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Hip-hop and rap. Yeah, that's where my heart's at. But any genre will fit as long as it ain't crap!
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September 7, 2007: Monkeys Stole My Breakfast (feat. Melina Jones, WonWay Posibul, & Ayentee)
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:07pm
jonathan:
yeah!!!!! the madness is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:11pm
north guinea hills:
that "bolinas blues" track sounded like an entertaining kenny g tune | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:19pm
Dave:
That's my favorite David Cross joke! (It's so wrong!) | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:19pm
billyjam:
this week WFMU'er IKE HULL on the road traveling in Asia - has sent emails and they are included here (COMMENTS) read on....First one was from a week ago with the subject heading "Monkeys Stole My Breakfast" | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:21pm
Ike Hull:
EMAIL #1 part 1: I'm now in Luang Prabang, Laos. So a few weeks ago, I arrived in the town of Lopburi, Thailand. Lonely Planet warns that this is a town "besieged by monkeys" who hang off of storefronts and "smear excrement on car windows." Well, I was keeping an eye out for the buggers as I wandered around eyeing the produce and food vendors, and heading for a cheap hotel, but I didn't see a single simian. I found my hotel, confusingly called both the Asia Lopburi and the Lopburi Asia as well as just the Asia Hotel. No monkeys there either. So that was good. It was institutional-looking and reminded me of Russia, but for about 250 baht (roughly $7.50), I got a room with my own bathroom and shower, and a good ceiling fan. I figured I wouldn't splurge on A/C on that particular night. Often it gets reasonably cool at night in Thailand. At $7.50, with no monkeys in the room, who can complain? Heck, I even had a TV, which I didn't ask for, and didn't really want, since a TV distracts me from going out and wandering around. But the selection of channels solved that problem. Who really wants to watch the Chinese government's English-language slant on the news on CCTV International, or the Russian government's English-language slant on the news on the Russia Today channel, or the U.S. government's slant on the news on Fox News Channel? (Seriously, those were the three English-language news channels available. The other English-language channels were Style TV India, and a sports channel with polo and other very British sports.) | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:22pm
ike hull:
EMAIL cont. >>After all that government propaganda, forgetting about sinister macaques and letting down your guard is easy. But hey, after checking in to the hotel, I went out, wandered around, and got some snapshots of various ruins in the dusk. Still no monkeys. I ate a dinner of prawns and squid from a popular street food hawker. Still no monkeys. So the next morning, I wandered a food market filled with vendors of everything from curries (breakfast, lunch, dinner... people eat curry all the time here) to raw fish, and finally decided to try some of the renowned local fruit. I got a kilo of mangosteens, a strange-looking purple fruit about the size of an apple. It has a very thick skin; you crack it open from the bottom and the flesh on the inside is white, translucent, and sweet, in small tangerine-slice-shaped pieces. Describing the taste is difficult; it's not strong, like the famed stinky durian fruit. It's a mild citrusy flavor, like a toned-down tangerine with a hint of dulled lime. It's fantastic! You can't get it in the U.S., except maybe in L.A., where you'll pay $50 a pound for it! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:23pm
Ike Hull:
pt 3>>> So I was just walking down the street with a bag of mangosteens hanging off my arm (looped around my wrist in such a way that they were difficult to drop), minding my own business, taking pictures of wats in Lopburi, and a bunch of the simian twerps suddenly appeared out of nowhere and one jumped right onto the bag of fruit. I couldn't drop it right away, so I swung the bag around 360 degrees trying to fling the bastard off. But he tore it open in an instant, and they gobbled up the mangosteens as the fruit tumbled across the sidewalk. I'm lucky they didn't take my camera too, which was in my left hand. And that they didn't bite me or pick my pocket. Others have had those experiences, reportedly. I wasn't fast enough to snap a shot of the monkeys approaching or actually in the act of theft, but I got a few shots of them scarfing down the stolen goods. The little assmunches! I'd love to go back there with a bag of wooden cucumbers and watch their jerky faces as they break their frackin' little teeth trying to eat 'em, but that would probably WOULD get me bitten. Better never to go to Lopburi again, ever, even though a lot of the town was monkey-free and had some amazing ruins. | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:24pm
Ike Hull:
LAST PART OF EMAIL # 1 >>Earlier today I took a long, long, amazingly beautiful but tiring bus ride from Vang Viang, Laos, to Luang Prabang, Laos. And at one of the rest stops, there was a monkey. But he was chained to a tree, eating some rice, and didn't look too unhappy. Now, the quality of almost everything in Laos may be behind Thailand, but at least they keep their damned monkeys securely fastened. Although admittedly, Sukhothai, Thailand, also kept their monkeys locked up, though they used wooden cages. If you're curious about anything, send me your questions. These e-mails are the only records I'm keeping of this trip (besides photos), and my memory is awful, so the more e-mails I write, the more will be remembered. | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:26pm
north guinea hills:
wow, this supermeyer is ugly sick!!!!! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:29pm
Jamie:
This Supermayer.....is awesome. I've already hunted it down. | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:32pm
kris:
whats up Billy! emails from Asia are tops. thnx mang. | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:32pm
Markie Mark:
Billy, Waz UP, its been a while Bro..Take me up... Austin, Texas neeeds it. I am in and ready to Blast off, get ready fo rtyeh weekend, Oh Oh here we Go! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:42pm
north guinea hills:
my homeboy! OCDJ!!! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:45pm
Ike Hull:
Email from Tuesday: Sept. 4::: Pt 1>>I will return to the U.S. on Sept. 18 or 19. Can't remember which. Gotta check the ticket print-out. Not sure if I'll be in New Joisey on the first Friday after that, though, but I'm definitely in town on the Friday following. I crossed the border from Laos into China today. I am in Jinghong, which is pretty cool except that everybody smokes here... on the buses, in the internet cafes, in all the restaurants... I'm not used to that. They didn't do that in Thailand or Laos (except in the very Chinese parts of northern Laos). Ick. | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:46pm
Ike Hull:
second half of Tuesday's email:::On another note, I haven't found any cool music to bring back... I will have to keep an ear out for something to bring back for your show but it's difficult to identify pieces of music in languages that don't use Romanized lettering. (There's one Thai band I'm pretty sure is called Clash... how the hell did they manage to use that name? Didn't anybody tell them it's already taken?) And lots of the music around here is insipid anyway. I started getting used to the Thai pop after a while, but not necessarily loving it, just getting accustomed to it... have to see if I can figure out the art of music hunting while I'm also food hunting. Maybe I should've come in the dry season... it basically rained all day today. Thought the bus might get stuck in some giant mud puddles we went through. Fortunately it did not. I'm sure glad we didn't all have to get out and push! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 3:56pm
Ike Hull:
MOST RECENT EMAIL: from yesterday:>>THURS Ahhhh CRAP... things just got a lot more interesting... my credit cards and virtually all of my cash were stolen by a pickpocket. That's never happened to me before. This dude must've been really, really good at pickpocketing. Oh well... trying to call the Visa company, even with their 800 number for southern China, has been a real adventure. Funny how the local telephone lines don't work too well, and you can't make collect calls without paying something yourself, but e-mail is just fine (if a little slow at times). Son of a bitch! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 4:45pm
Mathhew Monk-E:
monkeys ate my rekkids and now they're climbing up a tree and laughing at me" -said Mother in a dream's dream - dreamy huh | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 5:09pm
cobra:
great tunes | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 5:11pm
cobra:
kanye west is a goon. get him off my radio! | |
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Fri. 9/7/07 5:12pm
north guinea hills:
thanks for the tunes. it's making hard to leave work on a friday afternoon. peace. | |
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Sat. 9/8/07 10:28am
Lisa Michelle:
Hey Billy Jam!! Didnt get to listen live, but listening now. Hope all is well!! See you at the Cake Shop. | |
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