Favoriting Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from July 31, 2013 Favoriting

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Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.] (Visit homepage.)

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Favoriting July 31, 2013: (Show #465) Tired of hitting butterflies (Reminders to do less)

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Artist Track Album Year Format Comments New / Special Approx. start time
Clint Mansell (Featuring Kronos Quartet)  Summer Overture   Favoriting Requiem For A Dream    WAV  Loops  * ***   0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Give the Drummer Radio live stream   Favoriting   2013  MP3    * ***   0:00:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Back and Forth   Favoriting Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin  2003  MP3  http://lastever.org  * ***   0:04:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  2001: A War Odyssey   Favoriting 2001: A War Odyssey: 10/1/03, show #272, on KOOP Austin  2003  MP3    * ***   0:05:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy   Favoriting Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy: 5/24/05, show #366  2005  WAV  I think the cat just fell: Should I go (a way)?  * ***   0:13:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV  Loops  * ***   0:14:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Bowie  Starman (a cappella)   Favoriting Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars    MP3    * ***   0:16:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Bowie  Starman (a cappella)   Favoriting Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars    MP3    ***   0:17:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Back and Forth (entire show) (128s)   Favoriting Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin  2003  MP3    ***   0:18:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV    * ***   0:21:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV    * ***   0:22:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV    ***   0:22:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV    * ***   0:23:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  An Attempt to Tip the Scales   Favoriting Fevers And Mirrors  2000  WAV    ***   0:24:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Watts  Not What Should Be, but What Is   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:31:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Watts  Identical differences   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:34:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Kenney  The Early Risers   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:39:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Kenney  The Early Risers   Favoriting     MP3    ***   0:39:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Kenney  The Early Risers   Favoriting     MP3    ***   0:39:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Kenney  The Early Risers   Favoriting     MP3    ***   0:39:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Phillip K Dick  Part 10 of 21   Favoriting Interviews    MP3    * ***   0:40:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Charlie Kaufman  Master Class   Favoriting GIFF 2011  2011  MP3    * ***   0:41:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Back and Forth   Favoriting Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin  2003  MP3    ***   0:44:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gavin Bryars  Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings   Favoriting The Sinking Of The Titanic  1994  WAV    * ***   0:44:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Watts  The Silent Mind   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:46:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
              0:46:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Watts  The Silent Mind   Favoriting     MP3    ***   0:47:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gavin Bryars  Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings   Favoriting The Sinking Of The Titanic  1994  WAV    ***   0:49:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George Harrison  Room Conversation (Excerpts)   Favoriting Chant & Be Happy! Indian Devotional Songs  1991  MP3    * ***   0:50:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Please Call Stella  english4   Favoriting Accents (Please call Stella...)    MP3    * ***   0:51:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Please Call Stella  english4   Favoriting Accents (Please call Stella...)          0:52:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gavin Bryars  Hymn II   Favoriting The Sinking Of The Titanic  1994  WAV    * ***   0:56:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Please Call Stella  arabic11   Favoriting Accents (Please call Stella...)          1:05:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  None of This is What I Intended   Favoriting None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365  2005  WAV    * ***   1:06:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jim Connelley  Dragonriders of Pern videogame music (SID rip)   Favoriting Dragonriders of Pern for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx  1983    Book by Anne McCaffrey. Software development by The Connelley Group    1:06:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  None of This is What I Intended   Favoriting None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365  2005  WAV  Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity.  ***   1:07:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Polyphonic Spree  Light & Day   Favoriting The Beginning Stages of...    WAV  Loops  * ***   1:08:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gavin Bryars  Coda   Favoriting The Sinking Of The Titanic  1994  WAV    * ***   1:14:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gavin Bryars  Hymn II   Favoriting The Sinking Of The Titanic  1994  WAV    ***   1:15:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Series of Dreams   Favoriting     WAV  Loops  * ***   1:20:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Insect sounds  polyphylla   Favoriting Digitized Insect Sounds    WAV    * ***   1:34:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Telephone sounds  Vintage telephone network sounds part 1   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   1:39:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Richard Nixon  Moon Walk - Phone Call From President Nixon   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   1:40:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Quiet American  Field recordings from China   Favoriting   2001  MP3    * ***   1:40:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kaveh Soofi  Gamelan squelch   Favoriting On- Minute Vacations  2002  MP3  Gamelan performance, Ubud palace ensemble- A light, misting rain falls during a performance of the Legong, shorting out the small amp used by an elderly member of the gamelan ensemble. Tortured squelches narrate the actions of the dancers...  * ***   1:42:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Collin Orthner  One-minute vacation for January 21, 2008   Favoriting   2008  MP3  Twenty ten-or-tweleve-year-old hockey players on the ice after the final whistle is blown on their practice, in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.  * ***   1:42:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Aaron Ximm  One-minute vacation for April 30, 2007   Favoriting One Minute Vacations  2007  MP3  Walking on slate from the collapsed roof and partially caved in walls of an abandoned chapel destroyed by fire, on a hillside near Nodar, Portugal.  * ***   1:43:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daryl Richel  One-minute vacation for March 27, 2006   Favoriting   2006  MP3  Bull-driven water well 'singing' in Gogunda, Rajasthan, India.  * ***   1:45:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Chris Owens  Reading Market   Favoriting One-Minute Vacations  2002  MP3  Recorded one Saturday morning (19 October 2002, 11:00 AM) while I was walking through the market near my home in Reading, UK, Ion a Sony MZ-R30 using a Soundman OKM-II binaural headset... This kind of traditional market is fast disappearing in parts of the UK, being replaced with "shops outdoors". I found the woman calling "Come on help yourself where you like - you can't do that everywhere" intriguing. She was referring to customers selecting their own fruit and vegetables from the stall, rather than being given what they were given. This market is a mix of more traditional produce stalls (fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, etc) and guys selling mobile phones, software, CDs and so on.  * ***   1:47:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)


Listener comments!

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duke:

Hello Kenzo and listenerz
  2:03pm
Bliss:

Hello.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Uncle Michael:

I feel like I'm hovering an inch and a half above the seat of my office chair.
Avatar 2:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

all there here hear?
  2:04pm
Bliss:

I hear it perfectly. WFMU
Avatar 2:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

good, i hear it too
Avatar 2:06pm
Snortley:

Show's playing fine in the pop-up player, but GTD robot's still on the MP3 stream here.
Avatar 2:06pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

stop and restart gtds
  2:07pm
Bliss:

wfmu mp3 is fine here
Avatar 2:07pm
Snortley:

Tried that. Didn't work.
Avatar 2:08pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

well try a different gtds then
Avatar 2:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...is this when LindaBlair in Exorcist takes a nap?
Avatar 2:09pm
Snortley:

Ah. Now it's working.
Avatar 2:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- fine in iTunes.
Avatar 2:13pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I remember during 1st Bush 1st GulfWar having nightmares of track ATVs treading thru thick petroleum fire purgatories - pure Mordor...
Avatar 2:17pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

this time you call: 434-971-8678
Avatar 2:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- because Ganja is Prohibited in U.S. it can't be researched - but in Israel they have found that it has chemicals like the natural ones in the brain that help us forget. Big surprise, sure - but some people can't forget - a disorder - every ugly face on the subway...PTSD is a sort-of inability to Forget. It also struck me as key to the nature of the Psychedelic Experience: Not best for memorizing something new - but good for a clean slate creatively - & for stepping right out of yourself - forgetting yourSelf - & seeing things from two feet to one side, as it were...
- But yes - how do we remember not to forget what we know everyone should really remember...& then you die (?)...
  2:20pm
Bliss:

lyrics of a new song:
Everyone ages.
All changes.
Avatar 2:24pm
kat330:

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Avatar 2:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I got that lowdown about pot from the great Michael Pollan's 'Botany of Desire' :
www.pbs.org...
video.pbs.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:30pm
listener james from westwood:

stuck on conf call but listening in background! howdy kenzo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
listener james from westwood:

whoo! call done, can now listen full blast!
Avatar 2:34pm
kat330:

Anyone else had a natural mystical experience—no ganja, no LSD, no drugs of any sort?
  2:36pm
Bliss:

@kat330
Yes.
Avatar 2:37pm
kat330:

Ah, that would explain your name then.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
listener james from westwood:

ah, alan watts, long an fmu fave.
thanks, by the way, for the subdivisions on the wfmu recent program page that now list the programs by the stream they aired on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
Ike:

@kat330, yes, while listening to FMU. Rarely, something seriously cosmic will materialize and send me on a crazy trip.
Avatar 2:43pm
kat330:

@Ike: I'd think you might have had such while hiking, too. I had some wonderful, mystical experiences in Yosemite, for e.g.
Avatar 2:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- sure, Meditation - but only after taking LSD. Prob. got close to it in remote youth - just from reading about it & contemplation. For example - read Huxley (& say, Jung) before taking Psychedelics - 'Cosmic Consciousness' by Richard M. Bucke I think
...but all of this - drugs included - so very long ago. (Bucke makes correlation w/ Youthfulness in most cases.)
- Now - in mid-life in 21st Century - it's just what Huxley laid out in 'Heaven & Hell'. I just wanna be HomerSimpson - work (well, I must - Stimulants), come home, get naked, Forget/ - anaesthetize...
  2:44pm
Bliss:

393-6101 (Great grandma elliott?)
  2:45pm
Bliss:

Everyone in the city had the same area code.
We never dialed that, or thought about it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Ike:

Kat, maybe once or twice while hiking, but not recently. It's great but not usually transcendent.
Avatar 2:46pm
kat330:

867-5309 (Jenny)
Avatar 2:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- then from Mysticism
- to Metaphysics & later Magick...
Avatar 2:47pm
kat330:

We were camped right at the edge of the Merced River, and I happened to be reading Philip Jose Farmer's "River" series. Cosmic.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- sure - Nature. Getting Out of one's Trap correlates to getting Out of one's Mind.
Avatar 2:50pm
kat330:

Heh, yeah, that other SF Philip is pretty cosmic, too. Michael Bishop called him the cosmic beefsteak tomato orbiting the Earth.
Avatar 2:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

i don't remember
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:50pm
Doug Schulkind:

I dismember.
Avatar 2:52pm
kat330:

Whatever kind of satellite Dick is, he's responsible for Philo and me meeting one another.
  2:52pm
Bliss:

Don't dis the ember.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Ritual & Ceremonial Magick seem to be mostly about changing one's Consciousness thru Focus & *something* like Trance
- by which I do not mean to negate it: I just refer to Jung saying Archetypes are Living as well as Archaic, & leave it @ that...
- Watts had to Work & Drank as well...
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kat330:

And then there's the blissful moment when it washes over you, unbidden and beautiful. "Have you ever been experienced?" "Beautiful."
  3:00pm
Bliss:

By the time you get there, getting there is no longer the goal.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- TheBeatles sure figured that out.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Taoism: When something comes to Fullness - it becomes its' Opposite.
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kat330:

I believe I first heard the Watts' lectures when in Boston in the mid-70's. Never missed a broadcast.
Avatar 3:06pm
kat330:

And balances.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
northguineahills:

For the next time, can I just leave my phone open and add office ambiance?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Rich in Washington:

KLERE is safe with most medications.
Avatar 3:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

northguineahills: yes and do it now!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
fred:

Please call Stella!!! I remember that Kenny G show. I even listened to it again. I was surprised that nobody at work had heard of it (a bunch of them work on voice)
Avatar 3:14pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I did it before he did I think. lastever.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
fred:

He beat you to it: wfmu.org... Though of course he just played as much of the database as he could for three hours
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
northguineahills:

Busy for a second, will do... can you type the #?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
northguineahills:

Kat's here!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Rich in Washington:

I have never heard of this Stella business.
Avatar 3:22pm
kat330:

Well, I was. Then I left. But now I'm back. [I've made brief walk-ons before, but no one noticed. Stealth cabbit.]
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
fred:

@Rich: The sentences contains all English phonemes. It's been recorded by speakers from different places to create a research database used to study accents
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
northguineahills:

I only have the WFMU #s on my phone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
Rich in Washington:

Yeah, I was just now looking at it. I do hope Stella brings a toy frog for the kids.
Avatar 3:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

434-971-8678 live on air
Avatar 3:28pm
kat330:

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
fred:

@Rich: It's there, but I don't have to right plugins to check it's accessible: accent.gmu.edu
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Rich in Washington:

I played one of them from my region and am horrified by how my accent must sound, now.
Avatar 3:33pm
kat330:

Just saw "Warm Bodies" last weekend. Its conceit was that zombies get to have the memories of the brains they eat.
Avatar 3:34pm
kat330:

The cicadas are really loud and aggressive where you are.
  3:46pm
Bliss:

G.G. Elliott's phone number was part of a party line--where neighbors shared one phone line.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Rich in Washington:

I just found a Wally Schirra/Mercury 7 7" record the other day.
Avatar 3:47pm
kat330:

Phone sounds: tinyurl.com...
  3:47pm
Bliss:

What a dumb speech by "Mr. President".
Avatar 3:53pm
kat330:

Adieu.
Avatar 3:54pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

thank you thank you thank you
  3:55pm
Bliss:

Did that seem fast to anyone else?
  3:56pm
Bliss:

Good show, Kenzo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Ken, I had fun calling in while working.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks Kenzo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Rich in Washington:

Thank you Kenzo!
Amazing!
Avatar 11:34am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Archive should be up by Friday. Check out last week's archive if you can't wait: lastever.org...
Or the podcast: lastever.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
fred:

I'm not sure, but I'm tending toward thinking The Sinking of the Titanic might be the best music ever recorded, in part because of what Kenzo did with it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
fred:

Kenzo, you devil, this is a worthwhile challenge.
Avatar 2:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

What is the challenge?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
fred:

The one-minute vacation clips were even more awesome when put in the context of the full show. I miss seeing you live, it's amazing that you can do *this* without the comfort of an edit.... I saw you do it though, but once isn't enough to believe it
Avatar 6:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Well, that's what I hoped you meant. Yeah, it's kind of impossible what I'm doing. And I keep being reminded that almost nobody believes it. Someone asked to sit in on my show last week and watch. So at least he believes it now.

In fact, I don't believe it. I video the process so I can go back and watch if I ever doubt.
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