WFMU: Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from January 13, 2024

Listener comments!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Greetings, Krys and Coasters.
	1:00pm Krys O.: Hello, Handy!
	👻 1:02pm fred: I had a huge crush on Eartha Kitt as a teenager
	1:02pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:00 🎵 Pierce and Eartha sittin in a tree... 🎵
	1:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Krys and friends!
	1:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hellos krys and all, funny lost stream there for a sec...
	1:02pm Krys O.: fred! HyperDose! Jan!
	1:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ HyperDose @1:02 There are other timelines?
	1:03pm Krys O.: Hi, tom tom!
	👻 1:04pm fred: @Handy: arb's show yesterday was titled "year of glad" and it was a reference (I asked)
	👻 1:04pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Krys O, everyone!
	1:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @1:04 Ha, excellent. Definitely year of the Depend Adult Undergarment over here.
	1:05pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex saw eartha kitt around this time, she said she had a "moment" with her
	1:05pm Krys O.: Hello, Paul!
	1:05pm HyperDose: Love and light to you, Krys 💜✨
	1:05pm Handy Haversack: My beloved aunt died in December at 96, Krys. This is an excellent idea for a show.
	1:06pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:05 Thank you
	1:07pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:05 I'm so sorry. I recall you describing your cherished visits with her. My condolences to you.
	👻 1:07pm yerfriendpaul: Amazing. 97 years! What a gift to have her for so long but of course , it doesn’t make it any less sorrowful. My condolences to you and your family, Krys.
	1:09pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:07 Thank you, Paul. She had dementia for a long time.
	1:10pm love2laf: ↳ Krys O. @1:07 Peace to you, and your family, and to Handy. December was tough losses for you both. Keep yourself wrapped in the memories that make you warm, and take time to be sad.
	👻 1:10pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Krys O. @1:09 My mother also suffered from dementia in her last couple of years. It was tough on everyone and my heart goes out to all of you.
	1:11pm Krys O.: ↳ love2laf @1:10 ♥️
	1:11pm spodiodi: hi Krys O! hands already in the air
	1:11pm Krys O.: Hi, spodiodi!
	1:13pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:10 💜
	👻 1:14pm fred: I remember carrying groceries for an elderly woman who repaid me with stories. She was a seamstress who once did a dress for Elizabeth Taylor, worked at the Paris opera (she was eloquent about the challenges of making dresses that would fit different breast sizes and wouldn't slip on dancers). I haven't seen her since COVID, and she was 96 at the time, so I don't expect to see her again, but these hours where time well spent
	1:14pm Handy Haversack: Aunt Donna was in hospice for a week or so at the end, but at home, with her wife. Probably the best way to go out that any of us could hope for.
	1:15pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:14 Splendid memories.
	1:17pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:14 I understand what you mean. My mom had a brief illness that put her in the hospital on Xmas Eve. She went into heart and kidney failure and passed peacefully on the 26th.
	1:19pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Krys! I remember during the 70s ragtime revival when people discovered Eubie was still alive and he did a number of talks shows and stuff. He was amazing!
	1:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:17 Aunt Donna went on the 27th. Really the period at the end of a very hard year. The women on my mom's side of the family are long-lived: my grandmother was 97 when she died, and her sister made it to 94. Aunt Donna was 96. Only my mom went young.
	1:20pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:19 Hi, Henry! So do I. He was HUGE and so was Alberta Hunter.
	1:22pm Webhamster Henry: This show is so classy!
	1:22pm Webhamster Henry: See if you can dig up some Mabel Mercer cuts!
	1:23pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:22 Thanks kindly, but the show is pre-recorded. I'll add some Mabel Mercer another time. I have a few.
	👻 1:23pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @1:15 Some talk could have confused any passerby who would have eavesdropped. She was very technical about breast texture, shape and size, as she had to be in her work. I wasn't embarrassed or confused, having heard how tough it can be for dancers to find a dress that fits, but it's a weird conversation to have in a street
	1:23pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:20 Mothers who went well before their time. I hate that we have that in common, pal 💔
	1:24pm tom tom the pipers son: when one of my grandmothers died (i saw her shortly after she passed) i had a waking dream of seeing her face come towards me, like a sun approaching, until she disappeared into my face. strange thing was i was not especially close with her, but thought maybe i was some primal projection on my part dealing with someone integral to me genetically
	1:24pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:23 Ha! Great!
	1:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @1:23 Ha! Un peu de trop!
	1:25pm Robm: afternoon fellow roller coaster listeners
	1:26pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:24 Jung or Arthur Koestler could have said something about that what with synchronicity and the collective unconscious.
	1:26pm Krys O.: Howdy, Robm!
	1:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:26 thanks for putting it in context...
	👻 1:27pm WR: Hi Krys and folks. Have been listening. That Eartha Kitt opening recording is lovely. I messed up not going to see her at The Cafe Carlyle. I did see Eubie Blake.
	1:28pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:23 My mom lost her own mother at a very young age. It affected her deeply.
	1:28pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:27 Hey, WR! How lucky to have seen Eubie. Fantastic!
	1:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:28 my mother lost her father at seven, she found him dead in the family's kitchen
	1:30pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:30 How awful.
	👻 1:32pm yerfriendpaul: Love George Burns!! I made a latch hook portrait of George Burns!!
	1:32pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @1:28 Especially if the parent you lose is the one you're close with
	1:32pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:32 Great!
	1:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "It All Depends on You/You Made Me Love You" by "G... George is in his Vaudeville element with the Muppets!
	1:33pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "It All Depends on You/You Made Me Love You" by "G... LOVE LOVE LOVE! Afternoon Krys-O! Hey Everybody!
	👻 1:34pm yerfriendpaul: I love Oh God too
	1:34pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Old Bones" by "George Burns" Sixteen years after the Muppets episode!
	👻 1:34pm WR: ↳ Song: "Old Bones" by "George Burns" Gracie!
	1:34pm Robm: @Love2Laf if your still around hello
	1:35pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:32 Soon after my maternal grandmother passed away, the Nazis invaded Poland. A couple of years after that my mom was taken to do forced labor in Germany.
	👻 1:35pm fred: I met a woman at a Lucinda Childs dance show last month, she's 99 now, we had a nice chat about dance and art. I hope I'll see her again. She gave me a hug, her family didn't approve
	1:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:30 yes, a hard LES new york type of life, i don't think she's ever really been able to deal with the experience... but that grandmother was able to raise four kids on her own, without them especially being in want
	1:36pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:34 Same. George was the best part of The Sunshine Boys. I recently watched Going in Style. Again George runs away with it.
	1:37pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:35 Hope you do see her again.
	1:39pm Krys O.: ↳ Bob Barth @1:33 Hi, Bob!!!
	1:40pm love2laf: ↳ Robm @1:34 Hello Robm, just easing my way off the radio and the accu, good to see you. Hugs all around as we all remember loved ones.
	👻 1:40pm yerfriendpaul: This is perfect. George’s birthday is in January. I keep track of these things
	1:40pm Krys O.: Hi, love2laf!
	1:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:39 I see what you did there.
	1:41pm Robm: ↳ love2laf @1:40 amen to that and see ya when i see ya
	👻 1:41pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @1:37 I probably wouldn't be allowed anywhere near her (she's in a wheelchair, there's a strict protective protocol at most shows. Families want control)
	1:42pm HyperDose: ↳ Bob Barth @1:33 He who puts on the best new year's parties!
	👻 1:43pm fred: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:40 Isn't this year's T-shirt octopus smoking frop?
	1:45pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Don't Stop the Music" by "Various" If this was conducted today, I imagine the tone of the interviewee would be even more perturbed
	1:45pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:45 Absolutely.
	1:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Don't Stop the Music" by "Various" ... and there's real age discrimination in the software biz at least...
	1:48pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:48 No doubt about that.
	1:49pm Bob Barth: ↳ HyperDose @1:42 Why thank you! You should swing on by and see what we get up to on Thursday nights!
	1:50pm HyperDose: He dropped a hard "R"
	1:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Krys O and coasters. Cheers to Alfredo Burdio who traversed the Grand Canyon recently at age 92.
	1:51pm tom tom the pipers son: the budgets for films like this were most likely nixed with reagan, ironically, perhaps being the oldest potus at that point
	1:51pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:50 Indeed. It reflected the time fifty years ago.
	1:52pm Krys O.: Howdy, Ken from HP!
	👻 1:52pm fred: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:48 Like at 30 you're too old. Too old to take a ping pong table as compensation. AI will take those jobs. The skill in software isn't technical, I think it's closer to analytic philosophy, clarifying what statements mean
	1:53pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @1:51 Remember learning the year your parents were born and thinking it was near-prehistoric? The jokes on us!
	1:54pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:53 Yup, 1922 and 1926.
	1:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:54 My dad was born in 1916. He was older than the Turkish language.
	1:59pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:58 🙀
	👻 2:00pm fred: I had a ticket to see Kazuo Ohno about ten years ago, but he had to cancel. The guy was still performing at 100!
	2:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The World is a Circle" by "Diana Lee & Bobby Van" So Bacharachy! but kind of the wrong property for him!
	2:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:00 He said this film almost tanked his career.
	2:02pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:00 I recall seeing videos of his performances. Amazing.
	2:03pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:00 butoh isn't age adverse i guess, i may get more expressive
	2:03pm tom tom the pipers son: it
	2:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ fred @1:52 Oh Ai will be coding and building the unit tests, people will be crafting the prompts and test prompts. They don't realize it, but "management" is a perfect fit for AI;
	2:03pm Handy Haversack: and Charles Boyer as the High Llama
	👻 2:05pm fred: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:03 The "I" in AI is a fraud, so it's indeed a great fit for management
	2:05pm Webhamster Henry: We used to play "Living together, growing together" a lot.
	2:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ross hunter a 50's producer...? didn't he do jayne mansfield films
	2:07pm Handy Haversack: and John Gielgud as Chang
	2:08pm Webhamster Henry: If you like Bacharach, check out Season 2 of Schmigadoon "Schmicago" www.youtube.com...
	2:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:05 a former professor wrote an essay titled "machine intelligence: a chimera"
	2:08pm chresti: Hi Krys O and coasters!
	2:09pm Krys O.: Hi, chresti!
	👻 2:09pm fred: Eliane Radigue is alive and composing. She hinted Occam Ocean is her final series, but an ocean gives her space to fill. I heard she's at work on two works
	2:11pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:06 no mansfield, but doris day and three douglas sirk films
	2:19pm tom tom the pipers son: rents now and then '69, incomparable, i would think, to rents '69 and fifty years before that
	👻 2:21pm fred: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" I can't help seeing Scott and Mark there
	2:23pm Mr. Oxford: Hello Krys O! Hello all!
	2:24pm Krys O.: Hi, Mr. Oxford!
	2:24pm tom tom the pipers son: don't think i've seen a picture of john prine young before
	2:24pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @2:21 Exact same reaction here.
	2:25pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:21 LOL!
	2:25pm Mr. Oxford: ↳ Song: "Hello in There" by "John Prine" Such a great song. I think about my grandparents when I hear this song. They are quite old. I flew to India to visit them during Christmas time few weeks ago for the first time since the pandemic. Loneliness in old people is quite heartbreaking.
	2:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:19 I plugged the current rent of our rent-stabilized place into a currency calculator and found out that in terms of inflation, it's actually a little less now than when we moved in twenty years ago. Of course, wages have also weakened a lot during that time.
	2:27pm Ken From Hyde Park: My dear mother's best friend Ardis died this week (age 89). Mom got a ride to the funeral yesterday. They shared a love of horseback riding and had stories of driving & camping in the southwest. They tipped their boots out one morning and there was a scorpion in one of them. 🥾
	2:28pm Krys O.: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 My condolences to your mother, Ken.
	2:29pm Mr. Oxford: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 My condolences to your mother, Ken. Wishing strength to your mother during this time.
	2:30pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 So it wasn't a snake after all
	2:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:25 oh that's interesting, i just had a gut reaction on hearing 60 dollar rents. i could see how rents in brooklyn remained stable from twenty years ago, but there may have been a jump before then that came with rezoning
	👻 2:32pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" I listened to Bookends so much that I came to memorize the voices of those people in that piece.
	2:32pm Rich in Washington: Hi Krys O!
	👻 2:32pm fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:31 $60 rents? Pray tell where
	2:33pm Krys O.: Hi, Rich!
	2:33pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @2:32 Same!
	2:34pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:32 One of the seniors in the last set spoke about paying $60 a month for a furnished room in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1969.
	2:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:32 it was in the interview with elderly man talking about brooklyn rents in '69
	2:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:31 Nonstabilized rents have increased wildy, far outstripping inflation. And landlords are warehousing tens of thousands of rent stabilized apartments (in a housing crisis) rather than rent them for less than they think they "deserve."
	👻 2:36pm fred: OK, these days it doesn't happen, and wages didn't rise as fast
	2:39pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:35 it's hard to figure what makes people so greedy/evil
	2:40pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" Laurie Spiegel is also very active, Dither Guitar Quartet did a show with her music yesterday: publicrecords.nyc...
	2:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:39 Well, short answer: capitalism. Longer answer: private property.
	👻 2:42pm fred: Thanks for the show, I'm deeply sorry for marring your tribute with irrelevant stuff about others
	2:44pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:42 I love the free discourse, fred. It's one of my favorite parts of being here. Thank you for hanging out. Always a pleasure.
	2:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ HyperDose @2:30 "There's a scorpion in my boot!" doesn't have the same ring to it.
	2:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:41 i know, i sound naive,... but things have gotten worse, characteristics of late capitalism things like hedge funding etc
	2:47pm tom tom the pipers son: joe franklin was on tv , ch 9, two or three times a day
	2:48pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:47 As an insomniac from waaaaay back, I used to catch his show at 2 am. It ain't just paint.
	2:48pm tom tom the pipers son: though not explicitly, this moondog fits the theme perfectly
	2:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @2:48 it was like joe knew you had insomnia
	2:51pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:50 I mentioned this before, but I met Joe Franklin. I was quite star struck. He was really nice.
	2:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @2:51 yes remember the photo... saw him on 42nd street once(perfect place) and got a wink
	👻 2:54pm WR: Great episode, Krys! So many feels and memories. And funnies too!
	2:54pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks again krys...
	2:54pm spodiodi: interesting show today, Krys O! thank you for putting it together
	2:54pm chresti: I turned 21 in 78
	2:54pm Krys O.: Thank you, WR! Thanks to everyone for hanging out. It's an honor to be with all of you.
	2:55pm chresti: hi spodi!\\//
	2:55pm spodiodi: hi chresti!\\//
	2:55pm chresti: Thanks Krys!
	2:56pm HyperDose: Great show, Krys!
	2:56pm Webhamster Henry: A quality show as usual, Krys!
	2:57pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Krys! Wonderful show and a really lovely reflection. Sympathy and solidarity, as ever.
	2:57pm tom tom the pipers son: every body i think shelly hirsch is on sewelson
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:57 Whoa!
	2:58pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:57 Terrific!
	2:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Krys. Appreciate the condolence messages.
	3:00pm tom tom the pipers son: boy eartha still beautidful in '06
	3:00pm Mr. Oxford: Thanks Krys O!
	👻 3:07pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Krys!
	2:31pm Parq: Listened to the archive on Sunday. An extraordinary show, Miss Kryss, maybe the best FFRC ever. Very poignant for me, as I turn 68 on Friday. I've got two years until I'm 70. I expect it to be terribly strange.

Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from January 13, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Eartha Kitt	Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup	Live At The Café Carlyle	DRG	2006		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Tony Martin	Medley: I Get Ideas, To Each His Own, La Vie en Rose, There's No Tomorrow	from a PBS TV concert		1984		0:06:10 (Pop-up)
Alberta Hunter and Eubie Blake	Memories of You				early 80s TV special in tribute to Eubie Blake	0:12:34 (Pop-up)
Eubie Blake	Charleston Rag, I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You	from a Berlin TV concert		1972		0:16:27 (Pop-up)
George Burns & the Muppets	It All Depends on You/You Made Me Love You	from a Muppet Show episode		1977		0:30:20 (Pop-up)
George Burns	Old Bones "Old Bones" by "George Burns"	from a Living Legends TV special		1993	includes a montage of George Burns bits and introduced by Bob Newhart (who is still around at age 94)	0:33:38 (Pop-up)

Various	Don't Stop the Music "Don't Stop the Music" by "Various"	U.S. Dept of Health, Education & Welfare short film on aging in America		1974		0:42:22 (Pop-up)

Diana Lee & Bobby Van	The World is a Circle	Lost Horizon OST	Columbia	1973		0:59:19 (Pop-up)
Sally Kellerman & Andra Willis	The Things I Will Miss	Lost Horizon OST	Columbia	1973		1:02:49 (Pop-up)
Bobby Van	Question Me an Answer "Question Me an Answer" by "Bobby Van"	Lost Horizon OST	Columbia	1973		1:05:53 (Pop-up)
Jackie & Roy	Stay With Me Forever, Stay With Me Now	Grass	Capitol	1968		1:11:13 (Pop-up)
Various	Interviews with seniors "Interviews with seniors" by "Various"	from filmmaker David Hoffman		1969		1:15:00 (Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	Voices of Old People	Bookends	Columbia	1968		1:18:39 (Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	Old Friends "Old Friends" by "Simon & Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968		1:20:43 (Pop-up)
John Prine	Hello in There "Hello in There" by "John Prine"	John Prine	Atlantic	1971		1:23:16 (Pop-up)
Joni Mitchell	Songs to Aging Children Come	Clouds	Reprise	1969		1:27:39 (Pop-up)

Joe Franklin	Interviews Milton Berle	from The Joe Franklin Show		1989		1:32:16 (Pop-up)
Joe Franklin	At the Friar's Club "At the Friar's Club" by "Joe Franklin"	from The Joe Franklin Show		1989	With Al Lewis, Joey Adams, Henny Youngman, Freddy Roman, and Bob Melvin	1:40:18 (Pop-up)
Moondog & the London Saxophonic	New Amsterdam	Sax Pax for a Sax	Atlantic	1994		1:46:46 (Pop-up)
Klaatu	Older "Older" by "Klaatu"	Sir Army Suit	Capitol	1978		1:53:04 (Pop-up)

Eartha Kitt	Here's to Life "Here's to Life" by "Eartha Kitt"	Live from the Cafe Carlyle	DRG	2006		1:56:54 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Greetings, Krys and Coasters.
	1:00pm Krys O.: Hello, Handy!
	👻 1:02pm fred: I had a huge crush on Eartha Kitt as a teenager
	1:02pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:00 🎵 Pierce and Eartha sittin in a tree... 🎵
	1:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Krys and friends!
	1:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hellos krys and all, funny lost stream there for a sec...
	1:02pm Krys O.: fred! HyperDose! Jan!
	1:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ HyperDose @1:02 There are other timelines?
	1:03pm Krys O.: Hi, tom tom!
	👻 1:04pm fred: @Handy: arb's show yesterday was titled "year of glad" and it was a reference (I asked)
	👻 1:04pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Krys O, everyone!
	1:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @1:04 Ha, excellent. Definitely year of the Depend Adult Undergarment over here.
	1:05pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex saw eartha kitt around this time, she said she had a "moment" with her
	1:05pm Krys O.: Hello, Paul!
	1:05pm HyperDose: Love and light to you, Krys 💜✨
	1:05pm Handy Haversack: My beloved aunt died in December at 96, Krys. This is an excellent idea for a show.
	1:06pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:05 Thank you
	1:07pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:05 I'm so sorry. I recall you describing your cherished visits with her. My condolences to you.
	👻 1:07pm yerfriendpaul: Amazing. 97 years! What a gift to have her for so long but of course , it doesn’t make it any less sorrowful. My condolences to you and your family, Krys.
	1:09pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:07 Thank you, Paul. She had dementia for a long time.
	1:10pm love2laf: ↳ Krys O. @1:07 Peace to you, and your family, and to Handy. December was tough losses for you both. Keep yourself wrapped in the memories that make you warm, and take time to be sad.
	👻 1:10pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Krys O. @1:09 My mother also suffered from dementia in her last couple of years. It was tough on everyone and my heart goes out to all of you.
	1:11pm Krys O.: ↳ love2laf @1:10 ♥️
	1:11pm spodiodi: hi Krys O! hands already in the air
	1:11pm Krys O.: Hi, spodiodi!
	1:13pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:10 💜
	👻 1:14pm fred: I remember carrying groceries for an elderly woman who repaid me with stories. She was a seamstress who once did a dress for Elizabeth Taylor, worked at the Paris opera (she was eloquent about the challenges of making dresses that would fit different breast sizes and wouldn't slip on dancers). I haven't seen her since COVID, and she was 96 at the time, so I don't expect to see her again, but these hours where time well spent
	1:14pm Handy Haversack: Aunt Donna was in hospice for a week or so at the end, but at home, with her wife. Probably the best way to go out that any of us could hope for.
	1:15pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:14 Splendid memories.
	1:17pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:14 I understand what you mean. My mom had a brief illness that put her in the hospital on Xmas Eve. She went into heart and kidney failure and passed peacefully on the 26th.
	1:19pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Krys! I remember during the 70s ragtime revival when people discovered Eubie was still alive and he did a number of talks shows and stuff. He was amazing!
	1:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:17 Aunt Donna went on the 27th. Really the period at the end of a very hard year. The women on my mom's side of the family are long-lived: my grandmother was 97 when she died, and her sister made it to 94. Aunt Donna was 96. Only my mom went young.
	1:20pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:19 Hi, Henry! So do I. He was HUGE and so was Alberta Hunter.
	1:22pm Webhamster Henry: This show is so classy!
	1:22pm Webhamster Henry: See if you can dig up some Mabel Mercer cuts!
	1:23pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:22 Thanks kindly, but the show is pre-recorded. I'll add some Mabel Mercer another time. I have a few.
	👻 1:23pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @1:15 Some talk could have confused any passerby who would have eavesdropped. She was very technical about breast texture, shape and size, as she had to be in her work. I wasn't embarrassed or confused, having heard how tough it can be for dancers to find a dress that fits, but it's a weird conversation to have in a street
	1:23pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:20 Mothers who went well before their time. I hate that we have that in common, pal 💔
	1:24pm tom tom the pipers son: when one of my grandmothers died (i saw her shortly after she passed) i had a waking dream of seeing her face come towards me, like a sun approaching, until she disappeared into my face. strange thing was i was not especially close with her, but thought maybe i was some primal projection on my part dealing with someone integral to me genetically
	1:24pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:23 Ha! Great!
	1:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @1:23 Ha! Un peu de trop!
	1:25pm Robm: afternoon fellow roller coaster listeners
	1:26pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:24 Jung or Arthur Koestler could have said something about that what with synchronicity and the collective unconscious.
	1:26pm Krys O.: Howdy, Robm!
	1:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:26 thanks for putting it in context...
	👻 1:27pm WR: Hi Krys and folks. Have been listening. That Eartha Kitt opening recording is lovely. I messed up not going to see her at The Cafe Carlyle. I did see Eubie Blake.
	1:28pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:23 My mom lost her own mother at a very young age. It affected her deeply.
	1:28pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:27 Hey, WR! How lucky to have seen Eubie. Fantastic!
	1:30pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:28 my mother lost her father at seven, she found him dead in the family's kitchen
	1:30pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:30 How awful.
	👻 1:32pm yerfriendpaul: Love George Burns!! I made a latch hook portrait of George Burns!!
	1:32pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @1:28 Especially if the parent you lose is the one you're close with
	1:32pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:32 Great!
	1:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "It All Depends on You/You Made Me Love You" by "G... George is in his Vaudeville element with the Muppets!
	1:33pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "It All Depends on You/You Made Me Love You" by "G... LOVE LOVE LOVE! Afternoon Krys-O! Hey Everybody!
	👻 1:34pm yerfriendpaul: I love Oh God too
	1:34pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Old Bones" by "George Burns" Sixteen years after the Muppets episode!
	👻 1:34pm WR: ↳ Song: "Old Bones" by "George Burns" Gracie!
	1:34pm Robm: @Love2Laf if your still around hello
	1:35pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:32 Soon after my maternal grandmother passed away, the Nazis invaded Poland. A couple of years after that my mom was taken to do forced labor in Germany.
	👻 1:35pm fred: I met a woman at a Lucinda Childs dance show last month, she's 99 now, we had a nice chat about dance and art. I hope I'll see her again. She gave me a hug, her family didn't approve
	1:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:30 yes, a hard LES new york type of life, i don't think she's ever really been able to deal with the experience... but that grandmother was able to raise four kids on her own, without them especially being in want
	1:36pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @1:34 Same. George was the best part of The Sunshine Boys. I recently watched Going in Style. Again George runs away with it.
	1:37pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @1:35 Hope you do see her again.
	1:39pm Krys O.: ↳ Bob Barth @1:33 Hi, Bob!!!
	1:40pm love2laf: ↳ Robm @1:34 Hello Robm, just easing my way off the radio and the accu, good to see you. Hugs all around as we all remember loved ones.
	👻 1:40pm yerfriendpaul: This is perfect. George’s birthday is in January. I keep track of these things
	1:40pm Krys O.: Hi, love2laf!
	1:40pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:39 I see what you did there.
	1:41pm Robm: ↳ love2laf @1:40 amen to that and see ya when i see ya
	👻 1:41pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @1:37 I probably wouldn't be allowed anywhere near her (she's in a wheelchair, there's a strict protective protocol at most shows. Families want control)
	1:42pm HyperDose: ↳ Bob Barth @1:33 He who puts on the best new year's parties!
	👻 1:43pm fred: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:40 Isn't this year's T-shirt octopus smoking frop?
	1:45pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Don't Stop the Music" by "Various" If this was conducted today, I imagine the tone of the interviewee would be even more perturbed
	1:45pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:45 Absolutely.
	1:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Don't Stop the Music" by "Various" ... and there's real age discrimination in the software biz at least...
	1:48pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:48 No doubt about that.
	1:49pm Bob Barth: ↳ HyperDose @1:42 Why thank you! You should swing on by and see what we get up to on Thursday nights!
	1:50pm HyperDose: He dropped a hard "R"
	1:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Krys O and coasters. Cheers to Alfredo Burdio who traversed the Grand Canyon recently at age 92.
	1:51pm tom tom the pipers son: the budgets for films like this were most likely nixed with reagan, ironically, perhaps being the oldest potus at that point
	1:51pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:50 Indeed. It reflected the time fifty years ago.
	1:52pm Krys O.: Howdy, Ken from HP!
	👻 1:52pm fred: ↳ Webhamster Henry @1:48 Like at 30 you're too old. Too old to take a ping pong table as compensation. AI will take those jobs. The skill in software isn't technical, I think it's closer to analytic philosophy, clarifying what statements mean
	1:53pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @1:51 Remember learning the year your parents were born and thinking it was near-prehistoric? The jokes on us!
	1:54pm Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @1:53 Yup, 1922 and 1926.
	1:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Krys O. @1:54 My dad was born in 1916. He was older than the Turkish language.
	1:59pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:58 🙀
	👻 2:00pm fred: I had a ticket to see Kazuo Ohno about ten years ago, but he had to cancel. The guy was still performing at 100!
	2:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The World is a Circle" by "Diana Lee & Bobby Van" So Bacharachy! but kind of the wrong property for him!
	2:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:00 He said this film almost tanked his career.
	2:02pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:00 I recall seeing videos of his performances. Amazing.
	2:03pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:00 butoh isn't age adverse i guess, i may get more expressive
	2:03pm tom tom the pipers son: it
	2:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ fred @1:52 Oh Ai will be coding and building the unit tests, people will be crafting the prompts and test prompts. They don't realize it, but "management" is a perfect fit for AI;
	2:03pm Handy Haversack: and Charles Boyer as the High Llama
	👻 2:05pm fred: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:03 The "I" in AI is a fraud, so it's indeed a great fit for management
	2:05pm Webhamster Henry: We used to play "Living together, growing together" a lot.
	2:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ross hunter a 50's producer...? didn't he do jayne mansfield films
	2:07pm Handy Haversack: and John Gielgud as Chang
	2:08pm Webhamster Henry: If you like Bacharach, check out Season 2 of Schmigadoon "Schmicago" www.youtube.com...
	2:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:05 a former professor wrote an essay titled "machine intelligence: a chimera"
	2:08pm chresti: Hi Krys O and coasters!
	2:09pm Krys O.: Hi, chresti!
	👻 2:09pm fred: Eliane Radigue is alive and composing. She hinted Occam Ocean is her final series, but an ocean gives her space to fill. I heard she's at work on two works
	2:11pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:06 no mansfield, but doris day and three douglas sirk films
	2:19pm tom tom the pipers son: rents now and then '69, incomparable, i would think, to rents '69 and fifty years before that
	👻 2:21pm fred: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" I can't help seeing Scott and Mark there
	2:23pm Mr. Oxford: Hello Krys O! Hello all!
	2:24pm Krys O.: Hi, Mr. Oxford!
	2:24pm tom tom the pipers son: don't think i've seen a picture of john prine young before
	2:24pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @2:21 Exact same reaction here.
	2:25pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:21 LOL!
	2:25pm Mr. Oxford: ↳ Song: "Hello in There" by "John Prine" Such a great song. I think about my grandparents when I hear this song. They are quite old. I flew to India to visit them during Christmas time few weeks ago for the first time since the pandemic. Loneliness in old people is quite heartbreaking.
	2:25pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:19 I plugged the current rent of our rent-stabilized place into a currency calculator and found out that in terms of inflation, it's actually a little less now than when we moved in twenty years ago. Of course, wages have also weakened a lot during that time.
	2:27pm Ken From Hyde Park: My dear mother's best friend Ardis died this week (age 89). Mom got a ride to the funeral yesterday. They shared a love of horseback riding and had stories of driving & camping in the southwest. They tipped their boots out one morning and there was a scorpion in one of them. 🥾
	2:28pm Krys O.: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 My condolences to your mother, Ken.
	2:29pm Mr. Oxford: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 My condolences to your mother, Ken. Wishing strength to your mother during this time.
	2:30pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:27 So it wasn't a snake after all
	2:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:25 oh that's interesting, i just had a gut reaction on hearing 60 dollar rents. i could see how rents in brooklyn remained stable from twenty years ago, but there may have been a jump before then that came with rezoning
	👻 2:32pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" I listened to Bookends so much that I came to memorize the voices of those people in that piece.
	2:32pm Rich in Washington: Hi Krys O!
	👻 2:32pm fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:31 $60 rents? Pray tell where
	2:33pm Krys O.: Hi, Rich!
	2:33pm Krys O.: ↳ yerfriendpaul @2:32 Same!
	2:34pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:32 One of the seniors in the last set spoke about paying $60 a month for a furnished room in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1969.
	2:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @2:32 it was in the interview with elderly man talking about brooklyn rents in '69
	2:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:31 Nonstabilized rents have increased wildy, far outstripping inflation. And landlords are warehousing tens of thousands of rent stabilized apartments (in a housing crisis) rather than rent them for less than they think they "deserve."
	👻 2:36pm fred: OK, these days it doesn't happen, and wages didn't rise as fast
	2:39pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:35 it's hard to figure what makes people so greedy/evil
	2:40pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Voices of Old People" by "Simon & Garfunkel" Laurie Spiegel is also very active, Dither Guitar Quartet did a show with her music yesterday: publicrecords.nyc...
	2:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:39 Well, short answer: capitalism. Longer answer: private property.
	👻 2:42pm fred: Thanks for the show, I'm deeply sorry for marring your tribute with irrelevant stuff about others
	2:44pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:42 I love the free discourse, fred. It's one of my favorite parts of being here. Thank you for hanging out. Always a pleasure.
	2:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ HyperDose @2:30 "There's a scorpion in my boot!" doesn't have the same ring to it.
	2:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Handy Haversack @2:41 i know, i sound naive,... but things have gotten worse, characteristics of late capitalism things like hedge funding etc
	2:47pm tom tom the pipers son: joe franklin was on tv , ch 9, two or three times a day
	2:48pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:47 As an insomniac from waaaaay back, I used to catch his show at 2 am. It ain't just paint.
	2:48pm tom tom the pipers son: though not explicitly, this moondog fits the theme perfectly
	2:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @2:48 it was like joe knew you had insomnia
	2:51pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:50 I mentioned this before, but I met Joe Franklin. I was quite star struck. He was really nice.
	2:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @2:51 yes remember the photo... saw him on 42nd street once(perfect place) and got a wink
	👻 2:54pm WR: Great episode, Krys! So many feels and memories. And funnies too!
	2:54pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks again krys...
	2:54pm spodiodi: interesting show today, Krys O! thank you for putting it together
	2:54pm chresti: I turned 21 in 78
	2:54pm Krys O.: Thank you, WR! Thanks to everyone for hanging out. It's an honor to be with all of you.
	2:55pm chresti: hi spodi!\\//
	2:55pm spodiodi: hi chresti!\\//
	2:55pm chresti: Thanks Krys!
	2:56pm HyperDose: Great show, Krys!
	2:56pm Webhamster Henry: A quality show as usual, Krys!
	2:57pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Krys! Wonderful show and a really lovely reflection. Sympathy and solidarity, as ever.
	2:57pm tom tom the pipers son: every body i think shelly hirsch is on sewelson
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:57 Whoa!
	2:58pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:57 Terrific!
	2:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Krys. Appreciate the condolence messages.
	3:00pm tom tom the pipers son: boy eartha still beautidful in '06
	3:00pm Mr. Oxford: Thanks Krys O!
	👻 3:07pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Krys!
	2:31pm Parq: Listened to the archive on Sunday. An extraordinary show, Miss Kryss, maybe the best FFRC ever. Very poignant for me, as I turn 68 on Friday. I've got two years until I'm 70. I expect it to be terribly strange.

Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from January 13, 2024

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