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Music Monday – “Can’t get out of the yard / I’m snowed in with the drifts / No one is coming to open these gifts”

I’m a big believer that the best Christmas songs are the ones with a sense of sadness and melancholy underlying them. Corb Lund has jumped to the top of that category with his latest song.  An 80-year old rancher buying gifts for his gifts just in case they show up for Christmas even though they’re […]

Posted 08 December 2014 § Sad § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m grateful for what you did for me/I can see things now I never would have seen”

Having a real Spirit of the West run of posts lately.  Here’s another one – the first video they ever shot from their official YouTube channel… “Political” – Spirit of the West

Posted 24 November 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Now when she’s talking to you/Make sure you listen close/Cause she’s gonna teach everything you’ll ever need to know Like how to mind your manners to love and laugh and dream/And she’ll put you on the path/That’ll bring you back to me”

Shea’s lifelong friend, maid of honour, and guardian to Pace and Sasha, had her third baby last night. After having two boys, we were happy to hear that a baby girl, Abby, had joined their family – not least because we can pass along a bunch of clothes and other Sasha goodies to them!  😉 […]

Posted 17 November 2014 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Come on mamma/Come on and open up your shirt/Yeah you’ve got the goods mamma/Give the little boy a squirt.”

“Rufus Is A Tit Man” – Loudon Wainwright III

Posted 03 November 2014 § Humour § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – Strawberry Fields Forever (Slowed 800%)

Brian Eno would be proud… “Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles (slowed by 800%)

Posted 27 October 2014 § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Take me to church/I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies/I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife “

Saw this guy on Saturday Night Live last week and he blew me away. At first, a song called “Take Me To Church” with a refrain of “Amen, amen” throughout might seem like a typical religious song. But listen to the lyrics a little closer (or just read the excerpt from the chorus I used […]

Posted 20 October 2014 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Line one/Is the time/That you/You first stayed over at mine”

Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…

Posted 13 October 2014 § MemoryLane § Shea § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Running through the graveyard/We laughed my friends and I/We swore we’d be together/Until the day we died/Until the day we died”

“Innocent When You Dream” – Tom Waits

Posted 06 October 2014 § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Clap along if you feel/Like happiness is the truth”

Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams

Posted 29 September 2014 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before”

“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle

Posted 22 September 2014 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: