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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009, 2am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
Broken 8-bit noisy break core from the future! When the duo that is Eats Tapes stops by the WFMU studios for a live set they will take all your favorite bit crushes and atom smashes and transport them into an evil alternate universe governed only by the laws of dance. This universe is called Party City.
Ben Edmonds remembers Willy DeVille
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Willy DeVille, leader of the band Mink DeVille and a critically acclaimed solo artist, died late last week of pancreatic cancer. While they wouldn't be considered a "punk" band today, Mink DeVille were regulars at CBGB in the early/mid-'70s, alongside the Ramones, Television and Talking Heads. Ben Edmonds, a former editor for Creem, signed the band to Capitol Records in 1976 and subsequently paired them with legendary producer/arranger Jack Nitzsche. Ben will be on the air tonight to share his memories of Willy and to provide his unique perspective on how a soul-blues-roots-Latin band fit in -- and didn't -- with the dawn of the NYC punk rock scene.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Brian welcomes to the studio the heavy sound of Free Michigan: Ben Hall, Chris Riggs, and Wolf Eyes' John Olson rassle like Anthony Braxton and the Taj Mahal Travellers in a tarpit with dark billowing clouds of electric guitar, bowed metal, echo-drenched sax, electronics and more. Graveyards sidestep the free jazz tag altogether and create a gorgeous, and definitely psychedelic collision of sound and space unlike any you've heard before.
Davila 666
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Killer Spanish-language garage pop from Puerto Rico with gang vocals, tambourines, hooks and all the fixins. Their 2008 self-titled debut on In The Red is chock full of hits, as are the new 7''s on HoZac and Douchemaster. Davila 666 is touring the US thru Goner Fest Sept 25th, so don't miss 'em!
The Yes Men & Lonny Grafman from Appropedia
Monday, August 10th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff
A group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction" by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. We will be talking to them about their upcoming movie, "The Yes Men Fix the World," and how they manage to create and get away with this type of activist media.
Real People Doing Real Things guest: Lonny Grafman from Appropedia. Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development. Appropedia helps us sustain our world.
Dark Meat
Monday, August 10th, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Liz Berg's show
With a rotating cast of up to 15 band members, Athens Georgia quasi-culty weirdos Dark Meat pull their schoolbus into the WFMU parking lot and leave a trail of glitter and 99-cent store tchotchkes in their wake. The band plays horn-heavy, coked-up hippie-sing-along southern rock laced with soul, punk, and free jazz freakouts. It will be like a Mardi Gras hangover in August. Check out Dark Meat live at the Williamsburg waterfront on Sunday, August 9th (opening for the Fiery Furnaces), free.
The Tel Aviv Show a/k/a Not Quite JM in the PM
Saturday, August 8th, 2009, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
This week Transpacific Sound Paradise time-shifts back to Rob's recent Holy Land Tour for a show recorded at Israel College of Management radio station Kol Ha Kampus ("The Campus Voice"). Kol Ha Kampus is probably Israel's most adventurous and influential non-commercial music station - in fact by some accounts it is the second most listened to radio station in Tel Aviv. Rob is joined by guest-DJs Gil Rouviou of Kol Ha Kampus and Ilan Rosenberg, Tel Aviv native but currently host of Jaffa Jive Sundays at noon on WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gil and Ilan give us a multi-genre intro to rootsy contemporary Israeli (and some Palestinian) artists, many of whom have rarely been heard on US airwaves. This is not your stereotypical Jewish music - not a bit of schmaltz, and nary a klezmer song is in the mix. Well except, of course, for Oy Division.
The World's Greatest Music Experts!
Saturday, August 8th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael welcomes the return of The World's Greatest Music Experts for two hours of ear shattering discussion of nuance (with musical illustration,) definitive judgementalness and your phone calls!
Joe Pernice
Friday, August 7th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Pseu's Thing With A Hook
Joe Pernice, well known as the main man behind Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys and Big Tobacco is also the brand new novelist of "It Feels So Good When I Stop," published by the Penquin Group. Joe is in town for his Bowery Ballroom headlining gig on Friday night and heading off for more national touring dates, but stops by Pseu's show to talk and play some tunes from his new CD release which accompanies the book "It Feels So Good When I Stop."
Call Me, Irresponsible (Bronwyn & Kelly fill in for Andy & Frangry)
Friday, August 7th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
The call-in fill-in show featuring DJs Bronwyn C. and Kelly, premieres this Friday, August 7, from 6-7 PM. The lovely ladytalkers will introduce TWO new Listener call-in fun games, "New Car or Drugs?" and "DJ Nightmare Madlibs." Listen, call, play, and see if we remember not to mention those two things we're not supposed to mention on-air.
Birthday Broadcast
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Wm.'s Birthday broadcast begins @ 8, with readings from Anton LaVey and Theron Q. Dumont, plus visits to the Castle from lost travelers. Phone? We don't have a phone, but you're welcome to stay the night. Maybe. And maybe Wm. will just slit his throat and gunk up the broadcast console with black blood....
The Old Codger fills in for the Antique Phonograph Hour
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009, 7pm - 8pm
on Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison
Playing 78 rpm records like they're goin' outta style. Since 1932, Courtney T. Edison has programmed 4,798 consecutive complete shows. Unlike today's pampered DJs with weak tone arms, the Codge has never needed a late-inning closer. He goes the distance, and it's invariably one more for the 'Win' column.
Beach Blanket Belock! (Todd-o-phonic Todd fills in for Joe Belock)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Todd-o-phonic Todd's show
Hey Gremmies: The best 3 hours of summer are almost here! That's right, Tuesday from noon-3 it's time for the annual party known as Beach Blanket Belock! While the host of the award-winning Three Chord Monte program wails on the beach, Todd-O-Phonic Todd fills the airwaves with 3 hours of summer, sun and surf music. It'll turn any office into Pismo Beach!
Twin Stumps
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Hardcore sinking in the same quicksand as Flipper and Drunks With Guns. NYC's Twin Stumps have been playing heavily with likeminded locals like Drunkdriver and Pygmy Shrews. They're playing NYC's Annex Basement on 7/21 (with Pink Reason and Queening) and again on 7/28. Twin Stumps' debut 12'' is on the way from Dais Records, and they'll be live in-studio on Tuesday 8/4.
The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff
Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
"Lucifer Principle" author Howard Bloom has requested a debate with MediaSquat host Douglas Rushkoff about the virtues of corporate capitalism. While Rushkoff sees the invention of corporate capitalism as a short-sighted maneuver by early kings to maintain dwindling power, Bloom sees capitalism as part of our natural evolution as a species.
Aaron Moore
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009, Midnight - 3am
on Daniel Blumin's show
2009 has been a busy one for Aaron Moore, a founding member of fab UK experimental/improv oufit Volcano the Bear! For starters, Moore has terrific new recordings out with both Textile Orchestra and Alan Courtis, and Volcano the Bear itself has just released a corker of a split with French band La STPO. All the while, Moore's been playing in Amolvacy and FreeTime, two rippin' local bands. Clearly that's still left a few hours unaccounted for leaving time for Moore to work on solo material. Tune in to hear the new unreleased songs performed on a bevy of instruments including thumb piano, trumpet, drums, and the pipe thing! Then follow all that up with a special Aaron Moore DJ set! Groovy!
Alash Ensemble
Saturday, August 1st, 2009, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Alash Ensemble is a quartet of master throat singers and instrumentalists from Tuva, the tiny but music-rich Central Asian republic. Proteges of Tuvan musical ambassador Kongar-ool Ondar (who you may know from the documentary film Genghis Blues), Alash mainly focuses on traditional repertoire. But the group also cites Jimi Hendrix as an influence and has collaborated with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Béla Fleck. Alash is currently on the road in North America, and we catch the ensemble for a live session in advance of their tour-ending August 15 gig at cozy Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Mark Tulin of The Electric Prunes AND Johnny Echols of Love!
Saturday, August 1st, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with 60's hitmakers Mark Tulin of The Electric Prunes and Johnny Echols, lead guitarist of Love.
Steve Krinsky fills in for Mister Finewine today
Friday, July 31st, 2009, 7pm - 8pm
on Steve Krinsky's show
Police Story
Friday, July 31st, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on Shut Up, Weirdo with Frangry and Michele
Being a super-famous professor at America's most-famousest university couldn't keep Harvard's Skip Gates out of the hoosegow when he (allegedly) mouthed off to The Man. So what chance does a loser like you have when faced with Johnny Law? (And by Johnny Law, I don't mean any actual person named Johnny Law--like the 18th-century Scottish economist or that sexy-angel dude from "Barbarella"--but rather a personification of institutionalized law enforcement. I hope that was clear.)
So who's right? Who's wrong? Who's to blame? What would you do? How did I get here? And is it all so black and white? [Smirks knowingly. Relights pipe.] Call Good Cop Andy and Bad Cop Frangry on the air this Friday (201-209-9368) with your run-ins with Johnny Law (and by Johnny Law, I mean, you know, police and stuff, not sexy-dude Scottish economists).
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Scott McDowell fills in for Doug)
Friday, July 31st, 2009, 9am - Noon
on The Long Rally with Scott McDowell
Filling in for Doug S., The Long Rally is proud to present a live set from Darcy James Argue's Secret Society! An impossible plan to cram this 18-piece big band into WFMU's 'Love Room' was abandoned in favor of the comfortable spacious environs of (le) Poisson Rouge in New York City with this live set recorded directly from the board on July 15, 2009. Featured recently in Newsweek Magazine and heralded by, well, anyone who bothers to listen, Secret Society's new album Infernal Machines draws on sources like indie rock, Steve Reich and Fela Kuti to inform its thoroughly modern orchestral jazz potpourri, of and above the tradition.
Dave P.
Thursday, July 30th, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains with Noah
Heavy hitter record collector, creator of Kind clothing company, and long time NYC DJ who has been seen opening up for Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth, Luscious Jackson etc. Dave swings by to drop some of his favorite 90's hip-hop gems. Grab a Steel Reserve and tune in!
Seven Second Delay Live at the UCB Theater with Jim Downey, The Rhodes and more
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy
Seven Second Delay returns to the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in Manhattan for a live broadcast comedy and variety hour this Wednesday, July 29th from 6-7pm. Joining Ken and Andy will be veteran Saturday Night Live writer Jim Downey, comedian Aldo Marachlian, musical guest The Rhodes and one of the stars of the Steven Spielberg film War of the Worlds, whose name we are contractually prohibited from announcing prior to the show. UCB Theater is located at 307 West 26th Street in Manhattan, near the corner of 8th Avenue. Admission is $5, but if you save your receipt, the admission fee will be refunded to you at the end of your life.
The Amanda Chronicles, Pt. 2
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Irwin Chusid
Amanda, the growling Alabama power child, and her instigator brother Jody continue the chronicle about their now-legendary 1986-89 home recordings. Excerpts of the interview, recorded in the streets of Brooklyn a few weeks ago, will be scattered throughout the program along with vintage recordings of Amanda and her rowdy cohorts.
The Mighty Boosh
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
Tom Scharpling is very excited to welcome UK comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh to The Best Show On WFMU! The main men behind The Boosh, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, will join Tom for some awesome conversation and maybe some phone calls (if you behave). Be sure to catch their show, which is running on Adult Swim, and say hi yourself at their in-store signing at Other Music on July 21st, or see them live at the Bowery Ballroom later that night. But whatever you do, don't miss them on the Best Show!
The Pink Noise
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
The first live visit to WFMU from the mysterious Montreal combo that's been churning out an assortment of basement synth/sci-fi/punk weirdness over the last few years on such imprints as Kill Shaman, Almost Ready, and Sacred Bones. Cheap Korg and Moog synths, tape recorders, drum machines, and guitars, Suicide/Chrome love in the air. You can also catch them live on July 26th at Market Hotel in Brooklyn (playing on a bill with Gary War).
Keygrip & Neutra
Monday, July 27th, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keilidh
Keygrip comes in to share their sparkly fresh pop sounds, live, and talk about their All Ages album release party (which will be on July 30th). Neutra is coming in with them to play some of their hard rockin' songs, unelectric.
YACHT from the Sun on the Water: Solar-powered broadcast from the Waterpod on the Hudson
Monday, July 27th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Sound and Safe with Trent
DJ Trent brings the Sound and Safe program aboard the amazing Waterpod, a sustainable boat habitat docked at 125th Street on the dark waters of the Hudson River. Featuring a performance from YACHT, who are celebrating the release of their new album "See Mystery Lights" on DFA Records. Powered by WFMU and Solar 1's Mobile Solar Broadcast Unit.
Come join WFMU on the Waterpod - space is very limited, so RSVP to Trent for (free) admission.
Ethan, Master of the Hawaiian Ukelele and Spiked Punch
Monday, July 27th, 2009, 3pm - 5pm
on Irene Trudel's show
Ethan, Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele is back on Irene's show, this time with his reggae-infused three piece "Spiked Punch." Voted "Austin Band of the Summer" by the Casavista Blog, these boys have been gearing up for tour by playing a steady diet of pool parties, birthday parties and luaus. Rumor has it they also spent $100 dollars at the inflatables section of Party City prior to their embarkment. Sit back and relax as they bring the record breaking heat of Austin's summer of '09 to you. Swimming after the show.
Live from LA part II
Saturday, July 25th, 2009, 9pm - Midnight
on Choking On Cufflinks with Michael Goodstein
Choking on Cufflinks returns to LA with a live broadcast in collaboration with Dublab and Michael from Part Time Punks' (KXLU on Thursdays, Sundays at the Echo) who agreed to broadcast CoC from his living room!
Expect an inside peek into the high stakes world of DIY/flexi/Indiepop record trading, and overlapping conversation between the East coast and West coast Michaels.
Los Angeles listeners please note - while this event isn't open to the public, we will announce a meet-up right after the show somewhere in the Fairfax area (99% sure it will be Canters), with the location confirmed on air.
Bomba Estereo
Saturday, July 25th, 2009, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Bomba Estereo is a super-energized young band from Bogota, Colombia whose enervating sound is an electro-psychedelicized potpourri of that vibrant city's many musical influences: traditional bullerengue, cumbia, African-influenced champeta, reggae, dub, hip-hop - not to mention rock and roll. It's been a breakout year for the band, which made a smashing North American debut at SXSW and blew away a field full of Danes at the legendary Roskilde festival. Bomba Estereo joins us for a live set at the tail end of its first east coast tour - in support of new CD "Blow Up" on Nacional Records - before flying off to Amsterdam's famous Melkweg and further European adventures.
Personal and the Pizzas
Saturday, July 25th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Personal and the Pizzas are traveling all the way from Hoboken, NJ, to the studios of WFMU on the Cherry Blossom Clinic this Sat, July 25! Personal and the Pizzas play lo-fi, Ramones-influenced punk rock calling to mind the Heartbreakers (if Thunders sang about Pizza instead of dope!) Hear 'em live on the radio, then go see 'em at the Cake Shop in NYC (with Tyvek!). You can also check 'em out live on July 24 at the Silent Barn in Brooklyn.
Robbie Fulks
Saturday, July 25th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Robbie Fulks plays live in the studio! Robbie Fulks drops by to answer a few questions & play a few songs from his excellent catalog.
Will C & KARMA (Brick Records)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains with Noah
22 year old rap anthropologist Will C just released his debut; Evil In The Mirror on Brick Records. KARMA; Boston MC of legendary group God Complex both come down to the show to play us some goodies and talk about their favorite baseball team.
Telecult Powers
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Who could be more appropriate for My Castle of Quiet's premiere live musical guest than a band that plays by candlelight, builds their own synthesizers, and generally spooks the hell out of people? Telecult Powers bring their heady, melodic, "electro-occultism" from Brooklyn to Wm. Berger's weekly horrorcast. If you throw equal parts Louise Huebner, Dario Argento, The Process Church, Wendy Carlos, Marie Laveau, Dr. Phibes and a stack of E.C. comics into the cauldron, you may create a brew that sounds remotely like Telecult Powers.
The Amanda Chronicles, Pt. 1
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Irwin Chusid
Amanda, the growling Alabama power child, has surfaced. She and her brother Jody describe the chaotic process behind their 1986-89 home recordings.
Theo Angell
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Day For Night with Maria Levitsky
The fascinating sounds of Theo Angell on Maria's show Wednesday July 22 at 1pm, where Theo will share some live acoustic songs. On the heels of his fourth album "Tenebrae," this son of a minister who grew up in rural Oregon will share some songs, play stuff off of some of his previous CDs (Dearly Beloved, Auraplinth) and talk about what shaped his musical sensibilities.
His sound is unclassifiable, but makes allusions to shape song, spirituals, bluegrass and the blues with some off the wall mysterious psychedelic sensibility overseeing the mood. His albums contain a combination of calliope-like polyphonic vocals followed by mournful dirges shot through with a cartoon foghorn melancholy.
"The music sounds like hallucinogenic campfire songs with a UFO hovering above the treeline. There are both crawling dirges and scampering ditties here" -Todd Simmons in an article about Auraplinth
John Wiese
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, 2am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
L.A. based noise artist and experimental musician John Weise stops by the WFMU studios to blast your ear drums into another dimension. With over 200 releases under various names and collaborations with the likes of Merzbow, Man is The Bastard, Amps for Christ, Cattle Decapitation, Wolf Eyes, The Liars, Smegma, and The Haters you might want to think about checking this dude out. And be on the look out for his new album Circle Snare on No Fun Productions as well as as a new colaboration with C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core) out now on Drone Disco.
Michael Lachowski from Pylon
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Just confirmed! Michael Lachowski from Pylon will be calling in tonight at 11:15pm on The Evan "Funk" Davies show to fill us in on the special "Randy's Birthday" celebration this Saturday in Athens GA that celebrates the life of Randy Bewley, Pylon's guitarist, who passed away earlier this year. The show benefits Nuçis Space, a non-profit health and music resource center. Michael will also tell us about some upcoming releases that will include contributions from Randy, as well as other Pylon-related news and notes. Be sure to tune in! And if you're near Athens this Saturday, head over to the 40 Watt Club for Randy's Birthday.
Billy Bao
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
When not plopped on a stage at the No Fun Festival spewing barbs at confused audiences, Basque-via-Brooklyn transplant Mattin has helped the experimental and noise scenes chase its tail in circles via assorted musical, anti-musical and multimedia projects (a "collaboration" with Merzbow was pretty much him bringing a glass of water out to Masami Akita in mid-performance). The official bio places Billy Bao as a Nigerian punk rock vocalist fronting a band he fell in with in Bilbao; this rescheduled WFMU airing includes Mattin, Barry Weisblat, Margarida Garcia, Tim Barnes and Taku Unami. It happened while Brian was downstairs paying Ibby's Falafel deliveryman for the band's dinner so he can't quite recount what went on. We still can't quite figure it out either but hope you will enjoy it.
Cro Magnon
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Cro Magnon is a new two-piece from Lafayette, Indiana. They were first heard on WFMU via last year's XXperiments compilation LP, alongside female-fronted contemporaries US Girls and Zola Jesus. The LP also had featured Cro Magnon solo projects Bird (Kate) and Circuit des Yeux (Haley, who has a couple LPs on De Stijl). As for Cro Magnon, they have a pretty confounding Bruit Direct Disques 7'', where they sound like Times New Viking noise-pop one moment and primitive skronk the next. Their live shows are said to be worthy of their moniker; witness Cro Magnon for yourself at Brooklyn's Silent Barn on July 17th, along with Estrogen Highs, Cheveu and Pink Reason.
Reverend Billy
Monday, July 20th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff
Reverend Billy, of the Church after Shopping, discusses his latest anti-corporate guerrilla sigll, as well as his upcoming show in NYC with the church gospel choir and Joan Baez.
Reynold Philipsek
Monday, July 20th, 2009, 3pm - 5pm
on Irene Trudel's show
After 30-plus engaging albums in styles ranging from XTC-styled pop to straight-forward jazz, Django-influenced guitarist Reynold Philipsek shows no signs of slowing down, despite being virtually unknown outside of Minnesota. Reynold plays Hot-Club-of-France-styled music every week to enthusiastic audiences. Philipsek most recently put out "East Side," an album of conventional jazz featuring local chromatic harmonica wizard Clint Hoover. Reynold Philipsek sat down in the studio with Irene to record a set of solo guitar on a recent visit to New York.
City Center
Saturday, July 18th, 2009, 9pm - Midnight
on Choking On Cufflinks with Michael Goodstein
Brooklyn/Detroit City Center started as a solo project for Fred Thomas from early '00's pop legend's Saturday Looks Good To Me. Now a duo, City Center play effects laden layered pop which bringing to mind Brian Wilson, Arthur Russell and even "Architechture & Morality" era OMD. The band will also be playing on 7/18 at at the Cake Shop for Silk Flowers record release show with Cold Cave and Further Reductions.
Howard Kaylan of The Turtles
Saturday, July 18th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Howard Kaylan of The Turtles Michael chats with Howard Kaylan of The Turtles about their many #1 hits and the autobiographical new movie "My Dinner With Jimi."
Near Death Experiences
Friday, July 17th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on Shut Up, Weirdo with Frangry and Michele
This week on Shut Up, Weirdo, it's time to recount your near misses. What's the closest you've ever come to dying without actually kicking the bucket? Did you almost get run over by a tractor? Did you miss that flight that crashed into the Atlantic? Did you almost croak from that strange flesh-eating disease? Oh, right, that was just an STD.
Call us on the air at 201-209-9368 and tell us about your close call with death. And don't forget the parents are out of town this week, Station Manager Ken will be filling in for Andy and it's all going down this Friday.
Live broadcast from Lincoln Center: Harvey Scales, The Bobbettes, William Bell and the Bo-Keys
Thursday, July 16th, 2009, 7pm - 11pm
on Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
Direct from the Ponderosa Stomp at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center, a soul spectacular show for the ages! Stax legend William Bell, soul genius Harvey Scales and the incredible Bobbettes all backed up by the incendiary Bo-Keys (featuring original Bar-Kay Ben Cauley) for the most insane souler-riffic live radio event of all time!
Total Abuse
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Texas has long been purveyor of some of the meanest, most twisted takes on American hardcore, and Total Abuse are here from Austin today to show you that in 2009, it's only getting uglier. Boiling down Black Flag, Void, Whitehouse-style noise, grunge and thrash into a decrepit cauldron of extreme sonic hatred, prepare for your swift demise. See 'em in NYC: July 12th (with Drunkdriver) at the NY Eye and Ear fest at the Knitting Factory, then later that night at Market Hotel in Brooklyn, then July 13th at the Red Light District in Far Rockaway (with Yellow Tears).
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Robyn returns for an encore at WFMU, this time bringing the Venus 3 - Peter Buck (guitar), Scott McCaughey (bass) and Bill Rieflin (percussion). A late night after wrapping a tour with the Decemberists and some emergency dental work couldn't keep Mr. Hitchcock from returning to Studio B with a band for the first time since his historic session with the Soft Boys seven years ago!
Unholy 2
Monday, July 13th, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keilidh
Joining Beastin' the Airwaves! with Keili this week, the Cleveland-based electro-noise rockers, Unholy 2!
Arthur Brock
Monday, July 13th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff
Arthur Brock, founder of metacurrency.org, engages in a far-reaching conversation about how we've mistaken money for currency, and how to recognize the real flows of value and power in the world around us.
Beyond the Pale
Monday, July 13th, 2009, 3pm - 5pm
on Irene Trudel's show
Toronto may not seem to be a Klezmer breeding ground but Beyond The Pale pulls it off beautifully. Melding musical influences from a Jewish mandolin virtuoso, a Dutch-Canadian clarinetist to Serbians proficient on violin and accordion, it's more Jewish-Balkan twang than Klezmer. Beyond The Pale dropped by to record a set for Irene and WFMU on a recent swing through NYC.
Duck Dunn, of Booker T & The MGs
Saturday, July 11th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with Duck Dunn bass player for Booker T & The MGs who had many hits themselves & also backed up STAX Records' amazing roster, including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, The Staple Singers & Wilson Pickett.
Live broadcast from Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Series
Friday, July 10th, 2009, 7pm - 11pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
A special live broadcast from Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Series, hosted by Rob Weisberg. First we'll hear from the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, a Chicago-based collaboration between American jazz players and two former members of the highly regarded Ghanaian highlife band Western Diamonds. The Occidentals, who just released their first CD, are building a following playing shimmering old-school West African and Congolese electric dance music. Then at 9 pm we'll be treated to a performance by one of the all-time great singers of Congolese style electric dance music, Samba Mapangala with Orchestra Virunga. While based in Kenya in the early 80s, Samba and Virunga recorded one of the all time African classics, Malako. And Samba's still going strong today: His 2008 election song Obama Ubarikiwe (Obama Be Blessed) was a YouTube sensation.
The Dan Deacon Ensemble / Live at the Primavera Sound Festival (originally aired May 30, 2009)
Friday, July 10th, 2009, 6am - 9am
on HotRod's show
This is an UNCENSORED web exclusive re-broadcast of the Dan Deacon Ensemble's live performance from this past May at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Tell your friends, join hands and celebrate. Audience participation is mandatory.
Climax Golden Twins
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, 7pm - 8pm
on Centennial Songs / The Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC
Coming up on The Antique Phonograph Music Program on Tuesday July 7 will be Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor aka Climax Golden Twins. They will discuss their musical output and Dust to Digital releases Victrola Favorites and current release, "Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950." We will play records and talk about the dogged pursuit of 78s. Tune in, turn on and listen to us drop steel needles.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Texas psychedelic punk meltdown with a full house of assorted past and present players of the Houston underground. Members of Rusted Shut, Pain Teens, Culturcide, Future Blondes and Truth Decay join Brian and get the room sticky with what sounds like a residue extracted from ZZ Top's Afterburner outtakes, with a good dose of Flipper and Revolting Cocks thrown in. Even some Butthole Surfers covers promised!
Yo La Tengo
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
The WFMU staff has returned from a triumphant broadcast from Spain, but the Primavera Sound Festival rolls on with Yo La Tengo! Tune in to hear our local heroes wowing the huge Barcelona audience. After all the years of dedicated marathon-covers service this indie-rock institution has given to WFMU, traveling 3,800 miles to record an amazing set of originals was the least we could do. This should hold you over until their new album comes out in September.
The Sediment Club
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Brooklyn's finest all-ages no wave 4-piece. With direct lineage to early '80s NYC post-punk out-funk. Inspired by James Brown, Electric Eels, Sun Ra, Contortions, Liquid Liquid, and of course the Bush Tetras. This is no joke!
Solar-powered Dance Party at Water Taxi Beach f/ Cousin Cole, Pocketknife, and Bad Brilliance!!!
Monday, July 6th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Sound and Safe with Trent
Bang! A completely wireless, solar-powered dance party at the gorgeous and tons of fun Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Featuring Cousin Cole and Pocketknife, famous famous remixers of Bruce Spingsteen and Joanna Newsom - and infamous partymakers on their own accord, as well as balloon-headed, red-carpet rollin' party machine Bad Brilliance. Come out, take your shoes off, get wild, and feel the POWER OF THE SUN! Featuring WFMU and Solar 1's brand-spanking-new techno wonder, the Portable Solar Broadcaster. Check here for directions, or if you REALLY can't make it out, tune in.
Chief Boima
Monday, July 6th, 2009, 7pm - 8pm
on Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
Chief Boima, a Bay Area DJ/producer specializing in diasporic African musical mutations, will be joining Rupture today. Boima will discuss his influences, and share new Africa dance beats: Ivorian Coupe Decale, Senegalese Mbalax, Nigerian Club, Sierra Leonean heat, and more.
Camera Obscura
Sunday, July 5th, 2009, 5pm - 7pm
on Gaylord Fields's show
Glasgow's finest sextet has decided to conclude its monthlong North American tour at WFMU before jetting home to Scotland, and we are all the better for it. Tracyanne Campbell once again proves herself the heiress apparent to the great songwriter crown, as exemplified by Camera Obscura's latest LP, "My Maudlin Career." You'll find yourself bopping around to the peppy tunes, only to be blindsided by the melancholy behind each delectable hook.
Pan-Planetary Patriotism: World Music of the U S of A with Scott Kettner of Nation Beat
Saturday, July 4th, 2009, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Nation Beat, the rousing New York band inspired by the music of Northeast Brazil but also with New Orleans, Appalachia, rock, funk, even klezmer in the mix, recently found itself effectively censored at a "world music" festival: the band was told that it could only perform its Portuguese-language songs, not the English ones. This inspired Nation Beat to take control of the musical agenda and create a platform to question the informed wisdom about "world music" - by starting its own festival.
The all-day event, "Is America Part of the World?" takes place Saturday July 11 at the Brooklyn Yard in Carroll Gardens. On today's show Nation Beat's leader Scott Kettner stops by to do a little rabble-rousing - as well as spinning selections by festival artists and also some Brazilian faves. And Rob will play tracks by other artists who blur the distinction between music of the US of A and the rest of the planet.
The Collins Kids and Soul music legend William Bell
Saturday, July 4th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
The Collins Kids and Soul music legend William Bell. Michael chats with Larry & Laurie Collins who recorded some mind blowing Rockabilly records starting when they were 11 & 13, and STAX writer & performer William Bell.
Silver Pines
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009, 9am - Noon
on This Is The Modern World with Trouble
Gorgeous Texas purveyors of extra-terrestrial sound, Silver Pines, will play live on This is the Modern World, July 2, somewhere between 9-noon. They'll provide a slowed down country fuzz with a gallop of heavy electronic bliss for your morning soundtrack.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009, 2am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
Brooklyn avant noise rockers Z's roll up to the WFMU studio for what promises to be a sick live set. Their slaying guitar, powerful effected sax and insane drumming will march you down a road to audio ecstasy (or insanity). Tune in and be on the look out for their new EP "Music of the Modern White" dropping on the The Social Registry.
Belgian Underground retrospective with Kraak Records
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
With major European cities' rents climbing, Belgium has quickly become an escape hatch for many artists, and hence an exploding hub of underground art, music, and culture. Tommy Denys and Steve Marreyt play in Silvester Anfang and run the Kraak record label out of Ghent which has been exporting WFMU faves like Ignatz and Paris' El-G among others. Today they're going to stop by around 4PM to Brian's show and put the magnifying glass on a history of cool sounds past and present from a land that has given us such riches as Aksak Maboul, Bene Gesserit and the Honeymoon Killers. Cassette rarities, Belgian outsiders, and even some metal are promised.
Bobb Trimble
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
In his early 20s, Bobb Trimble self-released two surreal psychedelic folk albums: "Iron Curtain Innocence" (1980) and "Harvest of Dreams" (1982). He played a handful of shows around the local Worcester, MA area with teenage backing bands The Kidds and The Crippled Dog Band, then disappeared. Meanwhile, his recordings lived on as sought-after collector's items, and inspired countless contemporary artists like Ariel Pink. In 2007, Secretly Canadian reissued both Bobb Trimble albums. This inspired a new Bobb Trimble band, the Flying Spiders, to form for a series of special shows, including the Homegrown psychedelic music festival taking place this July in Boston. Joined by the Flying Spiders, Bobb Trimble makes his long overdue NYC-area debut on Thursday, June 25th @ Rose Live Bar in Williamsburg (you must RSVP here to attend!).
Nouvelle Vague
Monday, June 29th, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Sound and Safe with Trent
Sexy French girls who sing post-punk and other songs with a bossanova beat (and other beats) that they'd never heard before. It doesn't get much better than this. New Album "NV3" out soon featuring appearances by Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, Terry Hall of the Specials, and Barry Adamson of Magazine.
Live from the Personal Democracy Forum
Monday, June 29th, 2009, 6pm - 7pm
on The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff
The MediaSquat will be coming to you live from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. Guests will be culled from the day's speakers, Mark Pesce, Craig Newmark, David Weinberger, Dan Gillmor.... whoever we can drag into our corner.
Dan Meth
Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 9pm - Midnight
on A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker
When a cartoonist/animator comes up with playlists of songs that are entirely in dialogue form and songs that are, in essence, just the recitation lists, the Stochastic Hit Parade can't resist. Dan Meth - author of the The Meth Minute , Nite Fite, and other funny viral web cartoons - joins Bethany for a romp through odd pop tunes in the above categories in addition to some hilarious audio he's used for animations. Imagine what transpires when a comedian calls a phone sex operator to reveal his secret fetish for Self-Empowerment Seminars. FCC approved.
The Goodnight Loving
Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Goodnight Loving have been blowing minds and topping critics' lists for the last couple years, and the Cherry Blossom Clinic is stoked to have them live in the studio June 27th from 3-6pm. Hailing from Milwaukee, the Goodnight Loving combine the flawless songcraft and intensity of the Reigning Sound with a hard country kick to arrive at a place that it completely their own.
Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Saturday June 27th, 11am - 1pm: Clarence "Frogman" Henry Michael chats with New Orleans R&B music legend Clarence "Frogman" Henry!
The Lost Crusaders
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Get ready to testify! Yes it is New York's one and only rock/gospel/country supergroup taking to the WFMU airwaves to spread their good word! Former members of the Raunch Hands, Vendettas, Fleshtones and many more are the stars out to save both souls AND rock and roll!
Upsilon Acrux on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
This Southern California prog quintet recalls the finest instrumental moments of bands like US Maple, Don Caballero, and This Heat. They've been at it for more than a decade, and their new new album, Radion Futura, is out now on avant-garde label Cuneiform Records. Upsilon Acrux plays NYC's Cake Shop on June 17th, and Brooklyn's Death By Audio on June 18
Dam-Funk and DJ Hayden Honey of Superglorious
Monday, June 22nd, 2009, 8pm - 11pm
on Sound and Safe with Trent
L.A.'s Dam-Funk (say that like DAME) has been funking up the freakmosphere lately with a ton of help from his amazing Animal Collective "Summertime Clothes" remix. This guy is so smooth you'd have a hard time getting a grip on him if he were a pencil. Peanut Butter Wolf of Stone's Throw Records says he brought Dam on board "to glide into the future with his unique, synth and bass-driven vibe." Yes.
DJ Hayden Honey, who headlined the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Blossom Festival, plays out-of-this-would Japanese pop and lounge jams from 8:30-10:30pm EDT on Trent's show. One of the premier ambassadors of new foreign pop to New York City, Hayden Honey will make your brain flower into other dimensions. Yeah, really.
Trevor Dunn
Sunday, June 21st, 2009, 10pm - Midnight
on A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker
Stochastic Research Laboratories calculates that Mr. Trevor Dunn's appearance on 70+ albums with such groups as Fantômas, Mr. Bungle and the Melvins, plus myriad projects with John Zorn, Dunn's own Trio Convulsant and duo with Shelly Burgon have been aired on WFMU the equivalent of the volume of the Guggenheim Museum divided by pi (where seconds = cubic feet). Despite this staggering number, the alarming discovery was recently made that Mr. Dunn has never performed at, nor set foot into the WFMU studios. Drastic measures are being taken to arrange a live performance by his new rock band Mad Love this fall, but in the interim, Mr. Dunn brings favorites from his record collection to the Stochastic Hit Parade as an esteemed guest DJ. Aside from music, Trevor likes to answer your questions. Reference this page for past topics.
Kenny Wessel (Steve Krinsky fills in for Rob Weisberg)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009, 6pm - 9pm
on Steve Krinsky's show
Visionary guitarist Kenny Wessel, formerly of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, joins Steve Krinsky (filling in for Rob) at 6 pm. Wessel will be part of a group with Badal Roy (tablas), Michael Henderson (bass), Steve Gorn (woodwinds) and others playing the River to River Festival on July 9 to commemorate Miles Davis' controversial 1972 jazz funk classic "On the Corner." Badal Roy & Michael Henderson played with Miles on that recording.
Jonny Chan & New Dynasty 6 on The Cherry Blosson Clinic
Saturday, June 20th, 2009, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic is psyched to present a live performance from the legendary Jonny Chan and the New Dynasty 6. Chan has been an underground legend on the garage scene for nearly two decades, mining their special brand of low-fi 60's punky jangle rock – and occasionally singing in Chinese! So tune in to hear them crank out their Groovies/Kinks-inspired awesomeness Saturday June 20th from 3-6 PM!
The 1.6 Band & Bobby Steele of The Undead
Thursday, June 18th, 2009, 11pm - 2am
on Pat Duncan's show
First up is The 1.6 Band. Back together for the first time since 1993, this legendary hardcore band features ex-members of Beyond and Crown Hate Ruin. And at Midnight: Bobby Steele of The Undead stops by for an interview, band update and an acoustic set.
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This week, we learned an important lesson on what to do when reality fails to conform to our political beliefs: Just make a forgery!
We saw it with the so-called birthers – people who believe that Barack Obama isn't really president because he isn't a US citizen – when they produced an obviously fake birth certificate stating that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
And we saw it again with Bonner & Associates, a Washington lobbying firm working on behalf of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), which got caught sending forged letters to at least three House Democrats, urging them to vote against the climate bill that passed the House in June.
On Friday, Brian McNeill of the Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, broke the story that the firm had sent six letters with letterheads from the NAACP and Creciendo Juntos, a Latino nonprofit, to Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat who voted in favor of the bill.
The online environmental magazine Grist obtained copies of the letters, both of which read in part:
We support making the environment cleaner, but the reason we are writing is that we are concerned about our electric bills. Many of our members are on tight budgets and the sizes of their monthly utility bills are important expense items. The cost to heat and cool our homes, run hot water and use other appliances is very important to those on a budget.
After news broke of the forgery, Jack Bonner of Bonner & Associates emailed the left-of-center blog TPMmuckraker to say that the fake letters were the work of "a temporary employee," who was immediately fired. Mr. Bonner did not identify this rogue ex-employee.
Later on Friday, Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, launched an investigation into the letters. Mr. Markey was joined by the Sierra Club, who called for the Department of Justice to investigate Bonner & Associates for mail fraud, a federal crime that carries a 20-year prison sentence.
It gets worse. On Tuesday, it emerged that six more fake letters had been sent to two other House Democrats – Reps. Chris Carney and Kathy Dahlkemper, both of Pennsylvania – who ended up voting against the bill.
This was a day after a document surfaced that indicated that ACCCE was aware of the forgeries in late June, and yet remained silent.
Apparently, this isn't the first time that Bonner & Associates has engaged in such shenanigans. Think Progress, a blog affiliated with the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, gives a history of the firm's "astroturf" – that is, fake grassroots – tactics. In one now-familiar-sounding incident in 1986, the Bonner & Associates was caught attempting to defraud the US government by submitting fake names from telephone books and yearbooks. The firm claimed to have fired the employee responsible. [Editor's note: The original version mischaracterized the relationship between Think Progress and the Center for American Progress.]
Sudden termination aside, flacking for fossil fuels is good work if you can get it. Bloomberg reported on Friday that oil and gas companies spent a total of $82.2 million on Washington lobbyists in the first half of 2008, compared with the $12.1 million laid out by solar and wind companies. The Center for Public Integrity found that ACCCE spent almost $10 million on lobbying efforts in all of 2008.
If you think that's the life for you, note that Bonner & Associates now has an opening for a temp position in its DC office.


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Betty Alexander Harder, age 70, passed away Saturday November 6 at NHC of Murfreesboro following a short illness.
She was a native of Cannon County and the daughter of the late Dan L. & Mildred Scott Alexander. Ms. Harder was member of the Woodbury Church of Christ and a retired administrative assistant at Alvin C. York Medical Center.
Survivors are her son, Kevin (Noy) Harder of Murfreesboro; grand daughter, Saiylor Jones of Murfreesboro; brother, Danny R. (Marcel) Alexander of Murfreesboro; sister, Patricia A. (Al) Greer of Nashville; aunts, Gladys Moore and Carmine (Austin) Jennings all of Woodbury.
Funeral services will be 11:00 AM Tuesday at the Chapel of Woodbury Funeral Home with Bro. Herb Alsup officiating. Burial will follow at Riverside Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 4:00 to 8:00 PM Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO — California may enforce a new law that prohibits mental health professionals from trying to change a minor's sexual orientation, a federal appeals court decided unanimously Thursday.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the law does not violate the free speech rights of patients or professionals or the fundamental rights of parents. The state may prohibit treatment it deems harmful, the court said.
"Without a doubt, protecting the well-being of minors is a legitimate state interest," wrote Judge Susan P. Graber, a President Clinton appointee.
The ban on so-called conversion therapy was supposed to have taken effect in January, but legal challenges blocked it. California was the first state in the country to pass such a ban, and New Jersey has since followed.


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Gil Friend was founder, chair, and until December 2013 CEO of Natural Logic Inc, helping companies design, implement and measure profitable sustainability strategies. He is widely considered one of the founders of the sustainability movement, and was named to the Sustainability Hall of Fame (along with Ray Anderson, Amory Lovins, Karl-Henrik Robert and Bob Willard) by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, acknowledging "those people that have contributed the most to the emerging field of sustainability."
A systems ecologist and business strategist with more than 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy.
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Friend serves on the boards of directors of Ecological Building Network and Natural Logic, and the advisory boards of CleanFish, Green Chamber of Commerce, Green World Campaign, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and Sustainable Brands, and was a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance and the Institute for Global Communications. He served on San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Clean Tech Advisory Council, and the executive board of OpenEco.org, and was twice named one of the Bay Area's top 25 movers & shakers in cleantech
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From The Associated Press
The arrest of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre's sister during a drug raid in southern Mississippi isn't the first time she's been in trouble with the law.
Hancock County Sheriff's Maj. Matt Karl said officers are "very familiar" with 34-year-old Brandi Favre.
"She's always in trouble," Karl said.
Brandi Favre was among five people arrested in the Diamondhead bust Wednesday and was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine and generating hazardous waste, Karl said.
"She happened to be there and she was arrested along with the others," Karl said.
Two of the other suspects face the same charges as Favre. The other two were charged with sale of a controlled substance. And one of them also faces a charge of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
About nine grams of the drug – worth about $1,000 – was recovered and hazardous materials teams had to clear the condo, Karl said.
The arrest was first reported by WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss.
Brandi Favre has been in trouble before.
In 1999, Favre, her sister-in-law and another woman were booked with felony shoplifting. In 1996, she was charged with unlawful use of a weapon in connection with a drive-by shooting at a motel in Slidell, La. At the time she was a student at Southern Mississippi, where Brett Favre played.
She completed a program in Louisiana that allowed her criminal charges to be erased.
Brandi Favre was in custody early Thursday and had an initial court appearance scheduled for later in the day.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
2008 - A Review
I'm not one for sending out Round Robins, but after the year I've had, it was time I just started to take stock a little: a year of high highs and deep lows really.
The year started with the death of my Mother (well, technically 30th December 2007), but most of January was taken up with the funeral [MINUS] and the rest of the year taken up with clearing out the family house.
O.K., so now, after probate, I get the house [PLUS]…which was then followed, mid-year, by the credit crunch, the general collapse of finances around the world and about a 20% loss of value in the property [MINUS].
In May, in the same week saw the break-up of a (16 month) long-term relationship [MINUS] and my visit to the Doctor when I decided to quit smoking [PLUS]. As Lloyd Bridges said in the movie Airplane: "Looks like I picked I fine week to quit smoking!"
At least I could concentrate my mind by working on updating and expanding my book Teach Yourself Screenwriting (May-August).
The main benefit from quitting the fags was not the health stuff (boring boring) but the money saved, which meant I could replenish my hat collection and buy a couple of new suits [PLUS].
And spurred on by a friend of mine in Los Angeles (born on exactly the same day and year as me) with has his own musical outfit playing 1920s-styled music, I started writing song lyrics again [PLUS] - the last lyrics I wrote were in the early 1980s. So I started venting my spleen in rhyme, sent them over to him to add the music and he acclaimed them as "works of genius". So I believe he's about to start recording his group's second CD.
Then September came the accident [MINUS] and I ended up in hospital, then on crutches and using a walking cane for over three months. At least it did lead to me starting what is now growing into a rather splendid collection of antique walking canes [PLUS]. Having seen the physiotherapist at the local hospital a couple of times, I've now started walking without a stick. As he said "a lot of it is down to getting your confidence back in that leg and using it without thinking about it".
The trouble with leg meant that my plans for everything were put back about ten weeks [MINUS]. Everything was either scrapped or delayed: the intended Christmas in New York, the house clearance (and plans for renting it out).
I never take a great photo, but some of the photographs taken of me at events during the year have been rather splendid and garnered some very positive and pleasing comments, especially the Victorian ones taken at the New Sheridan Club's Christmas party [PLUS].
And in November the new edition of my long-established best-selling tome Teach Yourself Screenwriting hit the UK book stores [PLUS] - initial Sales figures are very encouraging…at least we got it in the shops in time for Christmas. 2009 sees its release to the rest of the globe (USA in February, I believe…perhaps I should go over there on a promotional tour…).
At least AC/DC managed to keep High School Musical off the top of the album charts.
That's about it - 2008 in a nutshell. And considering everyone I know across the globe has had a pretty shitty year themselves, for me, on balance, I guess it was: a score-draw.
Conclusion? / Resolution for 2009: Things can only get better.
Posted by Ray Frensham at 03:52
3 comments:
- Grk! said...
Those morning-suited portraits are tremendous. I must admit I initially read the name of the location as the Ned Sherrin Club!
Hooray for AC/DC, & here's to a HNY.
- 31 December 2008 at 07:01
- katie said...
Yes indeed!! Best 2009 to us all!
- 6 January 2009 at 17:50
- WinstonC said...
Happy New Year to you too! The story of the young chav's in Marks and Sparks was priceless.
- 7 January 2009 at 14:34
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It's big enough that it can hold magazines plus my 11" q snap frame as well as several patterns.
The fabric I chose is one a friend brought to me from Africa. She was there for a mission trip and I got this beautiful fabric!
The colors in the fabric are black, burgundy and a deep gold. I think it goes beautifully with my Scissors.
This piece of lace I used on the bottom is so beautiful and dainty....I just love it.
I've been doing some quilting too but my day on the Tree Bird Blog Hop is not until the 19th so I'll wait until then to show it. Meanwhile check out these bloggers who are going to be showing you some fun stuff in the next few days!
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By Mark Grube ~ Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 10:19am
In preparation for my show Mystery Train, I often head to the library and check out a couple dozen CDs at a time. Some I know, some I've heard of, some just have interesting covers. I spend an afternoon wading through, finger poised in case a track doesn't grab me. It's rare, but once in a while, I make it all the way through a disc without hitting the skip button. Those are the keepers. The last one like that was Welder by Elizabeth Cook.
The standout track is "El Camino." It's about a girl who gets mixed up with an older guy, the driver of the brown and tangerine title car. He's not the right choice, but she's young and hormone-addled, so she goes along with it, not quite able to hit the skip button. Should it go too far, though...should it end in matrimony, she at least has a plan. It rhymes with mullet.
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The Hampton is a superb 3 bedroom home providing everything you need for contemporary living.
The ground floor is home to the kitchen/dining area, an ideal place to entertain guests or sit down with the family. The spacious living room features a door to the rear garden. Taking care of the practical sides of life are the downstairs cloakroom and the under stairs storage cupboard.
Moving up to the first floor you have two double bedrooms and a further single bedroom. Bedroom 1 enjoys its own en suite whilst the remaining bedrooms are served by the master bathroom.
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About the area
Church Crookham and Fleet offer excellent amenities from a Sainsbury's Local and Superstore to Waitrose. The Elvetham Heath Farmers' Market brings the finest produce to its stalls from free-range meat off family farms to just-baked bread of artisan bakers. With Aldershot's Wellington Shopping Centre – and Westgate Leisure Park with Cineworld in the town – as well as Farnborough's Princes Mead mall you can ring the changes for shopping at local towns. Nearby, you can enjoy a day out to picturesque Farnham which boasts an aesthetic Tudor/Georgian high street offering a fantastic selection of over 200 shops – ranging from independent gems such as Guitar Village for music lovers to the premium food selection of Waitrose. Guildford also offers a premium day out with shops Joules and Jigsaw, House of Fraser and Hotel Chocolat,Jo Malone and L'Occitane in The Friary Centre and along the High Street and cobbled alleyways, just 14 miles from home.
Families will find Tweseldown Infant School in walking distance with Church Crookham Junior School and Crookham CofE Aided Infant School close by, while Calthorpe Park School and Court Moor schools at senior level are partnered with the Sixth Form College Farnborough. The Hart Leisure Centre's facilities run from an Ofsted registered creche to a competition swimming pool and dance studios to gym classes, squash courts, and sports courses offering first-class sport and fitness for all ages.
Golfers can discover Bowenhurst Golf Club's picturesque parkland course and Oak Park Golf Club's Woodland course with its tree-lined fairways, both three miles away and both making the most of the wonderful landscape. The South Downs National Park with its rolling hills and ancient forests is renowned for its unspoilt beauty, while on the doorstep you will find places to stroll, bike and amble. Along the route are local pubs that pride themselves on a warm welcome, seasonal menus, and dishes from modern British cuisine to classic Sunday roasts – the Tweseldown pub nestling on the edge of Church Crookham, the Foresters tucked away in the woods, and the Fox and Hounds on the banks of the canal.
Explore the pathways along the canal, regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country, or head to Fleet Pond Nature Reserve for a different waterside setting to enjoy Hampshire's largest freshwater lake, famed birdlife and Sandy Bay 'beach'. Every two years mark the calendar for the world-famous International Farnborough Air Show spectacular – and with London Waterloo in 41 minutes on direct services from Fleet station and access to the M3 in minutes with Heathrow 25 miles away, at The Woodlands you can always take off fast to your destination.
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Exit the motorway at Junction 5, take the first exit on the roundabout onto the A287 going straight over 2 roundabouts. After just over 5 miles, turn left onto Redfield Lane then take a slight left to stay on this road. At the roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Aldershot Road. Bear right onto Sandy Lane and The Woodlands at Crookham Park is on the right.
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Head to Aldershot, from there head North West on Wellesley Road and continue onto Bourley Road. Turn left onto Beacon Hill Road and then take the second exit on the roundabout onto Sandy Lane. After half a mile The Woodlands at Crookham Park will be on your left.
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Here are the Shots that I styled for Magpie Miller alongside the Marvellous Jon Day.
It was such a fun shoot, and it was made easy by working with an amazing team, and so many beautiful product's. I am pretty much In love with it all – My favourite being the Origami Lampshade and Black Planet print. Be sure to drop by Magpie Miller and take a look at all of the other lovely product's.
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A friend from work and I tweeted about this link (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve) and were laughing, when out of fucking nowhere the real Blake Boston tweets us. This is not a lie. My original post was to make my own Scumbag meme, but this has took a hilarious turn (as is my life) and the real Blake Boston has tweeted me. I will address the progress of this first and how it started.
A friend from work, Richard, messaged me a funny meme on Twitter. This is the timeline of the tweets:
Richard messages me this:
HILARIOUS meme... http://thechive.com/2011/02/04/everybodys-least-favorite-house-guest-scumbag-steve-30-photos/
I send a tweet out after going to the link and laughing my ass off:
http://ow.ly/3QMen @richardyum GOD damn that is hilarious, #ScumbagSteve I like the arrested for stealing playboy and Doritos
I immediately got the following tweet in response:
@BlakeBoston617 Blake Boston : @Amanda_Lei @richardyum this on one of thosse memes or some knows me.just playin
I decide this guy is just a weirdo and ignore it, and decide to tweet two of my own Scumbag Steve quote, just for fun since it was a trending topic on Twitter:
#ScumbagSteve "No man, I got mad plans tonight." - Hang outside Pizza Hut Saturday night oogling 13 year olds who come in with their moms
#Scumbagsteve : Invites himself over - Eats all your watermelon
I then get yet another response from "Blake Boston" about the tweets I just sent:
@BlakeBoston617 Blake Boston : @Amanda_Lei hahahhaaa thats funin funny
I get a direct message from Richard in my inbox, and we have a small conversation that went like this:
Richard: whoa.. the REAL scumbag steve just tweeted us... feels so twilight zone yo.
Me: Lol I doubt that's him.. Equally may be a scum bag tho
So this morning I look at the tweets on my computer (I was on my blackberry before) for a closer look at Steve. This is where I looked up the meme and his real name and found out that yes, his real name is in fact Blake Boston, and he actually tweeted me. I message Richard again this morning:
Me: Lol omg I think you're right I looked up his name, it's the same real name... Omg hahaha
Richard: OMFG
Me: I am dying laughing I'm writing a blog about it
Richard: You should marry him
Me: Ewww
I look up "Steve" aka Blake Boston's profile on Twitter and it says: Im Blake Boston.Im from Boston. I guess Im also a meme (whatever the f*ck that is). scumbag steve. whatever. FUCK YA IM SCUMBAG STEVE.DEAL
…I have found the real Scumbag Steve everyone. And he lives in Boston for REALSIES. And of course this would happen to me.
/EDITORS NOTE/ Saturday 5pm
Scumbag Steve found my blog, and my blog comments on my personal twitter account. I will show you the jpegs of me talking to a friend, and him commenting on them.
On a different note, I decided to make up an additional meme based on a girl scumbag (everyone knows those). I have included 17 quotes from Scumbag Jenn and the original in case you would like to make and submit your own (I sense a contest coming).
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I am not an internet phenomenon. I don't have a fan base. When people list fanfiction writers they love, I don't show up on anyone's list. I do have an account on fanfiction.net (an infamous behemoth of a fanfiction archive, and a common entry point for young fanfic readers and writers), which I registered in December 2001, at the age of fourteen. I posted only sixteen stories in five years, mostly single-chapter "one-shots" that involved things like half-baked romance, angst, and snarky Draco Malfoy wondering whether anyone had considered that putting all the "bad kids" in one universally hated house might not really be the best way to prevent future dark wizards from rising. They got a few reviews each, but no serious attention.
In short, I am not a big deal — and it doesn't matter. Fanfiction is about the whole community of fans, not just the stories, and not even just the writers who are a big deal.
When people who don't read and write fanfiction talk about fanfiction, they often miss the point. They miss what makes it valuable — if they admit it has value at all. As fanfiction has grown in popularity and visibility, there have been more attempts by people outside the fanfiction community to discuss and make sense of it. Fanfiction is stories ripped off from other people's work! some say, or, Fanfiction is a great way to get kids to read and learn! Problematically, the tendency with all new or obscure things is to either reject them outright or force them into conformity with something familiar. Fanfiction doesn't fit what people know about reading, and it makes them dismiss it or try to make it fit. Fanthropology, a LiveJournal community that archives references to fanfiction and fandom in the mass media, frequently links to news pieces and interviews wherein fanfiction becomes a blanket term for fantastic, implausible, self-indulgent, or downright crummy entertainment. On the other hand, more well-intentioned efforts like School Library Journal's August 1, 2009, article on fanfiction cover the mechanical basics of fanfic writing and culture and try to relate them to something more traditional and tangible — that is, the print world whose value we take as a given.
That's understandable: I, like many of you holding this print magazine, prefer to read my books on paper. I like my books to crunch, smell, bend, and occasionally dog-ear. And I appreciate the difference between the experience of reading a printed book — edited, polished, and complete — and sitting in front of a screen to read a hundred-thousand-word story about something you've already read, by someone whose only editor is their seventeen-year-old internet pal from three time zones away. It's different, it's new, and, yes, it's scary, because it's not traditional and it's not controlled.
It should stay exactly as it is.
Why? At its core, fanfiction is simply the practice of writing fiction based on other people's work. What makes fanfiction valuable and powerful, however, is what it becomes: a large community of readers unconstrained by time, distance, age, or talent. Fandom is what happens when fans of things — novels, movies, TV shows, plays, comic books — actively seek one another out. They go to conventions, but more and more commonly they go to the internet. They write fanfiction, they leave comments, they draw and make vids and user icons (truly an art unto itself), they friend each other on LiveJournal and DreamWidth (a fan-operated blogging site based on LiveJournal's open source software) and follow each other on Twitter. And they do all of these things because there is someone on the other end who loves what they love.
Being a bookworm has never been glamorous. Finding someone else who is head-over-heels in love with exactly the same stories and characters you are is difficult, and largely a matter of luck. But the online reading community, including fanfiction, lets readers find each other, and it's easy, because that common point of interest is where you start.
Community and friendship come naturally in fandom, because the fan world is both free and reciprocal. It is ingrained with practices of sharing and responding, of reviewing what you read, of giving fanfics as gifts, making reading recommendations to friends (and recommendations, not automated searches, are the final word in finding good stuff), and "beta reading" friends' stories before they're posted. Although, as with any community, fighting can occur, fandom at its best allows every member to add to the collective enthusiasm, analysis, and creativity. It's not a competition: when a writer becomes popular, the response is the prize. In many ways, online fandom fulfills the librarian's or teacher's deepest desire: it's an entire community of people who can't stop talking and thinking and sharing about books. Better yet, it is a community that many readers join in their pre-teens or teens, take at their own pace, and often never leave.
Some of my best fan experiences have nothing to do with actual fanfiction. I joined Sounis, a LiveJournal community dedicated to Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series, in 2006. Turner's books aren't nearly as popular as they should be; many of us only know other fans in "real life" if we have converted them ourselves. But Sounis brings together hundreds of fans from, quite literally, around the globe — check our user map — and gives us people to talk to. Or, to be honest, people to rant, rave, squee, fangirl, swoon, poeticize, theorize, and offer cookies to. In-person group meet-ups are a regular part of our community, and people often travel shocking distances to meet one another. I myself met a number of members (and — squee! — the author herself) in London in 2008. As I wrote in my LiveJournal:
It was the first time I'd ever met friends I'd made online, and I was a little afraid they wouldn't like me and it would be wretched but…they are even better and more wonderful in person. And most wonderful of all — they read the books I read…We talked about everything from Joan Aiken to Jane Eyre to Georgette Heyer and Charles Dickens to Chaz Brenchley and Sarah Monette. Sarah Monette! The only other person in the world whom I know to read Sarah Monette is Jade, and she's from Sounis, too — thus proving that Sounis is WONDERFUL and AMAZING, and it is only reasonable that getting to meet a few of them made me deliriously happy.
We had come from over half a dozen different locations, some continents away, across a thirty-odd-year age range, and none of us would have known or cared about one another if fanfiction and fan communities didn't work in the way they do — expansively, independently, communally, and online.
The community is how fanfiction thrives, but active, interesting, multifarious fanfiction is likewise why the community thrives. Why people write it, and what it does for them, is complicated — but it boils down to the simple. Earlier this year, I posted a fanfiction survey on my LiveJournal. When I asked the obvious question, "Why do you read/write fanfic?" I got the obvious answer: it's fun! Scott (whom I met several years ago on a Harry Potter fanfic writer's LJ) said, "It's fun to play in a place with so many rules, because you have to see if you can follow them. It's a challenge. It's also really cool to write in a forum where you get instant feedback and can actually discuss your writing with your readers."
As an essential part of a story's nature, the idea of sharing is nothing new. In fact, fanfiction functions a lot like folklore: it is a practice of shifting and filling the boundaries of a certain world to fit the person who is telling it, and of sharing those interpretations with others. As in folklore, the base of the story remains, but every telling reflects the teller. The urges behind both are the same: to respond, to express, and to give. Fanfiction is an extremely traditional — almost instinctive — form of storytelling. One respondent remarked that "each writer's idea of the characters and plots adds more layers and richness." The more stories there are, the more fanfiction becomes a conversation — not only in the comments left by readers, but between writers, readers, and the common source.
My friend Rhaella believes this to a perhaps controversial degree. "No person can create a fully organic and workable world on their own," she says. "Fanfic is an opportunity to reinterpret works, sometimes flesh them out if that's what's required, but always keep them alive and moving in some way." It is also, she says, a creative form of criticism. The generally accepted prerequisite that everyone participating already likes the object of critique seems to detract little from debate. Like any community, the online fanfiction world hosts its fair share of disagreements and outright battles — either personal or based on points of contention about canon and fan interpretation. Still, it is conversation, and it does keep the stories "alive and moving."
So, fanfiction brings people from all over the place to be more excited about what they already love, makes them expressive and creative, and fosters very real loyalties and friendships. It sounds utopian, but it's not. Every fanfic is not perfectly crafted narrative art, and not all stories are child-safe. Mature content in fanfiction is just like mature content in published books: kids who delve into fanfiction do so at their own pace and development. In my experience, a reader who isn't ready for something she bumps into online will back right out again. And frankly, fanfiction is safer than most written materials — it's standard for writers to list ratings and content warnings at the tops of their stories, not as censorship, but because no one's intent in fandom is to traumatize anyone with content their various readers aren't suited to.
As to the writing quality — well, a lot of fanfiction is downright rotten. But that's more or less irrelevant. Says Julie, "I feel like fanfiction authors are more in touch with what people want to read." People grow as writers and readers by making their way from the embarrassingly bad stuff to, if you know where to look, the truly breathtaking. But people do it at their own pace, and they are able to do it because the internet is personal and malleable in a way that programs, publishers, and even pen and paper are not. And we like it more, because it hasn't been polished, dismissed, or dictated by any standards but what the reader enjoys.
Although not all authors are comfortable with the idea of their stories generating fanfiction, I think this will change. My friend Aja says, tongue-in-cheek but meaning it, "One day I will publish my grandiose set of novels, and when I do, I hope I attract intelligent and amazing writers to develop a fandom around them — there are so many characters that could do so many things other than what I have planned for them, but because that's Not The Way The Story Goes, I can't really write it, you know?" Writing is still personal, but to a lot of younger readers and writers, stories are becoming something evolutionary again — and the highest possible achievement is that someone else would want to write about what you wrote first.
It's a new dream, and it's possible — as some writers are already seeing for themselves. Sarah Rees Brennan, whose YA fantasy The Demon's Lexicon was published by McElderry Books in June, was best known for several years as the Harry Potter fanfic author Maya. When she officially withdrew from fanfiction writing in 2008, with a LiveJournal name change and a website of her own, she left her loyal readers over two thousand pages of fanfiction in PDF form. And the readers are loyal; after the fanfiction's removal, and two months before the release of her debut novel, "sarahtales" was still listed as a friend by 5,797 LiveJournal users. In fact, upon the announcement of her first novel, her online fans leapt into action and created a fan community for her original works. It was already watched in April by 613 people. Her journal now has 5,998 followers, and Marmalade Fish (the fan community) has 691.
Whether or not she has improved as a writer because of fanfiction (verdict, she says, uncertain), Brennan has gotten something powerful out of it. "Having people care about what you write, and tell you what they liked and didn't like about it, was marvelous and encouraging for someone used to writing original fiction which few people ever read aside from my father and my Great-Aunt Jemima!"
But the gratifying thing about fanfiction is that you don't have to have thousands of fans or a published book or a fan community of your own to experience the best it has to offer. Brennan's final word on the subject is near-universal, and the one to take to heart: "I like fic because it's fun," she says, "because it's a community centred around writing and excitement about a creative endeavour, because people involved in it are very kind, and because it is I think a huge compliment paid to a creator or a writer — your playground was so fascinating, I had to come play in it, and I made friends there!"
From the November/December 2009 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. For more in our Fan Week series, click on the tag Fan Week 2016 and see #HBFanWeek on Twitter.


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When Office Depot's Sustainability and Private Brand teams wanted to bring a companywide environmental responsibility initiative to life, they called on Big Red Rooster to develop a unified position that communicated the retailer's Green offerings.
Our team created a GreenerOffice communication strategy that articulated Office Depot's Green positioning across multiple customer touchpoints, from products and packaging design to catalogs and in-store merchandising. Extensive secondary research, including stakeholder interviews and best-practice merchandising audits, fueled the creation of Office Depot's GreenerOffice brand identity and positioning.
The GreenerOffice identity system and messaging framework is comprised of flexible elements that communicate just how "green" a product is and its primary benefits in a simple, easy-to-understand format.
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Unlike many other collections, the beauty of these clothes didn't lie in their vibrant colours or their flamboyant prints because more work was put into the cuts, shapes, styles and embellishment. I made all the pictures black and white so you guys might appreciate it and understand my interpretation more rather than getting distracted by any other aspects like the colours.
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OCVTS Culinary Students Cook for Food Network Chef
Jean Sullivian, March 29, 2010
BRICK, NEW JERSEY- Beyond the lessons of basic food preparations in their kitchen-classroom OCVTS Adult Culinary Arts students gain real-world experience through events sponsored by community partnerships. Ocean County Library in Toms River hosted an evening with Foodnetwork Chef Daisy Martinez and invited the OCVTS Culinary students to prepare several recipes from Daisy's newest cookbook "Daisy: Morning, Noon, and Night." Ms. Martinez is known for her popular PBS series, Daisy Cooks! and her Foodnetwork show Viva Daisy!
The students prepared the recipes during their school day and then served the selections, Argentinean Rice Salad and Chicken Lime Soup, to approximately 150 guests in attendance at Mancini Hall. Chef Daisy spoke about her Puerto Rican heritage, her passion for Latino cuisine and the integral part it plays in her family life. She also spoke about her career and answered questions from the audience about life as a Foodnetwork celebrity chef. At times, she directed words of advice toward the culinary students.
After her presentation, guests were able to sample food, purchase her newest cookbook and take photos with the star.


text: View inside a toilet at Zhouji Green Expo Garden Park in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province. China's president has ordered the country to march on in its "revolution" to clean up notoriously dirty and foul-smelling public bathrooms in a bid to improve quality of life and boost tourism. Photo courtesy: AFP