Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Typewriter Day

June 23 is National Typewriter Day. Please help reclaim this delightful invention from the hipsters who use it now only for doggerel! Tune in to the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM as we explore typewriters, their history, their future, their sounds. Especially their sounds. Lots of the musical reports include typewriter sounds. Because typewriters are naturally rhythmic.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 23, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm. Do tune in.

Yes, I'm writing this on a computer. What's your point?

This Week In Self Help (June 15 16 + 18 2024)

My cat Boone says hello?!?

Here is a late Friday reminder of the radio stuff I did this past week, shared at a time when it's guaranteed no one will see it. Which is probably for the best.

If you turned on Freeform Portland randomly this week, you might have heard an "evergreen" program I made in support of their current fundraiser. Though I am not doing a show there at the moment, I still volunteer & am glad to help. Holy shit it's playing as I am writing this! That's freaky. Anyway, you may have heard it as you listened but if you'd like to hear the show, you can find it directly here. Please make use of the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. & if you are feeling generous & love the station as much as I & its wonderful volunteers do, perhaps think of becoming a Friend Of Freeform?

The Dickenbock Report aired at its regular time. It was a show about fudge because it was National Fudge Day. Listen to it at this link (same username/password conditions apply). Or listen to it at the XRAY web page. Or wait don't. It doesn't appear to be there. I wonder what happened. I got very little feedback about it. I was happy to find so many songs about fudge that I liked.

On Corporate Standardized Programming I played a bunch of new releases. Listen to that show here. The KBOO website is still having issues or else I'd like there too.

& finally Self Help Radio was another celebration of the wit & wisdom of the Rev Dr Howard Gently. You can listen to it here. We'll return to him in like three months. As wonderful as it is to hear my dear friend's voice & enjoy his brilliance, it does take it out of me a bit. But gosh I am so glad he made so many appearances on my show!

Self Help Radio 061824: Howard Gently Year Three

Wow! That's my friend Russell supporting Self Help Radio ten years before the show existed! Little did he know twenty-two years later he would transform into a spiritual huckster named The Rev. Dr. Howard Gently & be on that very show!

The truth is, we know so very little about how our lives would turn out. The Gary who took that picture around 1992 wasn't even on the radio yet. You could not have convinced me then that it would become the thing I'd love to do most in my life. & you would've astonished me if you told me I would lose my friend Russell when we were in our fifties. We were barely in our twenties then!

One thing I am very grateful for is that Russell played Howard Gently on my show for so many years. This week I continue playing his appearances in chronological order - appearances from January 26 to June 7, 2016, when the show aired in Lexington, Kentucky, on WRFL.

You can listen to the show now at the Self Help Radio website. You'll need a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp) to access the file. It's mainly Howard Gently bits but I include a song from the original show that I think Russell would've liked. All the details are below.

More Howard Gently in three months!

Self Help Radio Howard Gently Year Three Show

"Lay Hands" Russell Miles _Six Tunes By 'Russ'_

"Black Crow" Joni Mitchell _Hejira_

Howard Gently on the theme "Crows"

"I'll Regret It All In The Morning" Richard & Linda Thompson _Hokey Pokey_

Howard Gently on the theme "Regret"

"The Great Pretender" Stan Freberg _Tip Of The Freberg: The Stan Freberg Collection 1951-1998_

Howard Gently on the theme "Pretend"

"My World Is Empty Without You" The Supremes _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 5: 1965_

Howard Gently on the theme "Emptiness"

"Me, I Disconnect From You" Tubeway Army _Replicas_

Howard Gently on the theme "Connections"

"Slow Down" Tammi Terrell _The Essential Collection_

Howard Gently on the theme "Slow Down"

"You Woke Up My Neighborhood" Billy Bragg _Don't Try This At Home_

Howard Gently's assistant Bentley on the theme "Neighborhoods"

"The Law" Leonard Cohen _Various Positions_

Howard Gently on the theme "Spiritual Laws"

"Flight Of The Bumble Bee" Harry James & His Orchestra _Swingin' The Classics_

Howard Gently on the theme "Bees"

"Laughter & Forgetting" David Sylvian _Gone To Earth_

Howard Gently on the theme "Forgetting"

"Take Me I'm Yours" Squeeze _Squeeze_

Howard Gently Calls!

"In Walked Bud" Thelonious Monk _The Complete Blue Note Recordings_

Whither Howard Gently Year Three?

That picture up there - I did something kinda weird. That's my friend Russell over thirty years ago, in front of my apartment on Avenue A in Austin, Texas. (I wrote about that place here.) He was modeling a shirt that said "Built Like A Mack Truck." I removed the words & I put a picture of Howard Gently there. That's a character that Russell wouldn't invent for another twenty years. It seems to me a very strange thing I've done. But I suspect it would've made him laugh.

Actually I don't have a lot of pictures of Russ. I don't know why that is. I guess male friends don't take many pictures of each other - or maybe it was just us.

In any event, it's been a year now since he died & once again I am returning to the interviews he improvised with me for my dumb radio show. I am playing them in chronological order because I want to experience them again & it's a way for me to be close to him now he's gone & I want to share with you how funny & smart & clever he was. He was a good friend & he flattered me to do this with me.

That's happening tonight on KBOO. Midnight to 2am. 90.7fm & kboo.fm. I have been gathering the segments all day & laughing my ass off. I'm glad I have them - but it makes me miss him more.

Preface To Howard Gently Year Three: Melba

(image from here)

This week I'll be taking some time to celebrate my dear friend & collaborator Russell whom I lost about a year ago. It's cruel that time passes, it's crueler still that that means that I'll never see nor speak to him again. But I am grateful that I convinced him to play the spiritual grifter Howard Gently on my show & that I can share those regularly. & I will, until I've gone through all of them. I miss him so much.

His character Melba Jackson gained him a small amount of fame & acclaim among the prank call cognoscente in the 1990s. But he did the character way before that. & even though I don't think I was there when he invented her, I found a tape of him & me back when we were kids which I think was the first time I heard him do that voice. Hilariously, he killed her off right away.

Hm, I thought I shared it on my show about Russell from last summer. Maybe I just didn't note it in the playlist. If you listen, remember you'll need a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp). & let me know if it's there. I may want to share it again.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Fudge Day

(image from here)

June 16 is National Fudge Day because of course it is. But what do we really know about this delicious treat, this chocolatey, creamy delight? Tune in to the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM on the National Day Of Fudge as we explore the fudge you know - & the fudge you don't know.

Oh, & we'll announce the winner of the Dickenbock Report National Fudge Day slogan which is "Fudge around & find out." Except we announced it just now. So I guess we don't have to.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 16, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm. Do tune in. There'll be vegan fudge too!

This Week In Self Help (June 9 + 11 2024)

(from Liz Climo's Tumblr)

Though it's pretty obvious I am terrible at promoting this show, I do try to share when I have a new show here on the blog & also on Twitter & Facebook. In fact, I just share the blog posts, because I am relatively lazy. I had an image this week which was a chalk drawing of guts that my wife helped me with, but Facebook wouldn't let me share it because their AI thought it was a picture of someone nude. Which is sort of was - like nude without skin. I hope that the image above isn't too racy for Facebook.

This week the Dickenbock Report celebrated Cole Porter's birthday. You can listen on the Self Help Radio webpage directly by clicking this here link. Remember you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to listen. Or you can listen on the Dickenbock Report XRAY page here.

& of course Self Help Radio was a show about guts. Here's a direct link to that show. Sadly there's an issue with the KBOO website at the moment that prevented me from uploading there so you can only listen on the show's website. The same username/password combo above works here.

Finally, I had another morbid episode of Corporate Standardized Programming where I played lots of music by artists we lost in early April. You can listen to that show here.

That was the week that was.

Gutsy Films

(from the IMDb)

Our resident cinephile Chuck stopped by this week to talk about films featuring guts. Because "guts" was the theme. You should listen to the show at the Self Help Radio website. When you get to Chuck's segment, follow along with these helpful links he has provided:

Letterboxd list
YouTube playlist of films & trailers
IMDb list of films available to stream for free elsewhere

Letterboxed reviews

IMDb 'keyword' list

Chuck posted* about some of the films here

Chuck tweeted* about some of the films here

*Chuck's note: Right now it's just all the links seen here, but go ahead & give me a follow - I usually follow back.

Self Help Radio 061124: Guts

Wow. That's some gutsy sidewalk art!

Okay, I'm done with the guts puns. I'm not going to talk about spilling my guts or hating someone's guts or having a gut feeling or feeling gutted or anything like that anymore. The guts show is done. It was luckily not gut-wrenching. Frankly I've had a gutful of it.

But maybe you've got the guts to listen - or listen again? It's available now at the Self Help Radio website. Make sure you use the username/password combo SHR/selfhelp to listen. Normally it's also available at the KBOO website, but the site is having some issues. When I'm able to upload it there, I'll add that information here.

Lots of songs about guts + interviews + other stuff. Details below.

No time for a gut check! Listen to the show!

Self Help Radio Guts Show

"It's A Gut Thing" The Bevis Frond _Hit Squad_

"I Love Your Guts" Blanketarms _Yay 4 Cuteness_

"Gut Pageant" Kristin Hersh _Strange Angels_

introduction & definitions

"Guts" John Cale _Slow Dazzle_

"Guts" Alex Winston _King Con_

"Guts" Ricked Wicky _I Sell The Circus_

"Gut Bucket" James Brown _James Brown's Funky Summer_

interview with self-defense expert Laura Ross

"Gutache" Close Lobsters _Headache Rhetoric_

"Gut Feeling" Devo _Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!_

"Gut Symmetries" Parenthetical Girls _Entanglements_

"Great Green Gobs" Tom Glazer _Kooky Songs_

interview with nutritionist Louis Rich

"Gut Guidance" Gogol Bordello _Solidaritine_

"From The Gut" Hüsker Dü _Everything Falls Apart_

"Gutted" The C.I.A. _The C.I.A._

"Gut Of The Quantifier" The Fall _This Nation's Saving Grace_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by

"Guts & Teeth" Old Man Markley _Mild In The Streets: Fat Music Unplugged_

"Gut Feeling" Peter Bjorn & John _Darker Days_

"Get Her Gut Her" Warren Dunes _Aquamarine_

"Hollow Gut" Lowlife _Eternity Road (Reflections Of Lowlife 85-95)_

interview with proctologist Dr. Leonard Rogers

"Guts/Glory" Mise En Scene _Still Life On Fire_

"Trust Your Gut" Worriers _Trust Your Gut_

"Guts" The Weaklings _Remarkably Good_

"Gut Feeling" Malcolm Middleton _Bananas_

conclusion & goodbye

"You Guys Talk, We'll Spill Our Guts" To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie _The Patron_

Whither Guts?

(image from here)

Though that image above is focused on the stomach, & the stomach is part of the guts, I hope you'll accept the picture in toto. Because the show is not about the stomach alone. But the guts. All the guts!

Oh how I hope you have the guts to listen to this show. I mean that figuratively, of course - you obviously have the guts or how else would you digest your food? & how gross is digestion, really? Could it be that at some point I had a stomach issue - because of eating fermented food at a local restaurant that specialized in fermented food - & it made me think, "What is this doing to my ill-prepared gut flora?" & that that led to me wondering about whether I would have the guts to eat there again? & which led to me wondering if I should do a radio show about guts?

That all is true! & now there's a guts show & my guts recovered eventually.

Tonight! I spill my guts! From midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm every darn where.

& it's fine to hate my guts. I'm not that fond of them either.

Preface To Guts: Oh No Another Body Parts Episode!

(from here)

It is a time-honored tradition of theme-based shows to rely upon body parts every now & then. Hair, eyes, hands, feet, skin, mouths, ears, knees - since so many songs are about people & those people are made up of many different parts, it's only natural to sometimes focus on the parts instead of the whole. A song about a part that represents a whole might even be an interesting departure.

Self Help Radio this week has decided to focus on a body part - guts. Like other body parts, guts have a figurative meaning that is used as often if not more often than the literal one. Perhaps the songwriter is not generally inclined to pen a ditty about intestines. & yet of course some do. There's always someone writing a song about the thing you didn't imagine anyone would write a song about.

In fact, one might even say... Sorry, that's an awkward sentence. Should it be There's always someone writing a song about the thing about which you didn't imagine anyone would write a song? Is the second about superfluous? The sentence There's always someone writing a song about the thing you didn't imagine anyone would write a song feels incomplete to me. Oh no. Am I going to have to diagram that sentence?

Well I've lost my train of thought. I guess I wanted to point out it's another show about a body part. Which is something that happens on shows based on themes. Just usually it's not something as icky as guts.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Cole Porter's Birthday

(image from the Wikipedia)

Hardly anything is happening in the world, so tomorrow on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM, we take the time to celebrate the birthday of songwriter Cole Porter, born June 9, 1891.

We will of course feature musical reports - which is to say, his songs - but also a special report about Portland's annual Cole Porter Look-A-Like Contest. It would be unfortunate to miss such an hour of news.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 9, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm. Do tune in. It will be de-lovely.

This Week In Self Help (June 2 + 4 2024)

All the images of helicopters shared this week were taken by me with a kinda shabby camera I have that I use to take shabby pictures. I've taken lots of not-very-good images of helicopters is what I'm trying to say.

& yet we start with this week's overview of radio with The Dickenbock Report which aired Sunday the 2nd on XRAY. It was International Sex Workers' Day so I played songs about well you know. You can listen to + download the show at the Self Help Radio website directly by clicking here. Use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. You can also listen to the show at the XRAY FM website by clicking here. But you can't download it there.

As noted, the theme of Self Help Radio this week was helicopters. You can listen to that show at the Self Help Radio website by clicking here - same username/password situation mentioned above applies here - or you can listen on the KBOO website by clicking here.

The last hour on the KBOO website is my show Corporate Standardized Programming. This week I played lots of new releases. If you'd like to listen to it all by itself, you can do so at the Self help Radio website by clicking here. Again, it's already on the KBOO website with Self Help Radio. Again again, if you download it at the Self Help Radio you'll need to use the password.

And that was all! I mean, it's still a lot, but not nearly as bad as last week!

Self Help Radio 060424: Helicopters

While I was doing the show this morning I had the strangest feeling of déjà vu - had I done a show about helicopters before? I have been making Self Help Radio episodes for 22 years & I most definitely have repeated myself - both accidentally & deliberately - but that's why I created the page that lists all the themes I've explored. Helicopters as a theme wasn't there. I must have been remembering a radio I did in a parallel universe.

Which is sad. I had hoped that parallel universe me had found something more constructive to do with his time.

Meanwhile! We had a good time pretending to be whirling about in the sky for a couple of hours. We chatted with helicopter weirdoes, we heard helicopter songs, & I was very lucky it wasn't as loud as it could've been. My ears are a bit worn out. & I might need theme some more in my life.

Listen to the show either at the KBOO Self Help Radio page or at the Self Help Radio website. At the show's website, please use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. All the stuff that happened is listed below.

Self Help Radio Helicopters show

"Helicopter" Caspar Babypants _Sing Along!_

"Helicopter" The Not-Its! _We Are The Not-Its!_

"Whirly-Bird" Silver Apples _Silver Apples_

introduction & definitions

"Helicopter Honeymoon" Scrotum Poles _Messthetics # 105: DIY 77-81 Scotland I_

"Helicopter" XTC _Drums & Wires_

"The Helicopter Spies" Swell Maps _....In 'Jane From Occupied Europe'_

"Police In Helicopter" John Holt _Police In Helicopter_

interview with helicopter tour pilot Chris Dean

"Helicopter Helicopter" The Associates _Perhaps_

"Just Helicopters" The Wonder Stuff _Hot Love Now! E.P._

"Helicopter" Swirl _...One Last Kiss_

"N.Y. By Helicopter" The Rock*A*Teens _Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall_

interview with helicopter parent specialist Carl Donner

"When That Helicopter Comes" The Handsome Family _In The Air_

"Helicopter" Fairmount Girls _Tender Trap_

"Everywhere With Helicopter" Guided By Voices _The Best Of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements At Hourly Rates_

"Helicopter 666" Cobra Killer _Cobra Killer_

interview with helicopter stuntperson Craig Dunn

"Helicopters" The Crayon Fields _Animal Bells_

"Helicopter People" The Magic Whispers _Carousels & Music Boxes_

"Helicopter" Eros & The Eschaton _Weight Of Matter_

"Men In Helicopters" Adrian Belew _Young Lions_

interview with helicopter news reporter Cathy Darnell

"Helicopter" M. Ward _Transfiguration Of Vincent_

"Helicopter" Ora The Molecule _Human Safari_

"Helicopter" Earth Girl Helen Brown _Four Satellites Vol. 1_

conclusion & goodbye

"Here Come The Choppers" Loudon Wainwright III _Here Come The Choppers_

"Helicopters" Red House Painters _Red House Painters_

Whither Helicopters?

It is a shameful thing to admit, but the show this week started with a meme.

Maybe it's a meme? It certainly started with Facebook. Facebook is basically unusable to me at this point because I no longer can go to my general timeline & see what my friends are doing - it's filled with paid "suggested for me" things that I didn't chose & don't care about. What I do look at are the "Facebook memories" - I've been on Facebook for fifteen years so it's an accidental scrapbook where I can especially see pictures of my now-gone pets.

But also there are the arguably funny things I post. This is something I found on the Tumblrs many years ago that Facebook memories showed to me in February or March:

Sadly I don't know where it's from so I can't credit the creator! It did make me think if a radio show about helicopters would be fun. So I started to plan for one.

Inspiration is kinda stupid some of the time.

There's a Self Help Radio show about helicopters tonight on KBOO. That's midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo dot fm. Hopefully it won't be too loud. But keep your head down.

Preface To Helicopters: Damn You John Mulaney!

It probably goes without saying that I plan my shows sometime in advance. I often get an idea & not return to it for weeks, months, even years. (My oldest folder on my computer where I save ideas is from 2010. To be fair, it isn't a very good idea.) Doing a show with the theme helicopters probably came to me in February, & I announced it on my website about a month ago.

Imagine my surprise when I took the time to watch John Mulaney's Netflix Show Everboy's In LA & discovered his third episode - which aired live May 7 but which I finally saw last week since I didn't watch the show live - was about helicopters.

Granted, his show was watched & continues to be watched by millions. My show, on the other hand, is heard by maybe three people - & not at a time. & granted, his show is always going to be better than mine - he had Joyce Manor on the show & Fred Armisen had a really sweet & cool segment with LA punks. But still I don't want to feel like a copycat!

Please accept my assurance that I did not plan a show about helicopters after seeing Mulaney's. Nor did he speed up his timetable because he knew I planned a show about helicopters in early June. We do not talk, John Mulaney & I. & a fake Bob Dylan has never called my show.

Now that that's out of the way - why a show about helicopters? I'll tell you tomorrow.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: International Sex Workers' Day

June 2 is International Sex Worker Day. As it says at nswp.org:

Sex workers around the world continue to face a wide range of barriers to accessing justice, both as victims of crime & when charged with crimes. Since sex work is widely criminalized, most sex workers are denied access to the benefits & rights afforded to other workers under labour laws & face the risk of criminalization, detention, deportation, & legal sanction.

Tune in to the Dickenbock Report tomorrow as we talk about sex work, including its history, with of course many musical reports. It is not a subject Dick Dickenbock is comfortable with, but he is a professional, & we're sure he'll power through.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 2, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm.

One note: Dick Dickenbock does not have an OnlyFans account. That is not him. You should know better.

This Week In Self Help (May 26, 27, 28,29, + 31 2024)

Holy moley I had a busy week in radio. My word.

It started Sunday the 26th which was World Dracula Day. That's what we explored on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY. Click here to access the show from the Self Help Radio website. Click here to listen on the XRAY website.

You may notice that files on the Self Help Radio website require a username & password. Those are SHR & selfhelp. Sorry for the inconvenience.

On Monday the 27th I subbed twice on KBOO. Unfortunately, they don't archive those shows on the KBOO website, but if you'd like to listen to either of them, let me tell you about them. The first was me just doing a general format play-what-I-want show. Click here to listen to that one. The second was a couple of hours of interesting sounds I've recently come across - experimental, jazz, electronic. Click here to listen to that one.

The theme of Self Help Radio was "drain." You can listen to that show by clicking here - or you can listen on the KBOO website. The show I do after Self Help Radio, Corporate Standardized Programming, is included with the KBOO file. If you'd rather listen to it alone - it featured artists we recently lost - you can find that show here.

A long time ago on WRFL I did a Self Help Radio episode with the theme "mud." I updated that show - well I played more songs, I didn't really talk much about mud - on Wednesday morning. Click here to listen to that show.

Finally, just today! I subbed the Songcircle & I played lots of songs by Alex Chilton covered by artists who admired him. Click here to listen to it on the Self Help Radio website. Click here to listen to it over on the KBOO website.

No one's counting but if I had to guesstimate it would seem like I made seven radio shows this week for a total of twelve & a half hours of radio. It's really time someone put a stop to this.

Self Help Radio 052824: Drain

Feeling drained? Think everything's going down the drain? Think life is like a drainpipe? If you answered any of these questions - I don't really care how you answered them - you may have the word "drain" on your mind a little too often. & that might mean that you will tolerate a radio show with the theme "drain." Which was this week's episode of Self Help Radio.

In addition to drain-based music we had interviews like we do. & I found a lot of novelty tunes based on drains - by the Bonzos, Allen Sherman, Charlie Weaver, & Morey Amsterdam - which I sprinkled throughout the show. It is really rare I find so many humorous tunes. I didn't want to just put them in one set.

In any event, all this talk about a radio show with the theme "drain" is draining. Listen now at either the Self Help Radio website or at the KBOO website. At the former, remember the username/password combo SHR/selfhelp. At the latter you won't need that - but then you can't download the show. Everything that happens on the show is below.

Go down the Self Help Radio drain!

Self Help Radio Drain Show

"On Your Way Down The Drain" The King Bees _Good Time Music From Greenwich Village_

"Brain Drain" Marianne Faithfull _Broken English_

"Drain You" Get Well Soon _A Tribute To Nevermind_

introduction & definitions

"Draining The Pool For You" The Go-Betweens _Spring Hill Fair_

"Down The Drain" The Jazz Butcher _Sex & Travel_

"Down The Drain" Ken Nordine _How Are Things In Your Town?_

"Knives In The Drain" Lydia Lunch _Queen Of Siam_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Draining" Lee Dorsey _Night People_

"Down The Drain" Allan Sherman _Togetherness_

"Into The Drain" Mosquitos _Mexican Dust_

"Love Goes Down The Drain" The Monochrome Set _The Independent Singles Collection_

interview with Portland solid waste expert Glenda Lake

"Faucets & Drains" Nik Freitas _Heres Laughing At You_

"Drain The Blood" The Rural Alberta Advantage _Hometowns_

"They're Draining Snyder's Swamp In The Morning" Charlie Weaver _Charlie Weaver Sings For His People_

"Draining The Bar" Everything But The Girl _82-92 Essence & Rare_

interview with comic artist & creator of "The Drain" Greg Lessons

"Drain My Brain" The Memories _Home Style_

"Dreaming Drains" Microdisney _Everybody Is Fantastic_

"My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe" Bonzo Dog Band _The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse_

"The Drain" Ellis _The Fuzz_

interview with urban explorer Gavin Lowe

"Down The Drain" Susan _Never Enough_

"Drain" Suzie True _Sentimental Scum_

"Baby Down The Drain" Morey Amsterdam _The Next One Will Kill You_

"It All Went Down The Drain" Earl King & Roomful Of Blues _New Orleans Street Talkin'_

conclusion & goodbye

"You Can Never Go Down The Drain" Mr. Rogers _You're Growing_

"Draining" Silversun Pickups _Swoon_

"Critical Drain" Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin _Let It Sway_

Whither Drain?

One might think of this show as a companion piece to a previous show with the theme "tired." While I am resting more than I have been for a year, I have found that giving up a radio show only created more time for me to fill with other things - mostly obligations I take on to help the radio stations at which I volunteer. Is that draining? It is. Do I feel completely drained? Not at the moment. But is it enough for me to think about the word "drain" & whether it would make a good theme for a radio show? It is!

Listen to how it all turned out tonight, Monday, at midnight, on 90.7fm KBOO here in Portland & online everywhere at KBOO dot fm. It shouldn't be any more draining than any of other shows.