Listener comments!

🎸 ♥ 1:58pm
: Hey VVV fans! 🎸 ♥ 2:03pm
Jan Turkenburg: Hello Roman! 🎸 ♥ 2:04pm
Roman Angelos: Hey Jan, nice to have you here! ♥ 2:05pm
Mr Fab: buongiorno, Roman! 🎸 ♥ 2:06pm
Roman Angelos: and a good jorno to you Mr. Fab! 🎸 ♥ 2:07pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Andiamo and thos sorts of things! 🎸 ♥ 2:07pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:07

*kicks an 'e' up to his previous comment* 🎸 ♥ 2:08pm
Roman Angelos: things-e? 🎸 ♥ 2:08pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:08

those 🎸 ♥ 2:09pm
Paper Kosmonaut: I am not burning my fingers by doing an italian accent. 🎸 ♥ 2:10pm
Roman Angelos: haha, exactly ♥ 2:15pm
David The Splatter: Salve, Roman and all. 🎸 ♥ 2:16pm
Roman Angelos: Ciao David! ♥ 2:26pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Pogledaj Kroz Prozor" by "Elipse"

Aargh, what song is this? "Look Thru Any Window"? 🎸 ♥ 2:27pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:26

you got it!   🎸 ♥ 2:48pm
Mammabear: Greetings from Sicily. 🎸 ♥ 2:48pm
Roman Angelos: oh hello! 🎸 ♥ 2:49pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mammabear @2:48

send over some arancini 🎸 ♥ 2:49pm
Fiore: Listening and happy together in Marsala, Ciao' Roman 🎸 ♥ 2:49pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Fiore @2:49

good one viore 🎸 ♥ 2:51pm
Roman Angelos: say hi to the paisans 🎸 ♥ 2:53pm
Fiore: uncle Carlo say Ciao' 🎸 ♥ 3:02pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Song: "Na 'xere to feggari" by "Tammy, Retti Zalokosta"

Is this what Italians play while waching Vietnam movies? 🎸 ♥ 3:03pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:02

hilarious :)

However, it's a greek group

🎸 ♥ 3:05pm
Paper Kosmonaut: In the end, it's all Greek to me... 🎸 ♥ 3:06pm
Paper Kosmonaut: (that was a lie. i just wasn't paying enough attention to the language.) 🎸 ♥ 3:06pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:05

I will say, it's the one language where when I'm trying to learn how to read it, it just short circuits my fragile english-speaking brain 🎸 ♥ 3:13pm
Paper Kosmonaut: I had Greek for aboiut four years between my 13th and 16th. But that was classic Greek.But the alphabet isn't that dissimilar from cyrillic, and that was something I learned myself when I was 8... I could read it, but I didn't know anything about the words I read.,   🎸 ♥ 3:14pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:06

I took Ancient Greek in college for two semesters. I could read a little, but not enough to be fluent.   🎸 ♥ 3:15pm
Jay Current: Sadly missing most of the show today due to a mandatory training session at work   3:16pm
Uncle Carlo: CIAO ROMAN 🎸 ♥ 3:17pm
Roman Angelos: ehhhhhh Carlo! 🎸 ♥ 3:18pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:13

I can read the uppercase Greek letters bc I read Cyrillic, but it's the lower case that kills me 🎸 ♥ 3:19pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:15

ah bummer, but thank you for coming by and saying hi. Didn't know we have so many Greek speakers here haha   🎸 ♥ 3:20pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:19

Well, it's ancient Greek, so it wouldn't help much nowadays. My professor told me speaking ancient Greek to a modern speaker is like speaking Latin to an Italian. 🎸 ♥ 3:21pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:20

right right. Did you study Classics or was it Divinity school? ♥ 3:22pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Le ultime ore della notte" by "Walter Rizzati"

loved the noir mood 🎸 ♥ 3:22pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:22

total noir ♥ 3:23pm
Mr Fab: well, noir meets James Bond.
Which is an idea whose time has come. 🎸 ♥ 3:23pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:23

that's my address! 🎸 ♥ 3:25pm
Paper Kosmonaut: I had latin and greek at grammar school - I guess that is what it's called in english. Latin in fact was really helpful understanding more about all latin-based languages like french, spanish and italian of course. Greek was interesting until they started the aorist verb forms. Then I was like come on, folks. keep it light.   🎸 ♥ 3:26pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:21

Just a class on ancient Greek by itself to get a foreign language credit for my History degree. We did read a little classic literature and some Bible passages along the way though. 🎸 ♥ 3:26pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:25

woah, I had to look up what aeorist is. And I thought dative/genetive, etc was confusing 🎸 ♥ 3:27pm
Paper Kosmonaut: I mean, Do you really have to be able to discern by lookming at the the verb whether someone is wearing yellow sock on his right foot on the attic of his mother's house? 🎸 ♥ 3:27pm
Paper Kosmonaut: *looking 🎸 ♥ 3:28pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:27

I need to read more about this. I love the absolutely insane things that particular languages have 🎸 ♥ 3:29pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:28

Finnish will be a hoot, then. It has 25 grammatical cases. ♥ 3:30pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Trumpet Shake" by "Peppino De Luca"

Herb Alpert & His Roman Brass 🎸 ♥ 3:31pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:30

I have this record from the "Acme" supermarket (that supposedly features Chet Baker), and it's a complete Herb rip off. And the funny thing is they keep referring to Herb as "you-know-who" 🎸 ♥ 3:32pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:29

But for a Dutch person, Finnish is quite easy to pronounce because it really is a what-you-see-is-how-you-pronounce-it. Kalsarikännit for example. The meaning of this word will amaze you. en.wikipedia.org... 🎸 ♥ 3:32pm
Paper Kosmonaut: This was my TedTalk. 🎸 ♥ 3:32pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:31

it's like "featuring sounds similar to you-know-who" ♥ 3:32pm
Mr Fab: I'm a native English speaker and it still confuses me sometimes. Who vs whom? Affect vs effect? 🎸 ♥ 3:32pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:32

oh woah, Finnish was always up in my "I'll never understand" languages 🎸 ♥ 3:34pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:32

so it's the British version of pants ♥ 3:34pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:32

Ha! There were so many Alpert rip-offs "The Mexicali Brass," etc.

Sadly, I believe Chet Baker did play on a couple of those. He wasn't doing too well towards the end.

🎸 ♥ 3:35pm
Fiore: Paul Revere & the Raiders Indian Reservation ?   🎸 ♥ 3:36pm
Jay Current: "We'll speak Hungarian in Heaven because it will take us an eternity to learn it." - a joke from my high school German teacher who was Hungarian ♥ 3:36pm
Roberto:

↳ Mr Fab @3:32

Whom does it affect?
Who created that effect? 🎸 ♥ 3:36pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:34

Kalsarikännit literally means"being drunk at home whilst in your underpants" In one word. Fantastic! 🎸 ♥ 3:37pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:36

I've heard something about reading Finnegans Wake in heaven. Or hell ♥ 3:38pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:36

If you were that, you'd never be able to pronounce that word. 🎸 ♥ 3:39pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Jay Current @3:36

Stephen Fry said his grandfather, who was Hungarian, often said "A Hungarian is someone who can enter a revolving door behind someone, and come out first." 🎸 ♥ 3:40pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Mr Fab @3:38

I think Finnish is complex enough to get your tongue in a knot even when you are sober.   🎸 ♥ 3:41pm
Jay Current:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:39

My teacher said when Aldi's debuted their coin-lock shopping carts in Hungary, Hungarians kept breaking the locks to get their coins out instead of just returning the carts. ♥ 3:41pm
Mr Fab: as I kid I thought it was so funny that Hungary, Turkey, and Greece were all near each other.

It bothered that I couldn't figure out the food connections to other Eastern European countries. Romania = Romaine lettuce...maybe..?

  🎸 ♥ 3:42pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:37

I believe Joyce said it took him 7 years to write Ulysses, so it should only take us 7 to understand it. I assume the same applies to the 14 years he spent on Finnigans Wake. 🎸 ♥ 3:42pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:41

exactly that 🎸 ♥ 3:44pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:42

Bloomsday is coming up!   🎸 ♥ 3:45pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:44

Which WFMU DJ is going to do a live reading to celebrate? 🎸 ♥ 3:46pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:45

ooohhh - should I read out the Italian conversation part? ♥ 3:47pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:45

anyone remember when Kenny G(oldsmith) had shows here? He would do stunts like that. Only more annoying.   🎸 ♥ 3:48pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:46

Knowing this station, I'm sure there'd be an audience for it.   🎸 ♥ 3:52pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:47

I've only been listening around a year now, so I missed out on those. I did hear about a depressed DJ in, I believe, Washington state who played Grandma Got Ran Over By a Raindeer for over an hour before the station seized control from him. 🎸 ♥ 3:54pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Mille grazie per la musiche, Roman. I enjoyed it a lot! 🎸 ♥ 3:54pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:52

thank god folks like that are just DJ'ing and not....operating cranes on high rises   🎸 ♥ 3:55pm
Jay Current: Of course my training module ends just in time for the show to be nearly over. 🎸 ♥ 3:55pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:54

Thank PK, always good to chat with you. And now I will spend the day looking into the aorist tense! ♥ 3:56pm
David The Splatter: Thank you, Roman! ♥ 3:56pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:52

when Obama was elected, kenny played Parliament's "Chocolate City" for the entire show. The playlist was thus:www.wfmu.org...

which i would much prefer to "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Raindeer."

♥ 3:56pm
pgalub: Hey Roman and everyone. Chiming really late, but sds good and I look forward to more Vendi, Vidi, Vai-nyl. 🎸 ♥ 3:57pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ pgalub @3:56

yay! 🎸 ♥ 3:57pm
Roman Angelos: If only Vai played Italian soundtracks ♥ 3:57pm
Mr Fab: Lunch time! much thankyous Roman. ♥ 3:58pm
pgalub:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:57

Indeed!! 🎸 ♥ 3:58pm
Roman Angelos: Thanks as always everyone, enjoy the weekend 🎸 ♥ 4:00pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:55

hahaha!