WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from August 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	12:02pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, busybodies!
	12:02pm DJ Peter: Nothing doing!
	12:03pm Charlie: Hey Doug! Get busy, y'all!
	12:04pm Charlie: Hi Peter!
	12:04pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Phonetic Alphabet - NATO" by "unknown" Hi Charlie and busy do-nothings!
	12:05pm Jeff Golick: ...and somewhere out there, a sleeper cell awakens. Heyo, Charlie!
	12:05pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie and listeners
	12:06pm Charlie: Howdy chresti, Jeff, tom tom:)
	12:07pm Chris S.: Break a leg, Charlie!
	12:08pm TDK60: Hello Charlie.
	12:08pm Charlie: ↳ Chris S. @12:07 I'm shakin' a leg, Chris!
	12:09pm Chris S.: Shake your tail feather...!
	12:10pm coelacanth∅: 'morning Charlie!
	12:13pm Charlie: heya, coelacanth∅!
	12:13pm Dean: Hey, today is Leonard Bernstein's birthday!
	12:13pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Song: "Next Time Might Be Your Time" by ""Blue" Gene Tyr... I love this song so much.
	12:16pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @12:13 Hi Dean - Good to know! Uncle Lenny yay!
	12:16pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Golick @12:13 Me too:)
	12:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Jeff Golick @12:13 it is utterly guileless, love it
	12:18pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:17 Yes, this
	12:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:18 but i suspect it took guile to be this guileless
	12:20pm Dean: Drove past Mills College just yesterday, recording venue for this "B"GT record.
	12:21pm Chris S.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:19 lol
	12:22pm Dean: "We all talk for ice cream."
	12:23pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "World Peace - Bernard" by "Bruce Nauman" i think i saw/heard this installation at tate modern
	12:23pm tom tom the pipers son: in turbine hall
	12:23pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:23 Cool! I saw an installation of his once, I think at Mass MOCA.
	12:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ah peter gordon after blue gene tyranny....birds flock together all of a feather
	12:26pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:25 What's next, Robert Ashley?
	12:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:23 it was at very low volume, remembering having to move close to sound source...there were many throughout turbine hall
	12:27pm tom tom the pipers son: hey you tell me
	12:28pm Chris S.: DJ Whimsy!
	12:29pm tom tom the pipers son: excellent use of this nauman over radio
	12:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:29 perfect medium...made for it
	12:31pm schmutz: I sure love a medieval monster.
	12:33pm tom tom the pipers son: @ charlie...are you familiar with vito acconci's audio pieces/ psychodramas
	12:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Butt-to-Buttresuscitation" by "Funkadelic" this title ...hahaha!!!
	12:35pm Charlie: ↳ schmutz @12:31 Hi schmutz!
	12:35pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:33 tom tom - no I'm not! would love to hear. although I suspect they would be intense
	12:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:35 i heard a very good one... a kind of effed up family drama a long time ago...i think they're available through electronic arts intermix
	12:49pm Dean: True. I'd also like to hear Traffic cover "We Got the Beat."
	12:50pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @12:49 Yes! very much:)
	12:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Dean @12:49 i think 'vacation' is more in their milieu
	12:53pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:51 how about "This Town"? or "Automatic"
	12:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:53 i don't know those
	12:55pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:54 on their first album, which I quite like
	12:56pm Chris S.: ↳ Dean @12:49 I think you just blew my mind.
	12:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:55 oh...
	12:59pm Dean: Traffic and "Vacation" do indeed share affinities.
	1:01pm tom tom the pipers son: unfortch for me...need to be gone for about an hour....
	1:03pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:01 ok well maybe see you later tom tom:)
	1:04pm Dean: This is not the Robert Maxwell who fathered Ghislaine, I'll guess.
	1:07pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @1:04 Not the same Robert Maxwell!
	1:07pm Dean: Whew.
	1:07pm judy from croton: Boy, I remember this one from early childhood. So sad! But what did she die from? Favors? Vapors?
	1:09pm Dean: Elgar, "Sea Pictures," would fit nicely this set.
	1:12pm Charlie: ↳ judy from croton @1:07 Hi Judy! not sure! unlike Clementine, who "Hit her foot against a splinter/Fell into the foaming brine"
	1:15pm judy from croton: Yes, an unlikely way to go
	1:17pm judy from croton: She died of a fever. I like The Vapors better, though rarely fatal.
	1:18pm Michael: Morning Charlie.
	1:19pm Charlie: Good morning, Michael! Just checked, yup, still morning here:)
	1:19pm Charlie: Only Dave Brubeck would conceive of this song as a fugue...
	1:20pm Michael: Dit toe.
	1:23pm chresti: 10:23 here
	1:26pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @1:23 mornin'!
	1:33pm David K.: I love it when you are on the radio, even if technically you're not. Always great.
	1:38pm Charlie: Thanks David K! and hello:)
	1:39pm northguineahills: charles in charge!
	1:39pm Roberto: I'm never too busy to be doing nothing with Charlie.
	1:40pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:39 Actually, I was busy taking a nap. But not too busy.
	1:40pm wimpy: That comadrejas song was super cool, I found the old wfmu blog post talking about the band, I’ll have to find a way to download those mp3s cause I can’t find anything else about them
	1:42pm Chris S.: Lots of love for Kirsty MacColl.
	1:44pm Charlie: northguineahills! How are things at the yacht club?
	1:44pm Charlie: hey there Roberto! and wimpy:)
	1:45pm Charlie: ↳ Chris S. @1:42 Love me some Kirsty MacC:)
	1:48pm spodiodi: hello, Charlie. I can do nothing. may I join you? and hello to all
	1:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Charlie @1:44 purty at the moment. i have the homestead to myself for the time being. about time to make brunch...
	1:51pm Nikol: Hello Charlie, from Czech Nikol So nice to to be here )
	1:51pm Charlie: hiya spodi! odi! come in, there's plenty o' nuttin' to go around
	1:52pm Charlie: ↳ Nikol @1:51 Hi Nikol! Nice to see you again:)
	1:57pm Nikol: ↳ Charlie @1:52 Always around and liste priceless to have you around
	1:57pm Dean: Damn, Russell Malone has died. 60yo.
	2:03pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @1:57 sorry to hear that, Dean. not familiar with his work. damn young, though
	2:04pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ spodiodi @1:48 So, last night. I said it was a good day, well today is already turning to garbage. I think I'll hang out here as well. Hi Charlie!
	2:04pm Stork: Hail hail, Choo -Choo Charlie and his Good ‘n Plenty listeners! Playing hooky——and….. loving it.
	2:04pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Six Days" by "DJ Shadow" wasn't this david mittleman's opening theme?
	2:05pm tom tom the pipers son: pretty accurate time estimate for errand...greetings all
	2:06pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Tom Tom. Feeling better?
	2:06pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Six Days" by "DJ Shadow" colonel bagshot did the original version if memory serves...
	2:06pm northguineahills: pete!
	2:07pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:06 been trying a lot of natural redmedies with some progress but just went to pick up a prescription for cpough syrup thanks for asking
	2:08pm Charlie: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:04 Franco, hope it gets better from here. maybe a little 'nothing' will help:)
	2:08pm Charlie: Stork! Thanks for playing hooky so I can play rekkids!
	2:08pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:07 alright the hard stuff!
	2:08pm Charlie: wb tom tom
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @2:08 yes skull and crossbones
	2:09pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:06 it's basically that track, it seems
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @2:08 thx
	2:12pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Charlie @2:08 Ha! I just cleared off the bed, so I can fall down on it. But not quite yet, dammit!
	2:15pm tom tom the pipers son: written by ray davies with a little help from rasa davies apparently
	2:16pm Oxidized: Alaska counterpoint: my aunt went there once in the summer, said "they got mosquitoes up there big enough to fuck a turkey." (Enjoying the show v. much Charlie, ty)
	2:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Oxidized @2:16 a picturesque description
	2:20pm tom tom the pipers son: and snazzy...
	2:21pm wendy del formaggio: Charlie! I was out galivanting and missed most of your show. But now I am ready for nothing. Yay!
	2:22pm Charlie: Thanks for that, Oxidized;)
	2:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Isole Natale" by "Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & T... the trinity, not to be confused w/ the reggae toaster, trinity...
	2:23pm Charlie: ↳ wendy del formaggio @2:21 Wendy! Up to no good, eh?
	2:23pm tom tom the pipers son: that's the second time in three days i've seen/ heard you use galivanting...there may be a quota on rthat...;)
	2:23pm Dean: No wonder I'm enjoying this guitar so much. It's Gary Boyle. Big fan of Isotope.
	2:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ wendy del formaggio @2:21 @ 2:23
	2:26pm tom tom the pipers son: khruangbin has quite the glam stage act
	2:29pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:26 they have a great look
	2:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @2:29 i was surprised by it...
	👻 2:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Mantombazane" by "Soul Brothers" Love this! Hi Charlie, Busy. Bees!
	2:33pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @2:31 hey there, doctorjazz!
	2:35pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Nothing at All" by "Friends of Dean Martinez" huh, they played at the knit! ne'er thought!
	2:36pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:35 the album is on knitting factory records!
	2:36pm Charlie: a friend of mine here in Tucson used to live next door to one of the band mambers, used to sit and listen to them rehearse
	2:40pm northguineahills: @Charlie: Alaska does get hot in the summer, from Fairbanks southwards. Due to the extremely long daylight hours....
	👻 2:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... Don't sleep in the subway, darling
	2:41pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:40 I'd like to take a cruise up in Alaska sometime
	2:41pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @2:40 Yes, both songs ripped that riff from Tchaikovsky!
	2:42pm northguineahills: (just not AZ hot) (for you Charlie): www.youtube.com...
	2:43pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... i just listed this record for a local w/ a lots of reccords...
	2:44pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... I keep asking myself why I recognize this tune... but don't quite.
	2:44pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" Scott Williams in an alternate universe...
	2:44pm Dean: In 1973, one year after this Focus album appeared, Akkerman worked on Peter Banks' first solo album. A lot of shared qualities between the two.
	👻 2:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" 🙂
	2:44pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @2:23 Of course! I have a reputation to uphold.
	2:45pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @2:44 Hi Jeff!
	2:45pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @2:45 Hey Charlie!
	2:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" I used to fall asleep on the subway all the time. My stop was the last one on the A train, and I kept strange hours. I was also on meds that made me sleepy.
	2:46pm Dave Mandl: That's brilliant, Charlie. I've always felt that that Focus riff was a knockoff the Pet Ckark song.
	2:46pm Dave Mandl: *Clark, obvs.
	2:49pm Charlie: ↳ Dave Mandl @2:46 Hi Dave! Yes, both ripped off from a Tchaikovsky piano concerto:)
	2:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:46 i used to sleep on the subway, and always wake at my stop....(middle of Bushwick or williamsburg)
	2:50pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:46 Living at the last stop is convenient for sleeping on the train and not missing your stop. Unless you sleep through to the train going back:) (Or to the train yards)
	2:50pm Ike: Greetings, humans!
	2:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @2:49 It was hard for me NOT to wake up at my stop, it being the last one. Although one time I slept right through the train changing directions! I woke up at Broadway/Dyckman really groggy and confused. haha
	👻 2:51pm doctorjazz: I've fallen asleep and missed my stop... 😒
	2:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @2:50 See my comment below. :-D
	2:53pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex would sleep hard on the train...head back, mouth open, snoring... i loved her but it was a bit embarrassing
	2:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Also, I want to point out that northguineahills and I are having this chat-board conversation from two different floors in the same house. hahaha THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
	2:55pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:53 DON'T GO UPSTAIRS!!!
	2:55pm Charlie: Hi Ike!
	2:56pm Charlie: Good to see you all! until next time...
	2:56pm Ike: I used to occasionally fall asleep on the PATH train but I’d almost always wake up at Newark since it was the last stop… but once I woke up in the train “yards” (just unused extra tracks really) south of Newark, which was vaguely terrifying. Fortunately the train soon went back to Newark to start a new run.
	2:56pm spodiodi: fun show! thanks, Charlie!
	2:56pm tom tom the pipers son: oh it's time... thanks charlie
	👻 2:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks Charlie!
	2:59pm schmutz: wonderful! Thanks, Charlie!! 'til next time!
	2:59pm _Ike_: Thanks, C!
	3:00pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	3:00pm Charlie: Thanks everyone! Drive safely! Tip your waitstaff!
	3:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Charlie!

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from August 25, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
John Cage	Radio Music "Radio Music" by "John Cage"	Fluxus Anthology (various artists)	Anthology Records	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
unknown	Phonetic Alphabet - NATO "Phonetic Alphabet - NATO" by "unknown"	The Conet Project	Irdial	0:00:17 (Pop-up)
The Del-Byzanteens	This Could Be the Last Time	unreleased	Del-Byzanteens	0:03:42 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin	Police and Thieves "Police and Thieves" by "Junior Murvin"	Rockers (soundtrack)	Mango	0:08:42 (Pop-up)
"Blue" Gene Tyranny	Next Time Might Be Your Time	Out of the Blue	Lovely Music	0:12:22 (Pop-up)
Bruce Nauman	World Peace - Bernard	Raw Materials	Tate Modern	0:20:27 (Pop-up)
Peter Gordon	Star Jaws "Star Jaws" by "Peter Gordon"	Star Jaws	Lovely Music	0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Bruce Nauman	World Peace - Mei Mei	Raw Materials	Tate Modern	0:25:57 (Pop-up)
Tafo featuring Nahid Akhtar	Karye Pyar	The Sound Of Wonder! Rare Electronic Pop From The Lollywood Vaults 1973-1980	Finders Keepers	0:27:45 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	Butt-to-Buttresuscitation	Tales of Kidd Funkadelic	Westbound	0:33:04 (Pop-up)
Ambrosia	Nice, Nice, Very Nice "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" by "Ambrosia"	Ambrosia	20th Century	0:36:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:41:55 (Pop-up)
Murmaids	Paper Sun . "Paper Sun ." by "Murmaids"	Girls Go Zonk!! (various artists)	RPM	0:48:43 (Pop-up)
Pram	The Mermaid's Hotel "The Mermaid's Hotel" by "Pram"	The Museum of Imaginary Animals	Merge	0:51:27 (Pop-up)
Mississippi John Hurt	Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me	Last Sessions	Vanguard	0:55:28 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Sea Fever "Sea Fever" by "Peggy Lee"	Sea Shells (reissue with Black Coffee)	MCA	0:58:41 (Pop-up)
Robert Maxwell	Solitude "Solitude" by "Robert Maxwell"	Harp Magic	MGM	1:00:37 (Pop-up)
The Hi-Lo's	Cockles and Mussels (aka Molly Malone)	The Hi-Lo's Happen to Folk Songs	Reprise	1:03:06 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music	She Sells "She Sells" by "Roxy Music"	Siren	Atco	1:06:57 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys	Roller Skating Child "Roller Skating Child" by "Beach Boys"	Love You	Warner Bros.	1:10:27 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	You and Oblivion "You and Oblivion" by "Robyn Hitchcock"	Moss Elixir	Warner Bros.	1:12:44 (Pop-up)
Dave Brubeck Quartet	Somewhere "Somewhere" by "Dave Brubeck Quartet"	Plays Music From Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story	Columbia	1:17:13 (Pop-up)
Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger	dialogue (by Elia Kazan & Budd Schulberg) / music by Leonard Bernstein	On the Watefront (movie soundtrack)		1:21:40 (Pop-up)
Billy Bragg & Wilco	Someday Some Morning Sometime	Mermaid Avenue Volume 2	Elektra	1:26:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Las Comadrejas	Oaxacatelas "Oaxacatelas" by "Las Comadrejas"	We are Ugly, But We Have the Music	Comad	1:29:43 (Pop-up)
Phosphorescent	The Mermaid Parade	Here's to Taking It Easy	Dead Oceans	1:35:59 (Pop-up)
Kirsty MacColl	Days "Days" by "Kirsty MacColl"	Galore	I.R.S.	1:40:02 (Pop-up)
Taj Mahal	Six Days on the Road "Six Days on the Road" by "Taj Mahal"	Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home	Columbia	1:42:50 (Pop-up)
k.d. lang and The Reclines	Three Days	Ultimate Torch and Twang	Sire	1:45:50 (Pop-up)
Gene Pitney	Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa	7-inch single (originally)	Musicor	1:48:55 (Pop-up)
Billygoat	Missing "Missing" by "Billygoat"	Billygoat	Billygoat	1:51:53 (Pop-up)
Dave Dudley	Tulsa Telephone Book "Tulsa Telephone Book" by "Dave Dudley"	Will the Real Dave Dudley Please Sing	Mercury	1:54:24 (Pop-up)
The Guess Who	When Friends Fall Out	American Woman	RCA	1:57:03 (Pop-up)
DJ Shadow	Six Days "Six Days" by "DJ Shadow"	The Private Press	MCA	2:00:02 (Pop-up)
Pete Galub	300 Days in July "300 Days in July" by "Pete Galub"	Candy Tears	Dove & Pigeon	2:04:55 (Pop-up)
Tele Novella	Stephanie Says "Stephanie Says" by "Tele Novella"	I Saved Latin! A Tribute To Wes Anderson (various artists)	American Laundromat	2:09:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Shudder to Think	pH Balanced "pH Balanced" by "Shudder to Think"	High Art (soundtrack)	Velvel	2:12:46 (Pop-up)
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity	Isole Natale	Open	Polydor	2:21:20 (Pop-up)
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges	B-Side "B-Side" by "Khruangbin & Leon Bridges"	Texas Moon	Dead Oceans	2:23:51 (Pop-up)
Soul Brothers	Mantombazane "Mantombazane" by "Soul Brothers"	The Kings and Queens of Township Jive (various artists)	EarthWorks	2:28:14 (Pop-up)
Friends of Dean Martinez	Nothing at All	A Place in the Sun	Knitting Factory	2:31:50 (Pop-up)
Focus	Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)	Focus 3	Sire	2:36:39 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark	Don't Sleep In the Subway	I Love to Sing (box set)	Sequel	2:42:45 (Pop-up)
Akiko Yano	Kanashikute Yarikirenai	Ai Ga Nakucha Ne ("there must be love")	We Want Sounds	2:45:33 (Pop-up)
Zsela	Fire Escape "Fire Escape" by "Zsela"	Big For You	Mexican Summer	2:49:29 (Pop-up)
Smith	I'll Hold Out My Hand "I'll Hold Out My Hand" by "Smith"	A Group Called Smith	Dunhill	2:52:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	2:56:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:02pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, busybodies!
	12:02pm DJ Peter: Nothing doing!
	12:03pm Charlie: Hey Doug! Get busy, y'all!
	12:04pm Charlie: Hi Peter!
	12:04pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Phonetic Alphabet - NATO" by "unknown" Hi Charlie and busy do-nothings!
	12:05pm Jeff Golick: ...and somewhere out there, a sleeper cell awakens. Heyo, Charlie!
	12:05pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie and listeners
	12:06pm Charlie: Howdy chresti, Jeff, tom tom:)
	12:07pm Chris S.: Break a leg, Charlie!
	12:08pm TDK60: Hello Charlie.
	12:08pm Charlie: ↳ Chris S. @12:07 I'm shakin' a leg, Chris!
	12:09pm Chris S.: Shake your tail feather...!
	12:10pm coelacanth∅: 'morning Charlie!
	12:13pm Charlie: heya, coelacanth∅!
	12:13pm Dean: Hey, today is Leonard Bernstein's birthday!
	12:13pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Song: "Next Time Might Be Your Time" by ""Blue" Gene Tyr... I love this song so much.
	12:16pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @12:13 Hi Dean - Good to know! Uncle Lenny yay!
	12:16pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Golick @12:13 Me too:)
	12:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Jeff Golick @12:13 it is utterly guileless, love it
	12:18pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:17 Yes, this
	12:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:18 but i suspect it took guile to be this guileless
	12:20pm Dean: Drove past Mills College just yesterday, recording venue for this "B"GT record.
	12:21pm Chris S.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:19 lol
	12:22pm Dean: "We all talk for ice cream."
	12:23pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "World Peace - Bernard" by "Bruce Nauman" i think i saw/heard this installation at tate modern
	12:23pm tom tom the pipers son: in turbine hall
	12:23pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:23 Cool! I saw an installation of his once, I think at Mass MOCA.
	12:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ah peter gordon after blue gene tyranny....birds flock together all of a feather
	12:26pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:25 What's next, Robert Ashley?
	12:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:23 it was at very low volume, remembering having to move close to sound source...there were many throughout turbine hall
	12:27pm tom tom the pipers son: hey you tell me
	12:28pm Chris S.: DJ Whimsy!
	12:29pm tom tom the pipers son: excellent use of this nauman over radio
	12:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:29 perfect medium...made for it
	12:31pm schmutz: I sure love a medieval monster.
	12:33pm tom tom the pipers son: @ charlie...are you familiar with vito acconci's audio pieces/ psychodramas
	12:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Butt-to-Buttresuscitation" by "Funkadelic" this title ...hahaha!!!
	12:35pm Charlie: ↳ schmutz @12:31 Hi schmutz!
	12:35pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:33 tom tom - no I'm not! would love to hear. although I suspect they would be intense
	12:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:35 i heard a very good one... a kind of effed up family drama a long time ago...i think they're available through electronic arts intermix
	12:49pm Dean: True. I'd also like to hear Traffic cover "We Got the Beat."
	12:50pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @12:49 Yes! very much:)
	12:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Dean @12:49 i think 'vacation' is more in their milieu
	12:53pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:51 how about "This Town"? or "Automatic"
	12:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:53 i don't know those
	12:55pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:54 on their first album, which I quite like
	12:56pm Chris S.: ↳ Dean @12:49 I think you just blew my mind.
	12:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @12:55 oh...
	12:59pm Dean: Traffic and "Vacation" do indeed share affinities.
	1:01pm tom tom the pipers son: unfortch for me...need to be gone for about an hour....
	1:03pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:01 ok well maybe see you later tom tom:)
	1:04pm Dean: This is not the Robert Maxwell who fathered Ghislaine, I'll guess.
	1:07pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @1:04 Not the same Robert Maxwell!
	1:07pm Dean: Whew.
	1:07pm judy from croton: Boy, I remember this one from early childhood. So sad! But what did she die from? Favors? Vapors?
	1:09pm Dean: Elgar, "Sea Pictures," would fit nicely this set.
	1:12pm Charlie: ↳ judy from croton @1:07 Hi Judy! not sure! unlike Clementine, who "Hit her foot against a splinter/Fell into the foaming brine"
	1:15pm judy from croton: Yes, an unlikely way to go
	1:17pm judy from croton: She died of a fever. I like The Vapors better, though rarely fatal.
	1:18pm Michael: Morning Charlie.
	1:19pm Charlie: Good morning, Michael! Just checked, yup, still morning here:)
	1:19pm Charlie: Only Dave Brubeck would conceive of this song as a fugue...
	1:20pm Michael: Dit toe.
	1:23pm chresti: 10:23 here
	1:26pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @1:23 mornin'!
	1:33pm David K.: I love it when you are on the radio, even if technically you're not. Always great.
	1:38pm Charlie: Thanks David K! and hello:)
	1:39pm northguineahills: charles in charge!
	1:39pm Roberto: I'm never too busy to be doing nothing with Charlie.
	1:40pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:39 Actually, I was busy taking a nap. But not too busy.
	1:40pm wimpy: That comadrejas song was super cool, I found the old wfmu blog post talking about the band, I’ll have to find a way to download those mp3s cause I can’t find anything else about them
	1:42pm Chris S.: Lots of love for Kirsty MacColl.
	1:44pm Charlie: northguineahills! How are things at the yacht club?
	1:44pm Charlie: hey there Roberto! and wimpy:)
	1:45pm Charlie: ↳ Chris S. @1:42 Love me some Kirsty MacC:)
	1:48pm spodiodi: hello, Charlie. I can do nothing. may I join you? and hello to all
	1:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Charlie @1:44 purty at the moment. i have the homestead to myself for the time being. about time to make brunch...
	1:51pm Nikol: Hello Charlie, from Czech Nikol So nice to to be here )
	1:51pm Charlie: hiya spodi! odi! come in, there's plenty o' nuttin' to go around
	1:52pm Charlie: ↳ Nikol @1:51 Hi Nikol! Nice to see you again:)
	1:57pm Nikol: ↳ Charlie @1:52 Always around and liste priceless to have you around
	1:57pm Dean: Damn, Russell Malone has died. 60yo.
	2:03pm Charlie: ↳ Dean @1:57 sorry to hear that, Dean. not familiar with his work. damn young, though
	2:04pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ spodiodi @1:48 So, last night. I said it was a good day, well today is already turning to garbage. I think I'll hang out here as well. Hi Charlie!
	2:04pm Stork: Hail hail, Choo -Choo Charlie and his Good ‘n Plenty listeners! Playing hooky——and….. loving it.
	2:04pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Six Days" by "DJ Shadow" wasn't this david mittleman's opening theme?
	2:05pm tom tom the pipers son: pretty accurate time estimate for errand...greetings all
	2:06pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Tom Tom. Feeling better?
	2:06pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Six Days" by "DJ Shadow" colonel bagshot did the original version if memory serves...
	2:06pm northguineahills: pete!
	2:07pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:06 been trying a lot of natural redmedies with some progress but just went to pick up a prescription for cpough syrup thanks for asking
	2:08pm Charlie: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:04 Franco, hope it gets better from here. maybe a little 'nothing' will help:)
	2:08pm Charlie: Stork! Thanks for playing hooky so I can play rekkids!
	2:08pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:07 alright the hard stuff!
	2:08pm Charlie: wb tom tom
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @2:08 yes skull and crossbones
	2:09pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:06 it's basically that track, it seems
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @2:08 thx
	2:12pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Charlie @2:08 Ha! I just cleared off the bed, so I can fall down on it. But not quite yet, dammit!
	2:15pm tom tom the pipers son: written by ray davies with a little help from rasa davies apparently
	2:16pm Oxidized: Alaska counterpoint: my aunt went there once in the summer, said "they got mosquitoes up there big enough to fuck a turkey." (Enjoying the show v. much Charlie, ty)
	2:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Oxidized @2:16 a picturesque description
	2:20pm tom tom the pipers son: and snazzy...
	2:21pm wendy del formaggio: Charlie! I was out galivanting and missed most of your show. But now I am ready for nothing. Yay!
	2:22pm Charlie: Thanks for that, Oxidized;)
	2:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Isole Natale" by "Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & T... the trinity, not to be confused w/ the reggae toaster, trinity...
	2:23pm Charlie: ↳ wendy del formaggio @2:21 Wendy! Up to no good, eh?
	2:23pm tom tom the pipers son: that's the second time in three days i've seen/ heard you use galivanting...there may be a quota on rthat...;)
	2:23pm Dean: No wonder I'm enjoying this guitar so much. It's Gary Boyle. Big fan of Isotope.
	2:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ wendy del formaggio @2:21 @ 2:23
	2:26pm tom tom the pipers son: khruangbin has quite the glam stage act
	2:29pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:26 they have a great look
	2:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @2:29 i was surprised by it...
	👻 2:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Mantombazane" by "Soul Brothers" Love this! Hi Charlie, Busy. Bees!
	2:33pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @2:31 hey there, doctorjazz!
	2:35pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Nothing at All" by "Friends of Dean Martinez" huh, they played at the knit! ne'er thought!
	2:36pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:35 the album is on knitting factory records!
	2:36pm Charlie: a friend of mine here in Tucson used to live next door to one of the band mambers, used to sit and listen to them rehearse
	2:40pm northguineahills: @Charlie: Alaska does get hot in the summer, from Fairbanks southwards. Due to the extremely long daylight hours....
	👻 2:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... Don't sleep in the subway, darling
	2:41pm Charlie: ↳ northguineahills @2:40 I'd like to take a cruise up in Alaska sometime
	2:41pm Charlie: ↳ doctorjazz @2:40 Yes, both songs ripped that riff from Tchaikovsky!
	2:42pm northguineahills: (just not AZ hot) (for you Charlie): www.youtube.com...
	2:43pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... i just listed this record for a local w/ a lots of reccords...
	2:44pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (excerpt)... I keep asking myself why I recognize this tune... but don't quite.
	2:44pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" Scott Williams in an alternate universe...
	2:44pm Dean: In 1973, one year after this Focus album appeared, Akkerman worked on Peter Banks' first solo album. A lot of shared qualities between the two.
	👻 2:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" 🙂
	2:44pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @2:23 Of course! I have a reputation to uphold.
	2:45pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @2:44 Hi Jeff!
	2:45pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @2:45 Hey Charlie!
	2:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Don't Sleep In the Subway" by "Petula Clark" I used to fall asleep on the subway all the time. My stop was the last one on the A train, and I kept strange hours. I was also on meds that made me sleepy.
	2:46pm Dave Mandl: That's brilliant, Charlie. I've always felt that that Focus riff was a knockoff the Pet Ckark song.
	2:46pm Dave Mandl: *Clark, obvs.
	2:49pm Charlie: ↳ Dave Mandl @2:46 Hi Dave! Yes, both ripped off from a Tchaikovsky piano concerto:)
	2:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:46 i used to sleep on the subway, and always wake at my stop....(middle of Bushwick or williamsburg)
	2:50pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:46 Living at the last stop is convenient for sleeping on the train and not missing your stop. Unless you sleep through to the train going back:) (Or to the train yards)
	2:50pm Ike: Greetings, humans!
	2:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @2:49 It was hard for me NOT to wake up at my stop, it being the last one. Although one time I slept right through the train changing directions! I woke up at Broadway/Dyckman really groggy and confused. haha
	👻 2:51pm doctorjazz: I've fallen asleep and missed my stop... 😒
	2:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @2:50 See my comment below. :-D
	2:53pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex would sleep hard on the train...head back, mouth open, snoring... i loved her but it was a bit embarrassing
	2:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Also, I want to point out that northguineahills and I are having this chat-board conversation from two different floors in the same house. hahaha THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
	2:55pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @2:53 DON'T GO UPSTAIRS!!!
	2:55pm Charlie: Hi Ike!
	2:56pm Charlie: Good to see you all! until next time...
	2:56pm Ike: I used to occasionally fall asleep on the PATH train but I’d almost always wake up at Newark since it was the last stop… but once I woke up in the train “yards” (just unused extra tracks really) south of Newark, which was vaguely terrifying. Fortunately the train soon went back to Newark to start a new run.
	2:56pm spodiodi: fun show! thanks, Charlie!
	2:56pm tom tom the pipers son: oh it's time... thanks charlie
	👻 2:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks Charlie!
	2:59pm schmutz: wonderful! Thanks, Charlie!! 'til next time!
	2:59pm _Ike_: Thanks, C!
	3:00pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	3:00pm Charlie: Thanks everyone! Drive safely! Tip your waitstaff!
	3:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Charlie!

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from August 25, 2024

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