foxtrot, tango, whisky, etc.

[subterrain]

I pulled a tragic, toe-scufflingly remorseful resignation at work this week. NAMELY BECAUSE I'M LEAVING IN 15 DAYS, 11 HOURS, YESSSSSSSSSSS. But on one level, I guess I could say it's kind of sad: I'm kind of getting used to spending 15 hours/week scanning archival documents from Halifax's House of Assembly in the 1810s, and listening to much of the following:

a) This American Life, aka Ira Glass' adorable lisp (sometimes he doles out relationship advice!);

b) CBC Radio 3, podcasts or just plain radio or sometimes just a random fishing of New Music Canada's billions of sexy Cdn artist pages;

c) podfic (even though I have to skip through the sex because dudes! I AM AT WORK!);

d) the New Yorker's terribly fucking hip Fiction Podcast that makes me want to simultaneously forget about writing real fiction ever and also delete my lj entirely because I am just that ambivalent;

e) my own excellent taste in music, which you should all definitely friend on last.fm so that I can be further shamed out of listening to Placebo ever again;

and;

f) the occasional mortgage advice podcast, because I am obviously living in a fantasy world where crippling student debt doesn't exist and me and my future pound dog will live in idyllic bliss in my fantasy 2-bed, 2-bath, fenced-yard character home within walking distance of the LRT, the Central Library and probably the homeless shelter, too, by virtue of geographic reality.

However, I have two weeks of full-time work left to fill with distractatory talkin and/or tunez, so if anyone has any recs for favourite radio stations, podcasts, music sources, AND YES, THE BEST PODFIC, do tell.

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Oh, do I ever have podcast recs. I have spent the last three summers listening to hundreds and hundreds of hours of podcasts while raw-handedly scrubbing bones & pop bottles clean with a toothbrush. Mostly just talk-y podcasts, and you've already discovered Ira Glass, my secret boyfriend, so:

The Sound of Young America (http://www.maximumfun.org/listen.htm) - really great interviews with really interesting people.

Never Not Funny (http://pardcast.com/) - my favourite podcast, but you have to pay for it (there's a free 20-minute version, though -- also, I usually just delete them after I've listened, but I have three that are as-yet undeleted, and I can send them to you if you'd like!).

Stop Podcasting Yourself (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=275538947) - out of Vancouver! And really good!

Jordan, Jesse, Go! (http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207698746) - Two guys in California talk about stuff & are generally fun to listen to.

Battleship Pretension (http://www.battleshippretension.com/) - two guys talk about movies, and stuff, and it's alright.

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So basically I am subscribing to all of these, thank you! My one fear is that after these two weeks are done, I'm going to be back to not knowing how/when to listen to podcasts. It's hard to figure out what the perfect level of multitasking is: my job is extremely monotonous, so it works. But what else do I willingly do that would lend itself to radio? Commuting, I guess. If I ever get a job.

Thanks so much, dude. I will let you know how awesome they are as soon as you let me know when the eff you're getting to the AB!

Re: Hey, this is a thing I can comment on!

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Eugh, email is in drafts and being sent, STAT. But it's the 21st to the 2nd. I will have more details for you shortly!

I know, though -- I have a billion podcasts built up now because I don't have enough time to listen to them. Between the hour of walking-commute, plus gym time, I'm catching up, though!