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 Cruise [One of the great tragedies of this experiment called civilization is the fact that people have to work for a living...] Ludwig von Beethoven - "Variation V Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivace" - Beethoven Vol. 8 Cello Sonatas (Maisky - Cello, Argerich - Piano) Harrison Ford & River Phoenix (actors), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay) - "America is a toilet" - Mosquito Coast [Look around you. How did America get this way? Land of promise, land of opportunity. Give us the wretched refuse of your teaming shores. Have a Coke, watch TV, have a nice day, go on welfare, get free money, turn to crime (crime pays in this country). Why do they put up with it? Why do they keep coming? Look around you, Charlie: This place is a toilet.] Harrison Ford & River Phoenix (actors), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay) - "We eat when we're not hungry" - Mosquito Coast [We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty, we buy what we don't need, and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong, wrong, wrong.] Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay) - "It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence." - Mosquito Coast [It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence. Why do things get worse and worse? They don't have to; they can get better and better. We accept that things fall apart, but they don't have to. Things can last forever.] Steven Jesse Bernstein - "More Noise Please" - Prison [..can't live without all this goddamn noise. Maybe I need the noise to write poems, make love and eat. I'm going to hang a sign out my window that says, "more noise, please," or, "thank you for making noise." Maybe we are the kind of people who need to have what we don't want just to get along, to do the basic things... Myself, I could not sleep last night. I could not close the window, either. I tried to tear the window out of its frame.] Joe Frank - "Grace requires degradation" - Another Country Pt. 3 [...to have so much beauty, perhaps you have to have this much degradation] Ida - "My Fair, My Dark" - My Fair, My Dark [Loops] Joe Frank - "Hamburger paper waste" - Another Country Pt. 3 [The hamburger is made. 30 seconds later it's been wrapped in paper, which is put in a box. 15 seconds later, that box has been put in a bag with a napkin, and 10 minutes after that, the bag...] Fridge - "Lost Time" - The Sun [Loops] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Running from the cops all my life" - The Cruise [...According to them I was running from the cops for a month before they caught up to me. ...and I felt like a fugitive. But you know what? Every day I feel like a fugitive. It never occurred to them that I am running from the anti-cruise every day. And when I was up in front of the judge for my arraignment, the judge said my biggest problem with this case is that this guy, this current person we're judging, ran from the police for a month. And if I could've spoken, of course I wasn't allowed to speak, I would've said, it's been a lot more than a month. I've been running from you people all my life, all my life, and I'm going to keep running.] Ken - "My grandmother told me I was a very good child, I was very quiet" Dufus - "Anouk" - In Monstrous Attitude Belle and Sebastian - "Storytelling" - Storytelling Ken - "Scary to make without knowing what you're making" Malcolm Clarke - "Romanescan Rout" - The Radiophonic Workshop [Or perhaps 2002 remaster] 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.] The Carpenters - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" - Passage [Like a Disney cult song. Cover of 1976 Klaatu song.] Toto - "Rosanna" - Toto IV Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence" - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. [Simon only, thanks to Steve Fitch, Dec. 2011] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Requiem Introitus" - Amadeus s.t. [Backwards] The Feelies - "When Company Comes" - The Good Earth [Guitar loop] Neil Young - "Down By the River" - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [Loops] Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" - The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 [Loops. Recorded March 23, 1989] Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director) - "I will not apologize for who I am" - Magnolia [I will not apologize for what I need, I will not apologize for what I want] Cat Stevens - "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" - Harold and Maude s.t. [Loop] Cat Stevens - "The Wind" - Teaser and the Firecat / Rushmore s.t. [Guitar loop] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "The grid plan" - The Cruise [Can't imagine having my own identity] Ken - "Live ambient street sound" Set: Lost episode from November 2013 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Lost episode from November 2013" - Show #483, from Nov. 8, 2013 Keith Fullerton Whitman - "Roxy Music-More Than This (1982)" - Greatest Hits (2003-) Kraftwerk - "Autobahn" - Autobahn Ken - "Soundchecking" Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer William Shatner - "AT&T Microworld" ? - "Discovering Electronic Music Part 2" - Discovering Electronic Music George Lucas - "Themes put in different contexts, character put into situation, decision to leave, take step beyond" - The Making of American Graffiti W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" - My So-Called Life s.t. Ken - "It's like a stand-up comedy routine, without the comedy" Claire Danes - "She's looking for someone to blame" - My So-Called Life (Pilot) Sam Harris - "Death and the Present Moment" [Even if you play your game perfectly, you're going to witness the death of everyone you love. There's no satisfying way to hold onto the past.] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Co-existentialism (holding your breadth)" - Show #482, from Nov.
