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September 8, 2015: Achiiles Last Stand

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View this in your browser. Tonight: Achilles Last Stand I wish I could say I've reconciled to the inevitable - that Aerial View is leaving the airwaves of WFMU until at least June 2016 - but I keep hoping for a reprieve. Like the Governor calling the Warden with a last-minute stay of execution, I imagine my podiatrist calls Ken Freedman and tells him to hold off on the schedule change, that these surgeries (yes, there's more than one) are not necessary. Except it's too late: the new WFMU Schedule was released yesterday and Sportsy Talk will now be heard Tuesdays at 6 PM: I hope you'll stay with me as I get back into pure podcasting, something I did for years with the show Communication Breakdown (which, oddly enough, eventually became a web-only streaming show with phone calls!). Again, if you're already listening to Aerial View as a podcast, nothing changes. If you want to make sure you'll continue to get the show, check the How To Hear Aerial View section, below. My plan, right now, is to make a new podcast available every Tuesday by 6 pm.  I will continue to do this newsletter and there will also be a new playlist every week.  Tonight's show will be a summing-up and a farewell (for now), so call 201-209-WFMU and sing a little To Sir With Love. Just not the godawful Glee version. Last Week: This Wasted Land Last week's show was all over the place, just as I like it. Some of you were expressing disappointment over the news and some of you were weighing in on the erstwhile topic (see above). Speaking of weighing in... "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Chris T. will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...stronger...faster." I miss having a job where I could just listen to music/podcasts/WFMU archives for 85% of my shift. The schedule sucked, but that was a nice trade off. Chris T, enjoy your show and listen to archives which is essentially the same as a podcast so will definitely follow over. Maybe do a chat during the show similar to the comments board? Gun-toting hippies are the worst. The only guy I dated who owned a gun also had sexual dysfunction. Hey Chris - I'm a New Yawker, and I couldn't agree more with u about the swell Jersey peeps! Thanks, Chris T! another great show. Promise Box (“Let’s sidetrack..." he said, whispering, “...let’s pull a card from the box.") The box is labeled Perpetual  Words of Life Promise Box and reads Contains 300 Precious Passages from the Bible. There are 60 red cards with text pertaining to the wonderful love of God. This feature adds interest and anticipation to the use of this Bread of Life box. The white cards have inspirational texts, also many special Precious Promises to those who love the Lord. The texts serve well as theme thoughts, and when read daily, will lend encouragement and inspiration for happy living. At the bottom of the box are the words Take Card Here. which is what I do every few days Let’s pull a card, shall we? Let’s see what the Perpetual Words of Life Promise Box has to tell us  tonight: The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Dan. 11:32 What? DO EXPLOITS? What does that MEAN? Is it like doing CRIMES?! If you know your God... if you are close with him, if you speak to him everyday, promise to be good so you can live forever - in the clouds, in the sky - then you’ll do exploits. According to Daniel, one of the apostles, eh? I used to know them all, sit in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church shivering in the winter, wondering why they made Jesus drag his own cross up the hill. What cruel bastards those Romans were, gambling at the foot of the cross: “Baby needs a new pair of sandals!" I learned the way of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Saviour who died in the blood for your sins so that you may have life everlasting if you live by his teachings and love God. I’ve never been worshipful. I suppose I have no faith. I don’t believe in a supernatural world. Please. As a lapsed Catholic I find the Bible perverse and gory. So much blood, so much suffering for those who disobey, who can’t kneel down, “So you are a star - Okay. Nobody knows you like I do. And you will go far - Okay. Nobody knows you like I do. You’ve got to love only me. You’ve got to feel only me. ‘Cause nobody knows you Nobody shows you the way That I do." The Hudson Brothers, sounding like The Beatles intentionally. It’s cool, though. Has some Badfinger in there. I remember watching their TV show on Saturday mornings. Didn’t one of them marry Goldie Hawn? I never heard this song. it’s amazing. I listen on the headphones. What is the song saying to me? Why did I discover it NOW? I’ve had this CD for how damn long? And there it was suddenly hiding in plain sight Like me. I’ve been hiding in plain sight for years I’ve been under your nose all this time Who the fuck IS this guy?! You’re asking. “Why should we care what the hell he’s doing tonight?" And I answer: (Shit.) “You should care  because I do. Don’t ask stupid questions." Etta James sings: “You go to my head “The thrill of a thought that you might give a thought to my plea casts  a spell over me. Still I say to myself can’t you see. That it can never  never be." But who am I? And who will I be? I’m Chris with a capital “T". And the question is, "Will you stay with me?" Release the Fury! Aerial View on Facebook Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Images New * / Special *** Approx. start time Led Chris T Zeppelin  Achilles Last Aerial View Stand   → "Achilles Last Aerial View Stand" by "Led Chris T ... Aerial View Intros    2015  WAV          The See You Next Tuesday! Facebook Group is where I'll be documenting what happens on the Aerial View podcast, so join up if you haven't! Upcoming Events WFMU Literary Guild Meet Up The next WFMU Literary Guild Meet Up happens Sat., Sep. 18 at the KGB Bar at 85 East 4th St., NYC. On the bill:  Gaylord Fields Cheyenne Hohman Nate Knaebel Dave Mandl Scott McDowell Chris M. Yvonne Szymczak Please join the new WFMU Literary Guild Facebook Group and follow the Twitter account. All hail the written word! Pencil Me In Come and join us for Pencil Me In, the Monmouth Museum Emerging Artist exhibit featuring eighteen pieces by wife Janet Tsakis. Opening night is Friday, September 18, 6 - 8 pm. Wed., Oct. 7, 7 - 8 pm, Janet gives an Artist Talk. The show runs until October 18. The piece above will be in the show. Obligatory Throwback Pic Reading the LCD Program Guide during The Nightmare Lounge Froeburg Hall, Summer 1988.

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Hello!   6:06pm → -andrew-: Hello Chris and everyone else!   6:06pm → Listener Robert: You're really going to have operations on 1 or more feet? ♥ 6:12pm → Folsom: Your nose runs and your feet smells!   6:13pm → JakeGould: FWIW, folks in non-hipster Brooklyn seem to be hot on these 2-wheel self-balancing scooters. Not a Segway, but… Just look at it… www.youtube.com...   6:13pm → Listener Robert: I had plantar warts removed from both feet in 2007, including a half-$ size one. It hadn't really sunk in how long I'd be laid up or at least impaired afterward. ♥ 6:13pm → Mike East: just got the "Achilles" pun. nice one. ♥ 6:14pm → Marcel M: I've seen those things.... the first time I saw them 3 kids came around a corner on them. I was really taken a back ♥ 6:15pm → Greg from ZONE 5: Those things are weird, and nobody should use them. ♥ 6:15pm → Ken From Hyde Park: Chris will stick his toe in the water and try to make a phone-in podcast. 6:15pm → steve: yup i saw a ton of them in various neighborhoods south of Prospect Park on my walk the other day Jake   6:15pm → JakeGould: @Greg: I in the past hour I saw a guy in Bay Ridge—with slicked hair and the whole “Brooklyn” thing—riding one of those and… VAPING!!! It’s like I was in Blade Runner!   6:16pm → JakeGould: @steve: See. It’s funny how goofy trends like that exist outside of “Brownstone Brooklyn” but are all over the place everywhere else. ♥ 6:17pm → Greg from ZONE 5: HEARTY!!! 6:17pm → steve: lol @ slicked back hair guy vaping on one, thats magical   6:17pm → spodiodi: Hearty!   6:18pm → V Priceless: Hearty! ♥ 6:18pm → dale: hearty and chris together - when worlds collide! ♥ 6:18pm → Mike East: I walked past an artisanal vape store in Montclair over the weekend...wtf?!   6:19pm → JakeGould: @steve: If he had a bucket of paint and two pizza slices folded on top of each other, then it would be like “Saturday Night Fever: 2015” ♥ 6:20pm → dale: HA HA HA. chris is our Sir. ♥ 6:20pm → Ike: Make the stars a pie?   6:20pm → JakeGould: @MikeEast: How was it artisanal? Tons of vape places in deep Brooklyn that are just like 1 thing away from a head shop.   6:21pm → V Priceless: Maude was great! ♥ 6:21pm → dale: adrienne barbau in the deep - meow. 6:22pm → steve: PLEASE let there be an Aerial View Hearty crossover episode!   6:22pm → spodiodi: Hope everything goes well, Chris. We'll miss ya.   6:22pm → JakeGould: Whose going to foot the bill? I mean, make sure the doctor is not a quack. ♥ 6:22pm → dale: or was that jaqueline bissett? my bad ♥ 6:22pm → Ike: The quest to come up with a podia-pun here is defeeting me. ♥ 6:23pm → Mike East: @JakeGould - I have no goddamn clue. I just kept walking...shaking my head. I think it had some dumb unique flavors. Was called "Artisanal Vapor" or something ♥ 6:23pm → Greg from ZONE 5: @dale: Are you thinking of The Fog maybe?   6:24pm → V Priceless: instantrimshot.com ♥ 6:24pm → Mike East: has a pun been made of the fact that the show is turning into a PODcast? 6:24pm → heartywhite: Chris used to introduce my show as Maximum Nutrition. I think I might change the name of the show this week in his honor.   6:25pm → JakeGould: Look up “2 wheel self balancing scooter”. They go from $170 to $400. www.google.com...   6:25pm → JakeGould: @heartywhite: MAXIMUM NUTRITION! Murder Nutrients! Nutrition in your FACE! ♥ 6:26pm → Ĩkє: @Dale@6:21, was "meow" a reference to Barbeau's role as the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series? (Sometimes that show was brilliant... too bad the Catwoman ones were mostly pretty bad.) ♥ 6:29pm → Ike: Yeah, area codes don't seem to matter much anymore, which kind of drives me nuts. I even got a call from a NY government agency using a 929 number... WTF? ♥ 6:29pm → Ken From Hyde Park: They are a self-balancing board, the original is the IO Hawk (a thousand something dollars. ♥ 6:29pm → Ken From Hyde Park: They are a self-balancing board, the original is the IO Hawk (a thousand something dollars.   6:31pm → JakeGould: @KenFromHydePark: Yikes! Look at the Brookstone page on that thing. $1,199.99? www.brookstone.com... ♥ 6:32pm → Folsom: The game's afoot!   6:32pm → Listener Robert: I have talipes equinus, but the surgery to fix it would've been, not in the foot, but the calf muscles or Achilles tendon.   6:33pm → -andrew-: Glad you're not feeling too de-feet-ed about the situation.   6:33pm → JakeGould: Purview (n): mid-15c., "body of a statute," from Anglo-French purveuest "it is provided," or purveu que "provided that" (late 13c.), clauses that introduced statutes in old legal documents, from Anglo-French purveu, Old French porveu (Modern French pourvu) "provided," past participle of porveoir "to provide," from Latin providere "make ready" (see provide). Sense of "scope, extent" is first recorded 1788 in "Federalist" (Madison). Modern sense and spelling influenced by view (n.). www.etymonline.com... ♥ 6:35pm → Ken From Hyde Park: The interim show can be classified as a podiatrycast. ♥ 6:38pm → Folsom: @andrew like wide world of sports - the agony of de-feet   6:46pm → V Priceless: Frankfoot! ♥ 6:51pm → chris: thanks, Chris T! may you heal fast and true, sir! ♥ 6:54pm → Ken From Hyde Park: We'll keep our ears on. Good luck! ♥ 6:56pm → spodiodi: Chris T, if you look back and only see one set of footprints in the sand, they are those of your listeners... carrying you. We will never leave you. Heal well!   6:56pm → V Priceless: Thanks for all your great work, Chris - best of luck with the surgery and the podcast! ♥ 6:56pm → exiledinbk: Good luck Chris! Hope it goes well and your back up and at it again! ♥ 6:57pm → Mike East: Seeya Chris. Thanks for the many hours of entertainment. Looking forward to many hours more. 6:58pm → heartywhite: Good job, Chris! More great things to come, I know. Great luck and good health. ♥ 6:58pm → spodiodi: David Lynch <3   6:58pm → Listener Robert: Yay!   6:59pm → SeanG: keep kicking ass Chris!   7:00pm → LES: We need you on WFMU so come back when you can.   7:01pm → Another Chris: And he exits. And closes with the Beach Boys. Class act until this end. Awaiting a swift recovery and triumphant return. Kudos Chris! Comment! Name Email ✖ Re To songs (C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written by Ken Garson To Comments!