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A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

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Favoriting January 30, 2024: The Wiggle Room with Krys O.: Skip E. Lowe interviews George Maharis, Season Hubley, and Roslyn Kind

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Skip E. Lowe  Interviews Season Hubley & George Maharis   Favoriting 1985 
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Krys O.:

Good evening!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Krys O.:

Hi, Imaginos! Welcome, Austin.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:02
Hello, hello!
Avatar 8:03pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:02
And a grand hello to you too
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:02
Nice to see you! This should be educational.
Avatar 8:04pm
Mr Fab:

Skip E. Lowe's Hollywood! Man , that guy was always on public access cable. I was too young and snotty at the time to appreciate his whole classic-Hollywood routine. Now I think it's pretty cool.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

Woah! "It is estimated that Lowe conducted some 6,000 cable-television interviews from 1978 to 2014."

That's a lot!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Krys O.:

Hi, Mr. Fab! I first learned about Skip about 5 years ago coming across his interviews on YouTube.
Avatar 8:08pm
Imaginos:

This is very interesting
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Krys O.:

I never saw any Route 66 reruns.
Avatar 8:09pm
Imaginos:

They've programmed instinct out
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:08
I've heard it's where you can get your kicks, but outside of that, I can't tell you much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Krys O.:

My dear friend studied at HB too. Bill Hickey was her teacher.
Avatar 8:11pm
Mr Fab:

I watched public access and UHF tv for the freak show aspect: roller derby, religious fanatics, "New Wave Theater" and cool music vid shows, nuts like David Leibe Hart, Dancing Francine, and Sabrina "High Priestess of The Church of the Most-High Goddess," who claimed to have had sex with more than 3,000 men. Who needed YouTube?

So these more civilized talk shows kinda went under my radar.
Avatar 8:12pm
HyperDose:

Krys and friends :)
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Imaginos:

↳ HyperDose @8:12
Ahoy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:11
Pre-Internet, it was the only way the average Joe could make something OUTSIDE of the Hollywood system. I'm still blown away at the stuff that was on Cable Access.

And it still exists! But with the Internet, Cable Access seems almost like a footnote.
Avatar 8:13pm
Mr Fab:

I have an album of George Maharis' crooning. It's OK, not great of course, but also not terrible enough to have made "World Worst Records" Singing Actor of the Week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:11
I watched UHF in the NYC area pre-cable in the 60s and 70s. And lots of independent NYC area TV.
Avatar 8:15pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @8:13
I remember catching an episode of "Midnight Blue" visiting NYC in the '80s!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:13
I was just writing about how I miss channel surfing, before the internet, when you really didn't know what was gonna be on, and you'd run into weird old movies and shows well before my time. Anymore, I know too much about what's coming next.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:15
We had a TV Guide subscription for ages. My brother and I combed through it highlighting what was coming up.
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:15
The Internet has spoiled us so much when it comes to watching what we want when we want that we oft forget to turn on scheduled programs at the right time
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:19
I didn't always look in the guide, to be honest. I think we had one, and occasionally I would read it. After I got a small black and white for my room, I would just flip around, without really knowing what was coming.

Before that, I had a shortwave radio that could tune in TV stations, so I would listen to a lot of shows, and not really know completely what was happening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:22
That makes me think of the family Grundig that we had. I loved spinning that dial and pushing the chunky buttons.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:24
Woah! There's a lot of different kinds, but they all look pretty cool. I have been wanting to get a mid-century radio for the house.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Krys O.:

Tell 'em, George!
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Mr Fab:

George had a great voice. Wonder if he ever did radio?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Krys O.:

That theme music makes me think of Joe Franklin. I would watch Joe on late night TV when I was an insomniac kid.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:32
Wasn't he on for years and years? I only know OF him, but I've heard he was on for ages.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:33
Yes, he was on TV 1950-1993.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:35
You miss a lot growing up in rural Oregon. Sometimes I feel like i missed to much.
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Mr Fab:

We used to get the Joe Franklin Show on one of those cable-tv "superstation" - local channels that got a berth on cable and you could see them all over. Howard Stern's first TV show was on it. I used to watch him before his radio show was syndicated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Krys O.:

There's that Streisand sound.
Avatar 8:39pm
Imaginos:

Beautiful voice
Avatar 8:39pm
Mr Fab:

I threw a VHS tape in to record when The Ramones were on Joe Franklin. He referred to them as "the famous RAY-mones group."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:37
Interesting. We watched Howard Stern on WOR-TV, if I recall correctly. He had Enuff Z'nuff on as guests. They were so fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:39
Right! The Ramones were on Uncle Floyd too.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Austin Rich:

I never got into Howard, but I've heard a fair amount of Howard, chopped up, by Don Joyce. Something about Stern's personality didn't really work for me.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @8:39
his "Channel 9" show? I remember Iggy Pop was on, and almost walked off because Angie Bowie was on the same episode. Iggy really had a beef with her for some reason. Howard pleaded for him to stay, and Pop played "I Wanna Be Your Dog" on solo elec guitar. Wonder if that's on the youtubes somewhere? (I also wonder if I still have my old VHS tapes!)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

I sort of hear that New York accent now.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:42
There's still a lot of stuff that hasn't made it to the internet yet. I wouldn't be surprised if you're stitting on GOLD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:42
Not surprising. Duncan Jones wants nothing to do with Angie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Krys O.:

More fashion shows for radio!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:46
Up next: The Radio Magician!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:46
MIME-FM
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:47
"MIME-FM: Nothing to See Here."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:48
"Eh? Come again?"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

Punch-Up: "Nothing to See, Hear."
Avatar 8:53pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @8:46
most '80s fashion is best experienced without visuals.

Just read a funny quote from Diane von Furstenberg from a recent NYT article about the early '80s:

You could feel it turning, the tackiness beginning to creep in... shoulder pads. And the hair. And “Dynasty.” I’ve never gotten over “Dynasty.”
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:53
It's like a response to the dirty earnestness of the late 60's and 70's.
Avatar 8:57pm
Imaginos:

Excellent show tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Krys O.:

Thanks for tuning in!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks for turning me on to Skip E. Lowe! I had never heard of him, and now I'm fascinated.
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