It's Possible (twisted branches) (Show #631) | Download full MP3 from Jan 30, 2019 - a podcast by Kens Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled" - My So-Called Life

Armin van Buuren feat. Aaelyn - "In and out of love"

Bart & Baker feat. Lolly Wish - "Downloaded (Rogan remix)"

W. G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life theme" - My So-Called Life [Layers]

Olivia Newton-John & ELO - "Xanadu" - Xanadu [Loops]

Ken - "Nobody knows, we're all alone" [Recorded on cell phone camera (live during show)]

Olivia Newton-John & ELO - "Xanadu" - Xanadu [Loops]

W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled"

Live phone caller & Ken - "Possibility is possible (It's possible)"

W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled" - My So-Called Life

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Don't Have Time (this is good news)" - Show #509, from 9/15/2016 [Live on stage at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar]

Set:

Michael Linnen & David Wingo - "Kissing music" - All the Real Girls

Ken - "Collective faith (something good will happen)"

Cowboy Junkies - "Ring on the Sill" - Pale Sun Crescent Moon [Loops]

Sharon Stone with Garry Shandling - "If you're not in your vulnerability, nothing is interesting" - Garry Shandling meets Sharon Stone [They didn't want to be in their truth or vulnerability; they wanted to be in their mask, and their whole acting out of how fabulous they were. It's only really interesting to be with people when they're in their vulnerability. It's better to be with someone when they're making mistakes and don't know what to do, than someone who's being so sure-footed and phony. That's not interesting at all.]

Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley, Anatole France - "Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness." - Surviving Desire movie / The Gods Will Have Blood [We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves, absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.]

Julia Kent - "Ebb" - Character

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

Live phone caller & Ken - "Having a great winter"

Carel Struycken, Kyle MacLachlan (voices), David Lynch, Mark Frost (writers) - "Don't search for all the answers at once" - Twin Peaks: Season 2 episode 1 [Better to listen than to talk. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time.]

Live phone caller & Ken - "Daytime (mossy lighthouse)"

Ken - "Trembling and shaking"

Live phone caller & Ken - "Transitional moment (mossy lighthouse)"

Ken - "Shape and timelines"

Ken - "Practice not being remembered"

Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine" - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

Ken - "Try to remember what you said, hope somebody was there as a witness"

Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor, it means you risked failure" - BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series [Let's not worry about failure. And if you don't risk failure, you're never going to do anything that's different than what you've already done, or what somebody else has done. And just know that, that that's the choice you're making when you won't put yourself at jeopardy like that.]

Martin Donovan (voice), Hal Hartley (writer) - "Intimacy list" - Surviving Desire [Kissing, caressing, holding, slapping, shouting, talking, waiting, sleeping, crying, listening, hoping, encouraging, forgiving, laughing, relenting.]

Ken - "When did this happen? People speak of slipping out of time"

Malcolm X - "I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything." - Our history was destroyed by slavery [No, I don't worry. I'm a man who believed that I died 20 years ago.]

Alexandre Desplat - "Closing credits music" - Birth

Ken - "I remember that I wasn't sweating, moving forward in time"

Spandau Ballet - "True" - True

Andre Gregory (voice), Rupert Walters (writer) - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Right under our noses.]

Ken - "Leaving one cookie over. What if I had 5 minutes? Then I'd worry that if I only had 7 minutes, I'd have enough" [How long do you need to fall in love with someone?]

Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine" - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place [with Spandau Ballet, David Wingo & Michael Linnen, Cowboy Junkies]

Ken - "You can go back and edit. How long does it take us to unlearn everything?" [I think we already know everything. They probably already know. But it's probably time to tell them. You don't have time. This is good news.]

Sawako - "White Sky Winter Chicada" - Hum

Alan Watts - "Wanting what you are not divides you (from Intellectual Yoga)" - Philosophies of Asia [So long as you can be persuaded that there's something more you ought to be than you are, you've divided yourself.]

Ken - "Assume their posture, see how you feel (I used to look down a lot, I feel like a child)" [Regression therapy, inner child]

Andre Gregory (voice), Rupert Walters (writer) - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Piano loop]

Pink Floyd - "Goodbye Cruel World" - The Wall [Bass loop]

Al Bowlly (singer), Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst (music), Gus Kahn (lyrics) - "Guilty" - Amelie s.t.

Martin Donovan (voice), Hal Hartley (writer) - "Intimacy list" - Surviving Desire [Kissing, caressing, holding, slapping, shouting, talking, waiting, sleeping, crying, listening, hoping, encouraging, forgiving, laughing, relenting.]

Ken - "You'll have a memory. I'm going to look straight at you"

Cowboy Junkies - "Ring on the Sill" - Pale Sun Crescent Moon [Loops]

Ken - "Remember this moment in time. You will look back and be glad we have no more devices, no more electronics, we only look directly at each other" [Appreciations]

Set:

Cowboy Junkies - "Ring on the Sill" - Pale Sun Crescent Moon [Loops, back in 2019]

Ken - "We almost remember who we used to say we were, the identity we're supposed to put on" [We're not sure if it still fits]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Be Who You Are Today" - Show #522, from 5/4/2017 [Live on stage at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar


]

Set:

Garth Stevenson - "Dawn"

Ken - "Here it comes, something is going to come together"

Lionel Richie - "Stuck On You" [Loops]

Noam Chomsky - "Social Policy - Welfare for the Rich"

Weyes Blood [Piano loop]

Bill Cosby - "Conflict" - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With [Mind and body don't get along at all]

Stan Dale - "Stop trying to be a good person. If I do nice things for you, maybe you'll love me?"

Bill Cosby - "Seattle" [And you get a gorilla and then the old gorilla]

Jesse Rose - "Night at the Dogs"

Christine and the Queens - "Christine" [Loops]

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"

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

Martin Luther King Jr - "I'm afraid we're integrating into a burning house"

Ken - "You've walked in on the middle of a bit of an experiment"

Steve Paxton - "Taking care of your partner, and this third thing, what you are together" - In a Non-Wimpy Way

War On Drugs - "Burning" - Lost in the Dream [Loops]

Ken - "People are looking for the good bits"

Live phone caller - "Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness. Planning is great, but being open is great" [over War On Drugs-In Reverse loops]

War On Drugs - "In Reverse" - Lost in the Dream [Loops in 2019]

Ken - "Disasters, looking for the lessons, we need tragedy, we need television, we need preparedness"

War On Drugs - "Burning" [Loops in 2019]

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Be Who You Are Today" - Show #522, from 5/4/2017 [Back in 2017!]

Ken - "Self-indulgent. Sometimes I'm too ambitious"

Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" [Loops]

Ken - "You're allowed to be a different person every day (you can be who you are today)"

Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Running from the cops, every day I feel like a fugitive" - The Cruise

Kyle MacLachlan, David Lynch - "Better to listen than to talk, don't search for all the answers at once, a path is formed by laying one stone at a time" - Twin Peaks

Lara Flynn-Boyle, David Lynch - "Crying" - Twin Peaks pilot episode

Bill Cosby - "Seattle" [Gorilla loop]

Lara Flynn-Boyle - "Crying" - Equinox

- "Light and dark are equal" - Equinox

Ken - "I don't like to explain, except that I love to explain, I just don't let myself do it. The crying is back. People expected crying"

Lionel Richie - "Stuck On You" [Loops]

Chevrolet - "The American Look (the freedom of individual choice)"

Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn-Boyle - "There's always this pushing and pulling. I have my you. My whole life seems to be taking place without me in it" - Equinox

Matthew Broderick - "First impulse was to demand that she admit she lied and cheated" - Election

Frightened Rabbit - "The Wrestle" [Loops]

Garth Stevenson - "Dawn"

Ken - "None of it actually means anything, but it can mean everything" [Record them all]

The Go Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed (vocals only)"

Moondog With Orchestra - "Stamping Ground"

Ken - "You can look for meaning in your dreams" [Recording your dreams]

John Carpenter - "Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially produced state of consciousness that resembles sleep" - They Live [The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. That is their primary objective: Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.]

Louis Hay - "Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future"

Frightened Rabbit - "The Wrestle" [Loops]

Steve Paxton - "The preservation of all concerned. Not injure or defeat or smash" - In a Non-Wimpy Way

Steve Paxton - "If thinking is too slow, is an open state of mind useful? Seems to be" - Chute (from Contact Improv Archive 1972-1983)

Steve Paxon - "A body could endure for decades (can't exclude fear)" - Chute (from Contact Improv Archive 1972-1983)

Ken - "Some people are apparently transparent (start to unthink)"

Ken - "There were a lot of things. I'll just name one of them: Lionel Richie" [I have to look away to think]

Frightened Rabbit - "The Wrestle" [Final loops]

Bill Cosby - "Seattle"

Set:

Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" [Loops back in 2019]

Ken - "This is the moment after. This is everything you've dreamed of. This is everything everybody has told you to want."

Ken - "All the thoughts from before seem to be relevant again. We reinvent the wheel and we are the wheel and we imagine the wheel"

W. G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life theme" - My So-Called Life [Layers]

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