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Some Thoughts on The 10th Anniversary of 9/11

There’s a lot of commentary today online, in other media and at memorials around the world.   So instead of adding to the noise, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of some of the most interesting things I’ve seen… (Oh, okay – I’ll quickly do my own “Where were you when?” story since I […]

Posted 11 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Your smile is like a breath of spring/Your voice is like summer rain/And I cannot compete with you/Jolene” (Bonus: Incomplete List of Bands I’ve Seen Live)

Dolly Parton was the voice in a movie we watched this weekend (Gnomeo & Juliet – very cute!) and that somehow led to me thinking about the various concerts I’ve seen in my life (Dolly being one of the Top Five believe it or not!) Off the top of my head, here’s a very incomplete […]

Posted 23 May 2011 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Scrambled Eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs”

A famous bit of Beatles trivia is that Paul McCartney woke up one day with the fully formed melody for “Yesterday” running through his head. He didn’t have words so to help remember it, he started singing “Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs.” After singing the melody for everyone he could find, […]

Posted 13 December 2010 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Birthday To Me!

It's my dyslexic birthday today (I was born in '73 and am turning 37) and I know they didn't do it for me but what a great gift to stumble across a clip of a quasi-Beatles reunion as Sir Paul recently took to the stage to celebrate his old bandmate at the conclusion of an […]

Posted 18 July 2010 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – "It was written that I would love you/From the moment I opened my eyes"

Recently rediscovered the album, “Flaming Pie”, one of my favourite McCartney solo efforts.  This song is a number of keepers on the album and the video's great too.  Interesting Jason-specific trivia – the death of Linda McCartney in 1998 is probably still one of the saddest celebrity deaths I can recall.  The fact that the […]

Posted 29 September 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

A Couple Interesting Ways to Analyse Individual Beatles' Popularity/Contribution Within the Group

Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]

Posted 19 September 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music monday – "You never need to doubt it/I'll make you so sure about it"

No less an expert than Paul McCartney is on record as saying that “God Only Knows” is the best love song ever written.  Below is the vocals-only track from the original “Pet Sounds” recording sessions.  If you click through to YouTube, you'll find other acapella versions of some other “Pet Sounds” songs.  Sloop John B.” […]

Posted 18 August 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °