Jim Valente, author of the Blood Passion novels is joined by inspiring actress Skye Lesa Johnson in hopes of working together on a film version of the books. This is Valente’s third time on Python’s Paradise and Johnson’s second. Enjoy!
RFYL Episode – ExemplaryEP081
You know, if we had 3 day weekends and 4 day work weeks, life would be essentially the same. Sure, less time at work, but then we’d all be looking super-forward to those 4 day weekends that we got once a month (Canada, I don’t know about other countries but we typically get one bonus day off a month [officially, anyway, min-wage jobs are great {Who even uses these kinds of brackets?}]) and then just go back to the old grind.
WHAT I AM SAYING: We easily build routines and can never be happy for long. If you disagree, then get your own radio show or something.
PLAYLIST:
Howl – Blood Red Shoes
Black & Red – Reignwolf
Whiskey & Mead – The Standstills
Stranded – Endless Fire
Dance Of The Lotus / Cynnu Tan – The Joy Formidable
Afterglow – Puta Volcano
Seven Seas – Kilmore
Hands – Like A Motorcycle
Defcon / Give Me All You’ve Got – Secondhand Habit
Astral Plane – Greystone Canyon
Life Party – TWRP
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Homemade Jams // 2019-08-09
Track Listing: 
1.) Little You, Little Me – Laying In My Bed
2.) Little You, Little Me – Fields
3.) Mrs. Hippie – Blood in the Streets
4.) Paper Beat Scissors – Gun Shy
5.) Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade – I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
6.) Evan LeBlanc – Home
7.) Quote The Raven – This Isn’t Love
8.) The Olympic Symphonium – Choral Voices
9.) Colin Fowlie – Santuary
10.) Foxwarren – Everything Apart
11.) Foxwarren – In Another Life
12.) Lucas Chaisson – Sunrise
13.) Internal Night – Your Own Truth
HitG 022: Character Death
Roleplaying games allow players to vicariously experience heroic actions with high risk and high reward — but sometimes those actions might fail, or the opposition is either just too powerful or gets a lucky strike. So, for such a dangerous profession, death is likely a highly probably event.
Just us as we talk about what role character death might play in your games, how it can be a good or a bad thing, and how to handle it when it might be sensitive.
Hosts: Mark, Chris, Anita
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The Lunchbox on History: The Acadians of Pointe-Sainte-Anne
Before this city was named Frederick’s Town, it was known at Pointe-Sainte-Anne, but it’s a history that isn’t often explored.
My guest today is Stephanie Pettigrew, the Research Director of a new exhibit at the Fredericton Region Museum focusing on the Acadian residents of Pointe-Sainte-Anne. In particular, Stephanie tells us about the discovery of a personal family connection to a prominent local Acadian farmer and intermediary.
How much do you think you know about New Brunswick history? Personally, I think we do a pretty bad job of teaching it, and most people don’t embrace it. I’m on a mission to learn more, so I’ve invited a collection of historians to help me learn more about the legacies, the achievements, the battles, the inventions, the troublesome eras and the long past of one of Canada’s oldest regions.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Carol Harquail (Dressmaker)
Art has the potential to encapsulate entire lifetimes in a single image, drawn from single moments imagined and expanded, composed out of strips of deconstructed cloth.
During the summer, the Fredericton Region Museum invites artists to work and demonstrate their art to visitors of the museum, bringing history to life. You’re encouraged to visit the museum for its slice of New Brunswick history, and then plan to spend time talking with the artists, just as we do on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Carol Harquail, a native fibre artist who uses her skills with sewing and cloth to carry on a tradition of making clothing with meaning. She making (and helping others make) dresses steeped in tradition, from the healing jingle dresses to the updated traditional ribbon skirts. She tells me a bit about how the journey through dressmaking has helped her uncover traditions and cultural beliefs of her peoples, and how she expresses them through her creations.
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!earshot20 // 2019-08-09
Hour One: 
1.) Jesca Hoop – 01 Tear
2.) Cat Clyde – All The Black
3.) DRI HIEV – Utility Man
4.) The Black Keys – Walk Across The Water
5.) Rich Aucoin – The Change
6.) Doomsquad – Let Yourself Be Seen
Interview with Wangled Teb
7.) Wangled Teb – Dark Place (Black Water Mix)
8.) Tanika Charles – Upside Down
9.) METZ – Dry Up
10.) Pottery – The Craft
Hour Two:
11.) Orville Peck – Take You Back (The Iron Hoof Cattle Call)
12.) Shotgun Jimmie – Sorry We’re Closed
13.) Foreign Diplomats – Road Wage
14.) Ada Lea – The Dancer
15.) Dumb – Don’t Sleep
16.) LAPS – Second Bed
News Headlines with Exclaim Magazine’s Calum Slingerland
17.) Tortue – Slither (Bonus Track)
18.) Black Mountain – Licensed To Drive
19.) PUP – Kids
20.) Mauno – Wouldn’t Give
21.) Necking – Rover
Mornings Are Hard // 2019-08-09
Track Listing: 
1.) Mr. Merlot – Fix Your Heart
2.) Caroline Rose – Animal
3.) Ellie Goulding – Your Song
4.) Henry Green – Electric Feel
5.) Gin Blossoms – Til I Hear It From You
6.) Thom Yorke – Dawn Chorus
7.) Scissor Sisters – Take You Mama
8.) Foreign Diplomats – Charger
9.) The Medium – Good Ol’ Days
10.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Plastic Boogie
11.) DRI HIEV – Aqua
12.) The Steve Adamyk Band – The Letter
13.) Black Mountain – Licensed To Drive
14.) METZ – Dry Up
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The Lunchbox Interview: Mary Grant (Rug Hooking)
Art has the potential to encapsulate entire lifetimes in a single image, drawn from single moments imagined and expanded, composed out of strips of deconstructed cloth.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Mary Grant, a fibre artist who creates intricate designs using rug hooking. She’s working on a project to represent an early Fredericton family’s slice of life, all represented one strand of cloth at a time.
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TEM Ep. 34 Yr. 2: Platonic Sundowns in July
Tour Itinerary:
First Stop:
“Futurism” by ComputeHer off the album Bliptastic!
Club Electric:
“Summer In July” by Yukon Blonde off the album Critical Hit
“Small Foreign Faction” by Haley Blais off the album Let Yourself Go
“Live Through The Night” by Dear Rouge off the album PHASES
Chiptune District:
“Burn and Fizzle” by Kitsune(squared) off the album Tracker’s Draft
“Untitled 135” by Random-Storykeeper
“Papercut You Into Little Pieces” by Marshall Art off the album Marshall Art
Future Hall:
“Platonique” by Snail’s House off the album L’été
“Cycles At Sundown” by Opus Science Collective off the album Girls on Bikes
“Twilight Run” by Visualeyes off the Playtime EP
VGM District:
“The Shell” by Garoad off the Yuppie Psycho Original Soundtrack
“She Shines” by Darren Corb off the Transistor Original Soundtrack
“Night” by Neal Acree off the Rend Original Soundtrack
Final Stop:
“Hear My Voice” by Hein Cooper off the album Underneath It All
Got any suggestions for future tours?
Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
or
Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com
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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-08-08
Track Listing:
1.) Plants & Animals – No Worries Gonna Find Us
2.) Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
3.) Tokyo Police Club – Hang Your Heart
4.) Sloan – Stand By Me, Yeah
5.) The Besnard Lakes – Albatross
6.) Mother Mother – Ghosting
7.) Walrus – Glam
8.) Wolf Parade – Shine A Light
9.) The Raconteurs – Bored & Razed
10.) Hot Hot Heat – Middle Of Nowhere
11.) Death From Above 1979 – Caught Up
12.) The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
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The Lunchbox Interview: Melanie Buyting (Oil Painting)
Painting is the art of throwing colour in patterns on canvas, often creating the illusion of lines as a byproduct of vision.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Melanie Buyting, a self-taught oil painter with a knack for vivid colour. Melanie talks about her plans to create a triptych representing the changes of seasons, following this year’s Barracks theme of trees by showing woods in transition. In addition, she is challenging herself to do figure painting, and shares the basic rules of oil painting which she learned from absorbing videos online.
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Homemade Jams // 2019-08-07
Track Listing:
1.) Pineo & Loeb – Lucky Man
2.) The Belle Comedians – Bess
3.) Pallmer – Blueprint
4.) Kurtis Eugene – Old Rooms New Light
5.) Ben Caplan – Seed of Love
6.) Kim Harris – Heirloom
7.) Sheik – Alone in the Dark
8.) Hello Delaware – Black Cherries
9.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Fortune
10.) Tortoise The Hare & The Millionaire – Bad Girls
11.) Chris Kirby – Pot Of Gold
12.) Pekoe Cat – Door Knockers (Belleville, ON)
13.) The Motorleague – Like You Were Alive
14.) Like A Motorcycle – Nobody Knows
Homemade Jams // 2019-08-06
Track Listing:
1.) Colin Fowlie – Sanctuary
2.) Tomato/Tomato – You Don’t Know Anything
3.) Kenny James – Bridge Street
4.) Blue Lobelia – At The Estuary
5.) James Hill & Anne Janelle – A Good Lover
6.) Matt Steele & The Corvette Sunset – It Won’t Happen Again
7.) Mauno – Vampire (Montreal, QC)
8.) Nap Eyes – Every Time The Feeling
9.) Marian – Same Town
10.) Little You Little Me – I Can Try
11.) Alexander & The Great Ones – A Love Letter To Alan Smithee
12.) Wangled Teb – Dark Place (Black Water Mix)
13.) Cursing & Swearing – Bitchcraft
14.) Ouroboros – Cabbage
Her Turn // 2019-08-06
Track Listing: 
1.) Bat For Lashes – Kids In The Dark
2.) Weyes Blood – Andromeda
3.) Kathleen Edwards – House Full Of Empty Rooms
4.) Barrie – Tal Uno
5.) Jenn Grant – Our Love
6.) Sarah Scriver – House Of Cards
7.) Crumb – Nina
8.) The Courtneys – Lost Boys
9.) Fair Maiden – Coal
10.) Zilo – Keep Up Wimmi
11.) The Beaches – Fascination
12.) Wangled Teb – Dark Place (Black Water Mix)
13.) Janelle Monae – Electric Lady ft. Solange
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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-08-07
Track Listing:
1.) Cage The Elephant, Beck – Night Running
2.) Spoon – Hot Thoughts
3.) Pineo & Loeb – Waterfalls
4.) Pekoe Cat – Mermaid Season
5.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – The Cruel Millennial
6.) Motherhood – Hallway
7.) Shotgun Jimmie – Cool All The Time
8.) Kandle – Demon
9.) Damien Rice – Volcano
10.) Rory Taillon – Gone
11.) Alice in Chains – No Excuses
12.) Danko Jones – I Love Love
13.) FET.NAT – Des Fois II
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Python’s Paradise Ep. 219 – 2018-05-17: Tami Stronach Interview 2
Tami Stronach, the Empress in The Never Ending Story returns to discuss the classic film, Luck Dragons, dance, theater, and a new film project called Ultra Low.
RFYL Episode – ByeFormatEP080
On this week’s episode – what do you mean it’s a long weekend and nobody’s paying attention?
Okay, whatever. Here’s a bunch of awesome music from when you get back from your RENTED CABINS or your FAMILY RETREATS or WHATEVER IT IS people do in the summer.
I just hide from the heat like the bottom-feeding insect I am.
Playlist:
The Broadcasters / Undefeated – Sumo Cyco
Money Tree – Tequila Mockingbird
Empty As My Pockets – Mokomokai
Pointing Fingers – Reason Define
Sea Sick – Grim Dylan
Wanna Don’t Wanna – Reignwolf
Game Over – Black Earth
Take Us All – Greystone Canyon
Rattle Your Bones – Diablo Strange
Break – Shades of Sorrow
Close Your Eyes – A Primitive Evolution
The War Inside – Meka Nism
Breakaway – Tsunami Bomb
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HitG 021: Alternatives to Pass/Fail
In almost all roleplaying games, the outcomes of a character’s attempted actions are far from certain, and are usually determined by a roll of the dice — modified by a character’s own abilities, the situation, etc.
Most of the time, the resulting number is checked against some sort of target threshold, and if you beat the threshold, the action happens.
But what about more nuanced results? How do decide if it was an outstanding success, or a marginal failure? How to determine outcomes by degrees, rather than pass/fail?
Hosts: Mark, Chris, Pat
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The Lunchbox on History: Black History of NB
How much do you think you know about New Brunswick history? Personally, I think we do a pretty bad job of teaching it, and most people don’t embrace it. I’m on a mission to learn more, so I’ve invited a collection of historians to help me learn more about the legacies, the achievements, the battles, the inventions, the troublesome eras and the long past of one of Canada’s oldest regions.
My guests today are Mary Louise McCarthy and Jennifer Dow, to talk about Black History in the province. Both have a very personal connection to the legacy of black people in New Brunswick, from the early days of slavery to the support of the Loyalists to the affinity for indigenous peoples. We begin this discussion today with a bit from the earliest days.
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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-08-02
Track Listing:
1.) Sugababes – Freak Like Me
2.) Wangled Teb – Dark Place (Black Water Mix)
3.) Elisapie – Arnaq
4.) Letters To Cleo – Cruel To Be Kind
5.) Black Suit Devil – Firefly
6.) Liz Phair – Never Said
7.) Jack White – Lover Interruption
8.) Julia Jacklin – Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You
9.) Hozier – Movement
10.) David Gray – This Year’s Love
11.) The Pretty Reckless – You
12.) Colin Fowlie – Last Time
13.) Mauno – Vampire
14.) Foreign Diplomats – City Luv
Mornings Are Hard // 2019-08-01
Track Listing:
1.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Fortune
2.) The Hypochondriacs – Just Like Before
3.) Colter Wall – Sleeping On The Blacktop
4.) Noah Kahan – Cynic
5.) Elliott Brood – Cadillac Dust
6.) July Talk – Paper Girl
7.) Hozier – Work Song
8.) Dwayne Gretzky – S.O.S
9.) Deerhunter – Death in Midsummer
10.) Whitehorse – Sweet Melissa Jean
11.) Art of the Possible – Bury Me
12.) Le Trouble – How Was I To Know?
13.) Alert The Medic – Echo and Fade
14.) The Jimmy Swift Band – Two Hands On The Wheel
Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-31
Track Listing:
1.) Anemone – She’s The One
2.) Frazey Ford – September Fields
3.) The Marwills – Runnin’ Out Of Time
4.) The Ascot Royals – We’re All Fine
5.) Yukon Blonde – Saturday Night
6.) Matthew Chaim – Crash
7.) After Funk – Face In The Crowd
8.) Beat Market – Nebula
9.) The Franklin Electric – I Know The Feeling
10.) Royal Wood – Something About You
11.) Bahamas – All The Time
12.) The Bros. Landreth – Got To Be You
13.) Money & The Man – 25th Century Breakdown
14.) The Motorleague – Burned In Effigy
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The Lunchbox Interview: Jasmine Cull (Basketweaving)
It’s always astonishing to use a material like wood, through techniques and patterns not found in nature, to create forms and representations of nature itself.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Jasmine Cull, an artist who practices basketweaving, albeit not always to make baskets. She was at the Barracks making sculptures using basketweaving techniques, and combining natural materials as raw materials in other art constructions. She describes the practice of carefully bending wood, as well as the importance to see, experience and practice other art techniques.
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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-30
Track Listing:
1.) Sufjan Stevens – Love Yourself
2.) MorMor – Outside
3.) Goth Babe – Weekend Friend
4.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Cyboogie
5.) Jane’s Party – Satellite
6.) Mother Mother – Business Man
7.) Sloan – Essential Services
8.) The Racounteurs – Don’t Bother Me
9.) Florence + The Machine – Addicted To Love
10.) Beirut – Gallipoli
11.) The Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
12.) The Motorleague – Like You Were Alive
13.) Jessie Brown – Debt (We Ain’t Got No Money)
14.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Organ Farmer
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