Episode 30: Dr. Crazy w/ DVD Commentary

“This is a Hegelian text.”

APARTMENT COMPLEX has entered the Criterion Closet, and with it comes a very special DVD commentary with Dylan and a local film critic. Happy Fools, morons! Suck an egg.

Featuring E Collins (@american_munich, @the.dip.public.access) as Coleman Whittles.

Playlist:

• Huevos Rancheros - Go West Young Bee

Episode 29: Goop Dreams

“I paused my basketball to be here.”

What does Dylan do at midnight when his show’s not on the air? Sleep? No. Dylan’s too busy "ballin’" on 8th Ave. with his best friend, 4x Olympic gold medalist in three-legged basketball, Brittany Jesperson. Live on CJSW, Dylan and Brittney “shoot hoop” with the power of friendship and protein slop.

Featuring Audrey Johnson (@audjohnso) as Brittany Jesperson.

Playlist:

• The Nomads - Smooth
• The Mono Men - Kick Out The Jams!
• The Clique - Superman
• Stampeders - Morning Magic
• Small Faces - It's Too Late
• Les Misérables - Vivre Avec Toi
• Jerry Jerry And The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra - Gospel Surfer
• Screaming Roosters - She Won't Say Maybe
• Dune Rats - Don't Talk
• Jeffery Lewis, The Voltage - Except For The Fact That It Isn't
• Me, Mom, and Morgentaler - I Still Love You, Eve
• Joyce Manor - Well, Don't It Seem Like You've Been Here Before?
• The Real Sickies - Forgot to Let Go
• Born Without Bones - Rough Terrain
• CPC Gangbangs - Driving Me To Habit
• SNFU - Drunk On A Bike
• The Sherlocks - Stefany
• Jeff Kushner - Sunflower Sultra
• The Choads - Spit and Polish
• Viagra Boys - Sports

A drunk Oregonian scientist from 2052 appears in the middle of Dylan’s show to stop a haywire radio broadcast. If Dylan doesn’t save his show, then the future will be a “butt-ugly tinfoil hat epidemic,” and humanity is DOOMED!! Also Mr. Beast is President.

Featuring Annika Fox (@annikafox, @absoluteimprov) as Ayla Futerton.

Playlist:

• The Fezman - So Easy Baby
• The Sharp Turn - Everybody Knows The Sharp Turn
• The Ugly Ducklings - Just In Case You Wonder
• The Outnumbered - Boy On A Roof
• Young Canadians - Where Are You
• Little Ceaser And The Consuls - My Girl Sloopy
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - I’m On The Up
• Spanky & Our Gang - Sunday Will Never Be The Same
• 49th Parallel - Eye to Eye
• Kid Lucifer - Messin’ Around
• The James T. Kirks - Dragstrip Death Toll
• Ramonetures - The KKK Took My Baby Away
• Rämouns - I Get Around
• The Anacondas - The Guns of Brixton
• Gas Huffer - Fall Of The Kingfish
• Vampire Beach Babes - Gothic Surf-a-rama
• La Femme - Nous étions deux
• Saint Etienne - People Get Real
• Scott Wood - Chicken Rock
• Bobby Roberts, Highpockets’ Delta Rockets - Big Sandy
• The Emanons - Emanons Rock
• Phonovan Lurt - Egads! The Soft Shadow of the Horizon Dawns Upon the Epic Wake, We Resume to the Beginning of the Dusted Trial, Worn and Torn, Dead and Born, Inside Out of the Twisted Mind from which the Shallows and Depths of the Mind Wakes, In a Small Kitchen, Alone

Episode 27: Primary School Confidential

“Gentlemen, to hatred!”

Dylan reunites with Ibrahim and Ethan, his best friends from primary school, who may or may not need money and shelter. The Primaries return to their “bad boy” ways, wedgieing and wet-willying the mean old principal, Mr. Brown.

Featuring Ibrahim Oshodi (@aint_sleep_just_wonderful) and Ethan Donaldson (@e.donaldson75) as themselves and Mickail Hendi (@mic_hendi) as Mr. Brown.

Playlist:

• Thee Golden Geese - Georgie Pie
• The Drags - Treat Me Right
• BBQ - Don't Hold Out On Me
• Diplomats of Solid Sound - Smash Up
• Southern Culture on the Skids - Scratch My Back
• The White Knights - Love That's True
• The Royal Guardsman - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
• Wes Dakus - Las Vegas Scene
• The Versatiles - Stepping Stones
• The Royal Foundry - I Give Up
• Three Days Grace - Another Relapse
• Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Backxwash - Black Lazarus
• Teezo Touchdown - Up And Down
• Earl Sweatshirt - TOURMALINE
• Soft Machine - So Boot If At All
• Thomas At The Wheel - Strawberries and Firetrucks
• The Choads - Spit And Polish

Episode 26: Do Rhi-Bots Dream Of Electric Beeps?

“Put her in your box!!”

Dylan is outdone over and over by a helper-bot who is far more loved by his neighbours. Through intrusions from the family next door, Girl Guides, door-to-door salesmen, and the conniving fire alarm, Rhi-Bot teaches Dylan how to help himself and others.

.Featuring Rhiannon Evans (@rhifilms) as Rhi-Bot and Annie Bancroft (@a.bancr0ft) as The Feys / Mr. Exterminator / Sy, The Girl Guide / Jan / Fire Alarm.

Playlist:

• The Volcanos - Finish Line Fever
• Man or Astro-man? - Testsuwan Atomu
• Night Chill - Haunted Beach
• Peter Stampfel, The Bottle Caps - Surfer Angel
• The Surfajettes - Hale’iwa Hustle
• Dead Ghosts - Headed Home
• MAD3 - NAPALM IN THE MORNING
• Oh-Ok - Playtime
• The Bug Club - Beep Beep Computers
• Hip Hip Thursday - Tippy Tappa La La
• undecided - Pull Up
• The Happy Fits - So Alright, Cool, Whatever
• The Beaches - Takes One To Know One
• Puzzle - I Saw An Angel
• The Chats - 6L GTR
• The White Wires - Let It Go
• The Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me
• Echo-Tones - Inland Surfer
• The Cousins - The Robot
• The Champs - Robot Walk
• Les Lutins - Monsieur Le Robot
• Servotron - Red Robot Refund (The Ballad of R5-D4)

Episode 25: Wax Cylinders

“Ahoy-hoy!”

The Calgary Historical Society greets Dylan with a wax cylinder from 1865, featuring a recording of his great, great-grandfather’s radio show. “Brownstone Complex” stars Horton Mansfield and a certain Shakespearean polymath with some thoughts on politics.

.Featuring Quinn Cooper (@quinn_scoop) as John Wilkes Booth and Melville Dewey.

Playlist:

• The Gruesomes - Unchain My Heart
• The Dik Van Dykes - Teenage Gumby
• Corb Lund - I Wanna Be In The Cavalry
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH 5, Act I: Nu, zaboltalas ya! (Live)
• César Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: Il. Lento, con molto sentimento
• Sudan Archives - DEAD
• Arthur Russell - Planted A Thought
• Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
• César Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuaco
• Josef Locke - I'll Take You Home Kathleen
• Thee Crusaders - Born in Bethleham
• Ten Commandments - Revolution Man
• The Skeptics (US) - The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln

Episode 24: The Best In The West

“February 18th to 21st!”

Dylan welcomes on the executive team of UofC Improv (@uofcimprov) to talk BOTWIF, their tenth annual improv festival! The gang talks comedy, the festival circuit, Bobby Shmurda, and Colonel Sander’s acting career.

Featuring Aidan Beatty (@bipolar._.bear), Henry Hartley (@skraxxlvi), and Nathan Severson-Baker (@mistermister1001) as themselves.

Playlist:

• Stampeders - All The Time
• 49th Parallel - The People
• David Peter and the Wilde Sect - Don't Leave Me
• The Shuttlecocks - The Birds, Bees, and Sleaze Disease
• Bonnie Jo Mason - Ringo, I Love You
• Patty Surby & The Canadian V.I.P.s - I Want A Beatle For Christmas
• Echo Tones - Low Down Guitar
• Charlie, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Bad Day
• The Vipers - Nothing's From Today
• Rheostatics - Legal Age Life at Variety Store
• Stars - Ageless Beauty
• Rah Rah - Chip Off The Heart
• Remi Wolf, Dominic Fike - Photo ID
• Modest Mouse - Fuck Your Acid Trip
• Matt Beatty - Christmas In Calgary
• Half Moon Run - You Can Let Go
• Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Native Melody)
• The Jet-Tones - Henry
• The B-52's - Private Idaho
• Injun Joe - Someone
• The Wild Tones - The Martian Band
• The Faded Blue, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Blast Off Girls Rock 'n' Roll Party

Episode 23: Jungle Brothers

“Adventure awaits!”

Art Beasly, the famous character we all know and love and remember, is back! And with him comes wisdom that brings Dylan to his wild side and out of the apartment. Also elephants.

Featuring Eric Wilkinson (@wilki_eric) as Art Beasly and Ben Goodman (@grandpashampoo) as Ben Badman.

Playlist:

• Ambient Noise - I Was There At The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Amino Acids - Fear The Future
• Dee Rangers, Don Craine - Everything I've Got To Give
• The Preachers - Chicken Papa
• The In-Sect (AU) - I Can See My Love
• The Sabres - Take Up The Slack Daddy-O
• Ray Daytona and Googoobombos - Detecto!
• Ballpark Franks - Paula
• Corb Lund - Rat Patrol
• Skeggs - High Beaming
• The Frights - You Are Going To Hate This
• Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - That Wuz Ear Me Callin’ A Horse
• Screaming Roosters - She Won't Say Maybe
• The In-Sect (U.K.) - Reelin’ and Rockin’
• The Mants - Rebel Set
• Sam Spence - Classic Battle
• Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - More Action! Less Tears!
• Makeout Videotape - SLUSH PUPPY LOVE
• The Squires, Neil Young - I’ll Love You Forever
• Puppet Wipes - No Reason
• Les Sultans - La Poupée Qui Fait Non
• The Monkees - Tapico Tundra

Episode 22: The Pink Bean

“I need you to rip off your shirt for me.”

Joey Coyote, Hardcore Welterweight Belt in the 2022 Alberta Beef Pro Wrestling Championship, bursts into Dylan’s apartment with muscles and machismo. Dylan “turns heel” and lives the life of a professional wrestler with one too many head injuries.

Featuring Geneviève Dale (@glamfries) as Joey Coyote and E Collins (@american_munich) as Billy Cannoli.

Playlist:

• The Red Devils - Queen Bee
• The Von Zippers - Hot Rod Monkey
• Dixie Buzzards - Brand New Routine
• The Forty-Fives - Get Out
• Jimmy Keith & His Shocky Horrors - Hooker or King
• Jackie And The Cedrics - Scorpion Stroll
• Johnny & The Hurricanes - Sand Storm
• Herschel Gordon Lewis, The Faded Blue - Noise
• Max Frost and the Troopers - Children Of The Night
• Pluto - Failure
• Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor
• Huevos Rancheros - Crowchild Trail
• The Smugglers - B.A.B.E.
• Doutang - The Hedonists Collide
• New Town Animals - Three Steps Backwards
• Personal And The Pizzas - Brass Knuckles
• The White Wires - Did You Forget My Name
• The Mandates - Wastin' Time
• Bad Sports - Washed Up
• The Coneheads - I Used To Be A Cheese Puff

Episode 21: Pirate Radio

“Please stop saying things with “R” in it.”

Abandoned by his “mateys” in the Pacific Northwest, a tiny, albeit gruff, pirate washes ashore in Dylan’s apartment. More like ARRRR-partment Complex, amiright fellas? Fellas? Hello??

Featuring Devon Hittel (@d3v._.on) as Captain Flakey Joe and Katrina Lahey (@katrina4evaa) as Samuel Buckles.

Playlist:

• Farmers Market - Surfin’ USSR (Pt. 1-2)
• Wolf Willow - Lovers Lane
• Bloodshot Bill - Peeling
• Ray Condo and His Hard Rock Goners - Mister Who
• The Squires, Neil Young - Mustang
• The Beatles - Cry For A Shadow
• The Ventures - Perfirdia
• Martin Circus - Mon petit hold-up
• The Belles - Melvin
• Thee Headcoats - Davey Crockett
• Itchy and the Nits - Nudie Beach
• The Milkshakes - Pretty Baby
• Thee Mighty Caesars - Despite All This
• The Buff Medways - Evidence Against Myself
• k.d. lang - Pullin' Back the Reins - Live
• Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet
• Minnie Riperton - Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down
• The Friendlys - Hallucinogenic Pumpkin
• Thee Primitive Sound - Oblivion
• The S’quires - Green Surf