"Atrophy" by Mesh. Don't Back the Front Fri Jul 24 with Dana K on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hey

Hello!

Hello DK!

Hi everyone!

I was hearing silence but not any more

And hi Dana K and everyone!

Oop, I think I got that fixed, thanks Rob!

Amazing reception as usual in West Philly Dana!

Hey John! Thanks for tuning in!

Sound is out again

Silence again

Damn

Jinx!

back then gone then back

I'm in Montgomery County. I get the station in my car but not in my house anymore. I used to be able to.

freakin reception waz good in florida

2 people say the same thing at the same time is a "jinx" - is that only an old school Jersey thing?

god luvs good radio

Jinx, you owe me a soda

The Jinx penalty may vary by location

Marcus, I know it down here in Maryland

Oh no, in and out again then in and now out

Agh. Working on it now. Sorrey

It's baaaaaack

You all are playing with some powerful juju. Stop talking about it or the Great Old Ones will become angered.

Apparently China Shop broke up when Richard Edson was cast in "Stranger Than Paradise"

it;s a fact . spinatron is special

Edson was also in Konk

I'm old and maybe even great but I am not angered

@Rob: Thank you, oh Rob. I shall make a sacrifice to you from the dread Necronomicon.

Is this the start of the Sax Attack

@Steve, thank you. Or, you could persuade the American White Pelican at Hunting Creek in Virginia to stick around until tomorrow so that I can see it

@TheGreatRob: On it!

the bass player in adult learners was my roommate for 7 years. he rules.

Oh awesome! They're great!

@MightySteve, oh, thank you so much!!

Eno cover!

And quite a remarkable one! :-)

Count Five cover!

Pfft! I can count to five.

Heck yeah! What will the next cover be?

Sadly it's just these two

*sob*

;-)

silence again

ghost in the machine

and back

causing problems

I am cursed

And in exile

@Dana: Pray to The Great Rob to have the curse lifted.

What do I have to sacrifice?

Your self respect, most likely. I have none so it's never been a problem for me.

Hail Eris!

Punk says short and sweet better than most Beatles songs. At the end of the day nothing matters anymore anyway. Tomorrow is always a "now what"?

Lovin' this!

https://johnhiggs.com/books/the-klf/

The KLF: Chaos, magic and the band who burned a million pounds

Dana, I have a fuckton of Discordian "literature" if you ever want more to cram into your eyeballs.

Richard Simmons worked that angle.

I'm interested!

Greetings earthlings

Have you read Illuminatus!?

I have not. It's been on my radar for a while but I'm...uh...intimidated.

hello Yoni

I'm not from Earth

Quite presumptuous yoni! lol

👽👽👽👽

@Steve. I just wound up here. No way I from here.

This sounds like "Red Planet" by the Com-Sat Angels

Illuminatus! is fun. Shea and Wilson wrote alternating chapters and would write the characters into a bind to see if the other guy could write them out of it. It ended when they got bored. It just pretty much stops. And that's fine. It's a great ride. It introduced me to the MC5.

Kick out the JAMs

Is from that book.

Justified Ancients of Mumu, another name for someone's Illuminati. They're are about 5 in there.

Human brains! We are busy with AI to invent a god that agrees with us. Surprises are in the mail.

Isn't that there plot of God Emperor of Dune?

Never read Herbert. I was more Heinlein.

And Asimov! I lived in the same building he lived in in Philly.

Feather in my imaginary cap.

I read most of Heinlein. Some fun stuff. Have Spacesuit Will Travel will always be a favorite. Frank's seven Dune books are some of the most wildly uneven things I've ever read. But, always engaging. I fucking learned shit from them.

Get Smart! - DK with a nod to the mod

@Roffle: That's wild about Asimov. Read a lot of him, too. But not Foundation. Not sure why. I absolutely love the Robot stories. Caves of Steel. Boom

This is a Kansas mini-set!

I love Carry On My Wayward Son.

I'm sorry. Someone had to.

I'll allow it

I know the Dune story, sorta via movies and media, but I don't "know it". The world building is time I have better things to do with. And that's okay.

Bless you.

@Roffle: It's a lot. If you ever feel like it, the SciFi Channel's miniseries from 2000 is on YouTube. That's the most faithful. The writer/director of that is a producer of the recent ones.

"Carry On My Wayward Son"? Should be every song in the next set. LOL

greetings dj and the chat!

Hi Colin!

smashingly good show this week!

i'm finally done all my stuff. time to smash some beverages.

Hell yeah

Embos and Get Smart yes yes

@ Steve, I agree! That was real good! SciFi Truly had great moments. The Expanse was it's crown jewel. IMHO...

in life, i often think, what would captain malcolm reynolds do.....

Brown Coats!

I have to start The Expanse again. I got about 5 episodes in and really liked it but got sidetracked.

"Panic in Year Zero" is a 1962 Ray Milland film

I just saw that movie. It was great.

i recently bought a new coat for everyday winter wear. it's brown. i'm so excited. and i'm among people who know.

@Steve, I've watched The Expanse at least twice with some extra rewatches because they were so good.

Shout out to all by William Gibson OG Cyberpunks

Chiba City, Stim, Chrome

@Marcus: Amazon is doing a Neuromancer series. The very idea fills me with deep cosmic dread...

Hi Dana bash the front

@Steve Wintermute is coming

@C, I had a friend that had an Australian duster overcoat. Would fit right in with the Brown Coats.

I read Neuromancer for a sci fi class in college. We also watched several episodes of Star Trek.

Hi Ossy!

@Dana: Cool class. I like Gibson. Haven't read anything recent. My friend Bri reads all of his stuff right away. He's a PhD so maybe I should listen to him

If you've ever read a PHD thesis, you would slow down... lol

I dunno your friend Steve, but, I'm just sayin...

I'm a college dropout. I took what I wanted to take then stopped going when I had to take stuff to be productive. What am I producing? Am I a factory? As a large, somewhat predatory animal I need to sleep on this patch of grass until it's time to get something to eat again. Jeez

We need to see the meats of Kentucky or whatever Harpo Marx said. I dunno

@Steve, Zappa once said, "Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts."

I read a book oncet. You can't say I didn't!

Witnesses?

Tune in, turn on, drop out

Spot on Marcus!

This music is quite inspiring Dana!

The Lord is my witness!

I just thought we were witnesses for the almighty lord. He is the fucker supposedly wanting answers about his mess when we get there.

We should compete with Jehovah's Witnesses. We could be Yahweh's Notaries.

Wherever there is...

hi dana k!!!

I love Jehovah's Witnesses! Those fuckers think there is only so much room on the boat. Too funny! I wish wish them well in the dreary place they seek with only the most miserable of their like. They are simply too funny, right after the Mormons.

when i was a kid on family camping trips we used to burn, what my parents called punks to keep the mosquitos away. did you light the punks? we burned punks to keep the bugs away.

I remember punks. We used to pretend we were smoking with them.

@C those green spirals

jehovahs witnesses burn punks to keep satan away

YES punks from the swamps!

thsy were basic looking insects sticks.

Jersey punks are best!

Read that as you will...

I also used to pretend to smoke with punks

incense sticks.. lol

Clove cigarettes

i smoked punks too!

Solid Dana! YES! As kids, me too!

I was friends with the goth kids. I remember cloves.

Did they have tabacco?

Thanks for playing Permanent makeup! They re from St. Petersburg Florida great guys and gal. Seen them a lot, they do tons of for the scene down here.

I never smoked cigarettes, but me and pot have a relationship.

we got our hands on these tabacco/mystery stuff, cigarettes from india call beedis? got in trouble at a job for smoking them. somebody complained and said we were smoking the devils lettuce.

good night everyone! i will work to lift all your curses!! ty dana for such a marvelous show!

The 70s were a different time. Every 4th of July me and my friends would have a Bomb-Off with kids down the street. We cut open a globe one year and spent a couple days filling it with cap gun caps and cut off match heads. Then we stuffed a plastic sandwich bag full of Spaghetti-Os in the middle for the blood and guts of all of the people of Earth. We painted the globe with gasoline from a gas can in Sean's garage for his brother's motorcycle. Then we soaked a longassed length of twine in gas

Alive to tell the tail? Bravo!

Yeah, but lets count the fingers

Goodnight Rob!

for a fuse then we hung it from a tree and blew it up. It atomized the rather thick tree limb it was hanging from and made a sizeable blast create below it. It flashed and made a dull thud sound then paper snow fallout drifted down onto us.

Carter, not creator.

I bet ER doctors hear this all the time...

M-80's and the one size bigger whose name I forget

Ashcan

decent rain showers off indian rocks in florida 15 minutes ago

@roffle You Got it! About 1/4 stick of TNT

I was there. My neighbors da would drive a truck to NC to buy firework and I saw crazy. Cherry bombs, were just a what we did on the porch.

Ashcans were special.

When I lived in Brazil I could buy anything and light it anywhere. Full scale pyro kits for 20 minute shows

My uncle would drop some sort of explosive into soda cans to make grenades.

Complete with shrapnel!

Mentos? The Freshmaker?

Stink bombs

Mentos is the funniest take on that ever! You win Jay! LMAO!

Jay!

@aiffrig, I was stuck at the grocery store for 30 minutes waiting for the line of storms to pass through n Tampa. Great lighting

Hi Jay! Hi Ira!

still happenin along coast

Great lightning, groove domestic product had a monochrome set vibe to it

keepin me from walkin allana grlll

bee Bop deluxe

heard why bother 2x now on wprb and love it! can't wait for the new record.

This is a great track, really dig it.

Any relation to Edith Piaf?

Might be a reference to this lady: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head

Dana bringing receipts.

Edith Head Hollywood fashion designer

What Dana said

I mean: Jinx!

Wow. I was being a smart ass but Edith Head is a real person. Cool

Oh shit she did Vertigo, wow

@Jay but did you hear about Gay Head?

I learned something today

Now called Aquinnah it's on Martha's Vineyard

I hear that Edith Head's brother Dick was a real jerk.

Dana comes up with the weird. All in for it.

Everyone's a dick in real life Steve.

Steve, did you hear Richard "Dick" Porn passed away? A real tragedy.

Unless they chose to not.

I saw that. Sadness

They say Edna Mode from "The Incredibles" is modeled after Edith Head

Jay asked about Edith Pilaf, who invented rice.

ny's alrite if u like saxaphones

Nice try Steve, everyone knows she is the original writer of Bananaphone.

Even better if they can play...

I did not know that Jay. Just sayin...

I am exceptional.

Iceberg Slim!

I enjoy my position.

I love hearing new that takes me somewhere.

Another fantastic show Dana!

Before the cream sits out to long...

sweet socks dreams and travels back, Dana, if you came to Princeton campus barge!

Feel better Dana!

I hope you conquer your headache.

Go lie down, Sounds like a plan in general. Be safe going home.. See you!

thanks yall! especially dj dana k!

Thanks everyone! Still recording from home so I'm turning right around and going to bed.

Sorry I wasn't more active in the chat tonight! I appreciate you all!

also, i'm having an omg this is where that guy sampled it! moment

Thanks for getting us here. Sleep well.

I'm going to bed too. Goodnight!

there are a couple of dnb songs that are centered around samples from this and they are my favs! i'm having a moment

gn everyone

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