I tunes Shuffle. The Late Night Friday Frozen Ass Special

1. Elton John - Eldeberry Wine ( I didn't know I had this until now.)

2.Neil Young - Thrasher (One of my favourite songs of all time. When I first heard him singh sings " they were hiding behind hay bales" that's what I was doing on Grandpa's farm. A song of moving along your own path whatever the cost and all the hard goodbyes along the way).

3. Brian Eno & John Cale - Spinning Away (This was on a cassette I bought in 1990 or 1991. I remeber P was mad because I didn;t tell him I bought it. I didn't listen to it for years and then I remembered that "all the stars appeared as the great winds of the planets spiral in" last spring. "Some kind of change, some kind of spinning away..." It was all timing for this song.

4.Pink Floyd - Sheep (This was for a disc I never burned about sheep).

5. Billy Holiday - Autumn in New York ( When my friend Caroline moved from Montreal to NYC I put the Frank version on a tape for her. When she came back to visit in the fall she sang a verse.)

6. Frank Sinatra - It Happened in Monterey (When we were young there was a night in Lisbon when Bob suggested we play this Sinatra tape I had bought in the diner and they did.)

7. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (The 'riff' is stolen from Andrew Loog Oldham via a Jagger Richards composition. Oldham sued the Verve and sold "his" song to Nike.

8. Jimmy Cliff - I can See Clearly Now (When I first met Sophie she asked me to play the guitar and this was one of the songs I knew and it became a theme throughout our relationship.)

9. Blur - Boys & Girls ( I first saw/heard this on Italian top of the pops equivalent and thought "You ripped of Bowie" and loved it begrudgingly).

10. Dean Martin - Little Old Wine Drinker Me (Excuse me while I kiss this guy. Purple wine haze drunkard music)

Bleak

Just when I think I've heard it all and am thoroughly jaded something like this happens. A woman in Missouri was murdered and her 8 month old fetus was taken from her body.

Photo Archive

I was going through the old photos on a CD my Dad put together last year and found this one of the beach at the cottage probably taken in the 1940's. That tree on the beach was long gone by the time I was born and if you were to stand on the rock from where the picture was taken your view would be blocked by trees.


My sister and I playing in the snow when we lived in Ottawa.


This is Sam Woodson who may or may not be one of the family members who lived in New Jersey. I'll have to ask my father over the holidays. I don't know the woman's name

Okay I didn't quite play the game right. I see Leslie read the instructions.

Instructions -
1. Open up the music player on your computer.

2. Set it to play your entire music collection.

3. Hit the 'shuffle' command.

4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.

5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you want to.

The first ten songs that came up on shuffle not repeating artists were:

I Tunes Shuffle=
1. Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon
2. Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky
3. Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
4. U2 - October
5. The Stooges - Search and Destroy
6. Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves
7. Homer Simpson - I Drank Some Very Good Beer
8. Led Zepplin - In the Evening
9. Earth Wind & Fire - September
10.Big Audio Dynamite - Rush

Separated at Birth

James Taylor





Henry Rollins

I Play Your Game

I Tunes Shuffle=
1. Nina Hagen - African Reggae
2. Led Zepplin - Out on the Tiles
3. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
4. Sneaker Pimps - Black Sheep
5. Ween - Mister Would You Please Help My Pony

Bad Santa

Baa-ad Santa...Eve ill...Santa

Santa's Little Soul Eater

Devil Lights

Santa Claus is Satan

Just a friendly reminder that Santa Claus (Claws? Clause?) is not your friend.


It's a joke goddammit. A fucking joke. Quit taking things so seriously for christ's sake.....or is it?

And Yet More Snow

I had so much to write here while I rode the 16 home and now I don't. I had dinner with Dave and Sayuri and caught the last bus. The driver was strange looking. Like Harry Dean Staton with a beak and eyes like seeds. I'm sure they gave him this lonely late run because he would scare people in the daylight. The bus was an older model with twisted chrome bars which made the taffy coloured vinyl covered seats look like file folders. The lighting was orange instead of white and shone dimly at the front of the bus and with greater intensity over the backdoors. I was the only passenger through the suburbs until we came to downtown. I saw Christmas lights and no other forms out of the sludge splashed windows. That is only a ten minute ride. It's such a small city even if there are a million people here. It never feels that way. Maybe it's the green belt, maybe it's the standard of living, maybe it's the map in my memory of when it was a smaller place.

It's still snowing. I could take that for many more weeks. Calm steady silent layers build up, a comforter, over a blanket, over a sheet, over the earth. It's the perfect place to sleep.

It's Still Snowing

This is my favourite music for the first snow fall.

More Snow But Rings No More

It's still snowing. It's getting deeper and deeper. There is no doubt that winter has come to stay. It's kind of nice. The last few years the real snow didn't come until the end of December. The year before last it didn't snow until the 24th when it arrived just on cue. It's a shame that the LOTR trilogy is over. It had become a Christmas tradition for the whole family to go and see these films over the last three years. I almost expected that Peter Jackson would have pulled a film version of "The Hobbit" out of his hat unannounced as a surprise for this Christmas. He really should make that film if anyone does.

Winter Wonderland

It's been snowing all weekend and powder puffs of white decorate the outdoors.There is a very Christmasy feel this evening listening to the Vince Guaraldi Trio and walking in the quietly tumbling snow. It's interesting to see which embassies put up holiday decor. For the most part all the European ones do and not the rest. The Russian embassy looks even colder than usual with a driveway of trampled ice that separates it's black iron fence from the bunker style main building. The French embassy around the corne, in contrast, looks warm and inviting, more like a large cottage than an embassy. It has large glass windows and when you walk by you can see the orange lights on. It has a peaked roof gabled with snow. The smell of wood fires burning adds a nice touch to the scene as do the Christmas lights glowing in the hedges through their snow covering. There was more tobagganing in the offing this weekend but I pulled a muscle in an ice fall on Friday that almost had me sliding down a hill on my ass.They only cleared the sidewalks this evening after almost a week of icey sidewalks.

Cassette Recording

There's this old mix on a cassette that Killer Kane AKA Bob made for me years ago that I've been listening to a lot on my walks lately. It's amazing how that takes me back to the time when Nikki and I lived on Edouard-Charles. That was a good year but it was also the year that things started their slow descent. I went to SF that winter and she didn't want to come with me and I think I knew then that things were terribly wrong, but I was not ready to concede, but that's all part of the story all played back in 90 minutes on magnetic tape.

Rock Star Assassination

Dec.08th 1980 was the day John Lennon was shot down in front of his home but Dec. 09 belongs to Dimebag Darell the former lead guitarist of Pantera. He was shot to death while performing with his new band Damageplan in a club in Ohio. I'm sure the TV is plastered with this but I don't watch much TV so I'm guessing. In any case it's upsetting but there is a part of me that wonders why, with all the celebrity obsession that exists, this type of thing doesn't happen more often. In a way performers are natural targets as all kinds of emotions from adoration to spite are projected towards them.

International Human Rights Day

Today is International Human Rights Day. Amnesty International is holding a write-athon.

Dragons Dragons Everywhere

I did some Christmas shopping this evening and it wasn't unpleasant. I walked down to Chapters and actually had fun with the saleswoman who entertained me with puppets. We talked about books and Storyland where we had both went as kids. It was an actual human experience. Then when I was in line I met Paula from my Amnesty group so it felt like I was in a village instead of a city.

Dragons were the order of the evening and I got this 3-headed beasty for Joe



Jack got a book called "Dragon-Rider" and for the two to share I bought "How to Train a Dragon".

The puppets were really well crafted. I like this Border Collie


and this Chameleon



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