WFMU: Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from April 19, 2018

Listener comments!
	11:44am glenn: more like april ice storms.
	12:02pm Meghan: just want to be warmer..... and to not wear my winter jacket anymore!
	12:04pm Linda Lee: 'afternoon Meghan! greetings from the snowy catskills! first time listener & loving this opener!
	12:04pm Linda Lee: tired of winter beyond measure, up here!
	12:05pm βrian: We got 3+ inches last night. With luck, it will be gone by the end of the day.
	12:05pm Linda Lee: where are you again, Brian?
	12:06pm northguineahills: when is that gaggle going to go and become a skein of geese..... (wore my winter coat three nights this year)
	12:06pm JakeGould: I don’t want it to be warmer just yet. Getting over a cold!
	12:08pm βrian: Madison, WI. Bright blue skies today.
	12:09pm Linda Lee: reckon we got 3-4" in southern ulster county. it's left the trees, still present on the roof.
	12:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: Duck out of whatever you're doing and listen to WFMU, ya silly goose! Don't be a turkey, ya big chicken!
	12:09pm Linda Lee: bright blue skies! sounds lovely! iirc.
	12:09pm Meghan: Hey there Linda! Glad you are joining us! Love the Catskills!
	12:10pm Linda Lee: we're lovin you too, Meghan! :-)
	12:12pm Linda Lee: just flip 'em the bird if they don't like it, Ken.
	12:12pm northguineahills: You can send your snow to me!
	12:13pm Linda Lee: look out there, ngh. we just might. :-D
	12:14pm Linda Lee: whatever i hear from le pacha st is really fun.
	12:14pm Meghan: If we get another snow storm, I am! I know where to get your address from!
	12:16pm northguineahills: I have an all-wheel drive subaru, I want to test it in the snow!
	12:17pm elwyn: hey everyone, this is the one good thing about daylight saving - I can tune in!
	12:17pm Linda Lee: our neighbors' favorite cars! we love 'em up here. so much so, it's nearly impossible to find one for sale used.
	12:18pm Meghan: Yay! Hey there Elwyn! You enjoying your autumn? or are you still transitioning out of summer?
	12:19pm βrian: I'm working on a French Africa image collection now, so this works.
	12:20pm coelacanth∅: hello Meghan and underwater listeners
	12:20pm Meghan: There you go.... I aim to assist in the musical help!
	12:21pm Meghan: Hey there coelacanth∅!
	12:21pm Keith - the friendly town.: Greetings from sunny GLasgow!
	12:22pm Meghan: Hello Keith!
	12:23pm Keith - the friendly town.: Sitting on my top step, enjoying the first proper sun of the year and the soundtrack is perfect.
	12:25pm northguineahills: @Linda Lee: I had to go 75 miles away just to find a used manual transmission subaru. (manual transmissions are rare enough).
	12:25pm Meghan: envious! We had a gorgeous day last Friday and Saturday and now that has long gone.... sigh
	12:27pm elwyn: i am glad this week feels like autumn. last couple of weeks felt like a Sydney summer which heat, humidity and cockroaches.
	12:29pm βrian: At where are we at?
	12:31pm northguineahills: Sunny and 85F/30C here in FL.
	12:31pm still b/p: Bottle of hot water under your feet, hot tea down yer pipe.
	12:33pm Meghan: got myself my hot coffee, but a hot water bottle would be nice! or a blanket!
	12:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Great Barrier Reef might've been a good place for an underwater theme park. What will they call it now? The Great Barrier Dead Zone?
	12:34pm northguineahills: I've never seen a hot water bottle in person, only in old timey movies.
	12:34pm Meghan: NGH, I have the same problem! I am always searching for a manual transmission and it's becoming harder and harder to find!
	12:34pm βrian: I bought myself a 3-liter Gummi-Wärmflasche online. It's my hotwater baby.
	12:36pm glenn: ha. i bought a hot water bottle two days ago.
	12:36pm Meghan: oh I own a hot water bottle. Bought it after I was in Africa and they put them in our beds at night, with a fuzzy animal covering. I bought one from Restoration hardware that was like that, but fake animal
	12:36pm βrian: When my friend went to pick up her manual transmission car at the dealership, the attendants couldn't bring it around since none of them knew how to drive stick.
	12:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Daughter & I took a spin through the neighborhood a couple weeks ago to get her used to letting out the clutch.
	12:39pm still b/p: I’ve got a classic rubber hot water bottle on permanent loan from a friend. Mostly fine, but had a leak-on-floor situation a month or two ago, leading to supper tray knocked on floor situation, which I reported minutes after cleanup in comments, cuz was listening to FMU at the time. Experience is only real if recorded in FMU comments.
	12:41pm Elwyn: I wish I knew to drive stick. only tried once and it was on a race track during a school excursion.
	12:41pm northguineahills: βrian: I had the same problem. I was giving my wife driving lessons, she couldn't get out of 2nd (to be fair, she had only driven an automatic a handful of times in her life (when her friends were too drunk)
	12:41pm Meghan: hahahaha...nice one still b/p
	12:42pm Meghan: I learned in high school, with a lot of grinding of gears and arguments with my dad. But one day I needed a car and that was the only one available, so I just went ahead and did it. I think I just needed to NOT have someone next to me pressuring me...
	12:44pm βrian: Isn't that part of the training though? You need to navigate the obstacle course at night with a car full of screaming family members to get your certificate.
	12:45pm northguineahills: My college gf taught me how to drive a stick. She had one, and we were driving from FL to NYC. I learned on the fly on the interstate. When my car died, I bought one myself. Then sold it when I moved to NYC, and went 17 years w/o a car/
	12:47pm Linda Lee: i attempted one lesson on a VW van stick ~ my tutor had a toddler in back & could not tolerate the safety concern. so that was that. :-D
	12:47pm Meghan: Whenever I go to drive an automatic and the shift is on the floor, I am always afraid that I'm going to shift gears in the midst of driving. and I'm constantly kicking for a clutch!
	12:49pm Linda Lee: can't help wondering if my utter inability to handle a stick has to do with my dyslexia. i like to think so. :-)
	12:49pm northguineahills: Me too, Meghan!
	12:49pm still b/p: “my tutor had a toddler in back & could not tolerate the safety concern.” ...added to diction exercise/warmup lines.
	12:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: When I have a rental car and prepare to start it, I mash my left foot into empty space, just out of reflex.
	12:50pm βrian: When climbing a steep incline in my parents car, with them in the back, I stomped on the brakes — a reflex, as I thought I needed to depress the clutch to downshift. Not a good idea in an automatic.
	12:51pm Linda Lee: also, didn't learn to drive at all til age 28 ~ having grown up in nyc. that might have to do with it too. can't teach an old dog etc. (excuses, excuses!)
	12:51pm Linda Lee: glad you all made it, Brian! :-)
	12:52pm βrian: (My GF was in the passenger seat. Instantly realizing what had happened, we both broke into hysterics. My parents were horrified.
	12:53pm Linda Lee: believe that's called nervous laughter. :-)
	12:54pm crateslinger: Thanks Meghan for the excellent office lunch nap mix! Back to the grind.
	12:54pm northguineahills: My wife didn't learn to drive drive until she was 35 (2 mos. ago). I totally went full dad on her. (I told her she has to learn to drive clutch if she's going to drive at all. (It's one of the few things I"m better then her at).
	12:56pm Linda Lee: that's what i was told as well, by my dad-like, loud-mouth instructor. (a different one.) turns out it's not true! :-)
	12:56pm coelacanth∅: quack
	12:57pm crateslinger: I learned how to drive a stick to get away from my annoying cousins when I was 17 and staying with them in California for the summer. It was the only car available (I was also hoping to find Molly Ringwald).
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: i bought the stranglers' album "the raven" for the 3-d album cover, before i'd ever heard any stranglers music so there's my stranglers soft spot.
	12:59pm βrian: I don't flip through vinyl. I have my people flip through vinyl.
	1:01pm northguineahills: Can I give my postcard to add to my wife's to get $4 off so she can go in my stead? (Trying to motivate her to go, she no longer lives walking distance away). I never make lists when record shopping, I just buy what catches my brain (don't listen to recs beforehand either).
	1:02pm Linda Lee: lists? gosh, what fun is that?
	1:02pm Elwyn: I am not sure if I should bother with Record Store Day 2018.
	1:02pm glenn: "failing to plan is planning to fail".
	1:03pm Linda Lee: i remember when just about every day was record store day! :-)
	1:03pm Meghan: I find the record fair can be overwhelming at times, so a general list of things you've been looking for is a good idea. I always notice that upon entering record stores I immediately forget what I was looking for!
	1:04pm KP: Hi, Meghan. I think "Bourgeoisie Blues" was written about my new location of D.C., and rather aptly so.
	1:04pm glenn: said to me by a scottish engineer, who later died while on holiday in mexico, costing his widow thousands of dollars to bring his body back to toronto.
	1:06pm Linda Lee: ah. sure, i get having a list if there's just too, too much. i generally shopped small record stores, manageable for happy discovery. now i just wait for boxes of cast-offs to appear on my front porch, as they do regularly!
	1:06pm Linda Lee: everyone here knows i'm the collector. :-)
	1:07pm Linda Lee: it's really about the random find, for me. always has been, really.
	1:07pm coelacanth∅: i've been away from these comments so missed all that but βrian @12.36 that's pathetic. -i don't know the stats now but a few years ago the statistics were that 90% of cars in the us are automatic, 10% manual...in almost every other country on this planet the figures were exactly reversed.
	1:07pm northguineahills: I told my wife to throw my body out to sea after my organs are harvested. I won't be needing it any longer, and fishies and other submarine creatures can benefit from my corporeal remains.
	1:08pm Meghan: I find that the past few record fairs I get excited by things I already own. My fear is that I'm going to buy something twice! Or things I was like- ohhhhh, turns to ewwwww because it's way overpriced!
	1:11pm Linda Lee: lots of that ewwww at the record fair, i'll bet. must seem like taking candy from babies, for some of the dealers. fish in a barrel!
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: ngh unfortunately she's likely be arrested for that, and maybe accused of murder! i've found the only practical way now is alkaline hydrolisis (sp?) but even that is still illegal in most states. ...death is big business.
	1:13pm Linda Lee: cremation still seems the best option, right now.
	1:14pm northguineahills: @coel: You just have to go to int'l waters..... The Common Cold, new to me!
	1:15pm crateslinger: @NGH spot on! After the kids graduate from college, I'm going to sail straight east. If I make it, cool I'll check out the Dardanelles, if not who cares.
	1:16pm doctorjazz: Hey all, made it (useless meeting earlier in show).
	1:16pm still b/p: Donate body after organs salvaged to the forensics research people. They’ll stow you in the scrub or bog or ditch to measure/time/observe the effects and learn more. Don’t know if they need organs still in to qualify.
	1:17pm coelacanth∅: cremation is an environmental injury i don't want to take part in. -and as if the energy used isn't bad enough, some people's ashes are (absurdly) buried in a grave yard. (adding injury to injury)
	1:17pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: You can’t “stack coupons” with the record fair discount, but at the end of the day, it’s all a donation to WFMU. As for me, after a brief foray back into vinyl a year or so ago, I’m done. First, some jerk in my building has an overpowered CB rig and they leak into all audio connections. Record players even worse. Unlistenable as this guy talks to whoever he talks to, so sold my stuff off. But at the end of the day, the record fair is fun even if you are not into vinyl anymore. There are definitely dealers selling CDs and other stuff.
	1:17pm doctorjazz: Man, I have bought things I already own more times than I like to think about...
	1:17pm Linda Lee: i once told a partner whose family owned miles of mountain wilderness here, just to toss my corpse onto the ATV & find me a nice place for a coyote meal. actually wasn't that far fetched a scenario at the time, as we courted death daily. alas, he went first.
	1:19pm Linda Lee: his family took control, alas & i was not able to have him stuffed as per stated desire.
	1:19pm βrian: Well, there's always the Sky Burial. I find embalming to be an absolutely perverse practice.
	1:20pm northguineahills: True, βrian, the Parsi burial practice is one I wouldn't mind either.
	1:20pm glenn: death and taxidermy.
	1:20pm crateslinger: Falling off a boat in the middle of the ocean seems like the best option. Who knows what will eat you, but it would be cool.
	1:20pm Carmichael: You can push me out on an ice floe.
	1:21pm doctorjazz: I find it overwhelming at these big record fairs as well, too much to sort through, too much I would want to buy, too expensive for many of the things I would want to buy, small record stores are more manageable, even if I don't find as much.
	1:21pm northguineahills: Somehow missed that Ex the first time around....
	1:21pm crateslinger: @Linda Lee - that kind of taxidermy would be expensive!
	1:21pm βrian: Is that the one wear the lay the bodies in a kind of stadium?
	1:21pm Carmichael: Or a decent Viking burial.
	1:22pm Linda Lee: personally i don't feel anyone participating in a fossil-fuel driven lifestyle ~ as we all do, frankly, even if we don't drive a car ~ will do much to mitigate their pollution footprint by avoiding a 3 hour cremation process.
	1:22pm coelacanth∅: Linda (1.17) those are the lines i was thinking. given back to the food chain, as people here did 500 years ago. ...as far as stuffing goes?... NO!!!
	1:22pm glenn: hell, the ice floes are dying.
	1:22pm crateslinger: I only go to the record fair for the beer, movies, people watching, and dollar records under the tables.
	1:23pm JakeGould: SBARRO!!!
	1:23pm Linda Lee: he was indeed a creative guy with a perverse sense of humor.
	1:23pm Elwyn: goodnight everyone. i need to go to bed.
	1:23pm coelacanth∅: "animal farm" by the kinks...kinda.
	1:23pm βrian: On the other hand, the sooner they die, the smaller the footprint. (Always look on the bright side.)
	1:24pm Linda Lee: sky burial places the corpse on an elevated platform for the vultures. that one's cool as well, if the platform can remain undisturbed for a long time.
	1:25pm glenn: i want to be gibbetted.
	1:25pm Linda Lee: indeed, Brian! oh wow, time for lunch!
	1:27pm glenn: which i suspect may be illegal, but hey, i'm dead so who gives a flying fuck?
	1:27pm crateslinger: they gibbetted Captain Kidd
	1:32pm coelacanth∅: if i'm going to be gibbetted i want to be embalmed in pure whiskey first, so the dogs lapping up the blood under me get drunk.
	1:34pm crateslinger: I always thought blowing your brains out in a police station parking lot would be a respectful way to get it over quickly without putting anybody out really.
	1:37pm coelacanth∅: there's is something appealing about that, in another way...
	1:37pm crateslinger: yeah man. win/win
	1:37pm JakeGould: Seriously, I grew up in NYC but I am sick of NYC as well. It’s just expensive. Everything I do I could telecommute to do. But there are no secure positions doing that. I think encouraging remote workers and providing some security for people like that—ie: not getting laid off remotely on a whim—could help boost the economy in rural areas. Anyway, I don’t want to talk about death.
	1:38pm northguineahills: Built to Spill!
	1:39pm crateslinger: I'm sick of New York too, but I ship art, so...
	1:40pm βrian: Of course, nobody lives in NYC anymore. It's too crowded.
	1:40pm northguineahills: @Jake: I was sick of constantly looking for work for 2 week/6 months w/ no benefits, and my rent went up. Not having health care after my wife got laid off and diagnosed w/ cancer pretty much sealed it. That, and my crappy apt went up to $2500/mo. and most of my favorite places disappeared.
	1:41pm Meghan: This is the problem with art jobs.... you kinda have to be around here for them. Not finding any of those in the middle of nowhere unfortunately...
	1:42pm northguineahills: Around 2010, all gov't and private jobs suddenly became subcontractor jobs in NYC.
	1:42pm βrian: I'm definitely not a city boy, but I do love to visit cities for as long as 3 days at a stretch.
	1:42pm crateslinger: Some truth to that Brian. Ain't even really any hipsters here anymore. They can't afford it. It's all private school folks. I recognize them from growing up in the Berkshires. Silver Spoon crowd - no tattoos, no affectations because they're not trying to be anybody else. It's always been cool to be rich.
	1:43pm βrian: Probably my favorite place to have lived was rural VT. Kind of a hungry time, though.
	1:44pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: Sorry about all of it. Just so we can all understand the sickness of the NYC real estate market, when I wanted to break the lease on the place I had for 13 years in Downtown Brooklyn, my greedy landlords still gave me shit and treated me like shit. This is despite never being a bad tenant, always paying and even climbing up on the roof on my own to unclog the stupid roof drain because they were to cheap to fix this. And—this is the clincher—they knew right away the second I left they could up the rent by 25% to 30%. So the should be grateful I am leaving, right? Nope.
	1:44pm crateslinger: VT is great, but the only jobs my friends up there have is lumberjack (for real!), painting houses, or growing weed. There is nothing.
	1:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Death Cafe event I attended mentioned green burials where you're interred in a gunny sack amongst the trees and you become worm food.
	1:46pm crateslinger: @Jake - Stroudsburg, PA area is affordable and like 1 hour to the city off peak on I-80.
	1:46pm northguineahills: I fell into the perfect artsy liberal town (the summers suck, but the tubing and kayaking is nice in cold springs).
	1:47pm JakeGould: @Meghan: Well, yeah… Art jobs need your ass to be near the employer. But I’ve work in I.T. for art and educational places for the past 18 years and despite the fact I.T. work can be done anywhere, nobody wants remote work. And even in remote work, it’s just easier for you to be laid off. I met someone who worked in med-tech remotely for 15+ years. Very smart. Had a perfect setup. Then suddenly he’s told to call into a conference call and was laid off then and there by a recording… In a group conference call… All laid off… This is in 2018. Welcome to the future.
	1:47pm βrian: What about the option of sea burial? Probably not too eco-friendly, but ... " Those are pearls that were his eyes" and all that.
	1:48pm northguineahills: As mentioned before, my house has 30% of the rent I was paying for my crappy Bushwick apt, it's a bike friendly town, and I can walk to downtown where all of the art/music/fest is.
	1:49pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: Nice!
	1:50pm Meghan: There is a difference between and artsy town and a place where artists live. Being an artist assistant, I could never find any real jobs in the country. Maybe LA or Chicago, but not many big artists who have the money to hire assistants are living in arty towns....
	1:50pm JakeGould: @crateslinger: I have thought about Vermont. And man, it’s tempting.
	1:50pm still b/p: Layoff by phone recording — that is some scurvy lowdown loathsome shit.... by gibbet candidates.
	1:51pm βrian: Friends just moved to Cleveland and bought a nice 20s-era house in a nice 'hood for 190K or some such.
	1:53pm crateslinger: There was an editorial in the NY Times about a store for sale in central VT a couple weeks ago. That would be the way to go. Buy the town's general store and do arty things out back or in your upstairs office.
	1:53pm βrian: I went back to VT last year. There seems to have been a large influx of one-percenters. Really strange seeing "estates" were it used to be farmland.
	1:54pm northguineahills: What still b/p said. I have some friends here that make a living off their art, and others that do other professions to help support their art. I've never called myself an artists, but I never look for compensation for what I do, either material or aural arts, as I have other means (this job) to support myself. Thanks Meghan, that's my cue to go to lunch!
	1:54pm !ke: I love Vermont. I wish there were jobs there. Particularly back when I was in my 20s and was almost totally invulnerable to the cold. Now that I'm older, I'll probably never do it.
	1:55pm JakeGould: @!ke: Then I guess I won’t tell you about the disturbingly affordable old homes you can get there for a real steal… But with utterly no heat!!!
	1:56pm βrian: No woodstove, even?
	1:57pm JakeGould: @βrian: I guess it has that. But nothing a city mouse would call heat.
	1:57pm coelacanth∅: my then gf and i,c.1992, spent 2 weeks in plainfield,vt helping her sister and husband figure out how to run the general store they'd bought. (& moved into) i'm not in touch now but they probably did alright. we were there in august and there were lots of locals and friendly bikers. then in the winter they would get the skiers. i loved it there.
	1:58pm !ke: The Paradox of Vermont: Now that I'm old enough to have money to maybe buy one of those, I'm no longer immune to the cold. When I was immune to the cold, I had no money to buy one. C'est la real estate.
	1:58pm βrian: Oh, a good woodstove can cook you to the quick. I miss having one.
	1:58pm crateslinger: Weird thing about small town New England these days is not just the one percenters, but the boarded up buildings and the drug addicted families.
	1:58pm !ke: My father grew up in Plainfield, VT! Their tiny college's radio station isn't too bad-sounding either.
	1:59pm coelacanth∅: βrian @1.53 that shit should be illegal.
	2:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yark, two hours already! Thanks, Meghan. Hope next week brings us milder temperatures and some sunshine.
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Meghan! great program!
	2:02pm coelacanth∅: (quack)

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Dirtmusic	Bi De Sen Soyle "Bi De Sen Soyle" by "Dirtmusic"	Bu Bir Ruya
Zea & Xavier Charles	Bourgeois Blues	Bourgeois Blues 7"		0:09:05 (Pop-up)
Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier	Batucada Meurtriere (Version 1)	Le Pacha - Original Music from the Movie		0:13:10 (Pop-up)
Djibril Diabate	Masani Cisse "Masani Cisse" by "Djibril Diabate"	Hawa		0:16:01 (Pop-up)
Shadia	In Rah Mennek Ya Ain "In Rah Mennek Ya Ain" by "Shadia"			0:21:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		0:25:58 (Pop-up)
The Brunettes	Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks	Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks		0:31:32 (Pop-up)
Stranglers	Always the Sun "Always the Sun" by "Stranglers"	Dreamtime		0:35:18 (Pop-up)
Shannon & The Clams	I Never WAnted Love	Onion		0:39:55 (Pop-up)
The Bristols	You're a Moody Guy "You're a Moody Guy" by "The Bristols"	Tune in With the Bristols		0:43:33 (Pop-up)
The Breeders	Nervous Mary "Nervous Mary" by "The Breeders"	All Nerve	*	0:46:06 (Pop-up)
The Limiñanas	Trois Bancs "Trois Bancs" by "The Limiñanas"	Shadow People	*	0:48:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		0:54:12 (Pop-up)
Graveyard	Please Don't "Please Don't" by "Graveyard"	Peace		1:00:09 (Pop-up)
Hot Snakes	Having Another? "Having Another?" by "Hot Snakes"	Jericho Sirens	*	1:04:10 (Pop-up)
The Common Cold	Stop the Traffic "Stop the Traffic" by "The Common Cold"	Shut Up! Yo Liberals!	*	1:07:41 (Pop-up)
The Ex	Soon All Cities "Soon All Cities" by "The Ex"	27 Passports		1:13:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		1:20:09 (Pop-up)
Dead Meadow	Nobody Home "Nobody Home" by "Dead Meadow"	The Nothing They Need	*	1:26:38 (Pop-up)
British Sea Power	Apologies to Insect Life	The Decline of British Sea Power		1:32:22 (Pop-up)
Built To Spill	Goin' Against Your Mind	Goin' Against Your Mind (U.S. Single)		1:35:09 (Pop-up)
Guided By Voices	Cut Out Witch "Cut Out Witch" by "Guided By Voices"	Under the Bushes Under the Stars		1:43:48 (Pop-up)
Broncho	It's On "It's On" by "Broncho"	Just Enough Hip to be Woman		1:46:52 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Muddy Water	Gumboot Soup	*	1:49:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:44am glenn: more like april ice storms.
	12:02pm Meghan: just want to be warmer..... and to not wear my winter jacket anymore!
	12:04pm Linda Lee: 'afternoon Meghan! greetings from the snowy catskills! first time listener & loving this opener!
	12:04pm Linda Lee: tired of winter beyond measure, up here!
	12:05pm βrian: We got 3+ inches last night. With luck, it will be gone by the end of the day.
	12:05pm Linda Lee: where are you again, Brian?
	12:06pm northguineahills: when is that gaggle going to go and become a skein of geese..... (wore my winter coat three nights this year)
	12:06pm JakeGould: I don’t want it to be warmer just yet. Getting over a cold!
	12:08pm βrian: Madison, WI. Bright blue skies today.
	12:09pm Linda Lee: reckon we got 3-4" in southern ulster county. it's left the trees, still present on the roof.
	12:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: Duck out of whatever you're doing and listen to WFMU, ya silly goose! Don't be a turkey, ya big chicken!
	12:09pm Linda Lee: bright blue skies! sounds lovely! iirc.
	12:09pm Meghan: Hey there Linda! Glad you are joining us! Love the Catskills!
	12:10pm Linda Lee: we're lovin you too, Meghan! :-)
	12:12pm Linda Lee: just flip 'em the bird if they don't like it, Ken.
	12:12pm northguineahills: You can send your snow to me!
	12:13pm Linda Lee: look out there, ngh. we just might. :-D
	12:14pm Linda Lee: whatever i hear from le pacha st is really fun.
	12:14pm Meghan: If we get another snow storm, I am! I know where to get your address from!
	12:16pm northguineahills: I have an all-wheel drive subaru, I want to test it in the snow!
	12:17pm elwyn: hey everyone, this is the one good thing about daylight saving - I can tune in!
	12:17pm Linda Lee: our neighbors' favorite cars! we love 'em up here. so much so, it's nearly impossible to find one for sale used.
	12:18pm Meghan: Yay! Hey there Elwyn! You enjoying your autumn? or are you still transitioning out of summer?
	12:19pm βrian: I'm working on a French Africa image collection now, so this works.
	12:20pm coelacanth∅: hello Meghan and underwater listeners
	12:20pm Meghan: There you go.... I aim to assist in the musical help!
	12:21pm Meghan: Hey there coelacanth∅!
	12:21pm Keith - the friendly town.: Greetings from sunny GLasgow!
	12:22pm Meghan: Hello Keith!
	12:23pm Keith - the friendly town.: Sitting on my top step, enjoying the first proper sun of the year and the soundtrack is perfect.
	12:25pm northguineahills: @Linda Lee: I had to go 75 miles away just to find a used manual transmission subaru. (manual transmissions are rare enough).
	12:25pm Meghan: envious! We had a gorgeous day last Friday and Saturday and now that has long gone.... sigh
	12:27pm elwyn: i am glad this week feels like autumn. last couple of weeks felt like a Sydney summer which heat, humidity and cockroaches.
	12:29pm βrian: At where are we at?
	12:31pm northguineahills: Sunny and 85F/30C here in FL.
	12:31pm still b/p: Bottle of hot water under your feet, hot tea down yer pipe.
	12:33pm Meghan: got myself my hot coffee, but a hot water bottle would be nice! or a blanket!
	12:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Great Barrier Reef might've been a good place for an underwater theme park. What will they call it now? The Great Barrier Dead Zone?
	12:34pm northguineahills: I've never seen a hot water bottle in person, only in old timey movies.
	12:34pm Meghan: NGH, I have the same problem! I am always searching for a manual transmission and it's becoming harder and harder to find!
	12:34pm βrian: I bought myself a 3-liter Gummi-Wärmflasche online. It's my hotwater baby.
	12:36pm glenn: ha. i bought a hot water bottle two days ago.
	12:36pm Meghan: oh I own a hot water bottle. Bought it after I was in Africa and they put them in our beds at night, with a fuzzy animal covering. I bought one from Restoration hardware that was like that, but fake animal
	12:36pm βrian: When my friend went to pick up her manual transmission car at the dealership, the attendants couldn't bring it around since none of them knew how to drive stick.
	12:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Daughter & I took a spin through the neighborhood a couple weeks ago to get her used to letting out the clutch.
	12:39pm still b/p: I’ve got a classic rubber hot water bottle on permanent loan from a friend. Mostly fine, but had a leak-on-floor situation a month or two ago, leading to supper tray knocked on floor situation, which I reported minutes after cleanup in comments, cuz was listening to FMU at the time. Experience is only real if recorded in FMU comments.
	12:41pm Elwyn: I wish I knew to drive stick. only tried once and it was on a race track during a school excursion.
	12:41pm northguineahills: βrian: I had the same problem. I was giving my wife driving lessons, she couldn't get out of 2nd (to be fair, she had only driven an automatic a handful of times in her life (when her friends were too drunk)
	12:41pm Meghan: hahahaha...nice one still b/p
	12:42pm Meghan: I learned in high school, with a lot of grinding of gears and arguments with my dad. But one day I needed a car and that was the only one available, so I just went ahead and did it. I think I just needed to NOT have someone next to me pressuring me...
	12:44pm βrian: Isn't that part of the training though? You need to navigate the obstacle course at night with a car full of screaming family members to get your certificate.
	12:45pm northguineahills: My college gf taught me how to drive a stick. She had one, and we were driving from FL to NYC. I learned on the fly on the interstate. When my car died, I bought one myself. Then sold it when I moved to NYC, and went 17 years w/o a car/
	12:47pm Linda Lee: i attempted one lesson on a VW van stick ~ my tutor had a toddler in back & could not tolerate the safety concern. so that was that. :-D
	12:47pm Meghan: Whenever I go to drive an automatic and the shift is on the floor, I am always afraid that I'm going to shift gears in the midst of driving. and I'm constantly kicking for a clutch!
	12:49pm Linda Lee: can't help wondering if my utter inability to handle a stick has to do with my dyslexia. i like to think so. :-)
	12:49pm northguineahills: Me too, Meghan!
	12:49pm still b/p: “my tutor had a toddler in back & could not tolerate the safety concern.” ...added to diction exercise/warmup lines.
	12:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: When I have a rental car and prepare to start it, I mash my left foot into empty space, just out of reflex.
	12:50pm βrian: When climbing a steep incline in my parents car, with them in the back, I stomped on the brakes — a reflex, as I thought I needed to depress the clutch to downshift. Not a good idea in an automatic.
	12:51pm Linda Lee: also, didn't learn to drive at all til age 28 ~ having grown up in nyc. that might have to do with it too. can't teach an old dog etc. (excuses, excuses!)
	12:51pm Linda Lee: glad you all made it, Brian! :-)
	12:52pm βrian: (My GF was in the passenger seat. Instantly realizing what had happened, we both broke into hysterics. My parents were horrified.
	12:53pm Linda Lee: believe that's called nervous laughter. :-)
	12:54pm crateslinger: Thanks Meghan for the excellent office lunch nap mix! Back to the grind.
	12:54pm northguineahills: My wife didn't learn to drive drive until she was 35 (2 mos. ago). I totally went full dad on her. (I told her she has to learn to drive clutch if she's going to drive at all. (It's one of the few things I"m better then her at).
	12:56pm Linda Lee: that's what i was told as well, by my dad-like, loud-mouth instructor. (a different one.) turns out it's not true! :-)
	12:56pm coelacanth∅: quack
	12:57pm crateslinger: I learned how to drive a stick to get away from my annoying cousins when I was 17 and staying with them in California for the summer. It was the only car available (I was also hoping to find Molly Ringwald).
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: i bought the stranglers' album "the raven" for the 3-d album cover, before i'd ever heard any stranglers music so there's my stranglers soft spot.
	12:59pm βrian: I don't flip through vinyl. I have my people flip through vinyl.
	1:01pm northguineahills: Can I give my postcard to add to my wife's to get $4 off so she can go in my stead? (Trying to motivate her to go, she no longer lives walking distance away). I never make lists when record shopping, I just buy what catches my brain (don't listen to recs beforehand either).
	1:02pm Linda Lee: lists? gosh, what fun is that?
	1:02pm Elwyn: I am not sure if I should bother with Record Store Day 2018.
	1:02pm glenn: "failing to plan is planning to fail".
	1:03pm Linda Lee: i remember when just about every day was record store day! :-)
	1:03pm Meghan: I find the record fair can be overwhelming at times, so a general list of things you've been looking for is a good idea. I always notice that upon entering record stores I immediately forget what I was looking for!
	1:04pm KP: Hi, Meghan. I think "Bourgeoisie Blues" was written about my new location of D.C., and rather aptly so.
	1:04pm glenn: said to me by a scottish engineer, who later died while on holiday in mexico, costing his widow thousands of dollars to bring his body back to toronto.
	1:06pm Linda Lee: ah. sure, i get having a list if there's just too, too much. i generally shopped small record stores, manageable for happy discovery. now i just wait for boxes of cast-offs to appear on my front porch, as they do regularly!
	1:06pm Linda Lee: everyone here knows i'm the collector. :-)
	1:07pm Linda Lee: it's really about the random find, for me. always has been, really.
	1:07pm coelacanth∅: i've been away from these comments so missed all that but βrian @12.36 that's pathetic. -i don't know the stats now but a few years ago the statistics were that 90% of cars in the us are automatic, 10% manual...in almost every other country on this planet the figures were exactly reversed.
	1:07pm northguineahills: I told my wife to throw my body out to sea after my organs are harvested. I won't be needing it any longer, and fishies and other submarine creatures can benefit from my corporeal remains.
	1:08pm Meghan: I find that the past few record fairs I get excited by things I already own. My fear is that I'm going to buy something twice! Or things I was like- ohhhhh, turns to ewwwww because it's way overpriced!
	1:11pm Linda Lee: lots of that ewwww at the record fair, i'll bet. must seem like taking candy from babies, for some of the dealers. fish in a barrel!
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: ngh unfortunately she's likely be arrested for that, and maybe accused of murder! i've found the only practical way now is alkaline hydrolisis (sp?) but even that is still illegal in most states. ...death is big business.
	1:13pm Linda Lee: cremation still seems the best option, right now.
	1:14pm northguineahills: @coel: You just have to go to int'l waters..... The Common Cold, new to me!
	1:15pm crateslinger: @NGH spot on! After the kids graduate from college, I'm going to sail straight east. If I make it, cool I'll check out the Dardanelles, if not who cares.
	1:16pm doctorjazz: Hey all, made it (useless meeting earlier in show).
	1:16pm still b/p: Donate body after organs salvaged to the forensics research people. They’ll stow you in the scrub or bog or ditch to measure/time/observe the effects and learn more. Don’t know if they need organs still in to qualify.
	1:17pm coelacanth∅: cremation is an environmental injury i don't want to take part in. -and as if the energy used isn't bad enough, some people's ashes are (absurdly) buried in a grave yard. (adding injury to injury)
	1:17pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: You can’t “stack coupons” with the record fair discount, but at the end of the day, it’s all a donation to WFMU. As for me, after a brief foray back into vinyl a year or so ago, I’m done. First, some jerk in my building has an overpowered CB rig and they leak into all audio connections. Record players even worse. Unlistenable as this guy talks to whoever he talks to, so sold my stuff off. But at the end of the day, the record fair is fun even if you are not into vinyl anymore. There are definitely dealers selling CDs and other stuff.
	1:17pm doctorjazz: Man, I have bought things I already own more times than I like to think about...
	1:17pm Linda Lee: i once told a partner whose family owned miles of mountain wilderness here, just to toss my corpse onto the ATV & find me a nice place for a coyote meal. actually wasn't that far fetched a scenario at the time, as we courted death daily. alas, he went first.
	1:19pm Linda Lee: his family took control, alas & i was not able to have him stuffed as per stated desire.
	1:19pm βrian: Well, there's always the Sky Burial. I find embalming to be an absolutely perverse practice.
	1:20pm northguineahills: True, βrian, the Parsi burial practice is one I wouldn't mind either.
	1:20pm glenn: death and taxidermy.
	1:20pm crateslinger: Falling off a boat in the middle of the ocean seems like the best option. Who knows what will eat you, but it would be cool.
	1:20pm Carmichael: You can push me out on an ice floe.
	1:21pm doctorjazz: I find it overwhelming at these big record fairs as well, too much to sort through, too much I would want to buy, too expensive for many of the things I would want to buy, small record stores are more manageable, even if I don't find as much.
	1:21pm northguineahills: Somehow missed that Ex the first time around....
	1:21pm crateslinger: @Linda Lee - that kind of taxidermy would be expensive!
	1:21pm βrian: Is that the one wear the lay the bodies in a kind of stadium?
	1:21pm Carmichael: Or a decent Viking burial.
	1:22pm Linda Lee: personally i don't feel anyone participating in a fossil-fuel driven lifestyle ~ as we all do, frankly, even if we don't drive a car ~ will do much to mitigate their pollution footprint by avoiding a 3 hour cremation process.
	1:22pm coelacanth∅: Linda (1.17) those are the lines i was thinking. given back to the food chain, as people here did 500 years ago. ...as far as stuffing goes?... NO!!!
	1:22pm glenn: hell, the ice floes are dying.
	1:22pm crateslinger: I only go to the record fair for the beer, movies, people watching, and dollar records under the tables.
	1:23pm JakeGould: SBARRO!!!
	1:23pm Linda Lee: he was indeed a creative guy with a perverse sense of humor.
	1:23pm Elwyn: goodnight everyone. i need to go to bed.
	1:23pm coelacanth∅: "animal farm" by the kinks...kinda.
	1:23pm βrian: On the other hand, the sooner they die, the smaller the footprint. (Always look on the bright side.)
	1:24pm Linda Lee: sky burial places the corpse on an elevated platform for the vultures. that one's cool as well, if the platform can remain undisturbed for a long time.
	1:25pm glenn: i want to be gibbetted.
	1:25pm Linda Lee: indeed, Brian! oh wow, time for lunch!
	1:27pm glenn: which i suspect may be illegal, but hey, i'm dead so who gives a flying fuck?
	1:27pm crateslinger: they gibbetted Captain Kidd
	1:32pm coelacanth∅: if i'm going to be gibbetted i want to be embalmed in pure whiskey first, so the dogs lapping up the blood under me get drunk.
	1:34pm crateslinger: I always thought blowing your brains out in a police station parking lot would be a respectful way to get it over quickly without putting anybody out really.
	1:37pm coelacanth∅: there's is something appealing about that, in another way...
	1:37pm crateslinger: yeah man. win/win
	1:37pm JakeGould: Seriously, I grew up in NYC but I am sick of NYC as well. It’s just expensive. Everything I do I could telecommute to do. But there are no secure positions doing that. I think encouraging remote workers and providing some security for people like that—ie: not getting laid off remotely on a whim—could help boost the economy in rural areas. Anyway, I don’t want to talk about death.
	1:38pm northguineahills: Built to Spill!
	1:39pm crateslinger: I'm sick of New York too, but I ship art, so...
	1:40pm βrian: Of course, nobody lives in NYC anymore. It's too crowded.
	1:40pm northguineahills: @Jake: I was sick of constantly looking for work for 2 week/6 months w/ no benefits, and my rent went up. Not having health care after my wife got laid off and diagnosed w/ cancer pretty much sealed it. That, and my crappy apt went up to $2500/mo. and most of my favorite places disappeared.
	1:41pm Meghan: This is the problem with art jobs.... you kinda have to be around here for them. Not finding any of those in the middle of nowhere unfortunately...
	1:42pm northguineahills: Around 2010, all gov't and private jobs suddenly became subcontractor jobs in NYC.
	1:42pm βrian: I'm definitely not a city boy, but I do love to visit cities for as long as 3 days at a stretch.
	1:42pm crateslinger: Some truth to that Brian. Ain't even really any hipsters here anymore. They can't afford it. It's all private school folks. I recognize them from growing up in the Berkshires. Silver Spoon crowd - no tattoos, no affectations because they're not trying to be anybody else. It's always been cool to be rich.
	1:43pm βrian: Probably my favorite place to have lived was rural VT. Kind of a hungry time, though.
	1:44pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: Sorry about all of it. Just so we can all understand the sickness of the NYC real estate market, when I wanted to break the lease on the place I had for 13 years in Downtown Brooklyn, my greedy landlords still gave me shit and treated me like shit. This is despite never being a bad tenant, always paying and even climbing up on the roof on my own to unclog the stupid roof drain because they were to cheap to fix this. And—this is the clincher—they knew right away the second I left they could up the rent by 25% to 30%. So the should be grateful I am leaving, right? Nope.
	1:44pm crateslinger: VT is great, but the only jobs my friends up there have is lumberjack (for real!), painting houses, or growing weed. There is nothing.
	1:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Death Cafe event I attended mentioned green burials where you're interred in a gunny sack amongst the trees and you become worm food.
	1:46pm crateslinger: @Jake - Stroudsburg, PA area is affordable and like 1 hour to the city off peak on I-80.
	1:46pm northguineahills: I fell into the perfect artsy liberal town (the summers suck, but the tubing and kayaking is nice in cold springs).
	1:47pm JakeGould: @Meghan: Well, yeah… Art jobs need your ass to be near the employer. But I’ve work in I.T. for art and educational places for the past 18 years and despite the fact I.T. work can be done anywhere, nobody wants remote work. And even in remote work, it’s just easier for you to be laid off. I met someone who worked in med-tech remotely for 15+ years. Very smart. Had a perfect setup. Then suddenly he’s told to call into a conference call and was laid off then and there by a recording… In a group conference call… All laid off… This is in 2018. Welcome to the future.
	1:47pm βrian: What about the option of sea burial? Probably not too eco-friendly, but ... " Those are pearls that were his eyes" and all that.
	1:48pm northguineahills: As mentioned before, my house has 30% of the rent I was paying for my crappy Bushwick apt, it's a bike friendly town, and I can walk to downtown where all of the art/music/fest is.
	1:49pm JakeGould: @northguineahills: Nice!
	1:50pm Meghan: There is a difference between and artsy town and a place where artists live. Being an artist assistant, I could never find any real jobs in the country. Maybe LA or Chicago, but not many big artists who have the money to hire assistants are living in arty towns....
	1:50pm JakeGould: @crateslinger: I have thought about Vermont. And man, it’s tempting.
	1:50pm still b/p: Layoff by phone recording — that is some scurvy lowdown loathsome shit.... by gibbet candidates.
	1:51pm βrian: Friends just moved to Cleveland and bought a nice 20s-era house in a nice 'hood for 190K or some such.
	1:53pm crateslinger: There was an editorial in the NY Times about a store for sale in central VT a couple weeks ago. That would be the way to go. Buy the town's general store and do arty things out back or in your upstairs office.
	1:53pm βrian: I went back to VT last year. There seems to have been a large influx of one-percenters. Really strange seeing "estates" were it used to be farmland.
	1:54pm northguineahills: What still b/p said. I have some friends here that make a living off their art, and others that do other professions to help support their art. I've never called myself an artists, but I never look for compensation for what I do, either material or aural arts, as I have other means (this job) to support myself. Thanks Meghan, that's my cue to go to lunch!
	1:54pm !ke: I love Vermont. I wish there were jobs there. Particularly back when I was in my 20s and was almost totally invulnerable to the cold. Now that I'm older, I'll probably never do it.
	1:55pm JakeGould: @!ke: Then I guess I won’t tell you about the disturbingly affordable old homes you can get there for a real steal… But with utterly no heat!!!
	1:56pm βrian: No woodstove, even?
	1:57pm JakeGould: @βrian: I guess it has that. But nothing a city mouse would call heat.
	1:57pm coelacanth∅: my then gf and i,c.1992, spent 2 weeks in plainfield,vt helping her sister and husband figure out how to run the general store they'd bought. (& moved into) i'm not in touch now but they probably did alright. we were there in august and there were lots of locals and friendly bikers. then in the winter they would get the skiers. i loved it there.
	1:58pm !ke: The Paradox of Vermont: Now that I'm old enough to have money to maybe buy one of those, I'm no longer immune to the cold. When I was immune to the cold, I had no money to buy one. C'est la real estate.
	1:58pm βrian: Oh, a good woodstove can cook you to the quick. I miss having one.
	1:58pm crateslinger: Weird thing about small town New England these days is not just the one percenters, but the boarded up buildings and the drug addicted families.
	1:58pm !ke: My father grew up in Plainfield, VT! Their tiny college's radio station isn't too bad-sounding either.
	1:59pm coelacanth∅: βrian @1.53 that shit should be illegal.
	2:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yark, two hours already! Thanks, Meghan. Hope next week brings us milder temperatures and some sunshine.
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Meghan! great program!
	2:02pm coelacanth∅: (quack)

Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from April 19, 2018

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