WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 6, 2024

Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:01am Spikey BXL: Happy New Year and good morning, Brian
	6:01am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:03am TDK60: Good morning, Brian, woofomooz.
	6:07am Brian D: Good morning and Happy New Year, Spikey, Fred, Tom Tom and TDK.
	6:07am Brian D: And everyone listening, of course.
	6:08am Fredericks: So, this is a "the year in review" show?
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ Fredericks @6:08 Photos of the year, anyway, Fredericks. Good morning.
	⚡ 6:10am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, Spikey, fred, TDK and Fredericks. It's been below -20 C for almost a week now here, gonna feel balmy if it gets up to freezing next week as predicted!
	⚡ 6:11am Spikey BXL: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:10 That's a very cold start of your retirement. Hope all is going well, Don.
	6:11am TDK60: Hello Don. No snow here in NYC yet, or maybe not at all, again...
	⚡ 6:15am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Happy New Currents.
	6:16am Reagan NY ZEN RN: Good morning Brian. Happy New Year! That picture of the girl on the bus is heartbreaking. Spread PEACE!! please
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:10 Hello Don. Happy retirement!
	6:18am Brian D: Good morning Brian, Reagan. I was hoping for no similar photos in 2024 but...
	6:21am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ 6:24am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and everyone. Here's a news item for you: Italian prisoners protesting a miserly serving of prosecco on New Years Eve: www.thedrinksbusiness.com...
	6:25am Brian D: Happy New Year, Morphe. And Peter... Prosecco beats US "prison hooch" I'm sure.
	6:26am Fredericks: Morning, Brian, Don and my other Currentistas.
	⚡ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: i guess in the middle of the election israel negotiating (what with?) drc to take in palestinians
	6:26am rich in angleton: late to bed early to rise.. good morning Brian and everybody in radioland!
	6:28am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ Brian D @6:18 The awareness is essential. It needs to be seen.
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:26 Man, Rich. A solid 3 hours there.
	6:28am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Compared To What" by "Les McCann & Eddie Harris" A great live track. Farewell Les McCann. I got to see him in Central Park; I think it was summer 1971. Yes, "the president's got his war."
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:26 DRC or Uganda, I think, right?
	⚡ 6:29am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @6:25 Agreed, Brian. In the US, prison is punitive and about low cost labor. Nuthin' rehabilitative about it.
	6:30am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:29 Yes. In my old slot, I had author/journalist Keri Blakinger on as a guest. She served time and wrote a book about it.
	6:33am rich in angleton: nah Brian 4 hours solid. I'll take a one hour nap later and be all caught up.
	6:33am LiXiviated Life: Sometimes I jisten Sometimes I’ve heard too much
	6:34am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:33 Good morning Lixi. Well said. so true
	6:35am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:33 I can't function o less than 24 hours of sleep a day.
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:33 My wife says the same thing to me all the time. Happy New Year, Lix.
	6:38am fred: The cloud picture reminds me of White Noise
	⚡ 6:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:28 haven't seen much about uganda, tbh, but wonder what or if israel is offering in exchange, that, besides the beyond words cynicism of it, and immorality, and other underlying issues
	6:41am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 I may be wrong about Uganda. But I thought I heard two African nations... Yeah, the cynicism is... well...
	⚡ 6:46am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "No Fear of Time (with Yummy Bingham)" by "Black S... One two threeeeeee, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
	6:46am dday: You can lead people to knowledge, but you can't make them think
	⚡ 6:47am NotARealDoctor: That's a first for me I've never heard of someone being convinced to kidnap themself before
	6:55am TDK60: One good piece of news from Africa recently was, the South African government taking a case to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, accusing Israel of genocide.
	6:57am fred: Another Bomb article about JJJJJerome Ellis, a conversation with Angel Bat Dawid: bombmagazine.org...
	⚡ 6:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @6:55 The US has described South Africa's filing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of committing genocidal acts in Gaza as "meritless". "We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever," US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told a Wednesday press briefing at the White House.
	7:00am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:58 Good morning, tom tom. Of course, no surprise.
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:57 Thanks for sharing that, Fred.
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: interview with that vietnamese/american author on democracy now some months ago, a very sharp mind
	⚡ 7:12am Spikey BXL: If you like discovering music through Hank, I highly recommend the 'Fanatic' series. I think it's three books, at least that's what I have. It's notes from his "Harmony in my Head" radio show.
	7:12am the Hurston moor-elf: ↳ TDK60 @6:55 Good morning TDK! Did you see the paired stories that featured Alan Dershowitz as (i) Israel's preferred defence lawyer at the Hague and (ii) star player in the unsealed Epstein court documents?
	7:13am TDK60: Rollins: One afternoon in 1984 or '85, I got to turn the frowning Henry onto Silver Apples! And Jefferson Airplane's 3rd album. Black Flag arrived at the club I worked at early in the afternoon, hung out. And I had control of the club cassette deck, naturally. Henry liked the tunes, was open-minded.
	7:14am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:12 Yep. Three volumes, I think. Comprehensive.
	⚡ 7:15am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:14 An ever growing playlist and crater in my finances...
	⚡ 7:16am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @6:57 Thanks for sharing that URL, fred. Cool interview.
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: viet thanh nguyen on dem now www.democracynow.org...
	7:18am TDK60: ↳ the Hurston moor-elf @7:12 Hiya Hurston moor-elf! No, I didn't see those. #i is so incredible, but I shouldn't be surprised. I still have mental images of wandering through the moor hamlet. (I have photographs I could share.) Say hello to the neighbors.
	7:18am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 His memoir is so beautifully written and poignant. Highly recommend it.
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Reuters-concerns ahead of Bangladesh election" seems like tr---p's 'lock'em up" sloganeering has been exported but as more something more concrete
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Yeah, it's not an original concept.
	⚡ 7:33am Michael of Cologne: Wishing all the best for the new year to you Brian, Tom Tom, TDK60, Fred, Lix, et al. Desperately trying to get this year into gear listening to good music.
	7:33am Brian D: Likewise, Michael. Good to "see" you this morning.
	⚡ 7:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:30 yes, very true, didn't mean to imply in originated with him, just that bangladesh might be following that lead after all modi is.
	7:39am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 Nah, I knew what you meant. That whole India-Bangladesh dynamic is something to keep an eye on. Two megalomaniac, fascist-lite leaders, and both countries have axes to grind with one another.
	7:39am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. Here is to good news in 2024.
	7:39am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 There's alsi Imran Khan in Pakistan, for a less sympathetic figure in the area
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @7:39 Here, here, Cooh. Good morning.
	7:41am Gainstager Liquid: eating a very tasty english pastry while sitting on my rug!
	7:42am TDK60: I've read about struggles of textile workers trying to unionize in Bangladesh. Tough situation. Then again, I've heard relatively similar things about union drives in, say, Alabama.
	7:42am Strandlund: Happy New Year Brian and all. The cats were kind enough to let me sleep in today...
	7:43am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:42 Starbucks isn't exactly welcoming unions either
	7:43am Lux Interior: First time listener here—really digging the show and appreciate all the info being shared in the comments.
	7:44am TDK60: I recently met an ex-False Prophet in a WashHeights coffeeshop. Now a lefty reporter, mostly on NYC tenant issues.
	⚡ 7:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:39 i don't know the full story with kahn which is probably very complicated... critical of u.s.(?) and locked up
	7:47am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:43 Bonjour Fred. Yes, give those Starbucks union organizers a strong large black coffee. No charge.
	7:48am Gainstager Liquid: philanthropic chap
	7:48am rich in angleton: I used to never miss a false prophets gig.. they were amazing. I even saw them play at WFMU..
	7:49am rich in angleton: ...on pat duncan's old show
	7:53am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:45 Looks complicated, and I don't know anyone from there to explain the nuances Some echoes of Trump as he was a sports star and rode that to a populist political career. Pakistan was hammered by floods, the military calls the shots (sometimes literally), they have nuclear weapons, and have an adversarial relationship with India. Maybe I should pay more attention
	7:53am Barbie: Thanks for the film info, I would have missed OCCUPIED CITY.
	⚡ 7:53am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:43 I've largely managed to avoid Starbucks the last 3 years thanks to independent coffee shops.
	⚡ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: met steve mcqueen about the time titanic was released, he was pretty enthralled with the 'machinery' going into making a hollywood spectacle like that, saying 'they weren't stupid'
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:42 Belated Happy New Year and good morning, Strand.
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ Lux Interior @7:43 Welcome, Lux. Happy to have you.
	⚡ 7:54am Spikey BXL: Occupied City link on IMDB: www.imdb.com...
	7:55am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @7:53 Hi Barbie! Happy to help!
	7:55am Robm: morning fellow current listeners
	7:55am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone! HNY!
	7:56am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:49 My FMU "gateway show."
	7:56am Barbie: Agreed Peter. I have a Joe Coffee across the street. The Starbucks across the avenue closed.
	7:57am Brian D: Happy New Year, Robm and Mr. Galub.
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:53 thanks fred, i see there was talk about the u.s calling for his ousting and another wrinkle of having a more or less friendly relationship with taliban
	7:57am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:57 backstca brian
	7:58am ?: this guy sounds like he gets it! gets laid a lot.
	⚡ 7:59am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Barbie @7:56 Barbie, when Starbucks stops trying to suppress union organizing, I might become a regular again. But their obsession with serving people at the drive-up window leads to crappy customer service for people who walk in.
	⚡ 8:00am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Bangin' show today, Brian!
	8:00am fred: ↳ Robm @7:55 There are current currents listeners, but also future currents listeners. Maybe throw in a random apostrophe just to piss off Ike (but where?)
	8:03am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:00 Ha!
	⚡ 8:04am Spikey BXL: ↳ fred @8:00 there are alternate current listeners, and direct current listeners as well
	8:05am fred: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:04 Looks like Brian has never played AC/DC
	8:05am Barbie: Peter unions was one of the reason Amazon gave up on NYC. They should have gone to Newark anyway.
	⚡ 8:05am tom tom the pipers son: have been listening for about a year but seems longer
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:05 Don't hold your breath.
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:05 Gee thanks.
	8:07am fred: @Brian: is the Joe Strummer pic still in the kitchen?
	8:07am morphe': False Prophets: photo of Stephan on his chopper bicycle from 2015 in SF https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F479499598839988%2Fphotos%2Fstephan-ielpi-vocalist-of-the-legendary-new-york-punk-band-false-prophets-came-i%2F841563159300295%2F&psig=AOvVaw2wwmbmjv02W5LGWCnBn_mU&ust=1704632724589000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBEQjRxqFwoTCLCdnfPpyIMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
	8:08am Robm: ↳ fred @8:00 i really don’t go out of my way on here pissing off people
	⚡ 8:08am Spikey BXL: ↳ Robm @8:08 you make it sound like it comes naturally to you ;)
	⚡ 8:09am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:06 i don't think i've missed a week...
	8:09am Robm: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:08 i really try not too spikey
	8:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:07 Yessir. Look at it every morning while making my tea.
	8:10am fred: ↳ Robm @8:08 That's magnificent of you
	8:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:09 I know and I appreciate it. The way your comment was worded, it made it seem like listening to the show was tedious.
	8:11am Robm: ↳ fred @8:10 okay
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:11 oh, ha! wasn't sure, but your comment lacked an exclamation point so i thought i'd clarify
	8:12am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:11 Reminds me, where are the "shut up about the news and play music" trolls?
	8:12am Handy Haversack: Morning, Brian, all.
	8:13am Robm: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:59 which is why i prefer dunkin’ donuts coffee, starbucks is a ripoff
	8:14am estebangrande: ↳ Brian D @8:11 hi brian d. and the current listening, it's funny how easy to misinterpret the written word. i have realized how many times i've found confusion while texting
	⚡ 8:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Party Interest" by "Screensaver" makes me think siousxie
	8:15am fred: ↳ estebangrande @8:14 I'm skilled at finding confusion, especially before coffee
	8:17am Robm: morning handy has that situation with the 1 2 3 trains been straightened out yet?
	8:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:12 In my apartment having coffee, most likely.
	8:18am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:12 Handy! Happy New Year!
	8:18am morphe': ↳ Song: "Clip: WION-UK investigators looking into "gang ra... That clip sounded as though it was a news clip out of some retro futuristic SF film ...
	8:19am Brian D: ↳ estebangrande @8:14 Reminds me of an old gag about how to write job recommendations for people you don't really want to recommend, eg, "You'll be lucky to get Brian to work for you."
	8:19am sydniuß: ↳ Song: "Hearing Voices" by "Self-Immolation Music" Good morning Amped up people! “Drunk Girls” at 16rpm?
	⚡ 8:19am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @8:18 true
	⚡ 8:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Robm @8:13 Rob, DD cawfee is good. Doughnuts leave a bad aftertaste tho.
	8:20am Robm: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:19 i usually have a bagel
	8:24am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:19 I wrote one a bit like that once (ran it by the guy first, wasn't published)
	⚡ 8:25am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @8:19 from the Lexicon of Inconspicuously Ambiguous Recommendations (L.I.A.R.) markovthoughtchain.wordpress.com...
	⚡ 8:25am tom tom the pipers son: @ brian: i think the day's schedule that is posted is incorrect, aren't shows preempted for fmu holiday party?
	8:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:25 Nope. As far as I know we broadcast as usual.
	8:28am estebangrande: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:25 great acronym
	8:28am tak: cool kids / cooler kids
	⚡ 8:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:26 been hearing from dj's about a party, for instance, mona said she was going to be on tonight at 1am
	8:30am Germanium: Good morning!
	8:31am fred: ↳ fred @8:24 I said he would only be worth hiring if there was stuff to do worth his while (which was true, he's a diva). The guy asked me for a book rec and I said Infinite Jest. He didn't make it through the first pages then came back with testimony from Italian professors of literature saying it was abuse and threatened to report me to HR. I'm proud of this moment
	8:31am Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @8:31 Holy crap!
	8:34am estebangrande: ↳ fred @8:31 Infinite Jest? god gawd that's a lotta words. i like your method
	8:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:28 News to me. But you could be right.
	⚡ 8:34am herb.nyc: Hola, happy new year. Tuned in 10’ ago and looking at photos. I saved that page 1 of photo 1, to send to nephew in Calif. oh wait, they know about ash laden skies
	⚡ 8:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:31 for some reason your comment sounds like something that would happen in a metaverse
	8:35am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:34 Happy New Year, Herb!
	8:35am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:34 Not hearing about a party is a familiar feeling to me :)
	8:37am bixa: good morning everyone, happy new year! currently poaching an egg for my dog's breakfast
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:35 Well, I know about the party -- just not about its effect on the broadcast schedule. I'll be standing in a corner anyway.
	⚡ 8:37am herb.nyc: As for the migrants outside Roosevelt hotel photo, we have a food scraps stand at Tompkins gmkt on Sunday. Just half a block away the migrants line up. I think for housing, or HOPE for housing. This is St Brigid School. Sad. My coworker helps them by giving out clothes
	⚡ 8:38am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 “That’s Brian in the corner…”🎶
	8:38am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Hard Light" by "Drop Nineteens" What a powerful photo.
	8:38am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:37 Yes, I've seen the line outside St. Brigid's. Very upsetting.
	8:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ herb.nyc @8:37 I think there's no housing at St. Brigid, but they're forced to line up there in order to reapply for beds and so end up sleeping outside the place sometimes or lose their place on line.
	⚡ 8:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 he's lost his religion already
	8:39am fred: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 Ha!
	8:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:39 Good reporting on what they are going through: www.thecity.nyc...
	⚡ 8:40am herb.nyc: Oh, fotog Laura Levine said it was MStipe’s birthday a coupla days ago
	8:40am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 Ha!
	8:41am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 In every sense of the phrase.
	8:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Well, looks like no snow, at any rate. Rain and wind aplenty.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:39 Correct. And the city's ever-changing regs have them in limbo.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:42 So I'll be standing in the corner -- wet.
	⚡ 8:43am herb.nyc: “That’s me in the corner”🎶 will always make me laugh, for the Mekons slipped into a few lines of song when they played Central Park summerstage. I’ve a foto somewhere, at the original site, the bandshell July 4 weekend, and people are wearing flag hats! Crazy!
	8:43am Handy Haversack: ↳ Brian D @8:42 Exactly.
	8:44am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:41 But you not only found WFMU but are part of it
	⚡ 8:46am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Chop Suey" by "Eartheater" Aside- this title takes me to Dave the Spazz recentest show. He had George Jessel(?, I should see archive) audio. Funny jokes. But one had word “China man “ in it. Ouch. Pssst, i’z Chinese
	⚡ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: a commenter recently responded to a question something like 'how to stop a.i." they said 'chop suey'
	8:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:44 I know. I'm just painfully shy at parties.
	8:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 It's not funny but the word to stop AI is "explain"
	⚡ 8:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:49 i can't remember how it came up but the response chop suey, to something about a.i. seemed appropriate because if chop suey didn't alreadty exist it seems like a.i. would make it up
	⚡ 8:53am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:48 I’m a painfully shy person too. But when I work at the gmkt I change persona. I see myself as being on the stage, and i need entertain and be charming. I adjuncted for 3 semesters, and used that same reasoning
	8:53am Fredericks: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:42 Sounds like what's happening here right now.
	8:53am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!
	8:54am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. Happy and healthy New Year to you all. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ 8:54am herb.nyc: Oh to’ve seen the undertones w feargal fronting (I’ve seen them twice, fantastic!). And to see Barbara manning
	⚡ 8:55am Spikey BXL: great show Brian, thanks and have a nice weekend
	⚡ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian...mingle, mingle... :)
	8:56am TDK60: Thanks, Brian.
	8:56am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Brian!
	8:56am Handy Haversack: ↳ Fredericks @8:53 Well, but 35F.
	⚡ 8:56am herb.nyc: btw, friend sez, for tonight Discreet Charms at Young Ethel’s (5th Ave & 12th St. Brooklyn). They’re “Brooklyn Art punks with swagger”. WFMU’s Nate K on bass, Tom Dash (Hyland) on drums. (Speaking of WFMU DJs). It’s a free show. (Also Cut Worms at Union Pool that night is sold out)
	⚡ 8:57am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Baghdad Stomp" by "False Prophets" I visited Stephen in his squat.
	8:58am HyperDose: Sweet tunes!
	⚡ 8:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:53 kinda make sense, fred?
	8:59am rich in angleton: thx Brian!! HNY everybody!
	⚡ 8:59am Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Brian D!!! Happy New Year!!!
	8:59am morphe': ↳ Song: "When Saturday Comes" by "The Undertones" 10"

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 6, 2024

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January 6, 2024: "I'm gonna take the song from every bird..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Gil Scott Heron	I Think I'll Call It Morning	Pieces of a Man	Ash from Canadian wildfires clouds New York skies. Dave Sanders for The New York Times	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Langston Hughes	The Dream Keeper "The Dream Keeper" by "Langston Hughes"	The Dream Keeper	Member of the so-called Central Park 5, Yusef Salaam, after he was elected to the City Council. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times	0:03:16 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan "The Partisan" by "Leonard Cohen"	Songs from a Room	Dueling protests at Times Square. Barry Williams/NY Daily News	0:07:41 (Pop-up)

JJJJJerome Ellis	Bend Back The Bow and Let the Hymn Fly	The Clearing	A child on a school bus following a school shooting in Nashville last spring. Nicole Hester/The Tennessean, via Reuters	0:12:33 (Pop-up)
	Clip: ABC Australia-reported irregularities during election in DRC			0:23:10 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris	Compared To What	Swiss Movement	R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/arts/music/les-mccann-dead.html	0:24:09 (Pop-up)
Les McCann	Soaring (At Dawn) Part I	Layers	Toxic cloud following train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Gene J Puskar/Associated Press	0:32:49 (Pop-up)
DJ Mentos	Speaking In Keys "Speaking In Keys" by "DJ Mentos"	More with Les - The Jazz Jousters add Les McCann	Protest at Broadway-Lafayette subway station following the killing of Jordan Neely. Barry Williams/NY Daily News	0:38:48 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Scripps-Chinese exchange student victim of cyber-kidnapping			0:43:07 (Pop-up)
Black Star	No Fear of Time (with Yummy Bingham)	No Fear of Time	Rescue efforts following earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Emin Ozmen for The New York Times	0:43:31 (Pop-up)

Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes	Footprints	Cosmic Funk	Protests in Israel over proposed judicial reform. Oded Balilty/Associated Press	0:54:35 (Pop-up)
AMP DOG KNIGHTS	Over U "Over U" by "AMP DOG KNIGHTS"	Over U	R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/arts/music/amp-fiddler-dead.html	1:00:38 (Pop-up)

Liquid Liquid	Lock Groove (In) / Lock Groove (Out)	Slip In and Out of Phenomenon	Homeless encampment on American River in Sacramento, Calif. Residents there affected by flooding this fall. Max Whittaker for The New York Times	1:08:36 (Pop-up)
Chumbawumba	Pass It Along "Pass It Along" by "Chumbawumba"	WYSIWYG	Aftermath of bombing in Ukraine. Nicole Tung for The New York Times	1:16:42 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Reuters-concerns ahead of Bangladesh election			1:20:06 (Pop-up)
William Butler + Sister Squares	Stop Talking	William Butler + Sister Squares	Haiyun Jiang-The New York Times	1:21:18 (Pop-up)
TALsounds	Slides "Slides" by "TALsounds"	Shift	New Orleans summer heatwave. Bryan Tarnowski/The Guardian	1:26:00 (Pop-up)
Mark Van Hoen	Three Suns of Lanuvium	The First Cause	Jackson, Mississippi water crisis. Rory Doyle/The Guardian	1:32:45 (Pop-up)
False Prophets	Baghdad Stomp "Baghdad Stomp" by "False Prophets"	False Prophets	Gaza. Mohammed Salem/Reuters	1:39:24 (Pop-up)

Swans	Blind Love "Blind Love" by "Swans"	Children of God	Migrants met by border patrol after cross Rio Grande. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times	1:53:01 (Pop-up)
The Clash	The Magnificent Seven "The Magnificent Seven" by "The Clash"	From Here To Eternity	Migrants camped outside Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News	2:00:54 (Pop-up)
Menilek	Dub Along the Watchtower "Dub Along the Watchtower" by "Menilek"	Son of Solomon	Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times	2:07:03 (Pop-up)
Screensaver	Party Interest "Party Interest" by "Screensaver"	Decent Shapes	Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times	2:11:33 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WION-UK investigators looking into "gang rape" in Metaverse			2:15:27 (Pop-up)
Self-Immolation Music	Hearing Voices	Infinity Trip	Maui following the fire. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times	2:16:12 (Pop-up)

Barbara Manning	Temperature's Rising	Charm of Yesterday… Convenience of Tomorrow	Fort Lauderdale airport floods following heavy rains in April. Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinal	2:23:44 (Pop-up)
Studded Left	Isolated Mess "Isolated Mess" by "Studded Left"	Everyone Around Here	A Yemeni woman prepares food for her family members at a camp for internally displaced people in Yemen. Yahya Arhab/EPA	2:28:45 (Pop-up)
Bar Italia	Worlds Greatest Emoter	The Twits	Afghan refugee girls attend class at Syed Jamaluddin high school in Pakistan. Shahzaib Akber/EPA	2:27:19 (Pop-up)
Drop Nineteens	Hard Light "Hard Light" by "Drop Nineteens"	Hard Light	After fleeing their home, a family hides while the Myanmar military conducts airstrikes. Photo by Matias Bercovich	2:35:59 (Pop-up)
Tremosphere	Down the Road "Down the Road" by "Tremosphere"	Becoming Creatures	A Belarusian woman holds a placard calling for ‘freedom for Belarusian political prisoners’ during a demonstration in Warsaw. SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images	2:38:59 (Pop-up)
Eartheater	Chop Suey "Chop Suey" by "Eartheater"	Powders	A house burned down during an attack attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which claims affiliation with militant group Islamic State, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Joel Bibuya/AFP/Getty Images	2:42:58 (Pop-up)
Vagabon	Autobahn "Autobahn" by "Vagabon"	Sorry I Haven't Called	Fireworks make patterns in the sky over the Brandenburg Gate at midnight in Berlin. Adam Berry/Getty Images	2:46:57 (Pop-up)

The Undertones	When Saturday Comes	Positive Touch / The Sin of Pride	People celebrate in China’s south-western Chongqing municipality. AFP/Getty Images	2:52:24 (Pop-up)
Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated "I Wanna Be Sedated" by "Ramones"	Greatest Hits		2:55:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:01am Spikey BXL: Happy New Year and good morning, Brian
	6:01am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:03am TDK60: Good morning, Brian, woofomooz.
	6:07am Brian D: Good morning and Happy New Year, Spikey, Fred, Tom Tom and TDK.
	6:07am Brian D: And everyone listening, of course.
	6:08am Fredericks: So, this is a "the year in review" show?
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ Fredericks @6:08 Photos of the year, anyway, Fredericks. Good morning.
	⚡ 6:10am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, Spikey, fred, TDK and Fredericks. It's been below -20 C for almost a week now here, gonna feel balmy if it gets up to freezing next week as predicted!
	⚡ 6:11am Spikey BXL: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:10 That's a very cold start of your retirement. Hope all is going well, Don.
	6:11am TDK60: Hello Don. No snow here in NYC yet, or maybe not at all, again...
	⚡ 6:15am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Happy New Currents.
	6:16am Reagan NY ZEN RN: Good morning Brian. Happy New Year! That picture of the girl on the bus is heartbreaking. Spread PEACE!! please
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:10 Hello Don. Happy retirement!
	6:18am Brian D: Good morning Brian, Reagan. I was hoping for no similar photos in 2024 but...
	6:21am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ 6:24am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and everyone. Here's a news item for you: Italian prisoners protesting a miserly serving of prosecco on New Years Eve: www.thedrinksbusiness.com...
	6:25am Brian D: Happy New Year, Morphe. And Peter... Prosecco beats US "prison hooch" I'm sure.
	6:26am Fredericks: Morning, Brian, Don and my other Currentistas.
	⚡ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: i guess in the middle of the election israel negotiating (what with?) drc to take in palestinians
	6:26am rich in angleton: late to bed early to rise.. good morning Brian and everybody in radioland!
	6:28am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ Brian D @6:18 The awareness is essential. It needs to be seen.
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:26 Man, Rich. A solid 3 hours there.
	6:28am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Compared To What" by "Les McCann & Eddie Harris" A great live track. Farewell Les McCann. I got to see him in Central Park; I think it was summer 1971. Yes, "the president's got his war."
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:26 DRC or Uganda, I think, right?
	⚡ 6:29am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Brian D @6:25 Agreed, Brian. In the US, prison is punitive and about low cost labor. Nuthin' rehabilitative about it.
	6:30am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:29 Yes. In my old slot, I had author/journalist Keri Blakinger on as a guest. She served time and wrote a book about it.
	6:33am rich in angleton: nah Brian 4 hours solid. I'll take a one hour nap later and be all caught up.
	6:33am LiXiviated Life: Sometimes I jisten Sometimes I’ve heard too much
	6:34am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:33 Good morning Lixi. Well said. so true
	6:35am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:33 I can't function o less than 24 hours of sleep a day.
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:33 My wife says the same thing to me all the time. Happy New Year, Lix.
	6:38am fred: The cloud picture reminds me of White Noise
	⚡ 6:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:28 haven't seen much about uganda, tbh, but wonder what or if israel is offering in exchange, that, besides the beyond words cynicism of it, and immorality, and other underlying issues
	6:41am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 I may be wrong about Uganda. But I thought I heard two African nations... Yeah, the cynicism is... well...
	⚡ 6:46am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "No Fear of Time (with Yummy Bingham)" by "Black S... One two threeeeeee, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
	6:46am dday: You can lead people to knowledge, but you can't make them think
	⚡ 6:47am NotARealDoctor: That's a first for me I've never heard of someone being convinced to kidnap themself before
	6:55am TDK60: One good piece of news from Africa recently was, the South African government taking a case to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, accusing Israel of genocide.
	6:57am fred: Another Bomb article about JJJJJerome Ellis, a conversation with Angel Bat Dawid: bombmagazine.org...
	⚡ 6:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @6:55 The US has described South Africa's filing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of committing genocidal acts in Gaza as "meritless". "We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever," US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told a Wednesday press briefing at the White House.
	7:00am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:58 Good morning, tom tom. Of course, no surprise.
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:57 Thanks for sharing that, Fred.
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: interview with that vietnamese/american author on democracy now some months ago, a very sharp mind
	⚡ 7:12am Spikey BXL: If you like discovering music through Hank, I highly recommend the 'Fanatic' series. I think it's three books, at least that's what I have. It's notes from his "Harmony in my Head" radio show.
	7:12am the Hurston moor-elf: ↳ TDK60 @6:55 Good morning TDK! Did you see the paired stories that featured Alan Dershowitz as (i) Israel's preferred defence lawyer at the Hague and (ii) star player in the unsealed Epstein court documents?
	7:13am TDK60: Rollins: One afternoon in 1984 or '85, I got to turn the frowning Henry onto Silver Apples! And Jefferson Airplane's 3rd album. Black Flag arrived at the club I worked at early in the afternoon, hung out. And I had control of the club cassette deck, naturally. Henry liked the tunes, was open-minded.
	7:14am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:12 Yep. Three volumes, I think. Comprehensive.
	⚡ 7:15am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:14 An ever growing playlist and crater in my finances...
	⚡ 7:16am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @6:57 Thanks for sharing that URL, fred. Cool interview.
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: viet thanh nguyen on dem now www.democracynow.org...
	7:18am TDK60: ↳ the Hurston moor-elf @7:12 Hiya Hurston moor-elf! No, I didn't see those. #i is so incredible, but I shouldn't be surprised. I still have mental images of wandering through the moor hamlet. (I have photographs I could share.) Say hello to the neighbors.
	7:18am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 His memoir is so beautifully written and poignant. Highly recommend it.
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Reuters-concerns ahead of Bangladesh election" seems like tr---p's 'lock'em up" sloganeering has been exported but as more something more concrete
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Yeah, it's not an original concept.
	⚡ 7:33am Michael of Cologne: Wishing all the best for the new year to you Brian, Tom Tom, TDK60, Fred, Lix, et al. Desperately trying to get this year into gear listening to good music.
	7:33am Brian D: Likewise, Michael. Good to "see" you this morning.
	⚡ 7:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:30 yes, very true, didn't mean to imply in originated with him, just that bangladesh might be following that lead after all modi is.
	7:39am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 Nah, I knew what you meant. That whole India-Bangladesh dynamic is something to keep an eye on. Two megalomaniac, fascist-lite leaders, and both countries have axes to grind with one another.
	7:39am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. Here is to good news in 2024.
	7:39am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 There's alsi Imran Khan in Pakistan, for a less sympathetic figure in the area
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @7:39 Here, here, Cooh. Good morning.
	7:41am Gainstager Liquid: eating a very tasty english pastry while sitting on my rug!
	7:42am TDK60: I've read about struggles of textile workers trying to unionize in Bangladesh. Tough situation. Then again, I've heard relatively similar things about union drives in, say, Alabama.
	7:42am Strandlund: Happy New Year Brian and all. The cats were kind enough to let me sleep in today...
	7:43am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:42 Starbucks isn't exactly welcoming unions either
	7:43am Lux Interior: First time listener here—really digging the show and appreciate all the info being shared in the comments.
	7:44am TDK60: I recently met an ex-False Prophet in a WashHeights coffeeshop. Now a lefty reporter, mostly on NYC tenant issues.
	⚡ 7:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:39 i don't know the full story with kahn which is probably very complicated... critical of u.s.(?) and locked up
	7:47am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:43 Bonjour Fred. Yes, give those Starbucks union organizers a strong large black coffee. No charge.
	7:48am Gainstager Liquid: philanthropic chap
	7:48am rich in angleton: I used to never miss a false prophets gig.. they were amazing. I even saw them play at WFMU..
	7:49am rich in angleton: ...on pat duncan's old show
	7:53am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:45 Looks complicated, and I don't know anyone from there to explain the nuances Some echoes of Trump as he was a sports star and rode that to a populist political career. Pakistan was hammered by floods, the military calls the shots (sometimes literally), they have nuclear weapons, and have an adversarial relationship with India. Maybe I should pay more attention
	7:53am Barbie: Thanks for the film info, I would have missed OCCUPIED CITY.
	⚡ 7:53am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:43 I've largely managed to avoid Starbucks the last 3 years thanks to independent coffee shops.
	⚡ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: met steve mcqueen about the time titanic was released, he was pretty enthralled with the 'machinery' going into making a hollywood spectacle like that, saying 'they weren't stupid'
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:42 Belated Happy New Year and good morning, Strand.
	7:54am Brian D: ↳ Lux Interior @7:43 Welcome, Lux. Happy to have you.
	⚡ 7:54am Spikey BXL: Occupied City link on IMDB: www.imdb.com...
	7:55am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @7:53 Hi Barbie! Happy to help!
	7:55am Robm: morning fellow current listeners
	7:55am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone! HNY!
	7:56am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @7:49 My FMU "gateway show."
	7:56am Barbie: Agreed Peter. I have a Joe Coffee across the street. The Starbucks across the avenue closed.
	7:57am Brian D: Happy New Year, Robm and Mr. Galub.
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:53 thanks fred, i see there was talk about the u.s calling for his ousting and another wrinkle of having a more or less friendly relationship with taliban
	7:57am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:57 backstca brian
	7:58am ?: this guy sounds like he gets it! gets laid a lot.
	⚡ 7:59am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Barbie @7:56 Barbie, when Starbucks stops trying to suppress union organizing, I might become a regular again. But their obsession with serving people at the drive-up window leads to crappy customer service for people who walk in.
	⚡ 8:00am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Bangin' show today, Brian!
	8:00am fred: ↳ Robm @7:55 There are current currents listeners, but also future currents listeners. Maybe throw in a random apostrophe just to piss off Ike (but where?)
	8:03am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:00 Ha!
	⚡ 8:04am Spikey BXL: ↳ fred @8:00 there are alternate current listeners, and direct current listeners as well
	8:05am fred: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:04 Looks like Brian has never played AC/DC
	8:05am Barbie: Peter unions was one of the reason Amazon gave up on NYC. They should have gone to Newark anyway.
	⚡ 8:05am tom tom the pipers son: have been listening for about a year but seems longer
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:05 Don't hold your breath.
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:05 Gee thanks.
	8:07am fred: @Brian: is the Joe Strummer pic still in the kitchen?
	8:07am morphe': False Prophets: photo of Stephan on his chopper bicycle from 2015 in SF https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F479499598839988%2Fphotos%2Fstephan-ielpi-vocalist-of-the-legendary-new-york-punk-band-false-prophets-came-i%2F841563159300295%2F&psig=AOvVaw2wwmbmjv02W5LGWCnBn_mU&ust=1704632724589000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBEQjRxqFwoTCLCdnfPpyIMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
	8:08am Robm: ↳ fred @8:00 i really don’t go out of my way on here pissing off people
	⚡ 8:08am Spikey BXL: ↳ Robm @8:08 you make it sound like it comes naturally to you ;)
	⚡ 8:09am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:06 i don't think i've missed a week...
	8:09am Robm: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:08 i really try not too spikey
	8:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:07 Yessir. Look at it every morning while making my tea.
	8:10am fred: ↳ Robm @8:08 That's magnificent of you
	8:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:09 I know and I appreciate it. The way your comment was worded, it made it seem like listening to the show was tedious.
	8:11am Robm: ↳ fred @8:10 okay
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:11 oh, ha! wasn't sure, but your comment lacked an exclamation point so i thought i'd clarify
	8:12am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:11 Reminds me, where are the "shut up about the news and play music" trolls?
	8:12am Handy Haversack: Morning, Brian, all.
	8:13am Robm: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:59 which is why i prefer dunkin’ donuts coffee, starbucks is a ripoff
	8:14am estebangrande: ↳ Brian D @8:11 hi brian d. and the current listening, it's funny how easy to misinterpret the written word. i have realized how many times i've found confusion while texting
	⚡ 8:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Party Interest" by "Screensaver" makes me think siousxie
	8:15am fred: ↳ estebangrande @8:14 I'm skilled at finding confusion, especially before coffee
	8:17am Robm: morning handy has that situation with the 1 2 3 trains been straightened out yet?
	8:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:12 In my apartment having coffee, most likely.
	8:18am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:12 Handy! Happy New Year!
	8:18am morphe': ↳ Song: "Clip: WION-UK investigators looking into "gang ra... That clip sounded as though it was a news clip out of some retro futuristic SF film ...
	8:19am Brian D: ↳ estebangrande @8:14 Reminds me of an old gag about how to write job recommendations for people you don't really want to recommend, eg, "You'll be lucky to get Brian to work for you."
	8:19am sydniuß: ↳ Song: "Hearing Voices" by "Self-Immolation Music" Good morning Amped up people! “Drunk Girls” at 16rpm?
	⚡ 8:19am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @8:18 true
	⚡ 8:19am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Robm @8:13 Rob, DD cawfee is good. Doughnuts leave a bad aftertaste tho.
	8:20am Robm: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:19 i usually have a bagel
	8:24am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:19 I wrote one a bit like that once (ran it by the guy first, wasn't published)
	⚡ 8:25am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @8:19 from the Lexicon of Inconspicuously Ambiguous Recommendations (L.I.A.R.) markovthoughtchain.wordpress.com...
	⚡ 8:25am tom tom the pipers son: @ brian: i think the day's schedule that is posted is incorrect, aren't shows preempted for fmu holiday party?
	8:26am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:25 Nope. As far as I know we broadcast as usual.
	8:28am estebangrande: ↳ Spikey BXL @8:25 great acronym
	8:28am tak: cool kids / cooler kids
	⚡ 8:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:26 been hearing from dj's about a party, for instance, mona said she was going to be on tonight at 1am
	8:30am Germanium: Good morning!
	8:31am fred: ↳ fred @8:24 I said he would only be worth hiring if there was stuff to do worth his while (which was true, he's a diva). The guy asked me for a book rec and I said Infinite Jest. He didn't make it through the first pages then came back with testimony from Italian professors of literature saying it was abuse and threatened to report me to HR. I'm proud of this moment
	8:31am Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @8:31 Holy crap!
	8:34am estebangrande: ↳ fred @8:31 Infinite Jest? god gawd that's a lotta words. i like your method
	8:34am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:28 News to me. But you could be right.
	⚡ 8:34am herb.nyc: Hola, happy new year. Tuned in 10’ ago and looking at photos. I saved that page 1 of photo 1, to send to nephew in Calif. oh wait, they know about ash laden skies
	⚡ 8:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:31 for some reason your comment sounds like something that would happen in a metaverse
	8:35am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:34 Happy New Year, Herb!
	8:35am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:34 Not hearing about a party is a familiar feeling to me :)
	8:37am bixa: good morning everyone, happy new year! currently poaching an egg for my dog's breakfast
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:35 Well, I know about the party -- just not about its effect on the broadcast schedule. I'll be standing in a corner anyway.
	⚡ 8:37am herb.nyc: As for the migrants outside Roosevelt hotel photo, we have a food scraps stand at Tompkins gmkt on Sunday. Just half a block away the migrants line up. I think for housing, or HOPE for housing. This is St Brigid School. Sad. My coworker helps them by giving out clothes
	⚡ 8:38am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 “That’s Brian in the corner…”🎶
	8:38am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Hard Light" by "Drop Nineteens" What a powerful photo.
	8:38am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:37 Yes, I've seen the line outside St. Brigid's. Very upsetting.
	8:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ herb.nyc @8:37 I think there's no housing at St. Brigid, but they're forced to line up there in order to reapply for beds and so end up sleeping outside the place sometimes or lose their place on line.
	⚡ 8:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 he's lost his religion already
	8:39am fred: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 Ha!
	8:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:39 Good reporting on what they are going through: www.thecity.nyc...
	⚡ 8:40am herb.nyc: Oh, fotog Laura Levine said it was MStipe’s birthday a coupla days ago
	8:40am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:38 Ha!
	8:41am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:39 In every sense of the phrase.
	8:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Well, looks like no snow, at any rate. Rain and wind aplenty.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:39 Correct. And the city's ever-changing regs have them in limbo.
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:42 So I'll be standing in the corner -- wet.
	⚡ 8:43am herb.nyc: “That’s me in the corner”🎶 will always make me laugh, for the Mekons slipped into a few lines of song when they played Central Park summerstage. I’ve a foto somewhere, at the original site, the bandshell July 4 weekend, and people are wearing flag hats! Crazy!
	8:43am Handy Haversack: ↳ Brian D @8:42 Exactly.
	8:44am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:41 But you not only found WFMU but are part of it
	⚡ 8:46am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Chop Suey" by "Eartheater" Aside- this title takes me to Dave the Spazz recentest show. He had George Jessel(?, I should see archive) audio. Funny jokes. But one had word “China man “ in it. Ouch. Pssst, i’z Chinese
	⚡ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: a commenter recently responded to a question something like 'how to stop a.i." they said 'chop suey'
	8:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:44 I know. I'm just painfully shy at parties.
	8:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 It's not funny but the word to stop AI is "explain"
	⚡ 8:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:49 i can't remember how it came up but the response chop suey, to something about a.i. seemed appropriate because if chop suey didn't alreadty exist it seems like a.i. would make it up
	⚡ 8:53am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:48 I’m a painfully shy person too. But when I work at the gmkt I change persona. I see myself as being on the stage, and i need entertain and be charming. I adjuncted for 3 semesters, and used that same reasoning
	8:53am Fredericks: ↳ Handy Haversack @8:42 Sounds like what's happening here right now.
	8:53am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!
	8:54am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. Happy and healthy New Year to you all. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ 8:54am herb.nyc: Oh to’ve seen the undertones w feargal fronting (I’ve seen them twice, fantastic!). And to see Barbara manning
	⚡ 8:55am Spikey BXL: great show Brian, thanks and have a nice weekend
	⚡ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian...mingle, mingle... :)
	8:56am TDK60: Thanks, Brian.
	8:56am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Brian!
	8:56am Handy Haversack: ↳ Fredericks @8:53 Well, but 35F.
	⚡ 8:56am herb.nyc: btw, friend sez, for tonight Discreet Charms at Young Ethel’s (5th Ave & 12th St. Brooklyn). They’re “Brooklyn Art punks with swagger”. WFMU’s Nate K on bass, Tom Dash (Hyland) on drums. (Speaking of WFMU DJs). It’s a free show. (Also Cut Worms at Union Pool that night is sold out)
	⚡ 8:57am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Baghdad Stomp" by "False Prophets" I visited Stephen in his squat.
	8:58am HyperDose: Sweet tunes!
	⚡ 8:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:53 kinda make sense, fred?
	8:59am rich in angleton: thx Brian!! HNY everybody!
	⚡ 8:59am Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Brian D!!! Happy New Year!!!
	8:59am morphe': ↳ Song: "When Saturday Comes" by "The Undertones" 10"

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