• 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 whole show (as listening to me beg for money may not make the greatest ipod addition) what WILL are the three songs we heard Mariko perform live on the show.  Here they are! Right click and save if you’re so inclined…

    Song 1

    Song 2

    Song 3

  • Weird phone call tonight! “What does it meeeeean?”

    On 7:13pm  May 11th 2012 I received a call-back from a survey company hired by the City of Nanaimo looking for input (answers to questions) from residents aged 18-30 regarding important community information.

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  • 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.

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  • 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…

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  • Home from Peru. And now… the rest of of my life!

    (Journal Entry,  Tuesday April 24th, 2012)

    10:08 PST

    Just got home from Peru…

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  • SSVH: March 28th, 2012

    SSVH: March 28th, 2012

    Today is the day I leave for Peru. I have always wanted to travel in South America, and today my dream manifests! I woke up early to made it down to CHLY for the last broadcast of the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour for FOUR WEEKS, where I met Kody Warriner and prepared to present a whole show on Ayahuasca. “What the hell is Ayahuasca?” you ask. Well. Have a listen:

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Lookit! An Instagram!