WFMU: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from March 28, 2018

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Allowing the past to carry me (Unopened packages)	Show #496, from Jan. 8, 2014	2014	Full original source sample listing
Erik Satie (rearranged by Johnny Mandel)	Gnossienne #5	Being There	1979	Layers	0:00:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erik Satie	Gnossiennes No. 4 & 5				0:04:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jon Brion	Theme	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Loops	0:05:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erik Satie (rearranged by Johnny Mandel)	Gnossienne #5 (reversed)	Being There	1979		0:06:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	We still go around		2014		0:09:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jon Brion	Theme (reversed)	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Loops	0:15:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Creley	The battle for the mind of North American will be fought in the video arena	Videodrome	1983	The television is the retina of the mind's eye. Director/Writer: David Cronenberg.	0:17:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Creley	Your reality is already half video hallucination. You'll have to learn to live in a strange new world	Videodrome	1983	Director/Writer: David Cronenberg	0:21:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland	What was it you were thinking about?	Ordinary People	1980	When?	0:22:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton	Have you thought about calling that doctor?	Ordinary People	1980	(Car door, garage) Trouble sleeping? How was the show? The plan was, if I needed to call him. You OK?	0:24:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Cronenberg	Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place that had great resonance for you	The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (1x10)	1999		0:32:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brian Eno	Variation #2 on Canon in D major	Discreet Music			0:33:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	Sound of Silence (Art Garfunkel only)				0:36:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	Sound of Silence (Paul Simon only)				0:37:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Creley	The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye	Videodrome	1983	Soon, all of us will have special names. Names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate. Director/Writer: David Cronenberg	0:39:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephin Merritt	One April Day	Pieces of April	2003	In reference to Rewrite Your Agreement With Reality	0:45:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Hawking	Conclusion	A Brief History of Time 11			0:49:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bennett Theissen	Resurrect	The Chill Room	2013		0:51:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Watts	Jesus His Religion or The Religion About Him				0:53:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Kornfield	AtEtL - 07-12	After the Ecstasy, the Laundry	2000		0:57:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Kornfield	AtEtL - 08-12	After the Ecstasy, the Laundry	2000		0:57:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Kornfield	AtEtL - 04-12	After the Ecstasy, the Laundry	2000		0:58:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jello Biafra	Become the Media	Become the Media (Disc 3)	2000		0:58:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jello Biafra	Frankenfood Lanscape: Where are we going?	Become the Media (Disc 3)	2000	Genetically mutilated food	0:59:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robert Anton Wilson	Live Boulder, Colorado Feb. 28, 1986	Live Boulder, Colorado Feb. 28, 1986	1986		1:01:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jello Biafra	Frankenfood Lanscape: Where are we going?	Become the Media (Disc 3)	2000	Genetically mutilated food	1:01:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Do things feel different now?		2014		1:02:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephin Merritt	One April Day	Pieces of April	2003		1:06:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robert Anton Wilson	Jumping Jesus Phenomenon Side B	Jumping Jesus Phenomenon (live Feb. 29, 1986 Denver)	1986		1:06:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Radio Moscow	Titov610805		1961		1:06:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Radio Moscow	Radio Moscow Announces Sputnik Launch				1:07:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
NASA	1st Closeup Account of Moon's Surface			A vast, lonely, forbidding existence, or vast clouds of nothing. The moon doesn't appear to be a very inviting place to live or work	1:07:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bee Gees	More Than a Woman	Saturday Night Fever soundtrack	1977		1:10:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	I Believe (our favorite children)	Show #473, from Sept. 18, 2013	2013	Samples & audio: http://lastever.org/show/130918	1:12:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Rewrite Your Agreement with Reality	Show #314, from May 18, 2004	2004	Audio \| Playlist Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, etc.	1:14:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Aimee Mann	You Do			Loop	1:15:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Rewrite Your Agreement with Reality	Show #314, from May 18, 2004	2004	Some talking heads and loops	1:19:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Allowing the past to carry me. Do you build models in your head? Unopened packages. Taking your memories to your grave. Bring people the things they need.		2014	The Monologue	1:19:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Aimee Mann	You Do			Loop	1:44:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kenneth W. Arnold	Dungeon	Ultima IV - C64	1985	Commodore 64, SID chip	1:45:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kenneth W. Arnold	Shrines	Ultima IV - C64	1985		1:47:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kenneth W. Arnold	Merchant	Ultima IV - C64	1985		1:48:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Backannounce, with Jon Brion (here's a great thing to do with the time)		2014		1:49:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jon Brion	Theme, layered	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Loops	1:56:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Here! (we go)

5:05pm fred:

Hello Kenzo and time-shifters. I won't last long today: three shows in the past two days, three more in the next two. I need to sleep at some point in between

5:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@fred Is that a dare?

5:10pm Timeshift pacific standard simon:

Plugged in.

5:11pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

Dropped out

5:11pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

I always thought Gnossienne sounded like a French chicken/potato dish.

5:12pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I do want more no thing.

5:12pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

shuffling cats moths brooms and watery candlelight lanterns and street glowings : )

5:13pm Rich in Washington:

hi Kenzo! Dropping in to see me dropping out.

5:13pm Timeshift Carmichael:

Speaking of streams, pardon me for a few minutes.

5:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hi, nowRich!

5:14pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

There. I fixed me.

5:15pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

I deleted FB and Mess-enger on my phone and now I have a hard time remembering when things happen.

5:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

580-496=84 shows since

5:18pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

why don't I own this movie?

5:20pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich Because it would be too dangerous to look directly at it

5:20pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Helllllloooooooooooo pacific standard simon, listener james from westwood, Rich in Washington, Bliss, kat330, streaming Carmichael, and quiet and future friends!

5:20pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

right. It bites.

5:21pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

#deleteeverything

5:21pm fred:

I miss kat330

5:22pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

What was it you were thinking about?

5:23pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I miss Mary Tyler Moore

5:23pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

Yes, the bass cycle feels like a root vegetable : ) watching one grow underground somehow

5:23pm Timeshift Bliss:

It justgets bigger and bigger under the surface of the Earth....then......it's done.

5:24pm Timeshift earrie:

Pff and no bother. Glad to know it wasn't a dead-end send.

5:29pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

isn't that midnight oil gone by now?

5:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

How can we dance?

5:30pm Timeshift nanantatee:

i must notve been very careful

5:30pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

To remind me or perhaps yourself later about coming back for more of these live collages, you can click the star in the very far left upper corner of this page!

5:32pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

despite some of its anachronistic framing premises, the idea of Videodrome is really timely, now.

5:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Is your reality already half video hallucination?

5:38pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

it is eerie the connectivity between sounds of silence and the mini-screen "revolution"

5:39pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Today is mutated pianos.

5:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Soon, all of us will have special names. Names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.

5:46pm Bliss:

Can I stop in for a bit and listen?

5:46pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

I'd rather be a mutated piano than a member of homo-smartphonicus, slouching towards oblivion.

5:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich Nice oblivion reference

5:46pm Timeshift Bliss:

More and more people are asking for their employees to own one....I guess.
I have had no phone, even woth a bell, fo ten years. Just a voice mail service.
Now I use google to call out---which is gross, of couse.
Needing a smartphone and having to be willing to send "tons" of texts is ......... I fell speechless.

5:48pm Bliss:

Now I have one that texts and calls.

5:48pm Bliss:

It's off a lot.

5:48pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You'll have to learn to live in a very strange, new world.

5:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Stephin Merritt + Stephen Hawking + Eternal Sunshine + Alan Watts + Jack Kornfield + Jello Biafra

5:49pm Bliss:

I refuse.

5:49pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

the body will wither, with only nerves connected to genitals and two texting thumbs.

5:50pm Bliss:

Anyway, here we are.

5:50pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

then, also overall the mysterious ways that our holding back can be from nature, waiting until the needed times to bloom or shelter

5:51pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

``with you standing here, i can tell the world what it means to love`` today is a special song : ) (any meaning that can take)

5:52pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

Me texting is like watching a cat with a piece of tape stuck to its paw. It's only cute for a while.

5:53pm Timeshift David:

On this cold night, not knowing who or what is responsible for this degree of degrees, not knowing how much wood to leave in the woodstove before retiring, I know that I am glad that we are all here.

5:55pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

Ken thank you most deeply for your night paintings also!! i'm realising that what you share is one of the most friendly and approachable concerts/live artwork fullness. most concerts include needed but present separations! only a few other artists (known to me) help ease this boundary and you know them too! : ) :)

5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Do things feel different now?

6:02pm northguineahills:

Would you eat genetically mutilated food over genitally mutilated food?

6:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@ngh Your best entrance yet

6:04pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Scientists tend to think science is the answer, because they're usually particularly shielded from non-tech warmth, and because it's intellectually tempting.

6:06pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

dang it. You and your hiatuses. What is the plural of hiatus, anyway?

6:07pm Scraps deSelby:

"non-tech warmth"?

6:08pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

doesn't appear to be a very inviting place to live or work

6:08pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Scraps Thanks for adopting us. Now go find some non-tech warmth

6:09pm Timeshift Kurt Gottschalk:

i'm not sure it's accurate to say that any day of the week i'm listening to the archives. i mean, truth be told i rarely listen to archives. but it's certainly possible that i could. however it's far from true that any day of the week i might be found listening to the archives. that's just hyperbolic. anyway, good show.

6:09pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

It sounds like Bob and Ray in the command module.

6:10pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

hey folks, i'm a relatively new listener to the radio extravaganza. is the "i'm quitting soon" thing kenzo's schtick (thus the name of the show)? or is he really thinking about calling it a day?

6:10pm Scraps deSelby:

Okay, sure. Bye!

6:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich Did they talk about nothingness, or just nothing?

6:11pm northguineahills:

empirically based science w/ a peer-reviewed community is almost always the best way to describe reality, but it reinforces the community's own subjective biases. What seems nonsensical, 'magical' today, may be proven by tomorrow's science (see quantum physics). That said, I'm skeptical of much New Agesisms (except the music, I dig that), but in the words of Socrates, "the only thing I know, is that I know nothing".

6:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Scraps, we hardly knew ye

6:11pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

we just always enjoy each show like it's Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza.

6:11pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

and any advice for a new listener? should i start old and follow the march of time? travel backwards? hop around?

6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

When you were babies, you knew who you were.

6:12pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

was that Timeshifted Kenzo talking about going on hiatus or non-shifted Kenzo telling us about it?

6:13pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

By the way, Suicide is Painless was written by Johnny Mandel, who arranged the piano piece heard at the beginning of the show.

6:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich Hm, I guess we could ask him

6:14pm northguineahills:

@Rich: in our reality, it's all one of the same.

6:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Fahrenheit 451

6:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

+ Wayne Dyer + Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields

6:16pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Aimee Mann + Stephen Hawking + Wayne Dyer

6:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

+ Deepak Chopra

6:18pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

overlaying in... mother stands for comfort!! and it is sounding mysterious... : ) i love the whistling forest wisps

6:20pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Mike Noble: Follow your march of time. They go in order except they all refer forward and backwards. You can enjoy many paths. But definitely do a few to appreciate the multipath nature.

6:21pm Timeshift Kenzo in third person:

He is definitely thinking of calling it a day, although he is also aware of his own history. He does remember a few times he really did quit.

6:21pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

letting go.
allowing the past to carry me

6:22pm Timeshift Bliss:

You can quit and come back if you like.
You can change your mind and not quit, then reconsider and quit.
You can do whatever you like.
Yae!

6:22pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Who else keeps unopened packages around?

6:22pm Timeshift Kenzo as self help:

He really needs to slow it down to make room for a few other things, like breathing and sleeping.

6:23pm Timeshift pacific standard simon:

I reject your reality, and substitute my own!

6:23pm Timeshift Bliss:

You can use me as a reference.

6:23pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I have a tendency towards self-reference.

6:24pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I have a tendency towards self-deprecance.

6:24pm gloomsday:

kenzo and friends!

6:24pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

Question for Kenzo or frequent listeners: On a recent program, there was heavy usage of the string part from "Street Hassle." I know Scharpling also used that sample earlier this year (and I'm not asking as some completist FOT, it was literally the only episode of TBS I heard all year--not a fan). Here's the question: coincidence? Or was one of you referencing the other?

6:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes indeed, gloomsday!

6:25pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Mike: I did it months before he did, on same station; that's what I know. Of course I was doing sound collage for 19 years at that point.

6:25pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

March 14, 2013: Conduct the Symphony of Your Life: lastever.org...

6:26pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

the history of KLERE still confuses me. I heard that show live in October and hadn't realized it was from March. The playlist search doesn't generally help with clarification.

6:26pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes, confusing is Baked In. But a very completist view of KLERE is here: lastever.org

6:27pm Timeshift pacific standard simon:

I do build models in my head, but the diagrams look like poems.

6:27pm northguineahills:

Are you creating a Schrödinger's box, (w/ maybe a feline inside?)

6:27pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

Yes : ) it is surprising that a package will be connected to something that i didn't know about a long time ago!

6:27pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

A meow mix

6:28pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Mike: I do a live show live to an audience nearly every week. But I air multiple times in some weeks due to multi-station, and so some weeks I replay the same content after the live happening. But then other weeks, I can't physically be near a radio studio, and so I dig up recordings of past shows I especially liked. Nothing about the shows is ever pre-made. Has to be live, at least the first time.

6:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Where does your model go?

6:32pm northguineahills:

I have found many 'note to self' tapes in bins. They make great samples.

6:33pm Carmichael:

Heya past and future Kenzo. And, if you're reading this now, then hello also.

6:39pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Carmichael: How could we know for sure

6:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@ngh: Bins, like for sale?

6:41pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

show them the show

6:43pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

you can do it, Kenzo! It's like making your car's odometer flip over! GO! GO! GO!

6:45pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You mean wordcount?

6:45pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Now the goal is to almost make it to 25 years and stop

6:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I miss Ultima IV - and the great expanse of time it felt OK to throw into being in it.

6:47pm Timeshift pacific standard simon:

You're starting to sound like my therapist, man.

6:47pm northguineahills:

bins, or as we yanks call them, garbage cans (or just out on the kerb).

6:48pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Having time to keep up with mailing list about show is an example of something I will do when I stop doing the show.

6:48pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

that time hasn't happened here yet. It's not even one o'clock on my side.

6:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@ngh bin there

6:49pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

Bringing people to things and things to people is good. Transformative, even.

6:50pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

Why might you not make it to your 20 year anniversary? Can't you drive a couple of extra miles to make the odometer kick over?

6:50pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

crawling towards distant mirages

6:51pm Timeshift possibilitywaves:

these ideas feel very helpful... beyond what i can express! identity can be perplexing when it is given stasis / but some stasis seems to come naturally as stones holding together a riverbed

6:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I like lists

6:51pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

In 1985 I played creative video games. In 2014 I wrote programs to automatically shuffle process priorities around on my computer based on my activities.

6:52pm Timeshift earrie:

Accounting for n-dimensions is more than a little tricky, eh?

6:52pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Everything anyone does violates at least one law.

6:53pm Timeshift Bliss:

Pirate radio "hijacks" frequencies certified stations are not using?

6:53pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

They're already there, they can't be hijacked. It's like land ownership but even moreso.

6:53pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

We will self-photosynthesize for food and radiate radio with our brains.

6:53pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Gotta be licensed. This show is licensed in 52 states.

6:53pm Timeshift Rich in Washington:

In some states, you have to take this show in the presence of your doctor.

6:54pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Fortunately the doctor will be staring at a screen (ooh viral video)

6:54pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

Kenzo: to return to "Street Hassle" one more time... did you ever consider going deeper into the track for another sampling? I think after the first song section the strings return but with a different stereo mix. Could be some interesting isolates.

6:54pm Timeshift earrie:

Thanks for the good listening, Kenzo.

6:55pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Mike: I've used that piece a few times in 2013, and did different things with it.

6:55pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks everyone for being here and there.

6:55pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And thanks to Jack Creley.

6:55pm Timeshift Mike Noble:

I'll have to listen back some more times.

6:55pm northguineahills:

happy duper thanks Ken!

6:56pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

exhale inhale exhale

6:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Awww sure duper ngh

6:56pm Timeshift Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

OH MY GOD WHAT IF NOBODY EVER SPEAKS EVER AGAIN

6:57pm Timeshift Kenzo:

Rich in Washington shares relevant Jack Creley video: www.dailymotion.com...

6:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

That was it. Hear it again in even higher sound quality now. Anti-degeneration

6:59pm Notshifted Rich in Washington:

thanks, Kenzo!

7:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks to friends here and unnow!

11:13pm Lily:

I sent you a package once of dirt from prospect park, because you said you missed new york, so I sent what I thought might be a small bit of the best part of New York...then I bought bulbs and put them in a box at the Park Slope food coop.

Someone at the coop, maybe someone named Yuri, said that they wished someone would send them a weirdo package like that. I said, maybe someone will. I never know if someone wants the bits of earth I mail across the earth to them, and so maybe they don't know also.

Once, I mailed Fall leaves from Olympia WA, to Japan. A tiny note inside said, It's Fall here, what is it there?"

I wonder if you ever opened that box of dirt and flowers? I wonder if the bulbs instead grew through the box, into the earth of the base of the stairs. I wonder if the whole place changed from a staircase to like a softly sloping meadow?

Maybe some things are better left unopened?

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from March 28, 2018

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