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Music Monday – “Line one/Is the time/That you/You first stayed over at mine”

Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…

Posted 13 October 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Shea § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Running through the graveyard/We laughed my friends and I/We swore we’d be together/Until the day we died/Until the day we died”

“Innocent When You Dream” – Tom Waits

Posted 06 October 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Clap along if you feel/Like happiness is the truth”

Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams

Posted 29 September 2014 § Humour § Library § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Here’s a great scene from the highly underrated British movie, “Brassed Off” which I re-watched this afternoon. (Bonus points for this speech also providing a sample for the song “Tubthumping” by anarcho-punk collective, Chumbawamba) This band behind me’ll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But […]

Posted 28 September 2014 § Jobs § Politics § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before”

“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle

Posted 22 September 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “I watch the ripples change their size/But never leave the stream/Of warm impermanence ” @rdio #rdio

“Changes” – David Bowie Rdio, a streaming music service similar to Spotify and Pandora but which is available in Canada (at least without requiring you to use a VPN or other sorcery to appear to be an American), recently released a major upgrade to their user interface. This was the second major change since I’d […]

Posted 15 September 2014 § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “We arrived in December and London was cold/We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road/We never saw nothin’ but brass taps and oak/Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats”

Heard the very sad news today that John Mann of Spirit of the West has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Like many people who were college-aged in the 1990’s, Spirit of the West was basically a soundtrack to my life back then.  When I went to England on exchange in 1995, the lyric I quoted in […]

Posted 08 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – All The Cool Kids Hang Out at the Library

More on how the earliest recorded signature of Elvis Presley was discovered.

Posted 05 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – Fur Elise in Different Tastes

A man sits down to play a piano that’s been put at one of the gates at an airport in Prague.  Other passengers who are waiting get a pretty good performance…

Posted 01 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Many colours are the jewels that sparkle/Many pleasures I will hold and embrace/Still for all that this world has to offer/It’s here that my heart will remain”

When pressed, I might call “Gone” by Greg Keelor my favourite album of all-time.  Here’s one of the songs from that album… “Lucknow” – Greg Keelor

Posted 25 August 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: