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Music Monday – “Well I kept right on driving/Until I hit the ocean/Found a small cantina down on Monterrey Way/I met up with a girl down there but she did not speak the English/I probably coulda had her too, but all I knew how to say was/Una mas cerveza por favor senorita” #ThePalaceLife

Watching lots of videos of our resort and someone used this song as the background for one of their videos… “Una Mas Cerveza” – Tommy Alverson

Posted 23 October 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Gord Downie (1964-2017)

One of the Hip’s saddest songs, this was written after Downie’s young nephew died due to a heart ailment and famously not performed for fifteen years… Another heart-tugger, especially if you’re a parent, this one was written by Downie for his kids… The Tragically Hip song “Inevitability of Death” contains a reference to Terry Fox, […]

Posted 18 October 2017 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Hold tight, Wait till the party’s over/Hold tight, We’re in for nasty weather/There has got to be a way/Burning down the house”

“Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads

Posted 16 October 2017 § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Yeah, the lord is my refuge and fortress/My God with whom I trust/But I’ll never know why the wicked/Gets to prey on the best of us”

Hard to believe it’s only been a week since the worst mass shooting in modern US history. So many stories, speculationsĀ and even songs coming out over the past week. Here’s a new one from Eric Church, the Friday night headliner at the Harvest 91 Festival who had actually jumped into the crowd during his set […]

Posted 09 October 2017 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I been crying out, “How bad can a good time be?”/Shooting off my mouth, that’s another great thing about me/I have everything but I feel like nothing at all/There’s no risky thing for a man who’s determined to fall”

I’m never sure from day to day if I’m a fan of U2 or not. But I do know I’ve always been a sucker for a creative music video… “You’re The Best Thing About Me” – U2

Posted 25 September 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Definitive Ranking of Every Tragically Hip Song

Lots to argue with here but points for even trying to make this list (the author strikes on an interesting conceit to make it work, grouping songs thematically to count them down.)

Posted 22 September 2017 § Canada § FridayFunLink § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Put out my lawn chair/Watching the sun arising/Evening comes/I’m watching the sun go down” #saskatchewan #sask #camping #provincialparks #summer #echovalley #fortquappelle

I’ve finally had time to go through all the pictures (2000+!) that I took over the course of the entire summer and winnow them down to a handful of favourites. That’s still more than most people should have to sit through at a single sitting so what I did was create a long slideshow with […]

Posted 18 September 2017 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Guitar Solo

Pace discovered my electric guitar the other night. He definitely looks cooler than me already and, without any formal lessons, he’s arguably also a better player than me too (thanks reverb!) šŸ˜‰

Posted 16 September 2017 § Humour § Pace § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I spent my days working, spent my nights drinking, howling at the moon/Screaming for the days when you were coming back, no couldn’t come too soon/Couldn’t come too soon”

Another thing that made our summer so amazing was the non-stop music… …that we played from morning to night (okay, Shea’s not as big of a music fan as I am and occasionally asked for some peace and quiet to read her book!) Above is a graph of how many individual songs I played each […]

Posted 11 September 2017 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “All summer long we’ve both been free/Won’t be long til summer time is through/Summer time is through”

One of the most poignant episodes of The Simpsons is “Season of 4 ft 2” which tells the story of the Simpsons family taking a summer vacation to the lake. Lisa, who’s usually an outcast nerd, ends up befriending a group of cool kids while Bart, who normally has a large circle of friends, is […]

Posted 04 September 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,