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Dragonette Live

by Joey deVilla on October 14, 2009

I caught Dragonette at the launch party for MSN.ca a couple of weeks ago and was pretty impressed. I’m fond of their synth-pop-cut-with-guitars sound and am going to have to get my hands on their new album.

I took some shots of their performance; you can either check out this Flickr photoset or watch the slideshow below:

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Slice of Life: “Big Balls” at the Mesh Conference

by Joey deVilla on August 29, 2009

At the Mesh Conference held earlier this year, I was asked at the last minute to play an opening number for the big panel discussion on using social media for marketing. I decided to get cheeky and played AC/DC’s Big Balls, since having them is a quality that you need to really use social media and social networking to advantage. As I played, Kaz Ehara shot these photos:

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Photos by Kaz Ehara.
Click the photos to see them on their Flickr pages.

For those of you unfamiliar with the song, here it is, synced to clips from Spongebob Squarepants:

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A Flowchart for “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

by Joey deVilla on August 18, 2009

Here’s a flowchart for Bonnie Tyler’s eighties classic, Total Eclipse of the Heart:

Flowchart for Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

In case you’re not familiar with the song, here’s the video.

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Have You Seen This Cat?

by Joey deVilla on August 15, 2009

Most “Have you seen this cat?” posters don’t make me smile, but this one does…

Post of Frank Sinatra - 'Have you seen this cat? Because he is AWESOME.'

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Japanese Cross-Dressing Bassist of the Day

by Joey deVilla on August 11, 2009

The anime-girl outfits that the YouTube user “hjfreaks” wears may be a little off-putting, but if the bass tracks on these video are really of him playing, he’s pretty good:

Sometimes a guy wants to take a break from blistering bass runs and just dance:

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Guilty Pleasure: “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”

August 5, 2009
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Not the fast food chains, but the amusing hip-hop number by the oddly-named duo “Das Racist”:

I’m with this commenter: someone needs to record the Canadian version:
I’m at the Swiss Chalet! I’m at the Harvey’s! I’m at the combination Swiss Chalet and [...]

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The Toronto Garbage Song

August 4, 2009

The Toronto Garbage Strike of 2009 may be over (as might be David Miller’s reign come election time next year) and garbage collection is resuming today, but that’s no reason not have a song about it. The Toronto Star posted a story today about The Toronto Garbage Song (a.k.a. Flush Your Garbage), which was written [...]

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Even More on the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos

July 25, 2009

If the taste I gave you of the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos yesterday left you hungry for more, I’ve got good news. There’s a full 14-minute infomercial that covers the upcoming event in greater detail:

Paste magazine goes into a little more details about the infomercial in their article Thirty Reasons Why the Insane [...]

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The 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos

July 24, 2009

Every now and again, I get an email or a phone call from someone doing a story on technical evangelism, community-building or some other Tipping Point-y matter. I’m always happy to answer their questions, and they usually take my answers seriously until they ask me for examples of people, organizations or groups that have [...]

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“S” is for “Slayer”!

July 15, 2009

What happens when you take Sesame Street video and Slayer audio and mash them up? Pure metal goodness!

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Kiss Off

May 5, 2009

If you’re a fan of the Violent Femmes (and if you remember rotary-dial phones), you’re going to recognize the reference in this piece of retro-themed art by so0meone going by the name “9 0 0 0”:

There’s more stuff like this in 9 0 0 0’s Flickr photoset titled Plan 9.001.

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Anvil: Toronto’s Real-Life Spinal Tap Gets Their Break

April 21, 2009

Anvil! The Story of Anvil was the one documentary I really wanted to catch at last year’s Hot Docs film festival. If you watched Canada’s MuchMusic station in the 1980s and its heavy metal segment, The Pepsi Power Hour (hosted by the mullet-sporting JD Roberts, who later became CNN’s silver-haired John Roberts), you might [...]

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Queen’s Opening Acts

March 26, 2009

For no reasons other than I love the band and my stumbling across this list, here are the names of the bands who’ve opened for Queen:

After The Fire
Airrace
Al Stewart
The Alarm
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Ambach Circus
Andy Fairweather-Low
Angel Child (Änglabarn)
April Wine
Argent
The B-52s
The Bangles
Belouis [...]

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The “Heavy Metal Band Names” Chart

January 20, 2009

If you’re looking for a name for your heavy metal band, you might find the chart below helpful:
Click the chart to see it at full size. Found via The Triumph of Bullshit.

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“Before the Music Dies”: The Full Documentary

January 2, 2009

In an earlier article, Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today, I posted a video in which jazz.funk sax man Branford Marsalis talked about his music students. His first lines in the interview are:
What I’ve learned from my students is that students today are completely full of shit.
That is what I’ve learned from my students. Much [...]

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