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Feist concert review: Opening act, Chad VanGaalen
A review of Feist, live at Calgary's Jubilee Auditorium (Saturday, May 19, 2007).
This is a review of the opening act, Chad VanGaalen. To read the part about Feist, click here!
Opening act: Chad VanGaalen
I think every opening act I've ever seen has somehow convinced …
Feist concert review: The headliner
Saturday night on May 19, 2007 at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary brought 3000 people into the three-floor concert hall to see Feist perform. Raised in Calgary herself, Leslie Feist has more than a passing connection to the city and the venue: at age 6, Feist took …
Long weekend blitz
Here's what we did over May long weekend:
Went camping in the backyard
That's "the backyard" in quotes, of course, because it's more like a small lawn-bowling pitch. Unfortunately, we only made it until 2:45 am, due to the extremely noisy suburban prairie winds …
Walking the blog (Vancouver ahoy!)
It's Friday, and it's been three weeks since I last walked the blog. It's important to do this every now and then, to let it socialize with other blogs, get some exercise, and take a leak all over the Internet. That's what I'm doing right now:
I feel vaguely …
Burn, baby, Burnaby
If you check with your hippocampus, you might have a memory stored about my recent announcement that my wife and I are migrating to the city of Vancouver. Today's update is to declare that we have officially found a place to live, which we are quite excited about. …
Additional awesomeness around the web
I'm in Vancouver right now, but I've magically instructed my blog to post this pre-written article at this pre-determined time to make it seem as if I am still busily clattering away at my desk.
In lieu of posting my own personally fabricated stories, essays, reviews …
Pictures of Things I Saw in Different Places
Found on a bulletin board in Airdrie's Towerlane Mall. I hope she found someone to knit her that awesome-looking...housecoat?
This plastic kid's toy sword was found hanging on a wall in a dollar store. Your englishes are have broken!
No, but I could use that fur to …
Cargo Law: The Little Website that ROCKED
When I first slammed into its old school front page, I didn't expect "Cargo Law" to be anything more than a cobbled-together, behind-the-times, corporate hack-job of a website, filled with uninteresting, unpleasantly patriotic, law-related content. But after being …
Countdown to the Folk Festival
This Wednesday, my friend Harrison arrives in Calgary on a magical jetplane. On Thursday night, a trio consisting of myself, my wife and Harrison will be attending something called the Calgary Folk Festival. Our weekend passes guarantee us four days of concerts by …
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday Afternoon...
Greetings, friends, strangers and heads of state: in this post, I present to you the five most interesting things I have discovered recently. Why bother telling you about them? Because I think you'll be interested in them, that's why. Please, enjoy and interact. Take …
Starving in the Belly of a Whale
Isreali design & animation student Gal Shkedi, for his final project, has created this sweet animation of Tom Waits' song, "Starving in the Belly of a Whale."
The 10 Most Amazing Performances of the 2007 Calgary Folk Music Festival
The 2007 Calgary Folk Music Festival, a four-day foray into the world's best music, took place during the last week of July 2007 at Prince's Island Park, and the resulting noises and sounds made me wonder what on earth I've been doing with my ears my whole life. For …
Celebrity Iranian President Lookalikes
I have recently detected a surprising resemblance between the president of Iran, and two notable movie stars. The two young Hollywood meat-cakes are commonly known as Jake Gyllenhall (of Donnie Darko, Jarhead and Brokeback Mountain fame), and Ryan Gosling, who was in …
Blogging by numbers
Number of days since I last blogged: 29
Number of kilometers I've moved since last post: 979
Population of my previous city of residence: 28,927
Population of my new city of residence: 202,799
Square footage of previous residence: Over 2000
Square footage of new …
Pop goes the Radio(head)
Last March, I published a post called "Mixes in the Making," in which I made a passing-paragraph reference to a song that teen sensation group Hanson performed in concert. It's a cover of the Radiohead song, Optimistic. That post was mistakenly republished earlier …
A Digest of Recently Occurring Incidents
Today, I stepped on the Skytrain and was immediately surrounded by approximately 327 six-year-olds wearing toques and waving stuffed bunnies in the air. It seemed all the children in Burnaby had been ordered to evacuate the city en masse, and head towards downtown …
Music Review: Radiohead, "In Rainbows"
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I paid two pounds (approximately 0.9 kilograms, for you Canadians) for Radiohead's intangible new release, the digitally delivered seventh album, called "In Rainbows." Since the stunt was announced in early October 2007, this album has everybody talking, but for the …