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Music Monday – “My life’s a bit more colder/Dead wife is what I told her/Brass knife sinks into my shoulder/Oh babe don’t know what I’m gonna do”

It was a great way to kick off the New Year last night with Shea and I seeing a show at Casino Regina featuring Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine opening for The Dead South. All are great Saskatchewan artists but The Dead South are really hitting the big time – they’ve toured in Europe, won […]

¶ Posted 01 January 2018 § Meme § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “All the lights are shining/So brightly everywhere/And the sound of children’s/Laughter fills the air”

I was a bit surprised to see which was my most played song over the past month, narrowly defeating a handful of songs that I thought *could* be my most played. Anyhow, since I’ve ended up doing a month-long series of posts about cover versions of popular songs, why not finish off on Christmas Day […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, holiday, xmas

Friday Fun Link – Sad Jingle Bells

This video takes one of the happiest Christmas songs and turns it sad by playing it in a minor key… I’ve also long believed that you can make this popular jaunty carol into a pretty sad one, simply be reworking the lyrics from present to past tense, changing the odd word and singing all verses […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, language, writing, xmas

Music Monday – “I am a poor boy too/I have no gift to bring/That’s fit to give a King/Shall I play for you/On my drum?”

Continuing our December Music Monday theme of re-imagining well-known Christmas songs, let’s go to the ultimate fitting cover – Ringo Starr doing “Little Drummer Boy” (Hmm, I also unintentionally ended up featuring Christmas songs/covers by two of the four Beatles. Perhaps that should’ve been the theme as well?) “The Little Drummer Boy” – Ringo Starr

¶ Posted 18 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Music Monday – “The party’s on/The feeling’s here/That only comes this time of year/Simply having a wonderful Christmastime”

Another re-imagined Christmas classic… “Wonderful Christmastime” – Tom McRae

¶ Posted 11 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Music Monday – “She has tattooed tear drops/She don’t have to cry/Woman you won’t weep/Don’t you moan”

Always nice to get recommendations of bands you haven’t heard of from your patrons. Here’s an interesting group I heard of today. From the band’s web site: The Stillhouse Poets are a roots duo from Regina, Saskatchewan, the heart of the Canadian prairies. Their influences are drawn deep from the musical well waters of the […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2017 § Library § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

Music Monday – “I wish I had carved my bad poetry/Into your back while you were asleep/A little something to remind you of me/A little something for her to hold on to”

I’m fascinated by coincidences and have had a few recently… Went to a housewarming party this weekend and a guy mentions the completely random fact that they ended up sitting next to a previous owner of their Regina home in a bar in Saskatoon, never having met him before! The same housewarming party was hosted […]

¶ Posted 13 November 2017 § Jobs § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Karma police/I’ve given all I can/It’s not enough/I’ve given all I can/But we’re still on the payroll”

“Karma Police” – Radiohead

¶ Posted 06 November 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “You know how we like to write nothing but hockey songs? Well, here’s another hockey song!”

If you’re still missing Gord Downie’s voice, his new solo record – a collection of 23 “Love Letters” to various people and places in his life, is pretty amazing and getting great reviews. A member of Facebook’s largest Tragically Hip Fan Group has also uploaded an hour and twelve minute montage of some of Gord’s […]