Kylie Minogue @ Bell Centre, April 28, 2011The bad: the muddy sound at the Bell Centre, urrrgh I am probably not supposed to talk crap about it now that I work for the company but it's like a sandbag levee between the act on stage and the audience. It's an unfair context for Kylie, whose pop is rather finely calibrated on the whole. Speaking of ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out how Dunnett's Prince of Condé** is related to Golon's Prince of Condé; grandfather, I think? The Wikipedia genealogy, good grief. XD;

And thus, this is stuck in my head. It's always the Nana Mouskouri version; at the time I was just bowled over that it was a song I knew, I think ( Read more... )

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LOL so first Metric writes an Annie song then Arcade Fire writes a Knife song? Maybe this is the new Can-con (except I listen to Radio 2 while commuting and know better ( Read more... )

1) I ain't dead ( Read more... )

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: Yin Yue Da Tong (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 17: May 18 - trees and flowers, catwalk music
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( In which I am wobbly on the pronunciation of Roisin Murphy's name )

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: Yin Yue Da Tong (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 15: May 4 - Faye Wong, Sarah McLachlan, Tsuji Ayano, The Pancakes, mento (traditional Jamaican pop)
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( Basically I was listening to a Pancakes album Ced sent me and realized the first song was a cover of Jamaica Farewell )

1) IT IS SNOWING. THERE IS AN INCH OF SNOW ON THE GROUND. WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY.

It's killing the daffodils as I speak! :/ At least the peonies are protected by an overhang - the shoots are like eight inches tall.

2) I don't mean like I found this randomly on Youtube, I mean it was playing on Virgin Radio at rush hour yesterday afternoon.

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102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 9: March 23 - girl pop duos, Jean Ferrat
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( In which I fail to explain why I like tATu's Smiths cover so much )

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 6: March 2 - William Butler Yeats and Blixa Bargeld (...yeah idek)
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Being that I'm two weeks behind and all. XD;

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 5: February 23 - East Asian disco '87-'07, Olympics redux
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