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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 25 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming.
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Clint Mansell (Featuring Kronos Quartet) |
Summer Overture
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Requiem For A Dream | WAV | Loops | * *** | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
Give the Drummer Radio live stream
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2013 | MP3 | * *** | 0:00:06 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
Back and Forth
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Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin | 2003 | MP3 | http://lastever.org | * *** | 0:04:42 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
2001: A War Odyssey
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2001: A War Odyssey: 10/1/03, show #272, on KOOP Austin | 2003 | MP3 | * *** | 0:04:57 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
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Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy
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Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy: 5/24/05, show #366 | 2005 | WAV | I think the cat just fell: Should I go (a way)? | * *** | 0:13:15 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | Loops | * *** | 0:14:25 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
David Bowie |
Starman (a cappella)
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | MP3 | * *** | 0:15:55 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
David Bowie |
Starman (a cappella)
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | MP3 | *** | 0:16:51 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
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Back and Forth (entire show) (128s)
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Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin | 2003 | MP3 | *** | 0:17:48 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | * *** | 0:21:45 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | * *** | 0:22:21 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | *** | 0:22:43 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | * *** | 0:23:34 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bright Eyes |
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
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Fevers And Mirrors | 2000 | WAV | *** | 0:24:31 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Alan Watts |
Not What Should Be, but What Is
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MP3 | * *** | 0:31:29 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Alan Watts |
Identical differences
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MP3 | * *** | 0:33:49 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Brian Kenney |
The Early Risers
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MP3 | * *** | 0:38:53 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Brian Kenney |
The Early Risers
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MP3 | *** | 0:38:59 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Brian Kenney |
The Early Risers
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MP3 | *** | 0:39:03 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Brian Kenney |
The Early Risers
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MP3 | *** | 0:39:09 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Phillip K Dick |
Part 10 of 21
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Interviews | MP3 | * *** | 0:40:44 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Charlie Kaufman |
Master Class
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GIFF 2011 | 2011 | MP3 | * *** | 0:41:16 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
Back and Forth
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Back and Forth: 9/3/03, show #266, on KOOP Austin | 2003 | MP3 | *** | 0:44:11 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Gavin Bryars |
Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | 1994 | WAV | * *** | 0:44:26 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Alan Watts |
The Silent Mind
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MP3 | * *** | 0:45:50 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
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Alan Watts |
The Silent Mind
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MP3 | *** | 0:46:55 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Gavin Bryars |
Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | 1994 | WAV | *** | 0:48:53 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
George Harrison |
Room Conversation (Excerpts)
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Chant & Be Happy! Indian Devotional Songs | 1991 | MP3 | * *** | 0:50:20 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Please Call Stella |
english4
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Accents (Please call Stella...) | MP3 | * *** | 0:51:32 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Please Call Stella |
english4
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Accents (Please call Stella...) | 0:51:56 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||||
Gavin Bryars |
Hymn II
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | 1994 | WAV | * *** | 0:56:09 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Please Call Stella |
arabic11
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Accents (Please call Stella...) | 1:05:27 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
None of This is What I Intended
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None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365 | 2005 | WAV | * *** | 1:06:01 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Jim Connelley |
Dragonriders of Pern videogame music (SID rip)
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Dragonriders of Pern for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx | 1983 | Book by Anne McCaffrey. Software development by The Connelley Group | 1:06:01 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
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None of This is What I Intended
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None of This is What I Intended: 5/17/05, show #365 | 2005 | WAV | Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity. | *** | 1:06:52 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Polyphonic Spree |
Light & Day
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The Beginning Stages of... | WAV | Loops | * *** | 1:08:03 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Gavin Bryars |
Coda
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | 1994 | WAV | * *** | 1:14:26 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Gavin Bryars |
Hymn II
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | 1994 | WAV | *** | 1:15:21 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Bob Dylan |
Series of Dreams
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WAV | Loops | * *** | 1:20:31 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Insect sounds |
polyphylla
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Digitized Insect Sounds | WAV | * *** | 1:34:23 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Telephone sounds |
Vintage telephone network sounds part 1
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MP3 | * *** | 1:39:08 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Richard Nixon |
Moon Walk - Phone Call From President Nixon
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MP3 | * *** | 1:40:05 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Quiet American |
Field recordings from China
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2001 | MP3 | * *** | 1:40:43 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Kaveh Soofi |
Gamelan squelch
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On- Minute Vacations | 2002 | MP3 | Gamelan performance, Ubud palace ensemble- A light, misting rain falls during a performance of the Legong, shorting out the small amp used by an elderly member of the gamelan ensemble. Tortured squelches narrate the actions of the dancers... | * *** | 1:42:01 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Collin Orthner |
One-minute vacation for January 21, 2008
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2008 | MP3 | Twenty ten-or-tweleve-year-old hockey players on the ice after the final whistle is blown on their practice, in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. | * *** | 1:42:18 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Aaron Ximm |
One-minute vacation for April 30, 2007
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One Minute Vacations | 2007 | MP3 | Walking on slate from the collapsed roof and partially caved in walls of an abandoned chapel destroyed by fire, on a hillside near Nodar, Portugal. | * *** | 1:43:16 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Daryl Richel |
One-minute vacation for March 27, 2006
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2006 | MP3 | Bull-driven water well 'singing' in Gogunda, Rajasthan, India. | * *** | 1:45:13 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Chris Owens |
Reading Market
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One-Minute Vacations | 2002 | MP3 | Recorded one Saturday morning (19 October 2002, 11:00 AM) while I was walking through the market near my home in Reading, UK, Ion a Sony MZ-R30 using a Soundman OKM-II binaural headset... This kind of traditional market is fast disappearing in parts of the UK, being replaced with "shops outdoors". I found the woman calling "Come on help yourself where you like - you can't do that everywhere" intriguing. She was referring to customers selecting their own fruit and vegetables from the stall, rather than being given what they were given. This market is a mix of more traditional produce stalls (fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, etc) and guys selling mobile phones, software, CDs and so on. | * *** | 1:47:29 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:02pm
duke:
Hello Kenzo and listenerz |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:03pm
Bliss:
Hello. | |
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![]() I feel like I'm hovering an inch and a half above the seat of my office chair. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
all there here hear? |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:04pm
Bliss:
I hear it perfectly. WFMU | |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
good, i hear it too |
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![]() ...is this when LindaBlair in Exorcist takes a nap? |
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![]() ...I remember during 1st Bush 1st GulfWar having nightmares of track ATVs treading thru thick petroleum fire purgatories - pure Mordor... |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:17pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
this time you call |
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![]() - because Ganja is Prohibited in U.S. it can't be researched - but in Israel they have found that it has chemicals like the natural ones in the brain that help us forget. Big surprise, sure - but some people can't forget - a disorder - every ugly face on the subway...PTSD is a sort-of inability to Forget. It also struck me as key to the nature of the Psychedelic Experience: Not best for memorizing something new - but good for a clean slate creatively - & for stepping right out of yourself - forgetting yourSelf - & seeing things from two feet to one side, as it were... - But yes - how do we remember not to forget what we know everyone should really remember...& then you die (?)... |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:20pm
Bliss:
lyrics of a new song: Everyone ages. All changes. | |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:24pm
kat330:
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. |
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![]() - I got that lowdown about pot from the great Michael Pollan's 'Botany of Desire' : www.pbs.org... video.pbs.org... |
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![]() stuck on conf call but listening in background! howdy kenzo! |
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![]() whoo! call done, can now listen full blast! |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:34pm
kat330:
Anyone else had a natural mystical experience—no ganja, no LSD, no drugs of any sort? |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:36pm
Bliss:
@kat330 Yes. | |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:37pm
kat330:
Ah, that would explain your name then. |
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![]() ah, alan watts, long an fmu fave. thanks, by the way, for the subdivisions on the wfmu recent program page that now list the programs by the stream they aired on! |
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![]() @kat330, yes, while listening to FMU. Rarely, something seriously cosmic will materialize and send me on a crazy trip. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:43pm
kat330:
@Ike: I'd think you might have had such while hiking, too. I had some wonderful, mystical experiences in Yosemite, for e.g. |
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![]() - sure, Meditation - but only after taking LSD. Prob. got close to it in remote youth - just from reading about it & contemplation. For example - read Huxley (& say, Jung) before taking Psychedelics - 'Cosmic Consciousness' by Richard M. Bucke I think ...but all of this - drugs included - so very long ago. (Bucke makes correlation w/ Youthfulness in most cases.) - Now - in mid-life in 21st Century - it's just what Huxley laid out in 'Heaven & Hell'. I just wanna be HomerSimpson - work (well, I must - Stimulants), come home, get naked, Forget/ - anaesthetize... |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:44pm
Bliss:
393-6101 (Great grandma elliott?) | |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:45pm
Bliss:
Everyone in the city had the same area code. We never dialed that, or thought about it. | |
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![]() Kat, maybe once or twice while hiking, but not recently. It's great but not usually transcendent. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:46pm
kat330:
867-5309 (Jenny) |
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![]() - then from Mysticism - to Metaphysics & later Magick... |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:47pm
kat330:
We were camped right at the edge of the Merced River, and I happened to be reading Philip Jose Farmer's "River" series. Cosmic. |
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![]() - sure - Nature. Getting Out of one's Trap correlates to getting Out of one's Mind. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:50pm
kat330:
Heh, yeah, that other SF Philip is pretty cosmic, too. Michael Bishop called him the cosmic beefsteak tomato orbiting the Earth. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
i don't remember |
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![]() I dismember. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:52pm
kat330:
Whatever kind of satellite Dick is, he's responsible for Philo and me meeting one another. |
Wed. 7/31/13 2:52pm
Bliss:
Don't dis the ember. | |
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![]() - Ritual & Ceremonial Magick seem to be mostly about changing one's Consciousness thru Focus & *something* like Trance - by which I do not mean to negate it: I just refer to Jung saying Archetypes are Living as well as Archaic, & leave it @ that... - Watts had to Work & Drank as well... |
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Wed. 7/31/13 2:55pm
kat330:
And then there's the blissful moment when it washes over you, unbidden and beautiful. "Have you ever been experienced?" "Beautiful." |
Wed. 7/31/13 3:00pm
Bliss:
By the time you get there, getting there is no longer the goal. | |
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![]() - TheBeatles sure figured that out. |
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![]() Taoism: When something comes to Fullness - it becomes its' Opposite. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:05pm
kat330:
I believe I first heard the Watts' lectures when in Boston in the mid-70's. Never missed a broadcast. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:06pm
kat330:
And balances. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:09pm
northguineahills:
For the next time, can I just leave my phone open and add office ambiance? |
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![]() ![]() KLERE is safe with most medications. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
northguineahills: yes and do it now! |
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![]() ![]() Please call Stella!!! I remember that Kenny G show. I even listened to it again. I was surprised that nobody at work had heard of it (a bunch of them work on voice) |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:14pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I did it before he did I think. lastever.org... |
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![]() ![]() He beat you to it: wfmu.org... Though of course he just played as much of the database as he could for three hours |
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![]() ![]() I have never heard of this Stella business. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:22pm
kat330:
Well, I was. Then I left. But now I'm back. [I've made brief walk-ons before, but no one noticed. Stealth cabbit.] |
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![]() ![]() @Rich: The sentences contains all English phonemes. It's been recorded by speakers from different places to create a research database used to study accents |
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![]() ![]() Yeah, I was just now looking at it. I do hope Stella brings a toy frog for the kids. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
live on air |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:28pm
kat330:
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. |
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![]() ![]() @Rich: It's there, but I don't have to right plugins to check it's accessible: accent.gmu.edu |
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![]() ![]() I played one of them from my region and am horrified by how my accent must sound, now. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:33pm
kat330:
Just saw "Warm Bodies" last weekend. Its conceit was that zombies get to have the memories of the brains they eat. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:34pm
kat330:
The cicadas are really loud and aggressive where you are. |
Wed. 7/31/13 3:46pm
Bliss:
G.G. Elliott's phone number was part of a party line--where neighbors shared one phone line. | |
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![]() ![]() I just found a Wally Schirra/Mercury 7 7" record the other day. |
Wed. 7/31/13 3:47pm
Bliss:
What a dumb speech by "Mr. President". | |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:53pm
kat330:
Adieu. |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:54pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
thank you thank you thank you |
Wed. 7/31/13 3:55pm
Bliss:
Did that seem fast to anyone else? | |
Wed. 7/31/13 3:56pm
Bliss:
Good show, Kenzo. | |
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Wed. 7/31/13 3:56pm
northguineahills:
Thanks Ken, I had fun calling in while working. |
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![]() Thanks Kenzo. |
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![]() ![]() Thank you Kenzo! Amazing! |
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Thu. 8/1/13 11:34am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Check out last week's archive if you can't wait: lastever.org... Or the podcast: lastever.org... |
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![]() ![]() I'm not sure, but I'm tending toward thinking The Sinking of the Titanic might be the best music ever recorded, in part because of what Kenzo did with it |
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![]() ![]() Kenzo, you devil, this is a worthwhile challenge. |
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Tue. 8/6/13 2:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
What is the challenge? |
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![]() ![]() The one-minute vacation clips were even more awesome when put in the context of the full show. I miss seeing you live, it's amazing that you can do *this* without the comfort of an edit.... I saw you do it though, but once isn't enough to believe it |
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Tue. 8/6/13 6:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Well, that's what I hoped you meant. Yeah, it's kind of impossible what I'm doing. And I keep being reminded that almost nobody believes it. Someone asked to sit in on my show last week and watch. So at least he believes it now. In fact, I don't believe it. I video the process so I can go back and watch if I ever doubt. |
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Tue. 3/19/19 11:07pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Wednesday, 5-7pm ET: You're all in charge. (reminders to do more) |
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![]() ![]() Hello from 2:02 pm PST |
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![]() let us warm up spring is on the way |
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![]() ![]() In 50 minutes |
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![]() ![]() I lost my fuzzy badge |
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Wed. 3/20/19 5:11pm
northguineahills:
about the Chris Owens piece, is it only outside the UK one can pick your own fruit and veggies, be it a farmers market, or supermarket? (I've never had a problem in my travels, never looked for produce in the UK). |
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Wed. 3/20/19 5:13pm
northguineahills:
wait, I saw produce out in the open at a supermarket in London, but I was on a Boy Scouts trip in '93, |
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![]() I'm on a conference call?! Oh, yes, we hop thru time here! |
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![]() Holy shit, July 2013, I was a goddamn mess then. |
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![]() ![]() Equinox now |
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![]() Can you feel it? Can you feel the equinox? All noxy and equal and stuff? |
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![]() ![]() Yeah! I can feel it! Especially the noxy part. |
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![]() ![]() Super Moon tonight. Last one for'19 |
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![]() Greetings, Lasteverinos! |
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![]() ![]() Hi Doug! |
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![]() ![]() That glitchy part went perfectly with the loud thunder that was outside |
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![]() ![]() Somewhere around insect sounds and Telephone sounds |
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![]() ![]() Thanks Kenzo, wherever you are and when! |
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Thu. 3/21/19 12:13am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Balance beams to all. |
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