But seriously, in honour of Vangroovy's 125th birthday, here's one I like to post every year on this day because it's just a great tune by a classic local band, followed by an ode to the city where I live which went viral this year - mostly because it's unintentionally funny, but also because it's more than a little bit endearing...in both ways, just like Vancouver!
Enjoy, and be sure to not take your Vancouver birthday revelry too far, lest you end up in some stank VPD drunk tank...
Freelance music, sports and arts journalist. Wrote for Discorder Magazine, Terminal City, Exclaim! Magazine, The Loop, and Offbeat. Probably best known locally in print for his stint as local music columnist for the Vancouver Courier (formerly the Vancouver Echo) from 1999-2000. Edited Discorder Magazine in 2007 and was Momentum Magazine's arts & culture section editor during its 2001 startup year. Also edited several titles for Whitecap Books. Radio personality in Vancouver at CiTR since 1999, briefly with locally-based online streaming broadcaster MyCityRadio.com in 2000, and in Victoria at CFUV from 1993 to 1997.