A thirty- five six year old non-female Canadian with a passion for pretty things, comic books and pop culture. Tries to be funny sometimes.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Counting Crows - Raining In Baltimore
This circus is falling down on its knees
The big top is crumbling down
It’s raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Where you should be, no one’s around
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
I need a big love
I need a phone call
These train conversations are passing me by
And I don’t have nothing to say
You get what you pay for
But I just had no intention of living this way
I need a phone call
I need a plane ride
I need a sunburn
I need a raincoat
And I get no answers
And I don’t get no change
It’s raining in Baltimore, baby
But everything else is the same
There’s things I remember and things I forget
I miss you I guess that I should
Three thousand five hundred miles away
But what would you change if you could?
I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car
I can always hear a freight train Baby, if I listen real hard
And I wish, I wish it was a small world
Because I’m lonely for the big towns
I’d like to hear a little guitar
I guess it’s time to put the top down
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
I really need a raincoat
I really really need a rain coat
I really really really need a rain coat
I really need a raincoat
Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry Be Happy
My submission for today’s themesong: I hate myself and want to die
Because:
1. You shouldn’t hate yourself and it certainly isn’t a good reason to want to end your life.
2. This song comes close to being a good reason.
Pearl Jam - The End
What were all those dreams we shared
Those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made now
Left beside the road?
Behind us in the road
More than friends, I always pledged
Cause friends they come and go
People change, as does everything
I wanted to grow old
I just want to grow old
Green Day - All By Myself
My submission for today’s themesong: Sex Scene.
This video is short and of low quality and ultimately unfulfilling. Therefore, it’s pretty much perfect.
Wait. This is supposed to be autobiographical, right?
Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night
I think I’m just gonna end with this. It’s probably lunchtime. I think you’ve had enough.
Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World
This is the song that Neil Young performed with Pearl Jam at the concert I saw in Toronto a couple weeks ago. Great song. Great performance.
Arrogant Worms - The Mountie Song
It doesn’t get more Canadian than hockey, maple syrup and Mounties.
Kim Mitchell - Go For Soda (1984) [mp3]
If we’re blogging about Canadian Content, this one’s kinda obligatory.
True story: because of the song’s anti-drinking message my local cable access channel played the video for this song over and over and over (in between the worst in local niche interest talk shows, produced by people who assumed that because they owned a VCR they could make compelling TV). This was before MuchMusic was a readily available channel, so I’d just watch this video over and over and over.
Wikpedia fun fact: The song was featured in the opening scene of the 1985 Miami Vice episode Buddies. Good to know!
80’s magic!
The Tragically Hip is possibly the greatest and most popular Canadian band who has never been able to really crack the US market. Of all their songs, Nautical Disaster is my personal favourite. In particular, I love the imagery invoked by the verse:
One afternoon
Four thousand men died in the water
Here
And five hundred more were thrashing madly
As parasites might
In your blood
“Nautical Disaster” by The Tragically Hip
(Words/Music: The Tragically Hip, Album: Live From the Vault: Volume 1, recorded 2.2 1995 in Halifax
