WFMU: The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from January 17, 2025

Listener comments!
	8:59pm Rich in Washington: Hi everybody!
	🥁 8:59pm Aitch: Logging in
	8:59pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers! RIP DL!
	🥁 9:01pm Aitch: I need a cup of Joe and some pie
	🥁 9:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Excuse me, I think this radio is broken.
	9:01pm newton: that thing sure breaks down a lot
	9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello rich and everyone...
	🥁 9:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: I have a shirt with the same exact print as that floor. If I can get a long, red, pleated skirt, my next Halloween costume could be "upside-down Twin Peaks dream room."
	9:02pm Rich in Washington: Hi everybody!
	9:02pm Cp304: Hey rich and diggers.. cranking and making dinners
	🥁 9:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: RICH!
	9:02pm Charles: ayyy
	9:03pm newton: hi tom tom
	9:03pm Don-O: Story Time with David!
	🥁 9:04pm WR: whoa whoa whoa, slow down. rarities right at the start!
	9:05pm asheville jon: Hi Rich hello WdF
	9:05pm Oleh from Pittsburgh: Howdy Rich
	9:05pm asheville jon: And hi to whoever else is here, or will be here later and is reading this in thr FUTURE!
	🥁 9:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ asheville jon @9:05 GET RID OF IT! Hi Asheville Jon. :-)
	9:06pm Rich in Washington: Don-O! newton! Charles! Wendy! Cp304! tom tom! Aitch! ultradamno! Rich in Washington! WR! asheville jon! Oleh! Tex Ritter...
	9:06pm ultradamno: I request Bluebob buebob.bandcamp.com...
	9:06pm tom tom the pipers son: hey there newton...just looked at the intriguing sculpture on your page....
	9:09pm Don-O: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:06 Tex Ritter?!....and that's when I woke up....
	9:09pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:09pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:01 wendy!
	9:09pm A2B: Hi Rich, Wendy & Broken Radio Rebels! I was so lucky that I got to take in all 18 eps of "Twin Peaks: The Return". Saw the first 11 on TV, then had to download the rest online. With Lynch, anything was possible. And it was always unexpected.
	🥁 9:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:09 pot8o!
	🥁 9:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:09 I replied to the great comment you made on my future playlist. :-)
	🥁 9:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ A2B @9:09 Hello A2B!
	9:11pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:06 thanks tom tom, that was fun to make - satisfying when you figure something out
	9:11pm Rich in Washington: pot8o! A2B! newton!
	9:13pm newton: Hi Rich!
	9:13pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:10 i'm studying for accounting, in the same ballpark, i suppose? lot of analyzing and archiving data and stuff
	9:15pm ironybread: Between 1955-1960, Donald W. Lynch of the US Forest Service and faimly lived at 2868 Parke Circle Dr. in Boise, Idaho. Sometime during that epoch young David Lynch was out in the front yard playing when a naked woman wandered down the street towards their house. This moment, when our David realized the world was quite different than what he thought it was, and to no small degree made him the artist he later became, took place just 200 feet from the Cassia Street house in which I grew up and I think some of those radioactive weirdness particles remained and made me who I am too.
	🥁 9:15pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:13 I've never thought of it that way, but yes, you're organizing and analyzing information. For me, it's books and other materials. For you, it's financial info. I can dig it!
	9:16pm A2B: I mentioned on Pseu's playlist that I had "Surveilance" on DVD, EP'ed by Lynch, directed by her daughter Jennifer, and starring Bill Pullman (whom, as you know, also starred in "Lost Highway"). The movie also has French Stewart as a police officer, whom I didn't recognize at first until the second time he appeared on-screen.
	9:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:15 That's such a weird story. I need to get this actual audio book.
	9:16pm Don-O: Anybody here went to Bob's Big Boy last night? I saw many pictures to flowers and candles placed at the feet of Bob statue and many inside ordering skaes and coffee.....
	🥁 9:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ ironybread @9:15 !!! I love this story.
	9:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @9:11 looking at it...it's making remains a bit of a mystery.... if i were to compare it to somebody's work , it makes me think of chris burden a bit, ...but not too much.... ; )
	9:16pm ironybread: ↳ Don-O @9:16 I should wander over there, I'm just a half mile away!
	9:16pm A2B: ↳ A2B @9:16 HIS daughter (sorry!)
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Don-O @9:16 thanks for the reminder, Don-O! BTW - we don't have any BBBs in my town. We did, but it closed.
	🥁 9:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Don-O @9:16 <3
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: there he is
	🥁 9:17pm Kat in the chat: Listening now, chatting maybe later
	9:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ironybread @9:15 nice anecdote....
	9:19pm ultradamno: The evil of AI mastodon.social...
	9:20pm Dean: Junior high, Whittier, '72 or thereabouts, I attended East Whittier JH, a Richard Nixon alma mater. A block away, a BBB, where I spent $1.25 for breakfast, including coffee, before first period.
	9:20pm ultradamno: ↳ ironybread @9:15 Inspiring the single scene that made Ebert hate Blue Velvet
	9:20pm Don-O: On The Air is pretty good. David L Lander was in it with an accent. Again, pretty good.
	9:22pm ultradamno: I remember liking On The Air, but it's been a long time, Dumbland seems like a spiritual descendant, in terms of being deliberately aggravating (in an endearing way)
	9:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Don-O @9:20 On The Air really reminds me of the parodies in EC era Mad Magazine. I don't know why, but it does.
	9:23pm ultradamno: Hannah Montana was because of Lynch mastodon.social...
	9:25pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:06 Mountains Falling on the Mulholland Drive soundtrack is from this, by the way (though I believe credited to Lynch & Neff on that)
	🥁 9:25pm Wendy del Formaggio: There are no BBBs anywhere near my house... BUT... the ice cream joint in my town has a Big Boy on its roof, but he's not Big Boy, he's the Dari Joy Boy. I changed my avatar to show y'all. So far, no Lynch altars there...
	9:25pm tom tom the pipers son: i did not know about the meditation side of lynch...
	9:27pm ultradamno: key2eraserhead.com
	9:27pm Feldy: Hey Rich! Digging the show!
	9:27pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:16 Im sure Burden and I had very different , not objectives, but prescriptives,
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Feldy @9:27 Hi Feldy! Glad yer diggin' it!
	9:29pm northguineahills: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:25 frinkiac.com...
	9:29pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:15 unfortunately i'm not a very good accountant... got a 63% on my latest test
	9:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @9:27 u huh....gotcha...
	🥁 9:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @9:29 Yay!
	9:31pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @9:29 you should take another account....
	🥁 9:31pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:25 I like Dari Joy Boy
	🥁 9:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:29 You're in school, right? That's where you LEARN to be an accountant, not where you show up already an accountant.
	9:32pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)" by "Tu... My favorite of the covers of this...(which also include Pixies, Devo and Meteors)
	9:32pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich... is that turntable big boy in your home...?
	9:32pm Rich in Washington: Love how these New Wave bands were doing renditions of the Lady in the Radiator song strictly from memory. The soundtrack album didn't come out until 1980.
	🥁 9:32pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:31 Hi Kat! I love him, too. I also love Dari Joy. They're closed for winter, but they open around my birthday, which is a wonderful gift.
	9:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:32 It is. I have to Big Boys, but that one's an actual 60s coin bank. The other one I have is a less cool looking 2000s version.
	9:33pm ultradamno: ...and no vhs until '82
	9:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:31 Hi Kat! I didn't see you over there!
	9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: saw eraserhead at a midnight show as a teen....it depressed me for days...
	9:34pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:33 plus sell-through VHS wasn't a thing back then, meaning if you wanted to BUY Eraserhead is was like $90 in late 70s bucks.
	9:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:33 very nice... and that you the zig zag turntable thingy was serendipitous
	🥁 9:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Pa... I love hearing David Lynch speak. I also am loving hearing Angelo Badalamenti speak. What a great NJ accent and delivery he had.
	9:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Pa... I remember this bit!
	9:37pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:34 I'm so happy the era of retail VHS prices is dead, dead, dead. Damned laserdiscs from Criterion cost less than VHS back in the bad old days.
	9:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:35 I made those for all my turntables when I was in that weird, fevered rapture over Twin Peaks season 3.
	9:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:37 oh...nice...
	9:38pm tom tom the pipers son: beautiful description of their creative process
	9:39pm Rich in Washington: Yeah, the Angelo/David partnership was amazing. So much great music.
	🥁 9:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Laura Palmer’s Theme" by "Angelo Badelamenti" OMG this track still creeps me the fuck out. I was in high school when Twin Peaks came out and it was a huge part of my relationship with my friends at the time. I was also mentally trying to escape the suburbs, and make sense of it all -- the evil that lurked beneath the scrim of "normal." So, Twin Peaks was perfect.
	9:41pm ultradamno: The other, earlier (or at least released as a film earlier...Eraserhead was in the works so long I guess a lot of it existed at the time) big proto-industrial score, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is coming out for the first time on vinyl, CD and cassette mastodon.social...
	9:43pm tom tom the pipers son: my favorite shot in the twin peaks reboot was pretty much a still image of a cityscape at night of sktscrapers with their lights beaming...somehow it conjured the feeling of total evil....of mass consumption of electricity as a modern/original sin....
	🥁 9:44pm Kat in the chat: I must say he's making a convincing case for meditation
	9:44pm ultradamno: For me it's the hatchling in the girl's mouth twinpeaks.fandom.com...
	🥁 9:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:44 Right?!
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:44 for me, it kind of recontextualizes his work
	🥁 9:45pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: I saw my first photo of DL and first interview in a mag called WET in 1980 or 1981. It enhanced my impression that he was a wonderfully creative and wonderfully strange. A favorite factoid from that interview was that he fed himself packets of sugar in restaurants as a stimulus for his creative thinking
	9:46pm ultradamno: There are Russell Brand guided meditation vids on you tube, if you need a course correction
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:44 yes that was eerie
	🥁 9:47pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Oleh in Pittsburgh @9:45 I remember WET. I wish I had thought to save some copies.
	🥁 9:49pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:47 Me too. I have no idea what happened to them. Maybe lost in moves.
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Adagio For Strings Op. No. 11" by "Samuel Barber/... I have a different release of samuel barber's adagio (not elephant man related)
	9:54pm Rich in Washington: I have Russell Brand's recovery book on CD. It was given to me by my ex. I found it and him irritating even back then. I should do something with it.
	9:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @9:53 You can certainly hear a lot of this piece of music in Badalamenti's Twin Peaks music, especially on Fire Walk With Me.
	9:56pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich ...this tribute is going massively well...
	9:57pm Rich in Washington: thanks tom tom
	9:58pm ultradamno: Kristen Bell talks about Brand's embarrassing tactics at trying to chat her up on the set of Forgetting Sarah Marshall www.independent.co.uk...
	9:58pm Rich in Washington: The Elephant Man was the only David Lynch movie I've watched with my parents, although my dad really loved The Straight Story.
	9:58pm A2B: Something Twin Peaks-related: I'm sure a good number of you out there have seen those St. Jude spots that run on TV on occasion. There's a particular one that runs to infomercial length. One of it's spokesperson "poster boys" was a dusty blonde fellow who appeared to be an adult. Every time I see him, I couldn't help thinking I'd seen him somewhere before. Well, only until recently did it finally occur to me. Remember the tap-dancing midget that shows up occasionally in the Red Room scenes (like in the header photo above)? Yes...IT'S THE SAME GUY! So now I'm left asking myself "Why didn't it occur to me sooner? I should've spotted the resemblance right away!".
	10:00pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:58 i saw it in the theaters w/ my family when i was 4. it creeped me out, but i was also fascinated....
	10:00pm ultradamno: Messer Chups do a great surf cover of the TP theme song, as an ep and it also appears on Mondo Harp
	10:00pm ironybread: DAMMIT DAVID YOU TEASE!!! #TheSentence
	🥁 10:00pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:54 You could cut it up and make art with it.
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:00 and now he never will
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:00 I could play both discs simultaneously on my show during marathon and keep playing it until a certain number of pledges come in.
	🥁 10:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:01 YES! Can you play one forward and one backwards?
	10:03pm Rich in Washington: I love that Alternative Tentacles distributed a version this album in the 80s.
	🥁 10:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:03 Well, there is that one line in "Too Drunk to Fuck"...
	10:06pm Rich in Washington: When I was a teen, it seemed impossible to see this movie, and to make matters worse, I had this great book about cult films called For One Week Only, and the author had a super detailed, exhaustive plot 'synopsis' for each movie, leaving nothing to your imagination. But I still was not prepared for when I actually saw it.
	10:07pm Rich in Washington: i found it in a grimey video store and had to a pay a huge deposit to rent it. I made copies for myself and all my friends.
	10:08pm A2B: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:58 I've seen both. I also remember seeing the televised version of the Broadway adaptation of "The Elephant Man" with David Bowie in the title role. His performance was unforgettably iconic.
	10:08pm ultradamno: Ralph or Subterranean would have been good fits too, I think the bay area vibed with it most, not as much 'weird for the sake of weird' fun killing.
	10:09pm ironybread: "Philadelphia man has first-time dad jitters" - Eraserhead summary, from "Every Movie Plot Summarized Literally In Ten Words Or Less" (E.S. Bastard & Sons, 1987)
	10:09pm Rich in Washington: It was Christmas when I found it, and my siblings and parent wanted to watch it because I was so over the moon at having found it. Everyone was disturbed and disgusted, but couldn't stop watching it. I remember my dad going 'GAAAWWDDD!' when the baby was revealed. Eraserhead will always be a Christmas movie to me.
	10:10pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:09 That author's plot summaries remind me of irritating Wikipedia posters who don't know how to summarize for shit.
	10:11pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:10 Fortunately for us all I made it up ;)
	🥁 10:11pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:09 LOLOLOL Lovely Christmas memory.
	10:12pm ultradamno: I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. - Lynch
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @10:11 I WILL make an Eraserhead Xmas mix someday. I WILL.
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @10:12 LOL
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: We're having chicken tonight!
	10:13pm tom tom the pipers son: just watched a clip of lynch as john ford in the spielberg picture... it took someone with big feet to fill those shoes but he did it
	10:13pm Rich in Washington: I also remember hearing excerpts from this album pop up on late night radio but I didn't know what it was until years later.
	10:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:13 I just learned about that today.
	10:13pm ironybread: "Aliens help apes kill each other, then go to space" - 2001: A Space Odyssey
	10:14pm ironybread: "Guys go back in time, have no idea what happened" - Primer
	10:15pm tom tom the pipers son: apparently he had chicken and broccoli for dinner every night.... i had that tonight...in memoriam...accidentally
	10:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:15 I'm having chicken and broccoli tonight. Look at that.
	10:16pm tom tom the pipers son: haha!
	🥁 10:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ ironybread @10:14 "Giant adolescent boy doesn't find missing bike in Texas." - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
	10:16pm Rich in Washington: I made tandoori wings. turned out pretty good.
	🥁 10:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead excerpt" by "David Lynch & Alan R. Splet" Have not watched Eraserhead in decades. I got it on DVD a couple of years ago but have not watched it yet. Running the film in my mind while listening to the soundtrack is fun.
	10:16pm A2B: ↳ ironybread @10:13 I couldn't help but think that that was intended as a wink at the author of "Chariots Of The Gods", which was topical at the time the film was released.
	10:16pm newton: eraserhead is streaming on Max, classified as Horror
	10:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @10:16 I found the deluxe box set at Goodwill several years go.
	10:17pm Rich in Washington: It's also on Criterion, along with a bunch of other Lynch stuff, as of today.
	10:19pm ironybread: I hope our Weatherman is listening tonite, he so digs this Fats Waller action
	10:19pm davefromtoronto: i need to watch that film again. i was so high the first time i don't remember anything.
	10:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ davefromtoronto @10:19 Ha ha! It'll be like a whole other film then!
	10:20pm ultradamno: It's kind of widely classified as horror (IMDb has it as Fantasy, Horror too, and it pops up on horror lists too), I kind of like that, even though I don't find it scary, just preferring to think of it as that to an art film (same for Suspiria)
	🥁 10:20pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: I first saw EH when I was in my early 20s. I made sure to tell friends about it and was excited to see their reactions. I found parts so incredibly funny ( like the meeting of Mary’s weird family) and the crazy dark juxtaposition with the atmospherics and the baby. What was used to make it? Also the soundtrack which I learned featured some low mixed and reverbed Fats Waller instrumentals. It took me 25 years after seeing the film to finally discover his instrumental organ pieces, thiugh I already had volumes of Walller works. EH was a gift that kept on giving. A major influence in my life.
	10:21pm davefromtoronto: from what i recall it was more surrealism than horror.
	10:21pm A2B: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:16 Looks like you & ironybread are playing a game of movie reviews in the form of Weekly World News headlines.
	10:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Pete's Boogie (played at 33 1/3)" by "Peter Ivers... I might be playing this at the wrong speed but I don't care.
	🥁 10:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ A2B @10:21 Haha! I love Weekly World News. I was a pretty avid reader of it in high school and college. Ed Anger forever!
	10:22pm newton: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:22 no one will know
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ newton @10:22 I know. I probably shouldn't have said anything - my #1 rule for making radio.
	🥁 10:24pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:23 "Honor Thy Errors as Hidden Intentions."
	10:25pm ironybread: Sometimes, and this has gotta be about an hour before dawn, I put a rose up my bum—you know, the business-end sticking out—and I sort of improvise a playful dance in my surroundings. "La-la-la la-la-la-la Eraserhead!" - Bruce McCulloch
	10:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:24 yeah, for sure. Mine is "no one knows you played the wrong thing (etc.) unless you tell them".
	10:26pm davefromtoronto: the "big boy's " hair looks like a cross between a soft serve cone and a poo emoji
	10:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:25 Thanks! I totally forgot about that!
	🥁 10:27pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:25 Totally. I generally only hop on the mic and apologize if I'm having a technical difficulty and it dishonors the artist. Like what happened on Monday with the Candi Staton track because CD2 was misbehaving.
	10:27pm davefromtoronto: booji boy in the house!
	10:28pm newton: hooligrams!
	10:28pm tom tom the pipers son: the "horror" designation made me think of the headline in ny times obit yesterday that described lynch's films as skewed, florid, and nerve wracking which i found dismissive... the "body" of the obit was less so...
	10:31pm ultradamno: I'm not sure about florid, but skewed and nerve wracking seem fair.
	🥁 10:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead" by "Bruce McCulloch" KitH: Also enormously important to teenage Wendo.
	10:33pm A2B: I haven't seen it yet in full, but I felt "Naked Lunch" was David Cronenberg trying his hand at the Lynch formula of moviemaking.
	10:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:31 but it's not really looking at his films on their own terms
	10:37pm ironybread: HI MIKO
	10:38pm A2B: Y'know, in all this memorializing of David Lynch, I was wondering how Dune fans were paying their respects.
	🥁 10:39pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:17 Very nice. I got the 2 disk criterion release.
	10:39pm ultradamno: I think it is (the aforementioned Dumbland is nothing if not an exercise in being nerve wracking), I think he's very deliberate in those qualities. I don't know if I see much Lynchian in Naked Lunch, anymore than an influence on being Cronenbergian generally. Not the way I see Beau Is Afraid as being a full-on attempt by Ari Aster at aping Charlie Kaufman, anyway.
	10:44pm tom tom the pipers son: i don't know dumbland but seems like you're making a point
	🥁 10:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: RICH! This show has been superb. And I'm exhausted and must go to sleep. Tomorrow is the first library event I'm producing, so I wanna make sure I'm all rested up. Thank you!
	10:45pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "July 16, 1945" by "David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)" this was the spookiest moment from season 3....
	🥁 10:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @10:45 Weren't we just talking about this a few hours ago?
	10:46pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 Danke schoen, Wenders! See you on the radio!
	10:46pm ultradamno: ...or On The Air with all the sound effects, Wild At Heart is very frantic and in your face as well. Inland Empire is just exhausting and it's not entirely not be design
	10:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Falling" by "Julee Cruise" I think Arlo played this a couple of shows earlier today.
	10:50pm tom tom the pipers son: yes... yet using those adjectives in a headline seems an appeal to normies and to be sensationalistic
	10:51pm ultradamno: I don't see it. I think they're just demonstrably accurate.
	10:51pm A2B: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 Nighties, Wendy!
	10:51pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 goodnight wendy!
	10:53pm ultradamno: My gosh, I hope when Merzbow goes no one calls him loud.
	10:53pm A2B: ↳ Song: "Llorando (Crying)" by "Rebekah Del Rio" "SILENCIO! No hay banda!"
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: Rebekah Del Rio has appeared in my town a few times, including an appearance in tiny Mississippi Records, but did I go? No. Stupid me.
	10:55pm ultradamno: This was a mike drop moment in that movie, the audition is another
	10:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:51 well that was not my first impression ...
	11:00pm A2B: ↳ Song: "The Voice Of Love Is Crying" by "Colatron" I mentioned to Cp304 back on the Hour Of Crap playlist that I was present on the GYBO mashup artist forum when this came out. (I joined the forum just weeks before the release.)
	11:03pm ultradamno: www.dailymotion.com...
	11:10pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:03 thanks for posting...i don't really get a "lynchian" quality from it....you might know lynch's work better than i do...
	11:11pm A2B: ↳ Song: "The Voice Of Love Is Crying" by "Colatron" Good to know that it's still available: https://www.discogs.com/release/3185647-Various-Mashed-In-Plastic-The-David-Lynch-Mash-Up-Album
	11:14pm ultradamno: It's Lynch, it's absolutely Lynchian... Wonder if this is still happening www.imdb.com...
	11:17pm Cp304: ↳ A2B @11:11 👍
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: greetings Rich and all
	11:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:14 is it from the early 90's? seems like any number of animators could have made it then. very much like grungy nihilist aesthetic that was around then
	11:21pm Laura Panic: Excuse me. But Nic Cage isn't overexposed in the traditional sense....he is paying g a tax debt by taking as much work as possible because he buys some whacky shit. This period if his career (finite, as it started with tax debt and ended when paid) has some fucking cool fucked up movies. Prisoners of Ghostland is a fave.
	11:21pm Laura Panic: Amazing show by the way. Thanks for it
	11:22pm ultradamno: 2002, not long after Tim Burton did Stainboy, which similarly line animation on blinding white.
	11:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Laura Panic @11:21 Thanks, Laura!
	11:23pm Rich in Washington: I'm gonna keep this cool Optigan loop going along with this song as long as I can.
	11:23pm ultradamno: He's been all over the place, but the last couple of years have kind of been a Cagessaince
	🥁 11:23pm WR: I think you can say WE meaning all of us that have gathered around the stream to honour and remember.
	11:24pm A2B: ↳ Cp304 @11:17 I knew you were listening in! 😎
	11:30pm still b/p: A Lynch note just 'fore I drop into bed. I looked this up because it always stuck with me regarding his response to the world. He lived in Philly at some point when he was younger ("It’s the sickest, most corrupt, decaying, fear-ridden city imaginable") and he lived across from a morgue, where the body bags gained his special attention. “The bags had a big zipper, and they’d open the zipper and shoot water into the bags with big hoses. With the zipper open and the bags sagging on the pegs, it looked like these big smiles. I called them the smiling bags of death.” Aaaaand good night.
	11:32pm ultradamno: Which, of course, pops up in TP's pilot twinpeaksreviews.com...
	11:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ still b/p @11:30 Niiiccee! Good night!
	11:34pm still b/p: "Smiling Bags of Death" would, of course, be a...
	11:35pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead Serenade" by "RIAA" huh, i listen to mr fab, and i have some riaa rekkids, didn't not know it was him.
	11:36pm tom tom the pipers son: there was a funeral parlor in the east village that i once saw washing off their bloody gurney in the street
	11:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Sycamore Trees" by "Xiu Xiu" the last time i saw xiu xiu live was 2015 at ps1 (before this came out)
	11:40pm A2B: When I truly developed a deep appreciation for Lynch (pre-TP:TR), it dawned on me how Lynch managed to tap into the most disturbing facets of human nature: idiosyncracies and contrary habits linked to personally traumatic events, skeletons in the closet, the "cloud of unknowing", the uncertainty of what current events will portend for the future, and the dark, hostile intentions of those who continually strive to attain and maintain power or the illusion thereof. Lynch leaves no stone unturned. He digs deep and uncovers what we presumably shouldn't be seeing, in each of us and in each other.
	11:45pm northguineahills: ↳ A2B @11:40 well put.....
	11:47pm pot8o: ↳ northguineahills @11:45 ngh!
	11:49pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:47 papas!
	11:53pm tom tom the pipers son: hey rich ....well done....thanks for assembling this
	11:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:53 You're welcome, tom tom. Thanks!
	11:54pm northguineahills: danks for the tribute, rich!
	11:54pm Cp304: Good stuff Rich. I like the big boy piggy bank on the deck too.. night all
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Cp304 @11:54 Thanks CP!
	11:55pm tom tom the pipers son: good night everyone...
	🥁 11:55pm Kat in the chat: Excellent tribute, Rich.
	🥁 11:56pm WR: Thank you! Rich! Thank you! All! Laters!
	11:56pm ultradamno: media1.popsugar-assets.com...
	11:58pm ironybread: Swell show Rich!
	12:05am A2B: Man, what a night this has been! All made possible by the passing of an iconic & legendary producer. Thanks for this wonderfully executed tribute, Rich! Long live the legacy of Lynch! (May his spirit move on to greater, more wonderous worlds beyond!)
	🥁 12:07am WR: Glad you didn't keep it under your hat.
	12:08am Rich in Washington: Thanks everybody!

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January 17, 2025: RIP David Lynch - "Keep your eye on the donut - not the hole"

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
David Lynch	Frog Moth Story "Frog Moth Story" by "David Lynch"	Cooking Quinoa With David Lynch		2007	I think this was a DVD extra with Inland Empire.
Dumb Numbers / David Lynch	I Have A Radio	I Have A Radio / I Dreamt I Saw Jack Nance Last Night	Joyful Noise Recordings	2020
David Lynch & Kristine McKenna	Excerpt	Room To Dream	Random House Audio	2018
Dean Hurley	Tone/Slow Speed Prison	Anthology Resource Vol. 1	Sacred Bones Records	2017
Dean Hurley	Slow One Chord Blues "Slow One Chord Blues" by "Dean Hurley"	Anthology Resource Vol. 1	Sacred Bones Records	2017
David Lynch/Mark Frost/Tracy Walters	Blinky Watts 1	On The Air	ABC Television	1992	"Blinky Watts is not blind. He suffers from Bozeman’s Simplex. He actually sees 25.62 times as much as we do. If we were to see what Blinky is seeing right now, it would look something like this."

David Lynch	The First Dive "The First Dive" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
Dean Hurley	Eastern European Symphonic Mood No. 1	Anthology Resource Vol. 1	Sacred Bones Records	2017
Nurse With Wound	I've Plumbed This Whole Neighborhood	V/A - Drastic Perversions	Inner-X-Musick	1984
Tuxedomoon	In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)	Pinheads on the Move	Cramboy	1987
David Lynch	Angelo Badalamenti "Angelo Badalamenti" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
Angelo Badalamenti	Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme	YouTube			RIP Angelo Badalamenti - 1937 - 2022
Angelo Badelamenti	Laura Palmer’s Theme	Twin Peaks (Soundtrack From Twin Peaks)	Warner Bros.	1990
David Lynch	Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
G:NOME	The Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity	Polymorphism	Auricular Records	2008
David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)	"gotta light?"	Twin Peaks Season 3 - Episode 8	Showtime	2017
David Lynch	Music "Music" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
Samuel Barber/John Morris	Adagio For Strings Op. No. 11	The Elephant Man OST	20th Century Fox Records	1980
David Lynch	Eraserhead "Eraserhead" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
David Lynch & Alan R. Splet	Eraserhead excerpt	Eraserhead OST	IRS	1982
Peter Ivers & David Lynch	Pete's Boogie (played at 33 1/3)	In Heaven 7"	Sacred Bones	2012	Previously unheard Peter Ivers piece that was included as a 7 inch single with the 2012 reissue of the soundtrack.
Devo	In Heaven (Everything Is Fine)	Live at the Palladium, Dallas, Texas	Bootleg	1979
Bruce McCulloch	Eraserhead "Eraserhead" by "Bruce McCulloch"	Shame-based Man	Atlantic	1995
Music behind DJ:	Pete's Boogie (played at the right speed, and forward)
David Lynch	Dreams "Dreams" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006
David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)	July 16, 1945	Twin Peaks Season 3 - Episode 8	Showtime	2017	Warning: may contain elements of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki, in a facility that processes Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki
Julee Cruise	Falling "Falling" by "Julee Cruise"	Floating Into The Night	Warner Records Inc.	1989	RIP Julee Ann Cruise - 1956 - 2022 Produced by David Lynch with Angelo Badalamenti
Rebekah Del Rio	Llorando (Crying)	David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. (Music From The Motion Picture)	Milan	2001
Colatron	The Voice Of Love Is Crying	V/A - Mashed In Plastic: The David Lynch Mashup Album	1086 Productions	2009
Koko Taylor	Up In Flames "Up In Flames" by "Koko Taylor"	Wild at Heart OST	Polydor	1990	Lyrics By – David Lynch Music By – Angelo Badalamenti
Bluebob	Factory Interlude/Blue Horse	BlueBOB	Soulitude Records	2002	David Lynch with John Neff
Pixies	In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)	Pixies EP	SpinART	2002
David Lynch/Mark Frost/Tracy Walters	Blinky Watts 2	On The Air	ABC Television	1992	"Blinky Watts is not blind. He suffers from Bozeman’s Simplex. He actually sees 25.62 times as much as we do. If we were to see what Blinky is seeing right now, it would look something like this."
Music behind DJ: David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)	The Lighthouse scene	Twin Peaks Season 3 - Episode 8
David Lynch	Crazy Clown Time "Crazy Clown Time" by "David Lynch"	Crazy Clown Time	David Lynch Music Company	2011	David Lynch with Dean Hurley
RIAA	Eraserhead Serenade "Eraserhead Serenade" by "RIAA"	V/A - Mashed In Plastic: The David Lynch Mashup Album	1086 Productions	2009	RIAA is Mr. Fab, who now has a brand new show on Sheena's Jungle Room.
Angelo Badalamenti With The City Of Prague Philharmonic	The Diner	David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. (Music From The Motion Picture)	Milan	2001
Xiu Xiu	Sycamore Trees "Sycamore Trees" by "Xiu Xiu"	Plays The Music of Twin Peaks	Polyvinyl Records	2016
David Lynch & Alan R. Splet	Eraserhead excerpt	Eraserhead OST	IRS	1982
David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)	Radio station scene	Twin Peaks Season 3 - Episode 8	Showtime	2017	This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within. This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within. This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within. This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within. This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
David Lynch & Alan R. Splet	In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)	Eraserhead OST	IRS	1982
David Lynch	Cream Corn "Cream Corn" by "David Lynch"	Fire Walk WIth Me
Xiu Xiu	Dance of the Dream Man "Dance of the Dream Man" by "Xiu Xiu"	Plays The Music of Twin Peaks	Polyvinyl Records	2016
Wax Audio	Blue Rigby "Blue Rigby" by "Wax Audio"	V/A - Mashed In Plastic: The David Lynch Mashup Album	1086 Productions	2009
Dean Hurley	Low Harmonic Fanfare "Low Harmonic Fanfare" by "Dean Hurley"	Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond	Sacred	2021
David Lynch	The Red Room "The Red Room" by "David Lynch"	Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity	Penguin Audio	2006

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Listener comments!
	8:59pm Rich in Washington: Hi everybody!
	🥁 8:59pm Aitch: Logging in
	8:59pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers! RIP DL!
	🥁 9:01pm Aitch: I need a cup of Joe and some pie
	🥁 9:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Excuse me, I think this radio is broken.
	9:01pm newton: that thing sure breaks down a lot
	9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello rich and everyone...
	🥁 9:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: I have a shirt with the same exact print as that floor. If I can get a long, red, pleated skirt, my next Halloween costume could be "upside-down Twin Peaks dream room."
	9:02pm Rich in Washington: Hi everybody!
	9:02pm Cp304: Hey rich and diggers.. cranking and making dinners
	🥁 9:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: RICH!
	9:02pm Charles: ayyy
	9:03pm newton: hi tom tom
	9:03pm Don-O: Story Time with David!
	🥁 9:04pm WR: whoa whoa whoa, slow down. rarities right at the start!
	9:05pm asheville jon: Hi Rich hello WdF
	9:05pm Oleh from Pittsburgh: Howdy Rich
	9:05pm asheville jon: And hi to whoever else is here, or will be here later and is reading this in thr FUTURE!
	🥁 9:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ asheville jon @9:05 GET RID OF IT! Hi Asheville Jon. :-)
	9:06pm Rich in Washington: Don-O! newton! Charles! Wendy! Cp304! tom tom! Aitch! ultradamno! Rich in Washington! WR! asheville jon! Oleh! Tex Ritter...
	9:06pm ultradamno: I request Bluebob buebob.bandcamp.com...
	9:06pm tom tom the pipers son: hey there newton...just looked at the intriguing sculpture on your page....
	9:09pm Don-O: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:06 Tex Ritter?!....and that's when I woke up....
	9:09pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:09pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:01 wendy!
	9:09pm A2B: Hi Rich, Wendy & Broken Radio Rebels! I was so lucky that I got to take in all 18 eps of "Twin Peaks: The Return". Saw the first 11 on TV, then had to download the rest online. With Lynch, anything was possible. And it was always unexpected.
	🥁 9:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:09 pot8o!
	🥁 9:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:09 I replied to the great comment you made on my future playlist. :-)
	🥁 9:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ A2B @9:09 Hello A2B!
	9:11pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:06 thanks tom tom, that was fun to make - satisfying when you figure something out
	9:11pm Rich in Washington: pot8o! A2B! newton!
	9:13pm newton: Hi Rich!
	9:13pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:10 i'm studying for accounting, in the same ballpark, i suppose? lot of analyzing and archiving data and stuff
	9:15pm ironybread: Between 1955-1960, Donald W. Lynch of the US Forest Service and faimly lived at 2868 Parke Circle Dr. in Boise, Idaho. Sometime during that epoch young David Lynch was out in the front yard playing when a naked woman wandered down the street towards their house. This moment, when our David realized the world was quite different than what he thought it was, and to no small degree made him the artist he later became, took place just 200 feet from the Cassia Street house in which I grew up and I think some of those radioactive weirdness particles remained and made me who I am too.
	🥁 9:15pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:13 I've never thought of it that way, but yes, you're organizing and analyzing information. For me, it's books and other materials. For you, it's financial info. I can dig it!
	9:16pm A2B: I mentioned on Pseu's playlist that I had "Surveilance" on DVD, EP'ed by Lynch, directed by her daughter Jennifer, and starring Bill Pullman (whom, as you know, also starred in "Lost Highway"). The movie also has French Stewart as a police officer, whom I didn't recognize at first until the second time he appeared on-screen.
	9:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:15 That's such a weird story. I need to get this actual audio book.
	9:16pm Don-O: Anybody here went to Bob's Big Boy last night? I saw many pictures to flowers and candles placed at the feet of Bob statue and many inside ordering skaes and coffee.....
	🥁 9:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ ironybread @9:15 !!! I love this story.
	9:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @9:11 looking at it...it's making remains a bit of a mystery.... if i were to compare it to somebody's work , it makes me think of chris burden a bit, ...but not too much.... ; )
	9:16pm ironybread: ↳ Don-O @9:16 I should wander over there, I'm just a half mile away!
	9:16pm A2B: ↳ A2B @9:16 HIS daughter (sorry!)
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Don-O @9:16 thanks for the reminder, Don-O! BTW - we don't have any BBBs in my town. We did, but it closed.
	🥁 9:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Don-O @9:16 <3
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: there he is
	🥁 9:17pm Kat in the chat: Listening now, chatting maybe later
	9:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ironybread @9:15 nice anecdote....
	9:19pm ultradamno: The evil of AI mastodon.social...
	9:20pm Dean: Junior high, Whittier, '72 or thereabouts, I attended East Whittier JH, a Richard Nixon alma mater. A block away, a BBB, where I spent $1.25 for breakfast, including coffee, before first period.
	9:20pm ultradamno: ↳ ironybread @9:15 Inspiring the single scene that made Ebert hate Blue Velvet
	9:20pm Don-O: On The Air is pretty good. David L Lander was in it with an accent. Again, pretty good.
	9:22pm ultradamno: I remember liking On The Air, but it's been a long time, Dumbland seems like a spiritual descendant, in terms of being deliberately aggravating (in an endearing way)
	9:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Don-O @9:20 On The Air really reminds me of the parodies in EC era Mad Magazine. I don't know why, but it does.
	9:23pm ultradamno: Hannah Montana was because of Lynch mastodon.social...
	9:25pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:06 Mountains Falling on the Mulholland Drive soundtrack is from this, by the way (though I believe credited to Lynch & Neff on that)
	🥁 9:25pm Wendy del Formaggio: There are no BBBs anywhere near my house... BUT... the ice cream joint in my town has a Big Boy on its roof, but he's not Big Boy, he's the Dari Joy Boy. I changed my avatar to show y'all. So far, no Lynch altars there...
	9:25pm tom tom the pipers son: i did not know about the meditation side of lynch...
	9:27pm ultradamno: key2eraserhead.com
	9:27pm Feldy: Hey Rich! Digging the show!
	9:27pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:16 Im sure Burden and I had very different , not objectives, but prescriptives,
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Feldy @9:27 Hi Feldy! Glad yer diggin' it!
	9:29pm northguineahills: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:25 frinkiac.com...
	9:29pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:15 unfortunately i'm not a very good accountant... got a 63% on my latest test
	9:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @9:27 u huh....gotcha...
	🥁 9:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @9:29 Yay!
	9:31pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @9:29 you should take another account....
	🥁 9:31pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:25 I like Dari Joy Boy
	🥁 9:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ pot8o @9:29 You're in school, right? That's where you LEARN to be an accountant, not where you show up already an accountant.
	9:32pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)" by "Tu... My favorite of the covers of this...(which also include Pixies, Devo and Meteors)
	9:32pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich... is that turntable big boy in your home...?
	9:32pm Rich in Washington: Love how these New Wave bands were doing renditions of the Lady in the Radiator song strictly from memory. The soundtrack album didn't come out until 1980.
	🥁 9:32pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:31 Hi Kat! I love him, too. I also love Dari Joy. They're closed for winter, but they open around my birthday, which is a wonderful gift.
	9:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:32 It is. I have to Big Boys, but that one's an actual 60s coin bank. The other one I have is a less cool looking 2000s version.
	9:33pm ultradamno: ...and no vhs until '82
	9:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:31 Hi Kat! I didn't see you over there!
	9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: saw eraserhead at a midnight show as a teen....it depressed me for days...
	9:34pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:33 plus sell-through VHS wasn't a thing back then, meaning if you wanted to BUY Eraserhead is was like $90 in late 70s bucks.
	9:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:33 very nice... and that you the zig zag turntable thingy was serendipitous
	🥁 9:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Pa... I love hearing David Lynch speak. I also am loving hearing Angelo Badalamenti speak. What a great NJ accent and delivery he had.
	9:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Pa... I remember this bit!
	9:37pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:34 I'm so happy the era of retail VHS prices is dead, dead, dead. Damned laserdiscs from Criterion cost less than VHS back in the bad old days.
	9:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:35 I made those for all my turntables when I was in that weird, fevered rapture over Twin Peaks season 3.
	9:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:37 oh...nice...
	9:38pm tom tom the pipers son: beautiful description of their creative process
	9:39pm Rich in Washington: Yeah, the Angelo/David partnership was amazing. So much great music.
	🥁 9:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Laura Palmer’s Theme" by "Angelo Badelamenti" OMG this track still creeps me the fuck out. I was in high school when Twin Peaks came out and it was a huge part of my relationship with my friends at the time. I was also mentally trying to escape the suburbs, and make sense of it all -- the evil that lurked beneath the scrim of "normal." So, Twin Peaks was perfect.
	9:41pm ultradamno: The other, earlier (or at least released as a film earlier...Eraserhead was in the works so long I guess a lot of it existed at the time) big proto-industrial score, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is coming out for the first time on vinyl, CD and cassette mastodon.social...
	9:43pm tom tom the pipers son: my favorite shot in the twin peaks reboot was pretty much a still image of a cityscape at night of sktscrapers with their lights beaming...somehow it conjured the feeling of total evil....of mass consumption of electricity as a modern/original sin....
	🥁 9:44pm Kat in the chat: I must say he's making a convincing case for meditation
	9:44pm ultradamno: For me it's the hatchling in the girl's mouth twinpeaks.fandom.com...
	🥁 9:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:44 Right?!
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:44 for me, it kind of recontextualizes his work
	🥁 9:45pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: I saw my first photo of DL and first interview in a mag called WET in 1980 or 1981. It enhanced my impression that he was a wonderfully creative and wonderfully strange. A favorite factoid from that interview was that he fed himself packets of sugar in restaurants as a stimulus for his creative thinking
	9:46pm ultradamno: There are Russell Brand guided meditation vids on you tube, if you need a course correction
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:44 yes that was eerie
	🥁 9:47pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Oleh in Pittsburgh @9:45 I remember WET. I wish I had thought to save some copies.
	🥁 9:49pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:47 Me too. I have no idea what happened to them. Maybe lost in moves.
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Adagio For Strings Op. No. 11" by "Samuel Barber/... I have a different release of samuel barber's adagio (not elephant man related)
	9:54pm Rich in Washington: I have Russell Brand's recovery book on CD. It was given to me by my ex. I found it and him irritating even back then. I should do something with it.
	9:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @9:53 You can certainly hear a lot of this piece of music in Badalamenti's Twin Peaks music, especially on Fire Walk With Me.
	9:56pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich ...this tribute is going massively well...
	9:57pm Rich in Washington: thanks tom tom
	9:58pm ultradamno: Kristen Bell talks about Brand's embarrassing tactics at trying to chat her up on the set of Forgetting Sarah Marshall www.independent.co.uk...
	9:58pm Rich in Washington: The Elephant Man was the only David Lynch movie I've watched with my parents, although my dad really loved The Straight Story.
	9:58pm A2B: Something Twin Peaks-related: I'm sure a good number of you out there have seen those St. Jude spots that run on TV on occasion. There's a particular one that runs to infomercial length. One of it's spokesperson "poster boys" was a dusty blonde fellow who appeared to be an adult. Every time I see him, I couldn't help thinking I'd seen him somewhere before. Well, only until recently did it finally occur to me. Remember the tap-dancing midget that shows up occasionally in the Red Room scenes (like in the header photo above)? Yes...IT'S THE SAME GUY! So now I'm left asking myself "Why didn't it occur to me sooner? I should've spotted the resemblance right away!".
	10:00pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:58 i saw it in the theaters w/ my family when i was 4. it creeped me out, but i was also fascinated....
	10:00pm ultradamno: Messer Chups do a great surf cover of the TP theme song, as an ep and it also appears on Mondo Harp
	10:00pm ironybread: DAMMIT DAVID YOU TEASE!!! #TheSentence
	🥁 10:00pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:54 You could cut it up and make art with it.
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:00 and now he never will
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:00 I could play both discs simultaneously on my show during marathon and keep playing it until a certain number of pledges come in.
	🥁 10:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:01 YES! Can you play one forward and one backwards?
	10:03pm Rich in Washington: I love that Alternative Tentacles distributed a version this album in the 80s.
	🥁 10:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:03 Well, there is that one line in "Too Drunk to Fuck"...
	10:06pm Rich in Washington: When I was a teen, it seemed impossible to see this movie, and to make matters worse, I had this great book about cult films called For One Week Only, and the author had a super detailed, exhaustive plot 'synopsis' for each movie, leaving nothing to your imagination. But I still was not prepared for when I actually saw it.
	10:07pm Rich in Washington: i found it in a grimey video store and had to a pay a huge deposit to rent it. I made copies for myself and all my friends.
	10:08pm A2B: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:58 I've seen both. I also remember seeing the televised version of the Broadway adaptation of "The Elephant Man" with David Bowie in the title role. His performance was unforgettably iconic.
	10:08pm ultradamno: Ralph or Subterranean would have been good fits too, I think the bay area vibed with it most, not as much 'weird for the sake of weird' fun killing.
	10:09pm ironybread: "Philadelphia man has first-time dad jitters" - Eraserhead summary, from "Every Movie Plot Summarized Literally In Ten Words Or Less" (E.S. Bastard & Sons, 1987)
	10:09pm Rich in Washington: It was Christmas when I found it, and my siblings and parent wanted to watch it because I was so over the moon at having found it. Everyone was disturbed and disgusted, but couldn't stop watching it. I remember my dad going 'GAAAWWDDD!' when the baby was revealed. Eraserhead will always be a Christmas movie to me.
	10:10pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:09 That author's plot summaries remind me of irritating Wikipedia posters who don't know how to summarize for shit.
	10:11pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:10 Fortunately for us all I made it up ;)
	🥁 10:11pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:09 LOLOLOL Lovely Christmas memory.
	10:12pm ultradamno: I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. - Lynch
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @10:11 I WILL make an Eraserhead Xmas mix someday. I WILL.
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @10:12 LOL
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: We're having chicken tonight!
	10:13pm tom tom the pipers son: just watched a clip of lynch as john ford in the spielberg picture... it took someone with big feet to fill those shoes but he did it
	10:13pm Rich in Washington: I also remember hearing excerpts from this album pop up on late night radio but I didn't know what it was until years later.
	10:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:13 I just learned about that today.
	10:13pm ironybread: "Aliens help apes kill each other, then go to space" - 2001: A Space Odyssey
	10:14pm ironybread: "Guys go back in time, have no idea what happened" - Primer
	10:15pm tom tom the pipers son: apparently he had chicken and broccoli for dinner every night.... i had that tonight...in memoriam...accidentally
	10:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:15 I'm having chicken and broccoli tonight. Look at that.
	10:16pm tom tom the pipers son: haha!
	🥁 10:16pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ ironybread @10:14 "Giant adolescent boy doesn't find missing bike in Texas." - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
	10:16pm Rich in Washington: I made tandoori wings. turned out pretty good.
	🥁 10:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead excerpt" by "David Lynch & Alan R. Splet" Have not watched Eraserhead in decades. I got it on DVD a couple of years ago but have not watched it yet. Running the film in my mind while listening to the soundtrack is fun.
	10:16pm A2B: ↳ ironybread @10:13 I couldn't help but think that that was intended as a wink at the author of "Chariots Of The Gods", which was topical at the time the film was released.
	10:16pm newton: eraserhead is streaming on Max, classified as Horror
	10:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @10:16 I found the deluxe box set at Goodwill several years go.
	10:17pm Rich in Washington: It's also on Criterion, along with a bunch of other Lynch stuff, as of today.
	10:19pm ironybread: I hope our Weatherman is listening tonite, he so digs this Fats Waller action
	10:19pm davefromtoronto: i need to watch that film again. i was so high the first time i don't remember anything.
	10:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ davefromtoronto @10:19 Ha ha! It'll be like a whole other film then!
	10:20pm ultradamno: It's kind of widely classified as horror (IMDb has it as Fantasy, Horror too, and it pops up on horror lists too), I kind of like that, even though I don't find it scary, just preferring to think of it as that to an art film (same for Suspiria)
	🥁 10:20pm Oleh in Pittsburgh: I first saw EH when I was in my early 20s. I made sure to tell friends about it and was excited to see their reactions. I found parts so incredibly funny ( like the meeting of Mary’s weird family) and the crazy dark juxtaposition with the atmospherics and the baby. What was used to make it? Also the soundtrack which I learned featured some low mixed and reverbed Fats Waller instrumentals. It took me 25 years after seeing the film to finally discover his instrumental organ pieces, thiugh I already had volumes of Walller works. EH was a gift that kept on giving. A major influence in my life.
	10:21pm davefromtoronto: from what i recall it was more surrealism than horror.
	10:21pm A2B: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:16 Looks like you & ironybread are playing a game of movie reviews in the form of Weekly World News headlines.
	10:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Pete's Boogie (played at 33 1/3)" by "Peter Ivers... I might be playing this at the wrong speed but I don't care.
	🥁 10:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ A2B @10:21 Haha! I love Weekly World News. I was a pretty avid reader of it in high school and college. Ed Anger forever!
	10:22pm newton: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:22 no one will know
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ newton @10:22 I know. I probably shouldn't have said anything - my #1 rule for making radio.
	🥁 10:24pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:23 "Honor Thy Errors as Hidden Intentions."
	10:25pm ironybread: Sometimes, and this has gotta be about an hour before dawn, I put a rose up my bum—you know, the business-end sticking out—and I sort of improvise a playful dance in my surroundings. "La-la-la la-la-la-la Eraserhead!" - Bruce McCulloch
	10:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:24 yeah, for sure. Mine is "no one knows you played the wrong thing (etc.) unless you tell them".
	10:26pm davefromtoronto: the "big boy's " hair looks like a cross between a soft serve cone and a poo emoji
	10:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:25 Thanks! I totally forgot about that!
	🥁 10:27pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:25 Totally. I generally only hop on the mic and apologize if I'm having a technical difficulty and it dishonors the artist. Like what happened on Monday with the Candi Staton track because CD2 was misbehaving.
	10:27pm davefromtoronto: booji boy in the house!
	10:28pm newton: hooligrams!
	10:28pm tom tom the pipers son: the "horror" designation made me think of the headline in ny times obit yesterday that described lynch's films as skewed, florid, and nerve wracking which i found dismissive... the "body" of the obit was less so...
	10:31pm ultradamno: I'm not sure about florid, but skewed and nerve wracking seem fair.
	🥁 10:31pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead" by "Bruce McCulloch" KitH: Also enormously important to teenage Wendo.
	10:33pm A2B: I haven't seen it yet in full, but I felt "Naked Lunch" was David Cronenberg trying his hand at the Lynch formula of moviemaking.
	10:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:31 but it's not really looking at his films on their own terms
	10:37pm ironybread: HI MIKO
	10:38pm A2B: Y'know, in all this memorializing of David Lynch, I was wondering how Dune fans were paying their respects.
	🥁 10:39pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:17 Very nice. I got the 2 disk criterion release.
	10:39pm ultradamno: I think it is (the aforementioned Dumbland is nothing if not an exercise in being nerve wracking), I think he's very deliberate in those qualities. I don't know if I see much Lynchian in Naked Lunch, anymore than an influence on being Cronenbergian generally. Not the way I see Beau Is Afraid as being a full-on attempt by Ari Aster at aping Charlie Kaufman, anyway.
	10:44pm tom tom the pipers son: i don't know dumbland but seems like you're making a point
	🥁 10:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: RICH! This show has been superb. And I'm exhausted and must go to sleep. Tomorrow is the first library event I'm producing, so I wanna make sure I'm all rested up. Thank you!
	10:45pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "July 16, 1945" by "David Lynch & Mark Frost (etc.)" this was the spookiest moment from season 3....
	🥁 10:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ northguineahills @10:45 Weren't we just talking about this a few hours ago?
	10:46pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 Danke schoen, Wenders! See you on the radio!
	10:46pm ultradamno: ...or On The Air with all the sound effects, Wild At Heart is very frantic and in your face as well. Inland Empire is just exhausting and it's not entirely not be design
	10:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Falling" by "Julee Cruise" I think Arlo played this a couple of shows earlier today.
	10:50pm tom tom the pipers son: yes... yet using those adjectives in a headline seems an appeal to normies and to be sensationalistic
	10:51pm ultradamno: I don't see it. I think they're just demonstrably accurate.
	10:51pm A2B: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 Nighties, Wendy!
	10:51pm pot8o: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @10:45 goodnight wendy!
	10:53pm ultradamno: My gosh, I hope when Merzbow goes no one calls him loud.
	10:53pm A2B: ↳ Song: "Llorando (Crying)" by "Rebekah Del Rio" "SILENCIO! No hay banda!"
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: Rebekah Del Rio has appeared in my town a few times, including an appearance in tiny Mississippi Records, but did I go? No. Stupid me.
	10:55pm ultradamno: This was a mike drop moment in that movie, the audition is another
	10:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:51 well that was not my first impression ...
	11:00pm A2B: ↳ Song: "The Voice Of Love Is Crying" by "Colatron" I mentioned to Cp304 back on the Hour Of Crap playlist that I was present on the GYBO mashup artist forum when this came out. (I joined the forum just weeks before the release.)
	11:03pm ultradamno: www.dailymotion.com...
	11:10pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:03 thanks for posting...i don't really get a "lynchian" quality from it....you might know lynch's work better than i do...
	11:11pm A2B: ↳ Song: "The Voice Of Love Is Crying" by "Colatron" Good to know that it's still available: https://www.discogs.com/release/3185647-Various-Mashed-In-Plastic-The-David-Lynch-Mash-Up-Album
	11:14pm ultradamno: It's Lynch, it's absolutely Lynchian... Wonder if this is still happening www.imdb.com...
	11:17pm Cp304: ↳ A2B @11:11 👍
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: greetings Rich and all
	11:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:14 is it from the early 90's? seems like any number of animators could have made it then. very much like grungy nihilist aesthetic that was around then
	11:21pm Laura Panic: Excuse me. But Nic Cage isn't overexposed in the traditional sense....he is paying g a tax debt by taking as much work as possible because he buys some whacky shit. This period if his career (finite, as it started with tax debt and ended when paid) has some fucking cool fucked up movies. Prisoners of Ghostland is a fave.
	11:21pm Laura Panic: Amazing show by the way. Thanks for it
	11:22pm ultradamno: 2002, not long after Tim Burton did Stainboy, which similarly line animation on blinding white.
	11:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Laura Panic @11:21 Thanks, Laura!
	11:23pm Rich in Washington: I'm gonna keep this cool Optigan loop going along with this song as long as I can.
	11:23pm ultradamno: He's been all over the place, but the last couple of years have kind of been a Cagessaince
	🥁 11:23pm WR: I think you can say WE meaning all of us that have gathered around the stream to honour and remember.
	11:24pm A2B: ↳ Cp304 @11:17 I knew you were listening in! 😎
	11:30pm still b/p: A Lynch note just 'fore I drop into bed. I looked this up because it always stuck with me regarding his response to the world. He lived in Philly at some point when he was younger ("It’s the sickest, most corrupt, decaying, fear-ridden city imaginable") and he lived across from a morgue, where the body bags gained his special attention. “The bags had a big zipper, and they’d open the zipper and shoot water into the bags with big hoses. With the zipper open and the bags sagging on the pegs, it looked like these big smiles. I called them the smiling bags of death.” Aaaaand good night.
	11:32pm ultradamno: Which, of course, pops up in TP's pilot twinpeaksreviews.com...
	11:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ still b/p @11:30 Niiiccee! Good night!
	11:34pm still b/p: "Smiling Bags of Death" would, of course, be a...
	11:35pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Eraserhead Serenade" by "RIAA" huh, i listen to mr fab, and i have some riaa rekkids, didn't not know it was him.
	11:36pm tom tom the pipers son: there was a funeral parlor in the east village that i once saw washing off their bloody gurney in the street
	11:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Sycamore Trees" by "Xiu Xiu" the last time i saw xiu xiu live was 2015 at ps1 (before this came out)
	11:40pm A2B: When I truly developed a deep appreciation for Lynch (pre-TP:TR), it dawned on me how Lynch managed to tap into the most disturbing facets of human nature: idiosyncracies and contrary habits linked to personally traumatic events, skeletons in the closet, the "cloud of unknowing", the uncertainty of what current events will portend for the future, and the dark, hostile intentions of those who continually strive to attain and maintain power or the illusion thereof. Lynch leaves no stone unturned. He digs deep and uncovers what we presumably shouldn't be seeing, in each of us and in each other.
	11:45pm northguineahills: ↳ A2B @11:40 well put.....
	11:47pm pot8o: ↳ northguineahills @11:45 ngh!
	11:49pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:47 papas!
	11:53pm tom tom the pipers son: hey rich ....well done....thanks for assembling this
	11:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:53 You're welcome, tom tom. Thanks!
	11:54pm northguineahills: danks for the tribute, rich!
	11:54pm Cp304: Good stuff Rich. I like the big boy piggy bank on the deck too.. night all
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Cp304 @11:54 Thanks CP!
	11:55pm tom tom the pipers son: good night everyone...
	🥁 11:55pm Kat in the chat: Excellent tribute, Rich.
	🥁 11:56pm WR: Thank you! Rich! Thank you! All! Laters!
	11:56pm ultradamno: media1.popsugar-assets.com...
	11:58pm ironybread: Swell show Rich!
	12:05am A2B: Man, what a night this has been! All made possible by the passing of an iconic & legendary producer. Thanks for this wonderfully executed tribute, Rich! Long live the legacy of Lynch! (May his spirit move on to greater, more wonderous worlds beyond!)
	🥁 12:07am WR: Glad you didn't keep it under your hat.
	12:08am Rich in Washington: Thanks everybody!

The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from January 17, 2025

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