WFMU: Liz Berg: Playlist from May 3, 2016

Listener comments!
	12:05pm Dr. Goot: Good Afternoon!
	12:05pm rbxbx: Off to a great start :)
	12:05pm JakeGould: Hey.
	12:06pm common: hello
	12:07pm Sarah: Oh hi Liz!! Great start - working away here listening on the app at work.
	12:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Liz and everyone Lizzening out there!
	12:08pm Liz Berg: Hola fine people! Great to have you here with me today!
	12:08pm chris: hi there!
	12:09pm Polyus: bleep bloop
	12:12pm Bjarne: Hello Liz, Ken From Hyde Park and everybody else!
	12:13pm coelacanth: Hi Liz and Lizners
	12:18pm rf: thank goodness for this show
	12:19pm chris: riding the pipeline on these genre-surfing tracks! stoked!
	12:22pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Liz!
	12:23pm Polyus: Rolling Stone covered the record fair!
	12:24pm mark r: Uh, not to nitpick, but the past tense of "swing" is "swang," i.e. "Thanks to everyone who SWANG by the Record Fair." You're welcome.
	12:26pm Ken From Hyde Park: God kveld, Bjarne. How are things going for you today?
	12:27pm JakeGould: Swang this.
	12:28pm chris: a swang has a tree on one end and a tahr on 'tother
	12:31pm coelacanth: you're nitpicking... and "swung" is perfectly proper in that context.
	12:32pm coelacanth: (okay, not perfectly, but acceptably)
	12:32pm Dr. Goot: I'm swinging to this set.
	12:35pm wanna bet?: swing For the verb: "to swing" Simple Past: swung Past Participle: swung
	12:37pm djelrock: Havent heard Les Tontons Macoutes in ages. Txs.
	12:38pm Cliff: I've been saying "swong" all these years. Is that wrung?
	12:39pm Cheri Pi: angry!
	12:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: You mean "swinged" is not the right word? Aye!
	12:40pm mark r: Oh coel, I'm just having a little fun at the exhausted DJ's expense. Of course you're right. But swang SHOULD be a word, darn it. Once when Dizzy Dean was doing color commentary on a ballgame, he said, "He SLUD into third base." In his accent, it sounded correct. He also burst into a few bars of "The Wabash Cannonball," if memory serves. Baseball is slow-moving enough for the commentators to sing songs, read poems and play a game of chess in between pitches.
	12:42pm JakeGould: Schwang!
	12:43pm JakeGould: For a second I thought the band name was “Inflamed Burritos.”
	12:44pm coelacanth: Cliff haha! mark, "slud"! that's classic! ...it could be so simple if all past tense words were just suffixed with "ed". no more tears.
	12:46pm Flower5000: Hey Fellow Woof-Moo Fan Kids! Hi Liz Berg! Long time listener ... first time "Chatterer!" Have loved your show Liz (and quite a few other shows) for quite some time. Todays show is no exception and off to a rockin' good start! Thanks a ton!
	12:49pm coelacanth: greetings Flower!
	12:50pm steveo: Re: the label whose name must not be spoken: en.wiktionary.org...
	12:50pm coelacanth: i know "stupider" is not proper, but it's commonly used and it makes sense; and it WILL be proper, eventually...but then in the context it's likely to be used it might just backfire.
	12:52pm robin: i think doing a radio show on WFMU makes you a member of the wfmu family--Citizen Kafka did the Secret Museum of Mankind for years...
	12:53pm robin: sorry, secret museum of the air: wfmu.org...
	12:53pm Sem Chumbo: @coel: you and Johnson: "I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a dictionary of the English language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature, has itself been hitherto neglected, suffered to spread, under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance, resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation."
	12:53pm coelacanth: yeah Liz, i think it's done; i'm just a slow typist with a slow computer!
	12:55pm Rick L: Pissed Jeans has a song called "Health Plan"
	12:55pm Flubby: WOAH I LOVE THIS SONG! WHERE DO I FIND IT!?
	12:55pm Cliff: Hmmm, H. W. Fowler had no problem with "stupider" or "stupidest"...
	12:56pm coelacanth: Sem! that's so confusing it made me laugh!
	12:57pm Cliff: Gotta love those 18th-century paragraph-long sentences
	12:58pm coelacanth: Cliff, that's the crazy thing to. even supposed authorities don't agree with each-other.
	12:58pm Liz Berg: Thanks for doing that research, Rick L!
	12:59pm coelacanth: ("too")
	12:59pm Sem Chumbo: coel: English, man, changing everyday, never mind since 1755. Source: johnsonsdictionaryonline.com...
	1:00pm Cliff: Well, I was going to say I had no problem with "stupider" and "stupidest", but being wrung before I wasn't sure my opinion would be authoritative enough ;)
	1:00pm Sem Chumbo: wring, wrong, wrung.
	1:01pm mark r: In this world of moral relativism, there is no more wright and wrung.
	1:03pm thriftstoreleather: Liz, You are ON Fire!!
	1:03pm Cliff: Man, Samuel Johnson was a real bellyacher: "Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few."
	1:06pm coelacanth: re: @12:57, 'you ever read Gabriel García Márquez? i finished "autumn of the patriarch" a few weeks ago. at some point i decided to count the sentences in the text. i started putting a light pencil line on any page that a sentence ends on, but i haven't counted yet. there's certainly at least twice as many pages as there are sentences!
	1:06pm JakeGould: @Cliff: What the fuck is that numbskull talking about? Speak English!
	1:07pm coelacanth: Jake, you mean "Tawk englash!"?
	1:09pm βrian: Prolix Blues
	1:09pm Cliff: Yeah, no kidding. What a macaroon!
	1:09pm JakeGould: Maybe.
	1:10pm coelacanth: 'nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
	1:10pm JakeGould: Don’t be a dingbat…
	1:11pm MD: Hello Fellow Lizbergians!!! LONG LIVE THE FREEFORM!!!
	1:11pm βrian: "Brevity is the." — Shakespeare How's that?
	1:13pm Cecile: damn this is a jam. You should just play it again right after you finish this time.
	1:14pm Cecile: like MBV and 11th Dream Day rolled into one.
	1:15pm coelacanth: Brian - yes.
	1:18pm Cecile: Pascal Manzarek you mean.
	1:19pm herb.nyc: hi all. In ref to song lyrics (co-pays? I love it.), band BOYFRIENDS (opening for TACOCAT at mercury lounge) said “this song is about robbing banks (pause) and being cool”. I had to laugh.
	1:20pm herb.nyc: and i see the WORDS tawk in the thread, and reminds me of a Vonnegut book that had a character named Hoobler. there was a Hoobler at work. i used to say "hoobler, he who or that which hoobles.".
	1:28pm coelacanth: which Vonnegut book, herb? He's one of my favorites, along with the aforementioned García Márquez, but i've only read about 1/2 his books.
	1:30pm InBrkly: That would be Breakfast of Champions. I don't think it was one of his better books.
	1:35pm coelacanth: Thanks. considering that i may not live forever, and there are many other, non-Vonnegut books to read, i maybe won't read every one after all... what are you're favorites?
	1:35pm herb.nyc: yes, it WAS b'fast of chumps. that's the only vonnegut i've ever read. i should read more. now reading a 25cent hardbk from nypl sale, "somebody's gotta tell it", journalism memoir of village voice's (and more) Jack Newfield. his coverage of '68 prez race and RFK is not-put-down-able; same with daily news strike of 1989. i've a library hold on Ted Rall's "snowden", and i just picked up "citizen4" docu from mulberry branch of nypl. (it's that time of year when nypl is asking us to write letters to city hall. i did 2.)
	1:38pm coelacanth: hmm, i might read "snowden".
	1:38pm InBrkly: It has been a good 20 years since I've read any Vonnegut so it is hard to make a recommendation. I recall that many of his books are quite short and I read most of them over one summer. I think I liked Sirens of Titan best.
	1:40pm InBrkly: I think Breakfast was famous because he wrote it while taking LSD to test the hypothesis that it made you more creative. But I was just checking google and havent found confirmation.
	1:41pm InBrkly: But all of his books left some impression on me. Sometimes phrases from his writing will just pop into my head weird moments.
	1:42pm herb.nyc: wasn't vonnegut's wife also a writer?
	1:44pm Bjarne: Ken from hyde park: Things are going great for me today. The sun is shining and summer is just around the corner, and WFMU on the air! Hope you are doing good aswell. Are you by any chance traveling to Barcelona for Primavera Festival at the end of may? I know Liz is going, and I'm looking forward to meeting her, the rest of the WFMU Primavera crew.
	1:44pm coelacanth: cool. after reading whatever titles i had at my disposal i planned to read the rest in chronological order, from his first. i had to special-order "player piano"; "sirens of titan" happens to be next!
	1:45pm InBrkly: He remarried. I dont recall that either wife was a writer but his son wrote a book about his experience with sushizophrenia. It wasn't great but it was an interesting snapshot of life in a hippy commune.
	1:46pm Michael 98145: Cat's Cradle made a big impression on me, but that was long, long ago. I also just purchased Player Piano to re-read.
	1:46pm InBrkly: I hope that strategy works! Some writers take a couple of books to "get their legs". Player piano and Bluebeard are the only 2 I haven't read.
	1:47pm InBrkly: lol sushizophrenia. /schizophrenia/
	1:47pm Cliff: I suffer from sushizophrenia, I just can't resist an eel roll
	1:49pm coelacanth: player piano was good, but yes- he hadn't gotten his stride yet. Bluebeard is one of my favorite books by anybody!
	1:50pm InBrkly: Hmm since Vonnegut is rolling around my head now--I was just thinking how in many of his books he uses drawings or symbols mixed in with the typography. I wonder how they handle that in the ebooks. Maybe they have a Vonnegut typeface. I'd like to have that.
	1:51pm coelacanth: Michael, "cat's cradle" has been recommended to me several times, so i'm fairly psyched to get to that one.
	1:52pm InBrkly: This isn't really a spoiler I hope but in Galapagos he straight up tells you at the beginning that he is going to put a little star next to the name of everyone who is going to die by the end. For some reason that put a lot of pressure on me as a reader!
	1:52pm herb.nyc: i just googled the descrip of BLUEBEARD, and it mentions a sexy woman meeting older man. yeah, i could go for that (and it's kinda Dave Hill-ian, in ref to SHIT HAPPENS' spokesmodel Becky Boggs and her destined meeting with dave.)
	1:53pm ?: I always thought Slapstick was a good introduction. But maybe that's just because it was the first KV that I read.
	1:56pm InBrkly: If you are reading these chronologically you might not be able to stop! You just might read them all straight through!
	1:57pm coelacanth: slapstick IS a good introduction! it was mine too and it's one of my 3 faves, so far. Galapagos is the other; and at first that asterisk thing bothered me, because it was like Vonnegut was the spoiler! then our eyes met, i guess, because it somehow enhanced the tale. Fucking Brilliant he was.
	1:58pm InBrkly: Sadly, like PK Dick, he is doomed to never have a good movie adaptation made.
	1:59pm JakeGould: Chip tunes!
	2:00pm Ĩkє: Other songs about co-pays: Goatpuncher, "ACA POS" Chunky Nuns, "$35 Abortion" Slab of Morbier, "Hypnotoad Treats All Ailments"
	2:00pm coelacanth: that's a shame; but i guess i can feel okay about having never seen a Vonnegut-based movie then.
	2:01pm ?: i think that last song was a good adaptation of a PKD book.
	2:01pm Liz Berg: Haha, thanks Ike! Found one about a dental plan I'll play in a bit...
	2:02pm JakeGould: @Ike: Glad you are here! You know they are going to be bringing weed eating goats into Prospect Park? So please don’t punch them!
	2:02pm JakeGould: @Liz: Can there be a whole show devoted to songs about mundane, daily bureaucracy?
	2:03pm Cliff: Don't google "Chunky Nuns", btw - I regretted it (regrotted? regrut?)
	2:03pm 1ke: Of course all of those titles only came out on Edison cylinders in northeastern Westeros in print runs of -3, so you may not be able to find them.
	2:06pm djelrock: Very nice. They sound like Makiza from Chile.
	2:08pm herb.nyc: "mundane daily bureaucracy" kinda sorta reminds me of The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players (oh look, i wore their pin 2 days ago).
	2:08pm Sem Chumbo: Gotta stay out of the Vonnegut discussion, read them all in order at the time they were published. OCD can be useful;-)
	2:08pm Michael 98145: Y'know, once upon a time they had listening booths in the hi-fi stores; now i come to WFMU.
	2:09pm bzam708: Nice set, there's sg.o much music on FMA that I'll never get around to hearin
	2:09pm herb.nyc: i tell my friends of FMA, but i have never clicked on any of the songs. ugh.
	2:10pm herb.nyc: (back to WORDS - i typed clicked and i often will misread it as dicked)
	2:10pm coelacanth: Liz, the whole program's been Stellar...especially the punkrock; and the electric mbira sounding stuff; and the other stuff! i've got to head out. 'got some hoobling on the agenda. Thanks! ciao y'all.
	2:12pm Liz Berg: Why thank you, coelocanth! Hooble it up!
	2:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Bjarne - Not planning on going to Primavera Sound. I'll be following the WFMU broadcast, though. Enjoy the festivities!
	2:19pm Liz Berg: A very melancholy song about dental plans, heh! Dental plans are usually kind of sucky and depressing so the mood is fitting.
	2:20pm herb.nyc: will you play any Dentists upbeat pop songs, Liz?
	2:21pm Liz Berg: Last time I was at the dentist, the playlist was all about Billy Joel. Talk about needing anesthesia.
	2:23pm Michael 98145: Maybe i need this one: www.amazon.com...
	2:24pm Jeff: OMG, Liz is playing Holmes.
	2:24pm Cliff: Dear God, at my old workplace they had a radio tuned to an easy listening station, and I swear they must've had a daily Billy Joel quota they had to fill.
	2:26pm Liz Berg: Yikes, Cliff, that sounds like torture!
	2:28pm Cliff: That was one in a long list of reasons for quitting!
	2:28pm herb.nyc: i'd love to see Billy Joel at MSG; never seen him before. however, feel free to put him down on this chatboard. (i've not listened to much Best Show, tho i download the podcasts. one has Jon Wurster saying "how punk the GLASS HOUSES record is, and angry. with that leather jacket and rock throwing, full of punk anarchy!"). hilarious.
	2:30pm TDK60: Punk rock Bo Diddley...plunk chunk chunk-a-gunk gunk.
	2:32pm Cliff: I actually don't mind Billy Joel in small doses, but having to listen to him every 90 minutes is a bit much. Especially when they only had about 15 of his songs in rotation.
	2:43pm Cliff: Have to leave a bit early.... Thanks Liz & everybody commenting today!
	2:43pm Cheri Pi: kill me now, this webinar. we're on a 10 minute break and I'm listening to ten minutes of their silence, like a giant dummy
	2:48pm rbxbx: This is really working for me right now.
	2:50pm tomasz.: SORRY I'M LATE
	2:50pm tomasz.: oh hey Robert!
	2:58pm tomasz.: nice stuff Liz, what i heard of it, hope you are well, i'ma hit the archive
	2:58pm chris: thanks, Liz!
	3:00pm rbxbx: oh hi @tomasz! funny to see you here.
	3:03pm steveo: WHY DID 3 O'CLOCK COME SO SOON?

Liz Berg: Playlist from May 3, 2016

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Konono No. 1 and Batida	Yambadi Mama	Konono N°1 Meets Batida	Crammed Discs	*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jibóia	Luanda "Luanda" by "Jibóia"	Masala	Lovers & Lollypops	*	0:05:44 (Pop-up)
Debo Band	Yalanchi "Yalanchi" by "Debo Band"	Ere Gobez	FPE	*	0:10:24 (Pop-up)
Imarhan	Tahabort "Tahabort" by "Imarhan"	Imarhan	City Slang	*	0:16:54 (Pop-up)

Son of a Gun	Co-Pay "Co-Pay" by "Son of a Gun"	Co-Pay 7"	Lo-Fi Supply	*	0:25:15 (Pop-up)
Timmy's Organsim	William "William" by "Timmy's Organsim"	Wild Humanoid 7"	Urinal Cake	*	0:27:59 (Pop-up)
The Dirtiest	Alarm "Alarm" by "The Dirtiest"	Alarm 7"	Slovenly	*	0:29:57 (Pop-up)
Andy California	Do What I Want "Do What I Want" by "Andy California"	My Dying Bed 7"	Black Gladiator / Slovenly	*	0:32:56 (Pop-up)
Les Tonton Macoutes	Vete De Aqui "Vete De Aqui" by "Les Tonton Macoutes"	Dinero 7"	I Shit in the Milk Records	*	0:34:35 (Pop-up)
Angry Angles	Things Are Moving "Things Are Moving" by "Angry Angles"	Angry Angles	Goner		0:36:43 (Pop-up)
Feels	Unicorn "Unicorn" by "Feels"	Feels	Castle Face	*	0:39:17 (Pop-up)
Teenage Burritos	Inflamed Heart "Inflamed Heart" by "Teenage Burritos"	Hardcore Matinee (V/A)	Museum School		0:41:14 (Pop-up)
Hot Snakes	Stay In School "Stay In School" by "Hot Snakes"	Hardcore Matinee (V/A)	Museum School		0:42:27 (Pop-up)

Kahverengi Karton Ayi	Spring Spirit	Off Istanbul (V/A)	Deform Müzik		0:52:26 (Pop-up)
Lio	Fallait Pas Commencer "Fallait Pas Commencer" by "Lio"	Pop Model	Trafic		0:54:56 (Pop-up)
Pylon	Weather Radio "Weather Radio" by "Pylon"	Live 7"	Chunklet Industries		0:58:45 (Pop-up)
The World	Talk "Talk" by "The World"	Managerial Material 7"	Upset The Rhythm!	*	1:01:09 (Pop-up)
Angie	Paris Face "Paris Face" by "Angie"	Free Agent	Rice Is Nice	*	1:03:37 (Pop-up)
Chris Cohen	Torrey Pine "Torrey Pine" by "Chris Cohen"	As If Apart	Captured Tracks	*	1:06:36 (Pop-up)
St Vincent & the Grenadines	Side of Life	Look to See b/w Side of Life 7"	Randstock	*	1:11:23 (Pop-up)
Pascal Comelade + Les Limiñanas	T.B. Jerk +++	The Nothing-Twist	Trouble in Mind	*	1:16:29 (Pop-up)
Rexy	Perfect Day "Perfect Day" by "Rexy"	Running Out of Time	Lucky Number		1:19:31 (Pop-up)
Klaus Johann Grobe	Geschichten Aus Erster Hand	Spagat Der Liebe	Trouble in Mind	*	1:22:18 (Pop-up)
Aavikko	Zefyros "Zefyros" by "Aavikko"	Okeanos	Ektro	*	1:26:19 (Pop-up)
Klaustro	Hiss Haus "Hiss Haus" by "Klaustro"	Beyhude	Deform Müzik		1:31:51 (Pop-up)
Heimat	Dein Architekt "Dein Architekt" by "Heimat"	Heimat	Teenage Menopause / Kill Shaman	*	1:34:54 (Pop-up)
High-Functioning Flesh	Human Remains	Human Remains 7"	Dais	*	1:37:27 (Pop-up)

Oorlab	Scale-Free "Scale-Free" by "Oorlab"	Soundtracks	Free Music Archive	*	1:48:11 (Pop-up)
D Smilez	We Did It! (Fulfillment Tune)	Sweet Sound's	Free Music Archive	*	1:52:13 (Pop-up)
Maxim Kornyshev	Watermelon Land and Marmalade Crossbow	Twisted Radius	Free Music Archive	*	1:56:01 (Pop-up)
The Polish Ambassador	Hicktronica ft. Dirtwire	Dreaming of an Old Tomorrow	Free Music Archive	*	1:58:38 (Pop-up)
Colectivo Etéreo	Existoporquexistes	Ijniaaa!!!	Free Music Archive	*	2:03:35 (Pop-up)
Titanik	Pinball Lizard "Pinball Lizard" by "Titanik"	Apocalipto Surf	Free Music Archive	*	2:07:27 (Pop-up)
Preti Pedofili	La Haine "La Haine" by "Preti Pedofili"		Free Music Archive	*	2:10:29 (Pop-up)
Marquice Turner	Yo Yo Check It "Yo Yo Check It" by "Marquice Turner"	Soft Dreams	Free Music Archive	*	2:14:43 (Pop-up)
Severin	Dental Plan "Dental Plan" by "Severin"	Severin	Free Music Archive	*	2:17:02 (Pop-up)
Holmes	Hudson County "Hudson County" by "Holmes"	Live at the WFMU Kill The Holidays Party, 1/9/2016	Free Music Archive	*	2:20:13 (Pop-up)
Daddy Long Legs	Blood from a Stone	Live at WFMU with Todd-O-Phonic Todd, 2/6/2016	Free Music Archive	*	2:24:38 (Pop-up)
Raw Pony	Bo Diddley "Bo Diddley" by "Raw Pony"	Live at WFMU on Ephemeral Riffage, 4/26/2016	Free Music Archive	*	2:28:17 (Pop-up)
Tacocat	I Hate the Weekend "I Hate the Weekend" by "Tacocat"	Live at WFMU on Todd-O-Phonic Todd's Show, 4/16/2016	Free Music Archive	*	2:30:27 (Pop-up)
Josh Woodward	Knock (Instrumental Version)	Addressed to the Stars	Free Music Archive	*	2:32:18 (Pop-up)
Cullah	Mission District Swedish Hohner Waltz	Trinity	Free Music Archive	*	2:35:09 (Pop-up)
Ketsa	Thought Projection "Thought Projection" by "Ketsa"	Universal Law	Free Music Archive	*	2:36:15 (Pop-up)
The Basic Income Earth Network	Time Is Love	The Art Of Boredom 3	Free Music Archive	*	2:40:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:05pm Dr. Goot: Good Afternoon!
	12:05pm rbxbx: Off to a great start :)
	12:05pm JakeGould: Hey.
	12:06pm common: hello
	12:07pm Sarah: Oh hi Liz!! Great start - working away here listening on the app at work.
	12:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Liz and everyone Lizzening out there!
	12:08pm Liz Berg: Hola fine people! Great to have you here with me today!
	12:08pm chris: hi there!
	12:09pm Polyus: bleep bloop
	12:12pm Bjarne: Hello Liz, Ken From Hyde Park and everybody else!
	12:13pm coelacanth: Hi Liz and Lizners
	12:18pm rf: thank goodness for this show
	12:19pm chris: riding the pipeline on these genre-surfing tracks! stoked!
	12:22pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Liz!
	12:23pm Polyus: Rolling Stone covered the record fair!
	12:24pm mark r: Uh, not to nitpick, but the past tense of "swing" is "swang," i.e. "Thanks to everyone who SWANG by the Record Fair." You're welcome.
	12:26pm Ken From Hyde Park: God kveld, Bjarne. How are things going for you today?
	12:27pm JakeGould: Swang this.
	12:28pm chris: a swang has a tree on one end and a tahr on 'tother
	12:31pm coelacanth: you're nitpicking... and "swung" is perfectly proper in that context.
	12:32pm coelacanth: (okay, not perfectly, but acceptably)
	12:32pm Dr. Goot: I'm swinging to this set.
	12:35pm wanna bet?: swing For the verb: "to swing" Simple Past: swung Past Participle: swung
	12:37pm djelrock: Havent heard Les Tontons Macoutes in ages. Txs.
	12:38pm Cliff: I've been saying "swong" all these years. Is that wrung?
	12:39pm Cheri Pi: angry!
	12:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: You mean "swinged" is not the right word? Aye!
	12:40pm mark r: Oh coel, I'm just having a little fun at the exhausted DJ's expense. Of course you're right. But swang SHOULD be a word, darn it. Once when Dizzy Dean was doing color commentary on a ballgame, he said, "He SLUD into third base." In his accent, it sounded correct. He also burst into a few bars of "The Wabash Cannonball," if memory serves. Baseball is slow-moving enough for the commentators to sing songs, read poems and play a game of chess in between pitches.
	12:42pm JakeGould: Schwang!
	12:43pm JakeGould: For a second I thought the band name was “Inflamed Burritos.”
	12:44pm coelacanth: Cliff haha! mark, "slud"! that's classic! ...it could be so simple if all past tense words were just suffixed with "ed". no more tears.
	12:46pm Flower5000: Hey Fellow Woof-Moo Fan Kids! Hi Liz Berg! Long time listener ... first time "Chatterer!" Have loved your show Liz (and quite a few other shows) for quite some time. Todays show is no exception and off to a rockin' good start! Thanks a ton!
	12:49pm coelacanth: greetings Flower!
	12:50pm steveo: Re: the label whose name must not be spoken: en.wiktionary.org...
	12:50pm coelacanth: i know "stupider" is not proper, but it's commonly used and it makes sense; and it WILL be proper, eventually...but then in the context it's likely to be used it might just backfire.
	12:52pm robin: i think doing a radio show on WFMU makes you a member of the wfmu family--Citizen Kafka did the Secret Museum of Mankind for years...
	12:53pm robin: sorry, secret museum of the air: wfmu.org...
	12:53pm Sem Chumbo: @coel: you and Johnson: "I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a dictionary of the English language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature, has itself been hitherto neglected, suffered to spread, under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance, resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation."
	12:53pm coelacanth: yeah Liz, i think it's done; i'm just a slow typist with a slow computer!
	12:55pm Rick L: Pissed Jeans has a song called "Health Plan"
	12:55pm Flubby: WOAH I LOVE THIS SONG! WHERE DO I FIND IT!?
	12:55pm Cliff: Hmmm, H. W. Fowler had no problem with "stupider" or "stupidest"...
	12:56pm coelacanth: Sem! that's so confusing it made me laugh!
	12:57pm Cliff: Gotta love those 18th-century paragraph-long sentences
	12:58pm coelacanth: Cliff, that's the crazy thing to. even supposed authorities don't agree with each-other.
	12:58pm Liz Berg: Thanks for doing that research, Rick L!
	12:59pm coelacanth: ("too")
	12:59pm Sem Chumbo: coel: English, man, changing everyday, never mind since 1755. Source: johnsonsdictionaryonline.com...
	1:00pm Cliff: Well, I was going to say I had no problem with "stupider" and "stupidest", but being wrung before I wasn't sure my opinion would be authoritative enough ;)
	1:00pm Sem Chumbo: wring, wrong, wrung.
	1:01pm mark r: In this world of moral relativism, there is no more wright and wrung.
	1:03pm thriftstoreleather: Liz, You are ON Fire!!
	1:03pm Cliff: Man, Samuel Johnson was a real bellyacher: "Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few."
	1:06pm coelacanth: re: @12:57, 'you ever read Gabriel García Márquez? i finished "autumn of the patriarch" a few weeks ago. at some point i decided to count the sentences in the text. i started putting a light pencil line on any page that a sentence ends on, but i haven't counted yet. there's certainly at least twice as many pages as there are sentences!
	1:06pm JakeGould: @Cliff: What the fuck is that numbskull talking about? Speak English!
	1:07pm coelacanth: Jake, you mean "Tawk englash!"?
	1:09pm βrian: Prolix Blues
	1:09pm Cliff: Yeah, no kidding. What a macaroon!
	1:09pm JakeGould: Maybe.
	1:10pm coelacanth: 'nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
	1:10pm JakeGould: Don’t be a dingbat…
	1:11pm MD: Hello Fellow Lizbergians!!! LONG LIVE THE FREEFORM!!!
	1:11pm βrian: "Brevity is the." — Shakespeare How's that?
	1:13pm Cecile: damn this is a jam. You should just play it again right after you finish this time.
	1:14pm Cecile: like MBV and 11th Dream Day rolled into one.
	1:15pm coelacanth: Brian - yes.
	1:18pm Cecile: Pascal Manzarek you mean.
	1:19pm herb.nyc: hi all. In ref to song lyrics (co-pays? I love it.), band BOYFRIENDS (opening for TACOCAT at mercury lounge) said “this song is about robbing banks (pause) and being cool”. I had to laugh.
	1:20pm herb.nyc: and i see the WORDS tawk in the thread, and reminds me of a Vonnegut book that had a character named Hoobler. there was a Hoobler at work. i used to say "hoobler, he who or that which hoobles.".
	1:28pm coelacanth: which Vonnegut book, herb? He's one of my favorites, along with the aforementioned García Márquez, but i've only read about 1/2 his books.
	1:30pm InBrkly: That would be Breakfast of Champions. I don't think it was one of his better books.
	1:35pm coelacanth: Thanks. considering that i may not live forever, and there are many other, non-Vonnegut books to read, i maybe won't read every one after all... what are you're favorites?
	1:35pm herb.nyc: yes, it WAS b'fast of chumps. that's the only vonnegut i've ever read. i should read more. now reading a 25cent hardbk from nypl sale, "somebody's gotta tell it", journalism memoir of village voice's (and more) Jack Newfield. his coverage of '68 prez race and RFK is not-put-down-able; same with daily news strike of 1989. i've a library hold on Ted Rall's "snowden", and i just picked up "citizen4" docu from mulberry branch of nypl. (it's that time of year when nypl is asking us to write letters to city hall. i did 2.)
	1:38pm coelacanth: hmm, i might read "snowden".
	1:38pm InBrkly: It has been a good 20 years since I've read any Vonnegut so it is hard to make a recommendation. I recall that many of his books are quite short and I read most of them over one summer. I think I liked Sirens of Titan best.
	1:40pm InBrkly: I think Breakfast was famous because he wrote it while taking LSD to test the hypothesis that it made you more creative. But I was just checking google and havent found confirmation.
	1:41pm InBrkly: But all of his books left some impression on me. Sometimes phrases from his writing will just pop into my head weird moments.
	1:42pm herb.nyc: wasn't vonnegut's wife also a writer?
	1:44pm Bjarne: Ken from hyde park: Things are going great for me today. The sun is shining and summer is just around the corner, and WFMU on the air! Hope you are doing good aswell. Are you by any chance traveling to Barcelona for Primavera Festival at the end of may? I know Liz is going, and I'm looking forward to meeting her, the rest of the WFMU Primavera crew.
	1:44pm coelacanth: cool. after reading whatever titles i had at my disposal i planned to read the rest in chronological order, from his first. i had to special-order "player piano"; "sirens of titan" happens to be next!
	1:45pm InBrkly: He remarried. I dont recall that either wife was a writer but his son wrote a book about his experience with sushizophrenia. It wasn't great but it was an interesting snapshot of life in a hippy commune.
	1:46pm Michael 98145: Cat's Cradle made a big impression on me, but that was long, long ago. I also just purchased Player Piano to re-read.
	1:46pm InBrkly: I hope that strategy works! Some writers take a couple of books to "get their legs". Player piano and Bluebeard are the only 2 I haven't read.
	1:47pm InBrkly: lol sushizophrenia. /schizophrenia/
	1:47pm Cliff: I suffer from sushizophrenia, I just can't resist an eel roll
	1:49pm coelacanth: player piano was good, but yes- he hadn't gotten his stride yet. Bluebeard is one of my favorite books by anybody!
	1:50pm InBrkly: Hmm since Vonnegut is rolling around my head now--I was just thinking how in many of his books he uses drawings or symbols mixed in with the typography. I wonder how they handle that in the ebooks. Maybe they have a Vonnegut typeface. I'd like to have that.
	1:51pm coelacanth: Michael, "cat's cradle" has been recommended to me several times, so i'm fairly psyched to get to that one.
	1:52pm InBrkly: This isn't really a spoiler I hope but in Galapagos he straight up tells you at the beginning that he is going to put a little star next to the name of everyone who is going to die by the end. For some reason that put a lot of pressure on me as a reader!
	1:52pm herb.nyc: i just googled the descrip of BLUEBEARD, and it mentions a sexy woman meeting older man. yeah, i could go for that (and it's kinda Dave Hill-ian, in ref to SHIT HAPPENS' spokesmodel Becky Boggs and her destined meeting with dave.)
	1:53pm ?: I always thought Slapstick was a good introduction. But maybe that's just because it was the first KV that I read.
	1:56pm InBrkly: If you are reading these chronologically you might not be able to stop! You just might read them all straight through!
	1:57pm coelacanth: slapstick IS a good introduction! it was mine too and it's one of my 3 faves, so far. Galapagos is the other; and at first that asterisk thing bothered me, because it was like Vonnegut was the spoiler! then our eyes met, i guess, because it somehow enhanced the tale. Fucking Brilliant he was.
	1:58pm InBrkly: Sadly, like PK Dick, he is doomed to never have a good movie adaptation made.
	1:59pm JakeGould: Chip tunes!
	2:00pm Ĩkє: Other songs about co-pays: Goatpuncher, "ACA POS" Chunky Nuns, "$35 Abortion" Slab of Morbier, "Hypnotoad Treats All Ailments"
	2:00pm coelacanth: that's a shame; but i guess i can feel okay about having never seen a Vonnegut-based movie then.
	2:01pm ?: i think that last song was a good adaptation of a PKD book.
	2:01pm Liz Berg: Haha, thanks Ike! Found one about a dental plan I'll play in a bit...
	2:02pm JakeGould: @Ike: Glad you are here! You know they are going to be bringing weed eating goats into Prospect Park? So please don’t punch them!
	2:02pm JakeGould: @Liz: Can there be a whole show devoted to songs about mundane, daily bureaucracy?
	2:03pm Cliff: Don't google "Chunky Nuns", btw - I regretted it (regrotted? regrut?)
	2:03pm 1ke: Of course all of those titles only came out on Edison cylinders in northeastern Westeros in print runs of -3, so you may not be able to find them.
	2:06pm djelrock: Very nice. They sound like Makiza from Chile.
	2:08pm herb.nyc: "mundane daily bureaucracy" kinda sorta reminds me of The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players (oh look, i wore their pin 2 days ago).
	2:08pm Sem Chumbo: Gotta stay out of the Vonnegut discussion, read them all in order at the time they were published. OCD can be useful;-)
	2:08pm Michael 98145: Y'know, once upon a time they had listening booths in the hi-fi stores; now i come to WFMU.
	2:09pm bzam708: Nice set, there's sg.o much music on FMA that I'll never get around to hearin
	2:09pm herb.nyc: i tell my friends of FMA, but i have never clicked on any of the songs. ugh.
	2:10pm herb.nyc: (back to WORDS - i typed clicked and i often will misread it as dicked)
	2:10pm coelacanth: Liz, the whole program's been Stellar...especially the punkrock; and the electric mbira sounding stuff; and the other stuff! i've got to head out. 'got some hoobling on the agenda. Thanks! ciao y'all.
	2:12pm Liz Berg: Why thank you, coelocanth! Hooble it up!
	2:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Bjarne - Not planning on going to Primavera Sound. I'll be following the WFMU broadcast, though. Enjoy the festivities!
	2:19pm Liz Berg: A very melancholy song about dental plans, heh! Dental plans are usually kind of sucky and depressing so the mood is fitting.
	2:20pm herb.nyc: will you play any Dentists upbeat pop songs, Liz?
	2:21pm Liz Berg: Last time I was at the dentist, the playlist was all about Billy Joel. Talk about needing anesthesia.
	2:23pm Michael 98145: Maybe i need this one: www.amazon.com...
	2:24pm Jeff: OMG, Liz is playing Holmes.
	2:24pm Cliff: Dear God, at my old workplace they had a radio tuned to an easy listening station, and I swear they must've had a daily Billy Joel quota they had to fill.
	2:26pm Liz Berg: Yikes, Cliff, that sounds like torture!
	2:28pm Cliff: That was one in a long list of reasons for quitting!
	2:28pm herb.nyc: i'd love to see Billy Joel at MSG; never seen him before. however, feel free to put him down on this chatboard. (i've not listened to much Best Show, tho i download the podcasts. one has Jon Wurster saying "how punk the GLASS HOUSES record is, and angry. with that leather jacket and rock throwing, full of punk anarchy!"). hilarious.
	2:30pm TDK60: Punk rock Bo Diddley...plunk chunk chunk-a-gunk gunk.
	2:32pm Cliff: I actually don't mind Billy Joel in small doses, but having to listen to him every 90 minutes is a bit much. Especially when they only had about 15 of his songs in rotation.
	2:43pm Cliff: Have to leave a bit early.... Thanks Liz & everybody commenting today!
	2:43pm Cheri Pi: kill me now, this webinar. we're on a 10 minute break and I'm listening to ten minutes of their silence, like a giant dummy
	2:48pm rbxbx: This is really working for me right now.
	2:50pm tomasz.: SORRY I'M LATE
	2:50pm tomasz.: oh hey Robert!
	2:58pm tomasz.: nice stuff Liz, what i heard of it, hope you are well, i'ma hit the archive
	2:58pm chris: thanks, Liz!
	3:00pm rbxbx: oh hi @tomasz! funny to see you here.
	3:03pm steveo: WHY DID 3 O'CLOCK COME SO SOON?

Liz Berg: Playlist from May 3, 2016

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