Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Coffee Day

That photo was taken in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May 2016. Its sentiment is shared however the world over. Which is why tomorrow, September 29, we will report on National Coffee Day on the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. Don't worry about the Scots! International Coffee Day is two days later.

That's noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online everywhere at xray dot fm.

You can say, "I take my coffee like I take my radio - all the time!"

This Week In Self Help (Sep 22 24 + 26)

It was another busy week. When will these silly radio stations learn?

The Dickenbock Report had a show for Dear Diary Day. I even read from Dick Dickenbock's diary! If you would like, listen to the show on the XRAY website. If you would like, listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website. You may need a username + password - please use SHR + selfhelp.

Self Help Radio has a show about spirals, like the one pictured above. If you would like, listen to the show on the KBOO website. If you would like, listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website. You may need a username + password - please use SHR + selfhelp.

The last hour of the KBOO show above is an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming in which I played music from folks we've lost recently - including a friend of mine. If you would like to listen to that show by itself, you can do so on the Self Help Radio website. You may need a username + password - please use SHR + selfhelp.

On Thursday I subbed an XRAY show called Welcome To Your Good Day. I have not put that show up on the Self Help Radio website yet (I'll do that next Tuesday) but until I do you can listen to the show on the XRAY website. Or maybe not - I don't see that it was recorded. Hm. I'll update this when I put the show on the Self Help Radio website then.

Update! I have added the show to Self Help Radio website. You can listen here. You may need a username + password - please use SHR + selfhelp.

Oh no I'm spiraling into control! I better sign off now.

Self Help Radio 092424: Spirals

In a kind of a panic about finding pictures for this blog post, I told my wife, "Spirals are found everywhere in nature! Where can we find some to take pictures of?" She gave me this shell from a snail. I took a picture & then defaced it with the Self Help Radio logo. When I asked her what kind of snail it was, she sent me a video of a guy with snails crawling on his face. I'm a little afraid of such things so now I guess I'll never know.

We took a bunch of pictures of spirals in the natural world on a dogwalk (that's where yesterday's sunflower came from) but I liked the snail shell best of all. So it's the image for today's show.

All this done for a blog post about a radio show about spirals. Which you can listen to now or whenever either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, make sure you know the login is SHR & the password is selfhelp. Everything that happens on the show is listed below.

& now I can't not see spirals everywhere in nature!

Self Help Radio Spirals Show

"Spiral Staircase" Antena _Camino Del Sol_

"Spiral Baby" The X-Men _Creation Soup Volume Two_

"Spiral" Elise Kermani _The Aerial # 4_

introduction & definitions

"Spiral" The Connells _Ring_

"Spiral Twist" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Downside Up_

"Spirals Of Paranoia" The Mekons _Retreat From Memphis_

"Spiral Staircase" Birdie _Spiral Staircase_

interview with artist Tom Cullen

"Spiral Transit" Crystal Stilts _Alight Of Night_

"Spiral Golden Town" Deerhoof _Green Cosmos_

"Spiral Stairs" Elf Power _In A Cave_

"The Spiral" Icky Blossoms _Mask_

interview with chemist & poet Dr. Thad Connors, author of The Beauty Of Spirals

"Triple Spiral" Bright Eyes _The People's Key_

"Spiral" Bully _Losing_

"Downward Spiral" The Helio Sequence _Negotiations_

"Spiral" Pylon Reenactment Society _Magnet Factory_

interview with Spiral Goddess creator, writer, & actor Teresa Collins

"Death Spiral" Horse Jumper Of Love _Disaster Trick_

"Spiral In Houston" Frances Chang _Psychedelic Anxiety_

"Spiral Girl" Klammer _You Have Been Processed_

"Spirals" Cold Beat _Into The Air_

interview with Teddy Caldwell of Spiraling Up

"Death Spiral" Brent Amaker Deathsquad _Hello_

"Sick Of Spiraling" Bachelor _Doomin' Sun_

"Spirals" Lebanon Hanover _Besides The Abyss_

"Spiralling Out" Softcult _Heaven_

conclusion & goodbye

"Spiral" Bombay Dub Orchestra _3 Cities_

Whither Spirals?

Sometime this summer. I was reading an article. About all the spirals in nature. Fibonacci came up a lot. & for a few days afterward I bugged my wife (who is a scientist) about showing me spirals in nature. She would for example point at sunflowers. The photo of the sunflower above I took to look at more closely later. It was only natural that at some point that all became a radio show. Because everything eventually becomes a radio show for me.

Listen to the Self Help Radio episode about spirals tonight! Monday night! on KBOO from midnight to 2am. It's on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo dot fm everywhere.

Let's hope I don't spiral out of control during the show.

Preface To Spirals: Not Related At All, Going To See Billy Bragg Tonight

(image from here)

This is where I'll be in a few hours. I bought my first Billy Bragg record in Austin the day before I went back to Garland after my first year of college, May 1987. It was Talking With The Taxman. I fell in love with it that summer. The next year I bought Workers Playtime the day I saw it at Sound Exchange. & later that year I saw Billy Bragg at Liberty Lunch, one of the best concerts I've ever seen in my life.

Later I got to see him at Austin City Limits, & later still in Covington, Kentucky, the first time I got to see him with my wife, who wasn't much of a fan before the show. She is now - she's going tonight!

This has nothing to do with this week's show. & I know these days it's not that weird. But while Billy Bragg celebrates the fortieth anniversary of his first American tour, I am amazed I've been a fan of his for almost that amount of time. & I marvel how music can live in you for so long.