WFMU: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from December 27, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 8/9/17 5:01pm fred: Hi Kenzo. Again, it should be a short stay for me, but my judgment is poor, so who knows
	8/9/17 5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Your judgment is unimpeachable, fred.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:04pm northguineahills: moar glockenspiel! If I wasn't so busy, I'd record some more thunderstorm field recordings and send them. Forgot how the whole moving thing is a PITA.
	8/9/17 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Today's collages are very dreamy indeed.
	8/9/17 5:05pm Dzeli: this is working for my storm belly
	8/9/17 5:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli belly
	♥ 8/9/17 5:07pm Ike: Punk-ass hippie robots are rusting loudly today! Get them out of my silicon onion farms right now!
	8/9/17 5:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm sorry for your loss, Ike. I'm happy for your recovery, Dzeli. I'm glocken for your spiel, northguineahills. I'm admiring your frequent foot out the door, fred.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:10pm fred: @Ike: At least pirates are not an issue on the stream
	8/9/17 5:11pm Dzeli: Kenzo: I'm grateful for your gratings
	8/9/17 5:16pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ima detailing this here playlist
	♥ 8/9/17 5:20pm fred: I like this! It's a much better confusion than the one I'm getting at work
	8/9/17 5:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I had a broken foot while making this show
	8/9/17 5:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I also had Robert's Rules of Order out from the library
	♥ 8/9/17 5:37pm fred: I hope you won't go too far in reliving the experience today
	8/9/17 5:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm at my mercy
	8/9/17 5:39pm Bliss: In the early-mid 70's, my stepdad had a little book called Robert's Rule of Law. At least that is the name I recall.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:40pm cklequ: There's always so much happening here.........
	8/9/17 5:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Robert's Rules of Order is the most used and famous book on parliamentary procedure in the US, originating in the late 1800's.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:40pm cklequ: Hay! I finally got my heart.
	8/9/17 5:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): cklequ: How do you feel about this muchness?
	8/9/17 5:41pm Bliss: Yes, I am pretty sure that is the one. All these years I was thinking that it was Robert's Rule of Law.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:41pm cklequ: I come here for the muchness.
	8/9/17 5:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ja, hearts got kicked on a few days ago
	8/9/17 5:43pm Bliss: I once thought we had had a St. Bernard, but it had been a beagle.
	8/9/17 5:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The beagle is the most famous and used dog for mistaken memories in the northeast region
	♥ 8/9/17 5:45pm fred: Most places are northeast of somewhere else. Though not all are suitable homes for beagles
	♥ 8/9/17 5:48pm Rich in Washington: I keep thinking this show is on at 3, my time. I am in a time zone all my own, apparently.
	8/9/17 5:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Rich, what timeshift can I do to make your listening more present-like?
	♥ 8/9/17 5:49pm fred: @Rich: I think you're right
	♥ 8/9/17 5:50pm Rich in Washington: I wish I knew. I am working on being more present.
	8/9/17 5:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wednesdays 2-4pm in Washington (with an occasional Tues. 8-10pm on the WTJU side)
	8/9/17 5:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): 5 minutes to go before this dream changes color!
	♥ 8/9/17 5:56pm fred: That's my cue to be smart and leave. Then again, that reminds me of Mulholland Drive
	8/9/17 5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): fred, wait, see if you like this
	♥ 8/9/17 5:57pm Rich in Washington: This whole mix is great to edit video to.
	8/9/17 5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's good for sleeping, just ask Rich!
	8/9/17 5:57pm Dzeli: What color comes next?
	♥ 8/9/17 5:59pm Doug Schulkind: Who is this Ken Zlastever I've been hearing so much about?
	8/9/17 6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ken Z'o Lastever
	8/9/17 6:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This half is itself divided in halves. The second half in half an hour is a bit more challenging
	♥ 8/9/17 6:01pm Rich in Washington: I love this movie so much. I love listening to it more than watching it.
	8/9/17 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes. I haven't been able to go back and rewatch it, but I've heard this show at least a couple hundred times now.
	8/9/17 6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For those who haven't seen it, it's George Lucas's first film, from 1971, a very comprehensive dystopian film that uses almost no exposition, relying almost entirely on the brilliant sound montage work by co-writer Walter Murch. Most of what you come to understand about this "future" world comes from your listening.
	♥ 8/9/17 6:04pm Rich in Washington: I love this show. The one back then and the one right now.
	8/9/17 6:05pm Dzeli: Rather yellow
	♥ 8/9/17 6:06pm Rich in Washington: I think it's one of his best films. I think it's relatively austere - by today's standard's - budget made him make some really creative choices that add to the film's appeal.
	8/9/17 6:08pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thank you for color interpretation, Dzeli. What was the first hour?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:09pm Rich in Washington: It's hard to find the original version of this film. Like his Star Wars films, Lucas went back and added lots of unnecessary special effects that didn't merge well with the film's original gritty, claustrophobic atmosphere.
	8/9/17 6:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi again, (ghost of) fred, northguineahills, Dzeli, Ike, Bliss, cklequ, Rich, Doug, the people texting and msging and emailing me, and the shy and future others.
	8/9/17 6:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The closest-to-original version can be found online by searching for the laserdisc version.
	8/9/17 6:11pm Dzeli: Light blue. :-)
	♥ 8/9/17 6:11pm fred: I haven't seen this movie. I could go all Vizzini and say since you say I should stay I should leave, except it's too obvious. My way is not that complicated: if I get sleepy and start yawning, I'm out instantly, because if I miss that boat I may not get another chance for hours
	8/9/17 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's a shame, the 2004 DVD version has clearer sound, and the sound is so important...but Lucas added numerous weird modern effects and changes and embellishments and didn't even label this as being a changed release.
	8/9/17 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Inconceivable!
	♥ 8/9/17 6:13pm Rich in Washington: That THX-1138. He never backs off.
	8/9/17 6:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Make the correction THX
	8/9/17 6:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wonder what Murch would think of this show. I loved his work in THX and Apoc Now and The Conversation, and Return to Oz is a favorite film of mine although there's not much sound magic there
	♥ 8/9/17 6:17pm Rich in Washington: I used to think Murch worked on Star Wars, due to the Lucas connection and similarity to some of the techniques heard in the film, which was actually Ben Burt, but I guess he didn't.
	8/9/17 6:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Murch didn't work on Star Wars, but some of the techniques he developed in THX 1138 got used there anyway. The walkie talkie sounds in Star Wars especially
	8/9/17 6:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference
	8/9/17 6:23pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wish I could go back and remember how this felt while I was making it. It wasn't yet an hour-long show about THX-1138. It was just a thing I was doing, and I was halfway through the timeslot.
	8/9/17 6:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): My foot was broken for this one, too
	8/9/17 6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh yeah, there was this recording studio downstairs from the radio station, and there was a loud band playing in there. It's in the boominess on the mic a bit.
	♥ 8/9/17 6:28pm fred: Was it the same foot?
	8/9/17 6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes, it took months to heal. It changed my life and that of many others dramatically.
	8/9/17 6:31pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Things turned a bit darker in my life after this show and before the one we heard in the first hour. So of course this is the darker show and the harder period one is lighter.
	8/9/17 6:31pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli, here's the next big color shift
	♥ 8/9/17 6:33pm Rich in Washington: It's also 20 degrees cooler since the program shift. How'd you do that, Kenzo?
	8/9/17 6:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): phase shift
	♥ 8/9/17 6:35pm Rich in Washington: I broke my foot at the end of 2016 but didn't know it until January of 2017. I was hobbling around for months.
	8/9/17 6:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I didn't get confirmation of my bone break for 3 months
	♥ 8/9/17 6:45pm fred: I hope no foot was harmed in the process
	8/9/17 6:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "Never mind"
	8/9/17 6:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli, exactly what listen link are you using?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:48pm Gary: What isn't wrong?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:50pm northguineahills: Finishing tidying up my finances. Only one more call to make.
	8/9/17 6:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks everyone in advance for listening and talking or not talking today. This show is here every Wednesday until it's not. Sometimes live, sometimes recently live, sometimes long ago live. Your live lifeness is very important here. Check schedule and back catalog at lastever.org
	♥ 4/29/20 5:01pm doctorjazz: HI folks-teleconference going overtime, past 5 PM, just shoot me...
	♥ 4/29/20 5:02pm chresti: Hi Kenzo and everlastings!
	4/29/20 5:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Shooting you with blippy bloopnesses
	4/29/20 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Lastingever, chresti and doctorjazz and who was or will be
	♥ 4/29/20 5:10pm chresti: Bring on the bloopy blippers!
	4/29/20 5:15pm Kenzo: Fred must be at a show this week.
	♥ 4/29/20 5:19pm chresti: Or visiting martinibomb, next door..
	♥ 4/29/20 5:40pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy. This sounds nice!
	♥ 4/29/20 5:41pm Rand al'Thor: Hello, all.
	4/29/20 5:45pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome to the soundsnice, Phillippe! Rand, yes hi.
	4/29/20 5:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Now, this (not that).
	4/29/20 6:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): ("You Have Nowhere to Go")
	♥ 4/29/20 6:01pm Carmichael: Boy, I logged on at just the right time!
	4/29/20 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Carmichael, you have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go. (Stay calm.)
	♥ 4/29/20 6:24pm chresti: Must evade!
	4/29/20 6:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): What's wrong?
	4/29/20 6:50pm Martinibomb: Just dropping by to say hello to ever fantastic Kenzo!
	4/29/20 6:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): You are in my hands.
	4/29/20 6:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Now, also.
	♥ 3:01pm Bas NL: Hello Kenzo!
	3:05pm Listener Robert: You sure you didn't spin the genre wheel to get this like Jim Price just did?
	♥ 3:06pm StringOFperils: Ahh, this should sluice out the ol' mind. Helloooo o o o o o o
	3:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi! Bas! Robert! SoP!
	3:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I hope this helps you as much as it helps me.
	♥ 3:25pm Webhamster Henry: Greetings to the Kenzomatic Radioverse!
	♥ 3:28pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	3:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Henry, meet Jan. Jan, meet everyone.
	3:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I should go simple for a change and just make this episode my premium CD.
	♥ 3:30pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Jan. We have mountains here (Catskills).
	♥ 3:31pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the field recordings, now that Neighbors Noise is off the stream.
	3:32pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): (weeping)
	♥ 3:34pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Henry, I sometimes imagine the distant dark clouds are temporary mountains. That's all we have.
	♥ 3:36pm Jan Turkenburg: "the dark distant clouds" sounds better. I must write a song about that.
	♥ 3:45pm Bas NL: What a ride! Great mix.
	3:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I need to make more like this. I rarely work on commissioned projects but maybe I could do that.
	3:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm scared, I don't want it to end, here comes the spooky world
	♥ 3:55pm Webhamster Henry: Here comes the middle.There goes the middle.
	3:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Tell me about it
	♥ 4:01pm Webhamster Henry: This is Kenzo's version of "Midnight Matinee"
	♥ 4:02pm Webhamster Henry: Do you have a Murch show from The Conversation or Return To Oz?
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I've used quite a lot of Return to Oz samples. I've used a couple of The Conversation samples. I just watched a short interview with him in which he discusses, recently, how decades of reflection helped him figure out how Return to Oz was actually a terrifying film, despite his intentions.
	4:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): But I suppose he figures THX-1138 isn't terrifying either. #relatable
	4:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference.
	4:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I guess I don't commonly focus on a single subject/film in a show. Others I can think of: "The Coming Storms" (focus only on The Terminator) lastever.org..., "Karen's Dead" (focus a bunch on Ordinary People) lastever.org... ...hmmm what else...
	4:15pm Listener Robert: Funny but this morning I dreamed I was in a new Mr. Magoo cartoon, apparently as Magoo, and that I needed to urinate. I found a place to urinate at an archeologic site and used it. I was afraid I'd wet the bed as I did once in 2003 on dreaing I was urinating in a strange place after looking around for one, but fortunately this time that was not the case. And now I'm drowsy again.
	4:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Performance perfect is perfect performance, Robert. (Was the joke that you'd wake up and say, oh, Magoo, you've done it again!)
	4:18pm Listener Robert: Great line, but it would not have been worth wetting the bed for.
	4:19pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
	♥ 4:24pm Bas NL: It's been ages since i saw THX-1138..
	♥ 4:25pm Bas NL: ...still can see the images with every sound!
	4:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): How kind of them not to destroy the defendant.
	♥ 4:30pm Webhamster Henry: Return to Oz was obviously terrifying all over the place.
	4:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh yeah there was a music studio right below the radio studio in this old building. When my mic is on you can sometimes hear the drums shaking the wood floors.
	4:32pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I first saw RtO when I was a teenager and it didn't occur to me it could be scary to anyone. I find it scarier now - well, the almost-electroshock scene. But there's a scarier version of that in The Muppet Movie, and dear god, The Princess Bride...
	4:33pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): One of the terrible Superman sequels had one, I regret even mentioning it
	4:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): But in RtO, it had a political purpose. Long history of unwarranted experimental medical interventions on children and all that.
	4:36pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I haven't rewatched THX-1138 in forever, been saving it. But I can't decide whether to watch the modern version (fantastic sound, which obviously matters a lot to me), or the laserdisc version (no ridiculous special effects added by George Lucas 30 years later).
	4:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Although not as significant a film, reminds me of the Yellow Submarine dilemma: Watch modern version (great sound, clean visuals...but, the top 20% and bottom 20% of the fucking screen is cut off), or watch earlier VHS rip (crummy quality, but at least the whole scene is actually visible, heads not cut off, visual gags totally cropped out!)
	4:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm reading the old comments to see the same subjects again and again and
	♥ 4:56pm Bas NL: I love just the sounds. Never understood the coral ending though.
	4:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Of the movie or the show?
	♥ 4:57pm Bas NL: The movie.
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Well, the musical theme throughout the whole movie is from the same piece, and it builds up to this, and then, he's out! It's this huge majestic moment of breaking through to ____
	♥ 4:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Kenzo! Really loved these mixes!
	♥ 4:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks! Hear you last time, Kenzo!
	♥ 5:00pm Bas NL: I'd expected a dead quiet after all the noise.
	5:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): dead air DJ anxiety
	♥ 5:01pm Bas NL: At the end of the movie! :)
	5:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh I see. Well that would've been pretty great, too. I guess...it's a movie of a lot of sound. But I see your point.
	5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sounds like fan-edit fodder!
	5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The "give THX a break" remix
	3:09am Puget Sound: Yes. An astonishing revelation moment at the end of THX1138. When I lived in the SF Bay Area (listening to OverTheEdge natch), it was always a treat to drive through the Caldecott Tunnel and imagine I was making a getaway to The Above. I goosepimple when Tate's silhouetted against the majestic, finally-seen sun AND a bird flies by which we can see him clocking in astonishment. As for old formats vs new. I'm finding that remastered sound and visual is overrated (certainly if at the expense of proper framing or structure). In fact, if there's ever a mono option, I tend to opt for it over 5.1 Sensurround, 7-Dimensional, Smell-O-Vision. Unfortunately, there rarely is (e.g. Mission Impossible & TexasChainsaw). Another marvellous show, Ken. Happy New Year!!!!
	1:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @Puget Sound: It's true, original/mono wins. (Although, I DO think Walter Murch did a good, authentic job remastering his THX-1138 sound, while George Lucas simultaneously did an offensive job on the updated video/editing. The new sound felt like "what was originally intended" whereas the new video felt like "I'm a completely different person 30 years later and here's what I would've done today."
	2:33am Puget Sound: I re-watched it about a year ago, streaming it from somewhat. It seemed the same as I remembered it when I saw it moons past. Peradventure a little more hd, but I opt to set my telly's picture quality to 'Movie,' so that tends to minimise the hd'ing. Well, until next time . . .Blessings of The State. Blessings of the masses.
	2:51am Puget Sound: Buy more. Buy more, now. Buy, and be happy. www.amazon.com...
	11:07am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For your enjoyment, consumption is being standardized.

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from December 27, 2021

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December 27, 2021: Swirled Freely & You Have Nowhere to Go (What's Wrong?) | Download MP3

Two dreamy, mysterious live sound collage creations from my long-ago performances:

First, "Swirled Freely," a wordless and happy-dream-making lazy layering play of field recordings from all over the world, and pleasing electronic musics from many joymakers. Originally collaged live on radio in Austin, January 2005.

Second, a very spooky dream immersion called "You Have Nowhere to Go (What's wrong?)", a spontaneous live radio study from 2004, repurposing the sound montage elements that made the 1971 film THX 1138 so scarily transportative.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ken	2021 intro echo chamber		2021		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Swirled Freely	Show #348 from Jan. 4, 2005	2005		0:00:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - Swirled Freely
Etienne Noiseau	Waiting for the Mass	One-Minute Vacation	2004	Duomo, Siena, Italy, 2004. Field recording	0:00:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Matteo Trisoglio	cascatella	One-Minute Vacation		Field recording	0:12:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gunnar Gentzsch	Berlin backyard	One-Minute Vacation		Field recording	0:12:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Leveton	Bhutan festival	One-Minute Vacation			0:13:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Arnaud of TMRX	BMX bikers	One-Minute Vacation			0:13:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Quiet American	Stonecarvers	One-Minute Vacation			0:13:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Christopher Wilde	Wandering Sufi musicians	One-Minute Vacation			0:13:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Vollmer	Englisher Garten	One-Minute Vacation / Whenitwas - Ambient Sounds	2003	Munich. Field recording	0:13:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eric La Casa	Rue de la Casa	One-Minute Vacation			0:13:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ben Shewmaker	After school	One-Minute Vacation			0:14:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Andrew Lackey	Polyrhythmic tires from under a bridge	One-Minute Vacation			0:14:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Liz Bustamante (Noise and Light)	Grinders	One-Minute Vacation			0:14:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Xavier Briche	Tricycle	One-Minute Vacation	1994	Summer 1994, France. Field recording	0:14:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eisuke Yanagisawa	beiju	One-Minute Vacation	2004	May 2004, Japan. Field recording	0:14:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Simon Lofting	Samye 7am	One-Minute Vacation	2004	2004, Tibet. Field recording	0:15:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frederic Yarm	Park Street Station	One-Minute Vacation		Boston. Field recording	0:15:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Derek BF Gunnlaugson	Brandon Riverbank	One-Minute Vacation	2004	Aug. 2004, Canada. Field recording	0:16:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Grant Finlay	Auckland Dawn Chorus	One-Minute Vacation	2004	Nov. 2004, New Zealand. Field recording	0:16:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
James aka Catskin Royale	Waiting for Poppies	One-Minute Vacation	2004	Nov. 2004, London. Field recording	0:16:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jay Thomas	Mission Wind	One-Minute Vacation	2004	May 2004, San Francisco. Field recording	0:16:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mirko Uhlig	9am Rain	One-Minute Vacation	2004	Sept. 2004, Germany. Field recording	0:17:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Daryl Richel	Israel Air Raid	One-Minute Vacation	1991	1991, Israel. Field recording	0:17:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
fognode	Duquaine Frogs	One-Minute Vacation	2004	May 2004, Nashville. Field recording	0:17:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim Murphy aka DJ Flywheel	Back Garden	One-Minute Vacation	2003	June 2003, UK. Field recording	0:17:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sarah Elzas	Avanos	One-Minute Vacation	2002	April 2002, Turkey. Field recording	0:18:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mark Ragsdale	PC Room	One-Minute Vacation		Korea. Field recording	0:18:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joseph Young	Suffolk	One-Minute Vacation	2003	Oct. 2003, UK. Field recording	0:18:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erick Gallun	Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris	One-Minute Vacation		Paris. Field recording	0:18:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Kannenberg	Reading Room	One-Minute Vacation	2003	July 2003, NYC. Field recording	0:18:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Zak Rosen	Maya Birthday	One-Minute Vacation		Field recording	0:18:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Hartog	Forest Oasis	One-Minute Vacation		Oregon. Field recording	0:19:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
AL	Brighton Beach	One-Minute Vacation	2004	May 2004, UK. Field recording	0:19:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Tenney	St. Stupid's Day Parade	One-Minute Vacation	2004	April 2004, San Francisco. Field recording	0:19:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lullatone	Wake Up Wake Up	Little Songs About Raindrops	2004		0:22:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
HyO	Approximacion 002				0:22:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
HyO	Approximacion 01	Aproximacion #001			0:22:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lullatone	Bye Bye Bye				0:23:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chris Degiere	Momentous Achievements				0:23:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chris Degiere remixes Claudia Bonarelli	Spinal Technica Dub	The Freest of Radicals Remixed	2003		0:23:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n.kra remixes Chris Degiere	Sixpence-and-Change-Sir Radical	The Freest of Radicals Remixed	2003		0:23:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Identification		2005		0:23:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Illusion of Safety	Graintext (Part Five)	Graintext	2001		0:26:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chris Degiere	Base Chirp				0:28:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
I Am Robot and Proud	Count to Six (I Am Robot and Proud Remix)	The Uberkids Remixes Part 1	2003		0:28:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Phasmid	The Pedal Makes This One Sound Different	The Uberkids Remixes Part 1	2003		0:28:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
.tape.	Making Waves				0:29:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
.tape.	Sea-Scaping Monthly	Sea-Scaping Monthly in 4 or 5 Movements	2003		0:29:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nick Cramer	Ice			Sounds inexplicably like something used in Beatles Chaos Fugue (11/25/98)	0:30:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nick Cramer	A Glance	Dimensional Rift	2003		0:30:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pacifica	Andy	Warm Blankie	2003		0:30:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Osso Bucco	Triad of Selvez				0:30:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tree Wave (Paul Slocum)	Instrumental 1b	Cabana EP	2003		0:30:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Text Adventure	A Little Explosion				0:30:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
D Minum	D'autre Part	Sunny Day Companion			0:31:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ellende	Death	Sine Fiction vol. X) Ti con zero			0:31:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Swirled Freely	Show #348 from Jan. 4, 2005	2005	Continues...	0:36:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

2021 middle collage (Listen to this set: MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Nervous interlude before the spooky half begins		2021		0:57:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
A-Ha	Take On Me isolated synth tracks, layered				0:58:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - You Have Nowhere to Go (What's Wrong?)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	You Have Nowhere to Go (What's Wrong?)	Show #346 from Dec. 21, 2004	2004	An ode to Walter Murch's THX-1138.	1:01:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Identification		2004		0:57:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	You Have Nowhere to Go (What's Wrong?)	Show #346 from Dec. 21, 2004	2004		0:59:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage), Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, James Wheaton, Paul K. Haje, Dion M. Chesse, others (actors)	35 excerpts and loops from film, layered	THX 1138 film	1971	Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference	1:04:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johann Sebastian Bach	Bin Ich Gliech Von Dir Gewichen	Matthew's Passion			1:20:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johann Sebastian Bach	Mir Hat Die Welt Tr Blich Gericht	Matthew's Passion			1:20:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johann Sebastian Bach	Wie Wunderbarlich Ist Doch Diese Strafe	Matthew's Passion			1:20:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donald Pleasance	Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference	THX 1138 film	1971		1:21:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage), Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, James Wheaton, Paul K. Haje, Dion M. Chesse, others (actors)	35 excerpts and loops from film, layered	THX 1138 film	1971	We must not continue to consume these erotics (the theatre of noise is proof of our potential)	1:23:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johann Sebastian Bach	Bin Ich Gliech Von Dir Gewichen	Matthew's Passion		Maybe	1:26:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Live then		2004		1:26:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage), Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, James Wheaton, Paul K. Haje, Dion M. Chesse, others (actors)	35 excerpts and loops from film, layered	THX 1138 film	1971		1:29:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage)	The accident over in red sector L destroyed another 63 personnel. Do not abandon your post. There is no danger of radiation leakage.	THX 1138 film	1971		1:32:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage)	Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.	THX 1138 film	1971		1:34:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken	Identification		2004		1:48:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage)	What's Wrong?	THX 1138 film	1971		1:49:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Lucas (director, writer), Walter Murch (writer, sound montage)	"Changeable" loop	THX 1138 film	1971	Constructed from one scene	1:51:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Ken	Goodbye, spring rolls and summer rolls		2021

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Listener comments!
	♥ 8/9/17 5:01pm fred: Hi Kenzo. Again, it should be a short stay for me, but my judgment is poor, so who knows
	8/9/17 5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Your judgment is unimpeachable, fred.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:04pm northguineahills: moar glockenspiel! If I wasn't so busy, I'd record some more thunderstorm field recordings and send them. Forgot how the whole moving thing is a PITA.
	8/9/17 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Today's collages are very dreamy indeed.
	8/9/17 5:05pm Dzeli: this is working for my storm belly
	8/9/17 5:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli belly
	♥ 8/9/17 5:07pm Ike: Punk-ass hippie robots are rusting loudly today! Get them out of my silicon onion farms right now!
	8/9/17 5:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm sorry for your loss, Ike. I'm happy for your recovery, Dzeli. I'm glocken for your spiel, northguineahills. I'm admiring your frequent foot out the door, fred.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:10pm fred: @Ike: At least pirates are not an issue on the stream
	8/9/17 5:11pm Dzeli: Kenzo: I'm grateful for your gratings
	8/9/17 5:16pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ima detailing this here playlist
	♥ 8/9/17 5:20pm fred: I like this! It's a much better confusion than the one I'm getting at work
	8/9/17 5:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I had a broken foot while making this show
	8/9/17 5:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I also had Robert's Rules of Order out from the library
	♥ 8/9/17 5:37pm fred: I hope you won't go too far in reliving the experience today
	8/9/17 5:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm at my mercy
	8/9/17 5:39pm Bliss: In the early-mid 70's, my stepdad had a little book called Robert's Rule of Law. At least that is the name I recall.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:40pm cklequ: There's always so much happening here.........
	8/9/17 5:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Robert's Rules of Order is the most used and famous book on parliamentary procedure in the US, originating in the late 1800's.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:40pm cklequ: Hay! I finally got my heart.
	8/9/17 5:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): cklequ: How do you feel about this muchness?
	8/9/17 5:41pm Bliss: Yes, I am pretty sure that is the one. All these years I was thinking that it was Robert's Rule of Law.
	♥ 8/9/17 5:41pm cklequ: I come here for the muchness.
	8/9/17 5:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ja, hearts got kicked on a few days ago
	8/9/17 5:43pm Bliss: I once thought we had had a St. Bernard, but it had been a beagle.
	8/9/17 5:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The beagle is the most famous and used dog for mistaken memories in the northeast region
	♥ 8/9/17 5:45pm fred: Most places are northeast of somewhere else. Though not all are suitable homes for beagles
	♥ 8/9/17 5:48pm Rich in Washington: I keep thinking this show is on at 3, my time. I am in a time zone all my own, apparently.
	8/9/17 5:49pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Rich, what timeshift can I do to make your listening more present-like?
	♥ 8/9/17 5:49pm fred: @Rich: I think you're right
	♥ 8/9/17 5:50pm Rich in Washington: I wish I knew. I am working on being more present.
	8/9/17 5:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Wednesdays 2-4pm in Washington (with an occasional Tues. 8-10pm on the WTJU side)
	8/9/17 5:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): 5 minutes to go before this dream changes color!
	♥ 8/9/17 5:56pm fred: That's my cue to be smart and leave. Then again, that reminds me of Mulholland Drive
	8/9/17 5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): fred, wait, see if you like this
	♥ 8/9/17 5:57pm Rich in Washington: This whole mix is great to edit video to.
	8/9/17 5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's good for sleeping, just ask Rich!
	8/9/17 5:57pm Dzeli: What color comes next?
	♥ 8/9/17 5:59pm Doug Schulkind: Who is this Ken Zlastever I've been hearing so much about?
	8/9/17 6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Ken Z'o Lastever
	8/9/17 6:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): This half is itself divided in halves. The second half in half an hour is a bit more challenging
	♥ 8/9/17 6:01pm Rich in Washington: I love this movie so much. I love listening to it more than watching it.
	8/9/17 6:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes. I haven't been able to go back and rewatch it, but I've heard this show at least a couple hundred times now.
	8/9/17 6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For those who haven't seen it, it's George Lucas's first film, from 1971, a very comprehensive dystopian film that uses almost no exposition, relying almost entirely on the brilliant sound montage work by co-writer Walter Murch. Most of what you come to understand about this "future" world comes from your listening.
	♥ 8/9/17 6:04pm Rich in Washington: I love this show. The one back then and the one right now.
	8/9/17 6:05pm Dzeli: Rather yellow
	♥ 8/9/17 6:06pm Rich in Washington: I think it's one of his best films. I think it's relatively austere - by today's standard's - budget made him make some really creative choices that add to the film's appeal.
	8/9/17 6:08pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thank you for color interpretation, Dzeli. What was the first hour?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:09pm Rich in Washington: It's hard to find the original version of this film. Like his Star Wars films, Lucas went back and added lots of unnecessary special effects that didn't merge well with the film's original gritty, claustrophobic atmosphere.
	8/9/17 6:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi again, (ghost of) fred, northguineahills, Dzeli, Ike, Bliss, cklequ, Rich, Doug, the people texting and msging and emailing me, and the shy and future others.
	8/9/17 6:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The closest-to-original version can be found online by searching for the laserdisc version.
	8/9/17 6:11pm Dzeli: Light blue. :-)
	♥ 8/9/17 6:11pm fred: I haven't seen this movie. I could go all Vizzini and say since you say I should stay I should leave, except it's too obvious. My way is not that complicated: if I get sleepy and start yawning, I'm out instantly, because if I miss that boat I may not get another chance for hours
	8/9/17 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's a shame, the 2004 DVD version has clearer sound, and the sound is so important...but Lucas added numerous weird modern effects and changes and embellishments and didn't even label this as being a changed release.
	8/9/17 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Inconceivable!
	♥ 8/9/17 6:13pm Rich in Washington: That THX-1138. He never backs off.
	8/9/17 6:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Make the correction THX
	8/9/17 6:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wonder what Murch would think of this show. I loved his work in THX and Apoc Now and The Conversation, and Return to Oz is a favorite film of mine although there's not much sound magic there
	♥ 8/9/17 6:17pm Rich in Washington: I used to think Murch worked on Star Wars, due to the Lucas connection and similarity to some of the techniques heard in the film, which was actually Ben Burt, but I guess he didn't.
	8/9/17 6:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Murch didn't work on Star Wars, but some of the techniques he developed in THX 1138 got used there anyway. The walkie talkie sounds in Star Wars especially
	8/9/17 6:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference
	8/9/17 6:23pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wish I could go back and remember how this felt while I was making it. It wasn't yet an hour-long show about THX-1138. It was just a thing I was doing, and I was halfway through the timeslot.
	8/9/17 6:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): My foot was broken for this one, too
	8/9/17 6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh yeah, there was this recording studio downstairs from the radio station, and there was a loud band playing in there. It's in the boominess on the mic a bit.
	♥ 8/9/17 6:28pm fred: Was it the same foot?
	8/9/17 6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yes, it took months to heal. It changed my life and that of many others dramatically.
	8/9/17 6:31pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Things turned a bit darker in my life after this show and before the one we heard in the first hour. So of course this is the darker show and the harder period one is lighter.
	8/9/17 6:31pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli, here's the next big color shift
	♥ 8/9/17 6:33pm Rich in Washington: It's also 20 degrees cooler since the program shift. How'd you do that, Kenzo?
	8/9/17 6:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): phase shift
	♥ 8/9/17 6:35pm Rich in Washington: I broke my foot at the end of 2016 but didn't know it until January of 2017. I was hobbling around for months.
	8/9/17 6:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I didn't get confirmation of my bone break for 3 months
	♥ 8/9/17 6:45pm fred: I hope no foot was harmed in the process
	8/9/17 6:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "Never mind"
	8/9/17 6:47pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Dzeli, exactly what listen link are you using?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:48pm Gary: What isn't wrong?
	♥ 8/9/17 6:50pm northguineahills: Finishing tidying up my finances. Only one more call to make.
	8/9/17 6:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks everyone in advance for listening and talking or not talking today. This show is here every Wednesday until it's not. Sometimes live, sometimes recently live, sometimes long ago live. Your live lifeness is very important here. Check schedule and back catalog at lastever.org
	♥ 4/29/20 5:01pm doctorjazz: HI folks-teleconference going overtime, past 5 PM, just shoot me...
	♥ 4/29/20 5:02pm chresti: Hi Kenzo and everlastings!
	4/29/20 5:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Shooting you with blippy bloopnesses
	4/29/20 5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Lastingever, chresti and doctorjazz and who was or will be
	♥ 4/29/20 5:10pm chresti: Bring on the bloopy blippers!
	4/29/20 5:15pm Kenzo: Fred must be at a show this week.
	♥ 4/29/20 5:19pm chresti: Or visiting martinibomb, next door..
	♥ 4/29/20 5:40pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy. This sounds nice!
	♥ 4/29/20 5:41pm Rand al'Thor: Hello, all.
	4/29/20 5:45pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Welcome to the soundsnice, Phillippe! Rand, yes hi.
	4/29/20 5:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Now, this (not that).
	4/29/20 6:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): ("You Have Nowhere to Go")
	♥ 4/29/20 6:01pm Carmichael: Boy, I logged on at just the right time!
	4/29/20 6:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Carmichael, you have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go. (Stay calm.)
	♥ 4/29/20 6:24pm chresti: Must evade!
	4/29/20 6:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): What's wrong?
	4/29/20 6:50pm Martinibomb: Just dropping by to say hello to ever fantastic Kenzo!
	4/29/20 6:52pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): You are in my hands.
	4/29/20 6:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Now, also.
	♥ 3:01pm Bas NL: Hello Kenzo!
	3:05pm Listener Robert: You sure you didn't spin the genre wheel to get this like Jim Price just did?
	♥ 3:06pm StringOFperils: Ahh, this should sluice out the ol' mind. Helloooo o o o o o o
	3:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi! Bas! Robert! SoP!
	3:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I hope this helps you as much as it helps me.
	♥ 3:25pm Webhamster Henry: Greetings to the Kenzomatic Radioverse!
	♥ 3:28pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	3:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Henry, meet Jan. Jan, meet everyone.
	3:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I should go simple for a change and just make this episode my premium CD.
	♥ 3:30pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Jan. We have mountains here (Catskills).
	♥ 3:31pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the field recordings, now that Neighbors Noise is off the stream.
	3:32pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): (weeping)
	♥ 3:34pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Henry, I sometimes imagine the distant dark clouds are temporary mountains. That's all we have.
	♥ 3:36pm Jan Turkenburg: "the dark distant clouds" sounds better. I must write a song about that.
	♥ 3:45pm Bas NL: What a ride! Great mix.
	3:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I need to make more like this. I rarely work on commissioned projects but maybe I could do that.
	3:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm scared, I don't want it to end, here comes the spooky world
	♥ 3:55pm Webhamster Henry: Here comes the middle.There goes the middle.
	3:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Tell me about it
	♥ 4:01pm Webhamster Henry: This is Kenzo's version of "Midnight Matinee"
	♥ 4:02pm Webhamster Henry: Do you have a Murch show from The Conversation or Return To Oz?
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I've used quite a lot of Return to Oz samples. I've used a couple of The Conversation samples. I just watched a short interview with him in which he discusses, recently, how decades of reflection helped him figure out how Return to Oz was actually a terrifying film, despite his intentions.
	4:05pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): But I suppose he figures THX-1138 isn't terrifying either. #relatable
	4:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sometimes a little adjustment can make all the difference.
	4:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I guess I don't commonly focus on a single subject/film in a show. Others I can think of: "The Coming Storms" (focus only on The Terminator) lastever.org..., "Karen's Dead" (focus a bunch on Ordinary People) lastever.org... ...hmmm what else...
	4:15pm Listener Robert: Funny but this morning I dreamed I was in a new Mr. Magoo cartoon, apparently as Magoo, and that I needed to urinate. I found a place to urinate at an archeologic site and used it. I was afraid I'd wet the bed as I did once in 2003 on dreaing I was urinating in a strange place after looking around for one, but fortunately this time that was not the case. And now I'm drowsy again.
	4:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Performance perfect is perfect performance, Robert. (Was the joke that you'd wake up and say, oh, Magoo, you've done it again!)
	4:18pm Listener Robert: Great line, but it would not have been worth wetting the bed for.
	4:19pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
	♥ 4:24pm Bas NL: It's been ages since i saw THX-1138..
	♥ 4:25pm Bas NL: ...still can see the images with every sound!
	4:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): How kind of them not to destroy the defendant.
	♥ 4:30pm Webhamster Henry: Return to Oz was obviously terrifying all over the place.
	4:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Oh yeah there was a music studio right below the radio studio in this old building. When my mic is on you can sometimes hear the drums shaking the wood floors.
	4:32pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I first saw RtO when I was a teenager and it didn't occur to me it could be scary to anyone. I find it scarier now - well, the almost-electroshock scene. But there's a scarier version of that in The Muppet Movie, and dear god, The Princess Bride...
	4:33pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): One of the terrible Superman sequels had one, I regret even mentioning it
	4:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): But in RtO, it had a political purpose. Long history of unwarranted experimental medical interventions on children and all that.
	4:36pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I haven't rewatched THX-1138 in forever, been saving it. But I can't decide whether to watch the modern version (fantastic sound, which obviously matters a lot to me), or the laserdisc version (no ridiculous special effects added by George Lucas 30 years later).
	4:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Although not as significant a film, reminds me of the Yellow Submarine dilemma: Watch modern version (great sound, clean visuals...but, the top 20% and bottom 20% of the fucking screen is cut off), or watch earlier VHS rip (crummy quality, but at least the whole scene is actually visible, heads not cut off, visual gags totally cropped out!)
	4:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'm reading the old comments to see the same subjects again and again and
	♥ 4:56pm Bas NL: I love just the sounds. Never understood the coral ending though.
	4:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Of the movie or the show?
	♥ 4:57pm Bas NL: The movie.
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Well, the musical theme throughout the whole movie is from the same piece, and it builds up to this, and then, he's out! It's this huge majestic moment of breaking through to ____
	♥ 4:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Kenzo! Really loved these mixes!
	♥ 4:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks! Hear you last time, Kenzo!
	♥ 5:00pm Bas NL: I'd expected a dead quiet after all the noise.
	5:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): dead air DJ anxiety
	♥ 5:01pm Bas NL: At the end of the movie! :)
	5:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh I see. Well that would've been pretty great, too. I guess...it's a movie of a lot of sound. But I see your point.
	5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sounds like fan-edit fodder!
	5:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The "give THX a break" remix
	3:09am Puget Sound: Yes. An astonishing revelation moment at the end of THX1138. When I lived in the SF Bay Area (listening to OverTheEdge natch), it was always a treat to drive through the Caldecott Tunnel and imagine I was making a getaway to The Above. I goosepimple when Tate's silhouetted against the majestic, finally-seen sun AND a bird flies by which we can see him clocking in astonishment. As for old formats vs new. I'm finding that remastered sound and visual is overrated (certainly if at the expense of proper framing or structure). In fact, if there's ever a mono option, I tend to opt for it over 5.1 Sensurround, 7-Dimensional, Smell-O-Vision. Unfortunately, there rarely is (e.g. Mission Impossible & TexasChainsaw). Another marvellous show, Ken. Happy New Year!!!!
	1:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @Puget Sound: It's true, original/mono wins. (Although, I DO think Walter Murch did a good, authentic job remastering his THX-1138 sound, while George Lucas simultaneously did an offensive job on the updated video/editing. The new sound felt like "what was originally intended" whereas the new video felt like "I'm a completely different person 30 years later and here's what I would've done today."
	2:33am Puget Sound: I re-watched it about a year ago, streaming it from somewhat. It seemed the same as I remembered it when I saw it moons past. Peradventure a little more hd, but I opt to set my telly's picture quality to 'Movie,' so that tends to minimise the hd'ing. Well, until next time . . .Blessings of The State. Blessings of the masses.
	2:51am Puget Sound: Buy more. Buy more, now. Buy, and be happy. www.amazon.com...
	11:07am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): For your enjoyment, consumption is being standardized.

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from December 27, 2021

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