WFMU: Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from August 22, 2019

Listener comments!
	👻 3:13pm KenW: Hey Brother, listening LIVE today!!!
	3:14pm Fabio: @ Ken: Alright, hope you enjoy the ride...
	3:15pm mariano: Hey Fabio, Ken, everyone!
	3:16pm sphere: hi folks
	3:17pm G: Antarctica? Kewl.
	3:19pm Polyus: I met Robert Hampson at an IHOP in Iowa City A TRUE TALE!
	3:21pm Brendan: Nice to be here.
	👻 3:25pm chresti: Hello
	👻 3:25pm Bas NL: Hi Fabio! Hi all!
	3:27pm Linda Lee: hi Fabio & fellow failures!
	3:29pm andy the painter: hi fabio: lately having a good run of doing pleasant tasks at home while listening to your show. you are a very pleasant helpmate....thanks!
	3:29pm Linda Lee: why are there no listeners i can ID as female on the boards today? what's going on here? :-D
	3:31pm Linda Lee: it's like Radio Lysistrata! :-D
	3:32pm Fredericks: I see a female listener, Linda.
	3:32pm Brendan: @Linda it was that way at Rush concerts when I was young.
	3:34pm Linda Lee: haha! i'll bet! Deep Purple too! :-) anyone who can really pass, Fredericks? :-D
	3:34pm listener james from westwood: "Sacrifice ... sacrifice ... sacrifice ..."
	👻 3:35pm chresti: I am female@LL
	3:35pm mary: just in time for Harmonia
	3:36pm Linda Lee: oh! chresti! thank god! :-D
	3:36pm Brendan: RIP, Hunter S.
	3:36pm BESSIE: Hi Fabio!
	3:36pm Drunken Creep: Good afternoon all, sounding very nice here, glad to listen
	3:38pm Linda Lee: reading Fear & Loathing out loud was always a nice way to come down from a trip, back when.
	3:39pm Fredericks: Is this a remote broadcast or is Fabio's mic blowing out a little bit?
	3:39pm coelacanth∅: oh shit did Hunter S Thompson die? -again?
	3:39pm Linda Lee: i'm actually hearing him ok.
	👻 3:42pm Mick: oh man, i missed harmonia? and hunter s. thompson stuff? failure to attend the program on time
	3:43pm Fredericks: Not ƒuzzed out sounding? That "f" looks cool. I don't know how I did it.
	3:43pm Linda Lee: here! this is the magic i expect from Fabio. :-)
	3:44pm Linda Lee: i didn't really hear it, Fredericks.
	3:45pm Rich in Washington: That Fear and Loathing production Fabio mentioned is incredible. It's also got Buck Henry, Laraine Newman and lots of others on it. It's quite a thing to hear.
	3:50pm Linda Lee: that's just an audio recording, Rich? no video production? quick research doesn't show.
	3:51pm impboy: This guy sounds like Barney from the Simpsons
	👻 3:51pm KenW: John Gavanti TREMENDOUS> WOWWOWOW
	3:55pm steveo: hi fabio; my ears are happy
	3:56pm crateslinger: I met Hunter S. Thompson on the L train holding a pre-release copy of The Rum Diaries. I never mentioned his name and he never acknowledged that I recognized him, but we both knew what was going on. We spoke for a minute. "Lousy book," he said.
	3:58pm Linda Lee: i have questions, crateslinger. :-D
	4:01pm VincentNifigance: So many @LindaLee!
	4:02pm crateslinger: @LL I've got a few minutes. He was wearing aviator sun glasses, and a button up short-sleeve and a lanyard around his neck. I think there may have been a whistle on it. He looked just like he looks in every picture you see. Some kind of hat. Floppy? Baseball? I can't remember. I saw the title on the book jacket. It was not released yet. I imagine he was in town visiting his publisher and was headed to Brooklyn to visit somebody - but I know nothing except that it was him.
	4:02pm crateslinger: It was about 1996 - 97
	4:03pm Avrilinmay: @ Fredericks : looks like you used the LaTeX typesetting formatting style (unvoluntarily?)
	4:03pm Linda Lee: amazing. :-)
	4:04pm VincentNifigance: @Crateslinger Was he alone? How did you make your approach?
	4:04pm tim from champaign: I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 for the first time last year. I couldn't help but compare it to the 2016 campaigns. It captured the bummer vibe of dollar signs, bad times and swastikas rising that 2016 had.
	4:04pm crateslinger: yeah - my best celebrity sighting, so far at least.
	4:05pm VincentNifigance: @TimFromChampaign - That is the most I've laughed out loud reading a book, ever.
	4:05pm Linda Lee: there were people worth seeing on the L line by then, i guess. :-D
	4:05pm coelacanth∅: what was his breath like? were his fingernails clean?
	4:06pm tim from champaign: yeah! I was super funny too.
	4:06pm Linda Lee: (i jest. i lived on Grand St in 85.)
	4:07pm tim from champaign: I wasn't super funny; the book was.
	4:07pm coelacanth∅: ...i'm just fucking around. i'd love to've run into Hunter S Thompson; though i'd probably stand there with my mouth hanging open.
	4:07pm Linda Lee: agree, Fabio. 78 - 82 in new york was really lovely.
	4:09pm VincentNifigance: @LindaLee: Any interactions with significant personages back then?
	4:09pm northguineahills: Gotta to love that dancing chicken on the turntable....
	4:09pm Linda Lee: also agree on Stroszek!
	4:10pm mariano: The best Herzog film is Ant Man: www.youtube.com...
	4:10pm Fredericks: Avrilinmay: LaTeX typesetting formatting style Definitely used it unintentionally. How do I do it again?
	4:12pm ottovonbqe: On a mac Option + i then F will do it: ƒ
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thinks HST one of the most important Writers of our Time(s) ...Quality Time actually w/ him??...hmm....
	4:14pm ottovonbqe: It ƒeels so good to use this ƒ. Actually, you can just do Option+f.
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...memorable perhaps...
	4:14pm Linda Lee: @VincentNifiigance ~ you mean lower manhattan in the late 70s - early 80s? everyone was significant! :-) i can name drop, but that comes off goofy.
	4:15pm Avrilinmay: or, according to a certain white & blue website , i.postimg.cc...
	4:17pm Fredericks: When I hit option + f I get word-finder opened up.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: it's really true that the famous, the infamous & the nobodies all shared the place/time & loved it, so we all rubbed shoulders without comment.
	4:18pm Fredericks: Option + i gets me page information. This is odd.
	4:23pm Fredericks: \( Like this\)
	4:24pm Fredericks: \(Like this\) Bottom
	4:26pm VincentNifigance: @LindaLee: I hear you. I love that sentiment.
	4:32pm Drunken Creep: Echo VincentNifigance on appreciating the reality of Linda Lee's idea. We were in the same place, it was only the planet that moved!
	4:32pm Linda Lee: best part, for me: we could work 2, 3 days a week to make expenses & had the rest of the time free. that makes for a vital creative community!
	4:33pm sphere: Thurston Moore nearly knocked me down as he rushed out of the New 9:30 Club and jumped in a red van that tore off down the street. That's all I got.
	4:34pm tim from champaign: @sphere - what was the rush?
	4:37pm Linda Lee: the person i remember most vividly is Jean Michel Basquiat ~ still SAMO when i met him. just a lovely, soft spoken guy, sleeping here & there, sewing clothes, if i remember right, for money. since he was basically homeless he kept his works in progress in a defunct mailbox.
	4:37pm Linda Lee: he gave hand-painted postcards to people he liked. i had one for a while.
	4:38pm Avrilinmay: @ Linda Lee this is breaking my heart ..
	4:38pm Linda Lee: @Avrillinmay, why?
	4:39pm Rich in Washington: That had to be a magic time and place, LL. I'm glad you experienced all that.
	4:40pm Linda Lee: it was just real nice. the freedom to live without sweating expenses was good.
	4:42pm Linda Lee: i'm on the hunt now for a similar situation! :-)
	4:44pm Megadano: One Eyed Jack's is a terrific film.
	4:44pm Megadano: the only film Brando ever directed
	4:46pm sphere: @ tim - my guess is that he was going out for dinner (possibly with some folks from Dischord)
	4:48pm Avrilinmay: @ Linda Lee : about Basquiat . it's too much of a melancholy feeling to put into words, in a such a short format, I'm afraid
	4:48pm Avrilinmay: glad for you to have experienced it, too. wish you the best to find the new one
	4:50pm Megadano: @Linda - a friend of mine knew Basquiat in NYC, he would crash at her place (usually when he was coming down off a bender). Her boyfriend hated him. One time Basquiat took a sharpie marker and drew all over their refrigerator. Covered it with drawings. And her boyfriend put it on the curb one weekend and ordered a new one. And the garbage men took it away. (!!!!)
	4:53pm tim from champaign: @sphere - makes sense. going out to dinner is about the only reason I would knock people out of my way.
	4:55pm Franco Twinkie: Linda Lee, My one observation/encounter with Basquiat was this: In the mid-eighties I went to see a show of David Salle paintings at Larry Gagosians outpost on Roberson Blvd in L.A. I was the only person in the gallery when this yellow taxi cab drops off Michael and a realy stoned woman by the front door. Michael is wearing a filthy white tee shirt and holding a greasy food bag. Larry comes out of his office looking nervous and holding a framed drawing. Michael is now stuffing a hamburger into his mouth and says "I get half!" All this is happening right in front of me. Larry is trying to shush Michael and looking at me with a bewildered expression on his face. he hustles Basquiat and his stoned companion into the office and closes the door.
	4:55pm Fredericks: ˆƒîˆ˜å¬¬¥ ˆƒiˆ©´®ed ø¨†.
	4:55pm Linda Lee: thank you for your good wishes, Avrillinmay! @Megadano ~ of course they did! it was trash! :-) hope your friend found a better boyfriend.
	4:59pm Avrilinmay: @Fredericks looks like you got it (?) :)
	5:00pm Linda Lee: @Franco Twinkie ~ i feel i know the scene well. i've been both those raggedy creatures at once. there's no consciousness of 'how it looks' at all.
	5:01pm Linda Lee: that's the nice thing about it.
	5:03pm Linda Lee: & the sad part too. that's how we're remembered.
	5:07pm Drunken Creep: It's nice to listen and hang out among the comments board today. Fabio is delivering, and my ears are grateful. Today's egg is "If a lesson is for learning, and less is the opposite of more, does that make a lesson the opposite of a moron? After all, if someone learns a lesson, they become less of a moron." -The daily egg
	5:07pm Franco Twinkie: Well Linda, That's was how it was in 1980's art world - Piles of money and piles of drugs.
	5:08pm Linda Lee: right. & on the outskirts it was just piles of drugs. :-D
	5:08pm common: Fabio, all. Happy Thursday!
	5:10pm nic: love this!!!
	5:15pm Linda Lee: .. which was not the term you'd use to talk to yourself about the situation. "drugs" is what?
	5:17pm Linda Lee: you'd never say to your friend: 'listen, let's go get some drugs." :-D
	5:17pm Franco Twinkie: Smack.
	5:18pm Fredericks: ˆˆ¥´ß å˜∂ ˆ† ˆß ƒ¨˜≥ †å˜˚ Avrillinmay.
	5:18pm Drunken Creep: Reefas
	5:19pm Fredericks: Bennies
	5:21pm future transport: hum is tinitus cured with vinpocetine / periwinkle extract
	5:22pm Linda Lee: right, heroin. 'dope' in new york ~ & coke. preferably both, at about 2:1. :-)
	5:23pm Franco Twinkie: I need to get under a blanket now. Good night.
	5:24pm Linda Lee: good night Franco Twinkie!
	5:24pm future transport: brain trauma / loud sound causes tinitus /hum
	👻 5:26pm KenW: MIND BLOWING SHOW, once again my friend!!
	5:28pm Fabio: @KenW: Thanks Ken!
	👻 5:28pm chresti: I have tinnitus
	5:30pm Fredericks: ˆˆˆˆˆ˙√´ ∫´´˜ ´˜∆ø¥ˆ˜© †˙´ ß˙ø∑≤ †øø ƒå∫ˆø
	5:30pm common: Buzzies
	5:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Had a multiband radio when a kid ... inbetween things & twiddling dials I could get things like this & a lotta synthy stuff!...
	5:31pm future transport: iii had it severely from signal corps brain concussion / vietnam war/ thought sound was coming from gopher holes or somewhere in the ground ../fog horn noises / completlely cured now ...Vinpocetine \| Life Extension Magazine www.lifeextension.com › magazine › aas › page-01 A 1986 review of eight independent studies of substances that enhance blood flow found that vinpocetine produced improvements in hearing as well as in “ringing” of the ears, or tinnitus, following trauma to the ear.29 A decade later, an open-label study of vinpocetine at a dose of 20 mg a day for 10 days following ...
	5:32pm Linda Lee: marvelous radio waves..
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which means some signals were more off & some moron...
	5:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& then there's number stations...
	5:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& Alex Shulgin's talk of discovering a chemical that did one notable thing & that only: made music sound off-key!
	5:36pm Fredericks: Vinpocetine = Rated Possibly Safe
	5:36pm Drunken Creep: @revolution, nice wording!
	5:36pm Drunken Creep: Glad to tune into Strength Through Failure today, where the expenses are positive, and the smiles are free.
	5:37pm northguineahills: I've petted electrostatic cats....
	5:38pm future transport: music sound off-key! / atonality is natural in mid eastern culture / we have been conditioned to a small dynamic range
	5:38pm VincentNifigance: @ northguineahills There's a frisson for everyone when that occurs!
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or out of tune, actually...I imagine Portsmouth Sinfonia Implication: there's a brain receptor just for that...
	👻 5:39pm Bas NL: I love the Fossil Aerosol Mining Project..
	5:40pm Linda Lee: Fossil Aerosol Mining Company is a totally different band.
	5:40pm future transport: Vinpocetine = Rated Possibly Safe ??? you are afraid / cant eat a flower ? What Does It Mean to Eat a Flower? \| TASTE www.tastecooking.com › mean-eat-flower Apr 2, 2018 - Flowers have as much flavor and nutritional value as a lot of things that we put in salads. So why do we think of them as such a symbol of vanity .
	5:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I have pet hypothesis that every Continent / Major Culture has their own Metaphysic / sort of Quaballah - which corresponds to each their own unique Scale (Music of the Spheres)...
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Les Fleur du Mal
	5:42pm Linda Lee: ask the bunnies about eating flowers! they'll say it's perfectly ok.
	5:43pm future transport: .or out of tune, actually. no , patti smith sang out of tune and that was the feature , not the bug we are conditioned into normalcy atonality ...infinite microtones is the natural state ..en.wikipedia.org...
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lapin de Révolution
	5:44pm Linda Lee: bravo! :-D
	5:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Blue Note: Major or Minor? Happy or Sad?
	5:45pm future transport: how far can you bend a note into who's wrongness?
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Outside of Society - where I wanna be...
	5:46pm future transport: why is a major note happy a minor note sad can a robot process that coneptually with its microphone ears
	5:47pm Linda Lee: personally i never heard patti sing off key. she has no range, but she can carry a tune.. marianne faithfull though ~ oh my god, i cringe.
	👻 5:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I am LATE.
	5:48pm Linda Lee: i literally wince.
	5:48pm future transport: every Continent / Major Culture has their own Metaphysic WHY exclude Hyperborea ?
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Who whut?
	5:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...to say nothing of Riddims...
	5:52pm future transport: Who whut? Hyperborea the genius land of giants who the bible god genocided by flood and fire in our previous Tartaria / now the broken whirlled we are imprizoned in
	5:52pm common: Bang zoom. Pow! Weeee
	5:53pm Linda Lee: i'll tell anyone who asks: 'Strength Through Failure' is one of the best shows on this whole darn station. so there. bravissimo, Fabio!
	5:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I tend to say each FMU-J is a World ...while on the subject...
	👻 5:54pm KenW: It s always a great show when I discover 3 or 4 new artists whose music I literally cannot live without, THANKS AGAIN Fabio!!!
	5:54pm future transport: bible god tried to kill all the giants good and bad just to extinguish his own nephilim giant race of failures.. more good giants still in Hyperborea that cannot be eradicated in the far north inner earth
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Verily - & the James Last Shall Be First...
	5:56pm Linda Lee: Rev ~ i judge by how well i can travel through & what i bring back.
	5:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We are the Gullivers of restless & obsessive listening...
	👻 5:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Fabio! Great show!
	5:58pm Linda Lee: molto grazie, Fabio!
	👻 5:59pm chresti: Fabio's show is one of my favorites, I have a few shows I listen to that equally knock my socks off on a regular basis
	5:59pm Fredericks: Thanks Fabio!
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY
	👻 6:00pm chresti: Thanks Fabio!
	6:00pm Linda Lee: aren't we lucky!!!
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Fabio

Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from August 22, 2019

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The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

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August 22, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
James Last	Mr. Giant Man "Mr. Giant Man" by "James Last"	Voodoo Party	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Dean Hurley	Dissension "Dissension" by "Dean Hurley"	Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy Of Beyond	0:12:18 (Pop-up)
Robert Hampson	Antartica Ends Here	Repercussions	0:13:13 (Pop-up)
Daniel W.J. Mackenzie & Richard A Ingram	Two Futures	Half Death	0:23:32 (Pop-up)
Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson	Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas	Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas	0:26:50 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Schaumberg "Schaumberg" by "Harmonia"	Live 1974	0:27:32 (Pop-up)
Johnny Depp & Benicio del Toro	Adrenochrome	Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas	0:39:54 (Pop-up)

Jean-Claude Charlier et Son Orchestre	La Recontre Des Haleines Deux Bonnes Raisons D'Etre Beau	Sssh....	0:41:12 (Pop-up)
John Gavanti	Higher & Higher "Higher & Higher" by "John Gavanti"	John Gavanti	0:48:08 (Pop-up)
John Gavanti	Africa "Africa" by "John Gavanti"	John Gavanti	0:48:26 (Pop-up)
Jerry Hunt	Cantegral Segment No. 19 (excpt)	Phalba	0:53:24 (Pop-up)

Wojciech Rusin	Prima Materia "Prima Materia" by "Wojciech Rusin"	The Funnel	1:13:24 (Pop-up)
Jüppala Kääpiö	Ape Regina "Ape Regina" by "Jüppala Kääpiö"	Animalia Corolla	1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Acrid Lactations & Gwilly Edmondez	Metamorphosis Of So-Called 'Abstract' Labour	You Have Not Learned To Play & Mock In The Psychic System	1:22:40 (Pop-up)
Cody Yantis	Before Language "Before Language" by "Cody Yantis"	Place and Distance	1:25:54 (Pop-up)
Stuart Chalmers	Chamber of the Imaginary	Sound Environments #1: Caves	1:32:47 (Pop-up)

Prima Materia	Roma, January 17, 1976	The Tail of the Tiger	1:49:59 (Pop-up)

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project	Respooling the Relic	Revisionist History	2:04:04 (Pop-up)
John Godbert	The Sealed Container (excerpt)	The Sealed Container	2:05:30 (Pop-up)
Electrostatic Cat	Lethologica "Lethologica" by "Electrostatic Cat"		2:18:16 (Pop-up)
Anne La Berge / Joe Williamson	The Hum (excerpt)	The Hum	2:19:47 (Pop-up)
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project	A Resolute Nothing	The Unlistening place	2:26:55 (Pop-up)

Anthony Moore	Erhu "Erhu" by "Anthony Moore"	Unreleased Tracks, August 1999	2:39:58 (Pop-up)
Stephen Vitiello	The Light of Falling Cars	The Light of Falling Cars	2:44:10 (Pop-up)
Impulsive Machinations	Seven Billion Simultaneous Thoughts (Eight, Dead)	Conformity Contortion	2:50:16 (Pop-up)
Jackson C. Frank	Milk and Honey "Milk and Honey" by "Jackson C. Frank"	The Complete Recordings	2:54:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 3:13pm KenW: Hey Brother, listening LIVE today!!!
	3:14pm Fabio: @ Ken: Alright, hope you enjoy the ride...
	3:15pm mariano: Hey Fabio, Ken, everyone!
	3:16pm sphere: hi folks
	3:17pm G: Antarctica? Kewl.
	3:19pm Polyus: I met Robert Hampson at an IHOP in Iowa City A TRUE TALE!
	3:21pm Brendan: Nice to be here.
	👻 3:25pm chresti: Hello
	👻 3:25pm Bas NL: Hi Fabio! Hi all!
	3:27pm Linda Lee: hi Fabio & fellow failures!
	3:29pm andy the painter: hi fabio: lately having a good run of doing pleasant tasks at home while listening to your show. you are a very pleasant helpmate....thanks!
	3:29pm Linda Lee: why are there no listeners i can ID as female on the boards today? what's going on here? :-D
	3:31pm Linda Lee: it's like Radio Lysistrata! :-D
	3:32pm Fredericks: I see a female listener, Linda.
	3:32pm Brendan: @Linda it was that way at Rush concerts when I was young.
	3:34pm Linda Lee: haha! i'll bet! Deep Purple too! :-) anyone who can really pass, Fredericks? :-D
	3:34pm listener james from westwood: "Sacrifice ... sacrifice ... sacrifice ..."
	👻 3:35pm chresti: I am female@LL
	3:35pm mary: just in time for Harmonia
	3:36pm Linda Lee: oh! chresti! thank god! :-D
	3:36pm Brendan: RIP, Hunter S.
	3:36pm BESSIE: Hi Fabio!
	3:36pm Drunken Creep: Good afternoon all, sounding very nice here, glad to listen
	3:38pm Linda Lee: reading Fear & Loathing out loud was always a nice way to come down from a trip, back when.
	3:39pm Fredericks: Is this a remote broadcast or is Fabio's mic blowing out a little bit?
	3:39pm coelacanth∅: oh shit did Hunter S Thompson die? -again?
	3:39pm Linda Lee: i'm actually hearing him ok.
	👻 3:42pm Mick: oh man, i missed harmonia? and hunter s. thompson stuff? failure to attend the program on time
	3:43pm Fredericks: Not ƒuzzed out sounding? That "f" looks cool. I don't know how I did it.
	3:43pm Linda Lee: here! this is the magic i expect from Fabio. :-)
	3:44pm Linda Lee: i didn't really hear it, Fredericks.
	3:45pm Rich in Washington: That Fear and Loathing production Fabio mentioned is incredible. It's also got Buck Henry, Laraine Newman and lots of others on it. It's quite a thing to hear.
	3:50pm Linda Lee: that's just an audio recording, Rich? no video production? quick research doesn't show.
	3:51pm impboy: This guy sounds like Barney from the Simpsons
	👻 3:51pm KenW: John Gavanti TREMENDOUS> WOWWOWOW
	3:55pm steveo: hi fabio; my ears are happy
	3:56pm crateslinger: I met Hunter S. Thompson on the L train holding a pre-release copy of The Rum Diaries. I never mentioned his name and he never acknowledged that I recognized him, but we both knew what was going on. We spoke for a minute. "Lousy book," he said.
	3:58pm Linda Lee: i have questions, crateslinger. :-D
	4:01pm VincentNifigance: So many @LindaLee!
	4:02pm crateslinger: @LL I've got a few minutes. He was wearing aviator sun glasses, and a button up short-sleeve and a lanyard around his neck. I think there may have been a whistle on it. He looked just like he looks in every picture you see. Some kind of hat. Floppy? Baseball? I can't remember. I saw the title on the book jacket. It was not released yet. I imagine he was in town visiting his publisher and was headed to Brooklyn to visit somebody - but I know nothing except that it was him.
	4:02pm crateslinger: It was about 1996 - 97
	4:03pm Avrilinmay: @ Fredericks : looks like you used the LaTeX typesetting formatting style (unvoluntarily?)
	4:03pm Linda Lee: amazing. :-)
	4:04pm VincentNifigance: @Crateslinger Was he alone? How did you make your approach?
	4:04pm tim from champaign: I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 for the first time last year. I couldn't help but compare it to the 2016 campaigns. It captured the bummer vibe of dollar signs, bad times and swastikas rising that 2016 had.
	4:04pm crateslinger: yeah - my best celebrity sighting, so far at least.
	4:05pm VincentNifigance: @TimFromChampaign - That is the most I've laughed out loud reading a book, ever.
	4:05pm Linda Lee: there were people worth seeing on the L line by then, i guess. :-D
	4:05pm coelacanth∅: what was his breath like? were his fingernails clean?
	4:06pm tim from champaign: yeah! I was super funny too.
	4:06pm Linda Lee: (i jest. i lived on Grand St in 85.)
	4:07pm tim from champaign: I wasn't super funny; the book was.
	4:07pm coelacanth∅: ...i'm just fucking around. i'd love to've run into Hunter S Thompson; though i'd probably stand there with my mouth hanging open.
	4:07pm Linda Lee: agree, Fabio. 78 - 82 in new york was really lovely.
	4:09pm VincentNifigance: @LindaLee: Any interactions with significant personages back then?
	4:09pm northguineahills: Gotta to love that dancing chicken on the turntable....
	4:09pm Linda Lee: also agree on Stroszek!
	4:10pm mariano: The best Herzog film is Ant Man: www.youtube.com...
	4:10pm Fredericks: Avrilinmay: LaTeX typesetting formatting style Definitely used it unintentionally. How do I do it again?
	4:12pm ottovonbqe: On a mac Option + i then F will do it: ƒ
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thinks HST one of the most important Writers of our Time(s) ...Quality Time actually w/ him??...hmm....
	4:14pm ottovonbqe: It ƒeels so good to use this ƒ. Actually, you can just do Option+f.
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...memorable perhaps...
	4:14pm Linda Lee: @VincentNifiigance ~ you mean lower manhattan in the late 70s - early 80s? everyone was significant! :-) i can name drop, but that comes off goofy.
	4:15pm Avrilinmay: or, according to a certain white & blue website , i.postimg.cc...
	4:17pm Fredericks: When I hit option + f I get word-finder opened up.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: it's really true that the famous, the infamous & the nobodies all shared the place/time & loved it, so we all rubbed shoulders without comment.
	4:18pm Fredericks: Option + i gets me page information. This is odd.
	4:23pm Fredericks: \( Like this\)
	4:24pm Fredericks: \(Like this\) Bottom
	4:26pm VincentNifigance: @LindaLee: I hear you. I love that sentiment.
	4:32pm Drunken Creep: Echo VincentNifigance on appreciating the reality of Linda Lee's idea. We were in the same place, it was only the planet that moved!
	4:32pm Linda Lee: best part, for me: we could work 2, 3 days a week to make expenses & had the rest of the time free. that makes for a vital creative community!
	4:33pm sphere: Thurston Moore nearly knocked me down as he rushed out of the New 9:30 Club and jumped in a red van that tore off down the street. That's all I got.
	4:34pm tim from champaign: @sphere - what was the rush?
	4:37pm Linda Lee: the person i remember most vividly is Jean Michel Basquiat ~ still SAMO when i met him. just a lovely, soft spoken guy, sleeping here & there, sewing clothes, if i remember right, for money. since he was basically homeless he kept his works in progress in a defunct mailbox.
	4:37pm Linda Lee: he gave hand-painted postcards to people he liked. i had one for a while.
	4:38pm Avrilinmay: @ Linda Lee this is breaking my heart ..
	4:38pm Linda Lee: @Avrillinmay, why?
	4:39pm Rich in Washington: That had to be a magic time and place, LL. I'm glad you experienced all that.
	4:40pm Linda Lee: it was just real nice. the freedom to live without sweating expenses was good.
	4:42pm Linda Lee: i'm on the hunt now for a similar situation! :-)
	4:44pm Megadano: One Eyed Jack's is a terrific film.
	4:44pm Megadano: the only film Brando ever directed
	4:46pm sphere: @ tim - my guess is that he was going out for dinner (possibly with some folks from Dischord)
	4:48pm Avrilinmay: @ Linda Lee : about Basquiat . it's too much of a melancholy feeling to put into words, in a such a short format, I'm afraid
	4:48pm Avrilinmay: glad for you to have experienced it, too. wish you the best to find the new one
	4:50pm Megadano: @Linda - a friend of mine knew Basquiat in NYC, he would crash at her place (usually when he was coming down off a bender). Her boyfriend hated him. One time Basquiat took a sharpie marker and drew all over their refrigerator. Covered it with drawings. And her boyfriend put it on the curb one weekend and ordered a new one. And the garbage men took it away. (!!!!)
	4:53pm tim from champaign: @sphere - makes sense. going out to dinner is about the only reason I would knock people out of my way.
	4:55pm Franco Twinkie: Linda Lee, My one observation/encounter with Basquiat was this: In the mid-eighties I went to see a show of David Salle paintings at Larry Gagosians outpost on Roberson Blvd in L.A. I was the only person in the gallery when this yellow taxi cab drops off Michael and a realy stoned woman by the front door. Michael is wearing a filthy white tee shirt and holding a greasy food bag. Larry comes out of his office looking nervous and holding a framed drawing. Michael is now stuffing a hamburger into his mouth and says "I get half!" All this is happening right in front of me. Larry is trying to shush Michael and looking at me with a bewildered expression on his face. he hustles Basquiat and his stoned companion into the office and closes the door.
	4:55pm Fredericks: ˆƒîˆ˜å¬¬¥ ˆƒiˆ©´®ed ø¨†.
	4:55pm Linda Lee: thank you for your good wishes, Avrillinmay! @Megadano ~ of course they did! it was trash! :-) hope your friend found a better boyfriend.
	4:59pm Avrilinmay: @Fredericks looks like you got it (?) :)
	5:00pm Linda Lee: @Franco Twinkie ~ i feel i know the scene well. i've been both those raggedy creatures at once. there's no consciousness of 'how it looks' at all.
	5:01pm Linda Lee: that's the nice thing about it.
	5:03pm Linda Lee: & the sad part too. that's how we're remembered.
	5:07pm Drunken Creep: It's nice to listen and hang out among the comments board today. Fabio is delivering, and my ears are grateful. Today's egg is "If a lesson is for learning, and less is the opposite of more, does that make a lesson the opposite of a moron? After all, if someone learns a lesson, they become less of a moron." -The daily egg
	5:07pm Franco Twinkie: Well Linda, That's was how it was in 1980's art world - Piles of money and piles of drugs.
	5:08pm Linda Lee: right. & on the outskirts it was just piles of drugs. :-D
	5:08pm common: Fabio, all. Happy Thursday!
	5:10pm nic: love this!!!
	5:15pm Linda Lee: .. which was not the term you'd use to talk to yourself about the situation. "drugs" is what?
	5:17pm Linda Lee: you'd never say to your friend: 'listen, let's go get some drugs." :-D
	5:17pm Franco Twinkie: Smack.
	5:18pm Fredericks: ˆˆ¥´ß å˜∂ ˆ† ˆß ƒ¨˜≥ †å˜˚ Avrillinmay.
	5:18pm Drunken Creep: Reefas
	5:19pm Fredericks: Bennies
	5:21pm future transport: hum is tinitus cured with vinpocetine / periwinkle extract
	5:22pm Linda Lee: right, heroin. 'dope' in new york ~ & coke. preferably both, at about 2:1. :-)
	5:23pm Franco Twinkie: I need to get under a blanket now. Good night.
	5:24pm Linda Lee: good night Franco Twinkie!
	5:24pm future transport: brain trauma / loud sound causes tinitus /hum
	👻 5:26pm KenW: MIND BLOWING SHOW, once again my friend!!
	5:28pm Fabio: @KenW: Thanks Ken!
	👻 5:28pm chresti: I have tinnitus
	5:30pm Fredericks: ˆˆˆˆˆ˙√´ ∫´´˜ ´˜∆ø¥ˆ˜© †˙´ ß˙ø∑≤ †øø ƒå∫ˆø
	5:30pm common: Buzzies
	5:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Had a multiband radio when a kid ... inbetween things & twiddling dials I could get things like this & a lotta synthy stuff!...
	5:31pm future transport: iii had it severely from signal corps brain concussion / vietnam war/ thought sound was coming from gopher holes or somewhere in the ground ../fog horn noises / completlely cured now ...Vinpocetine \| Life Extension Magazine www.lifeextension.com › magazine › aas › page-01 A 1986 review of eight independent studies of substances that enhance blood flow found that vinpocetine produced improvements in hearing as well as in “ringing” of the ears, or tinnitus, following trauma to the ear.29 A decade later, an open-label study of vinpocetine at a dose of 20 mg a day for 10 days following ...
	5:32pm Linda Lee: marvelous radio waves..
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which means some signals were more off & some moron...
	5:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& then there's number stations...
	5:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& Alex Shulgin's talk of discovering a chemical that did one notable thing & that only: made music sound off-key!
	5:36pm Fredericks: Vinpocetine = Rated Possibly Safe
	5:36pm Drunken Creep: @revolution, nice wording!
	5:36pm Drunken Creep: Glad to tune into Strength Through Failure today, where the expenses are positive, and the smiles are free.
	5:37pm northguineahills: I've petted electrostatic cats....
	5:38pm future transport: music sound off-key! / atonality is natural in mid eastern culture / we have been conditioned to a small dynamic range
	5:38pm VincentNifigance: @ northguineahills There's a frisson for everyone when that occurs!
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or out of tune, actually...I imagine Portsmouth Sinfonia Implication: there's a brain receptor just for that...
	👻 5:39pm Bas NL: I love the Fossil Aerosol Mining Project..
	5:40pm Linda Lee: Fossil Aerosol Mining Company is a totally different band.
	5:40pm future transport: Vinpocetine = Rated Possibly Safe ??? you are afraid / cant eat a flower ? What Does It Mean to Eat a Flower? \| TASTE www.tastecooking.com › mean-eat-flower Apr 2, 2018 - Flowers have as much flavor and nutritional value as a lot of things that we put in salads. So why do we think of them as such a symbol of vanity .
	5:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I have pet hypothesis that every Continent / Major Culture has their own Metaphysic / sort of Quaballah - which corresponds to each their own unique Scale (Music of the Spheres)...
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Les Fleur du Mal
	5:42pm Linda Lee: ask the bunnies about eating flowers! they'll say it's perfectly ok.
	5:43pm future transport: .or out of tune, actually. no , patti smith sang out of tune and that was the feature , not the bug we are conditioned into normalcy atonality ...infinite microtones is the natural state ..en.wikipedia.org...
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lapin de Révolution
	5:44pm Linda Lee: bravo! :-D
	5:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Blue Note: Major or Minor? Happy or Sad?
	5:45pm future transport: how far can you bend a note into who's wrongness?
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Outside of Society - where I wanna be...
	5:46pm future transport: why is a major note happy a minor note sad can a robot process that coneptually with its microphone ears
	5:47pm Linda Lee: personally i never heard patti sing off key. she has no range, but she can carry a tune.. marianne faithfull though ~ oh my god, i cringe.
	👻 5:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I am LATE.
	5:48pm Linda Lee: i literally wince.
	5:48pm future transport: every Continent / Major Culture has their own Metaphysic WHY exclude Hyperborea ?
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Who whut?
	5:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...to say nothing of Riddims...
	5:52pm future transport: Who whut? Hyperborea the genius land of giants who the bible god genocided by flood and fire in our previous Tartaria / now the broken whirlled we are imprizoned in
	5:52pm common: Bang zoom. Pow! Weeee
	5:53pm Linda Lee: i'll tell anyone who asks: 'Strength Through Failure' is one of the best shows on this whole darn station. so there. bravissimo, Fabio!
	5:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I tend to say each FMU-J is a World ...while on the subject...
	👻 5:54pm KenW: It s always a great show when I discover 3 or 4 new artists whose music I literally cannot live without, THANKS AGAIN Fabio!!!
	5:54pm future transport: bible god tried to kill all the giants good and bad just to extinguish his own nephilim giant race of failures.. more good giants still in Hyperborea that cannot be eradicated in the far north inner earth
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Verily - & the James Last Shall Be First...
	5:56pm Linda Lee: Rev ~ i judge by how well i can travel through & what i bring back.
	5:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We are the Gullivers of restless & obsessive listening...
	👻 5:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Fabio! Great show!
	5:58pm Linda Lee: molto grazie, Fabio!
	👻 5:59pm chresti: Fabio's show is one of my favorites, I have a few shows I listen to that equally knock my socks off on a regular basis
	5:59pm Fredericks: Thanks Fabio!
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY
	👻 6:00pm chresti: Thanks Fabio!
	6:00pm Linda Lee: aren't we lucky!!!
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Fabio

Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from August 22, 2019

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