Hard to believe that today marks two years since Willie P. Bennett passed away. Fred Eaglesmith has apparently started covering a Willie P. song at the end of his concerts as a tribute to his long-time sideman…
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Friday Fun Link – Winter Olympics Begin (February 12, 2010)
Not sure if you heard but apparently the Wet & Rainy Olympics are in Canada this year and the opening ceremonies are tonight. The Olympics are once again a lightning rod of controversy and having them on our own doorstep has perhaps brought this home in a way that doesn't happen when they're in Italy […]
FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – Ten Most Controversial Music Videos of All-Time
I know I could get my entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week Month “Music Monday” clips out of this list but I'll post them as a group since that's how I found them.
Saturday Snap – RPL Joins SILS (from local CTV station)
Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube. Sorry for the crappy sound…
FTRW 2010 – Friday Fun Link – List of Films That Most Frequently Use The Word "Fuck"
Looking for a good date movie? I'm just kidding but this list of “Films That Most Frequently Use The Word 'Fuck'” does remind me of a funny anecdote from my youth. A friend had introduced me to “Reservoir Dogs” soon after it came out on video and I quickly became a Tarantino junkie. When I […]
FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject. For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]
Music Monday – "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."
I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it. I love how the first couple verses are just typical “I remember this, I remember that” cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last […]
Friday Fun Link – "Why Don't You Read?" (January 22, 2010)
The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song “Crazy” rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet age. (H/T to Heather M.)
People in Order by Age
People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo. (via Reddit) [Edit: this video is apparently part of a series commissioned by the BBC with the intention of arranging people by various criteria – income, length of partnership, stage of pregnancy – to humanize things we often think of only in statistical terms.]
Music Monday – "You were the first girl at school to get breasts/And Martin said you were the best/Oh, the boys all loved ya but I was a mess/I had to work to try to get you undressed."
Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines. (Linked clip is in French but the description sums up that rivalry.) “Common People” was the defining song on the album (and the Shatner cover is all kinds […]