No show yesterday due to technical difficulties...also known as a locked studio door. I blame the ghosts of Glendon Manor (left). Look at that place and tell me it's not haunted. We all know ghosts hate all kinds of Canadian music, with the exception of
Rush, which totally turns them on and inspires them to get their phantom phreak on. Anyway, here's a post about a broadcasting company that probably almost never has to deal with ghosts locking them out of their studios: the CBC!
So last week on the show we told you about the
Great Canadian Songwriting Quest, brought to you by CBC 2, which featured
Two Hours Traffic and
Jully Black singing about this lovely frigid land mass we call home. One song was chosen from every province and territory, and all of the musicians wrote a song about a road in their province...Jully, the Ontario rep, wrote about Roncesvalles. I don't really care about the other streets, because unless
Couer de Pirate wrote about
Rue Papineau in Trois-Riveres, I won't know what it is, anyway. (
Rue Papineau is where you can find Manchester pool pub, 1 dollar drinks for ladies on Monday nights. It is as close as you'll get to Heaven without leaving the planet,
and it's right across the street from a couche-tard) Anyway, you can find all the songs on
iTunes and...take a cross country trip from P.E.I to Nunavut, I guess. You might want more than 13 songs if you're doing that.
CBC 2 to CBC 3, CBC 2 to CBC 3, do you copy?
CBC 3 just posted the long list of om-nom-noms for the Bucky Awards, and I gotta say, they kinda shat the bed. I nominated
Human Kebab from
USS for Sexiest Artist and
USS for Best Live Act and they got snubbed hard. That's all right, boys. Hitchcock never won a directing oscar.
But ya know who DID get nominated for Sexiest Artist?
WOODHANDS.
Now woodhands, CP24 is easily the greatest song ever written about Toronto journalism. I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but you both look like substitute math teachers. (
see right: Toronto's leading indietronicists and part-time pythagorean theorists)
I kept my vote in the USS-niverse and voted for
Maylee Todd, former back-up dancer and headmistress of the sweatshop hop. Whatever, CBC. More Mango Lassi-covered DJ for me. But seriously, check out Maylee's new album,
Choose Your Own Adventure. That girl's got more spunk than the entire Ron Jeremy oeuvre.
Best Live Act was another cockslap, with our heroes being featured nowhere. For me this vote falls between
Tokyo Police Club and
Arkells. Well, it's an easy choice--they're the only bands I've even seen live on that list, but they're both a great time. What a choice! Sophie never had it so bad.
Hollerado's second video for
Americanarama's been nominated for
best vide
o!
and one of my favourite lyrics of 2009 was
nominated, "The grass is always greener but ya still got to cut it" from
Hawksley Workman's
We'll Make Time off the album MEAT.
So CBC, you're not comPLETEly huffing paint fumes. Who would you nominate?
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can't wait to play you some more Cancon chansons next week, kids!
love, moose, and democracy,
linda j xoxo
But let's celebrate Rememberance Day the Cantastic Voyage way. (I wish that didn't rhyme)
