I feel like hearing some boogie-woogie piano. Here at 27th Street, we like all kinds of folk music. Here’s an old clip featuring Jane Vasey with Peter Appleyard and Downchild at Albert’s Hall in Toronto Champion Jack Dupree Meade Lux Lewis
I often have some sort of camera with me but not this evening as I took the dogs out for a walk. This failure may have caused the event I’m about to describe. We had crossed the field at the filtration plant, walked down the… Read More
Today while I was at work, one of the cats puked on my keyboard. Now the t and the c and the b don’t work. Maybe they’ll come back later if we’re lucky. Fortunately we have an iPad and that was safely tucked away, safe… Read More
I was thinking about my first exposure to button accordion and I realized it must have been as a kid of 10 or 12 watching the late Harry Hibbs and his TV show At the Caribou. I checked out the YouTube machine to see if… Read More
Off to the movies again. This time we watched End of Watch. I guess you’d call it an action thriller with obsessive use of handheld cameras. What can I say about this film? It is not the feel-good movie of the year Most used word… Read More
We were thinking of a day drawing and painting in the landscape today, but it was a littly chilly for that, so we settled on taking the dogs to the South Etobicoke Creek dog park. This off-leash area was closed for quite a long time… Read More
Even the dogs enjoyed some Thanksgiving dinner, with some turkey and gravy and potatoes and an apple and some peas added to their kibble. My question: how can two huge Newfoundland dogs manage to sift through such a variety of food…..and leave the peas?
In case my non-Canadian readers are not aware, this is Thanksgiving up here in Canada. It’s a time we usually gather with Tuffy P’s family each year, often at Tuffy’s dad’s cottage. I usually make up a Thanksgiving feast, which we enjoy in a beautiful… Read More
This afternoon we trundled out to our local cinema to see The Master, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a shell-shocked, hard-drinking WWII veteran lost after the war, who wanders onto… Read More
My button accordion student Elliot is learning the Finnish Waltz. He was doing a pretty good job on it but I thought he needed to put a little more swing into it so we went to the YouTube to check out how others played this… Read More
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