B Street : November 9, 2020

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Wow, what a week, huh?

Show playlist from November 9, 2020:

1) R.E.M. “Finest Worksong” (Mutual Drum Horn Mix, from Eponymous)
2) Jennah Barry “Roller Disco” (from Holiday)
3) Jerry-Faye “Good Heart” (from Jerry-Faye)
4) Jenn Grant “Happy Birthday Baby” (from Reimagine)
5) Busty and the Bass feat. Macy Gray “Out Of Love” (from Eddie)
6) Video Age “Aerostar” (from Pleasure Line)
7) My Black Ram “Sweet Time” (from My Black Ram)
8) Foo Fighters “Shame Shame” (from the forthcoming record Medicine At Midnight)
9) Peach Kelli Pop “Close To You” (from Lucky Star)
10) Emma Kupa “Nothing At All” (from It Will Come Easier)
11) memphis “Desire”
12) Donovan Woods “Good Lover” (from Both Ways)
13) Patti Smith “People Have The Power” (from Dream of Life)
B Street airs Monday nights at 8pm and encores Wednesday mornings at 7am. Find me on Twitter at @BStreetCHSR

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-11-06

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Tracklisting:
1.) Mav Karlo – Strangers Like Us
2.) Modest Mouse – Float On
3.) Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
4.) Helena Deland – Dog
5.) Faye Webster – Kingston
6.) Ora Cogan – Tell
7.) Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
8.) Jane Blanchard – Still, Again
9.) Mother Mother – Let’s Fall In Love
10.) The Black Keys – Eagle Birds
11.) Freak Heat Waves – Dripping Visions
12.) The Elwins – Weight Of The World
13.) Busty and the Bass – Kids
14.) Ada Lea – mercury
15.) Heaps – Softly

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-11-05

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Tracklisting:
1.) Morohubu – Might Be Wrong
2.) Doomsquad – General Hum
3.) French Cassettes – Utah
4.) Djo – Roddy
5.) Fruit Bats – Hummer
6.) Amo Amo – Meteor Martyr
7.) Begonia – Living at the Ceiling
8.) Jenny Banai – Paper Plain
9.) Leif Vollebekk – Hot Tears
10.) Matt Holibowski – Two Paper Moons
11.) The Olympic Symphonium – Choral Voices
12.) Geoffroy – The Fear Of Falling Apart

Homemade Jams // 2020-11-05

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Tracklisting:
1.) Richie Young – Daytime Rambler
2.) Richie Young – Relocated
3.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Animals
4.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Fortune
5.) Kylie Fox – Glowstars
6.) Kylie Fox – This Beer
7.) Long Distance Runners – Election Day
8.) Long Distance Runners – Sally Ann
9.) Motherhood – Hallway
10.) Motherhood – Way Down
11.) Janowskii – Genocide
12.) Janowskii – Treat Everybody The Same
13.) Chloé Breault – Qui gagnera
14.) Chloé Breault – Pack It Up

RFYL Episode – ShapechangeEP137

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

Hey folks, still feeling like a hot dumpster fire thrown into a frozen lake but hey, we got a new episode with new content and I need to go lay down because my medication is totally messing with me still.

Fire requests off to RunForYourLifeCHSR [at] gmail.com !

Sorry for the short and sweet post today but staring at a screen is killing me.

Playlist:
The Long Road To Zurich – The JB Conspiracy
White Lies – Powder for Pigeons
Chase The Sun – Kitchen Witch
Sacred Heart – Rezurex
Burst Into Flames – Sinful Ways
Let It Burn – Rockin’ Engine
Ignite – Osyron
Missed – From The Depth
Final Hour – Tzimani
Better Off Dead – A Primitive Evolution
Return To Me / Faster Than Light – Unleash The Archers
To The Edge – Husky by the Geek

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The Lunchbox 2020-11-05: Transformative Performance

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On the show:

  • Redheads, rejoice! It’s Love Your Red Hair Day.
  • “Remember, remember, the 5th of November.” Infamous words about a turbulent time, sometimes referred to as Gunpowder Day or Guy Fawkes Day.
  • “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Or, as one of my former managers put it: “You have to have a plan; only then can you deviate from it!” It’s not easy to wrangle cats, to hats off for Project Management Day.

Feature presentation:

  • The Silver Wave Film Festival starts tonight with a gala presentation of Bone Cage. Back in 2018, I spoke with Len Falkenstein, Alex Pannier and Devin Rockwell who were performing in Theatre UNB’s stage version of the original play.
  • And in 2017, I spoke with one of 2020’s Faces of Mental Illness (as decided by Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH)), author Keith Lyons about his book Oh No, It’s Thursday!
  • Lainie B brought another Positive Song For Pandemics, this time bringing out a classic: Elvis Costello‘s (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding.

Events:

  • As mentioned before the Silver Wave Film Festival starts tonight, and many of the streamed movies are going to be free for folks from the Maritimes.
  • The TNB Fall Festival of New Plays continues this week with two performances. First up, join them tonight at 7:30pm for a reading of new work by Jena McLean called An Ocean of Evergreens. On Sunday afternoon at 2pm, tune in for Wood Buffalo by “the grand poobah of theatre” Len Falkenstein.
  • Maggie’s Farm Revival are playing this evening at 5:30pm at Dolan’s Pub.
  • Visit The Charlotte Street Arts Centre tonight at 7:30pm for Playing With Fire, part of the Symphony New Brunswick Virtuoso Series. Tickets are available at the door for $26 for adults, $10 for students or free for children. For more information, visit: symphonynb.com, email symphony@nbnet.nb.ca, or call 634-8379.

No news today due to technical problems.

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The Lunchbox 2020-11-04: Listen To The Music of Your Heart

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On the show:

  • The whole world held its breath, but it was time to let it out and move on with life. It was Stress Awareness Day and Use Your Common Sense Day.
  • I went back in time to talk to Made Them Lions (2015) and The Bad Friends (2016), and we heard a little music from Made Them Lions.

News update:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • The crown completed the cross-examination of Matthew Vincent Raymond yesterday.
  • The Vitalite Health Network has appointed an interim president and CEO.
  • A 26-year-old man from Cocagne has been arrested following a standoff with police.
  • Applications for funding from the province’s Environmental Trust Fund are now open until the end of the month.
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is among the many Canadians keeping an eye on the results of last night’s U-S election.
  • And Quebec Premier Francois Legault says his government will announce new mental health investments.
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Homemade Jams // 2020-11-04

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Tracklisting:
1.) Stinking Rich – Love Her So
2.) Chris Kirby – Pot Of Gold
3.) Roxy & The Underground Soul Sound – Puppet
4.) The Stogies – You Don’t Look Too Good
5.) Dr. Thunder & The Electromagnetic Funk – Funk Thing
6.) Aquakultre – I Doubt It
7.) Sean One – Let It Go
8.) Will Pacey – Away
9.) Off Season – Civil War
10) Colin Fowlie – This Maze
11.) Adam Mowery – Pilcher’s Flowers
13.) Beauts – Drifters, All
14.) Burning Coast – Fragile
15.) Jessie Brown – Ghost
16.) Like A Motorcycle – Swept Out

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-11-04

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Tracklisting:
1.) Portugal. The Man – Tomorrow
2.) Beck, Khruangbin – No Distractions
3.) Tame Impala – Borderline
4.) Yves Jarvis – Notch In Your Belt
5.) Keonté Beals – Let Go
6.) Yellow Days, Mac DeMarco – The Curse
7.) Fleet Foxes – Can I Believe You
8.) Jennifer Castle – Justice
9.) Little Cities – Can I Come Over?
10.) Dane Roberts – Dancing In The Living Room
11.) Matt Dusk – Fly Me To The Moon
12.) Satellite and the Harpoonist – Justine
13.) Chloè Breault – Que voulez-vous
14.) Pop Co-Op – Catching Light
15.) Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Activate

Homemade Jams // 2020-11-03

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Tracklisting:
1.) bleum – Poison
2.) With Violet – If It Can’t Be Love (Don’t Wanna Know)
3.) Rachel Beck – Warrior
4.) Grand Theft Bus – Hot Laundry
5.) The Belle Comedians – Rosy
6.) Weak Size Fish – Elevate
7.) The Trick – You Find It In Others
8.) Wicked Vices – Sharks
9.) Rachel Cousins – Dangerous Love
10.) Kim Harris – Once You Were Wonderous
11.) Michael S. Ryan – Empire
12.) Jennah Barry – Roller Disco
13.) DenMother – Dead Winter
14.) Stewart Legere – Wrong Machine
15.) Simon Daniel – Nightcrawler

The Lunchbox 2020-11-03: Tell A Story

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On the show:

  • It was Sandwich Day, Candy Day and Jellyfish Day, but I don’t suggest you combine those together directly…
  • You bet your bottom dollar, it’s Cliche Day. This is the only day where they cannot be objected to, so make the most of it.
  • Today was Japanese Culture Day, a day to celebrate their contributions to music, art, literature, philosophy and more!
  • And, of course, it’s United States Election Day. Wish our neighbours well; it’s been a trying time, and this might signal a positive change.

Feature presentation:

  • I released an audio drama that I produced on Friday (What Was It?), but that meant that I wasn’t able to repeat my celebration of the day interview with Jack Ward of Mutual Audio Network and The Sonic Society from 2014. So, here it is!
  • And coming up on November 27 at The Charlotte Street Arts Centre will be the album release for Sleepy Driver Presents Northeastern Chorus. I spoke to Peter Hicks about this project earlier this year. I also included a couple of tracks from the album: Bar Nuts and Sauvignon Blanc and The Last Chord.

Upcoming Events:

  • It’s the last chance to catch Dinner and a Show: “Let’s Fall In Love”, a production of Spearhead Theatre Company at 5:30pm in Maxwell’s at The Crowne Plaza-Lord Beaverbrook. It’s a bubble table of 4 people. with a 4-course meal and a play featuring Jacob Martin and Kelly McAllister as two friends who met on a dating app just before the pandemic hit. Get your tickets quick on EventBrite.
  • Unfortunately, the final performance of the other Dinner and a Show: “Know Brunswick?” has been cancelled for this Wednesday night.

News updates:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • Matthew Vincent Raymond insists he didn’t stage evidence about his delusions at his trial yesterday.
  • A ribbon-cutting was held in St. Stephen this weekend to celebrate the first two-kilometres of the Coastal Link Trail Project.
  • RCMP is turning to the public for help locating two missing 15-year-olds from Miramichi.
  • The already-postponed Jeux de l’Acadie Finals could end up being pushed back another year.
  • Ottawa is spending another $204-million to help First Nations deal with the pandemic.
  • And after months of campaigning, American voters will learn who will be president for the next four years.
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The Lunchbox 2020-11-02: Start By Looking Back

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On the show:

  • It was Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day, which is not about people who talk about pile-ups on the Transcanada, but rather about the people who help ads to flow through a radio or television station. Maybe less sexy, because it’s unlikely they are going to use a helicopter, but just as important!
  • I didn’t know anything about Dynamic Harmlessness Day, but as I understand the idea, it is to recognize the harms we each individually cause in the universe, and figure out how we can systematically lower each of them. It was started by a vegan, so you can imagine their first suggestion.
  • Around the world, there are things happening that are important for people to know about, and it’s journalists who walk on the edge of that, often putting themselves in harm’s way. They are sometimes even targets of violence or other crimes. That is something we should not tolerate, and the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is recognized by the United Nations to support this idea.
  • On November 2 of 1783, new settlers in the St. Anne’s Point area (now Fredericton) experienced their first snowfall and freezing temperatures. They camped in small tents without floors and had no provisions for the upcoming winter.

Feature presentation:

  • Because of the historical nature of the day, I decided to bring forth two of my chats with local historians. I spoke to Stephanie Pettigrew on her research into Witchcraft in NB, and Leah Grandy about her work in Uncovering Loyalist Stories.
  • And because I wanted some music to lift things up, I turned to the unstoppable voice of Ben Caplan for Down to the River.

News update:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • The Department of Education signed an agreement with the Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association for the 2020-21 school year.
  • A national civil liberties group has filed legal notice in a suit against New Brunswick and its lack of access to abortions.
  • RCMP say a 40-year-old Pigeon Hill man is facing a number of charges after an incident in the community on Wednesday.
  • A new survey shows universities in Atlantic Canada have seen declines in enrolment due to uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The stone cenotaph in Barker’s Point on Fredericton’s northside was refurbished this year thanks to Veterans Affairs Canada.
  • And the province says municipal transit services will receive almost $1.6 million in funding for relief related to COVID-19.
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B Street : November 2, 2020

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Welcome to November! (Tell me it gets better from here…)

Show playlist from November 2, 2020:

1) HAIM “Now I’m In It” (from Women In Music Part III)

2) Tomato Tomato “Chasing Rainbows” (from It’ll Come Around, out November 20)

3) Hannah Georgas “That Emotion” (from All The Emotion)

4) Angel Olsen “Whole New Mess” (from Whole New Mess)

5) The Hypochondriacs “Just Like Before” (from In 3/4)

6) Gary Clark Jr. “When I’m Gone” (from This Land)

7) Neighbourhood Watch “Rattenkrieg” (from Postponed: The Mixtape)

8) Motörhead “Live To Win” (from Ace of Spades)

9) Cold War Kids “Almost A Crime” (from Good Music To Avert The Collapse of American Democracy Volume 2)

10) Luke Doucet and the White Falcon “Sundown” (from Steel City Trawler)

11) Fleet Foxes “Can I Believe You” (from Shore)

12) Wicked Vices “Butterfly”

13) The Firey “Myself”

14) Marian “Same Town”

15) Pearl Jam “Can’t Deny Me”

B Street airs Monday nights at 8pm and encores Wednesday mornings at 6am. Find me on Twitter at @BStreetCHSR

 

 

!earshot 20 // 2020-10-27

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Hour One:
#20 – Pantayo – Heto Na
#19 – Freak Heat Waves – Dripping Visions
Bonus Track – Elephant Skeletons – Calm the Cloud
#18 – Lomelda – Both Mode
#17 – Dizzy – Sunflower
#16 – Elliott BROOD – Oh Me
Bonus Track – Satellite and the Harpoonist – Satellite Man
#15 – Bully – Where To Start
#14 – Le Couleur – Concorde
#13 – Dog Day – Under The Weight Of Your Word
#12 – CRi – Friends In Secret
Bonus Track – Chloè Breault – Menteur 
#11 – Beverly Glenn-Copeland – This Side Of Grace
Hour Two:
#10 – Marie Davidson, L’Oeil – Just In My Head
#09 – Thanya Iyer – Let The Smoke Clear
#08 – METZ – The Mirror
#07 – Orville Peck – Kids
Bonus Track – Colin Fowlie – Another Drug (acoustic)
#06 – Fleet Foxes – A Long Way Past The Past
#05 – Busty and the Bass – Summer
#04 – IDLES – A Hymn
Bonus Track – The Firey – Myself 
#03 – Yves Jarvis – Ambrosia
#02 – Tough Age – Mathers Ave.
Bonus Track – Ought – Men for Miles 
#01 – Osees – If I Had My Way

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Mornings Are Hard // 2020-10-30

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Tracklisting:
1.) Chris Kirby – Victoria
2.) Busty and the Bass – Out Of Love
3.) Rich Aucoin – Civil
4.) TWRP – Black Swan
5.) Blue Hawaii – I Felt Love
6.) Odario – Hot Hot Heat
7.) Yves Jarvis – For Props
8.) Hannah Georgas – Dreams
9.) Jody Glenham – Friday Night Lights
10.) Land Of Talk – A/B Futures
11.) Heaps – Get It Back
12.) New Fries – Bangs
13.) Self-Cut Bangs – Perfect Posture
14.) Terra Lightfoot – Called Out Your Name

Homemade Jams // 2020-10-30

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Tracklisting:
1.) Pony Rouge – Prince De Funk
2.) Black Dimes – Popcorn
3.) Artifiseer – In Havoc’s Hands
4.) Mandy Silk – Leaver
5.) Adyn Townes – Diamonds
6.) Heat and Lights – A Part You Can’t Play
7.) HIllsburn – Waking Up
8.) Lil Omar – El Puente
9.) Dillon Ryan & The Dream Romantic – River Of Past Reflection
10.) Short For Arthur – Planting Seeds
11.) Young Satan In Love – Datin’ Satan
12.) Kill Chicago – The Grey
13.) Jane Blanchard – Still, Again
14.) Nebllama – The Swing

The Lunchbox 2020-10-29: Found In Translation

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On today’s show:

  • Proof that the feline fundamentals of the web are true: it’s both Internet Day and Cat Day. I rest my paws. HANDS. I rest my hands.
  • Lainie B from Monday night’s B Street comes through with another installment of Positive Songs For Pandemics. This time, it’s Hawksley Workman‘s Around Here.
  • CONGRATULATIONS TO CHSR’S OWN ERIN BOND! Erin was recognized at Prix MusicNB Awards as the HARDEST WORKING PERSON OF THE YEAR for 2020! The ongoing celebration continues with Bondo’s Pick of Hey Major‘s song Brother.
  • My own choice of music today was Tupperware Remix Party, aka TWRP, and The Droids You’re Looking For.
  • We continue to look back at this fall’s Word Feast, with the chair of this year’s convention, Jo-Anne Elder talking about an event near and dear to her own heart, Translation.

News updates:

  • New Brunswick public health reported three new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • Matthew Vincent Raymond continued testimony at his own trial yesterday where the court heard his activities days before the shooting.
  • New Brunswick seafood giant Cooke aquaculture has purchased Massachusetts based company Mariner Seafood.
  • The New Brunswick RCMP says a 39-year-old Dieppe man has been arrested after a drug raid.
  • Good news for motorists this week as the price of gas dropped by a few cents.
  • The chair of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission says mandatory mask rules don’t violate any section of the Human Rights Act.
  • And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got straight to the point during a COVID-19 press conference this week.
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RFYL Episode – SoulbindEP136

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

Well hello, random strangers. My voice has come back long enough to record an episode and let me tell you a couple things here that I didn’t say on the show: 1. I missed doing this, 2. This was actually pretty hard for me to do. The music is always easy to find, the playlists straightforward to set up, but my vocal chords are blowing out pretty easily these days.. I don’t know how much longer for this world RFYL is.

But until I make a decision and figure out if a hiatus is in order, we’ll continue as planned as long as I can, with breaks as needed. As always, send music my way if you want it played. If you have requests, make ’em. And if you like everything I’m doing.. well, you don’t have to do anything different.

See you on the other side. Enjoy the podcast!

Playlist:
Pressure – Cory Hotline
You Keep Me Hangin’ On / Captain Groovy & His Bubblegum Army – Napalmpom & Night Committee
Everything I Need – The Dyadics
True Bearings – Freeways
You Make Everything – Getaway Van
The Pagans – Diablo Strange
Welcome To The World – Gygax
Paradox / Facade – Shades of Sorrow
Saboteur – Sandveiss
Giant – Chron Goblin
Abyss – Unleash The Archers

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The Lunchbox 2020-10-30: What Was It?

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Celebrations!

  • Today is Checklist Day. So, the first list to make is, of course: the list of lists to make!
  • As we barrel toward Halloween, today is also Candy Corn Day. You can keep it, thanks.
  • Tonight is Haunted Refrigerator Night – so banish those undead leftovers!
  • Of course, Saturday is Halloween, but it’s also more generally Magic Day. So, if you see things that don’t seem real, it might just be magic!
  • Don’t forget to turn your clocks back this weekend, early Sunday morning at 2am!
  • In addition to being the beginning of Movember and Dia de los Muertos, Sunday is also the start of NaNoWriMo, so get those pencils, pens or keyboards ready to receive your stories. Write! Write! Write!
  • CONGRATULATIONS TO CHSR’S OWN ERIN BOND! Erin was recognized at Prix MusicNB Awards as the HARDEST WORKING PERSON OF THE YEAR for 2020! The ongoing celebration continues with Bondo’s Pick of Young Satan In Love‘s song Roar For War. In keeping with the Halloween theme, I also chose a song by Young Satan In Love from the Postponed: A Mixtape album that Bondo helped bring into fruition this year. That album features many great artists from across the province, and for YSIL it was Datin’ Satan.

Feature presentation:

Today is also World Audio Drama Day, celebrating the anniversary of one of the most famous live radio theatre productions ever made: the infamous War of the Worlds production done by Orson Welles in 1938. That coincidence inspired me enough to finish work on my own audio drama, just in time for Halloween!

I love audio drama, especially the style that was done during the golden age, often referred to as “old-time-radio” today. It was bombastic, over-the-top and amazing. It challenged your imagination, it was clever and evocative, it was enthralling.

Today, there is a thriving culture of audio drama. Here on the station, we carry one of the pre-eminent collections of it, The Sonic Society, which has grown to become the much larger Mutual Audio Network.

This summer, there was to be a large convention called MADCon, or the Modern Audio Drama Convention, in Halifax. For obvious reasons, this has been postponed until next summer. I’m looking forward to that, not least of which because now I can say I’m truly a producer, and not just a participant and fan.

Over a year ago, I was challenged to do a remake of an Old Time Radio show by Jack Ward of the Mutual Audio Network. Last summer, I gathered a bunch of interested people together, we wrote a brand new script, recorded it, and then… I lost my editor.

I took on the editing myself — which I’ve done before, but I knew I didn’t really have the time. I had intended to get it out by Halloween of 2019, and it just didn’t happen.

A bit discouraged, I let the edits sit where they were for almost a year. But… I finished it satisfactorily last night! I was very close, mostly just tweaking a few levels and timing. I’m very happy to have finished it, and look forward to more projects.

Thanks to actors and supporters, the co-writer Greg Everett.

And yes: if you miss it live at noon, it will be podcasted on CHSR.

And so I present, long overdue and just in time: What Was It? (c) 2020 by The Weird Circle Squared.

Happy Halloween!

Events Calendar:

  • Halloween in full effect this week!
    • Each night this week from 6pm to 11pm with the annual APEGNB Haunted Tour #2020 edition at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. It’s operating under COVID-protection rules (wear a mask, hand-sanitize at the door, don’t come if you’re sick/have been sick/have been exposed) as well as travelling through in bubbles of four people. You’ll need to buy your ticket ahead of time and be on time!
    • Science East Halloween continues on Friday from noon to 4pm and runs through Sunday for an opportunity for all the little ghouls and goblins to play some Halloween I Spy, learn about Halloween science, see demos and play games in a safe, socially distanced environment! See the Facebook page for more details.
    • The Pepper Creek Scare Fest at 106 Rolling Hill Drive in St Mary’s happens on Halloween night at 7pm to 9:30pm. There are zombies, ghouls, monsters, animatronics, lights and sound effects to bring a “chill” to your Halloween Fun! They will be following all COVID-19 guidelines and 4 families are combining treats for the kiddies. See the Facebook event for more details.
    • Hot Garbage Players Present Spooky Soup on Saturday afternoon at 4pm at The Cap. Spooky Soup is made with the finest local talent with hints of spooky stories and the Improv you’ve come to love. Grab a spoon and dig in! See the Facebook event for more details.
  • It’s also a theatre week!
    • The 2nd Annual Plain Site Theatre Festival is online this year from Wednesday, October 28 through October 31. This theatre festival aims to foster LGBTQ2+ talent and visibility. This years lineup of digital plays includes, readings, performances and workshops includes three new plays for this year, two plays adapted from last year, and two special productions.  See the Facebook event for more details.
    • TNB’s Fall Festival of New Plays continues this week on Sunday, November 1 at 2:00pm with John Barlow‘s Inspiration Point. John Barlow is a Migmaw from the Indian Island First Nation. These days you can find him operating Indian Island Riverside Log Cabins on Airbnb and puttering around the yard.
      Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration Point speaks about life on a small Maritime reservation and the constant struggle for cultural survival. See the TNB page for full details. The Festival continues until November 25.
  • Music this week:
    • Matchstick Mike will be on-stage live on Friday at 7pm at The Tipsy Muse Café
    • Kylie Fox will play on stage at The Charlotte Street Arts Centre on Friday at 7pm, along with Jerry-Faye & Dylan
    • The Persuaders are at Dolan’s Pub on Friday and Saturday nights at 9pm

News updates:

  • New Brunswick’s top doctor reported another outbreak at a long-term care home in zone five yesterday afternoon.
  • Matthew Vincent Raymond continued testimony at his own trial yesterday where a jury heard he felt horrible for taking innocent lives.
  • The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission released new guidelines for special programs early this week.
  • A 71-year-old woman is dead after a collision between a pickup truck and a sedan in Losier Settlement.
  • The Canadian Armed Forces will conduct training exercises on a stretch of the St. John River between Oromocto and Swan Lake today and tomorrow.
  • A Halifax travel agency is offering two, weeklong trips to Cuba reserved for residents of the Atlantic bubble.
  • And during the first wave, long term care homes left Canada with one of the highest death rates connected to COVID-19.
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Homemade Jams // 2020-10-29

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Tracklisting:
1.) Raglan Road – Can’t You See
2.) Regal Beagle Band – Lost & Found
3.) Michael S. Ryan – Mr. Universe
4.) Brookside Mall – Joan?
5.) Don Brownrigg – Tom’s Diner
6.) Braden Lam – Forest Fires
7.) Noah Malcolm – If Not
8.) Tampa – Hot Minute
9.) Leanne Hoffman – Growin’ Old
10.) Christine Campbell – Exit Out
11.) James Hill & Anne Janelle – Billie Jean
12.) The Stogies – Skeleton Crew
13.) The Firey – Break Me Free
14.) Hero’s Last Rite – Enough

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-10-29

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Tracklisting:
1.) The Flamingos Pink – Morning Light
2.) Stuck On Planet Earth – Rising
3.) Wares – Tall Girl
4.) Wicked Vices – Butterfly
5.) Osees – If I Had My Way
7.) Heat $heets – Groger
8.) The Motorleague – Failsafes
9.) PUP – A.M. 180
10.) Neighbourhood Watch – We Will Carry On
11.) Richie Young – Daytime Rambler
12.) Michael Scott Dawson – London, 4AM
13.) Jenny Banai – Paper Plain
14.) Heaps – Softly
15.) Smokekiller – Feeling Good

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-10-28

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Tracklisting:
1.) Melting Mallows – Shake It Off
2.) The White Stripes – The Denial Twist
3.) Tough Age – Possession
4.) Jake Winstrom – Come To Texas She Said
5.) Jon McKiel – Object Permanence
6.) Andy Shauf – Neon Skyline
7.) Frank Ene – No Longer
8.) The Brooks – Gameplay
9.) The Brooks – So Turned On
10.) Gone From My Sight – Voices On A Plane
11.) Dream Reporter – Where Do We Go From Here?
12.) Deep Covers – Repeater
13.) Tiger Suit – It’s Just You

Homemade Jams // 2020-10-28

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Tracklisting:
1.) Ryan Hillier – Falling Into
2.) Ross Neilsen – City Of Regrets
3.) The Olympic Symphonium – Choral Voices
4.) Chris Kirby – Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
5.) The Hypochondriacs – Last Night
6.) Ladd & Lasses – Never Knowing
7.) Rube & Rake – What Will
8.) Les Jeunes d’asteure – Goupil jones
9.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive
10.) Melonvine – Count Me In
11.) Joey Robin Haché – Imbécile
12.) Diner Drugs – Gump Truck
13.) Gloryhound – I Need Ya

The Lunchbox 2020-10-28: Art Companions

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On today’s show:

  • Go ahead and admit it: you’ve probably got a stuffed companion somewhere! And if you don’t: today’s a great day to get one! It’s Plush Animal Lovers Day!
  • And if you’re looking for something new to watch, why not consider something drawn from another country? It’s International Animation Day, so give it a whirl, even if it’s something domestic.
  • CONGRATULATIONS TO CHSR’S OWN ERIN BOND! Erin was recognized at Prix MusicNB Awards as the HARDEST WORKING PERSON OF THE YEAR for 2020! The ongoing celebration continues with Bondo’s Pick of My Black Ram‘s Another Lover from their debut self-titled album.
  • We continue to look back at this fall’s Word Feast, with the original founder of the feast, Ian LeTourneau, talking about Word Feast’s Video Poetry Bash. We also feature one of the poets, Emily Scov-Neilsen, with a reading of her poem Painting Suburbia.
  • Today’s extra music comes from one of my delights: Doom by Before The War.
  • Halloween in full effect this week!
    • Each night this week from 6pm to 11pm with the annual APEGNB Haunted Tour #2020 edition at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. It’s operating under COVID-protection rules (wear a mask, hand-sanitize at the door, don’t come if you’re sick/have been sick/have been exposed) as well as travelling through in bubbles of four people. You’ll need to buy your ticket ahead of time and be on time!
    • Science East Halloween starts on Thursday from noon to 4pm and runs through Sunday for an opportunity for all the little ghouls and goblins to play some Halloween I Spy, learn about Halloween science, see demos and play games in a safe, socially distanced environment! See the Facebook page for more details.
    • The Pepper Creek Scare Fest at 106 Rolling Hill Drive in St Mary’s happens on Halloween night at 7pm to 9:30pm. There are zombies, ghouls, monsters, animatronics, lights and sound effects to bring a “chill” to your Halloween Fun! They will be following all COVID-19 guidelines and 4 families are combining treats for the kiddies. See the Facebook event for more details.
    • Hot Garbage Players Present Spooky Soup on Saturday afternoon at 4pm at The Cap. Spooky Soup is made with the finest local talent with hints of spooky stories and the Improv you’ve come to love. Grab a spoon and dig in! See the Facebook event for more details.
  • Join Thaddeus Holownia for a discussion called A Love Affair With Looking on Thursday at noon, part of the NBCCD Advanced Studio Practice Free Guest Lecture Series. These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural and academic achievements of artists, designers and fine craft practitioners. They are free of charge and open to the public. Watch the lectures on Zoom each Thursday at 12pm at this link: bit.ly/guest-lecture-series.
  • It’s a theatre week!
    • Missed “Know Brunswick?” last week? No worries! It’s happening at Maxwell’s at The Crowne Plaza Fredericton-Lord Beaverbrook at 5:30pm on this Wednesday and next Wednesday. A blend of stand-up comedy, trivia, improv, and maybe a little serious scripted drama thrown in?! See the EventBrite event for more details and to get tickets.
    • The 2nd Annual Plain Site Theatre Festival is online this year from Wednesday, October 28 through October 31. This theatre festival aims to foster LGBTQ2+ talent and visibility. This years lineup of digital plays includes, readings, performances and workshops includes three new plays for this year, two plays adapted from last year, and two special productions.  See the Facebook event for more details.
    • TNB’s Fall Festival of New Plays continues this week on Thursday, October 29 at 7:30pm with Caroline Coon‘s It Happened at a Party. It Happened at A Party focuses on the grey areas of sexual assault. Relationships and situations are complicated and are never as black and white as society makes them out to be. We begin with three young adults named Lexi, Ryan and Tyler as they drink and get ready to go out to a party. After much prodding, they convince their friend Camille to join them for a night of fun. Recently, she has been distant from the group after coping with tragedy but agrees to join them. The night goes on and Camille ends up in an uncomfortable situation. As she faces doubt from her friends and denial from her attacker, we are faced with the unfair experiences of sexual assault victims today. This play is intended to open difficult conversations and pave the way for a new reality. See the TNB page for full details. The Festival continues until November 25.
  • If you love taking beautiful photographs, you should join Photo Fredericton for their monthly meeting this Tuesday night at 7pm online. For more details, visit photofredericton.ca.
  • Music this week:
    • Matchstick Mike will be on-stage live on Friday at 7pm at The Tipsy Muse Café
    • Kylie Fox will play on stage at The Charlotte Street Arts Centre on Friday at 7pm, along with Jerry-Faye & Dylan
    • The Persuaders are at Dolan’s Pub on Friday and Saturday nights at 9pm

News updates:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported three new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • Matthew Vincent Raymond took the stand at his own trial yesterday where jurors learned he considered shooting more people.
  • Like most things this year, the annual poppy campaign will look different due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The New Brunswick RCMP says New Brunswickers now have to option to give legal statements while holding an eagle feather.
  • Fredericton-based company LuminUltra has filed a patent for its rapid early detection COVID-19 test.
  • The Maritime Hockey League (MHL) has released its regular 40-game season schedule for the upcoming year.
  • And residents living near Base Gagetown might hear some more noise than usual today.
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