…is that she lets her fans decide how much and when they want to pay for downloading her music. How cool and progressive (and Canadian) is that? This is in contrast to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who issued some lower case poetry to expression their concern that fans may download an inferior sounding digital […]
Despite the ribbing I took from my much hipper, cooler acquaintances (who only listen to Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens), the Willie Nelson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert was excellent last night. What can I say? Both are part of growing up in rural Saskatchewan and ironically, the opening act are probably more […]
I've been using Last FM to track the songs I listen to since sometime before Christmas and was very glad to see that they also provide an RSS feed of “Songs That You've Recently Listened To” among other options. After a bit of messing around, I was able to add the feed to the right […]
Until I figure out an automated way, let's do it like this… N(ow) P(laying): “You and the Candles” – Hawksley Workman …from his new CD “Treeful of Starling” which I picked up today at Masonville Mall. It's been a fairly commerce-enabled day – I also finally broke down and ordered a digital camera, a Canon […]
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Posted 01 March 2006
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Tagged: book, music
Another reason I'm suspect about the majority of blogs out there, is that many of them tend to be little more than exercises in ego. Don't get me wrong – I've got as healthy of an ego as anyone (maybe healthier ). But again, is it big enough to think that my random ramblings are […]
Now that I've figured out what time zone I'm in (I think my first entry was timemarked as the default Pacific time zone and that last one, I thought I was in “Central” (because I'm in Central Canada right?) when in fact, I'm in “Eastern”. That's what I get from coming from a province that […]
Some random thoughts… Things I Want To Set-up/Figure Out In This Blog: – it already appears to have most of the things I wanted my blog to have by default – comments, tags, RSS feed, so I just have to play around with each of these things a bit to make sure I like how […]
“I quit my job on Monday, took my holiday pay and went to the liquor store where I cashed my cheque and bought all the liquor I could. I headed for home in my pick-up truck with its 6-CD player listening to all Fred Eaglesmith's albums (except the “50-Odd Dollars” one which was a bit […]
