Sad Sack Serenade: February 11th

Sorry for the lack of conversation today. Couldn't think of much to say and I didn't want to fill up airtime with a bunch of vapid jabbering when I could've just played a couple more songs. Hope you enjoyed today's broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade nonethless.

This is what played this morning on CJSF 90.1FM:

Ruben Bullock - The Rain
Joel Plaskett - New Scotland Blues
Cymbl - Meino
Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th
Jónsi and Alex - Indian Summer
Zachary Lucky - Coming Back Home
Jenny Lewis - Pretty Bird
Rökkurró - Sjonarspil
Penny and the Quarters - You and Me
Silje Nes - Crystals
Vinyl - Graveyard
Lenka - Gravity Rides Everything
Jenny Owen Youngs - Voice On Tape

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Have a great reading break everybody. Since you don't have class next Friday, there is no excuse not to listen to the show next week at 9am.

Sad Sack Serenade: February 4th

Great show this morning. This is what I played on CJSF 90.1FM this morning from 9-10am:

Jordan Klassen - In Bodrum
Damien Rice - Older Chests
Interpol - Always Malaise (the Man I Am)
Cat Power - Say
Au Revoir Simone - Don't See the Sorrow
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
fun. - Light a Roman Candle
Carissa's Wierd - One Night Stand
Jill Barber - For All Time
The Dears - Missiles
Brian Eno - Emerald and Stone
An Horse - Listen
Ferraby Lionheart - Minuteman

Mp3 of the show: 1st half hour/2nd half hour.

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Thanks for listening. Do it again next week!

Frosted Mud

This is something I wrote for an english class that if I were in a clearer state of mind I don't think I would post. But alas, it's late, and I am feeling strange, so here it is. I guess it can be good to share things.

Frosted Mud

Frosted mud on days when

windows lie means a snub

and a fallen smile, or

a clever ruse from an

actor. Faces change though

and thoughts linger on in

canyons that go deep down

to the thin heart of things.

Ringing and echoing

for days until the mud

softens and faces rise,

only to fall again.

  

We were trying to keep to two different meters. I'm not sure if I did. I don't understand what's going on in the class. 

Sad Sack Serenade: January 28th (Icelandic Music Special)

I was really disappointed today when the hour ended because I was having such a great time playing all the music and reading all the trivia about Iceland. I didn't get around to playing any Bjork or Sigur Ros, but I guess that was kind of cool because we got to include a bunch of lesser-known acts, but I even had a few more of those to share with you that we didn't have time for. Unfortunately as lovely as Icelandic music tends to be, it also tends to be kind of long and not really suited for the radio, so I'm sorry I was only able to play eight songs. They were a superb eight songs though, and we also got to learn a lot about the great nation of Iceland, so it was time well spent.

Here's what played on CJSF 90.1FM from 9-10am on January 28th:

Pornopop - Centre

Múm - I Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Tight

Seabear - Hands Remember

Slowblow - Aim for a Smile

Frakkur - Untitled

Ólöf Arnalds - Innudir Skinni

Amiina - Fjarskanistan

Parachutes - Fingertips

Ólafur Arnalds - Gleypa Okkur

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Thanks for tuning in to the special show everybody! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Next week is back to regular bummer music, but I am still planning on doing an Elliott Smith retrospective theme show soon, so that should be on your radar.

Sad Sack Serenade: January 21st

Good morning to you, I hope you're feeling better baby... This is what played at 9am on CJSF 90.1FM:

Kathryn Calder - So Easily
Phantom Planet - Our House (Crosby, Stills, and Nash cover)
Great Lake Swimmers - Concrete Heart
Names of Stars - Speak
Kathleen Edwards - Sure as Shit
Brandi Carlile - That Year
Forest City Lovers - Oh the Wolves!
Dirty Projectors - No Intentions
The Concretes - Grey Days
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mind
Elliott Smith - Last Call

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Thanks for listening everybody, be sure to tune in next week at 9am for our very special Icelandic music day!

Sad Sack Serenade: January 14th

Hello and happy weekend radio listeners. This was what played on CJSF 90.1FM this Friday morning at 9am on Sad Sack Serenade:

Jon Brion - Little Person
Silje Nes - Symmetry of Empty Space
The Salteens - Don't Break My Heart
Nada Surf - The Film Did Not Go 'Round
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers - Odessa
Blink 182 - Miss You
Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Through the Morning, Through the Night
Sloan - Live the Life You're Dreaming Of
Tokyo Police Club - Favourite Food
Winter Gloves - Trap the Mouse
Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler

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Thanks for listening everybody and for all the nice comments I've got in the last week. Hope to feel your presence through the radio next week.

Sad Sack Serenade: January 7th

Today was the first broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade at its new time, Fridays at 9am Pacific Standard Time on CJSF 90.1FM. I really enjoyed doing the show in the morning because it gave me some incentive to get out of bed, and the weather and quiet atmosphere of the morning hours are far more suited to the show than the often sunny and cheery afternoons. Fuck afternoons!

This is what I played today:

Paper Jones - David Bowie (I Love You Since I Was Six)
K.C. Accidental - Them (Pop Song #3333)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow
Deerhunter - Earthquake
Regina Spektor - Carbon Monoxide
Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See it Coming
Neil Young - Birds (live)
Gregory and the Hawk - Oly Oly Oxen Free
The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
Trespassers Williams - The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog/Paul Williams cover)
Sun Kil Moon - Alesund

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Thanks for tuning in everyone. Be sure to listen again next week at 9am.