Go ahead and try not to smile – I dare you!
I usually put a lyric from the featured song in the title of my Music Monday posts but this one’s a little harder for obvious reasons. So instead, I’ve used a famous movie quote that’s quite fitting (so fitting, it was also referenced in a recent hit song called “Whistle“.) (via Huffington Post)
A whole bunch of sadness in convenient list form. Coincidentally, I’ve just made a playlist on Rdio called “Guaranteed Tears” where I tried to collect all of the songs that have made me cry in the past. (Sad songs list via MetaFilter)
Stumbled across this clip while doing a bit of research on what other Canadian public libraries are doing in terms of their YouTube accounts – are they putting up professionally edited and produced videos or is there a full range with people making homemade, self-edited videos with crappy sound and/or and/or bad lighting and/or comprised […]
Well, here we are two short weeks later and the party’s over. And everything that the opening ceremony was – a celebration of British history and culture, rebellion, anarchy, humour, literature, imperfection, solidarity – the closing ceremony wasn’t. As someone posted on Reddit’s /r/unitedkingdom thread about the closing ceremonies, “It’s like when you start playing crap […]
Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd. (“How small was it, Jason?” Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.) But I still enjoyed the show – after a […]
I’ll send this one out to my cousin…
Normally I post a song each week on Monday but this week I’m going to do something a bit different (mostly because every single video of Paul McCartney closing out the Olympics Opening ceremony that I might’ve posted is being taken down by YouTube as fast as it’s uploaded.) But watching that performance (and who […]
This is Justin Bieber covering The Tragically Hip during a concert in Malaysia. Kudos to a Canadian superstar paying tribute to Canadian icons but also…gah!
