Canadian folk music legend, Willie P. Bennett, died of a heart attack on February 15. He was 56. I best knew Willie as the sideman for Fred Eaglesmith whose band he played in for over 22 years. But Willie was also widely known for being part of an early wave of Canadian folk music along […]
The vocal-only track of David Lee Roth singing “Running With The Devil” has been making the rounds of the Internets but this is the funniest mash-up I've seen – what if Diamond Dave took his act to the American Idol audition room? (I have no problem using the “humour” tag on this post but am […]
I posted an Obama video a few days ago which featured one of his speeches set to music by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas that was called “Yes, We Can”. Now, someone's done a parody featuring the very frightening words of John McCain… (via Reddit)
Nothing says romance like going to see an awesome independent country-rock artist like Roger Marin Jr. Check him out on February 14 if you're reading this in London (or click the link to see his other dates around SW Ontario.)
Reddit has lots of good articles about today's “Super Tuesday” primaries in the United States. Do a search for your favourite candidate to narrow it down. This one's interesting – apparently John McCain, the Republican frontrunner, was born in the Panama Canal Zone, so is not actually eligible to be President (at least he wouldn't […]
It's a bit ironic that the town I visited today for Internet training happens to have a small place in Internet history itself. But other than a brief discussion with the branch librarian about the events of the last couple years since a young man from Montreal was able to execute a series of online […]
I'm following the US primaries (especially the Democratic ones) with great interest. Here are a few Barack Obama-related stories that have caught my attention lately…Barack Obama decisively wins South Carolina. Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama via a NY Times editorial entitled “A President Like My Father“Barakoblogger is one of many Obama-focused blogs out there that's a […]
(via MetaFilter which leads to FongSongs)
Radiohead are usually extremely innovative with any multimedia products they put out – from videos to concert films to web sites (although the current version is quite traditional compared to what they've done in the past.) That makes this hour long video they recently released of them performing all the songs from “In Rainbows” in […]
