Posts Tagged: Music and Sound
The Review
Posted by on Sunday, July 6, 2003 in - 3 comments
Well, it was pretty damn good. The setting was great - the front lawn of Ottawa City Hall on a sunny July evening behind the stage to the left was DND HQ and to the right Ottawa U. As the concert started around 7:45 pm, the setting sun broke through and the stage was lit up in yellow then orange …
Elvis Costello
Posted by on Saturday, July 5, 2003 in - leave a comment
Today I am doing something I have wanted to do since 1977 - seeing Elvis Costello live. He is playing the Ottawa Blues Fest this evening with the Imposters, 2/3's of his band from the second lp on, the Attractions. • I remembered on the drive up that I had an intense Elvis experience in grade …
Davids Swick and Bowie
Posted by on Friday, May 16, 2003 in - 2 comments
I got my new copy of the CD soundtrack to Christiane F, a cheery little movie about a teenage addict in West Berlin in the 1970's. I saw the movie when it first came out at Wormwoods in Halifax in 1981 or so and soon after picked up the lp which I had until one of the record purges during …
CB Radio for Today
Posted by on Saturday, May 3, 2003 in - 2 comments
Jevon has recently written about egos and blogging. This made me consider what writing on these things is like and I keep coming back to that wonderfully dead-end technology of the 1970's - CB radio. • In both, you get on the medium, yap about what ever comes into your head and use funny names …
