Avid Reader, Port Wine Lover, Film/TV Buff, Music Junkie, & Lazy Blogger
Patrick Watson is an experimental singer-songwriter / band from Montreal, Quebec who won the Polaris Music Prize in 2007. I came across him / them on Stingray Music's Rock Alternative channel. Places You Will Go is off the 2015 album Love Songs For...
Nothing But Thieves (NBT) are a UK-based alternative band who released their debut self-titled album on October 16, 2015. I became aware of NBT as their song Trip Switch was a regular song on Alt Nation's summer playlist. Their debut album has a...
I woke up this morning with a sore back and tight right hamstring and couldn't figure out the root cause until the shame crept over me; I nudged my weights (two 52.5 lb dumbbells on a stand) a few feet when I was cleaning our home office on...
I decided to bring the site back to life as my central online presence after a few years away in spite of the fact that social media has all but killed the blog. Now to find something useful to write about...
Came across the film Red (2008) the other night on Netflix starring Brian Cox (X2: X-Men United, Troy). The plot centers around a bunch of local hoodlums bullying an elderly man (Cox) which culminates in them murdering his dog "Red". The rest of...
Natalie: You know when we go to Florida? Me: Yes... Natalie: You and mom will be paying for my hotel and my food right? Me: Yes Natalie.
I recently took a "Writing it Right" course at Memorial University where the following poem "An Owed to the Spelling Check" was handed out to illustrate limitations with Microsoft's spell-check functionality; I found it amusing: I have a spelling...
The other night, Natalie saw a TV commercial which profiled children who are less fortunate than she is. She retreated to her room, returning a few times to confirm how to spell a few words (we didn't know what she was working on). When she finally...
Most have probably not heard of Chappo but chances are you have subconsciously enjoyed the lead song (Come Home) off their Plastique Universe EP as it's the backing song for Apple's iPhone 4 commercials. Great, allbeit small, assortment of songs.