YouTubing Because It Is Just Too Hot

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Gabriel...


Daniel Lanois, The Maker from his 1989 album ‘Acadie’.

It’s hot… too hot to be able to think clearly. It’s 2am and 26C (78F)… it’s supposed to be cooling right now, and raining with lighting, but it’s not. It has been at or near 30C for the past three days. Then there’s the humidity Canadians are known for loving… with the humidex this region was in the lower 40C’s yesterday.

So since I can’t concentrate on anything besides sweating right now, here are two videos from Daniel Lanois’ 1989 debut album ‘Acadie‘.

Daniel was born in Hull, Quebec, and has been a record-producer ever since. He has worked with (in order of coolness): Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, the Neville Brothers, Bob Dylan, Scott Weiland, U2 and Peter Gabriel.

Acadie is a collection of songs written in the different styles of French North American music. It starts in Acadia, moves to Quebec and then down to New Orleans.

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No Post Day: Random Blogging Challenge

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Gabriel...


Random beads of water on a flower; June 15, 2008 – Photo by Me.

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“Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon”; The Cramps
Let me know if the YouTube isn’t available.

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When you’re logged into a WordPress account there’s a bar that runs across the top of every blog. I can never remember what they call it, but it allows users to quickly access their “dashboard”. The best part about it is the little arrow at the top right-hand corner. When you press the arrow you’re randomly taken to another WordPress blog.

There are more than 3.5 million WordPress blogs, about 1.16 million of them have some human activity every month. Just by pushing the arrow button you’re able to find blogs on Whatever from Wherever.

So last night I found these blogs…

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Protected: Some People In My Family Found Honour In Sacrifice But Then They Started Looking For People To Burn

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Gabriel...

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Tagged By Natalia To Make A Springtime Mixed Tape

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Gabriel...


Some friends playing in Toronto at the 360; Sometime, 2000 – Photo by Me.

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The Challenge Passed On From Natalia:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

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I thought this meme would be pretty easy. But once I started going through the playlists I’ve put together recently this actually became a challenge… or at least something I could legitimately say I was “working on” so it was there as an excuse when my editor called and asked “is the Spanish Flu thing done yet”.

…so, before I start writing about the history of my music collection (I just deleted an 800 word post from my brain), here are my seven song choices along with their YouTube:

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Making Each Other Laugh

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Gabriel...


My little brother makes me laugh; July 30, 2005 – Photo by Me.

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I was shopping today and a can of tuna was up to $2.79. Totally not worth it… tuna hasn’t even tasted right since they took the dolphin taste out. That’s an old joke. I wrote that back in first-year journalism school for my humour column. Not the price though, the price is real.

I used to write a humour column. Not really funny “haha”, more sardonic and full of hate and anger. People who know these kind of things told me humour was the hardest writing discipline… then they handed me my award (insert bow w/flourish here).

I always found writing my column fairly easy… it sounds cringe worthy but writing is all about the words because the words set the tone. Once you figure out “tone” you can write in almost any style… and if you want to be paid to write you have to know tones.

I don’t find humour particularly easy anymore. In the four years since I started my recovery I’ve only been able to write since November, 2006, but only regularly since last August. And not much of Salted is made up of stuff I’d consider funny… plus I didn’t even start laughing again until just a few months ago.

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Sure A Rose May Smell Just As Sweet But Call It Herpes des Quatre Saisons And People Will Never Plant Them Again

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Gabriel...

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My name is officially changed… it took two years when it should have taken six weeks, but the last piece of my father’s identity has been removed from my wallet.

My new birth certificate came in the mail yesterday. It’s purple. It has the name I was born with in the “old” column and the one I’ve chosen to replace it with in the “new” column.

I started the process in April, 2006, by getting the application from my local MPP. The easy part was choosing the replacement name because I’ve actually been using my mom’s maiden name since a year after the divorce in 1978, because in Canada, as long as you’re not trying to commit fraud, you can actually use whatever name you want.

So since I was about nine I’ve had two different names. Until now my Official name, the one on my original birth certificate, went like this… Gabriel, then my father’s Given Name followed by his Family Name. So Gabriel Father Father.

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