We watched the 1980 John Cassavetes film Gloria tonight on television (TV Ontario). I knew nothing about this one going in except that it starred Gena Rowlands and was written and directed by Cassavetes, who was her husband. It is quite an engaging film, and… Read More
I took the dogs over to the leash-free park at South Etobicoke Creek this afternoon. It was a little muddy in parts but it was possible to walk around the soft spots. Memphis got a bunch of burrs tangled up in her tail. The… Read More
I know it was only the other day I posted some fiddle music, but I’ve been revisiting some old time Canadian fiddle music on the YouTube machine, and if you don’t mind I’m going to share a little bit more with you tonight. I think… Read More
The neighbours a few doors down do up Hallowe’en with great gusto and imagination. Here’s a couple shots Tuffy P took of the action…
The Maple Leaf Two-Step, from 1953, was Ottawa Valley fiddle great Ward Allen’s first recording, a 78 rpm record on Alvina. I started learning this one on triple row button accordion in between trick-or-treaters tonight, based on a score I stumbled upon on a fiddle… Read More
I hope where you are you didn’t suffer much storm damage. We had a lot of wind but no damage here at Headquarters. Tuffy says a tree came down last night on a nearby street. Here though, the wind huffed and it puffed and it… Read More
I recently posted some mining songs. Let’s continuing the theme of work with some tunes about log driving. Most of you will know that log driving is the process of running logs down a river to transport them from the woods to the mill. It… Read More
Lowside of the Road is an unauthorized biography of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns, published in 2009. I’m going to come clean and say upfront that I haven’t read many biographies I really loved and I don’t read that many biographies period. I really liked… Read More
They didn’t eat the steak and eggs. There was a scene in Looper in which the two protagonists, who are the same person but not the same actor (it’s a time travel thing), sit down together at an unlikely diner seemingly in the middle of… Read More
27th Street 