WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from March 7, 2018

Listener comments!
	2:39pm brainiac: Always at this feast, Always at that feast Chinese, Burmese, Indian Dune dune dune, dang dang dang Boom boom boom, bang bang bang, A permit we have got, A permit we have got.
	👻 3:02pm βrian: Oh to swoon on a field of orange! Good afternoon.
	3:03pm Michael 98145: haul out those hearts and radios
	3:04pm Wild Neil: Peace all. I got a heart!
	3:04pm Lixiviated Life: Ok, go!
	3:04pm Itzall Ablurr: I'mma need that WriterSongs free-mium. What do I have to do to get one?!?
	3:04pm JFR: LOVE
	3:05pm Linda Lee: gorgeous opener Irwin! Happy Marathon!
	3:08pm common: Irwin. All. Snow.
	3:08pm Keith from Oregon: Thanks for playing all the Lee Morgan. I had never heard of him until you started playing "Yes I Can" as your theme music. I haven't heard nearly enough of him.
	3:10pm fletchernyc: Sylvia Plath or Baudelaire by Peter Laughner?
	👻 3:14pm βrian: If only Virginia had put pumice in her pockets.
	3:14pm Sean B.: Your the best Irwin. Hi . Common :-)
	3:14pm TDK60: Funny, I have a Woolf book up next, after I finish my current book, never read her before.
	👻 3:15pm βrian: And if only Sylvia had nitrous in her oven.
	3:15pm Irwin: This Chip Wickham single is the next prize drawing.
	3:16pm Linda Lee: but why should someone survive if they find living intolerable? for others? meh!
	3:17pm Tony Seymour: My forte is your theme today. Playing my heroes. Hmm. What missing is .ME
	3:17pm Listener Robert: I keep mixing up Lee Morgan with Lee Marvin. Some day I'm going to have to do a side-by-side of that "Yes I Can" with the "Man from UNCLE" theme. Like the way I've put links to each other from these two: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com... Or the Dharma theme from "Lost" and the theme to "Department S", though in that case I'm sure it was deliberate.
	👻 3:17pm chris: this is a jam. hi, Irwin, Joel, all.
	👻 3:17pm βrian: I just have this image of either of them being tickled to laughter, either because of buoyancy or chemical-induced hilarity.
	3:18pm Linda Lee: aha.
	3:19pm Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ take a deep breath & take your time.
	👻 3:21pm Alison Porchnik: Pledger beware! WFMU does not accept Dogecoin!
	3:21pm brainiac: I'm on my 3rd week of "Look Homeward, Angel."
	3:21pm Listener Robert: Don't fault Kelly Jones. WFMU can't afford to lose its bookkeeper! Stay safe, Ms. Jones. My Ol' Pal Irwin's going to blow right past his goal anyway. In January I had to dip into my Neilsen respondent incentive bucks, so waiting to do a couple more surveys before I can send any to the station; it'll probably happen some time during the marathon.
	3:22pm Jeff Moore: Irwin's obviously talking about Crazy Ex Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom's Ray Bradbury piece. www.youtube.com...
	👻 3:23pm βrian: Lump sums make good sense.
	👻 3:24pm βrian: Really, Irwin? Really?
	👻 3:24pm Mark Hurst: How about "sort of" and "kind of"
	3:24pm Linda Lee: @Listener Robert ~ how do you like doing the surveys? happy?
	3:25pm Irwin: Jeff, that is correct.
	3:31pm Linda Lee: star-click for Chemtrails in memory of the Buzzcocks.
	3:31pm Vincent Nifigance: Wow, I love this station so much.
	👻 3:32pm Mark Hurst: @Vincent - me too. WFMU is the greatest station in the world.
	👻 3:32pm rrg: What a great segue. A favorite of mine, too.
	3:32pm Listener Robert: I'm happy about surveys, Linda Lee. I'm a scientist, I've also administered market research surveys at different times in my life, so I have sympathy for anyone trying to generate data for anything. PineCone Research is a fine project of Neilsen's I'm sure, technically flawed like all of them, but what isn't? Plus I'm underemployed and can't resist answering these things at $3 a pop because they come in little chunks on a short deadline, even though I should spend my time on more lucrative extended projects with my own client.
	3:33pm Cl@m_digger: Crash! Blast from the past. I remember air guitar in that in the 4th grade?
	👻 3:33pm Alison Porchnik: I think you're conflating superfluous modifiers with the real deal, Irwin. Like semicolons, adverbs are the underappreciated because overused workhorses of our parts of speech. But you personally couldn't talk your way out of a paper bag without words like bigly, half-assedly, and partially, let alone truly, madly, and deeply.
	3:34pm queems: I LOVE THIS SONG
	3:34pm Linda Lee: @Listener Robert ~ interesting! wouldn't mind taking part myself! how do we do that?
	👻 3:34pm βrian: Clearly!
	3:35pm Woo: There's a song on the brand new Amy Rigby that fits right into the theme of this show.
	3:35pm Irwin: You are correct, Alison, but those superfluous modifiers all seem to be [ahem!] categorically aligned.
	👻 3:38pm βrian: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee ..."
	3:40pm common: love crash. song and j g Ballard
	3:43pm TDK60: I want that Langford shirt, really.
	3:48pm TDK60: Thanks for the breath advice, back there, Linda Lee. You mean she's heavy? Oh, the book is To The Lighthouse.
	3:50pm Dean: To the Lighthouse is [adverb] glorious!
	3:50pm Linda Lee: Not 'heavy' ~ but she is a bit ponderous & slow. At least to me. Depending on what you like, you might be frustrated unless you take time with her.
	👻 3:50pm βrian: I read that in Prof. English's English Literature class. No lie.
	3:51pm TDK60: I will not rush, really, I truly promise.
	3:51pm Dean: Read it in English Literature class, then read it again. The Waves is near the top of the to-read pile.
	3:52pm Linda Lee: You're a better man than I, then. I had more patience for her as a younger person.
	👻 3:52pm Mark Hurst: "To the Lighthouse" is amazing.
	3:53pm TDK60: Is that Mark the Technocrat?!
	3:53pm Linda Lee: That is the amazing Techtonic host Mr. Mark Hurst!
	👻 3:54pm Mark Hurst: Shucks. Just a fellow techno-traveler, that's all :)
	👻 3:54pm Mark Hurst: (And a big fan of Irwin.)
	3:55pm TDK60: That reminds me a bit of Chad & Jeremy, sorta.
	👻 3:55pm βrian: "Vaguely in love," I heard.
	3:56pm TDK60: Oh, it's NJ's Critters. I knew a fellow who subbed on bass with them.
	3:57pm Linda Lee: newfound love for Magnetic Fields!
	3:59pm TDK60: The Critters had a hit with an adverb, Mr. Dyingly Sad. Or is that dieingly?
	4:05pm Linda Lee: it's spelled both ways!
	4:06pm ?: Langford the cartoonist. "Great pop things".
	4:10pm Hoboken Jack: I saw Cola Jet Set some years back at Popfest NYC -- they're a lot of fun!
	4:11pm caver_mike: I definitely have the 'syndrome' referred to by Irwin. I listen to WFMU 24/7. It is playing even if everyone is asleep. And I totally agree, for me the archives provide the only good alternative when I find the on-the-air programming is not holding my interest.
	4:11pm Michael 98145: do the right thing - www.instagram.com...
	4:12pm TDK60: The Critters also had a single, a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful's Younger Girl. Maybe it was only a regional hit in the NJ/NYC area. [?]
	👻 4:12pm chris: caver_mike... and then there's the Drummer stream, too. Oy!
	4:20pm Linda Lee: i'm with caver_mike. can't listen to much else at all.
	4:20pm JakeGould: Git home at 4:20pm! WOO!!!
	4:21pm TDK60: Levant sounds like he was witty, possibly.
	4:22pm Linda Lee: "So little time and so little to do.." ~ Oscar Levant
	4:23pm Michael 98145: left coast represents
	4:24pm ɨkɛ: Near Ithaca and Elmira, apparently.
	4:24pm TDK60: Spencer is in Toga County, near Watkins Glen. Finger Lakes region. Your free geographic researchers in the WFMU listener audience.
	👻 4:27pm βrian: It could be "The Clear Channel" building.
	4:29pm Linda Lee: if 2 people want to donate a million dollars, let them get together & give 500 grand each. then they can share naming rights. we know you're out there, people ..
	👻 4:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh dear, that John Denver song with all the cussing!
	4:33pm Linda Lee: never thought i'd hear it on FMU..
	4:33pm Asheville Jon: john denver being strangled: www.youtube.com...
	👻 4:34pm βrian: This was played on some show on the Drummer Stream — without the beeps, of course. Not nearly as entertaining.
	4:34pm biancabob: I F*&%$LOVE this Denver bit! It's just #$%^ amazing!
	4:35pm Rich in Washington: it IS great to hear this otherwise great song without all those gratuitous swear word. F this and F that. Why must rock and roll be like that?
	4:35pm sue: Thinking of J Denver on this snowy afternoon
	4:35pm heyitschris: Where was this John Denver edit from? That was fantastic.
	👻 4:35pm chris: you can grab that nasty Denver song here - blog.wfmu.org...
	4:36pm heyitschris: thanks Chris!
	👻 4:36pm chris: you're welcome, Chris!
	👻 4:38pm rrg: "Annie's Song" edit is by WFMU's own Scott Williams.
	4:39pm Linda Lee: surprised it's not called "Annie's **** "
	4:40pm Doobois: The wife and I are in the car trudging home and we are all the better for it with this wonderful mix!
	4:42pm ⓔⓘⓚ: Cars can trudge?
	4:47pm Linda Lee: i believe some cars are indeed trudging today.
	4:53pm Doobois: In this storm? Absolutely!
	4:57pm Linda Lee: wow .. had no idea Ken's been station manager so long! amazing stamina.
	4:59pm Linda Lee: great history lesson! thanks Irwin!
	👻 4:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Ken has mentioned that in some meetings with Upsala staff, no one had any paper, a strong hint that the college was in a downward slide.
	4:59pm TDK60: I was listening in '67 when it exploded! (I was 15.) Went to the WFMU house immediately, helped run for records in the library for the DJ, who was nuts. Vince Scelsa recently said he got some of his ideas for Free Form from WBAI DJs -- Bob Fass, Larry Josephson, etc..
	4:59pm Bas NL: Great bit of history Irwin.
	5:00pm All out Scott: thats my favorite fairy tale
	5:00pm Joel St. Germain: ohhh.. THAT Bas! Early Rolling Motion supporter. Hey man!
	5:01pm Linda Lee: i'd love hearing how all of our stories intersect with the station's. quite the project, that.
	5:01pm brainiac: @TDK60 "helped run for records in the library for the DJ, who was nuts." It was Stan, wasn't it?
	5:02pm Bas NL: Hi Joel!
	5:03pm Michael 98145: on the left coast, our free-form history goes back to the days of KRAB-fm
	5:04pm TDK60: I can recall that DJ well. I've picked him out of an old photo of WFMU DJs sitting on the steps of the old house. (Hope to see the photo again.) Don't know his name. By "nuts" I mean he was so enthusiastic, he was sweating, hair disheveled, shirt out of his belt. Totally carried away by the music.
	5:07pm Michael 98145: @TDK60, this photo ? wfmu.org...
	5:08pm brainiac: Where's Irwin?
	5:09pm Michael 98145: [ wfmu.org... ]
	5:10pm TDK60: KPFA in Bay Area was ahead of most. 1949. But it may not have been "free form" till the Sixties. Before that it was likely human interest stuff, poetry, politics, specialty music shows -- jazz, blues, etc.
	5:10pm Webhamster Henry: This is a new song from Sunflower Bean. They just played as the "backup band" on the Independent Spirit Awards/
	5:10pm KevinfromBayRidge: Michael, is that Vin sprawling in the lower right?
	5:11pm Michael 98145: haven't a clue :)
	5:11pm Linda Lee: wonder how many of the ladies were on air?
	5:12pm Irwin: Yes, that's Vin in the lower right. At the time this photo was taken, I was not yet born.
	5:13pm TDK60: Yes! That's the photo Michael 98145! And the culprit is the fellow in the back towards the right with the hat. That's him. He was wild. He insisted that the next Grateful Dead album was going to be free. [Nope.] Half a century ago and it still inspires me.
	5:15pm Michael 98145: fallout from the Summer of Love
	👻 5:15pm chris: i was hoping this was the Bukowski track on the premium. love it!
	5:16pm Linda Lee: @Irwin ~ isn't that you on the far left, with your mom?
	5:16pm Linda Lee: am i mistaken?
	5:16pm Tennessee Jeb: why does this song seem to fit so well as I stare out my window. Sacrifice the liver!
	5:17pm Michael 98145: “Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
	👻 5:17pm chris: :) little cutie Irwin.
	5:18pm Irwin: Sport Murphy on Bukowski: Born in Germany in 1920, Charles Bukowski was dragged during adolescence to California by his impoverished parents, who raised him on a regimen of physical and emotional abuse. As a kid he suffered bad acne, causing schoolmates to torment the timid, awkward youngster. The horrible truth that pain is relentless and people mostly worthless came on early and set in firmly. But two discoveries changed everything: booze and the written word. Bukowski had a genius for both: the former went in prodigiously, the latter came out abundantly. What followed were several decades of factory jobs and post office drudgery, underscoring failed attempts to make it as an author. This period was marked by long stretches of hard drinking, short bursts of romantic foment, and rare moments of creative encouragement. He stopped writing for a decade (his "ten-year drunk"). By the late 1960s he'd stripped away the vestiges of art damage from his early work and distilled the everyday ass-kickings, arrests and inebriated fornication into a growing body of fearless poems and prose. Bukowski was celebrated by outsider-fixated literati, the French, and rock critics. Filmmakers began to take note of this sub-blue collar demi-Beat with no pretense toward redemption, transcendence or politics. He was an ugly mofo with nothing to declare but genius. Versions of Bukowski, played by Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon belched and mumbled across theater screens. Enter money, which bought more liquor and more time to write. Celebs posed for pictures with him as if they were old comrades. In 1980, Bukowski gave his last public reading, recorded on video. In one scene he recites a desperate letter from a fan—a perhaps typical dispatch, veering between insecurity and hero-baiting—to a crowd of hipster scum. The audience laughs on cue at high irony and low mockery, using one fan's naive fulsomeness to revel in their own bullyboy stupidity. The poet obliges them without the slightest evident pleasure or interest. The incident makes Bukowski a thumbnail for "crazy drunk writer dude"—for those who value such delusions. It's hard to recognize the disciplined artist who hammered out startlingly moving literature. Read a few of the eulogies for women he loved, his reveries on the everyday things he saw as beautiful. They're good. They're useful.
	5:18pm Linda Lee: sure was hoping to hear the song about Hank. not bad!
	5:19pm TDK60: Anyone know that fellow?
	5:19pm Michael 98145: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski
	5:21pm Druseph: "Who are you?" "Ahh, the eternal question."
	👻 5:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: WFMU remains flypaper for misfits and malcontents. www.vimeo.com...
	5:24pm brainiac: Burmese, you say?
	5:24pm All out Scott: @Ken once i was malcontent now i am home
	5:25pm Gord: Irwin, how 'bout gifting us with a hairball?
	👻 5:27pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Scott - There ya go. This station has something for everybody!
	5:28pm Dean: "Momentarily," not just an adverb, but one whose enduring meaning is not what Irwin intended when he used it.
	5:28pm TDK60: I wonder how many of those '67 DJs are still around. I betcha those children are interesting adults.
	5:30pm Linda Lee: @TDK 60 ~ i'll bet those kids are really into order & convention now. isn't that how it goes?
	5:31pm Michael 98145: probably Facebook product managers ...
	5:31pm Carmichael: Irwin! Joel! Marathon!
	5:35pm Irwin: FINAL DRAWING at 6pm for three prizes: new Clientele album (Music for the Age of Miracles); Antisocialites by Alvvays; and the Bowie trib Salute to the Thin White Duke,
	5:36pm Irwin: SO PLEDGE Now. Pls.
	5:36pm TDK60: Where's brainiac? Which one is Stan?
	👻 5:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Moondog has advanced to Level Two. The prizes are bigger, much bigger. (Gratuitous adverb added for emphasis.)
	5:39pm Carmichael: The prizes are yuge. YUGE.
	5:39pm brainiac: "Stan's not here, man."
	5:40pm Linda Lee: Icky Blossoms = truly wonderful.
	5:42pm TDK60: Linda, could be.
	5:48pm TDK60: Suppose I need to contact Vince Scelsa who may be able to name a lot of the early Woofmooers.
	5:48pm Parq: Who is Stan, you ask? wfmu.org...
	5:51pm brainiac: From several years ago... look familiar, TDK60? https://www.flickr.com/photos/wfmu/293368091
	5:51pm TDK60: Thanks Parq, had no idea Stan goes back that far!
	5:52pm Hoboken Jack: I haven't alvvays loved Alvvays, but I do novv.
	5:52pm yippie: i loved the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
	5:53pm Michael 98145: ... and our hero : www.flickr.com...
	5:59pm Linda Lee: it's Nappa - Knock.
	6:00pm Dean: More than karmic dividends. Wear the t-shirts and folks wills top you on the street.
	6:01pm Michael 98145: ... but first they have to read you your rights.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from March 7, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Sweet Honey Bee "Sweet Honey Bee" by "Lee Morgan"	Charisma	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Robyn Hitchcock	Virginia Woolf "Virginia Woolf" by "Robyn Hitchcock"	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	0:08:52 (Pop-up)
Chip Wickham	The Beatnik "The Beatnik" by "Chip Wickham"	Lovemonk single LMNKV102-B	0:11:30 (Pop-up)

The Owls	Isaac Bashevis Singer "Isaac Bashevis Singer" by "The Owls"	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	0:22:27 (Pop-up)
Chemtrails	A Beautiful Cog in the Monolithic Death Machine	Calf of the Sacred Cow	0:25:24 (Pop-up)
Primitives	Crash "Crash" by "Primitives"	The Primitives	0:28:15 (Pop-up)
Dandy Warhols	Nietzsche "Nietzsche" by "Dandy Warhols"	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	0:30:58 (Pop-up)

Jenny O.	Case Study "Case Study" by "Jenny O."	Peace & Information	0:42:50 (Pop-up)
MGMT	When You're Small "When You're Small" by "MGMT"	Little Dark Age	0:45:42 (Pop-up)
The Critters	Gone For Awhile "Gone For Awhile" by "The Critters"	Tracks	0:49:34 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Me and Fred and Dave and Ted	50 Song Memoir	0:51:58 (Pop-up)

Cola Jet Set	El Fin del Mundo "El Fin del Mundo" by "Cola Jet Set"	El Fin del Mundo	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Bushman's Revenge	We Travel the Spaceways	Never Mind the Botox	1:08:06 (Pop-up)
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages	Oscar Levant	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	1:13:47 (Pop-up)

Reno Bo	Have You Seen Her Face "Have You Seen Her Face" by "Reno Bo"	Flashback to the Future: B-Sides, Covers & Others	1:26:28 (Pop-up)
John Denver	Annie's Song (clean radio edit)	To Sir, With Love	1:29:09 (Pop-up)
The Dust Jackets	J.K. Rowling "J.K. Rowling" by "The Dust Jackets"	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	1:31:32 (Pop-up)
Turn Me on Dead Man	Beatle George	God Bless the Electric Freak	1:36:24 (Pop-up)
Rip Rig + Panic	Subversive Wisdom	I Am Cold	1:39:16 (Pop-up)

Mary Brett Lorson	Theme from Whatever	Themes from Whatever	1:57:47 (Pop-up)
Sunflower Bean	Twentytwo "Twentytwo" by "Sunflower Bean"	Twentytwo in Blue	2:02:26 (Pop-up)
Elliot Galvin	Bikini Island "Bikini Island" by "Elliot Galvin"	The Influencing Machine	2:06:56 (Pop-up)
Modest Mouse	Bukowski "Bukowski" by "Modest Mouse"	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	2:12:10 (Pop-up)

Ariel Pink	Heaven "Heaven" by "Ariel Pink"	Dedicated to Bobby Jameson	2:27:16 (Pop-up)
Jazz Party	Rock 'n' Roll Graveyard	Monday Night	2:28:13 (Pop-up)
The Clientele	Everyone You Meet "Everyone You Meet" by "The Clientele"	Music for the Age of Miracles	2:32:10 (Pop-up)
Icky Blossoms	Ashes to Ashes "Ashes to Ashes" by "Icky Blossoms"	A Salute to the Thin White Duke: The Songs of David Bowie	2:36:09 (Pop-up)

Alvvays	Lollipop (Ode to Jim) "Lollipop (Ode to Jim)" by "Alvvays"	Antisocialites	2:46:20 (Pop-up)
Sniveling Shits	Bring Me the Head of Yukio Mishima	WriterSongs: Irwin's 2018 Marathon Premium CD	2:49:16 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:39pm brainiac: Always at this feast, Always at that feast Chinese, Burmese, Indian Dune dune dune, dang dang dang Boom boom boom, bang bang bang, A permit we have got, A permit we have got.
	👻 3:02pm βrian: Oh to swoon on a field of orange! Good afternoon.
	3:03pm Michael 98145: haul out those hearts and radios
	3:04pm Wild Neil: Peace all. I got a heart!
	3:04pm Lixiviated Life: Ok, go!
	3:04pm Itzall Ablurr: I'mma need that WriterSongs free-mium. What do I have to do to get one?!?
	3:04pm JFR: LOVE
	3:05pm Linda Lee: gorgeous opener Irwin! Happy Marathon!
	3:08pm common: Irwin. All. Snow.
	3:08pm Keith from Oregon: Thanks for playing all the Lee Morgan. I had never heard of him until you started playing "Yes I Can" as your theme music. I haven't heard nearly enough of him.
	3:10pm fletchernyc: Sylvia Plath or Baudelaire by Peter Laughner?
	👻 3:14pm βrian: If only Virginia had put pumice in her pockets.
	3:14pm Sean B.: Your the best Irwin. Hi . Common :-)
	3:14pm TDK60: Funny, I have a Woolf book up next, after I finish my current book, never read her before.
	👻 3:15pm βrian: And if only Sylvia had nitrous in her oven.
	3:15pm Irwin: This Chip Wickham single is the next prize drawing.
	3:16pm Linda Lee: but why should someone survive if they find living intolerable? for others? meh!
	3:17pm Tony Seymour: My forte is your theme today. Playing my heroes. Hmm. What missing is .ME
	3:17pm Listener Robert: I keep mixing up Lee Morgan with Lee Marvin. Some day I'm going to have to do a side-by-side of that "Yes I Can" with the "Man from UNCLE" theme. Like the way I've put links to each other from these two: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com... Or the Dharma theme from "Lost" and the theme to "Department S", though in that case I'm sure it was deliberate.
	👻 3:17pm chris: this is a jam. hi, Irwin, Joel, all.
	👻 3:17pm βrian: I just have this image of either of them being tickled to laughter, either because of buoyancy or chemical-induced hilarity.
	3:18pm Linda Lee: aha.
	3:19pm Linda Lee: @TDK60 ~ take a deep breath & take your time.
	👻 3:21pm Alison Porchnik: Pledger beware! WFMU does not accept Dogecoin!
	3:21pm brainiac: I'm on my 3rd week of "Look Homeward, Angel."
	3:21pm Listener Robert: Don't fault Kelly Jones. WFMU can't afford to lose its bookkeeper! Stay safe, Ms. Jones. My Ol' Pal Irwin's going to blow right past his goal anyway. In January I had to dip into my Neilsen respondent incentive bucks, so waiting to do a couple more surveys before I can send any to the station; it'll probably happen some time during the marathon.
	3:22pm Jeff Moore: Irwin's obviously talking about Crazy Ex Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom's Ray Bradbury piece. www.youtube.com...
	👻 3:23pm βrian: Lump sums make good sense.
	👻 3:24pm βrian: Really, Irwin? Really?
	👻 3:24pm Mark Hurst: How about "sort of" and "kind of"
	3:24pm Linda Lee: @Listener Robert ~ how do you like doing the surveys? happy?
	3:25pm Irwin: Jeff, that is correct.
	3:31pm Linda Lee: star-click for Chemtrails in memory of the Buzzcocks.
	3:31pm Vincent Nifigance: Wow, I love this station so much.
	👻 3:32pm Mark Hurst: @Vincent - me too. WFMU is the greatest station in the world.
	👻 3:32pm rrg: What a great segue. A favorite of mine, too.
	3:32pm Listener Robert: I'm happy about surveys, Linda Lee. I'm a scientist, I've also administered market research surveys at different times in my life, so I have sympathy for anyone trying to generate data for anything. PineCone Research is a fine project of Neilsen's I'm sure, technically flawed like all of them, but what isn't? Plus I'm underemployed and can't resist answering these things at $3 a pop because they come in little chunks on a short deadline, even though I should spend my time on more lucrative extended projects with my own client.
	3:33pm Cl@m_digger: Crash! Blast from the past. I remember air guitar in that in the 4th grade?
	👻 3:33pm Alison Porchnik: I think you're conflating superfluous modifiers with the real deal, Irwin. Like semicolons, adverbs are the underappreciated because overused workhorses of our parts of speech. But you personally couldn't talk your way out of a paper bag without words like bigly, half-assedly, and partially, let alone truly, madly, and deeply.
	3:34pm queems: I LOVE THIS SONG
	3:34pm Linda Lee: @Listener Robert ~ interesting! wouldn't mind taking part myself! how do we do that?
	👻 3:34pm βrian: Clearly!
	3:35pm Woo: There's a song on the brand new Amy Rigby that fits right into the theme of this show.
	3:35pm Irwin: You are correct, Alison, but those superfluous modifiers all seem to be [ahem!] categorically aligned.
	👻 3:38pm βrian: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee ..."
	3:40pm common: love crash. song and j g Ballard
	3:43pm TDK60: I want that Langford shirt, really.
	3:48pm TDK60: Thanks for the breath advice, back there, Linda Lee. You mean she's heavy? Oh, the book is To The Lighthouse.
	3:50pm Dean: To the Lighthouse is [adverb] glorious!
	3:50pm Linda Lee: Not 'heavy' ~ but she is a bit ponderous & slow. At least to me. Depending on what you like, you might be frustrated unless you take time with her.
	👻 3:50pm βrian: I read that in Prof. English's English Literature class. No lie.
	3:51pm TDK60: I will not rush, really, I truly promise.
	3:51pm Dean: Read it in English Literature class, then read it again. The Waves is near the top of the to-read pile.
	3:52pm Linda Lee: You're a better man than I, then. I had more patience for her as a younger person.
	👻 3:52pm Mark Hurst: "To the Lighthouse" is amazing.
	3:53pm TDK60: Is that Mark the Technocrat?!
	3:53pm Linda Lee: That is the amazing Techtonic host Mr. Mark Hurst!
	👻 3:54pm Mark Hurst: Shucks. Just a fellow techno-traveler, that's all :)
	👻 3:54pm Mark Hurst: (And a big fan of Irwin.)
	3:55pm TDK60: That reminds me a bit of Chad & Jeremy, sorta.
	👻 3:55pm βrian: "Vaguely in love," I heard.
	3:56pm TDK60: Oh, it's NJ's Critters. I knew a fellow who subbed on bass with them.
	3:57pm Linda Lee: newfound love for Magnetic Fields!
	3:59pm TDK60: The Critters had a hit with an adverb, Mr. Dyingly Sad. Or is that dieingly?
	4:05pm Linda Lee: it's spelled both ways!
	4:06pm ?: Langford the cartoonist. "Great pop things".
	4:10pm Hoboken Jack: I saw Cola Jet Set some years back at Popfest NYC -- they're a lot of fun!
	4:11pm caver_mike: I definitely have the 'syndrome' referred to by Irwin. I listen to WFMU 24/7. It is playing even if everyone is asleep. And I totally agree, for me the archives provide the only good alternative when I find the on-the-air programming is not holding my interest.
	4:11pm Michael 98145: do the right thing - www.instagram.com...
	4:12pm TDK60: The Critters also had a single, a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful's Younger Girl. Maybe it was only a regional hit in the NJ/NYC area. [?]
	👻 4:12pm chris: caver_mike... and then there's the Drummer stream, too. Oy!
	4:20pm Linda Lee: i'm with caver_mike. can't listen to much else at all.
	4:20pm JakeGould: Git home at 4:20pm! WOO!!!
	4:21pm TDK60: Levant sounds like he was witty, possibly.
	4:22pm Linda Lee: "So little time and so little to do.." ~ Oscar Levant
	4:23pm Michael 98145: left coast represents
	4:24pm ɨkɛ: Near Ithaca and Elmira, apparently.
	4:24pm TDK60: Spencer is in Toga County, near Watkins Glen. Finger Lakes region. Your free geographic researchers in the WFMU listener audience.
	👻 4:27pm βrian: It could be "The Clear Channel" building.
	4:29pm Linda Lee: if 2 people want to donate a million dollars, let them get together & give 500 grand each. then they can share naming rights. we know you're out there, people ..
	👻 4:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh dear, that John Denver song with all the cussing!
	4:33pm Linda Lee: never thought i'd hear it on FMU..
	4:33pm Asheville Jon: john denver being strangled: www.youtube.com...
	👻 4:34pm βrian: This was played on some show on the Drummer Stream — without the beeps, of course. Not nearly as entertaining.
	4:34pm biancabob: I F*&%$LOVE this Denver bit! It's just #$%^ amazing!
	4:35pm Rich in Washington: it IS great to hear this otherwise great song without all those gratuitous swear word. F this and F that. Why must rock and roll be like that?
	4:35pm sue: Thinking of J Denver on this snowy afternoon
	4:35pm heyitschris: Where was this John Denver edit from? That was fantastic.
	👻 4:35pm chris: you can grab that nasty Denver song here - blog.wfmu.org...
	4:36pm heyitschris: thanks Chris!
	👻 4:36pm chris: you're welcome, Chris!
	👻 4:38pm rrg: "Annie's Song" edit is by WFMU's own Scott Williams.
	4:39pm Linda Lee: surprised it's not called "Annie's **** "
	4:40pm Doobois: The wife and I are in the car trudging home and we are all the better for it with this wonderful mix!
	4:42pm ⓔⓘⓚ: Cars can trudge?
	4:47pm Linda Lee: i believe some cars are indeed trudging today.
	4:53pm Doobois: In this storm? Absolutely!
	4:57pm Linda Lee: wow .. had no idea Ken's been station manager so long! amazing stamina.
	4:59pm Linda Lee: great history lesson! thanks Irwin!
	👻 4:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Ken has mentioned that in some meetings with Upsala staff, no one had any paper, a strong hint that the college was in a downward slide.
	4:59pm TDK60: I was listening in '67 when it exploded! (I was 15.) Went to the WFMU house immediately, helped run for records in the library for the DJ, who was nuts. Vince Scelsa recently said he got some of his ideas for Free Form from WBAI DJs -- Bob Fass, Larry Josephson, etc..
	4:59pm Bas NL: Great bit of history Irwin.
	5:00pm All out Scott: thats my favorite fairy tale
	5:00pm Joel St. Germain: ohhh.. THAT Bas! Early Rolling Motion supporter. Hey man!
	5:01pm Linda Lee: i'd love hearing how all of our stories intersect with the station's. quite the project, that.
	5:01pm brainiac: @TDK60 "helped run for records in the library for the DJ, who was nuts." It was Stan, wasn't it?
	5:02pm Bas NL: Hi Joel!
	5:03pm Michael 98145: on the left coast, our free-form history goes back to the days of KRAB-fm
	5:04pm TDK60: I can recall that DJ well. I've picked him out of an old photo of WFMU DJs sitting on the steps of the old house. (Hope to see the photo again.) Don't know his name. By "nuts" I mean he was so enthusiastic, he was sweating, hair disheveled, shirt out of his belt. Totally carried away by the music.
	5:07pm Michael 98145: @TDK60, this photo ? wfmu.org...
	5:08pm brainiac: Where's Irwin?
	5:09pm Michael 98145: [ wfmu.org... ]
	5:10pm TDK60: KPFA in Bay Area was ahead of most. 1949. But it may not have been "free form" till the Sixties. Before that it was likely human interest stuff, poetry, politics, specialty music shows -- jazz, blues, etc.
	5:10pm Webhamster Henry: This is a new song from Sunflower Bean. They just played as the "backup band" on the Independent Spirit Awards/
	5:10pm KevinfromBayRidge: Michael, is that Vin sprawling in the lower right?
	5:11pm Michael 98145: haven't a clue :)
	5:11pm Linda Lee: wonder how many of the ladies were on air?
	5:12pm Irwin: Yes, that's Vin in the lower right. At the time this photo was taken, I was not yet born.
	5:13pm TDK60: Yes! That's the photo Michael 98145! And the culprit is the fellow in the back towards the right with the hat. That's him. He was wild. He insisted that the next Grateful Dead album was going to be free. [Nope.] Half a century ago and it still inspires me.
	5:15pm Michael 98145: fallout from the Summer of Love
	👻 5:15pm chris: i was hoping this was the Bukowski track on the premium. love it!
	5:16pm Linda Lee: @Irwin ~ isn't that you on the far left, with your mom?
	5:16pm Linda Lee: am i mistaken?
	5:16pm Tennessee Jeb: why does this song seem to fit so well as I stare out my window. Sacrifice the liver!
	5:17pm Michael 98145: “Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
	👻 5:17pm chris: :) little cutie Irwin.
	5:18pm Irwin: Sport Murphy on Bukowski: Born in Germany in 1920, Charles Bukowski was dragged during adolescence to California by his impoverished parents, who raised him on a regimen of physical and emotional abuse. As a kid he suffered bad acne, causing schoolmates to torment the timid, awkward youngster. The horrible truth that pain is relentless and people mostly worthless came on early and set in firmly. But two discoveries changed everything: booze and the written word. Bukowski had a genius for both: the former went in prodigiously, the latter came out abundantly. What followed were several decades of factory jobs and post office drudgery, underscoring failed attempts to make it as an author. This period was marked by long stretches of hard drinking, short bursts of romantic foment, and rare moments of creative encouragement. He stopped writing for a decade (his "ten-year drunk"). By the late 1960s he'd stripped away the vestiges of art damage from his early work and distilled the everyday ass-kickings, arrests and inebriated fornication into a growing body of fearless poems and prose. Bukowski was celebrated by outsider-fixated literati, the French, and rock critics. Filmmakers began to take note of this sub-blue collar demi-Beat with no pretense toward redemption, transcendence or politics. He was an ugly mofo with nothing to declare but genius. Versions of Bukowski, played by Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon belched and mumbled across theater screens. Enter money, which bought more liquor and more time to write. Celebs posed for pictures with him as if they were old comrades. In 1980, Bukowski gave his last public reading, recorded on video. In one scene he recites a desperate letter from a fan—a perhaps typical dispatch, veering between insecurity and hero-baiting—to a crowd of hipster scum. The audience laughs on cue at high irony and low mockery, using one fan's naive fulsomeness to revel in their own bullyboy stupidity. The poet obliges them without the slightest evident pleasure or interest. The incident makes Bukowski a thumbnail for "crazy drunk writer dude"—for those who value such delusions. It's hard to recognize the disciplined artist who hammered out startlingly moving literature. Read a few of the eulogies for women he loved, his reveries on the everyday things he saw as beautiful. They're good. They're useful.
	5:18pm Linda Lee: sure was hoping to hear the song about Hank. not bad!
	5:19pm TDK60: Anyone know that fellow?
	5:19pm Michael 98145: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski
	5:21pm Druseph: "Who are you?" "Ahh, the eternal question."
	👻 5:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: WFMU remains flypaper for misfits and malcontents. www.vimeo.com...
	5:24pm brainiac: Burmese, you say?
	5:24pm All out Scott: @Ken once i was malcontent now i am home
	5:25pm Gord: Irwin, how 'bout gifting us with a hairball?
	👻 5:27pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Scott - There ya go. This station has something for everybody!
	5:28pm Dean: "Momentarily," not just an adverb, but one whose enduring meaning is not what Irwin intended when he used it.
	5:28pm TDK60: I wonder how many of those '67 DJs are still around. I betcha those children are interesting adults.
	5:30pm Linda Lee: @TDK 60 ~ i'll bet those kids are really into order & convention now. isn't that how it goes?
	5:31pm Michael 98145: probably Facebook product managers ...
	5:31pm Carmichael: Irwin! Joel! Marathon!
	5:35pm Irwin: FINAL DRAWING at 6pm for three prizes: new Clientele album (Music for the Age of Miracles); Antisocialites by Alvvays; and the Bowie trib Salute to the Thin White Duke,
	5:36pm Irwin: SO PLEDGE Now. Pls.
	5:36pm TDK60: Where's brainiac? Which one is Stan?
	👻 5:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Moondog has advanced to Level Two. The prizes are bigger, much bigger. (Gratuitous adverb added for emphasis.)
	5:39pm Carmichael: The prizes are yuge. YUGE.
	5:39pm brainiac: "Stan's not here, man."
	5:40pm Linda Lee: Icky Blossoms = truly wonderful.
	5:42pm TDK60: Linda, could be.
	5:48pm TDK60: Suppose I need to contact Vince Scelsa who may be able to name a lot of the early Woofmooers.
	5:48pm Parq: Who is Stan, you ask? wfmu.org...
	5:51pm brainiac: From several years ago... look familiar, TDK60? https://www.flickr.com/photos/wfmu/293368091
	5:51pm TDK60: Thanks Parq, had no idea Stan goes back that far!
	5:52pm Hoboken Jack: I haven't alvvays loved Alvvays, but I do novv.
	5:52pm yippie: i loved the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
	5:53pm Michael 98145: ... and our hero : www.flickr.com...
	5:59pm Linda Lee: it's Nappa - Knock.
	6:00pm Dean: More than karmic dividends. Wear the t-shirts and folks wills top you on the street.
	6:01pm Michael 98145: ... but first they have to read you your rights.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from March 7, 2018

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