WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from May 14, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:00am p20: Good morning Trouble and all listeners! Looking forward to this show.
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Good morning, Trouble and all the Troubled. Another clear Thursday in NYC.
	9:01am Lixiviated Life: I am so ready for trouble today.
	9:02am Rick Pickle: I’m so ready for this music today
	9:02am p20: I bought this cassette (From Brussels With Love) when I was a kid because I thought it had some connection to Joy Division (via Factory Records, Durutti Column, etc). Man was I disappointed when I played it. But I love it now.
	9:03am Trouble: good morning troubled world. sun shining is a good thing
	9:03am melinda: hi everyone!
	9:03am StringOFperils: This is about how I feel right now...
	9:04am p20: Thunderstorms and rain in Chicago. But I put a bunch of flowers in the ground yesterday, so I'm glad for the rain.
	9:04am adam: hey!!!
	9:04am adam: nice humid cool day in detroit
	9:05am StringOFperils: @p20...That must be the weather system heading my way. Probably a rainy afternoon ahead.
	9:05am David in London: Hello Troubloids. Handy, p20, Melinda. And greetings Trouble.
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Hey, David. How does the future look? Should we proceed?
	9:06am Phillippe Bastille: Hey trouble and the mostly troubled
	9:07am Phillippe Bastille: hey handy, DiL, melinda
	9:08am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	9:08am nolikeposts: <3
	9:08am David in London: The future is amazing Handy, dive on in! I actually went to the bank and the chemist today (with my personal jet pack, natch...) and it felt almost like ‘normal ‘.
	9:08am Priscilla: Did anyone else hear the Stevie Wonder birthday marathon on Instagram Live yesterday?
	9:09am Irene Trudel: Hi Trouble & friends! Thanks as always for the soothing morning sounds.
	9:09am David in London: Hi Phillippe. How are things in Chateau Bastille?
	9:10am Handy Haversack: Phillippe, how goes? I was going to get out on the creek for a bit today but realized I have too much work piled up to take three hours off in the middle of the day.
	9:10am Itzall Tumánnio: Good morning, Trouble & the gang! I'm buckled in for another day of remote working with WFMU!
	9:11am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble and listeners. I hope everyone is safe and well.
	9:13am Peter from Dover NJ: Good morning, Trouble and troubled souls.
	9:13am Trouble: hello adrian, has London started to re-open?
	9:14am Pale Son: Morning, all! Loving the relaxing yet energizing mix so far.
	9:15am Peter from Dover NJ: Liking Midori Takada. Here we go, more $$ thrown at Bandcamp!
	9:16am Phillippe Bastille: @handy @DiL Looking up here. Weather's nice today, most of the bird gang out front stopped by for a fishy treat while I had my coffee, finally have a full slate of work. Given the state of much of the world, it's pretty darn good.
	9:19am Adrian in London: @Trouble The latest "advice" is that if you can work from home you should, but if you can't you should go back to work, which means that scaffolders and builders are basically being forced to work in close proximity to each other, and poorer people who can't work from home, are being forced to take buses, trains and the Tube to get to work. That's only in England; Wales, Scotland and NI have, rightly, maintained the stricter distancing guidelines, but Scotland and Wales at least are not ruled by right-wing imbeciles. Basically, we're an island, a place that can be sealed off, and we've got the highest number of fatalities in Europe. We still aren't quarantining people who are flying in every day. It's ridiculous.
	9:22am Arlene: G'morning Trouble!
	9:25am ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Another day,listening,Bed-Stuy here.Good vibes.Thanks much.
	9:26am Dances with Moomins: Good morning Trouble & the troubled moderns of the world. The modern world sounds wonderful.
	9:28am WO Town Wick: This Priscilla Ermel is great. Love the piano and plucking combo. Sorry Adrian in London. We feel for you. We're shoulder-to-shoulder with you (again) on the right-wing imbecile rulers.
	9:29am Malcolm: goodmorningdeejandlisteners
	9:30am Snoochienucci: goooood morning Trouble and all other radio peeps
	9:30am StringOFperils: @Adrian...that's been the lay of the land for lowest income people throughout the entire Covid period. It's being referred to in global press as contemporary slavery. The health management crisis inherent in that points to world lunacy, while the bleak social reality of indentured wage slavery, alive and well, points to something that is worse than crazy, and far less healthy in the long run. At least we work to contain a virus. That we work to maintain the other thing is deeply disturbing.
	9:33am Threemoons: Gooood morning Trouble, modern Troublemakers. Been a wild ride this week work-wise. Been on work email since 8:30 AM and it's been flying so fast and furious that I haven't gotten dressed yet. Jumped into the shower for a hot minute and have been sitting here nekkid answering work emails...gotta get dressed...
	9:34am ami ad: Capitalism Only Values It's Dollars 19.
	9:34am Pale Son: @Adrian So crazy to let people die for the sake of the economy when an economy's only raison d'être is to make life as good as possible for the people within it.
	9:34am Threemoons: @Adrian stay safe. I'm in the center of the epicenter in Queens, NYC and it's scary...
	9:35am Trouble: good morning arlene!
	9:35am StringOFperils: Dan Patrick of Texas on State Reopening: ‘There Are More Important Things Than Living’
	9:36am Pale Son: @String Did he read that on a suicide note somewhere?
	9:36am Trouble: good morning dances with moomins! thank you for the lovely prints!
	9:37am Dances with Moomins: Glad you got them!
	9:39am melinda: @Adrian nuts that your island didn't take advantage of its geography. I hear New Zealand managed pretty well.
	9:39am StringOFperils: @PaleSon...makes me wonder if he's done much reading at all, outside of the 'good book', which he can probably cite, chapter and verse, while whipping other simple folk into a fwenzy.
	9:39am p20: @Pale Sun: I wish the purpose of the economy were to make life good for people. That's sort of the socialist ideal. Under capitalism, the purpose of the economy is to generate more capital - that's all.
	9:41am Dances with Moomins: the lady is a genius
	9:41am Adrian in London: Thanks, @threemoons. I’m fine, thanks. I can work from home and can afford to get groceries and treats delivered to my house. I’m very aware how fortunate I am.
	9:41am kpx: Bonjour trouble &. Tweeting Tweety Birds.
	9:42am Itzall Tumánnio: Hi Trouble, where can I find more information about your featured artist? I've looked for Raz Dizzy online with no results.
	9:42am Handy Haversack: I have to join a meeting in a few. Back for the last hour, I hope. Thanks, Trouble.
	9:42am StringOFperils: Yeah, p20, it's a dilemma. "doing better' and 'getting ahead' seems, intrinsically, to mean that someone else has to be doing worse, and someone else has to be getting behind.
	9:43am Pale Son: @p20 In theory that's true of any economy, even a capitalist one, whose advantages are quick distribution and motivation of production. Production of capital is not itself a non-circular reason for an economy. But that's easily forgotten when self-interest is the prime motivator and growth becomes all-important.
	9:43am p20: Recommended reading: 4 possible futures after Coronavirus: (Barbarism, State Capitalism, State Socialism, Mutual Aid). The key question is really "What is the economy for?" It's a great article and very worth your time theconversation.com...
	9:44am melinda: I heard a very interesting interview with the author of a book about the Spanish Flu epidemic. I didn't know that government misinformation about the disease was such a prominent factor in that epidemic, but it's hardly surprising.
	9:45am Pale Son: Ooh, that looks good, @p20, thanks!
	9:45am p20: @Pale Sun: I can't quite parse "Production of capital is not itself a non-circular reason for an economy." But I claim that in capitalism, production of capital is the only measure of success and therefore the only "purpose". Not going to argue here, my ideas are better stated in that article
	9:47am Trouble: @itzall...its ras dizzy, should be lots available.
	9:48am melinda: @p20 that looks interesting, thanks for sharing. @Pale Son I think circular vs. extractive is a better framing than socialist vs. capitalist.
	9:48am p20: itzall: try www.outsiderartfair.com...
	9:50am p20: for folks who'd rather listen than read, there's a podcast version of Four Futures here (but listen to it AFTER Trouble's show, this is too good to miss!) shows.acast.com...
	9:51am Adrian in London: @melinda NZ is governed by someone with compassion and intelligence, rather than self-interest and cruel indifference, and that's the difference.
	9:51am Webhamster Henry: Hi Modernaires ! A little microtonal bonanging here.
	9:51am Trouble: interesting read about slow growth www.newyorker.com...
	9:53am p20: 100% on board with the no-growth/slow-growth movement. Also with the micronal bonang movement!
	9:53am Webhamster Henry: Hmm! they are literally cowbells!
	9:54am Pale Son: Nice, thanks, @Trouble! Gonna have some good reading material at lunchtime.
	9:55am Itzall Tumánnio: Thanks Trouble, it may be that I was one letter off on the spelling of his name. Oh man, I love Dusty Springfield! Thanks.
	9:56am Jesse Dorris: Ahhhhhh this is the loveliest Dusty Springfield song.
	9:56am melinda: @Adrian yes, leadership is key. @Trouble thanks for the link. No-growth is a tough sell but I don't see how we have any other choice, really. Economic orthodoxy must shift.
	9:57am Cynthia: That's pretty! (Dusty)
	9:57am p20: "To the ramparts! Economic orthodoxy must shift!"
	9:58am StringOFperils: @p20...I can't agree that it's the only measure of success. Capitalism is THE world religion. It's everything, everywhere. Socialism, as I know it, is just a test department within it. Even science is subservient to it. And unless there is some cataclysm, capitalism will continue to evolve, and to define us. BUT, as with other religions, aside from pure orthodoxy, your place within it is determined by you alone. Individuals will and can negate, and therefore redefine, capitalism, hopefully for the good of ALL, but not necessarily. I expect, first, that its great success will ultimately implode, and that those with the most will pursue those with the least, almost cannibalistically, until they are themselves destroyed. Whatever pays will continue to rule. I don't like it, but I recognize it. It's horrifying. It's sublime.
	9:58am Pale Son: Agreed! Radically!
	9:58am Rev. Turnip Druid: anybody know a chiropractor that specializes in paradigm shifts?
	9:58am Christopher Scott Clabbers: Good morning Trouble. well, looks like another Thursday morning painting the house to you here in sunny Philadelphia! thank you for the awesome soundtrack as usual!
	9:58am Rev. Turnip Druid: also: hello.
	9:58am p20: (It's a better rallying cry than "We want to stiffly dance!")
	9:59am melinda: I dug the micronal bonang too. All my quarantine viewing of orphan orangutan videos has made me want to visit Indonesia now.
	9:59am Pale Son: Capitalism is over! If you want it.
	9:59am Malcolm: Dusty in Memphis, I must've listened to that album 100+ times around 2004-2005, after I bought a remastered copy on CD
	10:00am Magda: I may. This practitioner also specializes in the science of Metaphysical Diseases.
	10:00am stone cloud: sheep bells actually
	10:01am Laurie: I still enjoy my page a day cat calendar
	10:01am melinda: @p20 haha
	10:02am hey buddy: Dang that’s bird is cranking those chips out!
	10:02am ami ad: National Capitalism is Not the Answer
	10:02am p20: @StringOfPerils: Under pure capitalism, the explicit goal is to accumulate more capital. That's all there is to it. Read Marx, Piketty, etc. Capitalism is actually working very well right now, for the capitalists. Not going to argue here any more, don't want to get annoying.
	10:03am David in London: Hello RevTD.
	10:04am meredith: morning all from Carrboro, NC. Happy my weekly Thursday zoom was only 30 minutes. Nice to hear Trouble <3
	10:04am βrian: That is surprising. Only 70.
	10:04am queems: i just walked in and i have to walk out again to cut my grass but i'm sorry to have missed this conversation
	10:04am Dances with Moomins: yes Stevie
	10:04am iiibeat: Plutocratic Communism. Same as Crony Capitalism.
	10:04am The Oscar: Mornin'! Got to see Capital in the 21st Century a couple of weeks ago, and I agree-- I was bracing for a dispiriting watch, but they make it somehow palatable. If I may plug, you can read my review here! bostonhassle.com...
	10:05am Laurie: I miss cat's cradle. And frank.
	10:05am βrian: @queems: We're working on getting rid of the grass. If only we could get thyme to take over.
	10:06am p20: Thanks Trouble, I'm gonna watch "Capital" tonight. The Noam Chomsky film "Manufacturing Consent" from a few years (decades) back is also very good
	10:06am Timstro: Oregano takes over my garden beds pretty well
	10:06am queems: @brian i would get rid of my grass immediately if i could. my neighbors all have professional landscapers and my house looks like trash by comparison because i don't. suburban yard culture is the worst
	10:07am p20: "Little" Stevie Wonder was SO YOUNG when he started. First top 100 hit at 13.
	10:08am prudy: good morning trouble...prescient song that Wonder tune...
	10:09am austin: wonderful tunes as always, trouble!
	10:09am βrian: Our vegetable garden takes up a good portion in the front. Strollers often give us compliments. (And we don't even pay them.)
	10:09am austin: love that dusty track
	10:10am Magda: So sublty New or even No Wave
	10:10am Priscilla: Just can't get enough Stevie
	10:10am melinda: @queems I hear you. My neighborhood is a mix of yard styles. I would go full-permaculture yard if I knew I was going to stay where I am but I have fantasies about moving away.
	10:10am Trouble: thanks for the reminder @p20: my son needs to see that film, will seek it out.
	10:10am queems: a family with young kids walked by recently and one of them was like MOM LOOK AT ALL THE WEEDS because i have dandelions in the grass. and i got to watch the parents squirm and be like uhhh yeah aren't they nice? HA seriously, what kid cares about weeds
	10:10am StringOFperils: @p20...I know Marx wrote about economics in this way. He was an economist, and his map of what he saw remains a compelling and cogent way of describing the workings of the modern world, which was for him a very new world. He was a long time ago. His views describe the late 19th century, but his idea of EXCHANGE/VALUE is exactly what exists today. Even when discussing art, the first thing that someone will say is,"How much did it cost?" when determining for themselves what it is worth. And a human being is converted to a measured amount of 'work-potential', i.e. there are no people. He was a prescient guy.
	10:11am wild neil peace all: I have a bumper crop of dandelions. My neighbors who use chem lawn hate it!
	10:11am Malcolm: another very nostalgic song for me!
	10:11am meredith: favorite Stevie song... If there is such a thing
	10:12am Webhamster Henry: Stevie likes playing the Harpejji these days: that's an electric chromatic zither you play with hammer-ons. www.marcodi.com
	10:12am queems: @melinda i'm definitely considering other options than grass. i live on a corner lot, so i have space to do something more passive if i can figure out what to do
	10:13am Listener Gregory: Science has so far utterly failed to explain Stevie Wonder's songwriting skill.
	10:14am βrian: Some folks spray Round-Up on their dandelions, then buy fresh dandelion greens at the market.
	10:14am Priscilla: @ListenerGregory: Truly he is amazing
	10:14am wild neil: a horticulturist I know suggests a giant garden instead if a lawn.
	10:15am tallbuildings: new chicano batman is great news!
	10:15am Magda: That makes sense. No sits on anyone's lawn. Might as well attract natural bird species.
	10:15am perpetually furious: My parakeets love Trouble’s show. Bird power!
	10:16am Earth Walker: P20 yeah Noam Chomsky’s the best he speaks the truth Met a friend of his in Athens once he had just visited a must meet person
	10:17am Ken From Hyde Park: @queems - What's your town's zoning board position on you running a corner-lot cannabis farm?
	10:17am StringOFperils: This might be my fave Stevie Wonder song....this album, Innervisions, whew....
	10:17am Peter from Dover NJ: Trouble, I think we're living in a kleptocratic state at present. Unsure we'll get back to a fairer society. Brilliant show today. Sadly I have to log out to argue with the insurance company.
	10:18am Gaylord Fields: Yesss! My favorite Stevie song, especially when it modulates up to the skies at the end!
	10:18am meredith: ok, well maybe this is my favorite Stevie song... :)
	10:18am Trouble: thanks @ peter. insurance companies;ugh
	10:19am waters7: Wait wait: Stevie's not dead, right? I'm having a panic attack, Trouble. This is my favorite mood changer (other than My Cherie Amour)
	10:19am Dave from Chicago: Musical genius at work....
	10:19am Trouble: hola @gaylord!
	10:19am concerned: nawson, 70th bday jam
	10:19am waters7: I've been in and around radio--but haven't listened to every bit. Are you just playing him cuz you love him?
	10:19am Trouble: stevie wonder turned 70 yesterday
	10:20am Sue: Happy Birthday Stevie!
	10:20am βrian: @Peter from Dover NJ: Power to you. Eat your buckwheat.
	10:20am waters7: Hallelujah!
	10:20am Listener Gregory: Also disturbing to think of how many instruments he played on his records.
	10:20am Earth Walker: Hi Queems Dandelion are actually very good for the health
	10:21am Gaylord Fields: @Trouble: Thank you once again for being such a captivating tour guide/art docent!
	10:21am waters7: I can sit back and enjoy the splendor.
	10:21am kpx: Everyone's description of capitalism is dead on.but I think a ultimate description would be to say that it's a pyramid scheme. as anyone knows its design so that the money flows up from the majority of people who are the poorest up to the peak to the robber barons. of who do not share the wealth, but horde it. in that way there will never be equal economic development for all.
	10:23am Pale Son: Also has the future-magic-money illusion of a pyramid scheme via interest.
	10:24am Fernando P: Hi Trouble! Greetings from the Mantiqueira Mountains. Great selection you got for us today. Thanks!
	10:25am Crudbringer: ja das ist radiofunken
	10:25am teod: ich will tanzen
	10:26am Webhamster Henry: Gary on the Drummer Stream's Bodega Pop Live did an all Kraftwerk covers/remixes show last night : wfmu.org...
	10:26am Frank's Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=6gkqGCnK-nw&feature=emb_logo
	10:26am Ike: Great Kraftwerk song or greatest Kraftwerk song?
	10:26am David in London: Hey Earth Walker and the Bringer of Crud.
	10:27am p20: Capitalism is a well-defined term: "An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit". And profit means "accumulation of more capital", not "making people's lives better", or "caring for the environment", or anything like that.
	10:27am p20: And now it's time to stiffly dance!!
	10:27am Listener Gregory: Touch my monkey.
	10:28am teod: also werde ich tanzen
	10:28am Itzall Tumánnio: Ike, re; greatest Kraftwerk song- YES.
	10:29am p20: We've all grown up and lived under this rotten system for so long it's hard for most people to imagine anything different. Like fish in water.
	10:29am kpx: I once try to make dandy lion wine. I must have done something wrong I didn't even so much as get a buzz from it.
	10:29am StringOFperils: I think of Capitalism as a less defined term, a murky and amorphous concept. 'One ring to bind them all.' A bit of very dangerous magic. It is defined as much by what one chooses to do with it. In that way it is a mirror.
	10:30am Earth Walker: I just saw learned the very top of the pyramid is the 1% the middle is the police to control us at the very bottom of the pyramid Get up Stand up get wild and in the streets
	10:30am p20: @StringOfPerils: It's a perfectly well defined term and people have written 900 pages books about it. But I fear I'm getting tedious.
	10:30am Crudbringer: @Ike Maybe "most Kraftwerk song", I have a major thing for Ruckzuck (at least the first half).
	10:31am Crudbringer: Capitalism means that some people, instead of working for a living, get to just own things for a living.
	10:31am Crudbringer: (see also the term "earned income" on your tax return, and consider the force of the first word in that phrase.)
	10:32am RobinSays: Love your show Trouble! (Robin who used to live in Hoboken here)Thanx for playing Blossom Dearie and Kraftwerk. Your show is the perfect blend of enlightenment and education.
	10:32am StringOFperils: @p20. Not at all. Nothing tedious about exploring ideas.
	10:32am p20: It's hard to talk about anything if we can't even agree on definitions of basic words. I've said my piece, moving on now.
	10:34am chris_in_space: Bobbi Humphrey is steppin' into tomorrow
	10:34am StringOFperils: It IS hard indeed. VERY hard. Thus our dilemma.
	10:35am Trouble: robinsays! you are are a frequently thought of saint in our house, still using the sewing machine i bought from you. just sewed and gave away #84 face masks...i use that machine alllll the time
	10:35am Crudbringer: hey David how is London, is the Capitalism there very bad today?
	10:36am Crudbringer: we have some bad Capitalism going on here in the mountain west, and no mistake.
	10:36am StringOFperils: And Bobby Humphrey deserves more acclaim IMO. I love his stuff. Harlem River Drive. Sweet.
	10:36am Earth Walker: Also media owned by the corporate scum serve their own interests not the people’s
	10:37am Crudbringer: I think part of it is that some politically active folks are confused about the "capital" part, because they Capitalize the wrong Words in their Freedom Sentences.
	10:37am Jeffrey Davison: Good day Trouble and the FMU family. Settling in for the always soulful sounds of Trouble.
	10:37am Listener Gregory: Duke Ellington in France?
	10:37am Trouble: i am happy to say that bobbie humphrey is a woman
	10:37am Trouble: bonjour jeffrey!
	10:38am RobinSays: Oh how nice! I wish all the best to you and your family. Like I said I love your show. Whenever I listen I'm entertained and I learn so much. Cheers!
	10:39am p20: You do truly put on a great show, Trouble. I've been listening to you for years.
	10:39am TDK60: Morning. Slept in, thanks to being up late, awoken by drag racers in my neighborhood.
	10:39am David in London: Crudbringer, I’m using £50 notes to light my Cohibas, so I’m not complaining.
	10:41am melinda: Socialism and capitalism both have lots of words written about them but in the popular imagination they mean different things to different people and are unlikely to shed their historical and cultural baggage as terms of discussion.
	10:41am Crudbringer: That "E" symbol for the Euro looks weird in this font, like it's melting or something.
	10:42am Trouble: thanks@robinsays and @p20!
	10:42am StringOFperils: @Trouble....Wow!! I stand corrected. I have been listening to that stuff for years, without the cult-of-personality stuff I guess, and assumed that Bobbie is female. I don't possess the stuff, I just listen. Thanks for dragging me into the light!!
	10:42am StringOFperils: **assumed the reverse actually....that she was a guy...oh vey...more coffee perhaps..
	10:43am StringOFperils: @melinda....couldn't agree more. What a quagmire.
	10:44am StringOFperils: Proliferation of terms renders them meaningless.
	10:49am TDK60: Love that organ/etc. Might've pleased Bach?
	10:49am Pale Son: @p20 I totally understand where you're coming from about capitalism and agree that the goal within it is purely self-interested. I just want to clarify my point earlier about circularity: I was merely saying that the goal of capital accumulation of capital can't count as a reason for an economic system, because that would be circular logic. What is the goal in Monopoly? To make everyone else broke, thereby winning the game. What is the reason for inventing Monopoly in the first place? To have fun. The reason for any economic system is to maximize quality of life for the people within it, but different systems have different ways of doing that, some less egalitarian than others. And capitalism, as you're pointing out and I agree, is based on some pretty unaltruistic principles.
	10:50am David in London: Hey TDK.
	10:51am UncleMarty: The true opponent of Capitalism is not Communism, it's Democracy. Capitalism leads to the extreme concentration of power (wealth) in the hands of the few (.01%), democracy leads to decentralization and diversification of power.
	10:51am p20: @PaleSon: I hear you. But I think that the circular logic you describe is actually the essence of capitalism.
	10:53am Itzall Tumánnio: Still holding out on buying this one from the great Prince. No doubt that I would love it but... no hurry.
	10:53am Pale Son: @p20 Possibly, yeah. I think it's pretty misguided to try and make something that works well for everyone out of the fundamental concept of self-interest.
	10:53am Threemoons: @p20 just hopping back in, thank you for article linky!
	10:53am TDK60: Good morning David in London. Still coming awake with the tea here; too muddled for sociology yet, hee...
	10:54am Chud: I love the trance-y synths on this Prince track!
	10:54am Crudbringer: (The original point of Monopoly, as I understand it, was to articulate the inequalities baked into rentierism.)
	10:54am Chud: It reminds me of a R&B version of Drankenstein
	10:55am kpx: no one mind could never come to a whole collective agreement to another's summed up ideology. although they can agree on the certain points and keynotes.
	10:55am Pale Son: @Crudbringer Ha ha, that's true, I've heard that! Bad example, maybe. :)
	10:56am heinseng: Re album graphics: Who had 3rd lens for 3rd eye first: Prince or David Hammons?
	10:56am David in London: TDK, fancy popping round later to discuss Baudrillard..? Nah. Come round for tea and Miles Davis instead.
	10:56am TIMPANDA: Hi Trouble, thank you for the morning jams so far!
	10:57am UncleMarty: BTW, my comment is not about economics, it is about politics. Power corrupts. Power diversified stings, power centralized kills.
	10:57am Crudbringer: That's just an _imitation_ of a Baudrillard discussion...
	10:58am Trouble: you are very welcome@TIMPANDA. thanks for tuning in
	10:59am PNX: Lots of sounds that sound exactly like my cats in today's show
	10:59am WillCrete: Thanks Trouble for the set this morning. Totally dug how Prince ended his guitar solo on that last tune; he is a total master of always leaving a listener wanting more.
	10:59am Malcolm: is any one else's anxiety through the roof today
	10:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble & all!
	10:59am RobinSays: Pshaw to politics -- let's dance!
	11:00am StringOFperils: Judging by this chat window, I'd say yes, anxiety is up 36 points.
	11:00am Priscilla: @Malcolm: listen to some Stevie Wonder after Trouble's show
	11:03am Crudbringer: @Malcom always: teespring.com...
	11:03am Pale Son: @Malcolm Yes! Sorry to inflict it on anyone else.
	11:04am kpx: Dance!, why not. maybe it will help reduce the anxiety.
	11:05am RobinSays: @kpx I agree. A good dance craze for social distancing might lift everyone's spirits.
	11:05am TDK60: Sure David, we could pop on some Miles and discuss Lyotard.
	11:07am TDK60: Happy b.day Stevie W!
	11:08am Handy Haversack: Made it back. Trying to decide if it's warm enough to take the laptop outside for the rest of the day ...
	11:11am kpx: @Robinsays, that and a doobie.
	11:11am TIMPANDA: @Macolm yes, somethings up today. Venus just went into a retrograde period on Tuesday, which may or maynot be affecting my additional internal strife. He's an astrology report if anyone is into that sorta thing cosmicintelligenceagency.com...
	11:11am StringOFperils: Everyone should go outside and breathe fresh air. Watch the little birds. Hear the wind. That's real. Don't reduce the world exclusively to stultifying interpretations; you'll die inside that airless glass bell. The real world was here first, and you're part of that. Let the abstractions go, even if only for a while.
	11:14am Trouble: good advice@stringOFperils
	11:14am Itzall Tumánnio: Stringie, I planted a crop of purple Bokchoy outside and love watching it come up every day. Get dirty!
	11:14am Laura in Peekskill: What a bunch of smarty-pantses you all are!
	11:14am thedunkel: GM Trouble! GM all! @Trouble - what was the film you watched on kanopy?
	11:16am steveL: No one vibes like the French.
	11:16am dave wuz here: i can't unnerstand a word of this feller
	11:17am sugarwolf: Hello! The Stevie Wonder performance of Superstition on Sesame Street is amazing. I want to dance like the kids in the background.
	11:17am Hughie Considine: As a kid I used to find "Superstition" kind of scary sounding.
	11:17am melinda: @String yes! I'm about to go outside for a walk, lovely day here.
	11:19am melinda: @Hughie me too. First heard it on Sesame Street and I liked it but it was intense.
	11:19am bill w: enjoying the soundz from bed
	11:21am Trouble: @thedunkel: le samourai by melville, he has several others on Kanopy, all fantastic!
	11:22am kpx: @Davewuz, you'll just have to pardon his French.
	11:23am KbaZr: Thanks Trouble for those sweet tunes!!
	11:24am StringOFperils: @melinda..enjoy your walk!
	11:24am Trouble: hello @bill w! i hope you are feeling fine and just choosing to exercise your right to hang in bed
	11:25am RobinSays: Trouble, if I send you some money could you make me a couple of face masks?
	11:26am melinda: Thanks Trub for the tunes and thanks everyone for the insightful chat!
	11:27am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and acolytes.
	11:28am Mr. Pumpy: Hello Trouble and all. Great show! Cool article on Space Opera: dangerousminds.net...
	11:30am kpx: I'll have to be going outside for other reasons, but still will be enjoying the fresh air and sunshine just the same. and to malignant, enjoy your walk. she knows what I meant by that.
	11:30am Trouble: @robinsays: i am giving them away: asking people to donate to a food pantry or covid related charity. email me and i can figure it out with you
	11:32am Carmichael: Dem boids is sweet-soundin' dere.
	11:32am RobinSays: Ok Trouble will do. Are you trouble@wfmu.org?
	11:34am sugarwolf: Even when we do get the same books as the UK most of the time they look better!
	11:34am Itzall Tumánnio: Dang. Been distracted more than usual with work- Trouble, could you please just stay here for a few more hours?... yeah?
	11:34am dave wuz here: whats the bus driving novel title?
	11:34am Trouble: yes @robinsays
	11:34am SHAGALOV: I just join show. Morning Trouble Morning everybody!
	11:35am Trouble: maintenance of headway by magnus mills
	11:35am dave wuz here: merci
	11:36am Trouble: good morning@ shagalov
	11:36am David in London: We’re hiding them from you Trouble.
	11:37am Trouble: i thought so @ david in london
	11:37am Handy Haversack: Outside with the bird calls now. Robin up the cottonwood. The usual sparrow gang in the yard. I tried a new seed, and they all seem to hate it -- completely ignoring the sunflower kernels. I guess I will have to go back to the other -- and get more!
	11:38am steveo: --oooh--
	11:39am Listener Gregory: Trouble, there is no way we can read those British books, with their "lorries" and "in hospital"s.
	11:39am βrian: The red bud is near full bloom and the wood poppies are elated. California poppies are only a carpet of green fur so far.
	11:40am Mr. Pumpy: @Listener Gregory, not even when you are on holiday?
	11:40am βrian: That Lorrie is one sturdy woman. Don't you love her bonnet?
	11:41am Jeezuseffinchrist: I love this song. this is the song I played for my last child when she was born
	11:41am steveo: i'm reading a book by a british author -- got surprised by "aetiology" yesterday :)
	11:41am Snoochienucci: This is my all time favorite Stevie song! I popped this one on one day, and my friend starting complaining... i had to seriously consider our friendship hahaha
	11:42am Trouble: there is a fair amount of discussion when i am reading a british book ( which is often) asking the family what the words mean... fun times
	11:42am Handy Haversack: Did it beatle your brow, @steveo?
	11:42am Hughie Considine: This is one of the greatest. Stevie's vocals at the end are so off-the-charts, like a musical feat that is also an athletic feat.
	11:43am βrian: @Jeezuseffinchrist: That girl?
	11:43am steveo: @handy- yeah, yeah, yeah
	11:43am Snoochienucci: @Hughie i love his vocals at the end. It took me a while to realize those deep vocals are also his!
	11:43am steveL: Wonderful Stevie track. One of my favorites! Great show, Trouble!
	11:43am Handy Haversack: I just read a Canadian novel!
	11:43am Snoochienucci: this song is just perfect
	11:44am Snoochienucci: <3
	11:44am Jeezuseffinchrist: @Brian, sorry? you mean was it a girl? Yes, and it's a tough story, but she was adopted by a wonderful family, and is doing well. This will forever be my song to her
	11:44am StringOFperils: @ Handy...Oh no, not that!
	11:44am Pale Son: Totally dancing in my kitchen.
	11:44am steveL: Preach!
	11:45am βrian: Fancy that! I'm becoming a dad next Monday.
	11:45am Listener Gregory: @Trouble and @Mr Pumpy, there is a good blog on differences between British and American English by a linguist: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com. You can look up specific words and expressions there.
	11:45am Jeezuseffinchrist: Oh wow, congrats!!!
	11:45am steveL: Blessings, Brian!
	11:45am PMD: Morning!
	11:45am Adrian in London: I've just read a Dutch novel – The Discomfort of Evening (amazing if unsettling/disturbing) – and am now reading an American one – Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones – and a British one – On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming.
	11:45am Handy Haversack: Torontotally, @StringOFPerils.
	11:46am PMD: @Trouble what pattern do you use for facemasks?
	11:46am PMD: @Brian congrats!
	11:46am StringOFperils: @Brian...fantastic! Al the best!! @Handy...ha ha ha. Hope it represented us well.
	11:46am Listener Gregory: Interesting that he named the song "as" instead of the obvious "always."
	11:47am prudy: trouble, thanks for the Wonder extravaganza!
	11:47am MKT, Inwood: Love this song, but it freaked me out as a kid. Definitely a vein of the surreal running through it.
	11:47am Hughie Considine: I've always thought "As" was a curious choice too, @Listener Gregory
	11:48am Kat in Chicago: wow, I'd forgotten what a magnificent jam that is.
	11:48am TDK60: That "Key of Life" is the best album of '76, also one of the best of the '70s. Just my opinion of course.
	11:49am Snoochienucci: @Listener Gregory my speculation is that its suppose to put emphasis on all the things he comments on that love relates to "as". And the oneness of everything in the world type of thing. if that makes any sense
	11:49am Ken From Hyde Park: @βrian - Very nice. I'm sure you'll always remember what DJ was on at the time of the birth.
	11:49am Snoochienucci: just "as" everything keeps going stevie will "always" be there, so its kind of one in the same
	11:49am Trouble: wonderful @brian! fave face mask sewing pattern: freesewing.org...
	11:49am Priscilla: @Jeezus: Just want to acknowledge your tough story & give you a virtual hug :-(
	11:49am thedunkel: Thank you Trouble!
	11:52am Hughie Considine: "As" is a rarity in other ways; there are very few two-letter song titles. Here's my short list: "If," (the Telly Savalas version) "Go" - Tones on Tail; "Pi' by Kate Bush, "No"" - They Might Be Giants.
	11:52am Handy Haversack: I thought it was excellent, @SOFp. Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohammed. A rip-roaring horrow-adventure story that ALSO did some amazing work decolonizing the Cthulhu mythos and the Lovecraft legacy and the whole enterprise of horror fiction. A pretty intense but deft and humanly characterized exposure of white privilege's usually unquestioned place in fiction. Also, some really cool monsters. Thanks, Trouble! Lovely show today! And thanks to your Skeleton!
	11:52am kpx: merci au revoir, and everyone enjoy a sunshine and tweeting birdies carefree day.
	11:53am Handy Haversack: *horror-adventure^^
	11:54am Threemoons: Thanks for the great and Stevie-Wonder-heavy set, Trouble! Needed those good vibes today.
	11:54am MKT, Inwood: "As" makes me think of time -- and love -- being indivisible and ineffable. It put some big thoughts in my 10-year-old head. Love is endless and time is endless and is there a beginning or an end to time and if there is what happened before and what will happen after agggghhh (but we hadn't invented the head-explody gesture yet.) OK, going to lie down.
	11:54am Jeezuseffinchrist: @Priscilla, thank you, that's really sweet :) it's a happy ending, ultimately, because the parents who adopted her are long time, good friends of mine, and were trying for ten years. I was not in a position to give her what she deserves, and I'm happy to say she's having a wonderful life and we all stay in touch
	11:54am Listener Gregory: BTW, *Mr Pumpy, it took me a while to get your joke, but eventually I did. Good one!
	11:55am Matt Fiveash: "As" is such a heavy song. That part where he sings in what Amanda calls his "monster voice" gets me every time, and I've heard that song hundreds of times... Thanks for playing it! And for playing all the other ones too!
	11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting in this morning, everyone stay well!
	11:55am listener 126464: Thank you Trouble!
	11:55am David in London: Hughie, ten bonus points to you for a mention of Tones on Tail.
	11:56am ami ad: Thanks and Chirps.
	11:56am Snoochienucci: trouble i know i tell ya every week, but awesome stuff yet again! Love it!
	11:56am Hughie Considine: @Cheers, David! We all have a part to play.
	11:56am steveL: Matt F: “The Monster Voice “ is probably what hooked me on Stevie as a kid. Stood out on the radio.
	11:57am Hughie Considine: @Matt, yes, the monster voice - beyond human!
	11:58am Trouble: merci @snoochie
	11:59am Priscilla: Thank you Trouble! Your show is a lifeline. Stay safe!
	11:59am Pale Son: Thanks for the good vibes! Going out in the wide world now.
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Have a good week.
	11:59am StringOFperils: thank you Trouble, you're a gracious host.
	11:59am TDK60: Thanks Trouble!
	12:00pm waters7: Goodbye Trouble. Have a great week.
	12:08pm PMD: Thanks for the pattern!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from May 14, 2020

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May 14, 2020: a thing of great expanse

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
gavin bryars	white's Ss "white's Ss" by "gavin bryars"	from brussels with love v/a					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
james blake	unluck "unluck" by "james blake"	james blake					0:05:25 (Pop-up)
midori takada	crossing "crossing" by "midori takada"	through the looking glass					0:08:19 (Pop-up)
mali music	institut national des arts	mali music					0:16:49 (Pop-up)
Priscilla Ermel	10 corpo do vento	origens da luz	music from memory	1986-94		*	0:20:59 (Pop-up)

blossom dearie	the gentleman is a dope	six classic albums					0:40:18 (Pop-up)
wilma archer	scarecrow "scarecrow" by "wilma archer"	A Western Circular				*	0:44:12 (Pop-up)
tonara	floris "floris" by "tonara"		wollesonic			*	0:50:12 (Pop-up)
dusty springfield	in the land of make believe	dusty in memphis					0:54:33 (Pop-up)
stephane grapelli and his musicians	i never knew	stephane grapelli 1941-43					0:56:30 (Pop-up)

Stevie Wonder	big brother "big brother" by "Stevie Wonder"	talking book			happy birthday stevie 5/ 13/1950		1:04:02 (Pop-up)
mount kimbie	SP12 Beat "SP12 Beat" by "mount kimbie"	love what survives					1:07:00 (Pop-up)
Stevie wonder	knocks me off my feet	songs in the key of life					1:09:42 (Pop-up)
chicano batman	bella "bella" by "chicano batman"	invisible people				*	1:13:03 (Pop-up)
stevie wonder	golden lady "golden lady" by "stevie wonder"	innervisions					1:16:17 (Pop-up)
laurence vanay	Glaciers Interdits	galaxies					1:20:46 (Pop-up)
kraftwerk	home computer "home computer" by "kraftwerk"	computer world					1:24:00 (Pop-up)
bobbi humphrey	my little girl "my little girl" by "bobbi humphrey"	blue break beats					1:29:40 (Pop-up)
pierre dutour	jungle trumpet "jungle trumpet" by "pierre dutour"	french funk experience v/a					1:35:55 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis	on the corner "on the corner" by "Miles Davis"	The Complete On the Corner Sessions					1:38:51 (Pop-up)
serge gainsbourg	ce mortel ennui "ce mortel ennui" by "serge gainsbourg"	intoxicated man					1:44:07 (Pop-up)
eric demarsan	le samourai "le samourai" by "eric demarsan"	ost le samourai/les aventuriers					1:46:57 (Pop-up)
Marie La Foret	a demain my darling	C'est Chic! French Girl Singers of the 1960s					1:48:56 (Pop-up)
prince	this could be us "this could be us" by "prince"	HITNRUN Phase One					1:51:35 (Pop-up)
gudrun gut	apples and pears "apples and pears" by "gudrun gut"	apples, pears and deer in Poland					1:56:10 (Pop-up)

space opera	holy river "holy river" by "space opera"	space opera					2:07:48 (Pop-up)
atarpop 70	attention...l'armee "attention...l'armee" by "atarpop 70"	Mobilsation Generale: Protest & Spirit Jazz from France 1970-76					2:12:11 (Pop-up)
John McKinney & the Premiers	gee i love you	jukebox mambo vol 2 v/a					2:22:04 (Pop-up)
kassin	digerido "digerido" by "kassin"	relax					2:24:30 (Pop-up)
amor de dias	birds "birds" by "amor de dias"	street of the love of days					2:28:27 (Pop-up)

a girl called eddy	fading "fading" by "a girl called eddy"	tears all over town					2:33:45 (Pop-up)
yesterday's new quintet	that girl	stevie					2:35:39 (Pop-up)
stevie wonder	as "as" by "stevie wonder"	songs in the key of life					2:39:59 (Pop-up)
adam oko	legs akimbo "legs akimbo" by "adam oko"	diet of germs				*	2:46:59 (Pop-up)
alla	golpes del sol "golpes del sol" by "alla"	es tiempo					2:50:21 (Pop-up)
alton ellis	wide world "wide world" by "alton ellis"	I'm Still in Love with You featuring hortense ellis					2:56:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00am p20: Good morning Trouble and all listeners! Looking forward to this show.
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Good morning, Trouble and all the Troubled. Another clear Thursday in NYC.
	9:01am Lixiviated Life: I am so ready for trouble today.
	9:02am Rick Pickle: I’m so ready for this music today
	9:02am p20: I bought this cassette (From Brussels With Love) when I was a kid because I thought it had some connection to Joy Division (via Factory Records, Durutti Column, etc). Man was I disappointed when I played it. But I love it now.
	9:03am Trouble: good morning troubled world. sun shining is a good thing
	9:03am melinda: hi everyone!
	9:03am StringOFperils: This is about how I feel right now...
	9:04am p20: Thunderstorms and rain in Chicago. But I put a bunch of flowers in the ground yesterday, so I'm glad for the rain.
	9:04am adam: hey!!!
	9:04am adam: nice humid cool day in detroit
	9:05am StringOFperils: @p20...That must be the weather system heading my way. Probably a rainy afternoon ahead.
	9:05am David in London: Hello Troubloids. Handy, p20, Melinda. And greetings Trouble.
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Hey, David. How does the future look? Should we proceed?
	9:06am Phillippe Bastille: Hey trouble and the mostly troubled
	9:07am Phillippe Bastille: hey handy, DiL, melinda
	9:08am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	9:08am nolikeposts: <3
	9:08am David in London: The future is amazing Handy, dive on in! I actually went to the bank and the chemist today (with my personal jet pack, natch...) and it felt almost like ‘normal ‘.
	9:08am Priscilla: Did anyone else hear the Stevie Wonder birthday marathon on Instagram Live yesterday?
	9:09am Irene Trudel: Hi Trouble & friends! Thanks as always for the soothing morning sounds.
	9:09am David in London: Hi Phillippe. How are things in Chateau Bastille?
	9:10am Handy Haversack: Phillippe, how goes? I was going to get out on the creek for a bit today but realized I have too much work piled up to take three hours off in the middle of the day.
	9:10am Itzall Tumánnio: Good morning, Trouble & the gang! I'm buckled in for another day of remote working with WFMU!
	9:11am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble and listeners. I hope everyone is safe and well.
	9:13am Peter from Dover NJ: Good morning, Trouble and troubled souls.
	9:13am Trouble: hello adrian, has London started to re-open?
	9:14am Pale Son: Morning, all! Loving the relaxing yet energizing mix so far.
	9:15am Peter from Dover NJ: Liking Midori Takada. Here we go, more $$ thrown at Bandcamp!
	9:16am Phillippe Bastille: @handy @DiL Looking up here. Weather's nice today, most of the bird gang out front stopped by for a fishy treat while I had my coffee, finally have a full slate of work. Given the state of much of the world, it's pretty darn good.
	9:19am Adrian in London: @Trouble The latest "advice" is that if you can work from home you should, but if you can't you should go back to work, which means that scaffolders and builders are basically being forced to work in close proximity to each other, and poorer people who can't work from home, are being forced to take buses, trains and the Tube to get to work. That's only in England; Wales, Scotland and NI have, rightly, maintained the stricter distancing guidelines, but Scotland and Wales at least are not ruled by right-wing imbeciles. Basically, we're an island, a place that can be sealed off, and we've got the highest number of fatalities in Europe. We still aren't quarantining people who are flying in every day. It's ridiculous.
	9:22am Arlene: G'morning Trouble!
	9:25am ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Another day,listening,Bed-Stuy here.Good vibes.Thanks much.
	9:26am Dances with Moomins: Good morning Trouble & the troubled moderns of the world. The modern world sounds wonderful.
	9:28am WO Town Wick: This Priscilla Ermel is great. Love the piano and plucking combo. Sorry Adrian in London. We feel for you. We're shoulder-to-shoulder with you (again) on the right-wing imbecile rulers.
	9:29am Malcolm: goodmorningdeejandlisteners
	9:30am Snoochienucci: goooood morning Trouble and all other radio peeps
	9:30am StringOFperils: @Adrian...that's been the lay of the land for lowest income people throughout the entire Covid period. It's being referred to in global press as contemporary slavery. The health management crisis inherent in that points to world lunacy, while the bleak social reality of indentured wage slavery, alive and well, points to something that is worse than crazy, and far less healthy in the long run. At least we work to contain a virus. That we work to maintain the other thing is deeply disturbing.
	9:33am Threemoons: Gooood morning Trouble, modern Troublemakers. Been a wild ride this week work-wise. Been on work email since 8:30 AM and it's been flying so fast and furious that I haven't gotten dressed yet. Jumped into the shower for a hot minute and have been sitting here nekkid answering work emails...gotta get dressed...
	9:34am ami ad: Capitalism Only Values It's Dollars 19.
	9:34am Pale Son: @Adrian So crazy to let people die for the sake of the economy when an economy's only raison d'être is to make life as good as possible for the people within it.
	9:34am Threemoons: @Adrian stay safe. I'm in the center of the epicenter in Queens, NYC and it's scary...
	9:35am Trouble: good morning arlene!
	9:35am StringOFperils: Dan Patrick of Texas on State Reopening: ‘There Are More Important Things Than Living’
	9:36am Pale Son: @String Did he read that on a suicide note somewhere?
	9:36am Trouble: good morning dances with moomins! thank you for the lovely prints!
	9:37am Dances with Moomins: Glad you got them!
	9:39am melinda: @Adrian nuts that your island didn't take advantage of its geography. I hear New Zealand managed pretty well.
	9:39am StringOFperils: @PaleSon...makes me wonder if he's done much reading at all, outside of the 'good book', which he can probably cite, chapter and verse, while whipping other simple folk into a fwenzy.
	9:39am p20: @Pale Sun: I wish the purpose of the economy were to make life good for people. That's sort of the socialist ideal. Under capitalism, the purpose of the economy is to generate more capital - that's all.
	9:41am Dances with Moomins: the lady is a genius
	9:41am Adrian in London: Thanks, @threemoons. I’m fine, thanks. I can work from home and can afford to get groceries and treats delivered to my house. I’m very aware how fortunate I am.
	9:41am kpx: Bonjour trouble &. Tweeting Tweety Birds.
	9:42am Itzall Tumánnio: Hi Trouble, where can I find more information about your featured artist? I've looked for Raz Dizzy online with no results.
	9:42am Handy Haversack: I have to join a meeting in a few. Back for the last hour, I hope. Thanks, Trouble.
	9:42am StringOFperils: Yeah, p20, it's a dilemma. "doing better' and 'getting ahead' seems, intrinsically, to mean that someone else has to be doing worse, and someone else has to be getting behind.
	9:43am Pale Son: @p20 In theory that's true of any economy, even a capitalist one, whose advantages are quick distribution and motivation of production. Production of capital is not itself a non-circular reason for an economy. But that's easily forgotten when self-interest is the prime motivator and growth becomes all-important.
	9:43am p20: Recommended reading: 4 possible futures after Coronavirus: (Barbarism, State Capitalism, State Socialism, Mutual Aid). The key question is really "What is the economy for?" It's a great article and very worth your time theconversation.com...
	9:44am melinda: I heard a very interesting interview with the author of a book about the Spanish Flu epidemic. I didn't know that government misinformation about the disease was such a prominent factor in that epidemic, but it's hardly surprising.
	9:45am Pale Son: Ooh, that looks good, @p20, thanks!
	9:45am p20: @Pale Sun: I can't quite parse "Production of capital is not itself a non-circular reason for an economy." But I claim that in capitalism, production of capital is the only measure of success and therefore the only "purpose". Not going to argue here, my ideas are better stated in that article
	9:47am Trouble: @itzall...its ras dizzy, should be lots available.
	9:48am melinda: @p20 that looks interesting, thanks for sharing. @Pale Son I think circular vs. extractive is a better framing than socialist vs. capitalist.
	9:48am p20: itzall: try www.outsiderartfair.com...
	9:50am p20: for folks who'd rather listen than read, there's a podcast version of Four Futures here (but listen to it AFTER Trouble's show, this is too good to miss!) shows.acast.com...
	9:51am Adrian in London: @melinda NZ is governed by someone with compassion and intelligence, rather than self-interest and cruel indifference, and that's the difference.
	9:51am Webhamster Henry: Hi Modernaires ! A little microtonal bonanging here.
	9:51am Trouble: interesting read about slow growth www.newyorker.com...
	9:53am p20: 100% on board with the no-growth/slow-growth movement. Also with the micronal bonang movement!
	9:53am Webhamster Henry: Hmm! they are literally cowbells!
	9:54am Pale Son: Nice, thanks, @Trouble! Gonna have some good reading material at lunchtime.
	9:55am Itzall Tumánnio: Thanks Trouble, it may be that I was one letter off on the spelling of his name. Oh man, I love Dusty Springfield! Thanks.
	9:56am Jesse Dorris: Ahhhhhh this is the loveliest Dusty Springfield song.
	9:56am melinda: @Adrian yes, leadership is key. @Trouble thanks for the link. No-growth is a tough sell but I don't see how we have any other choice, really. Economic orthodoxy must shift.
	9:57am Cynthia: That's pretty! (Dusty)
	9:57am p20: "To the ramparts! Economic orthodoxy must shift!"
	9:58am StringOFperils: @p20...I can't agree that it's the only measure of success. Capitalism is THE world religion. It's everything, everywhere. Socialism, as I know it, is just a test department within it. Even science is subservient to it. And unless there is some cataclysm, capitalism will continue to evolve, and to define us. BUT, as with other religions, aside from pure orthodoxy, your place within it is determined by you alone. Individuals will and can negate, and therefore redefine, capitalism, hopefully for the good of ALL, but not necessarily. I expect, first, that its great success will ultimately implode, and that those with the most will pursue those with the least, almost cannibalistically, until they are themselves destroyed. Whatever pays will continue to rule. I don't like it, but I recognize it. It's horrifying. It's sublime.
	9:58am Pale Son: Agreed! Radically!
	9:58am Rev. Turnip Druid: anybody know a chiropractor that specializes in paradigm shifts?
	9:58am Christopher Scott Clabbers: Good morning Trouble. well, looks like another Thursday morning painting the house to you here in sunny Philadelphia! thank you for the awesome soundtrack as usual!
	9:58am Rev. Turnip Druid: also: hello.
	9:58am p20: (It's a better rallying cry than "We want to stiffly dance!")
	9:59am melinda: I dug the micronal bonang too. All my quarantine viewing of orphan orangutan videos has made me want to visit Indonesia now.
	9:59am Pale Son: Capitalism is over! If you want it.
	9:59am Malcolm: Dusty in Memphis, I must've listened to that album 100+ times around 2004-2005, after I bought a remastered copy on CD
	10:00am Magda: I may. This practitioner also specializes in the science of Metaphysical Diseases.
	10:00am stone cloud: sheep bells actually
	10:01am Laurie: I still enjoy my page a day cat calendar
	10:01am melinda: @p20 haha
	10:02am hey buddy: Dang that’s bird is cranking those chips out!
	10:02am ami ad: National Capitalism is Not the Answer
	10:02am p20: @StringOfPerils: Under pure capitalism, the explicit goal is to accumulate more capital. That's all there is to it. Read Marx, Piketty, etc. Capitalism is actually working very well right now, for the capitalists. Not going to argue here any more, don't want to get annoying.
	10:03am David in London: Hello RevTD.
	10:04am meredith: morning all from Carrboro, NC. Happy my weekly Thursday zoom was only 30 minutes. Nice to hear Trouble <3
	10:04am βrian: That is surprising. Only 70.
	10:04am queems: i just walked in and i have to walk out again to cut my grass but i'm sorry to have missed this conversation
	10:04am Dances with Moomins: yes Stevie
	10:04am iiibeat: Plutocratic Communism. Same as Crony Capitalism.
	10:04am The Oscar: Mornin'! Got to see Capital in the 21st Century a couple of weeks ago, and I agree-- I was bracing for a dispiriting watch, but they make it somehow palatable. If I may plug, you can read my review here! bostonhassle.com...
	10:05am Laurie: I miss cat's cradle. And frank.
	10:05am βrian: @queems: We're working on getting rid of the grass. If only we could get thyme to take over.
	10:06am p20: Thanks Trouble, I'm gonna watch "Capital" tonight. The Noam Chomsky film "Manufacturing Consent" from a few years (decades) back is also very good
	10:06am Timstro: Oregano takes over my garden beds pretty well
	10:06am queems: @brian i would get rid of my grass immediately if i could. my neighbors all have professional landscapers and my house looks like trash by comparison because i don't. suburban yard culture is the worst
	10:07am p20: "Little" Stevie Wonder was SO YOUNG when he started. First top 100 hit at 13.
	10:08am prudy: good morning trouble...prescient song that Wonder tune...
	10:09am austin: wonderful tunes as always, trouble!
	10:09am βrian: Our vegetable garden takes up a good portion in the front. Strollers often give us compliments. (And we don't even pay them.)
	10:09am austin: love that dusty track
	10:10am Magda: So sublty New or even No Wave
	10:10am Priscilla: Just can't get enough Stevie
	10:10am melinda: @queems I hear you. My neighborhood is a mix of yard styles. I would go full-permaculture yard if I knew I was going to stay where I am but I have fantasies about moving away.
	10:10am Trouble: thanks for the reminder @p20: my son needs to see that film, will seek it out.
	10:10am queems: a family with young kids walked by recently and one of them was like MOM LOOK AT ALL THE WEEDS because i have dandelions in the grass. and i got to watch the parents squirm and be like uhhh yeah aren't they nice? HA seriously, what kid cares about weeds
	10:10am StringOFperils: @p20...I know Marx wrote about economics in this way. He was an economist, and his map of what he saw remains a compelling and cogent way of describing the workings of the modern world, which was for him a very new world. He was a long time ago. His views describe the late 19th century, but his idea of EXCHANGE/VALUE is exactly what exists today. Even when discussing art, the first thing that someone will say is,"How much did it cost?" when determining for themselves what it is worth. And a human being is converted to a measured amount of 'work-potential', i.e. there are no people. He was a prescient guy.
	10:11am wild neil peace all: I have a bumper crop of dandelions. My neighbors who use chem lawn hate it!
	10:11am Malcolm: another very nostalgic song for me!
	10:11am meredith: favorite Stevie song... If there is such a thing
	10:12am Webhamster Henry: Stevie likes playing the Harpejji these days: that's an electric chromatic zither you play with hammer-ons. www.marcodi.com
	10:12am queems: @melinda i'm definitely considering other options than grass. i live on a corner lot, so i have space to do something more passive if i can figure out what to do
	10:13am Listener Gregory: Science has so far utterly failed to explain Stevie Wonder's songwriting skill.
	10:14am βrian: Some folks spray Round-Up on their dandelions, then buy fresh dandelion greens at the market.
	10:14am Priscilla: @ListenerGregory: Truly he is amazing
	10:14am wild neil: a horticulturist I know suggests a giant garden instead if a lawn.
	10:15am tallbuildings: new chicano batman is great news!
	10:15am Magda: That makes sense. No sits on anyone's lawn. Might as well attract natural bird species.
	10:15am perpetually furious: My parakeets love Trouble’s show. Bird power!
	10:16am Earth Walker: P20 yeah Noam Chomsky’s the best he speaks the truth Met a friend of his in Athens once he had just visited a must meet person
	10:17am Ken From Hyde Park: @queems - What's your town's zoning board position on you running a corner-lot cannabis farm?
	10:17am StringOFperils: This might be my fave Stevie Wonder song....this album, Innervisions, whew....
	10:17am Peter from Dover NJ: Trouble, I think we're living in a kleptocratic state at present. Unsure we'll get back to a fairer society. Brilliant show today. Sadly I have to log out to argue with the insurance company.
	10:18am Gaylord Fields: Yesss! My favorite Stevie song, especially when it modulates up to the skies at the end!
	10:18am meredith: ok, well maybe this is my favorite Stevie song... :)
	10:18am Trouble: thanks @ peter. insurance companies;ugh
	10:19am waters7: Wait wait: Stevie's not dead, right? I'm having a panic attack, Trouble. This is my favorite mood changer (other than My Cherie Amour)
	10:19am Dave from Chicago: Musical genius at work....
	10:19am Trouble: hola @gaylord!
	10:19am concerned: nawson, 70th bday jam
	10:19am waters7: I've been in and around radio--but haven't listened to every bit. Are you just playing him cuz you love him?
	10:19am Trouble: stevie wonder turned 70 yesterday
	10:20am Sue: Happy Birthday Stevie!
	10:20am βrian: @Peter from Dover NJ: Power to you. Eat your buckwheat.
	10:20am waters7: Hallelujah!
	10:20am Listener Gregory: Also disturbing to think of how many instruments he played on his records.
	10:20am Earth Walker: Hi Queems Dandelion are actually very good for the health
	10:21am Gaylord Fields: @Trouble: Thank you once again for being such a captivating tour guide/art docent!
	10:21am waters7: I can sit back and enjoy the splendor.
	10:21am kpx: Everyone's description of capitalism is dead on.but I think a ultimate description would be to say that it's a pyramid scheme. as anyone knows its design so that the money flows up from the majority of people who are the poorest up to the peak to the robber barons. of who do not share the wealth, but horde it. in that way there will never be equal economic development for all.
	10:23am Pale Son: Also has the future-magic-money illusion of a pyramid scheme via interest.
	10:24am Fernando P: Hi Trouble! Greetings from the Mantiqueira Mountains. Great selection you got for us today. Thanks!
	10:25am Crudbringer: ja das ist radiofunken
	10:25am teod: ich will tanzen
	10:26am Webhamster Henry: Gary on the Drummer Stream's Bodega Pop Live did an all Kraftwerk covers/remixes show last night : wfmu.org...
	10:26am Frank's Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=6gkqGCnK-nw&feature=emb_logo
	10:26am Ike: Great Kraftwerk song or greatest Kraftwerk song?
	10:26am David in London: Hey Earth Walker and the Bringer of Crud.
	10:27am p20: Capitalism is a well-defined term: "An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit". And profit means "accumulation of more capital", not "making people's lives better", or "caring for the environment", or anything like that.
	10:27am p20: And now it's time to stiffly dance!!
	10:27am Listener Gregory: Touch my monkey.
	10:28am teod: also werde ich tanzen
	10:28am Itzall Tumánnio: Ike, re; greatest Kraftwerk song- YES.
	10:29am p20: We've all grown up and lived under this rotten system for so long it's hard for most people to imagine anything different. Like fish in water.
	10:29am kpx: I once try to make dandy lion wine. I must have done something wrong I didn't even so much as get a buzz from it.
	10:29am StringOFperils: I think of Capitalism as a less defined term, a murky and amorphous concept. 'One ring to bind them all.' A bit of very dangerous magic. It is defined as much by what one chooses to do with it. In that way it is a mirror.
	10:30am Earth Walker: I just saw learned the very top of the pyramid is the 1% the middle is the police to control us at the very bottom of the pyramid Get up Stand up get wild and in the streets
	10:30am p20: @StringOfPerils: It's a perfectly well defined term and people have written 900 pages books about it. But I fear I'm getting tedious.
	10:30am Crudbringer: @Ike Maybe "most Kraftwerk song", I have a major thing for Ruckzuck (at least the first half).
	10:31am Crudbringer: Capitalism means that some people, instead of working for a living, get to just own things for a living.
	10:31am Crudbringer: (see also the term "earned income" on your tax return, and consider the force of the first word in that phrase.)
	10:32am RobinSays: Love your show Trouble! (Robin who used to live in Hoboken here)Thanx for playing Blossom Dearie and Kraftwerk. Your show is the perfect blend of enlightenment and education.
	10:32am StringOFperils: @p20. Not at all. Nothing tedious about exploring ideas.
	10:32am p20: It's hard to talk about anything if we can't even agree on definitions of basic words. I've said my piece, moving on now.
	10:34am chris_in_space: Bobbi Humphrey is steppin' into tomorrow
	10:34am StringOFperils: It IS hard indeed. VERY hard. Thus our dilemma.
	10:35am Trouble: robinsays! you are are a frequently thought of saint in our house, still using the sewing machine i bought from you. just sewed and gave away #84 face masks...i use that machine alllll the time
	10:35am Crudbringer: hey David how is London, is the Capitalism there very bad today?
	10:36am Crudbringer: we have some bad Capitalism going on here in the mountain west, and no mistake.
	10:36am StringOFperils: And Bobby Humphrey deserves more acclaim IMO. I love his stuff. Harlem River Drive. Sweet.
	10:36am Earth Walker: Also media owned by the corporate scum serve their own interests not the people’s
	10:37am Crudbringer: I think part of it is that some politically active folks are confused about the "capital" part, because they Capitalize the wrong Words in their Freedom Sentences.
	10:37am Jeffrey Davison: Good day Trouble and the FMU family. Settling in for the always soulful sounds of Trouble.
	10:37am Listener Gregory: Duke Ellington in France?
	10:37am Trouble: i am happy to say that bobbie humphrey is a woman
	10:37am Trouble: bonjour jeffrey!
	10:38am RobinSays: Oh how nice! I wish all the best to you and your family. Like I said I love your show. Whenever I listen I'm entertained and I learn so much. Cheers!
	10:39am p20: You do truly put on a great show, Trouble. I've been listening to you for years.
	10:39am TDK60: Morning. Slept in, thanks to being up late, awoken by drag racers in my neighborhood.
	10:39am David in London: Crudbringer, I’m using £50 notes to light my Cohibas, so I’m not complaining.
	10:41am melinda: Socialism and capitalism both have lots of words written about them but in the popular imagination they mean different things to different people and are unlikely to shed their historical and cultural baggage as terms of discussion.
	10:41am Crudbringer: That "E" symbol for the Euro looks weird in this font, like it's melting or something.
	10:42am Trouble: thanks@robinsays and @p20!
	10:42am StringOFperils: @Trouble....Wow!! I stand corrected. I have been listening to that stuff for years, without the cult-of-personality stuff I guess, and assumed that Bobbie is female. I don't possess the stuff, I just listen. Thanks for dragging me into the light!!
	10:42am StringOFperils: **assumed the reverse actually....that she was a guy...oh vey...more coffee perhaps..
	10:43am StringOFperils: @melinda....couldn't agree more. What a quagmire.
	10:44am StringOFperils: Proliferation of terms renders them meaningless.
	10:49am TDK60: Love that organ/etc. Might've pleased Bach?
	10:49am Pale Son: @p20 I totally understand where you're coming from about capitalism and agree that the goal within it is purely self-interested. I just want to clarify my point earlier about circularity: I was merely saying that the goal of capital accumulation of capital can't count as a reason for an economic system, because that would be circular logic. What is the goal in Monopoly? To make everyone else broke, thereby winning the game. What is the reason for inventing Monopoly in the first place? To have fun. The reason for any economic system is to maximize quality of life for the people within it, but different systems have different ways of doing that, some less egalitarian than others. And capitalism, as you're pointing out and I agree, is based on some pretty unaltruistic principles.
	10:50am David in London: Hey TDK.
	10:51am UncleMarty: The true opponent of Capitalism is not Communism, it's Democracy. Capitalism leads to the extreme concentration of power (wealth) in the hands of the few (.01%), democracy leads to decentralization and diversification of power.
	10:51am p20: @PaleSon: I hear you. But I think that the circular logic you describe is actually the essence of capitalism.
	10:53am Itzall Tumánnio: Still holding out on buying this one from the great Prince. No doubt that I would love it but... no hurry.
	10:53am Pale Son: @p20 Possibly, yeah. I think it's pretty misguided to try and make something that works well for everyone out of the fundamental concept of self-interest.
	10:53am Threemoons: @p20 just hopping back in, thank you for article linky!
	10:53am TDK60: Good morning David in London. Still coming awake with the tea here; too muddled for sociology yet, hee...
	10:54am Chud: I love the trance-y synths on this Prince track!
	10:54am Crudbringer: (The original point of Monopoly, as I understand it, was to articulate the inequalities baked into rentierism.)
	10:54am Chud: It reminds me of a R&B version of Drankenstein
	10:55am kpx: no one mind could never come to a whole collective agreement to another's summed up ideology. although they can agree on the certain points and keynotes.
	10:55am Pale Son: @Crudbringer Ha ha, that's true, I've heard that! Bad example, maybe. :)
	10:56am heinseng: Re album graphics: Who had 3rd lens for 3rd eye first: Prince or David Hammons?
	10:56am David in London: TDK, fancy popping round later to discuss Baudrillard..? Nah. Come round for tea and Miles Davis instead.
	10:56am TIMPANDA: Hi Trouble, thank you for the morning jams so far!
	10:57am UncleMarty: BTW, my comment is not about economics, it is about politics. Power corrupts. Power diversified stings, power centralized kills.
	10:57am Crudbringer: That's just an _imitation_ of a Baudrillard discussion...
	10:58am Trouble: you are very welcome@TIMPANDA. thanks for tuning in
	10:59am PNX: Lots of sounds that sound exactly like my cats in today's show
	10:59am WillCrete: Thanks Trouble for the set this morning. Totally dug how Prince ended his guitar solo on that last tune; he is a total master of always leaving a listener wanting more.
	10:59am Malcolm: is any one else's anxiety through the roof today
	10:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble & all!
	10:59am RobinSays: Pshaw to politics -- let's dance!
	11:00am StringOFperils: Judging by this chat window, I'd say yes, anxiety is up 36 points.
	11:00am Priscilla: @Malcolm: listen to some Stevie Wonder after Trouble's show
	11:03am Crudbringer: @Malcom always: teespring.com...
	11:03am Pale Son: @Malcolm Yes! Sorry to inflict it on anyone else.
	11:04am kpx: Dance!, why not. maybe it will help reduce the anxiety.
	11:05am RobinSays: @kpx I agree. A good dance craze for social distancing might lift everyone's spirits.
	11:05am TDK60: Sure David, we could pop on some Miles and discuss Lyotard.
	11:07am TDK60: Happy b.day Stevie W!
	11:08am Handy Haversack: Made it back. Trying to decide if it's warm enough to take the laptop outside for the rest of the day ...
	11:11am kpx: @Robinsays, that and a doobie.
	11:11am TIMPANDA: @Macolm yes, somethings up today. Venus just went into a retrograde period on Tuesday, which may or maynot be affecting my additional internal strife. He's an astrology report if anyone is into that sorta thing cosmicintelligenceagency.com...
	11:11am StringOFperils: Everyone should go outside and breathe fresh air. Watch the little birds. Hear the wind. That's real. Don't reduce the world exclusively to stultifying interpretations; you'll die inside that airless glass bell. The real world was here first, and you're part of that. Let the abstractions go, even if only for a while.
	11:14am Trouble: good advice@stringOFperils
	11:14am Itzall Tumánnio: Stringie, I planted a crop of purple Bokchoy outside and love watching it come up every day. Get dirty!
	11:14am Laura in Peekskill: What a bunch of smarty-pantses you all are!
	11:14am thedunkel: GM Trouble! GM all! @Trouble - what was the film you watched on kanopy?
	11:16am steveL: No one vibes like the French.
	11:16am dave wuz here: i can't unnerstand a word of this feller
	11:17am sugarwolf: Hello! The Stevie Wonder performance of Superstition on Sesame Street is amazing. I want to dance like the kids in the background.
	11:17am Hughie Considine: As a kid I used to find "Superstition" kind of scary sounding.
	11:17am melinda: @String yes! I'm about to go outside for a walk, lovely day here.
	11:19am melinda: @Hughie me too. First heard it on Sesame Street and I liked it but it was intense.
	11:19am bill w: enjoying the soundz from bed
	11:21am Trouble: @thedunkel: le samourai by melville, he has several others on Kanopy, all fantastic!
	11:22am kpx: @Davewuz, you'll just have to pardon his French.
	11:23am KbaZr: Thanks Trouble for those sweet tunes!!
	11:24am StringOFperils: @melinda..enjoy your walk!
	11:24am Trouble: hello @bill w! i hope you are feeling fine and just choosing to exercise your right to hang in bed
	11:25am RobinSays: Trouble, if I send you some money could you make me a couple of face masks?
	11:26am melinda: Thanks Trub for the tunes and thanks everyone for the insightful chat!
	11:27am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and acolytes.
	11:28am Mr. Pumpy: Hello Trouble and all. Great show! Cool article on Space Opera: dangerousminds.net...
	11:30am kpx: I'll have to be going outside for other reasons, but still will be enjoying the fresh air and sunshine just the same. and to malignant, enjoy your walk. she knows what I meant by that.
	11:30am Trouble: @robinsays: i am giving them away: asking people to donate to a food pantry or covid related charity. email me and i can figure it out with you
	11:32am Carmichael: Dem boids is sweet-soundin' dere.
	11:32am RobinSays: Ok Trouble will do. Are you trouble@wfmu.org?
	11:34am sugarwolf: Even when we do get the same books as the UK most of the time they look better!
	11:34am Itzall Tumánnio: Dang. Been distracted more than usual with work- Trouble, could you please just stay here for a few more hours?... yeah?
	11:34am dave wuz here: whats the bus driving novel title?
	11:34am Trouble: yes @robinsays
	11:34am SHAGALOV: I just join show. Morning Trouble Morning everybody!
	11:35am Trouble: maintenance of headway by magnus mills
	11:35am dave wuz here: merci
	11:36am Trouble: good morning@ shagalov
	11:36am David in London: We’re hiding them from you Trouble.
	11:37am Trouble: i thought so @ david in london
	11:37am Handy Haversack: Outside with the bird calls now. Robin up the cottonwood. The usual sparrow gang in the yard. I tried a new seed, and they all seem to hate it -- completely ignoring the sunflower kernels. I guess I will have to go back to the other -- and get more!
	11:38am steveo: --oooh--
	11:39am Listener Gregory: Trouble, there is no way we can read those British books, with their "lorries" and "in hospital"s.
	11:39am βrian: The red bud is near full bloom and the wood poppies are elated. California poppies are only a carpet of green fur so far.
	11:40am Mr. Pumpy: @Listener Gregory, not even when you are on holiday?
	11:40am βrian: That Lorrie is one sturdy woman. Don't you love her bonnet?
	11:41am Jeezuseffinchrist: I love this song. this is the song I played for my last child when she was born
	11:41am steveo: i'm reading a book by a british author -- got surprised by "aetiology" yesterday :)
	11:41am Snoochienucci: This is my all time favorite Stevie song! I popped this one on one day, and my friend starting complaining... i had to seriously consider our friendship hahaha
	11:42am Trouble: there is a fair amount of discussion when i am reading a british book ( which is often) asking the family what the words mean... fun times
	11:42am Handy Haversack: Did it beatle your brow, @steveo?
	11:42am Hughie Considine: This is one of the greatest. Stevie's vocals at the end are so off-the-charts, like a musical feat that is also an athletic feat.
	11:43am βrian: @Jeezuseffinchrist: That girl?
	11:43am steveo: @handy- yeah, yeah, yeah
	11:43am Snoochienucci: @Hughie i love his vocals at the end. It took me a while to realize those deep vocals are also his!
	11:43am steveL: Wonderful Stevie track. One of my favorites! Great show, Trouble!
	11:43am Handy Haversack: I just read a Canadian novel!
	11:43am Snoochienucci: this song is just perfect
	11:44am Snoochienucci: <3
	11:44am Jeezuseffinchrist: @Brian, sorry? you mean was it a girl? Yes, and it's a tough story, but she was adopted by a wonderful family, and is doing well. This will forever be my song to her
	11:44am StringOFperils: @ Handy...Oh no, not that!
	11:44am Pale Son: Totally dancing in my kitchen.
	11:44am steveL: Preach!
	11:45am βrian: Fancy that! I'm becoming a dad next Monday.
	11:45am Listener Gregory: @Trouble and @Mr Pumpy, there is a good blog on differences between British and American English by a linguist: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com. You can look up specific words and expressions there.
	11:45am Jeezuseffinchrist: Oh wow, congrats!!!
	11:45am steveL: Blessings, Brian!
	11:45am PMD: Morning!
	11:45am Adrian in London: I've just read a Dutch novel – The Discomfort of Evening (amazing if unsettling/disturbing) – and am now reading an American one – Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones – and a British one – On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming.
	11:45am Handy Haversack: Torontotally, @StringOFPerils.
	11:46am PMD: @Trouble what pattern do you use for facemasks?
	11:46am PMD: @Brian congrats!
	11:46am StringOFperils: @Brian...fantastic! Al the best!! @Handy...ha ha ha. Hope it represented us well.
	11:46am Listener Gregory: Interesting that he named the song "as" instead of the obvious "always."
	11:47am prudy: trouble, thanks for the Wonder extravaganza!
	11:47am MKT, Inwood: Love this song, but it freaked me out as a kid. Definitely a vein of the surreal running through it.
	11:47am Hughie Considine: I've always thought "As" was a curious choice too, @Listener Gregory
	11:48am Kat in Chicago: wow, I'd forgotten what a magnificent jam that is.
	11:48am TDK60: That "Key of Life" is the best album of '76, also one of the best of the '70s. Just my opinion of course.
	11:49am Snoochienucci: @Listener Gregory my speculation is that its suppose to put emphasis on all the things he comments on that love relates to "as". And the oneness of everything in the world type of thing. if that makes any sense
	11:49am Ken From Hyde Park: @βrian - Very nice. I'm sure you'll always remember what DJ was on at the time of the birth.
	11:49am Snoochienucci: just "as" everything keeps going stevie will "always" be there, so its kind of one in the same
	11:49am Trouble: wonderful @brian! fave face mask sewing pattern: freesewing.org...
	11:49am Priscilla: @Jeezus: Just want to acknowledge your tough story & give you a virtual hug :-(
	11:49am thedunkel: Thank you Trouble!
	11:52am Hughie Considine: "As" is a rarity in other ways; there are very few two-letter song titles. Here's my short list: "If," (the Telly Savalas version) "Go" - Tones on Tail; "Pi' by Kate Bush, "No"" - They Might Be Giants.
	11:52am Handy Haversack: I thought it was excellent, @SOFp. Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohammed. A rip-roaring horrow-adventure story that ALSO did some amazing work decolonizing the Cthulhu mythos and the Lovecraft legacy and the whole enterprise of horror fiction. A pretty intense but deft and humanly characterized exposure of white privilege's usually unquestioned place in fiction. Also, some really cool monsters. Thanks, Trouble! Lovely show today! And thanks to your Skeleton!
	11:52am kpx: merci au revoir, and everyone enjoy a sunshine and tweeting birdies carefree day.
	11:53am Handy Haversack: *horror-adventure^^
	11:54am Threemoons: Thanks for the great and Stevie-Wonder-heavy set, Trouble! Needed those good vibes today.
	11:54am MKT, Inwood: "As" makes me think of time -- and love -- being indivisible and ineffable. It put some big thoughts in my 10-year-old head. Love is endless and time is endless and is there a beginning or an end to time and if there is what happened before and what will happen after agggghhh (but we hadn't invented the head-explody gesture yet.) OK, going to lie down.
	11:54am Jeezuseffinchrist: @Priscilla, thank you, that's really sweet :) it's a happy ending, ultimately, because the parents who adopted her are long time, good friends of mine, and were trying for ten years. I was not in a position to give her what she deserves, and I'm happy to say she's having a wonderful life and we all stay in touch
	11:54am Listener Gregory: BTW, *Mr Pumpy, it took me a while to get your joke, but eventually I did. Good one!
	11:55am Matt Fiveash: "As" is such a heavy song. That part where he sings in what Amanda calls his "monster voice" gets me every time, and I've heard that song hundreds of times... Thanks for playing it! And for playing all the other ones too!
	11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting in this morning, everyone stay well!
	11:55am listener 126464: Thank you Trouble!
	11:55am David in London: Hughie, ten bonus points to you for a mention of Tones on Tail.
	11:56am ami ad: Thanks and Chirps.
	11:56am Snoochienucci: trouble i know i tell ya every week, but awesome stuff yet again! Love it!
	11:56am Hughie Considine: @Cheers, David! We all have a part to play.
	11:56am steveL: Matt F: “The Monster Voice “ is probably what hooked me on Stevie as a kid. Stood out on the radio.
	11:57am Hughie Considine: @Matt, yes, the monster voice - beyond human!
	11:58am Trouble: merci @snoochie
	11:59am Priscilla: Thank you Trouble! Your show is a lifeline. Stay safe!
	11:59am Pale Son: Thanks for the good vibes! Going out in the wide world now.
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Have a good week.
	11:59am StringOFperils: thank you Trouble, you're a gracious host.
	11:59am TDK60: Thanks Trouble!
	12:00pm waters7: Goodbye Trouble. Have a great week.
	12:08pm PMD: Thanks for the pattern!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from May 14, 2020

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