Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Roger Waters' Birthday

(photo by John Rettie from here)

Roger Waters, one of the founders of rock & roll superstars Pink Floyd, was born on September 6, 1943. In honor of his 83rd birthday, the staff of the Report will celebrate him by playing lots of covers of Pink Floyd songs - all from their early singles & their first three albums. The staff of the Report are music snobs. Dick Dickenbock will just read what they write for him.

That's Sunday, from 11am to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. Set your radio controls to the heart of PDX.

This Week In Self Help: August 30 + September 1

Those upside-down drinking vessels invite you to a useless list of the radio shows I did this week.

Sunday August 30 was International Bat Night so I played bat songs on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. You can listen to that show here.

September 1 I explored the theme "vessel" on Self Help Radio on KBOO. You can listen to that show here. Or you can listen to that show here.

Also September 1 I played a lot of new releases on Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO. You can listen to that show here (after Self Help Radio). Or you can listen to that show here.

That was pretty painless right? Have a drink from your favorite vessel.

Self Help Radio 090126: Vessel

A radio show with the theme "vessel." Because I wanted to make a show with a theme that started with the letter V. Uh oh. I only have one show with a theme that starts with the letter X!

Nothing more to add - tho I did want to mention all the different vessels I've been in or on. I never got around to that. I mean, is a train a vessel? Apparently not. Vessels - I should've mentioned this - apparently run only on water. I thought at least you could refer to a car as a vessel. I have a troll I need to apologize to now.

Listen to the show either on the KBOO web page or on the Self Help Radio web page. Most everything that happened on the show is below. I mean, if a submarine can be an undersea vessel, why can't a car be an overground vessel? Please don't make me do another vessel show!

Self Help Radio Vessel Show

"Vessels" Philip Glass _Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out Of Balance) (Original Soundtrack Album From The Motion Picture)_

introduction & definitions - featuring the Definition-O-Tron 3000

"Empty Vessels" Blurt _Blurt_

"Vessels" The Moonlandingz _Interplanetary Class Classics_

"The Unworthy Vessel" William S Burroughs _The Best Of William Burroughs From Giorno Poetry Systems_

"Vessel" Spice Boys _Glade_

"The Vessel" Salem 66 _A Ripping Spin_

interview with writer Edwin Kent

"Empty Vessels" Po! _Not Marked On The Ordnance Map_

"Vessel" Frankie Cosmos _Vessel_

"Vessel In Vain" Smog _Supper_

"Vessel Of Light" Rickie Lee Jones _Ghostyhead_

"Vessel Of Love" Hollie Cook _Vessel Of Love_

interview with trolls Bartholomew & Itchy

"Empty Vessel" Dirty Projectors _5 EPs_

"Vessel" Finger _Finger_

"Vessels" Aperture _Threads_

"Tiny Vessels" Death Cab For Cutie _Transatlanticism_

"Vessels" White Hinterland _Phylactery Factory_

"can I be a vessel?"

"Vessel" Skullcrusher _And Your Song Is Like A Circle_

"Whaling Vessel" Bombadil _Metrics Of Affection_

"Sun 2 (Vessel)" Speculum Bunny _Seven Suns_

"Faulty Vessels" Gouwzee _Gouwzee_

"Vessel" Autobahn _The Moral Crossing_

conclusion & goodbye

"If Truth Were A Vessel" The Moms _Doing Asbestos We Can_

"Empty Vessels (ft. Roots Manuva)" The Maccabees _Wall Of Arms_

"Into The Vessel" Molly Sullivan _Winter '13_

Whither Vessel?

Don't make me swear but I think I took that picture in Australia riding the ferry across the harbor from the zoo back to the main city area. I found the picture last night & now have no idea where I found it. & my computer is not being helpful. Oh yeah! It was! But I think this was on a long ride around the harbor instead. Excuse me, harbour.

Anyway, the show today. Not counting Valentine's Day shows, I was just looking & saw I have only done fourteen shows whose themes started with the letter V. So I thought I should do another one. & I thought of the word vessel. & that's all.

The vessel show. Tonight on KBOO. Midnight to 2am. 90.7fm. kboo dot fm.

Sorry if that wasn't more exciting.

Preface To Vessel: Beached Vessel

(image found here)

Do you wanna know what I just discovered? The website for the National Gallery Of Art - at nga dot gov - is searchable! I guess I haven't really looked around government websites since you-know-who has made everything worse, but I like the idea of looking for images there instead of the wild west of search engine searches - altho I'm not entirely sure about the legality of posting these images here. Maybe it's cool because the art belongs to America? I'll try to find out.

The painting above is entitled Beached Vessel, it's by George Loring Brown, the date is "c.1880." The website tells us it's "watercolor on wove paper." (Good thing it's not woke paper, amirite? Ugh this is the worst time to be alive.)

Wikipedia tells us that "George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston & first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell & worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. Brown spent much of his life abroad, & the motives of his pictures are usually Italian, & there is nothing specifically American about them either in treatment or sentiment."

Ouch! Take that, person who lived in the 19th century & didn't want to hang out in America!

Does this mean there might be more art from the National Gallery on this blog? If I remember, sure! Is this the reason this week's show's theme is "vessel"? No, I'll tell you that tomorrow.