Who’s Gonna Drive You Home Tonight?

Today was rainy and yucky, so I stayed indoors and made a cover song for everyone to enjoy!
Lately, I have been discovering cover versions of “Drive” by The Cars. (Yes, “Drive” is from Heartbeat City, which happens to be my favourite Cars album for reasons you wouldn’t understand.) In any case, all of [...]

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So This Is the New Year…

Well, it’s been an exciting almost full year of publishing this here blog that no one reads! As we say in the field, “I’m lovin’ it.”
A few days ago, I stocked the CD changer in my car with six “can’t miss” CDs. Here they are, in no particular order; some links go to [...]

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A Merry iPod Christmas

One of my students got me one of these for Christmas:

Pretty cool, don’t you think?

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My Life is Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge

I’m currently grooving to Spymob’s “2040,” the first cut from this album:

This song was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge. Tom has the distinction of being the only mixing engineer whose work I can pick out immediately. He has an incredible gift for distilling sound and creating a Spector-like wall. I especially like his [...]

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It Makes Even Less Sense To Me Now

I was moving chairs out of Andrew’s classroom the other day when I noticed he had written some sentences on his board (ostensibly to teach his seventh graders about adverbs or something). One sentence read as follows:
“Mr. Watt dances the samba badly.”
Of course, because I’m me, I thought: “Hmmm. ‘Samba’ rhymes with ‘mamba.’ [...]

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When You Want Something and You Don’t Want To Pay For It

I was browsing music videos on iTunes tonight. To wit:

Doesn’t this remind you how awesome Perry was? Don’t lie. And you loved that video, too, with all the dancing around in the aisles. Classic.

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"Fir Mix-a-Lot"

This is my new Christmas tree. Its name is “Fir Mix-a-Lot.”

It got its name because it’s got back. Seriously. You just can’t see it from this angle.

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