WFMU: Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from January 26, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎙 9:56pm Scott_Oz: G'day Jonathan & Blurred Brains! I'm sending a fist to the face of fascism from abroad mate! 🌏🌞💥✊👊😎🤙🍻
	10:02pm Mark T: Welcome Scott. We all need to fight fascism.
	🎙 10:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Mark T @10:02 It sadly seems an unending fight, how short is Human memory, how feeble a mind.
	10:04pm brendan: 🖤 welcome
	10:04pm DJ MF: Just coming off Drone not Drones 10th incarnation this weekend in Mpls. Absolutely mesmerizing and wonderful. Highly recommended to this listening audience. Save the date for next January in Mpls. Guaranteed to be wonderful, and cold!
	10:07pm DJ MF: 28 hours of highly varied drone. I was there for 7 hours and wished I had been there for it all.
	10:10pm socoartdecolime: ↳ DJ MF @10:07 I have always been curious about events like this. Are they largely meditative or do people in the crowd tend to talk? Are there places to nap?
	🎙 10:10pm Aitch: Blurred is the wurd
	🎙 10:12pm Carita: Hello fellow Blurred friends!
	10:13pm DJ MF: People stay over night, in sleeping bags. Others come and sit in the chairs (as we did). You can be in and out, but everyone is very respectful. Amazing line-up. Lots of highlights, but Earthen Sea and Arrington de Dionyso were amazing.
	10:13pm Mark T: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:03 Yes it is the tragedy of the human condition. And the leader of the Proud Boys has stated they are seeking revenge. It's only a matter of time before the civil unrest turns to civil war. Again, quite tragic.
	🎙 10:17pm Ike: ↳ Mark T @10:13 Just heard Chumbawamba's "The Day the Nazi Died" and wow, what an anthem. "So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say Tell them that the Nazis Never really went away They're out there burning houses down And peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again... Until every Nazi dies..."
	🎙 10:17pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Mark T @10:13 Never understood what they feel so proud about. They are just maggots thriving off the rotting corpse of democracy.
	🎙 10:20pm Popeye: Well, blur me down! A-ga-ga-ga-ga!
	10:24pm Mark T: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:17 I agree completely. And just to make the situation very lethal in America specifically, is the number of guns here. There is approximately 400 million guns in America, and about 335 million people. That is a recipe for what we have with the gun violence, and now large groups of deranged people with guns free to do as they please.
	10:24pm Mark T: ↳ Ike @10:17 WOW, that's powerful.
	10:25pm wimpy: ↳ Popeye @10:20 hiya popeye!
	🎙 10:33pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Gas 1" by "Gas" A 3 hour scream of defiant rage would be the only playlist that captured my feeling mate.
	🎙 10:33pm Popeye: ↳ wimpy @10:25 Sorry, I don't have any hamburgers. You'll have to go ask Brutus.
	🎙 10:33pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:33 Or 2 even!
	10:34pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Mark T @10:24 I live in a rural area and there’s a chunk of land up the road from me, unoccupied, with a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag hung from a tree as well as a “Come And Take Them” flag that shows an AK-47. Peope are just plain weird. And dangerous.
	🎙 10:35pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Popeye @10:33 & ya shifting some false spinach too sailor. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌿
	10:39pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Happy Tết Nguyên Đán everyone!
	🎙 10:40pm Scott_Oz: Cheers Rob! Drinking a beer from Hanoi right now here in Australia. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:42pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Great! which one?
	🎙 10:46pm Scott_Oz: It's a "supermarket rebrand" called Hammer 'n' Tongs, but brewed in Vietnam with Australian barley. I assume it would be from Hanoi, as I believe that city has the largest breweries in the country.??
	10:46pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Ya here and Saigon
	10:47pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: My fave is called Trúc Bạch
	10:50pm herb.nyc: Hey. I’ve some thoughts about optimism. But Jonathan’s talk led me to an old email, and this is by Paul Krassner- A recent study concluded that human beings are "mentally wired to cooperate," and I witnessed that concept in action at the shadow conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once, at a benefit, I met songwriter/troubadour Harry Chapin backstage, and I'll never forget his words: "If you don't act like there's hope, there is no hope." Placebos do work, after all. And yet, I in retrospect, I realize that I often acted as if there were no hope. During the '60s, when abortion was illegal, I served as an underground referral service, but I never dreamed (snip. I can add more)
	10:52pm Zinn The Mood: Digging this show and all the anti-fascist dialogue. Time to stand up in public, comrades, be counted and find one another. Good to discover it/you all.
	🎙 10:52pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Rob Gee - Hanoi @10:47 I hope to make it to Vietnam one day to sample the local beers from the source, including Bia Hoi. I've always liked so many things about your country, but yet to get there. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:54pm Mark T: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:34 Yes people are both. And in my lifetime, I'm 63 the most dangerous change I have seen in the last thirty years is "It's a free country, you can't tell me what to do". Or some sick variation of that. Put another way, people believe their "rights" are UNLIMITED and ABSOLUTE. Even nice college educated people. And if you dare to suggest that there has to be some basic code of conduct for living in a society, they respond as if you are some demonic, hate filled, scum trying to completely destroy their lives. People in America are such extremists.
	10:55pm bubbly bodybag: gorgeous
	10:59pm coelacanth∅))): greetings Jherweg and obscurros
	11:00pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ herb.nyc @10:50 Please do add more… Thanks. Krassner was great. Need to pass along that sustenance.
	11:04pm WoodsOfMaine: @Mark T We are the same age. Yeah, I've seen a lot and I'm not sure we'll ever see a turnaround in this lifetime.
	11:05pm Tommy in Neversink: I've been telling people the same thing . They win when they demoralize you ....don't let them. Keep you sprites up . That's how we stop this sh.......t
	11:06pm Zinn The Mood: “Prophets believe in justice even when the world around them says there will be no justice. It is not that they transcend reality. It is that they are compelled to strike out against it, refusing to be silent no matter how hard life becomes. They are gripped by what Reinhold Niebuhr calls ‘a sublime madness in the soul,’ for ‘nothing but such madness will do battle with malignant power’ and ‘spiritual wickedness in high places.’ This madness is dangerous, but vital because without it ‘truth is obscured.” Liberalism, Niebuhr goes on, ‘lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks. It is too intellectual and too little emotional to be an efficient force in history’.” Chris Hedges, Aug ‘23, on Julian Assange
	11:11pm Zinn The Mood: Malcolm X response about being able to maintain hope and belief in the face of manipulation by the powers that be: www.instagram.com... Great show, thanks! Don’t think I’m long for the night though. But I’ll definitely be back again.
	🎙 11:18pm Ike: Yeah, democracy is cyclical, and I'm not sure that cycle is broken just yet. To maintain my sanity, I'm reserving judgment. Republicans and Democrats have both very often thought they'd finally broken the cycle and that the opposition could never come back, and it's never been true yet.
	11:20pm wimpy: I really need to read malcom and some dr king. I started reading marx pretty recently and I'm paranoid I'm gonna get put on a list lol. That's a really good point though that I've been thinking about a lot recently, so it feels a little vindicating seeing malcom say it
	11:22pm herb.nyc: ↳ Zinn The Mood @11:00 (Sorry for delay) …but I never dreamed that it would become legal in my lifetime. I didn't like to eat in restaurants or fly in planes because of cigarette smoking, but I never thought it would become illegal in my lifetime. I joined protest demonstrations against the Vietnam War and for civil rights, against circumcision and for an end to nuclear testing, never speculating as to how effective we were, but always knowing that the option was to do nothing.
	11:22pm Harry Corvair: Thanks for playing this song. Calming. Nottinghamshire: Ghosts of the Meadows, Sneinton and Forest Fields by Daniel Weaver (Ceremonial County Series Vol.XI - Shropshire \| Nottinghamshire)
	🎙 11:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: "In a world of Eeyores, be a Clay Pigeon."
	🎙 11:31pm Carita: Nice mellow show tonight
	11:32pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ Song: "Night Creature" by "Woods" Has a little Sparklehorse vibe. Digging it.
	11:36pm Eric the Hat: ↳ herb.nyc @10:50 Exactly. Anytime someone says things will only get worse or that there’s no reason or hope in trying to communicate with people with opposing views, my response is always, “not with that kind of attitude.”
	🎙 11:37pm Jherweg: Glad you’re digging it ;)
	11:38pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ herb.nyc @11:22 Thanks. Picked up a Rebecca Solnit book recently because it had a chapter on how the actions of movements often take years or even decades to incubate. Same kind of idea. Examples given were the Irish Easter Uprising, the Abolitionists; talked about how the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall St completely changed the discourse. Seeds of the latter yet to take root. But they’re about to sprout.
	11:41pm Eric the Hat: ↳ Jherweg @11:37 Also, hi Jonathan, folks.
	🎙 11:46pm Jherweg: Hope everyone has a livable week! Send me some “Blurred Word” submissions!
	11:53pm Zinn The Mood: Such an enchanting show, thanks Jonathan. Thought you might like a few of these: “Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life… The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” Ludwig Van Beethoven, letter to Goethe “Music alone speaks at once to the imagination, the mind, the heart and the senses; and it is the reaction of the senses on the heart and mind, and vice versa, that produces the impressions felt by those who are gifted with the necessary organization, but of which others (the barbarians) can know nothing.” Hector Berlioz, 1847 “So is music an asylum. It takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence and whereto. All the great interrogatories, like questioning angels, float in on its waves of sound.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 1836-38 “What is music? The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it hovers between spirit and matter, related to both, yet differing from each. It is spirit, but spirit subject to the measurement of time; it is matter, but matter that can dispense with space.” Heinrich Heine, 1837
	🎙 11:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Jonathan! mind how ya go but maintain the rage my mates! 🌏🌞🩴🩴🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🎙 11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Jonathan. Toward a better future!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅))): Thanks Jonathan
	11:59pm Eric the Hat: Thank you Jonathan. Glad I could catch what I did this evening. Have a wonderful week!
	🎙 12:00am Carita: Thanks Jonathan ☺️
	4:26pm TDK60: Hello Jonathan. I enjoy listening to the show, here in the Future.

Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from January 26, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
N/A	Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins	n/a	N/a		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Heidi P.	Brain Fog Scrolling "Brain Fog Scrolling" by "Heidi P."	n/a	N/a		0:01:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Unknown To Known	A "A" by "Unknown To Known"	Portico - Part ii	Maps For Getting Lost	https://mapsforgettinglost.bandcamp.com	0:01:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Holy Tongue	Ambulence Dub "Ambulence Dub" by "Holy Tongue"	Ambulance	Animas	https://zongamin.bandcamp.com/track/ambulance-dub	0:06:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Butch Morris	Sound Interlude "Sound Interlude" by "Butch Morris"	Homeing	Sound Aspects	https://butchmorris.bandcamp.com/album/homeing	0:11:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
ama s	Squid Sample Puzzle "Squid Sample Puzzle" by "ama s"	L'echo Des Choses	Cosima Pitz	https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/lecho-des-choses-2	0:16:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wormhook	Disappear "Disappear" by "Wormhook"	Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom	Akashic Records	https://wormhook.bandcamp.com/album/workaday-strangeness-gyrating-death-throes-from-a-void-axiom	0:18:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Martin Tétreault	Strange Ukulele	Vraiment Plus De Snipettes!!!	Ambiances Magnétiques	https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/vraiment-plus-de-snipettes	0:20:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thollem's HPOH	Love Is Of The Essence	Oligarch Super Villains	Self Released	https://thollem.bandcamp.com	0:22:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Roméo Poirier	Untiled "Untiled" by "Roméo Poirier"	live at Waterworks	N/A	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zMKr48aIA	0:25:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gas	Gas 1 "Gas 1" by "Gas"	Nah und Fern	Kompakt		0:30:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ali Balighi	Birds-Dance V "Birds-Dance V" by "Ali Balighi"	Qaf Mount Ballet	Noise à Noise	https://alibalighi.bandcamp.com/album/qaf-mount-ballet "Mount Qaf" holds significant prominence within Persian mythology, often serving as a pivotal element in various tales and legends. It frequently represents the boundary delineating the mortal realm from the domains of the divine or otherworldly entities. In a piece narrated by the voice of Hana Mesgari and penned by Ehsan Saboohi, the narrative of Mount Qaf takes on a fresh perspective, intertwining with the contemporary political landscape of Iran while retaining its ancient Persian roots. This piece utilizes SuperCollider 3.13.0, an open-source music language, for the creation of all sounds, and is mixed using Logic Pro. In terms of compositional technique, the focus lies on the exploration of polyrhythms, polytempos, polymeters, and microtonal pitches."	0:39:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Saul Williams	Not In Our Names! "Not In Our Names!" by "Saul Williams"	n/a	N/a	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_o660d0oc	0:43:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dollkraut	Holy Ghost People "Holy Ghost People" by "Dollkraut"	Holy Ghost People	Dischi Autunno	https://dollkraut.bandcamp.com/album/holy-ghost-people	0:45:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Simon Fisher Turner	Brother James Plays J.S. Bach's Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott on the Great Rissington Organ, Bertrand Russell Gives Sound Advice	Under The Arches	A Colourful Storm	https://simonfisherturner.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-arches	0:49:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Naima Bock	Giant Palm "Giant Palm" by "Naima Bock"	Giant Palm	Sub Pop	https://naimabock.bandcamp.com/album/giant-palm	0:52:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cherries	Ascent "Ascent" by "Cherries"	Cherries Of Fire	Radical Documents	https://cherriesny.bandcamp.com/album/cherries-of-fire	0:57:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Dipper Stove	J.H. Noise "J.H. Noise" by "The Dipper Stove"	Burned Over	Carbon Records	https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/burned-over	0:58:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gas	Gas 1 "Gas 1" by "Gas"	Nah Und Fern	Kompakt		1:06:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Daniel Weaver	Nottinghamshire: Ghosts of the Meadows, Sneinton and Forest Fields	Ceremonial County Series Vol.XI - Shropshire \| Nottinghamshire	Folklore Tapes	Visit https://folkloretapes.bandcamp.com	1:07:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Gizzi	"Findspot Unknown" ""Findspot Unknown"" by "Peter Gizzi"	N/A	N/a	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNNRYElMBMI	1:21:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmywilson	Night Terror "Night Terror" by "Jimmywilson"	Early Experiments in Recording, Vol.1 (1976-2021)	Hoodfaire	https://hoodfaire1.bandcamp.com/album/early-experiments-in-recording-vol-1-1976-2021	1:24:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brannten Schnüre	Weckerlied "Weckerlied" by "Brannten Schnüre"	Musik Vom Nebengleis	Quirlschlängle		1:27:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Woods	Night Creature "Night Creature" by "Woods"	At Rear House	Woodsist		1:29:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Troth	Land Sighs "Land Sighs" by "Troth"	Soon I'll Run Out of Air: A Colourful Storm 2024	A Colourful Storm	https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/album/soon-ill-run-out-of-air-a-colourful-storm-2024	1:33:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh	Beon "Beon" by "Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh"	Lux Gratis	KRAAK	https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/lux-gratis	1:40:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alejandro Jodorowsky	I like Violence!	n/a	N/a		1:49:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robert Turman	The Deep End "The Deep End" by "Robert Turman"	A Day In The Life	Hanson Records	https://robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-in-the-life	1:50:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
d'incise	Incendies (3) "Incendies (3)" by "d'incise"	INCENDIES	INSUB.records	https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/incendies	1:53:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎙 9:56pm Scott_Oz: G'day Jonathan & Blurred Brains! I'm sending a fist to the face of fascism from abroad mate! 🌏🌞💥✊👊😎🤙🍻
	10:02pm Mark T: Welcome Scott. We all need to fight fascism.
	🎙 10:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Mark T @10:02 It sadly seems an unending fight, how short is Human memory, how feeble a mind.
	10:04pm brendan: 🖤 welcome
	10:04pm DJ MF: Just coming off Drone not Drones 10th incarnation this weekend in Mpls. Absolutely mesmerizing and wonderful. Highly recommended to this listening audience. Save the date for next January in Mpls. Guaranteed to be wonderful, and cold!
	10:07pm DJ MF: 28 hours of highly varied drone. I was there for 7 hours and wished I had been there for it all.
	10:10pm socoartdecolime: ↳ DJ MF @10:07 I have always been curious about events like this. Are they largely meditative or do people in the crowd tend to talk? Are there places to nap?
	🎙 10:10pm Aitch: Blurred is the wurd
	🎙 10:12pm Carita: Hello fellow Blurred friends!
	10:13pm DJ MF: People stay over night, in sleeping bags. Others come and sit in the chairs (as we did). You can be in and out, but everyone is very respectful. Amazing line-up. Lots of highlights, but Earthen Sea and Arrington de Dionyso were amazing.
	10:13pm Mark T: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:03 Yes it is the tragedy of the human condition. And the leader of the Proud Boys has stated they are seeking revenge. It's only a matter of time before the civil unrest turns to civil war. Again, quite tragic.
	🎙 10:17pm Ike: ↳ Mark T @10:13 Just heard Chumbawamba's "The Day the Nazi Died" and wow, what an anthem. "So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say Tell them that the Nazis Never really went away They're out there burning houses down And peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again... Until every Nazi dies..."
	🎙 10:17pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Mark T @10:13 Never understood what they feel so proud about. They are just maggots thriving off the rotting corpse of democracy.
	🎙 10:20pm Popeye: Well, blur me down! A-ga-ga-ga-ga!
	10:24pm Mark T: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:17 I agree completely. And just to make the situation very lethal in America specifically, is the number of guns here. There is approximately 400 million guns in America, and about 335 million people. That is a recipe for what we have with the gun violence, and now large groups of deranged people with guns free to do as they please.
	10:24pm Mark T: ↳ Ike @10:17 WOW, that's powerful.
	10:25pm wimpy: ↳ Popeye @10:20 hiya popeye!
	🎙 10:33pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Gas 1" by "Gas" A 3 hour scream of defiant rage would be the only playlist that captured my feeling mate.
	🎙 10:33pm Popeye: ↳ wimpy @10:25 Sorry, I don't have any hamburgers. You'll have to go ask Brutus.
	🎙 10:33pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Scott_Oz @10:33 Or 2 even!
	10:34pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Mark T @10:24 I live in a rural area and there’s a chunk of land up the road from me, unoccupied, with a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag hung from a tree as well as a “Come And Take Them” flag that shows an AK-47. Peope are just plain weird. And dangerous.
	🎙 10:35pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Popeye @10:33 & ya shifting some false spinach too sailor. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌿
	10:39pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Happy Tết Nguyên Đán everyone!
	🎙 10:40pm Scott_Oz: Cheers Rob! Drinking a beer from Hanoi right now here in Australia. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:42pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Great! which one?
	🎙 10:46pm Scott_Oz: It's a "supermarket rebrand" called Hammer 'n' Tongs, but brewed in Vietnam with Australian barley. I assume it would be from Hanoi, as I believe that city has the largest breweries in the country.??
	10:46pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: Ya here and Saigon
	10:47pm Rob Gee - Hanoi: My fave is called Trúc Bạch
	10:50pm herb.nyc: Hey. I’ve some thoughts about optimism. But Jonathan’s talk led me to an old email, and this is by Paul Krassner- A recent study concluded that human beings are "mentally wired to cooperate," and I witnessed that concept in action at the shadow conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once, at a benefit, I met songwriter/troubadour Harry Chapin backstage, and I'll never forget his words: "If you don't act like there's hope, there is no hope." Placebos do work, after all. And yet, I in retrospect, I realize that I often acted as if there were no hope. During the '60s, when abortion was illegal, I served as an underground referral service, but I never dreamed (snip. I can add more)
	10:52pm Zinn The Mood: Digging this show and all the anti-fascist dialogue. Time to stand up in public, comrades, be counted and find one another. Good to discover it/you all.
	🎙 10:52pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Rob Gee - Hanoi @10:47 I hope to make it to Vietnam one day to sample the local beers from the source, including Bia Hoi. I've always liked so many things about your country, but yet to get there. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:54pm Mark T: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:34 Yes people are both. And in my lifetime, I'm 63 the most dangerous change I have seen in the last thirty years is "It's a free country, you can't tell me what to do". Or some sick variation of that. Put another way, people believe their "rights" are UNLIMITED and ABSOLUTE. Even nice college educated people. And if you dare to suggest that there has to be some basic code of conduct for living in a society, they respond as if you are some demonic, hate filled, scum trying to completely destroy their lives. People in America are such extremists.
	10:55pm bubbly bodybag: gorgeous
	10:59pm coelacanth∅))): greetings Jherweg and obscurros
	11:00pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ herb.nyc @10:50 Please do add more… Thanks. Krassner was great. Need to pass along that sustenance.
	11:04pm WoodsOfMaine: @Mark T We are the same age. Yeah, I've seen a lot and I'm not sure we'll ever see a turnaround in this lifetime.
	11:05pm Tommy in Neversink: I've been telling people the same thing . They win when they demoralize you ....don't let them. Keep you sprites up . That's how we stop this sh.......t
	11:06pm Zinn The Mood: “Prophets believe in justice even when the world around them says there will be no justice. It is not that they transcend reality. It is that they are compelled to strike out against it, refusing to be silent no matter how hard life becomes. They are gripped by what Reinhold Niebuhr calls ‘a sublime madness in the soul,’ for ‘nothing but such madness will do battle with malignant power’ and ‘spiritual wickedness in high places.’ This madness is dangerous, but vital because without it ‘truth is obscured.” Liberalism, Niebuhr goes on, ‘lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks. It is too intellectual and too little emotional to be an efficient force in history’.” Chris Hedges, Aug ‘23, on Julian Assange
	11:11pm Zinn The Mood: Malcolm X response about being able to maintain hope and belief in the face of manipulation by the powers that be: www.instagram.com... Great show, thanks! Don’t think I’m long for the night though. But I’ll definitely be back again.
	🎙 11:18pm Ike: Yeah, democracy is cyclical, and I'm not sure that cycle is broken just yet. To maintain my sanity, I'm reserving judgment. Republicans and Democrats have both very often thought they'd finally broken the cycle and that the opposition could never come back, and it's never been true yet.
	11:20pm wimpy: I really need to read malcom and some dr king. I started reading marx pretty recently and I'm paranoid I'm gonna get put on a list lol. That's a really good point though that I've been thinking about a lot recently, so it feels a little vindicating seeing malcom say it
	11:22pm herb.nyc: ↳ Zinn The Mood @11:00 (Sorry for delay) …but I never dreamed that it would become legal in my lifetime. I didn't like to eat in restaurants or fly in planes because of cigarette smoking, but I never thought it would become illegal in my lifetime. I joined protest demonstrations against the Vietnam War and for civil rights, against circumcision and for an end to nuclear testing, never speculating as to how effective we were, but always knowing that the option was to do nothing.
	11:22pm Harry Corvair: Thanks for playing this song. Calming. Nottinghamshire: Ghosts of the Meadows, Sneinton and Forest Fields by Daniel Weaver (Ceremonial County Series Vol.XI - Shropshire \| Nottinghamshire)
	🎙 11:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: "In a world of Eeyores, be a Clay Pigeon."
	🎙 11:31pm Carita: Nice mellow show tonight
	11:32pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ Song: "Night Creature" by "Woods" Has a little Sparklehorse vibe. Digging it.
	11:36pm Eric the Hat: ↳ herb.nyc @10:50 Exactly. Anytime someone says things will only get worse or that there’s no reason or hope in trying to communicate with people with opposing views, my response is always, “not with that kind of attitude.”
	🎙 11:37pm Jherweg: Glad you’re digging it ;)
	11:38pm Zinn The Mood: ↳ herb.nyc @11:22 Thanks. Picked up a Rebecca Solnit book recently because it had a chapter on how the actions of movements often take years or even decades to incubate. Same kind of idea. Examples given were the Irish Easter Uprising, the Abolitionists; talked about how the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall St completely changed the discourse. Seeds of the latter yet to take root. But they’re about to sprout.
	11:41pm Eric the Hat: ↳ Jherweg @11:37 Also, hi Jonathan, folks.
	🎙 11:46pm Jherweg: Hope everyone has a livable week! Send me some “Blurred Word” submissions!
	11:53pm Zinn The Mood: Such an enchanting show, thanks Jonathan. Thought you might like a few of these: “Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life… The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” Ludwig Van Beethoven, letter to Goethe “Music alone speaks at once to the imagination, the mind, the heart and the senses; and it is the reaction of the senses on the heart and mind, and vice versa, that produces the impressions felt by those who are gifted with the necessary organization, but of which others (the barbarians) can know nothing.” Hector Berlioz, 1847 “So is music an asylum. It takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence and whereto. All the great interrogatories, like questioning angels, float in on its waves of sound.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 1836-38 “What is music? The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it hovers between spirit and matter, related to both, yet differing from each. It is spirit, but spirit subject to the measurement of time; it is matter, but matter that can dispense with space.” Heinrich Heine, 1837
	🎙 11:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Jonathan! mind how ya go but maintain the rage my mates! 🌏🌞🩴🩴🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🎙 11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Jonathan. Toward a better future!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅))): Thanks Jonathan
	11:59pm Eric the Hat: Thank you Jonathan. Glad I could catch what I did this evening. Have a wonderful week!
	🎙 12:00am Carita: Thanks Jonathan ☺️
	4:26pm TDK60: Hello Jonathan. I enjoy listening to the show, here in the Future.

Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from January 26, 2025

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