Most of the time I have no idea what or why or where I came up with what happens on Self Help Radio. The process seems to begin with something like an insight - hey! I should do a Self Help Radio show about rabies! - & if that insight is remembered - most of them aren't - then the next step is to create a folder in a folder on my desktop on my computer with the name of the theme.
The folder in which I keep the folders in which the songs I might play for any giving them is called "extras." It makes no sense why it's called that - why not call it "self help radio theme ideas"? - but now I know that's where I put ideas & that's where I'll find them.
In each idea folder is a BBEdit file where I write down song ideas. Sometimes, when I'm away from my computer, I'll email ideas to myself, often without context, so I might get an email with the subject line "asshead" (I'm not very nice to myself in my emails) & the body will just say, "Stupid Rabies Song by the Cranberries."
If I am not feeling well, emails like that will totally screw me up.
Sometimes people send ideas to my email address or even to my Twitter account & I decide whether I can pull such a show off. Like one person might suggest a show about rabies. How many songs are there about rabies? Besides that stupid one by the Cranberries? Not a lot, I'll tell you.
It can be disappointing, asking me to do a theme. I probably shouldn't solicit.
Anyway, that being said, I know exactly where I got the idea for the theme to this week's show. It's from this song:
You might think to yourself, "Why am I reading this blog?" If you're not thinking that, you might be thinking, "That song is called Floorshow. What does it have to do with anything quick?"
Let me tell you: in the middle of the song (& again at the end), the lyrics go something like:
See them shimmy, see them go
See their painted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go!
I like the way Andrew Eldritch (real name Andrew Taylor, of course) says "slow slow quick quick slow." Thinking a slow show might be too easy, I opted for a quick show.
It wasn't all that hard, though.
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