The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
- Stories that are Setting Driven
- Poor Harper – He’s Jonesing Right Now
- An Offbeat Strategy for an Offbeat Party
- The Leap Week Calendar
Category Archives: Music
The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
On SOPA/PIPA protest day (there has been at least one call to name it Netizens Day), the supreme court of the USA decided that since they had cover, they could rule that the public domain could be taken from the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged are liar lawyers disproportionately common?, boom years for lawyer based professions, copyright lawyering, Dennis the Dentist and Lawrence the Lawyer are disproportionately common, judging, lawyer based professions, liar based professions, MPAA, Netizens Day, PIPA, politicking, public domain, pursuing copyright maximalisation, RIAA, SOPA, SOPA/PIPA protest day, the supreme court of the US
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Time for an Old Fashioned Folk Off
I’ve always wanted to write a novelty song. It at least goes back to my early guitar playing days. Back then I remember coming up with a chord progression that sounded like a “real” song (I hadn’t done so previously … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Music, Politics
Tagged A Horse with no Name, America, Bob Dylan, distinct voice, folk, Folk Off, guitar, Kent State Massacre, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, novelty song, Ohio, original song, Southern Man, Sweet Home Alabama
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Things That Make Sense Can Be Deeply Funny
I was going to rail against a quote in the Natalie Imbruglia song Wishing I Was There. But the two lines “I wish you made sense, Like a joke that no one gets” are fine sentences and don’t need to … Continue reading
I Think I’ve Been Experimented On
The new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto is out. I’ve been waiting since June because I wrote this post mentioning Coldplay and some thing, perhaps human, perhaps a bot, alerted me that Every Teardrop is a Waterfall was out. I checked … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 14 symbols for 14 songs, 45 minute album, Coldplay, did my "vote" count, Kate Bush, Mylo Xyloto, Peter Gabriel, Rihanna, So, solid album
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Honest Jobs for John Edward
You may remember my nasty post over half a year ago regarding John Edward. He is of course the crummy psychic of Crossing Over fame. I thought of him because again he was on daytime TV. This time it was … Continue reading
TV Weathermen Aren’t Scientists
In a nearby riding, Kitchener Centre, Progressive Conservative candidate Dave MacDonald is running for election for the Ontario government. He is a former weatherman for the CTV network in southwestern Ontario. In Canada, there is no accreditation to allow the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Anthropocene, cloud seeding, Conservatives have history of using technicians for credibility, contrails effect climate, Dave MacDonald, greenhouse effect, Kitchener Centre, Ontario, ozone layer dwindled and is rebounding, Progressive Conservatives, the Arrogant Worms, TV Weather Guy, TV weatherman are not scientists, Venus had runaway greenhouse effect
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Musicians are Tone Deaf
Right off the top it might not be all musicians. I am going by all the songs I know in the English speaking world. Why the English language? That, as it turns out, is important. The English language itself has … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Music
Tagged Bee Gees, Bon Jovi, English language music is tone deaf, falsetto words as questions, guitar tabs are good, last word rise in pitch denotes yes/no question, old notation songbooks are wrong, Questionable Music as new genre, rise in pitch for a sentence means it's a question, Roger Dean, Roundabout, Supertramp, the urban Ontario dialect, Yes
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Another Gen X Manifesto
Gen Xers differ from each other. That is the reason there are many Gen X manifestos. So listen up baby boomers and those who wish to know more about Gen X. Baby boomers started as a group by events that … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Social Science
Tagged cryogenics, gen X, Kurt Cobain, McLane Creek, remains in space, Viretta Park, were Cobain's ashes stolen, Wishkah River
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Rock Star Early Warning System
“Look up in the sky…” “It’s a bird…” “It’s a plane…” “No, it’s a rock star in a private jet!” The above, almost superhero like treatment, begins to reflect some of the high esteem rock stars in the mid 1980′s … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Band Aid, blogging and tweeting might be the answer, Bob Geldof, Ethiopian famine, Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear accident, Live 8, Live Aid, Malawi 2002 killer famine, mass starvation still possible, recent Haitian earthquake, stop killer famines, uprisings in Arab world
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Fire Breathing Dragon Guitars
I was a kid during the lion share of the Glam Rock period. Still, the imprint was there when I first started playing guitar in the mid 1980′s. So, despite possibly being seen as a throwback, when I came up … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fashion, Humour, Music
Tagged bass solo, Bootsauce, dragon guitar, fire breathing dragon guitar, glam rock, rhythm and lead and bass guitar battles, solo, Yes
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