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As one gets older, more & more parts of a person stop bending (he's going to talk about breaking his arm here) (shut up he isn't!). It's something we'll find out. Well, not all of us. Some of us die before we get old, unlike Pete Townshend. Whether that's a good thing or not, I can't say. Would Jimi Hendrix have enjoyed prostate exams? Would Kurt Cobain have continues to embarrassingly dye his hair like Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney do? Why won't William Shatner just take off that goddamn toupee!?!?!
(That got weird.) (At least he didn't talk about breaking his arm.)
This show, then, can be seen as an acknowledgement of my own growing lack of flexibility (oh no!) (shush!) as well as a kind of fond farewell of a youth I squandered by not really caring if I were agile or flexible or even in a modicum of good health. The potential bendable me, the potential bendable all of us. Would that I had bent as much in my heyday as the show this week does.
Also, I did it with a broken arm. (motherfucker!) (all right, all right)
You can listen to the show over at the embarrassingly rigid Self Help Radio website. The song about bending are below. Be careful! Maybe do some stretches before listening!
(part one)
"Bend" The Icecream Hands _You Can Ride My Bike: The Best Of The Icecream Hands_
"Bend" Jen Wood _Getting Past The Static_
"Bend" Grover _My Wild Life_
"Bend A Little My Way" Nat King Cole _To Whom It May Concern_
"Bend Down" Ernie Smith _The Best Of Ernie Smith_
"Bend Me" Space Ghost _Yeah, Whatever_
"Bend Me Shape Me" The Outsiders _In_
"Bend It" Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich _Greatest Hits_
"Bend To Break" Twin River _Should The Light Go Out_
"Bent Out Of Shape" The Teardrop Explodes _Wilder_
"Bent Out Of Shape" Young Rival _Interior Light_
"The Metal Benders" Dark Day _Window_
"Bending Halos" Drinking Flowers _New Swirled Order_
"Bend Over Backwards" Archie Powell & The Exports _Great Ideas In Action_
(part two)
"Bent Backwards" Mrs. Kipling _Sunny Sunday Smile_
"Hell Bent On Death" Bogshed _Step On It_
"Hell Bent Suicidal Over You, Baby" The Rainyard _Just A Taste: A Summershine Records Compilation_
"Bending Spoons" Oval-Teen _Ten;Ten_
"Hump From Bending" The Hidden Cameras _Awoo_
"Fahr Mit Mir Un Die Welt (Up Around The Bend)" Bernd Spier _Pop In Germany Vol. 6_
"Just Around The Bend" Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs _You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying_
"Mind Bending Cutie Doll" The Revillos _Attack Of The Giant Revillos_
"Kneebending" Cowboy _A House Full Of Friends_
"Alexander Bends" Butterglory _Downed_
"Halo Bender" The Halo Benders _Don't Tell Me Now_
"Train Round The Bend" The Velvet Underground _Loaded_
"She's So Bendable" The Bravery _Stir The Blood_
"Bendable Poseable" Hot Chip _Made In The Dark_
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