If you are lucky enough to get Country Canada, the Blood Lines will be on Sessions next Wednesday, December 5th at 6, 10, and midnight ET
Breaking Links: Friday, November 30
Bookninja on the American TV writers strike: “I just want TV back on so more of the people I dislike will stay in at night at leave the coffee shops and pubs empty for me.” Exclaim! has an interview with Hidden Camera Joel Gibb: “People don’t like Bavarians in Berlin, which is why I kind…
RVT: the Bicycles and the 500th post
Two Really Important things here..ok neither is really important but still… 1) The Bicycles have a new album coming and in case you didn’t read about it in the last post: Radio 3 has an interview here. 2) This is the 500th post on this blog…500..wow. I tried to come up with something more anniversary…
Breaking Links: Thursday, November 29
David Akin is collecting articles on water and the looming crisis’ that surround it. “A typical Westerner consumes, directly and through thirsty products like food, about a hundred times their own weight in water every day. That is why some of the great rivers of the world, such as the Nile, Indus, Yellow River and…
Galacticasting Call
Rudy Wants to Can Haz New Hawt Costars: In case you hadn’t heard Casey McKinnon has left Galaticast. This may seem to you, as it did to me at first, like the Canadian vlogging equivalent of the Kennedy Assassination but, since everyone is still alive and doing well (as far as I know) – maybe…
RVT: Henri Faberge & The Adorables Cover Raffi
They were mentioned a couple of times today durning Grant Lawrence’s show on CBC Radio 3, though not quite in this context: Here are Henri Faberge & The Adorables doing a Raffi cover. No moshing.
Breaking Links: Wednesday, November 28
Via Michael Geist: The Globe and Mail on why the problem with ‘illegal downloading’ is the entertainment industry and not the pirates. “The history of media innovation for the last hundred years is essentially a history of gadgets that have been considered at one time or another to be “pirate” technologies. Time after time, these…
Parkdale Deserves Food Too
There are alot of poor people in the Parkdale area of Toronto. There are also alot of people who are right on the edge – people who are getting by but who could be in serious trouble if they had a bad month. There is also alot of money in West Toronto so it is…
Blood Lines Head for Alberta:
From Maygen: December 14: Edmonton’s Velvet Underground (I really hope we have time to go to Cafe Mosaic during the day. That place is fantastic.) December 15: Calgary’s Marquee Room (Can someone point me in the direction of a decedent but vegetarian-friendly place for brunch? One that will please me AND my 6’4” bandmates?) If…
RVT: Eyes on Toronto Highlights
You know that Eyes on Toronto thing I keep talking about? Here is a small taste of why I keep talking about it. If you haven’t been out yet it should be on your to do list for 08.