Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd. (“How small was it, Jason?” Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.)
But I still enjoyed the show – after a long day on the road and with two of their band member sick, instead of Roger opening for Gordie Tentrees as planned, the two of them did a more intimate, acoustic show with each staying on stage for the entire show, trading a single guitar and mic back and forth.
Which actually made for a more enjoyable show than we would’ve got otherwise. Sometimes small is better!
Here’s a taste of Roger playing to a bigger crowd at his own Cicada Fest in Niagara.
It’s been a pretty wild year for storms on the Prairies with lots of attention from so-called “storm chasers” who, ironically, make the storms even more prevalent by giving them a lot of attention, spotting storms that otherwise would go unreported and even using technology to provide live video streams/tweets/photo and blog updates.
Before you barbeque or cook a hot dog over a campfire, put a skewer through the middle of the dog then score it in a spiral fashion so that you get more of that crunchy goodness throughout the meat!
The C-64 was the first computer I interacted with on a regular basis.
My elementary school had one at the back of the Grade Six classroom (along with a homeroom teacher who was a pretty big nerd when that wasn’t as cool as it is today!) and we would spend hours (or at least it felt like hours) playing the games that he created by typing the long lines of machine code contained in the back of Compute! magazine or other educational games that the school purchased.
When I did my favourite presentation ever in library school where I looked at the future of broadcasting in a Media Studies course on the History of Communication, I may have made one mistake.
At the time, I said that traditional broadcast television would still be where people came together for “Event TV” – the Oscars, the Olympics, series finales, big news stories, etc. But seeing how these Olympics have developed, this might actually be the last time that is the case.
Normally I post a song each week on Monday but this week I’m going to do something a bit different (mostly because every single video of Paul McCartney closing out the Olympics Opening ceremony that I might’ve posted is being taken down by YouTube as fast as it’s uploaded.)
Imagine the lights going down and then all of a sudden Sean Lennon, James McCartney, Dhani Harrison and Zak Starkey are on stage. Lennon barks “One-two-three-fah!” and they kick into an even more up-tempo version of “I Saw Her Standing There” than the original! They follow that with “All You Need Is Love”, the song the Beatles debuted during one of the earth’s first worldwide television broadcasts. Then, they could either leave the stage or stick around to back-up Sir Paul as he did his couple songs to cap the night.
It would’ve hit so many notes – the Olympics’ theme of being about global unity and that young people are the future, it would’ve emphasized Great Britain’s role as a cultural heavyweight with the Beatles as the ultimate example. And it would’ve simply been really fucking cool.
