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Friday, May 05, 2023

Self Help Radio 050423: Get A Grip

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Here's a caveat about this week's show as it appears on the Self Help Radio website: it's not exactly how it aired. There were t...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Whither Get A Grip?

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( Wikipedia says "OK Grip") "Get a grip" is one of those themes that says to the hypothetical listener "Is Gary al...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Preface To Get A Grip: (Parenthetical Titles)

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(image from Discogs ) It's interesting to me that the original single for the very famous Stranglers song "(Get A) Grip (On Yoursel...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

New Intro Time Again Again Again Again Again Again Again Again Again Again Again!

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(There's a sample from this movie in this year's intro! Image from  IMDb. ) There's a good reason to make an "intro" f...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Belafonte

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(Image from the Wikipedia *) Harry Belafonte seemed a larger-than-life performer when I was a child. I remember how delighted I'd be whe...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Self Help Radio 042723: Indiepop A To Z # 71

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(all images from Discogs ) Here it is! Installment number seventy-one! From Reiner to Riverhead! Lots of groovy indiepop tunes for you! It...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 71?

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(image from Discogs ) Hey yeah! We've gotten to the Indiepop A To Z episode where we'll play Jonathan Richman! But wait Gary! Didn...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 71: Bluto & Pete

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There's really not a lot to say about my silly series of indiepop artists in alphabetical order that I haven't already said in seven...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Mark Stewart

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(image from Mark Stewart's Twitter page ) This morning on KBOO I played a couple of hours of music made by Mark Stewart, whom we lost on...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Movies On Another Planet

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(image from the IMDb ) If you were off-planet or something, & didn't listen to this week's Self Help Radio, hey, you really shou...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Self Help Radio 042023: Planet

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(Original image by Ella Frances Sanders from here *.) Apologies for posting this a day late. Since I have a show on Saturday mornings on XRA...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Whither Planet?

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(These planets are too close together!! Image from here .) As mention yesterday, Self Help Radio has already explored the themes Mars &...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Preface To Planet: Three Questions

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(image from here ) Question one: Haven't there already been shows about planets on Self Help Radio before? Answer one: Yes! There's ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Meet Pete

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On Sunday we brought this beauty home to our little home. His name is Pete & he's almost eleven weeks old. We've had him for a l...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Other Places, Other Spaces

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Wow! Look at these incredibly boring logos! Just a small bit of information about where to find the radio shows I do. This is a question no-...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Self Help Radio 041323: Options

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(it's at least one of your options) As usual, you had the option to listen to this week's show, which had the theme "options,...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Whither Options?

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(image from here ) Can I tell you, people in Portland have it good. There are so many options for great non-commercial radio here! In most o...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Preface To Options: Option D

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This is one of the few images on my computer with the name "option." It's named "option d," presumably by me, since ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Sock It To Me Sakamoto

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(image from Wikipedia ) Very early this morning, on the show Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO, I played three hours of music by th...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Supermarket Movies

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(image from the IMDb ) When Self Help Radio behaves itself, we are visited by our resident cinephile, Chuck, who talks to us about movies in...