Criminally responsible.

• March 25, 2009

Book ‘em, Dano. This would have never come to light had there not been video taken of Dziekanski’s death. The very facts are that the police officers have lied, although I’m not prepared to make declaration on the severity of the lies. I will not dignify the lies by calling it “mis-remembering.“ Flat out, Dziekanski was killed and the attending officers lied that he was swinging a stapler wildly, that he had some kind of superhumanly resisted the first shock from the taser, and that they attended Dziekanski by monitoring his health after he had been taken down. Read More

Tricky? Wooooooo!

• March 20, 2009

Gotta start with yet another song I’m not going to find on youtube. Wednesday was “Stone Horses” by Junkhouse. I’m a little saddened that I didn’t find it, because “Stone Horses” counts as the one song that I most wish I could have written. So far, at least. It’s in my vocal range, it sounds dark and cheery and whimsical all at the same time and it’s just a gem of a song. Read More

Two thoughts moving in entirely different directions.

• March 18, 2009

I’ve been wondering for a while which band would be the first to repeat in the morning. With all the Fred Eaglesmith I carry around, I’m awfully shocked that 1) it wasn’t him and 2) I got a repeat before Fred even came up in rotation. Once more, this morning’s band was the Ennis Sisters, this time the song is “If Only”, and once more, I haven’t had any luck finding it on youtube. Read More

Just slightly ahead of the curve once again..

• March 17, 2009

I miss the Canadian Alternative Rock channel on Iceberg Radio. I miss it a lot. One of these days, I’ll probably have to figure out what to hit on Radio 3. There weren’t too many places where I could get my fix of a consistent, guitar screeching, drum pounding rock and / or roll. It’s out there, I just have to work a bit harder to find it, but shouldn’t it be the job of the labels to spoon feed me what I’m looking for? Read More

One step too close to the ghod-awful truth.

• March 16, 2009

First point tonight is to clear off last week’s entry in the “Music to go to work by.“ I like a long of music, spanning a lot of classifications. Funny, folky, freaky, groovetastic. Yeah, baby. The nice thing about being eclectic is that it’s hard to come across something I don’t like - so long as I keep off the superhighways of music’s drudgery. The down side is that I’m really hard pressed to say what my absolutely favourite song is. Read More

A few days of catchin' up to do

• March 10, 2009

Well, three days to catch up on, anyways. And since I’m still at work (8:30 at night and I haven’t left yet… Eesh.) First, let me start off with Mineral by Buffalo Tom. Buffalo Tom is one of those bands I knew absolutely nothing whatsoever about until my buddy Todd slid them across my desk. Worse, it’s one of those bands that just stayed in the back of my consciousness until it played by random and I had one of those, “Who ARE these guys? Read More

Who am I not?

• March 8, 2009

One of the weird things that’s been happening the last few weeks has been the seeming implosion of people’s computers around me. My philosophy is that people should feel free to use their computers without fear that they’ll bust something or screw something up or do their banking on-line and instantly lose their life’s savings. I think you have to be in the stock market to do that still. The problem with this is that people get a very disjointed view of what I actually do at work. Read More

A quick shot across the bow

• March 5, 2009

1. Ghod, I hate computers. 2. Bug and I got on Blinkenlichten today some how. Blinkenlichten ROCKS. But looking for the exact reference on Google made me even happier when I noticed the fourth hit. Check it out with me: Blinkenlichten Google Search. SUFFER MOST AWESOMENESS! Blinkenlichten TRANSLATED. 3. I’m becoming Bob Dylan whenI’maworkinondacompooherstooLOHNG. Ghod, I hate computers. 4. What the hell day is it? Yesterday was “In Your Veins” by The Soundtrack of our Lives. Read More

The Originator

• March 3, 2009

Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, where you been? Round the world, gonna go again The Originator got his name from a sound that was unlike anything that had come before. Music doesn’t spring from one’s head whole, in the end it’s all a derivation of what’s come before. But occasionally, what is derived is so novel, so fantastically new that it spawns a whole new course in and of itself. Bo Diddley grabbed the blues and dragged it kicking and screaming into “Rock, Rock, Rock and roll. Read More

I think you've got the wrong band, we don't play that song.

• March 1, 2009

I guess I better cover last Thursday, eh? How come I only have these entries Monday through Thursday? Most Fridays I’m driving and listening to the radio. Max Webster (and indeed pretty much anything released by Kim Mitchell ever since) is one of those marvelously wonderful mysteries of life where some silly, practically nonsensical lyrics overlaid on a solid wall of blasting, throbbing, thumping sound. Yeah, just lay down the groove and let the party continue around you. Read More