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Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”

I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio.  Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song!  (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”

Posted 23 April 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]

Posted 20 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Staring out of the window as the clouds roll in/Distant rumbling of a storm about to begin”

On the recommendation of a co-worker, someone who’s big in Australia but hasn’t hit in North America yet. A perfect tune for a drizzly day in the Queen City…

Posted 16 April 2012 § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too.”

Being in the US, especially on a major religious holiday, is always eye-opening to me as an atheist. For example, this chart ran with a newspaper story whose title and anecdotal themes suggested people were coming back to faith but which the hard evidence clearly suggests otherwise… I will concede that religion and religious pressure […]

Posted 09 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “So we’ll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power”

RPL had a successful strike vote tonight which means this is my theme song for the foreseeable future…

Posted 02 April 2012 § Humour § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is actually married to someone else in real life) was walking down the aisle to this song to meet Jack Layton at the altar (he was still alive […]

Posted 26 March 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I’m so sick of your management/I’m so sick of all of this/I’m so sick of your bullshit.”

Toronto Public Library has gone on strike so I’ll send this song out to my former classmates, colleagues and others who are walking the picket line.  Here’s hoping for a fast and fair resolution.

Posted 19 March 2012 § Library § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “What it take to make you people dance?”

The “walking down the street, dancing” theme is a popular one for music videos, from REM to Hawksley Workman to the classic of the genre from The Verve. Here’s another one from Blur’s guitarist, Graham Coxon…

Posted 12 March 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – How Could I Ever Forget the Happiest Day of My Life?

Well, other than wishing you a Happy Anniversary on Saturday.  😉 But when you have three anniversary dates to keep track of, that’s to be expected.  In fact, re-reading that entry about our three anniversaries, it looks like this wasn’t the first time I was early with my anniversary wishes! Anyhow, nine years and counting […]

Posted 06 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: