Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Knife Day

August 24 is National Knife Day. We will be reporting on knives on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. We have spent the whole week reminding the staff & crew about knife safety. We have reviewed first aid procedures. We have asked that no one bring knives from home. When last we reported on this day, there was a lot of blood. Stitches were required. One of our interns lost a finger. It is not one of the safer days to report on.

That's Sunday, August 24, 12-1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. There was so much blood last time, though. So much blood.

This Week In Self Help August 15 17 19 + 21

Another busy week damn.

Friday the 15th: The Songcircle on KBOO.
All new releases.
Listen at KBOO. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Sunday the 17th: The Dickenbock Report on XRAY.
National I Love My Feet Day. Really.
Listen at XRAY. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Tuesday the 19th: Self Help Radio on KBOO.

The theme was eternity.

Listen at KBOO. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Tuesday the 19th: Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO.
Continuing Self Help Radio's theme, lots of instrumentals with "eternity" in their title.
Listen at Self Help Radio. (It's included in the KBOO file for Self Help Radio above.)

Thursday the 21st. Subbing Welcome To Your Good Day on XRAY.
Just playing music & talking about stuff.
Listen at XRAY.

The picture of the clouds above is supposed to be some attempt to show eternity.
I'm outta ideas here.
If you go to the Self Help Radio website, you might need the username SHR & password selfhelp.
I promise next week will be far less busy.

Self Help Radio 081925: Eternity

Driving to do the show last night, I reflected on how many late-night radio shows I've driven to, in all kinds of weather, in the darkest nights on the loneliest highways. Not to mention road trips driving through the middle of nowhere. My closest intimations of eternity have been in moments like those - alone in a moving vehicle, often listening to only the ambient noise caused by automobile & movement through space, seeing very little beyond what the headlights can show, or a light in the distance, or (if I'm lucky) the moon & some overachieving stars. Time, which was obviously moving forward as I was, still seemed to be slow, or even still, as you might yourself feel when you can't judge your own speed by another object nearby.

Maybe someone was driving down a similar highway listening to the show too. & maybe they had the same experience & it blew their minds.

Listen to a radio show about eternity in two places: the KBOO website & the Self Help Radio website. If you are asked for a username & password, maybe try SHR & selfhelp. All the things that happened on the show are listed below.

& don't worry - it's a show about eternity but it's only two hours long.

Self Help Radio Eternity Show

"Eternity" Peck's Male Quartet _The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)_

"From Here To Eternity" Frank Sinatra _The Complete Capitol Singles Collection_

"Eternity" Ernest Kador _The Specialty Story_

introduction & definitions

"Three Day Eternity" Richie Havens _Mixed Bag_

"Eternity" Glenn Yarbrough _Let The World Go By_

"One Minute Past Eternity" Hank Locklin _Hank Locklin & Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass_

"Eternity" Buell Kazee _Buell Kazee Sings & Plays_

"Eternity In Between" Morgen _Morgen_

interview with mystic Madame Ruby

"From Here To Eternity" The Only Ones _Even Serpents Shine_

"Eternity Is Here" The Gun Club _The Life & Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club_

"Eternity Road" Lowlife _From A Scream To A Whisper_

"From Here To Eternity" William S. Burroughs _The Best Of William Burroughs From Giorno Poetry Systems_

"From Her To Eternity" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds _From Her To Eternity_

interview with the Rev Wesley Fish

"Eternity" Imperial Teen _Seasick_

"Promises Of Eternity" The Magnetic Fields _69 Love Songs_

"Eternity Changed Her Mind" Outrageous Cherry _Why Don't We Talk About Something Else EP_

"Eternity" Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith _Mummer Love_

"Into Eternity" Jens Lekman _Night Falls Over Kortedala_

coming to terms with eternity Eternity visits!

"Eternity" Marty Feldman _The Crazy World Of Marty Feldman_

"Eternity" Siddal _The Crossing_

"What Feels Like Eternity" Metric _Formentera_

"Baby, Eternity" Amber Arcades _European Heartbreak_

"Eternity" Paris Angels _Sundew_

conclusion & goodbye

"Eternity" Here Come The Mummies _Terrifying Funk From Beyond The Grave_

"Brief Eternity" Bobby McFerrin _Vocabularies_

Whither Eternity?

One day recently eternity was on my mind. Not in any supernatural sense - I don't have any supernatural beliefs - but in the sense of "can things go on forever"? I think I had been reading about planned robotic missions to Saturn's moons & I thought about humans putting themselves in spacecraft traveling to other stars & how long it would take & how it would feel like eternity to us but not to them. & when I think about eternity I think about the Thoreau line: "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!"

Which is very clever but doesn't really mean anything, which may be why I appreciate it. I don't believe that wasting time - which what the idiom "kill time" means - has anything to do with one's soul (I don't believe humans have souls) so I don't think it impacts their lives after death (since I see no evidence that such a thing exists). I repeat though that I think it's clever & it would probably be a great line in a song.

The point is this - when I find myself pondering something - like the concept of eternity - sooner or later my brain, which is always in the process of working on radio shows, thinks, "Would this be a good idea for a radio show?" & once I feel like enough of the pieces are in place for the show, I schedule it. This show happens tonight.

& yes, like most of my shows, it will feel like an eternity but will only be a couple of hours. The jokes write themselves.

Tonight! Midnight to 2am. 90.7fm in Portland. kboo dot fm everywhere. & then out to eternity!

Preface To Eternity: My First Glimpse Of Eternity

That's it. That's Steve Ditko's drawing of Eternity from the Dr. Strange comic. I don't know if when I was a kid I had an idea of what "eternity" meant but I'm sure when I came to understand the concept I thought about this incredible drawing by Steve Ditko. Even now, after being familiar with it for most of my life, it continues to astonish me. Just amazing.