Starting a new regular type of posting. These are a series of short notes and thoughts, too small to warrant a post, but looking for a home nonetheless, and possibly becoming more. I invite your curiosity on any of this…queries may set me to growing these little guys into something more substantial.
- Conversations that matter is the home for the world cafe Europe blog. Good reading there.
- Dave Pollard on the distinctions between dialogue and debate. Dave wrestles with his conscience on this one and comes up with a finer grain analysis as a result. Interesting as usual, and deeply in tune with some stuff I’ve been thinking about lately regarding politics and conversation.
- Sitting outside by the fire last night, I realized why the human eye can preserve its night vision when it is exposed to red light. The dying embers of the fire that were keeping me warm did not in the least affect my ability to peer into the forest at the passing deer, or to scan the heavens for globular clusters. That seems like a useful survival tactic. I wonder what the 21st century eye is able to see that will preserve our species?
- You have to read this to believe it. The Sock-A-Month knitting club gets shut down by a bank after the gnomes suspect a scam. You see? If I didn’t have a little notes category, where would I have blogged this?
- Music at the moment: One-named Canadian singers Feist and Issa (formerly Jane Sibbery, new album forthcoming). My ten year old daughter is listening to Avril on her iPod. My goodness, they grow up quickly. (Psst, Alex, I snuck some Zero 7 on there as well. She loves The Pageant of the Bizarre!)
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I don’t care what your talent is, just do something like this whenever you can and the world becomes that much more livable.
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A little marker to note the passing of a great Canadian institution. Tomorrow night, in Massey Hall, The Rheostatics play their last gig. They’ve been at it for over 20 years and it’s coming to an end. If, like me, you never saw them live, you can download some of their shows here.
Writing today in the Globe and Mail about their career, guitarist and hockey writer extraordinaire Dave Bidini explained the band’s ethos succinctly:”…We were four satellites who got a long and if you listened closely or saw us on a good night, you got bit.” Yup. Still one of my all time favourite road trip bands. Nothing like 2067 playing at full volume to keep me awake as the miles tick past on northern Vancouver Island.
Thanks guys, for the great music and the great take on what our country is all about.
[tags]rheostatics, dave bidini[/tags]
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A great tune from oldseed a Winnipeg songwriter who tours around constantly. He’ll be in Vancouver and Bowen Island soon. Go catch him if you can. He’ll be here on Bowen Island on September 22. Contact me if you want more information.
Dig the crazy harmonies at the end of this song…amazing passion there.
mp3: Oldseed – If you’ve got nothing but light, let it shine
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I haven’t posted much music lately, but here’s a track I was listening to last night. Gathered into this play list at Motel de Moka is a beautiful track from Alex Cline called Wreath of Rain. And here it is, an mp3 for your listening pleasure on a summer day when rain threatens.