What’s Christmas without a little Cheech and Chong? Do it up East L.A.-style with their routine, Santa Claus and His Old Lady.
Cheech and Chong – Santa Claus and His Old Lady (8.8 MB MP3)
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Chanukah, Night Two: Hanukkah’s On!
For tonight, the second night of the Jewsih festival of lights, a little indie rock courtesy of a fella named Matthew “Matthewmatic” Shultz: Hanukkah’s On, a cute little rocker that features lyrics like “I’ll be mackin’ on my baby like a Maccabee“.
Matthewmatic – Hannukah’s On (1.5 MB MP3)
Juan Garcia Esquivel — often called just “Esquivel” — is the king of “space-age bachelor pad music”, a quirky, very orchestrated style of music popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It’s sort of hard to describe, but if you’re familiar with the pop culture of that era, you recognize it when you listen to Esquivel’s treatment of Frosty the Snowman. Mix up a martini, ease into your barcalounger and enjoy the space-age Christmas grooves.
Esquivel – Frosty the Snowman (3.2 MB MP3)
For those of who move in the circles of the GTABloggers or the Toronto LiveJournal cohort, you’ll be pleased to know that LizVang will be back in Accordion City for a Christmas visit. To celebrate this, there’s going to be a party, and here are the details:
- When: Friday, December 22nd at 8:00 p.m.
- Where: The Groundhog Pub, 401 Bloor Street East (near Bloor and Sherbourne, very close to Sherbourne Station)
- Why: Because most of us haven’t seen Liz in ages
In addition to good beer and good food, the Groundhog has one of the best karaoke libraries I’ve seen. C’mon, GTABloggers and LiveJournalers, let’s celebrate with Liz!
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The Regular "Global Nerdy" Plug
Once again, I remind you that I have another blog: Global Nerdy, with news and analysis of what’s going on in the world of high tech. Check it out!
I’ve already got plans for this evening, but in case you haven’t got any and you like flash mob-ish events, local flash mob-esque event planners newmindspace are planning an event that takes place tonight at 9:09 p.m. on the upper floor of Union Station.
The event, in a nutshell:
- Bring some kind of personal music player or music-making instrument or device that can output to headphones
- Gather at Union Station’s upper floor
- At 9:09 p.m., press “play” on your device, and dance to your headphone music — no blasting music out loud, just on your headphones.
- The rules: Don’t disrupt the trains service and leave no trace!
If I were free, I’d bring my keytar and rock out.
[via Torontoist] Here’s another Google Map-based web application that you might find handy if you live in Accordion City: this interactive Toronto Transit Map, shown below:
This map takes a Google Map of Toronto and overlays it with the routes for the following transit systems:
- TTC
- Brampton Transit
- Go Transit
- Mississauga Transit
- Vaughan Transit
- VIVA
Just enter an address or intersection as you would into a Google Map, and you’ll see the routes around it.