Musings on secret treasures & pleasures

[trystinn]

I'm not a huge fan of the "Prarie Home Companion" series, though I do enjoy it from time to time. My parents, however, are huge fans and go every chance they get at Tanglewood and SAC (the Saratoga Arts Center). I'm just not a huge fan of their music selection, though Guy Noir is hysterical, I'll admit. Not as funny as Car Talk, but then very little in this life is!

Instead, I am a ravingly monstrously huge fan of "The Vinyl Cafe", which is Canada's version you could say. Stuart McLean is the world's funniest, most sincere man. Yes, he is. Like me Stuart enjoys folk music, so I truly enjoy learning about new artists I might otherwise not hear about. And while Dave and Morley are fictional, they are also very real in every sense of the term. Don't believe me, try leaving a cell phone in their record store.

Sadly, there is no podcasting for the Vinyl Cafe, which breaks my heart, though I make a point to listen to it every Sunday at 4pm while I'm closing the bookstore. If you haven't experienced it for yourself - make a point to. Both www.NPR.org and www.CBC.ca have broadcast times listed, so you can find out when its playing in your neck of the woods.

Now, what secret little pleasure could I get you to share?

Comments

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

HEATHEN!

*ahem* Err... nevermind that... I certainly don't listen to anything and everything with Garrison Keillor's name on it. Nuh-uh. Not at all. *shifty look*

That aside, I'm going to go with Buffy: The Vampire Slayer... I love me some Buffy. And some Angel now that I think of it. And Firefly... I think I'm noticing a very Joss trend.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I will totally agree with you on Firefly, but I have NEVER been able to get into Buffy or Angel.

And yes, folks have tried to educate me on that.

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Car Talk is just the absolute best!!!!

They sound exactly like my beloved stepmother, who was born and raised in Revere, MA.

My guilty pleasure lately is torrenting, burning, and watching episodes of MST3K with Evan.

[dana3.livejournal.com]

Sundays!! Click and Clack, followed by an hour of the whiner from Chicago. THEN ... Says You (http://www.saysyou.org) followed by a Brit half-hour word show, followed by Harry Shearer (my new fave) at LeShow for 2 hours of political news and apologia (http://www.harryshearer.com/) (OMG, too cool!) ... then the Vinyl Cafe.

Yup. Can't pry me out from in front of the radio until the British and Irish Hour, which is music for a generation or two before mine.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I am a drooling, slobbering, committed Prairie Home Companion fan.

I also watch Stargate Atlantis solely because I think the guy who plays Ronin is totally hot.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

This is where I admit I have no idea who Ronin is!

[evaelisabeth.livejournal.com]

Not as funny as Car Talk, but then very little in this life is!

I love car talk and I don't know one end of a car from the other. Miss catching it on the radio occasionally.

[dana3.livejournal.com]

http://www.wcpn.org streams audio of the showlist I outlined. Sundays noon to 4 ET, makes it what ... 5-9p your time? Maybe 4-8, I'm not sure if you're at GMT or not.

So Eva ... what time zone IS Ireland in, please? Enquiring minds being curious -- :Dana

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Dublin has no GMT offset, they are indeed at GMT or WET (Western Europeant Time).

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/ireland/ is a great place for this.

[evaelisabeth.livejournal.com]

Ireland is the center of the time continuum at 0GMT ;-) I will try to catch some of those shows thanks for the link.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I used to listen to it online until they started charging for the downloads. Nowadays I'll listen either at the bookstore or en route to coven events.