I had best intentions to do a post about the debate tonight. But I ended up playing in puddles with Pace instead then watching the debate on PVR later while trying to catch up on Twitter posts and do a couple other things as well. I also realised I didn’t do a Music Monday post […]
We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]
I’m at the NDP convention this weekend and one fun thing they did is release a YouTube playlist of all the candidate’s favourite songs. Reflecting the diversity of the party, there’s classics and country and indie and metal and dance. If you can’t be at the after parties, it’s the next best thing! One other […]
Last Friday, I wrote about Chat Roulette Love Song which was the extremely successful proof of a guy’s Masters thesis on viral video. Speaking of Friday, another recent viral video that blew up even bigger than Chat Roulette Love Song is the video for “Friday” by Rebecca Black which has gained over 30 million (!) […]
If you’re not familiar with ChatRoulette, read this old post first. As I say in that post, a good portion of Chat Roulette’s participants appear to be young men looking to expose themselves to unsuspecting (although if you’re on ChatRoulette, it won’t take long to become “suspecting”) viewers. Occasionally though, Chat Roulette breeds some incredible […]
…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.” (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.
Pace has been counting down the “sleeps” until we go to Cuba on Thursday. Meanwhile his daddy has been counting down “how many days left of standing at the bus stop freezing my butt off?” 😉 We leave Thursday for a week’s vacation and since Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the […]
Noel Gallagher quit Oasis last year (apparently for good this time – it used to be a weekly occurrence back in the day) so the core of the group has reformed as “Beady Eye” with a newly released album, “Different Gear, Still Speeding”, which is pretty rocking… Blur reunited last year but much more interestingly, […]
One of Mozart’s lesser known works from his punk classical phase. 😉
There are numerous ongoing examples of governments and political institutions preventing the sharing of information – often in the name of “security” but often, more accurately, in the name of “not being embarrassed”. The United States is one of the biggest hypocrites in this area, applying a “the same rules we want for other countries […]
