Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Lips Appreciation Day

(Image by Alastair Philip Wiper from here)

March 16 is Lips Appreciation Day. Many, if not all, XRAY listeners have lips. This seems to be true for a large portion of the United States population as well. We do not have reliable data about the rest of the world.

Since even Dick Dickenbock has lips - at least one functioning lip anyway - we thought it a good idea to report on Lips Appreciation Day on this week's Report.

That's tomorrow, Sunday, March 16, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. As always, kisses will be optional.

This Week In Self Help (March 9 + 11)

That head read my mind!

It was a quiet week for this deejay, only on the radio in my prescribed times, for which that small portion of Portland that listens to the radio was very grateful. Here's what I did:

The Dickenbock Report on XRAY celebrated Check Your Batteries Day with a show about checks. I mean batteries. Yes, it was batteries. Of course. Listen: on the XRAY website. Listen: on the Self Help Radio website.

Self Help Radio on KBOO had a show with the theme telepathy. Listen: on the KBOO website. Listen: on the Self Help Radio website.

Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO played lots of new releases. It's included in the KBOO file linked above, but if you'd like to hear it on its own, listen: on the Self Help Radio website.

Oh shit! I forgot to mention! If you click on any link to the Self Help Radio website, you may be asked for a username & password - please use SHR & selfhelp respectively. Thank you!

Self Help Radio 031125: Telepathy

No, Self Help Radio wasn't reading your mind this morning. It's a radio show! Which has been described as "mindless"! & I couldn't read your mind because I am not a telepath because - spoiler alert - telepaths aren't real.

Nevertheless the show today was all about telepathy & telepaths & telepathic things. One song was even called "Telepathetic" & it's embarrassing how much I relate to that term. Nonetheless - lots of songs, some silly interviews, even - if you listen long enough - a story about a telepath named Henri.

You can listen to this show - if you have to use ears like non-telepaths - at either the KBOO website or the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. Most of what happened on the show is listed below.

Psi shields up!

Self Help Radio Telepathy Show

"Telepathy" Lene Lovich _Stateless_

"Telepathy" Sonic Tonix _Don't Go Away_

"Telepathy" A-Heads _Discography 1982-2009_

introduction & definitions

"Telepathy" Dave Davies _Glamour_

"Telepathy" Snips _La Rocca!_

"Telepathy" Eddy Grant _Going For Broke_

"Telepathy" The Drowning Room _Telepathy_

"Telepathy" New Bethel _Homemade Hits Vol. 1_

interview with telepath Zed Miller - the amazing Zed

"Mental Telepathy" B.T. Express _Give Up The Funk (The B.T. Express Anthology: 1974-1982)_

"Telepathy" Miles Kane _Colour Of The Trap_

"Telepathy" Whisper Hiss _Everything Must Go_

"Broken Telepathy" Soft Gang _Soft Gang_

"Telepathy" Swans _The Great Annihilator_

interview with telepathic defense trainer Julius Clark

"Telepathic Love" The Wipers _Alien Boy_

"Telepathic Traffic" Archers Of Loaf _Vee Vee_

"Telepathic World" Shalini _We Want Jelly Donuts_

"Telepathic" White Mystery _Telepathic_

"Telepathic Lover" Crocodiles _Dreamless_

interview with victim of telepaths Rosalie Jean

"Telepathetic" Sløtface _Sorry For The Late Reply_

"Telepathic Girls" Tochigi _A Crow So Large It Blocked Out The Sun_

"Telepathic Love" The Diableros _Aren't Ready For The Country_

"Telepathy Burns" Terminal Girls _Weird Lights_

"I Talk With Telepathy Baby" Outer Spacist _The Mind Is As Outer Space_

conclusion & goodbye

"Telepathic" The Bloodthirsty Lovers _The Bloodthirsty Lovers_

"Telepath" Boards Of Canada _Tomorrow's Harvest_

"Sexual Telepathy" Disappear Fear _Deep Soul Diver_

Whither Telepathy?

(image from Wikipedia)

One thing is true is that I wish I read more. I try to read more. I know people who read way more than I do. One of the things I do read a lot is science-fiction. Some fantasy, but a decent amount of sci-fi. I like the hard stuff but I'm okay with anything really if the story is engaging. & when taking inventory about the most recent books I read, I noticed something - they all seemed to feature either characters or entire group who had psychic abilities. Mostly telepathy - people taking with their minds. I thought that would be a nice theme for a show.

There's no guarantee of course but that's what tonight's Self Help Radio is about: all the recent sci-fi books I've read. No, I'm sorry. I misunderstood where I was going. I got a little confused. Is someone fucking with my thoughts? Tonight's show is about telepathy. If you already knew that, maybe you already know how the show is going to go. Or it that precognition?

Midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm, Also, I know what number you're thinking of. It's 7.435.

Preface To Telepathy: A Warning About Pedanticism

Just a note - I found that picture above on Tumblr a million years ago & don't know where it's actually from, I apologize don't sue me.

The theme of this week's show is "telepathy" & the definition of telepathy is "the ability to know what is in someone else's mind, or to communicate with someone mentally, without using words or other physical signals." In other words, reading someone's mind.

When I mentioned to my wife that that was the theme she said, "Wow! There's got to be a lot of songs where people talk about reading other people's minds."

She's probably right. But I can get so weird about my show & its themes, I had to say, "Maybe, but if I can find two hours worth of songs that specifically mention telepathy or being a telepath or hell even things that are telepathic, I'll play those songs before songs that mention mind-reading."

She said, "What is wrong with you?"

But it's true! I've been spending time looking for songs about telepathy, not just mind-reading. The way I look at it, mind-reading might be a whole other theme.

Yeah, I guess something is wrong with me.