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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 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – Daddy-Daughter Night

Shea had a very long day and Pace is both pretty introverted and a stereotypical teenager so it’s hard to get him out of the house at the best of times. That meant Sasha and I had a daddy-daughter date to The Artesian’s “Holiday Sing-a-long” Thursday night which was great fun.

¶ Posted 21 December 2019 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, xmas

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 § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: xmas

Friday Fun Link – My New Christmas Movie Tradition?

I was in the habit of watching *Love Actually” every December but last year I didn’t get to it and instead I watched this which has nothing to do with Christmas but, since I watched it right before Christmas, still managed to feel like a Christmas movie if that makes sense?

¶ Posted 13 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, 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 § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, xmas

Music Monday – “It seems such a waste of time/If that’s what it’s all about/Mama if that’s movin’ up/Then I’m movin’ out”

“Moving Out (Anthony’s Song)” – Billy Joel

¶ Posted 02 December 2019 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Ah, home, let me come home/Home is wherever I’m with you”

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 […]

¶ Posted 25 November 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute

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 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

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, […]