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"I fancy him at the court of Minos, anxious to know what sort of unmentionable monster the Minotaur may be, whether he is as frightful as all that or perhaps charming?" - Albert Camus (Visit homepage.)
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December 16, 2015: Grand Central Shuttle (Fill-in for Gary Sullivan)
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:00pm
ndbob:
heya Kurt and everyone! |
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![]() we have signal? started off weird.... |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:05pm
glenn:
well, the devil's in the details. |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:05pm
ndbob:
been fine so far - after that start |
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![]() Oh, hi Kurt! And hello Lux & Ivy. |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:06pm
glenn:
well, ivy, anyway. |
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![]() it always takes me a minute to get used to this studio |
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![]() hi everyone! |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:08pm
glenn:
hi kurt, and all. |
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![]() hello to lux, too. |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:10pm
Dean:
Why just yesterday I was commenting on another show about "bleeding chunks" of Wagner, arias and preludes torn from their contexts, trailing fatty ligaments and veins, for the sake of satisfying the fan of Wagner who can't afford the time to listen to the whole damn opera. | |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:11pm
Dean:
And I love that Elgar "Sea Pictures." You can play that, too, if you like. | |
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![]() aaaaaaaaaaah hahahahhahaha! |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:12pm
glenn:
who has 10 hours to listen to wagner? |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:14pm
Dean:
Precisely. Not me, that's for fucking sure. Ah, but this is an arrangement for organ! That's different. | |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:17pm
glenn:
it's like berlin alexanderplatz. i applaud fassbinder for doing it, but i'm not going to sit in a theatre for 15 hours to watch a movie. |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:18pm
glenn:
although veronika voss is my all time favourite film. |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:20pm
Dean:
I know somebody who saw BA way back when in one day, a two-part affair with lunch in the middle. He loved it. Some nights I tease my kids and offer to rent it from Redbox. "We'll all get cosy in bed at 7:30 and watch the movie until...10:30 tomorrow morning!" I attended the LA production of "Angels in America," which is more like seven or eight hours. Too glitzy for me. I'd see the first half in workshop, which was spectacular. But once the production team decided to inject its own vision of spectacle the show was doomed. | |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:22pm
Dean:
When she was just a toddler, I called my 4YO daughter "My little Diamanda Galas!" | |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:24pm
Richard Gruesome:
Do you take requests? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kbu1uXKvY | |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:26pm
Dean:
A bit like Esther Lamandier here. Same repertoire. | |
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![]() Three-headed dawg ! Three-headed dawg ! I been listening to Kurt Gottschalk w/ a three-headed dawg ! |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:28pm
Dean:
Er, same era, different region. | |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:29pm
Doug Schulkind:
Eenie meenie minie minotaur! | |
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![]() It's all Greek to me. |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:35pm
Dean:
I know a bit of Greek. For instance, σκατά. It means shit. | |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:39pm
Dean:
That "Cantiga del fuego" was *later* than the Greek Rhapsody track? Yow. | |
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![]() Evening, Kurt and all! |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:40pm
Dean:
Originally written and performed by Chat Stevens. | |
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![]() holas minotaurians! |
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![]() Paulo Angeli likes to use a lot of traditional Sardinian instruments. They're a lot of fun to look at (channels Sun Ra's 'Strange Strings') |
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![]() ...& I was thinking I would listen for the contrast to Honky Tonk Radio Girl @ 8... |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:54pm
Hambone:
"cut the mustard"?!! | |
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![]() Well, I'm still old enough to cut the cheese! |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:55pm
Hambone:
..must be pretty old then. | |
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Wed. 12/16/15 7:55pm
ndbob:
excellent first hour Kurt! bye for now |
Wed. 12/16/15 7:56pm
Hambone:
the mustard, that is. | |
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![]() The wife is going to see Laurie Anderson tomorrow. I couldn't afford it, but at least I got to chat w/ her at a bar once back in 2005. |
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![]() Wait, what? There's a Kurt show and I didn't know to listen in? |
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![]() laurie's super nice. i once went to a fundraiser reception at the kitchen and i knew she was going to be there so i had my friend back home fax the school report her daughter did about how laurie was her hero. laurie seemed pleased by it. |
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![]() hi jeff. i forgot to run audition. |
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![]() Sigh. |
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![]() sorry |
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![]() @Kurt: She was invited by Keiko. She sat next to me, and I could barely contain by school boyish enthusiasm. We talked about normal stuff about music and arts. As I left, I mentioned I had her vinyl box set for United States of America (she only ID'ed herself as Laurie). |
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![]() nice. i sat next to her and lou at the movies once. it was 'giant' - the james dean / liz taylor movie. i think it was laurie's turn to pick the movie because lou was fidgeting, sleeping, trying to use the light off the screen to read his watch ... |
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![]() Thanks Kurt, I should be back before 10. |
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![]() howdy Kurt and all |
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![]() hey, coelc! |
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![]() hey who made that gif of the last party i threw? |
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![]() your next door neighbor |
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![]() oh,yeah. he should be glad i didn't invite him,after he saw all those people fall (accidentally) into the fire pit. |
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![]() whoops! |
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![]() I can see a Walmart from my window. |
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![]() weird. do you live in alaska? |
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![]() It's not a Russian Walmart. |
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![]() It's about a half mile away. I can't see it when the trees have leaves but I can this time of year. I long for spring. |
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![]() i know it's an old story but i actually saw wal-mart kill my mom's town in west tennessee. there's nothing downtown anymore. everyone shops at wal-mart and everyone lives at wal-mart. they should just build a dormitory on the roof. |
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![]() It's kind of awful. I've never been in this one near me. It went up about ten years ago. I shop at a store across the street from it. We lost three other grocery stores in the area after it opened. It does damage even here...but nothing like what they did to rural towns. |
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![]() i knew it was bad but i always thought it was an exaggeration until i saw it. |
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![]() I'm close enough to lot of mall towns to have watched that happen. We shopped for bulk stuff at a Sam's Club until we got a Costco an hour away. It's a good excuse for going to the bigger city. Big city amenities and no supporting Satan. |
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![]() coelcanth parties with satan. |
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![]() like it's 1999 |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:20pm
Dean:
I can see a Chipotle and a Walgreen's from my window. Kinda convenient, if you think about it, under the present circumstances. | |
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![]() What are the present circumstances? |
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![]() i live in manhattan and i see a tree-covered hill out my windows. |
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![]() This is a track that I think I want to hear exactly once but that I'll be sad when it ends. |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:22pm
Dean:
Chipotle outposts around the country (NW and here in CA, at least) serving tainted food, making folks mighty ill. | |
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![]() Well, I can't really complain...I live on six wooded acres...which is pretty much all I can see till the leaves drop and I can see that damned Walmart. |
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![]() I hadn't heard that, Dean. |
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![]() my town would rally against walmart coming in. cvs was stopped. the village (downtown,where i live) has an ordinance against chain-business now; but that didn't pass until after a starbucks and a mobile mart were there. |
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![]() when i moved to nyc in the 90s there wasn't an ordinance of chains, they just didn't have them. it was one of the first things i noticed. now they're everywhere. |
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![]() The only strange thing about chains in NYC is who would patronize such places with the diverse wealth of options available there. Of course the answer is probably risk-averse tourists and commuters. |
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![]() ...oh,yeah and 2 other petrol stations,and little chains- like a korean/japanese restaurant that's one of three. |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:29pm
Dean:
Blech, it's worse than I thought: "Forty-five people in six different states have contracted food poisoning after eating at a Chipotle restaurant this fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Most cases, 26, were in Washington State. The CDC also reported two cases in California, two in Minnesota, two in New York, one in Ohio, and 13 in Oregon. At least 16 people have been hospitalized."--ThinkProgress, November 21, 2015 | |
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![]() I grew up in a big city and choose now not to live in one but when I visit them...I'm looking for the flavor of the city, not the familiarity of a strip mall. |
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![]() That news is good for Qdoba. |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:32pm
Dean:
Which is why I often head to the local public library. But then I have a perverse fondness for strip mall familiarity, too. There's one in Victoriaville, site of the annual Musique Actuelle. I'd grab coffee there and watch the locals shop. Having grown up in an LA suburb, I felt entirely at home, even if I didn't ever hang out at the mall as a kid. Also, the Victo mall was all French. But still, the same kinds of shops. | |
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![]() UM, there are many places in this village to get coffee and such- several of which serve excellent quality for less money than shitty,burnt,overpriced starfucks; yet business is booming for them. the students from long island and many of the tourists go there, i guess for the reasons you stated. |
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![]() the chains in nyc work the way they do everywhere else. they're bigger and cheaper and eventually push out the competition. it might be harder to pull off, i'm not sure, but it's the same mode of operation. |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:35pm
Dean:
Also, it's easier for the chains to move in, a function of their being bigger. That's why it's called capitalism. | |
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![]() When I was in Manhattan last March, for the first time in about six years, I still saw enough of what makes it New York to still be New York, I think. I didn't feel cornered into frequenting chains. I still make it to Chicago about twice each year and it's the same way. |
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![]() I suppose it's connected to the way Times Square famously changed. My last two visits to Times Square were in 1975 and 2009. |
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![]() yeah, it's still nyc, uncle mike, but it's changed. |
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![]() It's the only constant. |
Wed. 12/16/15 9:43pm
Dean:
As they say in Victo, "Plus ça change..." | |
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![]() This is delicious. |
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![]() While waiting to meet a friend for a drink, I was reading Dec '14s Wire (i'm way behind) and came across Kurt reviewing the New Opera Days Fest in Ostrava, Czechia, and he interviews Kamala Sankaram!, a friend of mine that used to play w/ me years back! Cheers Kurt! |
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![]() Take your time, Kurt...no one is up next! |
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![]() Thanks Kurt! gnight animals. (..."early christmas eve"?) |
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![]() zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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