Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/02/2023

Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for March 02, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus T Firetween steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: ' ** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing:
SHOES FOR INDUSTRY
The Greatest Hits Of The Firesign Theatre
Listen to the stream at 320k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-rv'
||||||||| New notice: ' ** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing:
SHOES FOR INDUSTRY: The Greatest Hits Of The Firesign Theatre
Listen to the stream at 320k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-rv'
||||||||| New notice: ' ** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing:
SHOES FOR INDUSTRY: The Greatest Hits Of The Firesign Theatre
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-rv'
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 02, 2023 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'johan amadeus myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
johan amadeus myjetski: darned this rume machine self-assemble flat pack! the instructions are all in chinese!
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Rufus T Firetween', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Hey johan
DJTweeny: getting set up for going live on RFD tonight
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging johan amadeus myjetski by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
DJTweeny: wb johan
johan amadeus myjetski: uey!
johan amadeus myjetski: hey!
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – WEATHER REPORT-HEAVY WEATHER
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128 k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
johan amadeus myjetski: RIP waybe Shorter!
johan amadeus myjetski: Wayne
Rufus T Firetween: RIP indeed
johan amadeus myjetski: that was tasty!
Rufus T Firetween: great cover of Birdland
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'llan ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Good music. I hear we just lost Wayne Shorter
llan : what?
johan amadeus myjetski: honored to greet cease! & Llan!
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Deputy Dang jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – WEATHER REPORT-HEAVY WEATHER
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
Cease: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/wayne-shorter-legendary-jazz-composer-saxophonist-dies-at-89/ar-AA189lDy?OCID=ansmsnnews11
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
llan : good evening everybody
DJTweeny: Hi llan
johan amadeus myjetski: Mr Shorter has gone to what david crosby described as the "great perhaps"
DJTweeny: Yeah Wayne Shorter died today at the age of 89
johan amadeus myjetski: hiDD!
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
johan amadeus myjetski: oh Bro. Stanley!
Cease: My favourite song is Ponta De Areia, cut number one on Wayne's Native Dancer album
DJTweeny: Go Jaco
DJTweeny: Jaco, not Stanley
johan amadeus myjetski: as fine a bassist ever to form a jazz basis
johan amadeus myjetski: Jaco? i should have recognized his sound
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Beet: Howdy, Friends!
llan : I think my favorite jazz bassist is jeff berlin
llan : Howdy Beet
Beet: Hi, Mr. Llan
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Greetongs, Dr Tween, j.a.m.
johan amadeus myjetski: Yo beet!
Cease: Beet
Beet: Greetings
Beet: Howdy, Dr Cease
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
Beet: Always enjoy Weather Report
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: ' ** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing:
SHOES FOR INDUSTRY: The Best Of The Firesign Theatre
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-rv'
Beet: I'm feeling independent. Thanks to RFD.
llan : I had this on cassette
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought you looked a little different, beet!
Cease: shoes for the dead
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Beet: Took off my shoes.
Cease: firesign said "take off your shoes" is their metaphor for freedom.
DJTweeny: Hope everybody notices that a 320k HQ stream is available now :)
Beet: They'rre still holding a Cross over our heads.
Cease: it's wonderful, tween
johan amadeus myjetski: i moticed.
Beet: I'm not getting stereo. Only mono.
DJTweeny: what link Beet?
DJTweeny: ah shit it IS mon lol
DJTweeny: SORRY ABOUT THAT
DJTweeny: *mono
Beet: No prob.
DJTweeny: I changed the rate and didn't check that it was in stereo :/ The 128k feed is stereo
DJTweeny: I'll fix it for next week
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
DJTweeny: have a few kinks to iron out with the new setup
Beet: I switched to 128. Have stereo now.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Merlyn by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Beet: Hi, Merl.
Cease: Merl
Merlyn: hey all
llan : hi merl
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
johan amadeus myjetski: hi merl!
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
DJTweeny: They're not offering this at the new FST.com site :/
DJTweeny: Guess they're having trouble sourcing the old albums since Laugh.com stopped carrying them
johan amadeus myjetski: looks like the stuff released on columbia are AWOL
johan amadeus myjetski: Albums such as All Hail Lennon & Marx
Beet: touching tune
Cease: ossman said the very anti-american-ness caused its success
Cease: and hoover called them the most dangerous people in america.
Beet: High praise
johan amadeus myjetski: president or j.edgar?
Cease: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: i should say herbert or j. edgar?
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'coda', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: hello coda
coda: hi all
johan amadeus myjetski: hi coda
DJTweeny: Hey coda!
Cease: hey, it's coda from the tuesday show
DJTweeny: coda is an RFD guy
DJTweeny: DJs for the station on occasion
Merlyn: hey coda
coda: it's funny you should mention, i'm thinking of doing a hang out stream on saturday, and i'll chat with anyone in the irc
Rufus T Firetween: coda how does this chat work with your screen reader?
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
Beet: Evening, Bottles.
coda: it works ok
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya Bottles!
Bottles: Hey guys.
Cease: hi liquid friend
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Merlyn: hi bottles
coda: i love this bit
Rufus T Firetween: coda's also a Fresign fan :)
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Not Ed by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Rufus T Firetween: *Firesign
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Not Ed: Jello!
DJTweeny: Hi NotEd
Beet: Howdy Not
johan amadeus myjetski: Noy!
johan amadeus myjetski: Not!
Not Ed: Tweeny Beet JAM : )
coda: i am a firesign fan, and really do miss the firesign radio stream
Cease: It's Mr Ed
Rufus T Firetween: You want to listen to the 128k stream tonight folks
Not Ed: Yo Cease & Hey Ruf
Not Ed: lol but wilbur
Rufus T Firetween: In my haste to get a 320k stream going I didn't notice that it was set to mono :/
Bottles: I wondered about that Rufus. The other sounded weird
Rufus T Firetween: I'll have it fixed next week
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'."
Not Ed: Merlyn Bottles Hey ho
Not Ed: Cool Ruf U Rock
Not Ed: muchly
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Bottles: Hi Not
Not Ed: Hey
Not Ed: Hopped up!
johan amadeus myjetski: jump down
Not Ed: Haha
Not Ed: Harmonous!
Not Ed: Doo Be Doo Wah
Bottles: Yay Porgy & Mudhead time.
Not Ed: 10-4 Bottles
Not Ed: Is this a sex scene??!!
Not Ed: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: We call that the bedroom scene...
Not Ed: ahh ok
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again."
johan amadeus myjetski: that way we don't have to show two people on the same bed
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
Not Ed: haha noted
Cease: when i first heard this, i did not hear the word as "ditch"
johan amadeus myjetski: HAHA!
johan amadeus myjetski: pep pills that's what put the uber in the ubermench
Merlyn: hi bottles
Cease: it goes unedited, tween?
Cease: that was why they were created, jammy
Rufus T Firetween: The Program Director will complain ;)
Rufus T Firetween: (If he wants)
Rufus T Firetween: but generally he's been understanding of the context of Firesign material
Rufus T Firetween: Still I appreciate your vigilance when submitting material, and I'm sure he does too
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: still, you would not want to play profane nixon in the presidents in hell
johan amadeus myjetski: my fave Don G. O'Vanni
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah, that bit is pretty vulgar
Bottles: Profane Nixon?
Cease: they did this live in their last show at whidgey, right, merl? you were there with me
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah johan, one of my favorites as well. Ossman was wonderful
Cease: 2010
Not Ed: The Hawaiian Halucination Song!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
johan amadeus myjetski: from what i recall of the nixon tapes, he did his own profanity pretty well
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Not Ed: Aliens are very happening again
Cease: my family had to register as aliens even after many years in your country
Cease: lol, jammy
Not Ed: ha JAM
Bottles: I remember seeing alien registration PSAs on TV in the 60s
johan amadeus myjetski: me too, bottles!
Not Ed: more sugar!!
Bottles: They had weird charactures
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone more sugar
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone more sugar.
johan amadeus myjetski: this is great catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to johan amadeus myjetski and yells "My ears are burning..."
Not Ed: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Strange_Dr_Weird_Singles
Not Ed: the actual radio show
Cease: i thought they'd made that up
Bottles: I'm hearing the voices waaaay in the baclgroound behind the music. Is that the problem? I'm onthe 128 feed.
Cease: should be stereo, eh? mine is
Rufus T Firetween: nope, I'm just playing FST
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!"
Not Ed: nice set of sshows - it's pretty bizarre - OTRR compiled
Bottles: Listening to my computer's built in speakers even.
Rufus T Firetween: the 128k stereo feed should be fine
johan amadeus myjetski: for some reason, my itunes is on 320 & won't let me switch to 128
Merlyn: ya
Cease: stunts the experts
Cease: i'd forgotten that
Not Ed: 320 sounds great tho
Cease: as a "single" this is pure genius
Rufus T Firetween: yeah, sorry about the 320k feed
johan amadeus myjetski: ytes indeedy, Not
Not Ed: 's coo'
johan amadeus myjetski: yes
Cease: california used to have a senator famous for his tap dancing
Bottles: All I can hear is the orchestra. Wish I had a balance control
Cease: george murphy
Not Ed: haha murphy right
Cease: i think that's where the firesign joke comes from
Rufus T Firetween: Not Ed: 320 sounds great tho << it'll sound a whole lot better when it's in true steeerio hi-fi next week ;)
johan amadeus myjetski: stererio
johan amadeus myjetski: !
Not Ed: can't wait Ruf
Not Ed: stereoids?
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Not Ed: don't break the station!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| coda - dead from The Plague
||||||||| llan - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: too late! it's done broke. like you & like me
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Not Ed: right on JAM
Rufus T Firetween: just in time for The Breaking Of The President
Not Ed: : )
Beet: The Plague got coda. Poor guy.
johan amadeus myjetski: i got your wasted time right here mr prezident
Not Ed: Jim
Not Ed: Barney
Not Ed: Read 2
johan amadeus myjetski: your making/not making the doctor happy/unhappy
johan amadeus myjetski: you're
Bottles: Oops - sent a PM to Merlyn by mistake. I was saying I figured out my problem. an old movie was playing on another feed.
Cease: this was actual computer language in those days, right, merl?
Bottles: My computer has a mind of its own.
johan amadeus myjetski: cobol or fortran
Bottles: Did anyone here ever use the Cakewalk app?
Not Ed: yes
Cease: ossman's poetic sense, austin's musicality and their over all intelligence makes this brilliant
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
Not Ed: for midi music/tracks
Bottles: I just downloaded it, and it's driving me nuts. I'm just trying to use the onscreen keyboard, or sheet music feed, and I can't get it to play back.
Rufus T Firetween: Bottles: Did anyone here ever use the Cakewalk app? << I think I tried it briefly back in the late 80s, but ended up going with MotU Performer
johan amadeus myjetski: i heard an interesting computer term - an introvert was complaining about meeting new peopl. he said new people wwere like having your RAM eaten up by a new program that you don't even understand...
Not Ed: I used in in the early 90's for midi music - I don't use the latest version
Rufus T Firetween: Oh yeah, haven't used a recent version
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
Rufus T Firetween: Performer is just so stable
Rufus T Firetween: lol, that's great Johan
Not Ed: I used Composer and Performer as well
Bottles: Someone at cakewalk told me I have to set up a master bus to go to speakers, or headphones, and it won't give me that option
Not Ed: fun tools
Not Ed: grr bottles
Cease: shall we do the British show next week, Tween? Chatters?
Bottles: I'm not familier with Performer. Not free, is it?
Not Ed: it's old
Bottles: That's why i downloaded Cakewalk, figured it would be compatible with this new HP
Not Ed: indeed
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
Rufus T Firetween: That'd be fine with me Cat. We're talking about a 'night in England' with Giant Rat followed by their Out Of The Fog live in London show
johan amadeus myjetski: i remember a few folks used cakewaalk as a recording platform but most switched to either protools or reaper
Rufus T Firetween: and I'm pretty sure we can fit in By The Light Of The Silvery before Rat
Bottles: Oh. I used Protools and Garageband, and Adobe Audition, but my Mac crapped out.
Bottles: Reaper - that's a new one on me too.
Not Ed: Pro tools
Cease: that would be jolly
Rufus T Firetween: Digital Performer has a Win version now
Not Ed: memories...
Cease: we're needed, mrs peel
Bottles: On my Linus I downloadeed Rosegarden, and I'm FINALLY understanding it.
Merlyn: ya
johan amadeus myjetski: yeah i was in protools for 12 years but i switched to reaper. it's cheaper, just as powerful as PT, & easier to use t
Bottles: The thing I liked most about ProTools was Xpand - the digital instruments were terrific.
Not Ed: Puzzle Box hahaha
Not Ed: reaper is cool
Not Ed: i went back to sound on sound
Not Ed: I'm lazy ; )
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL, Not!
Cease: you know the origin of that question, folks?
johan amadeus myjetski: one cool thing about reaper is that it can edit video OR audio!
Not Ed: yep
Cease: Brad Shaw, the space opens up new world
johan amadeus myjetski: dream monsters of the id! watched forbidden planet earlier this week
johan amadeus myjetski: i like Crad Shaw's brother Rik Shaw... 8)
Not Ed: "The Strange Dr. Weird was a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of the Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15 minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on The Mysterious Traveler. To the accompaniment of an organ. Spooky, strange Tarplin introduced each episode:"
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
johan amadeus myjetski: toad a way!
Cease: thanks, not.
Not Ed: ready every 1?
Bottles: I'll look that up Not Ed.
Not Ed: indeed, where do you go?
johan amadeus myjetski: this is what i use to introduce FST to anyone who's never heard them
Not Ed shifts.
Cease: you mean the whole album or this cut, jam?
Bottles: I use Nick Danger for that Johan
johan amadeus myjetski: shift happens
Not Ed: true true JAM
Rufus T Firetween: It's a great album to intro people to Firesign
johan amadeus myjetski: just the cut toad away
Bottles: Found Dr Weird on You Tube. I'll listen tonight.
Cease: you mean the whole album?
johan amadeus myjetski: not the whole album. i just tease them in with the song
Cease: the person you are sharing this with has to have a certain intellect. i would have said knowledge, but that's easily acessible by phone
Bottles: I love the Giant Rat
Cease: and the rat loves you
johan amadeus myjetski: a common cultural history of seeing basil rathbone's sherlock
Cease: did uou hear watson toking?
Cease: that's in the script, but i didn't hear it.
Not Ed: ha no
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Not Ed: haha
johan amadeus myjetski: so, holmes wasn't on the 7 poercent solution yet?
johan amadeus myjetski: %
Rufus T Firetween: In Rat, he's snorting 'nose candy'
Rufus T Firetween: (powdered cocaine)
Bottles: I remember that - it's been many many years.
Bottles: It was very popular with musicians.
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Cease: great dave van ronk song
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
Bottles: Van Ronk was great.
Not Ed: I had a brief flirtation with C but I had to stop oh my yes
Cease: did you like the biopic?
Bottles: Interviewed him even. I didn't see a biopic.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Not Ed: neat
Merlyn: sweet
johan amadeus myjetski: sherlock was into mainlining cocaine in the Conan-Doyle books
Bottles: What was it called, Cease? The Mayor of Bleeker street?
Bottles: or something like that'
Cease: fairly recent. bergman pal john goodman plays a junky. famous director. forget its name. kind of a bummer
Not Ed: Love those stories
Not Ed: Sherlock & Watson
johan amadeus myjetski: my gosh i missed the Bob & Ray reference there"the funny names club"
Cease: me too, jammy
Bottles: There was a Netflix show like that called Hollywood. Lots of movie people with nasty habits.
Bottles: I don
Cease: lots of people everywhere, bottles
Not Ed: The 12 Best Sherlock Holmes Stories, According to Arthur Conan Doyle - 1. The Adventure of the Speckled Band - 2. The Red-Headed League - 3. The Adventure of the Dancing Men - 4. The Final Problem - 5. A Scandal in Bohemia - 6. The Adventure of the Empty House - 7. The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips - 8. The Adventure of the Second Stain - 9. The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot - 10. The Adventure of the Priory School - 11. The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual - 12. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires
Not Ed: I love this bit
Rufus T Firetween: I just told the RFD chat that we're doing An Evening In Jolly Old England, so I guess that's the agenda ;)
Bottles: It took place around 1949. Pretty good series, with Rock Hudson still in the closet
Cease: I used to teach the league of red headed men in my esl classes
Not Ed: Cool!
Bottles: Great stories.
Rufus T Firetween: Rock Hudson was pretty amazing at playing a straight guy
Cease: they are.
johan amadeus myjetski: i would agree with that list, Not
Bottles: The Crooked Man was a good one, I thought.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
Beet: Can't get enough of Sherlock.
johan amadeus myjetski: Rufus, so was raymond burr...
Bottles: I missed Hound of the Baskervilles on that list
Not Ed: Dancing Men
Rufus T Firetween: I had no idea Burr was gay
Not Ed: Hound is wonderful
Bottles: Nigel Bruce played such a bumbler with Basil Rathbone
johan amadeus myjetski: i missed The Solitary Cyclist. that's a good one
Rufus T Firetween: One of my favorite Hitchcock movies is Rear Window with James Stewart and Raymon Burr, where Burr plays a murderer
Bottles: Yeah, that was the one with the forced marriage?
Bottles: The two guys that played cards for the hand of the reluctant lady?
Rufus T Firetween: Rear Window?
Rufus T Firetween: ok, not
Bottles: What was the Holmes actor on the PBS series, Jeremy something?
Bottles: Jeremy Brett?
Bottles: That was a great series.
johan amadeus myjetski: this is another individual cut i use to introduce FST to the uninitiated
Cease: i loved that as much as the basil sherlock
Not Ed: Loved what "House" did with the Holmes theme
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
johan amadeus myjetski: the jeremy brett stories followed the books nearly exactly
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Beet: Love the Jeremy Brett series.
Beet: House also one of my favorite shows.
Cease: never saw house but my wife liked it. loved the actor in black adder
Not Ed: House/Holmes - Wilson/Watson - hooked on Vicodin/hooked on C - dabbles in guitar/dabbles in violin - and both live at 221B
Not Ed: House was awesome
Cease: never saw
Not Ed: You definitely should - brilliant writing & cast
johan amadeus myjetski: i missed all those parallels to holmes in house
Not Ed: House is Holmes essentially
johan amadeus myjetski: both intolerably intelligent
Not Ed: Hugh Laurie is House
Cease: there is so much to see. my priority now is to be stimulated to make a new collage.
Bottles: Really? I'll have to check out House again.
Not Ed: House is special
Beet: New show called Mayor of Kingstown. Pretty good.
Cease: what draws my interest, that i can marry with Firesign insight
Merlyn: ya
Cease: you're even more involved with Firesign than me, Merl
Bottles: Oh Cease, you once asked if you could collage Between Heaven& Hell, go ahead if you still feel like it.
johan amadeus myjetski: cease, you could use some of Vangelis's Heaven & Hell
johan amadeus myjetski: for music
Bottles: I've never heard of that, Johan. Classical?
Not Ed: Wendy Carlos's Clockwork Black
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
Rufus T Firetween: Heaven & Hell is the title of a Vangelis album, as I recall
johan amadeus myjetski: you know of the late Vangelis? did several albums with Jon Anderson of Yes? a fabulous keyboardist.
Cease: we'll talk, bottoes. i'm knee deep in my mushroom collage now
Rufus T Firetween: Yes, amazing talent
Not Ed: people have heard vangelis not knowing it
Not Ed: blade runner
johan amadeus myjetski: known for his Chariots of Fire soundtrack
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
Bottles: Cool.
Rufus T Firetween: probably best known for his soundtrack for the movie Bladerunner
Bottles: I'll look him up.
Not Ed: echo
Rufus T Firetween: yes, Chariots Of Fire as well
Not Ed: it's great
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
Cease: anyone who has access to netflix or other servers, check out Fantastic Fungae. one of the most influential things i've ever seen.
Not Ed: though I lean more toward wendy carlos (her pointilism/hocketing is nuts)
Bottles: Fantastic Fungae? Is it Sci-fi?
Cease: my new collage will be a 2 parter
Not Ed: suzanne ciani is touring all the time - kind of a come back
Cease: not at all, bottles.
Not Ed: one woman show
Not Ed: synthesists are the kraziest peoples
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
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Bottles: What does Suzannd Ciani do/play? Sythesizer?
Bottles: I'm so out of touch with current music.
Not Ed: wendy carlos - Tron, Clockwork Orange, The Shing, Switched-on Bach, etc.
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, it's on YouTube for Buy or Rent
Not Ed: yes Bottles
Cease: https://fantasticfungi.com/
Not Ed: The Shining, sorry : )
Not Ed: Wendy has been in seclusion for like 20 years
Bottles: I saw a video where Wendy Carlos demonstrated 60s synthesizers. I couldn
Bottles: I couldn
Bottles: unstand much of it.
johan amadeus myjetski: Ciani is an electronic music pioneer
Not Ed: that's a fun video
Deputy Dang: was
Bottles: Way over my head. Icouldn't hear much difference between the various basic waves.
Cease: my wife just came back from a restaurant with a kind of mac and cheese and mushrooms and spinache thing. i'm wokring on a collage about mushrooms and eating mushroms
Not Ed: walter was beginning gender transition - you can see wendy's false sideburns
Beet: Can't miss with some classic Firesign. Nice to see everyone. Looking forward to the next masterpiece, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Bottles: That sounds tasty.
johan amadeus myjetski: great show! thanks EVERYBODY! love, love, love to all!
Not Ed: hey all take good care!
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Deputy Dang: Good night all! Until next week!
Not Ed: thanks C, merl, Ruf & Tweeny!!!!
Cease: so england next weel. maybe mushrooms there after
Bottles: Thanks Kurt and everyone! It was big fun.
Not Ed: Adios !
||||||||| "Hey Bottles!" ... Bottles turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Merlyn: nite all
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cease: instead of being dragged down, we fly off
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Cease - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 4:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Bottles
Cease
coda
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llan
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus T Firetween

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