T and B interview Kara Passey and Shelagh Pizey-Allen, a couple of the organizers of Not Enough Festival, a new festival which encourages women, queer, trans and non-binary people to start up new bands. The opening mixer is on this Saturday, April 27.
T tells the legendary(?) ad that Black Francis placed: Looking for a bass player who likes both folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and hardcore outfit Husker Du. Only one person applied.
T recalls an interesting phone convo he had with a paranoid perogy seller.
Our friend Ayla shares a couple stories of following up on classifieds, somewhat disingenuously.
B shares some of the best classifieds she had found--ideas friend wanted! less successful friends wanted!
We're joined by the local personality Kelly Hughes, former owner of Aqua Books. He talks about the stressful couple of years he's had, and his battle with depression towards the end of last year.
Hughes talks about writing online, how it plays to his strengths, and (in a sense) it gets him out of hiding.
David Skene stops in for a discussion on outsider artists, how they are defined, and how they might be enabled or exploited.
Taylor quickly talks about two Winnipeg acts from decades past that have recently gotten some love, Johnny Zhivago and Banned from Atlantis, followed by a couple songs.
T interviews the super-cerebral (sometimes-ethereal) artist Kram Ran about his album The Pattern Of Abandonment, which is only be streaming online for 3 days. We'll stream it here while it's around...
T reveals an influence of Kram Ran's, Knutt. Kram Ran's fav album of 2012 was also abandoned by its artist.
We listen to a snippet of The Pattern of Abandonment.
To round out the hour--T mentions two shows, Alpha Couple and Burglar at the Frame Arts Warehouse on April 26, and The Men at the WECC on April 14.
This week, we're exploring our Extra-Sensory Perception. This episode includes:
Taylor begins the episode with a psychic anecdote of which reportedly happened to Mark Twain.
T plays his interview with the electronic duo Matmos. For their latest album, The Marriage of True Minds, they telepathically sent their new record to some subjects, who spoke their observations aloud. Matmos took those transcripts and used them as the basis for their new record.
T and Brynna play the parapsychological tests they had carried out.
B and T round the hour out with a discussion on their beliefs on the parapsychological.
Jasmine Tara of the North End Food Security Network explains the services they provide, including food boxes and a grocery shuttle.
Iain Brynjolson of Food For Folks and Neechi Commons' produce manager talks about his experiences of providing locally grown food through community initiatives he's been a part of.
Photographer Warren Humeny and collaborator/partner Jennifer Sparrling talk about their neighbourhood grocery store closing down, how it affected their lives, and the lives of the employees.
In between, we listen to TWIN all hour long. Previously, TWIN's Dave Fort has organized seed exchanges on their canoe tour.
What we couldn't get to:
This week's Uniter has an article on a residents association letter writing campaign for more food options downtown.
B mentioned the Manitoba Food Charter, which aims for sustainability and healthy relationships between consumers and their food.
While she was away, B interviewed Coney Island sword-swallower Betty Bloomers. She gives gritty details on damage from Hurricane Sandy. People looking to support the sideshow in recovering from the storm can donate at their website.
B relays the tale of heading into the Alexander McQueen store, where she was afraid to touch anything. T shows off his limited knowledge of the designer (not including the fact that McQueen is dead).
D and T discuss the acts in detail, what made them hip and enjoyable.
D points out the irony that the violin-and-drum combo Violent Screech was the most experienced act of the night.
Another GXC band--The Uncanny Valley Girls--is discussed for their absurd Fripp-Eno dynamics. We hear a track from them.
We round out the hour with a new segment titled "Is This Song About Me?" Before listening to Video Brats' only song, D makes his case that this song is about his exploits with the band members.
D and T discuss the line between homage and ripoff; D says ripoff artists take others' work and pass it off as their own. D points out Spacemen 3 are citing their sources in the very song title.
The next pairing is an unabashed sample: Liars usesESG's original. T draws comparisons between the two bands, both New York bands removed by a few decades. As usual, Lydia Lunch has some pretty harsh things to say.
D say these two songs sound to be of the same piece. T says the Liars song does stand on its own. However, the song blatantly references its inspiration, unlike other bands. [I didn't say this on-air, but the final lyric "Rather loved/ Than not loved" directly echoes Lunch's comments that Liars are looking for their moms' approval. Oddly, they've pre-empted her criticism and embrace that fact.]
B reads friends' submissions "My Supernatural Creation," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in School," which are from middle school and pret-ty embarrassing.
Taylor gets his lazy butt out of bed and into the studio.
T and B read Scott Leroux's creative writing from a couple years ago, and he calls in.
T reveals the not-so-mysterious origins of his series Lightswitch, and reads a selection from one of his notebooks.
Brynna and Taylor discuss the Golden Globes, and the obvious winners of the Oscars. Lincoln's looking big with 12 nominations.
T laments the awful gut feeling he got while watching Django Unchained.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is the indie underdog which still got recognition. B and T discuss whether that's all the film will receive.
B runs down previous years' Oscar winners, including many-a cinematic masterpieces getting snubbed. T concludes that the Oscars are overly optimistic, and don't award bleak films.
