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radio, not preempted by baseball

cred: ipickmynose Starting in a few minutes I’ll on the air doing my “I Once Was Canadian” radio show on KZSU 90.1FM. The last hour was supposed to be preempted by Stanford baseball but it got rained...

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on the air with my radio show, “I once was Canadian”

cred: ipickmynose I’m on the air doing my “I Once Was Canadian” radio show on KZSU 90.1FM. I’ve got three hours! You can listen in each week to hear me Tuesdays from 3-6pm. Listen in! During either...

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I once was Canadian (on the radio)

cred: ipickmynose As of a couple minutes ago, I’m on the air doing my “I Once Was Canadian” radio show on KZSU 90.1FM. You can listen in each week to hear me Tuesdays from 3-6pm. Listen in! During...

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song obsession friday! (for the week ending april 24)

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel...

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I’m on the radio, much like every tuesday

cred: ipickmynose I’m on the air doing my radio show, which is called “I Once Was Canadian”, on KZSU 90.1FM. You can listen in each week to hear me Tuesdays from 3-6pm. Listen in! During either show...

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song obsession friday! (for the week ending May 14)

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel...

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I’m on the radio

cred: ipickmynose Baseball is shortening my show again this week, so I’ll be on till 4:50pm PST. My radio show, which is called “I Once Was Canadian”, on KZSU 90.1FM will run until 6pm PST (or,...

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song obsession friday! (for the week ending May 29)

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel...

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I once was Canadian (that’s my radio show) on the air

cred: ipickmynose After a week off, I’m back on the air. My radio show, which is called “I Once Was Canadian”, on KZSU 90.1FM will run until 6pm PST. Listen on the “radio” (remember those?) or online....

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links, songs, videos, etc.

Here are a bunch of links and thoughts and things that have come up over the last few days. — Yup, Michael Jackson died. I’ve been pondering whether to post about it. If you want a proper tribute and a...

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soul gospel 8 (plus two bonus tracks)

If you listened to my radio show you almost definitely heard me play soul and you probably heard me play some soul gospel. There’s so compelling about some of it–fervor mixed with hard soul. I’ve...

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the room is still there, the light is just off OR the restaurant is closed...

So the month is up. I sit here with my bags packed, an empty apartment now across town and a boarding pass ready to be printed. This is it, the end of ipickmynose as we know it. What that actually...

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don’t call it a comeback (because it ain’t)

This is emphatically not a return to form. I’ve been sharing songs with friends and I thought it was a bit silly to not share them here too. colo(u)rful houses in Bo Kaap I quite like this Alberta...

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wait, that’s not sam cooke! the ovations’“I’m livin’ good”

I love Ace Records’ oldies/ R&B compilations so I’ve picked some up without really knowing much about them. Some I listen to pretty frequently while a few have fallen by the wayside. The other day...

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down and dirty old-school R&B

a reissue of an early Tamla record You know I love soul. I love Motown’s soul pop sound. I love Stax’s hard driving soul and soul-funk. I’m into Dusty’s blue-eyed soul and some of that Northern Soul...

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great retro soul and funk: kings go forth + sharon jones

Sharon Jones @ Outside Lands, photo by Natalie Kardos I have no never-ending mental catalog of soul but I know my stuff–my collection includes all of Stax’s and Motown’s singles from 1959-1968 among...

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top song obsessions of the year (2010)

“Nothing Like You” by Frightened Rabbit was my top song obsession, photo by ipickmynose 2010 has been the oddest of my life, full of contradictions: the most amazing and most boring times; the most...

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Sam Cooke’s 80th birthday

Today would have been the truly incomparable Sam Cooke’s–called the Inventor of Soul–80th birthday. He started singing in soul groups and ended up in the influential Soul Stirrers. Eventually he took...

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collier – sounds like sunshine mixtape, vol 1 and 2

summer sky; idea shamelessly stolen from Natalie My friends, the Colliers, recently moved to LA and I wanted to send them off with a nice mix that would help them get settled in the City of Angles....

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song obsession friday! (nearish Valentine’s day)

Damien Jurado’s “Working Titles” was my song obsession this time Song obsessions are those songs that get stuck in your head. This series of posts isn’t about what I or the other panel members think...

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