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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…

Saturday Snap – No Singing Allowed!

Had a bit of a sad day on Friday when we took Pace to a farewell party for him, a couple classmates and one of the teachers at his daycare Pace has gone to Bright Beginnings Daycare since he was eighteen months old – virtually his entire life when you think about it.  He started […]

Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is actually married to someone else in real life) was walking down the aisle to this song to meet Jack Layton at the altar (he was still alive […]

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Well, based on how slow it’s been lately, either my computer’s dying or I have too many tabs open.  Let’s hope it’s the latter as that’s easily solved! Super excited to see Ryan Meili’s name pop up as a strong “definitely maybe” in a recent list of potential NDP leadership candidates, especially since, as the […]

Music Monday – “I’m so sick of your management/I’m so sick of all of this/I’m so sick of your bullshit.”

Toronto Public Library has gone on strike so I’ll send this song out to my former classmates, colleagues and others who are walking the picket line.  Here’s hoping for a fast and fair resolution.