Jingoist Frank Miller should listen to this episode of This American Life.
300 pissed me off.

one of my favourite concerts this year

amar from the anokha album (the voice from jaan) - singing dolly parton (i think as a kid)

after all these years my creation of a swear word has still to catch on:
de la visitation
as in
'stie de la visitation y m'fait chier!

the best jean leloup song and video

MyRobotHead

MyRobotHead
Originally uploaded by prasun

First pass robot head

i don't get all the voice correction effect on every pop single that comes out. it is as if you put a phaser on every single vocal on a 60s pop song...

death letter blues

jonathan goldstein and david rakoff's correspondence between gregor samsa and dr seuss is on of the most brilliant things i've ever heard

some nice words and pics about montreal

google with its hosted apps is becoming what vjungle was (trying to be) 10 years ago

guy moved back to india

i remember emailing with him back in the day - very nice guy

Such Great Heights got cut off - hopefully will be uploaded soon

those swedish kids sibling harmonies are just crazy.

grodin explains his mystique on letterman after all these years

Charles Grodin at The Late Show
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can't help myself
listening to her on npr and had to check out the vid of her doing this all alone

i never new *what* charo was celebrated for (originally)...what made here a celebrity. she was twice named best flamenco guitarist by guitar player magazine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpAlKKftG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVf7N8CJEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whErwOotGSY

blogging overload

why are there no comparisons made between nina simone's chaffeur and the beatles' drive my car?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3SPPTlN_Ys

wow - delhi, ontario is not the only place that doesn't know how to pronounce its own name (they say del-high)... there is also one in new york

Delhi, New York — /ˈdɛlhaɪ/

chords of fame

pics from osheaga

why has allen klein (abkco) not gone after neil young for borrowed tune (lady jane)? not worth it compared to bittersweet symphony?
oh - i just read he died a few days ago - neil is safe.

Now it makes more sense - the original Mr. Potato Head used *real* potatoes...and other fruits and vegetables....

i think david bowie is the only person who can consistently pull off tucking his shirt into his pants

It seems Google sites (Gmail, Youtube) are getting successfull in making IE and Firefox consistently crash. A little push for Chrome?
(I'm surprised Blogger is allowing this post)....

Danger Mouse, Sparkelhorse and David Lynch?

1977? Crazy foreshadowing

Buffy Ste. Marie is so cool

bixi and sympatico should have gotten their acts together in the first few days of bixi (probably mostly sympatico's fault). when bixi servers are overloaded they redirect the site to 70.38.15.10 - an ip that was being blocked by sympatico. seems to be ok now.

quickme

quickme
Originally uploaded by prasun

5 min twith a tablet

seeing bell orchestre the other night placed them as my number 2 montreal band (just behind priestess) - truly amazing. but also made me remember i have to be on the lookout to catch another show by plywood 3/4

you can undo send on gmail now....and no it isn't april 1

wow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/21/george-galloway-canada

hmm - listening to the everly brothers' walk right back i realize that neil young lifted (paid homage) to the riff

i guess i could have figured it out with a tennis ball and light-bulb but why the moon looks different in india from here

euler's formula intuitively explained by pictures

I found this song on my computer - I recorded it late at night on October 16, 2007. I have vague memories of doing so....I would have to figure out the song from scratch by listening to it....but I know it is in "Nick Drake" tuning. I guess I was thinking about music for soundtracks....

This is it

i love the graphics in fancy pants

finally made a jr myspace page

amusing message from rola

Did Georg W give Barack a "soul shake" (1:05) before boarding his helicopter into oblivion?

what are these guys thinking?
Originally uploaded by prasun

Retrieved from the current (Jan 14, 2009) wikipedia entry on Charles Leblond:

To mark his 65th birthday in 1975, Leblond was honored at an international symposium on the existence of stem cells in adult tissues; the resulting book, Stem Cells of Renewing Cell Populations, was the first formal, comprehensive account on the subject.[16]

16. Cairnie A.B., Lala P.K. and D.G. Osmond. Stem Cells of renewing Cell Populations Academic Press. N.Y. 1976.

Hmmm - my dad edited the first book on stem cells....

The engineer's disease and here

madoff homepage

When a community or society is so repressive and unwavering in ideas and ideologies - is it memetic inbreeding akin to genetic inbreeding?

My dentist who I have been seeing since th eage of three is retiring....I am thinking of sending him this painting

Are You There Google? It's Me, Margaret
With the advent of Google Chrome....I'm starting to get really scared.

Eric Bachman acoustic Web in Front and others....

One of the coolest animations I have ever seen

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

C Lambert Badge 15625 should be fired 1

C Lambert Badge 15625 should be fired 1
Originally uploaded by prasun

good list of quebec brands of yesteryear (i was searching for perrette's)

wow - i know the term is "influence" - but my first time hearing wes montgomery and pat metheny is almost a "rip-off"....

Habs'n Skate
Originally uploaded by prasun

A skateboard and a Habs flag (courtesy Boni Enseignes) attracts a lot of attention....

why are most montreal street kids anglophone?

something like one third of McGill Elec & Comp Eng and Comp Sci graduate students don't take evolution as fact....
personal (unscientific, incredulous, sample size of not a lot) survey done at CIM
ps - doubters all went through the Montreal highschool, CEGEP, and university systems....
required reading

My theory:
A lot of Beatles' hits using a descending chord progression (Cry Baby Cry, Michelle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Dear Prudence) are derivative of the Lenny Welch version of A Taste of Honey.
Bealtes songwriting 101 - Listen to their version of A Taste of Honey

I just found a site talking about the roots of the Beatles

someone is stealing my electricity but hydro won't help me....i will have to do some home PI work....

this company lied to me. they left a voice mail message saying i had 5 minutes of free long dustance - it is a scam

Field Sense - training the Gretzky/Nash touch

sorry - the fda thing again:
Raja Foods Issues Nationwide Recall on SWAD BRAND ABIL, GULAL, KANKU, KUM KUM, LAGAN SAMAGRI, AND POOJA SAMAGRI Containing High Levels of Lead
i didn't even know i made kum kum....

listening to neil young's massey hall concert lead me to find this interview - excellent

i keep resisting posting fda notices (like an erection aid that has been recalled because it *actually* has viagra in it) but here's one i couldn't resist - my emphasis added:
Harry & David Operations Corp., of Medford, Oregon, is voluntarily recalling approximately 5880 tubs of the Milk & Dark Chocolate, White Chocolate Macadamia because they may contain macadamia nuts not declared on the ingredient statement, and 4400 tubs of the Peanut Butter, Milk Chocolate, Macadamia Nut because they may contain macadamia nuts and peanuts not declared on the ingredient statement.
from http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/harrydavid11_07.html

position number four in category # 5

you would think sir paul would not be so keen on a coffee chain distributing his music....cash crops and all

yup - i would call this jay leno clip racist

remember this moment of dr who when living in australia

i really like this guy's concept of a pixel....

only ones
lipsynching and live

excited about maurice sendak and spike jonze

i am on an fda mailing list for life threatening recalls:
FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. A complete listing of recalls can be found in the FDA Enforcement Report at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/Enforce.html

beyond blowfish being labelled as monkfish - i thought this recall is pretty funny considering the product name:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Atlanta, GA -- August 27, 2007 -- Bella Cucina of Atlanta, Georgia is recalling units of Death by Chocolate cookies [my emphasis] if your bag does not correctly state that the product contains walnuts. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to Walnuts run the risk of serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

celine can't be that bad:
Although the Academy Awards ceremony didn’t sit too well with Smith, and he, as well as his bright white suit, was trashed on television, he says it did force him to change his mind about Celine Dion, who performed right after he did. "She was really sweet, which has made it impossible for me to dislike Celine Dion anymore. Even though I can’t stand the music that she makes -- with all due respect I don’t like it much at all -- but she herself was very, very nice. She asked me if I was nervous and I said, ‘Yeah.’ And she was like, ‘That’s good because you get your adrenaline going, and it’ll make your song better. It’s a beautiful song.’ Then she gave me a big hug. It was too much. It was too human to be dismissed simply because I find her music trite."

i want

my favourite segment on fame....except it doesn't show that jimmy osmond FREAKS OUT when all the students rush to congratulate him....

tom jones and janis joplin

angry about pet food contamination and so on? they executed the guy!....

worthy of dangermouse...

i think i actually walked by this guy playing in a frantic michael hedges stylee on prince arthur - i was wowed but in a rush so didn't stop....although i almost just stopped to buy his cd

this american life:
Glass, who personally contributed over 2,000 anecdotes from his own life for documentation, called the project's conclusion the "end of an era."


onion article

gauchos

best article i've read so far on the pet food recall. i have a je mondou can of tuna on my desk (possibly part of the recall - ups number same but not the expiry date)
which i've marked "poison"....i realize that might be a little too close to "poisson"....

baden powell plays samba triste

and him many years later

From a document on the Quebec government's site

A quote from what I assume is associated with the Protestant School Board (I need to read the whole doc):

At the same time, the Committee points out the importance of emphasizing the Judaeo-Christian heritage of Québec society. Québec’s cultural, religious and ethnic diversity, it says, should not neutralize our own convictions and values (p. 4).

i love playing takamine acoustic basses - i want one of these

joni

the police

spoof of herouxville - that sad, sad, little town....

here are some excerpts from the letter section that do a pretty good job of following the actual site:

Salutations,

Moi j'ai une farme pis j'ai pas envi ki fassent pousser des légumes bizarres pis que ma terre soit pognée avec des bebites de pays chauds. Chu ben près à les accepter mais pas à n'importe quel prix.

Jacques Éroule
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bonjour ,
l faut pas généraliser quand même, y prennent pas tous du sang de chrétiens pour faire de l'Azyme ! Moi je connais un japonais qui est vraiment cool pis sage à l'intérieur de lui. En plus il y a ceux qui apportent des affaires le fun comme le karaté ou les tacos. Pis aussi, il y a ceux qui sont d'apparence immigrants mais que dans le fond y son québécois.

Bon succes ,

Guy Éroule

Terrebonne

nusrat video

why
google suggestions for why
i assume these are the top why questions....

hum a song and it will find it
pretty impressive - it actually got every song i did (if it was in the database)....content based indexing of music. whois says the domain is owned by this guy who heads this company

gingerbread hindu man

gingerbread hindu man
Originally uploaded by prasun.

rupe's baking

the google toolbar
i was impressed enough by the google search capability of doing calculations like
37 choose 9
but now they have added that to the suggestions for the google toolbar
look in the top right corner
wow
btw - that is the total cortical surface area in the human brain....

eyeyeye

eyeyeye
Originally uploaded by lawlawland.

i get this type of spam all the time but seeing the first line made me laugh out loud and read the rest. i love the fact that the spammer doesn't care but they have some stats to back up who does...:

Hello sir

I don't care why your weenie is so small, but 86% of women do.
They are pretty sure that bigger meat will make their desire
stronger. You have the chance to change your life.

Here (link deleted) you can get the thing.

It will help you for sure.
The remedy can be sent worldwide.
If you wont be satisfied - we will return all you money.
No bullshit.

bombs and guitars

merry christmas

merry christmas
Originally uploaded by princesselizard.

i think liz used a long exposure....

live music