Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "The Decadence of Obsolescence" Audio from 5/11/12 (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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Unedited, performed live May 11, 2012 5:38-6:48pm at The Garage in Charlottesville.
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Source listing (playlist)
Artist	Song title	Album	Year	Begin	End
Comment
Fleetwood Mac	Sara	Tusk	1979	0:00:00	0:01:14
Loop
Valentino Sound Effects Library	Air - Air conditioner	Volume 8		0:00:17	0:03:38

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:01:14	0:03:31

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:02:23	0:07:00

Dufus	Anouk	In Monstrous Attitude	2009	0:02:45	0:02:54

La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:02:59	0:08:56

Dufus	Anouk	In Monstrous Attitude	2009	0:03:07	0:03:15

Dufus	Anouk	In Monstrous Attitude	2009	0:03:41	0:03:54

Michael Crichton	TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens	Looker (1981) director commentary	2007	0:04:23	0:04:28

Michael Crichton	TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens	Looker (1981) director commentary	2007	0:04:40	0:05:27
The 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.
Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:05:13	0:05:33

Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:05:31	0:05:46

Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:05:43	0:06:34

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:05:58	0:07:42

Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:06:32	0:06:50

Jonny Greenwood	Open Spaces	There Will Be Blood s.t.	2007	0:06:43	0:12:57

Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:06:48	0:07:08

Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:07:06	0:07:23

Dufus	Anouk	In Monstrous Attitude	2009	0:07:14	0:07:45

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:07:39	0:16:48

Alan Watts	Intellectual Yoga	Philosophies of Asia		0:07:48	0:07:51

Alan Watts	Intellectual Yoga	Philosophies of Asia		0:07:54	0:08:14
So 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.
Big City Orchestra	A Child's Garden of Noise	A Child's Garden of Noise	1994	0:08:19	0:08:52
...I wish there was a sign that said, "noise, please." Yes, maybe there ought to be a sign like that.
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	0:08:46	0:10:09

Valentino Sound Effects Library	Air - Air conditioner	Volume 8		0:09:24	1:08:57

Gundecha Brothers	Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi	Hum Sab Mahi	2009	0:09:31	0:20:42

Bill Nelson	The Spirit Cannot Fail	Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window	1987	0:10:12	0:12:19
Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate truth.
Jonny Greenwood	Open Spaces	There Will Be Blood s.t.	2007	0:10:27	0:17:58

Jonny Greenwood	Open Spaces	There Will Be Blood s.t.	2007	0:11:05	0:11:15

Fleetwood Mac	Everywhere	Tango in the Night	1988	0:11:19	0:12:16
11 middle everywhere loop
Pete Townshend	You're So Clever	Scooped	1980	0:11:45	0:11:55

Fleetwood Mac	Gypsy	Mirage	1982	0:12:14	0:12:53
Gypsy loop
M.	On UVA bookstore		2012	0:12:44	0:17:40
What the guys and girls buy on their parents' accounts, unitemized
La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:13:10	0:19:36

Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	0:14:23	0:15:08

Orson Welles	Videotape TV static			0:15:50	0:22:02

Orson Welles	Interview			0:16:17	0:16:36
If 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.
Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:16:45	0:21:48

Strom Carlson	NV Bell Payphone in Pahrump - March 2004		2004	0:16:59	0:18:31
Telephone recordings
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	Mexican Road Race	S.R.O.	1966	0:17:29	0:19:12
Martin's recording from father's vinyl
Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	0:17:52	0:20:37

Alan Watts	Intellectual Yoga	Philosophies of Asia		0:18:38	0:18:46

Holcombe Waller	Hardliners	Into the Dark Unknown	2011	0:19:00	0:19:54

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	Mexican Road Race	S.R.O.	1966	0:19:13	0:19:15

Joe Jackson	Another World		2001	0:20:19	0:21:43
01 full double part loop
La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:20:46	0:26:02

Talking Heads	Sax and Violins	Popular Favorites 1984-1992 in the Vaseline	1988	0:21:25	0:23:42

Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, director	Season 2, episode 13	thirtySomething	1989	0:21:57	0:22:23
There'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.
Ricky Gervais	You don't need everyone on the planet to like you	Time Interview	2007	0:22:27	0:22:45
More 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 people
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	0:22:51	0:23:36
...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 dysfunctional 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.
Dondero High School A Capella Choir	Fox on the Run	Pop Concert 1996	1996	0:23:18	0:25:51
Sweet cover (1974)
Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, director	Season 2, episode 13	thirtySomething	1989	0:23:48	0:23:51

Fleetwood Mac	Everywhere	Tango in the Night	1988	0:23:55	0:34:12
Various loops
Orson Welles	Interview			0:24:12	0:24:48
I 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.
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	Working for a living	The Cruise	1998	0:25:18	0:26:28
One of the great tragedies of this experiment called civilization is the fact that people have to work for a living...
Ludwig von Beethoven	Variation V Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivace	Beethoven Vol. 8 Cello Sonatas (Maisky - Cello, Argerich - Piano)		0:26:50	0:26:54

Harrison Ford & River Phoenix (actors), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)	America is a toilet	Mosquito Coast	1986	0:27:07	0:27:39
Look 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.
Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)	We eat when we're not hungry	Mosquito Coast	1986	0:27:38	0:27:52
We 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.
Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)	It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence.	Mosquito Coast	1986	0:28:10	0:28:21
It'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.
La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:28:23	0:31:39

Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)	We eat when we're not hungry	Mosquito Coast	1986	0:28:45	0:29:28

Steven Jesse Bernstein	More Noise Please	Prison	1992	0:29:33	0:30:18
..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.
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	0:30:07	0:30:51
...the grid plan emanates from our weakness
Joe Frank	Grace requires degradation	Another Country Pt. 3	1986	0:31:04	0:31:10
...to have so much beauty, perhaps you have to have this much degradation
Ida	My Fair, My Dark	My Fair, My Dark	2006	0:33:23	0:36:34
Various loops
Joe Frank	Hamburger paper waste	Another Country Pt. 3	1986	0:33:48	0:34:02
The 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...
Fridge	Lost Time	The Sun	2007	0:35:35	0:47:46
Various loops
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	Running from the cops all my life	The Cruise	1998	0:36:05	0:36:48
...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.
Gundecha Brothers	Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi	Hum Sab Mahi	2009	0:38:43	0:38:48

Dufus	Anouk	In Monstrous Attitude	2009	0:39:32	0:40:03

Belle and Sebastian	Storytelling	Storytelling	2002	0:40:09	0:40:49
02 1st piano loop
La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:43:29	0:43:33

Malcolm Clarke	Romanescan Rout	The Radiophonic Workshop	1975	0:45:04	0:45:45
Or perhaps 2002 remaster
Bill Nelson	The Spirit Cannot Fail	Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window	1987	0:47:12	0:48:53

Belle and Sebastian	Storytelling	Storytelling	2002	0:47:36	0:48:59
02 1st piano loop
The Carpenters	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	Passage	1977	0:48:23	0:50:08
Like a Disney cult song. Cover of 1976 Klaatu song.
La Dusseldorf	Rheinita	La Dusseldorf / Viva	2005	0:48:54	0:50:27

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:49:08	0:53:13

Toto	Rosanna	Toto IV	1982	0:49:57	0:50:01

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:50:17	0:52:01

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:50:34	0:54:41

Malcolm Clarke	Romanescan Rout	The Radiophonic Workshop	1975	0:50:46	0:50:50
Or perhaps 2002 remaster
Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:50:59	0:51:08

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:51:09	0:51:55

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	0:51:55	0:55:29

Simon and Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence	Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.	1964	0:52:22	0:52:23
Simon only, thanks to Steve Fitch, Dec. 2011
Michael Crichton	TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens	Looker (1981) director commentary	2007	0:52:34	0:52:48
The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life.
Fleetwood Mac	Sara	Tusk	1979	0:53:15	0:53:29
Loop
Bill Nelson	The Spirit Cannot Fail	Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window	1987	0:53:20	0:59:54

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Requiem Introitus	Amadeus s.t.	1984	0:54:26	0:56:17
Backwards
Fleetwood Mac	Sara	Tusk	1979	0:54:41	1:06:17
11 main going loop
Jonny Greenwood	Open Spaces	There Will Be Blood s.t.	2007	0:56:35	0:59:58

The Feelies	When Company Comes	The Good Earth	1986	0:57:02	0:57:06
better fast go guitar loop,offset
Neil Young	Down By the River	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	1969	0:57:17	0:59:15
Various loops
Bob Dylan	Series of Dreams		1989	0:58:57	1:03:35
Various loops
Ida	My Fair, My Dark	My Fair, My Dark	2006	0:59:07	0:59:51
05 short down loop w drum
Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director)	I will not apologize for who I am	Magnolia	1999	1:01:23	1:01:30
I will not apologize for what I need, I will not apologize for what I want
Cat Stevens	If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out	Harold and Maude s.t.	1971	1:02:54	1:04:47
Loop
Cat Stevens	The Wind	Teaser and the Firecat / Rushmore s.t.	1971	1:04:04	1:04:13
02 guitar loop
Cat Stevens	If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out	Harold and Maude s.t.	1971	1:04:19	1:05:25

Fridge	Harmonics	Happiness	2001	1:05:04	1:08:53

Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	1:05:33	1:05:39

Timothy "Speed" Levitch	The grid plan	The Cruise	1998	1:06:30	1:08:32

Ken	Live ambient street sound		2012	1:08:53	1:09:25

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
Artist	Song title	Album	Year	Begin	End
Comment
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Source listing (playlist)

Fleetwood Mac

Sara

Tusk

1979

0:00:00

0:01:14

Loop

Valentino Sound Effects Library

Air - Air conditioner

Volume 8

0:00:17

0:03:38

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:01:14

0:03:31

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:02:23

0:07:00

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:02:45

0:02:54

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:02:59

0:08:56

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:03:07

0:03:15

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:03:41

0:03:54

Michael Crichton

TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens

Looker (1981) director commentary

2007

0:04:23

0:04:28

Michael Crichton

TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens

Looker (1981) director commentary

2007

0:04:40

0:05:27

The 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.

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:13

0:05:33

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:31

0:05:46

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:43

0:06:34

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:05:58

0:07:42

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:06:32

0:06:50

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:06:43

0:12:57

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:06:48

0:07:08

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:07:06

0:07:23

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:07:14

0:07:45

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:07:39

0:16:48

Alan Watts

Intellectual Yoga

Philosophies of Asia

0:07:48

0:07:51

Alan Watts

Intellectual Yoga

Philosophies of Asia

0:07:54

0:08:14

So 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.

Big City Orchestra

A Child's Garden of Noise

1994

0:08:19

0:08:52

...I wish there was a sign that said, "noise, please." Yes, maybe there ought to be a sign like that.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:08:46

0:10:09

Valentino Sound Effects Library

Air - Air conditioner

Volume 8

0:09:24

1:08:57

Gundecha Brothers

Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi

Hum Sab Mahi

2009

0:09:31

0:20:42

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:10:12

0:12:19

Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate truth.

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:10:27

0:17:58

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:11:05

0:11:15

Fleetwood Mac

Everywhere

Tango in the Night

1988

0:11:19

0:12:16

11 middle everywhere loop

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:11:45

0:11:55

Fleetwood Mac

Gypsy

Mirage

1982

0:12:14

0:12:53

Gypsy loop

On UVA bookstore

2012

0:12:44

0:17:40

What the guys and girls buy on their parents' accounts, unitemized

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:13:10

0:19:36

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:14:23

0:15:08

Orson Welles

Videotape TV static

0:15:50

0:22:02

Orson Welles

Interview

0:16:17

0:16:36

If 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.

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:16:45

0:21:48

Strom Carlson

NV Bell Payphone in Pahrump - March 2004

2004

0:16:59

0:18:31

Telephone recordings

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Mexican Road Race

S.R.O.

1966

0:17:29

0:19:12

Martin's recording from father's vinyl

Neil Diamond

America

Jazz Singer

1984

0:17:52

0:20:37

Alan Watts

Intellectual Yoga

Philosophies of Asia

0:18:38

0:18:46

Holcombe Waller

Hardliners

Into the Dark Unknown

2011

0:19:00

0:19:54

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Mexican Road Race

S.R.O.

1966

0:19:13

0:19:15

Joe Jackson

Another World

2001

0:20:19

0:21:43

01 full double part loop

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:20:46

0:26:02

Talking Heads

Sax and Violins

Popular Favorites 1984-1992 in the Vaseline

1988

0:21:25

0:23:42

Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, director

Season 2, episode 13

thirtySomething

1989

0:21:57

0:22:23

There'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.

Ricky Gervais

You don't need everyone on the planet to like you

Time Interview

2007

0:22:27

0:22:45

More 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 people

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:22:51

0:23:36

...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 dysfunctional 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.

Dondero High School A Capella Choir

Fox on the Run

Pop Concert 1996

1996

0:23:18

0:25:51

Sweet cover (1974)

Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin, actors; Joseph Dougherty, writer; Tom Moore, director

Season 2, episode 13

thirtySomething

1989

0:23:48

0:23:51

Fleetwood Mac

Everywhere

Tango in the Night

1988

0:23:55

0:34:12

Various loops

Orson Welles

Interview

0:24:12

0:24:48

I 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.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Working for a living

The Cruise

1998

0:25:18

0:26:28

One of the great tragedies of this experiment called civilization is the fact that people have to work for a living...

Ludwig von Beethoven

Variation V Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivace

Beethoven Vol. 8 Cello Sonatas (Maisky - Cello, Argerich - Piano)

0:26:50

0:26:54

Harrison Ford & River Phoenix (actors), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)

America is a toilet

Mosquito Coast

1986

0:27:07

0:27:39

Look 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.

Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)

We eat when we're not hungry

Mosquito Coast

1986

0:27:38

0:27:52

We 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.

Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)

It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence.

Mosquito Coast

1986

0:28:10

0:28:21

It'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.

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:28:23

0:31:39

Harrison Ford (actor), Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)

We eat when we're not hungry

Mosquito Coast

1986

0:28:45

0:29:28

Steven Jesse Bernstein

More Noise Please

Prison

1992

0:29:33

0:30:18

..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.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:30:07

0:30:51

...the grid plan emanates from our weakness

Joe Frank

Grace requires degradation

Another Country Pt. 3

1986

0:31:04

0:31:10

...to have so much beauty, perhaps you have to have this much degradation

Ida

My Fair, My Dark

2006

0:33:23

0:36:34

Various loops

Joe Frank

Hamburger paper waste

Another Country Pt. 3

1986

0:33:48

0:34:02

The 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...

Fridge

Lost Time

The Sun

2007

0:35:35

0:47:46

Various loops

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Running from the cops all my life

The Cruise

1998

0:36:05

0:36:48

...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.

Gundecha Brothers

Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi

Hum Sab Mahi

2009

0:38:43

0:38:48

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:39:32

0:40:03

Belle and Sebastian

Storytelling

2002

0:40:09

0:40:49

02 1st piano loop

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:43:29

0:43:33

Malcolm Clarke

Romanescan Rout

The Radiophonic Workshop

1975

0:45:04

0:45:45

Or perhaps 2002 remaster

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:47:12

0:48:53

Belle and Sebastian

Storytelling

2002

0:47:36

0:48:59

02 1st piano loop

The Carpenters

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

Passage

1977

0:48:23

0:50:08

Like a Disney cult song. Cover of 1976 Klaatu song.

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:48:54

0:50:27

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:49:08

0:53:13

Toto

Rosanna

Toto IV

1982

0:49:57

0:50:01

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:17

0:52:01

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:34

0:54:41

Malcolm Clarke

Romanescan Rout

The Radiophonic Workshop

1975

0:50:46

0:50:50

Or perhaps 2002 remaster

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:59

0:51:08

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:51:09

0:51:55

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:51:55

0:55:29

Simon and Garfunkel

The Sound of Silence

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

1964

0:52:22

0:52:23

Simon only, thanks to Steve Fitch, Dec. 2011

Michael Crichton

TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens

Looker (1981) director commentary

2007

0:52:34

0:52:48

The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life.

Fleetwood Mac

Sara

Tusk

1979

0:53:15

0:53:29

Loop

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:53:20

0:59:54

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Requiem Introitus

Amadeus s.t.

1984

0:54:26

0:56:17

Backwards

Fleetwood Mac

Sara

Tusk

1979

0:54:41

1:06:17

11 main going loop

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:56:35

0:59:58

The Feelies

When Company Comes

The Good Earth

1986

0:57:02

0:57:06

better fast go guitar loop,offset

Neil Young

Down By the River

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

1969

0:57:17

0:59:15

Various loops

Bob Dylan

Series of Dreams

1989

0:58:57

1:03:35

Various loops

Ida

My Fair, My Dark

2006

0:59:07

0:59:51

05 short down loop w drum

Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director)

I will not apologize for who I am

Magnolia

1999

1:01:23

1:01:30

I will not apologize for what I need, I will not apologize for what I want

Cat Stevens

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

Harold and Maude s.t.

1971

1:02:54

1:04:47

Loop

Cat Stevens

The Wind

Teaser and the Firecat / Rushmore s.t.

1971

1:04:04

1:04:13

02 guitar loop

Cat Stevens

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

Harold and Maude s.t.

1971

1:04:19

1:05:25

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

1:05:04

1:08:53

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

1:05:33

1:05:39

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

1:06:30

1:08:32

Ken

Live ambient street sound

2012

1:08:53

1:09:25

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

Listen to the entire show

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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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.