Category: music

My Prairie Home – Rae Spoon

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Dubbed as a “documentary-musical,” filmmaker Chelsea McMullan profiles Canadian indie singer-songwriter Rae Spoon through an intimate series of interviews, where she opens up candidly about growing up with strict evangelical Christian parents, feeling like a socially-awkward outcast, and her recent life-affirming process of living as a transgender person.

Cameras also roll as Spoon creates her most personal and introspective album to date — a project that takes her back to her sleepy hometown of Calgary.

movie box

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a song for Syria

On By Rick McIn ethics, government, musicLeave a comment

Ellie Goulding’s “I Know You Care.”

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s highly unlikely that dropping bombs on these people will HELP the kids.

Donate to Save The Children or another charity working with Syrian refugees.

Stairways to Heavens

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Ann and Nancy Wilson at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors.

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The surviving members of Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) were there.

Click PLAY or watch Foo Fighters goof it on YouTube.

Thanks Tom.

Look at this Instagram (Nickelback Parody)

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I noted on Facebook that there are 90 million “selfies” on Instagram.

… None of them ME.

Caleb responded with this College Humor parody.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Space Oddity

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Anne thinks I’m some kind of astronaut. 🙂

But that’s actually Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space.

Click PLAY or watch him SING on YouTube.

Ron Shewchuk on Google+

Hats off to the amazing Chris Hadfield, the best thing to happen to the space program since Neil Armstrong. Brilliant, understated video. Do ya think he might have a speaking career when he gets back to Earth this week?

gas pump karaoke

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UPDATE – this was faked for TV, I believe.

… A man who delivers a killer impromptu karaoke rendition of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” And that’s not all — his wife then does her own spot-on performance of “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics. …

Mashable

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