Several days after watching The Trews play an excellent show at Alderney Landing I was on my way to Europe: a Scottish band called Texas were scheduled to play the first day of a Dutch classic rock festival called Bospop. I’m not sure why it’s called Bospop; “bos” is Dutch for forest, but the festival site was in the middle of a meadow. By the way ( Read more... )

A friend of mine sent me a drawing of a phoenix rising from the flames. When she told me about it, I thought I might like it and asked her if she could E-mail it to me. She did:


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I was in Toronto and Peterborough about a month ago, and instead of blogging about it, I figured I recap through posting a few pictures. Here goes:


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After recording Bad Monkey's first rough demo, we realized there's plenty of room for improvement. I suggested we focus on playing other songs (new stuff) before going back and rehearsing the songs we want to record for the final demo. It works for me, and singer Mirthe attested it works for her, too. The drummer and bass player are fine with it ( Read more... )

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Yesterday (like today) was a beautifully sunny day - and the first weekend I wasn't in a studio rehearsing with the band. I took the opportunity to go out and enjoy the weather. I normally am the kind of person who tends to be in a hurry getting from point A to point B (not when I'm on vacation, though!) so I made it easier on myself by taking my ( Read more... )

It suddenly occurred to me that I forgot to post my song of the month in March, so here it is: "Faster" by Within Temptation.

I'm going to post April later.

Why the NDP's trans rights bill is dead in the water

BY DALE SMITH - Bill C-389 - which would add gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code - is about to die on the Senate Order Paper.

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... And that's a lie.


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