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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me Music

Saturday Morning on GO!

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If you listen on CBC Radio One on Saturdays you’re in for a surprise: Yours Truly will be appearing on the Brent Bambury’s show Go! tomorrow. There’ll be musical merriment of all sorts. Go! broadcasts live at 10:30 a.m. Eastern, 11:00 in Newfoundland.

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It Happened to Me Music

Dragonette Live

I caught Dragonette at the launch party for MSN.ca a couple of weeks ago and was pretty impressed. I’m fond of their synth-pop-cut-with-guitars sound and am going to have to get my hands on their new album.

I took some shots of their performance; you can either check out this Flickr photoset or watch the slideshow below:

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me Music Slice of Life

Slice of Life: “Big Balls” at the Mesh Conference

At the Mesh Conference held earlier this year, I was asked at the last minute to play an opening number for the big panel discussion on using social media for marketing. I decided to get cheeky and played AC/DC’s Big Balls, since having them is a quality that you need to really use social media and social networking to advantage. As I played, Kaz Ehara shot these photos:

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Photos by Kaz Ehara.
Click the photos to see them on their Flickr pages.

For those of you unfamiliar with the song, here it is, synced to clips from Spongebob Squarepants:

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A Flowchart for “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

Here’s a flowchart for Bonnie Tyler’s eighties classic, Total Eclipse of the Heart:

Flowchart for Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

In case you’re not familiar with the song, here’s the video.

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Life Music

Have You Seen This Cat?

Most “Have you seen this cat?” posters don’t make me smile, but this one does…

Post of Frank Sinatra - 'Have you seen this cat? Because he is AWESOME.'
Photo by Jason Carlin. Click to see it on its Flickr page.

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Japanese Cross-Dressing Bassist of the Day

The anime-girl outfits that the YouTube user “hjfreaks” wears may be a little off-putting, but if the bass tracks on these video are really of him playing, he’s pretty good:

Sometimes a guy wants to take a break from blistering bass runs and just dance:

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It Happened to Me Music

Guilty Pleasure: “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”

Not the fast food chains, but the amusing hip-hop number by the oddly-named duo “Das Racist”:

I’m with this commenter: someone needs to record the Canadian version:

I’m at the Swiss Chalet!
I’m at the Harvey’s!
I’m at the combination Swiss Chalet and Harvey’s!