Theend

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RIP JamJam Radio, 2010 -2011.

It never had a chance. Wait – did it? Yeah. Sort of. Being online, everything has a chance to get picked up by the masses. Everything can possibly get whipped up along the tides of public interest, can be dragged into the consciousness of the popular kids, and can forever be remembered as that podcast that everybody loved. Everything on the internet can be that podcast, but JamJam Radio wanted other things. Like that pretentious guy who thinks that success equates selling out, JJR stuck to the underground. In keeping it on the DL, the people that it spoke to were select and few, the dreams that it inspired were the future dreams of other artists and innovators, the words and songs shared through this channel will be the stuff of legend…or so I tell myself. I mean, once I get mega-famous we’ll have to make sense of this mess somehow. I can’t look like I made a mistake! Welcome…to the end of JamJam Radio.

1. Boats – Chrome Eyelids
2. Wolf Parade – Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
3. Times New Viking – Downtown Eastern Bloc
4. The Beets – You Don’t Want Kids To Be Dead
5. La Sera – I Promise You
6. Parenthetical Girls – Sympathy for Spastics
7. Great Aunt Ida – Lonely
8. Chris Garneau – Hands on the Radio
9. Mikal Cronin – Slow Down
10. My Brightest Diamond – I Have Never Loved Someone
11. Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces

The Space In

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Sometimes I fantasize about being super rich and hiring a team of models to have their naked bodies painted to reenact famous modernist paintings in my home, but then I realize it’d be cheaper to just buy a couple of hams, and then I realize that I already did.

1. Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand
2. Television – Venus
3. Mikal Cronin – Apathy
4. Himalayan Bear – The Caballo
5. Richard & Linda Thompson – Don’t Renege On Our Love
6. The Weather Station – Know It to See It
7. Royal City – She Will Come
8. My Brightest Diamond – We Were Sparkling
9. Tasseomancy – Up You Go, Little Smoke
10. Future Islands – Tybee Islands

 

dined.

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Last night it took me precisely 26 minutes to eat an entire medium sized pizza. I say this only so there is a record for the doctor that has to operate on my spindly, over-cheesed body. I make these podcasts so that there’s a record of how cool I sounded to future generations. WILL MY KIDS THINK I WAS COOL???

1. Public Enemy – Louder Than a Bomb
2. Mikal Cronin – Is It Alright
3. Jay Reatard – All Over Again
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Secret Family
5. Pterodactyl – Lawrence
6. Dusty Springfield – Just One Smile
7. Nick Drake – Poor Boy
8. Thomas Mosher – Monsters

That Retro-Futuristic-Fetish-Thing That Everyone’s Always Talking About

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This podcast has been active and running for approximately a year now. That’s crazy! That means that 1/23 of my life has been spent on imagineering this audio delight that comes just about once a week. I missed last week (faulty internet) so I’m doubling up on this week. Hurray! Huzzah! What fun! SO – will there be changes to JJR in the future? Are there exciting new things around the corner? Maybe. I kind of make it up as I go along…

1. Oxford Collapse – Please Visit Your National Parks
2. St. Vincent – Northern Lights
3. Ganglians – Sleep
4. Avi Buffalo – Coaxed
5. Russian Red – Everyday Everynight
6. Beat Happening – Teenage Caveman
7. Young and Sexy – Conventional Lullabies
8. The Magnetic Fields – Abigail, Belle of Kilronan

 

Hind Hind Hind Legs

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Some people ask me how serious I am about my podcasts. They’ll say, “Andrew? How serious are you about these podcasts?” To which I’ll reply, “Very.” That’s right. I don’t take this job lightly. For me, it’s taken much more heavily. It’s hard to look as cool as I do right now, sitting in some random cafe, punking wi-fi, eating a personal sized pizza and drinking iced tea I had them make specially for me. This type of behaviour wears me out. I’m going to be exhausted as soon as I step out of here tonight, so no, I can’t make it to your party.

1. Male Bonding – Bones
2. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Keep Me Waiting
3. Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan
4. The Afghan Whigs – Be Sweet
5. The Constantines – Love In Fear
6. Beach House – Norway
7. Wye Oak – Holy Holy
8. The White Stripes – Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)

 

 

 

 

Slug Fists

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What can I tell you about Slug Fists that hasn’t been said before? I guess that depends on how much you know. Like, do you already know about it’s ties to Cold War Propaganda? Do you already know about how it saved the lives of 4 beauty queens in Arizona? Do you already know that it can eat Deluxe-style pizzas, but only without the crust? In the end, I think the real question is whether or not you can really know a podcast, you know?

1. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Parade
2. The Strange Boys – Be Brave
3. The Sandwitches – Marry Me
4. The Monks – Pretty Suzanne
5. The Magnetic Fields – Why I Cry
6. P:ano – Heavens
7. The Blow – True Affection
8. The Replacements – Unsatisfied
9. Jay Reatard – You Were Sleeping
10. Male Bonding – The Saddle
11. Final Fantasy – adventure.exe

Oh, Sorry, I Got Distracted By The Internet

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As of yesterday, my major research paper passed the review committee with no revisions, officially making me a Master of Media Production. The paper is titled:

OH, SORRY, I GOT DISTRACTED BY THE INTERNET:

TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION AND REMEDIATION BY AND FOR FANS OF SCOTT PILGRIM

and as promised to curious friends and family, I’ve uploaded it for people to read. Just click on the title… This may seem familiar to listeners because of the Audio Play I finagled some friends into helping out with many months ago.

As a final touch to my essay, I compiled two mixtapes. One was from a contest I won where participants created their own SP soundtrack, the other is what I was listening to at the time I was writing the paper. The playlists are at the end of the PDF.

So thanks for checking these out if you’re interested. Looks like I’m graduating this fall.

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Don’t Be Long In The Wizard’s Song

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Sometimes when I’m biking I think up things like, “I wonder how much spare change just gets lost every day…” Statements like that, I realize, can never really be studied or understood. But then sometimes I think, “I wonder what the rate of depression is for retirees…” and I realize that that’s totally a study someone’s probably done, and that the results are very sad.

1. The Futureheads – Hounds of Love
2. The Feelies – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except Me & My Monkey)
3. Grass Widow – Milo Minute
4. The New Bloods – The Secret Life
5. Television – Elevation
6. Frog Eyes – The Oscillator’s Hum
7. Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
8. Rita Lee – Calma
9. Women – Venice Lockjaw
10. Les Mouches – (They Long To Be) Close To You
11. The Kinks – Nothing To Say

Notches

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The biggest problem with WebMD is that it lessens your chances of meeting a hottie in the waiting room. Yes, Doctor, there is an emergency: that incredibly hot person is bleeding all over the floor. Go save some lives so I can marry them!

1. Owen Pallett – Scandal At The Parkade
2. DOG DAY – Bluish Grey
3. Extra Happy Ghost!!! – J23439
4. Valleys – Ordinary Dream
5. Woods – Who Do I Think I Am
6. Pat Jordache – Gold Bound
7. The Magnetic Fields – Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
8. The Raincoats – Lola
9. Shannon and the Clams – Done With You
10. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – I’m Glad
11. DM Stith – Braid of Voices

Butter Jumps (Free Fall, Pans Out)

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Today I looked at a bunch of (shitty) apartments with my (best) friend and we were (very) disappointed. Sometimes things in life just should be good. Like every piece of pie, every birdsong in the morning, and all (sexy) people in their underwear, some things just should be good. Now, is the podcast good? (…) Yes. Heck (maybe) yes. It’s got songs and talking, and that’s really the only two parts of a perfect 2-part podcast recipe you could ever ask for. I just need to figure out how to mix them, and where to by the non-off-brand varieties…

1. Jesuslesfilles – Le dernier album de Beck
2. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Dropout Boogie
3. Thee Oh Sees – Corprophagist
4. White Fence – Growing Faith
5. Long Long Long – Sure, Sometimes You Win
6. Extra Happy Ghost!!! – Pitiful
7. Eleanor Friedberger – Early Earthquake
8. Mister Heavenly – I Am A Hologram
9. Lightning Dust – The Times
10. Beirut – Vagabond
11. Grey Ghost – Hot Mess

Shades McCat 2

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Sometimes when you meet with old friends, you have to lay it all out on the table. For Matt I laid out a slightly old blueberry bagel, toasted, with some marble cheese. Do you have marble cheese where you’re from? Is that a thing? Regardless, it fuelled Matt up to talk with me about the things that old friends talk about. Next time he guests on the show, we’ll talk about the kinds of things that vets and butchers talk about. Does that sound controversial?

1. A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
2. John Maus – Matter of Fact
3. Silly Kissers – You Could Even Like Me
4. Tune-Yards – You Yes You
5. A Tribe Called Quest – I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
6. Royal City – Spacy Basement
7. The Sandwitches – My Heart Does Swell
8. Extra Happy Ghost!!! – Mercy Mercy

Molly Ringwald

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Just forget everything I’ve ever said. Every little word. And from here on out, don’t hear me out. Let my words whiz by like nothings in the wind. If things I’ve said could take on the form of drops of water, let them be rain that washes over you and cools you off, keeping in mind that you certainly wouldn’t drink it or take it seriously.

And before you think this is some self-deprecating commentary on the quality of my speech, realize that I’m trying to start a secret society whose messages pass through the posts/podcasts. If you stop listening, the more secret it gets. The more secret my society, the more money I’ll be rolling in! Is that how clubs work?

1. Eleanor Friedberger – I Won’t Fall Apart on You Tonight
2. Fair Ohs – Helio
3. Abe Vigoda – The Garden
4. No Gold – Weird Week
5. The Deadly Snakes – I Want to Die
6. Sonny and the Sunsets – Pretend You Love Me
7. The Sandwitches – Joe Says
8. RAM – Love is the Answer
9. De La Soul – Can U Keep A Secret
10. Beastie Boys – Egg Man
11. Sonic Youth – Little Trouble Girl

The Mighty Two-Hundred

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How do we, as a community, stand on rice cookers? Sometimes I want one, but sometimes I don’t want one. Then I worry that if I look back in a hundred years, will I wish to see the life I could’ve lead if I hadn’t acquired a rice cooker? Ultimately you have to believe that it will all work out for the best in the proper order, but this is rice we’re talking about here. Can I leave my grains to destiny?

THIS IS JUST A MUSIC MIX!

1. Lightning Dust – History
2. Girls – Alright
3. Eleanor Friedberger – Scenes from Bensonhurst
4. The Fresh & Onlys – Secret Walls
5. Alec Ounsworth – When You’ve No Eyes
6. Lou Reed – Satellite of Love
7. Quest for Fire – Psychic Seasons
8. Eric Chenaux – Mynah Bird
9. Nick Drake – Which Will
10. The Sandwitches – Miracle Me
11. John Maus – Cop Killer

Cult Radio Session

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When does balancing stop being an impressive skill? There is no doubt that balancing on a highwire is thrilling, and perhaps negotiating a sword perched on your chin will delight a few onlookers, but what would you say if I stood on one foot on the curb for a while? Or if I held up a broom in nothing but my flat palm? There is doubt about how thrilling and delightful those feats are, i.e., they are boring as shit. Which really sucks, you know, because I don’t want to believe that the only way to win people over is by riding a unicycle. I’m just not that guy. There’s gotta be another way. Podcasting? Nah…

1. Black Eyes – A Pack of Wolves
2. Dog Day – Scratches
3. Thee Oh Sees – Whipping Continues
4. Times New Viking – Fuck Her Tears
5. Girls Names – Séance On A Wet Afternoon
6. The Killers – Change Your Mind
7. Motorama – Ghost
8. Electrelane – The Greater Times
9. The Deadly Snakes – Sweet Sixteen
10. The Besnard Lakes – Chicago Train
11. Beirut – Goshen

Tut Tut

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Today is the day before a long weekend. I hope you all noticed my emphasis on that ‘a’ there, via italics. It’s standing alone, so the oomph might be hard to see, but it’s there. I say a long weekend, because obviously it’s not the long weekend. What’s that? Are you unclear about when the long weekend is? Or are you unclear about who is really asking me the questions? The long weekend, for the uncool masses who aren’t in the know, is the day we all decide to end this great North American experiment that we’ve all be apart of for many generations. It’s when we decide we’re going to call it a day, not go into work again, and fend for ourselves off the land. It’s going to be beautiful. And relaxing. And full of babes! But what will soundtrack this weekend? Probably not this podcast!

1. The Doors – Touch Me
2. Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've)
3. Descendents – In Love This Way
4. The Soft Boys – Positive Vibrations
5. Thee Oh Sees – If I Stay Too Long
6. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – I Won’t Hurt You
7. White Fence – When There Is No Crowd
8. Thao & Mirah – Little Cup
9. Russian Red – Nick Drake
10. Frederick Squire – There’s A Place That I Can Go
11. Nina Simone – Sinnerman

Gubbish

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I really like the saying “On Death’s door.” Not that I often find myself on Death’s door, nor do I find myself leaving packages or bundles of babies (I think I meant bundled up babies there) on Death’s door either. Basically, I’m trying to say that I’m not trying to be the mayor of Death’s door on Foursquare – That game should be limited to public buildings, not private residences. But right now I’m on Sleepy Death’s door, and there’s no real equivalent way to say that. I’m tired. It’s late. I’m at the threshold to sleepy, but I don’t know how best to convey that. Am I on the border of Sleepytown? Is it high time for dream time? Is it time to slip into my night coma? Help me, language barons. You’re my only hope!

1. Fucked Up – I Hate Summer
2. Crystal Stilts – Shake the Shackles
3. The Peelies – Médication
4. King Khan & The Shrines – No Regrets
5. Nodzzz – Always Make Your Bed
6. Sonny & The Sunsets – Home and Exile
7. Dead Ghosts – What to Do
8. Shannon & The Clams – You Will Always Bring Me Flowers
9. Thee Oh Sees – I Won’t Hurt Your
10. Turbo Fruits – Trouble!
11. The Stolen Minks – Rip It Up
12. The Deadly Snakes – Oh My Bride
13. Slam Dunk – Slowdance
14. Love Cuts – Mimes
15. Harlem – I’m On Drugs

Hushabye

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So I made a podcast yesterday, and it’s pretty good. It’s pretty good, but it’s also full of a lot of “Blah, blah, blah. My feelings. Ice-Cream. Let’s get real for a second,” which, while incredibly valuable in it’s own right, is a huge buzzkill. Sometimes. One of those times is right now. I wanted to put out something a bit lighter, and bit more polished, and a bit manlier. Men don’t have feelings, feelings have feelings! – What?! – Anyways, in this podcast we talk about BLOOD and THE FOOD NETWORK.

Fucked Up – Serve Me Right
White Lung- Atlanta
Iceage – Collapse
Abe Vigoda – Don’t Lie
Cults – Never Heal Myself
Fiery Furnaces – Tropical Ice-Land
Secret Cities – Forest of Love
The Barcelona Pavilion – The Manganese
Mag & The Suspects – Thousands Dead
Future Islands – As I Fall
Nat Baldwin – The Same Thing

Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite 7

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There was a long time between when I first heard the term “Oral Fixation” and when I realized that I had one. I’d hang onto toothpicks for too long, rub bottle tops on my mouth when I wasn’t drinking from them, or make hilarious noises by slapping popsicle sticks on my lips. Heck, I still do all of those things. But now it’s a “thing.” Back then it was an absent-minded tic, today it might be misconstrued as a latent homosexual urge. Although, as far as latent homosexual urges go, this one’s not half bad!

DID WE ALL LEARN SOMETHING NEW TODAY?!?!

1. Love is All – New Beginnings
2. Times New Viking – Try Harder
3. Chad VanGaalen – Freedom for a Policeman
4. Spooky Campers – Kitchen Floor
5. Nodzzz – Heyday Past Heyday Due
6. Françoise Hardy – Il Est Tout Pour Moi
7. The Kinks – Johnny Thunder
8. Julie Doiron – Borrowed Minivans
9. The Blankket – Badlands
10. Woods – Who Do I Think I Am
11. Youth Lagoons – Cannons

Andrew T & The Dynamo Elite 6

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Frankly, I need guests. Not that I don’t love hearing myself host a show (because I don’t, but you do for some reason…) but I really need to remember what it’s like to spend more time around different people. Do you think a Craigslist ad would net cool people, or weirdos? I don’t want weirdos. I just want new friends. Because new friends will keep me in check. Once you’ve known someone long enough they’ll let you get away with wearing men’s tank-tops, or blowing your nose while jogging (I will never be okay with that!) but new friends will be a good balance to make sure your weirdness doesn’t take over. Plus, new friends could be hotties, and who knows…

1. Ninja High School – Oh Yeah All Right
2. Talking Heads – The Girls Want to Be With The Girls
3. Nodzzz – Fear of Advice
4. The Coathangers – Go Away
5. The Peelies – Merde in French
6. Love Cuts – Hi Smile Wave
7. Plumtree – Scott Pilgrim
8. Black Lips – Spidey’s Curse
9. Cults – Go Outside
10. Key Losers – Real Time Here
11. Power Animal – Dear My Body

Things Mentioned (for good measure):

The Shadow Line
Nat Baldwin
You Look Nice Today
Upon My Breath
The Great Tide Pool
Happy Endings
Traffic Light

Scratch Pt. 2

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I’m going for broke. Shit. I thought I could properly wait and hold out, I thought I could space parts 1 and 2 out enough, but instead I’m just throwing it all against the wall. The wall is covered with this stuff! Scratch (the companion podcast to Itch) is more honest and more focused, which means that it’s probably not that funny…sorry. This is the problem with wanting to start writing jokes instead of improving them. What do I improv then? Only serious things, apparently. Bummmmmmmmer!

1. Best Coast – Something in the Way
2. French Kicks – So Far We Are
3. Kiss Me Deadly – Dance 4
4. Secret Cities – Always Friends
5. Nat Baldwin – A Little Lost
6. St. Vincent – Apocalypse Song
7. The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work
8. Key Losers – Permanent
9. KNOTS – Klaxon
10. Karen O and the Kids – Worried Shoes
11. Think About Life – The Blue Sun

Itch Pt.1

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To you, the listener, I humbly present Itch. This plus the sequel (Scratch) are a sandbox of ideas, confessions, and conspirings. My hope is that you will hear these late night ramblings as an inroad to asking me “Hey buddy. How’s it going?” To which I’ll naturally reply “Great! Now help me with this cask of fermented peaches!” I think it’s probably because I’ll be making peach wine. If I knew the recipe for peach schnopps, obviously we’d be making that. We’re all teenage girls here* – what else would we do?

• Shabazz Palaces – Recollections of the Wraith
• Fucked Up – Running on Nothing
• Greys – Rennie
• Crystal Antlers – Vexation
• Shannon & the Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
• New Order – Dreams Never End
• Chad VanGaalen – Peace on the Rise
• Tom Waits – Time
• Mt. Eerie & Julie Doirong – O My Heart
• Jennifer Castle – You Don’t Have To Be
• The Hidden Cameras – Golden Streams

*For the record, we’re probably not all teenage girls here. At least I’m not…

Double Wide

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For the moment it looks as if Xamounts and I are back ON trading mixes, which is a good thing. I mean, what else are Tumblr friends for? Reblogs? Yes. Liking posts? Yes. Follower/Following stats? Yes. Sharing cool links? GOD! YES! FRIG, okay, there are LOTS of great reasons to have friends Tumblr.

1. Man Man – Doo Right
2. The Rollers – Knockin’ at the Wrong Door
3. The Cougars – I Wish It Would Rain
4. Thee Oh Sees – Corrupted Coffin
5. Sonny & the Sunsets – I Wanna Do It
6. The Kinks – People Take Pictures of Each Other
7. Randy Newman – Short People
8. Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear
9. Chad VanGaalen – Cries of the Dead
10. The Sandwitches – Over the Moon
11. Russian Red – My Love is Gone
12. The Modern Lovers – Girlfriend
13. The Dead Science – Wife You

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Since recording this podcast I’ve had two showers, brunch, dinner, bought plenty of sexy underwear, and chilled the eff out. Oh, I also cut most of my hair off. I’m off hair, back on shampoo. Weird time to start doing that, but start doing that I have. Everyone who has been lending me hats will be thankful because that means their hats will stop smelling like slightly unclean hair. Everyone who has been lending me hats, please stop lending me hats. I have my own. Thanks.

1. Nite Jewel – Forget You & I
2. Miracle Fortress – Spectre
3. TV On The Radio – Will Do
4. Wild Beasts – Bed of Nails
5. Team B – On My Mind
6. P:ano – Fucking Ugle Bouffant
7. Final Fantasy – Peach, Plum, Pear
8. Pony Up! – Shut Up & Kiss Me
9. Shapes & Sizes – Wilderness
10. Bodies of Water – Roar, Roar, Roar
11. Thee Oh Sees – The Horse Was Lost
12. Chad VanGaalen – Shave My Pussy

The Names of Childhood Friends and Pets

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Man, with this podcast and this video it’s clear that I should never have been taught how to use pitch-shifting in GarageBand. We’re all lucky that my first attempt at finding a way to tweak my voice so I sounded like a Dalek failed. I might’ve kind of fallen in love with that and ended up getting an implant in my neck, which ruined all kinds of pillow talk. Oh well. C’est la vie. And this c’est a podcast. Say what?!

1. Times New Viking – Don’t Go To Liverpool
2. Chad VanGaalen – Replace Me
3. Thee Oh Sees – Blood on the Deck
4. Long Long Long – In a Geometric Fashion, Grass in a Geometric Fashion
5. Ty Segall – Buick Mackane
6. Tyvek – Potato
7. Be Your Own Pet – Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle
8. The Magnetic Fields – The Book of Love
9. Baby Dee – Regifted Light
10. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
11. Chris Garneau – The Leaving Song

Fitness

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Is ‘Conquistador’ a sexy thing to call somebody? Like, say you knew a friend that went to Spain or South/Central America and wanted to ask them what the Hottie situation was there. Could you say “Were there any special Conquistadors?” without seeming like you just didn’t understand what is attractive?

1. Thao & Mirah – Eleven
2. Purity Ring – Ungirthed
3. Grimes – Vanessa
4. Miracle Fortress – Tracers
5. Wonderer – It’s Hard To Be A Dad
6. Long Long Long – If There’s A Rumble, You Guys’ll Back Me, Right?
7. Love Cuts – I Will Kiss Anyone
8. Chad VanGaalen – Sara
9. Alela Diane – The Wind
10. Daniel Romano – There Are Lines In My Face
11. Cass McCombs – The Lonely Doll
12. TV on the Radio – Killer Crane

Free Scott Pilgrim

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Starring: Julia as Ramona Flowers/Stephen as Wallace Wells/Scott as Scott Pilgrim/Andrew T as Winifred Hailey, Narrator

Music: ”Fight!” and “We Are Sex Bob-Om (Fast)” are from the Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: Original Score, written by Nigel Godrich and Beck/”Horsetail Feathers” as performed by Final Fantasy from the Plays to Please EP.

Sound Effects: Free Sound Project and Sound Bible.

Editor, Producer and Director: Andrew T.

This story is adapted from the Free Scott Pilgrim story, as found in the Scott Pilgrim Full-Colour Odds & Ends 2008 book published by Oni Press.

Scott Pilgrim, this story and all of the characters herein are the creation of Bryan Lee O’Malley.

This radio play is released under a Creative Commons license so please feel free to download, share, remix, and sample any of this. Just let me know!

Please send any feedback to andrewt.press@gmail.com. I’d love to hear it! I want to hear it! I’M DYING TO HEAR IT! Actually, I’m not really dying.

Long Long Long Hype Show

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Tuesday April 26th/$5/Silver Dollar Room, Toronto/LONG LONG LONG (plus some other bands)

I’m really only going for Long Long Long. Please come with me. Get ready for the show. Get ready to change our lives, together. Am I over-selling this or under-selling this? What’re you doing Tuesday? I think peanut butter and crackers was just invented by me.

Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite 4

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I’m foregoing writing a humourous blurb here in favour of eating gelato because I’M NOT AFRAID OF GETTING FAT! Like, there’s nothing wrong with your size, so it’s good to not worry about it all the time. But also, in fact, I’m not afraid of ANYTHING! Not fat ghosts, fat demons, fat “what are you doing after grad school,” – None of it! PODCAST:

1. Long Long Long – To Be Alone
2. Magneta Lane – Secrets Aren’t So Bad
3. Dog Day – Happiness
4. Slam Dunk – Shivers
5. Teenage Cool Kids – Crossing The Desert As A Strea
6. Smith Westerns – All Die Young
7. Parenthetical Girls – The Pornographer
8. Japandroids – Crazy/Forever

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If there’s one thing that surely will amaze me, it’s what I’ll be like when I’m 32. That and most of science, but I really only understand birthdays, so this is what I’m left with. If you’re over 32 and listening to my podcasts (and still reading these blurbs) then please tell me what I’m in store for. Should I buy a suit for the occasion, or can I wear one that I already have? If anyone makes a ‘birthday suit’ joke, I swear I’ll bring a lead pipe to a christening and EVERYONE will be disappointed that I brought such a lame gift. “C’mon Andrew!” they’ll say, “This is a christening, not a game of Clue. Are you even a Christian?” And I won’t know how to answer them…

1. Timber Timbre – Bad Ritual
2. The Sandwitches – Summer of Love
3. Royal City – Bad Luck
4. Chad Van Gaalen – Alone At The Microphone
5. Mogli – Head Birds Dreamboat
6. Attack in Black – Rope
7. Woods – Til The Sun Rips
8. Basia Bulat – Shore

 

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By the time you read this, I wil be…thinking about something else. It’s true! I’m sorry. How much stuff do you think about? Are you consistently writing/thinking/talking/singing about the same thing without getting distracted? Can you hold onto a moment or a thought or a photograph without it going up into flames? For two of those things “flames” was a metaphor, but for the third “flames” is an actual thing that happens when I touch photographs. I just gotta put sweet decals on all my photos. All my scrapbooks are car themed. All my cars are robot themed. All my Transformers are on VHS. All my DVDs are drink coasters. The kettle popped – Gotta run! Now where was I?

…

No seriously, where was I? I don’t recognize this neighbourhood.

1. The Sounds of Science – Beastie Boys
2. Set You On Fire – Think About Life
3. Fa Cé-La – The Feelies
4. Mani Meme – Pas De Deux
5. Weird Week – No Gold
6. Pressure – Mi Ami
7. Plastic Age – The Buggles
8. I Should Have Kissed You When I Had The Chance – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
9. Gunbeat Falls – Shabazz Palace
10. Sound and Vision – David Bowie
11. You’re Going to Cry – La Sera
12. To Infinity & Beyon – Mogli
13. The Curve of the Earth – Attack in Black

 

 

Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite 2

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I think there’s some super glue still dried to my hand. Either that or my body is slowly flaking off. Either way, I’m in a very disgusting situation.

Playlist:

1. Pas De Deux – Mani Meme
2. The Buzzcocks – Love Battery
3. The Dead Kennedys – Let’s Lynch The Landlord
4. The Two Koreas – Haunted Beach
5. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
6. Gamma Gamma Rays – Here Here, There There
7. Tiger Trap – Puzzle Pieces
8. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry

My last girlfriend and I broke up because I was in the FBI and she tried to turn me in to the Mob. Life’s like that.

Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite 1

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Do you know the feeling where all you want to do is take a walk in the woods in the fall? Where you have that yearning to walk trough the damp leaves, smell the soil, and hike through the songs of chirping birds and scurrying wildlife? YES?!? YOU DO!?!?!?

Okay, I’m pencilling us in for October 13th. It’s like a Thursday or something.

1. J Mascis – Several Shades of Why
2. Snowblink – Rut & Nuzzle
3. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
4. James Vincent McMorrow – From The Woods!!
5. The Sandwitches – My Heart Does Swell
6. Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin In
7. Micachu & The Shapes – Low Dogg
8. Valleys – Ordinary Dream

Boucherville

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And here we have another mix for xamounts. Surprisingly, she’s the only one that’s taken me up on the offer for trades. I’d take it personally if I also didn’t have an aversion for the stock market. Any kind of mass trading make my skin crawl like it was covered in a thousand spiders in lab coats who work for some big Wall Street firm. By that, of course, I mean doctor arachnids who work in licensing and merchandising for the Wall Street film franchise. It’s not that lucrative. Surprisingly not, I know.

1. Jewish Legend – Tigris River
2. Akron/Family – Light Emerges
3. Wavves – Baseball Cards
4. Toro Y Moi – Elise
5. KiD CuDi – Day n Nite
6. The Luyas – Moodslayer
7. Roy Orbison – Summersong
8. The Haunted – Untie Me
9. Paul & Linda McCartney – Ram On
10. The Diskettes – Gymnasium
11. YACHT – Psychic City (Version)

Nothing’s Cloudy.3

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As these have been in the queue for literally (1.5) months now, I imagine I’ve become a totally different person. Not, like, a paraplegic or anything (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and not a Jehovah’s Witness (not that there’s anything wrong with that either) but maybe just a guy with a beard. Or some new jeans. I’m gonna need some new jeans here soon. The crotches in all of my pants wear out so fast…

1. Christmas Island – Pre-Apocalyptic
2. The Coathangers – Gettin’ Mad And Pumpin’ Iron
3. Slam Dunk – Do The Slam Dunk
4. The Stolen Minks – Hit And Run
5. Ty Segall – So Alone
6. Finally Punk – Jazz Hit
7. Turbo Fruits – Naked With You
8. The Fresh & Onlys – Plague Of Frogs
9. Harlem – Be Your Baby
10. Fergus & Geronimo – Powerful Lovin’
11. Monks – I Can’t Get Over You
12. The Babies – Breakin the Law
13. Aias – Quan Tornis Dema
14. Makeout Videotape – Ying Yang

Nothing’s Cloudy.2

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To be completely honest, I’m banking the shit out of these mixes. Like, if you had some gold Krugerrands and the original appearance of Willie Lumpkin, I would be putting those miracles directly into a safety deposit box and keeping the key. I’m not a very good banker, but I bank what I can. The point is that hopefully by the time this drops we’ll have some sick new tunes from Toro Y Moi, Memory Tapes, M83, Memoryhouse, and Elvis (Presley, of course) to listen to.

1. Azeda Booth – In Red
2. Memory Tapes – Plain Material
3. Braids – Glass Deers
4. Memoryhouse – Lately (Deuxieme)
5. Toro Y Moi – Minors
6. Grimes – Dream Fortress
7. Baths – Seaside Town
8. Pantha Du Prince – Im Bann
9. M83 – You, Appearing

Nothing’s Cloudy.1

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Gooooooood Morning! Is it morning where you are? *shrugs shoulders*

Oh well, even if it’s not, I still want you to enjoy and download (but not necessarily in that order) this music mix. One day I’ll get back to hosting. But until then, please enjoy the first bit of non-photoshopped podcast artwork! That’s the only thing tying the Nothing’s Cloudy series of podcasts together. That, and our love.

1. The Mummies – Stronger Than Dirt
2. Nana Grizol – Arthur Hall
3. The Fresh & Onlys – Black Coffin
4. Sleater-Kinney – Heart Attack
5. Makeout Videotape – Future Boy
6. The Babies – Run Me Over
7. Francoise Hardy – La Fille Avec Toi
8. The Beatles – Baby You’re a Rich Man
9. The Deadly Snakes – Oh Lord, My Heart
10. The Beach Boys – I Know There’s An Answer
11. Neil Young – Harvest Moon
12. Eiyn Sof – Too Tall
13. Thee Oh Sees – Highland Wife’s Lament

President Owl

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We don’t talk as much as we used to, so please allow me to ramble on here a little. Back in the day when I hosted REAL radio programs (that I actually had to lend my voice to) I would build very intricate sets of songs. They would always be in threes, and the songs would always share a theme or genre or feeling. Nowadays since I have no time to record the talking breaks, I have to build entire mixes in this fashion! It’s hard! But good. Oh so good. And you like it, right? (Not a creepy thing to say 5 times fast in a whisper at all!)

1. Marnie Stern – Transformer
2. Magic Weapon – Residue Hymns
3. The Walkmen – Little House Of Savages
4. Menomena – TAOS
5. Akron/Family – Raising The Sparks
6. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Emptyhead
7. Man Man – Engwish Bwudd
8. Paul McCartney – Monkberry Moon Delight
9. Islands – Kids Don’t Know Shit
10. Love Is All – New Beginnings
11. Why? – January Twenty Something
12. The Besnard Lakes – Rides The Rails
13. Dave Sitek – With A Girl Like You

Keep Calm and Whatever

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Jaunty strings. If I had to pick one phrase that ties this mix all together, it’s jaunty strings. Possibly. I mean, is that all-inclusive of the emotive, punctuating, sweeping, and swelling strings? If so, then that’s what I’m gonna say.

1. Beirut – Forks & Knives (La Fete)
2. Camera Obscura – French Navy
3. Jens Lekman – If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
4. John Vanderslice – White Wilderness
5. Final Fantasy – The Butcher
6. Sufjan Stevens – Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!
7. Parenthetical Girls – Unmentionables
8. The Hidden Cameras – The Man That I Am With My Man
9. Ensemble – Excerpts
10. St. Vincent – The Bed
11. P:ano – Working
12. Laura Barrett – A Certain Major Vinylsky
13. Lost In The Trees – For Leah And Chloe
14. Nico – The Fairest Of The Seasons

A Long, Sad Ocean

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There comes a time in every person’s life where they just want to feel hella sad. EVERY time this happens to me, I wish I just had a mix of songs to burst the damn, and EVERY time I think about what that mix would be,  I think about these songs. So here they are. This is as sad/happy as I can pop-musically get. And now we never have to cry over them again.

Oh, shit. Did I just admit to crying? FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU—–

1. Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
2. Chris Garneau – We Don’t Try
3. Antony & The Johnsons – Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground
4. Todor Kobakov – Loving Hands
5. Doveman – Breathing Out
6. Buck 65 – Corrugated Tin Facade
7. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence
8. Mates of State – These Days
9. Rock Plaza Central – You Don’t Need
10. Russian Red – Timing Is Crucial
11. The Tallest Man On Earth – Like the Wheel
12. KNOTS – Happiness
13. DM Stith – Be My Baby
14. The Himalayan Bear – It’s New Year’s Day, Now Go To Sleep
15. Beirut – Scenic World

Outer Space is the New Black

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Another mix for xamounts. Internet friends are the best friends!

1. Los Saicos – Come On
2. Suburban Lawns – Janitor
3. Cloud Nothings – Heartbeat
4. The Two Koreas – Return to Oslo
5. Crystal Stilts – Crystal Stilts
6. Sister Suvi – American
7. Makeout Videotape – Ying Yang
8. Harlem – Cloud Pleaser
9. The White Stripes – My Doorbell
10. The Babies – Voice Like Thunder
11. The Hidden Cameras – Steal All You Can Motherfucker
12. Young Tiger – I Was There (at The Coronation)
13. David Bowie – Queen Bitch
14. Future Islands – Inch of dust
15. Think About Life – Going Deaf in the Summer
16. Tigerrr Beat – Hold My Hand

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For my new friend via Tumblr, xamounts.

1. The Coathangers – Tonya Harding
2. The Gruesomes – Jack The Ripper
3. The Mummies – Stronger Than Dirt
4. Jacuzzi Boys – Planet of the Dreamers
5. Mean Wind – Darius Rucker is DEAD
6. Lower Dens – Tea Lights
7. Marine Girls – In Love
8. The Beets – Flight 14
9. Neil Young – Old Man
10. Harry Nilsson – Me And My Arrow
11. Lightning Dust – Wind Me Up
12. The Deadly Snakes – Let It All Go
13. Dum Dum Girls – Rest Of Our Lives
14. Paul F. Tompkins – Elegant Balloons

Mysterious Like Money

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Tommy, who takes wonderful photographs, was beefing about how he had nothing new to listen to. And yes I’m late with this, and yes not all of this is “new,” but friends are forgiving, right?

1. Harlem – Be Your Baby
2. The Fresh & Onlys – Be My Hooker
3. Leonard Cohen – Memories
4. Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart
5. The Deadly Snakes – Gore Veil
6. The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work
7. Silly Kissers – Halloween Summer
8. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
9. The New Pornographers – Moves
10. Hooded Fang – Highway Steam
11. Nana Grizol – Cynicism
12. Russian Red – Take Me Home
13. Mean Wind – Sunday Was A Writeoff…

 

The Twentieth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 20 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Nineteenth Questions About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 19 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

To Hide Their Numbers

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I recently hosted an online listening party (for nerds only) and some people DEMANDED that we do it again. What gall! What nerve! But when my good/great/best friend Kyle wanted to hear some more of my “sweet tunes,” I decide to make a mix for him/you.

So, for Kyle, a love that dare not speak his name because I MOTHERFUCKING JINXED HIM!

1. Das Racist – You Oughta Know
2. The Deadly Snakes – I Gotta Plan (For Saturday Night)
3. The Gruesomes – Buzz Off
4. Harlem – Scare You
5. The Beets – Watching T.V.
6. Cloud Nothings – Understand At All
7. Sleater-Kinney – I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
8. The Babies – Caroline
9. Paul McCartney – Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
10. Beirut – In the Mausoleum
11. Hooded Fang – Laughing
12. The Luyas – Cold Canada
13. Marine Girls – In Love
14. Mean Wind – The Guests Are Gone
15. The Zombies – The Way I Feel Inside

 

 

The Eighteenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 18 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Small Rains 2

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1. The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
2. Sean Nicholas Savage – Grandson
3. The White Stripes – Little Ghost
4. Rock Plaza Central – Gutterdance
5. Then I talk a bunch.
6. Phosphorescent – Reasons to Quit
7. Keren Ann – In Your Back
8. One Hundred Dollars – Paris is Burning

It’s so hard to write these descriptions because I don’t want to give away any of the goods, even though I give away all the goods for free eventually! That’s my life, I guess. Coy at first, but then really…easy? I gotta work on my analogies.

But I strongly invite you to listen to this podcast, get into the music, maybe think about what I’m saying, ponder it over while listening to more music, and then getting back to me about it (andrewt.press@gmail.com). It sounds like a lot of work, but believe me, it’s not. I really want to talk all about how and why people do or do not make what they make. Maybe we can spark…a new friendship? Or just make a podcast of it…

The Seventeenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 17 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Records…Personal Best

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It’s rare for me to buy physical albums these days, let alone vinyl records. But I do love buying records for other people. My brother’s birthday is coming up, and so as I venture out to the local shops I decided to make a list of the albums that I would instantly buy on vinyl if I won the Record Lottery. Some of these are, yes, my favourites. But honestly, others are on this list because something inside me just gets so pumped about the idea of seeing the physical object, putting it on a turntable, and spacing out to album artwork and music.

These are 17 albums I would totally buy, no questions. I have no answers either…

1. Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
2. X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
3. Jay Reatard – Blood Visions
4. Tyvek – Nothing Fits
5. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
6. No Age – Nouns
7. The Fresh & Onlys – Play it Strange
8. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
9. The Dead Science – Villainaire
10. Owen Pallett – Plays to Please
11. The Deadly Snakes – Porcella
12. Man Man – Rabbit Habits
13. Lightning Dust – Infinite Light
14. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
15. Attack in Black – Years (By One Thousand Fingertips)
16. Woods – At Echo Lake
17. Shapes & Sizes – Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner

*Thanks and sorry or whatever to Charles Schultz for the art

The Sixteenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 16 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Small Rains 1

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For the sake of you and your children (Remember: Listening to Podcasts is a FAMILY EVENT) please don’t listen to this podcast. Unless you believe my sincerity in trying desperately to not sound like a weird pervert, I’m going to come across like a weird pervert. Other than that, though, it’s a pretty good time!

1. Clues – Let’s Get Strong
2. Mean Wind – Equality Before the Law (The Guests Are Here)
3. Perfume Genius – Mr. Peterson
4. Himalayan Bear – It’s New Year’s Day, Now Go To Sleep
5. Chad VanGaalen – Cities of the Dead
6. Valleys – Tanlines
7. Thee Oh Sees – Block of Ice
8. Timber Timbre – Lay Down In The Tall Grass

The Fifteenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 15 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Fourteenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 14 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Thirteenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 13 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

We, The Kiltered

Whilst drawing up my arbitrary categories for the year-end lists, I realized I’d made them too restrictive. Like on the off-chance a god creates a stone that even they cannot lift, I had to make a loophole. We, The Kiltered is that loophole. Also, I think I made up the word ‘kiltered’ so I’m kind of like an ultimate creator. Blasphemy, tsk tsk.

10 Quest For Fire

9 Hannibal Buress

8 Wild Nothing

7 Beach Fossils

6 Menomena

5 Liars

4 Sun City Girls

3 Future Islands

2 Love Is All

1 Aziz Ansari

 

The Twelfth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 12 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Totally Normal

For some, such a list is disgustingly pretentious, but here at JJR we call it Totally Normal. Please don’t judge (me).

20 Aias

19 Gun Outfit

18 The Strange Boys

17 Ty Segall

16 Las Robertas

15 Jesuslesfilles

14 Crocodiles

13 Moonhearts

12 Thee Oh Sees

11 Dead Ghosts

10 Wavves

9 PS I Love You

8 Trash Kit

7 The Fresh & Onlys

6 Grass Widow

5 Happy Birthday

4 Harlem

3 Teenanger

2 Male Bonding

1 Dum Dum Girls

 

 

Big’Uns

Big’Uns is the equivalent of fantasy football, I imagine, where all the best players are on the dream all-star team. I don’t play fantasy sports, so maybe it’s more like Secret Wars or something. That lady knows what I’m talking about.

10 Titus Andronicus

9 Marnie Stern

8 Los Campesinos

7 No Age

6 Sufjan Stevens

5 Abe Vigoda

4 The Arcade Fire

3 The National

2 Women

1 Owen Pallett

 

Dancing Queen Dancing

Let me just say that if you did indeed end up playing Dancing Queen Dancing at a party around this time of the year, I would name the first offspring of my loins after you or your favourite car.

10 El Guincho

9 D’eon

8 Pop Winds

7 High Places

6 Four Tet

5 Javelin

4 Lindstrom & Christobelle

3 Toro Y Moi

2 Silly Kissers

1 Caribou

The Eleventh Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 11 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Brash

As a disclaimer, I want everybody to know that I regularly am fully clothed. There is the impression on this podcast (Brash) that I normally am not, but it is really very much only an event which occurs at the right time in the right place with the right people. Anytime. Anywhere. Anybody. What? No!

10 Ceremony

9 Mares of Thrace

8 Dangers

7 Aids Wolf

6 Grown Ups

5 The Bitters

4 Nu Sensae

3 Daughters

2 Tyvek

1 White Lung

The Tenth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 10 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Coppin’ Beats Rhythms & Rhymes

It’s a bit of a cop out (hence the title of this list) that I’m lumping mash-ups, mixtapes, dub-step, rap ballads and remixes all into the same list, but I do what I can with what I got. That’s not even a real excuse.

But please, Coppin’ Beat Rhythms & Rhymes, ignore my BlahBlahBlah, and try to have a good time.

10 Radio Radio

9 Flying Lotus

8 Pop Massacre

7 Maxime Robin

6 Mount Kimbie

5 Cadence Weapon

4 Chilly Gonzales

3 Kid Cudi

2 Das Racist

1 Kids & Explosions

To Mine Virgin Ears

There’s a first (time) for everything, right? Right? Right!

To Mine Virgin Ears is a delicately arranged arrangement of the best debuts of 2010. If this were a debutante ball, these would be the babes. Fo sho.

10 Warpaint

9 Diamond Rings

8 Twin Shadow

7 Perfume Genius

6 Surfer Blood

5 Grimes

4 Blue Hawaii

3 Avi Buffalo

2 Gigi

1 Long Long Long

The Ninth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 9 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Podcast of Dreams

The right and honourable Anne T Donahue is bestowing her judge-y duties upon us in this Podcast of Dreams by dishing a top list of songs from 2010 (aka twenty-ten). We kind of talk about them. But we also kind of talk about friendship, etiquette, and *SPOILER ALERT* Dan Rather. I dunno. Whatever.

Anne can be followed on Twitter (@annetdonahue) or heard on Radio Laurier on Tuesdays or read on many many websites on the Internet.

Slow Jams for Cozy Nights

Blanket Cocoon: Check.

Long Johns: Check.

Sleepy Disposition: Check.

I think we’re ready for some slow jams.

Slow Jams for Cozy Nights is the Top 10 artists/albums that I loved whenever my ears yearned for something soft and my heart ached for something warm. So…this music is earmuffs and whiskey. Is that how whiskey works?

10 Mountain Man

9 John Grant

8 Balacade

7 The Mynabirds

6 Beach House

5 Woods

4 Eric Cheneaux

3 Ryan Driver

2 The Tallest Man On Earth

1 Sean Nicholas Savage

The Eighth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 8 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Once Again I Find Myself Late For The Party

Once Again I Find Myself Late For The Party is a collection of the Top 10 artists/albums that I foolishly have ignored thus far in my life. I display my shame for you here, in the hopes of finding forgiveness and camaraderie in you, my fellow music listeners. Don’t hate the player.

10 Girls At Our Best!

9 Akira OST

8 Cap’n Jazz

7 Bodies of Water

6 The Method Actors

5 The Modern Lovers

4 Thee Oh Sees

3 Mika Miko

2 The Magnetic Fields

1 The Kinks

 

The Seventh Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 7 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Sixth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 6 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Fifth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 5 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Fourth Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 4 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Third Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 3 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The Second Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 2 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

The First Question About Time Travel

Many months ago I got obsessed with time travel. I was unemployed. So sue me. But without solid follow-up or evidence, by Question 20 I was running out of ideas. I needed to get my queries out there. I needed metaphysicists and time travel experts to know there was a man out there with nearly a million(ish) questions about this largely made up science. And then I didn’t do anything with them for a long time, and eventually decided to make some podcasts so my time wasting wouldn’t completely go to waste. So here is Question 1 of 20 available for download (just click on the colourful link) or as always you can find JJR podcasts on iTunes.

Secret Desert Island Buried Pirate Treasure

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This got made between the hours of way too late and way too early, so there’s (oddly enough) no way it’s top quality. If it were a wine, it would be of the boxed variety.

Plus – oh man! Plus! – it’s preceded by all this justification talk. Blerg, my friends. ‘B’ to the ‘lerg.’

To be straight up, I’m making this podcast to show(off) to my class this morning about a) how easy it is to incoporate research into your daily life, b) the many different forms that research can take and still be fun, and c) the simplicity with which one can make a podcast. But saying it all sounds lame. For the most part I find that once I start seriously talking about my hobbies, they all end up like something you made out of a Jamie Oliver cookbook: Not as good as you thought it’d be.

Maybe this is why I’m an audio broadcaster. Because then I don’t have to talk to ANY of you about ANYTHING! Screw all of you! Enjoy the podcast!

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p.s. I made a suckass Prezi of my presentation. The link is here (http://prezi.com/p6j_bak0b-6c/personal-research-experiences/). There are no realy words for context, so please feel free to adlib as you see fit!

Playlist:

1. Long Long Long – Cuba Gooding Jr.
2. Rattail – George Mounsey
3. Les Mammographes – Les Explosions
4. Snakes Say Hisss! – Watch Out…Snakes!
5. The Blow – Parentheses
6. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names – The boys in the Ghetto
7. Javelin – Oh! Centra
8. White Williams – Violator
9. Baby Dayliner – Hoodlums In The Hit Parade
10. Au Revoir Simone – The Disco Song
11. Silly Kissers – Halloween Summer
12. Casiotone For The Painfully Along – Nashville Parthenon
13. Qr5 – Dreams
14. Diamond Rings – Not My Party

We’ve Got Your Back Episode 4

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How many people do you think own telescopes? I mean, like, for realz. In my life I have known 3 to 4 people that had a telescope prominetly displayed near a window, and probably most of them used their enhanced vision capacities only for good…and astronomy.

Living near an apartment building, it’s hard not to worry about this kind of thing. Our house has a very relaxed pants policy, so it’s not uncommon for one of us to be wandering around in just a pair of snug underwear. And by one of us, I clearly mean me. Scott’s a gentlemen with manners who doesn’t feel the need to show off his pasty thighs.

Over the past few years I’ve developed a window philosophy: Windows are for me. They are in my house so that I can enjoy the outside. They are not a part of my house so that the outside can enjoy me. This is not to say that people shouldn’t look into windows, but Caveat Emptor, you know? RIght? You all know some basic latin, right?

This Episode: Twue Cwime. Les Savy Fav. Sick Lipstick. What Is It Good For? Joy Division. Girls At Our Best! Sopra-NOOOOO! Swans.

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We’ve Got Your Back Episode 3

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Please let me be the first to apologize for our podcast. In no way are we ever meaning to offend or over-titillate listeners. And I say this now because it is my feeling, particularly with this instalment, that we are giving off the vibe of a “Dude Podcast.” Hell to the No, ladies and gentlemen. I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to be considered a “Dude” – of course I’m speaking of the derogatory version of the word. I would totally be a surfer dude or a righteous dude or a total stand up dude, but it would kill me if someone thought of me as a backwards fullback, team spirit, beer bong type of Dude. I had to look up what a beer bong was to make sure it was the right word. Yeesh.

So sure this episode is all about sexy roller skating and my subsequent erotic confusions surrounding it, but I feel that Scott and I do try to stay out of Dude territory. Yes?

This Episode: Sexy Roller Skaters, Why? Jesuslesfilles. Love is All. Memories. Kid Cudi. The Xx. Internet Picture Jokes. Deerhunter.

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We’ve Got Your Back Episode 2

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I wish everyone could see the outfit I’m wearing tonight. Picture in your eyes the tightest pants I own with that reversible vest I bought at VV Boutique, thinking that something so versatile was such a great investment and yet I never really found the right occasion to wear it. Well, that occasion is tonight. And I look like I got lost after some bohemian beach party. If my hair was more like a mane and I wore large aviators people would assume I was the hippest castaway this side of Wilson’s brother. You’re probably not familiar with him. As it is, I’m not wearing socks or shoes and my pants aren’t even done up all the way. I’m seriously on a vacation.

But free time is the devil because idle hands make and idle mind, and only when you’re not thinking things can demons slip into your brain and take over your body. Fact. That’s why we’ve got another podcast.

This Episode: Geography. King Khan. Deadly Snakes. More Geography. Dum Dum Girls. DM Stith. Cemetery Secretary. Owen Pallett.

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We’ve Got Your Back Episode 1

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If this show was a ship that was sinking, then consider this episode to be the first lifeboat away from that mess. That’s just an easy way to say that this show is for women and children ONLY! What? Not true!

We’ve Got Your Back is an ongoing series about two young gentlemen with a propensity for Skyping across the distance of their apartment.

Episode 1: Sailor Hats. Marnie Stern. Women. Urban Dictionary. Pavement. Weezer. The Adams Family. Caribou Vibration Ensemble.

For any requests, suggestions, concerns, questions, or Other, feel free to e-mail me at andrewt.press@gmail.com

For Merritt Wever

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Agh, is this weird? Has it finally gone too far?

One of my favourite tweets of recent months – which I will paraphrase and make longer than the original missive ever was – is that if you’ve read/watched/played/listened to something and really enjoyed it, then you should find some way to tell the people that made it. Now I don’t have the time or the inclination or the clout to make sure that Merritt Wever learns how much her portrayal of Zoey Barkow has made me laugh, or that her presence in a production comes across as wonderfully grounding. Instead I made a playlist for her, full of songs that reflect the feeling how fond of her I am.

It’s nice, right? Like, you’d want someone to do that same thing, even if it’s not something you’ve ever thought of…right?

Oi.

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1. The Knife – Heartbeats
2. Yacht – Psychic City (Voodoo City)
3. Au Revoir Simone – The Disco Song
4. Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – Bag of Hammers
5. SS Cardiacs – Noo Noo (In a Foreign Dialect)
6. Keren Ann – Lay Your Head Down
7. Islands – tsuxiit
8. The Thrills – Deckchairs and Cigarettes
9. Basia Bulat – Before I Knew
10. Hermas Zopoula – Companion de Route

Arbutus @ Pop Montreal

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As part of the great musical mecca that I once again won’t be attending (sad face) Arbutus Records and Weird Canada are co-presenting an excellent showcase entitled “ARBUTUS/WEIRD CANADA SHOWCASE“

And as I talk about and feature in the playlist, this showcase features Blue Hawaii, Pop Winds, Silly Kissers, and Grimes. It’s also Grimes’ CD release for her fantastic new album Halfaxa. If you can’t make it to Montreal this Thursday, then please-oh-please consider purchasing it from Arbutus for just $8+shipping. Do that and you’ll get a free poster. What?! Yeah.

Tahmoh, My Love Episode 4

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Are we, as a society, at a point where we can use ‘sexy’ as a compliment in a completely fact-based way?

For example, could I tell all of my friends that I thought they were all sexy without any repercussions? I hope so, because otherwise it’s going to be one tumultuous Halloween.

The hope is that my friends can take that compliment to mean as much as if I’d said something innocuous, i.e. I liked the way they tied garbage bags, or it pleased me to see their vintage t-shirt collection again. I want sexy to be a boring old ‘matter-of-fact’ compliment that doesn’t immediately/necessarily mean people should jump ahead to thinking I want to include myself in that sexiness of theirs. I’ve got my own sexy situation going on right here, so I don’t need the other one overe there… but goddamnit, I respect it. And I want you to know that.

I don’t know that this is a very sexy podcast, but I respect that you downloaded it. That’s a fact.

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PLAYLIST

• The Coathangers – Nestle In My Boobies
• dd/mm/yy – Bronzage
• Long Long Long – Judy Chicago
• Tigerrr Beat – Baby Children Are Animals Too
• These Are Powers – Easy Answers
• Liars – No Barrier Fun
• The Unicorns – Tuff Ghost
• Women – China Steps
• Thee Oh Sees – Block of Ice
• Las Robertas – Tele

Tahmoh, My Love Episode 3

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In general (and as a General) I don’t like how I have to make a big deal about female-powered bands. Music just is, dude, and like it sucks that it is sometimes presented as only being interested because women are involved.

-BUT-

Please allow me to say that sometimes I just crave the energy of music created by, with, and for ladies. There’s just some kind of fem-force that adds a little extra to the songs. And then sometimes I just like man songs.

-BUT-

This podcast is themed for feminine music. Not, like, femmy music, but hardish music that has the feminine edge. I think that’s how I would generally sum up my musical taste. Feminine by with an edge.

HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

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Tahmoh, My Love Episode 2

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Tahmoh, My Love Episode 2 is all about moving! Because I moved!

Heck, by the time you even read any of this, I’ll have moved and be settled in a completely different city.

The bonus? That above sentence is accurate if you read that now or 100 years from now, because it’s pretty much guaranteed that I won’t die in the same place that I’m in right now and be undiscovered for over a century. I will be found! It is my destiny!

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Tahmoh, My Love Episode 1

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What do you do when you’ve eaten more ice-cream sandwiches than god ever intended you to do in one day? You a) eat some more, and b) make a podcast. And then maybe throw up, because this really is a lot of sandwich.

This show is more about the music than the talking, but there is some talking in here. Anyways, I hope you like this mix. I’m trying to play with recontextualizing the emotions in songs and fitting that in with stories and bits. Hang on, I’ve gotta push my nerd glasses up.

If you like it, send me an e-mail at andrewt.press@gmail.com These are also available on iTunes, if you like that kind of thing.

Maybe you’ll want a show too?

The Lost Generation

Welcome!

This is the inaugural show for JamJam Radio, which both heralds and officiates its existence as a thing. Like, a real deal thing.

My name is Andrew T, and I used to host a radio show called Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite. But then I stopped that. I then I got kind of depressed because there was this void of broadcasting that was weighing me down. But now JamJam Radio is going to bring me up.

So please, stay tuned and get excited for mixtapes, shows, interviews, and other audio de-lites. Would you like to make an audio de-lite? Then send an e-mail to andrewt.press@gmail.com, and we can put together something of your very own and put it out through this very real and official channel.

So you can download the podcast from here (JamJam Radio – The Lost Generation). There are a lot of great songs on it. If this is not already in iTunes, it will be soon.

THANKS FOR LISTENING! Let me know what you think!