Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee For May 19th, 2024

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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
A Chorus Of Doors

 

Broadcasting with gratitude, sorrow, and love from the rightful lands of

Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Tualatin Kalapuya,

Wasco, Molalla, Ita'xluit, Watlala, and other original peoples of the big river

 

This is Kay Bee Oh Oh 90.7FM Portland's community radio

 

I'm your unhoused neighbor, Jeremy and this show’s called Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee

Where we’re celebrating the return 

of salmon, honeybees,

And sun eating leaves

here in the midst of our Spring Drive 

where we invite You

dear listener

to become a member, too

 

Only ten percent actually do

But I believe in you

and that you believe in building community

or else you wouldn't resonate with this beautiful, strange thing our community is cocreating

 

So please,

If you're ready to invest in what's important to you it need not be much or even ongoing,

whatever you feel is fair

just visit BIT dot L-Y Slash K-B-O-O.

or text the word kboo to 4-4-3-2-1

and technology

will guide you from there.

 

I'm grateful to all who do and grateful too to just be here with you

 

At the top of the show 

We just heard a brand new track

from hometown hero Haley Johnsen 

A Portlander who first came to prominence in the national spotlight of competitive singing

 

She did our city proud then and has only continued to grow into her talents.

 

From Haley Johnsen that was 

Maybe I Should

 

A title that's a phrase and not quite an answer but opens the door for one anyway

 

In many cultures this is a time for opening and closing doors, 

 

There are the inner doors whose hinges will not swing easy and so the will must first be gathered and then consciously applied.

 

For today is Mohini Ekadashi, 

a Hindu vrat or fast to honor lord Vishnu

By closing the door of the mouth and eating not a crumb 

the observant exercises Will and so their willpower grows in strength 

as prayers carry into the night, and through it

 

For Jews it is Shavuot, celebrating the feast of seven weeks 

when out of doors and with weary feet 

the covenant was made through Moses 

on the mount

 

For Christians it is Pentecost–fifty days since Easter, 

when the apostles moved through their mourning and grief 

and with bevied spirits rolled back their own stones, 

opening the door on the destiny awaiting each one. 

 

By the mesoamerican Long Count today carries the spirit of Mazatl, 

the nahuatl word for deer 

and also the spirit of Mictlāntēcutli, 

ruler of the underworld and as such this 

is a good day 

for both Hunter and prey to raise 

awareness and be observant. 

Which trail do you follow?

What tracks do you leave?

 

And by the secular calendar we are approaching 

the end of May which means this is your last chance at a spring clean and with it an avoidance of upchuck summer

 

That's a good book for preparing your kids for summer camp 

but also Upchuck Summer is what I call it 

when the spring cleaning backs up across several winters 

until you just can't take it anymore so you pick a semi sunny weekend 

to vomit all of your accumulated clutter into the yard 

and just set your pricing gun to gettonouttahyeah!

 

Or you could load up the jalopy and head to one of the many barter swaps 

that happen frequently throughout the community. 

Contrary to popular belief it's not just last season’s boots 

for a previous generation’s tools 

 

Just scan a few neighborhood papers and you'll find there are also food swaps, 

hobby incubators, skill trades and all kinds of participatory access to variety. 

There are even Frea Markets. 

That's like a flea market where money doesn't change hands but goods still do.

 

And you'll meet some really nice neighbors to boot!


 

With more on that we'll start our first set with a track from eclectic artist, sleep singer, dream writer, and dedicated student of the universe Olivia Morreale who performs sometimes as Princess Liv but can't help but let the truth slip through too

 

So open the closet, roll up your sleeve 

It's last call for a Spring Clean

 

On Portland’s member supported radio, 

Kay Be Oh Oh


 

[PLAY OLIVIA TO THE CHURCH]

This is 90.7FM, KayBoo

And we're in the last week of our spring membership drive. Reminding you that we depend on the support of individual listeners for 80% of our funding

 

So please visit BIT dot L-Y Slash K-B-O-O.

or text the word kboo to 4-4-3-2-1 and join the mission. Thanks to all who do

 

In that last set we just heard one of my desert Island bands, The Church with the 4th track of their 1983 opus Seance, that was It's No Reason

 

Before that we heard 

Ain't Necessarily So written by Nashville hit maker, singer songwriter, and survivor

Beth Nielsen Chapman

performed there by America's elder tokesman 

the one and only 

Willie Nelson

 

And we started that set with Spring Cleaning by the very talented Olivia Morealle

 

In this next set we'll be wishing some happy birthdays, if it is your birthday I hope it's been a good'n

 

You may already know that Malcolm X Shabazz was also born on this day May 19th, 1925 and had he not been assassinated at the age of 39 he would be turning 99 years old today

in a very different world from the one we instead find ourselves in now

 

From Malcolm we'll hear two brief speeches, the first recorded October 11th, 1963 at UC Berkeley with introduction from Herman Blake and the second excerpted from a documentary called The Struggle for Freedom filmed in London just two weeks before he would be assassinated in Manhattan

 

In between the two speeches Malcolm made the pilgrimage to Hajj at Mecca, an experience that profoundly changed him 

notice 

how his stated goals evolve between the two clips

 

Right now on Kay bee oh oh Portland

 

[PLAY MALCOLM TO SHOOTER JENNINGS]

 

You're on 90.7FM, KAYBOO

 

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Robert Plant once gave $10,000 to KBOO so that we'd never ever play Stairway to Heaven ever again. Not saying you need to give a cool ten kay, but if you got that Led Zepp money there are worse ways

to spend it.

 

And hey Maybe you can't even afford eight bucks a month, there's no shame in that and the future's never been harder to forecast

but if you're currently flush

and can afford a few bucks

right now even that much

can cover some of the energy costs of our 10,000 watt transmitter.

 

Cuz it takes a lotta juice to kick out these-jams

 

Iike the ones in that last set, we just heard The Outsider by Shooter Jennings whose birthday it is today

 

Prior to Shooter we heard Hirie whose birthday it also is, from her we we heard a sugar shack session of You Won't Be Alone

 

And that followed Pars by Grace Jones, so happy birthday Grace, Hire, Shooter,

And happy birthday Malcolm X Shabazz 

Who started out that set


 

In April of 1964 Malcolm made the hajj at mecca. 

 

As an anonymous but beloved equal among many he momentarily forgot himself in the circle

In the mystery 

In Allah

 

Malcolm returned 

and returned again 

Like hope becomes knowing 

Or a cutting recalls from Dee En Ai 

an ancestral memory way 

to grow new roots from old scars 

 

From Mecca 

Malcolm returned to life

 

He announced his faith was his own and his friendship was for all. He declared the inaugural aim of a new secular, international organization devoted to securing basic human rights for every single human being, regardless of anything. 

 

Malcolm X was just about to join hands with the poor of every nation when he was murdered.

 

Compare that with the reverend doctor Martin Luther King Jr who had announced just prior to his assassination a very similar declaration of unified intent to turn the civil rights movement into a human rights movement.

 

What do you think?

 

Presumably you are a human, or at the very least alive. Do you believe that being alive gives you an inherent right to continue being alive?

 

Remember that the right to life 

is by no means a guarantee of immortality. 

But a recognition that your existence 

justifies 

itself. 

 

Do you believe that the child you were born as deserved all of the necessities of life? 

 

Including

Nourishment, hydration, housing, and care?

 

If the answer was yes then at any point in your life did this right to exist expire?

 

If the answer was no then I'm very sorry for what was done to you. You are loved, regardless. I'm beaming it to ya right now. If you don't feel it then breathe deep until you find again the jungen you once were and are still The one who scooted chairs to climb into closets and lifted logs to name bugs. The one who never stopped deserving love.

 

You are loved, and that precious child is there inside holding it all for you, waiting for you to ring the doorbell again, come in, and just joyfully play.

 

I believe you absolutely deserve whatever is necessary to your life, unto the current day

And beyond

 

The word necessary comes from the Latin Non Cessum meaning that which is not surrendered non cessum

That which is unyielded 

 

We do not yield our right to basic human needs. We do not begrudge others their lives.

Your right to the natural treasury of the earth is equal to my own.

 

Consider that in the entire universe we are aware of only 32 billion acres of land where humans can stand for more than a few moments without dying. It is the land of Dhegom

Pachamama

The green hills of our one and only earth, 

of course 

 

and of our lonely planet’s land area approximately 16 billion acres of it are considered habitable i.e not a desert or glaciated, or both.

 

So let's do a little math

What is 16 billion acres 

divided by 8 billion humans?

 

Correct, two is the answer

it is 2 acres per person, regardless of age, race, faith, or anything else. Your fair share of the common treasury of our one and only resource base is two acres of habitable land plus two and a half acres of the uninhabitable land

 

If everyone in your extended family joined their portions together how big would your territory be?

 

Today is the anniversary of the Homestead Act which makes this a great time to remind ourselves that for at least 23,000 years the lands of this continent were never surveyed, sold, or privatized. Instead they were occupied, cared for, and connected with. 

 

The difference between the Indigenous ways of belonging and the European method of taking is the difference between Personal property and Private property.

 

Personal property is that which you physically possess or occupy. Private property on the other hand is that which you claim remotely through title or deed. 

 

Physical possessor versus absent claimant.

 

The recent imposition of private property laws on Indigenous lands has never yet been justified through any ethic or rationalization. Nothing in fact beyond some reluctant hand waving toward the discovery doctrine of the 15th century 

Catholic Church

it’s a doctrine declaring that the 

“The only rights that Europeans will acknowledge are their own”

 

It's a doctrine that boils all the way down to
Might Makes Right

 

Just thirty years after the ink dried on the discovery doctrines the vatican walked it all the way back through dogma nullification 

 

but that didn’t stop the US Supreme Court from choosing to balance the entire weight of its private property law on this nonsensical premise that the clumsy material maps made by ignorant outsiders 

who arrived only yesterday 

with foreign letters allegedly 

arranged in such a way 

as to somehow nullify 

the natural rights of the people 

who have occupied 

the land in question 

since long before the first letters 

were ever carved on a shoulder blade 

or pressed into clay. 

 

What do you think?

 

Does every person born deserve a share of air, food, and other necessary resources?

 

Does your natural need for land give you a natural right to land?



 

Just some things to think about in this next set. Beginning with Fair Share by The Homestead Act

 

Right now on member supported radio 

Kay bee oh oh


 

[PLAY HOMESTEAD ACT TO OSCAR BROWN]

 

This is 90.7FM, KayBoo

And we're in the last week of our spring membership drive. If you value this programming then this is your invitation to join the mission 

 

Just visit BIT dot L-Y Slash K-B-O-O.

or text the word kboo to 4-4-3-2-1

Thanks to all who do


 

In that last set we were considering the relationship between the right to life and the right to land

 

We just heard 40 Acres and a Mule by 

Oscar Brown Jr. off his album Mr Brown Goes to Hollywood, released the same year that Malcolm X Shabazz was assassinated, 1965

 

Prior to 40 Acres and A Mule we heard Basic Human Needs by Ace of Cups featuring Wavy Gravy, the elder clown of peacemaking who recently celebrated his 88th birthday

 

Before wavy gravy affirming your right to basic human needs we heard Sweet Lullaby from Deep Forest, a track featuring a sample 

of an early recording

of a traditional lullaby 

in the Baegu language of the Solomon Islands. The vocalist their is a Baegu woman named Afunakwa

 

The lyrics translate as 

“Little sib, little sib

Our mom and dad have died

And now live on the island of the dead

From the Island of the Dead they still

Watch over us like royalty 

Watching over us with all wisdom”

 

Prior to Deep Forest we began that set with Your Fair Share by The Homestead Act

 

In this next set we honor all you elder goths

While considering

the natural consequence of withholding 

natural rights


 

It's Type O Negative - Everything Dies

Right now on community supported radio

Kay bee oh oh

 

[PLAY PETER STEELE TO GARY NUMAN]⁷


 

This is Kay Be Oh Oh Portland

 

We are member supported 

community radio 

and depend on listeners like you for 80% of our funding. We're here in the last week of our membership drive 

 

So if KBOO is a valuable part of your routine and you're ready to promote from listener to member the ceremony for doing so is simple, dig?

 

Go to KBOO dot ef em forward slash give 

Put some bread in the dish 

then dance with delight at fulfilling a wish 

and you'll be in good company, there. 

 

And hey if you're not in a posish to do so we understand, I'm unhoused myself so thank you not just to all who do but all who would


 

In that last gothy set we were saying 

thank you and goodbye 

with Gary Numan at The End of Things

 

Prior to which was Annie Lennox with Love Song for a Vampire

 

Chasing the shadow of Snuff by Slipknot

 

Who were  looking back at Pictures of You by the Cure

 

And that followed a beautiful song called Sing by Blutengel

 

Prior to which we shared a Perfect Day with Lou Reed

 

Let's recap, shall we?

On tonight's show we learned that when the lands of our planet are divided equally that each and every one of us gets four and a half acres

 

We celebrated the Hindu fast of Mohini Ekadashi, Jewish Shavuot, Christian Pentecost, and the births of Malcom X Shabazz, Hirie, Grace Jones, and all of our neighbors who were born on this day

 

And we also learned that the word necessary comes from the Latin Non Cessum which means Unyielded. What is necessary to your life can never justifiably be withheld from you. Non Cessum, necessary

 

Well I've enjoyed spending this time with you and as it draws again to a momentary close

I wantchoo to know

That you are an important part of this community, and I'm glad we're neighbors. 

 

If you’d like to learn more about what we heard, read a transcript of this show or just have another listen you can visit Kay be oh oh dot ef em, click the three horizontal lines on the right hand side, select audio then search the list of programs for Pee Oh Gee

 

Now that's spelled phonetically 

Papa Echo Echo, 

Oscar Hotel,

Golf Echo Echo 

that's how ya spell…Pee Oh Gee!

 

Or we can bump into each other again from twenty to twenty two hundred hours the third Sunday of every month

 

Going to see us out now with tracks from Rell The Sound bender and another Peter Steele

 

But first remember friends

 

What privatization denies

Life itself justifies

And so

All those who live understand

There are no necessities 

without access to land

 

Until next time,

Be Well; Do Good

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Episode Playlist

  • Time
    8:01
    Artist
    Haley Johnsen
    Song
    Maybe I Should
    Album
    Maybe I Should
    Label
    WorldSound
  • Time
    8:05
    Artist
    Alexander Borodin
    Song
    In the Steppes of Central Asia
    Album
    Borodin: Prince Igor (Highlights) / In the Steppes of Central Asia
    Label
    Naxos Special Projects
  • Time
    8:10
    Artist
    Princess Liv
    Song
    Spring Cleaning
    Album
    Spring Cleaning
    Label
    Independent
  • Time
    8:14
    Artist
    Willie Nelson
    Song
    Ain't Necessarily So
    Album
    Willie Nelson The Collection
    Label
    Columbia
  • Time
    8:17
    Artist
    The Church
    Song
    It's No Reason - 2002 Digital Remaster
    Album
    Seance
    Label
    EMI Music Australia
  • Time
    8:22
    Artist
    Alexander Borodin
    Song
    In the Steppes of Central Asia
    Album
    20 Years Of Classical Music: Naxos Anniversary Collection (Naxos Denmark)
    Label
    Naxos Special Projects
  • Time
    8:25
    Artist
    Malcolm X
    Song
    Freedom Justice and Equality
    Album
    Speech at UC Berkeley
    Label
  • Time
    8:28
    Artist
    Malcolm X
    Song
    The Struggle For Freedom
    Album
    The Struggle For Freedom
    Label
  • Time
    8:36
    Artist
    Grace Jones
    Song
    Pars
    Album
    Warm Leatherette
    Label
    Universal Music Group International
  • Time
    8:40
    Artist
    HIRIE
    Song
    You Won't Be Alone - Live at Sugarshack Sessions
    Album
    HIRIE (Live at Sugarshack Sessions)
    Label
    Sugarshack
  • Time
    8:44
    Artist
    Shooter Jennings
    Song
    The Outsider
    Album
    The Other Life
    Label
    blue rose
  • Time
    8:55
    Artist
    The Homestead Act
    Song
    Your Fair Share
    Album
    Tripping on Memory Lane
    Label
    Thirteen Primes Records
  • Time
    8:59
    Artist
    Deep Forest
    Song
    Sweet Lullaby
    Album
    Deep Forest
    Label
    Columbia
  • Time
    9:03
    Artist
    Ace of Cups
    Song
    Basic Human Needs
    Album
    Sing Your Dreams
    Label
    High Moon Records
  • Time
    9:08
    Artist
    Oscar Brown, Jr.
    Song
    Forty Acres and a Mule
    Album
    Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington
    Label
    Verve
  • Time
    9:13
    Artist
    Type O Negative
    Song
    Everything Dies
    Album
    UK Metal Chart Hits of the 2000s
    Label
    Roadrunner Records
  • Time
    9:21
    Artist
    Lou Reed
    Song
    Perfect Day
    Album
    Love Songs
    Label
    RCA Records Label
  • Time
    9:25
    Artist
    Blutengel
    Song
    Sing
    Album
    Save Us (Bonus Track Edition)
    Label
    Out of Line Music
  • Time
    9:28
    Artist
    The Cure
    Song
    Pictures Of You
    Album
    Galore
    Label
    Elektra Records
  • Time
    9:33
    Artist
    Slipknot
    Song
    Snuff
    Album
    All Hope Is Gone
    Label
    Roadrunner Records
  • Time
    9:37
    Artist
    Annie Lennox
    Song
    Love Song for a Vampire - From Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Album
    Locos X el Cine
    Label
    Columbia
  • Time
    9:42
    Artist
    Gary Numan
    Song
    The End of Things
    Album
    Savage (Songs from a Broken World) [Expanded Edition]
    Label
    BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
  • Time
    9:50
    Artist
    Juniore
    Song
    Le silence
    Album
    Le silence
    Label
    Le Phonographe
  • Time
    9:53
    Artist
    Ace of Cups
    Song
    Basic Human Needs
    Album
    Sing Your Dreams
    Label
    High Moon Records
  • Time
    9:58
    Artist
    Οὖτις
    Song
    The Road
    Album
    The Road
    Label
    DISTROKID
  • Time
    9:59
    Artist
    Mic Crenshaw
    Song
    The Movement
    Album
    Earthbound
    Label
    Global Fam

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