Sad Sack Serenade: Episode 5

Hey everyone,

So today's broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF was the last one for a while, because I have to go home to Calgary for the summer. But don't fret, because I'll be back on the air when school at SFU starts up again in the fall. Thank you all very much for listening the last month or so. I had a great time sharing music with all of you.

This is what I played today:

Radiohead- High and Dry
Papilonette- The Decline
Stars- The Life Effect
Phono D'Enfant- With You
Nico- These Days
Raised By Swans- How Do These Hearts Unfold
The National- Wasp Nest
William Fitzsimmons- We Feel Alone
Peter Katz (with Glen Hansard)- First Of The Last To Know
The Weepies- Nobody Knows Me At All
Elliott Smith- All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down (Hank Williams cover)
Patrick Keenan- Pillstorm
Beck- Everybody's Gotta' Learn Sometime

You can download or stream an mp3 of the show in two parts:
Part One Here/Part Two Here.

Thanks again listeners. Have a swell summer.

Sad Sack Serenade: Episode 4

So in case you couldn't tell today's show was pre-recorded. Not only that, but the station started it late and so the whole thing didn't play. Sorry everyone.

This is what I played before it got cut off:

Belle & Sebastian- Sleep the Clock Around
Karyn Ellis- Be My Girl
Cuff the Duke- All That Fails and Fades
Joel Wilaby- Mercy
The Flaming Lips- Mr Ambulance Driver
Built to Spill- Liar
L. Pushinsky- Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter
Death Cab For Cutie- Your Bruise

You can listen to the show in two parts, but keen in mind part one will not be my show until about 10 minutes in:
Part One/Part Two (abridged).

Thanks for listening everyone. The last show is next week. Unfortunately it too is likely to be prerecorded because I have to drive home to Calgary on that day. But we'll see if I can stay to do the show.

Generation Why at the Calgary Expo & Edmonton Pop Culture Fair

We’ve nabbed a table at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo as well as the Edmonton Pop Culture Fair this spring to spread the Generation Why word.

Mike and Cody will be at the Expo in Calgary on Saturday April 24th and Sunday April 25th chatting with people about the movie and selling DVDs, t-shirts, and buttons.

Brendan, Mike, and Cody will be doing the same up in Edmonton on Sunday May 2nd.

If you are in either city during those days, definitely swing on by and get your hands on a sweet digital video disc and t-shirt! And if you're super keen on the film, we could use your help to help tell people about the film too. So find our table, and we’ll set you up with leaflets and a t-shirt so you can go around and direct people to our table. If you can’t make it, then tell your friends about it instead. In fact, tell your friends about it even if you are going. Drag them along!

RSVP to the Calgary event on Facebook.

Sad Sack Serenade: Episode 3

Hey everyone,
This is what I played today from 2-3pm PST on my radio show "Sad Sack Serenade" on CJSF:

Yes Nice- A Ghost or a Knife
Four Tet- Slow Jam
We Are the City- Time, Wasted
Metric- London Halflife
Gentleman Reg- Oh My God
Drive-By Truckers- Daddy Needs A Drink
The Unthanks- Because He Was a Bonny Lad
Billy Bragg & Wilco- Someday Some Morning Sometime
Tegan and Sara- Call It Off
Pavement- Here
Tim Chaisson and the Morning Fold- Slippin' Away
Karen O and the Kids- Hideaway
Tanya Philipovich- Secret Fiction Romance
Julie Doiron- So Fast

You can download the whole show as an mp3 in two parts:
Part one here/Part two here.

Personally I really enjoyed the music from today's show, really cooled me down after a rough week, and I hope it did something positive for you too. Tune in again next Thursday for the last episode of Sad Sack Serenade from 2-3pm PST.

Your host,
-Brendan

Sad Sack Serenade: Episode 2

Honestly today's episode of Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF was a bit of a trainwreck. The show started off rough, and then was immediately completely derailed when the power went out at the university and we were off air for about 10 minutes, and later I played the wrong song, and then I was unable to play prerecorded PSAs so I had to read them out loud... gaah. Sorry everyone. Next week will be better I swear. Also, I think it is good to learn to love someone or something for its flaws as well as for its positive attributes, so maybe this rough episode will help you learn to love the show more!

This is what I played:

Final Fantasy- Midnight Directives (cut off by power outage)
Final Fantasy- Keep the Dog Quiet
Jonsi- Sinking Friendships
Camera Obscura- Lunar Sea
Laura Merriman- Go On Now
Attack in Black- Years (By One Thousand Fingertips)
Alejandro Escovedo- Sensitive Boys
Jenn Grant- You'll Go Far
Broken Social Scene- hHallmark
David Torn- At the Mall (from the Lars and the Real Girl soundtrack)
Aimee Mann- Guys Like Me

If you'd like you can get an mp3 of the show in two parts:
Part one here/Part two here.

Be sure to tune in next week for the third broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF 90.1FM or online at cjsf.ca between the hours of 2 and 3pm PST.

Sad Sack Serenade: Episode 1

Hey everyone,
I hope that you all enjoyed the first broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF 90.1FM and got a good feel for what the show is going to be like in the future. In case you were wondering, this is what I played:

Hayden- Never Lonely
The Cardboard Nationals- Truth
Broad Way Sleep- Too Late
The Age of Rockets- Avada Kedavara
Constantines- Time Will Be Overcome
The Autumn Portrait- Goodbye Apathy
Sarah Slean- Get Home
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton- Telethon
The Album Leaf- We Are
Faded Paper Figures- I Fell Off My Name
Gregory & the Hawk- Like Daddy, Like Daughter
Clea Anis- Heartdrops
The Polyphonic Spree- Scream and Shout

An mp3 of the show is available for download in two parts.
Part One Here/Part Two Here.

Please leave me your comments, suggestions for improvement, requests for songs for next week. And be sure to tune in next week from 2-3pm PST on 90.1FM in Burnaby or online at http://cjsf.ca to hear the second broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade.