#seven second delay

[look-aat-prettybooks]

Between my last post on Hidden Enemy and now, I’ve finished 4 more books.  Taking Back Forever, Death Has a Daughter, Nearly Found, & Sweet.

Still 4 books behind but I’m working on it.  Currently reading Seven Second Delay and when I’m done with that, The Fate of Ten.  (I’d be reading The Fate of Ten already but Seven Second Delay is a library checkout so there’s a time limit.)  Can’t wait to see what Pittacus Lore has in store for me next.

[jwgh]

WFMU's a freeform radio station in Jersey City, and I'm a fan of an experimental talk show they have called 'Seven Second Delay', whose hosts are Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman. They're funny guys; Andy used to write for Saturday Night Live -- he wrote the 'White Like Me' Eddie Murphy sketch -- and he also had an incarnation as a humorous folk singer. (His song 'Railroad Bill' is part of my repertoire.) The show isn't for everyone, but I find its flawed implementations of half-baked ideas to be frequently hilarious.

So last Friday I went down to WFMU in Jersey City for 'Seven Second Delay's Almost Amateur Hour', where I and a dozen and a half other Seven Second Delay listeners were given two minutes and thirty-five seconds each to perform. There was also a similar number of judges, mostly WFMU DJs. When I got there, frazzled and burnt out from the long drive, and 20 minutes after I was supposed to check in, I found Ken to tell him I had finally arrived. He told me:

"OK. You're on after the juggler. After everyone's done performing, the results will be tabulated. The performers will all then vote on who their favorite judge was. Once the winners have been announced, we'll call all the performers to the stage, we'll start up the smoke machine, and everyone will sing 'I Shall Be Released'. You'll then find yourself descending into a state of true peace and contentment for the first time in your life."

I thought to myself: Clearly, some of that is a joke, but which parts?  To find out the answer to that question, and to see which performer and which judge were picked as the best, tune in tonight on wfmu.org from 6-7:40 pm!

You never know what you're going to get with a random assemblage of seventeen or eighteen performers, but I was really impressed -- pretty much everyone on the bill ranged from good to excellent. And there was a large, enthusiastic crowd. It was a really fun night, and almost worth the hour I spent crawling down the West Side Highway to the Holland Tunnel to get there. I was on thirteenth (after the juggler).

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[micolithe]

"you could put a pizza sticker on some bananas!"

--Ken Freedman, Station Manager of WFMU in Jersey City, NJ

[jdalton]

Seven Second Delay on WFMU 5/30/12 at  The UCB Theatre

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JUDAH FRIEDLANDER judahfriedlander.com/  ... actor/comedian known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance ... plays Frank Rossitano on 30 Rock, one of the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan ... author of How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS www.theymightbegiants.com/  ... an original band from Brooklyn, founded by John Flansburgh and John Linnell ... they have won two Grammys, and are celebrating 30 years as a band this year ... their new full-length release is called Album Raises New and Troubling Questions from Idlewild Recordings DAVID REES www.mnftiu.cc/  ... artisanal pencil sharpener ... author of How To Sharpen Pencils ... former political cartoonist, whose work appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, The Nation, Harper's, and many other publications