WFMU: Monica: Playlist from August 25, 2013

Listener comments!
	7:05pm Doug S.: Gracious good greetings from all us two- and four-footers here in the Burgh.
	7:05pm Andy Kidd: Hey Monica, UK tuned in tonight, looking forward to some great music :-)
	7:06pm Reeshard: What a cool and lovely intro to the show, Miz. M., like an antidote for deep August. Not hard to feel the Sigur Ros sympatico vibe.
	7:07pm bloopy: New Zealand represent
	7:07pm CB1: Nice to have you back. that toenail is gonna be really well painted by 9 o'clock.
	7:10pm Monica: Doug S. (and baby Luna), Andy, Reeshard, bloo[y, CB1 - great to be back and so happy to have you all here.
	7:11pm dale: evening from the leaves-are-falling-off-the-black-walnut-trees-already-and-the-wooly-bears-are-crossing-the-road-a-month-early hudson valley, mo.
	7:13pm Jeezy: This reminds me.. must call doc tomorrow AM. Noticed this morning one of my toenails is turning slightly green.
	7:14pm Irene Trudel: Beauteous sounds for a Sunday, Monica.
	7:14pm doca: hello monica, nice to hear you again
	7:16pm CB2: Dale - seeing the same things in the Poconos, but still don't have a ripe tomato tho have had corn for two weeks. SCAREY! Actually, I had always wondered how to paint the perfect toenail - now I know the technique.
	7:16pm Reeshard: "White Cherry"...can't recall anyone else trying so hard to nail the Impulse label sound (cf. Alice C. & Pharoah S.).
	7:17pm dale: jeezy - my big toenails look like superfund sites. we're getting older 'sall.
	7:18pm Monica: dale, lovely setting... jeezy, do that thing...Irene! this LV is for you!...many thx, doca... CB2 - you grow where yer planted... Reeshard, right? had to pull out some Dorothy Ashby after I heard this track.
	7:18pm Irene Trudel: @Reeshard, I sure thought it was one of those Impulse folks until Laura started singing. But really lovely.
	7:19pm dale: wonder what kind of booze in the bottle on the table fuels a mani-pedi and nicotine session?
	7:20pm glenn: that photo looks like the nail salon down the street from me.
	7:22pm Andy Kidd: Someone needs to light her cigarette !
	7:22pm glenn: that bottle's full of H E A R T B R E A K, dale.
	7:22pm dale: LOVE THIS CHARLEY RICH SONG!!!!!!!!!!!
	7:23pm Jeff: Jeez, after 7 already - where'd Sunday go? Okay, the computer musical thingy will switch to The Lady Monica just as soon as this Ornette Coleman song is over. I wonder if anyone else in the house will notice right away...
	7:23pm dale: i was let go from my job two weeks after i got married. this song resonated with me for a while
	7:25pm Uncle Michael: The Silver Fox!
	7:26pm SeanG: Damn, that was good
	7:26pm Monica: Jeff, Sunday is almost bye-bye... Dale, me too! Just heard it for the first time this week....glenn, that's funny!.... howdy, Uncle Michael! Yes, have been on a Charlie Rich jag of late...
	7:27pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Monica and all you Moni-Cats.
	7:29pm Uncle Michael: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome baseball game? 0-0 bottom of the 11th.
	7:29pm KP: Settling in.
	7:29pm sugarwolf: My toenails are painted sea foam green and silver.
	7:31pm glenn: i'm betting hers are hooker red.
	7:31pm Davee: Hi Monica
	7:32pm Monica: Yo, KP and S'wolf (and your tootsies). You too, Davee!!
	7:32pm fleep: This is back when cigarettes were good for you. And where is the box of chocolates? A dame needs her chocolates. And howdy, Monica.
	7:33pm Monica: evenin', fleep! gotta a light?
	7:33pm Davee: cigarettes were never good for you
	7:34pm Davee: but they are fun to smoke!
	7:34pm Uncle Michael: momgrind.com...
	7:40pm trish: Silently back-announcing the Radio Thrift Shop fill-in link: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51990
	7:42pm deanland: Just signed in,but been here since 6:59.
	7:42pm Davee: Crushes? Oh man- if I sat on some girl I'd crush her!
	7:43pm Uncle Michael: I've got a crush on you...sweetie pie...
	7:43pm deanland: I guess this is not the Root Beer Crush of which you speak...
	7:43pm dale: my wife is making dinner and has a big ole heavy skillet at hand. no crush talk from me tonite.
	7:44pm Davee: Actually, I have a crush on my wife after 29 years - it's wonderful! 29 years today!
	7:44pm Uncle Michael: Could you coo...could you care...for a cunning cottage...we could share?
	7:44pm Andy Kidd: So.. what was the track while you were talking ?
	7:45pm deanland: Ella Fitzgerald, I've Got A Crush On You, 1950: www.youtube.com...
	7:46pm fleep: Pleading the 5th. See dale and Davee. above.
	7:47pm deanland: I think I've had a 30+ year crush on Chaka Khan.
	7:50pm dale: good on you, mo, for feeling all giddy and goofy. nothing like a crush to make one feel like they are back of a 60 seat yellow bus again.
	7:50pm Reeshard: EXCELLENT topic for this week, Monica. Tain't no secret that many of the Moni-cats (@ Uncle Michael - nice coinage!), myself included, have a crush on our dj. Few others put the girly wiles over the airwaves so well as you routinely do. Otherwise, after watching Olivia Munn's character clock her evil ex on 'The Newsroom,' found myself crushin' in a big way for Ms. Munn.
	7:50pm Jeezy: Gettin' older indeed... Wow you just launched me on spiraling google journey into the life of Charlie Rich. I didn't know "I'll wake you up when I get home" from the Clint Eastwood film was him! Brings back memories from when I was just a wee lad...
	7:51pm CB2: I'm in TROUBLE with CB1 - don't understand computering. But, love my MO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	7:51pm anon: oh but aren't crushes lovely, torturous & heartaching? reminds one that we are emotional beings and that we encounter people beautiful inside and out throughout our lives. but I do find that the fulfillment of crushes is always better in fantasy than in reality :)
	7:53pm SeanG: woo hooooooo!
	7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a serious subject - ...but - I gotta cruch on FMU!...
	7:54pm Davee: I'm going to bed with my crush tonight!
	7:54pm KP: So Sunday.
	7:55pm Monica: good one, deanland! she's got a new album coming out soon and looks pretty damn fab these days....trish, thanks! good move!... uncle michael's got a whole carton!...
	7:55pm deanland: Truth be told, I had a crush on Mrs. Yankfan even before I had met her. She had wit and intelligence and an appreciation of NYC like no-one else. When I did meet her (at an off line gathering of online people, back in the day of Compu$serve) I took one look and was smitten. Have been ever since. And that's rapidly approaching 2 decades.
	7:56pm Reeshard: This Slim Harpo track has one sexy riddim. Put your finger on the label, spin it a little faster and you've got the Stones' "Hip Shake."
	7:56pm Uncle Michael: Or don't do anything and you got I'm The Face...and Slim wrote Hip Shake.
	7:57pm Uncle Michael: The Who only changed the words.
	7:58pm sugarwolf: I have so many crushes. I have a crush on the UPS driver and on the mystery blond I see around town.
	7:58pm Davee: Mambo + HipShake =woo,woo!
	7:58pm -max-: So nice to find a room filled with the likes of Slim, Shirley, Dinah and Ruth!
	7:58pm deanland: I've wondered if the past tense of smitten should be more properly expressed as "smut"?? Which makes me wonder, if one has a crush, is one eventually crushed? Or is the "crushee" the one who gets crushed, the one on whom the other has the crush? The one with the crush is the "crusher"??
	7:59pm Monica: hola, sean, KP, anon (yes, agree), and thyanks Reeshard that's sweet. - Hi RevRab!...CB2, you're always in the doghouse, ain't ya?... S'wolf, aww,.,,,
	8:00pm Davee: I told you 29years of crush over here - oh Martha - she is so delightful!
	8:00pm CB1: My first crush was Ricky Nelson ... Those dreamy eyes!
	8:00pm fleep: sugarwolf, is that a crush or lust? is there a difference?
	8:00pm paulie: hi Miss Monica Spanky Wilson said it best, it the last days of summer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZhEwfTKGXg how is my lil budda???
	8:00pm Monica: hey, max!
	8:01pm Reeshard: @ deanland. As one whose crushes pair nicely with the zaftig thang, I appreciate your literal parsing of the term.
	8:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm sedated.
	8:05pm G: Just like I wanted to be
	8:05pm KP: Hmmm. "Loins" is a bit beyond crush, no?
	8:06pm fleep: Some people prefer their loins shaken, not stirred.
	8:07pm sugarwolf: fleep: it is a mystery I have lots of celebrity crushes. My current one is Thomas Dutronc. We have lockers at work now, maybe I should put his picture inside.
	8:07pm doca: is it just me or does it seems or pledge-gained hearts are all lost?
	8:07pm deanland: @ Reeshard. Parsing is my thing. And my Chaka crush was in full force even when she was mega-zaftig. As long as she can sing, "Sweet Thing" I will always maintain that crush. Even if it is merely in a compartment in my brain somewhere.
	8:08pm Monica: right on, paulie... bon soir, G... CB1 - that's funyy.... no, doca, no!... alright KP....
	8:09pm G: we're heartless now.
	8:09pm deanland: WFMU, despite being on FM and online, apparently just went through a tunnel, so we could not hear it for the duration of the ride. Glad it came back!!
	8:10pm Reeshard: Crushes are so central to my existence, so life-affirming, that I find myself classifying them and creating sub-genres of 'crush.' Like the street crush, where you have it bad for someone in the course of a walk or subway ride to work, at the end of which the apparition in question disappears and is - for the most part - forgotten moments later. Just finished a gig in Montréal. Street crushes in that city could inspire seizures. All of which confirms that crushes can't HELP but be loin-centric to a degree.
	8:10pm Uncle Michael: "Know it, hell he wrote it." Tony Joe kicks ass.
	8:11pm G: i can't help but think that polk salad is suggesting something else.
	8:12pm Uncle Michael: Pokeweed grows plentifully on my place.
	8:12pm deanland: Hmmm, is it WFMU or my internet connection? It seems a serving of Polk Salad just went through the tunnel.
	8:12pm anon: this looks like a good crush movie amongst those who are spoken for. i think it's normal for those who are spoken for (or is it whom?) to have crushes. i think it's only human. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/08/joe-swanbergs-drinking-buddies-reviewed.html
	8:12pm Monica: chung, chung.
	8:13pm fleep: To me, a crush means you also know something about the other person, you have spoken to them, or maybe you saw them doing something you approve of. When it is purely visual, that's just hormones kicking in, that's a letch for someone.
	8:13pm Uncle Michael: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:14pm glenn: i've had a crush on ellen barkin since time immemorial. or at least since i saw the big easy.
	8:14pm G: it's possible to have crushes of wildly varying sizes in multiple people. is it not?
	8:16pm glenn: ZEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
	8:16pm glenn: ZEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
	8:16pm Reeshard: @ fleep. You point about visual stimulus-only is taken. Yet that incorporates clothing, hairstyle, make-up, the subtle choices that indicate intelligence and maybe even personal politics. Definitely crush-inspiring, at least the stuff of a street crush.
	8:17pm Monica: i think crushes can be on be on folks we actually know or on distant stars/artists. i love the feeling of having a crush. makes me feel like a young hen again.
	8:17pm G: LZ should have covered Poke Salad Annie. till the juice ran down their legs.
	8:18pm G: we're all young hens hereabouts. and roosters.
	8:18pm deanland: www.urbandictionary.com... and en.wikipedia.org... and theater.nytimes.com...
	8:18pm trish: What's the difference between a crush and an attraction? What marks the turning point from school-boy/girl crushes? Or are they all the same?
	8:19pm Reeshard: Interesting timing re. the crush thread, as I just re-watched Truffaut's 'The Man Who Loved Women' on TCM not long ago.
	8:19pm G: a crush means you may or may not ever act on it. or, it may just be plain impossible to act on.
	8:21pm dale: reeshard - wasn't there a horrible remake of that with richard gere?
	8:22pm trish: @G same goes for attraction.. Crush to me implies a certain naiveté. Either coming with the territory in the young, or wholly embraced for kicks.
	8:23pm dale: a crush means you wake up hot and sweaty from a dream you shouldn't have had.
	8:25pm Reeshard: @ dale - oh mercy, I hope not. @G - well put. I've had co-worker crushes that were truly distracting and no fun to keep contained. Actually was glad to check out of one job, it was so wearing to keep said crush to myself. Yet, painful as that one was, kinda fun too, definitely the yin-yang of the whole crush thang.
	8:26pm trish: They're best left in unreality-land ?
	8:28pm dale: had to google with my noodle. it was dr. t and the women i was thinking of - my bad
	8:30pm Reeshard: @ dale. Guys like Dr. T and Truffaut's Bertrand were proactive and then some. The boundaries of crush didn't exist for them.
	8:31pm listener gary: good evening dj Monica ...I am listening. when I heard the robert plant I thought "Good grief! My favorite male chantuse on the dj monica show. What next!
	8:32pm dale: saw that last in the 70s - that the one with all the women filing in for his funeral?
	8:32pm Reeshard: Yeah, that's the bookending device for "The Man Who..."
	8:33pm deanland: WLAC,I believe, was John R's station.
	8:34pm Uncle Michael: I was definitely a WCFL kid....the Voice of Labor.
	8:35pm G: attraction is more of a scientific or descriptive vibe. crush started as a slang term, and has a pretty strong emotional and desiderative connotation. sorry, put on my lexicographic hat there.
	8:35pm newberry: WCFL and WLS! I remember listening to those on my little red plastic flying saucer shaped transistor radio in the 70s.
	8:36pm spodiodi: Are "crushes 'okay?'" Imagine you're the other committed person.
	8:36pm G: WCFL stopped using those call letters in 87. Since 90 it's been an unrelated FM station
	8:37pm spodiodi: ps - another fantastic show, Monica -- thank you.
	8:37pm G: WLS is still around, Cumulus-owned, political talk nowadays isn;t it?
	8:38pm Uncle Michael: WCFL dropped pop in '76 though.
	8:38pm spodiodi: pps - the 4(?) frame toenail gif is making me ill. I'm down with the intended sentiment, however the execution leaves me nauseous.
	8:38pm anon: and that other committed person probably has crushes too. maybe? the other just doesn't know about it and doesn't hafta so long as it's light and fleeting, imho.
	8:39pm G: it was a long way down for those top 40 60s stations. CKLW was "music of your life" (Sinatra etc.) in maybe the 80s or early 90s.
	8:40pm Monica: Larry Lujack @newberry, uncle michael... deanland, yes!!.... spodiodi, yes, they are OK!... agreee, anon. can be healthy really... Hi, Listener Gary!!
	8:40pm Reeshard: @ anon. There's a show on AMC that's all about committed people without crushes. It's called 'The Walking Dead.'
	8:41pm dale: bing doing it fer jazz
	8:41pm spodiodi: lol Ree
	8:41pm Uncle Michael: I remember when Lujack switched horses. I was always more into John "Records" Landecker.
	8:43pm Uncle Michael: And that "Voice of labor" thing I mentioned? The "CFL" in WCFL was the Chicago Federation of Labor.
	8:43pm LilyAbigale: Bing Crosby reminds me lof Jerry Lee Lewis on smack
	8:43pm G: crushes can graduate to relationships. not all are mental exercise (or mental self-torture)
	8:44pm spodiodi: Bing reminds me of cough syrup.
	8:44pm spodiodi: ... and cherries.
	8:44pm dale: this song reminds me of jerry lewis swinging as the nutty professor
	8:44pm LOLhepcat: can i haz jazz? lol
	8:45pm spodiodi: caps, hepcat. CAPS
	8:46pm sugarwolf: Sophie!!! <3<3<3
	8:46pm Monica: i'll buy that, LilyAbigale...LOLhepcat, yes youz can... haha, reeshard... yep, UM, lujack moved. what about dick biondi and john "records" landecker?
	8:46pm spodiodi: This song kills all other songs.
	8:47pm fleep: Sophie and the gif are one.
	8:49pm Uncle Michael: Monica and I may have gone to different schools together.
	8:51pm CB1: This last set hs been especially nice. Thanks Mo !
	8:51pm trish: 'Attractions scientific and crushes emotional' ?! I say belated bollocks to that. And Sophie Tucker, wow-yeah.
	8:51pm listener gary: thanks for the laura cantrell break last week ...always a pleasure!!
	8:52pm Reeshard: This has been a comments column like no other, now buttoned cleverly with these last few songs. Attagirl, Monica!
	8:53pm G: it's not that attraction and crush are necessarily different in themselves. it's that the two words present them differently.
	8:54pm trish: Yeah. One is for kids, mostly where the other is too grown up for kids.
	8:55pm spodiodi: IMHO, Crush implies indulgence.
	8:55pm LilyAbigale: Every time anyone mentions Dick Biondi i think of his unfortunate mini skit debacle
	8:55pm spodiodi: Attraction is science.
	8:56pm Monica: Wow, what a fun night! TYou guys are the best - gotta crush on all of yas!!! Thanks for tuning in tonight and please stay tuned for Dave Mandl and World Of Echo!
	8:56pm dale: aww, poor linda......glad you played this. i was gonna ask for 'long long time'
	8:56pm LilyAbigale: I was sorry to hear on Pseu's show that Linda Ronstadt has Parkinsons
	8:56pm trish: @spodiodi How so?
	8:56pm doca: thanks, monica!
	8:57pm Uncle Michael: Awe...this is gonna end? But Bob Sirott is coming up next in the comments.
	8:58pm Uncle Michael: I had fun hanging out and listening tonight, Monica....and Moni-Cats.
	8:58pm spodiodi: doca, in that one must allow one's consciousness to put the crush at the forefront of one's thoughts (and possibly act.) An "attraction" is a measure of facts, as I see it.
	8:58pm fleep: Thanks, Monica!
	8:59pm spodiodi: Monica, ftw!
	8:59pm Droll: Uncanny, I was part of a conversation on crushes earlier today. My bad for showing up late. I have always had crushes on bands. Most I get over, but my heart still flutters when I hear Adrian Belew play.
	9:00pm spodiodi: Charlie Rich rules.
	9:03pm spodiodi: sorry, doca, my comment was meant for trish
	12:41pm Jay/London: hi monica been going though your playlists this afternoon now I got the live show too :)

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Julianna Barwick	Harbinger "Harbinger" by "Julianna Barwick"	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lorde	Royals "Royals" by "Lorde"	0:05:53 (Pop-up)
Larry Gus	Paths Laid Down "Paths Laid Down" by "Larry Gus"	0:09:03 (Pop-up)
Laura Veirs	White Cherry "White Cherry" by "Laura Veirs"	0:13:26 (Pop-up)
The Living Sisters	Don't Let The Sun Go Down	0:18:59 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich	Life's Little Ups And Downs	0:22:14 (Pop-up)
Davis Sisters	Plant My Feet On Higher Ground	0:28:36 (Pop-up)
Little Johnnie Taylor	Baby Get Hip To Yourself	0:29:13 (Pop-up)
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan	You Got The Love	0:31:10 (Pop-up)

Dinah Washington	It's A Mean Old Man's World	0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Mose Allison	Lost Mind "Lost Mind" by "Mose Allison"	0:46:26 (Pop-up)
Shirley Horn	Baby, Baby All The Time	0:50:09 (Pop-up)
Slim Harpo	I've Got Love If You Want It	0:52:50 (Pop-up)
Ruth Brown	Mambo Baby "Mambo Baby" by "Ruth Brown"	0:55:58 (Pop-up)
Mickey Katz	Tico Tico "Tico Tico" by "Mickey Katz"	0:58:02 (Pop-up)

Dave Barker	Do Your Thing "Do Your Thing" by "Dave Barker"	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Tony Joe White	Polk Salad Annie "Polk Salad Annie" by "Tony Joe White"	1:09:03 (Pop-up)
Parquet Courts	You've Got Me Wonderin' Now	1:13:10 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin	Out On The Tiles "Out On The Tiles" by "Led Zeppelin"	1:15:11 (Pop-up)
Chancha Via Circuito (Ft. Kumbha Kethu)	Bosques Via Temperley	1:19:54 (Pop-up)
Co La	Baby's Breath "Baby's Breath" by "Co La"	1:23:32 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Ashby	John R. "John R." by "Dorothy Ashby"	1:26:52 (Pop-up)

Lil Johnson	Was I? "Was I?" by "Lil Johnson"	1:35:09 (Pop-up)
Big Jay McNeely	Three Blind Mice "Three Blind Mice" by "Big Jay McNeely"	1:38:00 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong	Now You Has Jazz	1:40:58 (Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker	I'm Living Alone And I Like It	1:44:29 (Pop-up)
The Kirby Sisters	Blond In Red Velvet	1:49:00 (Pop-up)
Patsy Cline	Crazy Arms "Crazy Arms" by "Patsy Cline"	1:50:07 (Pop-up)
The Caravelles	Half As Much "Half As Much" by "The Caravelles"	1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton	My Blue Tears	1:53:37 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich	Pass On By "Pass On By" by "Charlie Rich"

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Listener comments!
	7:05pm Doug S.: Gracious good greetings from all us two- and four-footers here in the Burgh.
	7:05pm Andy Kidd: Hey Monica, UK tuned in tonight, looking forward to some great music :-)
	7:06pm Reeshard: What a cool and lovely intro to the show, Miz. M., like an antidote for deep August. Not hard to feel the Sigur Ros sympatico vibe.
	7:07pm bloopy: New Zealand represent
	7:07pm CB1: Nice to have you back. that toenail is gonna be really well painted by 9 o'clock.
	7:10pm Monica: Doug S. (and baby Luna), Andy, Reeshard, bloo[y, CB1 - great to be back and so happy to have you all here.
	7:11pm dale: evening from the leaves-are-falling-off-the-black-walnut-trees-already-and-the-wooly-bears-are-crossing-the-road-a-month-early hudson valley, mo.
	7:13pm Jeezy: This reminds me.. must call doc tomorrow AM. Noticed this morning one of my toenails is turning slightly green.
	7:14pm Irene Trudel: Beauteous sounds for a Sunday, Monica.
	7:14pm doca: hello monica, nice to hear you again
	7:16pm CB2: Dale - seeing the same things in the Poconos, but still don't have a ripe tomato tho have had corn for two weeks. SCAREY! Actually, I had always wondered how to paint the perfect toenail - now I know the technique.
	7:16pm Reeshard: "White Cherry"...can't recall anyone else trying so hard to nail the Impulse label sound (cf. Alice C. & Pharoah S.).
	7:17pm dale: jeezy - my big toenails look like superfund sites. we're getting older 'sall.
	7:18pm Monica: dale, lovely setting... jeezy, do that thing...Irene! this LV is for you!...many thx, doca... CB2 - you grow where yer planted... Reeshard, right? had to pull out some Dorothy Ashby after I heard this track.
	7:18pm Irene Trudel: @Reeshard, I sure thought it was one of those Impulse folks until Laura started singing. But really lovely.
	7:19pm dale: wonder what kind of booze in the bottle on the table fuels a mani-pedi and nicotine session?
	7:20pm glenn: that photo looks like the nail salon down the street from me.
	7:22pm Andy Kidd: Someone needs to light her cigarette !
	7:22pm glenn: that bottle's full of H E A R T B R E A K, dale.
	7:22pm dale: LOVE THIS CHARLEY RICH SONG!!!!!!!!!!!
	7:23pm Jeff: Jeez, after 7 already - where'd Sunday go? Okay, the computer musical thingy will switch to The Lady Monica just as soon as this Ornette Coleman song is over. I wonder if anyone else in the house will notice right away...
	7:23pm dale: i was let go from my job two weeks after i got married. this song resonated with me for a while
	7:25pm Uncle Michael: The Silver Fox!
	7:26pm SeanG: Damn, that was good
	7:26pm Monica: Jeff, Sunday is almost bye-bye... Dale, me too! Just heard it for the first time this week....glenn, that's funny!.... howdy, Uncle Michael! Yes, have been on a Charlie Rich jag of late...
	7:27pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Monica and all you Moni-Cats.
	7:29pm Uncle Michael: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome baseball game? 0-0 bottom of the 11th.
	7:29pm KP: Settling in.
	7:29pm sugarwolf: My toenails are painted sea foam green and silver.
	7:31pm glenn: i'm betting hers are hooker red.
	7:31pm Davee: Hi Monica
	7:32pm Monica: Yo, KP and S'wolf (and your tootsies). You too, Davee!!
	7:32pm fleep: This is back when cigarettes were good for you. And where is the box of chocolates? A dame needs her chocolates. And howdy, Monica.
	7:33pm Monica: evenin', fleep! gotta a light?
	7:33pm Davee: cigarettes were never good for you
	7:34pm Davee: but they are fun to smoke!
	7:34pm Uncle Michael: momgrind.com...
	7:40pm trish: Silently back-announcing the Radio Thrift Shop fill-in link: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51990
	7:42pm deanland: Just signed in,but been here since 6:59.
	7:42pm Davee: Crushes? Oh man- if I sat on some girl I'd crush her!
	7:43pm Uncle Michael: I've got a crush on you...sweetie pie...
	7:43pm deanland: I guess this is not the Root Beer Crush of which you speak...
	7:43pm dale: my wife is making dinner and has a big ole heavy skillet at hand. no crush talk from me tonite.
	7:44pm Davee: Actually, I have a crush on my wife after 29 years - it's wonderful! 29 years today!
	7:44pm Uncle Michael: Could you coo...could you care...for a cunning cottage...we could share?
	7:44pm Andy Kidd: So.. what was the track while you were talking ?
	7:45pm deanland: Ella Fitzgerald, I've Got A Crush On You, 1950: www.youtube.com...
	7:46pm fleep: Pleading the 5th. See dale and Davee. above.
	7:47pm deanland: I think I've had a 30+ year crush on Chaka Khan.
	7:50pm dale: good on you, mo, for feeling all giddy and goofy. nothing like a crush to make one feel like they are back of a 60 seat yellow bus again.
	7:50pm Reeshard: EXCELLENT topic for this week, Monica. Tain't no secret that many of the Moni-cats (@ Uncle Michael - nice coinage!), myself included, have a crush on our dj. Few others put the girly wiles over the airwaves so well as you routinely do. Otherwise, after watching Olivia Munn's character clock her evil ex on 'The Newsroom,' found myself crushin' in a big way for Ms. Munn.
	7:50pm Jeezy: Gettin' older indeed... Wow you just launched me on spiraling google journey into the life of Charlie Rich. I didn't know "I'll wake you up when I get home" from the Clint Eastwood film was him! Brings back memories from when I was just a wee lad...
	7:51pm CB2: I'm in TROUBLE with CB1 - don't understand computering. But, love my MO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	7:51pm anon: oh but aren't crushes lovely, torturous & heartaching? reminds one that we are emotional beings and that we encounter people beautiful inside and out throughout our lives. but I do find that the fulfillment of crushes is always better in fantasy than in reality :)
	7:53pm SeanG: woo hooooooo!
	7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a serious subject - ...but - I gotta cruch on FMU!...
	7:54pm Davee: I'm going to bed with my crush tonight!
	7:54pm KP: So Sunday.
	7:55pm Monica: good one, deanland! she's got a new album coming out soon and looks pretty damn fab these days....trish, thanks! good move!... uncle michael's got a whole carton!...
	7:55pm deanland: Truth be told, I had a crush on Mrs. Yankfan even before I had met her. She had wit and intelligence and an appreciation of NYC like no-one else. When I did meet her (at an off line gathering of online people, back in the day of Compu$serve) I took one look and was smitten. Have been ever since. And that's rapidly approaching 2 decades.
	7:56pm Reeshard: This Slim Harpo track has one sexy riddim. Put your finger on the label, spin it a little faster and you've got the Stones' "Hip Shake."
	7:56pm Uncle Michael: Or don't do anything and you got I'm The Face...and Slim wrote Hip Shake.
	7:57pm Uncle Michael: The Who only changed the words.
	7:58pm sugarwolf: I have so many crushes. I have a crush on the UPS driver and on the mystery blond I see around town.
	7:58pm Davee: Mambo + HipShake =woo,woo!
	7:58pm -max-: So nice to find a room filled with the likes of Slim, Shirley, Dinah and Ruth!
	7:58pm deanland: I've wondered if the past tense of smitten should be more properly expressed as "smut"?? Which makes me wonder, if one has a crush, is one eventually crushed? Or is the "crushee" the one who gets crushed, the one on whom the other has the crush? The one with the crush is the "crusher"??
	7:59pm Monica: hola, sean, KP, anon (yes, agree), and thyanks Reeshard that's sweet. - Hi RevRab!...CB2, you're always in the doghouse, ain't ya?... S'wolf, aww,.,,,
	8:00pm Davee: I told you 29years of crush over here - oh Martha - she is so delightful!
	8:00pm CB1: My first crush was Ricky Nelson ... Those dreamy eyes!
	8:00pm fleep: sugarwolf, is that a crush or lust? is there a difference?
	8:00pm paulie: hi Miss Monica Spanky Wilson said it best, it the last days of summer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZhEwfTKGXg how is my lil budda???
	8:00pm Monica: hey, max!
	8:01pm Reeshard: @ deanland. As one whose crushes pair nicely with the zaftig thang, I appreciate your literal parsing of the term.
	8:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm sedated.
	8:05pm G: Just like I wanted to be
	8:05pm KP: Hmmm. "Loins" is a bit beyond crush, no?
	8:06pm fleep: Some people prefer their loins shaken, not stirred.
	8:07pm sugarwolf: fleep: it is a mystery I have lots of celebrity crushes. My current one is Thomas Dutronc. We have lockers at work now, maybe I should put his picture inside.
	8:07pm doca: is it just me or does it seems or pledge-gained hearts are all lost?
	8:07pm deanland: @ Reeshard. Parsing is my thing. And my Chaka crush was in full force even when she was mega-zaftig. As long as she can sing, "Sweet Thing" I will always maintain that crush. Even if it is merely in a compartment in my brain somewhere.
	8:08pm Monica: right on, paulie... bon soir, G... CB1 - that's funyy.... no, doca, no!... alright KP....
	8:09pm G: we're heartless now.
	8:09pm deanland: WFMU, despite being on FM and online, apparently just went through a tunnel, so we could not hear it for the duration of the ride. Glad it came back!!
	8:10pm Reeshard: Crushes are so central to my existence, so life-affirming, that I find myself classifying them and creating sub-genres of 'crush.' Like the street crush, where you have it bad for someone in the course of a walk or subway ride to work, at the end of which the apparition in question disappears and is - for the most part - forgotten moments later. Just finished a gig in Montréal. Street crushes in that city could inspire seizures. All of which confirms that crushes can't HELP but be loin-centric to a degree.
	8:10pm Uncle Michael: "Know it, hell he wrote it." Tony Joe kicks ass.
	8:11pm G: i can't help but think that polk salad is suggesting something else.
	8:12pm Uncle Michael: Pokeweed grows plentifully on my place.
	8:12pm deanland: Hmmm, is it WFMU or my internet connection? It seems a serving of Polk Salad just went through the tunnel.
	8:12pm anon: this looks like a good crush movie amongst those who are spoken for. i think it's normal for those who are spoken for (or is it whom?) to have crushes. i think it's only human. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/08/joe-swanbergs-drinking-buddies-reviewed.html
	8:12pm Monica: chung, chung.
	8:13pm fleep: To me, a crush means you also know something about the other person, you have spoken to them, or maybe you saw them doing something you approve of. When it is purely visual, that's just hormones kicking in, that's a letch for someone.
	8:13pm Uncle Michael: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:14pm glenn: i've had a crush on ellen barkin since time immemorial. or at least since i saw the big easy.
	8:14pm G: it's possible to have crushes of wildly varying sizes in multiple people. is it not?
	8:16pm glenn: ZEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
	8:16pm glenn: ZEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
	8:16pm Reeshard: @ fleep. You point about visual stimulus-only is taken. Yet that incorporates clothing, hairstyle, make-up, the subtle choices that indicate intelligence and maybe even personal politics. Definitely crush-inspiring, at least the stuff of a street crush.
	8:17pm Monica: i think crushes can be on be on folks we actually know or on distant stars/artists. i love the feeling of having a crush. makes me feel like a young hen again.
	8:17pm G: LZ should have covered Poke Salad Annie. till the juice ran down their legs.
	8:18pm G: we're all young hens hereabouts. and roosters.
	8:18pm deanland: www.urbandictionary.com... and en.wikipedia.org... and theater.nytimes.com...
	8:18pm trish: What's the difference between a crush and an attraction? What marks the turning point from school-boy/girl crushes? Or are they all the same?
	8:19pm Reeshard: Interesting timing re. the crush thread, as I just re-watched Truffaut's 'The Man Who Loved Women' on TCM not long ago.
	8:19pm G: a crush means you may or may not ever act on it. or, it may just be plain impossible to act on.
	8:21pm dale: reeshard - wasn't there a horrible remake of that with richard gere?
	8:22pm trish: @G same goes for attraction.. Crush to me implies a certain naiveté. Either coming with the territory in the young, or wholly embraced for kicks.
	8:23pm dale: a crush means you wake up hot and sweaty from a dream you shouldn't have had.
	8:25pm Reeshard: @ dale - oh mercy, I hope not. @G - well put. I've had co-worker crushes that were truly distracting and no fun to keep contained. Actually was glad to check out of one job, it was so wearing to keep said crush to myself. Yet, painful as that one was, kinda fun too, definitely the yin-yang of the whole crush thang.
	8:26pm trish: They're best left in unreality-land ?
	8:28pm dale: had to google with my noodle. it was dr. t and the women i was thinking of - my bad
	8:30pm Reeshard: @ dale. Guys like Dr. T and Truffaut's Bertrand were proactive and then some. The boundaries of crush didn't exist for them.
	8:31pm listener gary: good evening dj Monica ...I am listening. when I heard the robert plant I thought "Good grief! My favorite male chantuse on the dj monica show. What next!
	8:32pm dale: saw that last in the 70s - that the one with all the women filing in for his funeral?
	8:32pm Reeshard: Yeah, that's the bookending device for "The Man Who..."
	8:33pm deanland: WLAC,I believe, was John R's station.
	8:34pm Uncle Michael: I was definitely a WCFL kid....the Voice of Labor.
	8:35pm G: attraction is more of a scientific or descriptive vibe. crush started as a slang term, and has a pretty strong emotional and desiderative connotation. sorry, put on my lexicographic hat there.
	8:35pm newberry: WCFL and WLS! I remember listening to those on my little red plastic flying saucer shaped transistor radio in the 70s.
	8:36pm spodiodi: Are "crushes 'okay?'" Imagine you're the other committed person.
	8:36pm G: WCFL stopped using those call letters in 87. Since 90 it's been an unrelated FM station
	8:37pm spodiodi: ps - another fantastic show, Monica -- thank you.
	8:37pm G: WLS is still around, Cumulus-owned, political talk nowadays isn;t it?
	8:38pm Uncle Michael: WCFL dropped pop in '76 though.
	8:38pm spodiodi: pps - the 4(?) frame toenail gif is making me ill. I'm down with the intended sentiment, however the execution leaves me nauseous.
	8:38pm anon: and that other committed person probably has crushes too. maybe? the other just doesn't know about it and doesn't hafta so long as it's light and fleeting, imho.
	8:39pm G: it was a long way down for those top 40 60s stations. CKLW was "music of your life" (Sinatra etc.) in maybe the 80s or early 90s.
	8:40pm Monica: Larry Lujack @newberry, uncle michael... deanland, yes!!.... spodiodi, yes, they are OK!... agreee, anon. can be healthy really... Hi, Listener Gary!!
	8:40pm Reeshard: @ anon. There's a show on AMC that's all about committed people without crushes. It's called 'The Walking Dead.'
	8:41pm dale: bing doing it fer jazz
	8:41pm spodiodi: lol Ree
	8:41pm Uncle Michael: I remember when Lujack switched horses. I was always more into John "Records" Landecker.
	8:43pm Uncle Michael: And that "Voice of labor" thing I mentioned? The "CFL" in WCFL was the Chicago Federation of Labor.
	8:43pm LilyAbigale: Bing Crosby reminds me lof Jerry Lee Lewis on smack
	8:43pm G: crushes can graduate to relationships. not all are mental exercise (or mental self-torture)
	8:44pm spodiodi: Bing reminds me of cough syrup.
	8:44pm spodiodi: ... and cherries.
	8:44pm dale: this song reminds me of jerry lewis swinging as the nutty professor
	8:44pm LOLhepcat: can i haz jazz? lol
	8:45pm spodiodi: caps, hepcat. CAPS
	8:46pm sugarwolf: Sophie!!! <3<3<3
	8:46pm Monica: i'll buy that, LilyAbigale...LOLhepcat, yes youz can... haha, reeshard... yep, UM, lujack moved. what about dick biondi and john "records" landecker?
	8:46pm spodiodi: This song kills all other songs.
	8:47pm fleep: Sophie and the gif are one.
	8:49pm Uncle Michael: Monica and I may have gone to different schools together.
	8:51pm CB1: This last set hs been especially nice. Thanks Mo !
	8:51pm trish: 'Attractions scientific and crushes emotional' ?! I say belated bollocks to that. And Sophie Tucker, wow-yeah.
	8:51pm listener gary: thanks for the laura cantrell break last week ...always a pleasure!!
	8:52pm Reeshard: This has been a comments column like no other, now buttoned cleverly with these last few songs. Attagirl, Monica!
	8:53pm G: it's not that attraction and crush are necessarily different in themselves. it's that the two words present them differently.
	8:54pm trish: Yeah. One is for kids, mostly where the other is too grown up for kids.
	8:55pm spodiodi: IMHO, Crush implies indulgence.
	8:55pm LilyAbigale: Every time anyone mentions Dick Biondi i think of his unfortunate mini skit debacle
	8:55pm spodiodi: Attraction is science.
	8:56pm Monica: Wow, what a fun night! TYou guys are the best - gotta crush on all of yas!!! Thanks for tuning in tonight and please stay tuned for Dave Mandl and World Of Echo!
	8:56pm dale: aww, poor linda......glad you played this. i was gonna ask for 'long long time'
	8:56pm LilyAbigale: I was sorry to hear on Pseu's show that Linda Ronstadt has Parkinsons
	8:56pm trish: @spodiodi How so?
	8:56pm doca: thanks, monica!
	8:57pm Uncle Michael: Awe...this is gonna end? But Bob Sirott is coming up next in the comments.
	8:58pm Uncle Michael: I had fun hanging out and listening tonight, Monica....and Moni-Cats.
	8:58pm spodiodi: doca, in that one must allow one's consciousness to put the crush at the forefront of one's thoughts (and possibly act.) An "attraction" is a measure of facts, as I see it.
	8:58pm fleep: Thanks, Monica!
	8:59pm spodiodi: Monica, ftw!
	8:59pm Droll: Uncanny, I was part of a conversation on crushes earlier today. My bad for showing up late. I have always had crushes on bands. Most I get over, but my heart still flutters when I hear Adrian Belew play.
	9:00pm spodiodi: Charlie Rich rules.
	9:03pm spodiodi: sorry, doca, my comment was meant for trish
	12:41pm Jay/London: hi monica been going though your playlists this afternoon now I got the live show too :)

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