Don’t hate Saskatchewan, never meant no harm to anyone.

Whoa. I like how poutine is featured twice.

Title Credit: Elliott Brood, Oh Alberta

In people city…as productive in the air as you are on the ground.

Here is how my meandering coffee break has gone —

To start off — Canada + Airplanes because I went to see El Ten Eleven last night and spoke with Peter at the bar about bands named after airplanes… And then Herman mentioned that he was going to T-Dot on Thursday, (but I thought he said T-dog, and was thoroughly confused)… and just becuase I like that graphic for channel nine that RetroOntario uses

Which brought me to this, becuase of the Eye on Rochester connection (why aren’t THOSE on youtube?)

And since my water glass in my washroom says “Toronto, The People City”, I clicked this one out of sheer time-wastiness.

This is why I set a timer when I’m takin a break

Double double…

Canadians love nothing more than free coffee debate

110 comments already… and there are a surprising number of big M coffee appreciators… or at least tolerators.

Ed Long’s comment is my favourite:

I invested in MacDonald’s in the last recession, it did comparatively well for obvious reasons.

The specialty coffee business was a boom economy profit maker. There is no profit in providing public library space in this economy.

The Fugue of Art

Just found a great review site – Shotgun-Review.ca

I’m a little Canada-bonkers right now… trying to boil all that down and figure out what it is I’m trying to get at. Pick pick pick pick pick…

Here is a review of a Tim Lee show in the fall:

I wonder if Mr. Gould had any idea how much of an impact he would continue to have, well into the oughts.

And here is some more Canada-love:

Canadians obsessed with faking death?

More fuel for the fire.

Spring forward, fall back down

Not sure why that list made me laugh — but it did. Which one do Cryptic-Canadians choose? Or Canadian-Universalists? {It’s 2 and I’m just having my first coffee – so …}

Sadies show was pretty great, minus a few punch-facers in the crowd. {That girl who alternated between boyfriend groping and attempts to get everyone to do that obnoxious raise-the-roof thing; that guy who was dancing like a seizure for EVERY song, even the slows; and the girl with the smelly leather purse on her bony shoulder that she kept jabbing me with and pretending nothing–what?—nothing was going on; and lastly– cellphone-picture-taking guy— he must have one hell of a collection of blurry bands on the bug jar stage by now}. Otherwise, good times. I’m getting to old to go see bands on Weekend (read:sad pick-up) nights. Or too lacking in patience.

I DID find out one of the Sadies are from Hastings, ON (My mom’s hometown, right down the hwy from Campbellford), which explains the show in C’ford next Saturday.

“The Weakerthans? Nah, those guys are wimps. You can tell ’em I said that.”

(overheard at the merch table, Sadies, Bug Jar, Rochester, NY, Feb 21, 2009)

VS

{{fight!}}

Title Credit: The Weakerthans, Left & Leaving

The best cure for a homesick dork

“Not so. Meet high octane Rita Cruise” (4:06)

Hilarious and educational.

Oh come ON!

i thought 2008 would be more challenging than this 😦

(i’m leaving it in reverse to make *something* about this trivia tricky)

One more thing – This is a throwdown

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I had to post this. I don’t know how, but it creeped it’s way back into my head, and I couldn’t get it out until I listened to the whole damn thing.

I don’t give a — DAMN.

Wait… today is the 24th? What? I thought I had at least another day to get ready for the impending eve? And I don’t have any clean church clothes.

Sexiest cross-eyed Canadian in purple socks award goes to….

“Offering an absurdist slow burn in place of punch lines and belly laughs, “Twitch City” is an incisive study of slackerdom, a state of mind and way of life that the show portrays with neither condescension nor sentimentality. In Curtis, Mr. McKellar created a sitcom protagonist even more complex and unlikely than the Larry David of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Committed to an existence of bohemian languor, he’s also a cutthroat entrepreneur hellbent on renting out every last square foot of his apartment. He may be truly agoraphobic — he doesn’t venture outside until the sixth episode — but his couchbound apathy masks a ruthless manipulative streak, as when he cons a Meals on Wheels volunteer into delivering his lunches.”

Thank-you, The Google.  And this  web-page.

Yoshimi?

Yes, I was just listening to her battle the robots (see title of previous post – it’s a Flaming Lips lyric)

and then I heard it again while watching this:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/media/portfolio/woodcock_locationshoot.mov

(sorry, can’t figure out how to embed it)

less than 5minutes between the two. eeery.