Considering the concept of Consent, celebrating birthdays, and playing a lot of good music.
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Speaking of neighbors we just heard a beautiful track called Late Bloomer
from your neighbor and mine, Haley Johnsen off her new EP which is also called Late Bloomer
Haley is a prime example of the immense talent and dedicated artistry that has for so long characterized the Portland mystique.
There's no denying that our wonderful city of roses has a culture quite unique.
In a country where the consolidated corporate media has for generations now programmed Americans to passively consume and proudly conform, here in Portland we defiantly nurture in one another the enduring spirit of participation, experimentation, and collaborative creation
I love that about us
I love that about you
Though the recently arrived
may loudly decry
graffiti as some sort of urban blight
We Portlanders know that Pompeians were right
public art is public discourse.
So we are grafficionados
And the pearl clutchers may shake in their penny-loafers at the prospect
of thorns upon rose
Trees full of crows
or young tenants hosting
free admission house shows
And poor people daring to even exist
But Portlanders crowd and dance,
we don't just sit
we live out loud taking our chance
to lovinginly slam in the pit
Because the spirit of Portland is more resilient than the bottom line and the privilege of wealth is no match for authenticity
Even as hedgefund managers buy up the punk houses to turn them all into AirBnB’s in an ill-fated attempt to transform America’s last stronghold of free expression into a theme park version of ourselves–safely sterilized and catering to the delicate sensibilities of overseas tourists–we, the evicted artists and emergent antidote
will still slip past the bars
to live inside walls and passenger cars,
guerilla gardening beneath the stars
We may even hit the road and go
Who knows
But if so
We’ll always come home
With more on that here's another neighbor of ours Michael Hurley off his 2009 collaboration with Ida
A track impossibly titled I Stole The Right To Live
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In that last set we were considering the concept of travel and one ethnic group who are great experts on the subject are the Mincéirs of Ireland, also called Tinkers, Travellers, and sometimes Pavees but never ever gypsies.
The Mincéirs are a nomadic people whose distinct history goes back to at least the fifth century. For sixteen hundred years they stayed on the move, a free, happy, and unsettled people with their distinctive barrel shaped wagons and well loved horses
they would move with the seasons from place to place speaking their own secret language called Cant or Gammon and plying ancient trades of tin smithing, wickering, cartwrighting and many other crafts which were unfortunately made redundant during the industrial revolution.
More unfortunate still is the great shame of the Irish government who upon securing their own independence from England began enacting legislation designed to deny modern Mincéirs their ancestral right to travel.
Like the settled Cain who planned
To kill his nomadic brother Abel
the Irish state
lives in fear and shows hate
for a lifestyle it has never tried to understand.
They have made it illegal now to own a horse unless one also owns a house, and every year the government of Ireland heartlessly steals traveler children from their families forcing them into foster care and state schools under the erroneous claim that homeschooling is ineffective if one's home is on wheels.
Still today's Mincéirs know that time is a river and life is a road crossing itself again and again and these nomads will still be trotting along singing the cant & gammon long after every state has come and gone.
From one such Irish Traveler, Liam Weldon we heard the song Smuggling The Tin ending out that set.
Prior to Liam Weldon we were with Al Casey on a instrumental track titled Drivin’ off his posthumously released 2007 album Return of the Green Gretsch.
Now that's the Al Casey who was a member of the Wrecking Crew, but at the top we did also hear the famed Al Casey who often played with Fats Waller. September 17th in just a couple days will mark the memorial of the passing of the Wrecking Crew’s Al Casey, so if you're a fan you might want to be thinking over which track you'll be sharing on that day.
Before Al Casey we heard Hit The Road And Go by Johnny Cash off his 1977 album The Rambler
Prior to Johnny Cash we heard one of my desert Island songs, Littlest Birds by the Be Good Tanyas
In a 2022 interview with Kate Shepherd on the creative genius podcast
songwriter, folk music archivist, and fellow Cascadian Samantha Parton divulged that the song came into being one day while she was walking from her home in Vancouver British Columbia to the Greyhound station when she stopped in front of a bush that was chock full of small birds happily chirping away
she stood there a moment just being when she suddenly heard a voice tell her
“The Littlest Birds Sing The Prettiest Songs”
As she continued on her walk she turned the words over and over and when she eventually sat down on the bus she pulled out her notebook and on that journey between Vancouver and Eugene verse upon verse upon verse just poured from her mind onto the page.
In 2012 Sam Parton had to take a break from the Be Good Tanyas because she was in a car accident and while still healing from those injuries she was in ANOTHER car accident. Which sounds so tragic until you learn that the accidents prompted doctors to do an MRI and that MRI revealed not only a benign brain tumor but also a life threatening aneurysm. Luckily the subsequent surgery was successful and her life was lengthened.
Has there ever been a time in your own life when a smaller tragedy aided you in avoiding an even worse fate?
Prior to The Be Good Tanyas we heard Buck Jumping by the somewhat better known Al Casey, the one who did play with Fats Waller. It's this Al Casey’s birthday today
He would be turning one hundred and nine
In this next set we’ll continue our consideration of travelers as well as honoring some of the many many other artists born this day, beginning with an interesting song in the Rapanui language being sung by folklorist and musical prodigy Margot Loyola
Similar to Samantha Partona, Margot Loyola was also a lore keeper and a living archive, she maintained the memory and folklore of many original peoples through her own practice of music making. Margot Loyola was born this day 1918
While she herself was not Polynesian she was a great friend to the people of Rapa Nui who entrusted her with the priceless treasure of their songs and stories. From them through her we will hear a song which tells the story of two siblings who are racing their canoes across the vast Pacific under a wager that the first one to reach Rapa Nui will become its ruler
The traditional song is titled Katere Te Vaka.
In rapanui Vaka means canoe and Tere means to sail. The word Ka is an intensifier so the title literally means Intensely Sailing the Canoes
Which we translate as Racing The Canoes
It's Katere Te Vaka sung by Margot Loyola
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[PLAY Margot Loyola TO Horatio Parker]
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In that last set we were honoring some of the many many artists born this day
That last piece was a composition by Horatio Parker, the Chorus from a 1994 recording of his opus Hora Novissima (or-uh no-vee-see-ma) The Last Hour performed there by the Nebraska chamber orchestra and Wesleyan University Choir, John Levick conducted
The Connecticut composer Horatio Parker was born this day 1863
Prior to Horatio we heard a cool literary track from a cool, literary Portlander who also shares this birthday. Dr Sarah Dougher
a writer, mother, musician, and professor at Portland State University who helped found the rock and roll camp for girls.
From Sarah we heard Ode 5 off her album Orestes, an interpretation of the Euripedes play. I believe Ode 5 lines up with the Hunt for Helen during the interrogation of the Phrygian slave from Mount Ida
Mount Ida was the place where Paris awarded the apple of discord to the goddess Aphrodite, beginning the Trojan war and It may further interest you to know that Ida is also believed by some scholars to be the Anatolian precursor to the Greek Goddess Demeter, in the form Ida-Mater– Da Mater Demeter
Mater comes from the proto indo european word m’ter which means mother. So Demeter may be properly understood as Ida-Mater, mother Ida
The well fed one who sits upon a throne flanked by lions. Ida-Mater. Which forms a neat link between the ancient world and the artistry of modern Portlanders.
Preceding Professor Dougher we heard a track titled Stay Close To Me by Bad Brains, whose bassist Dr Know, birth name Gary Miller first arrived this day 1958
The Dr Know from Bad Brains shouldn't be confused with local column writer Marty Smith who also seems to have modeled his pen name on the same serial killer that Gary Miller did.
Prior to Bad Brains we heard Mercy Mercy Mercy by Cannonball Adderley, also born this day
And Cannonball followed Major Investment by Sylvia Moy, a major player, songwriter and Motown producer who wrote some of Stevie Wonders biggest hits. If you're looking for a compelling subject for a writing project you could do a lot worse than Sylvia Moy
Major Investment followed a track titled Je te suis from Camélia Jordana an Algerian-French singer born this day 1992
And again we started that set with Margot Loyola performing the traditional Rapa Nui song Katere Te Vaka
We'll continue the birthday celebrations in this next set beginning with a Portlander who was also a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, Signe Toly Anderson was the band’s first lead vocalist before leaving to start a family. We'll hear her brief goodbye and the farewell performance of her signature song Chauffeur Blues delivered live October 15th 1966 at the Fillmore auditorium in San Francisco
happy birthday, Signe Toly Anderson
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In that last set we were continuing to honor some of the many artists born this day
Like Larry Sparks who we heard retelling the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man
Prior to Larry Sparks we heard Streamlined Cannonball by Roy Acuff, who was also born this day
Preceding Roy Acuff we heard a charming track titled Ei Anna Glede (ay anna glay-duh) by Norwegian singer Anne Karin Kaasa born this day 1966
And before Anne Karin Kaasa we heard another international track titled The Voyage by Crash Test Dummies, whose drummer Mitch Dorge was also born this day
And again we began that set with Chauffer Blues by Jefferson Airplane, whose original lead singer was Signe Anderson, a Portlander similarly born this day
So Happy Birthday Signe Anderson, Mitch Dorge, Anne Karin Kaasa, Roy Acuff, Larry Sparks, Horatio Parker, Dr Sarah Dougher, Gary Miller, Cannonball Adderley, Sylvia Moy, Camélia Jordana, Margot Loyola, Al Casey, and you too
If it is your birthday, I hope it's been a good’n
Well in this next set we'll be considering the incredibly important concept of Consent
When it comes to Consent just remember the acronym FRIES
The Eff stands for freely given because Consent is impossible in the presence of coercion. Consent must be Freely Given without force or threats. Consent always supercedes democracy. If you're alone with two strangers who both vote to do something you really don't want to do then you are under no obligation to acquiesce to their decision. There is no such thing as majority Rules because Consent is personal, individual and FREELY given
The R stands for Reversible because Consent can be withdrawn at any time. You may have said yes five minutes or even four years ago but the most sacred word in every language is No and this No must always be respected. Consent is always Reversible
The I stands for Informed
Because you cannot give consent before you are born or before you have learned, or before you have developed the cognitive capacity and understanding necessary to know what it is you are consenting to. If someone has withheld vital information regarding exposure to disease then that is both dishonest and coercive. And as we established the presence of coercion precludes all possibility of Consent.
The E stands for Enthusiastic. Consent is never resigned to enduring the lesser of two evils. It is adamant that, Yes! This is not just tolerated but fully desired. Consent is enthusiastic
And the S stands for Specific
Just because you explicitly consent to one activity does not mean you have implicitly consented to similar activities.
In fact Implied consent is a logical contradiction. To believe that one can imply consent is to believe that wearing sexy clothes while walking after dark implies you are consenting to sexual assault. To believe that consent can be granted through implication is to believe that agreeing to share a drink together is also an agreement to later sleep together. Consent is definitively explicit. If you ever hear someone use the term implied consent it should immediately raise a red flag. Consent is specific
Those familiar with Arthurian Legend may recall that the story of Parzival
revolves around the great failure of that hero to voice to the fisher king
this simple but all important question “Are You Okay?”
Learn from his mistake
With more on that we begin our next set with Lucy Clearwater asking always
Are You Okay?
[PLAY LUCY CLEARWATER TO EMU WAR]
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In that last set we just heard Majority Rules by the Great Emu War
Which followed Permission by Avanti Nagral
And we began that set with Lucy Clearwater asking Are You Okay all as part of our consideration of the concept of Consent
Consent is extremely important,
just look at the text of the Declaration of Independence and you will see that the entire legitimacy of the US legal system rests upon your Consent.
The entire legitimacy of the US legal system depends upon your consent
Using the helpful acronym FRIES we now understand that Consent must be freely given by you, the individual, no representative can ever consent on your behalf, and no system of Might Makes Right can ever coerce you into giving your consent. Because of this Consent is wholly incompatible with a Majority Rules system
For what is majority Rules if not Might Makes Right?
We also learned that Consent is both Informed and Specific
Which means there is a temporal window, an interval of time in which consent can be given. You cannot consent when you are unconscious. You cannot consent before you were born and you cannot consent after you are dead. This establishes the upper and lower fences for the period in which consent is possible. It is only during the conscious hours of your own limited lifetime that your consent can ever be given.
For peer group consensus there is similarly a limited interval in which consent can be established. Peer groups are separated by generations and human generations are counted in groupings of thirty years. So for group decisions consent must be reestablished at least every thirty years.
What this means is that the only way for a government to remain legitimate is if its entire structure and content are remade every thirty years. For the Constitution to maintain legitimacy its slate must be wiped clean and rewritten every thirty years. Not just amended by a majority every hundred years or so but fully consented to by every living member, every generation.
Consent is not unanimous in the sense that everyone agrees but it is unanimous in the sense that no one disagrees. Where there is a sacred “No” there you will find the boundary of what is legitimate.
In considering the difference between Consent and Coerce it can be helpful to consider the difference between Dogs and Horses. Specifically the ways by which they came to be domesticated.
All available evidence seems to suggest that when wolves began living within human society they did so of their own free will. Much as coyotes and badgers living in the wild have been observed to team up together on hunting expeditions it is believed that wolves made the move from scavenging human kill sites to actively participating in the hunt. They were not coerced into doing so but consented to cooperate and thus entered into a commensal relationship with our ancestors.
Horses on the other hand were definitely coerced. The word coerce means to lock together and that is just what the ancient Botai people of central Asia did the first time horses were domesticated. The Botai hunted horses for food by driving them into box canyons where they were more easily slaughtered. Rather than slaughtering the whole herd at once the mouth of the canyon was blocked and the horses were stuck. They didn't choose domestication but had it forced upon them.
The adults who were born free
would never willingly
take a rider, but the foals born into captivity were more easily broken to the bit.
Consent versus Coerce
Feel Together
Lock Together
Dog versus Horse
Just something to think about in this next set
Beginning with that guardian of beauty and giver of greatness, our ever deepening neighbor Laura Gibson off her 2018 album Goners
Here's Domestication
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In that last set we just heard
Anna Calvi covering Bob Dylan's song All The Tired Horses first released on his 1970 album Self Portrait
Prior to Anna Calvi we heard Jimmy Whispers singing Stray Dogs
Which followed hot on the heels of a relentless track from Shame called Great Dog
Shame was preceded by the very awesome Stella Donnelly singing Beware of the Dogs
And that followed wise words from Waddie Mitchell in a poem titled Horses Dogs and Cowboys
Let's recap, shall we?
On tonight's show we honored a whole bunch of artists who were born this day, some might say a plethora
We learned that the Greek Goddess Demeter likey had an Anatolian precursor called Ida Mater, mother Ida.
We considered the concept of Consent and how the legitimacy of ALL social interactions are dependent upon it
from sexual intercourse to the legal system of the good ol USA
And we heard a lot of good music along the way
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 or just have another listen you can visit KBOO dot FM, select audio then list of programs and search for oh gee pee oh gee. Now that is spelled phonetically
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Or we can bump into one another again between twenty and twenty two hundred the third Sunday of every month
Going to see us out now with new tracks from Kinobe, The remarkable young cowboy Ruan Vitor and The Kiffness
But first, remember friends
Wherever you stay
And wherever you go
Respect all-ways
The
sacred NO
Until Next Time
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