HAYDUKE LIVES! two-for-one lackadaise-o-rama

Hi everyone;

I am a slacker.

The fact of the matter is, I spend all day long at a computer, and when the work day is done, the last thing I want to do is sit back down and tickle the keyboard for a while. The result is that you guys don't get as regular blog postings as you may like, and I get to go outside and enjoy myself a bit more. It's almost a win-win, except I guess I'm mostly the one who's winning.

I will add photos of my trip to the desert and back home to NB at some point - just not today...

set list for May 1, 2008

sans ohmm - off the international radar*
the state - destroyer*
river niger - sly dunbar*
world peace riot - chango family
groovy spirit - jackie mittoo
robot dub jam - guerilla funk monster
double on back - kid creole & the coconuts*
sure shot - one step beyond
when all the shy folk finally get it on - bourbon tabernacle choir
the city - dragon fli empire
grand scale - dl incognito*
saint john river - hot toddy
another obscure death in the history of the american indian movement (AIM) - bob wiseman
burn the house down - cour de lane*
without piano - jim bryson
just like a river - old man luedecke*
one day - david myles
do you want to talk all night - john tielli*
from the muskeg - ghostkeeper*
pour la destinee - les breastfeeders

set list for may 8, 2008

rounder - rabnett5*
the bomb - bitter:sweet*
desmond dekker came first - toots & the maytals
this one is about flying - dubblestandart
noah sugar pan - the upsetters
soul glo - akrobatik*
27 - blue scholars*
you will see this dog before you die - the oh sees*
i got mine - the black keys*
broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats - los campesinos*
hot corner - b52's*
they get mexico - the culls*
corona - calexico
half a ghost town - utah phillips & ani difranco
for a few dollars more - hugo montenegro & his orchestra
river theme from pat garrett & billy the kid - bob dylan
two little feet - greg brown
when i was a cowboy - alvin youngblood hart
hot white sun - pray for rain
journey to arnhemland - jamiroquai
keito - ali farka toure
camel rock - chirgilchin
long long nite - mano negra

Okay, I'm outta here. Thanks for listening, and make sure you check out Mark tomorrow. I'm on my way over to meet him so we can record a show intro/theme music - with any luck we'll christen that sucka tomorrow.

Next week (May 22nd), I'll be playing host to my pal Mike Melnick, who's going to tell us all about adventure racing. "What the heck is that?", you ask? Tune in and find out - but for now here's a little teaser:



okay bye!
g

Three weeks but unfortunately only one playlist

Hello fans of the CJSW Soapbox. I haven't posted for a long time and its definitely overdue. Unfortunately the playlists for my two previous shows have vanished into the ether of the cjsw archives and disappeared from my eyes forever, but I do have todays for any of you keen listeners.

1. Trance Like Turn - Violens
2. Cop Song - Entire Cities
3. Raquel - Neon Neon
4. Jah Love Music - Brigadier Jerry
5. Eleanor Rigby - Bernie Lyon
6. Two Sevens Clash - Culture
7. One Two Three - Nat Baldwin
8. Moving Notes - Jane Vain and the Dark Matter
9. Swimmer - Four Tet
10. Around The World - The Death Set (Fantastic Album!)
11. Out The Seams Pt. 2 - Oldfolks Home
12. Cruisin The Chev - Ghostkeeper (new and local!)
13. Tomorrow - Clinic
14. La Marche - Music For Money
15. Blueprint - Culture Reject
16. Applegate (I) - Little Teeth (Demo from San Francisco Group... keep an eye out)
17. War - BMX (Current blog darlings)
18. Ava - Black Molly
19. Main Theme - Balloon Fight
20. Jazz Rats - Yip Yip
21. Hold On - Holy Ghost!
22. My Oh My - Vincat
23. Danse en France - Fischerspooner
24. High Waves - Tr + Tr
25. Weird Science - Does it offend you, yeah?
26. He Keeps Me Alive - Sally Shapiro
27. Digitalism - Pogo (The Horrors Remix)

Send me a message or post something if you have any questions. Thanks to everyone who listened, and make sure you tune in next week for Greg's return to the soapbox!

Mark

two-for-one overdue blogathon! set lists for march 27 and april 10, 2008

(that's my folks' place this winter - NB got a lot of snow, to say the least!)

'sup y'all?

So here's the deal.

The work I do is most busy at this time of year, but I had two impossible-to-pass-up opportunities to go away and take a little vacation in April. At the beginning of the month, I went to New Brunswick to chill with my folks and make maple syrup in the woods (I'll post another picture or two sometime in the future, okay?). And as soon as I wrap this shit up, I'm leaving to go hike the Grand f&$kin' CANYON! So to make a long story short, I've had to squish a month (or more) worth of work into about two weeks, and haven't had much time for bloggin'. Here's my attempt at atonement (pretty lame, eh?):

March 27 rant-a-thon - the 'box was hot on the 27th, yo! And the 9:20 segment came courtesy of the lankiest of linemates, Monsieur Richard Larson.

1. elyne road - toumani diabate*
2. bullet in the blue sky - vieux farka toure*
3. eltsuhg ibal lasiti - daktaris vs. mad professor*
4. six million dollar version - king tubby
5. rocking universally (armagiddeon style) - willi williams
6. truth will reveal - souljah fyah*
7. reputation - evan voytas*
8. they live in the meadow - black moth super rainbow
9. metronomes - cassettes won't listen*
10. iodine - gordon withers*
11. suggestion - fugazi
12. we're gonna rise - the breeders*
13. blitzed - raveonettes*
14. you put the "i" in team - dr. manhattan*
15. cassius clay - jon hardy & the public*
16. nevada desert - rae spoon*
17. these days - tyler ramsey*
18. shake that medication - the mumlers*
19. om mani padme hung - yungchen lhamo (for the tibetan freedom movement)
20. bridge is over/black cop/south bronx medley - krs-one
21. down here on the ground - grant green*
22. if the papes come - tribe called quest

april 10 aga-khan-a-thon - i got to chat with laurie peters from the aga khan foundation about their exhibit at the university of calgary's nickle arts museum, called bridges that unite. If you missed it here, hopefully you'll get a chance to check it out elsewhere. Tunes:

1. life of a salesman - beija flor*
2. untitled (live on cjsw) - remote kid* (download the rk ep for free, here!)
3. zimbabwe - bob marley & the wailers (for the people fightin' for democracy in zimbabwe)
4. gin & juice - prince fatty* (for the bsd'ers gettin' loose on campus today!)
5. herb eye - junior delgado
6. makuta - culver city dub collective feat. q-ba
7. get up, stand up (live) - ojos de brujo*
8. rebel satellite - up, bustle & out
9. me cai - pacifika*
10. free - sacha silva*
11. 100 years - tommy guerrero
12. brukpocket's lament - the heavy*
13. sourpuss - fishbone
14. my friend - jimi hendrix
15. glory glory/jesus on the mainline - rebirth brass band (for my moms 'n' pops)
16. how to handle grown-ups - ruckus roboticus*
17. oppressor - think of one*

Okay, I'm out. Thanks for listening, and thanks a lot for your patience through the dark, busy days that have maybe come to pass.

PEACE,
g

Hello from the Soapbox,

Here's this week's playlist:

1. The Vagabond - Air (10,000hz Legend)
2. Aurora - Kyrie Kristmanson (The Kyrie K Groove)*
3. Early 70's Gymnastics - Black Moth Super Rainbow (Start A People)
4. I Am That I Am - Peter Tosh (Equal Rights)
5. Oh Mr. DC - Sugar Minott
6. Circus - C-Mon and Kypski (Where The Wild Things Are)
7. Never Born At All - Adam Mowery (Saint John 3: BBQ Records Compilation)*
8. Captan - Scary Mansion (Every Joke is Half The Truth)*
9. Introducing Angels - Destroyer (Trouble In Dreams)*
10. (I'll Be Your) Ashtray - Ladyhawk (Shots)*
11. Perspective - Clock Hands Strangle (Redshift/Blueshift)*
12. Starman - David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust)
13. Hangin' Round (Acoustic) - Lou Reed (Transformer)
14. Too Long 'Till Morning - Mannequin Depressives (Girls Are Evil)
15. Listening Wind - Talking Heads (Remain In Light)
16. Caffeine and Sugar - Braden Funchner (Duthie Birthday Demo 2008)*
17. Lenine Rock - Sinequanon (Lenine Rock)
18. Teenage Wildlife - San Serac (Professional)
19. Pristine White - Lowfish (Burn The Lights Out)*
20. Send Me Shivers - Mouse On Mars (Radical Connector)
21. Dame de Lotus - Emilie Simon (The Flower Book)
22. Death Smells - Team Robespierre (Everything's Perfect)*
23. Theatre of Disco - Larry (Theatre of Disco)
24. Rocket In The Pocket - Console (Rocket In The Pocket)
25. Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem (Sound of Silver)

Not feeling particularly soapboxish today, but I would like to mention once again that the Mannequin Depressives will be holding a CD release party tonight at the Warehouse to support their new full length 'Girls Are Evil'. Be sure to check it out.

Tune in Next week for greg's show.

Mark

fighting democrapathy - sbd for march 13th

whoa - stelmach rookie card? That's super rare. I'll play ya nearest-the-wall against my grant devine jailbreak special edition... (courtesy of vue weekly out of edmonton)

Good Mornin' to y'all.

Here's what went down on the March 13th edition of the soapbox derby:

1. now - nomeansno

2. out of time - jason collett*

3. vince goes home - the neighbourhood council*

4. what is it? - the consummates

5. healing of the nations - roots tonic meets bill laswell

6. 7 nation army - the dynamics*

7. theme olympique/absolument - spreepark*

8. from the cell doot to the gallows - william elliot whitmore

9. no disappointment in heaven - dock boggs

10. georgie buck - dink roberts

11. not high - greg brown

12. crash into the sun - jim white*

13. mia - 40 thieves*

14. evil ways - black mountain*

15. 7/4 (shoreline) - broken social scene (for melanie and bruce the puppy)

16. brown dirt - jj cale (for some dude that didn't give his name)

17. dounia - toumast/ishumar*

18. electric boogie remix - ursula 1000 vs. fort know five*

19. do this my way - blackalicious

20. microphenia - divine styler

21. countdown - dj vadim feat. rashan ahmad*

22. ethical considerations - soviet sound factory*

23. carimbaeo - nacao zumbi*

24. information contraband - money mark

As I said in my last post, and Mark said in his, the recent provincial election left me feeling shocked and, to say the least, somewhat out-of-sorts. But i figure you can only dwell on how much something sucks for so long before you have to find some more productive way to express your frustration (which, by the way, is one of the main reasons i do radio). I've decided the best response in this case is to do whatever i can to foster a democratic environment in what appears otherwise to be a democratic vacuum.

Here is the open letter to my new MLA that I read at the beginning of the show, and that I am mailing today. I urge you do do something similar, if you are so inclined...

Honourable Lindsey Blackett,

Conservative MLA, Calgary - North West

Dear Mr Blackett;

My name is Greg Chernoff. I live in Ranchlands, and I'm writing you in your new capacity as my elected representative in Edmonton. I didn't vote for you, but you represent my riding in the legislature anyway, and I want you to know that I intend to hold you accountable to myself, and to the thousands of other constituents that either voted for someone else, or didn't vote at all.

In fact, province-wide, the vast majority of votes were disappointingly not cast for anyone. The democratic deficit carried the day, and the only real winner in the election was apathy. Your party got over 50% of votes cast, but only 20% of all possible votes. Why do you think so many voters "elected" not to bother? And what does the low turnout say about your party's mandate to govern?

I voted. I believe that voting is the bare minimum contribution one should make to the democratic process. Those that don't care much about politics should at least vote, and consider it an "easy way out" of a bigger responsibility. But personally, I exercise my democratic rights every day. I vote by riding my bicycle or skateboard, or by taking public transit to work, by keeping a pesticide-free lawn and garden, by recycling despite our city's best efforts to discourage me, by making consumer choices that reflect my values, by working in my professional and volunteer life towards the type of change and the type of community that I feel would make the world a better place. I also vote by freely expressing my opinions whenever I get a chance.

Democracy doesn't stop at the ballot box. Albertans could have taken the "easy way out" by voting on March 3rd, but they didn't. Now I'm promising to do all I can to make sure Albertans take part in the democratic process. Too bad for them, now it'll have to be the hard way.

Your party ran on the slogan "change that works for Albertans". Personally, I'm not convinced that a regime that has been in power for almost four decades can be the party of revolution, but I feel pretty strongly that we need one in this province. If you are going to create change that works for me, you'd better start working for change. Right Now.

I'll be watching....

Sincerely,

Greg Chernoff

Setlist for March 6th. 2008

I didn't mention the titles of the last two tracks I played, I got a little mixed up. So here is the complete setlist

Track - Artist (Album) *On CJSW's Playlist

1. Passages Part One - Humanoid (Remembering Universe)*
2. The Boilerman - The Urbane Decay (53 Mondays)*
3. Future Ghost - Hinterland (Pan Pan Medico)*
4. Baby Why? - Cables (9:20 is the new 4:20)
5. In The Craters On The Moon - The Mountain Goats (Heretic Pride)*
6. The Dragons Claw: Chpt 1 - Justice of the Unicorns (Angels With Uzis)*
7. Lucky Lucky Luck - Evangelista (Hello, Voyager)*
8. Evil Ways - Black Mountain (In The Future)*
9. Vince Goes Home - Neighbourhood Council (Live At CJSW)*
10. Kali Yuga - Experimental Aircraft (Third Transmission)*
11. The Gum Saloon - Beat Circus (Dreamland)*
12. Beginning To See The Light - Scenics (How Does It Feel To Be Loved)*
13. Lady Madonna - The Better Beatles (Mercy Beat)*
14. Je T'ecris D'un Pays - Les Visiteurs Du Soir (BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85)*
15. What Use? - Tuxedomoon (Half Mute / Scream With A View)
16. Lies - Mannequin Depressives (Girls Are Evil)*
17. Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix) - Bjork
18. Where You Gonna Run To? - Solid Gold*
19. Mnemonic - Robots In Disguise (Disguises)
20. Heaven (Pink Skull Remix) - Health
21. Lost In The K-Hole - Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole)
22. Bubble Life - Squarepusher (Hello Everything)
23. Widow (Eats Tapes Megamix) - Lucky Dragons
24. Price Gun Baby - Captain Comatose (Going Out)
25. Remote Control - Solvent (Apples and Synthesizers)
26. Terroriste - Vox Dei (BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85)*

And I think It's time I got up and joined Greg on the soapbox regarding this week's election results. What I was most surprised about was that the heavily critical media coverage of the PC campaign was so disconnected from the ultimate voting results. Why? Was the media just wrong? That's too simplistic since their campaign judgements were subjective. Do Albertans simply ignore the media wholesale? That's hard to believe. Or do Albertans not feel a need to fall in line with media reactions? That might not be such a bad thing, unless it leaves them in a state of ignorance.

But what was perhaps most disappointing was the way that as the results were coming in the media were completely changing their tune, suggesting Stelmach ran a comprehensive and complete campaign, 'which shored up his support across the province'. Saying Taft who the day before had been praised was a failure. The morning after, newspapers that had previously called the stelmach campaign a disaster were calling him an 'Ed the Emperor'.

It is scary to think that, although there are certainly some problems with gerrymandered ridings and poll station debacles, an essentially fair election with an uncensored media turned out an almost hegemonic voting result. Mussolini and Franco and Stalin would have sure been pleased to have a public so supportive of authoritarianism.

Mark

28 february set list - and talkin' climate change blues

Well, good evenin'

This just in - Conservatives defeated in Alberta Election!

Know who the real winner - the new Premiere of Alberta - is? Apathy. Mr. and Ms. "I'm too lazy and complacent to get off my ass, take 15 minutes out of my day, and exercise a right I have automatically, but many have fought and died for" won the election in a landslide. Can you believe that shit? 950,000 people voted, out of 2.3 million. That to me is absolutely f#&king shameful. It's infinitely more depressing to me that we could have made some real change happen in this province, at a time when I think we really need it, than it is that the tories are going to run the show (and run it with even more swagger and impunity than they had last term) for another 4 long, likely painful years.

I'm not giving up on democracy (or change) though - I plan to get a little more creative in the ways I participate. Because you know, democracy doesnt begin and end with an X on a ballot. It's what we do in between elections that now has become our only source of redemption. First thing I'm gonna do is write my new MLA a letter, and let him know that, even though I (along with about 40% of the people who voted in my riding) didn't vote for him, he is now my elected representative, and that sumbitch better effin' represent! I don't wanna give away too many surprises - I'll read the letter to y'all on march 13.

Last week's show was all about climate change and what we can do to engage ourselves in constructive discussion about it. Here are the tunes that framed it all in (below are a tonne of resources):

1. i know why the caged bird sings - buckshot lefonque feat. maya angelou
2. kindred - akrobatik feat. chuck d (!) & brenna gethers*
3. take it all in & check it all out - bill withers
4. the wiff - daddy rings*
5. garvey meade - ring craft posse
6. people can be so stupid - andru branch*
7. talkin' world war iii blues - bob dylan
8. cabidela - mombojo*
9. el microfono - mexican institute of sound*
10. tibiri tabara - cafe tacuba
11. je ne t'aime plus - manu chao
12. horses - cqmd
13. le chauffeur - urbs
14. a l'oree des bois - plants & animals*
15. we must destroy - jane vain & the dark matter*
16. stingray blues - the grass*
17. how electricity really works - mike ladd*
18. heatwave - buck 65*

So, this dude Mishka Lysack came in and told us about some really cool things that are happening to try and get people to give a shit about something, anything - but specifically in this case, climate change - here's some of the suggestions he had for tapping in:

Mishka was talking about a teach-in that happened on campus back a little while ago. The idea is to get normal people with varying degrees of scientific understanding of the issue to talk about climate change and how it effects them. It comes from an initiative called focus the nation that is growing and holding teach-ins all across the world. The group was started by this dude, who wrote a book about it.

Another grassroots group working to raise awareness and engage debate related to climate change is called step it up - they've started a new chapter in Calgary, and one of the main cogs in the global wheel is a dude named Bill McKibben.

One other group to check out for the more sciencey side of things - the intergovernmental panel on climate change.

Here are some books that Mishka recommends if you want to inform yourself:

Flannery, T. (2005). The weather makers: How we are changing the climate and what it means for life on earth. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers.

Goodstein, E. (2007). Fighting for love in the century of extinction: How passion and politics can stop global warming. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Press.

Kolbert, E. (2006). Field notes from a catastrophe. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

McKibben, B. (2006). The end of nature. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.

McKibben, B. (2007). Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company.

Monbiot, G. (2006). Heat: How to stop the planet from burning. Toronto: Doubleday Canada.

Woodbridge, R. (2005). The next world war: Tribes, cities, nations, and ecological decline. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

And here's one I would add - about the kind of paradigm shift we need to start acting on these issues - it's called dancing at the dead sea, by Alanna Mitchell.

This totally aggro dude called up right after Mishka and I got off the air, demanding to know when we were going to host a "real scientist", and wondering why media is so biased towards those who believe that climate change is actually an issue. He recommended that we all look into a fella called Dr Tim Ball - here's an interview with him, and he's also speaking at the university soon (although I couldn't find anything on the website about it...) - who is dying to tell us all why we're not actually changing the climate.

Anyway, I guess me and Mishka were naively assuming that we've all moved beyond the "is climate change even an issue?" debate, and on to the "what are we gonna do about it?" quagmire - I wonder if my caller wasn't partly expressing his frustration and hostility about the world moving on and leaving him behind. In any case, as I said last week, regardless of whether climate change is (in your opinion) a symptom of the stupid things we're doing to this planet or not, the FACT remains that we humans do some really incredibly phenominally dumb things to this planet, mostly stemming from the misapprehension that we're never going to run out of anything.

So, the tories won the election. So, there are people in this town (that listen to CJSW) that still don't think there's a problem with how we're treating the planet. So, almost no one gave a shit enough to go vote this monday. Does all this mean that democracy and hope for humanity are dead? I'd say it's up to you, and I can only speak for myself, but I'm not ready to give up. If anything, the last week's experiences have strengthened my resolve to hop up on the highest perch and let you all know why you must, at least, give a shit about something.

I'll let you stand on my box if I can stand on yours (I think Bob Dylan said that...)

A la prochaine,
greg