Your Turn to Be Happy (Show #525/#553) | Download full MP3 from Nov 1, 2017

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Your Turn to Be Happy" - Your Turn to Be Happy: Show #525 from 6/14/17

Garth Stevenson - "Dawn" - Flying [Layers]

Ken - "I'm sure we can do everything"

Polly Draper - "There's always a problem" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Mel Harris, Ken Olin - "I've made mistakes" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Radiohead - "Daydreaming" [Layers]

Bill Cosby - "Conflict" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With

Rebecca Tilles - "Every day I miss you (live)" [Layers]

Patricia Wettig - "I'll be back in a second" - thirtySomething: Season 4, episode 9

Tarot card caterer - "Party is like a child" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Loops]

Tarot card caterer - "You can be right or you can be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten - "This night will be a long night" - Gaslight [Sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night]

Kathryn Beaumont - "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense" - Alice in Wonderland [Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't]

Ken & niece Chutney - "Childhood field recording" [Get away, Kenny]

Mel Harris - "You don't have to do everything exactly right" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Christine and the Queens - "Christine" [Loops]

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" [Layers, of course]

Luke Rossi - "A second's really short, it's gone" - thirtySomething: Season 4, episode 9

Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [More loops]

Christine and the Queens - "Christine" [Further loops]

Chutney - "Unwrap it ('cado?)" - Childhood field recording [Avocado. (It's like a pickle?)]

Ken - "It's all one thing (Right inside the sea)"

Kathryn Beaumont - "Contrarywise, what it is, it wouldn't be (in my world. Oh but you would!)" - Alice in Wonderland

Ken - "We're not separate from the atmosphere" [Everything that's all around is here all the time. You are your child self]

Chutney - "Yayyyyy"

Chutney & Ken - "Childhood field recording"

W.G. Snuffy Walden - "Interview about thirtySomething music" [I was always very sensitive to my surroundings. I was hypersensitive to what they were thinking about the work I did, because I was sure they were going to find out anyway that I didn't know anything about the work I was doing.]

Stan Dale - "If I do nice things for you, maybe you'll love me?" [You're trying to be a good person. You are this wonderful, sweet guy. It's not by doing anything, it's by being. Just be the best Frank you know how to be]

Kathryn Beaumont - "A world of my own (Everything would be nonsense)" - Alice in Wonderland

Fleetwood Mac cover - "Rhiannon"

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" [Layers continue]

War On Drugs - "Thinking of a Place"

Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds - "I represent what you had to stop" - Mother [No wonder you liked Jeff better]

War On Drugs - "In Reverse" - Lost in the Dream [Loops!]

Peter Horton - "Maybe there's no problem at all, and it's just your turn to be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer - "Why should I lie? Come closer..." - Gaslight [It was a part of my life I didn't care to tell you about. They don't hang a man for that, do they?]

War On Drugs - "In Reverse" - Lost in the Dream [Loops, atmospheres]

Patricia Wettig, Mel Harris - "It's not a good idea to need someone who barely exists" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [Haven't you noticed I'm a missing person?]

Ingrid Bergman - "He said I was going out of my mind!" - Gaslight

Ken's Last Ever and Fareed Armaly - "Interviewing Ken" - July 5, 2009

Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Daft Punk, Antony and the Johnsons, Chicago, Magnolia, trees, War On Drugs, a lot more" - Show #513, 11/19/16 #2 of 2: Ramu Misses You

Bill Cosby - "Gorilla loop" [You get a gorilla and then the old gorilla... The skipping record that launched Ken's Last Ever over 23 years ago...]

Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" [Loops. See also: Terminal Sunshine]

U2 - "With or Without You" [Loops. Brian Eno]

Garth Stevenson - "Hourglass" - Flying

Ken - "Station ID (they all go into the stew)"

U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" - The Joshua Tree [Loops]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" [Loop]

Leslie Morgan Steiner - "Isolate the victim" - Domestic Violence TEDx talk [The last thing I wanted to do was leave New York (I thought you made sacrifices for your soulmate)]

Peter Horton - "Maybe it's your turn to be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [(Maybe there's no problem at all)]

Ingrid Bergman - "This night will be a long night" - Gaslight

Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Fish in the sea loop]

Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" [Loops]

Ken - "Atmosphere appropriate for midnight and 6pm simultaneously"

Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" [Loops]

Van Morrison - "Everyone" [Loops]

Melanie Mayron - "I'm out of therapy, I'm fixed, I'm sick of these problems" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [These problems never get solved, do they? (The mother suffers from acute narcissism...) Act in spite of the problem. Everybody's got problems]

Van Morrison - "Everyone" [Loops]

Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman - "You're slowly and systematically being driven out of your mind" - Gaslight [But why, why?]

Luke Rossi - "She doesn't know what a second means" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Chutney, with Ken sneezing - "Introduced to microphone" - Childhood field recording

Polly Draper - "Terminate (I just want to leave here and never come back)" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [Could we keep in touch with each other? (I think I'm doing it for the right reasons. I just realized something, I'm going to miss you. Isn't that odd?) There are no rules.]

David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Factories, skies, trains, rivers" - All the Real Girls [Loops]

Walter Murch, J.S. Bach - "Changeable loop" - THX-1138

Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Kissing" - All the Real Girls

Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey - "This is it, it's gonna be gone soon. What do we do? Enjoy it." - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jon Brion - "Spotless Mind" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops, reversals, layers]

Jon Brion - "Main Title" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops, reversals, layers]

Bill Cosby - "Forget all about it, I never hit you" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [Loops]

Bill Cosby - "You fell out the bed" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [Loops]

David Cross, Tom Kenny - "Flag scene" - Mr. Show with Bob and David: Season 1, episode 4 [Can't we just put the flag up on a pole where no one can get to it?]

Jon Brion - "Main Title" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ken - "How creation works (it doesn't look like perfection)" [400-minute tracks, 200-page books, 90-minute cassettes, 2 servings per container, sorted binary tree]

Ken - "We fill the container"

David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Kissing music" - All the Real Girls [Loops]

Vangelis - "Chariots of Fire" - Chariots of Fire [Loops]

Ken Olin - "Crying" - thirtySomething: Season 4

Kevin J. O'Connor - "Why would you travel? You've never done it before!" - Equinox

Lara Flynn-Boyle - "She had an opportunity to be with him once" - Equinox

Tyra Ferrell - "Your whole life is about searching for one thing" - Equinox

Vangelis - "Chariots of Fire" - Chariots of Fire [Loops]

John Lennon - "Mother" [Loops]

Ken - "Nothing more to say"

John Lennon - "Mother" [Loops]

Ken - "That's it (I used every last moment)"

Clem Leek - "Memories of Japan"
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