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No. No. Everything is not fine. How dare a radio show tell me that things are fine when they so obviously are not. The gall! The cheek! The chutzpah! The impudence! The insolence! The effrontery! How brazen! How ballsy! How arrogant! How impudent! How presumptuous!
Unless. Unless I misunderstand the nature of media. Maybe media is not by definition in opposition to me. Maybe media is just a viewpoint that exists, as so many do, that doesn't threaten mine at all. Maybe taking things like radio, television, films personally belies my own insecurity. Am I so unassured, do I have such a lack of confidence, that something with which I disagree needs to be silenced instead of accepted in a society that values the free exchange of ideas?
But wait! People on the radio have a different platform than most of us. I can say "Everything's not okay!" but the only people listening are my cats & someone who might be driving by with the windows down! A person on the radio can reach more people! Therefore my opinion doesn't have the exposure theirs does! Their ego is by definition more successful than my ego!
This is unfair & should be stopped!
Oh hi! That above is an excerpt from an unfinished one-act play I wrote because I disagreed this one time with something Roger Ebert wrote. He was only a good writer, you know, when he & I liked the same things. Otherwise he just made me mad.
Why did I share it with you? Who knows! I might have cat scratch fever. Meanwhile, this week's show, with the theme, "Everything's Fine," is now available for listening at the Self Help Radio website. The show is not an endorsement of everything, nor is it an actual description of "everything," which, as we all know, is demonstrably not fine. It is simply another in a long line of exercises in futility which, you may have guessed, is the only real exercise I get.
Still - let's hope everything's fine for as long as you listen.
(part one)
"Everything's Fine" The Saints _Wild About You: The Complete Saints 1976 - 1978_
"Everything's Just Fine" The Waltones _Deepest_
"Everything's Just Fine" Earwig _La-Di-Da... So Far..._
"Everything's Just Fine" Ronderlin _Wave Another Day Goodbye_
"Everything Is Fine" Numbers _Now You Are This_
"Everything's Fine" Minks _Tides End_
"Everything Is Fine" Teen Suicide _DC Snuff Film_
"All Is Fine" Tall Dwarfs _Fork Songs_
"Fine" James _Pleased To Meet You_
"Fa-Fa-Fa-Fine" Julian Cope _Jehovahkill_
"Feeling Fine" Class _First_
"I Feel Fine" The Beatle Barkers _The Beatle Barkers_
"Feel So Fine (with Patsy Todd)" Derrick Morgan _Moon Hop (Best Of The Early Years 1960-1969)_
(part two)
"Guess I'm Doing Fine" Bob Dylan _The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)_
"Tonight Will Be Fine" Leonard Cohen _Songs From A Room_
"That's Fine" The Legendary Bang _Big Bluff_
"You Know I'm Fine" The Orchids _Unholy Soul_
"Seems Fine" The Concretes _The Concretes_
"Closer To Fine" The Smittens _Love Record Breaker_
"Fine" Burnt Palms _Back On My Wall_
"It's A Fine Day" Jane _Scared To Get Happy: Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989_
"One Fine Day" David Byrne & Brian Eno _Everything That Happens Will Happen Today_
"One Fine Day" Madness _The Liberty Of Norton Folgate_
"It's Gonna Work Out Fine" Cherokees _It's Gonna Work Out Fine_
"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (& I Feel Fine)" R.E.M. _Document_
"Doin' Fine" Groovie Ghoulies _Short Music For Short People_
"Thursday Feels Fine" Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes _Cabinet Of Curiosities_
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