We’re back with a podcast where John plays a synthesizer emulator and talks with Chris about writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month. You can follow John’s progress on the novel A Rock, a Skip, a Clock, and a Pirate on his NaNoWriMo page. This marks a lighter approach to the podcast with music performed and mixed into the podcast live as w…

This episode has new theme music, as well as a new schedule. We’ve decided to do the podcast more regularly now, hopefully every few weeks. However, to make these changes, it’s taken a lot of procrastination on our part, so that’s the topic for this episode. Also, this is our tenth podcast! We talked about ways to not procrastinate, creating new th…

In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. We sat on her front porch and as cars drove by in the warm afternoon John interviewed Julie about writing songs, getting started in a rock band, how to make an album, and what she’s working on now. In part B Julie talks about making …

In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. We sat on her front porch and as cars drove by in the warm afternoon John interviewed Julie about writing songs, getting started in a rock band, how to make an album, and what she’s working on now. In part A Julie talks about her ins…

We finally went camping and hiking in Fundy National Park and had some fun, but a storm cut our stay short. Bad Metaphor #8 – Camping was recorded on location in New Brunswick in Fundy National Park and just outside of Fredericton in Staples Settlement while we visited John’s grandparents on my side. We camped at Point Wolfe and recorded sound on P…

It’s Summer and we’re on vacation and on our first adventure we went to the Discovery Centre in Halifax. John begins somewhat randomly by reciting Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll (accompanied by “Dark in Here” by James Shuttleworth, which is a track I found on Opsound). Then we talk about our trip to the Discovery Centre and the things that we saw the…

We take things on the road in episode 6 of Bad Metaphor and we talk about work at the Nova Scotia Community College Halifax Downtown Site. Chris and John walk around the areas where Screen Arts is taught. We go in the office, the studio and the edit suites and look at the technology used to make films and videos. Bad Metaphor Episode 6: Work (15 mi…

In the fifth Bad Metaphor podcast the topic is technology. John and Chris talk about old technology, modern technology and future technology as they wander around the back yard in Wolfville. Some of the topics covered include: The 30th anniversary of Apple Computers, ow John has never used or seen a typewriter in person, future technology such as r…

In the fourth episode John and Chris talk about Sunday, March Break as well as the film Walking on a Sea of Glass, giant robotic bugs, and John plays the piano. Bad Metaphor Episode 4: Sunday (13 minutes, 37 seconds)By Chris