Playlist for The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff - October 5, 2009

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October 5, 2009: Interviewing Jonathan Letham

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Artist Track Album
Ramones  We want the Airwaves   Anthology: Hey, Ho, Let's Go 
Voidstar Runner  Cortical   -none- 
Flying Lotus  Melt   Los Angeles 
Ramones  We want the Airwaves   Anthology: Hey, Ho, Let's Go 

Listener comments!

Mon. 10/5/09 6:01pm From: Charles-A.

Hello and welcome the the Media Squat.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:02pm From: Charles-A.

Sorry if I seen a little disorganized, I just got in from doing my own show ("The Disability Show") for WSPC. Now let's all listen to "The Media Squat."

Mon. 10/5/09 6:09pm From: Charles-A.

That's actually a good definition for Fractal

Mon. 10/5/09 6:13pm From: Charles-A.

A fractal is a self referential, self- replicating quasi-infinite scaling structure.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:14pm From: Charles-A.

I didn't get squat (NOT the Media squat, :-) for my book.

At least its not costing me any more.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:17pm From: Charles-A.

The problem with talking about books is that you can't discuss the book. I LOVE the Ian McEwan quote.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:18pm From: bill

Hey Charles!

Mon. 10/5/09 6:19pm From: Charles-A.

Having friends will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through time of no friends.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:20pm From: Charles-A.

Hey bill. How are you?

Mon. 10/5/09 6:21pm From: Charles-A.

Though I have to say that "Rich or poor, its nice to have money."

Mon. 10/5/09 6:24pm From: bill

Great man, how are you? My first time in the chat room!

Mon. 10/5/09 6:24pm From: Charles-A.

I think I have to teach Douglas about NeoMaps which would let me know where all of you are from. (I have an audience if MSers which has even reached into Ulan Bator. :-)

Mon. 10/5/09 6:25pm From: Charles-A.

Welcome to your chat room. Its a kind of side conversation on what the program is about.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:27pm From: Charles-A.

I love these kinds of one way trips into useless knowledge.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:30pm From: Charles-A.

"Celtic vibe" Oh wow, kind of a Lucky Charms "hip hop"-ing swell jive.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:34pm From: Charles-A.

Reality can be porous. (Then again you may find yourself in a Lovecraft-ian Chthulu ream. Be careful out there.)

Mon. 10/5/09 6:36pm From: Charles-A.

Mondo 2000? Oh wow. Somebody get me a web reference to R.U.Serious...

Mon. 10/5/09 6:38pm From: Charles-A.

My early 20s. (Kwel... :-) This electronic typewriter doesn't do cuneiform. :-)

Mon. 10/5/09 6:40pm From: Charles-A.

My riffs are often based on a righteous wrath.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:41pm From: stingy d

big jonathan lethem fan! i tuned in late, i'll go back and listen. i'm absolutly feel a twitter coming on.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:42pm From: stingy d

am i at the wrong show?

Mon. 10/5/09 6:44pm From: stingy d

is cuneiform emoji for old people?

Mon. 10/5/09 6:44pm From: Charles-A.

I find they reality is a far more effective "spark in a dried field of grass" and can sear much deeper into your mind. (I like my ideas like my meat, Pitttsburg [, meaning burnt to a crisp on the outside and raw and bloody on the inside.] )

Mon. 10/5/09 6:46pm From: Charles-A.

Cuneiform is made with the cut end of some reeds in clay tablets. :-)

That's real old.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:49pm From: Charles-A.

The oldest writing in existence is the code of Hammurabi, which was a wage and price control document. (an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.)

Mon. 10/5/09 6:50pm From: stingy d

yea i bet.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:51pm From: stingy d

did anybody see the knicks first pre-season game?!!

Mon. 10/5/09 6:52pm From: Bill Clinton

I like my meat like I like my ideas, in someone else's head.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:54pm From: Charles-A.

Emoji (絵文字?) is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese wireless messages and webpages. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji ] :-) Cuneiform script (pronounced /kjuːˈniː.ɨfɔrm/ kew-NEE-i-form or /ˈkjuːnɨfɔrm/ KEW-ni-form) is the earliest known writing system in the world.[1] Cuneiform writing emerged in the Sumerian civilization of southern Iraq around the 34th century BC [2] during the middle Uruk period, beginning as a pictographic system of writing. Cuneiform was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the Ancient Near East.[ same source ]

Mon. 10/5/09 6:54pm From: bill

Thanksgiving's a great time for the munchies!

Mon. 10/5/09 6:56pm From: Charles-A.

It depends on how they get in there. (Can you change somebody's mind bi hitting it with a brick?)

Mon. 10/5/09 6:56pm From: stingy d

i might actually second thought my first thought.

Mon. 10/5/09 6:59pm From: Charles-A.

The closing song it Melt by Flying Lotus.

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