WFMU: Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder: Playlist from March 23, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 11:03am solo mon: Elllllo hay?
	11:04am chresti in tennis booth: HI Otis and solo mon!
	♥ 11:04am ARB: I brought my 4 stomachs
	♥ 11:05am solo mon: Hi ARB hi Chresti! I don’t notice any Otis?
	11:05am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: Top O the morning Otis, Chresti, Solo, ARB!
	♥ 11:06am solo mon: Cud you be any more prepared, ARB?
	11:06am chresti in tennis booth: , Also, ARB!
	♥ 11:06am Feldpausch: Hiya gang!
	♥ 11:06am solo mon: Hahahahahahaaaaaaa
	11:07am chresti in tennis booth: And Feld and Benito!
	♥ 11:07am solo mon: DJ BPP! Feldpausch!
	♥ 11:07am Feldpausch: A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under your neighbor's bushes
	♥ 11:08am Rich in Washington: I worked for the Twenty Four Solids Corp. Worst job in my life. Had to wear a polo.
	♥ 11:08am Feldpausch: ARB! Chresti! Pickle-Pimp! Rich! SOOOOLLLLOOOOOOO!
	11:09am Otis Fodder: Bottom of the morning all. Just rolled out of bed. Off to make coffee while we enjoy some Hailu.
	♥ 11:09am solo mon: I feel like this intro might be offensive for to the other robot djs on Sheenas.
	♥ 11:10am Krys O.: Greetings!
	11:10am Sonderangebot: Good morning Otis and Sheena people!
	11:10am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I knew the kid whose dad owned Twenty Four Solids Corp. The dad, would make that kid get down in the bottom, he'd have on a hazmat zuit suit of course and be tripping balls inside his mask from lack of oxygen. It was a small price to pay for $1.50 an hour in those days.
	♥ 11:16am solo mon: Sondy!
	♥ 11:16am solo mon: “Otis making coffee music.”
	11:19am Sonderangebot: Hi Solo, you have that right. :)
	♥ 11:22am solo mon: Morton S aka mr Joan Labarbra
	♥ 11:22am ARB: I like my solids like I like my eggs, runny
	♥ 11:22am Franco Twinkie: I like runny eggs too!
	♥ 11:22am solo mon: SOLo IDS
	♥ 11:25am Franco Twinkie: Hey Otis! I should be reading insurance quotes right now, but I just can't....yet.
	♥ 11:27am Webhamster Henry: Hi Friendlies! I usually have a zoom now but it's cancelled.
	♥ 11:29am Rich in Washington: We had most of the robot DJs sent out for calibration and re-certification. RIght now we just have one robot DJ plugging the gaps in the schedule until we get them back. I know you've all seen the memo about NOT riding the robots to your shows. The newer ones can't take the additional weight. That's what the catwalks are for.
	♥ 11:30am Webhamster Henry: Looks lke I missed a Melodica track though. I'm not JUST about autoharps, y'know. Also: melodicas.
	11:31am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I'm playing a melodica while playing an autoharp right now
	♥ 11:32am Webhamster Henry: @DJBenito I knew a kid who had the most surreal summer job: going into supertankers and scraping down the inside of the tanks suspended by ropes or something.
	♥ 11:32am StringOFperils: Good morning cat dungeon.
	11:32am chresti in tennis booth: Rich, I like my job but I hate the polo shirt. It's made out of some cheap-ass cotton/poly blend that feels like it has burlap in it.
	♥ 11:33am StringOFperils: Nice stale-Letraset rollover!
	♥ 11:33am Webhamster Henry: CBS was kind of adventurous back then. They figured, post Switched On Bach, anything with a Moog on the cover has got to sell!
	11:33am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: @Webham haha! I was thinking of a real kid I knew and that's exactly what his dad would make him doo doo. I just kept thinking I'm lucky that's not my dad.
	11:34am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: @webham I can still hear his dad screaming at him to push the solids to the middle.
	♥ 11:36am Webhamster Henry: @DJBenito I'm just curious about how it was acoustically, listened to under the influence of gas fumes.
	♥ 11:38am ARB: Nice view!
	♥ 11:39am solo mon: Did someone say lovely dumpster?!?
	♥ 11:40am StringOFperils: Lovely Dumpster sat on a wall, Lovely Dumpster had a great fall, but Lovely Dumpster's spring was considerably better.
	♥ 11:40am ARB: I lived in a heatless tube in Minnesota but I paid $60/mo
	♥ 11:41am solo mon: “This is fine.”
	♥ 11:42am ARB: There was no electricity either, it was the unfinished crawl space behind the attic
	11:42am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I am getting my first covid shot today
	11:43am Sonderangebot: String it's more my inability to perfectly scratch letraset on a piece of paper. I used my nails or a pen cover but should have used my AMEX gold card.
	♥ 11:43am Webhamster Henry: Give this show an Otis-friendly video component by checking out these Montreal webcams: wxyzwebcams.com...
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: I'm loosing my space where I keep all my tools, and with it my dumpster.
	♥ 11:44am solo mon: 24 solids with soft hallucinations
	♥ 11:44am Webhamster Henry: @Sonderangebot I have a lot of dried out Letraset that I'd like to revive! The thing is to get it to that state where it transfers with characteristic rips and flakes.
	♥ 11:45am Sem: HellOtis, all.
	11:45am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: ^can't we print our own at this point?
	11:46am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: i guess it wouldn't be pre-cut
	11:46am Sonderangebot: Henry it also was my first time doing it, except maybe once as a kid. MB It's more fun to use rare european fonts, though! :)
	♥ 11:46am Sem: Bless me, Fodder, for I have sinned.
	♥ 11:47am StringOFperils: I still have a Letraset burnishing tool or two around here somewhere, Sondy. If we ever cross paths, you can have one. I spent a lot of money on Letraset during the dumpster years when I should have spent it on food and accepted the fact that my interest in being a graphic designer was circling the toilet bowl....guess that was after I hacked the plumbing system in the bsmt. and put in that toilet.
	♥ 11:48am Webhamster Henry: If the choice is graphic design or plumbing, you know which one is going to pay the bills!
	♥ 11:49am StringOFperils: And there's less **** to deal with as a plumber.
	11:49am chresti in tennis booth: The first time I went to Monaco in 80, most of the signage looked like that, Sonder.
	♥ 11:50am Sem: NIcely put, SoP.
	♥ 11:50am StringOFperils: I DO advocate graphic design on its own terms, however. Just not whoring it out.
	11:51am Sonderangebot: Haha I just started to take graphic design classes because they are pretty much free here and they give me a free adobe license. SOp there's nothing like carrying vintage equipment on intercity public transportation!
	♥ 11:51am StringOFperils: I'm damn near completely unemployable at this point.
	11:54am Sonderangebot: SOp the capitalist needs of workers shifts so fast anyway, no one can tell if they job will be needed in the future unless you're a doctor or maybe a mechanic and even then... Mark Hurst interviewed a very interesting person yesterday on Techtonic on that subject.
	11:54am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I gots to go do my side-gig pinball money job - have a great time making radio Sheena DJs/Listeners
	11:55am Sonderangebot: alright MB hope all goes well with your shot
	♥ 11:55am Rich in Washington: I am glad Esther Rolle has a garden in her mind to seek refuge from dealing with that rascal J.J.
	11:58am Otis Fodder: Ha, Rich! Florida is Dyn-o-mite!
	11:58am Otis Fodder: Thanks MB, see ya!!
	♥ 11:59am StringOFperils: Well, that's great Sondy! Graphic design has a rich history, and it's incredibly powerful, speaking of 'persuasion'. I still feel somewhat motivated to use it again, to turn it back on itself and its predatory masters. There is so much out there now that really needs to be completely undermined. I listened to Tectonic yesterday; I was there.
	11:59am Sonderangebot: I'm pretty sure these peppers are not very high on the scoville scale!
	11:59am Otis Fodder: Hi Sem, see you up there and everyone else joining in today. Off to a little late start but firmly seated and feeling alive.
	♥ 12:04pm StringOFperils: Very FANIA lp cover.
	12:04pm Sonderangebot: SOp I thought it was great, but again I am a fan of Illich, L. Mumford. Last night I couldn't sleep and I though about Jane Jacobs. All this COVID exile to the suburbs does not bode well for the future of cities. Time to exile to the garden of my mind!
	♥ 12:05pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yes, record stores - coming right up!
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: Isn't 'christian puppet' redundant?
	♥ 12:07pm Franco Twinkie: Picking up crap. How does one NOT pick up crap?
	♥ 12:10pm Feldpausch: Franco, you can simply "straighten" your crap. Just make things line up
	♥ 12:11pm Rich in Washington: been listening to lots of Stereolab again lately.
	12:11pm Otis Fodder: Record Stores, yea! Franco, just read Amoeba is opening up again.
	♥ 12:13pm StringOFperils: Cities, transportation-based culture, traditional families, central monolithic social-policy making, binary social models, and non-local/non-self-reliant shopping-based capitalism as pseudo identity/community...it's all over. It IS time to find an inner spirituality of the mind, and this very form of DADA in play here is just such a strategy. All doors are open. Try to avoid the truncheons. Be loving. ......"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything"__Alexander Hamilton
	♥ 12:15pm Franco Twinkie: The Jimmy Smith record that I got in before times that I would never get rid of is The Sound Of Jimmy Smith. It's the one that has what looks like an electro magnetic lawn sprinkler on the cover. If ever there was a record who's cover accurately hinted at what was inside, this is it.
	♥ 12:15pm Rich in Washington: Music Millennium in Portland has been open for some time, with a strict limit on how many people can browse the (large) store and how long they can be there (I think). I think many Portland record stores are open but are also encouraging online purchasing and curbside pickup.
	♥ 12:18pm Krys O.: I live in a suburban New Jersey town that has seen an influx of people who moved from NYC. Landlords are jacking up the rent because of market rates. NYC emigres are finding rent cheaper in my town, but everyone who has lived here for at least the past 10-12 years is having trouble finding affordable apartments. Back in the early Twenty-Teens, places like Hudson, NY and environs were having that happen. Never would have expected it to happen to sleepy Bloomfield.
	♥ 12:19pm ARB: While I'm here in central LA waiting for rent to dip below 4k/mo....praying for people to leave
	♥ 12:20pm Krys O.: BTW-Bloomfield used to have a great record store or two that I would shop in while a student at nearby Upsala College in East Orange. No record stores anymore. There was a book store in Montclair that had used LPs, but I didn't see it last time I walked by there a month or so ago.
	♥ 12:21pm StringOFperils: @Krys O. > The same applies to Toronto and its environs, to the tune of probably about a 500 mile radius. 'Cheap and affordable' seems like a fading memory of the 1970s to me now.
	12:21pm Sonderangebot: it surely interesting to see this phenomena happening at this speed... I wonder how it will be like in a year or two. Taking notes.
	♥ 12:21pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, Amoeba in Hollywood is in a now in a downsized location. Megameba is something of the past.
	♥ 12:21pm Krys O.: Ah, just checked and Montclair Book Center still has used vinyl and discs.
	12:23pm Mr Fab: Franco, has Amoeba reopened?
	♥ 12:23pm Krys O.: Here's the webpage of said Montclair Book Center: www.montclairbookcenter.com...
	12:24pm Otis Fodder: Oh wow Franco, have not stepped inside Amoeba (LA) since I was there in 2006. Looking forward to getting back in time and see a bunch of folks and eat food and walk about. Hi Krys!!
	♥ 12:24pm Franco Twinkie: Not yet. Rick Potts keeps me updated.
	12:24pm Sonderangebot: Krys that looks like a neat store.
	♥ 12:26pm StringOFperils: I miss Sam The Record Man here. Kinda like Amoeba, back in the day. Not that I'm taking on any more cargo...
	♥ 12:26pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, even though I live in L.A, it's the San Francisco store I throw away most of my money.
	♥ 12:27pm Hopey Sockmonkey: The new Amoeba on Hollywood Blvd is due to open April 1.
	♥ 12:27pm Feldpausch: I can't wait to get that Stereolab release
	♥ 12:27pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Hopey!
	♥ 12:28pm Feldpausch: Franco, same here I love the SF Amoeba
	♥ 12:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hi, Franco! Coincidentally, I received a Amoeba email this morning with the opening date.
	♥ 12:29pm Krys O.: Hey, Otis and Sonderangebot! Yes, the Montclair Book Center has been around since at least the 1980s. I used to pop in and buy a book to read while doing my laundry around the corner back when I lived in Montclair. That laundromat is long gone.
	♥ 12:30pm Franco Twinkie: The last time I was in the San Francisco Amoeba, I ran into an old friend who I hadn't seen in awhile. He hadn't seen me in a while and exclaimed Jerry Garcia! because I've gotten so fat and hairy.
	♥ 12:30pm ARB: Last time I was at SF Amoeba I bought 10 copies of Kool Keith's Matthew on cassette and sadly I don't have any of them left.
	♥ 12:35pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I haven't been to the SF Amoeba store since May 2018. I know I bought a bunch of LPs, but I can't remember which ones. We got a lot of stuff at little local shops along the coast on the drive home as well.
	12:35pm zzzm: do you know who's sax on this? he's all over the place ion the bowie
	♥ 12:36pm Krys O.: I worked at Crazy Eddie's Records & Tapes in the mid-80s. We had video rental too. In the 90s I worked at a laser disc distributor. I know from archaic media. BTW-I just upgraded my amp at home so I can set up my Pyle double-cassette deck and listen to tapes in a addition to my vinyl. The cassette deck and my turntable both have USB outputs. My 'system' is on the cheap and would make audiophiles blanch.
	12:37pm zzzm: oh it was d. sanbirn
	12:39pm zzzm: csstt should be played back by mono speaker walkman or cheapo car audio, imo.
	♥ 12:43pm Franco Twinkie: One of my rituals at SF Amoeba is get a bag of stuff and take over to Escape From New York, get I slice of pesto/potato pizza and admire my loot. One night Chresti, our friend Jackson and myself were doing exactly that when Jackson, who was facing the widow got this look on this face and exclaimed "There's a woman peeing in the street!" I turned around and sure enough this woman had her pants down in between two parked cars across the street. She waved at me with a big smile on her face.
	♥ 12:46pm Rich in Washington: I think there's this record store heaven we get to go to when we die. I miss Tower Records, DJ's Sound City (the first place I ever saw real live, gen-u-ine Punk Rock records), Django Records, etc. May the $5.99 cutout bin overflow!
	12:50pm Mr Fab: Record store heaven, ha! I actually made a list of every record store in LA I'd been to in in life, most of which are now gone, of course. I included even ones whose names I couldn't remember - I'd just say "think it was on Glendale Blvd & Broadway" stuff like that. It is a long list.
	♥ 12:50pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I miss Tower Records so much. In high school I used to hang out at my local one evenings and weekends browsing and reading books/magazines.
	12:52pm Mr Fab: Hey, Hopey, I had a friend who worked there, so I got in on the behind-the-scenes life at Tower. I'd hang out in back, they'd let me take promos, posters, etc. Good times...
	♥ 12:59pm Rich in Washington: there was one particular clerk at our nearest Tower who would scrawl 'Recommended!' on certain albums and my brother and I knew we could rely on his 'review'. I only met him once. I was at checkout and he said 'Oh. You don't want this record! Go back and get "___" instead!'. Decades later, I learned he was fellow KBOO DJ Brandon of the long running show Drinking From Puddles.
	♥ 1:01pm Franco Twinkie: What!?!
	♥ 1:02pm solo mon: I will miss Sheenas, JR.
	♥ 1:02pm Hopey Sockmonkey: What about Roma Wines?
	♥ 1:02pm solo mon: Hope I still have a job.
	1:02pm Sonderangebot: Of course, you should have heard Otis on the phone last night Franco, he was devastated.
	1:03pm Otis Fodder: Sondy, could you pass me another tissue.
	1:03pm Sonderangebot: Artists have been known to sell out before, Solo...
	♥ 1:03pm Franco Twinkie: Is this more of your fuckery? I never know when I'm getting smoked by you.
	♥ 1:04pm solo mon: It’s just a rumor, you guys. Stop scaring people.
	♥ 1:04pm ARB: Maybe I shouldn't have revealed my true self on the air, this is all my fault.
	1:05pm Sonderangebot: Oh, I mean, what is that "new job" that Mr. Fab has, right????? If not with some corporate people...
	♥ 1:05pm Hopey Sockmonkey: So cool, Mr. Fab! The dream was always to work at a Tower. Instead the best I could do was to get a stock room job at a Wherehouse in Venice when I first moved to LA in 1988.
	♥ 1:05pm solo mon: Selling out = artistic prolapse
	♥ 1:07pm solo mon: ARB you should see the bill I got this morning for saying “fuck” too many times on the torch. Gotta fill up the swear jar.
	♥ 1:07pm solo mon: Corporate-core
	♥ 1:09pm Krys O.: The late WFMU dj, Wm Berger worked at SF Amoeba.
	♥ 1:09pm StringOFperils: Fwd. to the Estate of Jean Shaw, deceased.
	1:10pm Sonderangebot: Jean Shaw is NOT dead, she is living in C + L's 4th basement den.
	♥ 1:10pm Franco Twinkie: Let's Make The Water Turn Black, my introduction to The Mothers Of Invention. Some bikers who lived down the street had an Ampex four- track of that they would play in their panel truck with the doors open wide open.
	♥ 1:10pm StringOFperils: Not dead?! Well, she sure is ripe!
	♥ 1:13pm solo mon: Jeans not dead she just takes 2 month long naps.
	♥ 1:14pm Franco Twinkie: Well, if Sheena's gets sold I'll probably get a lot more work done.
	♥ 1:17pm Krys O.: Sheena's for Sale (sung to the tune of Cole Porter's Love for Sale)
	♥ 1:19pm StringOFperils: Ralph Spoilsport's Going Out of Body Sale
	♥ 1:23pm StringOFperils: Crippled Dick. Can't beat that.
	1:25pm shangri-lounge: as everyone hurriedly looks at one another
	♥ 1:25pm StringOFperils: You're just threatening to cut our heroin with Sweet n Low.
	1:27pm Sonderangebot: I am an employee!!!! HA!
	♥ 1:27pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, I had my first New York moment in 1984. Of course, I thought - I could live here. That persisted for a few years until one afternoon I was walking down Canal Street and I thought 'Am I out of my fucking mind!?!'
	♥ 1:28pm StringOFperils: Ahhh....but Pearl Paints.
	♥ 1:28pm ARB: A Sirius type of show?
	♥ 1:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Everyday I count myself as lucky I have a steady job with health benefits. Sadly, as an American that is not guaranteed.
	♥ 1:29pm Franco Twinkie: Yes, Pearl Paint! Three stories of lust!
	♥ 1:32pm Webhamster Henry: There are two vinyl sellin' stores crawling distance from here, and more in the local cafe/used stuff store's basement. One of them is run by WFMU fan /musician Doug Wygal.
	♥ 1:34pm StringOFperils: The Individuals! I still have their initial lp
	♥ 1:35pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, I realized I would have get a real job if I wanted to live in New York squalor, and that to me was a totally unacceptable.
	1:36pm Otis Fodder: Same reason I never made the move to NYC. I was offered a very good job for a very good radio station 14 years ago but passed on it and stayed in Canada. But I can picture myself in Manhattan proper. Maybe one day.
	1:38pm Sonderangebot: New York is so close we can visit several times a year anyways.
	♥ 1:38pm StringOFperils: Manhattan isn't what it was when it was broke and dangerous. I loved it then, when Alphabet City still looked like Ratso Rizzo lived there, when it still looked like John Cassavetes 'Gloria' New York.
	1:38pm Otis Fodder: Part of me NEVER wants to move again. The boxing of records is a journey!
	1:39pm Otis Fodder: I'll stick to the train to NYC. I really cannot wait but patient, dreaming of food and walks and talks with friends.
	♥ 1:41pm ARB: Happy Newroz Otis and Friends!
	1:41pm Sonderangebot: Thanks to Instagram, the differences between cities are just fading away! Isn't it marvelous! :)
	♥ 1:43pm Krys O.: I've been at my current job for 23 years. BTW-I recently watched two films that had fabulous exterior scenes shot in Manhattan, in particular the Times Square area: Fleshpot on 42nd Street and Something Wild (1961) both were shown on TCM. I was drooling at the long gone storefronts and sleaze that I miss. I loathe the Disneyfication of Manhattan.
	1:44pm Otis Fodder: Note... my first visit in NYC in 2001 also included hanging out with Krys O!!!!! Fond memories of that visit ol' friend.
	1:44pm Sonderangebot: Wow Krys, that looks great, I realize it's already on my Letterboxd watchlist. I have the same feeling with Paris in the 1950s-1960s - when I watch old movies, I just SWOON, I can't help it.
	1:45pm Otis Fodder: 23 years. Fnord.
	♥ 1:46pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, in 1985 I worked on a friends studio on 10th Street, and trying to be a carpenter without a truck in NYC was such a revolting experience that it got the grunge/glamor crap out of my eyes fast. Right after that, I got on the Hollywood gravy train and rode it for 30 years. That would NEVER have happened in New York.
	♥ 1:46pm StringOFperils: The longest I ever made it was 10 years. Not including the two years of therapy.
	♥ 1:49pm Krys O.: Indeed, Otis! Running into you at the WFMU Record Fair was like a dream of another world....
	1:52pm Sonderangebot: ARB I'm sorry I missed your show yesterday, I will go in the archives.
	♥ 1:54pm solo mon: I remember my cousins taking me to Times Square in 1985 ish and those sleazy images will never be erased from my mind! So amazing!
	♥ 2:03pm Franco Twinkie: Times Square was heaven on earth. Me and a friend went to see Lust In The Dust in a filthy movie theater on 42nd St. It was so was so smoky inside, you could hardly see the screen.
	♥ 2:06pm Webhamster Henry: Well we have a new musical birthday tributes theme song!
	♥ 2:08pm Rich in Washington: The Middle East is where they invented Arabic numeral birthday candles.
	♥ 2:08pm Franco Twinkie: Another friend lived on 49th and 9th. Going to his place was like walking through the 7th circle of drug hell. 'Smoke and Coke, smoke and coke, I got co-caaaain!' Very musical, kind of like a demented ice cream truck.
	♥ 2:09pm StringOFperils: Not just the sleaze either. Fantastic old kosher delis and cafeterias, the three card monte hustlers and the pickpockets and the shills, the taste of air pollution, the smell of bagels and pretzels with mustard. One time at Broadway and 34th I think, there was a beat up squad car waiting at the lights to go eastbound, and this totally wrecked old drunk staggered out into traffic and just folded at the waist over the back fender of the cop car, and then crab-like groped his way along the side of it, past the obese corrupt looking NYPD officer on the passenger side, and onward until he reached the front wheel-well where he finally succumbed and slowly slid like a slimy rag down the side of the car into a pile at the side of the tire. The greasy long black hair hanging limply out of the officers police hat impressed me greatly, but not as much as the complete 'who fucking cares' nonchalance of both officers as they barely registered the sad case and ignored his sorry ass completely as the light changed and NYPD's finest peeled off the their destiny, leaving the citizen in the piss-soaked gutter. Wow.
	♥ 2:09pm Webhamster Henry: I used to live in Chelsea when it was still a bunch of empty 19th century department stores and photo studios and used bookstores.14th st was the discount shopper paradise.
	♥ 2:12pm Franco Twinkie: SoP, THAT is a New York moment. Excellent!
	♥ 2:14pm Franco Twinkie: 14th Street! I remember the only Mexican grocery store in NYC was on 14th. What a sorry pile of garbage that was.
	♥ 2:16pm Rich in Former Washington: I'm a-scared to play cassettes live on my shows. My current tape deck is not 100% reliable for that kind of action but fine for ripping things.
	2:17pm Otis Fodder: Knocked 3 times on wood here. My Optimus Radio Shack double deck from 1998-ish is still working perfectly. Model SCT-49
	♥ 2:24pm Franco Twinkie: Right now, I'm going to go outside in my pajamas and squeeze some orange juice in MY front yard. Could that have ever happened to a slacker like myself in NYC? Not a fucking chance.
	2:27pm Mr Fab: 49th and 9th? I used to stay with my aunts and family at e. 56th st. Once when i noticed i was at the intersection of 53rd and 3rd, Ramones fan that I am, I took out my instamatic to snap a pic of the street signs. Years later, i worked for a LA law firm whose NY satellite office address said "53rd & Third." Wonder if anyone working there knew that area's storied past?
	♥ 2:28pm Rich in Former Washington: I left to go deliver something and left my door open and my coworker across the hall sends her compliments on this set, Otis!
	2:29pm Otis Fodder: Nice, thanks Rich. Give it up for Doug Shipton and this Mixtape! I have a couple of Doug's mixes on tape, all incredibly fun!
	♥ 2:34pm joe: 'ello folks
	♥ 2:34pm Threemoons: Greets all. Trying to resist the urge to ditch work and go back to sleep; these tunes are perking me up!
	♥ 2:37pm Rich in Former Washington: This tape is swingin'!
	♥ 2:42pm Krys O.: @Franco Twinkie: When I lived on East 9th between 1st and A in the mid-80s, the corner serenade was Sense, Sense, Sense, Sense. One of the last times I was in that old neighborhood, Tompkins Square Park was filled with mothers pushing baby carriages and that was 20 years ago or so. One of my sisters lived in Park Slope back in the early 80s and I would go visit her while I was going to college in NJ. Walking to her place from the subway felt sketchy even during daylight, in fact, she was mugged when I was with her on a bright Saturday afternoon. I had to go with her to look at mugshots.
	2:44pm Mr Fab: So...Sugar Hill credited the Tom Tom Club, but refused to credit Liquid Liquid for "White Lines," forcing 99 Records into a 5-year legal battle that ended with 99 closing shop and Sugar Hill declaring bankruptcy. Huh. Sugar Hills' Robinsons were both visionaries and inept crooks.
	♥ 2:47pm joe: I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about Sugar Hill over the years. Has anybody done a good book on the label?
	2:48pm Mr Fab: a doc film seems a natural, too.
	♥ 2:53pm Franco Twinkie: Kris, haha three wheeled execu-strollers no doubt. I use to sit in Tomkins Square by the monkey bars and watch the junkies scratch. Ah, the good old days.
	♥ 2:54pm Rich in Former Washington: Kurtis blew it.
	♥ 2:59pm Krys O.: Thanks, Otis & all! Cheers!
	♥ 2:59pm Rich in Former Washington: Thanks, Otis! Fun show!
	♥ 2:59pm Threemoons: Thank you!
	♥ 2:59pm solo mon: Thanks otisgyptian luvver!
	♥ 2:59pm Franco Twinkie: I live in L.A. Rifamos aqui. Soy puro West side.
	♥ 3:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Otis - even though you yank my chain.
	3:03pm Otis Fodder: Thanks folks for tuning in, your comments & stories and see you in another chat of channel and mind.

Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder: Playlist from March 23, 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Hailu Mergia	Yewedeke Abeba "Yewedeke Abeba" by "Hailu Mergia"	Yewedeke Abeba	Hailu Mergia	1998		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Morton Subotnick	Sidewinder (Part II)	Sidewinder	CBS Masterworks	1971		0:16:34 (Pop-up)
Sven Torstenson	Soft Hallucinations	Drugs	Sonoton	1980	Library	0:35:46 (Pop-up)
Georges Rodi	Morning Song "Morning Song" by "Georges Rodi"	Electronic Sounds	Mondiophone / Crea Sound	1974	Library	0:37:27 (Pop-up)
The Mystic Moods Orchestra	La Golondrina / Queretaro-Tula Fast Freight	Mexican Trip	Philips	1967		0:40:45 (Pop-up)
Esther Rolle	Bridge To A New Age "Bridge To A New Age" by "Esther Rolle"	The Garden Of My Mind	Savoy	1975		0:46:47 (Pop-up)
Mongo Santamaria	Jamaican Sunrise	Red Hot	Columbia / Tappan Zee	1979		0:49:26 (Pop-up)

Stereolab & Brigitte Fontaine	Calimero	Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol. 4]	Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks / Warp	1999/2021		1:02:35 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	Come Back "Come Back" by "Funkadelic"	Connections & Disconnections	LAX	1981		1:08:19 (Pop-up)
Motown Magic Disco Machine	Bend a Little	Motown Magic Disco Machine Vol. II	Motown	1976		1:13:09 (Pop-up)

Stevie Wonder	Tuesday Heartbreak "Tuesday Heartbreak" by "Stevie Wonder"	Talking Book	Tamla Motown	1973		1:24:41 (Pop-up)
Millie Jackson	Hypocrisy "Hypocrisy" by "Millie Jackson"	It Hurts So Good	Spring	1973		1:27:30 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye	"T" Plays It Cool ""T" Plays It Cool" by "Marvin Gaye"	Trouble Man	Tamla	1972	Soundtrack	1:29:50 (Pop-up)
Edwin Starr	Runnin' / Jennifer's Love Theme / Airport Chase	Hell Up In Harlem	Motown	1974	Soundtrack	1:34:11 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Smith	Give Up The Booty "Give Up The Booty" by "Jimmy Smith"	Sit On It!	Mercury	1977		1:46:27 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	No Compute (alias Spit Don't Make No Babies)	Cosmic Slop	Westbound	1973		1:54:29 (Pop-up)
The Mothers of Invention	Let's Make The Water Turn Black	We're Only In It For The Money	Verve	1968		1:57:27 (Pop-up)
Fred Weinberg	Animosity "Animosity" by "Fred Weinberg"	The Weinberg Method Of Non-Synthetic Electronic Rock	Anvil	1970		1:59:20 (Pop-up)
Hap Palmer	Motorcycle Racer "Motorcycle Racer" by "Hap Palmer"	Pretend	Activity	1975		2:02:30 (Pop-up)
The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra	The Black Queen's Beads / Dead Duck / The Pill	Barbarella	Dynovoice	1968		2:04:00 (Pop-up)
The Constant Sound	Avalon "Avalon" by "The Constant Sound"	The Constant Sound	Lysergic Sound Distributors	1968/2020		2:08:21 (Pop-up)
Rajput & The Sepoy Mutiny	Flower Power	Flower Power Sitar	Design	1968		2:25:06 (Pop-up)
Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys	Sabre Dance	レッツ・ゴー「運命」 = Let's Go Classics	King	1967		2:27:06 (Pop-up)
Pérez Prado and His Orchestra	Sabra - Twist	Now! Twist Goes Latin	RCA Victor	1962		2:29:50 (Pop-up)
Sabah	Hully Gully "Hully Gully" by "Sabah"	The Groovy Sounds of 1970s Lebanon	Cedarphon	1964	Compilation	2:32:41 (Pop-up)
The 5th Dimension	Sunshine of Your Love	The Age of Aquarius	Soul City	1969		2:35:03 (Pop-up)
Chorus Reverendus	Dans son euphorie	Ultra Chicks Volume 1: Filles in the Garage	Ultra Chicks	1967		2:38:02 (Pop-up)

Ihsan Al-Munzer	Rasputin "Rasputin" by "Ihsan Al-Munzer"	Disco Belly Dance Volume 2	Voice of Stars	1979		2:47:58 (Pop-up)
Christian Di-Maccio	Wow "Wow" by "Christian Di-Maccio"	Joue nos poètes	Di-Maccio	1977		2:52:55 (Pop-up)
Ihsan Al-Munzer	A New Candle "A New Candle" by "Ihsan Al-Munzer"	Belly Dance Disco	Voix de L’Orient	1979		2:56:01 (Pop-up)
Doug Shipton	Infinite Dimensions #1	Beskrajne Dimenzije	Finders Keepers	2018	A cassette mix of tunes from former Yugoslavia	3:06:56 (Pop-up)
Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five	It's Nasty (Genius of Love)	12"	Sugar Hill	1982		3:32:17 (Pop-up)
Rap To The Wise with Kurtis Blow and Sheila Hutchinson	Stop! (Sexuality)	Rap To The Wise!	Ethnic Communications Outlet	1985	Public Service Announcements	3:38:19 (Pop-up)
Mr. T (with Afrika Islam on the scratch)	Poppin' and Breakin'	Be Somebody (Or Be Somebody's Fool)	MCA	1984		3:41:18 (Pop-up)
Rap To The Wise with Kurtis Blow and Sheila Hutchinson	Sexteen (Sexuality)	Rap To The Wise!	Ethnic Communications Outlet	1985	Public Service Announcements	3:44:54 (Pop-up)
The Egyptian Lover	And My Beat Goes Boom	12"	Freak Beat	1984		3:48:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 11:03am solo mon: Elllllo hay?
	11:04am chresti in tennis booth: HI Otis and solo mon!
	♥ 11:04am ARB: I brought my 4 stomachs
	♥ 11:05am solo mon: Hi ARB hi Chresti! I don’t notice any Otis?
	11:05am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: Top O the morning Otis, Chresti, Solo, ARB!
	♥ 11:06am solo mon: Cud you be any more prepared, ARB?
	11:06am chresti in tennis booth: , Also, ARB!
	♥ 11:06am Feldpausch: Hiya gang!
	♥ 11:06am solo mon: Hahahahahahaaaaaaa
	11:07am chresti in tennis booth: And Feld and Benito!
	♥ 11:07am solo mon: DJ BPP! Feldpausch!
	♥ 11:07am Feldpausch: A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under your neighbor's bushes
	♥ 11:08am Rich in Washington: I worked for the Twenty Four Solids Corp. Worst job in my life. Had to wear a polo.
	♥ 11:08am Feldpausch: ARB! Chresti! Pickle-Pimp! Rich! SOOOOLLLLOOOOOOO!
	11:09am Otis Fodder: Bottom of the morning all. Just rolled out of bed. Off to make coffee while we enjoy some Hailu.
	♥ 11:09am solo mon: I feel like this intro might be offensive for to the other robot djs on Sheenas.
	♥ 11:10am Krys O.: Greetings!
	11:10am Sonderangebot: Good morning Otis and Sheena people!
	11:10am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I knew the kid whose dad owned Twenty Four Solids Corp. The dad, would make that kid get down in the bottom, he'd have on a hazmat zuit suit of course and be tripping balls inside his mask from lack of oxygen. It was a small price to pay for $1.50 an hour in those days.
	♥ 11:16am solo mon: Sondy!
	♥ 11:16am solo mon: “Otis making coffee music.”
	11:19am Sonderangebot: Hi Solo, you have that right. :)
	♥ 11:22am solo mon: Morton S aka mr Joan Labarbra
	♥ 11:22am ARB: I like my solids like I like my eggs, runny
	♥ 11:22am Franco Twinkie: I like runny eggs too!
	♥ 11:22am solo mon: SOLo IDS
	♥ 11:25am Franco Twinkie: Hey Otis! I should be reading insurance quotes right now, but I just can't....yet.
	♥ 11:27am Webhamster Henry: Hi Friendlies! I usually have a zoom now but it's cancelled.
	♥ 11:29am Rich in Washington: We had most of the robot DJs sent out for calibration and re-certification. RIght now we just have one robot DJ plugging the gaps in the schedule until we get them back. I know you've all seen the memo about NOT riding the robots to your shows. The newer ones can't take the additional weight. That's what the catwalks are for.
	♥ 11:30am Webhamster Henry: Looks lke I missed a Melodica track though. I'm not JUST about autoharps, y'know. Also: melodicas.
	11:31am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I'm playing a melodica while playing an autoharp right now
	♥ 11:32am Webhamster Henry: @DJBenito I knew a kid who had the most surreal summer job: going into supertankers and scraping down the inside of the tanks suspended by ropes or something.
	♥ 11:32am StringOFperils: Good morning cat dungeon.
	11:32am chresti in tennis booth: Rich, I like my job but I hate the polo shirt. It's made out of some cheap-ass cotton/poly blend that feels like it has burlap in it.
	♥ 11:33am StringOFperils: Nice stale-Letraset rollover!
	♥ 11:33am Webhamster Henry: CBS was kind of adventurous back then. They figured, post Switched On Bach, anything with a Moog on the cover has got to sell!
	11:33am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: @Webham haha! I was thinking of a real kid I knew and that's exactly what his dad would make him doo doo. I just kept thinking I'm lucky that's not my dad.
	11:34am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: @webham I can still hear his dad screaming at him to push the solids to the middle.
	♥ 11:36am Webhamster Henry: @DJBenito I'm just curious about how it was acoustically, listened to under the influence of gas fumes.
	♥ 11:38am ARB: Nice view!
	♥ 11:39am solo mon: Did someone say lovely dumpster?!?
	♥ 11:40am StringOFperils: Lovely Dumpster sat on a wall, Lovely Dumpster had a great fall, but Lovely Dumpster's spring was considerably better.
	♥ 11:40am ARB: I lived in a heatless tube in Minnesota but I paid $60/mo
	♥ 11:41am solo mon: “This is fine.”
	♥ 11:42am ARB: There was no electricity either, it was the unfinished crawl space behind the attic
	11:42am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I am getting my first covid shot today
	11:43am Sonderangebot: String it's more my inability to perfectly scratch letraset on a piece of paper. I used my nails or a pen cover but should have used my AMEX gold card.
	♥ 11:43am Webhamster Henry: Give this show an Otis-friendly video component by checking out these Montreal webcams: wxyzwebcams.com...
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: I'm loosing my space where I keep all my tools, and with it my dumpster.
	♥ 11:44am solo mon: 24 solids with soft hallucinations
	♥ 11:44am Webhamster Henry: @Sonderangebot I have a lot of dried out Letraset that I'd like to revive! The thing is to get it to that state where it transfers with characteristic rips and flakes.
	♥ 11:45am Sem: HellOtis, all.
	11:45am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: ^can't we print our own at this point?
	11:46am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: i guess it wouldn't be pre-cut
	11:46am Sonderangebot: Henry it also was my first time doing it, except maybe once as a kid. MB It's more fun to use rare european fonts, though! :)
	♥ 11:46am Sem: Bless me, Fodder, for I have sinned.
	♥ 11:47am StringOFperils: I still have a Letraset burnishing tool or two around here somewhere, Sondy. If we ever cross paths, you can have one. I spent a lot of money on Letraset during the dumpster years when I should have spent it on food and accepted the fact that my interest in being a graphic designer was circling the toilet bowl....guess that was after I hacked the plumbing system in the bsmt. and put in that toilet.
	♥ 11:48am Webhamster Henry: If the choice is graphic design or plumbing, you know which one is going to pay the bills!
	♥ 11:49am StringOFperils: And there's less **** to deal with as a plumber.
	11:49am chresti in tennis booth: The first time I went to Monaco in 80, most of the signage looked like that, Sonder.
	♥ 11:50am Sem: NIcely put, SoP.
	♥ 11:50am StringOFperils: I DO advocate graphic design on its own terms, however. Just not whoring it out.
	11:51am Sonderangebot: Haha I just started to take graphic design classes because they are pretty much free here and they give me a free adobe license. SOp there's nothing like carrying vintage equipment on intercity public transportation!
	♥ 11:51am StringOFperils: I'm damn near completely unemployable at this point.
	11:54am Sonderangebot: SOp the capitalist needs of workers shifts so fast anyway, no one can tell if they job will be needed in the future unless you're a doctor or maybe a mechanic and even then... Mark Hurst interviewed a very interesting person yesterday on Techtonic on that subject.
	11:54am DJ Benito Pickle-Pimp: I gots to go do my side-gig pinball money job - have a great time making radio Sheena DJs/Listeners
	11:55am Sonderangebot: alright MB hope all goes well with your shot
	♥ 11:55am Rich in Washington: I am glad Esther Rolle has a garden in her mind to seek refuge from dealing with that rascal J.J.
	11:58am Otis Fodder: Ha, Rich! Florida is Dyn-o-mite!
	11:58am Otis Fodder: Thanks MB, see ya!!
	♥ 11:59am StringOFperils: Well, that's great Sondy! Graphic design has a rich history, and it's incredibly powerful, speaking of 'persuasion'. I still feel somewhat motivated to use it again, to turn it back on itself and its predatory masters. There is so much out there now that really needs to be completely undermined. I listened to Tectonic yesterday; I was there.
	11:59am Sonderangebot: I'm pretty sure these peppers are not very high on the scoville scale!
	11:59am Otis Fodder: Hi Sem, see you up there and everyone else joining in today. Off to a little late start but firmly seated and feeling alive.
	♥ 12:04pm StringOFperils: Very FANIA lp cover.
	12:04pm Sonderangebot: SOp I thought it was great, but again I am a fan of Illich, L. Mumford. Last night I couldn't sleep and I though about Jane Jacobs. All this COVID exile to the suburbs does not bode well for the future of cities. Time to exile to the garden of my mind!
	♥ 12:05pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yes, record stores - coming right up!
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: Isn't 'christian puppet' redundant?
	♥ 12:07pm Franco Twinkie: Picking up crap. How does one NOT pick up crap?
	♥ 12:10pm Feldpausch: Franco, you can simply "straighten" your crap. Just make things line up
	♥ 12:11pm Rich in Washington: been listening to lots of Stereolab again lately.
	12:11pm Otis Fodder: Record Stores, yea! Franco, just read Amoeba is opening up again.
	♥ 12:13pm StringOFperils: Cities, transportation-based culture, traditional families, central monolithic social-policy making, binary social models, and non-local/non-self-reliant shopping-based capitalism as pseudo identity/community...it's all over. It IS time to find an inner spirituality of the mind, and this very form of DADA in play here is just such a strategy. All doors are open. Try to avoid the truncheons. Be loving. ......"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything"__Alexander Hamilton
	♥ 12:15pm Franco Twinkie: The Jimmy Smith record that I got in before times that I would never get rid of is The Sound Of Jimmy Smith. It's the one that has what looks like an electro magnetic lawn sprinkler on the cover. If ever there was a record who's cover accurately hinted at what was inside, this is it.
	♥ 12:15pm Rich in Washington: Music Millennium in Portland has been open for some time, with a strict limit on how many people can browse the (large) store and how long they can be there (I think). I think many Portland record stores are open but are also encouraging online purchasing and curbside pickup.
	♥ 12:18pm Krys O.: I live in a suburban New Jersey town that has seen an influx of people who moved from NYC. Landlords are jacking up the rent because of market rates. NYC emigres are finding rent cheaper in my town, but everyone who has lived here for at least the past 10-12 years is having trouble finding affordable apartments. Back in the early Twenty-Teens, places like Hudson, NY and environs were having that happen. Never would have expected it to happen to sleepy Bloomfield.
	♥ 12:19pm ARB: While I'm here in central LA waiting for rent to dip below 4k/mo....praying for people to leave
	♥ 12:20pm Krys O.: BTW-Bloomfield used to have a great record store or two that I would shop in while a student at nearby Upsala College in East Orange. No record stores anymore. There was a book store in Montclair that had used LPs, but I didn't see it last time I walked by there a month or so ago.
	♥ 12:21pm StringOFperils: @Krys O. > The same applies to Toronto and its environs, to the tune of probably about a 500 mile radius. 'Cheap and affordable' seems like a fading memory of the 1970s to me now.
	12:21pm Sonderangebot: it surely interesting to see this phenomena happening at this speed... I wonder how it will be like in a year or two. Taking notes.
	♥ 12:21pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, Amoeba in Hollywood is in a now in a downsized location. Megameba is something of the past.
	♥ 12:21pm Krys O.: Ah, just checked and Montclair Book Center still has used vinyl and discs.
	12:23pm Mr Fab: Franco, has Amoeba reopened?
	♥ 12:23pm Krys O.: Here's the webpage of said Montclair Book Center: www.montclairbookcenter.com...
	12:24pm Otis Fodder: Oh wow Franco, have not stepped inside Amoeba (LA) since I was there in 2006. Looking forward to getting back in time and see a bunch of folks and eat food and walk about. Hi Krys!!
	♥ 12:24pm Franco Twinkie: Not yet. Rick Potts keeps me updated.
	12:24pm Sonderangebot: Krys that looks like a neat store.
	♥ 12:26pm StringOFperils: I miss Sam The Record Man here. Kinda like Amoeba, back in the day. Not that I'm taking on any more cargo...
	♥ 12:26pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, even though I live in L.A, it's the San Francisco store I throw away most of my money.
	♥ 12:27pm Hopey Sockmonkey: The new Amoeba on Hollywood Blvd is due to open April 1.
	♥ 12:27pm Feldpausch: I can't wait to get that Stereolab release
	♥ 12:27pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Hopey!
	♥ 12:28pm Feldpausch: Franco, same here I love the SF Amoeba
	♥ 12:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hi, Franco! Coincidentally, I received a Amoeba email this morning with the opening date.
	♥ 12:29pm Krys O.: Hey, Otis and Sonderangebot! Yes, the Montclair Book Center has been around since at least the 1980s. I used to pop in and buy a book to read while doing my laundry around the corner back when I lived in Montclair. That laundromat is long gone.
	♥ 12:30pm Franco Twinkie: The last time I was in the San Francisco Amoeba, I ran into an old friend who I hadn't seen in awhile. He hadn't seen me in a while and exclaimed Jerry Garcia! because I've gotten so fat and hairy.
	♥ 12:30pm ARB: Last time I was at SF Amoeba I bought 10 copies of Kool Keith's Matthew on cassette and sadly I don't have any of them left.
	♥ 12:35pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I haven't been to the SF Amoeba store since May 2018. I know I bought a bunch of LPs, but I can't remember which ones. We got a lot of stuff at little local shops along the coast on the drive home as well.
	12:35pm zzzm: do you know who's sax on this? he's all over the place ion the bowie
	♥ 12:36pm Krys O.: I worked at Crazy Eddie's Records & Tapes in the mid-80s. We had video rental too. In the 90s I worked at a laser disc distributor. I know from archaic media. BTW-I just upgraded my amp at home so I can set up my Pyle double-cassette deck and listen to tapes in a addition to my vinyl. The cassette deck and my turntable both have USB outputs. My 'system' is on the cheap and would make audiophiles blanch.
	12:37pm zzzm: oh it was d. sanbirn
	12:39pm zzzm: csstt should be played back by mono speaker walkman or cheapo car audio, imo.
	♥ 12:43pm Franco Twinkie: One of my rituals at SF Amoeba is get a bag of stuff and take over to Escape From New York, get I slice of pesto/potato pizza and admire my loot. One night Chresti, our friend Jackson and myself were doing exactly that when Jackson, who was facing the widow got this look on this face and exclaimed "There's a woman peeing in the street!" I turned around and sure enough this woman had her pants down in between two parked cars across the street. She waved at me with a big smile on her face.
	♥ 12:46pm Rich in Washington: I think there's this record store heaven we get to go to when we die. I miss Tower Records, DJ's Sound City (the first place I ever saw real live, gen-u-ine Punk Rock records), Django Records, etc. May the $5.99 cutout bin overflow!
	12:50pm Mr Fab: Record store heaven, ha! I actually made a list of every record store in LA I'd been to in in life, most of which are now gone, of course. I included even ones whose names I couldn't remember - I'd just say "think it was on Glendale Blvd & Broadway" stuff like that. It is a long list.
	♥ 12:50pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I miss Tower Records so much. In high school I used to hang out at my local one evenings and weekends browsing and reading books/magazines.
	12:52pm Mr Fab: Hey, Hopey, I had a friend who worked there, so I got in on the behind-the-scenes life at Tower. I'd hang out in back, they'd let me take promos, posters, etc. Good times...
	♥ 12:59pm Rich in Washington: there was one particular clerk at our nearest Tower who would scrawl 'Recommended!' on certain albums and my brother and I knew we could rely on his 'review'. I only met him once. I was at checkout and he said 'Oh. You don't want this record! Go back and get "___" instead!'. Decades later, I learned he was fellow KBOO DJ Brandon of the long running show Drinking From Puddles.
	♥ 1:01pm Franco Twinkie: What!?!
	♥ 1:02pm solo mon: I will miss Sheenas, JR.
	♥ 1:02pm Hopey Sockmonkey: What about Roma Wines?
	♥ 1:02pm solo mon: Hope I still have a job.
	1:02pm Sonderangebot: Of course, you should have heard Otis on the phone last night Franco, he was devastated.
	1:03pm Otis Fodder: Sondy, could you pass me another tissue.
	1:03pm Sonderangebot: Artists have been known to sell out before, Solo...
	♥ 1:03pm Franco Twinkie: Is this more of your fuckery? I never know when I'm getting smoked by you.
	♥ 1:04pm solo mon: It’s just a rumor, you guys. Stop scaring people.
	♥ 1:04pm ARB: Maybe I shouldn't have revealed my true self on the air, this is all my fault.
	1:05pm Sonderangebot: Oh, I mean, what is that "new job" that Mr. Fab has, right????? If not with some corporate people...
	♥ 1:05pm Hopey Sockmonkey: So cool, Mr. Fab! The dream was always to work at a Tower. Instead the best I could do was to get a stock room job at a Wherehouse in Venice when I first moved to LA in 1988.
	♥ 1:05pm solo mon: Selling out = artistic prolapse
	♥ 1:07pm solo mon: ARB you should see the bill I got this morning for saying “fuck” too many times on the torch. Gotta fill up the swear jar.
	♥ 1:07pm solo mon: Corporate-core
	♥ 1:09pm Krys O.: The late WFMU dj, Wm Berger worked at SF Amoeba.
	♥ 1:09pm StringOFperils: Fwd. to the Estate of Jean Shaw, deceased.
	1:10pm Sonderangebot: Jean Shaw is NOT dead, she is living in C + L's 4th basement den.
	♥ 1:10pm Franco Twinkie: Let's Make The Water Turn Black, my introduction to The Mothers Of Invention. Some bikers who lived down the street had an Ampex four- track of that they would play in their panel truck with the doors open wide open.
	♥ 1:10pm StringOFperils: Not dead?! Well, she sure is ripe!
	♥ 1:13pm solo mon: Jeans not dead she just takes 2 month long naps.
	♥ 1:14pm Franco Twinkie: Well, if Sheena's gets sold I'll probably get a lot more work done.
	♥ 1:17pm Krys O.: Sheena's for Sale (sung to the tune of Cole Porter's Love for Sale)
	♥ 1:19pm StringOFperils: Ralph Spoilsport's Going Out of Body Sale
	♥ 1:23pm StringOFperils: Crippled Dick. Can't beat that.
	1:25pm shangri-lounge: as everyone hurriedly looks at one another
	♥ 1:25pm StringOFperils: You're just threatening to cut our heroin with Sweet n Low.
	1:27pm Sonderangebot: I am an employee!!!! HA!
	♥ 1:27pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, I had my first New York moment in 1984. Of course, I thought - I could live here. That persisted for a few years until one afternoon I was walking down Canal Street and I thought 'Am I out of my fucking mind!?!'
	♥ 1:28pm StringOFperils: Ahhh....but Pearl Paints.
	♥ 1:28pm ARB: A Sirius type of show?
	♥ 1:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Everyday I count myself as lucky I have a steady job with health benefits. Sadly, as an American that is not guaranteed.
	♥ 1:29pm Franco Twinkie: Yes, Pearl Paint! Three stories of lust!
	♥ 1:32pm Webhamster Henry: There are two vinyl sellin' stores crawling distance from here, and more in the local cafe/used stuff store's basement. One of them is run by WFMU fan /musician Doug Wygal.
	♥ 1:34pm StringOFperils: The Individuals! I still have their initial lp
	♥ 1:35pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, I realized I would have get a real job if I wanted to live in New York squalor, and that to me was a totally unacceptable.
	1:36pm Otis Fodder: Same reason I never made the move to NYC. I was offered a very good job for a very good radio station 14 years ago but passed on it and stayed in Canada. But I can picture myself in Manhattan proper. Maybe one day.
	1:38pm Sonderangebot: New York is so close we can visit several times a year anyways.
	♥ 1:38pm StringOFperils: Manhattan isn't what it was when it was broke and dangerous. I loved it then, when Alphabet City still looked like Ratso Rizzo lived there, when it still looked like John Cassavetes 'Gloria' New York.
	1:38pm Otis Fodder: Part of me NEVER wants to move again. The boxing of records is a journey!
	1:39pm Otis Fodder: I'll stick to the train to NYC. I really cannot wait but patient, dreaming of food and walks and talks with friends.
	♥ 1:41pm ARB: Happy Newroz Otis and Friends!
	1:41pm Sonderangebot: Thanks to Instagram, the differences between cities are just fading away! Isn't it marvelous! :)
	♥ 1:43pm Krys O.: I've been at my current job for 23 years. BTW-I recently watched two films that had fabulous exterior scenes shot in Manhattan, in particular the Times Square area: Fleshpot on 42nd Street and Something Wild (1961) both were shown on TCM. I was drooling at the long gone storefronts and sleaze that I miss. I loathe the Disneyfication of Manhattan.
	1:44pm Otis Fodder: Note... my first visit in NYC in 2001 also included hanging out with Krys O!!!!! Fond memories of that visit ol' friend.
	1:44pm Sonderangebot: Wow Krys, that looks great, I realize it's already on my Letterboxd watchlist. I have the same feeling with Paris in the 1950s-1960s - when I watch old movies, I just SWOON, I can't help it.
	1:45pm Otis Fodder: 23 years. Fnord.
	♥ 1:46pm Franco Twinkie: Otis, in 1985 I worked on a friends studio on 10th Street, and trying to be a carpenter without a truck in NYC was such a revolting experience that it got the grunge/glamor crap out of my eyes fast. Right after that, I got on the Hollywood gravy train and rode it for 30 years. That would NEVER have happened in New York.
	♥ 1:46pm StringOFperils: The longest I ever made it was 10 years. Not including the two years of therapy.
	♥ 1:49pm Krys O.: Indeed, Otis! Running into you at the WFMU Record Fair was like a dream of another world....
	1:52pm Sonderangebot: ARB I'm sorry I missed your show yesterday, I will go in the archives.
	♥ 1:54pm solo mon: I remember my cousins taking me to Times Square in 1985 ish and those sleazy images will never be erased from my mind! So amazing!
	♥ 2:03pm Franco Twinkie: Times Square was heaven on earth. Me and a friend went to see Lust In The Dust in a filthy movie theater on 42nd St. It was so was so smoky inside, you could hardly see the screen.
	♥ 2:06pm Webhamster Henry: Well we have a new musical birthday tributes theme song!
	♥ 2:08pm Rich in Washington: The Middle East is where they invented Arabic numeral birthday candles.
	♥ 2:08pm Franco Twinkie: Another friend lived on 49th and 9th. Going to his place was like walking through the 7th circle of drug hell. 'Smoke and Coke, smoke and coke, I got co-caaaain!' Very musical, kind of like a demented ice cream truck.
	♥ 2:09pm StringOFperils: Not just the sleaze either. Fantastic old kosher delis and cafeterias, the three card monte hustlers and the pickpockets and the shills, the taste of air pollution, the smell of bagels and pretzels with mustard. One time at Broadway and 34th I think, there was a beat up squad car waiting at the lights to go eastbound, and this totally wrecked old drunk staggered out into traffic and just folded at the waist over the back fender of the cop car, and then crab-like groped his way along the side of it, past the obese corrupt looking NYPD officer on the passenger side, and onward until he reached the front wheel-well where he finally succumbed and slowly slid like a slimy rag down the side of the car into a pile at the side of the tire. The greasy long black hair hanging limply out of the officers police hat impressed me greatly, but not as much as the complete 'who fucking cares' nonchalance of both officers as they barely registered the sad case and ignored his sorry ass completely as the light changed and NYPD's finest peeled off the their destiny, leaving the citizen in the piss-soaked gutter. Wow.
	♥ 2:09pm Webhamster Henry: I used to live in Chelsea when it was still a bunch of empty 19th century department stores and photo studios and used bookstores.14th st was the discount shopper paradise.
	♥ 2:12pm Franco Twinkie: SoP, THAT is a New York moment. Excellent!
	♥ 2:14pm Franco Twinkie: 14th Street! I remember the only Mexican grocery store in NYC was on 14th. What a sorry pile of garbage that was.
	♥ 2:16pm Rich in Former Washington: I'm a-scared to play cassettes live on my shows. My current tape deck is not 100% reliable for that kind of action but fine for ripping things.
	2:17pm Otis Fodder: Knocked 3 times on wood here. My Optimus Radio Shack double deck from 1998-ish is still working perfectly. Model SCT-49
	♥ 2:24pm Franco Twinkie: Right now, I'm going to go outside in my pajamas and squeeze some orange juice in MY front yard. Could that have ever happened to a slacker like myself in NYC? Not a fucking chance.
	2:27pm Mr Fab: 49th and 9th? I used to stay with my aunts and family at e. 56th st. Once when i noticed i was at the intersection of 53rd and 3rd, Ramones fan that I am, I took out my instamatic to snap a pic of the street signs. Years later, i worked for a LA law firm whose NY satellite office address said "53rd & Third." Wonder if anyone working there knew that area's storied past?
	♥ 2:28pm Rich in Former Washington: I left to go deliver something and left my door open and my coworker across the hall sends her compliments on this set, Otis!
	2:29pm Otis Fodder: Nice, thanks Rich. Give it up for Doug Shipton and this Mixtape! I have a couple of Doug's mixes on tape, all incredibly fun!
	♥ 2:34pm joe: 'ello folks
	♥ 2:34pm Threemoons: Greets all. Trying to resist the urge to ditch work and go back to sleep; these tunes are perking me up!
	♥ 2:37pm Rich in Former Washington: This tape is swingin'!
	♥ 2:42pm Krys O.: @Franco Twinkie: When I lived on East 9th between 1st and A in the mid-80s, the corner serenade was Sense, Sense, Sense, Sense. One of the last times I was in that old neighborhood, Tompkins Square Park was filled with mothers pushing baby carriages and that was 20 years ago or so. One of my sisters lived in Park Slope back in the early 80s and I would go visit her while I was going to college in NJ. Walking to her place from the subway felt sketchy even during daylight, in fact, she was mugged when I was with her on a bright Saturday afternoon. I had to go with her to look at mugshots.
	2:44pm Mr Fab: So...Sugar Hill credited the Tom Tom Club, but refused to credit Liquid Liquid for "White Lines," forcing 99 Records into a 5-year legal battle that ended with 99 closing shop and Sugar Hill declaring bankruptcy. Huh. Sugar Hills' Robinsons were both visionaries and inept crooks.
	♥ 2:47pm joe: I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about Sugar Hill over the years. Has anybody done a good book on the label?
	2:48pm Mr Fab: a doc film seems a natural, too.
	♥ 2:53pm Franco Twinkie: Kris, haha three wheeled execu-strollers no doubt. I use to sit in Tomkins Square by the monkey bars and watch the junkies scratch. Ah, the good old days.
	♥ 2:54pm Rich in Former Washington: Kurtis blew it.
	♥ 2:59pm Krys O.: Thanks, Otis & all! Cheers!
	♥ 2:59pm Rich in Former Washington: Thanks, Otis! Fun show!
	♥ 2:59pm Threemoons: Thank you!
	♥ 2:59pm solo mon: Thanks otisgyptian luvver!
	♥ 2:59pm Franco Twinkie: I live in L.A. Rifamos aqui. Soy puro West side.
	♥ 3:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Otis - even though you yank my chain.
	3:03pm Otis Fodder: Thanks folks for tuning in, your comments & stories and see you in another chat of channel and mind.

Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder: Playlist from March 23, 2021

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