Here’s a photo that just landed in my inbox. It’s from the “Give Me Liberty” party that look place last Thursday.
The accordion is the true rebel’s instrument.
Category: It Happened to Me
I am just one of the buskers on Queen Street West,
a lovely stretch of trendy boutiques, electronics shops, off-beat
stores, bars and restautants, the CityTV/MuchMusic/Bravo/Space
television headquarters and street vendors. Another busker is Mysterion the Mind Reader, who performs feats of magic and mentalism for passers-by on the weekends. I occasionally provide backup music for his act (Meryle’s written about it).
He likes trying on my accordion, and I got took some photos. You can check them out the photo album or the slideshow.
Doesn’t he look like Jon Stewart’s evil younger brother?
Photo by Frank Lemire. Thanks, Frank!
Details later.
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I got a 70
[ via diveintomark ] Mark got a 77 on the Life Assessment Quiz, while I got a 70. I don’t quite understand this, as I can imagine this conversation taking place only a few years ago:
Mark: David Crosby! You’re my role model!
David Crosby: You mean I’m your favourite musician?
Mark: You’re a musician?
David Crosby: You mean I’m your favourite musician?
Mark: You’re a musician?
Okay, I kid. A little. And you probably know that I stole that scene from The Simpsons.
My strongest area was “relationships”; my weakest is “money”.
Give the test a try, and try to make a game plan based on the results.
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I’m one of the cool kids now
I’d received an earlier invitation to Google’s GMail
service (which currently is available by invitation only, guaranteeing
that only the cool geeks have it right now), but I told the guy who
invited me that there was someone who needed it more than I.
Later, I got another invitation, which I was going to accept, until I remembered that I owed Boris a favour for his loaning me his apartment in Montreal for a weekend last September.
Last week, I got a third invitation — this time from Adam Hill — and I finally took it. I plan to use it for blog-related communication. It’s accordionguy {the-ubiquitous-at-sign} gmail {the-equally-ubiquitous-full-stop} com.
Thanks, Adam!
…is now available for the first time in photo album or slideshow form.
Happy birthday, dude!
Today’s edition of the Toronto Star has an article in the I.D. section titled Flogging Blogging. There’s a sidebar that didn’t make it into the online edition that has this snippet:
http://accordionguy.blogware.com
Joey, the country’s foremost Filipino-Canadian blogger. His 26/05/2004 response to an anti-immigrant www.enterstageright.com article proves that My Canada Includes Accordian [sic] Guy.
Joey, the country’s foremost Filipino-Canadian blogger. His 26/05/2004 response to an anti-immigrant www.enterstageright.com article proves that My Canada Includes Accordian [sic] Guy.
![My Canada Includes Accordian [sic] Guy](http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2004/05/my_canada_includes.jpg){kind=link}
My thanks to the Star and author Showey Yazdanian!
If you’ve come here for the fisrt time, there are two and a half years’ worth of entries. You’ll find some of the “best of” entries catalogued here. Feel free to look around!
P.S. It’s spelled “accordin”.
P.P.S. My apologies for the use of the <blink> tag, I believe it is warranted.