General, Radio

Talk Radio Extravaganza

100% talk this week. Deal with it!

Here is the file for Wednesday March 18th, 2018

Here’s what was on:
The Real News Network: Facebook hearing. The two day congressional hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opens a door to regulating social media privacy, which is especially needed given that Facebook and similar media companies are virtual monopolies in their fields, says Justin Anderson.

Song Exploder: Stranger Things. The theme music, along with the rest of the show’s score, was composed by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of the band SURVIVE. In this episode, they break down how they made the main title theme.

The Real News Network: Syria. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a military strike on the Syrian government after Salafi-jihadist rebels alleged a chemical attack in Douma, but human rights expert Alfred de Zayas says this is illegal under international law.

The Real News Network: Tar Sands. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convenes an emergency cabinet meeting to save Trans Mountain while Alberta Premier Rachel Notley warns of a “constitutional crisis.” Dimitri Lascaris reports

Radio

Organic Spring Mix

Broadcasting on CHLY 101.7fm at 8AM PST over the Salish Sea and live online at chly.ca

File: The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour for April 4th, 2018

The Bad Lovers – Good Man/Love Shine
The Bad Lovers – Freaks
The Bad Lovers – Actin’ Strange
Nathaniel Rateliff – S.O.B.
Nathaniel Rateliff – I Never Get Old
Ash Grunwald – Longtime
Night Beats – Outta Mind
Sheer Mag – Fan the Flames
Sheer Mag – Button Up
Sheer Mag – Point Breeze
Betrayers – Love Rat
C Duncan – Pearly Dewdrops Drops
Vulfpeck – Outro
Mieke Maimi – In The Old Forest
John Wizards – Musizenberg
Radiation City – Juicy
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Shakedown Street
Bass Fury – Nada

 

Radio

Music Talk Music Talk Music

Broadcasting every Wednesday morning to every plant and animal in most of the Salish Sea, may I present the The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour for  March 28th, 2018.  An hour of moody-ass variety!

Here is the file

We begin with some words spoken by Leonard Cohen in one of his final public interviews, set to the final song on his final album. Then our minds and hearts are wrenched by the reworkings of German pianist, Lambert which continues behind a TED talk given by Bettina Warburg, a Blockchain Expert and Co-Founder of the laboratory Animal Ventures. She explains what the heck the Blockchain is, and how it is going to radically change global economy.  Cool beans, eh?! Next comes a set of music, and then an episode from The Real News Network interviewing indigenous environmental activist, Clayton Thomas-Muller about “Standing Rock of the North” on Burnaby Mountain.  He  says not only did arrests take place outside exclusion zone but police are escalating their aggression against non-violent land and water defenders with aim of criminalizing peaceful dissent. More music to follow and close the program.

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Tracklist
Leonard Cohen – String Reprise
Moderat – Bad Kingdom, Lambert Rework
Jacob Groening – Lambert’s Bad Kingdom
TED Talk- What is the Blockchain? By Bettina Warburg
St. Vincent – Laughing with a Mouth of Blood
Nobody – Wake up and Smell the Millenium
A Tribe Called Quest – Movin Backwards
The Real News Network – Aggressive Police Tactics Escalate Against TransMountain Pipeline Protests in Canada
The Isley Brothers – Ohio/Machine Gun
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou – Homesickness

General, Photo Albums

Around my house

Today, Sunday March 25th, 2018, I took these pictures of my house. I don’t know why I want to post them here, but I know I don’t want to post them on my Instagram. Why is this? Reckoning this impulse is strange, mostly because I’ve now gone and actually done it. I’ve posted them on my lil no-one blog.

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