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PORTRAIT RADIO: The Valentine’s Day Pod Cast
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PORTRAIT RADIO: Boo Are You?
November 5th can be scary too! – Just because Halloween was officially over days ago and now your pumpkin is silently rotting on your porch, do not allow yourself to give into the notion that the season for scares is over. — This Halloween episode promises to be worth the wait. So much so that we are willing to wager that if you allow yourself to sit back and enjoy the entire thing, you will actually forget that you are listening to your friend’s amateur pod cast, and feel as though you’re not wasting your time. And there is nothing scary about that.
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PORTRAIT RADIO: An Appeal to the Masses
Portrait Radio profiles people and stories, casually steals from NPR’s “This American Life” and does a not-so-bad a job of it.
Right now we are in the midst of putting together our upcoming episode for Halloween, an episode we are calling “BOO, are you?’ — And in thinking about scary stories that we might bring you for this season, it got us thinking about all of those classic Halloween characters that always seem to come back to life this time of year. Characters like the Vampire, the Witch, the Werewolf, Frankenstein. It got us thinking, what if we could find actual people who at one time or another found themselves or someone they knew, actually embodying some of the traits and behaviors of these classic characters? Not literally of course, but metaphorically. After all, aren’t these characters just archetypes of our own all-too-human qualities, perhaps the ones that we’re most afraid of?
What if for instance, there was someone out there who went around using people; who fed on the energy of others and then discarded them? Someone not unlike a “Man-pire”, say. Or what if there was another person who found themselves walking through life in a trance, devoid of human emotion and feeling, totally alienated from the world of the living, kind of like a Zombie? Or what if there was yet another person, this time one who felt alive, but suffered because it seemed like the world wasn’t seeing them, like it chose not to see them, as if he or she didn’t even exist?; kind of like, a Ghost.
— Well, it is in the interest of perusing that idea, that we are now asking for your help — yes, your help, — in bring us these stories to us. We want to know if you or someone you know has a story about a time when it felt like they were being a Ghost, or a Werewolf, or a Dr. Jekyll character, or maybe even a total Witch. If you would like to help us and maybe even be interviewed yourself, then please get in touch. Send us a message through facebook or through the website. There are only two weeks left until Halloween so there is no time to waste. And if you live far away and you’re out of Montreal, this is not a problem, we can (apparently) interview you through Skype and would love to talk to you. Thanks.
PORTRAIT RADIO: The Graycale Rainbow
Listen and Learn: Host Jack Dylan shamelessly rips off NPR’s “This American Life” and does a not-so-bad a job of it. CLICK THE IMAGE TO PLAY.
In this episode I talk to Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane, two artist who created a project where for one month they would live, eat and sleep, inside of an art gallery. The gallery’s walls were cover floor to ceiling in paper and brushes and inks set up in the middle of the room. The final touch: The public, anyone who wanted to at all, could come in, pick up a brush and join them. — Also featured in this episode, music by Montreal’s Shortpants Romance and Think About Life.
– FINISSAGE: Fri 02/10/09at 5pm as part of Art Pop
– Shortpants Romance: Thur 01/10/09 at 3pm at Barfly as part of Pop
PORTRAIT RADIO: “Posterer” Life on The Streets
Talk POP! - Host Jack Dylan shamelessly rips off NPR’s “This American Life” and does a not-so-bad a job of it. Click the image to play.
In this episode we talk to a man who’s name cannot be revealed because the job he does is illegal. — That job, “Poster-er”: As in the person who actually goes around and puts up all of the posters on street poles for so many of the music show here in Montreal. For five years now he has been doing this job and over the course of that time he has put up literally thousands of posters and collected as many stories. Life on the streets has forced him up against the police, the cold, rival posterers, and even the homeless at times. This story is one of the funnest and truly unique shows we have even brought to you, we hope you enjoy it.
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Get ready for some serious muti-media action, as I’m now the new host of Pop Montreal’s official pod-cast, (along with my assistant Andrew Rose.) This will be a regluar feature on my own and Pop Montreal’s website, with new episodes appearing each month.
In this Episode, we finish our coverage of Pop Montreal (2 months late) and Andrew plays his favorite Montreal bands of 2007. Listen, and discover bold new talent such as “The Arcade Fire”, “Feist”, “The Besnard Lakes”, and more. We’ll also discus cats, album artwork, bouncy balls, and there are some really embarrassing gems in there for anyone with the strength to listen to the full 90 minutes. Enjoy.