tunes I must learn (eventually)
Not all of these could be classed as banjo tunes, but I’d want to try, anyway: The Coo-Coo Bird (it’s not optional) The Old Plank Road (Uncle Dave’s delivery, which was more demented than the Rounders)...
View Articlerip the carpet up off the floor
It’s moving day. We’re moving the office from North York to downtown. Very downtown, in fact; 200 University, almost my old Oanda stamping ground. In celebration of leaving Vic Park & Sheppard, I...
View Articlein the running
Almost ‘Best of The Year’ time. In the running are: A Hawk and a Hacksaw – The Way the Wind Blows A.C. Newman – Souvenir of Canada – EP Beck – The Information Calexico – Garden Ruin Casper & the...
View ArticleFrosty’s Drano (or the snowmen’s suicide pact)
Catherine pointed out that the current Tim Hortons “Happy Holidays” campaign depicts an ill-advised, possibly fatal, beverage choice for snowmen: To me, it’s clearly a suicide pact. They don’t want to...
View Articleavec wings and beer
so we met last night; including Rannie, Eva (happy birthday today!), Arieh, Graham, and a bunch of other good folks (hey, I’m bad with names). We had beer and wings. Rannie taught us a nifty prefocus...
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O Canada – as performed by sampled wailing babies.
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Casper & The Cookies and The Apples in Stereo rocked Lee’s Palace. Man, was that a good show. Once my ears work again, I’ll see if my recording came out. Oh, and happy birthday Jason NeSmith!
View Articlein and around the van
Spent a pleasant, if damp, day scooting around Vancouver and environs with Dave. After a quick tour of Granville Island, we headed off to the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British...
View ArticleStewart & His Constant Search for Patterns in Randomness
Three consecutive tracks in today’s the automatic podcast from “& His” artists: May Flower — Mike Shaw & His Alabama Entertainers Call On Me — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Reset —...
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