WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 12, 2021

Listener comments!
	3:01am Always First: Ferst
	⚡ 3:02am Hoboken Jack: Hey there Brian and all fellow stooges!
	3:04am Brian D: Hello Jack! And Furst.
	3:06am diciassette: i wanted to hear pj harvey’s working for the man after that stooges song. rowp!
	3:07am Brian D: Sorry Dici. But I'll see if I can swing that for you.
	3:07am Scott67: G'day Brian & Humanists! 👍😎👣🐾🎶📻🌞🌏
	3:09am Always Last: if we're tekkin reqwestz, howabout Showaddywaddy?
	3:09am diciassette: it was more for my own curiosity but thanks !
	3:11am diciassette: ahoy brian and headliners !
	3:11am Always Last: when did mike cop it?
	3:14am TOADphd: so, who owns Tippex now?
	3:15am River: Congrats to Barbados for ditching the monarchy. I'm hoping the UK will do the same eventually!
	3:16am TOADphd: nothing lasts forever
	3:16am TOADphd: not even Mickey Dolenz
	3:24am TOADphd: are fontained dc some kind of comedy act?
	3:30am River: What a strange song. Reminds of David Lynch's musical output.
	3:55am Gnomon: Oh hey you could throw in some Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, also about Tanya.
	⚡ 4:15am Don in Tampere: Good morning from Finland! Big news this week, other than Covid cases climbing, was that Finland is going to purchase a load of F35 fighters from the US. Got mixed feelings about this. Fundamentally I hate spending money on things designed to kill people and this would add up to about 2000 EUR per resident. On the other hand I did notice that this decision (in a country that has a very long border with Russia and was invaded over that border) came after Russia started setting up troops at the Ukrainian border.
	4:32am Brian D: Don, I hadn't heard that. Yeah, weapons of war... But I know your countrymen have reason to fear Russia.
	⚡ 4:41am Don in Tampere: Yeah. And one thing that I really don't get is how many left-wingers in Europe support Putin consistently. IMHO, Russia is the biggest fascist country in the world right now (though the Trump wing of the Republicans might like to set up fascism in the US, they've not succeeded as far as I can tell). I don't know if it's due to nostalgic feelings toward the former USSR, or a visceral hatred of the US, but it makes no sense to me.
	⚡ 4:44am Don in Tampere: To be clear, I would certainly place myself left of center too, but that's an additional reason not to trust Putin, who has ignored national soverignty, fought free speech, and persecuted sexual minorities.
	4:45am Brian D: I'm with you on Putin, Don. And far left of center myself. Putin has nothing to do with Marx or Trotsky, even if those guys are your bag.
	⚡ 4:50am Don in Tampere: I'm probably more into the democratic socialism camp, though Marx was and remains a brilliant and important thinker who couldn't foresee how things would develop, but certainly didn't expect communism to emerge first from an agrarian, feudalistic society. But despite that, I find it kind of cool and interesting that what is allegedly the only Lenin museum in western Europe is right here in Tampere, where he spent some time, and even met Stalin for the first time. And one of the first things he did after taking power was make Finland independent, on Dec 6, 1918
	4:53am Brian D: Did not know about the Lenin museum in Tampere. I read a thing a while back that Lenin, when he lived in London, used to spend all his time in the British Museum, writing and doing research. Say what you will, not enough political leaders do that now.
	4:57am Brian D: By that I mean, being that thoughtful. Most, at least here in the US, barely read.
	5:00am FletcherNYC: Just joining, but so glad you played FeMale GeNius!!!
	5:02am Brian D: Welcome Fletcher. And thanks. Yeah, love that record.
	5:03am Cooh John: A rare visit to your wonderful show, Brian D.💥
	⚡ 5:03am Don in Tampere: Indeed. Obama was one of the last intellectual politicians in the US and was also one of the first in a while. (Not that it's an automatic solution: Woodrow Wilson was an intellectual but also an awful racist.) It's maybe not quite as bad over here but the trend is in that direction. But a positive sign was Germany appointing a professor of episemiological economics as minister of health in the new government. I hope he can get the escalating Covid situation there under control. I just had to cancel my planned Christmas trip to my adopted hometown of Frankfurt because of the pandemic.
	5:09am Brian D: Thank you @Cooh John. Glad to have you. And sorry to hear that, Don. About Frankfurt, I mean. And spot on about Obama and Wilson, though the former was/is certainly intelligent but flawed as well (though not as flawed as Wilson).
	5:10am Cooh John: I hear what you are saying Don and Brian. I buy books faster than I can read them.
	5:12am Brian D: That is a problem, @Cooh. Especially for those of us with small abodes. Like the Currents Clan.
	⚡ 5:22am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & listeners. Don, I read that your leader apologised for going out clubbing. At least you have someone who has it within themselves to apologise unlike this country.
	5:28am Brian D: But there was wine and cheese, Brian ;-)
	⚡ 5:29am Brian in UK: ....and no doubt waffer thin mints.
	5:42am I k e: Hi all! @Don, there are a small number of those oddball Put*n-loving leftists here too. We call them tankies. I just figure they can’t let go of the good old days when the USSR was… ugh.. so great?!? Puzzling indeed since Vlad isn’t exactly hiding that he’s a virulently homophobic billionaire oligarch.
	5:46am Brian D: Riding on horse, bare-chested, is a dead giveaway, you'd think.
	5:50am Ike: A liberal NJ guy I know is dating a Russian lady in southern Brooklyn and he says she really likes Vlad’s whole tough-guy shtick, that it really appeals to old-fashioned Russian women, that he comes across as suave. Yikes. I can’t see this relationship lasting. Especially since he can never find a parking spot in Bensonhurst, LOL.
	⚡ 5:51am Don in Tampere: My bookshelf is also running out of space, like mu record and CD shelves. But lately I've been buying lots of books as epubs for my e-book reader (NOT a Kindle, I refuse to support Amazon). Since I live in a Finnish-speaking country and usually read books in English or German, it is a lot easier to get the books I want to read.. Ike, didn't know the work tankies, but sounds good. In Germany they're called Putinversteher.
	5:56am Ike: Some leftists may also spend so much time reading about the horrors committed worldwide by the CIA that it may have broken their brains. Which is sort of understandable, it’s a long and nauseating list. I wonder if it’s natural to want to take a side or believe some big power somewhere is inherently good. So most tankies also deny that Uighurs are being put in concentration camps or that HK democracy protestors are “real”. They’re all CIA plants, apparently! I mean, wow.
	5:56am Brian D: Yikes, Ike. I'm glad I don't know any of those people.
	5:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today! Stay safe and have a great week.
	6:00am listener phillip (in the bronx): Good morning Carol Crow😁
	6:01am Avrilinmay: that ending music was AMAZING

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 12, 2021

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December 12, 2021: “Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.”

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Stooges	Down on the Street "Down on the Street" by "Stooges"	Fun House			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones	Jigsaw Puzzle "Jigsaw Puzzle" by "Rolling Stones"	Beggars Banquet			0:03:40 (Pop-up)
Monkees	Circle Sky "Circle Sky" by "Monkees"	Head		R.I.P. Mike Nesmith	0:10:37 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-Barbados now a republic "Clip: BBC-Barbados now a republic"				0:14:42 (Pop-up)
Monkees	Mary, Mary "Mary, Mary" by "Monkees"	More of the Monkees			0:14:44 (Pop-up)
Monkees	Listen to the Band "Listen to the Band" by "Monkees"	The Monkees Present			0:17:15 (Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.	Too Real "Too Real" by "Fontaines D.C."	Dogrel			0:19:34 (Pop-up)
	Clip: PBS-Syrian airstrike cover-up "Clip: PBS-Syrian airstrike cover-up"				0:23:42 (Pop-up)
Salem Witch Army	Church of the Holy Gun	Thunder In Solitude / Sundown In Silence			0:24:56 (Pop-up)
Screensaver	Skin "Skin" by "Screensaver"	Expressions of Interest	Upset the Rhythm		0:30:15 (Pop-up)
Turnstile	Bomb/I Don’t Wanna Be Blind	Time and Space	Roadrunner Records		0:36:47 (Pop-up)
	Clip: VOA-HRW Taliban summary executions				0:39:10 (Pop-up)
Razorlegs	The Almighty "The Almighty" by "Razorlegs"	Razorlegs/Maximum Ernst			0:40:27 (Pop-up)
FeMaLe GeNiuS	Fire "Fire" by "FeMaLe GeNiuS"	FeMaLe GeNiuS	Howl!		0:43:41 (Pop-up)
Engine Kid	Patty:Tania "Patty:Tania" by "Engine Kid"	Special Olympics EP			0:47:46 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-Aung Sann Suu Kyi sentenced "Clip: BBC-Aung Sann Suu Kyi sentenced"				0:53:49 (Pop-up)
Chai	End "End" by "Chai"	WINK			0:55:10 (Pop-up)
Goat Girl	Sad Cowboy "Sad Cowboy" by "Goat Girl"	On All Fours			0:57:30 (Pop-up)
Public Enemy	Gotta Do What I Gotta Do	Greatest Misses		R.I.P. Guy Woodard: https://www.howlarts.org/howl-happening/in-memoriam-guy-woodard/ https://www.howlarts.org/event/guy-woodard-we-the-people/	1:03:05 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BNT-Greg Tate RIP "Clip: BNT-Greg Tate RIP"				1:08:00 (Pop-up)
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber	Chains and Water	Twentieth Anniversary Mixtapes Groiddest Schizznits Volume Three		R.I.P. sometime member Greg Tate	1:08:42 (Pop-up)
Black Country, New Road	Athens, France	For the First Time			1:30:09 (Pop-up)
	Clip: France24-Interpol president "Clip: France24-Interpol president"				1:38:01 (Pop-up)
Cassandra Jenkins	Hard Drive "Hard Drive" by "Cassandra Jenkins"	An Overview on Phenomenal Nature			1:38:04 (Pop-up)
Mdou Moctar	Talla Tannam "Talla Tannam" by "Mdou Moctar"	Afrique Victime			1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Techno D-Day	Rock Art and the X-Ray Style			1:49:00 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Sky News-Julian Assange "Clip: Sky News-Julian Assange"			Fiancee Stella Morris speaks about UK high court's decision to allow Assange's extradition to US.	1:53:11 (Pop-up)
Negativland	Megaphone Guy/Mister Nobody/No Brain	No Brain EP			1:55:10 (Pop-up)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt	Man Carrying Thing	Made Out Of Sound			2:01:15 (Pop-up)
Chris Brokaw	Central District Blues	MP3			2:06:27 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WION-China leaked papers document CCP role in Uyghur Muslim genocide				2:22:10 (Pop-up)
Arooj Aftab	Mohabbat "Mohabbat" by "Arooj Aftab"	Vulture Prince			2:23:16 (Pop-up)
Sylvin Marc/Del Rabenja	Valiha Ny Dada	Madagascar Now/Maintenant 'Zao			2:36:11 (Pop-up)
Herbie Hancock	King Cobra "King Cobra" by "Herbie Hancock"	The Best of Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Years			2:43:39 (Pop-up)
Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra	Movement 6	Promises			2:50:48 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:01am Always First: Ferst
	⚡ 3:02am Hoboken Jack: Hey there Brian and all fellow stooges!
	3:04am Brian D: Hello Jack! And Furst.
	3:06am diciassette: i wanted to hear pj harvey’s working for the man after that stooges song. rowp!
	3:07am Brian D: Sorry Dici. But I'll see if I can swing that for you.
	3:07am Scott67: G'day Brian & Humanists! 👍😎👣🐾🎶📻🌞🌏
	3:09am Always Last: if we're tekkin reqwestz, howabout Showaddywaddy?
	3:09am diciassette: it was more for my own curiosity but thanks !
	3:11am diciassette: ahoy brian and headliners !
	3:11am Always Last: when did mike cop it?
	3:14am TOADphd: so, who owns Tippex now?
	3:15am River: Congrats to Barbados for ditching the monarchy. I'm hoping the UK will do the same eventually!
	3:16am TOADphd: nothing lasts forever
	3:16am TOADphd: not even Mickey Dolenz
	3:24am TOADphd: are fontained dc some kind of comedy act?
	3:30am River: What a strange song. Reminds of David Lynch's musical output.
	3:55am Gnomon: Oh hey you could throw in some Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, also about Tanya.
	⚡ 4:15am Don in Tampere: Good morning from Finland! Big news this week, other than Covid cases climbing, was that Finland is going to purchase a load of F35 fighters from the US. Got mixed feelings about this. Fundamentally I hate spending money on things designed to kill people and this would add up to about 2000 EUR per resident. On the other hand I did notice that this decision (in a country that has a very long border with Russia and was invaded over that border) came after Russia started setting up troops at the Ukrainian border.
	4:32am Brian D: Don, I hadn't heard that. Yeah, weapons of war... But I know your countrymen have reason to fear Russia.
	⚡ 4:41am Don in Tampere: Yeah. And one thing that I really don't get is how many left-wingers in Europe support Putin consistently. IMHO, Russia is the biggest fascist country in the world right now (though the Trump wing of the Republicans might like to set up fascism in the US, they've not succeeded as far as I can tell). I don't know if it's due to nostalgic feelings toward the former USSR, or a visceral hatred of the US, but it makes no sense to me.
	⚡ 4:44am Don in Tampere: To be clear, I would certainly place myself left of center too, but that's an additional reason not to trust Putin, who has ignored national soverignty, fought free speech, and persecuted sexual minorities.
	4:45am Brian D: I'm with you on Putin, Don. And far left of center myself. Putin has nothing to do with Marx or Trotsky, even if those guys are your bag.
	⚡ 4:50am Don in Tampere: I'm probably more into the democratic socialism camp, though Marx was and remains a brilliant and important thinker who couldn't foresee how things would develop, but certainly didn't expect communism to emerge first from an agrarian, feudalistic society. But despite that, I find it kind of cool and interesting that what is allegedly the only Lenin museum in western Europe is right here in Tampere, where he spent some time, and even met Stalin for the first time. And one of the first things he did after taking power was make Finland independent, on Dec 6, 1918
	4:53am Brian D: Did not know about the Lenin museum in Tampere. I read a thing a while back that Lenin, when he lived in London, used to spend all his time in the British Museum, writing and doing research. Say what you will, not enough political leaders do that now.
	4:57am Brian D: By that I mean, being that thoughtful. Most, at least here in the US, barely read.
	5:00am FletcherNYC: Just joining, but so glad you played FeMale GeNius!!!
	5:02am Brian D: Welcome Fletcher. And thanks. Yeah, love that record.
	5:03am Cooh John: A rare visit to your wonderful show, Brian D.💥
	⚡ 5:03am Don in Tampere: Indeed. Obama was one of the last intellectual politicians in the US and was also one of the first in a while. (Not that it's an automatic solution: Woodrow Wilson was an intellectual but also an awful racist.) It's maybe not quite as bad over here but the trend is in that direction. But a positive sign was Germany appointing a professor of episemiological economics as minister of health in the new government. I hope he can get the escalating Covid situation there under control. I just had to cancel my planned Christmas trip to my adopted hometown of Frankfurt because of the pandemic.
	5:09am Brian D: Thank you @Cooh John. Glad to have you. And sorry to hear that, Don. About Frankfurt, I mean. And spot on about Obama and Wilson, though the former was/is certainly intelligent but flawed as well (though not as flawed as Wilson).
	5:10am Cooh John: I hear what you are saying Don and Brian. I buy books faster than I can read them.
	5:12am Brian D: That is a problem, @Cooh. Especially for those of us with small abodes. Like the Currents Clan.
	⚡ 5:22am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & listeners. Don, I read that your leader apologised for going out clubbing. At least you have someone who has it within themselves to apologise unlike this country.
	5:28am Brian D: But there was wine and cheese, Brian ;-)
	⚡ 5:29am Brian in UK: ....and no doubt waffer thin mints.
	5:42am I k e: Hi all! @Don, there are a small number of those oddball Put*n-loving leftists here too. We call them tankies. I just figure they can’t let go of the good old days when the USSR was… ugh.. so great?!? Puzzling indeed since Vlad isn’t exactly hiding that he’s a virulently homophobic billionaire oligarch.
	5:46am Brian D: Riding on horse, bare-chested, is a dead giveaway, you'd think.
	5:50am Ike: A liberal NJ guy I know is dating a Russian lady in southern Brooklyn and he says she really likes Vlad’s whole tough-guy shtick, that it really appeals to old-fashioned Russian women, that he comes across as suave. Yikes. I can’t see this relationship lasting. Especially since he can never find a parking spot in Bensonhurst, LOL.
	⚡ 5:51am Don in Tampere: My bookshelf is also running out of space, like mu record and CD shelves. But lately I've been buying lots of books as epubs for my e-book reader (NOT a Kindle, I refuse to support Amazon). Since I live in a Finnish-speaking country and usually read books in English or German, it is a lot easier to get the books I want to read.. Ike, didn't know the work tankies, but sounds good. In Germany they're called Putinversteher.
	5:56am Ike: Some leftists may also spend so much time reading about the horrors committed worldwide by the CIA that it may have broken their brains. Which is sort of understandable, it’s a long and nauseating list. I wonder if it’s natural to want to take a side or believe some big power somewhere is inherently good. So most tankies also deny that Uighurs are being put in concentration camps or that HK democracy protestors are “real”. They’re all CIA plants, apparently! I mean, wow.
	5:56am Brian D: Yikes, Ike. I'm glad I don't know any of those people.
	5:57am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today! Stay safe and have a great week.
	6:00am listener phillip (in the bronx): Good morning Carol Crow😁
	6:01am Avrilinmay: that ending music was AMAZING

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 12, 2021

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