Posts Tagged: Music and Sound
So Now That Saddam Has Been Caught...
Posted by on Sunday, December 14, 2003 in - 1 comment
...what do you do if your job title is "Saddam Double". I have pondered about these guys • before and Steve and I were • wondering about them this morning and have come up with some ideas: • The travelling roadshow "One Hundred Saddams" playing casinos and lounges • world-wide, managed by …
Canadian Digital Copyright Rulings
Posted by on Saturday, December 13, 2003 in - 5 comments
Yesterday's Canadian Copyright Board ruling on the payment of fees on new • blank media such as iPods and blank CD as got some notice on some popular • US blogs. There • are two separate cases at play, the ruling of yesterday by the Copyright Board • as well as another from 1999 which has …
365 Days
Posted by on Saturday, December 13, 2003 in - leave a comment
Just in case thee are a few people out there slower on the uptake than me, via CBC's DNTO, the 365 Days Project has a few weeks to go during which a new wacko song a day is added. I woke up from my mid-day Saturday snooze to William Shatner singing croaking "Rocket Man".
Stinky Roo and Tijuana Bibles, Too
Posted by on Saturday, November 15, 2003 in - 1 comment
“I live right inside radio when I listen... • “ • “Marshall McLuhan, 1964 ” • ” • ” • Radio, • like beer and soccer, is totally immersive. As Ian illustrates this • morning, the seduction of the immersive can lead to strange places and • thoughts. Indeed, as M.McL. went on to say …
<i>WANT one</i>
Posted by on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 in - leave a comment
I thought it was Want One - a offer in question, a prime need, an emphatic choice. No it is WANT one - don'geddit. I also don't get the cover art. No one hold the blade of the razor sharp sword. I don't think he is supposed to have the leather palms of myth and lore...but maybe he is. He is …
BBC 6
Posted by on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 in - leave a comment
I am a lucky guy. My office is a bit separated from others and the type of law I do is lots of memo and email, little on the meeting. As a result, I can play web radio like this on BBC 6 this afternoon. There was this segment on early punk in the show at 4 pm local: • “At 9pm hear part 3 of …
Jake Thackray
Posted by on Thursday, September 18, 2003 in - 2 comments
The tail end of Isabel. The tail end of Isabel. Hmm. I know a song about that. • The gent at your right, my left, is Jake Thackray, who, like with H.L. Mencken and Ogden Nash, keenly observed humans through his sometimes comic writing with an attention both cynical and facinated. Edmund Chattoe …
A.A. Again
Posted by on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 in - 6 comments
If you ask me - and you do - there are two pop divas from Canada, Celine Dion and Rufus Wainwright. In Canada, however, brains can only recognize one diva at a time. As a result, you are for one or the other if you are at all for divas. They are, in fact, anti-thetical. One gave us "Millbrook" …
Johnny
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2003 in - 1 comment
Unlike the passing of each and every "person with fame" since perhaps Peter Sellers - the news of whose passing reached me on a dirt road near McCallum Settlement, Nova Scotia working on a summer logging roads crew in 1980 - the celebrations of the life, worth and unique character of Johnny Cash …
Switching to Glide
Posted by on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 in - leave a comment
The forces of rock and roll, as this new so-called "music" is known, are taking control of the youth of today... • Rather than laugh at developments, I have watched as David Janes of Ranting and Roaring has set up a new bog on Canadian music and music scenes and then given me one of the keys to …
