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Friday Fun Link – MTV News Explains The Internet (in 1995)

An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well.  I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for (and […]

Posted 29 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Best Music Books of All-time

Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few – that Ian MacDonald book on the Beatles is awesome!

Posted 27 July 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We only said goodbye with words/I died a hundred times/You go back to her/And I go back to black.”

Now she’s gone and joined that stupid club. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 25 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Sonny carries a load, he is barely a man/There’s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can/And he lives in a room, at the top of the stairs/And the sea keeps on rollin in, it’s done that for years.”

Yet another Newfoundland classic guaranteed to get everybody in the pub singing along…

Posted 11 July 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Newfoundland Trip – Music Monday – “To wake in the early morn/To the sound of the old fog horn/And wait for the men to return/With their boats in the bay”

Last Monday, I wrote about the musical cultures of the various provinces.  Now that I’m here in Newfoundland, the musicality of this province is overwhelming.  I couldn’t name a single folk song that unifies the people of Saskatchewan (does “Last Saskatchewan Pirate” count?) whereas I’ve heard the song below probably half a dozen times in […]

Posted 04 July 2011 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Happy Canada Day!

The perfect song for both Canada Day and also for a couple of flatlander farmers hanging out with the fishermen in Newfoundland…

Posted 01 July 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “But now we’re bound for ol’ St. John’s/Where all the girls are dancing/Heave away, me jolly boys/We’re all bound away!”

Hmm, do other provinces have a distinctive musical sound in the same way that the Maritime provinces do?  In a very stereotypical way, I’d say that the music of Quebec is probably linked by the fact that it’s…sung in French.  For the prairies (well, Alberta at least) I think of traditional country & wesetern music […]

Posted 27 June 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

I Predict A Riot

With a few changes and additions, the following is what I posted on the MetaFilter thread discussing the riot after last night’s game… — I’ve heard a wide range of opinions (many mentioned in this thread) on why this particular riot happened… It was drunken Canucks fans. It was anarchists. It was gang members/hooligans/insurgents.  (I […]

Posted 16 June 2011 § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a sailor peg/And I’ve lost my leg/Climbing up the top sails/I lost my leg!”

Posted 13 June 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,