WFMU: The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from February 2, 2025

Listener comments!
	🥃 9:00pm medson: Hey hey Harry
	🥃 9:00pm Fatherflot: Hey Harry
	9:00pm Bluesman: Helloooooo Harry!
	9:00pm JReganK: Whatz up, Harry!
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: Good evening, Sirs. My two favorite gentlemen. How goes it
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:00 alright whatz up is rite!
	🥃 9:01pm Jessie: Evening, Harry! I started Blackadder and it is great. Only 4 episodes in but really enjoying it.
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:00 btw that is a classic photo you have there.
	🥃 9:01pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01 I literally just finished reading War and Peace 15 minutes ago. 1358 pages, with the last 50 consisting of Tolstoy obsessively examining and critiquing 19th century schools of historiography, with the writing becoming more and more abstract and philosophical until he is almost sounding like Sartre or late Wittgenstein on the knot of language, consciousness, time, and the irresolvable antinomy of freedom and necessity.
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:01 Mistress! Knew you would. Some screamingly funny stuff there.
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I am impressed! Have not read. Was driving other day thinking, er, read Moby Dick before death. But War and Peace makes that look like Cliff Notes! And did you enjoy it??
	9:02pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01 Thank you, Sir!
	9:02pm spodiodi: Greetings, Harry and all!
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:02 way cool
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ spodiodi @9:02 alright spodiodi!
	🥃 9:03pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:02 It's mostly a page-turner until the two epilogues at the end.
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:03 really. need to read then. have not read Tolstoy. plenty of Doestoyevsky but not T.
	9:04pm Gaylord Fields: Good evening, Harry! Happy to make it a musical Sunday night with you.
	9:04pm spodiodi: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:03 8^D allright
	9:04pm TheDerek: ↳ Jessie @9:01 BLACK ADDER!!
	🥃 9:04pm Fatherflot: Tolstoy is definitely an all-time great, a master psychologist who is curious about all kinds of people and their motivations.
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:04 Mr. Fields! Awesome to have you in the house! Thx for joining and listening.
	🥃 9:05pm Fatherflot: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:04 Hey Gaylord
	🥃 9:05pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:04 will explore.
	9:05pm TheDerek: HI HARRY & the rest of the Carnies on here!
	9:05pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:01 Good evening, Mixtress! Great show!
	9:05pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Fatherflot @9:05 Howdy, Double Eff!
	🥃 9:06pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04 Start with the novella "The Death of Ivan Illych" --- everything great about Tolstoy is packed into that little masterpiece.
	🥃 9:06pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:05 Welcome! BlackAdder has a bicycle like that.
	🥃 9:06pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:06 ah good to know got it.
	9:06pm JReganK: Hey, The Derek!
	🥃 9:06pm Jessie: ↳ JReganK @9:05 Evening, JRegan. A week from now this city might be a freaking mess! 👀👀
	9:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Jessie @9:01 My advice to newcomers is to skip the first season. It wasn't until Ben Elton joined as a writer that it became great.
	9:07pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I literally just finished reading Fatherflot's commentary on War & Peace 15 minutes ago, thousands of pages in the chat log, and by the end he was sounding like a cross between George Martin and Mutt Lange, paragraphs of philosophy about unresolvable antimony between listener accessibility and the necessity of tube amps…
	🥃 9:07pm Jessie: ↳ David Shortell @9:06 🤔🤔🤔
	9:07pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:06 I remember watching BA on A&E(when it was still edgy)
	🥃 9:07pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:07 😂
	9:07pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:06 Are the Stranglers coming to town?
	🥃 9:08pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:07 yeah me too and think you're right about season one as i recall.
	🥃 9:09pm Jessie: ↳ JReganK @9:07 I would prefer that over the football fans.
	🥃 9:09pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:07 I think George Martin liked guitar plugged directly into the Neve preamp in the mixing board, no?
	9:09pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08 That wasn't me commenting on the first season, hee hee
	🥃 9:09pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:09 D'oh!
	🥃 9:10pm Tom in Brooklyn: Hey Harry!
	9:10pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:09 George Martin liked guitar???
	9:10pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:09 Honestly I don't know if that was Martin or Emerich's idea, or something George or John just thought might be a good larf
	🥃 9:10pm Fatherflot: ↳ Jessie @9:09 People got shot and killed at the last Chiefs super bowl celebration in KC
	9:10pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:09 Football fans are worse than cop conventions!
	9:10pm CC: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!...Hi Harry & Co...!!!...:)
	🥃 9:11pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:10 Magick Alex maybe?
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ CC @9:10 Sunday evening indeed CC.
	🥃 9:11pm Jessie: ↳ Fatherflot @9:10 FFS I hope that never happens again.
	9:11pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:10 It's why Football hooligans are a problem in the UK
	9:12pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:11 My neck spins just thinking of it…
	🥃 9:12pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:11 Read that Derek Taylor As Time Goes By while back. Magick Alex certainly was in the mix.
	9:13pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:11 Who's got a budget for property damage these days?
	🥃 9:13pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Harry and all!!!
	9:13pm David Shortell: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I've got bad new for you, Flot: youtube.com...
	🥃 9:13pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:13 Greetings Will!
	9:13pm JReganK: Hey, Will!
	9:15pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 Is there a hillbilly print of War & Peace?. I can't read difficult books
	🥃 9:15pm Fatherflot: ↳ David Shortell @9:13 I've been watching the 1966 Russian film on YT --- even that is 431 minutes long!
	9:15pm spodiodi: ↳ JReganK @9:10 ⭐️
	9:15pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:15 Lol!
	9:17pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:15 Being silly but there is truth to that
	9:17pm JReganK: ↳ spodiodi @9:15 Hey. Spodiodi! Are you the new Sheriff in town?
	9:18pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:17 19th century Russians can be a dry read!
	9:18pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:15 Abel Ganz NAPOLEAN. Fantastic film
	9:18pm Ellen: ↳ Song: "God-Bird-Change" by "Al DiMeola" Dammit Harry I was just set to turn in and you have to go and guitar nerd me
	9:19pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:18 I have 9th grade reading level but WS Burroughs makes sense to me
	🥃 9:20pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:18 HA! Apologies!
	🥃 9:21pm medson: Great picks Harry.
	🥃 9:21pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:15 It's not difficult until the philosophical chapters at the end. It's mostly very straightforward realist fiction --- kind of soap opera like in some ways. Lots of domestic drama between parents and children, husbands and wives, fiancées, love rivals who end up in duels, etc. Not like reading Joyce or Virginia Woolf
	9:21pm TheDerek: ↳ Song: "God-Bird-Change" by "Al DiMeola" I love the riffs sounding like a birds taking off
	🥃 9:21pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:21 hey thx man glad you dig it. all over the map tonight as advertised
	9:22pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:19 That's a fine attribute on any resume!
	🥃 9:22pm medson: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:21 Sounds like a solid choice
	🥃 9:22pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:21 yeah this cat Mingo Lewis wrote that song originally recorded by The Tubes. great version live by them
	🥃 9:23pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:22 Blind squirrel seeks acorns.
	9:23pm spodiodi: ↳ JReganK @9:17 Nope. Just a star gazer :-B (who doesn't love corporate tv sports nor aggression/caveman sports)
	9:24pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22 Mingo was in DiMeola's band for years: fabulous percussionist
	🥃 9:24pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:18 I never got to see that. I remember when the three screen restoration came out and it was shown in NY --- was it Coppola who was behind that? Early 80s?
	9:24pm JReganK: ↳ spodiodi @9:23 True!
	🥃 9:26pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:24 Did not know that but realized after finding these two tracks. Bet they're both still out there doing it, I hope.
	9:26pm TheDerek: Hardest book I read was Tess of the D'urbervilles in my senior year in high school. I have a comprehension defect hence reading level being low. But I can recite American Welding Society codes.
	🥃 9:26pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:24 and yeah when he toured with The Tubes with Prairie on drums: Wow.
	🥃 9:27pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:26 Hardy is a tough slog. I re-read Jude the Obscure a couple of years ago for the first time since college. Didn't really enjoy the experience.
	9:28pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:24 Not sure on the restoration. Oddly enough I saw it in a library in 1987
	🥃 9:29pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:27 how about Proust? yet to venture forth.
	9:29pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:26 I don't know much about The Tubes; if you'd asked me five minutes ago I'd have said they were an American one-hit wonder. And I only know that because of my long-standing distaste for David Foster.
	🥃 9:29pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:28 Just looked it up. The restoration was released in poly-screen by Coppola's American Zoetrope and it was shown at Radio City in 1981. Sold out every screening.
	9:30pm David Shortell: ↳ TheDerek @9:28 All in one sitting, for over 9 hours?
	🥃 9:30pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:29 egads he ruined them. not a studio band.greatest stage act I have ever seen. check out side two of Love Bomb which nobody heard. brilliant swan song.
	🥃 9:31pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29 I've only got through the first volume of "A La Recherch . . ." (the C. Scott Montcrief translation). He's very taxing to read --- sentences that literally go on for two pages of small type.
	9:32pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:30 ta, added to my list of things to chase down
	9:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29 Maybe this will help: youtube.com...
	9:32pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:29 That must have been amazing! I would have loved seeing that. There is a Todd Browning movie that got slurred real bad & only few strips remain. It was considered Lon Chaney's best make-up effect
	9:33pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Just a Thought" by "Creedence Clearwater Revival" Great album!
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:32 oh man i remember that! will watch again
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:33 yeah and that song's been stuck in my head all week.
	🥃 9:34pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 All cricketers, except for Omar Sharif
	9:34pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 I can think of worse earworms!
	9:34pm TheDerek: ↳ Ellen @9:29 Fee Waybill played a washed-up glam rocker in LADIES & GENTLEMEN THE FABULOUS STAINS
	9:36pm Ellen: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 …and now I've added that to my list of things to chase down. Never heard of that film.
	🥃 9:37pm Jessie: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 Black Randy and the Metrosquad were in that film too.
	🥃 9:37pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 with Diane Lane and half The Clash too, right?
	9:37pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:34 Watch out FatherFlot is reaching for the Cricket bat
	9:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37 Paul and Steve from the Sex Pistols. Paul from the Clash.
	🥃 9:38pm Jessie: ↳ Song: "Rain Crow" by "Tony Joe White" Nothing but swamp water in his veins!
	9:38pm CC: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 If you haven't read The Illuminati's Trilogy try that one next...:)
	9:39pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Rain Crow" by "Tony Joe White" That was quite catchy!
	🥃 9:39pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 right right.
	🥃 9:39pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:38 you said it. and yes it is JRK! love TJW. that voice, that guitar tone.
	9:39pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 That was a good film!
	🥃 9:40pm Fatherflot: ↳ CC @9:38 Thanks for the rec. I have Celine's Journey to the End of the Night teed up next
	9:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39 Would you believe that Paul Simonon took a break from the "Sandinista!" recording sessions to appear in that cheap Canadian film?
	🥃 9:41pm Jessie: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 You gonna love that one Ff. Bukowski’s favorite too.
	9:41pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:38 Swamp water is essential for a well rounded Old Fashioned!
	9:42pm CC: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 Never whistle while you're pissing...:)
	🥃 9:42pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:41 that one i know. did not know a buk fave but no surprize
	9:42pm TheDerek: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 & Ray Winstone's 2nd movie after Quadrophenia. Barry ford of Merger
	9:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 I read that because of the Doors song. I heard it doesn't translate well though.
	🥃 9:44pm Jessie: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:42 I have you read any of John Fante’s books? Ask the Dust is the best place to start.
	9:44pm Ellen: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... This is lovely. Her work is always top notch.
	9:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... Maria Schneider from "Last Tango in Paris"?
	🥃 9:45pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:44 oh yeah got em all right here on my shelf. Full of Life a good one, too.
	🥃 9:45pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 oh yeah got em all right here on my shelf. Full of Life a good one, too.
	9:46pm CC: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... So easy on the ears!!!...:)
	🥃 9:46pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 ha! that's what i thought initially but no! classical gal.
	9:46pm TheDerek: ↳ David Shortell @9:41 One of my all time favorite films. i was getting into Punk when the movie hit the Drive-In on second runs
	🥃 9:46pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ CC @9:46 winding down the week.
	9:47pm Ellen: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 Jazz and orchestra leader. Worked for Gil Evans, won a heap of Grammies, stands up against Big Tech.
	9:48pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Yours Truly Confused N10" by "Ray Davies & Jools ... Excellent!
	🥃 9:49pm Fatherflot: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: A question for the room (sic)...next week another Super Bowl...rerun or original?? any feedback welcome.
	9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ CC @9:38 I read "The Eye in the Pyramid" but stopped right there. I was unconfident that it would all add up to make any sense. Same reason I quit watching "Twin Peaks" after the first season!
	🥃 9:51pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 You're gonna watch that game Harry!
	9:51pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 I'll just mutter something about "football" not being what Americans think it is…
	9:52pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 Hooligans en mass, singing their FC fight songs. Fill up an hour quick
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:51 never been less interested in an SB personally. just such a dominant media event.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:51 I hear you. The Damned United!
	9:54pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Tuxedo Junction" by "Jools Holland Orchestra" It's a beautiful thing how seriously Europeans take Jazz!
	🥃 9:54pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:54 Jools is a badass
	9:54pm Ellen: ↳ JReganK @9:54 Meh I take it just as seriously as rockabilly ;)
	9:54pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:54 It hit the spot!
	🥃 9:54pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Harry!!!
	9:55pm spodiodi: Thank you, Harry!
	9:55pm JReganK: ↳ Ellen @9:54 I'd hope so!
	🥃 9:55pm Jessie: Terrific moods tonight Harry! 🥰🥰 Thanks so much.
	9:56pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, Harry, for giving me exactly what I didn't know I needed!
	🥃 9:56pm Fatherflot: Thanks Harry. You sure know how to make Sunday Night a great hang.
	9:56pm TheDerek: ↳ Ellen @9:54 Rockabilly has gotten so Bro-centric To the point it's comical
	9:56pm JReganK: Thanks, Harry! Great vibes tonight!
	9:56pm ?: This show was fantastic.
	🥃 9:56pm Harry Parmenter: Thank you ALL for listening and hanging on the board! Appreciate the good vibes and conversation.
	9:56pm TheDerek: Awesome sets tonight Harry!!
	9:57pm Ellen: ↳ TheDerek @9:56 Some of us aim to fix that ;)
	🥃 9:57pm Harry Parmenter: See you all next week I hope!
	9:57pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57 Thank you for the show!
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:57 Thanks for joining us tonight! Hope you liked that Ray D track too!
	🥃 9:58pm Jessie: ↳ Song: "The Vatican Rag" by "Tom Lehrer" Sin! Repent! Repeat!
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:58 Tom. So great.
	9:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "The Vatican Rag" by "Tom Lehrer" I'm now a relapsed Catholic.
	9:59pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:58 I'm generally on team Ray but I haven't looked at that one close enough to know. Even he went a little Bro-Centric sometimes.
	🥃 9:59pm Fatherflot: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:58 😂
	🥃 9:59pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:58 HAHA! Join the club.
	🥃 9:59pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:59 that's a funny song.
	9:59pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:59 N10 is his home postal code, in case anyone was wondering
	10:01pm CC: Thanks Harry!!!...:)
	🥃 10:01pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:59 It sounded like a Nigel Farage campaign song
	🥃 10:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:59 figured yeah.
	🥃 10:01pm Harry Parmenter: Good week everyone.

The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from February 2, 2025

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February 2, 2025: ALL OVER THE MAP

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
The Stranglers	The Waltzinblack (Intro)	The Gospel According To The Meninblack	EMI	1981	LP	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Byrne & Brian Eno	The Carrier	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts	Sire	1981	LP	0:01:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Mermen	The Whales "The Whales" by "The Mermen"	Only You	National Treasure Recording Co.	1997	CD	0:05:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.	Romance "Romance" by "Fontaines D.C."	Romance	XL Recordings Ltd.	2024	CD	0:11:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Baaba Maal	Boboyillo "Boboyillo" by "Baaba Maal"	Being	lip-DDS BV	2023		0:13:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Al DiMeola	God-Bird-Change "God-Bird-Change" by "Al DiMeola"	Electric Rendezvous	Sony Music	2014		0:17:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mingo Lewis	Aba Cua "Aba Cua" by "Mingo Lewis"	Flight Never Ending	Legacy Recordings	1976	LP	0:21:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Baaba Maal	Bushes "Bushes" by "Baaba Maal"	1 Giant Leap	Palm Pictures Ltd.	2001	CD	0:23:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Just a Thought	Pendulum	Fantasy	1970	LP	0:29:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Lomax Field Recordings	Ain't Gonna Ring No More	Afro-American Game Songs	Rounder	1999	CD	0:33:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Joe White	Rain Crow "Rain Crow" by "Tony Joe White"	Rain Crow	Swamp Records	2016	CD	0:33:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Feelies	Slow Down "Slow Down" by "The Feelies"	The Good Earth	Coyote/Twin-Tone	1986	CD	0:39:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Maria Schneider Orchestra	Walking By Flashlight	The Thompson Fields	Artist Share Records	2015	CD	0:42:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ray Davies & Jools Holland Orchestra	Yours Truly Confused N10	More Friends	Warner Music	2002	CD	0:46:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jools Holland Orchestra	Tuxedo Junction	More Friends	Warner Music	2002	CD	0:50:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Tom Lehrer	The Vatican Rag "The Vatican Rag" by "Tom Lehrer"	That Was The Year That Was	Reprise Records	1965	LP	0:56:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥃 9:00pm medson: Hey hey Harry
	🥃 9:00pm Fatherflot: Hey Harry
	9:00pm Bluesman: Helloooooo Harry!
	9:00pm JReganK: Whatz up, Harry!
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: Good evening, Sirs. My two favorite gentlemen. How goes it
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:00 alright whatz up is rite!
	🥃 9:01pm Jessie: Evening, Harry! I started Blackadder and it is great. Only 4 episodes in but really enjoying it.
	🥃 9:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:00 btw that is a classic photo you have there.
	🥃 9:01pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01 I literally just finished reading War and Peace 15 minutes ago. 1358 pages, with the last 50 consisting of Tolstoy obsessively examining and critiquing 19th century schools of historiography, with the writing becoming more and more abstract and philosophical until he is almost sounding like Sartre or late Wittgenstein on the knot of language, consciousness, time, and the irresolvable antinomy of freedom and necessity.
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:01 Mistress! Knew you would. Some screamingly funny stuff there.
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I am impressed! Have not read. Was driving other day thinking, er, read Moby Dick before death. But War and Peace makes that look like Cliff Notes! And did you enjoy it??
	9:02pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01 Thank you, Sir!
	9:02pm spodiodi: Greetings, Harry and all!
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:02 way cool
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ spodiodi @9:02 alright spodiodi!
	🥃 9:03pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:02 It's mostly a page-turner until the two epilogues at the end.
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:03 really. need to read then. have not read Tolstoy. plenty of Doestoyevsky but not T.
	9:04pm Gaylord Fields: Good evening, Harry! Happy to make it a musical Sunday night with you.
	9:04pm spodiodi: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:03 8^D allright
	9:04pm TheDerek: ↳ Jessie @9:01 BLACK ADDER!!
	🥃 9:04pm Fatherflot: Tolstoy is definitely an all-time great, a master psychologist who is curious about all kinds of people and their motivations.
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:04 Mr. Fields! Awesome to have you in the house! Thx for joining and listening.
	🥃 9:05pm Fatherflot: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:04 Hey Gaylord
	🥃 9:05pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:04 will explore.
	9:05pm TheDerek: HI HARRY & the rest of the Carnies on here!
	9:05pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:01 Good evening, Mixtress! Great show!
	9:05pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Fatherflot @9:05 Howdy, Double Eff!
	🥃 9:06pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04 Start with the novella "The Death of Ivan Illych" --- everything great about Tolstoy is packed into that little masterpiece.
	🥃 9:06pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:05 Welcome! BlackAdder has a bicycle like that.
	🥃 9:06pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:06 ah good to know got it.
	9:06pm JReganK: Hey, The Derek!
	🥃 9:06pm Jessie: ↳ JReganK @9:05 Evening, JRegan. A week from now this city might be a freaking mess! 👀👀
	9:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Jessie @9:01 My advice to newcomers is to skip the first season. It wasn't until Ben Elton joined as a writer that it became great.
	9:07pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I literally just finished reading Fatherflot's commentary on War & Peace 15 minutes ago, thousands of pages in the chat log, and by the end he was sounding like a cross between George Martin and Mutt Lange, paragraphs of philosophy about unresolvable antimony between listener accessibility and the necessity of tube amps…
	🥃 9:07pm Jessie: ↳ David Shortell @9:06 🤔🤔🤔
	9:07pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:06 I remember watching BA on A&E(when it was still edgy)
	🥃 9:07pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:07 😂
	9:07pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:06 Are the Stranglers coming to town?
	🥃 9:08pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:07 yeah me too and think you're right about season one as i recall.
	🥃 9:09pm Jessie: ↳ JReganK @9:07 I would prefer that over the football fans.
	🥃 9:09pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:07 I think George Martin liked guitar plugged directly into the Neve preamp in the mixing board, no?
	9:09pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08 That wasn't me commenting on the first season, hee hee
	🥃 9:09pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:09 D'oh!
	🥃 9:10pm Tom in Brooklyn: Hey Harry!
	9:10pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:09 George Martin liked guitar???
	9:10pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:09 Honestly I don't know if that was Martin or Emerich's idea, or something George or John just thought might be a good larf
	🥃 9:10pm Fatherflot: ↳ Jessie @9:09 People got shot and killed at the last Chiefs super bowl celebration in KC
	9:10pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:09 Football fans are worse than cop conventions!
	9:10pm CC: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!...Hi Harry & Co...!!!...:)
	🥃 9:11pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:10 Magick Alex maybe?
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ CC @9:10 Sunday evening indeed CC.
	🥃 9:11pm Jessie: ↳ Fatherflot @9:10 FFS I hope that never happens again.
	9:11pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:10 It's why Football hooligans are a problem in the UK
	9:12pm Ellen: ↳ Fatherflot @9:11 My neck spins just thinking of it…
	🥃 9:12pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:11 Read that Derek Taylor As Time Goes By while back. Magick Alex certainly was in the mix.
	9:13pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:11 Who's got a budget for property damage these days?
	🥃 9:13pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Harry and all!!!
	9:13pm David Shortell: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 I've got bad new for you, Flot: youtube.com...
	🥃 9:13pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:13 Greetings Will!
	9:13pm JReganK: Hey, Will!
	9:15pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 Is there a hillbilly print of War & Peace?. I can't read difficult books
	🥃 9:15pm Fatherflot: ↳ David Shortell @9:13 I've been watching the 1966 Russian film on YT --- even that is 431 minutes long!
	9:15pm spodiodi: ↳ JReganK @9:10 ⭐️
	9:15pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:15 Lol!
	9:17pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:15 Being silly but there is truth to that
	9:17pm JReganK: ↳ spodiodi @9:15 Hey. Spodiodi! Are you the new Sheriff in town?
	9:18pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:17 19th century Russians can be a dry read!
	9:18pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:15 Abel Ganz NAPOLEAN. Fantastic film
	9:18pm Ellen: ↳ Song: "God-Bird-Change" by "Al DiMeola" Dammit Harry I was just set to turn in and you have to go and guitar nerd me
	9:19pm TheDerek: ↳ JReganK @9:18 I have 9th grade reading level but WS Burroughs makes sense to me
	🥃 9:20pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:18 HA! Apologies!
	🥃 9:21pm medson: Great picks Harry.
	🥃 9:21pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:15 It's not difficult until the philosophical chapters at the end. It's mostly very straightforward realist fiction --- kind of soap opera like in some ways. Lots of domestic drama between parents and children, husbands and wives, fiancées, love rivals who end up in duels, etc. Not like reading Joyce or Virginia Woolf
	9:21pm TheDerek: ↳ Song: "God-Bird-Change" by "Al DiMeola" I love the riffs sounding like a birds taking off
	🥃 9:21pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:21 hey thx man glad you dig it. all over the map tonight as advertised
	9:22pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:19 That's a fine attribute on any resume!
	🥃 9:22pm medson: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:21 Sounds like a solid choice
	🥃 9:22pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:21 yeah this cat Mingo Lewis wrote that song originally recorded by The Tubes. great version live by them
	🥃 9:23pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:22 Blind squirrel seeks acorns.
	9:23pm spodiodi: ↳ JReganK @9:17 Nope. Just a star gazer :-B (who doesn't love corporate tv sports nor aggression/caveman sports)
	9:24pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22 Mingo was in DiMeola's band for years: fabulous percussionist
	🥃 9:24pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:18 I never got to see that. I remember when the three screen restoration came out and it was shown in NY --- was it Coppola who was behind that? Early 80s?
	9:24pm JReganK: ↳ spodiodi @9:23 True!
	🥃 9:26pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:24 Did not know that but realized after finding these two tracks. Bet they're both still out there doing it, I hope.
	9:26pm TheDerek: Hardest book I read was Tess of the D'urbervilles in my senior year in high school. I have a comprehension defect hence reading level being low. But I can recite American Welding Society codes.
	🥃 9:26pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:24 and yeah when he toured with The Tubes with Prairie on drums: Wow.
	🥃 9:27pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:26 Hardy is a tough slog. I re-read Jude the Obscure a couple of years ago for the first time since college. Didn't really enjoy the experience.
	9:28pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:24 Not sure on the restoration. Oddly enough I saw it in a library in 1987
	🥃 9:29pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:27 how about Proust? yet to venture forth.
	9:29pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:26 I don't know much about The Tubes; if you'd asked me five minutes ago I'd have said they were an American one-hit wonder. And I only know that because of my long-standing distaste for David Foster.
	🥃 9:29pm Fatherflot: ↳ TheDerek @9:28 Just looked it up. The restoration was released in poly-screen by Coppola's American Zoetrope and it was shown at Radio City in 1981. Sold out every screening.
	9:30pm David Shortell: ↳ TheDerek @9:28 All in one sitting, for over 9 hours?
	🥃 9:30pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:29 egads he ruined them. not a studio band.greatest stage act I have ever seen. check out side two of Love Bomb which nobody heard. brilliant swan song.
	🥃 9:31pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29 I've only got through the first volume of "A La Recherch . . ." (the C. Scott Montcrief translation). He's very taxing to read --- sentences that literally go on for two pages of small type.
	9:32pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:30 ta, added to my list of things to chase down
	9:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29 Maybe this will help: youtube.com...
	9:32pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:29 That must have been amazing! I would have loved seeing that. There is a Todd Browning movie that got slurred real bad & only few strips remain. It was considered Lon Chaney's best make-up effect
	9:33pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Just a Thought" by "Creedence Clearwater Revival" Great album!
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:32 oh man i remember that! will watch again
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:33 yeah and that song's been stuck in my head all week.
	🥃 9:34pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 All cricketers, except for Omar Sharif
	9:34pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 I can think of worse earworms!
	9:34pm TheDerek: ↳ Ellen @9:29 Fee Waybill played a washed-up glam rocker in LADIES & GENTLEMEN THE FABULOUS STAINS
	9:36pm Ellen: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 …and now I've added that to my list of things to chase down. Never heard of that film.
	🥃 9:37pm Jessie: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 Black Randy and the Metrosquad were in that film too.
	🥃 9:37pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 with Diane Lane and half The Clash too, right?
	9:37pm TheDerek: ↳ Fatherflot @9:34 Watch out FatherFlot is reaching for the Cricket bat
	9:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37 Paul and Steve from the Sex Pistols. Paul from the Clash.
	🥃 9:38pm Jessie: ↳ Song: "Rain Crow" by "Tony Joe White" Nothing but swamp water in his veins!
	9:38pm CC: ↳ Fatherflot @9:01 If you haven't read The Illuminati's Trilogy try that one next...:)
	9:39pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Rain Crow" by "Tony Joe White" That was quite catchy!
	🥃 9:39pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 right right.
	🥃 9:39pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:38 you said it. and yes it is JRK! love TJW. that voice, that guitar tone.
	9:39pm JReganK: ↳ TheDerek @9:34 That was a good film!
	🥃 9:40pm Fatherflot: ↳ CC @9:38 Thanks for the rec. I have Celine's Journey to the End of the Night teed up next
	9:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39 Would you believe that Paul Simonon took a break from the "Sandinista!" recording sessions to appear in that cheap Canadian film?
	🥃 9:41pm Jessie: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 You gonna love that one Ff. Bukowski’s favorite too.
	9:41pm JReganK: ↳ Jessie @9:38 Swamp water is essential for a well rounded Old Fashioned!
	9:42pm CC: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 Never whistle while you're pissing...:)
	🥃 9:42pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:41 that one i know. did not know a buk fave but no surprize
	9:42pm TheDerek: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 & Ray Winstone's 2nd movie after Quadrophenia. Barry ford of Merger
	9:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Fatherflot @9:40 I read that because of the Doors song. I heard it doesn't translate well though.
	🥃 9:44pm Jessie: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:42 I have you read any of John Fante’s books? Ask the Dust is the best place to start.
	9:44pm Ellen: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... This is lovely. Her work is always top notch.
	9:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... Maria Schneider from "Last Tango in Paris"?
	🥃 9:45pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:44 oh yeah got em all right here on my shelf. Full of Life a good one, too.
	🥃 9:45pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 oh yeah got em all right here on my shelf. Full of Life a good one, too.
	9:46pm CC: ↳ Song: "Walking By Flashlight" by "Maria Schneider Orches... So easy on the ears!!!...:)
	🥃 9:46pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 ha! that's what i thought initially but no! classical gal.
	9:46pm TheDerek: ↳ David Shortell @9:41 One of my all time favorite films. i was getting into Punk when the movie hit the Drive-In on second runs
	🥃 9:46pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ CC @9:46 winding down the week.
	9:47pm Ellen: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 Jazz and orchestra leader. Worked for Gil Evans, won a heap of Grammies, stands up against Big Tech.
	9:48pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Yours Truly Confused N10" by "Ray Davies & Jools ... Excellent!
	🥃 9:49pm Fatherflot: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: A question for the room (sic)...next week another Super Bowl...rerun or original?? any feedback welcome.
	9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ CC @9:38 I read "The Eye in the Pyramid" but stopped right there. I was unconfident that it would all add up to make any sense. Same reason I quit watching "Twin Peaks" after the first season!
	🥃 9:51pm Fatherflot: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 You're gonna watch that game Harry!
	9:51pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 I'll just mutter something about "football" not being what Americans think it is…
	9:52pm TheDerek: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 Hooligans en mass, singing their FC fight songs. Fill up an hour quick
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Fatherflot @9:51 never been less interested in an SB personally. just such a dominant media event.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:51 I hear you. The Damned United!
	9:54pm JReganK: ↳ Song: "Tuxedo Junction" by "Jools Holland Orchestra" It's a beautiful thing how seriously Europeans take Jazz!
	🥃 9:54pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ JReganK @9:54 Jools is a badass
	9:54pm Ellen: ↳ JReganK @9:54 Meh I take it just as seriously as rockabilly ;)
	9:54pm JReganK: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:54 It hit the spot!
	🥃 9:54pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Harry!!!
	9:55pm spodiodi: Thank you, Harry!
	9:55pm JReganK: ↳ Ellen @9:54 I'd hope so!
	🥃 9:55pm Jessie: Terrific moods tonight Harry! 🥰🥰 Thanks so much.
	9:56pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, Harry, for giving me exactly what I didn't know I needed!
	🥃 9:56pm Fatherflot: Thanks Harry. You sure know how to make Sunday Night a great hang.
	9:56pm TheDerek: ↳ Ellen @9:54 Rockabilly has gotten so Bro-centric To the point it's comical
	9:56pm JReganK: Thanks, Harry! Great vibes tonight!
	9:56pm ?: This show was fantastic.
	🥃 9:56pm Harry Parmenter: Thank you ALL for listening and hanging on the board! Appreciate the good vibes and conversation.
	9:56pm TheDerek: Awesome sets tonight Harry!!
	9:57pm Ellen: ↳ TheDerek @9:56 Some of us aim to fix that ;)
	🥃 9:57pm Harry Parmenter: See you all next week I hope!
	9:57pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57 Thank you for the show!
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:57 Thanks for joining us tonight! Hope you liked that Ray D track too!
	🥃 9:58pm Jessie: ↳ Song: "The Vatican Rag" by "Tom Lehrer" Sin! Repent! Repeat!
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Jessie @9:58 Tom. So great.
	9:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "The Vatican Rag" by "Tom Lehrer" I'm now a relapsed Catholic.
	9:59pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:58 I'm generally on team Ray but I haven't looked at that one close enough to know. Even he went a little Bro-Centric sometimes.
	🥃 9:59pm Fatherflot: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:58 😂
	🥃 9:59pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Gaylord Fields @9:58 HAHA! Join the club.
	🥃 9:59pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:59 that's a funny song.
	9:59pm Ellen: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:59 N10 is his home postal code, in case anyone was wondering
	10:01pm CC: Thanks Harry!!!...:)
	🥃 10:01pm Fatherflot: ↳ Ellen @9:59 It sounded like a Nigel Farage campaign song
	🥃 10:01pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Ellen @9:59 figured yeah.
	🥃 10:01pm Harry Parmenter: Good week everyone.

The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from February 2, 2025

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