WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from November 13, 2022

Listener comments!
	3:10am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian where is everyone?!
	♥ 3:12am ike̶̬̕: Greetings, humans.
	♥ 3:12am Brian D: Hey Chris! Glad this thing is on!
	♥ 3:12am Brian D: Hello Ike!
	⚡ ♥ 3:15am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	♥ 3:16am ike̶̬̕: This news is 3 to 5 hours old now but if you haven't noticed, AP has called it for the Democratic senator in Nevada, so Dems have held the Senate.
	♥ 3:17am StringOFperils: Still counting, and still discounting. Hey, is it safe to stand on this thing?
	♥ 3:19am Brian D: Yes, Ike, I saw that. One of my clips may be a bit dated as a result.
	♥ 3:19am Brian D: I'm just glad the mic was working. Mercury must be in retrograde. The board is acting funky.
	♥ 3:21am Brian D: By the way, hello Fred and String.
	♥ 3:22am StringOFperils: Hi!
	♥ 3:29am StringOFperils: So long, Keith L whose guitar slashing still sounds pretty fresh.
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: Those first PiL records held up pretty well over 40 years (gasp!)
	♥ 3:57am ike̶̬̕: Sean Patrick Maloney is such a complete and total jackass. He pushed (or "bigfooted", which I didn't know could be used as a verb until this happened) a more progressive representative, Mondaire Jones, out of his seat and then lost the seat in a blue district. Of course Jones came down here to NY-10 and screwed up our primary race too. Lots of blame should also go to Jay Jacobs, the hateful and corrupt Chair of the NY State Democratic Committee, who, like SPM, cares more about fighting progressive Dems than fighting Republicans.
	⚡ ♥ 3:57am fred: Maloney wasted no time blaming AOC for his loss. Not sure how he think that works
	♥ 4:02am ike̶̬̕: @fred, word to the max. (Remember when people used to say "word to the max"? No? Anyway, definitely, yes.)
	4:03am Foutracbaldisco: Hi Brian, hi all listeners
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: The redistricting was a huge factor, but the Dems didn't respond well, and had no strategy. They ended up campaigning against themselves.
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: Hello Foutracbaldisco!
	⚡ ♥ 4:06am Michael of Cologne: Golden morning Brian & all. You guys over there have quite a week. A noticeable change of mood. And maybe that malicious, mendacious clown is losing his grip on the GOP.
	♥ 4:08am Brian D: Hello Michael. Fingers crossed...
	♥ 4:11am ike̶̬̕: The corruption of the state-level Dem leadership is reflected in the official Brooklyn Dem Party as well -- focusing all their efforts on grifting and fighting Democratic reform groups instead of fighting Republicans in southern Brooklyn. As a result, we lost seats in southern Brooklyn that could've been won.
	♥ 4:13am ike̶̬̕: www.thecity.nyc...
	⚡ 4:14am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, Chris, fred, String, Ike, Michael (and any silent listeners). joining late because I just got up after getting back at 4 am from a gig in Helsinki. I lived in ireland for a while and hell yeah, don't say the word Londonderry to anyone in the Republic of Ireland.
	⚡ ♥ 4:17am fred: @Don: How did the gig go?
	⚡ ♥ 4:19am Heidee: Good morning all! Dang, missed all the good info, will go back to the archives!
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: Greetings Don! "Londonderry" is NOT my preferred name for the city.
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: And good morning, Heidee!
	⚡ 4:23am Don in Tampere: @fred, the gig went really well and we made some new fans It was only the second one with our new bassist Jypi but it's clearer and clearer that he is a perfect fit to the band.
	4:27am feral parsnip: very sad to learn of m parker's passing. getting teary about it.
	⚡ ♥ 4:28am Heidee: What's your music, Don?
	♥ 4:29am Brian D: I can relate @Feral. She was far too young. And, I can't imagine losing one's life partner...
	⚡ ♥ 4:30am fred: @Ike: I saw this play out here too. They feel more threatened by progressives than by the right, which makes sense on several levels. So they withhold support at best, a passive-aggressive path to losing
	⚡ 4:35am Don in Tampere: Heidee, the band is Dark Bottle, sort of punk-Americana but with elements of krautrock and stoner and doom metal instead of the usual Muddy Roots stuff of heavily tattooed and pierced people playing folks songs fast and badly; sometimes we call it doombilly or krautbilly. Solo I do different stuff and am close to finishing a new remix album called "Banjo Machine Music!
	4:36am Foutracbaldisco: Heartbreaking
	⚡ ♥ 4:37am Brian in UK: Hello Brian.
	♥ 4:39am Brian D: Hey Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 4:40am fred: @Don: You mean you have neither tattoos or piercings? Anyway, when are you playing in Paris or nearby?
	⚡ 4:43am Don in Tampere: Hi Fred, nope, never got either one and figure that at my advanced age there is no need to start. I'd love to play Paris if we could get a gig there and somewhere on the way from Germany, where we're going next August, but I have absoutely zero contacts there.
	⚡ ♥ 4:46am Heidee: @Don, sounds great stuff! 😎🤟😈 Which places in Germany are you touring? Have you got a link?
	⚡ ♥ 4:49am fred: @Don: The scene is bleak: there are few venues between a bar's basement and a 2000+ hall (a long-time issue made worse by the pandemic). Bar shows only make sense if it's a stop on the way, little money there
	♥ 4:51am Ike: @fred, in Europe at least the centrists have the excuse that those are different parties (right?) although I’m sure that doesn’t make it truly feel any better on the ground there. Here, we’re all ostensibly together in the Democratic party. Some states certainly have functional D parties and others… not so much. Some have joked the NY Dems need to placed into receivership and operated by the Michigan Dems from now on.
	⚡ 4:54am Don in Tampere: Heidee, so far we have dates in Bielefeld, Offenbach and Bamberg but working on more. Here's our bandcamp page darkbottle.bandcamp.com... We are also on IG and FB
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am Heidee: @Don, That's great, will be looking out for you! Offenbach is closest to me (Heidelberg) so far, but do let me know if your tour dates around here will expand. :-)
	⚡ 4:57am Don in Tampere: the party landscape varies from country to country. I would say the social democrats in Finland are probably more progressive than their namesakes in Germany (and of course those "wacko radical left" policies progressive American Democrats want are to a large extent things that would count as moderately social democratic or would not even be questioned by conservatives, such as free education and public health care.
	⚡ ♥ 4:59am fred: @Ike: Different system for sure, parties come and go. Here the "socialist" party went the way you describe into a sudden collapse. Not applicable in the US. So we have a center-right party, a growing fascist one, and a populist ego-cult on the left with little staying power. Scary situation. Grassroots progressives abound, but they are ignored by the media and weakened by (surprise) bitter infighting
	⚡ 5:00am Don in Tampere: While the Vasemmistoliitto (left alliance) is my preferred party in Finland for local elections, where I can vote, but Die Linke in Germany(where I've been a citizen since 2007) is out of the question for me as long as they have populists like Sahra Wagenkneckt who are sometimes hard to tell from AfD in their rhetoric. Heidee, Heidelberg/MannheimLudwigshafen would be awesome but so far no luck, and I don't know the current venue scene. I am going to try to get into the Krone in Darmstadt, which is a little closer than Offenbach. (I lived in Franfurt/M for 24 years, by the way)
	⚡ ♥ 5:03am fred: @Don: thanks for the link, I'll give it a listen and see if I know someone who could help setting up a gig (unlikely though)
	⚡ ♥ 5:03am Heidee: @Don, wow you were living here for such a long time? You must be fluent in Deutsch. Where are you located now, actually back in Tampere? - Krone in DA is a nice venue, BTW.
	5:05am Chris Crisco: Have to say I'm surprised the red wave fizzled out. Dems showed a will to lose throughout. How the Nazi Party even managed to hijack the term "woke" and re-brand it as anti-white, anti-straight, anti-Christian, anti-American is nothing short of mind boggling. Fortunately enough voters wised up that saving Democracy was more important than giving Elon Muskrat a tax cut. I think Bernie Sanders was an unsung hero going around the country campaigning.
	5:06am Foutracbaldisco: I really appreciate the Low's songs interspersed with other ambiant/field recordings/electronic/ improvised musics. Such a great idea! Wonderful tribute ! You're the third WFMU dj to pay a substantial tribute to Mimi Parker after Joe Belock and Mary Wing, yours is my favorite one. (I was sure you were going to do it!). Your show is quite touching. Thank you Brian!
	♥ 5:07am Brian D: Thank you for the kind words, Foutracbaldisco. To be named with Joe and Mary is an honor for me.
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am fred: He did say "Highway to (climate) hell". Wing has a... Winglike... cover version
	♥ 5:17am Ike: @chris, the cons also had mind-boggling success on a regional level here in the NYC area blowing isolated gruesome incidents of crime way out of proportion. I call it the Great Fake Republican Crime Wave of ‘22. People in the burbs and southern Brooklyn are absolutely convinced that NYC is a burning post-apocalyptic hellscape of roving cannibalistic mutant homeless people with terrible BO. Sadly the COVID-related hate crimes against Asian-Americans have pushed a lot of them towards the R party as well, as some are now terrified to go out after dark, and some are falling prey to R conspiracy theories going around in Chinese.
	♥ 5:19am Ike: (And Vietnamese, and other languages.)
	⚡ ♥ 5:24am fred: @Ike: We have that here too, fantasies of Islamic states with heavily armed drug dealers enforcing Sharia law (making sense is optional). Seriously I saw a newspaper headline yesterday that ran "Drugs, Islam, Kalash". Then they mention neighborhoods I go through at night with no worries (there are tough ones I avoid, but that's a very different story, about poverty and neglect)
	♥ 5:24am Brian D: @Ike, I'm thinking most of these people fretting about "crime" weren't around in the 1970s. Or even the 1990s.
	⚡ ♥ 5:25am Michael of Cologne: @Don: Any chance of your doing a gig in Cologne? Music Hall?
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Heidee: We are all one world. Music connects.
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: Thanks for the low-down on the Dems, Ike, Fred, Chris, ...
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am fred: Barbès is indeed a dangerous place: I was robbed once there. By cops
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am Heidee: F*ck me, fred.
	♥ 5:35am Brian D: Ah, the French police...
	⚡ ♥ 5:36am fred: I was robbed 4 times so far, half by cops
	⚡ 5:36am Don in Tampere: Michael, I always thought Music Hall was more for better known bands (which we certainly aren't) but I see that the site also says "ob Newcomer". As long as that hasn't started meaning "new car" the way "Oldtimer" means "classic car", it might be an option after all. I'll PM from the chat here if it's ok with you (Heidee, you too) and we can talk about possible places without boring everybody here
	5:38am Chris Crisco: Anyone other than a straight white Christian that support the Nazi Party need to have their head examined.
	⚡ 5:39am Don in Tampere: Actually, any Christian who pays any attention to what Jesus was actually talking about would have no use for the Nazi party or for most of what passes for conservative politics these days.
	⚡ ♥ 5:43am fred: The cops were actually the worst. I got robbed right after christmas one year, they took a CD player, but since they were not cops I asked to get the CD inside and I got it. Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Akira Suite, so I'm sure glad they gave it back to me. Cops just make you strip down to get at all the cash and will beat you up if you say a word
	⚡ ♥ 5:43am Heidee: so does the straight white Christian
	⚡ ♥ 5:44am Heidee: @Don, happy to receive PM
	5:44am LiXiviated Life: All I want right now is a return of civility to citizenship.
	♥ 5:45am Brian D: @Lix, that would be nice, wouldn't it? Good morning, by the way.
	⚡ 5:46am Don in Tampere: Michael, Heidee, the format has changed so I can't send a message, just give WFMU permission to send you my e-mail addresses, but did that.
	5:47am Chris Crisco: For sure even if you are a straight white Christian but especially if you are anything else the Nazi Party hates your guts just for that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am fred: @Heidee: I did see a dance show called Fuck Me this week, by Marina Otero. Too wordy (maybe because I don't understand Spanish), but well worth seeing. I can't say much without spoiling it
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am Heidee: Hah, thanks fred.
	5:54am Foutracbaldisco: Marvellous set, thanks Brian!
	♥ 5:56am Brian D: That's almost it for me, folks. Thank you all for joining me. RIP Mimi Parker, Keith Levene and Garry Roberts. Stay safe and have a great week, everyone.
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am Michael of Cologne: Yes, Don. Let's exchange e-mails. I'll check out WFMU instructions. Bye all!
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am fred: Thanks Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am Heidee: Thanks Brian, intruiging show
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am Heidee: intriguing
	6:04am LiXiviated Life: Greeting from the edge of Schenectady
	9:03am John Paul: So cool to hear our relatives the John-Pauls on your show!

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from November 13, 2022

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
American Music Club	America Loves The Minstrel Show	Love Songs for Patriots	Merge		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	This Is Not America "This Is Not America" by "David Bowie"	Bowie at the Beeb	EMI/Virgin		0:04:21 (Pop-up)
Suicide	Rocket USA "Rocket USA" by "Suicide"	Suicide	Mute		0:08:00 (Pop-up)
Low + Dirty Three	I Hear... Goodnight	In The Fishtank 7	In the Fishtank (Konkurrent)	RIP Mimi Parker	0:12:13 (Pop-up)
Violent Femmes	America Is "America Is" by "Violent Femmes"	Add It Up (1981-1993)	Slash/Reprise		0:16:14 (Pop-up)
The Clash	I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.	The Clash	CBS		0:18:17 (Pop-up)
The John-Pauls	Same Dweller, Different Cave	Bon Mots	Aagoo Records		0:20:40 (Pop-up)
Boomtown Rats	Banana Republic "Banana Republic" by "Boomtown Rats"	Mondo Bongo	Columbia	RIP Garry Roberts	0:23:08 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	Public Image	First Issue	Light in the Attack	RIP Keith Levene	0:28:07 (Pop-up)
Alvvays	Lottery Noises "Lottery Noises" by "Alvvays"	Blue Rev	Polyvinyl		0:31:01 (Pop-up)
REM	What's the Frequency, Kenneth?	Monster	Warner Bros.		0:34:21 (Pop-up)
Oneida	Beat Me to the Punch "Beat Me to the Punch" by "Oneida"	Success	Joyful Noise Recordings		0:38:20 (Pop-up)

Low	Stay "Stay" by "Low"	Single/Digital Release	Sub Pop	Rihanna cover	0:48:47 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Democracy Now! Midterms in NY	n/a	n/a		0:53:01 (Pop-up)
Nas	American Way "American Way" by "Nas"	Street's Disciple	Columbia		0:54:10 (Pop-up)
Low	Murderer "Murderer" by "Low"	Drums and Guns	Sub Pop		0:58:40 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: ABC-still counting votes	n/a	n/a
Sophia Djebel Rose	Liberte "Liberte" by "Sophia Djebel Rose"	Metempsycose	Oracle Records		1:03:12 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Al Jazeera-Northern Ireland update	n/a	n/a		1:06:51 (Pop-up)
Tim Hill	The Irish Sea "The Irish Sea" by "Tim Hill"	Giant	Innovative Leisure /Calico Discos		1:08:14 (Pop-up)

Low	Medicine Magazines "Medicine Magazines" by "Low"	Things We Lost in the Fire	Kranky		1:19:42 (Pop-up)
Eric Arn and Eyal Maoz	Optimus Locus and Finem	Kost Nix	Feeding Tube Records		1:24:07 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: CBS-Somalia famine "Clip: CBS-Somalia famine" by "n/a"	n/a	n/a		1:32:26 (Pop-up)
Low	Immune "Immune" by "Low"	Secret Name	Kranky		1:32:57 (Pop-up)
Jean-Baptiste Favory	Ciels "Ciels" by "Jean-Baptiste Favory"	Ciels	Feeding Tube Records		1:36:29 (Pop-up)
Low	Born by the Wires "Born by the Wires" by "Low"	Songs for a Dead Pilot	Kranky		1:44:28 (Pop-up)
Susana López	Valhalla "Valhalla" by "Susana López"	The Edge of the Circle	Elevator Bath		1:58:09 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clips-WUSA-CNBC-Climate hell and Cop27	n/a	n/a		2:10:26 (Pop-up)
Cool Maritime	Big Earth Energy "Big Earth Energy" by "Cool Maritime"	Big Earth Energy	Western Vinyl		2:11:43 (Pop-up)

Adrian Quesada	Ídolo (Feat. Angelica Garcia)	Boleros Psicodelicos	ATO		2:22:07 (Pop-up)
Ghost Funk Orchestra	A New Kind of Love (part 2)	A New Kind of Love	Colemine Records		2:26:03 (Pop-up)
Al-Qasar	Barbès Barbès (feat. Mehdi Haddab)	Who Are We?	Glitterbeat		2:30:01 (Pop-up)
Low	Dancing and Blood "Dancing and Blood" by "Low"	Double Negative	Sub Pop		2:36:39 (Pop-up)
Seb Martel	Seventy Feat Sabrina Bellaouel	Saturn 63	InFiné		2:43:04 (Pop-up)
Diatom Deli	Sunday's Dying Light "Sunday's Dying Light" by "Diatom Deli"	Time-Lapse Nature	Rving Intl.		2:48:09 (Pop-up)
Low	Don't Walk Away "Don't Walk Away" by "Low"	HEY WHAT	Sub Pop		2:54:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:10am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian where is everyone?!
	♥ 3:12am ike̶̬̕: Greetings, humans.
	♥ 3:12am Brian D: Hey Chris! Glad this thing is on!
	♥ 3:12am Brian D: Hello Ike!
	⚡ ♥ 3:15am fred: Hello Brian and listeners
	♥ 3:16am ike̶̬̕: This news is 3 to 5 hours old now but if you haven't noticed, AP has called it for the Democratic senator in Nevada, so Dems have held the Senate.
	♥ 3:17am StringOFperils: Still counting, and still discounting. Hey, is it safe to stand on this thing?
	♥ 3:19am Brian D: Yes, Ike, I saw that. One of my clips may be a bit dated as a result.
	♥ 3:19am Brian D: I'm just glad the mic was working. Mercury must be in retrograde. The board is acting funky.
	♥ 3:21am Brian D: By the way, hello Fred and String.
	♥ 3:22am StringOFperils: Hi!
	♥ 3:29am StringOFperils: So long, Keith L whose guitar slashing still sounds pretty fresh.
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: Those first PiL records held up pretty well over 40 years (gasp!)
	♥ 3:57am ike̶̬̕: Sean Patrick Maloney is such a complete and total jackass. He pushed (or "bigfooted", which I didn't know could be used as a verb until this happened) a more progressive representative, Mondaire Jones, out of his seat and then lost the seat in a blue district. Of course Jones came down here to NY-10 and screwed up our primary race too. Lots of blame should also go to Jay Jacobs, the hateful and corrupt Chair of the NY State Democratic Committee, who, like SPM, cares more about fighting progressive Dems than fighting Republicans.
	⚡ ♥ 3:57am fred: Maloney wasted no time blaming AOC for his loss. Not sure how he think that works
	♥ 4:02am ike̶̬̕: @fred, word to the max. (Remember when people used to say "word to the max"? No? Anyway, definitely, yes.)
	4:03am Foutracbaldisco: Hi Brian, hi all listeners
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: The redistricting was a huge factor, but the Dems didn't respond well, and had no strategy. They ended up campaigning against themselves.
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: Hello Foutracbaldisco!
	⚡ ♥ 4:06am Michael of Cologne: Golden morning Brian & all. You guys over there have quite a week. A noticeable change of mood. And maybe that malicious, mendacious clown is losing his grip on the GOP.
	♥ 4:08am Brian D: Hello Michael. Fingers crossed...
	♥ 4:11am ike̶̬̕: The corruption of the state-level Dem leadership is reflected in the official Brooklyn Dem Party as well -- focusing all their efforts on grifting and fighting Democratic reform groups instead of fighting Republicans in southern Brooklyn. As a result, we lost seats in southern Brooklyn that could've been won.
	♥ 4:13am ike̶̬̕: www.thecity.nyc...
	⚡ 4:14am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, Chris, fred, String, Ike, Michael (and any silent listeners). joining late because I just got up after getting back at 4 am from a gig in Helsinki. I lived in ireland for a while and hell yeah, don't say the word Londonderry to anyone in the Republic of Ireland.
	⚡ ♥ 4:17am fred: @Don: How did the gig go?
	⚡ ♥ 4:19am Heidee: Good morning all! Dang, missed all the good info, will go back to the archives!
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: Greetings Don! "Londonderry" is NOT my preferred name for the city.
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: And good morning, Heidee!
	⚡ 4:23am Don in Tampere: @fred, the gig went really well and we made some new fans It was only the second one with our new bassist Jypi but it's clearer and clearer that he is a perfect fit to the band.
	4:27am feral parsnip: very sad to learn of m parker's passing. getting teary about it.
	⚡ ♥ 4:28am Heidee: What's your music, Don?
	♥ 4:29am Brian D: I can relate @Feral. She was far too young. And, I can't imagine losing one's life partner...
	⚡ ♥ 4:30am fred: @Ike: I saw this play out here too. They feel more threatened by progressives than by the right, which makes sense on several levels. So they withhold support at best, a passive-aggressive path to losing
	⚡ 4:35am Don in Tampere: Heidee, the band is Dark Bottle, sort of punk-Americana but with elements of krautrock and stoner and doom metal instead of the usual Muddy Roots stuff of heavily tattooed and pierced people playing folks songs fast and badly; sometimes we call it doombilly or krautbilly. Solo I do different stuff and am close to finishing a new remix album called "Banjo Machine Music!
	4:36am Foutracbaldisco: Heartbreaking
	⚡ ♥ 4:37am Brian in UK: Hello Brian.
	♥ 4:39am Brian D: Hey Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 4:40am fred: @Don: You mean you have neither tattoos or piercings? Anyway, when are you playing in Paris or nearby?
	⚡ 4:43am Don in Tampere: Hi Fred, nope, never got either one and figure that at my advanced age there is no need to start. I'd love to play Paris if we could get a gig there and somewhere on the way from Germany, where we're going next August, but I have absoutely zero contacts there.
	⚡ ♥ 4:46am Heidee: @Don, sounds great stuff! 😎🤟😈 Which places in Germany are you touring? Have you got a link?
	⚡ ♥ 4:49am fred: @Don: The scene is bleak: there are few venues between a bar's basement and a 2000+ hall (a long-time issue made worse by the pandemic). Bar shows only make sense if it's a stop on the way, little money there
	♥ 4:51am Ike: @fred, in Europe at least the centrists have the excuse that those are different parties (right?) although I’m sure that doesn’t make it truly feel any better on the ground there. Here, we’re all ostensibly together in the Democratic party. Some states certainly have functional D parties and others… not so much. Some have joked the NY Dems need to placed into receivership and operated by the Michigan Dems from now on.
	⚡ 4:54am Don in Tampere: Heidee, so far we have dates in Bielefeld, Offenbach and Bamberg but working on more. Here's our bandcamp page darkbottle.bandcamp.com... We are also on IG and FB
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am Heidee: @Don, That's great, will be looking out for you! Offenbach is closest to me (Heidelberg) so far, but do let me know if your tour dates around here will expand. :-)
	⚡ 4:57am Don in Tampere: the party landscape varies from country to country. I would say the social democrats in Finland are probably more progressive than their namesakes in Germany (and of course those "wacko radical left" policies progressive American Democrats want are to a large extent things that would count as moderately social democratic or would not even be questioned by conservatives, such as free education and public health care.
	⚡ ♥ 4:59am fred: @Ike: Different system for sure, parties come and go. Here the "socialist" party went the way you describe into a sudden collapse. Not applicable in the US. So we have a center-right party, a growing fascist one, and a populist ego-cult on the left with little staying power. Scary situation. Grassroots progressives abound, but they are ignored by the media and weakened by (surprise) bitter infighting
	⚡ 5:00am Don in Tampere: While the Vasemmistoliitto (left alliance) is my preferred party in Finland for local elections, where I can vote, but Die Linke in Germany(where I've been a citizen since 2007) is out of the question for me as long as they have populists like Sahra Wagenkneckt who are sometimes hard to tell from AfD in their rhetoric. Heidee, Heidelberg/MannheimLudwigshafen would be awesome but so far no luck, and I don't know the current venue scene. I am going to try to get into the Krone in Darmstadt, which is a little closer than Offenbach. (I lived in Franfurt/M for 24 years, by the way)
	⚡ ♥ 5:03am fred: @Don: thanks for the link, I'll give it a listen and see if I know someone who could help setting up a gig (unlikely though)
	⚡ ♥ 5:03am Heidee: @Don, wow you were living here for such a long time? You must be fluent in Deutsch. Where are you located now, actually back in Tampere? - Krone in DA is a nice venue, BTW.
	5:05am Chris Crisco: Have to say I'm surprised the red wave fizzled out. Dems showed a will to lose throughout. How the Nazi Party even managed to hijack the term "woke" and re-brand it as anti-white, anti-straight, anti-Christian, anti-American is nothing short of mind boggling. Fortunately enough voters wised up that saving Democracy was more important than giving Elon Muskrat a tax cut. I think Bernie Sanders was an unsung hero going around the country campaigning.
	5:06am Foutracbaldisco: I really appreciate the Low's songs interspersed with other ambiant/field recordings/electronic/ improvised musics. Such a great idea! Wonderful tribute ! You're the third WFMU dj to pay a substantial tribute to Mimi Parker after Joe Belock and Mary Wing, yours is my favorite one. (I was sure you were going to do it!). Your show is quite touching. Thank you Brian!
	♥ 5:07am Brian D: Thank you for the kind words, Foutracbaldisco. To be named with Joe and Mary is an honor for me.
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am fred: He did say "Highway to (climate) hell". Wing has a... Winglike... cover version
	♥ 5:17am Ike: @chris, the cons also had mind-boggling success on a regional level here in the NYC area blowing isolated gruesome incidents of crime way out of proportion. I call it the Great Fake Republican Crime Wave of ‘22. People in the burbs and southern Brooklyn are absolutely convinced that NYC is a burning post-apocalyptic hellscape of roving cannibalistic mutant homeless people with terrible BO. Sadly the COVID-related hate crimes against Asian-Americans have pushed a lot of them towards the R party as well, as some are now terrified to go out after dark, and some are falling prey to R conspiracy theories going around in Chinese.
	♥ 5:19am Ike: (And Vietnamese, and other languages.)
	⚡ ♥ 5:24am fred: @Ike: We have that here too, fantasies of Islamic states with heavily armed drug dealers enforcing Sharia law (making sense is optional). Seriously I saw a newspaper headline yesterday that ran "Drugs, Islam, Kalash". Then they mention neighborhoods I go through at night with no worries (there are tough ones I avoid, but that's a very different story, about poverty and neglect)
	♥ 5:24am Brian D: @Ike, I'm thinking most of these people fretting about "crime" weren't around in the 1970s. Or even the 1990s.
	⚡ ♥ 5:25am Michael of Cologne: @Don: Any chance of your doing a gig in Cologne? Music Hall?
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Heidee: We are all one world. Music connects.
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: Thanks for the low-down on the Dems, Ike, Fred, Chris, ...
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am fred: Barbès is indeed a dangerous place: I was robbed once there. By cops
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am Heidee: F*ck me, fred.
	♥ 5:35am Brian D: Ah, the French police...
	⚡ ♥ 5:36am fred: I was robbed 4 times so far, half by cops
	⚡ 5:36am Don in Tampere: Michael, I always thought Music Hall was more for better known bands (which we certainly aren't) but I see that the site also says "ob Newcomer". As long as that hasn't started meaning "new car" the way "Oldtimer" means "classic car", it might be an option after all. I'll PM from the chat here if it's ok with you (Heidee, you too) and we can talk about possible places without boring everybody here
	5:38am Chris Crisco: Anyone other than a straight white Christian that support the Nazi Party need to have their head examined.
	⚡ 5:39am Don in Tampere: Actually, any Christian who pays any attention to what Jesus was actually talking about would have no use for the Nazi party or for most of what passes for conservative politics these days.
	⚡ ♥ 5:43am fred: The cops were actually the worst. I got robbed right after christmas one year, they took a CD player, but since they were not cops I asked to get the CD inside and I got it. Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Akira Suite, so I'm sure glad they gave it back to me. Cops just make you strip down to get at all the cash and will beat you up if you say a word
	⚡ ♥ 5:43am Heidee: so does the straight white Christian
	⚡ ♥ 5:44am Heidee: @Don, happy to receive PM
	5:44am LiXiviated Life: All I want right now is a return of civility to citizenship.
	♥ 5:45am Brian D: @Lix, that would be nice, wouldn't it? Good morning, by the way.
	⚡ 5:46am Don in Tampere: Michael, Heidee, the format has changed so I can't send a message, just give WFMU permission to send you my e-mail addresses, but did that.
	5:47am Chris Crisco: For sure even if you are a straight white Christian but especially if you are anything else the Nazi Party hates your guts just for that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am fred: @Heidee: I did see a dance show called Fuck Me this week, by Marina Otero. Too wordy (maybe because I don't understand Spanish), but well worth seeing. I can't say much without spoiling it
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am Heidee: Hah, thanks fred.
	5:54am Foutracbaldisco: Marvellous set, thanks Brian!
	♥ 5:56am Brian D: That's almost it for me, folks. Thank you all for joining me. RIP Mimi Parker, Keith Levene and Garry Roberts. Stay safe and have a great week, everyone.
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am Michael of Cologne: Yes, Don. Let's exchange e-mails. I'll check out WFMU instructions. Bye all!
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am fred: Thanks Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am Heidee: Thanks Brian, intruiging show
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am Heidee: intriguing
	6:04am LiXiviated Life: Greeting from the edge of Schenectady
	9:03am John Paul: So cool to hear our relatives the John-Pauls on your show!

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