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Favoriting February 13, 2013: Riveting, melancholic, surreal, mundane, informative, and fraudulent.

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Durutti Column  Journeys by Vespa   Favoriting Short Stories for Pauline  0:03:31 (Pop-up)
Amor de Días  Jean's Waving   Favoriting The House at Sea  0:06:49 (Pop-up)
Blues Control  Iron Pigs   Favoriting Valley Tangents  0:10:17 (Pop-up)
Chris Stamey  Astronomy   Favoriting Lovesick Blues  0:14:58 (Pop-up)
 
Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers  The Preacher   Favoriting Jazz Messengers: Heroes of Hard Bop (Irwin's 2013 marathon premium)  0:22:02 (Pop-up)
Elysian Fields  Bum Raps & Love Taps   Favoriting Bum Raps & Love Taps  0:26:01 (Pop-up)
Mongo Santamaria  Afro Blue   Favoriting Afro Blue  0:32:51 (Pop-up)
Stevie Dinner  Shake It Baby Syndrome   Favoriting Stevie Dinner  0:37:06 (Pop-up)
Billy Martin's Wicked Knee  Rendezvous / Mbwemofolo   Favoriting Heels Over Head  0:39:37 (Pop-up)
 
Oscar the Grouch  I Love Trash   Favoriting I REALLY Love Trash  0:53:30 (Pop-up)
MBV + LS  Run Away from Here   Favoriting Nowhere to be Found  0:53:38 (Pop-up)
Schnauzer Radio Orchestra  Jungle Elephant Ride   Favoriting Music for a 1950s Video Game  0:56:15 (Pop-up)
Billy Mure  Supersonic   Favoriting Supersonic Guitars in Hi-Fi  0:59:27 (Pop-up)
 
Megan Jean and the KFB  Skeletons   Favoriting The Devil Herself  1:04:01 (Pop-up)
Broken Bells  Trap Doors   Favoriting Broken Bells  1:07:30 (Pop-up)
101 Crustaceans  Train Bolt Roller   Favoriting Train Bolt Roller  1:11:02 (Pop-up)
Nick Brooke  Chokoloskee / Columbus   Favoriting Border Towns  1:17:32 (Pop-up)
 
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  Pettin' and Pokin'   Favoriting Cole Slaw 1947-1952  1:34:05 (Pop-up)
The Offspring  Hit That   Favoriting Splinter  1:36:25 (Pop-up)
Tokyo Police Club  Juno   Favoriting Elephant Shell  1:39:17 (Pop-up)
Megan Jean and the KFB  Little Miss Fortune   Favoriting The Devil Herself  1:41:24 (Pop-up)
Dani House  Smart Car Girl   Favoriting Sound Railroads the Burst Bliss  1:43:51 (Pop-up)
Angil & the Hiddentracks  Took No Drugs, Had No Drink (It Was All in Our Minds)   Favoriting Oulipo Saliva  1:46:43 (Pop-up)
 
Professor Elemental  Back in the Swing of Things (91 Remix)   Favoriting Father of Invention  1:58:14 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis  Right Off   Favoriting A Tribute to Jack Johnson  2:01:07 (Pop-up)
 
Kurt Vile  Wakin' on a Pretty Day   Favoriting Wakin' on a Pretty Daze  2:33:27 (Pop-up)
The Finches  Last Favor   Favoriting Human Like a House  2:42:29 (Pop-up)
Tame Impala  The Bold Arrow of Time   Favoriting InnerSpeaker  2:45:39 (Pop-up)
June Carter Cash  Losin' You   Favoriting Press On  2:49:28 (Pop-up)
Koichi Sugii  Ume-Nimo-Haru   Favoriting Japanese Jazz & Salon Music 1936-1941, Vol. 2  2:52:07 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:04pm
Listening Out There:

...It's the Cat in the Hat...
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rrg:

I'm actually working. I can do two things at the same time. But no more than two.
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Matt from Springfield:

Irwin is late. But, I got to hear a nice a capella version of eden ahbez. So it worked out fine.
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Matt from Springfield:

Kenny G looks mighty slick in that photo!
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Caryn:

Hello all!
  3:07pm
Listening Out There:

...my situation is similar to RRG's, but I can only do 1.873 things simultaneously...
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Droll:

Whatever KG is wearing at the White House beats shadow plaid, hands down.
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Matt from Springfield:

And his shoes are better than the First Lady's shoes!
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Irwin:

KG: "After ten books of quotidian compilations, an unexpected thing happened: I began to tire of the everyday. After all, the job of retyping the entire internet could go on forever, driving me to seek a new line of investigation."
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sFrances from VA:

Wow. This Amor de Dias track is lovely.

Hello Matt!
(back to lurking for me/resume submissions....)
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Michael:

Hi Irwin. Thanks for linking to the interview - wonderful stuff from KG.
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Matt from Springfield:

Should I get a copy of "Seven American Deaths and Disasters" now, or wait until a future expanded edition? Too bad he just missed Newtown and its news coverage to transcribe--that was a great instance of describing something they never thought they'd have to describe...completely unprepared and in their speech, you can hear this. It's stunning...a sense of things spinning out of control: facts blurred with speculation as the broadcasters attempted to furiously weave convincing narratives from shards of half-truths.
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Matt from Springfield:

Btw, out of respect for Kenny G (and the difficulty of properly quoting and excerpting that passage from the article, I plagiarized it w/o quotation. You're welcome.
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Matt from Springfield:

Hi lurker/resumier Frances!
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Rev. Turnip Druid (ex BSI):

Behold, Blues Control [finger snaps]
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Denise in DC:

To quote every overwhelmed, inarticulate Facebook commenter: "Wow. Just wow."
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Matt from Springfield:

OMG wow DENISE!
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Lewis:

Matt from Springfield: indeed quoting Kenny G is a conceptual problem. I am going to solve it by reading some of his essays aloud and recording the result ...
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Matt from Springfield:

I liked that Blues Control as well, Reverend.
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Matt from Springfield:

That's the spirit, Lewis! Try reading his essays in that overdramatic voice he used on the radio.
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Matt from Springfield:

This must be the new Chris Stamey.
  3:23pm
Pete:

The new Chris Stamey is the BEST of his career. Seriously...
  3:23pm
ScottC:

heebie geebie DB's
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Katya Oddio:

Long live bop, cats
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Irwin:

KG: "The [UPenn] students that take my class know how to write. I can hone their skills but instead choose to challenge them to think in new and different ways. They know how to plagiarize but they do it on the sly, hoping not to get caught. In my class, they must plagiarize or they will be penalized. They are not allowed to be original or creative."
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Irwin:

Welcome back, Katya.
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Denise in DC:

Sounds like Catholic school.
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John McCabe:

I gave Irwin a gold star
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glenn:

i'm laughing on the inside. outside too, actually. - life.nationalpost.com...
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Matt from Springfield:

Cool Kat Katya at ya!
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Mike East:

@glenn - I think I just had a mild heart attack just looking at that triple bypass burger. That's way too much meat to shove into your mouth at once, I think.
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Katya Oddio:

Howdy howdy! Sorry I don't post more. Wednesdays are usually only for listening. (Hey, see you tomorrow, too, Matt!)
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steve:

oh man, that Heart Attack Grill story is so amazing...
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Matt from Springfield:

See you @Charlie's, Katya!
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glenn:

speaking of which, how's the hedgehog doing?
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Rev. Turnip Druid (ex BSI):

I prefer my heart attacks to be on the mild side, if available.
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Matt from Springfield:

@glenn: I'd heard of that grill before, wanted to stop in maybe once in a lifetime--going there *every* day?? Yeah, pretty predictable obituary for those mascots...!
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Katya Oddio:

Was he really the first to die of that menu? Guessing there were many more, but perhaps less obvious.
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Matt from Springfield:

Second one in two years. “Taste worth dying for.”
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DCE:

this is nice
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steve:

damn... im eating nothing but veggies for the rest of the day.
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Caryn:

I think that would be the perfect restaurant to visit if I knew I was dying anyway. Live it up! Of course, even in that case, I'd probably prefer to go to that Toronto place that serves burgers where the hamburger bun halves are two fried cheese sandwiches.
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: Ooooh, that sounds great--from stuffed-crust pizza, now stuffed-crust burger buns!

You could call that "Leaving Las Vegas: Advert Edit". Instead of a 90 minute movie w/ Nic Cage, the person would go to Vegas, go to the Heart Attack Grill, and....they're dead by the end of the commercial!
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Katya Oddio:

We are all dying anyway. ;D
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rrg:

Please identify that place, Caryn.
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glenn:

caryn, that's dangerous dan's, i'm pretty sure.
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Katya Oddio:

It's about chocolate and greeting card sales and some ancient Catholic guy, right?
  3:53pm
?:

Are you allowed to say "Rusty Trombone" on the radio?
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Katya Oddio:

Yay! Caroll Spinney!
  3:54pm
Robin The Fog:

Oh, IRWIN!!!! MY FAVOURITE SONG! MY FAVOURITE GROUCH!!! And in an condition that Oscar would have approved of! I feel you're playing it JUST FOR ME!! Greetings from swinging London x
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Denise in DC:

I think this will be my theme song for Valentine's Day this year.
  3:55pm
Laura L:

Hi Irwin--thanks for Kenny's interview--and for this trashy song.
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Nick the Bard:

Apparently, Oscar collects turtle heads according to the show.

www.youtube.com...
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Caryn:

@rrg: it's one of the secret menu burgers at The Burger's Priest. I wouldn't mind their vegetarian burger with the deep-fried, cheese filled portobello mushrooms either.
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Matt from Springfield:

Yay, Muppets on Irwin! But what a terrible copy of that song! But since you mean that semi-ironically, in terms of love, I guess that cancels it out...

"Rusty Trombone"! :) And yes, Carroll Spinney!
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Matt from Springfield:

Greetings, near-Muppet Robin The Fog!
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Katya Oddio:

Lame holiday. "I didn't get laid on Valentine's Day. I got really hard, but nobody sent me a card."
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Denise in DC:

Holy shit. I never knew the sexual meaning of "rusty trombone" before. Thank heavens for Urban Dictionary.
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nickybones:

Oscar is so subversive.
  3:59pm
Robin The Fog:

Howdy, Matt! Yep, still fancying the felt, I'm afraid! Once Irwin has finished with us, let's all enjoy this trip to the Cookie Disco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUkoLMbeuoQ
  4:01pm
Brett:

Ohhh I love this funny music!
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rrg:

Like "Caravan", there are no bad versions of "Baby Elephant Walk". Or derivatives thereof.
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Katya Oddio:

Loved Billy Mure's Around The World In Percussion LP as a kid
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Caryn:

@rrg, Matt, glenn: second from the top, "Vatican City": www.theburgerspriest.com...
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glenn:

they may have to change a couple of those burgers what with a new pope coming in and all.
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Dominick:

I've always heard Mure pronounced like fury
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Matt from Springfield:

@Robin: I like looking through YT, and seeing just how "disco" SS went at the end of the 70s!
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Michele:

Great show so far Irwin
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: That's a place I should go to if in Toronto! Don't forget that "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"!
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Denise in DC:

Caryn, I assumed at first that The Burger Priest was ironically named. But looking at The Gospel section made me realize that no, they seem to be in earnest.
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BDR:

Any progress on the 1-877-Kars4Kids mash-up? Clark and Tullis want to know.
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Stanley:

@ Matt - I'll take four of them
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Matt from Springfield:

I heard that In-N-Out also has a "Hypocrite" on their menu--and also a veggie burger w/ bacon!
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Matt from Springfield:

Stanley the Meat (and Cheese!) Lady! The 4² Horsemen it is!
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glenn:

i've never been, but people do rave about the place.
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Caryn:

@Matt: yeah, I might just go for the Vatican City. Or maybe the Religious Hypocrite. Gotta save room for the Riggs & Murtaugh, after all!
@Denise: half Biblical references, half movie references
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glenn:

come to toronto. we'll have a friendship society meetup.
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Caryn:

Speaking of the Oscar the Grouch song, we had to translate Muppet songs as part of our "Translating Children's Programming" course. Oh man, I still remember my song...
  4:18pm
Robin The Fog:

Ah, good old In-N-Out. Got to get back and get me some of that. I never thought I'd ever see Biblical quotes hidden on the bottom of a styrofoam cup. What a world! @Matt - Have yourself some Sesame FUNK!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLsYSTRHDg
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glenn:

sign in dangerous dan's window (vegetarians, don't open this link) adsoftheworld.com...
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rrg:

Translating Muppet songs to what?
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rrg:

More of this?

I'm okay with that.
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Caryn:

@glenn: that reminds me of the Denis Leary line "I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty damn good!"
@rrg: from English into Finnish
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Rev. Turnip Druid (ex BSI):

an Esperanto muppets songbook would be the charming as hell.
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Irwin:

KG: "What is boring? I find narrative boring. I find truth boring. I once wrote an essay called 'Being Boring' where I claim to be the most boring writer who has ever lived. I can't even read my own books--I keep falling asleep. But they're great to talk about and think about. So we need to redefine our relationship to boring."
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rrg:

Did I just hear a Tiny Tim sample in there?
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Denise in DC:

Ah, Esperanto. Anyone other than me ever see Shatner's all-Esperanto movie, from back before Star Trek? A don't-miss for fans of the obscure.
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rrg:

I guess it's reasonable to learn Finnish if you live in Finland. I'll grant you that.
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rrg:

Or even if you don't.
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Caryn:

@Denise: yes indeed. When he was mocked for it at his roast, it was a joy. Of course, coming as I do from the Esperanto-lovers' paradise that is Finland, "Incubus" is an irresistible treat.
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Matt from Springfield:

Ah, Roosevelt Franklin! The suppressed "uppity" African-American Muppet!
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glenn:

oh look, an esperanto translator -traduku.net
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Caryn:

@Denise: I'd love to get the DVD some day, if only for the Shatner commentary track.
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Denise in DC:

Incubus! I had repressed -- er, forgotten -- the title.
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Matt from Springfield:

And I'm a fan of the obscure, even if I'm not so keen on Esperanto. Shatner commentary would be such a plus!
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Stanley:

Thank God that's over
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Denise in DC:

And speaking of incorrectness: Irwin, I assume you're familiar with the oeuvre of Janet Greene?

www.conelrad.com...
  4:32pm
Robin The Fog:

@Matt Couldn't have said it better, old boy! Got fired for teaching children self-confidence, positivity and looking out for each other! Ever heard his equal-rights classic 'A Bear Eats Bear Food'? Though I imagine nobody objected to him teaching the days of the week!
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Matt from Springfield:

@glenn: And that "While we still have health care" poster at Dangerous Dan's. Just one more year, and we can have that poster here!!!
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Denise in DC:

@Caryn, I hope the commentary track isn't itself in Esperanto.
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G:

I just loooooove having to go to SUNY Downstate (hospital). Back now, though, and no bad news :)
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Matt from Springfield:

@Robin: Hmm, not that one. Sounds interesting. I like the one where he "imagines shapes" with the square teacher and soon fills the screen!
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Katya Oddio:

Hippies? (((shudder)))
  4:37pm
Listening Out There:

....Louis Jordan's Valentines Day song, maybe?
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rrg:

This has become a favorite of mine.
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Irwin:

@Katya: Like
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Caryn:

@Denise: but he writes about the movie in both English and Esperanto in his book "Shatner Rules".
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Matt from Springfield:

Louis Jordan! Jivin' an' jumpin' an' thrivin' an' thumpin' with the best of 'em!
  4:40pm
Robin The Fog:

@Matt Hmm, can't believe it's not up anywhere! Got it on vinyl, but that's not much help here. I wonder if WFMU have it? Roosevelt Franklin's 'A Bear Eats Bear Food'? Anyone?
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Caryn:

I was supposed to start that last posting with "luckily no, but..."
Sigh.
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Denise in DC:

@Caryn, no worries -- I got the idea.
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G:

OK, I'd hit that.
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Caryn:

@Robin The Fog: www.amazon.com...
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Phin The Hyooman:

Had to check the playlist... thought it was a new Carolina Chocolate Drops song.
  4:46pm
Robin The Fog:

@Caryn Wow! Thanks! 99 cents - a snip for such a funk classic! Much less than I paid for my copies of it on LP, too!
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Caryn:

@Robin: they also have the full "My Name is Roosevelt Franklin" album available, if you want more funk.
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Caryn:

@Robin: it's also on Spotify and iTunes, so plenty of ways to get it
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Matt from Springfield:

Wow, Roosevelt Franklin returns via iTunes! Vat a country!
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G:

Oulipo is a literary movement, for those interested...
  4:54pm
Robin The Fog:

@Caryn @Matt - This is INCREDIBLE! I was worried he was going to fade into obscurity, preserved only on scratchy vinyl and grainy youtube clips, but here's HERE in the digital age! I am VERY happy about this! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
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Matt from Springfield:

I think it's awesome too, Robin!
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rsj:

for Valentines day and follow up on last week's Jimi-
Love, Love
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G:

I missed the first 90 minutes... Is the show motto a review of the SOTU?
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Caryn:

@Robin: yeah, the recent "Old-School Sesame Street" collections also have plenty of Franklin (and generally that era of SS), which is nice.
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G:

Snow what :)
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Denise in DC:

How come NYC gets snow and DC doesn't? Unfair.
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G:

Accu Weather Playlist
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Matt from Springfield:

Prof. Elemental! :D
  5:02pm
Robin The Fog:

MUPPETS vs. SNOW part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMuuXsTe5E
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Matt from Springfield:

@G: I didn't see the SOTU, but I assume it was mainly a Nick Brooke style performance from Obama, so you're probably right.
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Matt from Springfield:

MORE than a bit Jim Henson!!!!!! Wooooo!!
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G:

@Matt: They're all like that. I think the last one I actually saw was 1980something.,
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Irwin:

KG: "The new creativity is pointing, not making."
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Matt from Springfield:

@Irwin: The Muppets have invaded today's playlist! Thanks for inviting them in with the Oscar clip! ;) (I think your bright orange color has a lot to do with it, as well).
  5:04pm
Robin The Fog:

MUPPETS vs. SNOW part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHXwC7lkas
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Roberto:

Yay professor environmental
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Caryn:

My first ever words as a baby were "Muppet Show".
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glenn:

believe it or not kids, there's a lot of us who were too old for sesame street, although my love for the muppet show shall never die.
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: You couldn't have worked in "It's the__" before it?? ;)
Yaaaaaaaayy!
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Droll:

I remember when they installed the first stop light on Sesame Street. Hell, I remember it when it was unpaved, uphill both ways, in the snow!
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Caryn:

They never showed "Sesame Street" here (well, apart from one year in 200?), so I've always been more of a "Muppet Show"/"Fraggle Rock" person.
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rrg:

About time someone mentioned "Fraggle Rock".
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Irwin:

26-minute Miles Davis track: Vacuum main studio. Check. Empty bladder. Check. Make coffee. Check. Review comments board. Check. Pick scab. Check. Look inward, examine soul. Ongoing.
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Matt from Springfield:

Great Miles here! Almost forgot you were vacuuming, Irwin!
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: Since I was 20 I've gotten back into Fraggle Rock, I own every episode on DVD now, and several MP3s of music from the show.
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rrg:

We college DJs used to play the Rascals' "Peaceful World" (25-minute side) when we needed to do all that.
  5:22pm
jack:

ehh, kilometers Davis' version is waaaaay better
  5:22pm
Marmalade Kitty:

this is niiiiiiice!
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Matt from Springfield:

@Irwin: Do listeners get an autographed photo of your scab, for Mouse of Today pledges this year?
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Caryn:

@Matt: I need to get it on DVD. The only thing is, since the show differed from region to region, I suspect the version I'd get on the DVD would be very different from the one I remember seeing as a child.
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Matt from Springfield:

Agree, Kitty!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I was busy with work tasks and kind of noticed that Irwin was playing something that seemed special. Checked the playist and I see Miles Davis. Nice!
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Irwin:

"Right Off" is like six tracks in one. It's a complete set. Teo Macero did the segues.
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: Finnish dubbed? Doc and Sprocket in the workshop, or one of the Euro variants with Sprocket? On the '87 doco made for FR's wrap-up, they show the clip of a song, blending into every language it was recorded in--I remember Finnish was one of them.
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glenn:

fuck it. i'm laughing everywhere. news.nationalpost.com...
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Robin The Fog:

@Caryn, @Matt - The lighthouse used in the Fraggle Rock title sequence can now be rented out as a holiday cottage. Sadly no Sprocket, though... http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/lighthouse_list/st_anthonys.html?tab=cottages
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Denise in DC:

I think I was 15 when Sesame Street hit the airwaves. Didn't stop me from watching though.
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G:

I remember the first drive-by shooting on Sesame Street, back during the crack thing.
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Matt from Springfield:

@Robin: Wasn't that "the Captain", in the UK version?
That would be cool to rent though!

For more physical locations to feel in touch with Fraggle Rock, you can go visit the limestone Crystal Caves of Bermuda, or the beach at Cantus Cove in California (muppet.wikia.com...).
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Caryn:

@Matt: yeah, it was dubbed (unlike Muppet Show), but that's not what I mean. It's the location where the tunnel leads. It wasn't the lighthouse, but I don't think it was the workshop either. I remember a brownish office with a desk and a typewriter. And the dog.
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G:

Vacuum time.
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Robin The Fog:

@Matt Now, you're asking me! I wasn't even sure if he had a name! I never paid much attention to any of the 'people' in a Muppet series. It was all about the felt, as far as I was concerned! I realise now that people are people too...
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rrg:

Man, I don't remember a lighthouse.
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G:

So that makes that Miles track an honorary proto-prog track
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: Hmm, the French version featured a kitchen and chef, the German was something different..almost seems like the German framing device, dubbed to Finnish.

@Denise: And why should it! That early stuff was downright psychedelic! :D
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Skip Prokop:

Man, i don't either. It was the 60's though.
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Matt from Springfield:

Yep, appears to be "The Captain" (Fulton MacKay): muppet.wikia.com...
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G:

Sounds like today is the birthday of the Free Zinger Archive (creative commons license and all)
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Caryn:

@Matt: the German and US versions both had the workshop. Based on the description on the Muppet wiki, that's the version we had too.
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rasmus:

the boxset exits! my brother in law owns it
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Matt from Springfield:

C'mon Irwin, you know you guys were made for each other!! Ferry, cross the Hudson, and make it 4EVAH!!!!
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glenn:

zingers were more fun before the f.s., i gotta say.
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Droll:

The 7SD stunt sounds dangerous -- what happens when it's proven the listeners are funnier than whats-his-name? I predict a power struggle and Twitter flame war between the ghostwriter's union and ghost-ghostwriter's unions.
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Matt from Springfield:

As for which Muppet Kenny G resembles, hard to say. If Gonzo had a mustache, I'd say he would kinda look like Kenny--certainly acts as manic as Kenny!
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Caryn:

@Matt: but he has borrowed Fozzy's hat
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G:

This is kind of an advance copy. The new Vile album is due out 4/9, says the internet.
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Caryn:

I mean Fozzie. D'oh!
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Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: He wanted some head protection, as he plays "Flight of the Bumble Bee" on his violin while eating it and reading transcripts of JFK assassination news reports.
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G:

The Matador site press release is dated just this past Monday
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Caryn:

@Matt: heh! Actually, the way Kenny wears the hat is more reminiscent of Fozzie Pig: muppet.wikia.com...
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G:

Wakin' on a Pretty Daze seems to be the album title???
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Matt from Springfield:

Ha, Caryn! :) It's been a while since I've seen "The Pigs Take Over The Muppet Show" episode, gotta see that!
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Irwin:

@G: noted, fixed.
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glenn:

marty stuart on guitar?
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rrg:

Thanks for June. I'm in the mood for this.
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Caryn:

@glenn: I immediately went for one of the stories under it. Sheesh!: news.nationalpost.com...
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Laura L:

Thanks for another My-T-Fine show, Puddin'.
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rrg:

A fine ending. Because I see by the clock on the wall...dinner time for us Eastern Time Zoners.
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Katya Oddio:

Aw, sad to hear "Ume-Nimo-Haru" Cheers, all!
  5:58pm
Robin The Fog:

Lovely show. Thank you kindly!
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Matt from Springfield:

Awesome show Irwin! Thanks for the Muppet-Chat, everyone!
Have a good evening!
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