I had this dream last night Ken, we met at a pet store. You were getting a parrot and, and I was getting a new frog. I went over to you and said hello. But you did not like that! You were so mad and disappointed at me.
I don't remember everything, but it ended up with you and your parrot telling me that my frog was old and stupid.
Why Ken? Why are you mad at me?
No parrot, but I am with my new aussie cattle dog puppy. Lola. I lost naming rights in a poker game. So it's Lolita or Lola or NOLA. ANd as I am on puppy duty, I am Fucked. No sound card for my computer, arriving incredibly late with a rambunctions 3 month old pup. So I amy go to my official stalling set, just sayin....
@Ken-what "job" will you give your Australian cattle dog? I read they need a "job" to be happy since they are so high energy...maybe a doggie powered butter churn?
8:21am
Oblate Spheroid:
Soon as Tetrahedron gets up, he and Plane had a fight. She's so two faced ... we we're up kinda late after he came over.
It's from the one Porest recorded for WFMU. It's called 'The Optimised - Parallel Broadcasts'. It's the first segment where the finnish music scientist describes how dogs helped him discover the saddest chords. The entire track last 17 minutes in total.
Wild Neil,
I agree! I wonder if it real or animated? Does someone knows its source?
@Ken-could you move the file to someone else's laptop and use that laptop to play it on? Maybe your laptop is specially configured for broadcast or something.....
Wow - Earthless, puppy pix, Voivod, Pink Floyd, Scientological chants AND geometry jokes on the comment thread, and it's not even 9:30 yet. I'm going to need extra coffee just to keep up.
Did anyone else notice the little "Dr. Who" theme quote in this?
i vaguely recall Gilmour making that more explicit on one of those turgid late 20th c live albums they put out.
@Ken I know it's a day late, but Return of the Living Dead was released Aug 16, 1986. It had a great punk soundtrack. Could you maybe play something from that, if you have it?
Cool Wild Neil! I should be getting my record today. I was just looking up Tour dates for Virus and they are not listing a show for NYC but one for a festival in Philly in Nov.
I own it on CD. So I brought it. Not sure if the station has it.. Maybe its on Spotify? Other DJs have played it so very possible you guys have the cd.
Well, Moe Tucker told me to "Wake up and stop drinking the Kool-Aid." before she defriended me after I posted a political rant. I would forget we were FB friends and twice she chimed in to insult me. I was always awestruck and honored. Silly. I've heard Hell is one of the nicest people.
Hey all, any recommendations on good earplugs for concerts? Seeing Swans and Drive Like Jehu recently made me rethink ear protection -- the foam earplugs sold at the bar are overkill and wadded-up napkins are ghetto and don't quite cut it. Also, I don't want to spend a small fortune.
@Rick L: From my experience, the foam earplugs work well if you don't shove them all the way into your ear. I saw the Swans show at MHOW, and that's what I did. Good luck!
10:12am
Polyus:
I always use the crappy foam plugs, bad as they are. Have been thinking about the expensive custom jobs forever, but keep blowing off getting some made.
@Polyus: An inbetween setep between the foam ones and fancy ass ones are they ETY ones: smile.amazon.com... (Notice I used a smile.amazon link for WFMU ;-) )
They're nothing AMAZING but DEF better than the foam.
@Rick L-I like these barrel shaped ones for years and years...but have you considered getting shooting earmuffs? That might be too much though...by the way , if you order by 5pm from McMAster-CARR it arrives tomorrow at your doorstep. www.mcmaster.com...
@Brian it is usually a bit more expensive , but so FAST. It blows my mind its so fast.
@Marcel-ok, I'll play your game. What diety blesses and atheist cattle dog owner?
Ken turned me onto Prince Rama 5 or six years ago. I've seen them three times.
10:27am
foreign_listener_k:
I have been reliably informed this is stranger hugging music - congratulations on having the finest taste in now music
10:29am
jan:
Foam Plugs work- choose highest DB reduction availble at drug stores or Home Depot. Still they seem to work their way out of the ear. Tissue paper wet with water or saliva jammed into the ear canal reduces the noise further, and stuffed all the way in is hardly noticeable, but hard to extract later.
@Marcel: Yeah, I've looked at the ETY ones as well as V-MODA's (smile.amazon.com...). Just want something that will lower the dbs but keep the rest intact. Desperately trying not to over-evaluate. Will probably go with one of those.
Who decided that throwing garbage down your sink was a good idea in the first place? I'm very particular about what goes in my sink. Anything gross goes straight to the trash or the toilet.
@Rick L: I second @Marcel M's recommendation of the Etymotic earplugs.
The good old disposable flanged foam plugs block more sound, and are best for plain old noise, but they make music sound weird. The Etymotic plugs let music sound pretty much the same, just less loud. In fact, they can make music sound clearer if the sound at the venue is loud enough without them that your eardrums are getting driven into flapping paroxysms of overload distortion.
Yes the difference between the foam plugs is significant. I (stupidly) went many years without using plugs bands I've been in, one reason being I tried the foam ones and just hated it. ETY ones are a huge step up. That being said, I do think they cut treble A BIT. So as a musician, you have to remember that the treble is cut slightly without them and not to adjust when they are in.
(In terms of the ear plugs) Also keep in mind its a difference of a hundred or even a few hundred bucks to get something that TRULY cuts the frequencies evenly.. so I think 16 for the ETY is a no brainer.
10:52am
F˽F˽ (:
foreign_listener_k,
Prince Rama live with Andy and Ken at the UCB Theatre
http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=37060&archive=63066
I saw the original 2003 production of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant and that song wasn't in there; I'll have to catch up with what they've done b/c that sounded great.
10:56am
jan:
@age 64, my hearing is somewhat impaired and I also hear a constant hiss or ringing.
Must have been loud concerts, music on the home stereo and using power tool and hammers without ear protection. Most memorable cause of hearing loss: A Glenn Branca concert at BAM sitting front and center. My ribcage was already resonating, but when the felt hat that I held in my hand began to vibrate, I knew that the concert was hazardous to my health and I sprinted up the aisle to the exits. In the lobby, the music was still amply loud,
10:56am
#4:
MOZ!
10:57am
el BO-bO:
Is this a whole album of Morrisey songs in Spanish? Sounds great. Chetes is a gr8 musico albeit a bit narcicisstic.
Thanks for the show DJ Station Manager Ken. Good luck with that handful of fur and teeth. Just listened to Don't Shoot The Dog audio book. Give it a listen.
11:00am
el BO-bO:
Central Park herb.ny? Latin alternative music conference?
11:03am
F˽F˽ (:
Compass!! Finally. It took one year but my request has finally been delivered! Thanks, Ken
re: earplugs - keep in mind that it is the high frequencies that permanently impair your hearing, much, much more than mid or lower. i want to protect my hearing, even if it changes the music somewhat. i hope it does in fact...usually -at least in smallish venues, the cymbals are disproportionately loud anyway, so foam earplugs work perfectly for me.
...not the pvc ones though. they suck.
11:05am
el BO-bO:
herb.ny Did u hav to hav a pass? Did u. meet Chetes?
...that is, the good foam plugs; NOT the ones that are rounded at one end; NOT the ones that are foam inside of plastic.
...and the pvc ones do do the job -IF you can get them into your ears, that is. they expand too quickly to insert them -but i'm sure they're fine for people with bigger ear canals.
11:10am
Dean:
Here's a GIF for ya: http://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany/mimosa/images/mimosa_touch.gif
Entire exhibit is fun: http://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany
So it seems that the american olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte made up the story about being mugged at gunpoint in Rio. Man, Rio's atmosfere is so infectious that people spend a week in the city and already begin to act just like locals.
$16 for decent earplugs seems a no-brainer. I'm going to get a few extra sets for my daughters who have gone to shows and parked themselves right in front of the speakers. Now to just get them to actually use them.... And the attached cords on some models are a good idea in theory -- I'd imagine no one wants to drop an earplug on the floor at a show.
Ebay has more idiots who think they have stuff that is valuable or are just trying to rip people off. Not that that doesn't exist on discogs, but way less.
I just made two Schießflöte tracks for PLU. I think restraining yourself to flutes is too limiting though.
11:49am
foreign_listener_k:
F˽F˽ (: - thanks again. Took a bit of effort at a different computer, but the archive is in 'dry towels,' as the Germans would say. And not as easy as the first time using the popup player to preserve 'A Gringo Like Me'