Labour day. Work. Jobs. Holiday. Day off. Time and a half. This day lends itself to many thoughts, meaning many different things for many a different folks. Just so happens I've been thinking a lot about my jobs lately. I have three. I work a record store. I work a bar and I work for …
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My Musical Autobiography Part 1
I've seen the movie High Fidelity a bajillion times. I love it. I can relate to it in every way. I am each of the characters in that movie. A lifetime of music obsession has made me into those characters. So when my friend, Tim Rayne, asked me to come co-host his morning show "Instant Breakfast" on …
Spare Some Change?
As the great Taj Mahal once sang: "Change in the ocean, change in deep blue sea Well there's a change in my baby, but there aint never no change in me Yeah, everybody they ought to change sometime" It's been quite a start to 2015 for me. Stuffed. Full. Of. Change. At the end of 2014 I found …
Remember that time I rocked it with Robert Randolph?!
Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival 2014. I was watching RRFB rock it and he started inviting people out of the crowd to play a guitar onstage with him. You can read my full account on how i got up there right HERE. in the mean time...here is the video footage, i hop up around the 7.45 mark. Crank it …
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Harvest: bigger and better
I don't know how they do it. Every single year they blow my mind a little more. I can never get in all the shows I want because there are Just.Too.Many.Great.Shows. This year I had to sacrifice a couple acts I knew I would see someplace down the road. Since I only had the one show this year I got …
The Dimming Light Of Humanity
I'm so disgusted with humans right now. One kills. Thousands more call for his head. of course what he did was wrong and horrible. i'm not condoning it. BUT... What is wrong with humanity. have we always been like this? I think we have actually. People say the world is getting so violent but i think …