WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 23, 2011

Listener comments!
	3:07pm pierre: Bonjour Irwin i just bought a "song from the key to Z" book, not read it yet, but soon… Hello listeners
	3:08pm Dan B From Upstate: Trent?
	3:08pm Josh: Really? This is Britney? Really?!? Wow!! I like it Irwin!
	3:09pm Denise in DC: I hope this Britney track does not herald what the rest of the show will be like. Then again, I hope it does.
	3:10pm Kurt: Thanks, that has to be the most annoying and disturbing song I've heard this week.
	3:10pm Aharon: More Britney!
	3:11pm Josh: In Irwin we trust.
	3:11pm Kurt: I listen to this show for the aural abuse. I'm thinking of starting a support group for battered listeners.
	3:12pm Ben Drinken: maybe Irwin has discovered some very rare and early cassette tapes made by Britney as a 10 year old. and he will share them with us today.
	3:14pm Carmichael: I see Irwin is continuing the unofficial theme of today's shows, "Rock".
	3:14pm Kurt: How about if Britany goes head to head with Amanda.
	3:14pm Carmichael: Ooooh, Britney/Amanda mashup. Excellent, Kurt!
	3:18pm Ben Drinken: Amanda is more mature and experienced than Britney. Are we talking cat fight? Both at this point would be considered cougars.
	3:25pm Dead Corporate Eyes: THIS TOWN IS MY TOWN
	3:25pm Listening Out There: As they say, "...it takes an ever improving village..."
	3:26pm Matt from Springfield: Afternoon everyone! I'm at home early today, so I can drinking during Irwin today! I'll need it!
	3:27pm Matt from Springfield: Then again, I got to miss Britney, but not Amanda, so already I'm happy bout that! (chug)
	3:27pm Pertaining to J&H Productions: Listening to Irwin and cooking! First time doing that in some time!
	3:29pm Ben Drinken: Me, too! Matt from Springfield. Thanksgiving eve always a good time to be home early to drink. Fill up on booze only so you will be good and hungry hung over tomorrow for the feast.
	3:31pm Dead Corporate Eyes: that doesn't work so well when you're hosting, but I'll try it anyway tonight.
	3:31pm Carmichael: Matt, save your booze for 7SD. That normally drives me to drink.
	3:32pm Ben Drinken: I am also cooking during Irwin's show, or about to in a few minutes. I waited until his show to start. I just need to make one dish for tomorrow. Cheesy green bean and cream of mushroom cass all from scratch, no cans.
	3:33pm Dead Corporate Eyes: definitely looking forward to some new Mazzy Star. Hope's voice always sends me skyward.
	3:33pm Dead Corporate Eyes: that sounds good, Ben. Pretty time-consuming though.
	3:34pm Aharon: Why so upbeat, Mazzy Star?
	3:34pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben Hung-Over-Hungry, that's one way to do it. I'd like to cook to WFMU some time, I'd need a laptop in my kitchen to do it.
	3:35pm glenn: kurt's home for battered listeners would be called tempura house.
	3:36pm Matt from Springfield: @Carm Maybe being "incoherent drunk" can make 7SD an enjoyable experience. I gotta drive in a few hours though... @DCE Is this new Mazzy? Didn't know you were a fan. I like them as well!
	3:36pm Ben Drinken: @Carmichael: I once was talking in our local pub with a guy and we were talking about being married. He said his wife drives him to drink. And then he pointed her out and said she is over there. and said when he is done at the pub she will drive him back home.
	3:36pm Listening Out There: Actually, Matt, I have cooked whilst blasting WFMU through the iPhone app. Tinny sound, but when you're on the other side of the country...
	3:37pm glenn: there's a country singer from iceland named lay low. if you like mazzy star, you'll love her.
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: That's the good kind of driving to drink!
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: Yiddish Blues?
	3:38pm kme in chi: sonia sonia sonia sonia!
	3:38pm kme in chi: these guys always make me so happy :)
	3:39pm glenn: i read about the comedian harmonists on richard thompson's website, but this is the first time i've heard them.
	3:40pm Matt from Springfield: @glenn: Sounds like genuine 78 as well.
	3:41pm Brass Knuckles: What are they about? No time to google.
	3:42pm Ben Drinken: @kme in chi: I am also fermenting some kimchi at the moment. Keeping an eye on it. If that counts as cooking since the work for it has already been done. should be ready for Thanksgiving. Nice to have some kimchi after eating tons.
	3:42pm Matt from Springfield: The Tiger Lillies cut is less edgy than usual...this one is almost like a Bonzo Dog song.
	3:43pm kme in chi: Matt: their catalog was released on CD a few years back. Ben: love the stuff.
	3:43pm glenn: http://comedianharmonistsbook.com
	3:43pm Denise in DC: I love this plaintive-sounding apparently-ironic Tiger Lillies track.
	3:43pm Denise in DC: BTW, I am not cooking -- I am sitting in front of my computer at work as usual on a Wednesday afternoon.
	3:44pm Matt from Springfield: Hi Denise! Super ironic for that band.
	3:44pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks glenn!
	3:44pm Denise in DC: Hi Matt! I haven't paid attention to them before. Looks like I'm going to have to remedy that situation.
	3:46pm Brass Knuckles: oh man, arcesia lyrics are amazing.
	3:47pm Matt from Springfield: They were on Irwin's show a while ago, the same one with Go Home Productions (way back in the RealAudio era...) The Tiger Lillies are a "punk cabaret" group with the intent of shocking lyrics. Personally I think they're "edgy" to the point of nicking my chin while shaving, but you may like them.
	3:48pm Matt from Springfield: Oh, "pop-psych"! I should remember "popsike", and to eat "popsikles". Nice Mike Batt track.
	3:48pm Factoid: Irwin mentioned in the write up: http://www.arcesia.com/bio.htm
	3:50pm Brass Knuckles: Something like potato?
	3:52pm trrs: re: image Wow.
	3:53pm PMD: Listening live on the radio. Hi irwin!
	3:54pm Matt from Springfield: Yay! Radio sociopath Kenny G is pardoned! Besides Irwin, you don't want to appear as "soft on poultry"...
	3:54pm Ben Drinken: At the symposium Kenny G, in his kilt, (what is he in clan Goldsmith?) said he had no desire to return to radio
	3:55pm Anonymous Soprano Sax Player: Kenny G is a dick! Why would he name himself after a famous musician?
	3:55pm Denise in DC: Soft on poultry? Never! I've never heard Irwin reciting a single rhyme during his show.
	3:56pm Denise in DC: Whoop! Yippie-yi-ki-yay!
	3:57pm Dead Corporate Eyes: gawd I have not heard this Bobby Bare song in forever!
	3:57pm Brass Knuckles: This song makes me happy. Yo, throw me the rock. I'm open.
	3:57pm Matt from Springfield: @ASSP Actually I think Kenny G the musician is SO low, he named himself after the crazy radio personality Kenny G. Pat Metheny's take on the matter: http://www.saxon.com/stephen/pat-story.htm
	3:58pm Dead Corporate Eyes: happy thanksgiving, crew, I'm OUTTA HERE
	3:58pm Denise in DC: Hey, Irwin, do you happen to have a copy of "He Used to Take Acid, And Now He Loves God, But He's Still Got That Look In His Eye"?
	3:58pm slugluv1313: DROP KICK ME JESUS!!!!!!!! awwwww THANK YOU IRWIN!!!!!! always so uh, wonderful to hear this old gem again
	3:59pm Ben Drinken: I also noticed that Kenny G is a lot shorter than I thought he was when I saw him at the record fair and symposium. Even in his kilt boots he was shorter than me and I am not that tall.
	3:59pm Irwin: @Denise: who recorded?
	4:00pm Denise in DC: Let me Google -- BRB.
	4:01pm Listening Out There: Jim Ringer, is what I found...
	4:01pm Denise in DC: Yep, Jim Ringer was the one.
	4:01pm Listening Out There: More: Jim Ringer wrote it and recorded it on his LP, "Endangered Species (Flying Fish)." It's included on "The Band of Jesse James: The Best of Jim Ringer (Philo)."
	4:02pm Denise in DC: IIRC, he wrote it after running into a Hare Krishna begging for money in an airport, back when that was still going on.
	4:03pm Denise in DC: I've only heard the song once, back in 1982 when I spent three months in Atlanta working for Legal Aid. Never forgot it, though.
	4:05pm Ben Drinken: Kenny G was also wearing along with his clan MacGoldsmith kilt, what looked like a traffic control vest. What, did he just come from volunteering as a parking guide at an I am a dick convention?
	4:05pm Brass Knuckles: Yeah! Alternative rock!
	4:06pm Ben Drinken: here begins the Kenny G roast in time for Thanksgiving
	4:06pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: Of course. At those conventions, he directs traffic into already congested areas, down muddy hillsides, into the convention lobby, etc.
	4:09pm Carmichael: Pat Metheny and Kenny G the musician famously hate each other. I didn't know the backstory on Kenny G the radio sociopath.
	4:12pm Denise in DC: Oh my gawd I love this mashup.
	4:12pm Denise in DC: Even though nobody seems to know the words to the Jet Song.
	4:15pm Ben Drinken: Has anyone ever been to a fair where there is some guy selling Scottish stuff and family crests? they can just about match any name to a clan and sell you a t-shirt and a crest saying you fall into such and such clan. Imagine Kenny G going up to one of these in his kilt and asking where the surname Goldsmith fits into any Scot clan.
	4:15pm Matt from Springfield: Give thanks to COOKIE POWER!!!
	4:16pm Carmichael: 1,2,3, Cookie!!
	4:17pm Denise in DC: I'm up for a cookie myself, come to think of it.
	4:17pm Denise in DC: Is that a series of farts I hear in the background?
	4:17pm hamburger: oreos reprazent
	4:19pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: Yeah, my university (Radford) is called the Highlanders, because of the Scots-Irish heritage of Appalachia. In the fall at a festival there you can find sellers of tartan patterns of particular clans, on different merchandise. Normally they should only list a poster of genuine Scottish names, not a book matching "Wojciechowski" to a theoretical tartan.
	4:20pm Listening Out There: "Give me an e-x-a-a-a--aaaam...." :)
	4:20pm Matt from Springfield: Wow, love the trippy journey of Dan & Joel here!
	4:21pm Matt from Springfield: Love the label name too, We Shop You Save Records!!
	4:21pm Brass Knuckles: Haven't heard a good one of these in a long time.
	4:24pm George: Good sounding recording too
	4:25pm Snortley: An essay on Norman Pettingill: http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/norman-pettingill-his-life/
	4:25pm Ben Drinken: Yeah, Matt- and the person should be able to help if you know the last name of your grandma and such which MAY be a Scottish name. Or the name of some other somewhat recent ancestor with the Scot clan ties. maybe Kenny G has such a tie, to his credit.
	4:26pm adlfjghwg: what is this, WFUV now? I think I'll go find some freeform programming to listen to.
	4:26pm autumn: meow. meow. purr.
	4:27pm Pertaining to J&H Productions: This Art/Messengers is just what my Butternut Squash Soup needed! Served with Cinnamon Whipped Creme and Fried Shallots.
	4:32pm glenn: link for jim ringer downloads. - ttp://unclegil.blogspot.com/2010/07/false-friends-at-bar.html
	4:32pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: True, for example my last name is a common English "catch all" type name, but I would wear the Douglas Clan on account of "Forresters" in my ancestry from the Borders region. I also once found "Heath" associated with the Inverness area, but haven't found a clan to associate with them.
	4:33pm godless pinko: GLENN! Thank you so much!
	4:34pm Brass Knuckles: Toby Keith? Is he on Dischord? Shit is pretty hardcore.
	4:34pm glenn: hey!! I'M a godless pinko.
	4:35pm Ben Drinken: Maybe some day when Kenny G decides he DOES want to be involved with radio again and everyone has since disowned him (at his request) and now he wants to come back, he would come crawling back in his clan MacWfmu kit and singing I will give you the cake! I get you the CAKE!!!Please!!!I will get you and give you the CAKE!!I'm SORRY!!!
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: My good friend is a country fan and an apartment complex manager, so he once had this as a ringtone.
	4:35pm Aharon: Shtick much, Toky K? Not that it's not a good song.
	4:38pm Matt from Springfield: With cahoots like this, who wouldn't be ecstatic!
	4:43pm Carmichael: Country music is all shtick. And sappiness.
	4:43pm glenn: is it just me, or is this basically the boy with the arab strap?
	4:43pm Stanley: So this guy goes to the doctor's and the doctor says look, I don't know how to tell you this but you've gotta stop masturbating. The guy says why? He says - so I can examine you!
	4:46pm Irma: Feet Fockses
	4:47pm Ben Drinken: Yes they can match just about any anglo name with a scot clan. but I always find it funny that in the states this draws people to these things. People want to belong. I imagine that if Italians had such a tartan like system and had a booth at a fair Americans would be lined up in great numbers to see how their surname of Smith fits into italian heritage.
	4:49pm Carmichael: Martin Mull wrote a book long ago called The History of White People in America, basically a send-up of the need for cultural belonging Ben describes.
	4:51pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben,Carm: Good points--fellow Yanks will note that any ethnic celebration day is going to attract everyone, of every ethnicity. Because 1) we like to belong, and 2) we're fatasses! Pass that food!
	4:52pm Carmichael: Matt, I'll meet you at the British Food Festival!
	4:54pm Matt from Springfield: Bangers and rashers and mash! I wonder if there's any this time of year; normally that stuff is grouped with the Irish during St. Pat's.
	4:55pm Ben Drinken: Never see any whites pretending to be wanting to be Asian in the states on those holidays. Sometimes more increasingly African stuff but you can't fool that.
	4:56pm trss: Kippers. Young noses may object until they are grimed with age.
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: Scottish food can be gross and/or unhealthy, though Radford's Highlander Fests did sell pretty tasty and lean lamburgers. Now beverage-wise, those fests were the only place in the States I've seen "Irn-Bru" sodas for sale.
	4:57pm Ben Drinken: And I almost forgot. Octoberfest brings out the "German" in Americans. Why is that? Just for one beer, then they go back to thinking they are Austrian.
	4:58pm Matt from Springfield: Though anglos and whites do attend Chinese New Year's parades where available, and increasingly Indian events, though that might not be looking for acceptance as trying to convince themselves that "they're down with" that culture.
	5:01pm godless pinko in DC: I'm betting on the "down with" explanation.
	5:02pm Space: You're taking me up, Irwin. You'd better give me back after 6.
	5:02pm godless pinko in DC: "We're so tolerant and multicultural!"
	5:04pm Matt from Springfield: At least Andy Breckman wasn't trapped in his storage unit at that time.
	5:06pm Kurt: Wonder what he thinks about Madonna's version of American Pie
	5:06pm Brass Knuckles: Hilarious.
	5:07pm jonathan: ah this is so good...i hate that song so much and my dad used to play the 7" constantly. thank you
	5:07pm Matt from Springfield: Pumpkin Pie, on the way!!
	5:08pm Listening Out There: Pi = 3.1459....
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: Oooh, I remember first hearing this from you! Great Thanksgiving choice!
	5:10pm glenn: 3.14159
	5:10pm Space: Though I gotta admit, Nature abhors me... Speaking of which: Irwin, isn't there a chore you should be doing now?
	5:11pm slugluv1313: MUNCHIE!!!!! MUNCHIE!!!!! MUNCHIE!!!!!!! (the kitty, that is!!!)
	5:12pm Matt from Springfield: His Grace The Honourable Lord Kitchener! And he's singing about cats again!
	5:14pm Ben Drinken: Yes Matt, but it gets so easy for white people to claim they are a certain culture if they are also white. Just about everybody in the states can claim some "Indian" in their ancestry just because everyone screwed everybody over time. Then when they want to be "down" with Native American history they point out that their great, great, great, great, great gand muncle was an Indian.
	5:14pm Irwin: Sorry 'bout that, Matt. My fingers typed the wrong title. Now corrected.
	5:16pm godless pinko in DC: Damn. I forgot about this version of Witchcraft. Gotta listen to Lounge-a-Palooza again.
	5:20pm godless pinko Denise in DC: Finally got my work done, so I can go home. I'll try to listen on my iPhone, but no guarantee Verizon will permit me to do so. So I'll say Happy Thanksgiving to All right now.
	5:24pm Ben Drinken: I have never met a white person claim to be Asian on Chinese New Year!!Like I see white people claim to be Scottish on Burns night. Or Irish on St.Ps day.
	5:29pm Carmichael: I would opt for the shortened mix of anything by the Thompson Twins.
	5:30pm Matt from Springfield: Drunken and squeaky T&C! Happy Thanksgiving Denise!
	5:30pm Carmichael: Gobble gobble, Denise!
	5:31pm Matt from Springfield: Hey, where do you find instrumental backing tracks for "Burmese Land" and incorrect music like that one? Did you make that yourself, Irwin?
	5:32pm Irwin: @Matt: Wes Paich recorded it for me & Michie. We sang it somewhere.
	5:33pm Brass Knuckles: I was all, could it be, sounds like, More alternative rock!
	5:33pm Ben Drinken: How about an insurance quote for Kenny G. SUR!! Ok. I am a wanna be Scotsman and I wear a kilt even though my last name is Goldsmith. I no longer want to be associated with radio, have no desire, I am short even with these boots. Can I get insurance?
	5:36pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks Irwin!
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: For someone apparently sick of radio and desiring not to return, we seem to be hearing A LOT about how he's sick of radio and desires not to return. Lead up to a big publicity stunt by Monsieur G?
	5:41pm Ben Drinken: @Matt- will we accept him? No. He needs to ask for the cake.
	5:54pm Ben Drinken: Kenny G needs to punch me in the head if he wants to return to WFMU.
	5:54pm Brass Knuckles: He can suck a bag of dicks for all i care.
	5:55pm Carmichael: Boy Brass, you got some hot venom there.
	5:56pm Brass Knuckles: Tell it to the volcano.
	5:57pm marc: Put some gravy on my Chevy cuz it was too dry 'American Pie' is as long as all of Billie Joels songs!!!!!!
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: Great show Irwin, greater still with my beer! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
	5:59pm Ben Drinken: the kimchi is turning out fine
	3:53am Lew Jones: Ecstatic Cahoots is in reference to Gatsby smiling at Nick just before the end. Lew Jones Portland. Thanks for the airplay. Kats come and Kats go...

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November 23, 2011: We have met the enemy, and, as usual, it's me.

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Saturday Nite at Louie's, Norman Pettingill, 1954

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	Blue Note	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Britney Spears	Criminal "Criminal" by "Britney Spears"	Femme Fatale	Jive	0:03:36 (Pop-up)
Scrawl	I Can't Relax "I Can't Relax" by "Scrawl"	He's Drunk	Spunky Monkey Music	0:07:02 (Pop-up)
Jason Karaban	Pay with a .45 "Pay with a .45" by "Jason Karaban"	Shift	New Model Music	0:09:47 (Pop-up)
Thomas Truax	November in Berlin "November in Berlin" by "Thomas Truax"	The Monthly Journal Project	Psychoteddy Records	0:12:31 (Pop-up)

Brian Dewan	The Ever Improving Village	unreleased 2011 recording	Obedience School	0:21:15 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	When Two Trees Fall in Love	Mallets in Wonderland: Space Age Pop Vol. 2	RCA Victor	0:25:01 (Pop-up)
Mazzy Star	Lay Myself Down "Lay Myself Down" by "Mazzy Star"	Common Burn/Lay Myself Down (single)	Rhymes of an Hour	0:30:12 (Pop-up)
The Comedian Harmonists	When Sonia Danced in Russian Style	self-titled	Flapper	0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Tiger Lillies	Snakes and Ladders "Snakes and Ladders" by "Tiger Lillies"	Here I Am Human	Misery Guts Music	0:37:26 (Pop-up)
Arcesia	Pictures in My Window "Pictures in My Window" by "Arcesia"	Reachin'	Penumbral Emanations	0:41:44 (Pop-up)
Mike Batt	Mary Goes Round "Mary Goes Round" by "Mike Batt"	Let's Ride: 20 Popsike Excursions from the UK and Europe	Mike Batt Music	0:43:50 (Pop-up)

Bobby Bare	Dropkick Me, Jesus "Dropkick Me, Jesus" by "Bobby Bare"	The Winner ... And Other Losers	RCA	0:53:16 (Pop-up)
Speed the Plough	Lucky You "Lucky You" by "Speed the Plough"	Shine	Dromedary	0:55:01 (Pop-up)
Lulu vs. The Bees vs. U2	Chicken Shout	ccc (Chris Shaw) mash-up	CCC	0:59:33 (Pop-up)
Gloritone	John Wayne "John Wayne" by "Gloritone"	Cup Runneth Over	SonyBMG	1:01:40 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Gutter Cat vs. The Jets	School's Out	Rhino/Warner	1:05:35 (Pop-up)
Sunbears!	Minds Trapped in the Static	Sunbears!/MRENC split 7"	Sunbears!	1:10:32 (Pop-up)
Amanda	Me Want Cookie "Me Want Cookie" by "Amanda"	Don't Mess With the Power Child	WFMU	1:13:04 (Pop-up)
A Great Many	Tullis & Clark Take a Magic Carpet Ride to Delhi and Stop in Bangkok on the Way	http://www.youtube.com/AGreatMany	We Shop You Save Records	1:15:54 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	Circus	self-titled	Impulse	1:19:18 (Pop-up)

Toby Keith	High Maintenance Woman	Big Dog Daddy	Show Dog Nashville	1:30:30 (Pop-up)
Lew Jones & Guernica Gazebo	Moon Dove (for J.L.)	Ecstatic Cahoots	Art for Art's Sake	1:33:29 (Pop-up)
Traffic	Withering Tree "Withering Tree" by "Traffic"	self-titled	Island	1:37:32 (Pop-up)
Fleet Foxes	Bedouin Dress "Bedouin Dress" by "Fleet Foxes"	Helplessness Blues	Sub Pop	1:40:19 (Pop-up)
Musci/Venosta	Ramexico / Other Lullabies	A Noise, A Sound	ReR Megacorp	1:45:10 (Pop-up)
Hamiet Bluiett	Black Danube (James Brown in 3/4 Time)	... You Don't Need to Know	Tutu	1:52:49 (Pop-up)

Dangerous Girls	I Don't Want to Eat (with the Family)	Happy Face Records 7" single (1978)	Happy Face	2:05:52 (Pop-up)
Lord Kitchener	Body Argument "Body Argument" by "Lord Kitchener"	Mr. Kitch	Radiophone Archives	2:08:59 (Pop-up)
Edwyn Collins	Witchcraft "Witchcraft" by "Edwyn Collins"	Lounge-A-Palooza	Hollywood	2:12:14 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Living Too Long "Living Too Long" by "The Fall"	Living Too Late (12")	Beggars Banquet	2:17:03 (Pop-up)
Thompson Twins	In the Name of Love (Extended Mix)	In the Name of Love 12" single	Arista	2:21:49 (Pop-up)
Dan Tullis & Joel Clark	The Alt-Speed Shop-Save Twosome	For SelectQuote.com	WFMU	2:27:51 (Pop-up)
Fountains of Wayne	Go, Hippie "Go, Hippie" by "Fountains of Wayne"	Utopia Parkway	Yep Roc	2:28:29 (Pop-up)
The Rifles	Little Boy Blue (Human Needs)	Freedom Run	Nettwerk	2:31:52 (Pop-up)

Guillermo Gregorio	Reciprocity "Reciprocity" by "Guillermo Gregorio"	Ellipsis	Hat Hut	2:43:41 (Pop-up)
Miniature Tigers	Hot Venom "Hot Venom" by "Miniature Tigers"	Tell It To the Volcano	Modern Art	2:51:14 (Pop-up)
The Lemonade Charade	Yellow Brick Road	Epics Records 45	Epic	2:54:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:07pm pierre: Bonjour Irwin i just bought a "song from the key to Z" book, not read it yet, but soon… Hello listeners
	3:08pm Dan B From Upstate: Trent?
	3:08pm Josh: Really? This is Britney? Really?!? Wow!! I like it Irwin!
	3:09pm Denise in DC: I hope this Britney track does not herald what the rest of the show will be like. Then again, I hope it does.
	3:10pm Kurt: Thanks, that has to be the most annoying and disturbing song I've heard this week.
	3:10pm Aharon: More Britney!
	3:11pm Josh: In Irwin we trust.
	3:11pm Kurt: I listen to this show for the aural abuse. I'm thinking of starting a support group for battered listeners.
	3:12pm Ben Drinken: maybe Irwin has discovered some very rare and early cassette tapes made by Britney as a 10 year old. and he will share them with us today.
	3:14pm Carmichael: I see Irwin is continuing the unofficial theme of today's shows, "Rock".
	3:14pm Kurt: How about if Britany goes head to head with Amanda.
	3:14pm Carmichael: Ooooh, Britney/Amanda mashup. Excellent, Kurt!
	3:18pm Ben Drinken: Amanda is more mature and experienced than Britney. Are we talking cat fight? Both at this point would be considered cougars.
	3:25pm Dead Corporate Eyes: THIS TOWN IS MY TOWN
	3:25pm Listening Out There: As they say, "...it takes an ever improving village..."
	3:26pm Matt from Springfield: Afternoon everyone! I'm at home early today, so I can drinking during Irwin today! I'll need it!
	3:27pm Matt from Springfield: Then again, I got to miss Britney, but not Amanda, so already I'm happy bout that! (chug)
	3:27pm Pertaining to J&H Productions: Listening to Irwin and cooking! First time doing that in some time!
	3:29pm Ben Drinken: Me, too! Matt from Springfield. Thanksgiving eve always a good time to be home early to drink. Fill up on booze only so you will be good and hungry hung over tomorrow for the feast.
	3:31pm Dead Corporate Eyes: that doesn't work so well when you're hosting, but I'll try it anyway tonight.
	3:31pm Carmichael: Matt, save your booze for 7SD. That normally drives me to drink.
	3:32pm Ben Drinken: I am also cooking during Irwin's show, or about to in a few minutes. I waited until his show to start. I just need to make one dish for tomorrow. Cheesy green bean and cream of mushroom cass all from scratch, no cans.
	3:33pm Dead Corporate Eyes: definitely looking forward to some new Mazzy Star. Hope's voice always sends me skyward.
	3:33pm Dead Corporate Eyes: that sounds good, Ben. Pretty time-consuming though.
	3:34pm Aharon: Why so upbeat, Mazzy Star?
	3:34pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben Hung-Over-Hungry, that's one way to do it. I'd like to cook to WFMU some time, I'd need a laptop in my kitchen to do it.
	3:35pm glenn: kurt's home for battered listeners would be called tempura house.
	3:36pm Matt from Springfield: @Carm Maybe being "incoherent drunk" can make 7SD an enjoyable experience. I gotta drive in a few hours though... @DCE Is this new Mazzy? Didn't know you were a fan. I like them as well!
	3:36pm Ben Drinken: @Carmichael: I once was talking in our local pub with a guy and we were talking about being married. He said his wife drives him to drink. And then he pointed her out and said she is over there. and said when he is done at the pub she will drive him back home.
	3:36pm Listening Out There: Actually, Matt, I have cooked whilst blasting WFMU through the iPhone app. Tinny sound, but when you're on the other side of the country...
	3:37pm glenn: there's a country singer from iceland named lay low. if you like mazzy star, you'll love her.
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: That's the good kind of driving to drink!
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: Yiddish Blues?
	3:38pm kme in chi: sonia sonia sonia sonia!
	3:38pm kme in chi: these guys always make me so happy :)
	3:39pm glenn: i read about the comedian harmonists on richard thompson's website, but this is the first time i've heard them.
	3:40pm Matt from Springfield: @glenn: Sounds like genuine 78 as well.
	3:41pm Brass Knuckles: What are they about? No time to google.
	3:42pm Ben Drinken: @kme in chi: I am also fermenting some kimchi at the moment. Keeping an eye on it. If that counts as cooking since the work for it has already been done. should be ready for Thanksgiving. Nice to have some kimchi after eating tons.
	3:42pm Matt from Springfield: The Tiger Lillies cut is less edgy than usual...this one is almost like a Bonzo Dog song.
	3:43pm kme in chi: Matt: their catalog was released on CD a few years back. Ben: love the stuff.
	3:43pm glenn: http://comedianharmonistsbook.com
	3:43pm Denise in DC: I love this plaintive-sounding apparently-ironic Tiger Lillies track.
	3:43pm Denise in DC: BTW, I am not cooking -- I am sitting in front of my computer at work as usual on a Wednesday afternoon.
	3:44pm Matt from Springfield: Hi Denise! Super ironic for that band.
	3:44pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks glenn!
	3:44pm Denise in DC: Hi Matt! I haven't paid attention to them before. Looks like I'm going to have to remedy that situation.
	3:46pm Brass Knuckles: oh man, arcesia lyrics are amazing.
	3:47pm Matt from Springfield: They were on Irwin's show a while ago, the same one with Go Home Productions (way back in the RealAudio era...) The Tiger Lillies are a "punk cabaret" group with the intent of shocking lyrics. Personally I think they're "edgy" to the point of nicking my chin while shaving, but you may like them.
	3:48pm Matt from Springfield: Oh, "pop-psych"! I should remember "popsike", and to eat "popsikles". Nice Mike Batt track.
	3:48pm Factoid: Irwin mentioned in the write up: http://www.arcesia.com/bio.htm
	3:50pm Brass Knuckles: Something like potato?
	3:52pm trrs: re: image Wow.
	3:53pm PMD: Listening live on the radio. Hi irwin!
	3:54pm Matt from Springfield: Yay! Radio sociopath Kenny G is pardoned! Besides Irwin, you don't want to appear as "soft on poultry"...
	3:54pm Ben Drinken: At the symposium Kenny G, in his kilt, (what is he in clan Goldsmith?) said he had no desire to return to radio
	3:55pm Anonymous Soprano Sax Player: Kenny G is a dick! Why would he name himself after a famous musician?
	3:55pm Denise in DC: Soft on poultry? Never! I've never heard Irwin reciting a single rhyme during his show.
	3:56pm Denise in DC: Whoop! Yippie-yi-ki-yay!
	3:57pm Dead Corporate Eyes: gawd I have not heard this Bobby Bare song in forever!
	3:57pm Brass Knuckles: This song makes me happy. Yo, throw me the rock. I'm open.
	3:57pm Matt from Springfield: @ASSP Actually I think Kenny G the musician is SO low, he named himself after the crazy radio personality Kenny G. Pat Metheny's take on the matter: http://www.saxon.com/stephen/pat-story.htm
	3:58pm Dead Corporate Eyes: happy thanksgiving, crew, I'm OUTTA HERE
	3:58pm Denise in DC: Hey, Irwin, do you happen to have a copy of "He Used to Take Acid, And Now He Loves God, But He's Still Got That Look In His Eye"?
	3:58pm slugluv1313: DROP KICK ME JESUS!!!!!!!! awwwww THANK YOU IRWIN!!!!!! always so uh, wonderful to hear this old gem again
	3:59pm Ben Drinken: I also noticed that Kenny G is a lot shorter than I thought he was when I saw him at the record fair and symposium. Even in his kilt boots he was shorter than me and I am not that tall.
	3:59pm Irwin: @Denise: who recorded?
	4:00pm Denise in DC: Let me Google -- BRB.
	4:01pm Listening Out There: Jim Ringer, is what I found...
	4:01pm Denise in DC: Yep, Jim Ringer was the one.
	4:01pm Listening Out There: More: Jim Ringer wrote it and recorded it on his LP, "Endangered Species (Flying Fish)." It's included on "The Band of Jesse James: The Best of Jim Ringer (Philo)."
	4:02pm Denise in DC: IIRC, he wrote it after running into a Hare Krishna begging for money in an airport, back when that was still going on.
	4:03pm Denise in DC: I've only heard the song once, back in 1982 when I spent three months in Atlanta working for Legal Aid. Never forgot it, though.
	4:05pm Ben Drinken: Kenny G was also wearing along with his clan MacGoldsmith kilt, what looked like a traffic control vest. What, did he just come from volunteering as a parking guide at an I am a dick convention?
	4:05pm Brass Knuckles: Yeah! Alternative rock!
	4:06pm Ben Drinken: here begins the Kenny G roast in time for Thanksgiving
	4:06pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: Of course. At those conventions, he directs traffic into already congested areas, down muddy hillsides, into the convention lobby, etc.
	4:09pm Carmichael: Pat Metheny and Kenny G the musician famously hate each other. I didn't know the backstory on Kenny G the radio sociopath.
	4:12pm Denise in DC: Oh my gawd I love this mashup.
	4:12pm Denise in DC: Even though nobody seems to know the words to the Jet Song.
	4:15pm Ben Drinken: Has anyone ever been to a fair where there is some guy selling Scottish stuff and family crests? they can just about match any name to a clan and sell you a t-shirt and a crest saying you fall into such and such clan. Imagine Kenny G going up to one of these in his kilt and asking where the surname Goldsmith fits into any Scot clan.
	4:15pm Matt from Springfield: Give thanks to COOKIE POWER!!!
	4:16pm Carmichael: 1,2,3, Cookie!!
	4:17pm Denise in DC: I'm up for a cookie myself, come to think of it.
	4:17pm Denise in DC: Is that a series of farts I hear in the background?
	4:17pm hamburger: oreos reprazent
	4:19pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: Yeah, my university (Radford) is called the Highlanders, because of the Scots-Irish heritage of Appalachia. In the fall at a festival there you can find sellers of tartan patterns of particular clans, on different merchandise. Normally they should only list a poster of genuine Scottish names, not a book matching "Wojciechowski" to a theoretical tartan.
	4:20pm Listening Out There: "Give me an e-x-a-a-a--aaaam...." :)
	4:20pm Matt from Springfield: Wow, love the trippy journey of Dan & Joel here!
	4:21pm Matt from Springfield: Love the label name too, We Shop You Save Records!!
	4:21pm Brass Knuckles: Haven't heard a good one of these in a long time.
	4:24pm George: Good sounding recording too
	4:25pm Snortley: An essay on Norman Pettingill: http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/norman-pettingill-his-life/
	4:25pm Ben Drinken: Yeah, Matt- and the person should be able to help if you know the last name of your grandma and such which MAY be a Scottish name. Or the name of some other somewhat recent ancestor with the Scot clan ties. maybe Kenny G has such a tie, to his credit.
	4:26pm adlfjghwg: what is this, WFUV now? I think I'll go find some freeform programming to listen to.
	4:26pm autumn: meow. meow. purr.
	4:27pm Pertaining to J&H Productions: This Art/Messengers is just what my Butternut Squash Soup needed! Served with Cinnamon Whipped Creme and Fried Shallots.
	4:32pm glenn: link for jim ringer downloads. - ttp://unclegil.blogspot.com/2010/07/false-friends-at-bar.html
	4:32pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: True, for example my last name is a common English "catch all" type name, but I would wear the Douglas Clan on account of "Forresters" in my ancestry from the Borders region. I also once found "Heath" associated with the Inverness area, but haven't found a clan to associate with them.
	4:33pm godless pinko: GLENN! Thank you so much!
	4:34pm Brass Knuckles: Toby Keith? Is he on Dischord? Shit is pretty hardcore.
	4:34pm glenn: hey!! I'M a godless pinko.
	4:35pm Ben Drinken: Maybe some day when Kenny G decides he DOES want to be involved with radio again and everyone has since disowned him (at his request) and now he wants to come back, he would come crawling back in his clan MacWfmu kit and singing I will give you the cake! I get you the CAKE!!!Please!!!I will get you and give you the CAKE!!I'm SORRY!!!
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: My good friend is a country fan and an apartment complex manager, so he once had this as a ringtone.
	4:35pm Aharon: Shtick much, Toky K? Not that it's not a good song.
	4:38pm Matt from Springfield: With cahoots like this, who wouldn't be ecstatic!
	4:43pm Carmichael: Country music is all shtick. And sappiness.
	4:43pm glenn: is it just me, or is this basically the boy with the arab strap?
	4:43pm Stanley: So this guy goes to the doctor's and the doctor says look, I don't know how to tell you this but you've gotta stop masturbating. The guy says why? He says - so I can examine you!
	4:46pm Irma: Feet Fockses
	4:47pm Ben Drinken: Yes they can match just about any anglo name with a scot clan. but I always find it funny that in the states this draws people to these things. People want to belong. I imagine that if Italians had such a tartan like system and had a booth at a fair Americans would be lined up in great numbers to see how their surname of Smith fits into italian heritage.
	4:49pm Carmichael: Martin Mull wrote a book long ago called The History of White People in America, basically a send-up of the need for cultural belonging Ben describes.
	4:51pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben,Carm: Good points--fellow Yanks will note that any ethnic celebration day is going to attract everyone, of every ethnicity. Because 1) we like to belong, and 2) we're fatasses! Pass that food!
	4:52pm Carmichael: Matt, I'll meet you at the British Food Festival!
	4:54pm Matt from Springfield: Bangers and rashers and mash! I wonder if there's any this time of year; normally that stuff is grouped with the Irish during St. Pat's.
	4:55pm Ben Drinken: Never see any whites pretending to be wanting to be Asian in the states on those holidays. Sometimes more increasingly African stuff but you can't fool that.
	4:56pm trss: Kippers. Young noses may object until they are grimed with age.
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: Scottish food can be gross and/or unhealthy, though Radford's Highlander Fests did sell pretty tasty and lean lamburgers. Now beverage-wise, those fests were the only place in the States I've seen "Irn-Bru" sodas for sale.
	4:57pm Ben Drinken: And I almost forgot. Octoberfest brings out the "German" in Americans. Why is that? Just for one beer, then they go back to thinking they are Austrian.
	4:58pm Matt from Springfield: Though anglos and whites do attend Chinese New Year's parades where available, and increasingly Indian events, though that might not be looking for acceptance as trying to convince themselves that "they're down with" that culture.
	5:01pm godless pinko in DC: I'm betting on the "down with" explanation.
	5:02pm Space: You're taking me up, Irwin. You'd better give me back after 6.
	5:02pm godless pinko in DC: "We're so tolerant and multicultural!"
	5:04pm Matt from Springfield: At least Andy Breckman wasn't trapped in his storage unit at that time.
	5:06pm Kurt: Wonder what he thinks about Madonna's version of American Pie
	5:06pm Brass Knuckles: Hilarious.
	5:07pm jonathan: ah this is so good...i hate that song so much and my dad used to play the 7" constantly. thank you
	5:07pm Matt from Springfield: Pumpkin Pie, on the way!!
	5:08pm Listening Out There: Pi = 3.1459....
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: Oooh, I remember first hearing this from you! Great Thanksgiving choice!
	5:10pm glenn: 3.14159
	5:10pm Space: Though I gotta admit, Nature abhors me... Speaking of which: Irwin, isn't there a chore you should be doing now?
	5:11pm slugluv1313: MUNCHIE!!!!! MUNCHIE!!!!! MUNCHIE!!!!!!! (the kitty, that is!!!)
	5:12pm Matt from Springfield: His Grace The Honourable Lord Kitchener! And he's singing about cats again!
	5:14pm Ben Drinken: Yes Matt, but it gets so easy for white people to claim they are a certain culture if they are also white. Just about everybody in the states can claim some "Indian" in their ancestry just because everyone screwed everybody over time. Then when they want to be "down" with Native American history they point out that their great, great, great, great, great gand muncle was an Indian.
	5:14pm Irwin: Sorry 'bout that, Matt. My fingers typed the wrong title. Now corrected.
	5:16pm godless pinko in DC: Damn. I forgot about this version of Witchcraft. Gotta listen to Lounge-a-Palooza again.
	5:20pm godless pinko Denise in DC: Finally got my work done, so I can go home. I'll try to listen on my iPhone, but no guarantee Verizon will permit me to do so. So I'll say Happy Thanksgiving to All right now.
	5:24pm Ben Drinken: I have never met a white person claim to be Asian on Chinese New Year!!Like I see white people claim to be Scottish on Burns night. Or Irish on St.Ps day.
	5:29pm Carmichael: I would opt for the shortened mix of anything by the Thompson Twins.
	5:30pm Matt from Springfield: Drunken and squeaky T&C! Happy Thanksgiving Denise!
	5:30pm Carmichael: Gobble gobble, Denise!
	5:31pm Matt from Springfield: Hey, where do you find instrumental backing tracks for "Burmese Land" and incorrect music like that one? Did you make that yourself, Irwin?
	5:32pm Irwin: @Matt: Wes Paich recorded it for me & Michie. We sang it somewhere.
	5:33pm Brass Knuckles: I was all, could it be, sounds like, More alternative rock!
	5:33pm Ben Drinken: How about an insurance quote for Kenny G. SUR!! Ok. I am a wanna be Scotsman and I wear a kilt even though my last name is Goldsmith. I no longer want to be associated with radio, have no desire, I am short even with these boots. Can I get insurance?
	5:36pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks Irwin!
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: @Ben: For someone apparently sick of radio and desiring not to return, we seem to be hearing A LOT about how he's sick of radio and desires not to return. Lead up to a big publicity stunt by Monsieur G?
	5:41pm Ben Drinken: @Matt- will we accept him? No. He needs to ask for the cake.
	5:54pm Ben Drinken: Kenny G needs to punch me in the head if he wants to return to WFMU.
	5:54pm Brass Knuckles: He can suck a bag of dicks for all i care.
	5:55pm Carmichael: Boy Brass, you got some hot venom there.
	5:56pm Brass Knuckles: Tell it to the volcano.
	5:57pm marc: Put some gravy on my Chevy cuz it was too dry 'American Pie' is as long as all of Billie Joels songs!!!!!!
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: Great show Irwin, greater still with my beer! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
	5:59pm Ben Drinken: the kimchi is turning out fine
	3:53am Lew Jones: Ecstatic Cahoots is in reference to Gatsby smiling at Nick just before the end. Lew Jones Portland. Thanks for the airplay. Kats come and Kats go...

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