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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "A Series of Dreams (it's a hard-knock life)" - Show #421, from July 4, 2010 [Edited and remastered today in 2021]
Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravagaza - A Series of Dreams (it's a hard-knock life)
Gaylord Fields - "Outro by previous DJ"
Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine" - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place [Loops]
Ken - "2021 intro"
Ken - "I'm almost ready"
Don Pedro Colley - "How shall the new environment be programmed?" - THX-1138
CocoRosie - "By Your Side" - La Maison de Mon Rêve [Loops]
Malcolm X - "I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy" - The Ballot or the Bullet [You and I have never seen democracy, we've only seen hypocrisy.]
Julie Andrews - "For every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and...snap! The job's a game!" - Mary Poppins
- "Some political thing"
Fleetwood Mac [Loops]
Malcolm X - "Encouraging the police to hold negroes in check"
Annie - "It's a hard knock life" - Annie the movie
Malcolm X - "When a criminal starts misusing me, I'm going to use whatever means necessary to get that criminal off my back." [Don't blame a cracker in Georgia for these injustices. The government is responsible for these injustices.]
Bob Dylan - "A Series of Dreams"
Annie - "It's A Hard-Knock Life" - Annie the musical
Kyle MacLachlan - "Every day, once a day, give yourself a present" - Twin Peaks
Bach - "Matthew's Passion" - THX-1138 [Loops]
Dr. Seuss (Marvin Miller with Marty Gold and His Orchestra) - "The Sneetches" - Horton Hatches the Egg [Produced by Ted Geisel. Details here]
Arvo Pärt - "Spiegel Im Spiegel"
Walter Murch, George Lucas - "This is your last chance, you have nowhere to go" - THX-1138
Wayne Dyer - "We become attached...my happiness depends on those I love being what I think they should be"
Wayne Dyer - "Why our relationships are not as successful as we'd like them to be..."
Ken - "Dial tone"
Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" - Madman Across the Water [Loops]
Wayne Dyer - "...is that..."
Ken - "It's terrible and obvious. There are screens everywhere"
Aleksandr Sokurov - "Dialog" - Russian Ark
Sergei Yevtushenko - "Closing piano music" - Russian Ark
Wayne Dyer - "Even as a child you take over very young"
Wayne Dyer - "Don't blame your parents for what you could or couldn't do in life"
Wayne Dyer - "The wake is not what drives the boat, the wake is just a trail that is left behind" - 10 Secrets
Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" - The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [Produced by Daniel Lanois]
Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" - Madman Across the Water [Loops]
Leonard Nimoy - "There are many who are uncomfortable with what we have created, the artfully balanced atmospheres" - Star Trek TOS-The Way to Eden (Season 3 episode 20)
Meg Ryan - "Who is the dog? I am the dog." - When Harry Met Sally [Loops]
Shelly Duvall - "You appreciate all the pain. You always resent the cause of pain, just the necessary turmoil, by the end our means met" - Making "The Shining" [Film by Vivian Kubrick]
William Shatner - "Am I afraid of losing my job to that computer?" - Star Trek TOS-The Ultimate Computer (Season 2 episode 24, #53)
Donald Sutherland - "You all know why we're here" - Little Murders
Donald Sutherland - "Nothing can hurt if you do not see it as hurtful" - Little Murders
Leonard Nimoy - "It is almost a biological rebellion. They regard themselves as aliens in their own world" - Star Trek TOS-The Way to Eden (Season 3 episode 20)
THX-1138 - "This is your last chance, you have nowhere to go, you cannot survive outside the shell, we only want to help you" - THX-1138
Donald Sutherland - "He is at peace with himself because he tried society's way" - Little Murders
Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be, this is not a damned democracy. We are in a state of emergency and my word is law" - Lean On Me
Harlan Ellison - "They've got smog over the polar ice caps, can you believe it?" - Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Keith David - "The golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules" - They Live
Elliott Smith - "Needle in the Hay" - Elliott Smith
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents" - Southern Accents [Loops]
Fridge - "Lost Time" - The Sun [Loops]
Keith David, Roddy Piper, John Carpenter - "They close one more factory, we ought to take a sledge to one of their fancy foreign cars" - They Live [(You oughta have a little more patience with life.) Yeah, well I'm all out. The whole deal is like some kind of crazy game. The name ofthe game is: Make it through life. Only everyone is out for themselves and looking to do you in at the same time. You do what you can, but I'm going to do my best to blow your ass away.]
Ken - "Identification with Tom Petty loops"
Fridge - "Lost Time" - The Sun [Loops]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents" - Southern Accents [Loops]
Ken - "2021 hellos"
Stacy Baker (aka Stacy Valentine), liposuction patient - "That's the great thing about plastic surgery: If there's something you don't like about yourself, Dr. Fisher can fix it!" - The Girl Next Door (documentary) [Dir. Christine Fugate]
Don Pedro Colley, Walter Murch, George Lucas - "How shall the new environment be programmed?" - THX-1138
Van Halen (David Lee Roth) - "Runnin' With the Devil (vocal track)" - Van Halen [I live my life like there's no tomorrow]
William Shatner, DeForest Kelly - "Time for another stimulant. How long do you think you can keep taking that stuff? It'll keep me together for another 7 minutes. That's all I need." - Star Trek TOS: Immunity Syndrome (season 2, episode 18)
Wayne Dyer - "It doesn't do you any good to look back with blame, look back with responsibility. It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
Wayne Dyer - "Take responsiblity, then you don't have to spend endless hours in therapy"
Wayne Dyer - "It isn't doing you any good to toss out a lot of blame. Be effective within the constraints of the relationship you are in right now."
Wayne Dyer - "Even as a child, you take over very young"
Wayne Dyer - "How can you get the things you would like, and not always be in conflict, and blaming someone else? Why not focus on a solution?"
Boston - "Foreplay" - Boston [Loops]
Donald Pleasance - "Things don't seem to make sense. Sometimes I see that things are left out, people don't see them. Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference. I want to do the right thing." - THX-1138 [I can start again. I can change. I can help. I just need to rest up for a little while.]
Roddy Piper, Keith David, John Carpenter - "So how you gonna make it? I deliver a hard day’s work for the money. I just want the chance. It’ll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody’s got their own hard times these days." - They Live
THX-1138 - "Be sure to report all searches" - THX-1138
Boston - "More Than a Feeling" - Boston [Loops]
Christopher Lloyd - "You must not leave this house, you must not see anybody, or talk to anybody!" - Back to the Future [Doc Brown]
Dolly Parton - "Jolene" - Jolene [Loops]
Ken - "Identification"
Kyle MacLachlan - "Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen" - Twin Peaks
Elliott Smith - "Needle in the Hay" - Elliott Smith [Loops]
Diane Cluck - "Beatless Wonder" - Monarcana [Loops]
Live phone caller & Ken
Malcolm X - "Before we go back to Africa, we must do whatever is necessary to get this criminal off our back"
Live phone caller & Ken - "Am I talking to a real person? A lot of people are seeming unreal. I feel unearthly, and unearthly is good."
Bach - "Matthew's Passion" - THX-1138
Live phone caller & Ken
Live phone caller
Live phone caller - "I'm not going to go into it"
Live phone caller - "Narrating behind everyone" [What makes you an expert? Let's all hand it to 1776.]
Live phone caller
Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky (instrumental, The Naked Eye)" - Eye in the Sky (2007 remaster) [Loops. Originally 1982]
Live phone caller - "You're doing a fine job"
Live phone caller - "Am I on the air?"
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) - "Anything you do could have serious repercusions on future events" - Back the the Future
Live phone caller - "Child not speaking loud enough for narrating caller"
Diane Cluck - "Down By the River (guitar loop)" - Live in Petit Fays, Belgium
Mark Mothersbaugh - "Mothersbaugh's Canon" - Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack [Loops]
Live phone caller - "Yelling"
Live phone caller - "Jersey in July makes me nuts. I must have cooler weather."
Mark Mothersbaugh - "Mothersbaugh's Canon" - Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack
David Cronenberg - "But ultimately we did get a television set, and I watched it all the time" - The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (1x10) [Dir. Robert J. Emery]
Live phone caller - "There's a person out there who needs to go to bed"
David Cronenberg - "So, I would watch until there was no more TV. They would be very tantalizing. Perhaps you wanted them to be sexual..." - The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (1x10)
David Cronenberg - "You never knew whether you were projecting your own fantasies" - The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (1x10)
Wallace Shawn - "I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions" - Critical Care
Patrick McGoohan - "This... farce... This twentieth-century Bastille that pretends to be a pocket democracy... Why don't you put us all into solitary confinement until you get what you're after and have done with it?" - The Prisoner: Episode 4
Live phone caller - "I've overeaten. That darn kid has got to go to bed. I have to announce it on the radio. Maybe I should duct tape him to the bed."
Live phone caller - "Never forget that this is a free country"
Ken - "Outro with Matthew's Passion from THX-1138"
Arturo en el Barco - "Beth Dorris" - Music for Students
Ken - "2021 goodbyes, over Arturo en el Barco"
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