The guitar has dominated popular music for the last half century. Few people would argue that the instrument helped to shape modern genres and changed the performance and reception of music itself. Rock and roll owes its existence - among other things - to a slab of mahogany, the pentatonic scale, and the electric current, (and perhaps tight ( Read more... )

Assuming this strike ends before the York senate decides to extend the term, I have about five weeks in which to complete ( Read more... )

Come on Toronto housing market, work with me here!

Also, receiving a free movie pass in exchange for getting your picture taken to be used in a racial recognition project is pretty cool. I wonder what I'll look like photoshoped in blackface...

I've been listening to "I Don't Know What I Can Save You From" by Kings of Convenience pretty much non-stop the past few days. Read from that what you will ( Read more... )

Playwright's Note:
Historical accuracy is almost a contradiction in terms. If Hayden White has taught us anything, it's that history is as much a narrative construction as fiction. Michael Ondaatje explored this issue in his superb first novel Coming Through Slaughter. With this in mind, personages and events represented in this brief play are ( Read more... )

My father and I managed to empty his Nissan Murano of all my belongings and carry them up three flights of stairs to my new bachelor pad in about 45 minutes. Not bad. The Passy Apartments are York's graduate/mature student housing complex. Think East Residence but poorly built and slightly older. You know how in East you can stomp your foot on the ( Read more... )

What a strange, strange summer. A little over three weeks remain in my Danby employment, which is pretty exciting. My options during the two-week intermission between work and school are ( Read more... )

Sitting here with a bottle of Grolsch, listening to Danko Jone's "Lovercall", and loading up another episode of Star Trek: Voyager makes me realize how much I missed summer weekends.

I apologize for the sentimental posts as of late, but that seems to be the way things are heading. As soon as one thing is taken care of, several other issues just pop up to take its place. Like as soon as I finished my thesis/exams, I got the job at Danby and started the following monday. As soon as I settle in to the job, we have to move out of ( Read more... )

The interview at Danby went reasonably well, I think. I told Ailish that the interviewer was about 27... and female, to which Ailish responded, "You're in." Not sure exactly what that says about me ( Read more... )