The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
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From the monthly archives:
A recent screen capture from FOX News. Moussaoui looks like he’s enjoying his latte.
FOX News alerts are missing only a couple of things, otherwise they’d be perfect:
Luckily for us, we now have the theme song: FOX News Alert, performed by artists unknown [3.0MB MP3]. Enjoy!
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This weekend, I’ll post more about my appearance on MTV Live last night, but in the meantime, here’s a photo of me enjoying the free rock star snacks in the MTV green room…
“Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta,” as the song goes, so I’ll celebrate by sharing the song: here’s the Geto Boys’ Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta [7.1 MB MP3], which you may recognize from the Office Space soundtrack. Enjoy!.
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…which means that the waking-up experience on Monday morning’s gonna feel like this:
Bonus reading: Infoplease’s page on Daylight Saving Time.
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Immediately after my appearance on MTV Live, I’m going to go to the Greater Toronto Area Bloggers’ Get-Together, which starts tonight at 7 p.m. on the second floor of Paupers Pub (539 Bloor Street West, about a block east of Bathurst).
There’ll be a special guest tonight: Matt “Photomatt” Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, who’s here in Accordion City for the iSummit 2006 conference.
This’ll be the first official GTABloggers gathering in a while, and I’m looking forward to having some drinks and convo with my fellow local bloggers. If you can make it, c’mon down! We’ll be the table with the accordion.
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Yesterday, I got a phone call from Toni Thomas, Talent Coordinator for MTV Live, the flagship talk show for the newly-launched MTV Canada. She told me that she’d been referred to me by Shelley “Burningbird” Powers and asked if I would like to appear on the show and talk about blogs. Seeing as Tucows pays me to talk about tech and that I rather enjoy the whole appearing-on-TV thing, I said that I’d love to show up at their studios — the old Masonic Temple, a.k.a. “The Concert Hall” for those of you of a certain age like me — and talk about the strange hobby in which I’ve been partaking for the past four and a half years.
This morning, I got email from Toni asking me if I could bring the accordion and what songs I could play so that they could get about the business of clearing the rights. I emailed her back a list of the songs which I can play even when three sheets to the wind. Those of you who know me well have probably already guessed the songs on the list. I wonder which one they’ll pick.
A little talking about blogs, a little playing the ol’ squeezebox, all on a new TV channel that’s getting a fair bit of fanfare. Business, pleasure and shameless self-promotion. What could be better?
My thanks to Shelley Powers for the referral!
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