Had no idea. What a great thing.
	5:06am fred: ↳ Heidee @5:05 Next years' lesson: drouse vs douse
	⚡ 5:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Heidee @5:05 combination of drink an douse, funny, nice that it smelled like bread not stale beer
	5:08am relegated to: plus, the San Juan Islands are really pretty and super romantic, so...misty I get misty...
	⚡ 5:08am Heidee: ↳ Heidee @5:05 löyly :-)
	⚡ 5:09am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @5:06 To say nothing of drowse.
	⚡ 5:11am Don in Tampere: I think it smells more like burnt toast,but since my dear best friend really likes it, I have gotten used to it when she's visiting. I love the word löyly. It encompasses so much: the act of throwing water on the stones, the rising of the steam, the way the heat spreads, usually from the top down, and the whole spirit of the thing. People rate saunas by the quality of the löyly, and Rajaportti, with 8 metric tons of rocks, is one of the best.
	5:12am Erik/VermonT: Yea, I haven’t found that A.Palmer,etc Bowie tribute yet. Only briefly sampled it. Is that a Hedwig guy collaborating (?). That Bowie one and the Lou Reed tribute album came out similar years - I mist em both. Sumpin to look forward to listening to completely. One of the WFMU dance DJ’s (i forget) played a stellar ‘ashes to ashes‘ Russian remix version I had never heard. Sent me down a serious rabbit🐇hole🕳️ with those ear-opening All-instrumental-versions of Bowie’s Berlin and beyond years mixes ! (His vocals dropped out of the mixes). It’s wonderful to focus-in on just the creative music isolated. The tunes are really quite strange as they are without Bowie singing. There a so many of them. I particularly recommend trying the denser last gasp art period of “Lodger” (1979) & ‘Scary Monsters’ (1980). They still sound so great even without the vocals. They are my pet faves - especially ‘Lodger’. Imo, way under-listened to & yet much appreciated. I posit that it truly influenced T.Heads’ ‘Remain in Light’ !
	5:12am Brian D: Damn autocorrect.
	⚡ 5:13am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Heidee @5:04 Hi Heidee. Once sauna'ed many moons ago on Insel Reichenau in the Bodensee (Lake Constance,) in winter. Cooled off by jumping into the wintry lake.
	⚡ 5:14am Heidee: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 Hi Michael, superb! The real McCoy experience.
	5:17am relegated to: We love you East Coast radio
	5:19am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 It's been 10 years for me -- a hammam in Istanbul.
	⚡ 5:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:13 There <re two public saunas in town that are right on the shore of the lake Näsijärvi, and in winter they cut about a 10m hole in the ice and pump the water so that it doesn't re-freeze. There are heated steps from the sauna to the water (to avoid slipping on ice) sio you can go straight from above 90C to just above 0 C in a few seconds. It's incredibly invigorating, though not recommended with a severe hangover.
	5:31am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:27 My heart stopped thinking about it.
	⚡ 5:32am tom tom the pipers son: never been to a sauna but the one thing this convo is reminding of was a swimming pool in berlin that was half indoor half outdoors so you could go swimming in the winter air, it was a pleasant experience but not sauna
	5:33am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:32 I'm told the heated outdoor pools in Iceland are something.
	⚡ 5:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:33 ah, never been to iceland on a layover or otherwise
	5:35am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:34 Me neither.
	⚡ 5:38am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @5:27 That's a sophisticated sauna culture! The Bodensee sauna was in a house of friends on the shore, an old subdivided Bauernhaus with low ceilings, rickety stairs, etc.
	⚡ 5:40am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Opus #3" by "D.B. Shrier Quartet" Oh dat sax!
	5:42am LiXiviated Life: Sweat is over rated.
	5:43am LiXiviated Life: (as is hard work)
	5:44am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @5:43 I wouldn't know, Lix. Good morning.
	5:47am LiXiviated Life: to be cool is the goal (hence bossa nova)
	5:48am Erik/VermonT: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:56 for some reason ‘Diamond Dogs’ 1974 didn’t send me like the albums surrounding it. I highly recommend, without equivocation: Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Station to Station, Low, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Let’s Dance, Heathan, The Next Day, Blackstar. Btw: that cult film that somebody recommended via Abbie/Mars show titled “Abby” 1974 looks pretty wild !
	⚡ 5:49am Heidee: Great show, Brian, thank you! Take care, all.
	⚡ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Erik/VermonT @5:48 don't really care about diamond dogs, just that one song, yes abby does look interesting
	⚡ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: bye heidee
	5:52am Brian D: ↳ Heidee @5:49 Thank you, Heidee. You too!
	⚡ 5:53am tom tom the pipers son: bye brian, everybody, have a good day/ week
	⚡ 5:54am Don in Tampere: What I heard of the show was great; thanks Brian! Have a good week, everybody!
	5:56am Brian D: Always a pleasure, folks. Thank you for listening. As always, stay safe. See you next week!

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