WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from January 3, 2014

Listener comments!
	11:49am glenn: much more interesting than a gif of an electric stove.
	11:59am Gary: Nice two-tone action :)
	12:01pm pacific standard simon: I yam ready.
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: Greetings friends.
	12:02pm Stanley: Praise be!
	12:03pm pacific standard simon: You're quite mistaken -- it's Twenty Fourteen.
	12:04pm Gary: Nice opener!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: It's not two thousand and fourteen?
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: hey! there's my lunch water boiling away! howdy, all!!
	12:06pm ndbob: greetings UM and everyone! - as I actually post on the correct playlist
	12:07pm pacific standard simon: You've been misled by the Convertible Media, Uncle.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: Hey there Bob!
	12:08pm still b/p: All the shoveling I did at 11:00 last night...I just did again. The Drift of the Magi.
	12:08pm pacific standard simon: This, by the way, is one of my very favorite Alice tracks.
	12:09pm Doug Schulkind: So happy to sit back and relax. Uncle Calgon, take me away.
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: I'm more Mr. Bubble, I'm afraid.
	12:11pm pacific standard simon: For the trifecta, you need "Sweet Gene Vincent", and um,..... I don't know.
	12:12pm still b/p: "Madam, how do you do..." (Mr. Bubble memory.)
	12:12pm Parq: Still b/p, clicking "like".
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Impressive, still b/p. Who knew you'd retain that synapse?!
	12:13pm glenn: when you hear that, it's hard to believe alice is a golf loving republican.
	12:14pm pacific standard simon: ...and upstanding Christian!
	12:15pm glenn: is he? huh.
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: All the young girls love Alice.
	12:15pm Parq: Alice has always been as show-biz as any Friar's Club member. George Burns posed for a pic with Alice in the early 70s -- he got it.
	12:16pm glenn: they were truly a great band.
	12:17pm listener james from westwood: shtick recognizes shtick.
	12:17pm pacific standard simon: You have to sort of admire a person who can adopt every public conservative trapping, yet still say his name is "Alice Cooper" with a straight face.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: I have no straight face.
	12:21pm pacific standard simon: Nuts of steel, Alice has. It's as if John Boehner went around pronouncing his name the way you'd think it SHOULD be pronounced.
	12:22pm still b/p: Alice proudly recounts (boasts) that his eye make-up was a reference for Alex's eye style in A Clockwork Orange. Well, fair enough, but there's a difference, maybe, between someone with the film coming up with it as an off the cuff example of what they want to go for, and being a vital influence in a movie's aesthetic and therefore being tres important in wider culture. Alice wants it to be the latter. Guess I'm Scroogey for wanting to say, "Dial it down a little, bro."
	12:26pm Doug Schulkind: Just don't call it late to dinner.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: Check your email, Doug.
	12:29pm listener james from westwood: aw yiss. tappin' on the radio.
	12:30pm pacific standard simon: Next: fish riding bicycles.
	12:33pm Doug Schulkind: Email checked. Nothing there but cobwebs and echoes.
	12:34pm still b/p: Fish riding stingrays?
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: No crickets?
	12:36pm Doug Schulkind: Oh, is THAT what I stepped on? Oops.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Chaaaakaaaa...ahhhhhh....
	12:51pm Uncle Michael: The crickets have taken over.
	12:52pm pacific standard simon: ahhhhhh.... 2nd mug of tea.... might be able to assume human form soon....
	12:53pm pacific standard simon: Keep thinking I should throw a couple of eggs in that water to poach, but am disturbed by the fact that it's not moving, but the flame IS.
	12:54pm glenn: i noticed that same thing.
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: That water is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
	12:54pm still b/p: A watched pot never unpauses.
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: it's full of ice-9.
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: btw, the lunch i described on doug's playlist? delish: twitter.com...
	12:57pm Uncle Michael: I have a tamale warming for set number five.
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: I better not show that to the Mrs. We love TJ potstickers...and miso. She'll go nuts.
	12:59pm glenn: abby normal. news.nationalpost.com...
	12:59pm pacific standard simon: Also, RE:crickets -- I'm being sorely tempted to watch Harlan Ellison's youtube review of Saving Mr. Banks, but I'll try to hold back until this show's over. SPOILER: Harlan doesn't like it. www.youtube.com...
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: Smoke 'em if you got 'em. This is a lengthy one.
	1:00pm listener james from westwood: at this point in his life, i'm hard pressed to name more than a few things that ellison does like. i know he's an immense jiminy cricket fan, so that may color his opinion on interpretations of disney.
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: this was a sad read re: ellison: www.vulture.com...
	1:04pm pacific standard simon: Oh, he likes plenty things; he's just more entertaining when he's telling you what a piece of shit something is. He LOVED Terry Gilliam's Brazil and started a campaign to have the uncut version restored and released.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: Brazil: on my all-time top ten list.
	1:08pm efd: Jeez, this guy sure has a lot of phone numbers.
	1:08pm pacific standard simon: I know, I know -- it's great. Yet my wife still holds it against me that I took her to see it.
	1:11pm pacific standard simon: Little known factoid: Supermax is the kid from Where The Wild Things Are, all grown up. Little known because it's not true at all.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: fake factoids are the little-knownest kind
	1:13pm pacific standard simon: How about some cherry cherry pie, Bo?
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: Were any of those phone numbers yours, efd?
	1:15pm pacific standard simon: My desk calendar says I should buy stock. SOUP stock. (It's the Joy of Cooking calendar.)
	1:16pm listener james from westwood: i may have told this story here or elsewhere on fmu's boards before, but i first saw "brazil" while home with the flu. my parents had taped it some weeks before. to my horror, the taping had stopped 3 minutes from the end.
	1:17pm Uncle Michael: Oy! It's a fever dream.
	1:18pm pacific standard simon: Heh. If my wife hadn't seen the last 3 minutes, she might not have hated it so much.
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: fake rolling stones
	1:19pm pacific standard simon: No kidding! You've played these guys before -- I should look for them.
	1:23pm hyde: well that 4 hour near death experience hellride down the ny state thruway and the mass pike this am may have made me miss the yusef lateef tribute (I'll go back in time for that) but I made it for some Hinky DInky, by gum
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Hey Hyde! Welcome. Glad you're safe inside.
	1:27pm glenn: if they can call gum duubble bubble, why not hinky dinky? each pack would come with an mp3 culled from uncle michael's vast record collection.
	1:28pm glenn: you're damn skippy.
	1:28pm hyde: you and me both, UM. good to be here. and hiya to the whole gang.
	1:30pm still b/p: Skippy can be seen regularly on TV curently, but i don't see him regularly or irregularly. Sorry, Skippy.
	1:30pm pacific standard simon: Special present for me.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: Great DJ Premium idea, glenn!
	1:34pm glenn: huh. actually, it is. i'm so smrt.
	1:36pm glenn: for that extra ring of authenticity, the gum has to be so old and dried out that it crumbles into dust.
	1:36pm Santos L Halper: KONG!!! and Motorhead explains it so well...
	1:37pm pacific standard simon: Another wife story: While packing for one of our moves, she was horrified to find a stack of dusty bubblegum slabs a foot high, left over from my baseball card collecting.
	1:38pm Uncle Michael: That's kind of a husband story. I'm sure she tells it better.
	1:38pm pacific standard simon: At this point, we're listening to Bunk Gardner playing an electronically altered clarinet.
	1:39pm Doug Schulkind: Very enjoyable is this song.
	1:40pm pacific standard simon: I believe an octave splitter and a fuzzbox may have been harmed in the production...
	1:41pm glenn: when i was 11 or 12 or so , my uncle gave me his collection of mint baseball cards from the 40's and 50's, which my dad proceeded to throw away. i often wonder what they'd be worth now.
	1:42pm pacific standard simon: You REALLY don't want to know, glenn.
	1:42pm still b/p: Altered clarinet really modifies my banjo.
	🛒 1:43pm Brian in UK: Zappa always got vfm out of his drummers.
	1:43pm hyde: finally found the video of skippy the bush kangaroo playing drums I knew I had seen. thought for a bit it was one of my hallucinations: www.youtube.com...
	1:50pm Rich in Washington: Zappa's rationale was that the dick/tittie joke songs paid for things like recording with union orchestras.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Yep, that sounds like a rationale, all right.
	1:52pm pacific standard simon: Hey, Ramblin' Jack Elliot is still touring!
	1:52pm still b/p: Hm. Charlie on the MTA....
	🛒 1:53pm Brian in UK: The Seekers are from Australia, think they might be touring again!
	1:55pm glenn: vernon's girls rock.
	1:55pm Uncle Michael: By train?
	1:56pm glenn: clem catini is the drummer here.
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: I'm glad Clem turned down the Zeppelin gig.
	2:00pm glenn: really? was he in the running?
	🛒 2:00pm Brian in UK: Galleon, I believe.
	2:01pm Uncle Michael: Page asked him, I'm pretty sure...when the New Yardbirds were forming.
	2:02pm glenn: i would imagine clem and jimmy and john paul jones played on many sessions together.
	🛒 2:02pm Brian in UK: Great sets UM. There's a trout with my name on in the kitchen needing attention.
	2:03pm pacific standard simon: Wasn't Aynsley Dunbar asked, as well?
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: Go, land that finnan haddie, mate!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: This song is also very enjoyable.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: You're all about the prog, Doug.
	2:04pm Doug Schulkind: I mean to say, even more enjoyable than the rest of these enjoyable songs.
	2:05pm Uncle Michael: Warning: I'm getting my '90s rock on in the next set...partly.
	2:06pm pacific standard simon: Speaking of trout, if you want an exercise in masochism, try reading the biography of Richard Brautigan in its entirety. It begins and ends with him putting a .44 magnum in his mouth.
	2:06pm still b/p: There's a TJ bean and cheese burrito in the kitchen with my name on it. Caught it with my bare hands.
	2:07pm Uncle Michael: It swallowed the hook.
	2:08pm listener james from westwood: trick or trout, brian!
	2:08pm Rich in Washington: @pacific standard simon: Which biography did you read? I met one of his biographers and he also tells of Brautigan being found months later in his cabin. Over summer. Ulp!
	2:10pm glenn: ewwwww.
	2:10pm pacific standard simon: @Rich - William Hjortsberg. Yup, he did it in September (warm season in the Bay Area) and they didn't find him until 6 weeks later.
	2:12pm Rich in Washington: The Richard Brautigan Museum is pretty close to where I live, in Vancouver Washington.
	2:13pm Rich in Washington: I like his spoken word LP, which was originally to come out on Apple Records, as I guess Lennon or McCartney were fans of his writing
	2:14pm ndbob: scrolling back here.. @Simon I'd bet i hated Brazil as much as your wife did
	2:15pm ndbob: There was a long Brautigan bio that came out fairly recently, but I've never talked to anyone who read it
	2:16pm pacific standard simon: I have an mp3 of that album but haven't listened to it yet. It was supposed to be the third release on Zapple, but Apple folded first. Then it was released on Harvest.
	2:17pm pacific standard simon: @ndbob - Now you have.
	2:18pm ndbob: @simon and I see you have - think I will pass on it
	2:20pm pacific standard simon: The odd thing is, I've read very little Brautigan -- The Abortion, and some other odds and ends. I was curious about what made him tick, though, and now I'm far less interested in reading more.
	2:21pm ndbob: I've read quite a few - but not for a long time
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: how nuts is this synthy bass from '69?
	2:22pm pacific standard simon: I like this Trini cut, but I want to feed his bass player a fistful of valium.
	2:23pm glenn: man, just when you thought gerry and the pacemakers were bad.....
	2:23pm ndbob: never heard this version before - or anything from this Trini LP
	2:23pm ndbob: The early Trini records - on King - are pretty good
	2:24pm Rich in Washington: I don't like reading author bios too much. It often influences my reading of their literary output too much. I remember reading Kafka's bio (I don't remember which one) and it gave me an entirely different viewpoint of his work, which I wasn't ready for at the time.
	2:24pm pacific standard simon: I wrote that comment before yours appeared, UM.
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: It's the only reason I played it!
	2:28pm pacific standard simon: I know what you mean, Rich. Writers tend to have not very happy lives, plus they know other writers who remember too much about them. Kafka kept diaries, too. Fiction is always less messy.
	2:30pm ndbob: Yep - though I'm tempted to read the recent Mailer biography
	2:32pm listener james from westwood: i enjoyed it. i've never understood the occasional tom jones dislike i've encountered. my mother hated him for some reason.
	2:32pm pacific standard simon: Now THAT would be messy (and interesting). Mailer appears as a dinner host, once, in the Brautigan book.
	2:34pm listener james from westwood: it is brautigan i'm thinking of who borrowed and never returned hundreds of library books?
	2:36pm listener james from westwood: that should be "is it brautigan." whoops!
	2:36pm pacific standard simon: @james - nothing about that in the bio, and seems doubtful, since several people noted how few books he kept around.
	2:38pm glenn: hey guys, if you don't know what to do with the bed, bath and beyond gift card you got for xmas - www.torontosun.com...
	2:38pm still b/p: Library shut down yesterday with weather anxiety. My books were due yesterday. Will they fine me the big fitty cents today?
	2:40pm pacific standard simon: @glenn - sounds like a good idea. I got a practical, Mr. Rogers-style cardigan, though. @still b/p - most libraries let you renew online, which will stop the fines.
	2:40pm listener james from westwood: for some reason i recall it being him, or someone with a similarly truncated life. this is gonna kill me....
	2:41pm ndbob: I noticed, when I was in Jamestown, that the library website stated that after a book was 45 days overdue the police would be notified
	2:41pm ndbob: Gives a new meaning to "book 'em"
	2:47pm pacific standard simon: @james - here's a good one (not dead, though): en.wikipedia.org...
	2:47pm hyde: I would imagine the liberry will waive the snow day fines...
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Throw another book on the fire.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: I don't want the show to be over. Don't. Don't. Don't.
	2:49pm still b/p: I renewed these books twice already -- that's the limit. Just browsy books anyway, so it's fine to give 'em up. And I don't begrudge the library their four bits, though I, too, expect they'll waive it. Free borrowing and two renewals...fitty cent cheap.
	2:50pm pacific standard simon: Doug, if you're still there, how many eggs could I have boiled in that water during the show?
	2:53pm SeanG: Really enjoyed the show today!
	2:54pm still b/p: That was never three hours!
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for hanging out today, everyone. I had a good time.
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:56pm listener james from westwood: thanks for the fine friday frolic, UM! be well and stay warm, all!!
	2:57pm Asheville Jon: yay for ABBA
	2:57pm Doug Schulkind: Seven eggs, pss. Maybe eight.
	2:57pm northguineahills: Thanks UM! Good fun!
	2:57pm still b/p: Of course.... www.youtube.com...
	2:58pm Parq: La proxima semana, if it matters.
	2:58pm pacific standard simon: I came here to babble about whatever random crap is bubbling in my head, while listening to and RARELY mentioning the music.
	3:01pm pacific standard simon: Matt needs a lead-in show.
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: Thanks all!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from January 3, 2014

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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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January 3, 2014: Let's bring it to a rolling boil.

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Artist	Track	Album
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Chuck Brown & The Soulsearchers	Bustin' Loose Part 1	b/w Bustin' Loose Part 2 (Source - 1978)
Alice Cooper	Return Of The Spiders	Easy Action (Straight - 1970)
The Residents	Laughing Song "Laughing Song" by "The Residents"	Duck Stab! EP (Ralph - 1978)
Los Lobos	Little Japan "Little Japan" by "Los Lobos"	Colossal Head (Warner Bros. - 1996)
The Nu Tornados	Philadelphia, U.S.A.	b/w Magic Record (Carelton - 1958)
Little Richard	Keep A Knockin' "Keep A Knockin'" by "Little Richard"	b/w Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (Specialty - 1957)
Music behind DJ: Fraykers Revenge	Santa Monica "Santa Monica" by "Fraykers Revenge"	Lunch For Yor Ears - Sound-Scores Volume One (unk. - 1970)
The Deep Six	Paint It Black "Paint It Black" by "The Deep Six"	The Deep Six (Liberty - 1966)
Fred Astaire	Let Yourself Go "Let Yourself Go" by "Fred Astaire"	10" (Brunswick - 1936)
Red Norvo & his Swing Octet	Bughouse	10" (Columbia - 1935)
Malo	Café "Café" by "Malo"	b/w Peace (Warner Bros. - 1972)
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan	You Got The Love	Rags To Rufus (ABC - 1974)
Hüsker Dü	Turn On The News "Turn On The News" by "Hüsker Dü"	Zen Arcade (SST - 1984)
Music behind DJ: The Apemen	Pogo A Gogo "Pogo A Gogo" by "The Apemen"	7 Inches Of Love (Double Crown - 2000)
Little Milton	More And More "More And More" by "Little Milton"	b/w Cost Of Living (Checker - 1967)
Freddy King	The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist	b/w Look, Ma I'm Cryin' (Federal - 1963)
Lowell George & The Factory	Candy Cane Madness	Lightning-Rod Man (Bizarre/Straight - 1993)
Jonathan King	Let It All Hang Out	b/w Colloquial Sex (Legend Of Today) (Decca - 1970)
Supermax	Love Machine "Love Machine" by "Supermax"	b/w Dance, Dance, Dance (Atlantic - 1977)
Music behind DJ: Henry Mancini	Something For Cat "Something For Cat" by "Henry Mancini"	Breakfast At Tiffany's (Music From The Motion Picture Score) (RCA Victor - 1961)
Bo Diddley	Gimme Gimme "Gimme Gimme" by "Bo Diddley"	Bo Diddley & Company (Checker - 1962)
Humble Pie	Is It For Love "Is It For Love" by "Humble Pie"	Eat It (A&M - 1973)
Daddy Cool	Hi Honey Ho "Hi Honey Ho" by "Daddy Cool"	b/w Hi Honey Ho! (Edited) (Reprise - 1971)
Timebox	Beggin' "Beggin'" by "Timebox"	b/w A Woman That's Waiting (Deram - 1968)
Blue Ridge Playboys	Give Me My Money	b/w Anything (Vocalion - 1936)
Music behind DJ: Eric Jupp Orchestra	Skippy (Main Title)	Skippy EP (Parlophone - 1968)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
The Mothers of Invention	King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications)	Uncle Meat (Bizarre - 1969)
Music behind DJ: The Baker Philharmonic	Love At First Sight (Je T'aime Moi Non Plus)	b/w Tycho (World pacific - 1969)
The Seekers	Wreck of the Old '97 "Wreck of the Old '97" by "The Seekers"	The Seekers (World Record Club - 1964)
Vernons Girls	Lover Please "Lover Please" by "Vernons Girls"	b-side to You Know What I Mean (Spectrum - 1962)
The Stranglers	How To Find True Love And Happiness In The Present Day	La Folie (Liberty - 1981)
The Butanes With Teddy Mc Rae And Orch.	Don't Forget I Love You	b/w That's My Desire (Enrica - 1961)
Can	Millionenspiel "Millionenspiel" by "Can"	The Lost Tapes Box Set (Spoon - 2012)
Music behind DJ: Barry Forgie	Whispering Giant "Whispering Giant" by "Barry Forgie"	Classic Grooves (Bruton Music - 197?)
Buffalo Tom	Enemy "Enemy" by "Buffalo Tom"	Birdbrain (Beggars Banquet - 1990)
Uncle Tupelo	Graveyard Shift "Graveyard Shift" by "Uncle Tupelo"	No Depression (Rockville - 1990)
Trini Lopez	Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'	The Whole Enchilada (Reprise - 1969)
Hudson-Ford	Burn Baby Burn "Burn Baby Burn" by "Hudson-Ford"	b/w Angels (A&M - 1974)
Tom Jones	Sixteen Tons "Sixteen Tons" by "Tom Jones"	Things I Wanna Do (Parrot - 1967)
Music behind DJ: Jimmy McGriff	A Thing to Come By Pts 1&2	A Thing to Come By (Solid State - 1969)
Ray Charles & Milt Jackson	Soul Meeting	Soul Meeting (Atlantic - 1961)
Rika Jansen	Marihuana Marie "Marihuana Marie" by "Rika Jansen"	Rika Jansen (Imperial - 1971)
Arthur Alexander	I Hang My Head and Cry	b-side to Anna (Go To Him) (Dot - 1962)
The Sonics	Keep a Knockin' "Keep a Knockin'" by "The Sonics"	b-side to The Witch (Etiquette - 1964)
Wang Dang Doodle	Love Sculpture "Love Sculpture" by "Wang Dang Doodle"	Blues Helping(1967)
ABBA	Hasta Mañana "Hasta Mañana" by "ABBA"	b/w Honey Honey (Polydor - 1974)
Ringo Starr	Goodnight Vienna "Goodnight Vienna" by "Ringo Starr"	b/w Oo-wee (Apple - 1975)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"

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Listener comments!
	11:49am glenn: much more interesting than a gif of an electric stove.
	11:59am Gary: Nice two-tone action :)
	12:01pm pacific standard simon: I yam ready.
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: Greetings friends.
	12:02pm Stanley: Praise be!
	12:03pm pacific standard simon: You're quite mistaken -- it's Twenty Fourteen.
	12:04pm Gary: Nice opener!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: It's not two thousand and fourteen?
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: hey! there's my lunch water boiling away! howdy, all!!
	12:06pm ndbob: greetings UM and everyone! - as I actually post on the correct playlist
	12:07pm pacific standard simon: You've been misled by the Convertible Media, Uncle.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: Hey there Bob!
	12:08pm still b/p: All the shoveling I did at 11:00 last night...I just did again. The Drift of the Magi.
	12:08pm pacific standard simon: This, by the way, is one of my very favorite Alice tracks.
	12:09pm Doug Schulkind: So happy to sit back and relax. Uncle Calgon, take me away.
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: I'm more Mr. Bubble, I'm afraid.
	12:11pm pacific standard simon: For the trifecta, you need "Sweet Gene Vincent", and um,..... I don't know.
	12:12pm still b/p: "Madam, how do you do..." (Mr. Bubble memory.)
	12:12pm Parq: Still b/p, clicking "like".
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Impressive, still b/p. Who knew you'd retain that synapse?!
	12:13pm glenn: when you hear that, it's hard to believe alice is a golf loving republican.
	12:14pm pacific standard simon: ...and upstanding Christian!
	12:15pm glenn: is he? huh.
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: All the young girls love Alice.
	12:15pm Parq: Alice has always been as show-biz as any Friar's Club member. George Burns posed for a pic with Alice in the early 70s -- he got it.
	12:16pm glenn: they were truly a great band.
	12:17pm listener james from westwood: shtick recognizes shtick.
	12:17pm pacific standard simon: You have to sort of admire a person who can adopt every public conservative trapping, yet still say his name is "Alice Cooper" with a straight face.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: I have no straight face.
	12:21pm pacific standard simon: Nuts of steel, Alice has. It's as if John Boehner went around pronouncing his name the way you'd think it SHOULD be pronounced.
	12:22pm still b/p: Alice proudly recounts (boasts) that his eye make-up was a reference for Alex's eye style in A Clockwork Orange. Well, fair enough, but there's a difference, maybe, between someone with the film coming up with it as an off the cuff example of what they want to go for, and being a vital influence in a movie's aesthetic and therefore being tres important in wider culture. Alice wants it to be the latter. Guess I'm Scroogey for wanting to say, "Dial it down a little, bro."
	12:26pm Doug Schulkind: Just don't call it late to dinner.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: Check your email, Doug.
	12:29pm listener james from westwood: aw yiss. tappin' on the radio.
	12:30pm pacific standard simon: Next: fish riding bicycles.
	12:33pm Doug Schulkind: Email checked. Nothing there but cobwebs and echoes.
	12:34pm still b/p: Fish riding stingrays?
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: No crickets?
	12:36pm Doug Schulkind: Oh, is THAT what I stepped on? Oops.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Chaaaakaaaa...ahhhhhh....
	12:51pm Uncle Michael: The crickets have taken over.
	12:52pm pacific standard simon: ahhhhhh.... 2nd mug of tea.... might be able to assume human form soon....
	12:53pm pacific standard simon: Keep thinking I should throw a couple of eggs in that water to poach, but am disturbed by the fact that it's not moving, but the flame IS.
	12:54pm glenn: i noticed that same thing.
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: That water is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
	12:54pm still b/p: A watched pot never unpauses.
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: it's full of ice-9.
	12:56pm listener james from westwood: btw, the lunch i described on doug's playlist? delish: twitter.com...
	12:57pm Uncle Michael: I have a tamale warming for set number five.
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: I better not show that to the Mrs. We love TJ potstickers...and miso. She'll go nuts.
	12:59pm glenn: abby normal. news.nationalpost.com...
	12:59pm pacific standard simon: Also, RE:crickets -- I'm being sorely tempted to watch Harlan Ellison's youtube review of Saving Mr. Banks, but I'll try to hold back until this show's over. SPOILER: Harlan doesn't like it. www.youtube.com...
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: Smoke 'em if you got 'em. This is a lengthy one.
	1:00pm listener james from westwood: at this point in his life, i'm hard pressed to name more than a few things that ellison does like. i know he's an immense jiminy cricket fan, so that may color his opinion on interpretations of disney.
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: this was a sad read re: ellison: www.vulture.com...
	1:04pm pacific standard simon: Oh, he likes plenty things; he's just more entertaining when he's telling you what a piece of shit something is. He LOVED Terry Gilliam's Brazil and started a campaign to have the uncut version restored and released.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: Brazil: on my all-time top ten list.
	1:08pm efd: Jeez, this guy sure has a lot of phone numbers.
	1:08pm pacific standard simon: I know, I know -- it's great. Yet my wife still holds it against me that I took her to see it.
	1:11pm pacific standard simon: Little known factoid: Supermax is the kid from Where The Wild Things Are, all grown up. Little known because it's not true at all.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: fake factoids are the little-knownest kind
	1:13pm pacific standard simon: How about some cherry cherry pie, Bo?
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: Were any of those phone numbers yours, efd?
	1:15pm pacific standard simon: My desk calendar says I should buy stock. SOUP stock. (It's the Joy of Cooking calendar.)
	1:16pm listener james from westwood: i may have told this story here or elsewhere on fmu's boards before, but i first saw "brazil" while home with the flu. my parents had taped it some weeks before. to my horror, the taping had stopped 3 minutes from the end.
	1:17pm Uncle Michael: Oy! It's a fever dream.
	1:18pm pacific standard simon: Heh. If my wife hadn't seen the last 3 minutes, she might not have hated it so much.
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: fake rolling stones
	1:19pm pacific standard simon: No kidding! You've played these guys before -- I should look for them.
	1:23pm hyde: well that 4 hour near death experience hellride down the ny state thruway and the mass pike this am may have made me miss the yusef lateef tribute (I'll go back in time for that) but I made it for some Hinky DInky, by gum
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Hey Hyde! Welcome. Glad you're safe inside.
	1:27pm glenn: if they can call gum duubble bubble, why not hinky dinky? each pack would come with an mp3 culled from uncle michael's vast record collection.
	1:28pm glenn: you're damn skippy.
	1:28pm hyde: you and me both, UM. good to be here. and hiya to the whole gang.
	1:30pm still b/p: Skippy can be seen regularly on TV curently, but i don't see him regularly or irregularly. Sorry, Skippy.
	1:30pm pacific standard simon: Special present for me.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: Great DJ Premium idea, glenn!
	1:34pm glenn: huh. actually, it is. i'm so smrt.
	1:36pm glenn: for that extra ring of authenticity, the gum has to be so old and dried out that it crumbles into dust.
	1:36pm Santos L Halper: KONG!!! and Motorhead explains it so well...
	1:37pm pacific standard simon: Another wife story: While packing for one of our moves, she was horrified to find a stack of dusty bubblegum slabs a foot high, left over from my baseball card collecting.
	1:38pm Uncle Michael: That's kind of a husband story. I'm sure she tells it better.
	1:38pm pacific standard simon: At this point, we're listening to Bunk Gardner playing an electronically altered clarinet.
	1:39pm Doug Schulkind: Very enjoyable is this song.
	1:40pm pacific standard simon: I believe an octave splitter and a fuzzbox may have been harmed in the production...
	1:41pm glenn: when i was 11 or 12 or so , my uncle gave me his collection of mint baseball cards from the 40's and 50's, which my dad proceeded to throw away. i often wonder what they'd be worth now.
	1:42pm pacific standard simon: You REALLY don't want to know, glenn.
	1:42pm still b/p: Altered clarinet really modifies my banjo.
	🛒 1:43pm Brian in UK: Zappa always got vfm out of his drummers.
	1:43pm hyde: finally found the video of skippy the bush kangaroo playing drums I knew I had seen. thought for a bit it was one of my hallucinations: www.youtube.com...
	1:50pm Rich in Washington: Zappa's rationale was that the dick/tittie joke songs paid for things like recording with union orchestras.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Yep, that sounds like a rationale, all right.
	1:52pm pacific standard simon: Hey, Ramblin' Jack Elliot is still touring!
	1:52pm still b/p: Hm. Charlie on the MTA....
	🛒 1:53pm Brian in UK: The Seekers are from Australia, think they might be touring again!
	1:55pm glenn: vernon's girls rock.
	1:55pm Uncle Michael: By train?
	1:56pm glenn: clem catini is the drummer here.
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: I'm glad Clem turned down the Zeppelin gig.
	2:00pm glenn: really? was he in the running?
	🛒 2:00pm Brian in UK: Galleon, I believe.
	2:01pm Uncle Michael: Page asked him, I'm pretty sure...when the New Yardbirds were forming.
	2:02pm glenn: i would imagine clem and jimmy and john paul jones played on many sessions together.
	🛒 2:02pm Brian in UK: Great sets UM. There's a trout with my name on in the kitchen needing attention.
	2:03pm pacific standard simon: Wasn't Aynsley Dunbar asked, as well?
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: Go, land that finnan haddie, mate!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: This song is also very enjoyable.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: You're all about the prog, Doug.
	2:04pm Doug Schulkind: I mean to say, even more enjoyable than the rest of these enjoyable songs.
	2:05pm Uncle Michael: Warning: I'm getting my '90s rock on in the next set...partly.
	2:06pm pacific standard simon: Speaking of trout, if you want an exercise in masochism, try reading the biography of Richard Brautigan in its entirety. It begins and ends with him putting a .44 magnum in his mouth.
	2:06pm still b/p: There's a TJ bean and cheese burrito in the kitchen with my name on it. Caught it with my bare hands.
	2:07pm Uncle Michael: It swallowed the hook.
	2:08pm listener james from westwood: trick or trout, brian!
	2:08pm Rich in Washington: @pacific standard simon: Which biography did you read? I met one of his biographers and he also tells of Brautigan being found months later in his cabin. Over summer. Ulp!
	2:10pm glenn: ewwwww.
	2:10pm pacific standard simon: @Rich - William Hjortsberg. Yup, he did it in September (warm season in the Bay Area) and they didn't find him until 6 weeks later.
	2:12pm Rich in Washington: The Richard Brautigan Museum is pretty close to where I live, in Vancouver Washington.
	2:13pm Rich in Washington: I like his spoken word LP, which was originally to come out on Apple Records, as I guess Lennon or McCartney were fans of his writing
	2:14pm ndbob: scrolling back here.. @Simon I'd bet i hated Brazil as much as your wife did
	2:15pm ndbob: There was a long Brautigan bio that came out fairly recently, but I've never talked to anyone who read it
	2:16pm pacific standard simon: I have an mp3 of that album but haven't listened to it yet. It was supposed to be the third release on Zapple, but Apple folded first. Then it was released on Harvest.
	2:17pm pacific standard simon: @ndbob - Now you have.
	2:18pm ndbob: @simon and I see you have - think I will pass on it
	2:20pm pacific standard simon: The odd thing is, I've read very little Brautigan -- The Abortion, and some other odds and ends. I was curious about what made him tick, though, and now I'm far less interested in reading more.
	2:21pm ndbob: I've read quite a few - but not for a long time
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: how nuts is this synthy bass from '69?
	2:22pm pacific standard simon: I like this Trini cut, but I want to feed his bass player a fistful of valium.
	2:23pm glenn: man, just when you thought gerry and the pacemakers were bad.....
	2:23pm ndbob: never heard this version before - or anything from this Trini LP
	2:23pm ndbob: The early Trini records - on King - are pretty good
	2:24pm Rich in Washington: I don't like reading author bios too much. It often influences my reading of their literary output too much. I remember reading Kafka's bio (I don't remember which one) and it gave me an entirely different viewpoint of his work, which I wasn't ready for at the time.
	2:24pm pacific standard simon: I wrote that comment before yours appeared, UM.
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: It's the only reason I played it!
	2:28pm pacific standard simon: I know what you mean, Rich. Writers tend to have not very happy lives, plus they know other writers who remember too much about them. Kafka kept diaries, too. Fiction is always less messy.
	2:30pm ndbob: Yep - though I'm tempted to read the recent Mailer biography
	2:32pm listener james from westwood: i enjoyed it. i've never understood the occasional tom jones dislike i've encountered. my mother hated him for some reason.
	2:32pm pacific standard simon: Now THAT would be messy (and interesting). Mailer appears as a dinner host, once, in the Brautigan book.
	2:34pm listener james from westwood: it is brautigan i'm thinking of who borrowed and never returned hundreds of library books?
	2:36pm listener james from westwood: that should be "is it brautigan." whoops!
	2:36pm pacific standard simon: @james - nothing about that in the bio, and seems doubtful, since several people noted how few books he kept around.
	2:38pm glenn: hey guys, if you don't know what to do with the bed, bath and beyond gift card you got for xmas - www.torontosun.com...
	2:38pm still b/p: Library shut down yesterday with weather anxiety. My books were due yesterday. Will they fine me the big fitty cents today?
	2:40pm pacific standard simon: @glenn - sounds like a good idea. I got a practical, Mr. Rogers-style cardigan, though. @still b/p - most libraries let you renew online, which will stop the fines.
	2:40pm listener james from westwood: for some reason i recall it being him, or someone with a similarly truncated life. this is gonna kill me....
	2:41pm ndbob: I noticed, when I was in Jamestown, that the library website stated that after a book was 45 days overdue the police would be notified
	2:41pm ndbob: Gives a new meaning to "book 'em"
	2:47pm pacific standard simon: @james - here's a good one (not dead, though): en.wikipedia.org...
	2:47pm hyde: I would imagine the liberry will waive the snow day fines...
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Throw another book on the fire.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: I don't want the show to be over. Don't. Don't. Don't.
	2:49pm still b/p: I renewed these books twice already -- that's the limit. Just browsy books anyway, so it's fine to give 'em up. And I don't begrudge the library their four bits, though I, too, expect they'll waive it. Free borrowing and two renewals...fitty cent cheap.
	2:50pm pacific standard simon: Doug, if you're still there, how many eggs could I have boiled in that water during the show?
	2:53pm SeanG: Really enjoyed the show today!
	2:54pm still b/p: That was never three hours!
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for hanging out today, everyone. I had a good time.
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:56pm listener james from westwood: thanks for the fine friday frolic, UM! be well and stay warm, all!!
	2:57pm Asheville Jon: yay for ABBA
	2:57pm Doug Schulkind: Seven eggs, pss. Maybe eight.
	2:57pm northguineahills: Thanks UM! Good fun!
	2:57pm still b/p: Of course.... www.youtube.com...
	2:58pm Parq: La proxima semana, if it matters.
	2:58pm pacific standard simon: I came here to babble about whatever random crap is bubbling in my head, while listening to and RARELY mentioning the music.
	3:01pm pacific standard simon: Matt needs a lead-in show.
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: Thanks all!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from January 3, 2014

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