The Decadence of Obsolescence + 2013 lost episode (Show #432/#483 as #728)
Set: The Decadence of Obsolesence Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Decadence of Obsolesence" - Show #432, from May 11, 2012 [Live in a garage across from a park, summerish afternoon in Charlottesville. Playlist follows:] Fleetwood Mac - "Sara" - Tusk [Loop] Valentino Sound Effects Library - "Air - Air conditioner" - Volume 8 Fridge - "Harmonics" - Happiness Dufus - "Anouk" - In Monstrous Attitude La Dusseldorf - "Rheinita" - La Dusseldorf / Viva Michael Crichton - "TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens" - Looker director commentary [The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life. I think it's become more true as a quality of human attention, that not necessarily so much for television, but I sometimes think that more and more of humankind spends their days looking at screens. Meanwhile, kids are neglected, spouses are neglected, relationships, families, everything's neglected, we're looking at the screen. And whether it's the internet now, or whether it's DVD's, iPods, whatever it is, we're not, we're not in the present; we're in the image.] Pete Townshend - "You're So Clever" - Scooped Jonny Greenwood - "Open Spaces" - There Will Be Blood s.t. Alan Watts - "Intellectual Yoga" - Philosophies of Asia [So long as you can be pursuaded that there's something more that you ought to be than you are, you've divided yourself from reality, from the universe, from god, or whatever you want to call that.] Big City Orchestra - "A Child's Garden of Noise" - A Child's Garden of Noise [...I wish there was a sign that said, "noise, please." Yes, maybe there ought to be a sign like that.] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "The grid plan" - The Cruise Gundecha Brothers - "Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi" - Hum Sab Mahi Bill Nelson - "The Spirit Cannot Fail" - Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window [Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate truth.] Fleetwood Mac - "Everywhere" - Tango in the Night [Loop] Fleetwood Mac - "Gypsy" - Mirage [Loop] Mikey - "On college bookstore" [What the guys and girls buy on their parents' accounts, unitemized] Orson Welles - "Videotape TV static" Orson Welles - "Interview" [If they don't like what you do, really...I was going to show them that they were wrong, and I've spent the rest of my life showing people, trying to prove that what is said is wrong, and that's been an enormous waste of spirit and of energy.] Strom Carlson - "NV Bell Payphone in Pahrump - March 2004" [Telephone recordings] Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Mexican Road Race" - S.R.O. [Martin's recording from father's vinyl] Holcombe Waller - "Hardliners" - Into the Dark Unknown Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Joe Jackson - "Another World" - Night and Day [Loop] Talking Heads - "Sax and Violins" - Until the End of the World soundtrack Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, director - "No matter what you do, there's going to be a price (Learn to compromise)" - thirtysomething: Season 2, Episode 13 [There's a price, no matter what you do, there's going to be a price. So, you know what you do? You find out what's important and you make boxes. And in this box, you have what it takes to work with somebody like Miles, and in this box, you have what you take home to Janey and to Hope, that's how you get through. So, that's the key to happiness, a little self-induced schizophrenia? ... You want to have a life here, today, then pick your fights and learn to compromise.] Ricky Gervais - "You don't need everyone on the planet to like you" - Time Interview [More people hate it than like it. Obviously. Luckily, you don't need everyone on the planet to like you. So, you do it for you and like-minded people] Dondero High School A Capella Choir - "Fox on the Run" - Pop Concert 1996 [Sweet cover (1974)] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Working for a living" - The Cru
