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Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles

Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles? (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)

¶ Posted 27 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § MusicMonday § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January/This is our place, we make the rules/And there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Lover” – Taylor Swift

¶ Posted 23 December 2019 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s bitterly cold with three feet of snow/And this wouldn’t be home If the wind didn’t blow”

“Just Me and the Ponies (For Christmas This Year)” – Corb Lund

¶ Posted 16 December 2019 § MusicMonday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, xmas

Music Monday – “Christmas Eve will find me/Where the love light gleams/I’ll be home for Christmas/If only in my dreams”

I can’t believe I’ve never posted this song before – one of the most absolutely beautiful, heart-wrenching Christmas songs of all-time. And so appropriate these days too. We’re extremely excited for our first Christmas in our new house of course. But it also comes with mixed emotions knowing that a decision we made only two […]

¶ Posted 09 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music, xmas

Friday Fun Link – How Black Friday Shopping Habits Are Changing

I admit that between things we need for our new house and the usual Christmas pressure to “buy, buy, buy!”, I had a fairly loaded Amazon cart on the go. But I read this article and just couldn’t do it – I mean, I know most corporations treat workers poorly and do anything in pursuit […]

¶ Posted 29 November 2019 § FridayFunLink § Internet § News § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, xmas

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Spirit of the West Full Concert (June 2015)

Obviously I wasn’t at this concert but I was at Spirit of the West’s Regina show around the same time (same tour?) after John Mann’s diagnosis and this is a pretty good capture of the mixed emotions of that show – joy, sadness, awe, fear.

¶ Posted 21 November 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

RIP John Mann (1964-2019)

It was a long, inevitable farewell. After announcing his Early Onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, John Mann, lead singer and frontman of the seminal 90’s Canadiana band, Spirit of the West, embarked on a farewell tour with the band in 2014. Shea and I got to see this show and it reminded me of why, […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2019 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, music

Music Monday – “And she told me that she loved me/And I grinned and grabbed her hand and said, “I know”/Let’s get from here/Now darling if we’re going/Let’s go on and go.”

“Good Lord, Lorrie” – Turnpike Troubadours

¶ Posted 18 November 2019 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – ASMR: The Biggest YouTube Trend You’ve Never Heard Of

I hadn’t heard of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) until seeing it referred to on Twitter earlier this week in a joke about how addictive it is. Turns out ASMR is huge!