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Saturday Snap – It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… Looking Back to My Four-Month University Exchange to York, England

Hard to believe but twenty (!) years ago today, I took off from Regina, Saskatchewan and landed in Paris, France, a couple weeks before I was set to begin a one semester exchange in York, England (where I took three courses including a Film Production class that gives us the slightly un-PC clip at the top […]

¶ Posted 12 September 2015 § Canada § Humour § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (2) °

Music Monday – Oasis Full Concert

So cool how you can find full concerts on YouTube. Oasis will always remind me of my semester abroad in 1995 although this one’s actually from 2005…

¶ Posted 17 August 2015 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Paul McCartney Concert in #yqr (Aug 14, 2013)

Two years since the best concert of my life… And of course, in this day and age, somebody appears to have uploaded the entire concert, from start to finish, to YouTube! (If I’d know that, I could’ve saved 250 clams on my ticket!) 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZd1dXGuRu4

¶ Posted 13 August 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool, economics, music, parents, youtube

Music Monday – “Should I stay or should I go?”

Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur & Gorillaz, was led off stage by security after refusing to stop performing after a five-hour set with the Africa Express Project at a music festival in Europe!

¶ Posted 06 July 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Uri Gagarin/Flew into the sun/The angels in heaven/Look down where he lay”

I think I posted this in a long ago Music Monday but heard it recently and felt the need to post it again. Such great memories of my undergrad exchange to England during the height of the Britpop/Cool Britannia years with a song that pretty much defines the “Britpop” sounds for me… “Angel Interceptor” – […]

¶ Posted 22 June 2015 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, travel

Music Monday – “Wishin’ I had money/Wishin’ for the time to spend it all/Wishin’ I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world ’round my finger”

Stumbled across this folk/Americana version of “Wish I Was Skinny” by 1990’s Britpop band, Boo Radleys, which makes one of my favourite songs possibly even better! 😉