We’re back with a podcast where John plays a synthesizer emulator and talks with Chris about writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month. You can follow John’s progress on the novel A Rock, a Skip, a Clock, and a Pirate on his NaNoWriMo page. This marks a lighter approach to the podcast with music performed and mixed into the podcast live as we record. Thanks to Carolyn Campbell for taking the photo of us.
The podcast is 7 minutes and 53 seconds long.
Bad Metaphor 11: Synthesizing Stories
This episode has new theme music, as well as a new schedule. We’ve decided to do the podcast more regularly now, hopefully every few weeks. However, to make these changes, it’s taken a lot of procrastination on our part, so that’s the topic for this episode. Also, this is our tenth podcast! We talked about ways to not procrastinate, creating new theme music, and celebrating the new year. We appreciate your feedback, so please leave a comment.
Bad Metaphor Episode 10: Procrastination (8 minutes, 39 seconds)
In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. We sat on her front porch and as cars drove by in the warm afternoon John interviewed Julie about writing songs, getting started in a rock band, how to make an album, and what she’s working on now. In part B Julie talks about making the new Shotgun and Jaybird album, the Sappy Records Music Festival, and how you can get her music.
Bad Metaphor Episode 9b: Julie Doiron (14 minutes)
In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. We sat on her front porch and as cars drove by in the warm afternoon John interviewed Julie about writing songs, getting started in a rock band, how to make an album, and what she’s working on now. In part A Julie talks about her inspiration, writing songs and making albums. We finish the first part with the song “Snow Falls in November” from Julie’s album, “Goodnight Nobody”.
Bad Metaphor Episode 9a: Julie Doiron (21 minutes, 14 seconds)
We finally went camping and hiking in Fundy National Park and had some fun, but a storm cut our stay short. Bad Metaphor #8 – Camping was recorded on location in New Brunswick in Fundy National Park and just outside of Fredericton in Staples Settlement while we visited John’s grandparents on my side. We camped at Point Wolfe and recorded sound on Point Wolfe beach, the Coppermine Trail, and beside a campfire in Staples Settlement. John also talks a little bit about his Tamagotchi which he kept with him while we were having adventures.
Bad Metaphor Episode 8: Camping (16 minutes, 30 seconds)
It’s Summer and we’re on vacation and on our first adventure we went to the Discovery Centre in Halifax. John begins somewhat randomly by reciting Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll (accompanied by “Dark in Here” by James Shuttleworth, which is a track I found on Opsound). Then we talk about our trip to the Discovery Centre and the things that we saw there which you can see in our Flickr photo set “A Trip to the Discovery Centre“. We wrap it all up with some ideas for what can you do on vacation such as jodi.org and Superbad or more outdoor-related things such as visiting Cape Breton or Fundy National Park.
Bad Metaphor Episode 7: Summer (12 minutes)
We take things on the road in episode 6 of Bad Metaphor and we talk about work at the Nova Scotia Community College Halifax Downtown Site. Chris and John walk around the areas where Screen Arts is taught. We go in the office, the studio and the edit suites and look at the technology used to make films and videos.
Bad Metaphor Episode 6: Work (15 minutes, 15 seconds)
In the fifth Bad Metaphor podcast the topic is technology. John and Chris talk about old technology, modern technology and future technology as they wander around the back yard in Wolfville.
Some of the topics covered include:
The 30th anniversary of Apple Computers, ow John has never used or seen a typewriter in person, future technology such as rocket boots, and a mechanical computer.
Bad Metaphor Episode 5: Technology (16 minutes, 37 seconds)
In the fourth episode John and Chris talk about Sunday, March Break as well as the film Walking on a Sea of Glass, giant robotic bugs, and John plays the piano.
Bad Metaphor Episode 4: Sunday (13 minutes, 37 seconds)
Publicity is the topic for the third Bad Metaphor podcast. John and Chris talk about what is good and bad about publicity, how to become famous, meeting famous people, and making a stand.
We start out by talking about publicity and what it means to be famous and how it is possible to become famous. John explains his theory of “The F Cycle” using the example of a lemonade stand. We move on to famous people we’ve met or not met including filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and writer Sheree Fitch. One good way to get publicity is to take a stand and John tells a story about Martin Luther King and segregation and Chris talks about working on the film “When Voices Rise…” which told the story of the end of segregation in Bermuda. Then John thinks about Tod Maffin listening to the show and we wrap it all up.
Bad Metaphor Episode 3: Publicity (14 minutes, 4 seconds)
