Waking up with Jian Ghomeshi...
Aug. 29th, 2006 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikSounds Like Canada is my wakeup program. Where my dying alarm clock croaks out NPR, my computer streams CBC. The Summer host is Jian Ghomeshi, a musican/columnist/broadcaster/personality with a voice better suited with getting listeners into bed than up in the morning.
His voice has bedroom eyes.
And I guess most people ARE awake by 11:00 am... me and my luck magical schedule.
What I really love about him is the fact that he started something called the Ulysses Challenge- while he's hosting SLC, and that ends friday, he's going to read, and finish James Joyce's Ulysses.
He wants his listeners to try as well.
At least a few are trying.
This is a staggering concept.
I'm trying to imagine an NPR host with enough whimsy to suggest such a thing, and such gravitas to make it believable.
CBC also sponsors a program called Canada Reads, where they choose a novel and... Canadians read it. Something like this has been tried here in the States, but usually on a local level, and most often something... Serious but un-intimidating, like To Kill A Mockingbird. There, they chose the kind of books the Independent bookstores sell, the ones that great write ups in the NYT, but really, won't be showing up on the NYT best seller list anytime soon.
Their first book four years ago?
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.
Yeah. That says it all.
His voice has bedroom eyes.
And I guess most people ARE awake by 11:00 am... me and my luck magical schedule.
What I really love about him is the fact that he started something called the Ulysses Challenge- while he's hosting SLC, and that ends friday, he's going to read, and finish James Joyce's Ulysses.
He wants his listeners to try as well.
At least a few are trying.
This is a staggering concept.
I'm trying to imagine an NPR host with enough whimsy to suggest such a thing, and such gravitas to make it believable.
CBC also sponsors a program called Canada Reads, where they choose a novel and... Canadians read it. Something like this has been tried here in the States, but usually on a local level, and most often something... Serious but un-intimidating, like To Kill A Mockingbird. There, they chose the kind of books the Independent bookstores sell, the ones that great write ups in the NYT, but really, won't be showing up on the NYT best seller list anytime soon.
Their first book four years ago?
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.
Yeah. That says it all.
