For any regular readers of my site, or anyone else, actually, there’s a great way to keep track of when your favourite weblogs have been updated. Go to http://www.weblogs.com/ (spiffy new design, too, as of yesterday), and set up a free account. You can set up a list of blogs and it will let you know when they were last updated. It’s a really handy service and I use it every day.
Brush 738 BT With Fame
Brush 738 BT. That’s what font I’m using for the title. And I was using it before Heather tried her little experiment with Brush Script. So there… (UPDATE: This design thankfully abandoned!)
Canadian Thanksgiving
Brooke and I spent this weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving) at her parents’
house in Collingwood, Ontario, about 2 hours north of Toronto. On Sunday
night, it started snowing, and although I thought it would all be gone by
Monday morning, this is what we saw. I think this is the earliest I’ve ever seen snow on the ground. Mind you, Collingwood is in the heart of ski country in Ontario, and they get more snow than most places. Still, snow in October?
Ugly Fonts
Caterina praises the use of ugly fonts and overlooks my redesign. Really, I’m not hurt. I can’t even remember the name of the ugly font I used, and won’t be able to remember it until I’m back at work on Tuesday (Canadian Thanksgiving, you know…). But rest assured, it is an ugly stepchild of a font, not even worthy for barber signs or diner menus.
CD Buying Binge
CD buying binge (all prices in Canadian dollars):
- Magazine-Real Life ($18.99)
- Teenage Head-Some Kinda Fun ($10.99)
- Sloan-Peppermint EP ($6.99)
- Luxuria-Beast Box ($6.99)
- Luxuria-Unanswerable Lust ($5.99)
- Retro 80’s, Vol.6: Pure Canadian (EMI Music Canada compilation) ($10.99)
Teenage Head were a Canadian punk/rockabilly band from the late 70’s early 80’s. I was a big fan in my teens. Luxuria were a Howard DeVoto’s band in the late 80’s (DeVoto of early Buzzcocks/Magazine “fame”). Never heard them, but taking a chance. The Magazine stuff I’ve been after for a while, even though it’s way too expensive. I picked up “Secondhand Daylight” (Magazine‘s second album–“Real Life” was their first) a few years ago for less than $10 in a delete bin.
The Canadian 80’s thing I just couldn’t resist. Check out the list of artists (at least the ones I think are or should be well known), and let me know if you know who they were (Americans especially welcome to respond…I’m curious about this):
- Martha and the Muffins (later became M+M)
- Rational Youth
- Strange Advance
- Men Without Hats
- Sherry Kean
- Dalbello
- Luba
- Glass Tiger
- Grapes of Wrath
- The Northern Pikes
- Rock and Hyde (formerly The Payola$)
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- National Velvet
Now, all fine choices for a compilation, but there are WAY more Canadian bands that were/are worthy of inclusion. Again, let me know if you’re familiar with any or all of the following:
- The Spoons
- Jane Siberry
- Pukka Orchestra
- The Diodes
- The Box
- Blue Peter
- Teenage Head (they’re not on the compilation)
- Platinum Blonde
- The Kings
- The Parachute Club
- Nash the Slash
- Max Webster
- Chalk Circle