letter from Montreal.
I'm sorry if all that blank space was worrisome: it was meant to be the internet equivalent of the paper wrapping all round the inside of the window when a shop is being readied for its grand re-opening. so [dropping the paper all about] ta da!
surprise, I'm in Montreal.
the cleverest among you deduced that already, of course.
It is utterly confounding to me that I spent much of Pop Montreal mooning over Montreal's streets and steps and churches like an ineffectual adolescent with a crush on the pretty smart girl. Now, four weeks later, here I am. I'm going to be living here for the next two months in fact, while I do nothing but talk/sleep/breathe radio. It is unusual for me to have nothing else to think about; it is heaven.
I arrived here late Sunday by bus from NYC with a bag of clothes, two more full of CDs and a cough that keeps threatening to become something more sinister. (Unbeknownst to me, I also arrived with a long-coveted record-reverser that my beloved snagged at the WFMU record fair and hid in my satchel.) I have spent my days invisibly. I have been relishing the feeling that I don't quite exist, which was only really broken late this afternoon while I was marching intently down Saint-Catharines and someone shouted "Helen!"
I'm here to program and host the first hour of BRAVE NEW WAVES; if you're curious you can tune in for the first one tonight on CBC Radio 2. It begins at 12:05, after the weather.
[post]script:
surprise, I'm in Montreal.
the cleverest among you deduced that already, of course.
It is utterly confounding to me that I spent much of Pop Montreal mooning over Montreal's streets and steps and churches like an ineffectual adolescent with a crush on the pretty smart girl. Now, four weeks later, here I am. I'm going to be living here for the next two months in fact, while I do nothing but talk/sleep/breathe radio. It is unusual for me to have nothing else to think about; it is heaven.
I arrived here late Sunday by bus from NYC with a bag of clothes, two more full of CDs and a cough that keeps threatening to become something more sinister. (Unbeknownst to me, I also arrived with a long-coveted record-reverser that my beloved snagged at the WFMU record fair and hid in my satchel.) I have spent my days invisibly. I have been relishing the feeling that I don't quite exist, which was only really broken late this afternoon while I was marching intently down Saint-Catharines and someone shouted "Helen!"
I'm here to program and host the first hour of BRAVE NEW WAVES; if you're curious you can tune in for the first one tonight on CBC Radio 2. It begins at 12:05, after the weather.
[post]script:
The Sonic Seductor - Turtle Bop - Prom Night EP (indie) +
Miss Violetta Beauregarde - How To Use A Good Idea Till It Turns Into A Bad Idea - Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo (temporary residence)
Windom Earle - I Saw The Way You Looked At Me - Gold Wave (boost ventitilator) +
Rafter - "R" Is For Reach -- Ten Songs (asthmatic kitty)
P. Miles Bryson - Subtler Polycultural Shades Of Chinese Tiki Coromandel Screens - Megalomaniac Decorator's Quarterly (illegal art)
Call Me Poupee - Sex Symbol - Western Shanghai (semprini/bonsound) +
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Fernando's Giampari - The Way The Wind Blows (leaf)
Tunng vs Taraf de Haidouks - Homecoming - Electric Gypsyland 2 (crammed)
Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People - Alberta Song - The Friendly Rich Show (pumpkin pie) +
So Percussion - Work Slow Life - Amid The Noise (cantaloupe)
Jewish Legend - [track 9] - Telepathy Now! (baudelaire) +
The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (mint) +
Miss Violetta Beauregarde - How To Use A Good Idea Till It Turns Into A Bad Idea - Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo (temporary residence)
Windom Earle - I Saw The Way You Looked At Me - Gold Wave (boost ventitilator) +
Rafter - "R" Is For Reach -- Ten Songs (asthmatic kitty)
P. Miles Bryson - Subtler Polycultural Shades Of Chinese Tiki Coromandel Screens - Megalomaniac Decorator's Quarterly (illegal art)
Call Me Poupee - Sex Symbol - Western Shanghai (semprini/bonsound) +
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Fernando's Giampari - The Way The Wind Blows (leaf)
Tunng vs Taraf de Haidouks - Homecoming - Electric Gypsyland 2 (crammed)
Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People - Alberta Song - The Friendly Rich Show (pumpkin pie) +
So Percussion - Work Slow Life - Amid The Noise (cantaloupe)
Jewish Legend - [track 9] - Telepathy Now! (baudelaire) +
The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (mint) +
posted by Spitz at 9:46 PM
6 Comments:
welcome to your new adventure..
peace,
z
Bienvenue, Helen.
i can't stay up late and listen and i can't find a way to get the archived shows- helen, you are a genius, help me!!
love Julia
sadly, I am not a genius. but the genius currently at my house playing Settlers of Catan with my child has apparently figured out a way to record them: why don't you give him a call?
I saw you had Rafter on your music list. I recently entered the Asthmatic Kitty video contest and made a music video for a Rafter song. Lots of eggs flying through the woods.
I announced that contest as well; I think it was promoted heavily on Pitchfork. I was just listening to that record today and thinking about playing it on tomorrow night's show. Maybe I'll play that song. You'll just have to tune in...
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