I think I’ve probably posted this old viral video before but as we prep to move into our new house, it felt appropriate for a few reasons – the title “Home” obviously but also for how it reminds me of Sasha who’s increasingly into music and has taken to making up her own songs to sing!
“Home” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Nothing much, just bought a house! 😉
(Er, obviously this is a story months and really, years, in the making but I’m sure I’ll get to the full story soon. For now, I’m heading to bed after a *very* long day!)
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.
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, in many ways, Spirit of the West was the most influential band of my life. They were the soundtrack of my college years, a guaranteed call-to-the-dance floor at most of my friend’s weddings, provided the lyrics I chose to post on my dorm room door during my England exchange to remind me of home, and wrote a song I consider Shea’s and my “song” which is the ringtone I hear to this day when she calls me.
At the time, I wrote this about the concert:
I’m not sure what song it was but at one point, early in the show, my eyes welled up with tears – simply from watching him dance, as he always does, with gleeful abandon, and so many thoughts hit me – how we’re all getting older, we’re all dealing with different serious issues – our own health, the health of our loved ones and everything else that life throws at us – and yet, here was a man who’s just past 50, facing a serious medical diagnosis that will make his brain and memories wilt away and yet, he’s still dancing as if he didn’t have a care in the world.
Tragically gone too soon, his songwriting was brilliant to the end:
…but the unbridled joy of his dancing which is how I’ll always remember him (you may have to fast forward to 4:04):
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“Good Lord, Lorrie” – Turnpike Troubadours
As an atheist, I always chuckle at athletes who inject their religion into the game or somehow seem to believe that god is helping them win or have success or whatever.
I have no idea how much the Riders’ new quarterback, Cody Fajardo, thinks god’s helping him have success but given his “sprinkle of Jesus” catchphrase, I wish today he’d changed it to “Sprinkle of success inside the red zone” as the Riders couldn’t buy a touchdown for pennies or prayers.
(To be fair to Fajardo, there was some very suspect play calling when the Riders found themselves close to the end zone.)
Probably. This seriously doesn’t even look like fast food as far as I’m concerned:
