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Illuminated Chronicles: O Pioneers! (Levi’s Commercial)

Posted on March 11, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Illuminated Chronicles: O Pioneers! (Levi’s Commercial)

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

This 2009 Levi’s commercial stays with me…I’m always on the hunt for creative and visual ways to communicate poetry. I’m a poet as much as I am a prophet…the free verse poem is my weapon of choice to confront a cold calculating culture. Yet in this modern society of guns and rough violence it’s almost like I am walking around with a sword. En Garde isn’t Avant-garde. Or is it?

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Girth Radio Blog

Hidden Gem: Lucius “Madness”

Posted on March 7, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Lucius “Madness”
Hidden Gem: Lucius “Madness”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

How I discovered Lucius…

In early 2013 Mike from PledgeMusic emailed to say “got this amazing band Lucius to play at 6pm.” Dude’s got a fantastic ear so I dutifully located my pants and headed to Tequila Bookworm to check out their CMW industry set.

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Hidden Gem

Last Night’s Culture Snap: Hoodie Allen with SuperDuperKyle and Pryde

Posted on March 4, 2016 By Henry Vanderspek
Last Night’s Culture Snap: Hoodie Allen with SuperDuperKyle and Pryde

The Danforth Music Hall was hopping last night for the Happy Camper Tour! Hoodie Allen was topping the bill along with openers SuperDuperKyle and Pryde (filling in for Blackbear).

What a night!

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Girth Radio Blog

Host Haiku In Session With Girth…Eternia

Posted on March 3, 2016February 20, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Host Haiku In Session With Girth…Eternia

As inspired by listening to Eternia’s Music

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Girth Radio Blog, In Session With Girth...

022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)

Posted on March 1, 2016March 31, 2024 By Sammy Younan No Comments on 022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)
022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to Paul Vermeersch poet, artist & creator of a cryptoreligion called the Holy Order of the Sasquatch.

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Hidden Gem: French Montana feat Kanye West & Nas “Figure It Out”

Posted on February 29, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Hidden Gem: French Montana feat Kanye West & Nas “Figure It Out”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Kanye is making everybody with a website who monitors metrics over quality rich; his nickname should be money (all due respect to Jordan). What with his insightful twitter diatribes and “journalists” playing Web MD constantly diagnosing his “mental health issues” websites are churning out content and “analysis.” Overlooked in the superfluous parroting “Kanye is a douche-bag” rhetoric is his musical gifts:

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Hidden Gem

Garbage Time: The End of the LeBron James era

Posted on February 28, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Garbage Time: The End of the LeBron James era

If (when???) the Warriors win a championship this year it’ll officially mark the end of the LeBron James era.

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Garbage Time - NBA, Girth Radio Blog

Host Haiku In Session With Girth…Michael Bernard Fitzgerald

Posted on February 25, 2016February 20, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Host Haiku In Session With Girth…Michael Bernard Fitzgerald

As inspired by listening to Michael Bernard Fitzgerald’s I Wanna Make It With You

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Hidden Gem: Sarah Neufeld “The Ridge”

Posted on February 22, 2016March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Sarah Neufeld “The Ridge”
Hidden Gem: Sarah Neufeld “The Ridge”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

An Arcade Fire solo project! Sweet:

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Hidden Gem

Garbage Time: 2015-2016 NBA Season Report Card

Posted on February 17, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Garbage Time: 2015-2016 NBA Season Report Card

All-Star Weekend has come and gone. It was freezing and for reasons nobody can properly articulate Sting performed. The coolest aspect of All-Star Weekend was the Jordan store at Yonge-Dundas. S’gone now without a note on the dresser. Damn.

Last half of the 70th NBA season…let’s get down to business. Some of the storylines I was following when the season started are unfolding…

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Garbage Time - NBA, Girth Radio Blog

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    My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews Batman - Detective Comics: Gotham Nocturne: OvertureL Volume 1,
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