SOUNDTRACK: BIG DIRTY BAND-”I Fought the Law” (2006). I just found out about this “supergroup” which was created for the Trailer Park Boys Movie. The group consists of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson from Rush, drummer Jeff Burrows from The Tea Party and three people I don’t know: the singer from Three Days Grace, [...]
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Douglas Coupland–Polaroids from the Dead (1996)
Posted in Big Dirty Band, Books about writers, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Consumerism, Corporate skewering, Dead Kennedys, Die Mannequin, Douglas Coupland, Essays, Fables, Flash Fiction, Grateful Dead, Greed, James Rosenquist, Nostalgia, Photo Essays, Rheostatics, Rush, Short Story, The Clash, The Future, The Inbreds, The Tea Party, Threats, Travel, Video Games on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Jonathan Goldstein–”Samson and Delilah” (The Walrus, October 2004)
Posted in Anachronisms, Bible, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Death, Fables, Funny (ha ha), Jonathan Goldstein, Short Story, The Tragically Hip, The Walrus, Violence on February 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: TRAGICALLY HIP-Phantom Power (1998). The last couple of Hip albums were pretty intense, and it seems like the live album seems to cured them of their need for raucousness. And so Phantom Power follows with a much less intense collection of songs. The first three songs are somewhat loud and rocking, but they lack any [...]
Cory Doctorow–A Place So Foreign and 8 More (2003)
Posted in Anachronisms, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Corporate skewering, Cory Doctorow, Death, Disney World, Drugs, End of the World, Free Speech, Funny (strange), Guster, Huh?, Moneen, Sci-fi, Set at School, Short Story, Technology, The Future, Threats, Time Travel, Violence on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: MONEEN-The World That I Want to Leave Behind (2010). I’ve liked Moneen’s discs; they played an interesting mix of grungey noisey rock and incredibly poppy emo. And their song titles were really long and often funny (“The Frightening Reality Of The Fact That We Will All Have To Grow Up And Settle Down One [...]
Stephen Leacock–Literary Lapses (1910)
Posted in At Last the 1948 Show, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Buffalo Springfield, Bugs Bunny, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Collecting, Consumerism, Death, Decemberists, Dio, Extraordinary Canadians, Funny (ha ha), Greed, Led Zeppelin, Monty Python, Moxy Fruvous, Short Story, Stephen Leacock, The Tea Party, Tom and Jerry on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK : BLACK MOUNTAIN-Wilderness Heart (2010). As the Tea Party showed, it’s never too late to pay tribute to Led Zeppelin. Of course in 2010, it seems really uncool. So, why not go whole hog? The opener, “The Hair Song” sounds uncannily like Led Zeppelin, from chord structure to guitar sound. And then just wait [...]
Dave Bidini–Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places (2001)
Posted in Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Communists, Corporate skewering, Culture Shock, History, Hockey, Hockey Night in Canada, Rheostatics, Travel on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
SOUNDTRACK: RHEOSTATICS-Double Live (1997). After mentioning the two live shows that comprise the majority of this disc, I figured I’d mention the disc itself. Rheostatics are a great and engaging live band: Dave Bidini has wonderful repartee with the audience and Martin Tielli’s live guitar work is amazing. The band sounds tight but not stiff [...]
Alice Munro–”Axis” (New Yorker, January 31, 2011 )
Posted in Alice Munro, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, New Yorker, Pregnancy, Rheostatics, Sex, Short Story, Virginity (Loss of) on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: RHEOSTATICS-Live at the Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto ON, April 5, 1997 (1997). This is the second of two nights that The Rheostatics played at The Bathurst Theatre. It is also available for free on their live site. This concert also features a lot on their Double Live album. There are seven tracks that come from [...]
Douglas Coupland–Shampoo Planet (1992)
Posted in Boredom, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Consumerism, Corporate skewering, Douglas Coupland, Funny (ha ha), Greed, Marriage Trouble, Neil Young, Rheostatics, Technology, The Inbreds on February 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
SOUNDTRACK: RHEOSTATICS-Live at the Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto ON, April 4, 1997 (1997). This concert is free as a download on the Rheostatics Live website. According to the on-stage banter, the band had just finished a string of live dates with the Inbreds that were recorded for their amazing Double Live album. They even say [...]
Stuart McLean–Stories from the Vinyl Cafe (1995)
Posted in Books about music, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Funny (ha ha), Hockey, Hockey Night in Canada, Humiliation, Led Zeppelin, Short Story, Stephen Leacock, Stuart McLean, The Cult, The Doors, The Tea Party on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE TEA PARTY-The Edge of Twilight (1995). In the way that Ian Astbury of The Cult reminded everyone of Jim Morrison, so does Jeff Martin, singer of The Tea Party. He looks a bit like him and he sings in a baritone voice that, while all his own, sounds like perhaps a 1990s Jim [...]
Corey Frost–”Summer Plum (Winter Version)” (The Walrus July/August 2004)
Posted in Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Corey Frost, Flash Fiction, Huh?, Postmoderism, Rheostatics, Short Story, The Tragically Hip, The Walrus on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE TRAGICALLY HIP-Live Between Us (1996). This show was recorded live November 23, 1996 in Detroit. It’s kind of odd that these Canadian favorites would record their live album in the U.S. In the intro to the album Downie thanks The Rheostatics for opening (you can hear the Rheos’ sets from other days on [...]
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