Ken | Playlist | 17 December 2008

Wed. 12/17/08 9:06am From: Negator

Nothing says fear, loss, sadness, and war like something Russian.Merry Krampus!

Wed. 12/17/08 9:07am From: mooose

hello from jersey city, morningtime here.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:08am From: BillyJam

Is this the Chipmunks really really slowed down?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:10am From: john from oslo

http://www.sockandawe.com/

Wed. 12/17/08 9:11am From: Karen in Sleepy Hollow

My favorite Wednesday morning game has begun... Guess Ken's Mood! Who wants to play?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:12am From: Lizardner Dave

I'll say merry. It's Krampus time, after all.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:12am From: JJZ

Festive?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:12am From: texas scott

I do I do....let's see...um probably a little sleepy..

Wed. 12/17/08 9:15am From: Bad Ronald

nonplussed.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:15am From: Ghengis Jung

Pia Zadora filling in for Ken today?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:15am From: annie

we have to get pia hooked up with larry

Wed. 12/17/08 9:17am From: annie

BR- i'm with you

Wed. 12/17/08 9:18am From: Karen in Sleepy Hollow

Larry deserves better

Wed. 12/17/08 9:19am From: Ghengis Jung

Is this from Animal's solo album after he left Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:20am From: listener mark

Pia Zadora starred in "Santa Claus conquers the Martians" a classic. Speaking of classics try Pia Zadora on google images with safe search off. Wow

Wed. 12/17/08 9:21am From: Gigantor

Oh no! I missed 19 minutes of Christmasy badness!

Wed. 12/17/08 9:24am From: Faith

Is this stomach Krampus or menstrual Krampus?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:26am From: Karen in Sleepy Hollow

Did Ken break into Prof. Dum Dum's locker?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:26am From: sugarwolf

yay, I finally have a Wednesday morning off so I can listen to Ken's to show.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:26am From: molerat

What have they done to poor Larry?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:31am From: dictater

Is this the hippy noise. Another Thai Krampus; ;jingin ben jingin ben jingin ben da den...

Wed. 12/17/08 9:32am From: trrrish

-tobogganing w/ krampus
-penguin and bagpiper

..great first visuals to the audios

Wed. 12/17/08 9:33am From: detroitdave

Wow Ken, psychoholiday madness today!

Wed. 12/17/08 9:38am From: annie

i found it!! http://www.geocities.com/baby-lemonade/randolf.html

Wed. 12/17/08 9:40am From: dc pat

what is that annie? John Lennon thing?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:41am From: annie

yes, one of my favorites

Wed. 12/17/08 9:41am From: Bad Ronald

Nice one Annie, Lennon!

Wed. 12/17/08 9:42am From: annie

for many years i have been talking like that kindof and it is all some big inside joke til you meet someone who has read the same book..

Wed. 12/17/08 9:44am From: dc pat

nice, I always break out the Beatles fan club records (mp3s) this time of year...

Wed. 12/17/08 9:47am From: Bad Ronald

In His Own Write:

http://tinyurl.com/johnlennonihor

Wed. 12/17/08 9:47am From: annie

i waited each year for those pat, what fun.. i am so hoping to get ahold of the NYT page that yoko takes out each year.. if anyone gets one i will gladly pay to have it sent to me!~!?/

Wed. 12/17/08 9:50am From: Laurie

I prefer the Saint Etienne fan club records.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:51am From: dave in vermont

this reminds me of sissy spacek in some movie-badlands?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:51am From: annie

BR- you have made me smile, isn't he wonderful?? we were neurotic and strange youth and that kind of humour set us going!!

Wed. 12/17/08 9:52am From: Ahmad Mechanic

Seasons Greetings from the Dark Side
Speaking from my bowels.The steam from my breathe turns deep green in the freezing air.It is the dark cold season and even my eyes are filled with bile.I awake at the crack of noon to beat the dead horse in the middle of room into further submission."Lay down... ,down....".The cold metal rod sticks to the remaining moisture in my fingers as I flail. "Lie flatter" "Be still my puppy." The mice scurry to take cover in the rubble of broken pipes and bottles.They will return in an instant to gnaw on more cardboard and bits of fiberglass as soon my back is turned. "Ah" the beating does warm my cold blood just enough to think about being hungry.I would just open an fresh can of worms,but I suppose there are other options.There is that dead eel I caught in the fall ripening in a bucket in the driveway outside."Hmm?"What is this? No maggots ! It looks almost fresh even after months. Sniff,sniff ."Not enough stink !" "Intolerable ! "It must have been all that salt water and dry air.It has almost cured itself. Perhaps this technique could yield results like some kind of eel prosciutto or fish salami. T'is true world is full of disappointments all I wanted was bit of putrid slithering and some bones and or a few sharp teeth for contemplation but I can not even get any thingy to rot properly in this weather.Well then again there still is that one quart of rotting clams I got back in September I believe they are now all ooze and stinking properly. An nice hor devours Yes,but maybe not enough chew to satisfy this dark heart of mine.
What then? More time I guess ..to ruminate.
On what ? Something worthy! ....On love and transgression?...Maybe.
Perhaps I should take a stroll along the shore at low tide and crawl into the large and darkest of rocks to feed the crabs more of my misanthropic ways.
I do miss the summers warm air and sweet pungent smell of trash rotting in the alley,the wasteful ways of the decadent, the towering mounds of young flies laying seed and burrowing into decay,the green stagnant waters brooding with mosquitoes in rusty black steel drums,the hot sleepless humidity and haze.But to me summers verdant and blithe is still too foggy.The long lit days are vague and fleeting months and full of deceit and false promises of leisure time and fruit full harvest.Sweat and toil maybe there own reward but the heat and dull ache of labor is so unenlightening.I say that the cold and dark quiet of winter brings new and vital comforts.The door way in which I crafted years ago into the roof may still be too flat and too open to be considered proper architecture or even anything less than an hole the size of door but in due time it is an pathway to the stars.The cool wind now may coil downward to wrap my limbs and sting the bones. There is nothing like the night on the icy precipice to bring clarity,fresh madness ,new poisons to feed the pain, powers to rout out the demons and make them whole.The cold and darkest of hours(Dec.21) is soon upon us if not the end of the world and an eternity of heat.
Hoping that you create peace and able to make merry with all of yours demons in this coming season.
love Ali

Wed. 12/17/08 9:54am From: Mark

You expect me to read all that?

Wed. 12/17/08 9:56am From: annie

i love copy and paste

Wed. 12/17/08 9:57am From: Ahmad Mechanic

Have you lost your to ability to read ?I am so sorry.

Wed. 12/17/08 9:59am From: Ken

Sorry I'm so scarce folks!! Trying to mix a lot...

Wed. 12/17/08 9:59am From: Bad Ronald

No Ahmad, it's rather egregiously verbose.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:00am From: Ken

Ahmad, if you're going to cut and paste it better be funny. Is it funny? I dont even have time to read it.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:01am From: Mark

Exactly Bad Ronald and Ken

Wed. 12/17/08 10:01am From: dictater

Spell check and a dictionary go a long way when writing about 'beating the dead horse in the middle of room' oh ye green breathed one.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:02am From: annie

ken, it isn't so much the humour, it is the writing

Wed. 12/17/08 10:04am From: Ahmad Mechanic

I believe it is funny and appropriate .Corporeal tunneling doesnt improve my spelling.
Sorry if it is too long for this venue.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:04am From: north guinea hills

ken mixs a lot?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:05am From: john from oslo

Hi Ahmat, I sorta read it - in glimpses - some kinda Crowley meets Tales from the Crypt meets Death Metal meets Erazorhead meets A Zed & Two Naughts meets Krampus? Not?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:06am From: listener mark

Yes, he has a laptop.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:07am From: Phil

Is it me or does God sound like Joe Frank?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:09am From: dictater

Does that mean Ahmad wrote that? All by himself? and has tunnel problems, like the tunnels to hell; did Jesus come to you with a Jewish haircut.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:10am From: Phil

Is Psycho Santa a cover of Elvis Costello's Psycho, or maybe the other way around?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:10am From: dc pat

man, I gotta get to the Alps on Dec. 5 next year.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:11am From: john from oslo

whoops, there goes the soundcard

Wed. 12/17/08 10:11am From: risky!

morning ken?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:12am From: john from oslo

oh, sorry - all ok now

Wed. 12/17/08 10:12am From: Bad Ronald

Jack Kittel wrote "Psycho".

Wed. 12/17/08 10:15am From: Joe

Joe Morris in the house!
I think this is the best work by the cats, personally..
Beatle barkers rule tho!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:16am From: Ahmad Mechanic

Hello All'
Yes I did write Seasons Greetings from the Dark Side a few days ago as general greeting to all my friends this coming season.Yes the nerves in my hands are degrading
and I never really learned to type .

Wed. 12/17/08 10:17am From: annie

i liked it ahmad.. very clever..

Wed. 12/17/08 10:21am From: anne

happy krampus to all! and merry birching for all the young ladies!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:24am From: GP

Morning Ken,
Let the birching begin.
shout out to SinterKlass as well!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:25am From: happy listener

Great images, Ken! Happy Krampus! Keep doing a good show.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:25am From: Ahmad Mechanic

I could not ask for a better sound track for Season Greetings.Thank you Annie.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:26am From: ?

Google reveals that "Psycho Santa" is by Western Caravan. Hm... Can't find anything out there besides lyrics, though.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:31am From: Brian C.

Krampus Helles Lager - From a brewery featured on Scott's old 2:40 beer tasting segment - http://www.southerntierbrewing.com/beers.html - it's a nice, big, bitter brew from Chautauqua Co., NY

Wed. 12/17/08 10:34am From: C

I used to like Christmas music

Wed. 12/17/08 10:34am From: Brick Road

they should have used the dogs from beatle barkers instead also they need employment

Wed. 12/17/08 10:35am From: annie

i wonder if they hit the animal each time for the sound or do they just record the first yelp and leave the beast alone after that.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:38am From: Cecile

I saw this in Bark magazine. A sound engineer who hated dogs because they wrecked his field recordings spliced all the barks he clipped out together as a joke.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:39am From: Mayor Bill Pirkle

According to the 5-disc deluxe edition of Beatle Barkers Anthology, those dogs and other animals use a special MIDI interface that is concealed in a tasty can of their favorite food. I was pretty reassured at least

Wed. 12/17/08 10:39am From: Cecile

we could use Ellington's Jazz Nutcracker.
That Nutcracker story is just pagan, warped and beautiful.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:40am From: ferd berfle

well, that's a relief!!!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:41am From: dc pat

look at this Krampus card--those Alps dwellers are nuts:

http://www.oldpostcards.com/k/kra100054.html

Wed. 12/17/08 10:41am From: Cecile

korrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpiklaaaaaaaaaaaaani

Wed. 12/17/08 10:42am From: Lizarnder Dave

HUMMPPAA KRAMPUS!!!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:42am From: The Farkle Family

Wishing all the joy and relief of the season to you, Ferd.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:44am From: GP

Ken, ok, now we need some whistling Germans or Austrians.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:44am From: Gigantor

Yes, according to Wikipedia, the Krampus engages in "slight birching, especially of young females"

Wed. 12/17/08 10:44am From: Mac

Let us not have this Holiday Fest be a Sexist Season. Krampus needs a mate. I nominate La Befana from Italy (she is a witch).

Wed. 12/17/08 10:45am From: Cecile

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
Nutcracker! The official ballet of Krampus!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:45am From: dc pat

yeah but what's that got to do with a little devil sticking up a naked lady in the bathroom? There's a whole crazy world here we don't know about...

Wed. 12/17/08 10:46am From: LI'l bobby

Yeah, i thought god sounded alot like joe frank, too...with a slight head cold.
my favorite christmas song as a kid was walter brennan's Henry had a Merry x-mas. it was about the turkey who gets spared from the chopping block.Seems to have some resonance this winter. happy holidays every body.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:46am From: GP

DC PAt...great now we have Krampus gangsta style...even has the Glock...

Mac...Fear not check out: Frau Perchta

Wed. 12/17/08 10:48am From: Cecile

*twirls around* hurray for rats, sugar rushes, and delusions!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:49am From: dc pat

my daughter is in the Washington Ballet's performance of the Nutcracker this year...she's a bee

Wed. 12/17/08 10:50am From: annie

is she bearing up? all that flitting and all.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:51am From: dc pat

she's doing great--she loves being on stage. Now I just need to replace that tutu with a guitar...

Wed. 12/17/08 10:51am From: Ryan B

This isn't Gae Bolg & the Church of Fand is it?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:52am From: Bad Ronald

Hah ha "flitting", I love that word!

Or she can be like Cheech, DCP - tutu AND a guitar!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:52am From: annie

in good time, pat, in good time...... or an arrow for her head ala steve martin..

Wed. 12/17/08 10:53am From: gigantor

This, this is...wonderful?!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:53am From: Excitable Boy

Yah, John (Johann?) Birch Society...yah, yah! We are the Krampus...Weeee are the Krampus...no time for losers, 'cuz we are the Krampus...of the girrrrls!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:53am From: PMD

Oh, I remember the days of you doing an entire show on this!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:54am From: dc pat

OH YEAH, Alice Bowie!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:54am From: trrrrrish

wwundderbar

Wed. 12/17/08 10:56am From: Bad Ronald

"Earache My Eye"!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:57am From: annie

you'll shoot yer eye out!!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:57am From: dc pat

Man, I haven't heard that since I was about 10, Bad Ron.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:57am From: Negator

Windy up in this piece.

Wed. 12/17/08 10:58am From: Sean Daily

Not even close to first comment!

Wed. 12/17/08 10:59am From: PMD

Wait, I heard the word arschloch I think. FCC doesn't care about that??

Wed. 12/17/08 10:59am From: Gigantor

Why does this sound like Paul Simon?

Wed. 12/17/08 10:59am From: Bad Ronald

DCP - http://preview.tinyurl.com/earachemyeye

Wed. 12/17/08 11:00am From: Lee

Is Professor Dumb Dumb in the house?!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:02am From: dc pat

thanks, aaaaa!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:03am From: Vodka

Daddy's drinking up our Christmas.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:03am From: dc pat

it cracks me up to see where these conversations end up: Krampuis>Nutcracker>Alice Bowie

Wed. 12/17/08 11:04am From: dr freud

does the listener dialogue influence the dj or vice versa???

Wed. 12/17/08 11:06am From: Bad Ronald

Symbiosis...

Wed. 12/17/08 11:06am From: Negator

yOKO! She sounds lovely, doesn't she? I didn't know she made an Krampus record.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:07am From: Cecile

it's one long mobius strip of inspiration, freudie.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:07am From: dc pat

well then where the hell is Alice Bowie, KEN?!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:07am From: Lizardner Dave

Wayne Butane! Get your finger on the button...Johnny Mathis.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:08am From: Cecile

johnny mathis does have all the answers!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:09am From: Lizardner Dave

Does "Christmas" from Tommy fit the Krampus spirit?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:09am From: Negator

Hark.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:10am From: GP

Birch me baby!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:10am From: dc pat

LOT of Beatles in this piece. WHOA is that postcard scary!!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:11am From: dc pat

yeah, Christmas from Tommy--my fave song from that album.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:12am From: IntangibleArts

I've gotta get me one of those "lady muskrat housekeepers"...

Wed. 12/17/08 11:12am From: Negator

We are on "the fucking" moon.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:12am From: annie

did anyone see the story about the birthday boy denied the cake due to his name??

Wed. 12/17/08 11:12am From: GP

I think that is Gene Simmons.

Emmanuel "Lewis" LOL

Wed. 12/17/08 11:13am From: GP

Yea Annie..those parents need to be birched.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:14am From: ?

Hey, what are ya, Negator, a lunadick?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:15am From: elvie

ken, do you have anything with hannukah harry in it?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:16am From: Ike

Did Popeye just denounce "Chinese junk?" Did I hear that right? Am I crazy? (Wait, don't answer that last one.)

I'm with Popeye. I buy no gifts made in China. Plus, they just banned the BBC again.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:16am From: Negator

Just a fan of RIAA. Heard a sample in this Wayne Butane thang. I just consider myself a big dick.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:19am From: Cecile

oh, jeez.
der lutefisk.
I am told that gallons of butter is crucial to getting it down.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:19am From: Sean Daily

Ist der lutefisk?
Ja! Ist der lutefisk!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:21am From: annie

yeah, i watcheed one of those travel shows .. it takes forever to make that shit..

Wed. 12/17/08 11:22am From: detroitdave

Sean Daily, Ja das ist der lutefisk! (learned it in germam class)

Wed. 12/17/08 11:24am From: detroitdave

These Krampus postcards are psychotic

Wed. 12/17/08 11:24am From: Ahmad Mechanic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk

Wed. 12/17/08 11:24am From: bbell

I guess the Germans acquired a taste for Lutefisk one of the many times they "visited" Norway.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:26am From: Cecile

Yeah, it's an old Viking tradition.
LIke burying food in the ground for six months in Iceland and digging it up for a big feast.

Give me some pemmican, and beef jerky, plz.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:26am From: detroitdave

yes,yes only a visit hahahahahahahahhhaaaaaaa!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:31am From: Negator

I AM THE ANTICHRIST! MERRY KRAMPUS!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:32am From: Sean Daily

Bet that tongue makes Gruss vom Krampus popular with the ladies.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:34am From: Bad Ronald

With a tongue like that he doesn't need any ladies!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:34am From: GP

Mom: " I repel you foul Krampus with the sign of the Fonzi"

Wed. 12/17/08 11:35am From: The Dean

Makes him a Big Man On Kampus.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:46am From: stingy d

hey these are great pictures ken!
in particular i liked jerry goldsmith, kornkator and anny aoao

Wed. 12/17/08 11:48am From: Cecile

Nice, ken!
Will it be archived at WCBN if I can't listen?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:49am From: annie

fantastic show ken!!!! top ten!!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:50am From: detroitdave

Good question Cecile, what city is the station at Ken?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:50am From: Negator

I feel so exposed. Is that Sinatra singing on "Women's Underwear"?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:51am From: Karen in Sleepy Hollow

There are loads of great Krampus in "The Devil in Design" by Beauchamp

Wed. 12/17/08 11:51am From: Webhamster Henry

Have a happy vacation Ken! Next year: a little Krampus parade in Jersey City!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:52am From: Cecile

detroitdave - Ann Arbor!

Wed. 12/17/08 11:52am From: GP

WCBN is 88.3 Ann Arbor, MI

Wed. 12/17/08 11:53am From: GP

Slow on the server...thanks Cecile : )

Wed. 12/17/08 11:54am From: detroitdave

Thanks Cecile and GP, I can listen then, what time on Jan 1?

Wed. 12/17/08 11:54am From: Cecile

I used to DJ there in the mid 80s myself.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:56am From: dc pat

man, those Alpians must really like to scare the living shit out of their kids.

Wed. 12/17/08 11:58am From: detroitdave

yeah, I was thinkin the same thing.....Krampus seems hard on the children (when sitting close)

Wed. 12/17/08 12:01pm From: shuffler

Musk rap
Sparkum
Markups
Sum park
Sump ark
Krampus

Wed. 12/17/08 12:03pm From: Mac

I would pay real money to see Jacque Tati as Krampus

Wed. 12/17/08 12:04pm From: GP

Have a great holiday Larry and Ken.

Thu. 12/18/08 9:36am From: Pamela R.

I meant to email you, Ken, much before this... Was hoping you'd again play The Little Drummer Boy, by Jonathan Kane, in your Krampas Special. Yes, I know you did play it, but just a little clip, and overdubbed, too. Last year when you did, that is, play the full fabulous version, I, over time, played it, oh, perhaps 80 times. I even bought it and later all of J.K.'s CDs (and even LPs), I was so enamored. I now go to every Jonathan Kane gig in the city... It's an amazing song. I thank you for giving it air time. Perhaps next week, xmas eve, you can play the full version. No, I am not a shill for Jon.
Peas....

Wed. 12/24/08 1:02am From: bw

23 min in - why is Larry crying???? its KRISTMAS!!!!

Wed. 12/24/08 1:12am From: bw

34 min in and now I am cryin!! this Krampus is terrrrifyin!

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