Today’s the day. Go Orange! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWf-lrnfs
The song, “Vote” by the Submarines, details a real-life break-up that happened between the duo who lead the band, just before Super Tuesday during the 2008 US Election. Except for the fact that the last line is “We all know, our system’s broken, And I, I’ll never vote again“, I thought it would be appropriate […]
An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…
I had best intentions to do a post about the debate tonight. But I ended up playing in puddles with Pace instead then watching the debate on PVR later while trying to catch up on Twitter posts and do a couple other things as well. I also realised I didn’t do a Music Monday post […]
We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]
How can all of YouTube not have a version of Bob Dylan doing “Political World”? Seriously??? Okay, here’s a cover by some dude in his bedroom…
Last Friday, I wrote about Chat Roulette Love Song which was the extremely successful proof of a guy’s Masters thesis on viral video. Speaking of Friday, another recent viral video that blew up even bigger than Chat Roulette Love Song is the video for “Friday” by Rebecca Black which has gained over 30 million (!) […]
Pace has been counting down the “sleeps” until we go to Cuba on Thursday. Meanwhile his daddy has been counting down “how many days left of standing at the bus stop freezing my butt off?” 😉 We leave Thursday for a week’s vacation and since Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the […]
Noel Gallagher quit Oasis last year (apparently for good this time – it used to be a weekly occurrence back in the day) so the core of the group has reformed as “Beady Eye” with a newly released album, “Different Gear, Still Speeding”, which is pretty rocking… Blur reunited last year but much more interestingly, […]
We screened a few films during library school that either had a library theme (Party Girl) or that somehow related to library issues. One that we showed which is very heavily connected to the concept of freedom to read/freedom of speech was “The Aristocrats” and my frequent partner-in-crime, Quinn Dupont outdid himself by playing this […]
