Posts Tagged: Music and Sound

Friday Bullets For The Weight Of Mid-January

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, January 14, 2011 in 2011 US Politics, Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Sports, Games and Competitions, Music and Sound, Food and Drink - 13 comments

It has been a sad week. I still can't believe that lady grabbed the second clip of bullets and threw it away. When I learned of the shootings in Tuscon, we were on the road preparing for a family funeral. Ours was, however, a celebration of a tough life lived with grace. Not the tragic horror that …

Face it: Spoons > Gordon Lightfoot

Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 in Music and Sound - 3 comments

"Gentlemen of the world..." • Even though I was sure he was sleeping in her overalls and thought that line was really cool, this is still one of the great Canadian songs and not just because it is the song they play on The Planet of Beautiful Women right when the band takes a smoke break. Saw …

How to Tune A Banjo... You Do Have A Bajno, Right?

Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, September 30, 2010 in Music and Sound - leave a comment

Get with the cool kids. Tune a banjo.

Early Middle Aged Generation X Rock?

Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 in Music and Sound - 2 comments

I had no idea. The National's "Bloodbuzz Ohio". Heard on NPR's World Cafe.

Friday Bullets For Mid-Zeptember

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, September 10, 2010 in 2010 US politics, History, Music and Sound, Law - 4 comments

NCPR plays tribute to Led Zep all month with special Zeppy programming, especially on The Beat Authority. This is a great way to hide the fact that frost is a coming and will be followed by winter's gales. Zep is sweater weather music, born of damp on the walls and now listened to by the warm glow …

Is This The Greatest Moment In Pop Music?

Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, September 5, 2010 in Music and Sound - 8 comments

Cross reference.

Friday Bullets For Back To School

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, September 3, 2010 in 2010 Canadian Politics, Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Music and Sound, Food and Drink - 4 comments

Things were going along so well there for a while. It was warm, hot even. Tomorrow? 65F, wind and rain. Fall. Football season. Sweater weather. Root vegetables. Stews. Raking. Putting away the garden chairs. Stews. Stews are anti-summer. Within weeks I will crave them. Is this how the moulting …

Friday Bullets For A Week Off In July

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, July 16, 2010 in Kingston Society for Playing Catch and Vintage Base Ball, Kingston, Music and Sound - 1 comment

It's been a weird week off. Chopped up. I even had to go to work but that was my fault. Didn't check the schedule. Picked the wrong week. Assumed. But we carried on. A cold moved through but we carried on. Started in fine style at the Dinosaur BBQ, too. Vintage base ball coming up on Sunday. Spent …

Friday Bullets The Day After Canada Day

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, July 2, 2010 in Spies and Robots, History, Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Music and Sound, Law - 2 comments

This time of year we should recall that on 1 July 1867 there was much unhappiness in the land - or at least the eastern bit of it. All but two seats of the Legislature were held by the Anti-Confederation Party led by the heroic Joseph Howe. My plucky compatriots fought for years for a return to …

I'm Gonna Relax Like Everyone Should

Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 in Music and Sound - leave a comment

What a line. I am gonna relax like everyone should this very weekend. This performance is proof that white people can, if they choose, be not nerds. Steve Winwood is 19 when this is recorded apparently off Finnish TV. Nineteen.