Music
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Jah guide, Vincent, Jah guide
One of my all time favourite songs, me and about a million or so other people, is No Woman, No Cry by the musical genius that was Bob Marley. It is a song that makes me pause when I hear it, listening to it rather than it being just background noise. It has made me
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New holiday song favourite
I know I only posted my list of ten favourite Christmas songs the other day, but as of last night I have a new one. O Holy Night in Inuktitut by the Grade One class of Inuujaq School. Yep, that's my boy in the red track suit.
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The Ten Songs of Christmas meme
Although this post by the incomparable Townie Bastard isn't a meme in the strictest sense, I'm treating it as such. Townie has shared with us his ten favourite Christmas songs, and I'm challenging you to do the same. Here are mine, which you may or may not agree with (but at least Snoopy's Christmas or
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32-20 Blues
When I downloaded Bob Dylan's version of Robert Johnson's 32-20 Blues this afternoon I realized that it was the fifth version of the song I own. I have Robert Johnson's original version of course, plus ones by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Gov't Mule and Muddy Waters. Robert Johnson, who has been described as one of
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Concert meme
One of my favourite… I almost said Nunavut bloggers but I won’t qualify it. One of my favourite bloggers is Townie Bastard. He has an engaging writing style and, heck, I come from a small town on the prairies, who doesn’t want to read about curling. While not strickly a meme, I’m going to treat
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Random thoughts
I think our minds crave order, we want to see patterns in the most random events. Stephen Jay Gould, in one of his essays, spoke about being in a cave once, in which the roof was covered with glow worms. Looking up in the dark of the cave each worm was a dot of light
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Oscar Peterson 1925-2007
Oscar Peterson, one of the true Greats of Jazz, died today in Missisauga. Probably more than anyone else he drove my appreciation of Jazz piano. He apparently said, when Duke Ellington died, "I see no reason to mourn for Duke Ellington the musician, because he was a prolific talent who left behind a legacy of
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Last Five Songs
I’ve added a new list to my sidebar on the right. Inspired by Townie Bastard, One of the features of his posts (which he recently revived) was his last five songs which he lists in each post. I hope to update it when I add a new post, although if they (the post) come in
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A couple of memes.
I thought maybe I do a couple of Meme’s that have been kicking around lately. It just seems like that sort of weekend. The first is the Random (or Last) Ten Songs Meme. I picked this up at Townie Bastard, although I’ve seen it kicking around for some time now. I think it was originally
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Play It Sam.
I’m listening to the same song over and over. It’s not an earworm, but on occasion I find myself playing a song again, and again. Now normally that sort of thing drives me nuts. I remember a couple of us from my Hall at University going to a guy’s room, pulling Bob Welch’s French Kiss