Immigration and divorce

TEXT: Immigration has a strange side effect on couples, called divorce.

MUSIC: Herbie Hancock on piano, Leonard Cohen reciting, music by Joni Mitchell – The Jungle Line

RUNNING TIME: 11 minutes.

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RFI.ro: un website de radio impecabil!

Nu stiu cit de mult regreta cei de acasa disparitia BBC Romania si Europa Libera Romania de pe undele radio. De aici insa, din Canada, va spun,  le simt lipsa! Ascultam in mod curent buletinele de stiri puse pe paginile lor de internet.

Acum, daca vrei sa asculti un buletin de stiri radio din Romania pe internet, ce faci?

Cover of the Rolling Stone

TEXT: historical moment – the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine changes to a smaller format

MUSIC: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show – Cover of the Rolling Stone (1973)

RUNNING TIME: 08′25″

News: podcast awards; Garrison Keillor is podcasting; Yeasayer live in Montreal and Toronto.

Bits and pieces today. Hope you can use the information below.

What would you expect from Podcamp Toronto 2009?

Connie Crosby (Podcamp Toronto organizer) asked me this question during last night’s Toronto Podcasters Meetup.

As with any other person facing  a microphone out of the blue, my brain went into the “un-smart” mode, and my answer was plain non-interesting. What I thought was “it’s too early to ask about 2009; your 2008 Podcamp was so good that I’m still working on my notes.” What I said was something like “I’d be just fine if you could match the 2008 Podcamp.”

Regardless of what I said last night, this is a hot question, and this is the time when organizers of the Podcamp Toronto (tag using pcto09 or podcamptoronto) brainstorm on the topics to be discussed. I’ve come up with a couple of requests that I would like to see followed at the next year’s edition (February 21 and 22):

Toronto live music secrets: Sisters Euclid at The Orbit Room

TEXT: Toronto is an immigrant’s paradise, proven that the immigrant loves live music.

MUSIC: Sisters Euclid – Southern Man (LP Run Neil Run, 2006)

Running time: 9 minutes

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Cerul de fructe in care se strica ultimul gind

ORAŞ ORIENTAL

Oraş oriental de câmpie
Cu seva prelinsă pe străzi,
Cu soarele fără ruşine
Sorbindu-şi sordidele prăzi,
Oraş lichefiat, râu fierbinte,
Şi crâncene-arome urcând
Spre cerul de fructe în care
Se strică ultimul gând.

Ana Blandiana

Autumn weekend drives around Toronto

We’re enjoying a splendid Indian Summer in the Greater Toronto Area.

We took advantage and took a couple of short, “fall colour” drives that I’d like to recommend.

DVD rental history – September 2008

DVD rental history for September 2008

Playlist – music for your radio show

There is a new page on my site, called Playlist.

I hope you can use it. I had the patience to list and link the musicians that I played in my podcast in the last few months. I like to compare the grind of finding the music I play with mining for gems. In fact, if I have no song that strikes me like a thunder, I will skip a week of podcasting.

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Back to the list.

I know 2-3 people around the world that trust my taste in music. The list is not  for them. It’s rather for the ones out there looking for new sounds:

• playlist editors. People working for FM stations that can afford to build their own playlist.
• radioshow producers. People that play music in their shows, or build the show around music.
• DJs. People that earn a living by being curious about music that moves peoples and their legs.

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The list is alive! I will keep building on top of what you see today, so come back for more, every month or so.

Enjoy!