Listener comments!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:02am From: annie

good morning bw!!!! good morning everyone

Mon. 5/18/09 9:04am From: Joe Steele

Buenos Lunes.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:05am From: annie

be forewarned, i am banging the drum this week for an equal-time tribute to utah phillips. greatly underappreciated, yet very vital and important part of our cultural history

Mon. 5/18/09 9:07am From: annie

.........just sayin....

Mon. 5/18/09 9:09am From: bw

go annie go!!!!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:12am From: annie

i'll try hard not to be overly annoying, striving towards cloyingly sweet

Mon. 5/18/09 9:16am From: Parq

Yesterday at noon, was in one of those upstate small towns taken over by the artsy set. It's one of those towns that still have noon whistles. I was reminded of that Robert Klein bit about how sirens otherwise meant a nuclear attack, and he used to wonder, what if they bombed at noon? The "fifth column" reference got me musing.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:18am From: bw

I heard a siren test the other day and thought a similar thing

we live in different times now

Mon. 5/18/09 9:19am From: annie

funny, that, parq. i was in walton for the day and around two oclock the fire horn blew an alarm three separate times.. 5-1-1. made me wonder what the code was..

Mon. 5/18/09 9:21am From: dc pat

yeah, stardust! way to start the week...

Mon. 5/18/09 9:21am From: BSI

sirens, eh?
I read something last week about NORAD doing late-night test-flights & aerial manoevers over DC soon, so we've got our paranoia underwear out of the fridge & ready for action...... Bring on the Black Airships of the Apocalypse!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:22am From: dc pat

in Glover Park in DC sometimes I hear this low moan of a "siren" over toward Georgetown. I have no idea what it is and it freaks me out.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:23am From: dc pat

cool BSI... did you ever see/hear a "stealth" bomber flying over our fair colony?

Mon. 5/18/09 9:25am From: BSI

DCP: not so far, praise Allah. ... All the 'stealth bombers' I need are waiting for me at Ben's Chili Bowl...

Mon. 5/18/09 9:25am From: annie

growing up on long island, there was an airport or something near us and on some nights a sweeping searchlight would splay across the sky over and over. it scared the bejeebers out of me... took me a long to to not be afraid of that.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:26am From: dc pat

funny thing is, those motherfuckers are loud and scary....not very stealthy

Mon. 5/18/09 9:27am From: Joe Steele

Ah yes, the cruel, totalitarian justice of Stardust.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:28am From: Joe Steele

I grew up across the street from a prison. Sirens meant escape.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:28am From: Cecile

mornin' all.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:28am From: Chad

Anyone else hear a siren in South WIliamsburg/Bed-Stuy a few times a wek? I always thought it was a lunch whistle or something but now I think it sounds too crazy for that.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:32am From: cornertavern

This is an awesome solo version of this song. wow.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:32am From: Parq

Okay, I'm stumped - someone remind me who had the 70s hit with this "Borderline" song.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:32am From: BSI

Approx. age 5, we had an apartment just a few doors down from a civil defense air-raid-type siren which did regular tests -- Being that close, was fascinating as a kid to listen to the thing wind all the way down, that last descent to barely-audible, almost sub-bass silence... Oddly beautiful noise.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:34am From: Cecile

Madonna, parq

Mon. 5/18/09 9:35am From: Devin

Mernin' ya'll's

Mon. 5/18/09 9:36am From: annie

well, i saw "the soloist"..... i could not stop the tears, it was awful and beautiful.... and i mean that in the best of ways... the music was incredible.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:37am From: Parq

No way, really? Yep, I just looked it up. Sorry I doubted you, but I would have bet money that was a mid-70s song. Ah, my mushy memory.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:38am From: Parq

McGinty and White are doing a webcast on East Village Radio tonight. Just a plug, I'm a fan of Joe's.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:40am From: Cecile

Her first record, and get into the groove had her best songs on it.
After that, not so much. That's just me, though.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:42am From: annie

i admired madonna for her gutsy music for a long time, not so much now.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:43am From: dc pat

before we get to far into this may I just say that Madonna has absolutely no meaning to me at all...I just do not care about her or her music...that's it.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:44am From: bw

i remember bein on the school bus in the 7th grade and some kids had madona in playboy - there was something really scarey about how this dude was into the pictures.. and I just didn't think they were so hot! I got called GAY!!!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:44am From: annie

those stupid costumes, though.....

Mon. 5/18/09 9:45am From: Parq

I mostly dug Madonna for her personal independence -- she was the only female popstar I knew of who wasn't being controlled by a "producer" or "manager" who was actually her boyfriend or husband. And I gotta admit, her "Blonde Ambition" persona was totally hot.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:45am From: Bad Ronald

I liked her dunce-cap brassiere.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:47am From: karao

morning all, morning bw!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:48am From: BSI

bw: I had a similar experience, but the mag in question was High Society, w/Jodie Foster pictorial (1981ish?).. It was like watching feral demons fighting over a kill... Somehow I wasn't impressed, which spells social DOOM for a 7th grader! Explains everything!

Mon. 5/18/09 9:50am From: PMD

Morning! Nice music! now I'm back to work.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:51am From: annie

parq, word up.. i loved "vogue". she continually redefined herself. "who's that girl", her early movies, etc... she just had fun with music and her liberating talent.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:53am From: zoot

Gosh, for me it was Lily Langtry in a penny dreadful. She sure did have a well-turned ankle.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:56am From: dc pat

yeah but can't you say the same thing about some one like Wendy O. Williams? at least she was interesting.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:57am From: dc pat

or better yet the amazing Ari Up. In my mind, she's WAY more important than Madonna.

Mon. 5/18/09 9:59am From: BSI

VIVA TRASH HUMPER!

Mon. 5/18/09 10:01am From: Cecile

I think you can find inspiration in all kind of things.
I mean I revere Mark E. Smith, Steve Lacy and Ronnie James Dio

Mon. 5/18/09 10:03am From: holland oats

this is quite mad you know

Mon. 5/18/09 10:04am From: Parq

Zoot, pictures of Lilly, Lilly oh Lilly! Pat, wasn't there a boyfriend behind Wendy O?

Mon. 5/18/09 10:06am From: Cecile

I think it's interesting that men getting assistance from women is nothing to wriite about, but if a man helps out a woman in her career however innocently or not, it instantly negates whatever talent she may have.

Help is help. we all get help.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:07am From: Cecile

rant over.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:08am From: bw

MIA??? what to think about this?
http://twitter.com/_M_I_A_

Mon. 5/18/09 10:11am From: dc pat

Parq: Don' t know about that--I just think if we're talking inspiring, revolutionary women, who gives a shit about Madonna? Her music blows.

Oh yeah, M.I.A, now there's a rockin woman!

Mon. 5/18/09 10:13am From: dc pat

wow, M.I.A. is an Orioles fan??

Mon. 5/18/09 10:14am From: annie

thank god for comic-book science!!

Mon. 5/18/09 10:18am From: bw

1030 we gonna talk to the dude who put this together
http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2009/5/20/steve-mcqueen

any steve Mcqueen fans out there?

Mon. 5/18/09 10:19am From: dc pat

oh yeah, McQueen rules.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:22am From: BSI

Steve McQueen was the schnizzit. Whatever that means.
Hell, even Love With A Perfect Stranger was decent, despite the lack of car chases and mutually assured destruction...

Mon. 5/18/09 10:22am From: bw

whoops - better link here: http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/mcqueen.html

Mon. 5/18/09 10:29am From: Parq

'Cile, getting help is one thing, being controlled is another. It irks me when a female popstar is marketed as a tough, think-for-herself role model for pre-teen girls, and the truth is that she can't have breakfast without her "producer" getting up from his side of the bed to tell her what to order. And when a woman controls a man to that degree, it *is* big news, the obvious example being Nancy Reagan.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:30am From: Parq

Answering rant over.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:31am From: annie

i love the comments section :)

Mon. 5/18/09 10:34am From: Cecile

The first part I agree with you. M*** C*** is way more honest than Avril Lavigne. (I don't like either of their music, but that's neither here nor there.)

The second part, hmmmm, it's a lot more prevalent, just less publicized than you think.

Rebuttal with qualifications over.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:37am From: cornertavern

@Parq re: the "grrl" female pop star that can't order breakfast for herself... I'll coin a term for it: "bland ambition"

pun interjection over...

Mon. 5/18/09 10:38am From: trish

Portrayal of women in media is just as errant as portrayal as men in media.

It's the portrayal that betrays the individual, whoever they are?

Mon. 5/18/09 10:40am From: trish

er, 'portrayal OF men'

Mon. 5/18/09 10:43am From: dc pat

talk about the Blob!

Mon. 5/18/09 10:43am From: Carmichael

Good morning Mr. Walker and fervent list contributors.

Greeting over.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:51am From: Cecile

whoo hoodoo gurus

Mon. 5/18/09 10:52am From: Cecile

the second in their WW II song series, the other being "Tojo"

Mon. 5/18/09 10:53am From: dc pat

ooo, I wonder what sadistic form of punishment Stardust has in store for them..

Mon. 5/18/09 10:55am From: Cecile

stardust is kind of a dick

Mon. 5/18/09 10:55am From: cornertavern

cruel, totalitarian justice indeed!

Mon. 5/18/09 10:56am From: dc pat

ok, what's the story with Urichipangoon?? This is my new favorite song.

Mon. 5/18/09 10:57am From: bw

my new fav too!
no idea about em though

next week I am gonna go to Montreal! viva canada

Mon. 5/18/09 11:01am From: dc pat

their myspace page is in Japanese. They're playing w/ Deerhoof somewhere at some point--that should be good...

Mon. 5/18/09 11:07am From: Carmichael

The loyal youth of the country all seem so happy ....

Mon. 5/18/09 11:07am From: Parq

Ben, thanks so much for the "Stardust" series, in which each new plot is more preposterous than the last. And what is it with this guy and flinging unprotected bad guys into outer space? DC and Marvel superheros never engaged in mass slaughter.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:09am From: Carmichael

Cecile, I just read that the FOTC are playing UC Berkeley next month. Are they on tour?

Mon. 5/18/09 11:09am From: Joe Steele

There's just no way to stop him. He's frightening.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:09am From: cornertavern

ditto re: stardust. amazing.
Ben - your premium next year should be a stardust t-shirt.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:09am From: Devin

Swell!!!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:11am From: bw

2 weeks from now my guest will be Paul Karasik who put TWO stardust books together!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:11am From: Cecile

Oh, yes. Saw them in Minneapolis about 2 weeks ago. Just amazing. The venue security/ushers? not so much

Mon. 5/18/09 11:12am From: Joe Steele

He's sending children into battle!?

Mon. 5/18/09 11:13am From: Cecile

he is SUCH a tool.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:16am From: Carmichael

Then I must go see them. And I shall beware of evil ushers.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:18am From: Stardust

*causes Cecile and Joe to rise helplessly into the air*

Mon. 5/18/09 11:18am From: Cecile

there's a lot of interplay, and dry humor, and they tweak the songs a lot. THey also usually have someone comically fantastic opening for them. We saw Eugene Mirman who was so damn funny we were exhausted by the third joke.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:18am From: Devin

Urichipangoon's buddy, Oorutaichi, was on Liz Bergs show a couple months ago. Good stuff.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:19am From: Carmichael

Joe and 'Cile have become the 7th column.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:19am From: Cecile

whee!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:19am From: Cecile

me and joe are our own gang

Mon. 5/18/09 11:22am From: Joe Steele

We probably couldn't even assemble peacefully against Stardust's Stalin-esqe tactics. He'd turn us into space worms and feed us to the flaming superhawks from Jupiter.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:24am From: bw

I wou7ld pee myself if I saw a bunch of blond american boys comin my way with superpowers!!!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:25am From: Joe Steele

And, curiously, all in suits.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:27am From: RW

Is that Urichipangoon track from a specific album? Loved it.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:27am From: Cecile

giving a blitzkrieg indeed

And Joe, the cruelest part is that being spaceworms, we couldn't give the finger to our raptor devourer at the last minute, like the little mouse does on the tee shirt.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:27am From: bw

the cd is called GIANT CLUB

Mon. 5/18/09 11:29am From: Cecile

I suddenly hear Fabio's theme sone

Mon. 5/18/09 11:29am From: Joe Steele

Say what! I need to see this t-shirt, Cecile.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:29am From: Parq

Ben, re 11:11 post -- I think I'm going to have to take that morning off and stay home to listen to that show. And I gotta hip my comic-book-maven daughter to this whole thing. 'Cile, I'm psyched, I won the FOTC 1st-season dvd from DJ Trouble last 'thon.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:31am From: Parq

Jeez, has anyone ever done a body count for a Stardust adventure?

Mon. 5/18/09 11:32am From: Cecile

Nice, Parq. nice...

Mon. 5/18/09 11:33am From: Cecile

Here you go, Joe.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:33am From: Cecile

http://www.zazzle.com/last_great_act_of_defiance_t_shirt-235077733710664308

Mon. 5/18/09 11:34am From: Joe Steele

At this point, Stardust probably beat out heart disease as the nation's number one killer.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:36am From: Cecile

The claymation Coraline was amazing.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:36am From: Joe Steele

I dig it, though I have too many t-shirts as it is. Including I think 3 due in from WFMU at some point.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:37am From: still b/p

Flaming Superhawks from Jupiter = GNFA 12-member a capella hillbilly bop mob in mylar neckties.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:38am From: Parq

As Ben is pointing out, they kind of insulted the auidence by adding a "boy saves the day for the hapless girl" ending. Other than that, I dug it, but not nearly as much as Wall-E or Ratatouile, or (my fave Pixar) Monstsers Inc.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:38am From: Cecile

actually the movie Coraline scared the crap out of the under 8s in the audience.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:39am From: Ike

Yeah, the Coraline movie was astonishingly good. Adapting it into a play seems like a bizarre idea though.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:40am From: annie

speaking of swag.... have they all gone out? i await a cd from trouble's show..

Mon. 5/18/09 11:40am From: Bill W

I'm pretty sure no one involved with the Coraline musical sees it going to Broadway, but I'd love to see The Garbage Fondler musical.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:41am From: Cecile

Gaiman actually said they added a friend for Coraline because Coraline doing it on screen by herself was not as good visual storytelling. He was completely fine with it.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:42am From: bw

well - I think she could have done the story without the lame boy add on

but other than that I did like the movie

Mon. 5/18/09 11:43am From: Cecile

I liked him, but YMMV.
And there was a huge Michigan in-joke in there which I appreciated.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:45am From: dc pat

FINISH THEM OFF STARDUST!!!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:46am From: Ike

The boy didn't save the day, did he? I don't remember that. He seemed fairly incidental overall. But maybe another cat in his place would've been better. Any movie can always use more cats.

Parq, do you like the Iron Giant and Miyazaki films like Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind? Brilliant stuff.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:48am From: Cecile

Well also partly most little boys want a boy in the movie or they will not go see it.
ITA with more cats.
In face, I want to be that cat.

Ike I like those movies, except for Nausicaa and that's only because I haven't seen it.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:53am From: bw

phew! thanks everybody! it was fun! have a good memorial day Im goin to canada see ya in 2 weeks

Mon. 5/18/09 11:54am From: cornertavern

eh, stardust is going sort. he should have skinned them alive, and beamed the screams and haunting images directly into the minds of every youth on earth - as a warning against all who would oppose America!!

Mon. 5/18/09 11:55am From: Cecile

bw, email me for some good eatin' places if you want.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:55am From: cornertavern

rather, going soft

Mon. 5/18/09 11:57am From: dc pat

yeah, I'll say--he should have sent in some Henry Darger little girls to do the skinning too instead of those lame boys...

Mon. 5/18/09 11:57am From: the true frenchie

HEY we're going to miss you next week! enjoy canada

Mon. 5/18/09 11:57am From: Patrick

This Affection song has to be the most overplayed song on WFMU.

Mon. 5/18/09 11:58am From: Joe Steele

Yeah, wouldn't want to get those Dick Tracy suits messy.

Mon. 5/18/09 12:00pm From: nasok

ahh, my favorite part of monday - affection played at maximum volume

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