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Me on CTV News Last Night

Photo: Still from Joey deVilla's interview on CTV News, June 8, 2005.

Smoothest Asian on TV since Mr. Sulu! Click the photo to see the high-definition video or here to see the low-definition video.

I did an interview with CTV News yesterday for a David Akin piece on

upcoming changes to Canada’s copyright laws. I was the “Internet user”,

copyfighting lawyer Michael Geist was the legal voice of reason, Jay Thomson of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers was the technical voice of reason and Graham Henderson of the Canadian Recording Industry Association was the Sith Lord.

The story is summarized on this web page, and if you’d like to see the piece, here are a couple of links:

Yes, that is a “Snoop Doggy Dogg” mechanic’s shirt I’m wearing, and yes, I wore it just for the interview.

The piece closes with me, delivering a pretty nice off-the-cuff quip. I am the sound-bite king! I can do anything!

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It Was Always in MY All-Time Top Five!

Photo: Album cover for AC/DC's 'Back in Black'.

I was 13 years old when AC/DC’s best-known and best-loved album, Back in Black, came out. When I was a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University’s Clark Hall Pub, its biggest single, the rock anthem You Shook Me All Night Long was

a surefire way to pack the dance floor — even the most hard-core

alt-rock music snobs would do a jig and “throw the horns”. I was 31

when I first performed You Shook Me on accordion. I will not reveal the ages I was when I got to live out those lyrics. Even today, a good 25 years after the album’s release and probably thousands of plays, Back in Black still is on high rotation on my iTunes.

It makes me quite happy to know that Back in Black has, according to this CNN story, made it into the top 5 biggest-selling albums of all time. Congrats, Angus and boys!

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Sgt. Cosby’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Photo: A younger Bill Cosby.

While I’m posting oddball covers of pop tunes, I thought I’d throw in

this one for good measure. You may not know it, but Bill Cosby also

does jazz/funk performances. Some of them are quite good, and some of

them are…odd. Here’s an odd one: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! [2.1 MB, MP3]

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The Worst Line in "Revenge of the Sith"…

…is this one:

Comic panel: 'NOOOOOO' scene from 'Revenge of the Sith'.

…and now someone’s decided to replace “whatever” in Liam Lynch’s My United States of Whatever with it, creating a new single, My United States of NOOOOOOOOOOO! [2 MB, MP3]

It made me laugh.

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Richard Cheese Album Out Tomorrow

Photo: Album cover for Richard Cheese's 'Aperitif for Destruction'.

Speaking of humourous lounge-y covers of pop tunes, Richard Cheese’s

new album, Aperitif for Destruction, hits the stores tomorrow.

The album will feature lounge-versions of the following pop/rock tunes:

  • Me So Horny
  • Man in the Box
  • Let’s Get It Started
  • You Oughta Know
  • Brass Monkey
  • Welcome to the Jungle
  • People Equals Shit
  • The Girl is Mine
  • Add it Up
  • Do Me
  • American Idiot
  • We are the World
  • Been Caught Stealing
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • Enter Sandman
  • Somebody Told Me

For a sample of some of Mr. Cheese’s work, give his cover of Puddle of Mudd’s She Hates Me [explicit language, 2.4 MB, MP3] a listen!

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Even More Paul Anka Wrongness

I found some more Paul Anka goodies (see this entry for his cover of The Cure’s Love Cats)! Richard Cheese, you’ve got some serious competition now!

  • Hello, originally performed by Lionel Richie [4.8 MB, MP3]
  • Jump, originally performed by Van Halen [3.4 MB, MP3]

  • Wonderwall, originally performed by Oasis [3.4 MB, MP3]
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So Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully Wrong!

For your easy listening pleasure, here’s Paul Anka doing his rendition of The Cure’s Love Cats [3.7 MB, MP3]. Go on, annoy your goth friends right now!