"Canada's Playlist" is Huge Bore

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I would like to know if anyone cares at all about Gian Ghomeshi's


CBC radio show, "Canada's Playlist", which seems constantly to haunt


the airwaves, with no discernable beginning and therefore no possible


end.



I don't dislike Gian Ghomeshi at all. I think his role in the world's


worst band, Moxy Fruvus, shouldn't colour our perceptions of him. I


recall that he did a decent job on whatever CBC television show that


was where he interviewed people in a bar, although frankly I felt that


he was often overly familiar with his guests and no one wants to watch


that because it's just embarrassing.

I
don't know how he got stuck with this "Canada's Playlist" stinker. I
think that at the CBC offices he must hate running into that brilliant
hipster guy with the


long last name, because that guy has the best gig and Gian has the


worst. Imagine the strain he is under, having to rev himself up for a


seven hour marathon each day in which he must beg people to email him


strongly-felt opinions about K.D. Lang, moderate meaningless


discussions, find guests who will try to summon up long-dead feeling


about songs from 1991, and play the little bell noise to signal his


guests to stop speaking excitedly about "riffs", "licks", "evocations",


and "sensorial meaning" in Nickelback.

And what is meant to happen to this playlist in the end? Are


they planning to send it up in the space shuttle or bury it in a time


capsule in the House of Commons?