It's a good Friday all around.
Here's the late-great Smugglers with today's annual anthem to the old girl. I even changed my ringtone to this tune in honour of today.
I know, I'm a geek. Enjoy!
Friday, April 6, 2012
Have a Good 126th Friday, Vangroovy!
It's Vancouver's 126th birthday.
It's a good Friday all around.
Here's the late-great Smugglers with today's annual anthem to the old girl. I even changed my ringtone to this tune in honour of today.
I know, I'm a geek. Enjoy!
It's a good Friday all around.
Here's the late-great Smugglers with today's annual anthem to the old girl. I even changed my ringtone to this tune in honour of today.
I know, I'm a geek. Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Swimming in a Great Lake of harmonies...
In a stroke of serendipity, I happened to find myself wandering on West 4th on the very same drizzly afternoon that the pride of Wainfleet, Ontario, Great Lake Swimmers, were doing an intimate in-store performance at my favourite record shop, Zulu Records.
The session was in honour of the May release of their fifth full-length, New Wild Everywhere – the lead-off single, "Easy Come Easy Go", you're probably already familiar with if you listen to CBC or the Peak.
The main set consisted of songs from the new album, which I must say is darn tight. I managed to shoot this video on my phone of their two best songs which also made up their encore. First was my absolute fave GLS song, "Your Rocky Spine":
...then Tony Dekker and company finished off with their biggest hit, "Pulling on a Line":
Unfortunately, my vantage point being so close to the speaker, the more amped-up final number did a number on my poor camera phone mic, so the audio on "Pulling on a Line" is not as good as I would have liked. Nevertheless, it is good enough to give you a general idea of how great GLS are live.
I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. Be sure to catch Great Lake Swimmers when the play the Commodore May 11.
The session was in honour of the May release of their fifth full-length, New Wild Everywhere – the lead-off single, "Easy Come Easy Go", you're probably already familiar with if you listen to CBC or the Peak.
The main set consisted of songs from the new album, which I must say is darn tight. I managed to shoot this video on my phone of their two best songs which also made up their encore. First was my absolute fave GLS song, "Your Rocky Spine":
...then Tony Dekker and company finished off with their biggest hit, "Pulling on a Line":
Unfortunately, my vantage point being so close to the speaker, the more amped-up final number did a number on my poor camera phone mic, so the audio on "Pulling on a Line" is not as good as I would have liked. Nevertheless, it is good enough to give you a general idea of how great GLS are live.
I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. Be sure to catch Great Lake Swimmers when the play the Commodore May 11.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Vancouver is 125!
...And doesn't look a day over 29!
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...
Let's see you look that good at 125!
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...
Let's see you look that good at 125!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Junior Adanacs take the Minto Cup: a history lesson in local lacrosse champs...
Congratulations to the Junior A Coquitlam Adanacs for winning the 2010 Minto Cup! The junior Adanacs not only won their first-ever championship in front of their hometown crowd, but also did so by sweeping the defending 2009 champions, the Orangeville Northmen. How sweet it is!
This victory is a whiff of that long-absent lacrosse supremacy that the lower mainland enjoyed from 1986-91, during which the New Westminster Salmonbellies won three Mann Cup titles, and again in 2001, when the Senior A Adanacs won its first and only championship at the Pacific Coliseum.
Writing as a longtime fan of the Victoria Shamrocks - who, by the way, just lost their chance at this year's Mann Cup to those pesky Salmonbellies last Wednesday - I've been spoiled by four Mann victories in '97 (which I actually got to see in person), '99, '03 and '06. As such, it is nice to see the lacrosse faithful around these parts get a chance to taste victory once again, even if it is not that solid gold Mann Cup.
It is, however, the first Minto championship victory for this area since the Burnaby Lakers last won the cup in 2005 - capping off a five-cup championship dynasty for the Junior A Lakers which began in 1998. Perhaps the junior Adanacs are the Lower Mainland's new lacrosse ascendancy, since one championship win usually means at least a few more before too long.
And who knows, perhaps this isn't the last lacrosse championship victory for a Lower Mainland team this year. As I said before, the Salmonbellies will meet the winner of the Brampton-Peterborough series in the Mann Cup starting September 8.
Yay junior Adanacs! And go crosscheck some Ontario butt, Salmonbellies!
P.S. - Doesn't all this B.C. lacrosse championship talk make you wonder why Vancouver has not had a pro (NLL) team since 2005!? Meanwhile, Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton's NLL teams all keep rolling along - Toronto Rock with 5 Champions Cup wins and Calgary Roughnecks with one. What an injustice.
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Logo: B.C. Lacrosse Association |
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| Adanacs captain Matt Beers raises Minto Cup after Saturday's sweep. Photo: Coquitlam Adanacs Lacrosse Club |
This victory is a whiff of that long-absent lacrosse supremacy that the lower mainland enjoyed from 1986-91, during which the New Westminster Salmonbellies won three Mann Cup titles, and again in 2001, when the Senior A Adanacs won its first and only championship at the Pacific Coliseum.
Writing as a longtime fan of the Victoria Shamrocks - who, by the way, just lost their chance at this year's Mann Cup to those pesky Salmonbellies last Wednesday - I've been spoiled by four Mann victories in '97 (which I actually got to see in person), '99, '03 and '06. As such, it is nice to see the lacrosse faithful around these parts get a chance to taste victory once again, even if it is not that solid gold Mann Cup.
It is, however, the first Minto championship victory for this area since the Burnaby Lakers last won the cup in 2005 - capping off a five-cup championship dynasty for the Junior A Lakers which began in 1998. Perhaps the junior Adanacs are the Lower Mainland's new lacrosse ascendancy, since one championship win usually means at least a few more before too long.
And who knows, perhaps this isn't the last lacrosse championship victory for a Lower Mainland team this year. As I said before, the Salmonbellies will meet the winner of the Brampton-Peterborough series in the Mann Cup starting September 8.
Yay junior Adanacs! And go crosscheck some Ontario butt, Salmonbellies!
P.S. - Doesn't all this B.C. lacrosse championship talk make you wonder why Vancouver has not had a pro (NLL) team since 2005!? Meanwhile, Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton's NLL teams all keep rolling along - Toronto Rock with 5 Champions Cup wins and Calgary Roughnecks with one. What an injustice.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Cycling the seawall with a new rider
Being an avid cyclist, I am always excited when someone I care for tries out two wheels for the first time - even if that person is not the one doing the pedaling.
Sydney will be a natural. I just know it. He laughs and sings to himself all the while on our journey around the seawall.
Race you around the seawall once you get your training wheels off, kiddo!
Update: After scrounging around my mp3s, I found the classic bike riding song which goes through my head every time I saddle up...
Roots Roundup - "On My Bike"
On My Bike by Roots Roundup
Sydney will be a natural. I just know it. He laughs and sings to himself all the while on our journey around the seawall.
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| Spike and Syd take 5 under the Lions Gate Bridge. |
Race you around the seawall once you get your training wheels off, kiddo!
Update: After scrounging around my mp3s, I found the classic bike riding song which goes through my head every time I saddle up...
Roots Roundup - "On My Bike"
On My Bike by Roots Roundup
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