Listener comments!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:01pm From: dc pat

firs wh

Thu. 1/8/09 12:02pm From: dc pat

firs(t) that is...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:04pm From: annie

have another drink pat!! ;)

Thu. 1/8/09 12:07pm From: Sean Daily

First comment after those other three! Or maybe four when I post this!

Woo hoo!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:12pm From: noel

Was that a dog? Or was it just that Old Codger snoring?

Thu. 1/8/09 12:13pm From: stingy d

yaaaawwwwwwwwwn good mornink

Thu. 1/8/09 12:14pm From: C

I want to put together a CD of songs in all different languages that prominently feature "la la la"-type choruses. This will definitely be included.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:16pm From: stingy d

the islands... or the unicorns maybe... did a song about all the different types of ways to say "oh" in songs

Thu. 1/8/09 12:17pm From: doug from dc

Thanks for spinning a track from the district of noise comp!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:17pm From: C

Thanks Stingy, but I want the la's and oh's and doh's to be sincere.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:18pm From: Lizardner Dave

You know what I haven't heard in ages? "Loose".

Thu. 1/8/09 12:19pm From: Bad Ronald

@C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMdHrJryTg

Thu. 1/8/09 12:24pm From: Parq

On Bette Midler's "Songs for the New Depression" album, there is a cover of "Shiver Me Timbers" by Waits that seques into a song in French called Samedi et Vendredi, in which "la la la" is repeated. Bette also has a song called "You're Moving Out Today", a studio cut included as a bonus track on "Live At Last", which ends in an elaborate "la la la" bit.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:26pm From: C

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. A great one is "Like a Knife" by Cui Jian. He repeats "dei dei dei" over 15 times each chorus.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:26pm From: dc pat

Love the Dickies Bad Ron... You Drive Me Ape You Big Gorilla!!!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:27pm From: stingy d

yea islands and unicorns are insincere.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:28pm From: Cecile

and don't forget the Dramatics (I think)
La la means I love you

Thu. 1/8/09 12:28pm From: Cecile

I could stand to hear "Loose" again

Thu. 1/8/09 12:29pm From: annie

does fa,fa,fa count?

Thu. 1/8/09 12:29pm From: dc pat

yeah really, how come nobody's played Loose??

Thu. 1/8/09 12:29pm From: Bad Ronald

Me too DCP - "I'm a Chollo"!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:29pm From: doug from dc

Ha! I just read about where Iggy got the phrase "T.V. Eye" from. Pretty funny.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:30pm From: Sean Daily

Oh my God, dc pat, "Loose".

I mean, OH MY GOD, DC PAT! "LOOSE"!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:31pm From: stingy d

what's loose?

Thu. 1/8/09 12:31pm From: still b/p

Some Tragic Observances Ordain Grand Excess Sympathetically. Let's Offer One Song Endlessly!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:31pm From: C

Fa's are definitely in, Annie! Any good ones (non-English)

Thu. 1/8/09 12:31pm From: Cecile

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down, that's what this sounds like.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:31pm From: Cecile

still b/p = genius

Thu. 1/8/09 12:32pm From: Bad Ronald

"Take your brother swimming with a brick, that's alright"!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:32pm From: stingy d

oh - i am figuring out loose, i get it, never you mind

Thu. 1/8/09 12:33pm From: Sean Daily

Your acronym skeelz are strong, still b/p.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:33pm From: Carmichael

I can hear this guy sneering.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:34pm From: stingy d

it's ugly, but deadly.

i got skeelz

Thu. 1/8/09 12:34pm From: Carmichael

Chris Spedding! Someone in Jersey has good taste.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:35pm From: Cecile

my hub is still grieving for miss betty page.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:35pm From: stingy d

in case only i got that reference....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmYP4J0Viww

Thu. 1/8/09 12:36pm From: Carmichael

Most men are, Cecile ....

I saw the movie on HBO, and it only made me pine away further.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:40pm From: Sean Daily

I think I'm experiencing one of those temporal distortions that they're always running into on Star Trek with this Kool & the Gang track...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:40pm From: Dylan

Dylan Approves

Thu. 1/8/09 12:41pm From: Betty's ghost

I'm thinkin' my....body...of work was about as complete as it was gonna get. There were no fresh sessions penciled in my planner when I passed. I'm good.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:41pm From: Carmichael

You need to jump through Mr. Atos' obelisk to a different time.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:41pm From: Sean Daily

Yes, but is she fresh? It's a very subtle theme...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:42pm From: Cecile

my husband had D&D night soon after, and set up a little tableau of all his Betty figs, and superheroines wearing leopard. LOL!

Sean, I think her expiration date is quickly approaching.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:44pm From: Sean Daily

I could go through the Guardian of Forever, Carmichael. But then I'd have to deal with Harlan Ellison, and I hear he's a son of a bitch. Hell of a writer, but...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:44pm From: stingy d

i've been well how have you been? i have too! quit my job. slinked out, and got fired actually. does that allow me to get unemployment? nah, right?

Thu. 1/8/09 12:45pm From: Carmichael

Could be worse, Sean. You could end up with Ambrose Bierce, who was a curmudgeon's curmudgeon.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:46pm From: PMD

Hi Scott! Where's the beer? Happy New Year!
I'm a poet and I didn't even realize it...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:47pm From: Cecile

yeah, ask Harland when the third volume of Dangerous VIsions is coming out and watch the fun.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:47pm From: Cecile

stingy, that sucks.
do you have something in the wings?

Thu. 1/8/09 12:48pm From: dc pat

stingy! I warned you NOT to get fired. Now you're going to be watching youtube videos all day...

Thu. 1/8/09 12:48pm From: stingy d

its actually glorious... i have a money making venture already well under way. so, yes. but it would be nice to receive unemployment, i just can't imagine i qualify.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:49pm From: stingy d

all i do is watch sherman the sneezing monkey pat... all day.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:49pm From: dc pat

I'm not worried about you, I'M jealous as hell!!

Thu. 1/8/09 12:51pm From: stingy d

you can do it too, just give up on caring about stuff you don't care about

Thu. 1/8/09 12:51pm From: Carmichael

Stingy,

You should qualify if you were fired. If you stomped out and proclaimed "I QUIT!", well, then that's another matter entirely.

But get yo ass down to to "Emplyment Development" and make them say know. That's your money they're holding.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:52pm From: Carmichael

That's "make them say no" ....

Thu. 1/8/09 12:52pm From: dc pat

I don't care about the Feelies. sorry..

Thu. 1/8/09 12:53pm From: stingy d

well i just left one friday and never came back and didn't say anything... and then two weeks later they overnighted me a packet of papers i couldn't stand to read seemed to imply that i have been terminated... sooo.....

Thu. 1/8/09 12:55pm From: dc pat

well I DO care about environmental conservation but I don't care about having a boss anymore.

Thu. 1/8/09 12:57pm From: stingy d

oh. well yea... environmental conversations are great

Thu. 1/8/09 12:59pm From: Carmichael

Weren't these guys from Sweden? Norway? I remember their picture back then. She looks like Annisette.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:00pm From: Cecile

Holland.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:00pm From: dc pat

good luck there, stinj, hope the venture gets you a gold-plated toilet

Thu. 1/8/09 1:00pm From: holy smokes

i was like no way bro - you gotta be freakin killin me over here! i mean come on! i can't take it! i'm fumigating!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:00pm From: Carmichael

Aah, the Dutch. Love their babies ...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:01pm From: still b/p

Would an environmental conversation be a gaialogue?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:02pm From: dc pat

nice still. I REALLY care about Made in Mexico. This RULES

Thu. 1/8/09 1:03pm From: stingy d

gaialogue! definitely. b/p with another gem.

gold plated toilets sound innerestin. but i rather would have a gold plated shower.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:05pm From: stingy d

well folks... unfortuously i gotta go make bread. tell gp dat i set hi

Thu. 1/8/09 1:06pm From: annie

pat, re: unemployed... the freedom is way cool , but the lack of dough hits hard and living off the kindness of others can only go so far. i wish it were not a money-based economy...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:06pm From: too much stingy d

and i say hi to everybody else dat i would say hi to, bad ronola and like whoeva kid, for real. scott you the maintainer of all this, you and trouble be the bets. and jason sigal be the bets too.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:07pm From: Cecile

lol, carm

Thu. 1/8/09 1:09pm From: dc pat

I'll be working till I'm graved--kids to feed. and noise ballets don't provide enough dough to live on.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:10pm From: Carmichael

Cecile, somehow I knew you click on my obscure reference ...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:10pm From: cd pat

crap, you turn off the stream for ONE second to check out Made in Mexico (new favorite band) and you miss Ty Segall (old favorite band).

Thu. 1/8/09 1:13pm From: Bad Ronald

Hey Stingy, welcome back! I was asking about you the other day...
I see you quit, I hope all's well w/you!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:14pm From: Cecile

carm, my brain was a little slow in remembering, but my stomach helped it along.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:17pm From: Cecile

I have music minus one for the doors...

Is that Lila's xylophone?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:18pm From: GP

Hey Stingy, Bad Ronald, Annie, Ceceile, DC,...hey everyone, hey world...happy new year...at work right now so kind of passively checking comments.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:19pm From: annie

hi GP. happy new year...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:20pm From: Cecile

annie, if it were a LP-based economy, we'd both be rich women.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:21pm From: annie

watching you-tube all day is bad enough, what gets me is spider solitaire!!!! i easily kill two hours at that!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:21pm From: annie

tru dat cec

Thu. 1/8/09 1:22pm From: dc pat

if my boss did a search of dc pat and wfmu, I'd be fired instantly...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:23pm From: Carmichael

OMG! My favorite band in all of history!!!! Listen to Neil Innes in wonder ....

The play the Rutles "I Love You".

Thu. 1/8/09 1:24pm From: Bad Ronald

The Bonzos do rule!!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:25pm From: Carmichael

Wireless keyboard *#&@^&!!!! "Then play the Rutles".

Thu. 1/8/09 1:27pm From: Bad Ronald

Carm - I recommend this if you haven't already...

http://tinyurl.com/ruskin

Thu. 1/8/09 1:28pm From: Carmichael

Without looking, I assume it's Roger Ruskin Spear. I'll save it for later. Thanks, BR

Thu. 1/8/09 1:30pm From: dale

Who os Shep? This is an amazing song!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:31pm From: Bad Ronald

NP - yes it's a dynamite solo album up for grabs...

Love JC too... Engine!

Thu. 1/8/09 1:34pm From: Cecile

Me mum lives in Pittsburgh.
Did you have salad with fries on it?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:35pm From: fishmonkeystew

Hey, Scott, I have a friend who owns a record label in Pittsburg- Sort of Records. Ever heard of it?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:37pm From: dc pat

I use to live in PGH. Kind of a depressing place.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:38pm From: annie

funny, that. i have some attachments to pittsburg, old friends with sad stories, is it depressing overall?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:38pm From: Taylor

Unidentified Far-East cut may have been by Suntaraporn...?

Thu. 1/8/09 1:39pm From: Cecile

Beaver Falls is depressing, but it has good Italian home cooking and also the most amazing donut shop whose name escapes me.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:39pm From: dc pat

just depressing to live there. When I visit, I have a blast.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:40pm From: Carmichael

My old roommate was from Pottsville. His stories scared me.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:41pm From: Cecile

that's what I gather, dcp

Thu. 1/8/09 1:43pm From: dc pat

It's a nice place and they really want to be a real city but when you sit down to look in the paper to see what to do on Saturday night , and there's....NOTHING TO DO, it's pretty sad...so you go to Chief's cafe and get dollar shots...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:47pm From: Carmichael

I was going to ask about restaurants, but Scott said NO FOOD TALK.

So I won't.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:47pm From: annie

my friend from there were in the biker crowd, so they just stayed home and did drugs.. both are now dead... RIP, leaving 2 kids behind. i see that both have left that city too..

Thu. 1/8/09 1:50pm From: dc pat

I'm not a huge fan of DC either but at least there's always something going on...

I can't remember eating any food in PGH

Thu. 1/8/09 1:53pm From: dc pat

However, the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern has great beer and I saw the Cynics with the New Bomb Turks there and it was heaven.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:55pm From: annie

i was talking w/a young quaker friend on xmas break and she told me that the obamas changed their minds, the girls are going to sidwell.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:55pm From: Scott

I love Pittsburgh. I hated it before I ever went there, but that's because I saw that Tom Cruise movie about football and just figured... but yeah, that's there too. Lotta depressing, but i had the best fucking waffle ever; and beer and record shopping can keep you busy for a long time. Don't ever go there on Steelers game day though.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:57pm From: annie

see, i would spend all my time in cafes, book stores and record shops...

Thu. 1/8/09 1:58pm From: dc pat

That's what I'm saying: visit, don't live.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:59pm From: annie

dcp, there was a great used book store in kensington back behind conn ave; i lived there, practically, and my son was dragged there...good thing he liked to read.

Thu. 1/8/09 1:59pm From: Cecile

i have yet to go record shopping in PGH, but that's not for lack of trying. I gotta do that next time.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:03pm From: Parq

Never been to PBG, always been curious about it. T'aint nothing like NYC, see, but there a lot of cities with stuff to recommend them. I never thought I'd dig Seattle, e.g., but I had a blast.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:03pm From: Scott

But it's cheap and there's some amazing and crazy houses. What's with all those houses built on top of retail outlets in Squirrel Hill??

Thu. 1/8/09 2:04pm From: Cecile

remember the version of temptation on the muppet show done by the chickens?

Oh, push came to shove, I could make a go of it there, but the transit would have to get a lot better.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:06pm From: Parq

Actually, 'Cile, your own twin cities are on my short-list of American cities I really want to check out.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:06pm From: Scott

Who could forget it Cecile?!! And didn't that feature the -other- Miss Piggy? ie, not Frank Oz? Who was that other Miss Piggy?

Thu. 1/8/09 2:08pm From: dc pat

To sum up: PGH = great waffles, beer, records, used books, Squirrel Hill, the Cynics, Andy Warhol Museum, cheap. PGH not= good transit, good career, avoid professional sports, happily ever-after...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:10pm From: Cecile

dc pat, also Italain wedding soup and salads with fries on them.

Parq, it is a good place to live. It has its charms and disappointments like anywhere.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:11pm From: Cecile

and the National Aviary if you like birds.
I like birds.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:11pm From: Carmichael

Scott, that would be Richard Hunt.

I don't know why I know this.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:11pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Oh my God, where can I get that Jimmy Masaluke? DAMN.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:12pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Masuluke, sorry...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:12pm From: annie

scott; don't read this....

i will always love that little hungarian restaurant in shaker heights..

Thu. 1/8/09 2:13pm From: Carmichael

Damn, this sounds like The Meters.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:14pm From: Scott

Also on the Pbgh Pro tip: not far from the aviary is the Mattress Factory, with some fab permanent light installations. Also the view from atop (and within) the Cathedral of Learning. And weren't the Tammys from there??
Carmichael, thanks!! I guess I should have asked also: why?
Jonathan Steinke, you oughtta drop Joe McGasko a line - you can do so via his playlists. Indeed, an amazing comp he put together.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:15pm From: dc pat

it's funny Cecile, when I lived there, NO body talked about anything with fries on it--salad, hoagies, what ever. Now that I've left, that's all I hear...

there are some fine Mid Eastern and Indian restaurants there. JEEZUS, I'm done talkin' about PGH!!!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:16pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Thank u, Scott!!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:17pm From: xangoir

Happy Town Happy Town

Thu. 1/8/09 2:17pm From: Cecile

oh, the shangri-las.
this isn't going to end well...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:18pm From: Jonathan

No more last names. I do that purely instinctually.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:18pm From: Carmichael

Right Cecile ... Johnny's gonna die in a wreck, or they're all gonna get stranded at the altar.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:19pm From: GP

60's flash back..wait..I wasn't even born yet...weird.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:20pm From: MikeG

Oh the humanity!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:24pm From: Lizardner Dave

Hey, what's the bed music playing right now?

Thu. 1/8/09 2:26pm From: SCott

Lizardner Dave, that was Kebekelektrik's version of Ravel's Bolero

Thu. 1/8/09 2:27pm From: Lizardner Dave

Exxxcelent. Thanks!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:28pm From: raga

scott, you shoulda seen the cathedral a few weeks ago when it was painted with light. kinda psychedelic colors too. sharp edge is another pittsburgh noteworthy. OH! and the penn brewery is going away. like, soon.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:30pm From: dc pat

oh feck, forgot about the Sharp Edge. Great beer + pizza.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:32pm From: Cecile

no, raga! I went to Penn Brewery about 4 years ago and loved it.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:34pm From: raga

i know. it sucks. their maibock was TO DIE FOR

Thu. 1/8/09 2:35pm From: Cecile

I even brought glasses home from them in my luggage! Their cold plate was da best!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:37pm From: Sean Daily

Speaking of bock... It's 2:40! Time for a beer!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:38pm From: Patrick

creepy mix!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:39pm From: Scott

Only been to the Church Brewworks - great saison the night I was there! I bought a glass, a growler, and a tripel. The glass was smithereens in a matter of days.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:40pm From: dc pat

Hey, if you're ever in Harrisburg, PA, go to ABC brewery. The beer is fan-freakin-tastic.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:42pm From: Parq

Sigh. Pat, I spent a few years in H'burg in the summer of '81. If only they'd had something like ABC in those days. Is it in town, or out at one of the malls?

Thu. 1/8/09 2:44pm From: Lizardner Dave

Been to the Church Brew Works twice, thought the beer was pretty standard brew pub fare (that's not a bad thing..) but thought the food was far above average compared to lots of other brewpubs I've been to.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:45pm From: dc pat

Jeeze I grew up in Mechanicsburg across the river. I was in high school in 81. It's on Cameron street right in Harrisburg. Appalachian Brewing Company.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:46pm From: dc pat

this song is so amazing...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:46pm From: Scott

HI Lizardner Dave - i'd actually say the opposite, thought the grub was pretty standard, as far as brewpubs go. Good, but not great. That saison was fabulous, and also made for a great mussels recipe a few days later.

Thu. 1/8/09 2:47pm From: Scott

Totally with you DC Pat. I wish they'd tell me what it's called~!

Thu. 1/8/09 2:48pm From: Cecile

that's what was cool about Penn, both beer and food were nummy. I wished I could have stayed two days longer for their "hunter's dinner"

Thu. 1/8/09 2:48pm From: dc pat

that was probably one of the most haunting tunes I've heard in a while....I have to go home now...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:51pm From: raga

cecile: right on about penn. their sauerbraten was awesome

Thu. 1/8/09 2:52pm From: Guerin

Visitations & Big Blood: beautiful tune

Thu. 1/8/09 2:53pm From: Pajak

Hey, I listen up here in Maine and will try and find out the tracks info for you...

now back to the mud...

Thu. 1/8/09 2:53pm From: GP

DC Pat..you got that right..quite the change from the Shangri La's....I'm scared

Thu. 1/8/09 2:55pm From: HotRod

Klimperei? That was very nice....

Thu. 1/8/09 2:55pm From: GP

Scott, Thanks for Waylon.

Thu. 1/8/09 3:05pm From: Parq

After-show note. Dear reader, if you have arrived at this page by Googling "visit Pittsburg", take my advice and take these guys' advice. They are the cognoscenti among cognoscenti.

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