March 31 08
Artist: Loreena McKennitt
Title: The Mummers’ Dance
Artist Website: quinlanroad.com
Date: Recorded 1997
Location: Stratford, ON; everywhere.
Rating: With It. (it actually rocks.)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCiDm8H1ggU]
March 31 08
Artist: Kardinal Offishall
Title: BaKardi Slang
Artist Website: kardinaloffishall.com
Date: Recorded 2001
Location: t-dot
Rating: Awesome.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dypMb-dCknw]
March 31 08
Artist: Choclair
Title: Let’s Ride
Artist Website: No known official site.
Date: Recorded 2005
Location: t-dot
Rating: Awesome.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROMy_TiqnQ]
March 29 08
Artist: Maestro (aka Maestro Fresh Wes)
Title: Criminal Mind
Artist Website: Maestro Fresh Wes.com, gowan.org
Date: Recorded 2005
Location: Toronto
Rating: Kitsch.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ivwvi_1Mg]
March 29 08
Artist: (Lawrence) Gowan
Title: Criminal Mind
Artist Website: gowan.org
Date: Recorded 1985
Location: Toronto
Rating: Ridiculous.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIjddye2JSA]
March 29 08
Artist: (Lawrence) Gowan
Title: Strange Animal
Artist Website: gowan.org
Date: Recorded 1998
Location: Toronto
Rating: Ridiculous, but you know you’re humming the tune anyway.
(Did you know that Gowan is now the lead singer of Styx? Such a concert would conceivably mark the world’s end, but here we are, still kicking it, while “Larry” belts out Mr. Roboto and Come [...]
March 29 08
the threads to hemingway continue.
I found myself caught up watching a TVO documentary on Mavis Gallant this week. It was a great little feature, filmed at some point in the early to mid 1990s, I imagine. The doc featured both Gallant-the-person, that “great Canadian writer in exile,” as well as Gallant and her [...]
March 28 08
Artist: 54°40
Title: Since When
Artist Website: 54°40.com
Date: Recorded 1998
Location: Vancouver
Rating: Awesome
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0FoTf8Qhs]
March 27 08
So the prof who I TA for lost a couple of the essays that were to be returned today. Since he’s flying to Mexico City for a conference on the Gothic (I know, I know), he’s asked me to mark the copies that the students will graciously email me this evening. I could [...]