Sometime last week, I complained that that week's theme had too many songs for me to get through. I wrote, "Please don't ever let me explore a theme that has the possibility of having more than ten hours worth of songs." I am having the opposite problem this week. I am having a hard time finding enough songs.
Well, yeah, I found enough songs. But it wasn't the easiest journey. Let's break this down:
The theme is "intent." But why? I guess I can answer that tomorrow.
Don't you have to read into songs to determine if they're about "intent"? Why not simply look for songs about "intentions"? The dictionary definition of "intent' is literally "intention or purpose."
& look, when you see the definition of "intention," you get, "a thing intended." Suddenly your theme is opened up to intending as well as intentions!
That's how I filled the show up, anyway. But maybe I can find a happy medium between too many songs & almost not enough songs. For Pete's sake!
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020
Valentine's Reminder
Happy Valentine's Day! I remind you that you can listen to this week's Self Help Radio - which was all about the heart (💘) over at the Self Help Radio web page. But wait! There's more!
You can also listen to last year's Valentine's Day show, which was about flirting. Not only were there very flirtatious songs, but if I recall correctly, we talked with flirting expert Dr. Jack Dick Curvybody & I played clips of my favorite flirt. You can listen to it over here.
Have a happy day, lovers!
You can also listen to last year's Valentine's Day show, which was about flirting. Not only were there very flirtatious songs, but if I recall correctly, we talked with flirting expert Dr. Jack Dick Curvybody & I played clips of my favorite flirt. You can listen to it over here.
Have a happy day, lovers!
Thursday, February 13, 2020
The Dickenbock Report Has Its Own Page
The Dickenbock Report has arrived on KBOO's web page! & it only took five episodes & ten weeks!
There is now a Dickenbock Report page on the KBOO website. KBOO archives all their shows, but if previous episodes of the Report are still there (since I assigned them to different shows), you'll have to follow the links on the Self Help Radio website to hear earlier programs. You're not missing anything, in any case.
The Dickenbock Report is still in its infancy, & this week's show was cobbled together in haste from old episodes of Self Help Radio, Cradle To Grave, & some subbing I did on Freeform last summer. Hopefully it won't continue to be a Frankenshow. But since Portland hasn't heard much of anything I've ever done, & because much of what I've done hasn't been heard by anyone, I'm not going to feel too guilty plundering my archives.
Anyway, once that Dick Dickenbock guy shows up, I'm sure he'll make it all better.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Self Help Radio 021020: Valentine's Day 2020 - The Heart
Two millennials talking about dating apps. A motivational speaker discussing a five-step plan to heart health. A stranger who claims he has no heart. An actual human heart that does impressions. Lots & lots of songs about the heart. What do all these things have in common?
If you know, send a postcard to Self Help Radio c/o Dickenbock Enterprises, Bangor, Maine. We'd love to know.
No wait! You don't have to do that! I'll tell you: they are all part of this week's episode of Self Help Radio, which is a Valentine's Day episode, which is all about the heart. Yes, many songs were played. Yes, many guests were interviewed. & yes, there were these odd pieces where a know-it-all anatomist talked about the actual human heart. In a word: romantic. What they had in common is the romance of the heart.
Listen to the show now & especially on Valentine's Day at Self Help Radio dot net. There are a few hurdles to jump over to get to the show - you'll need to enter a username ("SHR") & a password ("selfhelp") (don't use the quotation marks). But once you're there, you'll have two hours of hearty music. What happens on the show is below.
Happy Valentine's Day! Take care of your heart!
Self Help Radio Valentine's Heart Show
"What Will I Tell My Heart?" Arthur Prysock _The Legendary Big Band Singers_
"Hear My Heart" Ella Fitzgerald _Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1_
"I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" The Starlets _Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Ol' Box Of '60s Soul_
introduction & definitions
"Slow Down Heart" The Temptations _Emperors Of Soul_
"Locking Up My Heart" The Marvelettes _The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 3: 1963_
"Home In Your Heart" Otis Redding _The Otis Redding Story_
"My Runaway Heart" Carol Fran _Bluesoul Belles -The Complete Calla, Port & Roulette Recordings_
"I Ain't Got No Heart" The Mothers Of Invention _Freak Out!_
interview with Hearty the human heart
"Dark In My Heart" Lee Hazlewood _Lee Hazlewoodism - Its Cause & Cure_
"Mein Herz Sagt Oui" Jaqueline Boyer _Schlager-Erinnerungen_
"Temptation Inside Your Heart" The Velvet Underground _Peel Slowly & See_
"Ask My Heart" Eddie Billups _Atlanta Soul (The Peachtree Records Story)_
"A Heart Needs A Home" Richard & Linda Thompson _Hokey Pokey_
interview with Douglas Nome, a man without a heart
"Heart Of Mine" Bob Dylan _Biograph_
"Heart With No Companion" Leonard Cohen _Various Positions_
"Heart" Rocky Sharpe & The Replays _The Chiswick Story: Adventures Of An Independent Record Label 1975-1982_
"Another Nail In My Heart" Squeeze _Argybargy_
"Tapin' Up My Heart" The Mr. T Experience _...And The Women Who Love Them_
interview with motivational speaker Dirk Robbins
"Dear Heart" Cocteau Twins _BBC Sessions_
"Sloppy Heart" Frazier Chorus _Sloppy Heart EP_
"The Last Beat Of My Heart" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Peepshow_
"Destroy The Heart" House Of Love _The House Of Love 1986-88: The Creation Recordings_
interview with expert millennials Alyssa & Jason
"You Must Ask The Heart" Jonathan Richman _You Must Ask The Heart_
"One Big Heart" BMX Bandits _Theme Park_
"Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart" The Bartlebees _Urban Folk Legends_
"Epitaph For My Heart" The Magnetic Fields _69 Love Songs_
conclusion & goodbye
"Heart Of Glass" Nouvelle Vague _Bande À Part_
"I Saw My Heart Passing By" Stars In Coma _You're Still Frozen In Time_
"Dinosaur Heart" Bearsuit _Oh:io_
Sunday, February 09, 2020
Whither The Heart?
Which is what we'll do! That's tomorrow, Monday morning, from 6 to 8am, on Freeform Portland, which you can hear at 90.3 & 98.3 fm + online at freeform portland dot org. I'm sure we'll hear a little about the anatomy of the heart but I suspect we'll spend much more time in metaphor. Love lives in metaphor. Doesn't it?
This will be the sixteenth Valentine's Day show Self Help Radio has done in the seventeen & a half years of its existence. Why not a show in 2006? I think it might have been one of those times the station airing Self Help Radio was off the air. Or I forgot. We've all forgotten Valentine's Day once, haven't we? & those who live to tell of it never forget again.