Tag: music

  • Homesick

    I have memories of a whole summer spent on the TTC with MIA on my mp3 player. I can remember exactly how it smells.  

  • Air guitarin’

    Air guitarin’

  • SSVH: Episode 14

    This morning on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour was a melding of different things… We heard music from Massive Attack, Ween and lots by Ratatat.  A TEDxTalk by the “Earth’s Lawyer” Polly Higgins on her proposal to the UN for designating “Ecocide” a real crime. After that we heard the second episode of Foodocracy…

  • Mariko Ihara plays the swiss Hang

    Mariko Ihara plays the swiss Hang

    This is a Hang (pronounced hung) and after discovering the ravishing Mariko play this flying saucer looking contraption at a Corner Lounge open mic night, I asked her to come on the air and play it Sweet and Sour Variety Hour listeners during the FunDrive show last week. I won’t post the audio from that…

  • SSVH: May 2nd, 2012

    Today on the SSVH, I yammered on about the Fund Drive next week! A fair warning to listeners that next week, we’ll be holding all the programs HOSTAGE!!! We need to raise some money for the station. It’s gotta happen.

  • Ever get a song stuck in your head?

    This one has been in there for weeks! This is our shaman Gumercindo singing an icaro. He sang these songs while shaking some dried eucalyptus for hours and hours on end! So soothing…