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Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

¶ Posted 11 June 2012 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide

Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!

¶ Posted 08 June 2012 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, economics, travel

Star Wars Characters Re-imagined as Old West Characters

It’s pretty common knowledge that George Lucas at least partly based the Star Wars movies on some of the serialized westerns he saw as a child. Now, you can see how his characters may have looked had he actually done the films set in the Old West.

¶ Posted 07 June 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, movies

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, health, history, parents, reddit, science

Saturday Snap – Superman & Spider-man Team Up!

If you think “The Avengers” made a lot of money, can you imagine what a cross-company, joint DC-Marvel film with Superman and Spider-man teaming up to battle Dr. Doom and The Parasite with guest appearances from The Hulk and Wonder Woman would be like? Well, it’s already happened in comic book form as this gem […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, history, movies

Music Monday – “I still look for you in crowds/In train stations and bus stops, on sidewalks/In the middle of the night”

As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second. This is one of my favourite songs of his…

¶ Posted 28 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, ontario

Sappy Sunday – Lip Dub Wedding Proposal

This one’s pretty sweet…

¶ Posted 27 May 2012 § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, cute

ReadLists

ReadLists is a new site which allows people to combine and share collections of web pages – articles, reviews, recipes, course materials, etc. – in a single package that you can easily download to your smart phone. I’m not necessarily endorsing this site but just sharing a cool find. Feel free to read the original […]