Listener comments!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:03am From: annie

good morning doug and woof-mooers!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:07am From: texas scott

WOOF MOO,Annie.
Morning Doug.
Really glad to be here!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:08am From: annie

just took my morning walk with the dog, everything is sopping wet on this misty hillside. garden is drenched. wetness makes the ferns happy and i hear the mushrooms are going bonkers! morning scott.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:11am From: annie

doug, what a wonderful way to start the day! i've decided the volume has to go up!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:13am From: Freddy: Formerly of West Orange Plumbing Supply

Doug, this is the Best song of the day

Fri. 5/29/09 9:14am From: annie

i just heard about the off-duty cop that was killed . amy goodman headlines hello freddy!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:14am From: dc pat

annie-I planted my tomatoes a month ago and have only watered once since then--really wet around here.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:14am From: Drummer Some

Good morning to you and you and especially you! (OK, and to you, too.)

Fri. 5/29/09 9:15am From: annie

that's a good thing pat!! keep your basil's feet dry if you can....

Fri. 5/29/09 9:15am From: Freddy: Formerly of West Orange Plumbing Supply

Hello Annie

Fri. 5/29/09 9:18am From: PMD

Mornin' all... Did it rain in the sandbox??

Fri. 5/29/09 9:20am From: dc pat

ok, thanks boss!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:20am From: annie

morning pmd.... we kept it sheltered from any precipitous onslaughts

Fri. 5/29/09 9:23am From: PMD

Cool. Because, really, it won't stop raining.
Doug, wonderful music as always. I love getting your newsletters, but kinda like Annie's FB posts, there's too much great info and I get overwhelmed!!!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:23am From: Parq

Yeh, March may have come in like a lion and gone out like a lamb, but May is going out like ten pounds of freshly caught mackerel. Anybody know how the weather is in Barcelona?

Fri. 5/29/09 9:25am From: monica

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOUG!! You're another year funky! Right on with your bad self, sir.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:27am From: dc pat

oh yeah, happy b-day, pops.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:27am From: annie

doug, i know you will have a great day today! happy birthday

Fri. 5/29/09 9:30am From: Drummer Some

Well thank you Monica and all. Today actually is the first day of the rest of my life. Yestiddy I woke up to cake for breakfast. Nice!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:31am From: Hugo

Ah, happy b-day! Still a young man, I dare say ...

Fri. 5/29/09 9:32am From: Parq

Linc made a nice card, I hope. Happy returns, D-Sum.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:32am From: annie

what sweet sounds these are. piano=sexy beast

Fri. 5/29/09 9:33am From: Drummer Some

Parq,
The card was the best part.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:33am From: still b/p

Give the drummer some party hat.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:37am From: texas scott

Doug,another year has passed and another year is underway.Know that you are doing God's work.Let the music be the soundtrack to a wonderful life.
Give the drummer some more!
happy times,my friend!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:39am From: Jonathan

The weather in Barcelona is 73 degrees and a cloud-less sky.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:40am From: Janet H

Hi Doug, annie wanted me to come here and wish you a happy birthday.....So Happy Birthday, Doug!!!!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:40am From: Drummer Some

Texas Scott,
Actually, God is my co-host!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:43am From: Drummer Some

Janet,
Where have you been all my life?!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:43am From: Rick Lo

Great set, Doug!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:44am From: grubbus

I love Cow Bells!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:45am From: Janet H

making coffee.....

Fri. 5/29/09 9:46am From: Cecile

Happy belated birthday, Doug!
Mine's on Sunday.
Yay, Geminoids.

Ugh, have a meeting in a few.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:46am From: annie

yup, second pot of joe for me too.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:47am From: Cecile

I HAVE THIS RECORD! I mean, download!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:47am From: still b/p

Barcelona atmospheric/aural conditions creating winds of envy & build-ups of thick coveto-nimbus clouds over here.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:49am From: dc pat

God I'd love to be in Barca now-for soccer celebrations AND rock and/or roll.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:49am From: PMD

Happy birthday Doug! Yay! wishing that the new year will bring a new exciting job.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:50am From: Drummer some

From your lips to a very wealthy benefactor's ears, PMD. Thanks.

Fri. 5/29/09 9:55am From: Janet H

that movie is the best!!!

Fri. 5/29/09 9:55am From: annie

i thought that was ruben!! my brain is enjoying all this great melodic cacophony

Fri. 5/29/09 10:05am From: Hugo

It's been ages since I visited Barcelona last, but still vivid memories of Las Ramblas and Barrio Chino. Tends to be Costa Blanca these days.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:07am From: annie

incredibly beautiful doug, this.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:07am From: dc pat

this is a great set--can't beat cowboy tunes.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:07am From: Janet H

sit back and just enjoy the music......

Fri. 5/29/09 10:08am From: jk

wow, I just saw Paranoid Park last night and it featured that Cast King song. I was wracking my brain to place it, which is no small feat this morning. great songs. Thanks for the great show Doug.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:12am From: annie

i love the old moralizing tunes. very reminiscent of burl ives. i heard a remake of who killed cock-robin this week, they took out the word cock and replaced it with "little". shame. a real shame

Fri. 5/29/09 10:15am From: PMD

I love this type of music - Old Hannah. Just a beautiful voice singing...

Fri. 5/29/09 10:16am From: annie

pmd; you should check out hazel dickens and alice gerard.. they are REAL... hazel is featured in the movie "matewan"

Fri. 5/29/09 10:16am From: Janet H

I'm a newbie to WFMU....started listening around mid March.....and i have to say this playlist is one of my favorites so far...Thanks Doug!!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:18am From: annie

sorry doug, not that karen isn't..... :P

we are glad you joined the group janet

Fri. 5/29/09 10:19am From: PMD

Annie, will do! Actually, I'll check out the movie. I do know of Hazel.

Janet, you seem like you've been here forever! In a good way.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:21am From: Paul Sherratt

Explore the world of Roxy Gordon !
http://www.roxygordon.com/default.html

Fri. 5/29/09 10:22am From: Janet H

you guys make me feel welcome......thanks!!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:23am From: annie

the movie is very realistic; a portrayal of the union wars in the coal mines. got me reading about the unions and the struggle involved in getting them created.. malcom cowley, great writer "dream of the golden mountains"

Fri. 5/29/09 10:24am From: dc pat

Hi Janet, welcome...no hard feelings??

Fri. 5/29/09 10:24am From: aston

I think that was Johnny Dowd who wished he'd been honest.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:24am From: dc pat

he sounded pretty "down" to me..

Fri. 5/29/09 10:26am From: Janet H

dc pat,...of course not!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:27am From: dc pat

cheers!!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:27am From: Parq

How could I have been so unfortunate as to have missed something called "Drag Queens in Limousines"?? Dang that commute! Doug, re 9:33, it always is. Hope you're saving them.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:27am From: holland oats

awesome morning vibe to this countrified set

Fri. 5/29/09 10:28am From: Paul Sherratt

I accidentally found myself driving Mary Gauthier around the UK in early October 2001, She was quite startling back then and remains so to this day !

Fri. 5/29/09 10:29am From: annie

saw her in concert paul, right after katrina... she was a powerful performer..

Fri. 5/29/09 10:30am From: Hugo

Mary Gauthier is always welcome on the airwaves and as a visitor to these shores. Four times so far in town!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:30am From: Carmichael

Morning, Doug and listeners.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:32am From: Parq

Annie, here's a bit of irony for you - "Matewan", with all its celebration of union power as a worthy goal, was made with non-union stagehands.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:32am From: Rob

Good morning.
Listening online, here in rural Virginia. Didn't give any thought to FMU for at least 20 years or so. Been in Va for 25-ish.
What brought me to listening was hitting a pprolonged crisis here. Sort of a psychological hostage situation, taking it and taking it, court dates 4 and 6 months away, doubting if I'll make it. (No, i'm not in jail.)
Regardless, tuned in, instantly relieved with Plastico, getting some of the jiust, then this hard-luck stuff. KNow it'll pick up, switch gears, and break away from itself, because that's what always happened, listening each night back in Jersey. Seemed like Irwin Chusid was on constantly. What a relief it would be when someone else would takeover. This is quite a relief now.
Thank you , thank you.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:34am From: annie

oh, parq, what a shame! .. irony is ironic, huh?

Fri. 5/29/09 10:36am From: Paul Sherratt

Roxy's Crazy Horse Never Died was released as an LP - not sure of the year

Fri. 5/29/09 10:37am From: Carmichael

Out here in California, we're having massive union problems, layoffs, etc ... Unions are ugly. Good if you're a coal miner in the '30s, not so good if you're a government employee in the 21st century.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:38am From: Carmichael

This set's gonna kick ass!

Fri. 5/29/09 10:42am From: annie

see, i knew that would bring up the union chatter. i am fascinated by its history and evolution to become the monster it is now.. it all boils down to control and the money, i guess. if it can be exploited, then so be it..

Fri. 5/29/09 10:42am From: Drummer Some

Rob,
Take a deep breath. Yeah, that's good. It's gonna be OK. WFMU will be with you every step of the way. Things suck now everywhere. They're going to get better. I'm sure of it.

Fri. 5/29/09 10:58am From: Swami

The day after re-election our union prez sold us out. Civil service!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:01am From: annie

sucks, swami. they sure ain't what they used to be.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:01am From: Cecile

Hey, I'm back. Gotta catch up on my reading.
Great track, Doug.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:02am From: Carmichael

I'm a civil servant, and I don't mind that system at all, as it's less obtrusive and not tainted with corruption. But combine that with union representation and the dynamic changes, particularly in bad times.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:03am From: texas scott

yeah,unions have outlived their usefulness.Dinosaurs are extinct and so should be the way of the union,along with the circus , beauty pageants and parades.May they all die in peace.
just saying...
and yes,Doug is right.EVERYTHING is temporary!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:03am From: Carmichael

Hey Annie, time to pull out the Utah Phillips LPs!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:04am From: Cecile

no, they haven't.
They need to reinvent themselves.
We need them more now than ever.
I'm glad I got re-classed and back in a bargaining unit. I have the best boss every, but who knows what I might have in the future.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:04am From: annie

oh yeah, carm. to be sure... i posted alot of his stuff on Fb last week. i love his chutzpah!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:06am From: Carmichael

And he's a great storyteller.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:07am From: Hugo

This Suite Africaine is a thing of beauty. I probably have it somewhere on this computer.

Speaking of which, listening to the show from home on this surround speaker setup with a subwoofer humming along underneath the desk. As the job is moving from out of town into town, I have the privilege of having a home office until things get settled. Bit of a change from the crummy office speakers ...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:08am From: annie

i saw him looong ago at a festival. back in the 70s. mesmerizing and fascinating.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:11am From: Cecile

I got a new computer at work. it is so flippin' awesome

Fri. 5/29/09 11:11am From: Carmichael

I saw Phillips at the local Union Hall here in Sacramento around 1985 or so. He was a nice but curmudgeonly man, with a wry Mark Twain-ish style of banter.

A sign at the bar said:

Bud - $1.00
Bud Light - $1.00
Coors - $20.00 & a lecture

Fri. 5/29/09 11:12am From: annie

virtually unstoppable, he was.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:12am From: dc pat

that's hilarious Carm

Fri. 5/29/09 11:14am From: Cecile

that is, dcp. awesome

Fri. 5/29/09 11:14am From: Carmichael

Cecile, are you a civil servant? If not, then it may be a good thing to have union representation. If you are, then you're already protected and you don't have to pay dues. In my case, I need to be protected against my employees ...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:14am From: dc pat

yeah I think unions still serve a purpose but they definitely need to morph into something else. But I can do without beauty pageants and circuses...parades are ok, little kids love 'em.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:16am From: Listener Dave from NH

What's this I hear? Cowbell?
Oh heck yes.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:16am From: Cecile

I like parades, but what dcp said.

I am a civil servant in a multi-county agency. And believe me, I've needed a union to protect me from my bosses. Until now.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:17am From: Carmichael

Here we go. Soul music, Music of the people, Brother Rabbitte.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:21am From: Cecile

detroit soul!
got any chairmen of the board?

Fri. 5/29/09 11:21am From: J-Mar

It's a long shot -- but hey, Doug, any chance you've got "Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good," by Rose Williams with George Clinton and the Funkadelics? I've been searching for this song in digital form, but to no avail. Just have a crappy cassette copy.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:26am From: Carmichael

Any song with "Getdown" in the title has to be good.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:30am From: Parq

I'm a civil servant *and* an AFSCME member, and come from a long line of union stagehands. The hostility of the non-working-class left toward unions illustrates that unions made the biggest mistake in their collective history when they lined up behind McCarthy and his witchhunts. I can just hear the Amer Mgt Assoc - "First we let the unions get rid of the left, then we get rid of the unions." And that's exactly how it played out.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:34am From: Cecile

I'm an AFSCME member as well.
I haven't seen that kind of hostility, Parq, even when I was out on strike back at my old department. Pretty much anyone who took the bus in Mpls wanted the strike to be resolved in our favor.

But I'm sure a lot of people feel that way.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:34am From: DeemerDave

Parq:
Except the left is stronger than ever and kicking the right's ass.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:36am From: Parq

Dave, oh really? The wars have been ended? DOMA has been repealed? A firebrand leftie, the leftist equivalent of Scalia, has been named to the USSC? I'm real glad to hear it.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:40am From: Drummer Some

J-Mar,
Is that the version that appears on Up for the Down Stroke?

Fri. 5/29/09 11:41am From: Hugo

My Beninian (?) chum would be delighted ...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:42am From: Carmichael

As you may have seen in California, the fight is extremely vocal and will be ongoing. The populace doesn't want any tax increases, the unions won't give an inch on anything, and the Legislature refuses to cut programs. And we're 24 billion in the hole.

Nothing but sabre-rattling, lawsuits and special elections. I'm moving to Paraguay.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:42am From: DeemerDave

Parq:
Sorry, I thought you were talking about the left, not the ultra extreme far left, whick still appears to be making a comeback.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:42am From: annie

ok, off for now... y'all have a great weekend HB doug!!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:42am From: Drummer some

Hugo,
Tell your Beninois chum to strap on his seat belt. The next (and last, boo-hoo) track is a monster!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:43am From: Peter

The Kings of Benin. The Vulcans of Benin. Political mayhem aside, I sometimes wish I grew up in Benin.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:43am From: Parq

Harumph -- "ultra extreme far" = pot calling kettle black.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:43am From: Cut the Listeners Some

Slack on the Vehement Politics Arguments? Thanks!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:44am From: J-Mar

No, different version. Only showed up on a 45, around 68 or 69, on a label called Funkadelic Records. great, super-tight Detroit soul, but with awesome guitar licks, I guess by Eddie Hazel?

Fri. 5/29/09 11:44am From: Cecile

annie, happy happy weekend!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:44am From: DeemerDave

Is anyone else having trouble with typing comments. My cursor keeps disappearing. Quite annoying actually.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:44am From: holland oats

maybe your computer is trying to tell you something

Fri. 5/29/09 11:45am From: Cecile

Doug, what kind of cake did you get?

Fri. 5/29/09 11:46am From: Janet H

Doug, thanks for the music....it made my morning...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:46am From: DeemerDave

Parq:
So who pisssed in your granola this morning?

Fri. 5/29/09 11:46am From: Drummer some

J-Mar,
Ah! This one: http://tinyurl.com/nyrag7
(Don't get excited, it's not a download.)

Fri. 5/29/09 11:47am From: Carmichael

Happy Birthday Doug! And Cecile too! And my kids 3!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:47am From: Parq

Dave, it does sound like your puter, rather than Kenzo's software. Do you have more than one web browser? If so, try the other one and see if that makes a diff. And if that's the kind of name calling we're into, then you can have it. Last word's all yours.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:48am From: DeemerDave

holland oats:
Yeah. Like I shouldn't have "upgraded" to MS Explorer 8.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:48am From: Carmichael

Parq & DeemerDave,

Bryce will mellow you asses right out. Wait and see ...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:48am From: J-Mar

Yup, that's the one, Mr. Drummer Some. You can tell from the label that it's completely awesome. It's very much in the vein of The Parliaments' singles, but with a little extra oomph and a kick-ass drum lick.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:48am From: Carmmichael

Whoo!! That's "your" asses, Dr. Freud ....

Fri. 5/29/09 11:49am From: Elias

Doug, happy birthday yesterday! I've always felt that Gemini is simultaneously the best and the worst sign, with the exact same reasons for both.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:49am From: Cecile

And if he doesn't, The Bats are in the archive...

Fri. 5/29/09 11:49am From: DeemerDave

Parq:
Insult was not intended. I apologize.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:50am From: Cecile

YUP, Elias, our greatest strengths are our worst weaknesses.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:50am From: J-Mar

hey, more Geminis in the house here! my birthday's on Sunday. but the crazy thing is that I've got two co-workers, who both sit right across from me, with the same birthday.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:51am From: Parq

Carm, I dug it more the first way. ;>

Fri. 5/29/09 11:51am From: Elias

That's what I was looking for!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:51am From: Janet H

I'm a gemini!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:52am From: Cecile

J-Mar, that's my birthday!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:52am From: Janet H

that's pretty crazy J-Mar!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:53am From: holland oats

gemini - me too - and i better get them cha-cha heels!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:55am From: Carmichael

J-Mar, my twins' birthdays are on Sunday. Gemini, get it?? Gemini???

Fri. 5/29/09 11:56am From: Drummer some

What an amazingly entertaining read you commentators have thrown down today. Thanks!

Fri. 5/29/09 11:56am From: dc pat

oh yea?, my dad and I share the same birthday and we use to sit next to each other all the time! I tried to get my wife to hold onto my daughter a couple of extra weeks to make it 3 generations in a row, but she couldn't do it.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:56am From: Cecile

J-Mar, I had two friends who were fellow Geminis and college DJs. Our birthdays were May 29. 30 and 31. We had some fun radio programs.

Carm, that's a true Gemini.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:57am From: Janet H

what does that tell us that half the people here are born between may 20 to June 21.....

Fri. 5/29/09 11:58am From: Carmichael

Yes it is, Cecile. It's also 2 of everything ....

Fri. 5/29/09 11:58am From: J-Mar

well, you know, Cecile, we share a birthday with Johnny Paycheck and Brooke Shields -- and I like to think that they each represent one side of the Gemini experience.
lucky for me, today also happens to be the annual Pie Day at my work. so there is pie everywhere. it's actually kind of disgusting already, and it's not even noon in Nashville yet.

Fri. 5/29/09 11:58am From: Cecile

September is Business Month.

And Clint Eastwood and Kyle (Homicide) Secor, J-Mar

Fri. 5/29/09 11:59am From: Cecile

Oh, yes, Carm. I have twin nephews I adore, but it's a handful!

Fri. 5/29/09 12:00pm From: Parq

I totally want to work in J-Mar's office.

Fri. 5/29/09 12:00pm From: dc pat

dang I have a poster of Clint 2 feet away from me.

Fri. 5/29/09 12:01pm From: Cecile

Me, too Parq. Me, too.

Fri. 5/29/09 12:01pm From: Janet H

i share my bday with paul mccartney

Fri. 5/29/09 12:02pm From: J-Mar

Who knew working for a symphony orchestra could be so much fun?

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