Life After Radio

Episode 9: Back Into the Loving Arms of Meat

Sarah — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:42 +0000

For all of you recovering vegetarians out there pecking away at organic, grain-fed, ethically raised chicken - this podcast will help explore some issues that might be on your mind. Issues like “how do I shop at a meat counter without embarrassing myself?” and “Which type of sausage is best for snacking?” and “What does it feel like when a butcher is nailed in the back with a giant pork loin?”

Warning to the faint of ear - I did visit a butcher shop for this one, resulting in some intense sawing and grinding noises. They’re kind of gross.

Episode 8: On The Subject of Rocking…

Sarah — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:09:03 +0000

Finally, a new show! A show that explains what on earth I’ve been doing these past few months. A show that will make you spontaneously bear children. Or perhaps just donate to Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, and let other people bear children so they can go hang out at rock camp.

Half of any meager or large donations to this site will go to Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. You can also donate on their (our) site and none of it will go to Life After Radio. Rock on.

New band "Push" masters the art of rocking at camp.

Silence, and some ideas for enjoying it.

Sarah — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:04:47 +0000

This month, I am taking a wee break from my dear podcast. In its absence, please feel free to fill an hour of silence with:

- more silence
- one-person rock outs
- multiple-person rocks outs
- eating corn, as it is in season
- listening to Arthur Russell’s instrumental record “Tower of Meaning” which generally makes me stop everything and just sort of think about how things could be.
- sitting by a river with no books or anything entertaining
- attempting to communicate with plants
- putting things on your turntable and trying to guess if they will fall off or continue spinning, and then watching them spin for a while, if they remain.

If any of you become particularly enlightened during this hour of absence, please tell me about it.

lifeafterradio@gmail.com

Miss you,

Sarah

p.s. here is my current favorite wall of noise. courtesy of Her Jazz Noise Collective.

Episode 7: The Home Jams Mix Tape

Sarah — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:20:09 +0000

Longest show ever!

This one is a music show, something I haven’t done in a while, which is strange, considering how much of my life is taken up by music. For this episode, we bring you a festival of home-recorded gems from Vancouver and not-Vancouver. Pedals, loops, tape hiss, dictaphones, 8-tracks, special voices, digital audio experiements, MIDI, 16 year-old angst, and cats.

Please remember to support your podcaster. Button up top.

See you next month!

Happy Canada Day. And now, some Americans.

Sarah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:19:35 +0000

So i didn’t want you, listeners, to get all “you run away for a month and come back with eleven minutes?” on me. For this reason I am calling this show a “non-podcast.” Think about it outside the boundaries of the podcast. I went to Portland, I came back with some sounds, and need to keep you all occupied until the new real show comes out on Sunday. So here is Portland, or at least the part of Portland that includes screaming children playing drums, and a lesbian art show.

Episode 6: Secret Places

Sarah — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:38:48 +0000

For this episode, we went adventuring through the city’s strangest hiding places. Vancouverites have once again proven how weird they are, thanks to me following them around with a microphone. You’ll find treehouses, crow camps, a mysterious woman named Helen Major, and even…..the mall.

Fashion show below!

And now for a shameless plug:

Have you noticed that our donate button has moved? Although I realize this may have been traumatizing for those of you who were set to donate generously to the podcast to ensure our future of up-to-date gear and quality programming, you can now find the handy yellow button on the left sidebar, under the giant microphone. Anything helps!

And now a shameless plug for a friend’s project.

And while I’m on a roll, why don’t I let you know about this awesome camp I’m helping with?
http://www.girlsrockcampvancouver.ca/

And….alright I’m out.

-Sarah

Life After 2009 - Part Two

Sarah — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:17 +0000

Part two of the life after radio live taping at the Western Front.

Life After 2009

Sarah — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:42:24 +0000

We had a show! It was great. Maybe you were there? Maybe not? Good thing we taped the whole damn thing.

Lots of love,

Sarah

As it turns out, interviewing people about the future is really funny.

Sarah — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:40:21 +0000

On May 9th Chris-a-riffic took the stage with what I can only describe as “guns blazing.” I think my ears are still ringing.

Screw Ads, Let’s Party.

Sarah — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:02:27 +0000

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Here is the point where I tell you about our tiny dream. To have a tiny studio with a computer and mixer and radio mic’s, replacing my laptop and Zoom H4 home job, which is great, but doesn’t allow for much training and sharing. To have small stipends for our contributers and designers. To add a real blog, with real writing, and real writers.

Which is why we’re having a party! Which is also a radio show! And a fundraiser! If you live in Vancouver, you have the opportunity to be part of our live radio audience, and support our cause at the same time. We have teamed up with Front Magazine for the launch of their next issue. Which means that the show will be at the Western Front, which means the sound will be amazing, and the space gorgeous, and we will all marvel at how wonderful everything is.

I’m really excited about the on-stage interviews. My subjects will be pretending to be from Future Vancouver, where everything is different. We will also feature musicians playing strange things in futuristic ways, like the inside of piano’s, and wine glasses, and even radios.

So what else are you doing on May 9th? Taking a bath? Watching paint dry? Boring. Come to the Western Front!

Print this out to make one of those foldy hand things: