WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 3, 2019

Listener comments!
	9:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning Trouble!
	9:01am Webhamster Henry: Good 2019, Modern World Residents.
	9:02am TacomaAroma: good morning
	9:02am melinda: morning everyone
	9:03am TDK60: Good day Trouble. Darn, gotta leave for work, as the landlord still charges me rent, and the supermarket still charges me for food, and the subway ain't free, yet. There I go, gettin' all sociological this early.
	9:05am Trouble: good morning grey world.
	9:09am Sem: Hello and good morning, Trouble. Greets, Modern World folk, all.
	9:10am Dances with Moomins: Good Morning Trouble and all the Troubled Souls from cold crispy Turku on Finland's southwest coast. Hope 2019 is a good one for us all. Cheers DwM's
	9:11am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble. Happy 2019 all!
	9:11am Ms Hobbstweedle_Pennsylvania: Happy New Year, Trouble. Enjoy your show.
	9:11am steveo: good morning. i'm the figure on the left, I guess
	9:12am Dances with Moomins: @Steveo, I thought that was me also
	9:13am Webhamster Henry: I'm in the de Chirico around the corner, looking for my train.
	9:14am steveo: lol henry
	9:16am northguineahills: Digging everything from the new senyawa album....
	9:17am Trouble: happy 2019. january is already off the deep end: i need sunshine. thanks ms hobbstweedle...
	9:18am Linda Lee: Happy New Year, Trouble! What a beautiful first set for this snowy (Catskills) morning.
	9:19am Webhamster Henry: We have a pathetic dusting of snow here in Kingston; but this music goes with it nicely.
	9:19am steveo: Turku looks nice. Lots of bicycles. I hope the sun will come out also, Trouble. Maybe this afternoon. My new year's resolution is capital letters. Am I blabbering?
	9:20am Linda Lee: I'm happy with a dusting, myself. :-)
	9:22am Webhamster Henry: I hope you all saw me and my bike on the cover of the Kingston Daily Freeman yesterday.
	9:24am Linda Lee: let's go look for that online edition..
	9:25am Webhamster Henry: They are so pay-wally.
	9:26am steveo: I somehow missed that, Henry. Is it online?
	9:27am Linda Lee: there's a newborn infant on the home page today. obviously not you. no bike.
	9:27am please: ...the pretenders version was bad enough
	9:27am Linda Lee: i like it. lush.
	9:29am Linda Lee: still looking for that photo..
	9:29am steveo: (I found it using the E-Paper link, Henry. Nice.)
	9:30am Granny Spicy Tuna: i think it's a bit odd when the cover of a song sounds too derivative of the original. It might be fun for the performers, but, huh?
	9:30am Dances with Moomins: holy smokes Hey Mona in the modern world, going bopp itty bop
	9:30am Sem: Wonderful Chilton!
	9:32am Trouble: hey stu! thaks for our wonderful finnish postcard!!!
	9:34am zpulpa: Goodmorning friends! The show has been just perfect for my grey and sleepy morning crawl out of the house, thank you Trouble!! Greetings from Baltimore
	9:34am Dances with Moomins: Hi Trubs! We always send love ...all year long. ( just returning all the love you share in this modern world ) Cheers!
	9:35am Hughie Considine: I always love the way this show shifts from ambient to gritty and back again within its temporal confines. Cheers for more of this loveliness in 2019, and more blue skies!
	9:35am Trouble: gracias@zpulpa!
	9:35am Panda Penguin: It seems like forever ago since I last ventured into Trouble's Modern World, and I promise I won't leave it so long again. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Here's to this weekly three-hour block being the only Trouble we experience in 2019.
	9:36am Panda Penguin: (Also, since it's not shown up on the Accu, could we please have an ID on who was responsible for that haunting cover of I Go To Sleep a couple songs back?)
	9:36am Trouble: welcome back @panda penguin
	9:36am Linda Lee: steveo ~ can we have a link? thank you!
	9:37am Linda Lee: i'm having no success!
	9:38am Slaboch: Sounding great, and excited to hear more from that Chilton and Holsapple reissue!
	9:39am steveo: @linda go to kingstondailyfreeman-ny.newsmemory.com and then change the date to yesterday -- you have to hover near the top of the page to see the date control
	9:40am Granny Spicy Tuna: Wow, the wind is really kicking up here on the Oregon Coast. Can't wait to go watch the waves crashing against the cliffs. Wheee!!!
	9:41am northguineahills: Been writing 2019 since last month due to writing reports that were to be released at work this month.... (almost effed up a bill w/ the wrong year last month)
	9:41am Linda Lee: there you are, Henry! very nice photo! thanks, steveo!
	9:42am melinda: Nice pic, Henry! I like the idea of a New Year's Day walk.
	9:43am Linda Lee: i often did a New Year's walk when i lived in nyc.
	9:44am Linda Lee: i really enjoyed the relative quiet.
	9:44am sphere: hullo folks
	9:44am Adrian in London: Happy New Year Trouble and everyone. First day back at work and I think it might be Thursday.
	9:47am Linda Lee: Happy New Year, Adrian!
	9:55am The Oscar: Mornin' all! Just saw Shoplifters over the weekend (which was excellent), and was surprised to realize the score was by Haruomi Hosono!
	9:55am steveo: Oh... RIP Daryl Dragon. I sure loved C&T when I was 5 or 6.
	9:55am G: I recognize this voice from Lost in Translation soundtrack
	10:01am βrian: Why these forebodings? (perhaps)
	10:03am melinda: @Oscar that looks good, I like Kore-eda. Don't know if it will make an appearance in my town though.
	10:08am The Oscar: @melinda I definitely recommend it. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets a Best Foreign Film nomination, which will hopefully expand its release a little bit.
	10:11am Linda Lee: very nice bacharach cover ~ though i'm hearing a different tune totally.
	10:11am blee: Sing it, Chan.
	10:12am Dances with Moomins: Hei @ The Oscar. I thought about going to see Shplifters a New Years Day but the subtitles would be in Finnish and it gets to be work if things go by quickly. Have heard good things about it. Saw "Roma" Mexican film the other day...powerful and moving and ultimately uplifting. cheers!
	10:16am The Oscar: @CWM Ahh I still need to see that! It's year-end-list season on the site I help manage, so I'm in my yearly stretch of frantically trying to catch up on everything I meant to see. It's on my agenda!
	10:18am The Oscar: Er, @DWM, not @CWM :)
	10:31am melinda: I watched Birthmarked on Netflix last night & thought it was good. On New Year's day I watched Day of the Dolphin, not sure what to expect. The talking dolphins seemed silly at first but by the end I'd bought into the concept and the farewell scene was really sad.
	10:32am PKNY: Got an Amazon gift card over Xmas, and the first thing I dod was pick up the 79.5 album. So so so good, one of the million things that y'all at WFMU have turned me onto!
	10:32am adampsyche: lovely
	10:33am Linda Lee: what a beautiful show so far! thank you Trouble!
	10:33am Passaic River Blues: I love both the album and single versions of this song. These guys are incredible.
	10:35am PKNY: @PRB - don't know if you or anyone else is up on it, but I found a video that's just the 3 singers of 79.5 running through some songs with only Fender Rhodes accompaniment --> www.youtube.com...
	10:36am The Oscar: I watched Mandy on New Years Day, which is very different from the other movies we've been talking about, but it was pretty much perfect viewing on a bleary New Years afternoon.
	10:36am Trouble: i agree: 79.5 are the super best! i also love both of the versions of this song@prb
	10:38am Passaic River Blues: @PKNY: oh man, need to check that out! Thank you!
	10:43am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Mr. Robot on USA/ Amazon Prime is pretty choice. Saw Man in the High Castle and it was ok. Mr. Robot is a little bit like Lost, but with cooler themes. Man in the High Castle is going to jump the shark soon maybe. Thoughts?
	10:47am Mick: Ooooh, thank you PKNY! Will watch that sometime after Trouble's show. Oh, and we went to see 'The Favourite' on New Year's Day, partly b/c of the convo here last week - very good i thought. Olivia Colman is amazing
	10:48am ranjit: Trouble - is it ok if i advertise a performance tonight to your message boardies?
	10:48am ɨkɛ: Does season 3 of Mr. Robot go anywhere or have any purpose? Season 1 seemed like it was maybe going to go somewhere, but after that I started to feel like they were just jerking us around. It does remind me of Lost, but only in the worst ways.
	10:48am Trouble: sure @ ranjit
	10:49am northguineahills: @WN: I read the Man in the High Castle a few years before the series, and although the show really extrapolates quite a bit (the book is maybe 150 pages), I still enjoy it. I haven't watched the most recent season of Mr Robot, But I enjoyed the first two.
	10:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning and Happy New Year, Troublies. The sky is clearing from grey clouds to pleasant blue up here.
	10:53am Adrian in London: The best thing I've seen recently is the five-and-a-quarter-hour Japanese film Happy Hour, from 2010, which is currently screening on Mubi UK. I finally got round to watching Wenders' Pina too, and I really like the TV show Bored to Death, which I picked up for a pittance on DVD.
	10:54am ranjit: Thanks! Weird music fans, please come to BRIC tonight for a free performance from inside a big heap of electronic waste! www.bricartsmedia.org...
	10:55am ranjit: (that's BRIC in downtown brooklyn near the academy of music)
	10:56am ɨkɛ: @Ranjit, that sounds good! I'll try to make it.
	10:56am Peter Wyatt: Mr Robot is a pretty entertaining show still, but it seems to turn into a conspiracy theory that China is plotting to take over the entire world, instead of focusing on the corporate criminals in the US. Gets a little ridiculous, but I'll still watch the last season.
	10:58am melinda: @Adrian I really liked Bored to Death too, I have a couple of DVDs of it left to watch. First watched it several years ago and was pleasantly surprised by the use of Young Marble Giants tunes.
	10:58am cluebucket: what wonderful Wings!
	10:59am ranjit: thanks ɨkɛ!
	11:00am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I have a rat in my garage. It eats the peanut butter off the set mouse trap and rat traps I put in there for it. Digssting, parasite carrying filthy animals. I should just get a cat.
	11:01am northguineahills: @ranjit: Cool, Ed Bear is playing, he's an old friend of mine. I'd tell my wife to go, but she got back from Mexico at 3am, so, she'll probably sleep after work.
	11:01am Listener Robert: Webhamster, is that Route 9W in the background of the newspaper photo? Just trying to orient.
	11:02am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-yeah, its all "White Rose This" and "White Rose That"....like Elliot is her pet robot or something. Or she has time travel abilities. Or claims too. Wait, White Rose is a dude, right? Er um....what is the proper pronoun for White Rose? Isn't he a highly ranked man in the Chinese Gov't?
	11:03am fred: I'm old enough to remember UB40's King from when I had this on LP. It's not often that WFMU premiums and my teenage records overlap
	11:04am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-I'm kinda glad Mr. Robot showed that 5/9 also hurt homeowners who already paid off their mortgage. Kinda like better the devil you know than the one you don't know when it comes to E Corp. E Corp reminds me of Bank of America.
	11:05am Listener Robert: Last night commenters were all about cursing up a storm (which would be great for Meghan) on the air when the FCC's off. But it's not like the FCC listens live. They take complaints from listeners later.
	11:06am Stephanie: What a great reading! Thanks for playing it, Trouble. I heard that Zadie Smith used to sing jazzy lounge music when she was younger.
	11:07am Trouble: www.newyorker.com...
	11:07am Adrian in London: @Melinda Jonathan Ames was doing a reading in London with Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, who wrote Swan Song (which is terrific). He was really funny in the reading; my wife has read two of his books and was laughing so much. Bored to Death is really sweet, it reminds me of Bakersfield PD, a great funny police series with Giancarlo Esposito.
	11:07am Passaic River Blues: "Quote Miss Stanwyck." Love that.
	11:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "Her little gang" of dudes= beta orbiters, friend-zoned dudes.
	11:08am adampsyche: nice show today, trubs!
	11:11am esha: listening to zadie's voice is the best pep talk. thanks trouble
	11:11am Terry from NYC: So sweet, love my little dog!
	11:11am Listener Robert: Looking via openstreetmap.org at Kingston in the area the parade was to end at, I see Wall St., Pearl St., John St., Maiden Ln. -- but then, weren't Kingston & Manhattan settled at about the same time?
	11:11am fred: I like (not love) Zadie Smith. I haven't read Swing Time yet, but it's physically in my pile of unread books, so its time will come
	11:14am Peter Wyatt: @Wild Neil -- yeah the WR character was interesting at first but its just over the top how one person has so much power over everyone. This "time travel" or whatever reveal better be damn good, like "wait three seasons to find out" good. :P But yeah, the series lost the punch when it stopped focusing on e-corp
	11:15am Webhamster Henry: @Listener Robert - Kingston is a little later, set up by Stuyvesant as "Wiltwyck", settled around 1654 . Those street names are the English names, not super creative ones.
	11:15am WillCrete: Wonderful listening this morning and thanks for playing the reading of Smith's Lady Day story. She creates voice and rhythm in her writing so wonderfully, so it is a real delight to hear it aloud.
	11:15am Webhamster Henry: I "Occupy Wall Street"
	11:16am northguineahills: Ding!
	11:17am steveo: Dingdug?
	11:18am fred: Tom Johnson! I've seen him walk by my office a few times and got a kick out of that. I also saw him at a punk/hardcore show, but he had obviously got the date wrong. He did stay for the full first set though
	11:18am Webhamster Henry: @Listener Robert the bridge in the photo is indeed part of 9W.
	11:19am Webhamster Henry: The sharp-eyed can see I'm wearing a WFMU fleece scarf in that photo.
	11:20am Listener Robert: Henry, could the streets in lower Manhattan have been named AFTER those in Kingston?
	11:21am βrian: We've belled the cat!
	11:22am Listener Robert: Also, Henry, what does "BSP" stand for? The establishment's Web site under "About" doesn't seem to say. And please don't answer the way the band "DUH" used to answer about what DUH stood for!
	11:24am emily: lovely show
	11:26am Trouble: @stephanie: that would be crazy to see. i know zadie's brother is a comedian.
	11:28am Trouble: @emily: merci. see you soon!
	11:28am northguineahills: @Henry: I never saw the WFMU scarf. I love them, but rarely get a chance to don one down here.
	11:28am northguineahills: Nice one steveo!
	11:28am tadpoles: #Listener Robert...sorry to poke my nose in...Back Stage Productions.
	11:30am steveo: @ngh :)
	11:30am Listener Robert: Tadpoles, I'm not that gullible. How could "DUH" stand for Back Stage Productions? ;-)
	11:33am Andrew Waterloo: I worked for a company that was named with an initialization that no actual meeting for the initialization.
	11:34am tadpoles: #LR...I prefer "Doh!" and that's not the Dept of Health.
	11:34am Webhamster Henry: BSP at this point may just stand for BSP, the way KFC stands fro KFC and not Kentucky Fried Chicken. BSP is a fun venue, with lots of good acts passing through. WFMU's own Morricone Youth played there back in October.
	11:35am glenn: kiki pau rawks.
	11:37am glenn: i was looking for my scarf yesterday.
	11:37am tadpoles: There seems to be a bigger company called Backstage Productions which may be the reason why BSP has dropped that moniker, but my kids did Youth theatre there back in the day and that's what the name was then...morphing into more of a club later.
	11:37am Peter Wyatt: Does anyone else feel that 2019 is going to be a great year overall? As in we might make progress to avert climate chaos and things will turn relatively more peaceful? Something seemed different on Jan. 1st.
	11:39am Trouble: hoping so @ peter wyatt
	11:39am Listener Robert: I just looked at the Wikipedia entry for DUH, and I was pretty sure the one I remembered was from the 1980s, being interviewed on Pat Duncan's show, or maybe Frank O'Toole's, where when they were asked, "What does `DUH' stand for?" they'd answer, "Mostly, it's political. We stand for...." etc. So not this ad hoc thing from 1990. But then, my memory could be way off.
	11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy Perihelion Day (occurred at 12:19 AM EST / 5:19 AM GMT).
	11:45am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-watch, all the characters are just those remembered by Elliot (remember this is a memory play, right?) and they are all just attending his funeral. Heh! Just kidding.
	11:46am Trouble: www.theguardian.com...
	11:47am Peter Wyatt: @Wild Neil --- hahah, it will probably end up being something like that.
	11:48am The Oscar: There's a great clip of the Honeycombs on Youtube, from one of those odd "Here's a bunch of bands on a soundstage" films from the '60s. I caught it on TCM a few years ago, and their performance made my jaw drop (despite the... unfortunate presence of Jimmy Savile introducing).
	11:48am The Oscar: Link: youtu.be...
	11:50am Rich in Washington: Was just talking about ToTPs the other day with someone and we wondered if they could just CGI Savile out with some digitally simulated presenter.
	11:50am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-I guess its just about enjoying the ride. The characters and dialog are pretty good. The ideas are really pretty amazing actually.
	11:52am northguineahills: @Ken: Is that tomorrow or today?
	11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Looks to be today (1/3): www.timeanddate.com...
	11:54am tadpoles: #The Oscar...film was called "Pop Gear"...and yes..agree about the moronic Jimmy Saville.
	11:56am Trouble: see you next week! thanks for sitting in today!
	11:57am melinda: @Peter I hope so.
	11:57am tadpoles: Thanks for spinning Trouble...Cheers.
	11:57am Webhamster Henry: BTW -- Thanks Guido for dropping so many goodies on the WFMU DJs!
	11:57am northguineahills: abrigado, Trouble!
	11:58am The Oscar: @tadpoles That's it! Even after the wave of sickly revelations about men in show-biz, the stuff Savile did stands out as really, singularly horrific.
	11:59am cluebucket: wonderful show it was a delight

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 3, 2019

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January 3, 2019: crazy as a box of frogs

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
suss	rain "rain" by "suss"	ghost box ( expanded)	northern spy			*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
senyawa	sujud ( prostration) "sujud ( prostration)" by "senyawa"	sujud	Sublime Frequencies			*	0:11:26 (Pop-up)
moon express	tell me what you see	prophetic spirit	modern harmonic			*	0:19:36 (Pop-up)
Yoshio suzuki	meet me in the sheep meadow	Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (V/A)	LIght In The Attic Records			*	0:22:23 (Pop-up)
building instrument	vil du dit nok	mangelen min	hubro			*	0:26:32 (Pop-up)
marion	i go to sleep "i go to sleep" by "marion"
alex chilton	hey mona "hey mona" by "alex chilton"	the death of rock	omnivore recordings			*	0:34:38 (Pop-up)
naomi shelton & the gospel queens	what more can i do?	what have you done, my brother?					0:40:09 (Pop-up)

Electric Kulintang	bangka "bangka" by "Electric Kulintang"	dialects					0:51:09 (Pop-up)
geir sundstol	leben "leben" by "geir sundstol"	brodlos	hubro			*	0:56:36 (Pop-up)
haruomi hosono	koi wa momoiro "koi wa momoiro" by "haruomi hosono"	hosono house	light in the attic			*	1:00:21 (Pop-up)
marie laforet	pourquoi ces nuages			7"			1:03:25 (Pop-up)

lowland hum	i like you that way "i like you that way" by "lowland hum"	Glyphonic	lowland hum			*	1:09:19 (Pop-up)
helado negro	pais nublado "pais nublado" by "helado negro"			Single		*	1:11:21 (Pop-up)
cat power	what the world needs now			Single			1:15:37 (Pop-up)
astronauts, etc.	up for grabs "up for grabs" by "astronauts, etc."	sadie					1:18:05 (Pop-up)
tiny ruins	school of design "school of design" by "tiny ruins"						1:22:03 (Pop-up)
fifteen years old	arbol "arbol" by "fifteen years old"	abecedario					1:26:23 (Pop-up)
flavien berger	brutalisme "brutalisme" by "flavien berger"	contre-temps					1:30:55 (Pop-up)
kings of convenience	love is no big truth	riot on an empty street					1:34:06 (Pop-up)
79.5	terrorize my heart "terrorize my heart" by "79.5"	predictions				*	1:38:29 (Pop-up)
malik djoudi	sous garantie "sous garantie" by "malik djoudi"	UN					1:41:47 (Pop-up)
miel de montagne	permis B bebe "permis B bebe" by "miel de montagne"						1:45:00 (Pop-up)
craft spells	after the moment "after the moment" by "craft spells"	idle labour					1:47:33 (Pop-up)
candy mckenzie	tell me alie "tell me alie" by "candy mckenzie"	trojan records lovers rock vol 1					1:52:13 (Pop-up)
UB40	king "king" by "UB40"	run come rally Scott mcdowell's WFMU premium					1:56:19 (Pop-up)
Wings	when the wind is blowing "when the wind is blowing" by "Wings"	wild life					2:00:51 (Pop-up)

zadie smith	reading " crazy they call me'	from newyorker.com feb 28 2017					2:10:27 (Pop-up)
billie holiday	you're my thrill "you're my thrill" by "billie holiday"	rare live recordings 1934-1959					2:18:00 (Pop-up)
tom johnson	5th bell "5th bell" by "tom johnson"	nine bells					2:20:50 (Pop-up)
bernard estardy	Coeur Polaire "Coeur Polaire" by "bernard estardy"	space oddities 1970-82	born bad			*	2:28:02 (Pop-up)
billie holiday	god bless the child	rare live recordings 1934-1959					2:30:58 (Pop-up)
kiki pau	seeds "seeds" by "kiki pau"	hiisi	beyond beyond is beyond			*	2:34:03 (Pop-up)

the honeycombs	that's the way "that's the way" by "the honeycombs"	hear are					2:53:42 (Pop-up)
stereo	moonshine "moonshine" by "stereo"	cosmic machine the sequel v/a a voyage across french avant garde 70-80's					2:55:48 (Pop-up)
france gall	le yeux bleux "le yeux bleux" by "france gall"	ihre grossten hits			thanks guido!		3:01:07 (Pop-up)
the minstrels	yours until tomorrow	studio one lovers rock v/a					3:03:40 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning Trouble!
	9:01am Webhamster Henry: Good 2019, Modern World Residents.
	9:02am TacomaAroma: good morning
	9:02am melinda: morning everyone
	9:03am TDK60: Good day Trouble. Darn, gotta leave for work, as the landlord still charges me rent, and the supermarket still charges me for food, and the subway ain't free, yet. There I go, gettin' all sociological this early.
	9:05am Trouble: good morning grey world.
	9:09am Sem: Hello and good morning, Trouble. Greets, Modern World folk, all.
	9:10am Dances with Moomins: Good Morning Trouble and all the Troubled Souls from cold crispy Turku on Finland's southwest coast. Hope 2019 is a good one for us all. Cheers DwM's
	9:11am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble. Happy 2019 all!
	9:11am Ms Hobbstweedle_Pennsylvania: Happy New Year, Trouble. Enjoy your show.
	9:11am steveo: good morning. i'm the figure on the left, I guess
	9:12am Dances with Moomins: @Steveo, I thought that was me also
	9:13am Webhamster Henry: I'm in the de Chirico around the corner, looking for my train.
	9:14am steveo: lol henry
	9:16am northguineahills: Digging everything from the new senyawa album....
	9:17am Trouble: happy 2019. january is already off the deep end: i need sunshine. thanks ms hobbstweedle...
	9:18am Linda Lee: Happy New Year, Trouble! What a beautiful first set for this snowy (Catskills) morning.
	9:19am Webhamster Henry: We have a pathetic dusting of snow here in Kingston; but this music goes with it nicely.
	9:19am steveo: Turku looks nice. Lots of bicycles. I hope the sun will come out also, Trouble. Maybe this afternoon. My new year's resolution is capital letters. Am I blabbering?
	9:20am Linda Lee: I'm happy with a dusting, myself. :-)
	9:22am Webhamster Henry: I hope you all saw me and my bike on the cover of the Kingston Daily Freeman yesterday.
	9:24am Linda Lee: let's go look for that online edition..
	9:25am Webhamster Henry: They are so pay-wally.
	9:26am steveo: I somehow missed that, Henry. Is it online?
	9:27am Linda Lee: there's a newborn infant on the home page today. obviously not you. no bike.
	9:27am please: ...the pretenders version was bad enough
	9:27am Linda Lee: i like it. lush.
	9:29am Linda Lee: still looking for that photo..
	9:29am steveo: (I found it using the E-Paper link, Henry. Nice.)
	9:30am Granny Spicy Tuna: i think it's a bit odd when the cover of a song sounds too derivative of the original. It might be fun for the performers, but, huh?
	9:30am Dances with Moomins: holy smokes Hey Mona in the modern world, going bopp itty bop
	9:30am Sem: Wonderful Chilton!
	9:32am Trouble: hey stu! thaks for our wonderful finnish postcard!!!
	9:34am zpulpa: Goodmorning friends! The show has been just perfect for my grey and sleepy morning crawl out of the house, thank you Trouble!! Greetings from Baltimore
	9:34am Dances with Moomins: Hi Trubs! We always send love ...all year long. ( just returning all the love you share in this modern world ) Cheers!
	9:35am Hughie Considine: I always love the way this show shifts from ambient to gritty and back again within its temporal confines. Cheers for more of this loveliness in 2019, and more blue skies!
	9:35am Trouble: gracias@zpulpa!
	9:35am Panda Penguin: It seems like forever ago since I last ventured into Trouble's Modern World, and I promise I won't leave it so long again. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Here's to this weekly three-hour block being the only Trouble we experience in 2019.
	9:36am Panda Penguin: (Also, since it's not shown up on the Accu, could we please have an ID on who was responsible for that haunting cover of I Go To Sleep a couple songs back?)
	9:36am Trouble: welcome back @panda penguin
	9:36am Linda Lee: steveo ~ can we have a link? thank you!
	9:37am Linda Lee: i'm having no success!
	9:38am Slaboch: Sounding great, and excited to hear more from that Chilton and Holsapple reissue!
	9:39am steveo: @linda go to kingstondailyfreeman-ny.newsmemory.com and then change the date to yesterday -- you have to hover near the top of the page to see the date control
	9:40am Granny Spicy Tuna: Wow, the wind is really kicking up here on the Oregon Coast. Can't wait to go watch the waves crashing against the cliffs. Wheee!!!
	9:41am northguineahills: Been writing 2019 since last month due to writing reports that were to be released at work this month.... (almost effed up a bill w/ the wrong year last month)
	9:41am Linda Lee: there you are, Henry! very nice photo! thanks, steveo!
	9:42am melinda: Nice pic, Henry! I like the idea of a New Year's Day walk.
	9:43am Linda Lee: i often did a New Year's walk when i lived in nyc.
	9:44am Linda Lee: i really enjoyed the relative quiet.
	9:44am sphere: hullo folks
	9:44am Adrian in London: Happy New Year Trouble and everyone. First day back at work and I think it might be Thursday.
	9:47am Linda Lee: Happy New Year, Adrian!
	9:55am The Oscar: Mornin' all! Just saw Shoplifters over the weekend (which was excellent), and was surprised to realize the score was by Haruomi Hosono!
	9:55am steveo: Oh... RIP Daryl Dragon. I sure loved C&T when I was 5 or 6.
	9:55am G: I recognize this voice from Lost in Translation soundtrack
	10:01am βrian: Why these forebodings? (perhaps)
	10:03am melinda: @Oscar that looks good, I like Kore-eda. Don't know if it will make an appearance in my town though.
	10:08am The Oscar: @melinda I definitely recommend it. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets a Best Foreign Film nomination, which will hopefully expand its release a little bit.
	10:11am Linda Lee: very nice bacharach cover ~ though i'm hearing a different tune totally.
	10:11am blee: Sing it, Chan.
	10:12am Dances with Moomins: Hei @ The Oscar. I thought about going to see Shplifters a New Years Day but the subtitles would be in Finnish and it gets to be work if things go by quickly. Have heard good things about it. Saw "Roma" Mexican film the other day...powerful and moving and ultimately uplifting. cheers!
	10:16am The Oscar: @CWM Ahh I still need to see that! It's year-end-list season on the site I help manage, so I'm in my yearly stretch of frantically trying to catch up on everything I meant to see. It's on my agenda!
	10:18am The Oscar: Er, @DWM, not @CWM :)
	10:31am melinda: I watched Birthmarked on Netflix last night & thought it was good. On New Year's day I watched Day of the Dolphin, not sure what to expect. The talking dolphins seemed silly at first but by the end I'd bought into the concept and the farewell scene was really sad.
	10:32am PKNY: Got an Amazon gift card over Xmas, and the first thing I dod was pick up the 79.5 album. So so so good, one of the million things that y'all at WFMU have turned me onto!
	10:32am adampsyche: lovely
	10:33am Linda Lee: what a beautiful show so far! thank you Trouble!
	10:33am Passaic River Blues: I love both the album and single versions of this song. These guys are incredible.
	10:35am PKNY: @PRB - don't know if you or anyone else is up on it, but I found a video that's just the 3 singers of 79.5 running through some songs with only Fender Rhodes accompaniment --> www.youtube.com...
	10:36am The Oscar: I watched Mandy on New Years Day, which is very different from the other movies we've been talking about, but it was pretty much perfect viewing on a bleary New Years afternoon.
	10:36am Trouble: i agree: 79.5 are the super best! i also love both of the versions of this song@prb
	10:38am Passaic River Blues: @PKNY: oh man, need to check that out! Thank you!
	10:43am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Mr. Robot on USA/ Amazon Prime is pretty choice. Saw Man in the High Castle and it was ok. Mr. Robot is a little bit like Lost, but with cooler themes. Man in the High Castle is going to jump the shark soon maybe. Thoughts?
	10:47am Mick: Ooooh, thank you PKNY! Will watch that sometime after Trouble's show. Oh, and we went to see 'The Favourite' on New Year's Day, partly b/c of the convo here last week - very good i thought. Olivia Colman is amazing
	10:48am ranjit: Trouble - is it ok if i advertise a performance tonight to your message boardies?
	10:48am ɨkɛ: Does season 3 of Mr. Robot go anywhere or have any purpose? Season 1 seemed like it was maybe going to go somewhere, but after that I started to feel like they were just jerking us around. It does remind me of Lost, but only in the worst ways.
	10:48am Trouble: sure @ ranjit
	10:49am northguineahills: @WN: I read the Man in the High Castle a few years before the series, and although the show really extrapolates quite a bit (the book is maybe 150 pages), I still enjoy it. I haven't watched the most recent season of Mr Robot, But I enjoyed the first two.
	10:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning and Happy New Year, Troublies. The sky is clearing from grey clouds to pleasant blue up here.
	10:53am Adrian in London: The best thing I've seen recently is the five-and-a-quarter-hour Japanese film Happy Hour, from 2010, which is currently screening on Mubi UK. I finally got round to watching Wenders' Pina too, and I really like the TV show Bored to Death, which I picked up for a pittance on DVD.
	10:54am ranjit: Thanks! Weird music fans, please come to BRIC tonight for a free performance from inside a big heap of electronic waste! www.bricartsmedia.org...
	10:55am ranjit: (that's BRIC in downtown brooklyn near the academy of music)
	10:56am ɨkɛ: @Ranjit, that sounds good! I'll try to make it.
	10:56am Peter Wyatt: Mr Robot is a pretty entertaining show still, but it seems to turn into a conspiracy theory that China is plotting to take over the entire world, instead of focusing on the corporate criminals in the US. Gets a little ridiculous, but I'll still watch the last season.
	10:58am melinda: @Adrian I really liked Bored to Death too, I have a couple of DVDs of it left to watch. First watched it several years ago and was pleasantly surprised by the use of Young Marble Giants tunes.
	10:58am cluebucket: what wonderful Wings!
	10:59am ranjit: thanks ɨkɛ!
	11:00am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I have a rat in my garage. It eats the peanut butter off the set mouse trap and rat traps I put in there for it. Digssting, parasite carrying filthy animals. I should just get a cat.
	11:01am northguineahills: @ranjit: Cool, Ed Bear is playing, he's an old friend of mine. I'd tell my wife to go, but she got back from Mexico at 3am, so, she'll probably sleep after work.
	11:01am Listener Robert: Webhamster, is that Route 9W in the background of the newspaper photo? Just trying to orient.
	11:02am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-yeah, its all "White Rose This" and "White Rose That"....like Elliot is her pet robot or something. Or she has time travel abilities. Or claims too. Wait, White Rose is a dude, right? Er um....what is the proper pronoun for White Rose? Isn't he a highly ranked man in the Chinese Gov't?
	11:03am fred: I'm old enough to remember UB40's King from when I had this on LP. It's not often that WFMU premiums and my teenage records overlap
	11:04am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-I'm kinda glad Mr. Robot showed that 5/9 also hurt homeowners who already paid off their mortgage. Kinda like better the devil you know than the one you don't know when it comes to E Corp. E Corp reminds me of Bank of America.
	11:05am Listener Robert: Last night commenters were all about cursing up a storm (which would be great for Meghan) on the air when the FCC's off. But it's not like the FCC listens live. They take complaints from listeners later.
	11:06am Stephanie: What a great reading! Thanks for playing it, Trouble. I heard that Zadie Smith used to sing jazzy lounge music when she was younger.
	11:07am Trouble: www.newyorker.com...
	11:07am Adrian in London: @Melinda Jonathan Ames was doing a reading in London with Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, who wrote Swan Song (which is terrific). He was really funny in the reading; my wife has read two of his books and was laughing so much. Bored to Death is really sweet, it reminds me of Bakersfield PD, a great funny police series with Giancarlo Esposito.
	11:07am Passaic River Blues: "Quote Miss Stanwyck." Love that.
	11:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "Her little gang" of dudes= beta orbiters, friend-zoned dudes.
	11:08am adampsyche: nice show today, trubs!
	11:11am esha: listening to zadie's voice is the best pep talk. thanks trouble
	11:11am Terry from NYC: So sweet, love my little dog!
	11:11am Listener Robert: Looking via openstreetmap.org at Kingston in the area the parade was to end at, I see Wall St., Pearl St., John St., Maiden Ln. -- but then, weren't Kingston & Manhattan settled at about the same time?
	11:11am fred: I like (not love) Zadie Smith. I haven't read Swing Time yet, but it's physically in my pile of unread books, so its time will come
	11:14am Peter Wyatt: @Wild Neil -- yeah the WR character was interesting at first but its just over the top how one person has so much power over everyone. This "time travel" or whatever reveal better be damn good, like "wait three seasons to find out" good. :P But yeah, the series lost the punch when it stopped focusing on e-corp
	11:15am Webhamster Henry: @Listener Robert - Kingston is a little later, set up by Stuyvesant as "Wiltwyck", settled around 1654 . Those street names are the English names, not super creative ones.
	11:15am WillCrete: Wonderful listening this morning and thanks for playing the reading of Smith's Lady Day story. She creates voice and rhythm in her writing so wonderfully, so it is a real delight to hear it aloud.
	11:15am Webhamster Henry: I "Occupy Wall Street"
	11:16am northguineahills: Ding!
	11:17am steveo: Dingdug?
	11:18am fred: Tom Johnson! I've seen him walk by my office a few times and got a kick out of that. I also saw him at a punk/hardcore show, but he had obviously got the date wrong. He did stay for the full first set though
	11:18am Webhamster Henry: @Listener Robert the bridge in the photo is indeed part of 9W.
	11:19am Webhamster Henry: The sharp-eyed can see I'm wearing a WFMU fleece scarf in that photo.
	11:20am Listener Robert: Henry, could the streets in lower Manhattan have been named AFTER those in Kingston?
	11:21am βrian: We've belled the cat!
	11:22am Listener Robert: Also, Henry, what does "BSP" stand for? The establishment's Web site under "About" doesn't seem to say. And please don't answer the way the band "DUH" used to answer about what DUH stood for!
	11:24am emily: lovely show
	11:26am Trouble: @stephanie: that would be crazy to see. i know zadie's brother is a comedian.
	11:28am Trouble: @emily: merci. see you soon!
	11:28am northguineahills: @Henry: I never saw the WFMU scarf. I love them, but rarely get a chance to don one down here.
	11:28am northguineahills: Nice one steveo!
	11:28am tadpoles: #Listener Robert...sorry to poke my nose in...Back Stage Productions.
	11:30am steveo: @ngh :)
	11:30am Listener Robert: Tadpoles, I'm not that gullible. How could "DUH" stand for Back Stage Productions? ;-)
	11:33am Andrew Waterloo: I worked for a company that was named with an initialization that no actual meeting for the initialization.
	11:34am tadpoles: #LR...I prefer "Doh!" and that's not the Dept of Health.
	11:34am Webhamster Henry: BSP at this point may just stand for BSP, the way KFC stands fro KFC and not Kentucky Fried Chicken. BSP is a fun venue, with lots of good acts passing through. WFMU's own Morricone Youth played there back in October.
	11:35am glenn: kiki pau rawks.
	11:37am glenn: i was looking for my scarf yesterday.
	11:37am tadpoles: There seems to be a bigger company called Backstage Productions which may be the reason why BSP has dropped that moniker, but my kids did Youth theatre there back in the day and that's what the name was then...morphing into more of a club later.
	11:37am Peter Wyatt: Does anyone else feel that 2019 is going to be a great year overall? As in we might make progress to avert climate chaos and things will turn relatively more peaceful? Something seemed different on Jan. 1st.
	11:39am Trouble: hoping so @ peter wyatt
	11:39am Listener Robert: I just looked at the Wikipedia entry for DUH, and I was pretty sure the one I remembered was from the 1980s, being interviewed on Pat Duncan's show, or maybe Frank O'Toole's, where when they were asked, "What does `DUH' stand for?" they'd answer, "Mostly, it's political. We stand for...." etc. So not this ad hoc thing from 1990. But then, my memory could be way off.
	11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy Perihelion Day (occurred at 12:19 AM EST / 5:19 AM GMT).
	11:45am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-watch, all the characters are just those remembered by Elliot (remember this is a memory play, right?) and they are all just attending his funeral. Heh! Just kidding.
	11:46am Trouble: www.theguardian.com...
	11:47am Peter Wyatt: @Wild Neil --- hahah, it will probably end up being something like that.
	11:48am The Oscar: There's a great clip of the Honeycombs on Youtube, from one of those odd "Here's a bunch of bands on a soundstage" films from the '60s. I caught it on TCM a few years ago, and their performance made my jaw drop (despite the... unfortunate presence of Jimmy Savile introducing).
	11:48am The Oscar: Link: youtu.be...
	11:50am Rich in Washington: Was just talking about ToTPs the other day with someone and we wondered if they could just CGI Savile out with some digitally simulated presenter.
	11:50am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @PW-I guess its just about enjoying the ride. The characters and dialog are pretty good. The ideas are really pretty amazing actually.
	11:52am northguineahills: @Ken: Is that tomorrow or today?
	11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Looks to be today (1/3): www.timeanddate.com...
	11:54am tadpoles: #The Oscar...film was called "Pop Gear"...and yes..agree about the moronic Jimmy Saville.
	11:56am Trouble: see you next week! thanks for sitting in today!
	11:57am melinda: @Peter I hope so.
	11:57am tadpoles: Thanks for spinning Trouble...Cheers.
	11:57am Webhamster Henry: BTW -- Thanks Guido for dropping so many goodies on the WFMU DJs!
	11:57am northguineahills: abrigado, Trouble!
	11:58am The Oscar: @tadpoles That's it! Even after the wave of sickly revelations about men in show-biz, the stuff Savile did stands out as really, singularly horrific.
	11:59am cluebucket: wonderful show it was a delight

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 3, 2019

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