A Fairly Disastrous Show to Startle and Delight You: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:12am Ken:

Morning everybody!

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7:03am Ken From Hyde Park:

More info on the bird movie - fstoppers.com... By the way, how did the trip out west turn out?

8:05am Okasa:

Morning Kens. Morning non-Kens.

8:24am Marcel M:

Morning Ken and early birds

8:41am maestroso:

G'morning Ken, KFHP, Okasa and Marcel M.

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8:46am Ken:

Requests needed!

8:50am Cory:

Battles "Atlas" or Eels "Birds" or KHLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

8:51am maestroso:

Cardiacs, Knifeworld

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8:54am Ken From Hyde Park:

After hearing Beatallica last week, can I request some Dread Zeppelin?

8:56am Marcel M:

The Last One by Les Rallizes Denudes!

8:59am KOTJ:

Maybe some Snakefinger or Brain Ticket.

9:00am common:

YES, ken

9:01am northguineahills:

I request whatever Ken is playing. ECC is a good start.

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9:01am AnAnonymousParty:

Pink Freud?

9:01am Sem Chumbo:

Whip it, Ken. Whip it good.

9:05am SeanG:

How is San Fran doing these days?

9:06am bobo:

More GIFs of sleepy meerkats!

9:07am Brendan:

Porcupine Tree

9:09am Ralphine:

How about something by The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?

9:09am Brendan:

Or Anything Khlam

9:09am bibi:

hi all.
+1 for some battles. even latest one. i love ice cream.
best would be to play my own stuff, but people always forget to release it.

9:09am thedunkel:

Morning KHen and KHendrillites!

9:10am f✘f✘ (:

Morning Ken, people!

Yes, Ken! Tell us everything about your trip in San Francisco nights..San Francisco nights!

9:10am Jeezy:

Can you start the show again from the beginning Ken? i forgot to tune in.

9:10am bibi:

allons à la slaughterhouse !

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9:11am bbell:

music for an overcast day, something with a thermin.

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9:12am bbell:

Therimin.

9:12am f✘f✘ (:

Jaggery - Hostage Heart

9:12am common:

so glad i'm a vegetarian hearing this song..

9:13am northguineahills:

If octopi lived after their offspring hatched, we'd be fucked. (since they can't impart their knowledge to the next generation).

9:13am thedunkel:

I think there is a Rockabye baby version of the Abattoir …

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9:14am Ken:

Hi all! San Fran was great. Wet but great.

9:15am still b/p:

Octopus would disarm and counterattack abattoir staff.

9:16am Sem Chumbo:

Sucker punch 'em!

9:17am Frank from VT:

Is an octopus in a jar the same thing as a cat in a paper bag?

9:18am f✘f✘ (:

Messer Fur Frau Muller - Intime Service Cosmique

9:18am dc pat:

hey folks, SMKen.

9:19am thedunkel:

Linda Martells version is better - but this is still good for your SF trip tinyw.in... - zero octopus version

9:20am bibi:

oui, un couteau pour madame Muller, bonne idée fx.

9:21am dc pat:

I'm going to Costa Rica in 2 days. Any advice?

9:23am f✘f✘ (:

Don't forget to say 'La buena vida', dc pat!

9:24am Sem Chumbo:

SPF 30: costarica.com...

9:24am mariano:

'Morning, all, and welcome back Ken!

9:24am bibi:

@pat, tell them to beat italy at the world cup, i would enjoy that.

9:24am dc pat:

ok, thanks fxfx...

9:25am f✘f✘ (:

dc pat,

Obviously I meant to say "la pura vida".

9:25am mariano:

Is there a song called Ancient Brony?

9:25am dc pat:

either way, it's all Greek to me. My kids speak Spanish so I'll be alright.

9:26am dc pat:

NEW KHLAM!!!

9:26am thedunkel:

@ dc pat tinyw.in...

9:26am dc pat:

oh, yeah trouble played this yesterday. I like it.

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9:27am Webhamster Henry:

New Khlam: APRIL FOOLS!

9:27am steve:

Tim Lacy did a super show last week.

9:27am northguineahills:

have a superb time dc pat!

9:27am dc pat:

man, this is what I imagine Costa Rica will sound like. I'm probably wrong.

9:30am f✘f✘ (:

Do worry dc pat:

http://guys-trip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/costa-rican-women-main.jpg

9:34am dc pat:

@fxfx: ahem, hummana hummana hummana hummana

9:34am Marcel M:

Speaking of Russian weirdos, Ken, ever hear Asian Women on the Telephone? (AWOTT)

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9:35am Ken:

Yep Marcel, I've played them .. i THINK...

9:35am Marcel M:

Cool, I saw them at Cake Shop once, it was wild and awesome.

9:37am Marcel M:

Is that Giff from Danger Diabolik?

9:38am common:

@MARCEL: yea!

9:39am Marcel M:

Thought I recognized it! I stared at it for a while before it clicked.

9:40am Brendan:

I'm all wound up this morning

9:40am f✘f✘ (:

Her Highness! Sounds interesting without death threats too!

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9:42am Ken:

Wow f0f0, I'm impressed that you remember that Her Highness once made a death threat to me in song... time to dig that one up.

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9:42am Webhamster Henry:

Daxophones - I want one!

9:42am Dave B:

Good morning Ken and all Kennonites

9:43am f✘f✘ (:

Of course I remember, Ken. I also noticed she visited the comment section during your show few months ago.

9:44am Roberto:

Closer to 53 by now, isn't it?

9:45am Marcel M:

Needed to give a positive spin to yourself after the death threats, Ken?

9:45am People Like Us:

I suppose that's one way to get on the air

9:45am northguineahills:

Nice Hans Reichel.

9:46am dc pat:

Huh, I wonder if you can do a whole show of songs about you.

9:46am Cecile:

So how's Todd-o-Phonic Todd working out as Music Director? hahahahaha

9:46am dc pat:

KHLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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9:46am Ken:

Marcel, yeah, pretty much. Or an opportunity to play all two of the songs about me back to back.

9:46am egal:

yes!

9:46am People Like Us:

if you're are a schizophrenic you can

9:46am Cecile:

One Freddy Cannon record!

9:46am hamburger:

AAAM

9:46am mariano:

@dc pat: What a great idea!

9:47am Cecile:

death threats?

9:47am f✘f✘ (:

Khlamtastic!

9:48am Marcel M:

I'm jonesin' for that Khlam premium.

9:48am dc pat:

holy. fucking. shit. I never starred this tune before. what the hell?

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9:49am Ken:

Death threats in song Cecile!

9:50am Okasa:

Were someone to record a Jug Band song called "The Ken Freedman Stomp", would Ken play it on his show?

9:50am Cecile:

Oh!
I'm sorry, my first espresso hasn't kicked in yet.

9:50am Roberto:

khlam ochyen harasho (pidgin Russian)

9:50am mariano:

There's The Ken Song from Street Fighter II: www.youtube.com...

9:50am thedunkel:

Radio Station Great Man thanks for the KHLAM!

9:50am dc pat:

sounds like another contest to me, best new Ken song.

9:52am dc pat:

..or best Ken death threat song

9:52am Dan B From Upstate:

Death threat stories should replace boiler stories.

9:53am Brendan:

Thats because you wont play Misty

9:54am bibi:

itunes, wow, wfmu dives brutally in the XXIth century.

9:54am mariano:

Ken Doll song: www.youtube.com...

9:54am Cory:

serial killers don''t wake up until 10 am, sciencefact

9:55am Marcel M:

Are there Andy Breckman laughs thrown in there?

9:55am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. I haven't heard a Jackie Martling laugh in years.

9:55am thedunkel:

the 1000 laughs of the breckman

9:56am northguineahills:

Lou's widow! Sorry, Laurie is awesome in her own right!

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9:56am Vivian:

Is there an alternative to Itunes? If so, I love to know. I added some neil young & crazy horse tunes - and it wiped out my library. I have to reconstruct my entire library with images..Damn Itunes...

9:56am northguineahills:

(of course)

9:56am mariano:

Last night MAC played a one-hour show, one 78, of people laughing maniacally. One hour. Really disturbing.

9:57am Marcel M:

@Mariano: One 78 for one hour?

9:57am fred von helsing:

iTunes is a must to avoid, and Ken forgot to click that option. Traktor for best results.

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9:57am Ken:

Thanks Vicki for all the hollerin'

9:58am Cecile:

I was unreasonably happy when they got together

9:58am People Like Us:

yes, sorry about that

9:58am dc pat:

Hey, I think it's probably time for the burping guy recording (take a break @Cecile)...

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9:58am Ken:

Yeah but freakin Traktor wont allow me to reauthroize Traktor on my same computer even though I just bought it again two months ago! Damn.

9:58am Dave B:

@Vivian - probably Neil Young's tactic to sell more ponos

9:59am fred von helsing:

ooh that sux

9:59am Cecile:

I have to hear that.
I loved Kenny G's laughing special too. Every day is April Fool's Day to Kenny.

9:59am Marcel M:

Pono.. what will crazy old Neil think of next?

9:59am still b/p:

A taste of vintage tickle from the FMA:
freemusicarchive.org...

9:59am dc pat:

this is hollering guy is great! ...not quite as good as burping guy though

10:00am Dave B:

Ken - reach out to Native Instruments tech crew. I've re-authorized traktor after rebuilding my computer a few times. They just need to reset some bits on the back end

10:01am Cecile:

Oh Pat, you are so thoughtful. :D

10:01am mariano:

@Marcel: I know, sounds strange, maybe it was digitized and looped. Have a listen in the archives, it's true madness.

10:02am Marcel M:

@Mariano: I will, I'm intrigued.

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10:02am Ken:

Thanks Dave - Ive opened two help tickets already and no response yet. I will call them next.

10:02am dc pat:

dangit! Tuxeedomoon wasn't starred either?? How am I going to be monitored properly if these things don't stay starred??

10:03am bobdoesthings:

@dc pat . same for me.. I think I've starred 'no tears' at least twice..

10:03am Marcel M:

@DC PAT: I had the same reaction, but I think he spelled it coo coo.

10:03am still b/p:

I'd like to hear someone doing some octopus calling, but they'd better make it worthwhile for the octopus to show up or there'll be trouble.

10:05am dc pat:

whatchootalkinbout @Marcel M?

10:05am Marcel M:

Ken likes to mess with us with crazy spelling. Look at the Artist name

10:06am bobdoesthings:

yah tuxeeeeedomoon

10:06am Marcel M:

If a DJ spells something or enters it differently, it will count it as different songs.

10:06am dc pat:

oh, gotcha--that's probably it. Now it all makes sense.

10:07am mariano:

Oh no! The Goodfellas cocaine song!

10:08am Marcel M:

Anyone else excited about this? www.crammed.be...

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10:08am Ken:

Im really having trouble controlling iTunes...

10:10am fred von helsing:

is "who is harry nilsson?" worth a watch ?

10:10am Cory:

is that the lake from Impossible Astronaut?

10:10am dc pat:

BIIIILLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

10:12am Cecile:

I heard it was. Still haven't seen it cause, well, I knew who he was. :)

10:12am dc pat:

I gotta dig out my 30 or so Billy Childish albums...

10:12am Mark S:

iTunes sounds like it is glitching out

10:13am dc pat:

The Traps are my new favorite group.

10:14am KOTJ:

@Fred Von.... Who's Harry is excellent...but who am I?

10:15am KOTJ:

I prefer POW! and Pampers over Traps...but who am I?

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10:15am Ken:

Mark - That was the dump button deleting Billy Childish's potty mouth.

10:15am Cecile:

You are the cosmos.

10:17am fred von helsing:

@kotj WFMU's movie critic in residence ?

10:19am KOTJ:

@Fred If only. But people say I'm an astute critic...especially of myself.

I did see a quirky surprise on N-flix this weekend....Dirty Girl.

10:20am KOTJ:

Carsick Cars in Boston tonight...But so is a show with Barbara Manning, Dump and Bevis Frond.

10:21am still b/p:

Now, Cecile, if the comments were audio-enabled, like a conference call, I'd say "You are the Cos', " and you'd do your impression.

10:21am Roberto:

1991 dialogue

Roberto: Who's the musical guest on SNL tonight?
Futurewife: Some teenage fan club or something.

10:22am Assholes:

STFU! And get back in your damned bunker!

10:23am Cecile:

You gotta opt for the Frond and guests.

10:24am bobdoesthings:

typical asshole response..

10:25am Mark S:

Oh that Billy Childish needs his mouth washed out with soap

10:26am KOTJ:

@ Cecile...yes..It's also a long time WMBR @ MIT's DJs 50th Birthday celebration. and I'm on the list....so...

10:28am Cecile:

Barbara hasn't played the east coast in a long time, has she?

10:30am KOTJ:

Nope. She came to my station, WZBC, years ago and man was she unpleasant. No malice just a bad experience/day.

10:31am fred von helsing:

well if it's got jovovich and macy it can't be too bad

10:31am Cecile:

I've heard she's a bit of a tough customer. Great songwriter though

10:31am Rev. Turnip Druid:

People.

10:31am fred von helsing:

watched blue is the warmest colour yesterday. pretty good film. the reviews mostly got it right.

10:33am KOTJ:

And with dwight how can it be hokum?

10:34am tonyb:

...she guested at one of the yo la tengo
holiday shows in 2012...

10:35am KOTJ:

Blue is warmest really got to me. Then I was told the director put the actresses through hell for the love scenes which were powerful. The Hunt is a haunting film I can't get out of my head.

10:35am mariano:

Speaking of Floyd, did y'all see Flaming Lips' April Fools joke?
www.theguardian.com...

10:36am Cecile:

And not excusing it, but it's hard even now being a big woman in the supposedly open minded indie scene."

10:37am KOTJ:

I thought ken was doing an all iTunes glitch set/show...then I reloaded the pop-up. It was me Ken, not you....really.

10:37am Cecile:

Thanks, tony! She hasn't been to MN in nearly a decade.

10:37am mariano:

Sorry, nobody was speaking of Floyd, got my browser tabs confused!

10:38am fred von helsing:

what's the Hunt all about ?

10:38am Cecile:

And from what I catch from the mailing list, being a forest ranger agrees with her.

10:39am Cecile:

KOTJ, have you seen BOY?

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10:39am Ken:

No KOTJ, Im going in and out of using iTunes. A worse DJ interface has yet to be invented.. unless you count Spotify...

10:40am Mark S:

I don't know, Ken did play a Pink Floyd song this morning.

10:42am KOTJ:

Ken...my reload was just a coincidental clear up! Maybe I am the cosmos!!??

10:43am bobo:

Das Roches Deutches

10:43am bibi:

ken, go for winamp.

10:43am mariano:

@Mark S: Oh yeah, he did, didn't he?
@Ken: Just noticed the new title for the Nilsson song, nice one!

10:44am Sem Chumbo:

@bibi: hahaha.

10:45am Cecile:

Ken, sent you a link to the RuPaul decoy album. If you try to download Born Naked illegally, you'll get a hysterically funny anti piracy rant.

10:45am Cecile:

That's the way to do it.

10:46am fred von helsing:

hmm dirty girl pretty much got panned

10:46am Cecile:

Note to KOTJ: you are the sun

10:47am Brendan:

Im just a po boy

10:48am daponte:

Wer bist Schwabbingrad Ballet? Google tells me nothing.

10:49am KOTJ:

@ at Cecile....awwwww. (blush).

10:53am KOTJ:

@ Fred...it ain't Fellini but it's 88 minutes of quirky and entertaining, oddball fun. It's N-Flix streaming on a late Sunday night...not Harvard Film Archive.

10:55am Mark S:

Early footage of Can in Soest is the funkiest German thing you'll thing you'll hear all day:

dangerousminds.net...

10:55am fred von helsing:

dirty girl sounds a lot like something wild, also entertaining in a quirky and not so complicated way

10:56am fred von helsing:

hooray, eläkeläiset have acquired the heavy metal umlauts

10:57am f✘f✘ (:

Elakaleiset never fails to deliver!!

10:57am mariano:

Oh, this Finnish song (it's Finnish, right?) brings up an old question of mine: in 1994 in France I was at a movie with friends and there was a preview for this Finnish movie called Zombie and the Ghost Train. I've only ever seen the trailer, seems to be about a Finnish country band: www.youtube.com...

10:58am fred von helsing:

actually 'never fail', the noun is plural !

11:00am Parq:

Re John Dowie:
issuu.com...

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11:01am Ken:

Just remember: if Putin invades Finland, he takes over Elakelaiset. Which would be bad fucking news.

11:07am mariano:

Well, Russia has invaded Finland before.

11:07am fred von helsing:

we will defend eläkeläiset until death, or until the booze runs out, whichever comes first

11:08am Ike:

I've only been to Finland once, for two days, but I liked it so much that in the event of a Putinvasion, I'd volunteer to come smuggle Finnish chocolates across the borders to help raise funds for the Finnish resistance. Fight that dingus Putin! Fight! I don't even need booze. As long as I have chocolate!

11:10am Andrew Waterloo:

My glass blowing instructor trained in Finland.

11:11am Brendan:

Yoko seems to be trapped in some alternate universe close enough that we cant see her but yet we can hear her yoko! Oh no!

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11:11am Ken:

I know it Mariano. I am so pissed at Putin that Im not buying any more velvet paintings of him.

11:12am Laura L:

@ Parq--thanks for making that Dutch connection--Rick Meyerowitz's book with that great bit from Chris Cerf is excellent...

11:13am mariano:

It's like that Internet rule "if it exists, there's porn of it," there seems to be a music rule "if it's a campy pop song, there's a German version of it."

11:13am PJ:

Karel Gott - the Czech Wayne Newton

11:15am dale:

been suffering in silence, but this macarthur park stirs me. i have about five versions that i started to stack up and try to get to end at the same time. was gonna call it macarthur parking lot, but never finished

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11:16am Ken:

Oops

11:16am Roberto:

wtf was that

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11:16am Ken:

The world needs you to complete that, Dale. And by "the world," I mean: ME.

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11:17am bbell:

xoxoxo!

11:19am mariano:

Ever see the SCTV parody of the Richard Harris version? One of Dave Thomas's finest moments: www.youtube.com...

11:19am dale:

was trying to do it on my old blueberry imac with 10 gigs. it won't happen in its lifetime. maybe on my new cornpooter i can make it happen

11:20am dale:

and i started it twelve years ago -- wtf is wrong with me?

11:21am KOTJ:

and we can make ice cream sandwiches....

11:22am Foolbert:

"Bus to Beelzebub"?

11:25am earrie:

@dale. Nothing. 12 years is nothing.

11:27am earrie:

(..to insects, it's an eternity. Sure.)

11:30am mariano:

This Liminana song's pretty kinky: it's about being pierced by a sausage!

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11:32am Ken:

Ive hit the dump button three times... one more dump to go

11:35am Laura L:

RIP Eddie Lawrence!

11:35am Michael:

awww. RIP

11:35am Lizardner Dave:

Ah Eddie Lawrence. Good night, funnyman.

11:35am Mark S:

only one more dump

11:36am ChrisB.:

Thanks for the Eddie Lawrence, Ken.

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11:36am Webhamster Henry:

Eddie's routine is kind of like its own genre of poetry.

11:37am Tom in PA:

Oh Eddie Lawrence!

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11:41am Ken:

Oops

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11:41am Ken:

Jaysuss... that Traktor license had better arrive soon. I'm dyin here on iTunes

11:41am mariano:

That LK gif is one of the best since the torso writhing on the shelf!

11:45am Cecile:

Wow Eddie Lawrence led an interesting life!!!

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11:47am Webhamster Henry:

You should find Fee's "Amerika" from their album Notaufnahme, next time you want Krautrockers singing about Amerika.

11:47am Brendan:

Hi Ken, liking the Dva tracks today. Thanks yet again for turning me on to something new.

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11:47am Ken:

Do tell, Cecile

11:48am fred von helsing:

Ken ensnared in iTunes is his special Circle of Hell

11:50am Cecile:

Studied painting in France.
Wrote a song for a flop musical that Sondheim wished he'd wrote. Commissioned by Lennon himself to do the radio ads for Pussy Cats.

11:52am Cecile:

Wow that is a cool reinterpretation of that song.

11:52am Laura L:

That's right... from NYT obit for Eddie Lawrence....In 1974, he was surprised to get a call from John Lennon. Mr. Lennon had produced a record by Harry Nilsson and he asked Mr. Lawrence to do a promotional riff for the record. He gave Mr. Lawrence creative control.

“Hiya, pussy cat,” Mr. Lawrence said in the 30-second spot. “You say you opened up a bicycle wash and the first six customers drowned, and they picked you up in the wax museum for trying to score with Marie Antoinette? Is that what’s got you down, pussy cat? Well, rise up, get yourself Harry Nilsson’s new album, ‘Pussy Cats,’ produced by John Lennon. Nilsson’s latest — ‘Pussy Cats.’ On RCA records and tapes. Meow, and purr.”

11:56am bobdoesthings:

"the 20 teens" as some say

11:56am mariano:

We're in the 'teens, surely?

11:57am Cecile:

I call it the tweens. Twee teen years.

11:57am earrie:

The digital youth fetish Age?

11:58am mariano:

Good one, Cecile!

11:58am morettian:

does enyone know where is the "girl in the bathtub" gif from?

11:58am Brendan:

Apparently dva are czech.

11:59am bobdoesthings:

It's aubrey plaza.. not sure from what.

11:59am Cecile:

It's a marketing term for kids 8-11
But for me it works for my purpose too

11:59am f✘f✘ (:

Grandiose show ! See you all!