Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Audio, 5/11/12: The Decadence of Obsolescence (Charlottesville, VA) (show #432)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza:
The Decadence of Obsolescence (5/11/12, show #432)

(Imagine having my own identity)
Live in Charlottesville, VA @ The Garage, in Tom Tom Founders Festival


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This is the entire show, live, unedited, performed May 11, 2012 5:38:40-6:48:05pm at The Garage, Charlottesville, VA.
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Artist Title Album Year Comment Begin End Length
Playlist complete, in order, with nearly every appearance itemized (sources collaged and layered together simultaneously)
Fleetwood MacSaraTusk1979Loop0:00:000:01:1401:14
Valentino Sound Effects LibraryAir - Air conditionerVolume 80:00:170:03:3803:21
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:01:140:03:3102:17
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:02:230:07:0004:37
DufusAnoukIn Monstrous Attitude20090:02:450:02:5400:09
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:02:590:08:5605:57
DufusAnoukIn Monstrous Attitude20090:03:070:03:1500:08
DufusAnoukIn Monstrous Attitude20090:03:410:03:5400:13
Michael CrichtonTV captures attention,people spend their lives staring at screensLooker (1981) director commentary20070:04:230:04:2800:05
Michael CrichtonTV captures attention,people spend their lives staring at screensLooker (1981) director commentary2007The 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.0:04:400:05:2700:47
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:05:130:05:3300:20
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:05:310:05:4600:15
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:05:430:06:3400:51
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:05:580:07:4201:44
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:06:320:06:5000:18
Jonny GreenwoodOpen SpacesThere Will Be Blood s.t.20070:06:430:12:5706:14
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:06:480:07:0800:20
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:07:060:07:2300:17
DufusAnoukIn Monstrous Attitude20090:07:140:07:4500:31
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:07:390:16:4809:09
Alan WattsIntellectual YogaPhilosophies of Asia0:07:480:07:5100:03
Alan WattsIntellectual YogaPhilosophies of AsiaSo 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.0:07:540:08:1400:20
Big City OrchestraA Child's Garden of NoiseA Child's Garden of Noise1994...I wish there was a sign that said, "noise, please." Yes, maybe there ought to be a sign like that.0:08:190:08:5200:33
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise19980:08:460:10:0901:23
Valentino Sound Effects LibraryAir - Air conditionerVolume 80:09:241:08:5759:33
Gundecha BrothersHum Sab Mahi - Raga BhairaviHum Sab Mahi20090:09:310:20:4211:11
Bill NelsonThe Spirit Cannot FailChance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window1987Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate truth.0:10:120:12:1902:07
Jonny GreenwoodOpen SpacesThere Will Be Blood s.t.20070:10:270:17:5807:31
Jonny GreenwoodOpen SpacesThere Will Be Blood s.t.20070:11:050:11:1500:10
Fleetwood MacEverywhereTango in the Night198811 middle everywhere loop0:11:190:12:1600:57
Pete TownshendYou're So CleverScooped19800:11:450:11:5500:10
Fleetwood MacGypsyMirage1982Gypsy loop0:12:140:12:5300:39
M.On UVA bookstore2012What the guys and girls buy on their parents' accounts, unitemized0:12:440:17:4004:56
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:13:100:19:3606:26
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise19980:14:230:15:0800:45
Orson WellesVideotape TV static0:15:500:22:0206:12
Orson WellesInterviewIf 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.0:16:170:16:3600:19
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:16:450:21:4805:03
Strom CarlsonNV Bell Payphone in Pahrump - March 20042004Telephone recordings0:16:590:18:3101:32
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana BrassMexican Road RaceS.R.O.1966Martin's recording from father's vinyl0:17:290:19:1201:43
Neil DiamondAmericaJazz Singer19840:17:520:20:3702:45
Alan WattsIntellectual YogaPhilosophies of Asia0:18:380:18:4600:08
Holcombe WallerHardlinersInto the Dark Unknown20110:19:000:19:5400:54
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana BrassMexican Road RaceS.R.O.19660:19:130:19:1500:02
Joe JacksonAnother World200101 full double part loop0:20:190:21:4301:24
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:20:460:26:0205:16
Talking HeadsSax and ViolinsPopular Favorites 1984-1992 in the Vaseline19880:21:250:23:4202:17
Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, directorSeason 2, episode 13thirtySomething1989There'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.0:21:570:22:2300:26
Ricky GervaisYou don't need everyone on the planet to like youTime Interview2007More 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 people0:22:270:22:4500:18
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise1998...By saying that everyone likes the grid plan, you're saying I'm going to relive all the mistakes my parents made. I'm going to identify and relive all the sorrows my mother ever lived through. I will propagate and create dysfunctional children in the same disfunctional way that I was raised. I will spread neurosis throughout the landscape and do my best to recreate myself and the damages of my life for the next generation.0:22:510:23:3600:45
Dondero High School A Capella ChoirFox on the RunPop Concert 19961996Sweet cover (1974)0:23:180:25:5102:33
Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, directorSeason 2, episode 13thirtySomething19890:23:480:23:5100:03
Fleetwood MacEverywhereTango in the Night1988Various loops0:23:550:34:1210:17
Orson WellesInterviewI don't believe there is any wisdom in compromise, unless you're a politician. And to the extent that movies are politics, I don't belong in movies. I cannot compromise. When I do something which is compromised, it is poorer than a second-rate director's picture. My pictures don't work at all unless they work my way. It's not because I think they're better that way; they simply fall apart unless they're done my way.0:24:120:24:4800:36
Timothy "Speed" LevitchWorking for a livingThe Cruise1998One of the great tragedies of this experiment called civilization is the fact that people have to work for a living...0:25:180:26:2801:10
Ludwig von BeethovenVariation V Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivaceBeethoven Vol. 8 Cello Sonatas (Maisky - Cello, Argerich - Piano)0:26:500:26:5400:04
Harrison Ford & River Phoenix (actors), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)America is a toiletMosquito Coast1986Look 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.0:27:070:27:3900:32
Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)We eat when we're not hungryMosquito Coast1986We 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.0:27:380:27:5200:14
Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence. Mosquito Coast1986It'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.0:28:100:28:2100:11
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:28:230:31:3903:16
Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)We eat when we're not hungryMosquito Coast19860:28:450:29:2800:43
Steven Jesse BernsteinMore Noise PleasePrison1992..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.0:29:330:30:1800:45
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise1998...the grid plan emanates from our weakness0:30:070:30:5100:44
Joe FrankGrace requires degradationAnother Country Pt. 31986...to have so much beauty, perhaps you have to have this much degradation.0:31:040:31:1000:06
IdaMy Fair, My DarkMy Fair, My Dark2006Various loops0:33:230:36:3403:11
Joe FrankHamburger paper wasteAnother Country Pt. 31986The 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...0:33:480:34:0200:14
FridgeLost TimeThe Sun2007Various loops0:35:350:47:4612:11
Timothy "Speed" LevitchRunning from the cops all my lifeThe Cruise1998...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.0:36:050:36:4800:43
Gundecha BrothersHum Sab Mahi - Raga BhairaviHum Sab Mahi20090:38:430:38:4800:05
DufusAnoukIn Monstrous Attitude20090:39:320:40:0300:31
Belle and SebastianStorytellingStorytelling200202 1st piano loop0:40:090:40:4900:40
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:43:290:43:3300:04
Malcolm ClarkeRomanescan RoutThe Radiophonic Workshop1975Or perhaps 2002 remaster0:45:040:45:4500:41
Bill NelsonThe Spirit Cannot FailChance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window19870:47:120:48:5301:41
Belle and SebastianStorytellingStorytelling200202 1st piano loop0:47:360:48:5901:23
The CarpentersCalling Occupants of Interplanetary CraftPassage1977Like a Disney cult song. Cover of 1976 Klaatu song.0:48:230:50:0801:45
La DusseldorfRheinitaLa Dusseldorf / Viva20050:48:540:50:2701:33
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:49:080:53:1304:05
TotoRosannaToto IV19820:49:570:50:0100:04
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:50:170:52:0101:44
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:50:340:54:4104:07
Malcolm ClarkeRomanescan RoutThe Radiophonic Workshop1975Or perhaps 2002 remaster0:50:460:50:5000:04
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:50:590:51:0800:09
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:51:090:51:5500:46
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20010:51:550:55:2903:34
Simon and GarfunkelThe Sound of SilenceWednesday Morning, 3 A.M.1964Simon only, thanks to Steve Fitch, Dec. 20110:52:220:52:2300:01
Michael CrichtonTV captures attention,people spend their lives staring at screensLooker (1981) director commentary2007The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life.0:52:340:52:4800:14
Fleetwood MacSaraTusk1979Loop0:53:150:53:2900:14
Bill NelsonThe Spirit Cannot FailChance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window19870:53:200:59:5406:34
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartRequiem IntroitusAmadeus s.t.1984Backwards0:54:260:56:1701:51
Fleetwood MacSaraTusk197911 main going loop0:54:411:06:1711:36
Jonny GreenwoodOpen SpacesThere Will Be Blood s.t.20070:56:350:59:5803:23
The FeeliesWhen Company ComesThe Good Earth1986better fast go guitar loop,offset0:57:020:57:0600:04
Neil YoungDown By the RiverEverybody Knows This Is Nowhere1969Various loops0:57:170:59:1501:58
Bob DylanSeries of Dreams1989Various loops0:58:571:03:3504:38
IdaMy Fair, My DarkMy Fair, My Dark200605 short down loop w drum0:59:070:59:5100:44
Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director)I will not apologize for who I amMagnolia1999I will not apologize for what I need, I will not apologize for what I want1:01:231:01:3000:07
Cat StevensIf You Want To Sing Out, Sing OutHarold and Maude s.t.1971Loop1:02:541:04:4701:53
Cat StevensThe WindTeaser and the Firecat / Rushmore s.t.197102 guitar loop1:04:041:04:1300:09
Cat StevensIf You Want To Sing Out, Sing OutHarold and Maude s.t.19711:04:191:05:2501:06
FridgeHarmonicsHappiness20011:05:041:08:5303:49
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise19981:05:331:05:3900:06
Timothy "Speed" LevitchThe grid planThe Cruise19981:06:301:08:3202:02
KenLive ambient street sound20121:08:531:09:2500:32
Working Titles:and do my best to recreate myself
looking at screens
self-induced schizophrenia
the grid plan
why sell a man what he wants?
the decadence of obsolescence
I'm going to keep running
keep running
aligning herself with this civilization
i can't imagine changing my mind on anything
i can't imagine having my own identity
imagine having my own identity
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