Author Archives: Aaron Brophy

Thrashing Up The Strombo Show

BiWay memories

BiWay memories

Last week I made a brief appearance on my friend/colleague’s The Strombo Show to request some thrash metal and talk about BiWay shoes.

The song I requested was The Prophecy 23’s “Party Like It’s ’84.”

To hear the song and my bit launch the player below and head deep into the third hour of the show.

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Clint Malarchuk On Mental Health: ‘It Doesn’t Matter How Tough You Are, It Can Hit Any Person’

Clint Malarchuk, the 1986-87 Rendez-Vous All-Star.

Clint Malarchuk, the 1986-87 Rendez-Vous All-Star.

Clint Malarchuk, the former NHL goaltender best known for suffering a gruesome skate-slash-to-the-neck injury in his playing days, recently attended the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival to promote his new book The Crazy Game a showing of his ESPN 30 For 30 doc, Cutthroat.

Throughout his playing days and into retirement Malarchuk dealt with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, alcoholism and an undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. The weight of these illnesses eventually led to a suicide attempt.

It didn’t succeed. And after a lengthy rehab Malarchuk has emerged to tell his story.

I spoke with him about it for Samaritan Mag.

To read the story go here.

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In Living Color’s Most Interesting Fight Sketches

In Living Color

In Living Color

Back in the day In Living Color was the funniest show around what with Homey The Clown and such.

The show also frequently liked to showcase sketches related to the fighting arts with Mike Tyson parodies, ninja appearances and peculiar self-defense classes.

Sarah jumped into the wayback machine and assessed all of these old fight-related sketches for Fightland.

You can read the story by going here.

 

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Meghan Trainor Still Working On Self-Acceptance

Meghan Trainor

Meghan Trainor

One of the biggest pop songs of the past couple months has been the posi-anthem “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor.

Sarah spoke to Trainor about the hit song and the long and winding road the singer has taken towards the body acceptance that’s the subject of the song.

To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.

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Tagaq Wants Us All To Eat A Seal Steak

Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq just capped off a Toronto-Montreal whirlwind of sellout shows further proving she’s one of the most dynamic musicians in Canada right now.

This seemed like a good enough reason for Sarah to further explore her recent conversation with the Polaris Music Prize champ.

For this piece Sarah and Tagaq went deeper into politics of eating seal meat.

You can read the whole story at Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

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