Saturday, April 27, 2013

HBLB explores Point Douglas

Picture via pointdouglas.blogspot.ca.  

This week, we explored parts of the historic Winnipeg neighbourhood Point Douglas.
This episode includes interviews with Point Douglas residents:
Some other great Point Douglas websites to check out:
Listen:







Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?crlzbssw2uugzp1

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

HBLB gets all feministy


Picture via Negative Space / Not Enough Festival.


This episode includes:
Listen:







Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pildjipv458sif6

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

HBLB digs through classifieds


This episode includes:
  • Taylor and Brynna run down the history of classified ads--from the 1600s to the internet. Check out all the stats on Under the Influence.
  • B points out that Vampire Weekend posted a classified ad revealing the details of their new album. However, they tweeted to their fans, directing them to the paper. Irony!
  • T tells the legendary(?) ad that Black Francis placed: Looking for a bass player who likes both folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and hardcore outfit Husker Du. Only one person applied.
  • T recalls an interesting phone convo he had with a paranoid perogy seller.
  • Our friend Ayla shares a couple stories of following up on classifieds, somewhat disingenuously.
  • B shares some of the best classifieds she had found--ideas friend wanted! less successful friends wanted!
  • B and T share a couple stories of missed connections. Really, check if you've been missed.
  • T shares another band that formed after a well-placed classified (Liars) and one who placed a classified, but nothing came of it (Nirvana).
Listen:








Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ozbarqns17v76i9

 
Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

HBLB discusses mental health

Former bookstore owner Kelly Hughes joins us on this episode of HBLB.

This episode includes:
  • Taylor and guest host Jenn Sparrling define mental health, and what separates an illness from feeling low.
  • T and J dispel some common myths about mental illnesses
  • We're joined by the local personality Kelly Hughes, former owner of Aqua Books. He talks about the stressful couple of years he's had, and his battle with depression towards the end of last year.
  • Hughes talks about writing online, how it plays to his strengths, and (in a sense) it gets him out of hiding.
  • David Skene stops in for a discussion on outsider artists, how they are defined, and  how they might be enabled or exploited.
  • We share a couple resources to understand and manage mental illnesses:
    CMHA Winnipeg
    Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba
    YMCA Life and Leisure Program
    Klinic Suicide Crisis Hotline @ 204-786-8686
    Manitoba Suicide Line @ 1-877-435-7170
Listen:







Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n7om8ax07i84nyt


Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

HBLB rounds up the arts


Picture via Kram Ran.  


This episode includes:
Kram Ran's The Pattern Of Abandonment



Listen to HBLB:



Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dbhau9yts4803u1

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

HBLB investigates ESP


Picture via The Marriage of True Minds.

This week, we're exploring our Extra-Sensory Perception.
This episode includes:
  • Taylor begins the episode with a psychic anecdote of which reportedly happened to Mark Twain.
  • T plays his interview with the electronic duo Matmos. For their latest album, The Marriage of True Minds, they telepathically sent their new record to some subjects, who spoke their observations aloud. Matmos took those transcripts and used them as the basis for their new record.
  • T and Brynna play the parapsychological tests they had carried out.
  • B and T round the hour out with a discussion on their beliefs on the parapsychological.
Listen:






Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h5c9ms2gxisxf1n

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

HBLB checks our food security

Picture by Warren Humeny. 
 

This week, we looked at the availability of food in inner-city Winnipeg.
This episode includes:
  •  Brynna introduces the three pillars of food security.
  • Taylor points to the inspirations for this episode:
    • Extra Foods on Main St will close its doors by the end of March, but
    • Neechi Commons will have its grand opening on March 19.
  • Jasmine Tara of the North End Food Security Network explains the services they provide, including food boxes and a grocery shuttle.
  • Iain Brynjolson of Food For Folks and Neechi Commons' produce manager talks about his experiences of providing locally grown food through community initiatives he's been a part of.
  • Photographer Warren Humeny and collaborator/partner Jennifer Sparrling talk about their neighbourhood grocery store closing down, how it affected their lives, and the lives of the employees.
  • In between, we listen to TWIN all hour long. Previously, TWIN's Dave Fort has organized seed exchanges on their canoe tour. 
What we couldn't get to:
  • This week's Uniter has an article on a residents association letter writing campaign for more food options downtown.
  • B mentioned the Manitoba Food Charter, which aims for sustainability and healthy relationships between consumers and their food.
Listen:





Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cdtjze32xcnpbhn

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

HBLB visits NYC

Photo by Brynna Stefanson

Includes:
  • Co-host Brynna Stefanson returns! She's full of tales from NYC.
  • Surprisingly still on New Yorkers' minds: the soda-pop ban.
  • While she was away, B interviewed Coney Island sword-swallower Betty Bloomers. She gives gritty details on damage from Hurricane Sandy. People looking to support the sideshow in recovering from the storm can donate at their website.
  • B relays the tale of heading into the Alexander McQueen store, where she was afraid to touch anything. T shows off his limited knowledge of the designer (not including the fact that McQueen is dead).
  • B runs down NYC's green spaces, including the High Line. She thinks it all great, until she mentions gentrification, and gets bummed out a little.
  • T explains (if possible) the premise of Simbiopsychotaxiplasm, a fav movie of his that took place in Central Park.
  • B relates her NYC art gallery visits to MOMA and New Museum's 'NYC 1993' exhibit. T scores an actual HBLB on Damien Hirst!
  • We hear a ticket lottery for the Book of Mormon--and B tells us all about the play.
  • We round the hour out with some high-quality NYC busking.
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?nag11myd2j237rt

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

HBLB brings you GARFIELDXCORE


Photo of Mulligrub by David Van Den Bossche.

Includes:
  • Guest host David Skene helps out with this edition of a rock'n'roll gossip show.
  • The episode revolves around Ghost Hole's first show--D proclaims the whole new genre--GarfieldXCore!
  • T and D somehow don't give away tixx to the hippest band on earth, TRST.
  • We listen to Mulligrub, another GXC band, in a few of its different incarnations.
  • D and T discuss the acts in detail, what made them hip and enjoyable.
  • D points out the irony that the violin-and-drum combo Violent Screech was the most experienced act of the night.
  • Another GXC band--The Uncanny Valley Girls--is discussed for their absurd Fripp-Eno dynamics. We hear a track from them.
  • We round out the hour with a new segment titled "Is This Song About Me?" Before listening to Video Brats' only song, D makes his case that this song is about his exploits with the band members.

Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ztnmmqmxry5otmn

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

HBLB investigates a few ripoffs



Includes:
  • Taylor and guest host David Skene proclaim that they will investigate ripoffs definitively, to celebrate or condemn the offending artists.
  • First, T plays a pairing which is an obvious homage: "Street Hassle" and "Ode to Street Hassle."
  • D and T discuss the line between homage and ripoff; D says ripoff artists take others' work and pass it off as their own. D points out Spacemen 3 are citing their sources in the very song title.
  • The next pairing is an unabashed sample: Liars uses ESG's original. T draws comparisons between the two bands, both New York bands removed by a few decades. As usual, Lydia Lunch has some pretty harsh things to say.
  • D say these two songs sound to be of the same piece. T says the Liars song does stand on its own. However, the song blatantly references its inspiration, unlike other bands. [I didn't say this on-air, but the final lyric "Rather loved/ Than not loved" directly echoes Lunch's comments that Liars are looking for their moms' approval. Oddly, they've pre-empted her criticism and embrace that fact.]
  • Next up: James Murphy. He does not stop admitting his influences/source material.
  • T professes his love for The Rapture during the Echoes-era, but the influences are so obvious!
  • Murphy's own band, LCD Soundsystem, does not escape T and D's scrutiny, and admiration.
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?66uku5ah3ob4ml1

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

HBLB nails Fundrive!

CKUW's 50th anniversary logo by Stu Reid

Includes:
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?50822zdwpj2ee7b

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

HBLB reads your bad writing

Show date: February 3, 2013

Includes:
  • Brynna reads a selection from the 2012 'winner' of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
  • B reads friends' submissions "My Supernatural Creation," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in School," which are from middle school and pret-ty embarrassing.
  • Taylor gets his lazy butt out of bed and into the studio.
  • T and B read Scott Leroux's creative writing from a couple years ago, and he calls in.
  • T reveals the not-so-mysterious origins of his series Lightswitch, and reads a selection from one of his notebooks.
  • B revisits her terrible literrry times.
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?a8a6j862ugmxmta

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

HBLB combats winter ennui

Show date: January 27, 2013

Includes:
  • Brynna and Taylor deal with their winter boredom.
  • B becomes an introvert, T puts his hands into many clubs and activities.
  • B runs down some of the activities: Big Fun Festival, Festival du Voyageur, and RAW Almond.
  • To combat their boredom together, T and B took part in planning a surprise party for their friend--and recorded it!!
  • B and T discuss local art collectives like The Royal Art Lodge, and Places for Peanuts and related band The Girth.
  • T and B unveil their first "Slow Blow."
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?4c7mn6r68ec906m

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

HBLB delves into wpg rock history

Photo of Winnipeg's Personality Crisis by Terry Cox, via

Includes:
  • Guest host David Skene starts things off with a twist--taking us back to railroad times, when the comedic greats came through town.
  • T goes on about how amazingly psychedelic the Guess Who are. DS reveals the Guess Who's secrets to winning over crowds.
  • T and DS poke fun at Neil Young cuz he left wpg, B knows a lady who fell asleep in the back of Neil Young's hearse
  • Quick detour into classic rock.
  • We interview Julijana Capone about Wellington's, a Winnipeg punk club from the '70s thru the '90s. Bands from Personality Crisis to the Weakerthans all hung out.
  • B, T, and DS, all wax romantic about the venues, shows, and bands which they've loved from 2000 on.
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?088q48q9k7rxj68

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

HBLB does Oscar Talk



Includes:
  • Brynna and Taylor discuss the Golden Globes, and the obvious winners of the Oscars. Lincoln's looking big with 12 nominations.
  • T laments the awful gut feeling he got while watching Django Unchained.
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild is the indie underdog which still got recognition. B and T discuss whether that's all the film will receive.
  • B runs down previous years' Oscar winners, including many-a cinematic masterpieces getting snubbed. T concludes that the Oscars are overly optimistic, and don't award bleak films.
Download: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?2icn353rrp3l988

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

HBLB does 2013 Predictions!

Show date: January 6, 2013

Includes:
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xvoycnev0s2q74o

Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No