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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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)

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.

Plus we get deep on Phil's highschool road trip across Canada, performing Smashing Pumpkins covers at open mics, and taking baby passport photos. An instant CITY SLANG classic.

Travis talks to Patrick Flegel of CINDY LEE and WOMEN about obscure Japanese movies, which Cormac Mccarthy novels suck, and why pop music is boundless.

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. Come for the Ace Ventura talk, stay for the deep cuts!

We interview Detroit's Deadbeat Beat outside of Cinqhole in Ottawa! We get deep into record nerd talk about King Crimson, Sparks, and 7" records with a single song on both sides. Plus we discuss shooting videos outside of nuclear power plants, and the time Deadbeat Beat got the best compliment possible from Robert Pollard!

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!

Chris Murphy picks a set of three tunes, including Guided By Voices, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, and Thrush Hermit!

Plus a story about the time Sloan played a Guided By Voices cover at a Guided By Voices show, and a bonus tune from Chris' band Tuns!

Guided By Voices Smothered in Hugs

The Kinks - Strangers

The Velvet Underground - She's My Best Friend

Thrush Hermit - All Dressed Up

Tuns - Look Whose Back In Town Again

Chris Murphy of SLOAN joins us out of nowhere, invoked like a Canadian demon after we spoke about them during our 90s episode! Emmanuel has a wide-ranging conversation with Chris about how his hardcore and punk past informed Sloan, their Nirvana crossover, the time Chris' baby was a fashion critic on Canadian Entertainment Tonight, and we find out who the line "it's not the band I hate/it's their fans" is about!

PLUS, Chris absolves Emmanuel of abandoning Sloan in his youth! An absolutely essential interview, and one of the more revealing interviews you'll hear with Chris Murphy. That's a City Slang promise™

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! But we're not going anywhere, and we have a giant new episode for you out now! Thanks for listening, and thanks to all the stations that supported us throughout the years!

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.