 Dave O reads literature snippets by himself (short fiction, essays, letters and free verse) along with works from an international smattering of literary stalwarts including Brautigan, Tolstoy, Abbey, Snyder, Whitman, Joyce, Marquez, Rimbaud, ... well, you get the idea. Dave - a published writer and filmmaker - brews up the audio Postcards from various locales around the Cascadia region - mostly Vancouver, BC.Primary Format :
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Heading out with Weed and Brautigan (the missing first episode)Dave introduces the show format and reads part 1 of Uncle Weed's Red Rock Adventure and a snippet from Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dave Remembers Florida, Gary Snyder heads to Japan and Walt Whitman wandersDave O reads from Gary Snyder s Left out in the Rain and Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass and his own I Remember FloridaListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thoreau and Marquez along for the rideDave reads from Henry David Thoreau s Walden and Civil Disobedience plus Gabriel Garcia Marquez s 100 Years of Solitude and his own Portugal SnapshotsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Russian epics, French poems and Irish beerDave reads from his own Letters from Russia, Tolstoy s War and Peace and a bit of French poetry while fumbling with pronunciation and enjoying a Guinness in the nighttime garden.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Uncle Weed and Ed Abbey head to CanyonlandsDave hangs out in the dark at Seven Oars park and reads Part 2 of Uncle Weeds Red Rock Adventure, chats about Edward Abbey, and reads from Desert Solitaire (scored fresh from Olympia s Last Word Books).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rousseau Confesses and more Letters from RussiaDave sits with ducks at Capitol Lake and reads Jean Jacques Rousseau s Confessions and offers a bit of discourse on transparency, plus reads two more Letters from Russia.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kerouac in Mexico, Snyder in Japan and jazz from BanffDave, chillaxing with sake some smoking jazz tracks, reads from Kerouac s Lonesome Traveller, Mexico City Blues and American Haiku plus Gary Snyder from the Backcountry and miscellaneous original haiku and haibun plus a couple from masters Issa KListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lewis and Clark move west, Ed Abbey s wisdom and Uncle Weed s story part 3Lewis and Clark lose horses on Sept 3rd, Ed Abbey foretells the future and Uncle Weed tells a story to the kids.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aerogrammes to Utah, St. Louis and the Gulf CoastUtah writer variety pack - Francios Camoin, Levi Peterson, and Ed Abbey - plus original essay about Glen Canyon. Then, Lewis and Clark check in from the homestretch after scoring some whiskey.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kerouac rides west and Dave hitches northFrom a backyard, Dave reads from Jack Kerouac s On the Road and a bit of hitch-hike narrative of his own - backed with more smoking jazz.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Vancouver with Salinger and disc golf hi-jinxFrom QE park in beloved Vancouver, Dave reads from J.D. Salinger's "For Esme with Love and Squalor" and part of a "Letter from Russia" until disc golf hi-jinx ensue!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Barflys in the backyard reading Bukowski and KerouacDaveO - feeling chillaxed - reads from Kerouac's Some of the Dharma, Bukowski's Barfly and some of his own love junk while Christopher provides guitar and vocal stylings from the backyard at the Puget house.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rimbaud in Bill's Steamboat woodshedDave starts the reading on a pier at Capitol lake and continues days later at Bill's woodshed on Steamboat Island where he reads original free verse written in German countryside as well as works by French poet, Arthur Rimbaud.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Streaming consciousness from a North Shore porchDave - from a porch in Vancouver's North Shore - dedicates his favorite part of James Joyce's Ulysses to a friend, plus reads some of his own short story called About Being Stabbed in the Forehead.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ice Skates and Vancouver writersDave - on a couch with red wine - reads short story snippets by Gordon Cavenaile and himself, plus a poem by John Barta and part of Hans Brinker to celebrate his new hockey skates.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rainy day with Letters and Tolling BellsOn a rainy day, Dave - with strong coffee - reads two more Letters from Russia plus a breathy bit of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Burns on Remembrance dayWith a head full of cold medicine, Dave reads a haibun poem for Remembrance day and then enjoys John Cairney reading Robert Burns' exploits and indiscretions in Edinburgh.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Wabi-Sabi, Foggy MorningOn a foggy morning with Osmanthus tea, Dave reads tales by professor Larry Harper - The Man Who Loved Provo, and himself - Right (as in Correctly) plus a snippet from Natsume Soseki's very wabi-sabi classic - Kokoro.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Snowy Nightime Porch with RaccoonsFrom a snowy porch with raccoons chirping nearby, Dave reads from Richard Brautigan, Phillip Whalen, ee cummings, Walt Whitman plus original free verse while enjoying Pernod and ginger-ale.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Short Fiction - coincidentally about DrinkingOut on a nighttime walk, Dave sits in the frosty grass under a tree, by a pond, with a Guiness and reads 'post-modern' stories by Murakami Haruki, Raymond Carver, Kelsye Nelson and himself, as well as offering up festivus gift ideas.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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