Scott Woods & DJ Shoe North

The version of the Clash's "Career Opportunities" on their album Sandinista! is performed delightfully (if at times pitch-impairedly) by children.

YouTube video by AK47bandit The Stroll-The Diamonds-original song-1957

Countdown to Election Day: 10 Canadian pop songs worth your time (not a definitive list of faves, just 10 good ones).
The Diamonds, "The Stroll" (1957) (Not to be confused with the twist, the watusi, the frug, or the breaststroke.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Z4...
#CanadianPopMusic

YouTube video by WiiDroid The Guess Who - Sour Suite (Remastered)

Countdown to Election Day: 10 Canadian pop songs worth your time (not a definitive list of faves, just 10 good ones).
Guess Who, "Sour Suite" (1971)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-5...
#CanadianPopMusic

YouTube video by DarkSeven09 Pagliaro - Some Sing, Some Dance

Countdown to Election Day: 10 Canadian pop songs worth your time (not a definitive list of faves, just 10 good ones).
Pagliaro, "Some Sing, Some Dance" (1971)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqsA...
#CanadianPopMusic

YouTube video by BSSVEVO Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes

Countdown to Election Day: 10 Canadian pop songs worth your time (not a definitive list of faves, just 10 good ones).
Broken Social Scene, "Almost Crimes" (2002)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BupO...
#CanadianPopMusic

YouTube video by Chansons-Songs-Schlager y Canción romántica Beautiful secondhand man - Ginette Reno

Countdown to Election Day: 10 Canadian pop songs worth your time (not a definitive list of faves, just 10 good ones).
Ginette Reno, "Beautiful Second Hand Man" (1971) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vX7...
#CanadianPopMusic

I appreciate that a lot, thanks. "Untrained" might be just another word for "in training."

I already fully knew this going on but my blindest spot re: art is basically just about everything that precedes modernism (and those few things which do precede it are definite precursors to it). I guess I'm like Iggy--just a modern(ist) guy. (Of course I've had it in the eye before.)

Decided to cap my #Choose20paintings list at 10. This will matter to less than zero people, but it makes sense to me. I LOVE art, but am pretty green on the subject and I'm liable to just list multiple Klees, Kandinskys etc. and what fun would that be? Worthwhile challenge getting to even 10.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you. One painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
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10. Richard Hamilton, "Swingeing London '67" (1968)

Definitely jarring.

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9. Alex Colville, "Traveller" (1992)

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8. Georges Seurat, "La Seine à la Grande Jatte" (1888)

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7. Marcel Duchamp, "Chocolate Grinder No. 2" (1914)

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6. Tom Hilborn, "Little Richard" (1986)

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5. Romare Bearden, "Serenade" (1979)

Maggie & Terry & Kate & Suzzy & Anna et al Playlist · Scott Woods · 130 items

This playlist is a mess--a data dump, really, with no curation or whittling whatsoever (yet). But there's a sound and a story hidden in here somewhere, I think.
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Io...

Finally, an economist/pundit shows off not her impressive book shelves but a cool, seemingly well cared for album collection.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you. One painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
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4. Roy Lichtenstein, "M-maybe" (1965)

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3. Gustav Klimt, "Judith and the Head of Holofernes" (1901)

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Andy Warhol, "Orange Car Crash" (1963)

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Paul Klee, 'Fish Magic' (1925)

Current enthusiasm: I-IV-V (more or less) pop songs that sound like kids songs but whose kidsness is deceptive. Neil's "Til the Morning Comes" (dope dealer's threat?); Velvets' "After Hours" ("leave the sunshine out"); Beatles' "Don't Pass Me By" (woman narrowly avoids decapitation in car crash).

Unlike most people on this thread I don't have a hugely formed opinion of Rosemary Barton but this is the kind of resolve we need right now from an opponent of Poilievre and I look forward to more of it.

And so it heats up. We've either two more years of this, four more years of this, or some dam breaking in the meantime.

100% and he shouldn't be the only.

The world watches as alliances fray, as trust erodes, as a country that once led with principle now stumbles in the shadows of those who seek power and money.

It’s truly the saddest thing to witness

YouTube video by Cheddar testimony against SB13, 2-27-25

Yesterday I testified before Texas's Senate Committee on Education K-16, against Senate Bill 13, which would affectively ban supposedly "indecent" and "profane" books in public school classrooms and libraries. Here's a clip:

PSB "Rent," learning on the 400th listen that it's "There's a big bang in the city/were all on the make" and not "There's a big band in the city/well, I'm amazed." Mine always seemed weirdly at odds with the song but over decades it came to work for me.

Based on a little online research I may in fact be the only Severance viewer in the English speaking universe who didn't think episode 7 was a masterpiece. I'll rewatch (I always do) but this time with yaysaying voices colouring my response. Which might be OK, I miss a lot of boats. But we'll see.