SOOK-YIN LEE
CITY SLANG
Travis interviews Sook-Yin Lee about loss, the pandemic, and surviving the four walls of your own home for a year. Plus we discuss great films with a single location, Herman Hesse, cooking face masks in Instant Pots, and bad karaoke memories.
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PHIL ELVERUM aka THE MICROPHONES aka MOUNT EERIE
CITY SLANG
Travis and Emmanuel talk to the charming PHIL ELVERUM of THE MICROPHONES and MOUNT EERIE! We cover precisely why The Grateful Dead sucks, scoring free things at the dump, and nerding out over Eric's Trip.
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MINI SLANG 8: CINDY LEE
CITY SLANG
Travis talks to Patrick Flegel of CINDY LEE and WOMEN about obscure Japanese movies, which Cormack Mccarthy novels suck, and why pop music is boundless.
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MOTORISTS
CITY SLANG
We've got Toronto's MOTORISTS on the show! We get sidetracked with an extensive discussion about Jim Carrey, and which cartoons were adapted from rated R movies... but then get into the meat of the episode: Motorists handpick a car-themed set list and give us the lowdown on each song.
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DEADBEAT BEAT
CITY SLANG
We interview Detroit's Deadbeat Beat outside of Cinqhole in Ottawa!
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WOOLWORM vs NECKING
CITY SLANG
Absolutely wild episode. After a surprise family reunion at a Woolworm/Necking show in Ottawa, we put both bands through the CITY SLANG questionnaire! We learn some wild first shows from Russia, a hilarious heckle from the Richmond Night Market, and a harrowing tale of stolen handsome sheet ghost at a Halloween party!
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CITY SLANG SELECTIONS: Sloan
CITY SLANG
Chris Murphy picks a set of three tunes, including Guided By Voices, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, and Thrush Hermit!
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SLOAN!
CITY SLANG
Chris Murphy of SLOAN joins us our of nowhere, invoked like a Canadian demon after we spoke about them during our 90s episode!
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PEACE AND LOVE: an important City Slang announcement
CITY SLANG
Big announcement! Emmanuel got a sweet new job like a total dummy, and it means from now on we're PODCAST-ONLY, and will no longer air on campus and community radio!
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MINI SLANG 7: Heather Rappard, director, photographer, video artist!
CITY SLANG
A Mini Slang episode that got lost in the archive is resurrected! You might remember the amazing video for Tough Age's "Me in Glue" from a few months ago. Well, we loved it and got in touch with director Heather Rappard to discuss the video, her video for Old and Weird (a City Slang fave), and the time the only way out of making a bad video was to make an even shittier music video! It's a classic tale of directing.
info_outlineTravis interviews Sook-Yin Lee about loss, the pandemic, and surviving the four walls of your own home for a year. Plus we discuss great films with a single location, Herman Hesse, cooking face masks in Instant Pots, and bad karaoke memories.
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Recent Works
Death and Sickness (film) 2020. Written, directed, acted, produced, shot, recorded, edited and scored by Sook-Yin Lee and Dylan Gamble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8zpOJ-iIVQ
Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - “jooj two” (album) 2021
https://sook-yinlee.bandcamp.com/album/jooj-two
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References
My Dinner With Andre (film) 1981. Directed by Louis Malle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre
Cube (film) 1997. Directed by Vincenzo Natali
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(1997_film)
Eyeball Theatre (television) early 2000s Shot, directed, edited, etc. by Sook-Yin Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15FwLhZxyk
Mary Timony (Musician)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/218270-Mary-Timony
Chantal Ackerman (Filmmaker)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Novel) 2018. Written by Ottessa Moshfegh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Year_of_Rest_and_Relaxation
Herman Hesse (Author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse
Food
Marmite
Instant Pot
Dumplings & More (Restaurant)
Francesco’s Sandwich (Restaurant)
Pan Pan Noodle (Restaurant)