Joni - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm the really quiet one. Sometimes people equate "being really quiet" with "being a total jerk." But that's a little misguided, because in reality I'm only a total jerk half of the time.

My Interests

music, photography, caffeine, knitting, the CBC, silkscreening/screenprinting, most anything DIY, red wine, spontaneous roadtrips, montreal at 4am

I'd like to meet:

Rad folks in Ottawa, supporters of local music, and that ilk.

Music:

Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Animal Collective, Weakerthans, Sloan, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Of Montreal, the Acorn, Bell Orchestre, the Who, Velvet Underground, the Apples in Stereo, Meligrove Band, the Salteens, Beirut, Final Fantasy, Tokyo Police Club, Deerhoof, the Bicycles, Hidden Cameras, Tullycraft, Joy Division, Mates of State, North of America, Sharp Like Knives, Rogue Wave, Spoon, Manitoba, Think About Life, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Spitfires & Mayflowers, Patrick Watson, Swan Lake, Ladyhawk, Magnetic Fields, ESG, Yo La Tengo, Joanna Newsom, totheteeth/tothehilt, Les Angles Morts, local music.

Movies:

Rushmore, 24 Hour Party People, Royal Tenenbaums, Fight Club

Television:

n/a

Books:

The Torn Skirt - Rebecca Godfrey
The Book of Small - Emily Carr
Le Petit Prince - Antoine St-Exupery
Philip Pullman's trilogy
and anything featuring the art of Edward Gorey, of course.

Heroes:

Patti Schmidt, Rebecca Godfrey, Emily Carr, P.K. Page

My Blog

west!!

So it looks like I'm going to be heading back to the west coast after all this summer. The good people at CHUO are sending me to the NCRC in Vancouver, so I'll be kicking around there from June 11th-1...
Posted by Joni on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:23:00 PST

where has joni been hiding?

I feel little motivation to write in this thing on any sort of regular basis when not doing a weekly radio show. Hmn. I've also been stupidly busy lately. A bunch of us started up this littl...
Posted by Joni on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:35:00 PST

CHUO/CFUV - upcoming shows

So CHUO has this timeslot on Wednesday afternoons from 3-4pm EST called Radio Radio. It's supposed to be a training slot for new volunteers, but somehow I've stumbled into hosting/co-hosting it for th...
Posted by Joni on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:51:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Nov. 13/06 (c'est fin!)

Yeah, so this was the last 'official' episode of Disenchanted Hearts Unite! on CKCU. There's a small chance I might be back next week (ie. they can't find anyone to fill the slot), but for now we'll c...
Posted by Joni on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Nov. 6/06

Sorry this is so late, I've been in Montreal. Kate and I made the trip up for another of our random adventures, which involved a documentary film festival at the NFB and a great show with Lil'Pip, Par...
Posted by Joni on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:55:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Oct. 30/06

So today officially marks the end of the station's annual funding drive. Thank god that's over with - a disgusting amount of work is involved in trying to raise $101,000. It's especially unfortunate t...
Posted by Joni on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:06:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Oct. 23/06

This is kinda belated, I know. Sorry. Anyone want to write the rest of my midterms/papers so I can stop being such a slave to academia? 1. DFA 1979 f. Final Fantasy - Black History Month 2. the Archi...
Posted by Joni on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:12:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Oct. 16/06

After last week's absence (you'll have to forgive me, I was nursing a broken foot and an intense musical hangover in the aftermath of POP Montreal), I returned with a vengeance to play yet a...
Posted by Joni on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:48:00 PST

Oct. 2 playlist//pop montreal!

In honour of the fast-approaching and fucking crazy festival that is Pop Montreal, this episdoe of Disenchanted Hearts Unite! was particularly heavy on bands that will be making an appearance at said ...
Posted by Joni on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:16:00 PST

CKCU playlist - Sept. 25/06

This show was sort of all over the place. But in a good kind of way... or at least that's what I'm hoping. 1. Spoon - The Beast and Dragon, Adored 2. A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug 3. New Pornographers -...
Posted by Joni on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:38:00 PST