Velveetica: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:12am -Ken:

Morgen!

7:21am cory:

mornin'

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7:27am Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning! Any citizens calling the station to complain about the billboard yet?

7:33am Michael:

Morning Ken. Billboard looks great!

7:47am geoff mcq:

Morning!

7:48am Wild Neil:

Peace all. Well, that billboard certainly would draw attention. It's an odd mashup of characters.

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7:57am AnAnonymousParty:

GM all.
Is the billboard available in bumper sticker form?

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7:58am -Ken:

Mornng all, yes, I have received a few complaints. Some upset people have claimed that the billboard includes CHARLES Manson, the serial killer from the 60s, but I am pretty sure it's showing MARILYN Manson, the singer. That was who I requested, anyway.

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7:59am -Ken:

@AAP, yes, the billboard will be available as a sticker for Kickstarter supporters.

8:21am Mark S:

Gosh Marilyn has changed

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8:25am -Ken:

I have double vision since my accident and I am also slightly color blind but I'm pretty sure it's Marilyn Manson. But I defer to others who have better vision and knowledge of pop culture than me.

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8:32am AnAnonymousParty:

Billboard looks fine to me; but then, I don't live in NJ.

8:33am Listener Robert:

Marilyn's a girl's name, so that must be her on our left. That's Charles Rihanna on our right. The names go audience left-right, but the faces go stage left-right.

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8:35am -Ken:

Thanks AAP, Thanks Robert, appreciate the reality check.

8:38am ŦšŦš (:

Good morning, Ken, people!

Someone ask Justin Bieber to post a selfie of him and the billboard in the background so he can share it with his 1.8 billion followers. I'm pretty sure there would be at least one potential WFMU listener among them.

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8:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

Hazmat Report = Good name for a band.

8:42am ŦšŦš (:

SHOLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMM!!!!!

Wait...Can I shout animated GIF artists names as well?

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8:43am -Ken:

I think somebody just did, f+f+

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8:52am -Ken:

No Elk Juice fans out there?

8:53am cory:

i always mix elk juice with vodka

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8:54am AnAnonymousParty:

I hear there's fresh squeezed Elk Juice available this AM, somewhere.

8:54am cory:

wtf, there are no bands called Elk Juice

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8:57am AnAnonymousParty:

@cory: There is now. They all dress up like Manson and do Justin Bieber covers to a Ska beat.

8:58am cory:

#Hero

8:59am Davee:

Morning Ken!

9:00am Aaron Working In Newark:

9:02am pantz:

Good morning, Rocket Man!

9:04am Listener Bop Monroe:

oh god, no shatner please

9:04am Sebastian:

Good day, congrats on the billboard!

9:04am John in Bklyn:

Morning Ken! Is this Fall Brix?? This is great! I was going to head over to the Elks Lodge for a Genny, but I think I'll stick around and listen.

9:04am WFMU listener WADE:

Is it possible to record and play billboard calls on the air?

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9:05am -Ken:

@JohninBklyn Yes!

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9:05am Threemoons:

Hey Ken! Running out the door soon but great to catch part of your show this AM...

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9:05am geo in jc:

When I take off my glasses Manson looks like Jesus.

9:06am doctorjazz:

Having trouble with the Popup, going in and out every few minutes.

9:06am Cheri Pi:

me too @doctorjazz

9:06am geoff mcq:

Me too doctorjazz. I thought it was just my age.

9:06am Brian C.:

Dr J -- me too

9:06am Listener Bop Monroe:

LIVE call the complainers. that would be today's 7SD

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9:06am Threemoons:

BTW LOVE the Billboard and your Vimeo clip introducing it! You rock! F*ck any pinks who complain about it. It's about time that the freak secret handshake went public! Love you ALL!

9:06am Paul In Bloomfield:

Elk Juice fan right here!

9:06am Sebastian:

my stream is beaking down, too

9:06am Sem Chumbo:

Yeah, good on 32K using Rhythmbox.

9:07am John in Bklyn:

@Ken "Extricated" should have given it away!

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9:07am Threemoons:

@BoPMonroe--YES!!!

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9:07am Threemoons:

Ken--and yeah, the stream popup is flakey today. All good on the Alexa in my kitchen, but the popup has been burping and farting all morning for me.

9:07am Uncle Michael:

I want to know if the number of complaints is running ahead of the number of media hits.

9:08am Danny in Bloomingburg:

Hey Ken no 90.1 on the billboard???

9:08am pantz:

If you stop the pop-up and start it again, it's right as rain.

9:08am Random Wikipedia Article:

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9:09am Wild Neil:

PEACE all. Is Elk juice anything like Reindeer juice (musical) from Fortitude? Just wondering....also, there are antidepressants in Lake Erie due to people peeing them out and getting into the waste treatment stream...glad I have a Culligan RO system.

9:09am Lizardner Dave:

Good morning! Enjoying working from home and listening to the 91.1 FM signal, the way God and Glen Jones intended radio to be.

9:09am Brian C.:

g'morning Ken, really enjoying Clay's Wake & Bake…

9:09am Sebastian:

I'm using the goddamn windows media player at work, 24k - it was working fine during the morning tho, problems started with this show!

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9:10am -Ken:

@Danny, given that the location of the billboard is 45 mi9nutes away from any trace of 90.1fm, no. We could do another billboard for 90.1 on Route 17 perhaps.

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9:10am -Ken:

@Sebastian - stop using that piece of shit windows player. Jesus.

9:11am John in Bklyn:

Around MY house, Elk juice has always been part of a healthy breakfast.

9:11am Sebastian:

I'm at work, don't have a choice

9:11am Danny in Bloomingburg:

@Ken. Please put one there. But with my suggestion. Since the sentencing has started.

9:11am bobdoesthings:

good morning. congrats on the billboard. looks amazing

9:12am Okasa:

Good Morning Uncle Ken! And good morning to all the Kenophiles.

9:12am pierre:

Bonjour Ken and Billboards enthusiasts

9:12am ⓔⓘⓚ:

The billboard is visible from Audible offices!

9:12am ŦšŦš (:

My stream is weak and it has a dark colour. Overall I have difficulties urinati....Wait. What are kind of stream are you guys talking about?

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9:12am -Ken:

@Sebastian - what about VLC?

9:13am Listener Robert:

Danny, I'e a location or 2 picked out for a WMFU billboard: US 206 facing northbound in Byram:

"Just over the hill...[cartoon of Courtney T. Edison DJing]...switch to 90.1 FM, WMFU."

I need to scout to see if there's a billboard there. I think there was one until they widened the road & added a truck climbing lane.

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9:13am AnAnonymousParty:

Winamp working great here.

9:14am pantz:

Yes. VLC is a must.

9:15am ŦšŦš (:

Oh, the internet stream! That stream. Oh, yes. I also got some problems, specially at the start of the sho. But now everything seems fine.

32K, Android WoofMoo App .

9:15am doctorjazz:

Pop-up doing better after a rough start on this end.

9:15am Sebastian:

VLC? it's great, use it at home all the time - I'm in a public servant, it's amazing we even have computers and the internets here

9:16am Listener Bop Monroe:

punxatawny poppins

9:16am ɨ ɛ k:

App stream won't play here, so I'm listening at 91.1 as the billboard commands.

9:17am Listener Bop Monroe:

i take all my commands from billboards

9:17am Sebastian:

last year we changed the OS from XP to Win7, that was exciting!

9:17am Danny in Bloomingburg:

@Listener Robert. I know the owners of highway displays. There are a few on the 17 in ny empty

9:18am ŦšŦš (:

Windows is for people that like Door's Greatest Hits albums.

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9:18am -Ken:

Sounds like we did have some stream problems this AM but keep trying as we do have backup streams, but they dont always kick right in.

9:18am Sebastian:

I'll be off for a bit now, it's my turn on the treadmill to keep the electricity going

9:21am ɛkɨ:

This app problem might not be on FMU's end. I'm going to switch it off and back on again.

9:22am mark v:

nice dreamy moody morning muse, Ken! Love the Fleetwood Mac cover

9:22am Will:

Billboard is going to backfire. Charles Manson has a swastika tattooed onto his forehead. His solo record LIE has never been played on FMU as far as I can find. No amount of ironic or even nihilistic humor can be used to justify using his image. Still a subscribing listener but a bit ashamed, Will J.

9:23am Listener Bop Monroe:

mac firefox works fine plus i have the over the air going all day

9:23am maestroso:

The iphone app stream has been steady all morning here.

9:25am Okasa:

I'll bet David Byrne is not proud of WFMU's billboard either.

9:25am Listener Bop Monroe:

snow white gif is smooth repetition, no glitches. A-ok.

9:27am Listener Bop Monroe:

can you say dunk shot? knew you could.

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9:27am -Ken:

@Will, we will have to agree to disagree, but we have played "Lie" many, many times.

9:28am Listener Bop Monroe:

ack!

9:29am John in Bklyn:

I didn't know Mr. Rogers shot Rick Barry-style.

9:29am Asheville Jon:

good morning Ken, other Ken's, and any other non-Kens!
stream was funky for a few minutes at the beginning of the show, but has been fine for a while now.

9:30am Danny in Bloomingburg:

Thank you Ken for all you do. Swastika or not. It is brilliant. Signed self- hating Jew

9:31am Okasa:

Mr. Rogers shoots Mr. Rogers style.

9:31am doctorjazz:

This samples the Love track, no?

9:31am Fuzzy:

Speaking of Charlie, that Trump GIF reminds me of this:

wifflegif.com...

9:32am Sebastian:

the mighty windows player is also working fine again, thanks to whoever is responsible!

9:32am V Priceless:

haha

9:32am John in Bklyn:

Maybe Barry copped it from Fred, @Okasa?

9:32am Asheville Jon:

not seeing the swas tika on the billboard, was it airbrushed out?

9:33am doctorjazz:

"You Set The Scene"? Maybe not...

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9:33am -Ken:

@DOCTORJAZZ, yes!

9:33am Listener Robert:

Danny, in NJ pretty much the whole of route 17 is in WFMU's, not WFMU's, coverage area. Do you mean north of Suffern? Maybe on the Quickway?

I hope you get the gag in my proposal: WMFU gets good reception starting just north of that hill on 206 in Byram, the Old Codger symbolizing being over the hill.

Actually WMFU's usually receivable fairly well in Stanhope; it's the shadow of that hill north of Shop-Rite that cuts it off around Shop-Rite. But there may be a hill on Route 17 in NY that has a similar effect -- though at that point it might be the "watershed" between WMFU and WFMU xltr WEE239 (?) on 91.9.

9:33am cat:

ken i love the billboard. i guess thekenschlampen was too long to fit (thats what she said)

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9:34am Ken From Hyde Park:

Billboard video: www.vimeo.com...

9:34am John in Bklyn:

Manstrump reminds me of some other celeb... Rod Stewart or Alan Rickman, maybe?

9:35am Will:

@Ken. That's funny, I playlist-searched song and artist before I wrote that comment, found nothing (except 'Manson Family'). Respectfully, Will

9:35am Asheville Jon:

Pseu's show yesterday was great

9:35am Okasa:

Maybe that photo was taken before Charlie got the swastika tat? He looks pretty young...

9:36am Tokey the Bear:

billboard looks great

9:36am Sebastian:

Manson probably wasn't born with a swastika on his forehead, maybe it's an older picture?

9:36am Listener Bop Monroe:

no one has said the obvious-
Rihannon Manson & Bieber

9:37am Danny in Bloomingburg:

Listener Robert i know where all the signals are thanks. I lose it on the thruway going up to Albany outside New Paltz. In my town on top of Bloomingburg mountain all static. Transmission from Mt Hope

9:37am Sebastian:

yeah, what Okasa said!

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9:37am geo in jc:

Search Central shows 44 times Manson was played.
12 from LIE

9:40am Tokey the Bear:

how many people might think marilynn manson? is it possible..

9:41am morphe:

Simon and I met a (punkish)family in a park in Madrid, my Spanish is not complete shite, but I asked the wee dauhter's name? It was Diana, but with the Castellano lisp, it sounded like Rihanna. I looked at the mother and said(probably with a scowl) "YOU NAMED YOUR DAUGHTER RIHANNA." She looked at me with a look of "ASSHOLE - IT IS DIANNA? I think that was our last family friendly park chat.

9:41am John in Bklyn:

Maybe it's a reverse O.J. The Photoshop was done to make him look LESS menacing.

9:43am Danny in Bloomingburg:

Or the Robert Johnson stamp without the cigarette

9:44am ɛkɨkɛki:

On first glance it looks like Father John Misty or some other hipster jackass rather than Marilyn Manson to me.

9:44am davej:

cracking Danielle Dax tracks. I'm transported.

9:45am Nick S.:

Dax double shot!

9:45am Brendan:

Heyall

9:47am dfb:

question: exactly who is the gif for philistines jr. of (clean your room). i'm getting a mitt romney vibe?

9:49am Megaroni:

Gong it out!

9:52am John in Bklyn:

@dfb. That was my first thought, too.

9:53am Nick S.:

"Hey, Moe!" - Curly

9:54am Brian C.:

Mix for "Guess I'm Falling in Love" sounds different, fuzzier, need to check the 2CD WL/WH more closely

9:54am Will:

@geo. Guess I didn't know about Search Central.

9:57am MD:

Good Morning All!!! MANSON FOR PRESTDENT...WE KNOw THE RUSSIANS CAINT BUY HIM!!!
XOXO! and the billboard looks fantastic!!! I must call Ch 9 and 11 ASAP!!!

9:59am Wild Neil:

@MD-what about channel 5?

9:59am dfb:

this is a great version of a song by bowie i actual like

10:00am doctorjazz:

What a great cover!

10:00am listener monica:

and i remember when all there was for music was Neil Young...

10:01am Okasa:

Charlie would certainly make America great again, no doubt. But I assume felons are not eligible to run for office...

10:01am MD:

how would liar and chief pivot on my "prestdent" miss-spell? "Prestdent and all the Presidents..." !!! Or Present Dents???!!!

10:01am listener monica:

my car stereo now understands why it exists.

10:01am Sebastian:

\m/

10:01am MD:

Yessss Ch 5 Also...FOX Baby!!! FOX!!!

10:02am Tokey the Bear:

love the velvet underground gif to this

10:02am Tokey the Bear:

lol@goatee trump lmao omg hahahah shit

10:03am John in Bklyn:

Manson is the love child of Rhianna and Bieber.

10:04am BronwynB:

good morning ken and everyone. i love the billboard and we should never ever replace it. the people on the wfmu subreddit (yeah, that's a thing) hate it and want to replace it with a "conventional" billboard. "wfmu isn't that weird," they say. oh really now?

10:05am DreamCricket:

WOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:07am Tokey the Bear:

rhianna next or manson manson

10:07am Sebastian:

haven't heard this one in some time, still a great cover

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10:07am -Ken:

haha thanks BronwynB - Im sure if we had done a "conventional" billboard, people would all be talking about it just like this one. Jaysuss

10:07am ɛɨɛk:

Although I would have gone with the four out of five doctors, a "conventional" billboard is a HORRIBLE idea. Free publicity from huffy outraged moral-majority types is PRICELESS! Although it's NJ and people are probably pretty hard to offend these days, so it may not work... we'll see....

10:07am Okasa:

I'm not taking sides in the Justin / Marilyn feud. I hear they are both large tools.

10:09am Tokey the Bear:

rhianna slow mo

10:09am BnowB:

lmao oh shit this is rhianna hehe

10:10am dfb:

is this slo mo? i'm not able tell

10:10am bobdoesthings:

the dream is that someone driving by the billboard tunes in right now out of curiosity and wanting to hear some rihanna..

10:11am pierre:

i'm listening to WFMU

10:11am Asheville Jon:

oh Ken, you play this song, and now i get all black mirror freaked out.

10:11am Sebastian:

man! I was so into it, I thought something had finally snapped in my head

10:13am JakeGould:

The billboard is stunning! Stunning in the fact we live in an age when a stupid off the cuff joke can be translated into a baffling reality thanks to crowd funding.

Sorry to sound like a wet rag, but is the publicity WFMU going to get from the billboard going to translate into anything? Like more listeners? More donations?

10:13am howard in nyc:

The unofficial theme song for Black Mirror

10:14am WFMU listener WADE:

Black Mirror is so good and frightening.

10:14am BronwynB:

this rihanna song is legitimately enjoyable. do i have to turn in my wfmu card now?

10:14am dgg:

hhahaha got to get that Rihanna in now! Congrats on the billboard ken & all.

10:14am Davee:

Love on the billboard

10:15am Sebastian:

and we're back, thanks!

10:15am JakeGould:

Keep the billboard but I hope this impulsive funding experiment can be translated into an experience that might seem more boring but keeps WFMU afloat in the long run.

10:15am northguineahills:

I was thinking the same thing, BronwynB.

10:16am Davee:

That Rihanna song will be in my head all day now, thanks Ken

10:17am BronwynB:

@jake: I like the billboard because it's bound to get people who don't know the station and have a sense of humor curious enough to tune in. I know if I didn't already know the station and saw it, I'd tune in immediately just to know wtf this station was all about and then I'd be drawn in and become a listener and therein lies donations and all that. But then not everyone has that kind of sense of humor/tolerance for weirdness...

10:18am doctorjazz:

Man, Ken plays some GREAT covers! Aretha would be having fits...

10:18am dgg:

Oh man, you got your Mansons switched? This is a BIG faux pas.

10:19am Nick S.:

Are there designs for the billboard? Sorry if I'm out of the loop. Great idea!

10:19am The Oscar:

When I told my girlfriend about the billboard, she said, "The best part is I'm sure there are DJs on WFMU who unironically play all three." Congrats, all!

10:20am herb.nyc:

i too am iffy on the billboard, but i'm guessing the press will pick up on it and then social media (i like to say "so-called" media). hey, i saw richard branson at the hotel on bowery below e3rd st, yest. i should leave a note for him about the billboard. then he told 2 friends, and they told 2 fri...

10:21am pantz:

So this is the song De La Soul sampled on 3 Feet High And Rising!

10:21am Nick S.:

Haha! I like the billboard! Just checked it out. Good work!

10:21am JakeGould:

@BronwynB: I think it’s a silly prank at best and doubt any new listeners will come from it. But like I said, it’s stunning crowdfunding could help make an idea like this. So congrats on the social experiment become real!

10:22am pierre:

time to float on…

10:23am Agent Peter:

Say No Go

their response to "Just Say No"

10:24am JakeGould:

@herb.nyc: Well, most people nowadays stream “radio”… Especially the young kids who WFMU might need as listeners in the future.

10:24am Wilson K:

Tommy Boy wants another "Say No?" —huh

10:25am BronwynB:

@jake: crowdfunding is an amazing thing, indeed. i wish i could figure out how to harness it.

10:25am medson:

Elk juice !!!!

10:25am Sebastian:

all this talk of Elk juice is making me thirsty!

10:25am karl van beijk:

artificial incompetence - hahah!

10:26am PMD:

Ah Manson really can sing despite his wild eyes

10:28am BronwynB:

back when i was first getting into outsider music i made an outsider music pandora and occasionally i'd hear a folk song and think "hey this is all right i dig it" and i'd look and it would be the manson family. this happened like 4 times.

10:29am JakeGould:

When Manson gonna die already? I mean look at all the recent deaths and that guy is still alive?

10:30am The Oscar:

I've shared this before, but when I lived with roommates I used to love playing LIE with the door open and wait for people to wander in and ask "Hey, what is this? It's nice!"

10:30am Mark Williams:

so unexpected for you to pull out this Dif Juz.

10:32am Listening Out There:

I be late. Meetings...

10:32am melinda:

@Bronwyn that's really funny

10:34am pierre:

@BronwynB: this happened to me quite a few time as well.

10:38am Nicholas:

I see it on my way home from work, where it sits atop a wasteland of bulldozed factories and rubble.
It looks perfect there.

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10:39am Ken From Hyde Park:

What becomes of the billboard after the thirty days are up? Can you retrieve it and wrap the building? Or is it property of the billboard company?

10:39am herb.nyc:

[oops, i'm offline now - just checking out vimeos of JOHN DOE and ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD & THE FIZZ, shows from Terry Hall (we're not allowed to say Monty Hall, right?)]

10:41am ŦšŦš (:

JULIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

10:42am Dominick:

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!

10:44am coelacanth∅:

this remix goes well with my computer freaking out over a page full of gifs

10:44am pantz:

This song was ridiculous to begin with, but good lord!

10:45am fleep:

laughing while lifting dumbbells = not productive

10:47am Brendan:

Sounds like the Bloody Sweaty Tears singer is going through a teleporter gone bad . Being ripped apart atom by atom. Yeah thats the sound I was looking for.

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10:50am Ken From Hyde Park:

Best of luck to DJ HotRod down in Puerto Rico. I hope she rides out the hurricane safely.

10:52am Wendy del Formaggio:

Holy shit, this "Institutionalized" is brilliant.

10:52am Wendy del Formaggio:

...it's even better than Black Velvet Flag's, dare I say.

10:52am Dean:

A little social distortion upsetting the stream?

10:52am Listening Out There:

Fondly recalling past "Ken" program with umpteen versions of "Institutionalized"...

10:55am BronwynB:

including my version i did with my boyfriend!!! being played on ken's show was our proudest moment and has not been topped

10:57am herb.nyc:

oops, i missed Kiki & Herb's "institutionalized". they are one crazy duo - get their Carnegie Hall 2cd set (kinda cheap, online).

10:58am BnowB:

"Mother... "

10:59am Dean:

Why did I think that was Social D.? Perhaps I wasn't paying attention c.1980.

10:59am BnowB:

put a box of matches next to it.. they can choose what kind of patriot

11:00am βrian:

Is it ok that I have no idea who Rihanna is, and only a vague notion of the Bieber character?

11:00am Planet Tyler:

Patriot ambush!!!

11:00am BnowB:

lol i remember bigot ambush lol that was a sleeper

11:00am Sam:

Anyone who picks up the flag should be allowed to come up and use your bathroom

11:01am P-90:

No UStream?

11:01am Davee:

Stream? That reminds me, be right back.

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11:01am AnAnonymousParty:

@βrian: Sounds to me like you know all you need to know.

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11:01am -Ken:

@P-90, no video stream. Wanted to keep it simple.

11:04am fleep:

Left dolphin is phoning it in.

11:04am Wild Neil:

I think of my son in second grade and the heavy duty Institutionalized stuff that is going on, making him sit for long periods of time with recess maybe 2 times a week, not everyday like I had it back in the mid 70's...makes me sad, he is being turned into a "good worker".

11:05am Andrew Waterloo:

My daughter was asked about Bieber on the playground. Her response: "what's a beeber?"
I mostly know about Bieber because he's basically a local celebrity.

11:06am Laura L:

Danke für dieses Lied von Bowiechen, Ken.

11:06am Dean:

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber?

11:06am BronwynB:

SPAAAAAAAARKS

11:07am Sam:

There's supposed to be big waves tonight from the hurricane. You and Andy should do a surfing show!

11:07am BronwynB:

I'm seeing them at Le Poisson Rouge in October!!! I am excited to see my spirit guide, Russell Mael, up close and in person

11:07am Mark S:

perhaps a song in memory of Grant Hart?

11:07am pantz:

New Sparks album is incredible

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11:07am AnAnonymousParty:

@Wild Neil: At lest your son will know that 5X5X5 is wrong and 3X3X3X3X3 is right.

11:08am ŦšŦš (:

BrownynB,

I agree with you. I also hear songs from the archives without looking at the artists and it happened the same: I also liked a Manson tune because it is intrinsically good. But someone here in the comments says he's a horrible composer/singer but I guess he believes that because of what Manson represents. I guess we can judge the work of criminals independently of the person.

11:08am BronwynB:

This song is particularly good. I've been listening to it upwards of 3 times a day.

11:09am The Oscar:

How has Sparks stayed so good for so long? I remember when Hello Young Lovers came out it was the only album I listened to for about a week.

11:09am BnowB:

im gonna rebuild my laptop i guess I'm that bored.. ? Thank Gd I have table top radio. cheers ken ty master dj!

11:09am Sam:

How is recess only twice a week?? And they claim they want to fight childhood obesity.

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11:09am AnAnonymousParty:

Oops. 5+5+5 vs 3+3+3+3+3. Even I don't get it.

11:10am BronwynB:

When I was a kid we had it twice a day.

11:10am pierre:

Sparks is like pizza, always the same, always good.

11:10am βrian:

Je regrette Rihanna?

11:11am BronwynB:

@pierre: are they really always the same? I wouldn't say so

11:11am Sam:

Nooonnnnnnnnn!!!!!!! Rien de rrrrrrrrrrien!!

11:11am βrian:

Recess twice a day, and the rule was if you don't play, you can't work.

11:11am pierre:

well played Ken

11:12am BronwynB:

That transition was funny because I've listened to the Sparks song on spotify a lot and because I've just been typing in "Edith Piaf" to find it, this song always comes next so now at the end of the Sparks song my brain plays the beginning of this one.

11:12am The Oscar:

@Brian That's all I can hear now!

11:12am Sam:

I love how this sounds like it could be from an opera

11:12am ŦšŦš (:

pierre!!!

11:13am pierre:

@BronwynB : well, don't get me wrong I love them. I only think that they have a VERY recognizable sound. And I find that they often build their song in the same fashion. But in a very Sparks and unique way. Which I love.

11:13am ŦšŦš (:

Jeanne Moreau died recently, Ken, and you haven't played anything from her. Son, I am dissapoint.

11:13am pierre:

ŦšššššššššššššššŦšššššššššššššš !!!

11:14am ŦšŦš (:

Please disregard my last comment.

11:14am BronwynB:

@pierre: that makes sense!!!

11:15am berbo:

For those who are not fluent in French, that song was "Give my regards to Rihanna".

11:15am joe mulligan:

Ken! This was the song that I thought sounded like Steely Dan's The Fez. It's the India song, I had it wrong the other month

11:15am Dean:

The stuff Sparks did with Giorgio Moroder was a nice deviation. Early Sparks makes me think of The Quick, which was like a sugar-coated version of the band.

11:15am βrian:

Ça me rend giddy.

11:17am ŦšŦš (:

Oh, for the love of crackers! How How can Steely Dan sound like Jeanne Moreau? That comparison hurts!

11:19am steveo:

Nice billboard. Any complaints about that pink "Dirty Dancing" font used for the call letters?

11:19am joe mulligan:

@ŦšŦš (: you made my day. I had to bring someone down to share my suffering. it's just a part of the melody, definitely not the tempo or arrangement.

11:21am The Oscar:

@Pierre @Pierre I think the interesting thing about Sparks is how they've managed to "evolve" from genre to genre over the decades (Power pop, glam, new wave, dance, whatever you want to call Lil Beethoven), but the core elements-- Ron's songwriting and Russell's voice-- have remained remarkably consistent and recognizable throughout.

11:23am The Oscar:

Err, that second @Pierre should have been @BronwynB :)

11:24am WFMU listerner WWIII:

Great show. 1st time listener. Will keep tuning in.

11:24am pierre:

@The Oscar : seen like this, I agree. They've indeed manage to Sparks all the musical genre. If we could consider "to Spark" as a verb

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11:24am -Ken:

@steveo, Yes, I have had a number of very angry complaints about the Dirty Dancing font, from these elitist hipster font nazis. I hate them so.

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11:25am Rich in Washington:

Font Nazis are the worst. Screw 'em!

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11:26am Rich in Washington:

you can always tell a armchair designer when they use the word font in the place of typeface, typography, etc.

11:27am Sam:

I think the pink font is a playful contrast to the black and white all-caps starkness of the rest of the billboard.

11:27am burpage:

Ken enjoying the tunes on the Atlantic City beach

11:27am BronwynB:

@The Oscar: I agree!!! What they keep amazingly consistent is their sense of humor which never wavers. They manage to be really funny without being a Dr. Demento novelty act. There really aren't many artists out there like that.

11:27am Sam:

Qu'est-ce qu'ils font avec ce font?

11:29am Lewis Goldfarb:

Absolutely killing it today Ken!

11:31am Fuzzy:

WFMU: the Comic Sans radio station for a Helvetica world.

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11:32am -Ken:

The Font Nazis are just so incredibly cruel. They can throw me into a deep depression with a single smirk. I can't take it anymore

11:32am steveo:

@ken: figures

11:32am The Oscar:

Ever since the new Twin Peaks the ":-)" emotion fills me with dread.

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11:32am Rich in Washington:

Font Nazis Must Die...

11:32am mb:

I don't know if this topic has ever been broached but has WFMU (Ken) ever entertained the idea of adding a page to the website for musicians looking for other musicians to make music with?

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11:34am -Ken:

That's a cool idea mb but too much work for us.. just do it right here.

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11:35am Rich in Washington:

I have a bunch of unused canning jars. Come pick them up.
If this post is still up, they're still on my front stoop. Txt only.
do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

11:35am Dean:

How about a website for typographers looking for other typographers to make fonts with?

(I agree that the musicians idea is cool.)

11:36am Listening Out There:

Do not confuse Helgavetica with Comic Frans...

11:37am BronwynB:

@mb: great idea. i'll start. so as you can tell i'm pretty obsessed with sparks and so is my boyfriend and we're trying to put together a sparks tribute band so we can freak people out with sparks songs in the subway stations. we are only looking for female musicians for this project so that we can be the world's first female sparks tribute band. is anyone on this comments board a female musician who wants to play sparks songs?

11:37am pierre:

This is Billboard fame there you go : www.adweek.com...

11:37am BronwynB:

im kind of joking but also kind of not really

11:39am Fox (Rā-chul):

Hi Ken! I got up early enough that I get to listen to you LIVE! How awesome!

11:39am ŦšŦš (:

When pierre comes to the comments section maginc happens. And Ken plays all the French hits! Oh, la la!

11:39am Dean:

No, but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it.

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11:40am Rich in Washington:

@BrownwynB: What would you call your all-female Sparks tribute band?

11:40am ŦšŦš (:

Did i say maginc? HA! I meant to say magick

11:40am Sam:

Oui Pierre, faut que tu viennes plus souvent!

11:40am steveo:

congrats on adweek!

11:40am Dean:

Sparxx

11:40am Dean:

Femael

11:40am Carmichael:

Good morning Kenneth and elk juice lovers.

11:41am steveo:

adweek is your catwalk

11:41am steveo:

you're too sexy for this interstate

11:42am MenfussMike:

am I the only one who hears the oblivian riff in this song?

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11:42am Rich in Washington:

Long live confusing and tasteless! I am so proud of you, WFMU!
My station would never in a million years do anything even coming close to that.

11:42am MenfussMike:

"blew my cool"

11:44am pierre:

@FOFO : I wish, so i can discover french stuff as well.
@Sam : je vais être "around" plus souvent.

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11:44am Rich in Washington:

The alternate ads are similarly inspired. I wish you had the resources to rotate them all - and more - at regular intervals!

11:44am BronwynB:

@Rich: We are going to be called Sparkles. We thought about Femaels but if you say that out loud it sounds like you're just saying "Females" which would be weird. Sparxx is pretty funny though @dean

11:45am joe mulligan:

so great WFMU made Adweek!

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11:46am Rich in Washington:

Sparkles is great! I guess you could say Femaels in press mat'l, etc. Brilliant! Keep us posted!

11:46am Asheville Jon:

www.adweek.com...

11:46am Dean:

Sparkletts would invite a trademark dispute.

You could abandon the gender riff and go for something like Number One Band in Heaven.

11:46am Sam:

Are you legally obliged to give Charles Manson a time slot now?

11:47am Listening Out There:

"Dated font" - Some people have no sense of humor, eh?

11:47am morphe:

Tell them ANDY chose the Font - It was in one of his canned films

11:47am Wilson K:

No such thing as "just a font." But I don't mind it.

11:48am Sam:

I dated a font once. I think it was Helgavetica.

11:48am Planet Tyler:

It's the font from Drive!

11:48am Asheville Jon:

i like the font. very Miami Vice

11:48am BnowB:

lmao we love the font ken. lmao i had to log in to look at font again. Its really really perfect pink perfectly dated font! Looks futuristic even.. honestly.. right Andy Breckman?

11:48am Wilson K:

At least you paired it with with Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold.

11:49am Wilson K:

It's a generic brush script font. Lipstick on a motel bathroom mirror. It's perfect.

11:50am Passaic River Blues:

Oh yeah, that's the site of the old Westinghouse factory. Super toxic most likely. The Mormons opened a church across Orange Street a few years ago.

11:50am BronwynB:

@Rich: haha will do. i hope this does become a thing eventually. We just have to find our Ronette (I am the Russell-ette). I had a dream we got in a fight with an all-female Queen tribute band but I can't remember who won.

11:50am BnowB:

"like a love sick dick" .. enough said about me stop it

11:51am Sam:

Next you should try to get a billboard put up in North Korea

11:52am BnowB:

Barry Adamson is using the beat from a band called "shit robot"

11:52am brycepunk1:

Really digging this Barry Adamson track.

11:52am BnowB:

oh thats the name of the record.. love sick dick.. i hear the lyric and was drawn in.. to the dick..

11:53am coelacanth∅:

i couldn't figure out if he was trying to sound like Leonard Cohen, or Nick Cave.

11:53am BnowB:

william ...

11:54am SueAdynamo:

i just turned off WNYC b/c they were talking about infant mortality!

11:55am Ike:

That font is GREAT! Font unbelievers must be vanquished with the holy fire of hippie-punk free-formity! Or something.

11:55am Laura L:

Helvetica in a Hurricane--perfect for our windswept times.

11:55am Sem Chumbo:

For sale: slightly-used Jack LaLanne elk juicer. Hooves, antlers, even tough cartilage no problem. Also good for whelks.

See you next time, SM Ken, and Ken listeners.

11:55am ŦšŦš (:

I learned the word 'cuddly' from this William S Burroughs song.

11:56am northguineahills:

Ha, nice adweek article, thanks for sharing, Asheville Jon!

11:56am BnowB:

wfmu knew :) we love wfmu knew

11:57am Jim Carroll:

It's too late to get a date with Sharon Tate

11:57am Asheville Jon:

northguineahills: joe mulligan mentioned it, i just posted a link to it.

11:58am coelacanth∅:

offensive font??? is that possible?

11:58am Brendan:

Nice show man.

11:58am MD:

SATAN SHOULD BE ON THE NEXT ONE!!!

11:58am ŦšŦš (:

What do you mean is over?!! Oh, well. Thanks a bunch, Ken, people! Great giffery, music, billboard comments, Spark reviews, correction corners (Alex - Saint Black). Till next episode and remember: Be happy!

I SAID BE HAPPY!! >:|

11:58am Planet Tyler:

How about engineering gothic?

11:58am Sem Chumbo:

Comic Sans is now OK?

11:59am BnowB:

cheers ken.. another week.. tc

11:59am steveo:

thx ken

11:59am Sebastian:

Danke, Ken!

11:59am Brendan:

It’s better than the new iOS 11 font

11:59am coelacanth∅:

offensive photograph, maybe. (justin beiber)

11:59am Planet Tyler:

SocialEngineeringGothic.....

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11:59am Ken From Hyde Park:

Pitchfork likes the billboard, too.
pitchfork.com...

11:59am Asheville Jon:

later Ken. Screw the font haters!

12:00pm bobo:

Hello I know im a bit late but techincally there are 30 secs left to 12PM. Any chance of playing a 30 secs tune? Are you still accepting requests?

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6:45pm listener jeff:

Just caught the Mortal Micronauts-Burroughs on the archive. I went to the University of Kansas and they were a local Lawrence punk band. Saw them in a living room a bunch of times. Burroughs lived there at the time - he was shooting shotguns shells filled with paint at plywood sheets. Ginsberg hung out a bit also. Eudora was a town just to the east of Lawrence.

7:22pm (Murakami Whywolf))):

BronwynB: please cover "Where Would We be Without Books?", Ron and Russell's theme for the radio show "Bookworm" on KCRW.