The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Kickass Karaoke Tonight

Attention karaoke fiends of Accordion City: there’s a Kickass Karaoke tonight at Ciao Edie (489 College, just west of Bathrust) starting at 9 p.m.!

Here are some scene from the Kickass Karaoke on Sunday, May 8th at The Rivoli…

The regular attendee with the coolest name, Jet Run, performing the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. [3.8 MB MPEG-4 video]
You’ll note that he’s gotten rid of the beard. He was tired of people coming up to him and asking “Where’s the accordion, man?!”
Tim, a.k.a. “Timtation”, practicing for his lead role in The Joe Cocker Story, which will he tells us will appear as a made-for-TV movie on TNT sometime in 2028. [3.8 MB MPEG-4 video]
Tim and Jet Run struttin’ their stuff in classic Single Male Peacock style for some ladies who are probably too young for them. Mind you, I’ve done that too. Hell, all us fellas have done that at one point or another. [3.3 MB MPEG-4 video]

In the News Music

My Favourite Headline

In the print edition of today’s National Post:

Three Days Until the Sith Hits the Fans

To kick off Star Wars week, here’s Bill Murray’s classic lounge rendition of the Star Wars theme from Saturday Night Live [1.0 MB MP3].

In the News Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Maybe They Should’ve Called It "Dense" (or: "English as She is Wrote")

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date May 14, 2005
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I wasn’t expecting much in the way of brainpower from the new free alternative paper Dose, but I did

expect them to have a reasonable grasp of the English language. That

grasp is a bit slippery, if the photo below is any indication:

Photo: Excerpt from 'Dose' magazine showing that author does not know the difference between 'throne' and 'thrown'.

From Dose’s Toronto edition, Wednesday, May 11, 2005, page 9.

It reads “PRINCE HARRY MAY be third in line for the thrown…”

(Memo to Dose: Dude, I shouldn’t have to point this out, but the word you’re looking for is “throne“.)

This sort of mistake goes beyond the garden variety “its/it’s” or “there/their/they’re” homophone trouble; we’re in “brain damage from inhaling solvents” territory here.

(Memo to Dose, just in case: A homophone is not a gay communications device.)

It Happened to Me

A Question for the Shareholders

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date May 14, 2005
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Before I go run out and enjoy this somewhat chilly Friday evening, I

thought I’d make one more entry, and this one goes out to anyone who’s

got shares in Tucows. I don’t know if any of the shareholders — who

were directed here from the Raging Bull site as a result of my Mark Cuban entry — are still reading this blog, but at half a million pageviews a month, there’s always a chance.

In the comments to the “I am Ten Scobles!” entry, I posed some questions but didn’t get any particularly useful answers. I’ll pose the questions again and see what I get.

What would you like to see from Tucows?

More active PR concerning our activities?
Would
you like to be directly contacted, say via email if new developments

arise? Would you want to be notified during the “soft launch” or when

the launch is made generally public?
A more official channel of communications for shareholders to voice their opinions and concerns?
All of the above?
Something else?

Let me know in the comments (or if you prefer, privately via email at jdevilla@tucows.com) and I’ll pass it along. I happen to be a pretty persuasive guy.

It Happened to Me

What’s Your World View?

Just in case you’re attending a party this weekend and are the sort of

person to end up in a deep philosophical conversation at 2:30 a.m. in

the kitchen over the last of the nachos: the What is Your World View? quiz might be a good source of conversational fodder.

My result:

You scored as Cultural Creative.

Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm.

You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion

but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You

are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning

outside of the rational.

Here’s what the quiz says are my percentage matches with the possible world view results:

Cultural Creative: 81%
Postmodernist: 75%
Idealist: 75%
Existentialist: 63%
Modernist: 50%
Romanticist: 50%
Materialist: 38%
Fundamentalist: 38%

Give the test a try, and if you feel like sharing, post your results in the comments!

Accordion, Instrument of the Gods Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Who’s Up for Seeing "The Old Soul" Tonight?

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date May 13, 2005
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Tonight at Lee’s Palace, for a mere 8 bucks, The Old Soul (featuring Luca Maolini on accordion), with Ratsicule (the funniest, sassiest singing duo ever) opening.