Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Couples Day

August 18 is National Couples Day. Or maybe it's written National Couple's Day? That seems incorrect. Anyway, it appears to be a holiday scheduled halfway between Valentine's Days. For those who need more pressure to buy things for their beloved.

We will talk about & listen to musical reports about famous couples in honor of the day tomorrow on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. You can listen in town from noon to 1pm at 91.1+107.1fm & online everywhere at xray dot fm. Listen to the show with someone with whom you form a couple!

On second thought, maybe that would be a terrible idea. Maybe buy flowers & chocolates instead.

This Week In Self Help (August 11 + 13 2024)

That image - which I downloaded from somewhere in 2015 - came up when I typed "chaos" into the search bar. It looks like I got it from the photos of the week in the Atlantic from 2015. It does seem chaotic! Here's the chaos on the radio this week.

On The Dickenbock Report on Sunday the 11th, I played a lot of music from folks who had birthdays on that day in history. I don't think I got to folks born after 1920. I know, I'm a weirdo. You can listen to the show at XRAY dot fm. You can also listen to the show at Self Help Radio dot net. If you choose the latter, you will need to know the login (SHR) & the password (selfhelp).

Self Help Radio this week had the theme "chaos." You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. You can also listen to that show at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, you will need to know the login (SHR) & the password (selfhelp).

That KBOO link contains this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming, which was another morbid hour where I played some music by folks we lost this year. I have made it to the middle of May! Death is dreadful. If you like to listen to it separate from Self Help Radio, you can just listen to that show on the Self Help Radio website. Remember username SHR password selfhelp.

Hopefully less chaos in your life from now on!

Self Help Radio 081324: Chaos

What a chaotic show! In content & subject matter mostly. I was especially conscientious about making sure there were smooth transitions & the like. Couldn't let a chaos show get too chaotic!

One thing I am aware of - the chaos will descend soon enough whether we like it or not. We have forces in our world today who love chaos & who use it for their own duplicitous & often nefarious ends. Being aware of the chaos may be helpful in preparation. My radio show today for me at least was a reminder of that. Plus I played songs I liked & had fun talking to weirdos.

Listen for yourself! The show is now over on the KBOO web site. It's also on the Self Help Radio web site where you can download it if you want. Just remember to use the login SHR & the password selfhelp to access. Everything that happened on the show is below.

It's like organized chaos!

Self Help Radio Chaos Show

"Chaos Waltz" Web Of Sunsets _Chaos Waltz_

"Chaotic Shampoo & Strange Rock & Roll" Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party _50,000 Glass Fans Can't Be Wrong_

"Chaos Heart" OSees _Intercepted Message_

introduction & definitions

"Ab (Chaos Is Bliss)" Strangelily _A Strange Film, Featuring You & I_

"The Chaos" The Futureheads _The Chaos_

"Soliloquy Of Chaos" Gang Starr _Daily Operation_

"Fear & Chaos" The Black Creatures _Wild Echoes_

interview with Chaos Princess actor Diane Faulkner

"We Are The Chaos Bros." The Lurkers _Fulham Fallout_

"Chaos Bros." Die Toten Hosen _Love, Peace, & Money_

"Chaos Engine" Pinback _Pinback_

"Chaos Panic" Yellow Magic Orchestra _Kyoretsu Na Rhythm - Characters: The Best Of YMO_

interview with KAOS Fans creator Dave Ferguson

"Chaos & Disorder" Prince _Chaos & Disorder_

"Chaos" The Sylvers _The Sylvers_

"Chaos" Minuit Machine _Infrarouge_

interview with former god of chaos Doug Fisher

"Involved In Local Chaos" The 49 Americans _E Pluribus Unum_

"Elegant Chaos" Julian Cope _World Shut Your Mouth_

"Chaos" Louisahhh _The Practice Of Freedom_

"Chaos" New Young Pony Club _The Optimist_

interview with chaos magician Dean Fishburn

"Chaos" Stump _A Fierce Pancake_

"You're A Reflection Of Infinite Chaos" Outrageous Cherry _Our Love Will Change The World_

"Chaos" The Erics _Chaos Made Pretty_

conclusion & goodbye

"Chaos Arpeggiating" Of Montreal _Innocence Reaches_

Whither Chaos?

Tonight's program is another show conceived in those dark days of June after the first debate when it seemed like we might have to have another four years of a presidency that I don't think I could have survived. I was miserable with the administration that led this country from 2017 to 2021 & almost had a nervous breakdown on election night 2020 when the outcome was in doubt.

Things have changed since June & while I am not so naïve that everything will be perfect if the new contender wins, I know I won't be utterly destroyed by the return of someone I believe would cause irreparable harm to the country in which I live & in which I was born & grew up. You may disagree with me & that's fine. I am sorry if this causes you the misery I will avoid. But it's my radio show & my perception of the future became quite dark - catastrophe, loneliness, chaos. I think the theme next week continues in this bleak vein.

But the show I think will be kinda fun because I am doing better thank you. So tune in to a radio show about chaos tonight on KBOO - 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. The chaos lasts from midnight to 2am. & if we're lucky goes no further!

Preface To Chaos: Another Failed Attempt At A Regular Feature

(all images from the IMDb)

No, this isn't a preview of our resident cinephile Chuck coming on the show this week to talk about films involving this week's theme, chaos. Chuck previews his films over on his Twitter account, but he doesn't preview them on this blog ever. Also, I'm way too literal. Chuck will watch a film for a show about, I don't know, racecars & there'll be one scene in the movie that has a racecar in a pile of kids' toys, but he won't review "Racecar Story" because it wasn't tagged with "racecar" on the IMDb even though it's obviously about racecars. Not that I'm complaining! Except about me!

What I'm pointing out is that a couple of weeks ago, I recommended a movie based on the week's theme. I thought, hey, maybe I can do that this week. So I looked for films with chaos in the title. The pictures above were the first six I found on the IMDb. It's not that I've never seen any of these movies - I haven't - it's also that I've never even heard of any of them.

So. It seems. I'm not going to be recommending a film this week. Or in this space in the future. Because. I'm bad at it. Like, really really bad at it.