Here’s a link to a video that’s been making the rounds on the
internet’s “you’ve got to see this!” circuit. It’s a video of “Deep
Sunshine”, an
amateur band of teenage boys who have acheived the impossible: they’ve
taken Europe’s cheesy magnum opus, The Final Countdown, and made it worse [link goes to an MP4 video].
The MP3 included with this entry is no longer available.
EURid, the European registry of
internet domain names, has accredited Tucows to sell .eu (as in
“Europe”) domain names. The countdown has started: we’ll be offering it
later this year.
I suppose I will be expected to learn how to play Europe’s rock anthem, The Final Countdown on accordion. Or maybe on that old Korg Poly 800 synth that Steph gave to me for my birthday.
I’m gonna have to draw the line at growing ’80’s metal hair, though.
In the comments to this entry, faithful Accordion Guy reader and my boss’ boss, Elliot Noss writes:
ok, the way you cropped the photo of me the slide looks like it says
“always need capital” on the bottom. that was NOT what it said!
the fact that I look like I am kind of praying doesn’t help either. 🙂
It may not have been what the slide said, but I think that “Always need
capital” is true, regardless of how much you have. This is accordance
with…
(stolen from John Henson, who stole it from some suit)
My friend Eldon has slightly doctored the Elliot photo. See if you can
spot the Photoshoppery. If you need to see a larger version, click the
photo!
Click the photo to see it at full size.
In today’s BlogTO, one of the blogs that covers happenings in Accordion City, there’s an interview featuring Yours Truly. An exceprt:
Choose someone, living or dead, to write your biography. Why did you make that choice?
Michael Chabon, because nobody captures romance and geekdom in the same
breath like he can. It would be a graphic novel, and illustrated by
Chris “Achewood” Onstad, Jeffery “Wigu” Rowland, Jeph “Questionable
Content” Jacques, John “Scary Go Round” Allison and Mike “Death to the
Extremist” Zole.
Zole would illustrate the love scenes.
I’m too tired to do a writeup now, but I have some photos of what
Thursday looked like. There are some previews below, but I suggest you
check out the larger photos in the photo album or as a slideshow. Full details to follow.
Click the photo to see the slideshow.
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Click the photo to see the slideshow.
They’ve got me doing a lot of computer-y stuff on the internets today…
…but that doesn’t mean you’re going to leave this site empty-handed.
I give you Hayseed Dixie (the band known for doing AC/DC covers in a
bluegrass style) doing their special countrified version of The
Darkness’ I Believe in a Thing Called Love! [4.7MB MP3]
Click the picture to see the video (26MB,
QuickTime)
Brian McKechnie pointed me to this video [26MB,
QuickTime] that he shot of my Baby One More Time performance at the end of
last week’s OPML
Thanks, Brian!
The accordion and I will be at Thursday’s TechTV
Meetup, which takes place at No Regrets, deep in “the dingy alleys of Toronto’s Porn
District”, Liberty Village