I understand why Steven Page chose to perform a cover of “Hallelujah” at the Jack Layton funeral on Saturday (apparently it was the last song Jack listened to
The news of Jack Layton’s passing today, although not unexpected, is still sad and tragic for so many reasons. There is much grieving today from party supporters and
A huge collection of countdown overviews for the last few decades including, for example, the year I graduated high school… (via Reddit)
I had such an amazing time camping this long weekend at Nickle Lake with Shea’s folks at their seasonal site, I thought I’d do a bulleted list of
Now she’s gone and joined that stupid club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvXiSUknVo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlPBfGYA8SE (via MetaFilter)
Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)
Yet another Newfoundland classic guaranteed to get everybody in the pub singing along… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85qNejhQxw
Last Monday, I wrote about the musical cultures of the various provinces. Now that I’m here in Newfoundland, the musicality of this province is overwhelming. I couldn’t name
Hmm, do other provinces have a distinctive musical sound in the same way that the Maritime provinces do? In a very stereotypical way, I’d say that the music
One of my favourite British bands (I consider them Britpop but not sure everyone defines them that way) does a piss-take version of the typical Ibizia club anthem
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