WFMU: Imaginary Radio: Playlist from December 31, 2015

Listener comments!
	9:02am neil who is WILD, man: Hi Chris! Happy New Year all!
	9:03am Chris M.: happy new year!
	9:08am annie: yay!
	9:16am duke: Happy almost 2016
	9:19am ottovonbqe: I trust this set will culminate in a sludge metal bye bye blackbird
	9:23am efd: why do you hate blackbirds, Chris?
	9:24am Chris M.: @ottovonbqe: i hope it does @efd: maybe i love them too much
	9:26am doncaballero: 3 hours of Bye Bye Blackbird > 3 hours of Lemmy tribute = Kickass way to end 2015!
	9:28am annie: i think is going to be fine...really... sure.. ok.... oops, gotta go!! not
	9:31am neil who is WILD, man: So I guess the theme is goodbye to 2015 and the blackbird is 2015??
	9:32am HDF: 13 ways of listening to a blackbird. I can remember a series of casio keyboards i had as a kid that would play 'bye bye blackbird' as a preset if you punched in the right code
	9:32am Cecile: hi/bye annie. Can you play something from the new Horrendous album?
	9:33am nathaxn walker: That new Horrendous album is great, Cecile! I also love blackbirds.
	9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Red wing blackbirds are cool, but the less common yellow headed blackbird is a fine bird as well.
	9:34am nathaxn walker: The last Horrendous album is also great!
	9:34am Cecile: Also, 3 hours of Lemmy > everything.
	9:34am Chris M.: @Cecile: www.wfmu.org...
	9:35am nathaxn walker: Hooray for Lemmy!!! Sadness for Lemmy!!!
	9:35am Cecile: If it's going to be 3 hours of Blackbird, I'm a'gonna go listen to Horrendous. And then some Motorhead. Sorry, all.
	9:36am Chris M.: what's everyone's new year's resolution that they plan on breaking right away?
	9:37am ottovonbqe: Not cheating on my wife.
	9:37am Jay/London: it can not be a whole show of blackbird !!!
	9:38am Cecile: otto, hah. I hope. I am planning on managing my vices better this year. After I have a blowout night at the drag bar tonight with a bunch of drunks. The place is appropriately named Lush.
	9:41am Cecile: changes to Horrendous that's better.
	9:42am RenRen: Is this normal
	9:43am Cecile: nothing is never normal with this show. He doesn't usually play 3 hours of one song, though.
	9:43am Cecile: and there's infinitely more death metal.
	9:44am Parq: Somebody should have told Anthony Newly that Sinatra could pull off that type of Daddy-o lyrical riffing because he was Sinatra. And thanks for playing Miles, my personal favorite take on the song.
	9:46am Ken From Hyde Park: I resolve to use my left hand for mundane things like picking up fallen pencils. I figure it'll help balance my brain somewhat.
	9:46am annie: hi/bye cecile. you sticking around? i am..
	9:47am Cecile: Yes, except I'm not listening to what he's playing.
	9:47am Cecile: www.youtube.com...
	9:47am ottovonbqe: I'm not listening and I have a piece of paper over the playlist part of the screen.
	9:49am Ike: I'm not listening, not commenting, not looking at the playlist, and I'm flushing this monitor down the toilet!
	9:51am Cecile: you win.
	9:53am nathaxn walker: the nina simone rendition of bye bye blackbird was pretty rocking!
	9:53am annie: yes, but now i'm in the kitchen making breakfast: home-made knish, topped with bacon and spinach; lotsa buttah!
	9:54am Cecile: YUM!
	9:54am neil who is WILD, man: THIS must be some kind of radio history or even Guiness level !! Could somebody check? @Chris-you should call the people at Guiness!
	9:55am annie: ja-youbetcha!
	9:57am Chris M.: @neil who is WILD, man: they said if i pull this off, i win a keg of their superb beer
	9:58am annie: omg, he's even playing them by year!!
	10:01am annie: sonny stitt, now my day is complete. .. and i like the fact that the same words are in the middle box, it totally satisfies my neat-oriented brain
	10:01am Fred R: Awesome Chris! Very eclectic titles in the playlist.
	10:01am nathaxn walker: for my new years resolution, which I will keep, I will stop baking blackbirds into pies, but it is an easy one to keep as I have never actually done so nor ever seriously considered doing so, not even now.
	10:02am Parq: Is this really gonna be the whole three hours? It'll be kind of like a baseball no-hitter --the closer he gets to pulling it off, the more of a nail-biter it'll be.
	10:03am Parq: My NY res, by the way, is as always -- I'll see what I can do.
	10:04am Pete L: Ammons and Stitt = HIP - thank you!
	10:04am crateslinger: My new year's resolution is five-fold. Quit drinking, quit smoking, lose weight, call my mother more, and get some virtual reality glasses.
	10:04am neil who is WILD, man: Assuming each one is, on average, 3:30 long means he needs about 51 discrete songs with no repeats. Good luck Chris!
	10:06am crateslinger: In summation, my new year's resolution is to stop being a loser and become wonderful.
	10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Plus, the station ID was about 20 seconds. Chris M is not messing around.
	10:07am Whosondephone: Amaqzing!
	10:08am annie: get your mother skype, crateslinger..
	10:08am neil who is WILD, man: I been hyp-no-tized! I read on Wikipedia that this song may be about a prostitute leaving the business to go back and live with her mother. Also, Tiny Tim covered this!
	10:11am neil who is WILD, man: OH, my bad, he needs sixty assuming the average song is 180 seconds long....not like I said earlier....
	10:11am nathaxn walker: So far, 1962 has the most Blackbird of any year!
	10:14am neil who is WILD, man: This is radio history! Also, what can this do to our MINDS, man? OH the humanity!
	10:15am neil who is WILD, man: @Chris-you are allowed to take a break you know!
	10:17am ottovonbqe: Man, 1962 was a bonanza year for BBB
	10:18am V Priceless: Hey Chris! Fun show! Reminds me of my sis who gigs with Duchin. This is one of their standards, of course!
	10:19am Chris M.: @V Priceless: thanks! what's Duchin?
	10:20am Dean: I'm the lawyer for the estate of Ray Henderson, who died 45 years ago today. Can I have a word with the DJ after the show?
	10:23am Chris M.: @Dean: yes, you can email me with the contact form at the bottom of this playlist page
	10:25am crateslinger: Has it been three hours already? Wow, that just flew by! Nice one Chris!
	10:26am Dean: I'd issue the cease-and-desist right here, but I'm enjoying the show too much. Please don't cease or desist. (What does "desist" mean?)
	10:26am Cecile: I hope Chris isn't in trouble.
	10:28am Marcel M: Woah woah...whats been going on here?
	10:32am annie: the great thing about this show is i didn't miss anything while i was in the kitchen. perhaps some unique stylin'.. but hey i got my imagination..
	10:33am neil who is WILD, man: @ Dean-what does "mean" mean?
	10:33am Chris M.: @Cecile: playing the Motorhead version next
	10:33am Dean: Chet Baker due soon? Joe Cocker? Meat Puppets? (Made up the last one.)
	10:33am JimmyfromKearny: I'm digging this; I used to sing this song with a Scottish Cat in a few bars in Kearny...
	10:33am Cecile: niiiice.
	10:33am neil who is WILD, man: OK, in 2016 I'm going to shave my face more and also groom other body hair to please my wife.
	10:34am Dean: @neil: "Mean" means not nice. Otherwise, it depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
	10:35am smallybiggs: Fuckin blackbirds
	10:36am crateslinger: Everybody hates birds.
	10:36am tranewreck: Best show ever
	10:36am Dean: Just be grateful this isn't a show devoted to "76 Trombones." Right now we'd be up to 1672 trombones.
	10:37am Ike: Hi @Jimmy! Sing this one on the Goddamn Dave Hill Show sometime, will ya? How's tricks? You're not resorting to living in the abandoned Pathmark on the waterfront yet, are you?
	10:37am V Priceless: @ Chris M: Peter Duchin, son of Eddie - band leader, etc.
	10:38am Risky: Did I miss anything!? GO CHRIS!
	10:39am neil who is WILD, man: Anybody in here remember a supermarket -a real supermarket full sized-in way downtown below Chinatown in Manhattan back in the 90's?
	10:41am JimmyfromKearny: Ike: close, very close...
	10:42am smallybiggs: Much better than that public radio station that plays "what are you doing New Year's Eve " for the entire day.
	10:44am smallybiggs: There's something offputting about this Spanish
	10:45am JimmyfromKearny: In a 1980 film, "Melvin and Howard" Jason Robards, who played Howard Hughes, sang this song while Paul LeMat drove...
	10:46am Ike: Yeah @Neil, that was also a crappy Pathmark. It was on Henry St. or Pike St. or something near the FDR.
	10:47am smallybiggs: James Last vs Ray Connif
	10:47am katy: I realize I don't pay much attention to jazz when I only just realized you've been playing the same song for half an hour
	10:48am Ike: Yeah @SB, my Spanish is horrendous but even I could tell that was a pretty lumpy translation. Jose needed to take more poetic license and smooth it out a little.
	10:49am neil who is WILD, man: @Ike-thanks!
	10:49am Jeezy: This is GENIUS.
	10:50am Dean: So Mark Murphy was channeling Sammy Davis, Jr., all that time.
	10:51am JimmyfromKearny: Can't wait to hear the version by the "Heavens Gate Choir" circa 1997...
	10:51am Risky: @Jimmy was just thinking that haha!
	10:54am crateslinger: That gross-out Pathmark was kinda lower LES tho, not really Chinatown... I mean back then. Now Chinatown is almost that far east. Hey Chris, Don't ever let 'em tell you you ain't got balls, kiddo!
	10:55am rich: great show chris. happy new year.
	10:57am neil who is WILD, man: @crateslinger-I used to walk there from 3 Clinton Street (avenue B) and Houston. Another lifetime.
	10:57am Ike: Actually for the big finale, Chris could take a call from Jimmy at 11:55 and have him sing this song over the air. And then he could mark it on the playlist as a 2015 rendition.
	10:57am Dave: You're my hero
	10:58am Risky: Yeah @Chris, thanks for a year of exceptional sounds!
	10:58am Chris M.: @rich: thanks! happy new year
	10:58am Chris M.: @Dave & @Risky: thank you!!
	10:59am crateslinger: I used to go to the C town on 10th and C. Probably still there. That was back when NYC was cool, man. Now it sucks! All the people smiling in their sweaters.
	10:59am from quebec: the subtle play of commas in the middle column is riveting. 1969 ... this is clearly going to be a 2 or even 3-part show. I'll be listening!
	11:01am Dean: Just realized the '30s entirely missed the cut. Damn Depression.
	11:02am annie: i was trying to guess the year by the performer.. i was off by a decade-ish
	11:02am crateslinger: They ate blackbirds in the 30's.
	11:02am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-do you live in the LES now? I am near Buffalo NY in a rural suberb in a development in wine country. But back in the day NYC was the shiznit.
	11:03am Dean: "Bye, bye, dinner."
	11:03am neil who is WILD, man: That's gotta be some GAME-Y MEAT yo!
	11:05am Whosondephone: Thank you very much Chris. I am really appreciating this.
	11:06am crateslinger: Neil, I am a professional gentrifier. LES squats in the 80's thru mid 90's, Williamsburg loft for 20 years, and now I am in Bushwick. Somebody please kill me.
	11:07am Chris M.: @Whosondephone: thank you!
	11:07am Shannon: Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie.
	11:08am nathaxn walker: Dig the RRK! This whole show has been a delight of theme & variation & temporal drift! Thank You!
	11:08am Chris M.: what was the best movie of 2015?
	11:08am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-ever meet Marta Vi from the squat on C near Houston? She was Portuguese...
	11:08am Chris M.: thanks, nathaxn walker!
	11:09am Cecile: I thought Inside Out was up there. But probably Ant-Man for me.
	11:10am Cheri Pi: Cecile! Chris & th'm&Ms!
	11:10am Cecile: See, it's a trick finding that sweet spot between getting shot at all the time, and Mall-world. We're doing OK in our neighborhood, but it's touch and go. We're damned lucky to have an actual liveable neighborhood 2.5 miles from downtown.
	11:10am neil who is WILD, man: Umbrella house maybe? Had a Monster Magnet painting on it...
	11:10am Cecile: PI
	11:10am annie: i liked the revenant...until everyone started making fun of leo's oscar in favor of the bear's.. but i did like it.
	11:11am annie: i count it because i saw it last week.
	11:11am Cecile: Leo is a way better actor than people giove him credit for. I also liked the Martian very much. And Spy. I didn't like about about 1/2 of the 2nd Avengers movie.
	11:12am V Priceless: @ Chris M - Charlie Brown flick in 3D - all downhill from there.
	11:12am crateslinger: Neil I think so. Somebody named Marta anyway. That was "umbrella house". I think they own it now. I knew a lot of folks there, but that was a more serious house and I was one of the snotty drunken punks that kept the working people up at night.
	11:12am Cecile: I didn't see any klassy films this year. Oh wait, does that last Mad Max count? I respected it, but didn't like it very much.
	11:12am Dean: This is from "Live at Sometime," yes?
	11:13am Cecile: VP was it good?
	11:13am Chris M.: @Dean yep
	11:13am V Priceless: though 'Ant-Man' was actually perty good
	11:13am annie: i really wanted to see grandma, but i missed my window..i'll wait 'til it comes online
	11:13am Ken From Hyde Park: These guys need to get with the program. There are no blackbirds on that branch! www.google.com...
	11:13am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-met Missing Foundation once...they seemed a little...off...but they were polite to me...
	11:13am V Priceless: Yes, C - it was fun!
	11:14am Dean: With Google it's "Buy, buy, blackbird."
	11:14am neil who is WILD, man: Antman WAS fun!
	11:14am Cecile: Oh, and the new Star Wars. I liked it a lot but seriously? Not as much as Ant-Man. I gotta tell the Mister. That is definitely one to PPV.
	11:15am annie: did "birdman" come out last year? i loved that
	11:15am Cecile: that was the year before. I still want to see it.
	11:15am crateslinger: I am actually on a missing foundation record -Exile. I played a plastic pipe for about 30 seconds. I may even be credited - never checked.
	11:16am Chris M.: if you want to watch a brilliant dark satire, it's "The Lobster". very funny
	11:16am crateslinger: MF were my peeps.
	11:18am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-does Organism at the Old Dutch Mustard Factory in W ville ring a bell? I was the geodesic dome guy in 1994...or 93
	11:18am crateslinger: A bit off, yes. A bit dark. uh hunh. but did you ever go to one of there shows? Man, they would literally burn the motherfucker down - with like flames and gasoline.
	11:19am crateslinger: Mustard factory is on Berry and S 5th, but I don't know about this. Was it a party? I remember Cat's Head parties but that was earlier.
	11:20am neil who is WILD, man: I think I saw part of one in Thompkins Sqare park...people were dragging stuff on the ground making noise, lots of homeless folks,....late 80's maybe...never stuck around for the fire, but that was their MO I heard...
	11:20am annie: cecile, it's worth a double-viewing, actually.. MK was great!
	11:20am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-YES CATS HEAD people were involved in this...
	11:21am Cecile: That guy has always been great. he was a great Batman, the movies were just lousy.
	11:21am crateslinger: Okay, yeah I know about it then. Sort of remember something. I was pretty drunk.
	11:24am crateslinger: NY has changed, but I still love it. I just said it sucks cuz that's what I'm supposed to say as an old salt, right? I graduated from throwing bottles at cops in Tompkins Square park to appreciating artisinal cabbage in Brooklyn. Don't really miss getting hit in the head with pipes or having guns pulled on my in traffic disputes. New York's alright.
	11:24am Dean: Heh, passed up a used Brave Combo LP yesterday, two bucks.
	11:25am annie: i just saw an ad for some superman/"other superhero" battle movie.. crickey
	11:25am DaveinPA: What hath God wrought?
	11:25am Dean: But I did grab a Barry Goldwater campaign LP. Alas, no "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" cover.
	11:25am Whosondephone: Oh No!
	11:26am Cecile: I think it's Batman. And Aquaman is SMOKING HOT. I have a thing for Aquaman. Don't judge me.
	11:26am neil who is WILD, man: NY is AMAZING. Full of really aware, smart people. And in Brooklyn there is more SPACE to exist than in The City. That's my memory anyway...
	11:26am Cecile: there probably will not be enough Aquaman in there for me.
	11:27am sinuendo: Tiny Tim had a ska album?
	11:27am neil who is WILD, man: He only needs about ten more or so.....! BBB songs that is....
	11:28am Mike East: Isn't the Batman/Superman movie an intro to get the Superfriends together and start a franchise so DC can compete with the Avengers?
	11:28am crateslinger: it's fucking expensive tho; thank god we're all rich!
	11:28am Mike East: Haven't really seen much in theaters this year, but I plan to see Star Wars tomorrow morning.
	11:29am Cecile: I have no problem with the Justice League convening. Also, I have to elaborate - I'm speaking about Viking Metal Aquaman - with the long hair and beard and the hook for a hand.
	11:29am annie: that's funny, my toddler/youth memories are way too cool of brooklyn. .. i couldn't find the site of the hospital where i spent a third of my life up to 7 or so...but i still have a soft spot..
	11:30am crateslinger: Hugh Glass, the guy from Revenant is illustrated on the album cover of Scissorfight's album "Balls Deep". They also wrote a song called "Stove by Whale" about the Essex disaster, so there are two Scissorfight movies out right now.
	11:30am V Priceless: Black Panther looks cool too - supposed to debut in the next Capt America installment...
	11:30am Cecile: Althought Hot Samoan/Hawaiian Aquaman with a hook hand is also acceptable.
	11:31am crateslinger: Brooklyn is incredible. I am only now getting to know it really.
	11:31am V Priceless: I bet Aquaman sleeps with the fishes
	11:32am Cecile: I loved it when The Hudlin Brothers wrote the comic about Ororo's and T'Challa's wedding.
	11:32am annie: i wouldn't mind spending a week there now as an older 60+ adult, i bet i'd like it..
	11:32am Cecile: hahhahha, VP. Storm and Black Panther were Jay-Z and Beyoncé before Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
	11:33am V Priceless: haha
	11:33am Cecile: that Captain America movie is also going to be amazing. I loved the last one. Real fight scenes, no cutting away.
	11:34am annie: i will always have a secret craving to be a NY-er, y'know, a real city slicker. when i go there i pretend i've lived there all my life
	11:34am zoot: Too bad no one has recorded a version with Thomas Pynchon's lyrics: Got a hardon in my fist/don't be pissed/ Re-enlist/ Snap to Slothrop/ Jackson I don't give a fuck/Just give me my Ruptured duck/ Snap to Slothrop/ No one here can love or comprehend me/ They just look for someplace else to send me/ Tap my head and mike my brain/ Stick that needle in my vein/ Slothrop, snap to!
	11:34am Cecile: I would love to have been from NYC or be rich enough to live modestly there.
	11:37am V Priceless: yeah, the last Cap flick was hard-core good!
	11:37am crateslinger: Annie if you're from here then you're more new yorker than I. I can put on an accent when ordering lumber or dealing with a trucker, but I am just a white boy from Massachusetts when you get right down to it.
	11:37am Mike East: @Cecile - I'm sure you're rich enough already if you don't mind living with 3 or 4 roommates.
	11:37am annie: in my mid-20s, i spent a lot of time there; stayed with my aunt in the bronx.. rode the train everywhere, went to the lincoln center.. it was a blast! fell in love with my cousin. it was all innocent, nut we felt we fit like a glove personality-wise. i loved those days
	11:38am annie: chock-full-o'-nuts!!! 'NEM were the days!
	11:39am Cecile: Yeah, Mike East, not so much.
	11:40am crateslinger: My kids are new yorkers. Son calls me a hick. Daughter thinks I'm insensitive to gender issues, but she still tells all her friends I knew Joey Ramone.
	11:40am Mike East: @Cecile - its what I keep telling my wife when she forgets why we had to let go of my sweet Brooklyn apt. when we got married.
	11:40am Cecile: crates, I think the rule is if you can live there 2-3 years, you're a New Yorker. For me, I will never be a Minneapolitan, but if I had kids, they would be. It's weird.
	11:41am annie: you can't beat the right name-dropping..
	11:42am Cecile: I asked my grand-niece once when she was wearing a NY Dolls tee if she even knew who they were. She did not...
	11:42am coelacanth: hello Chris and others (been listening since 10)
	11:42am Cecile: coel!
	11:42am crateslinger: Yeah man. Joey. How bout that.
	11:43am Ike: Brooklyn is so huge and varied. Southern Brooklyn has so many people from all over the world -- Mexicans, Uzbeks, Chinese, Russians, Turkish, and many more, and still lots of Italians and some Poles too. Just walking around is always fascinating, but I had to search assiduously to find an affordable apt.
	11:43am crateslinger: Her girlfriend went to Forest Hills High. Apparently there is no plaque in the trophy case. Go figure.
	11:44am coelacanth: hi 'Cile!
	11:44am V Priceless: fish! Hey!
	11:44am Cecile: "most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps"
	11:45am nathaxn walker: I just moved from Minneapolis to Lancaster County, PA. I lived in Minneapolis for 5 years and although I loved it, it was never going to be my home. I am not from PA, but my partner is, and it feels more home-like already! I am from FL originally. That was too much 411, alas.
	11:45am crateslinger: PE in full effect.
	11:45am nathaxn walker: Scissorfight!
	11:46am crateslinger: Met my wife in Mnpls. Bonked her on the head and took her to the Squats.
	11:46am Cecile: Nathan, PA has its ups and downs, but the people are some of the warmest and most hospitable I've known
	11:46am nathaxn walker: It is a lovely city. I miss it in so many ways!
	11:47am Cecile: bwahahahahahha, crates.
	11:47am coelacanth: VP!
	11:47am annie: it's funny, Ike, i have a very vivid memory, holding a woman's hand walking along a street. i was small.. and yet my mom says we never did that.. and i didn't walk 'til i was 2 1/2.. so.. i would LOVE to know whre that memory comes from..
	11:47am neil who is WILD, man: I lived in NYC from 1989 until 1994-ish. For the arts such as music and visual arts there is no beating it for variety of stuff to do....Dropped out/burned out of Cooper Union Architecture school.....
	11:48am nathaxn walker: Cecile - That is my experience too! There isn't as much 'to do' here as in MPLS by far, for us or the kids, but it makes up for it by having the kids' school like literally in our backyard and everyone is extremely personable!
	11:48am Whosondephone: I hope Chris didn't have a bad year.
	11:48am Cheri Pi: It's really starting to hit home now. sniff :'(
	11:48am Cecile: I have grown to love Mpls, and I have some great friends there, but with very few exceptions, they are all out-of-towners or natives who had things happen to them that made them somehow different.
	11:49am neil who is WILD, man: WOW ! A BREAK!!!
	11:49am efd: 10 minutes of reciting the lyrics to "Bye Bye Blackbird," please.
	11:49am Cecile: Nathan, and the parks! So many of them. Even in the poor and hanging-in-there neighborhoods
	11:49am Cheri Pi: I need to visit MPLS, never been
	11:50am nathaxn walker: Cecile - That is very true! In fact, our housemates, who were native Minneapoleans said the EXACT same thing as you just did. That is why they got along with us & vice-versa!
	11:50am Risky: HAAA!!!!
	11:50am Cecile: what is, PI?
	11:50am crateslinger: There was a great crusty scene in minneapolis in the 80s and early 90s. It was like a sister city to NYC. Kind of reminded me of Seattle.
	11:51am Cecile: you do, PI.
	11:51am nathaxn walker: The parks in MLPS are unparallelled, as are the libraries! they have such a great public library system! I might miss that the most! Crust is still alive & well in MPLS!
	11:51am coelacanth: i wonder who remembers what Diane said about a Lemmy tribute on the day Philthy Animal died..?
	11:51am Cheri Pi: The death of our collective blackbird
	11:51am Cecile: I probably saw more Minneapolis bands in Detroit than I did when I finally got here.
	11:52am Cheri Pi: Th' G.D. Bb
	11:52am crateslinger: Detroit. Now that's a place where everybody has a dark past.
	11:52am Devin B.: this is the best mic break ever
	11:52am Cecile: oh, it is sad. I do, coel, but she's probably fibbing to herself. I bet we hear a lot of Motorhead.
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: The combo bed pan / fondu pot invention didn't work out? Unbelievable!
	11:52am nathaxn walker: MPLS has a pretty good metal scene going these days, too!
	11:53am Cecile: I'll have to listen. Nathan, Into the Void is a great record store near me that I have to get to a lot more often.
	11:53am coelacanth: Cecile, i think so too!
	11:53am Cecile: crates, I lived in Ann Arbor, and still had elements of a dark Detroit past. The people are the best, though.
	11:54am crateslinger: Is the band "Misery" still around in MPLS?
	11:54am Cheri Pi: WEEP. www.audubon.org...
	11:54am Dean: Glenn Frey does a cameo in the new SW.
	11:55am nathaxn walker: Misery is still around, but some of them are also in Tau Cross with Away from Voivod and Rob 'the Baron' from Amebix!!!
	11:55am Cecile: I dunno, crateslinger. Maybe?
	11:55am Cheri Pi: We don't speak GF's name here BTW..
	11:56am coelacanth: yuk. probably whiskey.
	11:56am Dean: Meth is the new Roederer Cristal.
	11:57am Cecile: I finally tuned in again.
	11:57am Cheri Pi: Pink champagne, to be specific
	11:57am coelacanth: last week it was "misty". we all thought he might not be here this week.
	11:58am Cecile: Andre Pink Champagne.
	11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Jimmy from Kearny, call in now!
	11:58am Cheri Pi: YES
	11:58am Cecile: two people emailed me like I had lost a family member. Not quite that bad, but boy, a world w/o Lemmy.
	11:58am Dean: Evelyn "Champagne" Kind
	11:59am Cheri Pi: COLD "duck"
	11:59am Parq: Nice one, Chris. Happy New Year.
	11:59am coelacanth: Thanks Chris. Happy New Year!

Imaginary Radio: Playlist from December 31, 2015

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December 31, 2015: Bye Bye Blackbird

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Artist	Track	Year	Approx. start time
Bennie Krueger's Orchestra	Bye Bye Blackbird	1926	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gene Austin	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Gene Austin"	1926	0:02:22 (Pop-up)
Josephine Baker	Bye Bye Blackbird	1927	0:05:34 (Pop-up)
Charlie And His Orchestra	Bye Bye Blackbird	1941	0:08:14 (Pop-up)
Dean Martin	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Dean Martin"	1950	0:10:51 (Pop-up)
Anita Carter	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Anita Carter"	1951	0:13:54 (Pop-up)
Norman Burns Quintet	Bye Bye Blackbird	1952	0:15:17 (Pop-up)
Pete Kelly & His Big Seven	Bye, Bye, Blackbird	1955	0:17:49 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Bye, Bye, Blackbird "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" by "Peggy Lee"	1955	0:20:34 (Pop-up)
Ray Heindorf Directing The Warner Bros. Orchestra	Bye Bye, Blackbird	1955	0:24:17 (Pop-up)
Julie London	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Julie London"	1957	0:26:53 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Miles Davis"	1957	0:29:24 (Pop-up)
Rosemary Clooney	Bye Bye Blackbird	1960	0:37:16 (Pop-up)
Anthony Newley	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Anthony Newley"	1961	0:39:53 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Nina Simone"	1961	0:41:51 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Bye Bye Blackbird	1962	0:50:09 (Pop-up)
Sir Julian	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Sir Julian"	1962	0:55:30 (Pop-up)
Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt	Bye, Bye Blackbird	1962	0:59:11 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "John Coltrane"	1962	1:08:35 (Pop-up)
Trini Lopez	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Trini Lopez"	1963	1:26:27 (Pop-up)
Lou Donaldson	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Lou Donaldson"	1964	1:28:43 (Pop-up)
Clark Terry / Bob Brookmeyer Quintet	Bye Bye Blackbird	1966	1:35:07 (Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Jose Feliciano"	1966	1:41:50 (Pop-up)
James Last	Bye, Bye Blackbird "Bye, Bye Blackbird" by "James Last"	1967	1:45:13 (Pop-up)
Sammy Davis Jr.	Bye Bye Blackbird	1967	1:47:11 (Pop-up)
Sonny Stitt	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Sonny Stitt"	1968	1:50:19 (Pop-up)
The Buffoons	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "The Buffoons"	1968	1:55:45 (Pop-up)
Joe Cocker	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Joe Cocker"	1969	1:57:07 (Pop-up)
Swing Society	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Swing Society"	1975	2:00:37 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Bye Bye Blackbird	1975	2:06:38 (Pop-up)
Barney Kessel	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Barney Kessel"	1977	2:09:18 (Pop-up)
Helen Merrill & Gordon Beck	Bye Bye Blackbird	1984	2:15:05 (Pop-up)
Kenny Garrett	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Kenny Garrett"	1992	2:18:14 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim & Brave Combo	Bye Bye Blackbird	1996	2:23:45 (Pop-up)
Jethro Burns	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Jethro Burns"	1997	2:27:47 (Pop-up)
Jean-Michel Pilc	Bye Bye Blackbird	2000	2:31:41 (Pop-up)
Royal Crown Revue	Bye Bye Blackbird	2001	2:38:13 (Pop-up)
Diana Krall	Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" by "Diana Krall"	2009	2:44:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am neil who is WILD, man: Hi Chris! Happy New Year all!
	9:03am Chris M.: happy new year!
	9:08am annie: yay!
	9:16am duke: Happy almost 2016
	9:19am ottovonbqe: I trust this set will culminate in a sludge metal bye bye blackbird
	9:23am efd: why do you hate blackbirds, Chris?
	9:24am Chris M.: @ottovonbqe: i hope it does @efd: maybe i love them too much
	9:26am doncaballero: 3 hours of Bye Bye Blackbird > 3 hours of Lemmy tribute = Kickass way to end 2015!
	9:28am annie: i think is going to be fine...really... sure.. ok.... oops, gotta go!! not
	9:31am neil who is WILD, man: So I guess the theme is goodbye to 2015 and the blackbird is 2015??
	9:32am HDF: 13 ways of listening to a blackbird. I can remember a series of casio keyboards i had as a kid that would play 'bye bye blackbird' as a preset if you punched in the right code
	9:32am Cecile: hi/bye annie. Can you play something from the new Horrendous album?
	9:33am nathaxn walker: That new Horrendous album is great, Cecile! I also love blackbirds.
	9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Red wing blackbirds are cool, but the less common yellow headed blackbird is a fine bird as well.
	9:34am nathaxn walker: The last Horrendous album is also great!
	9:34am Cecile: Also, 3 hours of Lemmy > everything.
	9:34am Chris M.: @Cecile: www.wfmu.org...
	9:35am nathaxn walker: Hooray for Lemmy!!! Sadness for Lemmy!!!
	9:35am Cecile: If it's going to be 3 hours of Blackbird, I'm a'gonna go listen to Horrendous. And then some Motorhead. Sorry, all.
	9:36am Chris M.: what's everyone's new year's resolution that they plan on breaking right away?
	9:37am ottovonbqe: Not cheating on my wife.
	9:37am Jay/London: it can not be a whole show of blackbird !!!
	9:38am Cecile: otto, hah. I hope. I am planning on managing my vices better this year. After I have a blowout night at the drag bar tonight with a bunch of drunks. The place is appropriately named Lush.
	9:41am Cecile: changes to Horrendous that's better.
	9:42am RenRen: Is this normal
	9:43am Cecile: nothing is never normal with this show. He doesn't usually play 3 hours of one song, though.
	9:43am Cecile: and there's infinitely more death metal.
	9:44am Parq: Somebody should have told Anthony Newly that Sinatra could pull off that type of Daddy-o lyrical riffing because he was Sinatra. And thanks for playing Miles, my personal favorite take on the song.
	9:46am Ken From Hyde Park: I resolve to use my left hand for mundane things like picking up fallen pencils. I figure it'll help balance my brain somewhat.
	9:46am annie: hi/bye cecile. you sticking around? i am..
	9:47am Cecile: Yes, except I'm not listening to what he's playing.
	9:47am Cecile: www.youtube.com...
	9:47am ottovonbqe: I'm not listening and I have a piece of paper over the playlist part of the screen.
	9:49am Ike: I'm not listening, not commenting, not looking at the playlist, and I'm flushing this monitor down the toilet!
	9:51am Cecile: you win.
	9:53am nathaxn walker: the nina simone rendition of bye bye blackbird was pretty rocking!
	9:53am annie: yes, but now i'm in the kitchen making breakfast: home-made knish, topped with bacon and spinach; lotsa buttah!
	9:54am Cecile: YUM!
	9:54am neil who is WILD, man: THIS must be some kind of radio history or even Guiness level !! Could somebody check? @Chris-you should call the people at Guiness!
	9:55am annie: ja-youbetcha!
	9:57am Chris M.: @neil who is WILD, man: they said if i pull this off, i win a keg of their superb beer
	9:58am annie: omg, he's even playing them by year!!
	10:01am annie: sonny stitt, now my day is complete. .. and i like the fact that the same words are in the middle box, it totally satisfies my neat-oriented brain
	10:01am Fred R: Awesome Chris! Very eclectic titles in the playlist.
	10:01am nathaxn walker: for my new years resolution, which I will keep, I will stop baking blackbirds into pies, but it is an easy one to keep as I have never actually done so nor ever seriously considered doing so, not even now.
	10:02am Parq: Is this really gonna be the whole three hours? It'll be kind of like a baseball no-hitter --the closer he gets to pulling it off, the more of a nail-biter it'll be.
	10:03am Parq: My NY res, by the way, is as always -- I'll see what I can do.
	10:04am Pete L: Ammons and Stitt = HIP - thank you!
	10:04am crateslinger: My new year's resolution is five-fold. Quit drinking, quit smoking, lose weight, call my mother more, and get some virtual reality glasses.
	10:04am neil who is WILD, man: Assuming each one is, on average, 3:30 long means he needs about 51 discrete songs with no repeats. Good luck Chris!
	10:06am crateslinger: In summation, my new year's resolution is to stop being a loser and become wonderful.
	10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Plus, the station ID was about 20 seconds. Chris M is not messing around.
	10:07am Whosondephone: Amaqzing!
	10:08am annie: get your mother skype, crateslinger..
	10:08am neil who is WILD, man: I been hyp-no-tized! I read on Wikipedia that this song may be about a prostitute leaving the business to go back and live with her mother. Also, Tiny Tim covered this!
	10:11am neil who is WILD, man: OH, my bad, he needs sixty assuming the average song is 180 seconds long....not like I said earlier....
	10:11am nathaxn walker: So far, 1962 has the most Blackbird of any year!
	10:14am neil who is WILD, man: This is radio history! Also, what can this do to our MINDS, man? OH the humanity!
	10:15am neil who is WILD, man: @Chris-you are allowed to take a break you know!
	10:17am ottovonbqe: Man, 1962 was a bonanza year for BBB
	10:18am V Priceless: Hey Chris! Fun show! Reminds me of my sis who gigs with Duchin. This is one of their standards, of course!
	10:19am Chris M.: @V Priceless: thanks! what's Duchin?
	10:20am Dean: I'm the lawyer for the estate of Ray Henderson, who died 45 years ago today. Can I have a word with the DJ after the show?
	10:23am Chris M.: @Dean: yes, you can email me with the contact form at the bottom of this playlist page
	10:25am crateslinger: Has it been three hours already? Wow, that just flew by! Nice one Chris!
	10:26am Dean: I'd issue the cease-and-desist right here, but I'm enjoying the show too much. Please don't cease or desist. (What does "desist" mean?)
	10:26am Cecile: I hope Chris isn't in trouble.
	10:28am Marcel M: Woah woah...whats been going on here?
	10:32am annie: the great thing about this show is i didn't miss anything while i was in the kitchen. perhaps some unique stylin'.. but hey i got my imagination..
	10:33am neil who is WILD, man: @ Dean-what does "mean" mean?
	10:33am Chris M.: @Cecile: playing the Motorhead version next
	10:33am Dean: Chet Baker due soon? Joe Cocker? Meat Puppets? (Made up the last one.)
	10:33am JimmyfromKearny: I'm digging this; I used to sing this song with a Scottish Cat in a few bars in Kearny...
	10:33am Cecile: niiiice.
	10:33am neil who is WILD, man: OK, in 2016 I'm going to shave my face more and also groom other body hair to please my wife.
	10:34am Dean: @neil: "Mean" means not nice. Otherwise, it depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
	10:35am smallybiggs: Fuckin blackbirds
	10:36am crateslinger: Everybody hates birds.
	10:36am tranewreck: Best show ever
	10:36am Dean: Just be grateful this isn't a show devoted to "76 Trombones." Right now we'd be up to 1672 trombones.
	10:37am Ike: Hi @Jimmy! Sing this one on the Goddamn Dave Hill Show sometime, will ya? How's tricks? You're not resorting to living in the abandoned Pathmark on the waterfront yet, are you?
	10:37am V Priceless: @ Chris M: Peter Duchin, son of Eddie - band leader, etc.
	10:38am Risky: Did I miss anything!? GO CHRIS!
	10:39am neil who is WILD, man: Anybody in here remember a supermarket -a real supermarket full sized-in way downtown below Chinatown in Manhattan back in the 90's?
	10:41am JimmyfromKearny: Ike: close, very close...
	10:42am smallybiggs: Much better than that public radio station that plays "what are you doing New Year's Eve " for the entire day.
	10:44am smallybiggs: There's something offputting about this Spanish
	10:45am JimmyfromKearny: In a 1980 film, "Melvin and Howard" Jason Robards, who played Howard Hughes, sang this song while Paul LeMat drove...
	10:46am Ike: Yeah @Neil, that was also a crappy Pathmark. It was on Henry St. or Pike St. or something near the FDR.
	10:47am smallybiggs: James Last vs Ray Connif
	10:47am katy: I realize I don't pay much attention to jazz when I only just realized you've been playing the same song for half an hour
	10:48am Ike: Yeah @SB, my Spanish is horrendous but even I could tell that was a pretty lumpy translation. Jose needed to take more poetic license and smooth it out a little.
	10:49am neil who is WILD, man: @Ike-thanks!
	10:49am Jeezy: This is GENIUS.
	10:50am Dean: So Mark Murphy was channeling Sammy Davis, Jr., all that time.
	10:51am JimmyfromKearny: Can't wait to hear the version by the "Heavens Gate Choir" circa 1997...
	10:51am Risky: @Jimmy was just thinking that haha!
	10:54am crateslinger: That gross-out Pathmark was kinda lower LES tho, not really Chinatown... I mean back then. Now Chinatown is almost that far east. Hey Chris, Don't ever let 'em tell you you ain't got balls, kiddo!
	10:55am rich: great show chris. happy new year.
	10:57am neil who is WILD, man: @crateslinger-I used to walk there from 3 Clinton Street (avenue B) and Houston. Another lifetime.
	10:57am Ike: Actually for the big finale, Chris could take a call from Jimmy at 11:55 and have him sing this song over the air. And then he could mark it on the playlist as a 2015 rendition.
	10:57am Dave: You're my hero
	10:58am Risky: Yeah @Chris, thanks for a year of exceptional sounds!
	10:58am Chris M.: @rich: thanks! happy new year
	10:58am Chris M.: @Dave & @Risky: thank you!!
	10:59am crateslinger: I used to go to the C town on 10th and C. Probably still there. That was back when NYC was cool, man. Now it sucks! All the people smiling in their sweaters.
	10:59am from quebec: the subtle play of commas in the middle column is riveting. 1969 ... this is clearly going to be a 2 or even 3-part show. I'll be listening!
	11:01am Dean: Just realized the '30s entirely missed the cut. Damn Depression.
	11:02am annie: i was trying to guess the year by the performer.. i was off by a decade-ish
	11:02am crateslinger: They ate blackbirds in the 30's.
	11:02am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-do you live in the LES now? I am near Buffalo NY in a rural suberb in a development in wine country. But back in the day NYC was the shiznit.
	11:03am Dean: "Bye, bye, dinner."
	11:03am neil who is WILD, man: That's gotta be some GAME-Y MEAT yo!
	11:05am Whosondephone: Thank you very much Chris. I am really appreciating this.
	11:06am crateslinger: Neil, I am a professional gentrifier. LES squats in the 80's thru mid 90's, Williamsburg loft for 20 years, and now I am in Bushwick. Somebody please kill me.
	11:07am Chris M.: @Whosondephone: thank you!
	11:07am Shannon: Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie.
	11:08am nathaxn walker: Dig the RRK! This whole show has been a delight of theme & variation & temporal drift! Thank You!
	11:08am Chris M.: what was the best movie of 2015?
	11:08am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-ever meet Marta Vi from the squat on C near Houston? She was Portuguese...
	11:08am Chris M.: thanks, nathaxn walker!
	11:09am Cecile: I thought Inside Out was up there. But probably Ant-Man for me.
	11:10am Cheri Pi: Cecile! Chris & th'm&Ms!
	11:10am Cecile: See, it's a trick finding that sweet spot between getting shot at all the time, and Mall-world. We're doing OK in our neighborhood, but it's touch and go. We're damned lucky to have an actual liveable neighborhood 2.5 miles from downtown.
	11:10am neil who is WILD, man: Umbrella house maybe? Had a Monster Magnet painting on it...
	11:10am Cecile: PI
	11:10am annie: i liked the revenant...until everyone started making fun of leo's oscar in favor of the bear's.. but i did like it.
	11:11am annie: i count it because i saw it last week.
	11:11am Cecile: Leo is a way better actor than people giove him credit for. I also liked the Martian very much. And Spy. I didn't like about about 1/2 of the 2nd Avengers movie.
	11:12am V Priceless: @ Chris M - Charlie Brown flick in 3D - all downhill from there.
	11:12am crateslinger: Neil I think so. Somebody named Marta anyway. That was "umbrella house". I think they own it now. I knew a lot of folks there, but that was a more serious house and I was one of the snotty drunken punks that kept the working people up at night.
	11:12am Cecile: I didn't see any klassy films this year. Oh wait, does that last Mad Max count? I respected it, but didn't like it very much.
	11:12am Dean: This is from "Live at Sometime," yes?
	11:13am Cecile: VP was it good?
	11:13am Chris M.: @Dean yep
	11:13am V Priceless: though 'Ant-Man' was actually perty good
	11:13am annie: i really wanted to see grandma, but i missed my window..i'll wait 'til it comes online
	11:13am Ken From Hyde Park: These guys need to get with the program. There are no blackbirds on that branch! www.google.com...
	11:13am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-met Missing Foundation once...they seemed a little...off...but they were polite to me...
	11:13am V Priceless: Yes, C - it was fun!
	11:14am Dean: With Google it's "Buy, buy, blackbird."
	11:14am neil who is WILD, man: Antman WAS fun!
	11:14am Cecile: Oh, and the new Star Wars. I liked it a lot but seriously? Not as much as Ant-Man. I gotta tell the Mister. That is definitely one to PPV.
	11:15am annie: did "birdman" come out last year? i loved that
	11:15am Cecile: that was the year before. I still want to see it.
	11:15am crateslinger: I am actually on a missing foundation record -Exile. I played a plastic pipe for about 30 seconds. I may even be credited - never checked.
	11:16am Chris M.: if you want to watch a brilliant dark satire, it's "The Lobster". very funny
	11:16am crateslinger: MF were my peeps.
	11:18am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-does Organism at the Old Dutch Mustard Factory in W ville ring a bell? I was the geodesic dome guy in 1994...or 93
	11:18am crateslinger: A bit off, yes. A bit dark. uh hunh. but did you ever go to one of there shows? Man, they would literally burn the motherfucker down - with like flames and gasoline.
	11:19am crateslinger: Mustard factory is on Berry and S 5th, but I don't know about this. Was it a party? I remember Cat's Head parties but that was earlier.
	11:20am neil who is WILD, man: I think I saw part of one in Thompkins Sqare park...people were dragging stuff on the ground making noise, lots of homeless folks,....late 80's maybe...never stuck around for the fire, but that was their MO I heard...
	11:20am annie: cecile, it's worth a double-viewing, actually.. MK was great!
	11:20am neil who is WILD, man: @Crateslinger-YES CATS HEAD people were involved in this...
	11:21am Cecile: That guy has always been great. he was a great Batman, the movies were just lousy.
	11:21am crateslinger: Okay, yeah I know about it then. Sort of remember something. I was pretty drunk.
	11:24am crateslinger: NY has changed, but I still love it. I just said it sucks cuz that's what I'm supposed to say as an old salt, right? I graduated from throwing bottles at cops in Tompkins Square park to appreciating artisinal cabbage in Brooklyn. Don't really miss getting hit in the head with pipes or having guns pulled on my in traffic disputes. New York's alright.
	11:24am Dean: Heh, passed up a used Brave Combo LP yesterday, two bucks.
	11:25am annie: i just saw an ad for some superman/"other superhero" battle movie.. crickey
	11:25am DaveinPA: What hath God wrought?
	11:25am Dean: But I did grab a Barry Goldwater campaign LP. Alas, no "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" cover.
	11:25am Whosondephone: Oh No!
	11:26am Cecile: I think it's Batman. And Aquaman is SMOKING HOT. I have a thing for Aquaman. Don't judge me.
	11:26am neil who is WILD, man: NY is AMAZING. Full of really aware, smart people. And in Brooklyn there is more SPACE to exist than in The City. That's my memory anyway...
	11:26am Cecile: there probably will not be enough Aquaman in there for me.
	11:27am sinuendo: Tiny Tim had a ska album?
	11:27am neil who is WILD, man: He only needs about ten more or so.....! BBB songs that is....
	11:28am Mike East: Isn't the Batman/Superman movie an intro to get the Superfriends together and start a franchise so DC can compete with the Avengers?
	11:28am crateslinger: it's fucking expensive tho; thank god we're all rich!
	11:28am Mike East: Haven't really seen much in theaters this year, but I plan to see Star Wars tomorrow morning.
	11:29am Cecile: I have no problem with the Justice League convening. Also, I have to elaborate - I'm speaking about Viking Metal Aquaman - with the long hair and beard and the hook for a hand.
	11:29am annie: that's funny, my toddler/youth memories are way too cool of brooklyn. .. i couldn't find the site of the hospital where i spent a third of my life up to 7 or so...but i still have a soft spot..
	11:30am crateslinger: Hugh Glass, the guy from Revenant is illustrated on the album cover of Scissorfight's album "Balls Deep". They also wrote a song called "Stove by Whale" about the Essex disaster, so there are two Scissorfight movies out right now.
	11:30am V Priceless: Black Panther looks cool too - supposed to debut in the next Capt America installment...
	11:30am Cecile: Althought Hot Samoan/Hawaiian Aquaman with a hook hand is also acceptable.
	11:31am crateslinger: Brooklyn is incredible. I am only now getting to know it really.
	11:31am V Priceless: I bet Aquaman sleeps with the fishes
	11:32am Cecile: I loved it when The Hudlin Brothers wrote the comic about Ororo's and T'Challa's wedding.
	11:32am annie: i wouldn't mind spending a week there now as an older 60+ adult, i bet i'd like it..
	11:32am Cecile: hahhahha, VP. Storm and Black Panther were Jay-Z and Beyoncé before Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
	11:33am V Priceless: haha
	11:33am Cecile: that Captain America movie is also going to be amazing. I loved the last one. Real fight scenes, no cutting away.
	11:34am annie: i will always have a secret craving to be a NY-er, y'know, a real city slicker. when i go there i pretend i've lived there all my life
	11:34am zoot: Too bad no one has recorded a version with Thomas Pynchon's lyrics: Got a hardon in my fist/don't be pissed/ Re-enlist/ Snap to Slothrop/ Jackson I don't give a fuck/Just give me my Ruptured duck/ Snap to Slothrop/ No one here can love or comprehend me/ They just look for someplace else to send me/ Tap my head and mike my brain/ Stick that needle in my vein/ Slothrop, snap to!
	11:34am Cecile: I would love to have been from NYC or be rich enough to live modestly there.
	11:37am V Priceless: yeah, the last Cap flick was hard-core good!
	11:37am crateslinger: Annie if you're from here then you're more new yorker than I. I can put on an accent when ordering lumber or dealing with a trucker, but I am just a white boy from Massachusetts when you get right down to it.
	11:37am Mike East: @Cecile - I'm sure you're rich enough already if you don't mind living with 3 or 4 roommates.
	11:37am annie: in my mid-20s, i spent a lot of time there; stayed with my aunt in the bronx.. rode the train everywhere, went to the lincoln center.. it was a blast! fell in love with my cousin. it was all innocent, nut we felt we fit like a glove personality-wise. i loved those days
	11:38am annie: chock-full-o'-nuts!!! 'NEM were the days!
	11:39am Cecile: Yeah, Mike East, not so much.
	11:40am crateslinger: My kids are new yorkers. Son calls me a hick. Daughter thinks I'm insensitive to gender issues, but she still tells all her friends I knew Joey Ramone.
	11:40am Mike East: @Cecile - its what I keep telling my wife when she forgets why we had to let go of my sweet Brooklyn apt. when we got married.
	11:40am Cecile: crates, I think the rule is if you can live there 2-3 years, you're a New Yorker. For me, I will never be a Minneapolitan, but if I had kids, they would be. It's weird.
	11:41am annie: you can't beat the right name-dropping..
	11:42am Cecile: I asked my grand-niece once when she was wearing a NY Dolls tee if she even knew who they were. She did not...
	11:42am coelacanth: hello Chris and others (been listening since 10)
	11:42am Cecile: coel!
	11:42am crateslinger: Yeah man. Joey. How bout that.
	11:43am Ike: Brooklyn is so huge and varied. Southern Brooklyn has so many people from all over the world -- Mexicans, Uzbeks, Chinese, Russians, Turkish, and many more, and still lots of Italians and some Poles too. Just walking around is always fascinating, but I had to search assiduously to find an affordable apt.
	11:43am crateslinger: Her girlfriend went to Forest Hills High. Apparently there is no plaque in the trophy case. Go figure.
	11:44am coelacanth: hi 'Cile!
	11:44am V Priceless: fish! Hey!
	11:44am Cecile: "most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps"
	11:45am nathaxn walker: I just moved from Minneapolis to Lancaster County, PA. I lived in Minneapolis for 5 years and although I loved it, it was never going to be my home. I am not from PA, but my partner is, and it feels more home-like already! I am from FL originally. That was too much 411, alas.
	11:45am crateslinger: PE in full effect.
	11:45am nathaxn walker: Scissorfight!
	11:46am crateslinger: Met my wife in Mnpls. Bonked her on the head and took her to the Squats.
	11:46am Cecile: Nathan, PA has its ups and downs, but the people are some of the warmest and most hospitable I've known
	11:46am nathaxn walker: It is a lovely city. I miss it in so many ways!
	11:47am Cecile: bwahahahahahha, crates.
	11:47am coelacanth: VP!
	11:47am annie: it's funny, Ike, i have a very vivid memory, holding a woman's hand walking along a street. i was small.. and yet my mom says we never did that.. and i didn't walk 'til i was 2 1/2.. so.. i would LOVE to know whre that memory comes from..
	11:47am neil who is WILD, man: I lived in NYC from 1989 until 1994-ish. For the arts such as music and visual arts there is no beating it for variety of stuff to do....Dropped out/burned out of Cooper Union Architecture school.....
	11:48am nathaxn walker: Cecile - That is my experience too! There isn't as much 'to do' here as in MPLS by far, for us or the kids, but it makes up for it by having the kids' school like literally in our backyard and everyone is extremely personable!
	11:48am Whosondephone: I hope Chris didn't have a bad year.
	11:48am Cheri Pi: It's really starting to hit home now. sniff :'(
	11:48am Cecile: I have grown to love Mpls, and I have some great friends there, but with very few exceptions, they are all out-of-towners or natives who had things happen to them that made them somehow different.
	11:49am neil who is WILD, man: WOW ! A BREAK!!!
	11:49am efd: 10 minutes of reciting the lyrics to "Bye Bye Blackbird," please.
	11:49am Cecile: Nathan, and the parks! So many of them. Even in the poor and hanging-in-there neighborhoods
	11:49am Cheri Pi: I need to visit MPLS, never been
	11:50am nathaxn walker: Cecile - That is very true! In fact, our housemates, who were native Minneapoleans said the EXACT same thing as you just did. That is why they got along with us & vice-versa!
	11:50am Risky: HAAA!!!!
	11:50am Cecile: what is, PI?
	11:50am crateslinger: There was a great crusty scene in minneapolis in the 80s and early 90s. It was like a sister city to NYC. Kind of reminded me of Seattle.
	11:51am Cecile: you do, PI.
	11:51am nathaxn walker: The parks in MLPS are unparallelled, as are the libraries! they have such a great public library system! I might miss that the most! Crust is still alive & well in MPLS!
	11:51am coelacanth: i wonder who remembers what Diane said about a Lemmy tribute on the day Philthy Animal died..?
	11:51am Cheri Pi: The death of our collective blackbird
	11:51am Cecile: I probably saw more Minneapolis bands in Detroit than I did when I finally got here.
	11:52am Cheri Pi: Th' G.D. Bb
	11:52am crateslinger: Detroit. Now that's a place where everybody has a dark past.
	11:52am Devin B.: this is the best mic break ever
	11:52am Cecile: oh, it is sad. I do, coel, but she's probably fibbing to herself. I bet we hear a lot of Motorhead.
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: The combo bed pan / fondu pot invention didn't work out? Unbelievable!
	11:52am nathaxn walker: MPLS has a pretty good metal scene going these days, too!
	11:53am Cecile: I'll have to listen. Nathan, Into the Void is a great record store near me that I have to get to a lot more often.
	11:53am coelacanth: Cecile, i think so too!
	11:53am Cecile: crates, I lived in Ann Arbor, and still had elements of a dark Detroit past. The people are the best, though.
	11:54am crateslinger: Is the band "Misery" still around in MPLS?
	11:54am Cheri Pi: WEEP. www.audubon.org...
	11:54am Dean: Glenn Frey does a cameo in the new SW.
	11:55am nathaxn walker: Misery is still around, but some of them are also in Tau Cross with Away from Voivod and Rob 'the Baron' from Amebix!!!
	11:55am Cecile: I dunno, crateslinger. Maybe?
	11:55am Cheri Pi: We don't speak GF's name here BTW..
	11:56am coelacanth: yuk. probably whiskey.
	11:56am Dean: Meth is the new Roederer Cristal.
	11:57am Cecile: I finally tuned in again.
	11:57am Cheri Pi: Pink champagne, to be specific
	11:57am coelacanth: last week it was "misty". we all thought he might not be here this week.
	11:58am Cecile: Andre Pink Champagne.
	11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Jimmy from Kearny, call in now!
	11:58am Cheri Pi: YES
	11:58am Cecile: two people emailed me like I had lost a family member. Not quite that bad, but boy, a world w/o Lemmy.
	11:58am Dean: Evelyn "Champagne" Kind
	11:59am Cheri Pi: COLD "duck"
	11:59am Parq: Nice one, Chris. Happy New Year.
	11:59am coelacanth: Thanks Chris. Happy New Year!

Imaginary Radio: Playlist from December 31, 2015

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