“Wake Up Moms, You’re Fighting the Wrong Fight” – points out that it’s ridiculous to argue about the recent Time breastfeeding cover and instead, all US moms should be pushing for a benefit that new moms in the vast majority of the world get – paid maternity leave. Why Nicolas Tesla was the Greatest Geek […]
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Music Monday – “Thought you’d do right by me/But who am I kidding/You’re the Sask Party/Shows like Corner Gas/I guess you don’t remember.”
I went to the massive rally by the Saskatchewan film industry at noon today and it was quite the spectacle. In Saskatchewan, when we have protests, it tends to be farmers rolling their tractors up to the Legislature that creates a big scene. But the film community, as you might expect given their skills, put […]
Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”
It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]
Friday Fun Link – Forgot a Song? Just Hum It!
Midomi is a really cool site that lets you hum or whistle the melodies of songs you’ve forgotten and it will try to provide a match. I was able to get it to recognize a Beatles song and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” but had less success with a couple other (slightly) lesser-known songs. But […]
Music Monday – “When all is said and done/We’re not the first to be here/There’s nothing new underneath the sun.”
A co-worker told me about this really cool Nashville-based, jazz-funk band called “Here Come The Mummies” who apparently play in costume to hide the fact that they’re all under contract to different labels as session musicians…
Fred Tabs Update
I’ve had a few worried e-mails from people who saw that the page with my collection of Fred Eaglesmith tabs has disappeared. The reason is that I have begun the process of transferring my old blog to a new host. As part of that process, the sub-content of my old site which was hosted on […]
Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”
I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio. Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song! (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”
Friday Fun Link – Rdio
Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]
Music Monday – “Staring out of the window as the clouds roll in/Distant rumbling of a storm about to begin”
On the recommendation of a co-worker, someone who’s big in Australia but hasn’t hit in North America yet. A perfect tune for a drizzly day in the Queen City…
Music Monday – “So we’ll march day and night/By the big cooling tower/They have the plant/But we have the power”
RPL had a successful strike vote tonight which means this is my theme song for the foreseeable future…