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 [0:00:00] Garth Stevenson - "Dawn" - Flying [Layers] [0:02:39] Ken - "I'm sure we can do everything" [0:02:54] Polly Draper - "There's always a problem" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:09:00] Mel Harris, Ken Olin - "I've made mistakes" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:10:07] Radiohead - "Daydreaming" [Layers] [0:10:28] Bill Cosby - "Conflict" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [0:11:04] Rebecca Tilles - "Every day I miss you (live)" [Layers] [0:12:00] Patricia Wettig - "I'll be back in a second" - thirtySomething: Season 4, episode 9 [0:14:05] Tarot card caterer - "Party is like a child" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:14:48] Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Loops] [0:15:32] Tarot card caterer - "You can be right or you can be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:17:13] Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten - "This night will be a long night" - Gaslight [Sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night] [0:19:27] 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] [0:21:08] Ken & niece Chutney - "Childhood field recording" [Get away, Kenny] [0:22:24] Mel Harris - "You don't have to do everything exactly right" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:23:02] Christine and the Queens - "Christine" [Loops] [0:25:37] Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" [Layers, of course] [0:26:49] Luke Rossi - "A second's really short, it's gone" - thirtySomething: Season 4, episode 9 [0:28:51] Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [More loops] [0:29:19] Christine and the Queens - "Christine" [Further loops] [0:31:20] Chutney - "Unwrap it ('cado?)" - Childhood field recording [Avocado. (It's like a pickle?)] [0:33:48] Ken - "It's all one thing (Right inside the sea)" [0:34:30] Kathryn Beaumont - "Contrarywise, what it is, it wouldn't be (in my world. Oh but you would!)" - Alice in Wonderland [0:35:11] Ken - "We're not separate from the atmosphere" [Everything that's all around is here all the time. You are your child self] [0:35:50] Chutney - "Yayyyyy" [0:39:21] Chutney & Ken - "Childhood field recording" [0:40:28] 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.] [0:41:45] 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] [0:42:43] Kathryn Beaumont - "A world of my own (Everything would be nonsense)" - Alice in Wonderland [0:43:59] Fleetwood Mac cover - "Rhiannon" [0:44:05] Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" [0:44:11] Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" [Layers continue] [0:45:11] War on Drugs - "Thinking of a Place" [0:45:17] Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds - "I represent what you had to stop" - Mother [No wonder you liked Jeff better] [0:45:23] War on Drugs - "In Reverse" - Lost in the Dream [Loops!] [0:46:07] Peter Horton - "Maybe there's no problem at all, and it's just your turn to be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [0:48:20] 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?] [0:48:49] War on Drugs - "In Reverse" - Lost in the Dream [Loops, atmospheres] [0:49:59] 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?] [0:50:49] Ingrid Bergman - "He said I was going out of my mind!" - Gaslight [0:51:18] Ken's Last Ever and Fareed Armaly - "Interviewing Ken" - July 5, 2009 [0:51:50] 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 [0:52:18] 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...] [0:53:00] Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" [Loops. See also: Terminal Sunshine] [0:54:36] U2 - "With or Without You" [Loops. Brian Eno] [0:59:23] Garth Stevenson - "Hourglass" - Flying [0:59:46] Ken - "Station ID (they all go into the stew)" [1:01:52] U2 & Brian Eno - "With or Without You" - The Joshua Tree [Loops] [1:05:02] Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" [Loop] [1:06:02] 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)] [1:06:41] Peter Horton - "Maybe it's your turn to be happy" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [(Maybe there's no problem at all)] [1:07:39] Ingrid Bergman - "This night will be a long night" - Gaslight [1:07:50] Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Fish in the sea loop] [1:08:04] Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" [Loops] [1:08:48] Ken - "Atmosphere appropriate for midnight and 6pm simultaneously" [1:09:38] Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" [Loops] [1:11:01] Van Morrison - "Everyone" [Loops] [1:11:11] 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] [1:12:10] Van Morrison - "Everyone" [Loops] [1:12:48] Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman - "You're slowly and systematically being driven out of your mind" - Gaslight [But why, why?] [1:15:14] Luke Rossi - "She doesn't know what a second means" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [1:15:49] Chutney, with Ken sneezing - "Introduced to microphone" - Childhood field recording [1:17:01] 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.] [1:19:44] David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Factories, skies, trains, rivers" - All the Real Girls [Loops] [1:20:18] Walter Murch, J.S. Bach - "Changeable loop" - THX-1138 [1:25:27] Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Kissing" - All the Real Girls [1:27:07] 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 [1:29:10] Jon Brion - "Spotless Mind" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops, reversals, layers] [1:29:50] Jon Brion - "Main Title" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops, reversals, layers] [1:30:22] Bill Cosby - "Forget all about it, I never hit you" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [Loops] [1:34:28] Bill Cosby - "You fell out the bed" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [Loops] [1:37:01] 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?] [1:38:11] Jon Brion - "Main Title" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [1:39:02] 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] [1:39:06] Ken - "We fill the container" [1:43:23] David Wingo, Michael Linnen - "Kissing music" - All the Real Girls [Loops] [1:44:45] Vangelis - "Chariots Of Fire" - Chariots of Fire [Loops] [1:45:07] Ken Olin - "Crying" - thirtySomething: Season 4 [1:48:13] Kevin J. O'Connor - "Why would you travel? You've never done it before!" - Equinox [1:48:26] Lara Flynn-Boyle - "She had an opportunity to be with him once" - Equinox [1:48:45] Tyra Ferrell - "Your whole life is about searching for one thing" - Equinox [1:49:35] Vangelis - "Chariots Of Fire" - Chariots of Fire [Loops] [1:50:31] John Lennon - "Mother" [Loops] [1:50:49] Ken - "Nothing more to say" [1:54:25] John Lennon - "Mother" [Loops] [1:54:41] Ken - "That's it (I used every last moment)" [1:55:35] Clem Leek - "Memories of Japan" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/75629