Decisions, Gratification, Escape (Show #535/613) | Download full MP3 from Sep 19, 2018

PSA - "Be a teacher"

Ken - "The beginning of the show"

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Many loops]

Ken - "I think I just made it (just this much time)"

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Many loops]

Ken - "I'm preparing (a portal for the present moments)"

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Loops]

David Weinstein - "Promo Ken's Last Ever last week" - Ridgewood Radio on WFMU's GTDR 7/19/17

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Dreams, impossiblity, love (with East Forest-10 Laws, Harry Nilsson-Everybody's Talking, Ken on Impossibility of this show, WarGames)" - Shoiw #533, 7/19/17

Ridgewood Radio - "Unknown drone" - Last week's show

Stanley Kubrick - "HAL on being constantly occupied"

George C. Scott - "We have established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived, and people are sicker than ever (we cure nothing, we heal nothing!)" - The Hospital

Matt S - "Discussing Ken's Last Ever (so many different emotions)"

Ray Winstone - "Every day we make hundreds of thousands of decisions (you already know the answer)" - The Very Thought of You (aka "Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence") [You didn't come to see me to make a decision. You came to me because you didn't like the decision you'd already made.]

Hal Holbrook - "Principal rule of analysis: Patient is not supposed to change his life situation while undergoing analysis" - The Group

Justin Boyd - "When something's looping (the present sustained but extended through time)" - Sound and Time

Jonathan Zittrain - "Minds for Sale (selling Diggs)" - Talk at Harvard Berkman Center

Lara Flynn-Boyle - "I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare all at once" - Twin Peaks Season 1 episode 2: Traces to Nowhere

- "Finding one's purpose is a profound thing, sometimes it isn't always what it seems" - Lady in the Water

Hal Holbrook - "Patients are cunning (You act as if you're some opaque object whose motives you can only guess at)" - The Group

James Ford - "Promos Ken's Last Ever long ago after show #447 (not a lot of stations in the world where you'll hear something like that)"

Amanda Nazario - "Promos KLERE 7/17/13"

Ken - "I don't have to confront everything all the time" - 7/26/15

Ken - "Not realistic to try to do all the things I've attempted, I would burn out (balance)"

Pat Morita - "You remember lesson about balance? Lesson not just karate only. Lesson whole life. Whole life have a balance." - Karate Kid

Clare Danes - "I'm always asking you for something that's totally unfair for me to ask you for. It's totally selfish of me and I'll never do it again" - My So-Called Life [I'll have it back by tonight]

- "We protest this harassment, we recognize no authority save that within ourselves" - Star Trek TOS-The Way to Eden (Season 3 episode 20)

Wayne Dyer - "Even as a child you take over very young (you don't blame your parents for what you could and couldn't do in life)" [You have to take responsibility for how you reacted to your parents. You didn't know how to get what you felt you were entitled to from your mother.]

David Cross - "The Pre-taped Call-in show" - Mr. Show [We're taping it now, and it airs next week.]

Chevrolet - "Emphatic decisions by Americans, what they want, their ever-improving good taste" - The American Look

Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore - "Well, did we like it? It was funny. It was a comedy, wasn't it?" - Ordinary People

Ken - "Competing with yourself to have a better idea, giving yourself away (you're doing better than everyone)" [Spontaneous live monologue:


You're always competing with yourself to have a better idea. You notice you could be doing better.




You feel self-conscious for putting up your best, so you put up your worst, and you're starting to wonder what it is that you really are.


[...]


You start to look for people who have a co-consuming energy about them, and before you know it, you have created a set of mirrors, and you can't see yourself anymore, but you are happily absorbed in another, and you feel quite lost, and it feels almost like a drunken stupor, and you feel that it is comfortable and familiar. And, most importantly, you don't have to think about yourself.




And it goes really well. And you start to lose the sense of your own needs, and your hunger, and your weariness, and it's OK because you can press on, because you realize that you have good abilities to delay gratification, and to press on through discomfort and pain. And, so, you feel, aha, I have finally found achievement. And, so, there you go: You're doing better than everyone.]

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Many loops]

Ken - "A live being (call in live): You'll just open up, you'll just start to go"

Milos Foreman, Peter Schaffer - "The division in the artist's work between light and dark" - Amadeus Director's Commentary

Live phone call - "Five weeks is a very long time (it only takes four weeks for you to completely molecularly change)"

Ken - "Finger pressing (type on the chat live)"

Leonard Nimoy - "Both negative and positive sides are essential" - Star Trek TOS-The Enemy Within (Season 1 episode 5)

Leonard Nimoy - "Being split in two halves is no theory with me doctor" - Star Trek TOS-The Enemy Within (Season 1 episode 5)

Leonard Nimoy - "If I seem insensitive to what you're going through, understand, it's the way I am" - Star Trek TOS-The Enemy Within (Season 1 episode 5)

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal

Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton - "How was the show? (Have you thought about calling that doctor?)" - Ordinary People

Mary Tyler Moore - "What was it you were thinking about?" - Ordinary People

Milos Foreman, Peter Schaffer - "Tug in many artists' heads between light and dark (you are probably a youthful and optimistic person)" - Amadeus Director's Commentary

Timothy Speed Levitch - "The grid plan (is puritanical)" - The Cruise

David Clennon - "We all thought we'd said goodbye, and we'd moved up. But, here we are. Gravity. It's not restricted to planets and suns. All things have it to some degree. Stones, buildings, people." - thirtySomething [We all have fields around us]

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal

Ken - "Simpler, something easy, stay in that one thing, where you want to be, adopt a different personality for a while. Make your own art, your own breakthroughs, your own escapes, your own transformations." [I feel one thing only. I can go to that one place.]

Ken - "Identification"

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal

Vic - "Promos KLERE 11/8/12" - Bad Blood

David Clennon - "Gravity, just another word for fate (life can be as simple as a fall, it's all so easy once you let go)" - thirtySomething

David Cross - "The Pre-taped Call-in show" - Mr. Show [The people calling about racism are watching the show about pet care which is airing now. If they wanted to talk about racism, they should've called three weeks ago when our Crime in the Streets show was airing.]

- "She doesn't really know what a second means. A second's really short, like right now, the second's gone" - thirtySomething

Joseph Fiennes - "She'd have a light in her eyes, infectious smile, you told her things you'd never told anyone..." - The Very Thought of You (aka "Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence")

Rufus Sewell - "Most people are attracted to everyone, my perfect partner is me" - The Very Thought of You (aka "Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence")

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Loops]

Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops]

Rick Springfield - "Jesse's Girl" [Loops]

Neutral Milk Hotel - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Loops]

Magnetic Fields - "I die"

Vic - "On Ken's Last Ever. It happens every other week though" - Bad Blood WTJU

Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops]

Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal

Ken - "I could just go back where I started. There's no need for continuity. You don't have to finish your thought. You assume they want to hear you in sequence. I'll wait"

Live phone caller - "I like your pearls of wisdom (New 2018 caller)" [Responding to last year's call for calls]

Radiohead - "Let Down" - OK Computer [Layers]

John Lennon - "Mother" - Plastic Ono Band [Intro bells loop]

St. Claire - "Georgia" - Everyone Lives Here [Loops]

Joseph Fiennes - "Finding the right person" - The Very Thought of You (aka "Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence")

Ray Winstone - "You came to me because you didn't like the decision you'd already made (decisions are easy)" - The Very Thought of You (aka "Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence")

St. Claire - "Georgia" - Everyone Lives Here [Loops]

Hal Holbrook - "I don't want to finish my analysis, so instead I'm running away from my problems" - The Group

Hal Holbrook+ - "I believed you, you sounded sincere. But how do I know?" - The Group

Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Swing loop]

Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" [Loops]

Shelly Duvall - "You appreciate the pain. You always dislike the cause of pain, I resented Stanley for it. And it's just the necessary turmoil to get out of it what you want out of it" - Making of The Shining [We had the same end in mind, it was just that sometimes we differed in our means. And by the end, the means met]

Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" [Loops]

Meg Ryan - "Is one of us supposed to be a dog in this scenario? Who is the dog? I am the dog!" - When Harry Met Sally

Wayne Dyer - "I think from the end, if you think about what is missing from your life, you will attract it"

Peter Falk - "I can't see you but I know you're here, I wish you were here. I wish I could see your face, to touch you. But you're not here." - Wings of Desire

Weyes Blood - "Diary" - Front Row Seat To Earth [Loops]

Stanley Kubrick - "HAL 9000: Fullest possible use, all that any conscious entity can ever hope to do" - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Limited edition)

Ken - "I participated in a voting exercise, instead of taking responsibility. What if everybody could just vote, instead of having to take responsibility and come together. Give up our authority to the poll"

Set: Visiting some old shows for 23 minutes, quite a bit different

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Wake is Not What Drives the Boat (with George W. Bush, Wayne Dyer, Explosions in the Sky)" - Show #309 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Sheep's Clothing" - Show #320 [Hear the whole show]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's a World of Laughter" - Show #297 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples. Incl. Noam Chomsky]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Children's Television Voteshop (2007 edit)" - Show #324 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples. Second Mary Tyler Moore reference in show (Just like a real hand)]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples]

Ken - "We're just drifting through time"

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples. (I'm not made of wood, and I don't have a wooden heart. Why do you suppose people make mistakes?)]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "No Tomorrow Life" - Show #361 [Hear the whole show and see list of samples]



Set: Back to the present

Live phone call - "How many things the show makes me think and feel. How many moments make up all of it. How many people haven't called tonight? This might be the last one."

Charles Strouse - "Hard Knock Life" - Annie musical

Charles Strouse - "Hard Knock Life" - Annie movie

Charles Strouse - "Hard Knock Life" - Annie musical

Charles Strouse - "Hard Knock Life (slowed down)" - Annie

Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops]

Alan Alda - "People are dying. You can't wait anymore. You can't!" - M*A*S*H season 7 episode 2: Peace on Us

Ken - "The reverse wave, a climb down, rising up and landing softly. This is your last chance. Please come back."

Walter Murch - "Please come back. You have nothing to be afraid of. This is your last chance, you have nowhere to go" - THX 1138 [Please come back. You have nowhere to go. I am here to protect you. Stay calm. Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.]

J.S. Bach - "Matthew's Passion" - THX 1138

Ken - "It happened. We resolve. Watch how abruptly it all changes forever, and it's gone, and we have nothing."
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