A Life In Song: Closer To Fine
1988. The Winter Olympics took place in Calgary. Surfer Rosa by the Pixies was released – and except for a few oddballs like me who listened to the University of Calgary’s radio station, CJSW, no one pays much attention. I am about to graduate from high school. I am a man-boy without a plan. My ...
Shuffle Better: Chill: “Wagging Along” by Bola Sete
Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling. This week, in the “Chill” subcategory, I give you “Wagging Along” by Bola Sete - a great little track for waking up and preparing some eggs and tea for that ...
A Life In Song: I Can’t Wait
In the last week of August I went down to the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) with a few friends. The appearance of the CNE in Toronto is the signal that summer is almost over, so for me its arrival is always met with a bittersweet feeling. This feeling can only be abated with greasy, ...
A Life In Song: Halfway Down The Stairs
In the late 1970′s, when I was about 8 or 9 years old I had a crappy little Mickey Mouse record player. I am not using “Mickey Mouse” as a derogatory descriptive term here. It was literally a Mickey Mouse record player. I did a little Googling, and lo and behold, there it was: ...
Bert
Spring 2008: My intentions for the table were that come the warm weather, it would be somewhere convenient to rest my drink and a magazine, but nature had other plans. Instead, a mother pigeon decided that underneath the table on my balcony would be a wonderful location to unleash the miracle of life. And so ...
A Life In Song: Rock n Roll Suicide
Although Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary, ...
