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Music Monday – Spike Lee’s “Do It Acapella”

Normally I feature a single song in my Music Monday posts but a recent Twitter thread about how popular acapella was in the 1990’s reminded me of this documentary I happened to catch on PBS when it was first broadcast. Later, I found the CD in a record store, possibly in the States, and it’s […]

¶ Posted 16 November 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, language

Music Monday – “2020, 24 hours to go/I Wanna Be Sedated”

I saw this clever play on words from the lyrics of a Ramones song on Twitter and had to steal it for today’s Music Monday post with 2020 being the craziest year in a century and twenty-fours until we’re watching election returns in the United States… “I Wanna Be Sedated” – The Ramones

¶ Posted 02 November 2020 § Humour § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Art and Music In Relation To Space and Time

This quote is pretty profound…

¶ Posted 28 October 2020 § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – “Almost A Full Moon” Workshop

Pretty cool – Hawksley Workman’s “Almost a Full Moon” is being turned into a stage play…

¶ Posted 23 October 2020 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta

Music Monday – “We’re in a state of crisis, people are dying/While you line your pockets deep/Commander in Chief/How does it feel to still be able to breathe?”

Pretty powerful… “Commander-in-Chief” – Demi Lovato

¶ Posted 19 October 2020 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Well, the nobles said to the people, ‘You better close your public schools/Until the events of death has ending, you better close your churches too.'”

Jack White absolutely kicked ass on SNL this weekend as a last-minute, emergency fill-in guest. Ironically, since he was covering for a country singer who the show cancelled for blatantly disregarding Covid restrictions, White played a mash-up of a few different songs including an old blues tune written about the pandemic of 1918… If that […]

¶ Posted 12 October 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, Covid, health, history, television

Music Monday – “I’m sure you’ve heard it all before/But you never really had a doubt/I don’t believe that anybody/Feels the way I do about you now”

Hard to believe Oasis’ “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” album is 25 years old being released in the fall of 1995. Oasis was basically a one-hit wonder in North America for most people but I was fortunate to be in England in fall 1995 on a University exchange which was during the height of the […]

¶ Posted 05 October 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, holiday, travel

Music Monday – “I got 500 dollars in cash in case they don’t take AMEX/She wanted to see me so now I’m headed to/The Annex Sorority house, she snuck me in, she tried to/Keep quiet, couldn’t hold it in”

Pretty cool that a U of R grad has hit the top of the BBC Asian music charts and gone viral on TikTok with this song… “Young Shahrukh” – Tesher

¶ Posted 28 September 2020 § Canada § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “It’s called me belligerent, it’s took me for ignorant/But it ain’t never once made me scared just to be/Could you imagine just constantly worryin’/Kickin’ and fightin’, beggin’ to breathe?”

Okay, getting to one of the top o’ mind topics mentioned in my list yesterday – a new surprise album from Tyler Childers was released the other day. It features eight instrumental fiddle tunes then a single “regular” song with lyrics calling for more kindness and understanding among citizens including many who listen to Childers […]