Reinventing the Wheel (Show #542/601) | Download full MP3 from Jul 18, 2018

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe"

Ken - "Intro"

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [Layers]

Vangelis - "Tears in Rain" - Blade Runner s.t.

Jerry Lewis - "You have to follow your instinct" - Interview by Dick Caviett

Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium"

Stone Roses - "It takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary

Manhattans - "Shining Star"

Taylor Kitsch - "Absolutely everything around me was false" - The Grand Seduction [Everybody was telling me lies]

Jerry Lewis - "Can't improvise like you used to" - Interview by Dick Caviett [We live in too bright a society, and the economy is such that you can't even wing a show and look to find marvelous things like you used to do, for fear you might impair the show. You're just taking a chance. I love to improvise, but in the context of what I know is solid. I used to jump away from what I had planned and just go totally insane. And two out of maybe four of those would work. But you just can't do that today.]

Shane Carruth - "Trade Days" - Primer s.t.

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Thank You For Making Noise" - Show #306, from 4/17/04 [Includes Nico]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop" - Show #245, from 3/24/01 [Includes Microsoft Windows sound]

Taylor Kitsch - "Why can't anyone just tell me the truth?" - The Grand Seduction

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "This Mess Is True" - Show #285, from 12/20/03 [Includes This Much Is True]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Other Shapes Are Possible" - Show #461 from 7/14/16 [Maybe includes Beach Boys loops, Alan Watts, Tupelo Honey looping, Ken on fish dances, THX 1138 on the new environment, and perhaps Waking on a Pretty Day, Mark Mothersbaugh's Canon from Royal Tenenbaums, Donald Sutherland from Little Murders, Bruce Dern from Silent Running]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Includes Moondog, Jeff Daniels from Chasing Sleep, Betsy Cohen on doing it yourself, later zombies rising from the dead PSA, something modern, Terms of Endearment Debra Winger, Lou Reed Street Hassle, Ken on this being the only way things can be]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Welling Up (like a crab you could walk backward)" - Show #485 from 11/13/2013 [Includes W.G. Snuffy Walden's My So-Called Life (versions from theme as well as an alternate from the pilot), something related to Sigur Ros]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Perhaps only briefly, then returned to Welling Up]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "I want to step across" - Show #470 from 9/4/2013 [Includes Kraftwerk, TV lecture from Michael Crichton movie about models (Looker), Neil Diamond, woman about TV/drug, Ken wanting to know fewer things, you're not here]

W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops, of course]

Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat"

Vangelis - "Tears in Rain (I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...)" - Blade Runner s.t. [With Rutger Hauer]

Russian Ark actors and musician - "Music and voices" - Russian Ark

Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do I Do it For You" [Not even looped! Mutt Lange]

Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69" [Loops]

Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic]

Kate Bush - "Hounds Of Love (Alternative)" [Loops]

Ken - "You can try to make sense. You can conform to your shape. You can repeat your stories." [You're unsure all the time, and it doesn't matter]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life (this is your last chance. This is everywhere that you know. Everything that you are)" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Ken's thing on life]

Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops]

Ken - "Nothing is true anymore"

Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop, by Brian Eno" - Show #245, from 3/24/01

Joe Frank - "Night Ride (the history of confessions)" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic]

Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops]

Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major" [Erik Satie variation. Layered]

Live phone call - "Running water, mountains, 40 sunsets at once"

Ken - "Identification"

Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major"

Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16 [With Lykke Li, Black Mirror ("when you suspect something, it's always better when it turns out to be true"), Jack Kornfield ("maybe I'm too old"), Beth Orton ("alive"), The Big Lebowski ("strong men also cry"), Albert Brooks from Lost in America, Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally ("you're going to have to figure out how to not express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them")]

W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops]

Liane Balaban - "You know nothing about people. They've all lied to you." - The Grand Seduction

Gene Wilder - "I'm only interested in the preservation of life" - Young Frankenstein

Taylor Kitsch - "What I can't comprehend is how I didn't realize..." - The Grand Seduction

Chi-Lites - "Have you Seen Her?" [Loops]

Taylor Kitsch - "Everybody was telling me lies" - The Grand Seduction

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Our Jill (Latter Day Sainthood)" - Show #353, 2/1/05

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Pure Imagination (Inaugural)" - Show #350, 1/18/05 [Incl. 80's 8-bit video game music, Bright Eyes An Attempt to Tip the Scales looped and backwards]

Pink Floyd - "My memory of it is just this room full of tapes running 'round" - Classic Albums: The Making of "The Dark Side of the Moon" (documentary)

Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack

Mogwai - "Friend of the Night"

Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Loops (fish in the sea...)]

Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor, it means you risked failure"

Gene Wilder - "It teaches us to accept our failures as well as our successes with quiet dignity and grace" - Young Frankenstein

Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Loops!]

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe"

Lara Flynn-Boyle - "She loves him (you have to know these things when they happen. It might have been her only chance.)" - Equinox [He sensed it. But she never did. (Dir. Alan Rudolph)]

Sergei Yevtushenko - "Closing piano music" - Russian Ark

Nickelback - "Gotta Be Somebody" [Loops. Robert John "Mutt" Lange]

Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Speed shifted]

Ken - "I love sleep" [With Sergei Yevtushenko from Russian Ark, Tori Amos, Primer music by Shane Carruth]

Ken - "A great big chain of things I have made all coming together"

Live stream feedback - "Live stream"

Ernest Thomas - "You say I push this for record, right?" - What's Happening!! (Season 2, episode 16: Doobie or Not Doobie: Part 1)

Velvet Cactus Soceity - "The Eclipse (It's a social gathering but no one can look into the sky)"

Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops]

Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [Loops. Incl. epilogue by Doctor Scott]

Ken - "Seven minutes wasn't as long as I thought it wasn't going to be (Coming up next)"

Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes (Epilogue)" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [(This is where the 2017 show climaxed)]

Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops in 2018]

Ken - "In the future, we've used it all up, it's over. You can go away forever." [It's 2018]

Set:

Drahomira Song Orchestra - "Argentine" [(Not in archive)]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/80288