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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Fleeting: A wake (I haven't told you lately)" - Show #638, from Mar. 13, 2019 [Augmented today in 2021] [0:00:00]
Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Fleeting: A wake (I haven't told you lately)" source samples follow:
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying [0:00:10]
Jared Leto - "Did I fall asleep? Sometimes I don't sleep" - Mr. Nobody [0:02:46]
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying [0:02:52]
Mirah - "We don't have that sticker in this book" [0:04:28]
Meg Ryan - "It's off in the distance, it came into the room, it's here in the circle" - In the Cut [0:05:37]
Cliff Martinez - "Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Solaris [0:07:52]
Ken - "It's all so fleeting" [0:07:52]
In the Cut - "Street sounds" - In the Cut [0:10:41]
In the Cut - "Street sounds, footsteps" - In the Cut [0:11:04]
Ken - "We can't just create everything. We can leave a wake. (I hadn't told you lately.)" [0:11:14]
Mirah - "I don't want to get my hands dirty (I didn't want to get my mouth dirty)" [0:17:54]
Meg Ryan - "Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path" - In the Cut [0:18:18]
Jared Leto - "I think about how it was. It's all I have left. What do you see when you look at me? A grumpy old man who never answers questions? Who mixes everything up? Who's kept busy by getting his meals?" - Mr. Nobody [That's not me] [0:19:42]
Alan Watts - "You can slip into this state of consciousness. We're all masters. How do you grow each hair without thinking about it?" - The Nature of Consciousness [You are omnipotent.] [0:20:30]
Boards of Canada - "Collapse" - Tomorrow's Harvest [0:21:51]
Alan Watts - "Excerpt" - Out of Your Mind [0:22:52]
Jonathan Glazer - "What would be on the radio? It's not a choice. In fact, turn the radio on now and find out what's on the radio. Because that is what's on the radio." - Under the Skin interview [0:23:42]
Jared Leto - "Did I fall asleep?" - Mr. Nobody [0:24:42]
Patrick McGoohan - "One day you'll go too far, and I'll die and beat you all. I'm a prisoner, too." - The Prisoner, episode 9: Checkmate [0:24:58]
Bill Ehrhart - "Found ways of keeping your thoughts well within the environment you were in" [0:26:15]
Meg Ryan - "The stillwaters of your mouth under a frond of stars, under a thicket of kisses" - In the Cut [0:26:51]
Jared Leto - "Sometimes I don't sleep" - Mr. Nobody [0:27:13]
Boards of Canada - "Collapse" - Tomorrow's Harvest [0:28:17]
Ólafur Arnalds - "30:55" - Eulogy for Evolution [0:28:09]
Vietnam interviews - "We were brought never to question authority. The gov't was right, policeman, mom and dad, anyone in authority knew what was best. Shouldn't I let my gov't know I think they're crazy?" [0:29:02]
Meg Ryan - "Thinking back over the course of my passion. Unafraid of the dark" - In the Cut [0:29:58]
Meg Ryan, sounds - "Street, siren, school bell" - In the Cut [0:30:18]
Vietnam interviews - "It's so obvious that the war is fixed around the dollar. Somebody's making money. That's why this war has been prolonged" [0:30:59]
Edd Kalehoff - "The Price is Right theme" - The Price is Right [0:31:50]
Jonathan Glazer - "Turn the radio on now, that's what should be on the radio. In fact, that sort of is what's on the radio" [0:32:34]
The Professor (Michael Pool) - "Tech support. No idea what a paperclip is" - The Audio Kitchen 8/20/2003 [RIP] [0:32:45]
Thatcher Keats - Rancho Thatchmo with Thatcher Keats 2/20/19 [0:33:50]
Boards of Canada - "?" - Tomorrow's Harvest [0:34:44]
3-2-1 Contact - "I hate noise. I'm out here measuring some of the sounds we live with, and I'm telling you, they're pretty awful" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:35:24]
Meg Ryan - "Alone, the sedge has withered" - In the Cut [0:35:57]
Firefall - "Always" [0:36:30]
Jared Leto - "Sometimes I don't sleep" - Mr. Nobody [0:37:22]
3-2-1 Contact - "This music's really beautiful, isn't it? Yeah" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:37:55]
3-2-1 Contact - "We hear so many different sounds" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:38:00]
3-2-1 Contact - "Being a rock musician caused the hearing loss (122 decibels)" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:38:26]
Thatcher Keats - "Baby's got it going on" - Rancho Thatchmo with Thatcher Keats 2/20/19 [0:39:17]
Louis Armstrong - "We Have All the Time in the World" [Loops] [0:40:22]
The Generational Divide - "Teachers, schools, slow using computers. It takes hours. Technology is uncomfortable instead of seamless and nice" [0:40:52]
Patrick McGoohan, George Coulouris - "Why do both sides look alike? Judge by attitudes." - The Prisoner, episode 9: Checkmate [0:41:54]
Jared Leto - "It's all I have left" [0:42:59]
In the Cut - "Train sounds, music" - In the Cut [0:43:44]
Girl Talk - "Broken Ankles Intro" [0:44:52]
In the Cut - "Street, car" - In the Cut [0:45:24]
3-2-1 Contact - "Dangerous tool: I don't think it's such a great idea to overhear things. There are so many wonderful things to listen to in the world" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [What would it be like to live in a silent world?] [0:46:09]
3-2-1 Contact - "Hearing test: He's beginning to lose his hearing, from being a rock musician" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:46:35]
Louis Armstrong - "We Have All the Time in the World" [More loops] [0:47:56]
Ken - "We're almost over (competing to be doing not quite as well). Everything's going great" [Misunderstandings. Birth. Cancer. Sea of miscommunication. Mold at the bottom of the basket. The snow is beautiful.] [0:48:55]
Ken - "Identification (being recorded 4 different ways)" [0:53:25]
Gary Sullivan - "Kenzo will be turning 25 in 2 weeks. It's going to be a festive time" - Bodega Pop Live a few weeks ago [0:56:18]
Christian Vasseur - "un amour infini" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [0:56:47]
3-2-1 Contact - "This music's really beautiful, isn't it? Yeah" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [0:58:27]
Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds - "Organic peanut butter" - Mother [0:58:51]
The Generational Divide - "Messaging, emailing each other, these little fun things...that makes sense" [0:59:34]
3-2-1 Contact - "We're testing the right side now" - Episode 2: Noisy/Quiet [1:00:04]
Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds - "Honey, there's no difference, it all comes from the same place. Yeah, but, I like the organic" - Mother [1:00:13]
Girl Talk - "Broken Ankles Intro" - Broken Ankles [1:00:32]
The Professor (Michael Pool) - "People trade MP3's, and other things on these networks" - The Audio Kitchen 8/20/2003 [1:01:04]
Moby - "Everloving" - Play [1:02:45]
Gma - "96 years old" - Last month, last recording [1:04:39]
Gma - "I don't like darkness (I hope you have a wonderful time tomorrow)" - Other recordings [Put the lamp on. It makes the room look nice. (with Garth Stevenson)] [1:07:11]
Gma - "Short" [1:10:06]
Gma twin - "This went on and on and on and on. I was so upset, you have no idea." [Did you put it in the refrigerator? That would be feasible.] [1:10:55]
Boards of Canada - "Collapse" [1:12:22]
Gma + twin - "Sharing clothing. I remember a gown I had, and I turned it into dresses for us. I didn't have a sewing machine." [What was the outfit we wore on the first day of junior high?] [1:12:41]
Christian Vasseur - "sinfonia" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [1:16:19]
Gma + twin - "We had to get the same clothes" [1:16:25]
The Generational Divide - "The structure of school is going to have to change" [1:16:58]
Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach - "When I was younger, I was so invested in his grievances, his anger with the world" - The Meyerowitz Stories [1:17:22]
Christian Vasseur - "tous sur le pont" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [1:17:58]
Christian Vasseur - "Food Cook Mood" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [1:18:30]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:19:12]
Roger Dawson - "Sometimes the easy way is not the best way. The "I'm not suggesting" technique (Track 6)" - Secrets of Power Persuasion [1:19:34]
Alan Watts - "Nothing really happens unless it's in the newspaper. "It's too bad there wasn't a tape recorder"" - Being Aware of Awareness [1:20:58]
Bill Ehrhart - "The questions themselves were too ugly to ask. You just want to back out quietly and walk away. I did not have the full deck of cards before I could make sense of what I had seen." - Vietnam interview [1:22:09]
Arthur B. Rubinstein - "History Lesson" - WarGames [1:23:17]
Bill Ehrhart - "I gave those people every reason to hate me" - Vietnam interview [1:23:47]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:25:08]
Wax Audio - "Happy Xmas (War is Over) w/George W. Bush & John Lennon" - Cut, Paste and Run [1:25:52]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:27:00]
David Weinstein - "A surprise sound collage, Kenzo's historical vaults are 7 thousand gazillion samples deep" - Ridgewood Radio from some weeks ago [1:27:12]
Girl Talk - "Broken Ankles Intro" - Broken Ankles [1:28:20]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:28:40]
Alan Watts - "Purposely arrange and discipline in accordance with foresight and words and systems of symbols and accountancy" [Once you start thinking about things, you worry if you've thought enough] [1:29:32]
Bill Ehrhart - "You found ways of keeping your thoughts well within the environment that you were dealing with" - Vietnam interviews [1:31:00]
Jonathan Glazer - "Person making anything being completely attached and on other hand unattached. It's all in orbit all the time" - Under the Skin interview [1:31:31]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:31:56]
Ralph Nader - "Ambassador was utterly disruptive rather than diplomatic. We need 1% of the people to take control congress" - On Contact with Chris Hedges [1:32:36]
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen loops" - Too-Rye-Ay [1:34:47]
Christian Vasseur - "le voyage extraordinaire" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [1:36:53]
Christian Vasseur - "prelude d'un autre temps I" - A La Limite Du Présent vol 3 of 3 [1:39:11]
Vietnam interviews - "The only people who benefit from our tax laws are the very wealthy or the very poor" [1:39:19]
The Outfield - "Say It Isn't So loops" - Play Deep [Tell me I'm the only one. Without you I can't go on.] [1:40:14]
Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver" - The Dream Weaver [1:43:05]
Cliff Martinez - "Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Solaris [1:43:58]
Mirah - "The apple? You can have two snails." [1:44:52]
Ken - "What happened was...my friend died. Overlapping obsessions. Beaconing out his helpful ways. Boldly share your thing. You have to do it." [I have a lot of stuff. (with Cliff Martinez, then Garth Stevenson)] [1:47:33]
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying [1:56:22]
Set: 2021
They Might Be Giants - "Sleepwalkers" - No! [Looped] [1:56:54]
Ken - "Outro, do not squander your life" [1:57:07]
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