WFMU: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from January 18, 2021

Listener comments!
	8/28/13 2:02pm Bliss: Hooray.
	8/28/13 2:03pm Carmichael: Hey man, how's it goin'?
	8/28/13 2:03pm kat330: Hi, Kenzo, Yo, Bliss!
	8/28/13 2:03pm listener james from westwood: good afternoon kenzo! sans context, this opening pair of notes is quite sinister.
	8/28/13 2:03pm Dervish: Sybil's rights?
	8/28/13 2:05pm pacific standard simon: They've all gone to look for Armenia...
	8/28/13 2:06pm fleep: Baby Gojira or Giant Kitten? You decide!
	8/28/13 2:08pm pacific standard simon: Giant catbox or tiny atoll.
	8/28/13 2:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Laughing Noam.
	8/28/13 2:10pm fleep: I'm mixing Noam Chomsky with CNBC.
	8/28/13 2:10pm Rich in Washington: Guardin' Noam
	8/28/13 2:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chernobyl Cat.
	8/28/13 2:10pm fleep: @kat330 Godzilla, over there.
	8/28/13 2:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh yes, oh no
	8/28/13 2:12pm Bliss: That Bush thing was weird.
	8/28/13 2:12pm Carmichael: Remember, it's Mer-kuh.
	8/28/13 2:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...don't make me go nuke-yoo-lar w/ yer nazi-ism...
	8/28/13 2:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Duhbya.
	8/28/13 2:14pm Carmichael: Emphasis on duh.
	8/28/13 2:14pm listener james from westwood: this is the first time i've listened w/ headphones on. definitely enhances the effect.
	8/28/13 2:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): hey, everyone, you're all in charge
	8/28/13 2:16pm fleep: I put dibs on Pope.
	8/28/13 2:18pm fleep: This is mixing with an Infiniti commercial. Keep it up!
	8/28/13 2:18pm Carmichael: Is this Jello Biafra?
	8/28/13 2:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Carm: Distinctly.
	8/28/13 2:20pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Jello is robot-resistant, apparently
	8/28/13 2:20pm 2HOPE: i feel a knot
	8/28/13 2:21pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Present.
	8/28/13 2:21pm Carmichael: I have attended several of his group performances. California Uber Alles!
	8/28/13 2:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gojira / Godzilla : en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - this week ?
	8/28/13 2:23pm kat330: Hunh, how ironic.
	8/28/13 2:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kissinger: 'The U.S. does not have Allies - it has Interests.'
	8/28/13 2:27pm Carmichael: The war room discussion from Dr. Strangelove would fit in well here, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 2:27pm Bliss: Kissinger knows more about politics than most anyone on Earth. He is also insane.
	8/28/13 2:28pm fleep: The fave game among Poli Sci types involved lying your ass off to 'allies'. Some of those guys are in State now en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:28pm 2HOPE: i am very wake, i literally woke up and visited the page. its dusk outside
	8/28/13 2:28pm Rev. Turnip Druid: holy crap.
	8/28/13 2:29pm kat330: Clearly he has a tin ear. You'd think this many decades in the U.S. would have put a dint in his accent at least.
	8/28/13 2:29pm listener james from westwood: these days, they're playing less diplomacy and more illuminati: en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: en.wikiquote.org... : - The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
	8/28/13 2:30pm kat330: Ooops dEnt...
	8/28/13 2:30pm listener james from westwood: or as spy magazine perpetually dubbed him, socialite-war criminal henry kissinger.
	8/28/13 2:31pm listener james from westwood: not to be confused with "short-fingered vulgarian donald trump." this shell ... parody? corporate anthem? is jaw dropping.
	8/28/13 2:33pm Bliss: I'm surprised that Whole Foods Market Inc. hasn't come out with a version?
	8/28/13 2:34pm kat330: Well, the Internet has taken care of the working part. ;)
	8/28/13 2:34pm Rich in Washington: US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python's Mr. Neutron episode with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience.
	8/28/13 2:36pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hearts and minds. Blood and souls.
	8/28/13 2:36pm fleep: The plan is to fire a guided giant cartoon hand, which will seek out Assad and give him such a smack.
	8/28/13 2:37pm Carmichael: I say we drop a giant boulder on him, and give him a tiny umbrella at the last moment to protect him.
	8/28/13 2:37pm listener james from westwood: or a small sign saying, "HELP!" to hold up.
	8/28/13 2:38pm pacific standard simon: @fleep, Carmichael - you don't think bombarding him with audio-collage will be enough?
	8/28/13 2:38pm Bliss: The more I think about the Coming to America song, the more I realize how gross it is.
	8/28/13 2:38pm kat330: Just read on Sunday that Indiana is #40 in nearest to matching the national earnings average. We were #30 in the late '90s.
	8/28/13 2:39pm Bliss: Love the way this part of the song is being used though.
	8/28/13 2:39pm kat330: A lot of that is due to union busting. While on the other end of the spectrum, municipal / utility worker unions are impenetrable and bankrupting the cities.
	8/28/13 2:39pm pacific standard simon: 'they've all gone to look for art media...'
	8/28/13 2:40pm possibilitywaves: limits of language / these combinations really do matter beyond what can be expressed...
	8/28/13 2:41pm kat330: If people consumed less—were willing to make do with less—there could be more time for creation.
	8/28/13 2:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the U.S. (which is what we blithely mean by 'America') has represented freedom & opportunity to innumerable immigrants & refugees - incldg. nearly all our predecessors. 'America' is a large complicated thing - not a single simple thing to either Pledge Allegiance to nor to Hate...
	8/28/13 2:41pm Carmichael: Or the discussion in the movie Barcelona about high crime stats in the US compared to Spain. Priceless.
	8/28/13 2:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: On that note [kat330] ... it's time to make ready a splendidly violent yard-sale...
	8/28/13 2:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: EVIL had the greatest lines (time bandits)
	8/28/13 2:42pm Carmichael: kat, if you offer me a 44 oz soda, I will drink it. If you build it, they will come. That's where consumption is born, in the boardrooms.
	8/28/13 2:43pm pacific standard simon: I consume mass quantities of art supplies.
	8/28/13 2:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): anything here for me? no? ok
	8/28/13 2:44pm kat330: @Rev: Why violent?? We've had a couple of those, but most ends up being donated to the Salvation Army or Goodwill. We use things 'til they're pretty used up. :)
	8/28/13 2:45pm kat330: @Carmichael: Resistance is NOT futile though! I was lucky to adopt a non-consumer mindset back when this country had a lot of optimism and hope among the young. There IS a way to keep it and tune out the Joneses.
	8/28/13 2:46pm fleep: Kenzo: you'll be mixed with Obama shortly, let's see what happens.
	8/28/13 2:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: VIOLENT yard sale from our perspective. Violently enthusiastic. Brutally thorough. Everything must go. BUT no haggling before 12noon. We shall not be victimized by mere "people."
	8/28/13 2:46pm 2HOPE: i am here
	8/28/13 2:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Everything from televisions to decorative absinthe fountains. But I keep the plush Cthulhu.
	8/28/13 2:48pm kat330: @Rev: Heh, OK. @fleep: Yeah, I was going to stream that, too, but ... @2Hope: Good to see it.
	8/28/13 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & of course - the U.S. is pathologically adverse to / afraid of Socialism. Elsewhere, possibly older Civilizations - they have figured out that we will all Get Sick & need Health Care, Education is essential - even Art is a Basic Human Need. Unemployment is higher than since the Great Depression - simultaneously, our Infrastructure Disintegrates &/or becomes Obsolete - partly because Conservatives refuse to Invest in our Future - any Future - & employment positions remain vacant because Qualified people can't be found - & the TeaParties & Cons refuse to back Education...
	8/28/13 2:49pm duke: Is there an applause sign at these speeches?
	8/28/13 2:49pm Rich in Washington: This is wonderful, Kenzo!
	8/28/13 2:49pm Bliss: "The President of the United States." So what.
	8/28/13 2:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): it's shaped like a gun pointed at their families
	8/28/13 2:50pm Bliss: Right on, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 2:51pm kat330: Yes, Kenzo, kudos!
	8/28/13 2:53pm fleep: An all encompassing security system with unlimited funds? What could go wrong.
	8/28/13 2:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - I work @ a ThriftStore serving CommunityServices ( www.wfmu.org... ) - the danger being you come to believe $3.75 for jeans is normal ...they used to speak of the 'Post-Industrial Era' - that enuff Things had actually finally quite been Manufactured awlready - & CyberInfo would be the new Thing. That was before Consumption again became a National Patriotic Imperative. - Obama is President - he cannot but possibly represent what this Country has become. But Thx for this reminder of the Duhbya Administration years (two long Terms) - the 1st a stolen Election in which - ! - he quite lost the Popular Vote - the 2nd won w/ 55% (no more) for a standing wartime President. Do you remember?!?!: Everyone believed we had the Worst President in History - or @ least a strong contender. It felt like the American Experiment was Over & we should Leave. No less than that.
	8/28/13 3:01pm Rich in Washington: David Lynch is a squirrel inhabiting the body of a human.
	8/28/13 3:01pm listener james from westwood: digging the old tunes!!
	8/28/13 3:01pm 2HOPE: i am often blind to beauty
	8/28/13 3:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: California Uber Alles: - What are the Clintons & Obamas? Yuppie Lawyers. We've Got a Bigger Problem Now : ...& there is much worse...
	8/28/13 3:04pm duke: We're all normal and we want...
	8/28/13 3:05pm kat330: But it's abnormal to want beyond our resources. Normal can be wanting at a normal, sustainable level.
	8/28/13 3:09pm fleep: kat330 The Northridge earthquake shook the materialism right out of me. To this day I am always lightening the load.
	8/28/13 3:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Recent psych studies have concluded that prosperity up to the level of Middle Class Security does increase 'Happiness' - but for Wealth above & beyond that - 'Happiness' quickly flatlines...
	8/28/13 3:13pm kat330: @fleep: I missed that (left L.A. in '89), but growing up in a single-parent family as a latchkey kid, then pursuing my art for a decade after HS made and making around 39 household moves over the years make it impossible to get heavy into any sort of object love.
	8/28/13 3:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ken - could you Post the new skedj here ?
	8/28/13 3:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this week's Show long since ☆ed awlready...
	8/28/13 3:15pm kat330: [By the same token, I've been giving it away far more than pulling anything in all my life.]
	8/28/13 3:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - check John Densmore last week on Aeriel View: ..."'Currency' means 'flowing'"...
	8/28/13 3:18pm kat330: Kenzo, have you heard the Army Corps of Engineers "theme" song? Harry Shearer often plays that ditty to good effect (when talking about NOLA and Katrina).
	8/28/13 3:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm a Hoarder in sense of being an 'Archivist' - I like books & music & collectibles - but in my old age what good is it? ...We're all hoping to win the Lottery or Die...SoilentGreen is People!... - Oh! Another Shearer fan - I'm not utterly alone here...
	8/28/13 3:21pm kat330: This bathroom song rips off a tune from "Peter Pan" the musical, I believe.
	8/28/13 3:22pm kat330: @RR: I have been listening to Shearer ALMOST from his inception at KCRW. I missed a few years in my moves where there was no local station airing him and pre-podcast days, but otherwise, I'm one of his longest, most loyal listeners! :)
	8/28/13 3:23pm pacific standard simon: When I die, my friends and family win the lottery (all my cool shit).
	8/28/13 3:24pm fleep: MLK and Obama mixed. What fine work, Ken.
	8/28/13 3:25pm possibilitywaves: it is a good point the real "america" exists as amorphous and nameless underneath all of the ways those in charge try to make us hate it. we do have amazing lasting impossible to describe roots that are still here today.
	8/28/13 3:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - for me - Malcolm put the fine point on History is Written by the Winners - immensely important that way. They want to write him off as a Militant nutcase - analogous to they writing off Hendrix as Artless & Drug-Addled - &/or Rockers as prolonged-adolescent damaged goods - rather than the New Gnostics (Knowers) that we are.
	8/28/13 3:26pm Rich in Washington: It's depressingly ironic to me that on the anniversary of Dr. King's speech, Barack Obama, who in some ways can be seen as a fulfillment of King's vision, is now preparing for a continuation of the US's imperialist 'nation-building' program. Twerk-tweak that, mainstream media.
	8/28/13 3:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - well - Hendrix told the Panthers - 'you're doing what you can, & I'm doing what I have to do'...
	8/28/13 3:28pm possibilitywaves: ^^^ RevolutionrabbitNov63, Yes. last year around this time i read Exegesis by Philip Kindred and his conceptuality of 20th and by extension 21st century existence is that it is not dissimilar to the beginning of "AD" time of some type of existential struggle between gnostics and "romans"
	8/28/13 3:28pm Doug Schulkind: @Rich in Washington What? You were expecting Huey P. Newton?
	8/28/13 3:29pm duke: My son say that when in doubt about what to do in the movies, blow shit up. Politics seems to work the same way.
	8/28/13 3:29pm Rich in Washington: Putney Swope!
	8/28/13 3:29pm Bliss: Obama is not an emodiment of the dream Dr. King Jr. had at all. Obama just proves blacks can be as evil as whites.
	8/28/13 3:30pm fleep: @Rich in Washingon Presidents get aboard a moving train of history. They are the conductors, but not the engineers.
	8/28/13 3:31pm Bliss: or half blacks or half whites or whatever. Race means nothing. Mean and nice in every race.
	8/28/13 3:31pm Rich in Washington: @fleep: I agree. THat's where I'm at now with it. Also, look how much Barack's aged in less than eight years. I'll bet it's a soul-crushing job in the extreme.
	8/28/13 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...in the World Wars, the U.S. became the 'Arsenal of Democracy'. When Ike - a real General - left Office - he warned of the Military-Industriall Complex. Phil Ochs sang 'We're the Cops of the World'... - Obama is Mixed Race. Everyone forces him to the Middle of the Bus... duke: - Wow.
	8/28/13 3:32pm Rich in Washington: i140.photobucket.com...
	8/28/13 3:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: All President's hair goes white pretty quick. - Technically - on paper - the job of the President is to Protect the Constitution. In the Realpolitik - it ends being making anything & everything that might be Wrong in the Free World - & so really the World - Right.
	8/28/13 3:36pm Doug Schulkind: By any Neil necessary.
	8/28/13 3:36pm Bliss: Let go of the "dream".
	8/28/13 3:38pm Bliss: (Wo)man, Lennon was awesome.
	8/28/13 3:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: possibilitywaves - ✔ Bliss: On cue to that - John Lennon...
	8/28/13 3:40pm Rev. Turnip Druid: oh EVIL, i love you so.
	8/28/13 3:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as a Metaphysician - a very Lennonesque conclusion: - In the Age of ♒Aquarius - learn to Rule Yourself - don't hire other people (Governement) to do it. - ♒Aquarius is the People, Circulation, FreeFlowing Information & Energy - Opposite ♌Leo which is Monarchy & Rulers. (The Lion & the Unicorn.)
	8/28/13 3:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I will read you all and reply you all later sooner yesterday
	8/28/13 3:42pm kat330: After seeing what's going on in Detroit, Turnip, thought your Isle of Dogs might have been inspired by the plight of abandoned dogs there (rather than badger culling in the UK ;).
	8/28/13 3:45pm Bliss: Show's great, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 3:45pm 2HOPE: beauty is there
	8/28/13 3:46pm possibilitywaves: ``i would really like to help you, but i am a nervous messed up marionette, flying off on a prison ship...and the dinosaurs are roaming the earth...`` but maybe not... maybe not...
	8/28/13 3:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: The Detroit thing is a definite Ballard scenario. He'd be fascinated, methinks.
	8/28/13 3:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this also means that in claiming our Freedom from Leaders - we have to - as Lennon put it - 'Learn to Swim' - Grow Up & - as Jung put it 'Individualize' - take Responsibility ...as Lennon said - what Violent overthrow of the Institution has ever worked & brought the Better World? - Yet - Speaking Truth to Power must be part of the Process - to acKnowledge what we have become...
	8/28/13 3:48pm Bliss: Unaware fo the abandoned dogs in Detroi issue, entirely.
	8/28/13 3:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): also,
	8/28/13 3:49pm kat330: @RR: Year of the Cabbit, Shearer, Lennon and now a Jungster, too? I'd like to think of it as a tribe of like-mindedness, very different from a cult of hive-mindedness.
	8/28/13 3:51pm kat330: @Bliss: Something like 70,000 homes just abandoned there, and often the owners left their dogs behind. Some join in packs to survive.
	8/28/13 3:52pm Bliss: Those sweeties. What a mess.
	8/28/13 3:52pm duke: Great show kenzo!
	8/28/13 3:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Almost Lost Detroit' by Dale Earnhart Jr.Jr. should be heard more often. - well - ♒Aquarius is the Sign of the (Rebel) Individual but also Society - the Paradox of our Age ! - Joseph Campbell says it will take some time for Story-Telling Monkey (HomoSapiens) to get a Story together this time !!...
	8/28/13 3:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We have to Individuate - be Grown Up Adults - & also learn what a Tribe is - & how it Works.
	8/28/13 3:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OUTSTANDING KENZO.
	8/28/13 3:54pm Doug Schulkind: If a rabbi has some tea, does that make him/her rabbit?
	8/28/13 3:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My name is David.
	8/28/13 3:55pm Bliss: This show is important.
	8/28/13 3:56pm Bliss: Barack is not important.
	8/28/13 3:57pm fleep: Thanks, Ken.
	8/28/13 3:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): thank you thank you thank you!
	8/28/13 4:01pm Rich in Washington: Thank you, Kenzo!!!
	8/29/13 2:54pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @Rich: "Guardin' Noam": Good one! @james from westwood: Oh yes, these shows are made for headphones. @Kenzo: And another thing... @fleep: Thanks for mixing the show with the alternate-reality Media. @2HOPE: Welcome! @Carmichael: No fighting in the war room! @james: Shell corporate anthem is real as far as I know. @Rich: "US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python...with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience." When was the last time the US gov't apologized? By definition, everything done here is correct. Welcome to then, Bliss, kat330, Dervish, pacific standard simon, Rev. Turnip Druid, possibilitywaves, duke, Doug, everyone who would call or email, and everyone else!
	11/13/19 5:01pm ParUbi: Joining!
	11/13/19 5:02pm chresti: Hello again!
	11/13/19 5:02pm John from Florham park: Hello fellow listeners
	11/13/19 5:03pm WR: Oh, a repeat show. That's OKAY, I'm new here, so all new to me.
	11/13/19 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Algorithmically determined to be new to all. And technically has never been here before in this arrangement.
	11/13/19 5:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We'll see what it means 6 years this on...
	11/13/19 5:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome this new, ParUbi, chresti, John, and WR!
	11/13/19 5:08pm John from Florham park: @Kenzo just happened on your fine show
	11/13/19 5:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @John Brace
	11/13/19 5:12pm John from Florham park: I am bracing for ramming speed
	11/13/19 5:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We are the world
	11/13/19 5:27pm northguineahills: Thanks, Ken!
	11/13/19 5:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): ngh, nod
	11/13/19 5:44pm ParUbi: Michael Nyman / Drowning by Numbers
	11/13/19 5:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I was just thinking the same thing.
	11/13/19 5:56pm ParUbi: unmistakable idea man
	11/13/19 5:57pm Quinn: John from Florham park, every time I see your name I try to remember to go out to Ely's Tropical Fish to get some new mystery snails, they keep escaping from our aquarium
	11/13/19 5:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Seems like David Cronenberg is different from David Lynch this way. He says he does set out to disturb an audience.
	11/13/19 5:59pm WR: Ok, back into the hole for me (subway) twas pleasant being connected while I could.
	11/13/19 5:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Farewell WR
	11/13/19 6:00pm ParUbi: be seeing you, WR!
	11/13/19 6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes, Quinn
	11/13/19 6:01pm Carmichael: Good after the noon, Kenzworth.
	11/13/19 6:01pm ParUbi: disturbance is secondary, but sometimes things need to be reshaped
	11/13/19 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome to the half, Carmichael
	11/13/19 6:02pm chresti: The bathroom is a private kind of place
	11/13/19 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): At last I can finally be me
	11/13/19 6:03pm cklequ: I just tuned in. Out of habit i clicked the 'listen to this show' button, and then realized the listen live button was further up the screen. Now i'm listening to the first and second half of the show in unison. I feel like i'm cheating in some way.
	11/13/19 6:04pm ParUbi: i have a room which is pitch dark, no windows. perfect for listening and privacy.
	11/13/19 6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @cklequ It's a setup
	11/13/19 6:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): They come to America
	11/13/19 6:06pm ParUbi: i think that's a great idea! starting it over randomly
	11/13/19 6:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kerouac & Ginsberg picking up sheets Burroughs had all over & collating 'Naked Lunch'...start anywhere...
	11/13/19 6:08pm ParUbi: those two were a pair of regular cut-ups
	11/13/19 6:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hey cklequ's playing the beginning over all of us
	11/13/19 6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: James Baldwin blows my mind.
	11/13/19 6:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I should look for speeches
	11/13/19 6:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (btw)
	11/13/19 6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Said that Malcolm & Martin just got closer to each other's views...
	11/13/19 6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Martin - just...Musically Eloquent.
	11/13/19 6:19pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For sure, Martin Luther King Jr.'s later stuff was way more revolutionary
	11/13/19 6:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My big takeaway from Malcolm is that History is Written by the Winners. He really lifts the veil on this...
	11/13/19 6:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation."
	11/13/19 6:27pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Nobody used to live here
	11/13/19 6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...rather - he blew a fat hole in it...
	11/13/19 6:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The dream is over.
	11/13/19 6:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Such a Punk that Lennon.
	11/13/19 6:34pm Carmichael: Great, now I have THIS song going through my head ...
	11/13/19 6:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Neil Diamond time, patriot
	11/13/19 6:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tribute to his penniless Immigrant Grandma.
	11/13/19 6:37pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, everyone.
	11/13/19 6:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "The song was also the one he was most proud of, partly because of when it was later used: national news shows played it when the hostages were shown returning home after the Iran hostage crisis ended"
	11/13/19 6:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "It also became the anthem of his world tour two weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he changed the lyric at the end from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!""
	11/13/19 6:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh well...
	11/13/19 6:39pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I.e. fight, fight, fight...
	11/13/19 6:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...hostages released the very second Reagan is inaugurated...ho hum...
	11/13/19 6:41pm Carmichael: Was the irony of your show against today's proceedings intentional?
	11/13/19 6:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl."
	11/13/19 6:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): All is ever coincidental
	11/13/19 6:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh here's the best one: "In 1992, he performed for President George H.W. Bush's final Christmas in Washington NBC special."
	11/13/19 6:44pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ooh, I'm just two clicks away from this sentence: "12 Songs also became noteworthy as one of the last albums to be pressed and released by Sony BMG with the Extended Copy Protection software embedded in the disc. (See the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal.) " And on that BMG scandal page is a link to my article series from the time: blog.wfmu.org...
	11/13/19 6:47pm ParUbi: and today is Fred Rogers day
	11/13/19 6:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Also Felix Unger Day.
	11/13/19 6:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wrapping up "Hang onto a dream (America)" now. We'll collapse into the end of some dance music wave thing I made last year...
	11/13/19 6:50pm ParUbi: i hear some Peaksy guitar
	11/13/19 6:51pm chresti: Thanks Kenzo!
	11/13/19 6:52pm ParUbi: thanks!
	11/13/19 6:53pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thank you my dreamfriends and Felix Ungers
	11/13/19 6:53pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks for your recent extra pledge, Ken FHP!
	11/13/19 6:53pm chresti: I love the peaksy stuff, has an opiated feeling to it
	11/13/19 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Most welcome, Kenzo. This is good freeform.
	2:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We're here right now on the radio, 2-4pm ET, and then here on the stream, 3-5pm ET. Check?
	3:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This moment now to be folded in, here, in one hour...
	3:21pm fred: It can get bitter seeing some names that will no longer check in
	3:22pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Historical archive preservation
	3:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm pretty sure it was dead air for the first 7 minutes. Moment of silence for the disappeared?
	3:27pm fred: I think there was some silence, not sure how long (I switched computers at the time)
	3:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Too many buttons, I forgot one
	3:33pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Recent tradition with these replays has been I do something new not only at random sneaky and overlapping moments in the midst, but some new collage at the end. We'll see what I do with those 10 mins at the end. Will also plan to run 7 minutes past the end. Which means the live part will start 3 minutes before the end and will run until 7 minutes after the end.
	3:34pm Webhamster Henry: The "end" that is.
	3:34pm fred: That Shell version somehow manages to outcringe the original. Great find. I had managed to forget about it... Might be tougher this time
	3:35pm Webhamster Henry: Did you catch Carlo on Radio Row yesterday? www.wfmu.org...
	3:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I remember when people thought collage was too weird
	3:38pm fred: @Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the reminder, out of my listening hours, but I'll get to the archive eventually
	3:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): OK gotta get some December 2020 Chomsky into here
	4:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wheeeeew ok in an hour you'll hear me here
	4:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): That is, now, 20-21
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh, it's Irene Trudel
	4:05pm Webhamster Henry: Irene talking under.
	4:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm bewildered every time
	4:26pm northguineahills: stumbles through the fifth wall . Are we in a multidimentional dance hexagon?
	4:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): nghgn
	4:28pm northguineahills: Watched King in the Wilderness this weekend (a doc on the last two years of his life, recommended.) Always great to learn something new....
	4:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The strong fall and seed our roots
	4:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Everything Neil Diamond ever did is justified so I could do this show
	4:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This show is very rare in that the loop plays from the first moment to the last.
	4:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): So here's the last 10 minutes except we're 7 minutes delayed so I won't start feeling nostalgic for the present for a few more minutes yet
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Here, now we're today, and will be for 7 more minutes
	5:05pm Webhamster Henry: There's your Noam 2021.
	5:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): All right, the bonus 2021 audio archive is now posted. Thanks, everyone!

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from January 18, 2021

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January 18, 2021: Hang Onto a Dream (America), with bonus 2021 mixing

This spontaneous collage draws upon dozens of samples, speeches, and corporate anthems, creating an ambiguous if sometimes disturbing meditation on some notions of freedom. With appearances by Noam Chomsky, George W. Bush, Shell Oil, the NSA, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, Jello Biafra, John Lennon...and Neil Diamond.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Format	Comments	New / Special	Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Hang onto a dream (America)	Show #469, from Aug. 28, 2013 (1/16/17 edit)	2013				0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	WAV		* ***	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Unknown IT Corporation	I Have A Dream	IT Anthems		MP3	of 2 CPU's	* ***	0:04:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky	Class War	Class War	1995	MP3		* ***	0:04:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.	Shibuya (field only)	Lost In Translation s.t.		WAV		* ***	0:06:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.	Shibuya (field only)	Lost In Translation s.t.		WAV		***	0:07:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George W. Bush	Address to Congress 9/20/01		2001	MP3		* ***	0:08:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Frank	Another Country Pt 2		1986	WAV	Life in America was inconceivable to her	* ***	0:10:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Frank	Another Country Pt 3		1986	MP3	To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation.	* ***	0:11:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jello Biafra	The New Soviet Union	If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve (Disc 1)	1998				0:13:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	WAV		* ***	0:17:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.	Shibuya (field only)	Lost In Translation s.t.		WAV		* ***	0:17:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Madiha R Tahir & NSA	NSA recruiting session with students questions	University of Wisconsin recruitment drive, July 2013	2013	MP3	Discussion here	* ***	0:18:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan	You're just as much a prisoner as I am	The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben)	1967	WAV		* ***	0:21:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Frank	Another Country Pt 2		1986	WAV	I can't stand the isolation in this country. All you Americans do is watch television and go to the movies.	* ***	0:22:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shell	Growing and Winning (We Are the World)		2006	MP3		* ***	0:24:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Frank	Another Country Pt 3		1986	MP3	The waste is enormous	* ***	0:28:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	One of the great tragedies of civilization is this need to work for a living	The Cruise	1998	WAV		* ***	0:30:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky	The Undermining of Union	Class War	1995	MP3		* ***	0:31:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	WAV		***	0:34:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl	There used to be more time, before I had to work	Chasing Sleep	2000	WAV		* ***	0:36:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan	When I have knowledge of computers, I will be the surpreme being	Time Bandits	1981	WAV		* ***	0:38:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
American Standards	My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place	Bathrooms Are Coming!!	1969	MP3	I'm free....	* ***	0:39:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Malcolm X	Stop Singin' And Start Swingin'			MP3		* ***	0:40:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Malcolm X	The Ballot or the Bullet			MP3		* ***	0:41:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Nyman	Drowning By Number 2	Drowning By Numbers	1988	MP3		* ***	0:42:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George W. Bush	Address to Congress 9/20/01		2001	MP3		* ***	0:44:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George W. Bush	Address to Congress 9/20/01		2001	MP3		***	0:46:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Nyman	Drowning By Number 2	Drowning By Numbers	1988	MP3		***	0:47:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George W. Bush	Address to Congress 9/20/01		2001	MP3		* ***	0:48:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan	Both sides are becoming identical	The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben)	1967	WAV		* ***	0:50:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky	Social Policy-Welfare for the Rich	Class War	1995	MP3		* ***	0:52:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harrison Ford	It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolesence	Mosquito Coast	1986	WAV		* ***	0:53:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Iam Holm, Craig Warnock, David Rappaport	Evil turned out rather well	Time Bandits	1981	WAV		* ***	0:54:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shell	Growing and Winning (We Are the World)		2006	MP3		***	0:56:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Lynch	Blue Velvet interview (excerpts)	Canadian TV interview	1986	WAV		* ***	0:57:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Irene Trudel	Today live 2021 on Drummer stream, mixed with now mixed with then		2021
Ken	The half-way handoff, live in 2021		2021
Ken	Everything is going as planned		2013
Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville	Always two steps behind	Chasing Sleep	2000	WAV		* ***	1:10:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	Been running from the cops all my life	The Cruise	1998	WAV		* ***	1:12:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Unknown IT Corporation	I Have A Dream	IT Anthems		MP3		* ***	1:13:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn	Full movie	My Dinner With Andre	1981	MP3		* ***	1:14:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn	Full movie	My Dinner With Andre	1981	MP3		***	1:14:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Great Society Band	March of the Astronauts			MP3		* ***	1:17:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Malcolm X	You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate That Tree			MP3		* ***	1:18:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harrison Ford, River Phoenix	America is a toilet	Mosquito Coast	1986	WAV	Why do they keep coming?	* ***	1:19:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address		1964	MP3		* ***	1:21:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alessio Rastani	Trader on market crashing, dreams of another recession	BBC, Dec. 2012	2012	MP3		* ***	1:26:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Barack Obama	If you can't trust us, we're going to have some problems		2013	WAV		* ***	1:28:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Malcolm X	You Got What's Known As White's Disease			MP3		* ***	1:30:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Lennon	Jann Wenner Interview Part 1		1971	MP3	The dream of this generation is over	* ***	1:34:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky	Terrorism & The War On Nicaragua	The New War On Terrorism	2001	MP3		* ***	1:42:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Air Supply	Making Love out of Nothing at All (reversed)		1983	WAV	Written by Jim Steinman	* ***	1:45:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	WAV		***	1:45:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Neil Diamond	America	Jazz Singer	1984	WAV		***	1:50:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Live 2021 I-miss-you mixing
Joe & Eddie	Sing Halleluiah	The Best Of Joe & Eddie			with Les Baxter Orchestra		1:51:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ween	She Wanted to Leave (Reprise)	The Mollusk	1997
Henryk Górecki	Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile	Fearless s.t.	1993		With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
Ken	I miss you, I've been meaning to visit, I have been thinking about you		2021
Arvo Pärt	Fratres (The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)	Out of the Night			With Taverner Choir; Andrew Parrott
Ken	I don't think you should be afraid to reach out to the people you're thinking of (you always run out of time)		2021		Life is about connection
Henryk Górecki	Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile	Fearless s.t.	1993		With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
Noam Chomsky	Being subjected to a master is intolerable (Ask Me Anything)	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, Dec. 21, 2020	2020		Working for a master is intolerable, and American workers used to know it
Ken	I need to you to embrace		2021

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Listener comments!
	8/28/13 2:02pm Bliss: Hooray.
	8/28/13 2:03pm Carmichael: Hey man, how's it goin'?
	8/28/13 2:03pm kat330: Hi, Kenzo, Yo, Bliss!
	8/28/13 2:03pm listener james from westwood: good afternoon kenzo! sans context, this opening pair of notes is quite sinister.
	8/28/13 2:03pm Dervish: Sybil's rights?
	8/28/13 2:05pm pacific standard simon: They've all gone to look for Armenia...
	8/28/13 2:06pm fleep: Baby Gojira or Giant Kitten? You decide!
	8/28/13 2:08pm pacific standard simon: Giant catbox or tiny atoll.
	8/28/13 2:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Laughing Noam.
	8/28/13 2:10pm fleep: I'm mixing Noam Chomsky with CNBC.
	8/28/13 2:10pm Rich in Washington: Guardin' Noam
	8/28/13 2:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chernobyl Cat.
	8/28/13 2:10pm fleep: @kat330 Godzilla, over there.
	8/28/13 2:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh yes, oh no
	8/28/13 2:12pm Bliss: That Bush thing was weird.
	8/28/13 2:12pm Carmichael: Remember, it's Mer-kuh.
	8/28/13 2:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...don't make me go nuke-yoo-lar w/ yer nazi-ism...
	8/28/13 2:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Duhbya.
	8/28/13 2:14pm Carmichael: Emphasis on duh.
	8/28/13 2:14pm listener james from westwood: this is the first time i've listened w/ headphones on. definitely enhances the effect.
	8/28/13 2:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): hey, everyone, you're all in charge
	8/28/13 2:16pm fleep: I put dibs on Pope.
	8/28/13 2:18pm fleep: This is mixing with an Infiniti commercial. Keep it up!
	8/28/13 2:18pm Carmichael: Is this Jello Biafra?
	8/28/13 2:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Carm: Distinctly.
	8/28/13 2:20pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Jello is robot-resistant, apparently
	8/28/13 2:20pm 2HOPE: i feel a knot
	8/28/13 2:21pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Present.
	8/28/13 2:21pm Carmichael: I have attended several of his group performances. California Uber Alles!
	8/28/13 2:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gojira / Godzilla : en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - this week ?
	8/28/13 2:23pm kat330: Hunh, how ironic.
	8/28/13 2:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kissinger: 'The U.S. does not have Allies - it has Interests.'
	8/28/13 2:27pm Carmichael: The war room discussion from Dr. Strangelove would fit in well here, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 2:27pm Bliss: Kissinger knows more about politics than most anyone on Earth. He is also insane.
	8/28/13 2:28pm fleep: The fave game among Poli Sci types involved lying your ass off to 'allies'. Some of those guys are in State now en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:28pm 2HOPE: i am very wake, i literally woke up and visited the page. its dusk outside
	8/28/13 2:28pm Rev. Turnip Druid: holy crap.
	8/28/13 2:29pm kat330: Clearly he has a tin ear. You'd think this many decades in the U.S. would have put a dint in his accent at least.
	8/28/13 2:29pm listener james from westwood: these days, they're playing less diplomacy and more illuminati: en.wikipedia.org...
	8/28/13 2:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: en.wikiquote.org... : - The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
	8/28/13 2:30pm kat330: Ooops dEnt...
	8/28/13 2:30pm listener james from westwood: or as spy magazine perpetually dubbed him, socialite-war criminal henry kissinger.
	8/28/13 2:31pm listener james from westwood: not to be confused with "short-fingered vulgarian donald trump." this shell ... parody? corporate anthem? is jaw dropping.
	8/28/13 2:33pm Bliss: I'm surprised that Whole Foods Market Inc. hasn't come out with a version?
	8/28/13 2:34pm kat330: Well, the Internet has taken care of the working part. ;)
	8/28/13 2:34pm Rich in Washington: US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python's Mr. Neutron episode with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience.
	8/28/13 2:36pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hearts and minds. Blood and souls.
	8/28/13 2:36pm fleep: The plan is to fire a guided giant cartoon hand, which will seek out Assad and give him such a smack.
	8/28/13 2:37pm Carmichael: I say we drop a giant boulder on him, and give him a tiny umbrella at the last moment to protect him.
	8/28/13 2:37pm listener james from westwood: or a small sign saying, "HELP!" to hold up.
	8/28/13 2:38pm pacific standard simon: @fleep, Carmichael - you don't think bombarding him with audio-collage will be enough?
	8/28/13 2:38pm Bliss: The more I think about the Coming to America song, the more I realize how gross it is.
	8/28/13 2:38pm kat330: Just read on Sunday that Indiana is #40 in nearest to matching the national earnings average. We were #30 in the late '90s.
	8/28/13 2:39pm Bliss: Love the way this part of the song is being used though.
	8/28/13 2:39pm kat330: A lot of that is due to union busting. While on the other end of the spectrum, municipal / utility worker unions are impenetrable and bankrupting the cities.
	8/28/13 2:39pm pacific standard simon: 'they've all gone to look for art media...'
	8/28/13 2:40pm possibilitywaves: limits of language / these combinations really do matter beyond what can be expressed...
	8/28/13 2:41pm kat330: If people consumed less—were willing to make do with less—there could be more time for creation.
	8/28/13 2:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the U.S. (which is what we blithely mean by 'America') has represented freedom & opportunity to innumerable immigrants & refugees - incldg. nearly all our predecessors. 'America' is a large complicated thing - not a single simple thing to either Pledge Allegiance to nor to Hate...
	8/28/13 2:41pm Carmichael: Or the discussion in the movie Barcelona about high crime stats in the US compared to Spain. Priceless.
	8/28/13 2:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: On that note [kat330] ... it's time to make ready a splendidly violent yard-sale...
	8/28/13 2:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: EVIL had the greatest lines (time bandits)
	8/28/13 2:42pm Carmichael: kat, if you offer me a 44 oz soda, I will drink it. If you build it, they will come. That's where consumption is born, in the boardrooms.
	8/28/13 2:43pm pacific standard simon: I consume mass quantities of art supplies.
	8/28/13 2:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): anything here for me? no? ok
	8/28/13 2:44pm kat330: @Rev: Why violent?? We've had a couple of those, but most ends up being donated to the Salvation Army or Goodwill. We use things 'til they're pretty used up. :)
	8/28/13 2:45pm kat330: @Carmichael: Resistance is NOT futile though! I was lucky to adopt a non-consumer mindset back when this country had a lot of optimism and hope among the young. There IS a way to keep it and tune out the Joneses.
	8/28/13 2:46pm fleep: Kenzo: you'll be mixed with Obama shortly, let's see what happens.
	8/28/13 2:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: VIOLENT yard sale from our perspective. Violently enthusiastic. Brutally thorough. Everything must go. BUT no haggling before 12noon. We shall not be victimized by mere "people."
	8/28/13 2:46pm 2HOPE: i am here
	8/28/13 2:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Everything from televisions to decorative absinthe fountains. But I keep the plush Cthulhu.
	8/28/13 2:48pm kat330: @Rev: Heh, OK. @fleep: Yeah, I was going to stream that, too, but ... @2Hope: Good to see it.
	8/28/13 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & of course - the U.S. is pathologically adverse to / afraid of Socialism. Elsewhere, possibly older Civilizations - they have figured out that we will all Get Sick & need Health Care, Education is essential - even Art is a Basic Human Need. Unemployment is higher than since the Great Depression - simultaneously, our Infrastructure Disintegrates &/or becomes Obsolete - partly because Conservatives refuse to Invest in our Future - any Future - & employment positions remain vacant because Qualified people can't be found - & the TeaParties & Cons refuse to back Education...
	8/28/13 2:49pm duke: Is there an applause sign at these speeches?
	8/28/13 2:49pm Rich in Washington: This is wonderful, Kenzo!
	8/28/13 2:49pm Bliss: "The President of the United States." So what.
	8/28/13 2:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): it's shaped like a gun pointed at their families
	8/28/13 2:50pm Bliss: Right on, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 2:51pm kat330: Yes, Kenzo, kudos!
	8/28/13 2:53pm fleep: An all encompassing security system with unlimited funds? What could go wrong.
	8/28/13 2:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - I work @ a ThriftStore serving CommunityServices ( www.wfmu.org... ) - the danger being you come to believe $3.75 for jeans is normal ...they used to speak of the 'Post-Industrial Era' - that enuff Things had actually finally quite been Manufactured awlready - & CyberInfo would be the new Thing. That was before Consumption again became a National Patriotic Imperative. - Obama is President - he cannot but possibly represent what this Country has become. But Thx for this reminder of the Duhbya Administration years (two long Terms) - the 1st a stolen Election in which - ! - he quite lost the Popular Vote - the 2nd won w/ 55% (no more) for a standing wartime President. Do you remember?!?!: Everyone believed we had the Worst President in History - or @ least a strong contender. It felt like the American Experiment was Over & we should Leave. No less than that.
	8/28/13 3:01pm Rich in Washington: David Lynch is a squirrel inhabiting the body of a human.
	8/28/13 3:01pm listener james from westwood: digging the old tunes!!
	8/28/13 3:01pm 2HOPE: i am often blind to beauty
	8/28/13 3:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: California Uber Alles: - What are the Clintons & Obamas? Yuppie Lawyers. We've Got a Bigger Problem Now : ...& there is much worse...
	8/28/13 3:04pm duke: We're all normal and we want...
	8/28/13 3:05pm kat330: But it's abnormal to want beyond our resources. Normal can be wanting at a normal, sustainable level.
	8/28/13 3:09pm fleep: kat330 The Northridge earthquake shook the materialism right out of me. To this day I am always lightening the load.
	8/28/13 3:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Recent psych studies have concluded that prosperity up to the level of Middle Class Security does increase 'Happiness' - but for Wealth above & beyond that - 'Happiness' quickly flatlines...
	8/28/13 3:13pm kat330: @fleep: I missed that (left L.A. in '89), but growing up in a single-parent family as a latchkey kid, then pursuing my art for a decade after HS made and making around 39 household moves over the years make it impossible to get heavy into any sort of object love.
	8/28/13 3:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ken - could you Post the new skedj here ?
	8/28/13 3:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this week's Show long since ☆ed awlready...
	8/28/13 3:15pm kat330: [By the same token, I've been giving it away far more than pulling anything in all my life.]
	8/28/13 3:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - check John Densmore last week on Aeriel View: ..."'Currency' means 'flowing'"...
	8/28/13 3:18pm kat330: Kenzo, have you heard the Army Corps of Engineers "theme" song? Harry Shearer often plays that ditty to good effect (when talking about NOLA and Katrina).
	8/28/13 3:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm a Hoarder in sense of being an 'Archivist' - I like books & music & collectibles - but in my old age what good is it? ...We're all hoping to win the Lottery or Die...SoilentGreen is People!... - Oh! Another Shearer fan - I'm not utterly alone here...
	8/28/13 3:21pm kat330: This bathroom song rips off a tune from "Peter Pan" the musical, I believe.
	8/28/13 3:22pm kat330: @RR: I have been listening to Shearer ALMOST from his inception at KCRW. I missed a few years in my moves where there was no local station airing him and pre-podcast days, but otherwise, I'm one of his longest, most loyal listeners! :)
	8/28/13 3:23pm pacific standard simon: When I die, my friends and family win the lottery (all my cool shit).
	8/28/13 3:24pm fleep: MLK and Obama mixed. What fine work, Ken.
	8/28/13 3:25pm possibilitywaves: it is a good point the real "america" exists as amorphous and nameless underneath all of the ways those in charge try to make us hate it. we do have amazing lasting impossible to describe roots that are still here today.
	8/28/13 3:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - for me - Malcolm put the fine point on History is Written by the Winners - immensely important that way. They want to write him off as a Militant nutcase - analogous to they writing off Hendrix as Artless & Drug-Addled - &/or Rockers as prolonged-adolescent damaged goods - rather than the New Gnostics (Knowers) that we are.
	8/28/13 3:26pm Rich in Washington: It's depressingly ironic to me that on the anniversary of Dr. King's speech, Barack Obama, who in some ways can be seen as a fulfillment of King's vision, is now preparing for a continuation of the US's imperialist 'nation-building' program. Twerk-tweak that, mainstream media.
	8/28/13 3:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - well - Hendrix told the Panthers - 'you're doing what you can, & I'm doing what I have to do'...
	8/28/13 3:28pm possibilitywaves: ^^^ RevolutionrabbitNov63, Yes. last year around this time i read Exegesis by Philip Kindred and his conceptuality of 20th and by extension 21st century existence is that it is not dissimilar to the beginning of "AD" time of some type of existential struggle between gnostics and "romans"
	8/28/13 3:28pm Doug Schulkind: @Rich in Washington What? You were expecting Huey P. Newton?
	8/28/13 3:29pm duke: My son say that when in doubt about what to do in the movies, blow shit up. Politics seems to work the same way.
	8/28/13 3:29pm Rich in Washington: Putney Swope!
	8/28/13 3:29pm Bliss: Obama is not an emodiment of the dream Dr. King Jr. had at all. Obama just proves blacks can be as evil as whites.
	8/28/13 3:30pm fleep: @Rich in Washingon Presidents get aboard a moving train of history. They are the conductors, but not the engineers.
	8/28/13 3:31pm Bliss: or half blacks or half whites or whatever. Race means nothing. Mean and nice in every race.
	8/28/13 3:31pm Rich in Washington: @fleep: I agree. THat's where I'm at now with it. Also, look how much Barack's aged in less than eight years. I'll bet it's a soul-crushing job in the extreme.
	8/28/13 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...in the World Wars, the U.S. became the 'Arsenal of Democracy'. When Ike - a real General - left Office - he warned of the Military-Industriall Complex. Phil Ochs sang 'We're the Cops of the World'... - Obama is Mixed Race. Everyone forces him to the Middle of the Bus... duke: - Wow.
	8/28/13 3:32pm Rich in Washington: i140.photobucket.com...
	8/28/13 3:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: All President's hair goes white pretty quick. - Technically - on paper - the job of the President is to Protect the Constitution. In the Realpolitik - it ends being making anything & everything that might be Wrong in the Free World - & so really the World - Right.
	8/28/13 3:36pm Doug Schulkind: By any Neil necessary.
	8/28/13 3:36pm Bliss: Let go of the "dream".
	8/28/13 3:38pm Bliss: (Wo)man, Lennon was awesome.
	8/28/13 3:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: possibilitywaves - ✔ Bliss: On cue to that - John Lennon...
	8/28/13 3:40pm Rev. Turnip Druid: oh EVIL, i love you so.
	8/28/13 3:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as a Metaphysician - a very Lennonesque conclusion: - In the Age of ♒Aquarius - learn to Rule Yourself - don't hire other people (Governement) to do it. - ♒Aquarius is the People, Circulation, FreeFlowing Information & Energy - Opposite ♌Leo which is Monarchy & Rulers. (The Lion & the Unicorn.)
	8/28/13 3:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I will read you all and reply you all later sooner yesterday
	8/28/13 3:42pm kat330: After seeing what's going on in Detroit, Turnip, thought your Isle of Dogs might have been inspired by the plight of abandoned dogs there (rather than badger culling in the UK ;).
	8/28/13 3:45pm Bliss: Show's great, Kenzo.
	8/28/13 3:45pm 2HOPE: beauty is there
	8/28/13 3:46pm possibilitywaves: ``i would really like to help you, but i am a nervous messed up marionette, flying off on a prison ship...and the dinosaurs are roaming the earth...`` but maybe not... maybe not...
	8/28/13 3:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: The Detroit thing is a definite Ballard scenario. He'd be fascinated, methinks.
	8/28/13 3:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this also means that in claiming our Freedom from Leaders - we have to - as Lennon put it - 'Learn to Swim' - Grow Up & - as Jung put it 'Individualize' - take Responsibility ...as Lennon said - what Violent overthrow of the Institution has ever worked & brought the Better World? - Yet - Speaking Truth to Power must be part of the Process - to acKnowledge what we have become...
	8/28/13 3:48pm Bliss: Unaware fo the abandoned dogs in Detroi issue, entirely.
	8/28/13 3:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): also,
	8/28/13 3:49pm kat330: @RR: Year of the Cabbit, Shearer, Lennon and now a Jungster, too? I'd like to think of it as a tribe of like-mindedness, very different from a cult of hive-mindedness.
	8/28/13 3:51pm kat330: @Bliss: Something like 70,000 homes just abandoned there, and often the owners left their dogs behind. Some join in packs to survive.
	8/28/13 3:52pm Bliss: Those sweeties. What a mess.
	8/28/13 3:52pm duke: Great show kenzo!
	8/28/13 3:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Almost Lost Detroit' by Dale Earnhart Jr.Jr. should be heard more often. - well - ♒Aquarius is the Sign of the (Rebel) Individual but also Society - the Paradox of our Age ! - Joseph Campbell says it will take some time for Story-Telling Monkey (HomoSapiens) to get a Story together this time !!...
	8/28/13 3:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We have to Individuate - be Grown Up Adults - & also learn what a Tribe is - & how it Works.
	8/28/13 3:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OUTSTANDING KENZO.
	8/28/13 3:54pm Doug Schulkind: If a rabbi has some tea, does that make him/her rabbit?
	8/28/13 3:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My name is David.
	8/28/13 3:55pm Bliss: This show is important.
	8/28/13 3:56pm Bliss: Barack is not important.
	8/28/13 3:57pm fleep: Thanks, Ken.
	8/28/13 3:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): thank you thank you thank you!
	8/28/13 4:01pm Rich in Washington: Thank you, Kenzo!!!
	8/29/13 2:54pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @Rich: "Guardin' Noam": Good one! @james from westwood: Oh yes, these shows are made for headphones. @Kenzo: And another thing... @fleep: Thanks for mixing the show with the alternate-reality Media. @2HOPE: Welcome! @Carmichael: No fighting in the war room! @james: Shell corporate anthem is real as far as I know. @Rich: "US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python...with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience." When was the last time the US gov't apologized? By definition, everything done here is correct. Welcome to then, Bliss, kat330, Dervish, pacific standard simon, Rev. Turnip Druid, possibilitywaves, duke, Doug, everyone who would call or email, and everyone else!
	11/13/19 5:01pm ParUbi: Joining!
	11/13/19 5:02pm chresti: Hello again!
	11/13/19 5:02pm John from Florham park: Hello fellow listeners
	11/13/19 5:03pm WR: Oh, a repeat show. That's OKAY, I'm new here, so all new to me.
	11/13/19 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Algorithmically determined to be new to all. And technically has never been here before in this arrangement.
	11/13/19 5:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We'll see what it means 6 years this on...
	11/13/19 5:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome this new, ParUbi, chresti, John, and WR!
	11/13/19 5:08pm John from Florham park: @Kenzo just happened on your fine show
	11/13/19 5:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @John Brace
	11/13/19 5:12pm John from Florham park: I am bracing for ramming speed
	11/13/19 5:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We are the world
	11/13/19 5:27pm northguineahills: Thanks, Ken!
	11/13/19 5:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): ngh, nod
	11/13/19 5:44pm ParUbi: Michael Nyman / Drowning by Numbers
	11/13/19 5:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I was just thinking the same thing.
	11/13/19 5:56pm ParUbi: unmistakable idea man
	11/13/19 5:57pm Quinn: John from Florham park, every time I see your name I try to remember to go out to Ely's Tropical Fish to get some new mystery snails, they keep escaping from our aquarium
	11/13/19 5:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Seems like David Cronenberg is different from David Lynch this way. He says he does set out to disturb an audience.
	11/13/19 5:59pm WR: Ok, back into the hole for me (subway) twas pleasant being connected while I could.
	11/13/19 5:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Farewell WR
	11/13/19 6:00pm ParUbi: be seeing you, WR!
	11/13/19 6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes, Quinn
	11/13/19 6:01pm Carmichael: Good after the noon, Kenzworth.
	11/13/19 6:01pm ParUbi: disturbance is secondary, but sometimes things need to be reshaped
	11/13/19 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome to the half, Carmichael
	11/13/19 6:02pm chresti: The bathroom is a private kind of place
	11/13/19 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): At last I can finally be me
	11/13/19 6:03pm cklequ: I just tuned in. Out of habit i clicked the 'listen to this show' button, and then realized the listen live button was further up the screen. Now i'm listening to the first and second half of the show in unison. I feel like i'm cheating in some way.
	11/13/19 6:04pm ParUbi: i have a room which is pitch dark, no windows. perfect for listening and privacy.
	11/13/19 6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @cklequ It's a setup
	11/13/19 6:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): They come to America
	11/13/19 6:06pm ParUbi: i think that's a great idea! starting it over randomly
	11/13/19 6:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kerouac & Ginsberg picking up sheets Burroughs had all over & collating 'Naked Lunch'...start anywhere...
	11/13/19 6:08pm ParUbi: those two were a pair of regular cut-ups
	11/13/19 6:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hey cklequ's playing the beginning over all of us
	11/13/19 6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: James Baldwin blows my mind.
	11/13/19 6:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I should look for speeches
	11/13/19 6:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (btw)
	11/13/19 6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Said that Malcolm & Martin just got closer to each other's views...
	11/13/19 6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Martin - just...Musically Eloquent.
	11/13/19 6:19pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For sure, Martin Luther King Jr.'s later stuff was way more revolutionary
	11/13/19 6:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My big takeaway from Malcolm is that History is Written by the Winners. He really lifts the veil on this...
	11/13/19 6:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation."
	11/13/19 6:27pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Nobody used to live here
	11/13/19 6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...rather - he blew a fat hole in it...
	11/13/19 6:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The dream is over.
	11/13/19 6:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Such a Punk that Lennon.
	11/13/19 6:34pm Carmichael: Great, now I have THIS song going through my head ...
	11/13/19 6:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Neil Diamond time, patriot
	11/13/19 6:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tribute to his penniless Immigrant Grandma.
	11/13/19 6:37pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, everyone.
	11/13/19 6:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "The song was also the one he was most proud of, partly because of when it was later used: national news shows played it when the hostages were shown returning home after the Iran hostage crisis ended"
	11/13/19 6:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "It also became the anthem of his world tour two weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he changed the lyric at the end from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!""
	11/13/19 6:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh well...
	11/13/19 6:39pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I.e. fight, fight, fight...
	11/13/19 6:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...hostages released the very second Reagan is inaugurated...ho hum...
	11/13/19 6:41pm Carmichael: Was the irony of your show against today's proceedings intentional?
	11/13/19 6:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl."
	11/13/19 6:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): All is ever coincidental
	11/13/19 6:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh here's the best one: "In 1992, he performed for President George H.W. Bush's final Christmas in Washington NBC special."
	11/13/19 6:44pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ooh, I'm just two clicks away from this sentence: "12 Songs also became noteworthy as one of the last albums to be pressed and released by Sony BMG with the Extended Copy Protection software embedded in the disc. (See the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal.) " And on that BMG scandal page is a link to my article series from the time: blog.wfmu.org...
	11/13/19 6:47pm ParUbi: and today is Fred Rogers day
	11/13/19 6:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Also Felix Unger Day.
	11/13/19 6:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wrapping up "Hang onto a dream (America)" now. We'll collapse into the end of some dance music wave thing I made last year...
	11/13/19 6:50pm ParUbi: i hear some Peaksy guitar
	11/13/19 6:51pm chresti: Thanks Kenzo!
	11/13/19 6:52pm ParUbi: thanks!
	11/13/19 6:53pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thank you my dreamfriends and Felix Ungers
	11/13/19 6:53pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks for your recent extra pledge, Ken FHP!
	11/13/19 6:53pm chresti: I love the peaksy stuff, has an opiated feeling to it
	11/13/19 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Most welcome, Kenzo. This is good freeform.
	2:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): We're here right now on the radio, 2-4pm ET, and then here on the stream, 3-5pm ET. Check?
	3:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This moment now to be folded in, here, in one hour...
	3:21pm fred: It can get bitter seeing some names that will no longer check in
	3:22pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Historical archive preservation
	3:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm pretty sure it was dead air for the first 7 minutes. Moment of silence for the disappeared?
	3:27pm fred: I think there was some silence, not sure how long (I switched computers at the time)
	3:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Too many buttons, I forgot one
	3:33pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Recent tradition with these replays has been I do something new not only at random sneaky and overlapping moments in the midst, but some new collage at the end. We'll see what I do with those 10 mins at the end. Will also plan to run 7 minutes past the end. Which means the live part will start 3 minutes before the end and will run until 7 minutes after the end.
	3:34pm Webhamster Henry: The "end" that is.
	3:34pm fred: That Shell version somehow manages to outcringe the original. Great find. I had managed to forget about it... Might be tougher this time
	3:35pm Webhamster Henry: Did you catch Carlo on Radio Row yesterday? www.wfmu.org...
	3:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I remember when people thought collage was too weird
	3:38pm fred: @Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the reminder, out of my listening hours, but I'll get to the archive eventually
	3:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): OK gotta get some December 2020 Chomsky into here
	4:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wheeeeew ok in an hour you'll hear me here
	4:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): That is, now, 20-21
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh, it's Irene Trudel
	4:05pm Webhamster Henry: Irene talking under.
	4:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm bewildered every time
	4:26pm northguineahills: stumbles through the fifth wall . Are we in a multidimentional dance hexagon?
	4:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): nghgn
	4:28pm northguineahills: Watched King in the Wilderness this weekend (a doc on the last two years of his life, recommended.) Always great to learn something new....
	4:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The strong fall and seed our roots
	4:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Everything Neil Diamond ever did is justified so I could do this show
	4:38pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This show is very rare in that the loop plays from the first moment to the last.
	4:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): So here's the last 10 minutes except we're 7 minutes delayed so I won't start feeling nostalgic for the present for a few more minutes yet
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Here, now we're today, and will be for 7 more minutes
	5:05pm Webhamster Henry: There's your Noam 2021.
	5:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): All right, the bonus 2021 audio archive is now posted. Thanks, everyone!

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from January 18, 2021

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