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February 27, 2012: A440 Marathon, Week Two!
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Listener comments! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:11pm
Skirkie in the phone room:
800-989-9368 | |
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![]() Hi Bethany and Irene - I didnt see a playlist page so I set this up. Hope thats OK! hahaha |
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![]() Hi Skirkie in the Phone Room. |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:13pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
What the? 54% already? That's pretty good. WF is going to be wagging his doggy tail tonight! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:14pm
Skirkie in the phone room:
I wish I was unable to respond due to being on the phone. You guys got the number? | |
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![]() I know the number. It's 800 something. |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:17pm
Caryn:
Yay, doing well with the numbers so far! Kepp pledging, people! It ain't over til the Wagnerian soprano hits a high E sharp! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:18pm
Robert:
Now see, what you should give as a premium is an A440 tuning fork, saying you had it custom made for the show -- when of course that's a stock item, marked exactly that way. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:18pm
Skirkie in the phone room:
I love Stravinsky. Did I mention I went over my limit just now pledging again? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:20pm
Caryn:
Need to go sell stuff tomorrow to be able to pledge and get the premium! (see, being Finnish, the love of the tango is in my blood, so of course I gotta have it!) | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:21pm
Robert:
In med school I was told to get a C512 and C128 to test for hearing and vibration sense, respectively -- so I split the dif and got a C256, which is useless for both. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:22pm
G:
or for either, either | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:24pm
Robert:
"Halloween"? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:28pm
Robert:
This show is threatening to go way over goal. We want to find out how much money it takes to make MU cow move. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:30pm
Caryn:
The "up yours" pledge: a rich guy pledging a million bucks to WFMU as a giant "up yours" to commercial radio. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:30pm
tr\sh:
Just read a short story by the late K. Vonnegut called Tango. Reads a dancing pivotal line, "The heady Latin music wandered in through his ears, found nobody at home under his crew cut , and took command of his long, thin body." | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:30pm
R I S K Y:
Go Bethany! Wag tail Wag!!! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:31pm
Doug S.:
tr/sh, we gotta stop meeting like this. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:32pm
Ric:
Fastest goal total. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:32pm
Robert:
trish, last year I introduced Ken to one of the "whales" Andy B. says you should fish for. AFAIK, however, it led only to an interesting lunch they had together. $ I don't know. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:33pm
Snortley:
Pledge and get Bethany's premium; I did. Then check out the TELLUS tango issue: http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_16.html But pledge first! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:34pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
I think it was on a 60 Minutes piece years ago about how the Finns like to tango through the long winter nights. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:36pm
Snortley:
Total dropped down to 89%. Are people taking their money back? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:38pm
Caryn:
@Ken from HP: the 60 Minutes report "Tango Finlandia" was for a while the most-repeated report they ever made. Don't know if it has been passed by another report since then. I can say that we spent part of Christmas Day having a music quiz, where we had to recognize tangos and their performers. That's just how we Finns roll. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:38pm
poutWest:
Give Bethany the Premium... 2 more hours!! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:39pm
Caryn:
Did Ken change the total again? He keeps doing that... | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:42pm
Robert:
Snortley, Kne probably did a pro rata calculation for time and then discounted heavily on a goal amount, taking into account that Bethany is a rookie and a belief that WFMU listeners are interested only in hippie noise, cornball stuff, and paranoid ranting. So now that they see the fans of real music and a sweet DJ have the potential to subsidize all the lonely hippies' entertainment, so the goal was reset. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:45pm
tr\sh:
@Robert. Hm. I don't know about that, but I do know that whales are big into krill. Lots and lots of krill. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:46pm
G:
@Robert: I'd assume the point of the goal is to give prospective pledgers something to contribute toward that has a good shot of being achieved. Having a rigid number that is way too high or low for a given shift defeats that purpose. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:48pm
Robert:
Of course, G. They had Bethany hitting from the ladies' tee, but when she got a hole in 1 they moved on to the pro tee on the par 5. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:49pm
Robert:
Some audiences have been hitting a windmill blade. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:52pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
Will we hear the Metallica cellos tonight? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:53pm
Caryn:
BTW, Bethany, any chance of hearing any classical violin pieces performed by Sergey Khachatryan some time in the future? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 8:59pm
Tom from Gravesend Bklyn !!:
ohyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeee ,,, Sopes Y Gorditas yaa haaaaaaaa !!!!! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:00pm
Marmalade kitty:
whats an eskimo? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:00pm
dan in falls church VA:
hey wait a minute, I didn't know Bethany was back!! Is this any kind of regular thing??? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:01pm
Marmalade kitty:
sounds kinda cute :) | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:01pm
jeff-m:
yeah , weekly one hour show instead of the 3 hours she did on Sunday nights a few years back | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:03pm
Marmalade kitty:
never trust a hippie | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:03pm
Caryn:
Who performs that eskimo tango thing? Her voice is very Doris Day-ish. | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:04pm
tr\sh:
Maybe the hour will soon double to two? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:08pm
dan in falls church VA:
Bethany almost doubled her pledge goal because her listeners are obviously well-heeled...I'm gonna start panhandling here on the playlist -- but not until the marathon is over of course. ;) | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:09pm
answer.com:
Alma Cogan 1955 | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:09pm
dan in falls church VA:
thx Jeff for that there 411. Hi Marmalade Kitty! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:11pm
Marmalade Kitty:
Hi dan! | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:12pm
tr\sh:
Belated heys to Doug and Ken. Hey hey! Good music, eh? | |
Mon. 2/27/12 9:17pm
G:
@dan: It's also the only classical and classical-experimental hour out of 168 hours in the programming week. Much of classsical music radio is now every bit as focus-grouped, unchallenging, strollercore-ish, and banally pleasant as classic-rock radio is for its genre of music. | |
Tue. 2/28/12 11:01am
ken in cz:
fun show. I wanted to pledge your show but I could not stay up so late. | |
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