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

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

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

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

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)

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

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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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

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

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