Dec. 5, 2018
Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures [a.k.a. Ned Rifle]
Joachim Holbek - "Piano sound (reversed)" - Riget (The Kingdom) [Lars von Trier TV series]
Joachim Holbek - "Piano sound" - Riget (The Kingdom) [Lars von Trier TV series]
Ken - "There are things that you just cannot see"
Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures
John Lawrence - "We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness" - John Carpenter's They Live
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "In Koln (Cologne), Germany (with Alan Watts, Ida, Jon Brion, Schizopolis, Wings of Desire, the wind comes a-howling, David Cronenberg...)" - Koln, Germany: 6/29/09, show #397
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity [Layers]
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - "I don't believe it (The Girl Is Mine)" - Thriller 25th Anniversary [2008 2LP Remaster]
Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t.
Ken - "I appreciate that you've come along. It can be overwhelming and lonely."
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's All Forgotten Now (with phone calls, Explosions in the Sky backwards, Hans Zimmer...)" - It's All Forgotten Now: 2/8/05, show #355 [Chaotic, delightful, and terrifying, all at once. 12th anniversary show. Samples: https://lastever.org/...]
Phone call (the guy) - "Suicide notes: Failed"
Phone call - "20 artists, 4 acts"
Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t. [Loops]
Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing at All (reversed)" - Greatest Hits [Written by Jim Steinman]
Phone call (the guy) - "Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence"
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity
Phone call - "We love you enough to be a part of you. We hate you enough to burn it down."
River Phoenix - "How America treats its homeless. The US has its priorities, a police state, a pressure cooker"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Children's Television Voteshop (brief excerpt)"
Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Tom Tykwer - "(German)" - The Princess and the Warrior
David Wingo, Michael Linnen - All the Real Girls
Bryce Dallas Howard - "Do you wish to know your future?" - Lady in the Water
Phone call (the guy) - "If I showed you a picture of a cat with a monocle smoking a pipe, you'd laugh"
Phone call - "Do you enjoy mushrooms? Do you consider life a pancake?"
Bryan Adams - "Summer of '69" - Reckless [Loops]
Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing at All" - Greatest Hits [Written by Jim Steinman]
Phone call (the guy) - "Horse leaning up against the wall (a crashing cymbal, a symbol of your pancake)"
Noam Chomsky - "Prison Labor (slowed down)" - Free Market Fantasies: Capitalism in the Real World
Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t. [Multi-speed layers]
Bryan Adams - "Summer of '69" - Reckless [Loops]
Bryan Adams - "Summer of '69" - Reckless [Speed loops]
Ken - "It used to be like this a lot more often (taking the good with the bad, food combining)" [You push me out in a little boat, you make it nice and cute, and you say, hey, you're going to a better place now, and we're going to be fine over here. We're going to have our own party when you're gone. We'll remember you at first. And then you'll just be in the leaves]
Phone call - "I heard you were having a party (future Ken lives in the present)" [You didn't need to bring any presence. Do you have any favors? Do you keep your future in a box?]
Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t. [Slow loop]
Ken - "Identification"
Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t. [Speeding loops]
Phone call (the guy) - "Harbinger"
Phone call (possibilitywaves) - "A philosophical question (paying attention with collective consciousness / transcendence is all forms)" [There's room for a lot more than we know.]
Ken - "I ate dinner with Parker Posey (I have a circle I understand how to follow)" [I did not have dinner with Martin Donovan]
Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly, Hal Hartley - "Television makes these daily sacrifices possible; it deadens the inner core of my being" - Trust [Let's move away, then. (They have television everywhere. There's no escape.)]
Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton - "I see other houses, I see other lives, and they're not like mine. They could be." - The House of Yes
Jack Creley, David Cronenberg - "The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye (Soon all of us will have special names, names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate)" - Videodrome [That's why I refuse to appear on television, except ON television.]
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity [Loops]
Harlan Ellison - "tv on in restaurant,makes people stupid,radio wonderful,use brain,muscle atrophies" - Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Orson Welles interview - "TV static"
Harlan Ellison - "If you take their TV away, they'd be on the steps of city hall with shotguns. Nobody likes their dope taken away from them" - Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Clarence Nash - "Donald Duck tax propaganda cartoon" - The Spirit of '43 [Written by Joe Grant]
Phone call (Margaret Tedesco, KUSF in Exile) - "This show is amazing, it makes me think of air traffic control"
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity [More live looping]
Ken - "I enjoy sharing radioactivity (this is the last time that this show will ever air)"
Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity [Continued live looping]
Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer [Ominous loops]
James Coburn - "Americans of all ages submit to television. voluntarily" - Looker [Persuasion without coersion]
Ruth Gordon, Alan Ormsby - "TV is a narcotic" - My Bodyguard
Michael Crichton - "Television captures attention, and takes you away from real life. Everything's neglected. We're all looking at screens, and we're not in the present, we're in the image" - Looker commentary
John Lawrence - "They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. We are being bred for slavery" - John Carpenter's They Live
Peter Sellers - "This is just like television, only you can see much further" - Being There
Richard E. Grant - "The man who conceived of big brother never knew what was coming down the line. He thought his filthy creation would be watching us, but it is us who watch it. Cutting down jungles to breed hamburgers" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising [Their greed is insatiable. They won't be satisfied, not until we're all squatting in a hatchback on a motorway]
David Cronenberg - "Ultimately we did get a television set, and I watched it all the time (Forbidden images, Videodrome)" - The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum - "They're claiming we're having synchronization problems. Signal to noise ratio on downlink" - Into the Night
Ken - "I Want to Step Across (I want to reach the other side of...) (I want to turn visions into actions)" [I want to step across the line between idea and manifestation. But I want there to be room for everything. Life goes on with us or without us.
Suddenly someone comes into the room and wakes us up.]
Phone call - "I have a delivery. They are boxes"
Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures [a.k.a. Ned Rifle]
Ken - "I do really thank you. My mind and spirit are going in all directions"
Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures [Finally plays beyond loop]
Set: 2018 play out
A Diagram of Suburban Chaos - "A Black Day to Freedom" [Not in audio archive]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81687
