Listener comments!

Thu. 8/13/09 9:03am From: annie

good morning trouble...

Thu. 8/13/09 9:05am From: trouble

good morning annie! good morning all!

Thu. 8/13/09 9:14am From: dale

another fine summer day in the northeast. the music warms things up, however.

Thu. 8/13/09 9:21am From: listener mark

good morning everyone
wow, I wake up, turn on the stereo, and get hit with "I'll never let you go" Interesting way to start my day.

Thu. 8/13/09 9:33am From: annie

mark, thanks for your help with my mouse issues!! i have anew laser mouse now..

Thu. 8/13/09 9:33am From: Laurie

If it's any consolation, it's very gray and dreary looking here in Miami.

By the by, how did you like Julie & Julia?

Thu. 8/13/09 9:37am From: cornliquordrinker

GOOD LAWD!

Thu. 8/13/09 9:37am From: listener mark

you 're welcome annie. How's the garden with all the rain? I must say I've got all sorts of mushrooms popping up under the trees! Strange looking!

Thu. 8/13/09 9:41am From: trouble

julie and julia: meryl streep was fantastic and charming. the julia story was presented so much better than the julie powell story. julie was made all vanilla and weepy. not like the book at all! i would highly suggest reading both the books; "julie and julia", and "my life in france".

Thu. 8/13/09 9:44am From: jiveass

Swinscoe is nice and nasteee. keep it up

Thu. 8/13/09 9:44am From: annie

mark, it has been soggy and pitiful. it seems the only things that have been happy are the carrots. the fingerlings i planted went to the blight, but the second planting of sets seems to have avoided it. i will have a fallcrop of new potatoes... i have discovered a small red mushroom in the hickory sapling grove over in the sahed area. they are tiny little things, not edible..

Thu. 8/13/09 9:58am From: Cecile

I agree, trouble, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Filmmakers have a hard time portraying prickly women as likeable.

And it's Nora Ephron directing. She's not so great with complexity...

I also missed the omnipresence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - in the book they are always watching Buffy.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:01am From: trouble

i agree cecile. it was enjoyable, but i always want the big cinematic experience when i see a film on the big screen vs renting netflix, i guess...

Thu. 8/13/09 10:07am From: Cecile

I had a lovely time. i went with a friend who wasn't that familiar with either, and he was enchanted so that made it for me.

I agree, she should probably be doing TV movies. I like a lot of her other works much better on TV.

And just think, you can netflix it and skip to all the Julia bits!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:17am From: Cecile

Sorry, killed the board. ;)

Hey, trouble, did you get Season 2 of FOTC yet?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:18am From: Devin

Good morning everyone! It's thursday already?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:21am From: Cecile

randy newman wrote this song, right?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:25am From: north guinea hills

a new sandy bull release? Wow! Is it a rerelease newly found archival material?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:25am From: trouble

yes randy newman wrote i think it's going to rain. and the Flight of the conchords is on my queue, soon, soon, soon.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:25am From: listener mark

Trouble, I ordered two alice coltrane cd's "Journey In Satchidananda " and "Ptah The El Daoud" thanks for playing Alice on your radio programme.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:25am From: north guinea hills

*rerelease OR newly found archival material.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:27am From: listener mark

trouble? are you battling the plumber?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:30am From: listener mark

the noisy plumber?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:32am From: Listener Dave from NH

I suspect that the people behind the rubber room rerub are not Chicago's Rubberroom.
But who knows? Maybe they've lightened up.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:32am From: PMD

Hi all--- I was away from the station yesterday, but wanted to wish Carmichael happy birthday!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:34am From: Cecile

YES BEEFHEART

Happy Birthday Carm!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:37am From: what?

we queued up early and got our FOTC fix on Tuesday. it's a novel experience to (for once) get a netflix disc that isn't so scratched up i have to break out the toothpaste.

first two or three episodes were a bit disappointing, but they seem to have hit their stride by the end of the first disc.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:39am From: trouble

listener mark, congratulations for entering the hallowed halls of alice coltrane. and yes i am battling the plumber, and i am winning

Thu. 8/13/09 10:40am From: Cecile

The second episode? That's astonishing! Watch it again! Sugalumps? The New Cup?

But I agree, the series was a little bit wobbly at first.
And the Michel Gondry ep (Unnatural Love) is brilliant.

Yeah, a clean Netflix disc is awesome. I got a How I Met Your Mother (shut UP!) disc that looked like it had been dragged thru gravel by a 20 mule team.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:41am From: Cecile

Tell me about using toothpaste, though, to fix a bad disc.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:42am From: Adrian in London

(whispers) Am I the only person who just doesn't get FOTC?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:43am From: Cecile

No. You are not the only one.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:45am From: north guinea hills

classic skylab, nice! brings back memories....

Thu. 8/13/09 10:48am From: wha?

'lil bit of toothpaste on the fingertip. 'lil bit of water on the disc. rub in tight circles (2-3 mm diameter) all around the disc. rinse and dry. it seems to work on all but most seriously pitted problem discs.

forget where i heard about this technique first. i would never have tried it with my own discs, but then i don't subject my own discs to the 20-mule team (LOL, by the way) treatment.

Thu. 8/13/09 10:50am From: Cecile

Thanks!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:50am From: patrick

good morning trouble! im looking forward to seeing you!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:52am From: Listener Dave from NH

Whenever I hear the name Skylab, I always think of the old Ed Rush tune first (because I heard the song before I heard of the group) and then I'm invariably kind of taken aback for a moment by what I hear because where's the gnarly bass and the rolling drums?

Thu. 8/13/09 10:54am From: steve krinsky

Oumou is quite the presence in the Bela Fleck goes to Africa movie ("Throw Down Your Heart"); to see here walking through the streets of Bamako is a sight. And then she sings!

Thu. 8/13/09 10:56am From: trouble

good morning patrick! I am thrilled to be soon entering the great state of maine...

Thu. 8/13/09 11:02am From: Cecile

wow, space age doo-wop
love it

Thu. 8/13/09 11:02am From: trouble

oumou sangare definitley has the look of someone who has tred this earth before...thousands of years of history in those hips.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:03am From: listener doug

I once got a postcard written by Linda Gail Lewis when I sent for info on the Jerry Lee Lewis fan club when I was about 8 in the early 70s!

Thu. 8/13/09 11:03am From: hfox

great!

Thu. 8/13/09 11:06am From: Cecile

listener doug that and you are awesome.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:10am From: Parq

Been listening most-all AM, but just got the puter now. So . . .

1) HAPPY BD CARM! Hope you will celebrate in classic style. Give yourself a treat and use one of the good glasses.

2) Speaking of FotC, Miss Trouble, my swag arrived yesterday and it included the Season One DVD I won on a drawing during one of your 'thon shifts. Many thanks.

3) Wha, any kind of toothpaste? We are toothpaste hippies and use Tom's.

4) Thanks for Nina's "Rain Today" -- God, was there any song she couldn't improve?

Thu. 8/13/09 11:13am From: annie

happy birthday carm!!!

Thu. 8/13/09 11:13am From: esch oder anarchie!

tres k&d

Thu. 8/13/09 11:14am From: Ceco;e

Parq, you must also hear Jerry Butler's version - if you haven't - of "Rain".

Thu. 8/13/09 11:14am From: Cecile

der, spell your own name right...

Thu. 8/13/09 11:15am From: north guinea hills

oh...goddamn, rahied ali continues his journey...

Thu. 8/13/09 11:16am From: Bill W

I'm late to this topic, but Nora Ephron helped kill the intelligent American comedy film (along with John Landis and John Hughes).

Also, weather permitting tonight in Brighton/Coney: Blondie / Pat Benatar/ The Donnas.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:17am From: north guinea hills

his contribution to john coltrane's "interstellar space" is phenomenal

Thu. 8/13/09 11:24am From: dc pat

wow, nice version of hangin on..

Thu. 8/13/09 11:29am From: annie

i'm still listening, really really..

Thu. 8/13/09 11:32am From: Cecile

I am so sorry that Rashid Ali have left this plane.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:32am From: Cecile

has

Thu. 8/13/09 11:33am From: annie

i like the first one, better

Thu. 8/13/09 11:34am From: LizGig

I don't understand why everyone hasn't adopted a plastic bag tax yet. It's been hugely successful in reducing plastic bag pollution, and it's a completely voluntary tax. If you don't take a bag, you don't pay it. It's fantastic. Seattle, please vote for the plastic bag tax.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:35am From: annie

the anti-natural gas meetings and information sessions are riddled with people in the audience who are also placed by the drilling companies to pad the audience.. we witnessed it right here in walton.. we even asked who was there to represent the gas companies, .. a few hands actually went up.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:37am From: Ike

LizGig, yeah, we NEED a plastic bag tax but taxes of *any* kind are often political suicide and I'm sure Big Oil discourages that *everywhere* behind the scenes too.

I try to remember always to take canvas bags to the supermarket. Some cashiers used to look at me like I was crazy when I said I didn't want a plastic bag, but they're getting used to it.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:43am From: Parq

Getting Americans to convert wholesale to canvas bags instead of supermarket-plastic, and also getting them to support a new tax to encourage the switch-over -- yeah, good luck with that.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:43am From: trish

5cents per bag now in Toronto. It's had a significant effect. 70% fewer bags or something in that ball park.

At the grocery store, it's odd not to have your own bag and carry plastic. Nice to have the 5cent option when you're caught wtihout, though

Thu. 8/13/09 11:45am From: LizGig

The official line on plastic bags in Ireland:

http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Waste/PlasticBags/ (dreadfully written). Note that before the tax was introduced, 1.2 BILLION bags were used per year - in a country of fewer than 5 million people.

And here's the Citizens Information page, which clearly lists the exemptions :http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/environment/waste-management-and-recycling/plastic_bag_environmental_levy

Thu. 8/13/09 11:45am From: north guinea hills

and as you know, nyc loves to put stuff in as many bags as possible. when i moved here 9 years ago, i couldn't believe a can of juice would be put in a paper bag and then a plastic bag......

when you tell them that you don't need a bag, that think you are crazy (as Ike mentrioned)

Thu. 8/13/09 11:47am From: trish

Ireland also had the benefit of this young woman : http://www.google.ca/search?q=Rebecca+Hosking

Thu. 8/13/09 11:48am From: still b/p

You can't count -- I say you CAN'T count -- the number of times I've stood there inattentively zoned out with a couple of canvas shopping bags tucked under my arm while the checker proceeeds to put things into plastic. The "Doh!"-cery store. Habit of bringing/using has finally gotten ahead of habit of forgettin' I brung 'em.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:49am From: trish

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/23/plasticbags.recycling

There's a good documentary out there on the story, too. Somewhere.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:50am From: LizGig

It was like that here before the tax: shop assistants would look at you like you were nuts for not taking a bag. Once someone refused to sell me something if I didn't take a bag. But once the tax came in people's attitudes changed very quickly. However, more and more shops now have paper bags, and they will often be offered even for two items. So if you're anti-waste, you still need to be vigilant. But at least the waste is compostable.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:51am From: north guinea hills

still b/p, i'm stealing "The "Doh!"cery store" from you.lultz

Thu. 8/13/09 11:51am From: annie

this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXjnW3nIWg

Thu. 8/13/09 11:53am From: trish

Calling it a tax is a misnomer. Consumers pay for the use of plastic bags. The bylaw in Toronto requires retailers to charge customers at least 5cents for each bag.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:54am From: dc pat

SPARKLE!! WOOOOooooOOQ!

Thu. 8/13/09 11:56am From: LizGig

It is actually a tax in Ireland. The money is remitted to Revenue. It is allegedly earmarked to fund green initiatives, but I expect it just goes into the central pot.

Thu. 8/13/09 11:58am From: trouble

hey i am psyched the seattle bag ref has sparked so much banter here...cheerio

Thu. 8/13/09 11:59am From: Ike

Still B/P, I had the same problem. I'm finally getting a handle on it.

Thu. 8/13/09 12:00pm From: Cecile

hee, Ike. handle.

We have the resuable bags. We just have to remember to bring them into the store. Baby steps.

Thu. 8/13/09 12:00pm From: trish

hm! Pay for use here. One of the big grocery chains implemented the charge before it became a bylaw. Their plastic bags are the most biodegradable of all the chains, too. Tomato tomato.

Thu. 8/13/09 12:02pm From: trish

Er, they announced it before the bylaw passed. Started a month later. Edged it out on the media end, serving my memory wrong.

Thu. 8/13/09 12:29pm From: _c_

hello, I want more pere ubu. and some ctephin.

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