I sang the Cage as the processional at a friend's wedding. Incidentally, I prefer Andrea Fullington on this album to the recording on Gann's site. He's probably heard it, given what he says in his post, but I think it's not Uptown at all.

I found Tussle only okay when I saw them. E.A.M.B. is great, though, and you'd have a swell time at The Eagle, Ben. Just your sort of place.

There will be a playlist linked from here.

Pre-emptive strike, eh?

Ben, I've just dug up that Fullington recording for a listen, so I'll send it to you if you're interested.

, so s/b .

i wonder whether i can listen to the program afterwards
coz maybe i can't listen to the radio when the program is on air
i don't know any of the artists or bands listed, so anticipate a real music enlightenment

So 3-6:00 Unfogged time?

7: He said PST, which is UTC-8. This must be a roundabout way of saying he's broadcasting at 3-6 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time. Unfogged is presently on UTC-6.

Ah yes. I suppose I could have looked at the damn time stamp, but that would have been cheating.

I haven't heard of any of them!

Except for the Extra Action Marching Band, which I went to see with ben w-lfs-n.

Young ben, how'd you like the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum set?

Heinz Holliger? Isn't he a bit populist for your taste, ben?

Young ben, how'd you like the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum set?

I have already recorded my thoughts on that matter. Kinda disappointing—I wasn't very into the new material about the last human being, & whatnot, and Carla's efforts to make sure everyone knew who This Heat were got on my nerves (I increasingly can't stand her). And they didn't play many of the songs I wanted to hear. But many of the songs that they played were fantastic. I liked what they played from the first and third albums, for instance.

He said PST, which is UTC-8. [...] Unfogged is presently on UTC-6.

Unfogged is presently an hour later than I am, on Mountain Time, and Alaska is an hour earlier. Pacific Standard Time is not the same as Alaska Standard Time; assuming that Unfogged really is UTC-6 and Alaska really is UTC-8, PST must be UTC-7.

I really liked what they opened with, which Boots told me was a Carla song. Mostly I thought they were awesome, but perhaps not for me.

But. Ah, Alaska is UTC-9 and Unfogged is UTC-7. Otto, why you gotta go messing with people like that?

If they opened with the same song in LA as they did in SF, yeah, it's a Carla song ("Angle of Repose").

Which I actually like.

13/15: I think Otto was pointing out that you're on PDT rather than PST.

Oh. Well, fuck him anyway. Fuck him!

All I really wanted to convey was that it's three hours earlier than on the east coast.

Anyway, while I'm at my desk, do you have any interest in that Fullington recording of the Cage while I have it handy, or are you willing to accept Gann's opinion without it?

I do have interest in it, yes.

Well then, is your email benw-lfs-n(at)... or ben_w-lfs-n(at)... or some other?

Hey, OT, will I regret dressing up to go to a concert by myself?

No, why would you?

Going to concerts (and even more, movies) alone is really underrated.

This is true, but it's also true that if going alone is your usual MO, it gets pretty wearying. Dining out alone is a bridge too far for me, though.

Ha, wrong thread there.

w-lfs-n at gmail dot com.

18: Yep. Just trying my damnedest to be a little bitch.

Mucca Pazza >> Extra Action.

The people currently on air just had a conversation about what distinguishes a cover from a remix. I weep.

Less time than ten minutes encompasses to go, people. I know you can hardly wait.

Actually, like three minutes.

I am surprised that you won't dine alone, Ben. It's the least-bad of the alone activities, IME.

Ain't it tuneful?

This is some great avant-garde shit, guys.

great avant-garde shit

I think that's your problem right there.

Music to Grow a Beard To?

Shout out?

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Holy crap, just when you thought RedState couldn't get any more ludicrous, there's a front-page post over there right now getting all up in arms over... wait for it... Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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So I take it you won't be playing anything off the new Coldplay?

35 is proof that you have to be male to listen to Ben's show; otherwise, what are you doing while listening?

35: that it is.

Appreciate its suitability for growing a beard to, obviously.

Must all my pleasure be an abstract appreciation of male capabilities?

Good point. Perhaps the show is simply misnamed.

You could grow your pubes to it.

Thank you, Ben. "Music to Grow Pubes To" is something I think we can all get behind.

Well, all but the children, anyhow.

It can be an aspirational thing.

Perhaps I chose the wrong thread to drop my off-topic comment into.

That is pretty funny, Josh. I don't know if I have the heart to go there and read it. But bitching about ludicrously outdated health advice from the 70's is kind of a hoot.

No, not at all. I must go observe the hilarity...

OK, I did. This is pretty hilarious, on that Obama's half-sister reported that he gave her a copy in the 70's:

Good for him, I guess, but I suppose I was raised in a more traditional America where boys don't give their sisters books that discuss their private anatomy.

Well, I was raised in an America in which parents' names began with the same initial. And and America in which we had baby turtles as pets. I was raised in... oh. Oh shit, by "an America" I meant my own individual family.

And this is a pretty funny comment:

Jaded July 18th, 2008 at 12:38 p.m.

He will be the first woman President!

Ugh, the comments are annoying (in a fairly not-too-upsetting astonishingly stupid sort of way).

FWIW, though, AWB, OBOS is hardly ludicrously outdated health advice from the 70s; it's gone through several editions and is still in print. And it's not really as though basic anatomy has changed that much in a few decades, labiaplasty notwithstanding.

I like the idea that believing women should know about their own bodies is somehow "far left."

it's gone through several editions and is still in print.

I have the 90's edition, and it's pretty fucking absurd. I'm glad it exists, but I personally found it entirely unhelpful.

Here's my question, though: If God doesn't exist (that is, if there is no such thing as absolute moral truth), why shouldn't the woman have sex with her brother brother give his sister a book that discusses her private anatomy.

54: Huh. I think the edition I've got is very good.

I think I remember leafing through the 00's version and thinking it was a lot better.

You'd think RedState would cite the parts about women getting together and using mirrors to look at their own cooch instead of a very low-key passage about women researching health issues.

thanks, i liked a lot the breaks, nice voice and funny ads
i missed the beginning so don't know how it was from the beginning
what i listened was like cacophonic, but not distracting if the right volume
i liked Under pressure, then a piece with a mouth harp, and that short piano music

58: I have a strong suspicion they didn't get that far.

The last hour was the best part, I thought, especially 5-5:30. I'll have to do some playlist-facilitated musical exploration when I get a chance.