On Facebook, rosiespark challenged me with a tag: to list and post links to seven of my favourite songs.

What fun, I thought, and why just keep it on Facebook, where entries are difficult to find and impossible to organize? I'm going to put the entries here, too.

So here you are, from my March 2 Facebook entry:

Tagged by rosiespark to list ( Read more... )

Stompin' Tom Connors died yesterday.

He was a national icon and I will miss him. Auriaephiala quotes his farewell message to his fans:

Hello friends, I want all my fans, past, present, or future, to know that without you, there would have not been any Stompin’ Tom ( Read more... )

This made me laugh: Where is the Remote Control?.

With a nice postscript: Sebastian, The Cyber Conductor.

I watched Jesus Christ Superstar this evening for the second time in a week. Not the movie; it was the Indigo Girls version on YouTube. The most amazing thing is: I never knew this existed. I blame walkingowl for not telling me! She was my link to information about the Indigo Girls. I bet she'd love this... if she never saw it. I don't think she did ( Read more... )

I found this site: 'TV Music and Song', and instantly went to one of my favourite theme songs from childhood, It's About Time - a theme I haven't heard since, well, 1966. I'd no idea when it was on television - I had to look up the year. I don't even remember the show itself, but I could still sing part of the theme song. For me, that's rare ( Read more... )

I was invited to a concert by local musician Elizabeth Bruce, and that was the highlight of the day. I'd heard about her singing, but I'd never actually heard her before. The concert was wonderful: she has a strong, distinctive way of creating a song. I was so glad I got to hear her.

Other events:

• Spent the morning doing office work at CCA, ( Read more... )

Besides being what I say to my budgies, Nighty-Night is the name of an album recorded by Neal Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds and Damian Kulash. They were supposed to do eight songs in 8 hours and so they called it 8in8 but it turned out to be six songs in twelve hours, and I'm sure it was hard work at that. Amanda Palmer talks about it on her ( Read more... )

Went this evening to a live concert by Paul Potts at Centrepointe Theatre. He made jokes about the bad weather ("Last time I was in Ottawa, it was snowing,") but the concert was superb. He sang a lot of my favourites and near-favourites: starting with Moon River, then on to Maria, Se la Fantasia from Cinema Paradiso, Music of the Night, Il ( Read more... )

The 30 Days of Torchwood meme:

( Day 16: Favourite Piece of Music. )

Did all my exercises in time to go for dim sum with Marion and Vicky. We all ate sparingly, and it was delicious - wonderful. Afterwards, we did some shopping at the Chinese grocery next door to the Mandarin Ogilvy, then went to my place to watch and episode of Moonlight (1x03, "Dr Feelgood") and Hawaii Five-O, the 2010 version, 1x01, "Pilot ( Read more... )