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Music Monday – “You know she’s there waiting/Just anticipating/The things you’ll never ever ever possess.”

Love those A/V Club covers… …although in this case, Peter Bjorn and John don’t hold a candle to the original… …or even to my own personal favourite version,

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Just heard the news and, as with Jack Layton’s passing, the death of the co-founder of Apple was probably not a complete surprise but still pretty shocking. In

Music Monday – “Come on hold my hand/I want to contact the living/Not sure I understand/This role I’ve been given”

Shea almost canceled our wedding when this song was playing non-stop on Mexican MTV in the lead-up to our big day. I’m not sure who was able to

Music Monday – “The splash of October swimmers/The cheers of Helsinki winners/My bare bones of futility/Leaking marrow of ability”

The leaves on the trees are turning, we’ve been out “leaf crunching” as Pace calls it and I agree with Shea that “if it wasn’t followed by winter,

R.E.M. Breaks Up (and My Five Favourite Bands of all Time)

R.E.M., an alternative favourite of the 1980’s who parlayed that early attention into being one of the most successful bands of the 1990’s (and then one of the

Music Monday – “Driving all night/In the mood for something/Got a hankerin’ for some hot man lovin’/Keep it clean.”

The Westboro Baptist Church are a truly odious group of folks (widely referred to as a hate group) who travel around “protesting” various events that they somehow think

Music Monday – “Rebuild… Rebuild… Rebuild… Rebuild… Rebuild…”

I understand why Steven Page chose to perform a cover of “Hallelujah” at the Jack Layton funeral on Saturday (apparently it was the last song Jack listened to

Music Monday – “The morning breaks like porcelain/Across an eastern sky/I stare across an open field/I sit and wonder why/Why the world’s so beautiful/And why it’s so sad.”

The news of Jack Layton’s passing today, although not unexpected, is still sad and tragic for so many reasons. There is much grieving today from party supporters and

Lyric Check Needed – Stat!

Pace has become quite the little music fan recently, often breaking into “songs” of his own creation or snippets of songs he’s heard on the radio or at

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