Hey everyone,

As mentioned last week, CFRC is in the middle of its funding drive, with the goal of raising $5000 to help offset the loss of the $48,000 that the Alma Mater Society used to provide us. My show has a target to raise, which I've already raised by myself (thanks VISA!), but if you want to pitch in I would be greatly appreciative.

There are basically two ways to donate:

1. Through the web at https://www.givetoqueens.ca/forms/form.php and make sure that you write "CFRC" in the Clubs field so that CFRC receives your donations

2. Call in at 533-CFRC (2372). You can make a prepledge or pledge using your credit card

3. Visit the pledge table at one of our CFRC Co-sponsored Events (see http://www.cfrc.ca)

What do you get for your pledge?

If you give through the web, you can get a tax receipt
If you call in or drop by the station, you can get a gift or a tax receipt (but not both).

Gifts eh? What are we talking about, Pez dispensers?

I wish. I love Pez. But we do have a lot of goodies to offer, more than I expected. The list is at http://www.cfrc.ca/funding_drive_gifts.html

Highlights include (minimum $15 donation):
-Beck's Guerolito CD
-Sarah Harmer's I'm a Mountain CD
-The Most Serene Republic Cinematographer CD
-The Soundtrack of our lives CD
-Cuff the Duke Self Titled CD
-The Caesars Paper Tigers CD
-In-Flight Safety Vacation Land CD
-Andy Stochansky's 100 CD
-Brendan Benson's The Alternative to Love CD
-Emm Gryner's Songs of Love and Death CD
-Bloc Party's Silent Alarm CD
-The Kaiser Cheifs Employment CD

and this email is getting too long so check out the rest of the list will ya?

Just remember though that these gifts can only be obtained if you make a pledge by phoning and picking up your gift at the station but you can ask the operator to give the gift to me and I'll get it to you

Expect to hear today:

Controller.controller
OK GO
Arctic Monkeys
Feist
Stars
In-Flight Safety
Kingston Fog
Cardigans
The Weakerthans
Brendan Benson
Sarah Harmer
Kaiser Chiefs
The Constantines
The Mark Inside
The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Thanks for listening

Tuan

http://www.cfrc.ca

Sweet Hereafter: We'll give you A widow for one year

Hey everyone,

So you may have heard this from other shows or read about it in the newspaper but the Sweet Hereafter is starting a pledge drive this Friday (Jan 27.) till February 5th. The reason why we've adopted this PBS strategy is because we will be losing $48,000 of AMS funding come next year. This is a sizeable chunk of change and by no means are we hoping to raise all that in a week. We just want some positive reinforcement. Anyways, yes, my show has been given the goal of raising x amount of money, which I will be writing a cheque for anyways so it is not up to you faithful listeners to help me raise that money. I've already done it myself. If you do plan on giving our little station some money, all I ask is that you do it during my show next week (Friday Jan 31st) just because it makes me look better.

Oh, and about our offer of a widow for one year, my friend Dave told me a story where a few years ago, PBS was offering John Irving's novel "A Widow for One Year" with every pledge. Of course, the announcers at PBS, not being the most comedically astute individuals on TV, announced throughout their pledge drive that for every pledge that they received, "PBS will send you a widow for one year for every pledge". I personally think that widows have better things to do than being pawns of PBS and thought it was pretty crass of PBS to think that this would be enticing to their listeners.

Expect to hear on the show this week

Sigur Ros
Feist
The Features
The Stooges
Mark Mothersbaugh
The Pernice Brothers
In-Flight Safety
The Shins
Snow Patrol
Keane
some dead air (just kidding, I hope)


Songs to put on your iPod shuffle in preparation for 12 hours in an airport/airplane

Huddle Formation - The Go! Team
Carolina - Seu Jorge
Blow it Out - The Features
High - James Blunt (best played when you're in the air)
Stay Fly - 3 6 mafia (just for the word play)
Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall
Cold Hands Warm Heart - Brendan Benson
Shine a Light - Wolf Parade
Energy of Death - Apostle of Hustle
Romantic Rights - Death From Above 1979
Live it out - Metric
Dare - The Gorillaz
Fire - Jason Collett
Neighbourhood #2 - Laika
Uniform Grey - Sarah Harmer
Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans


Cheerio,

Tuan

Hey superstars,

I'm home and will stay here for the next nine months. No more being stuck in airports for hours on end watching time get lost somewhere down the runway. No more hotel rooms at night watching MTV trying to see a glimpse of anything having to do with music. No more separation anxiety from my Sweet Hereafter. The hourglass has been turned and the countdown to my departure has begun but till then, let's start rocking! (in a melodic, groovin' hip kinda way).

TICKET GIVEAWAYS:

ASUS movie presentation of Wallace and Gromit this Sunday
Pocket Dwellers Thurs Jan 19
Polytone's CD release Sun Jan 22

Expect to hear on the show

Feist
The Go! Team
The Magic Numbers
Franz Ferdinand
Weeping Tile
The Strokes
Nada Surf
Weezer
Youth Group

Tuan

Albums of 2005

My friend Dave asked me Tuesday during the show what my favourite album of the year was and I didn't answer because I had to put on another CD as the one currently playing had 5 seconds left, and truly I didn't have the answer. While there were a lot of excellent albums this year, there were no albums that stood head and shoulders above everyone else. The more I think about it though, the more I'm convinced that the best album of the year for me is...drum roll please...

Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes

This album truly demonstrates their sonic and storytelling range from taking advantage of Jack White's recent dabblings in various Blues/Country projects to a Vaudeville takeoff to a calypso sounding hommage to Renee Zelwegger to a slightly Satanic opening track. Yet, despite the disparity of the sound, the album remains cohesive and more importantly, listenable. In the midst of an explosion of bands that have matured over the last 2 years, the White Stripes remain the band that is most intriguing and visionary. Besides, I love saying "Get Behind Me Satan" on the air and truly wished we had one of those special-effects machine that could alter my voice to make it sound truly Beelzebubesque.

Note: Funeral by The Arcade Fire would have been numero uno but it was a late 2004 release so technically...

Here are my top 10 albums (other than Get Behind Me Satan):

1. You Can Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
2. Live it out - Metric
3. Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team
4. Nashville - Josh Rouse
5. Idols of Exile - Jason Collett
6. Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
7. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers (would have been higher if they let me burn their disc that I purchased onto my computer in .mp3 format rather than useless .wma format. Let that be a warning to you music artists, this kind of trickery will notch you down a couple of points on my highly influential list)
8. I'm a Mountain - Sarah Harmer
9. Wish I - Jem
10. Back to Bedlam - James Blunt

Note 2: Had I listened to Wolf Parade and Kanye West in greater frequency, they might have be in the list. There is just so many albums one can buy (and I don't mean "download" for all you cynics)!

Let me know what your own top 10 was. I love lists and I'd love to hear what impressed you in the last year so that I can add them to the rotation.

New Year's resolutions

Hi music superstars,

With the new year's just behind us, here are some Sweet Hereafter New Year's resolutions:

1. I will not accidentally play Ads and Show promos while music is playing
2. For the sake of the environment, I will reduce the amount of dead air.
3. I will play more Tom Jones
4. I will realize that there are other artists than Sarah Harmer (apparently)
4a. I will realize that there are some artists that are not singer-songwriters with a melodic flair
5. I will fill at least 54.3% of all requests I get
6. I won't beg my fellow programmers to play my promos every 15 minutes on their show
7. I won't play my promos every 15 minutes on their show
8. I won't string along my listeners with promises of giveaways that I give away only in the last 5 minutes of my show
9. I won't sell out
10. I'll keep the website better updated (is that even English?)

Cheerio

Tuan