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Here are the REAKTOR picks of 2009 AND some awesome quotes and events to go with it!!!

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-Starr-gIRL

 

 BEST OF 2009 according to THE REAKTOR

 

Theme of the year--- ‘Nobody, nobody…puts Abby in a corner”

ALBUMS

 

 The RAVEONETTES-  In and Out of Control

HANDSOME FURS- Face Control

DEAD WEATHER-    Horehound

PAROV STELAR-      Coco

MAYER HAWTHORNE- A Strange Arrangement

LAROUX-La Roux – Self Titled-

PHOENIX- Wolfgang Amadeus

JAPANDROIDS- Post Nothing

SUPERCHUNK- Ep- Leaves in the Gutter

YACHT- See Mystery Lights

 

 

 

  BEST CAN-CON

Metric- Fantasies

Dragonette- Fixin to Thrill

Fox Jaws- Home  and Native

Kestrels- Primary Colours

Magneta Lane-  Gambling with God

Handsome Furs- Face Control

The  Manvils- self-entitled

 

 

SONGS OF DECADE

.. TOO MANY. TOO BLOODY MANY!!!

 

 

 BEST CONCERTS OF 09’

-Golden Triangle

-Handsome Furs

-Flogging Molly

-Youth Brigade and Bouncing Souls

-The Nailheads in Quebec City

-The Kills

 - Mayor Hawthorne and Peanut Butter Wolf

-Beast

-Dj Champion

-Malajube-

-Crystal Antlers

-Bloc Party

 

 

BEST REAKTOR &CJLO  MOMENTs OF 2009

 

-         Sebastian Hands and Shaktor the Reaktor remix William Shatner and create a MSTRKFT MASH UP.

-         TWO POWER OUTAGES

-         Finding this link on a random website

-         http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Electric-Shock-Treatment

-         Being told never to fake ‘vomit’ on air ever again.

-         Interviewing Shawn from Youth Brigade

-         Having 5 interviews and one Live session on the same day

-         Sending out songs to granny Lolita

-         Interviewing The Kills after their show with the CJLO news crew

-         UNDER PRESSURE- graffiti, break dancing and skate boarding event!

-         - 2009 Orientation and the Win a T-shirt contest.

-         The Volunteer meet and Greet…!

-         Mobs Goodness breaking into a beautiful speech about the future of CJLO, it brought a tear to my eye.

-         Adrian and Mobs dancing TOGETHER at STONES THROW

-         Newly discovered dance “the moses”- includes  moves like- ‘Let my people go’ and the ‘parting of the sea’

      Omar’s car rides of shame…nothing can be repeated.

-         POP MONTREAL- being told that CJLO had the best and most fun volunteers

-         Tabling for JAPANDROIDS at Divan Orange.

-         Having the weirdest impromptu one-minute conversation with Bloodshot Bill on two different occasions.

-         Having the power to play new and great underground music.

 

CMJ MEMORIES OF ‘09

-         Omar and Canada sing karaoke in NY- Tell me lies.

-         Getting lost for two hours on Lafeyette street at 3 a.m , during CMJ, while trying to find the Cake Shop because I wanted to see Crystal Antlers perform at 4am.

 

-         Late night CJLO /CMJ parties in the hotel lobby that lasted until 6a.m that resulted in horrible pictures and beautiful memories.

-         Six of us dancing at 4 a.m to the music in a Dunkin Donuts while waiting for our tea

-         Getting back from a late night party to find another party in our hotel room at

 5 a.m!

- Hanging out with those Crazy drunken CFRE kids in their closet hotel room.

- The photographer at the CMJ mixer, who kept taking my picture… every time I was stuffing my face with food, sigh.

-  Brian’s face was PRICELESS!!! When he announced that the winner of this years Australia trip was another CJLO-er … Angelica!

- Finding Brians face on a Australia pamphlet.

-CJLO wins best group effort and every other award we’re nominated for .

-Randomly texting ‘PARTTYYYYY!!!’ to everyone I know in NYC .

-Making friends with awesome bands

-Street meet , honey roasted peanuts, pizza and more pizza

-Seeing Crystal Antlers perform live

-Attending panels on no sleep

-Pratically passing out during the musical ‘HAIR’

-Not studying for an exam this time!

-The Strand

-Watching a Drunken Angelica talk about the margarita she drank that was the size of her face while Jay falls asleep mid-sentence.

-Chocolate licorice- Thank-you Andrew.

-Snapping guitar strings…accidentally.

-Being allowed into Hi-fi this time…

-Only a few people remarking at how my Pass port picture makes me look like I’m criminally insane.

 

 

  

BEST CJLO QUOTES of the decade

“Nobody puts Abby in the corner!” –

 

“Stop saying those things about my granny… I don’t care if her name is LOLITA”

 

“Your drive home at 2PM, nobody works on a Friday afternoon, you’re probably all on Facebook right now.”

 

“You can be my rubber ducky…in the shower.” Nick talking to Adrian

 

“Abby… maybe you should stick to print” Nick in response to my reading the news in a not so newsy fashion

 

“Don’t worry mom, the hooker’s not dead…” Nick talking to his mom on the phone…

 

“I’m sorry that was a bit inappropriate, but hey… if you ever want to make it in the radio industry kid…”  -radio personality – Dan .D.

 

“I need you to scream like a crazy woman and then cough and cry like a child while pretending you’ve caught the swine flu…what?  Too much?” –D.D

 

“ If you have to ask me if this is too inappropriate to air…then that should kind of be a sign.”- Mark Bergman.

 

“ Three words. Silent. Dj. Party.” – Katie

 

“ Snoop dog is performing for orientation…seriously?  Wow. It’s not a joke? Isn’t he like anti-education and pro smoking up?”

 

Adrian – in reference to us re-writing history to make it our 10th anniversary - “10 years of nobody

knowing who the fuck we are!” --- from the files of mobs.

 

 

-“ Hey Sam, you’re looking kind of skinny lately. Are you bulimic?” – Mobs talking to Sam, a 6-yr-old little girl and Rebecca Munroe’s daughter.

 

“Oh yeahhhhhhh!!! Didn’t I follow up with a … been snorting coke lately?” Mobs in response to my quoting his  child bulimia joke.

 

“ Sweet baby Omar…we can prop him up”- White Brian.  You don’t want to know.

 

PEOPLE ACCORDING TO OMAR.

·  Katie – aka The General

·  Brian – aka The Lieutenant

·  Abby – aka Chuckles McTavish

·  Adrian – aka Zippy Talulah

·  Brian H – aka White Brian

·  Dave – aka White Tiger

·  Kelly – aka Phonemate 2000

·  Nick – aka Fi$ts of Fury

·  Omar – aka El Doomsayer

·  Amrew – aka Dolla Dolla Billz

·  Dave K – aka Le Knob Twiddler

 Angelica – aka losing her mind

·  Jackie – aka I’m working, bitches

·  Jason – aka I’m too good to be in town for you people

 

Katie mistakenly calls Jay Nice the “Hip Hop MD”, Omar: “ hello racism”

 

“What’s CJLO?” random student.

 

 

REAKTOR QUOTES—most strangest time of day 2-4pm fridayday.

 GUESTS-SEB HANDS AND STARR GAL.

 

Your drive home at 2PM, nobody works on a Friday afternoon, you’re probably all on Facebook right now or doing something inappropriate like listening to cjlo.”

 

“I can’t even poop by myself or wipe my own bum…yeah camping was fun!”- Sebastian Hands.

 

“This song has an FCC warning, which means it’s for children. That’s right turn up the volume ma and pa.”

 

“Ohhh we have a phone call, who could it be? It’s president Kennedy back from the dead and he has a song request!”

 

“ This song goes out to Linda that receptionist I had to deal with this morning. Here isThe Plasticines with the song ‘BITCH.’

 

“ Weather report…forecast of  skittles and a torrential slew of musical happiness…”

 

“  party party partyyy in your EARS.”

 

“ Rip my heart out… now that sounds like a romantic song this is for you loverrrsss.”

 

“Todays show was brought to you by….Magic and the letter A.”

 

“Did you love it!? Sebastian hands and I just remixed that ourselves, he upper torso danced to the beat and I played with the volume levels!!”

 

“ Oh we would just like to apologize for our William Shatner remix, we didn’t realize that song was an elegy for his wife…”