Coolest chicks in Canadian music

Amanda Zelina of The Coppertone meets all of my criterion for a really friggin' cool lady:
1. Great hair
2. Looks good in hats
3. Blues vocals that dig deep
4. A white and gold guitar
5. Dirty, crunchy guitar sounds you'll want to snack on

The Coppertone will play The Horseshoe Tavern Friday, June 15th as part of NXNE.

Jubilee

Queen Elizabeth II, Dorothy Wilding, 1952. 

     When Elizabeth acceded to the British throne in 1952 there was talk of a “new Elizabethan age,” associating the new Queen with the past glory of Elizabeth I, and hoping for a national revival for a country still recovering from the trauma of World War II.[1] The images of the Queen in the early years of her reign focused on her youth and beauty. The Queen posed for photographer Dorothy Wilding 59 times to mark her accession.[2] In the images she is dressed in evening gowns and jewels. Wilding’s photographs were sent to embassies and were made into the images on banknotes and stamps.  Still young at 26 years old, the Queen was made into a symbol of hope and renewal. Her coronation on June 2^nd 1953 was a huge event, which aimed for public visibility. For the first time ever the coronation ceremony was broadcast globally by the BBC with an estimated 27 million viewers.[3] The broadcasting of the ceremony brought the public into the event, connecting them with a historic moment and instilling a sense of national pride.

Oh hay thuuurrr

So I realize that I have completely fallen of the blogwagon lately, however the upshot is that I have tons of cool things to blog about!

Life has been pretty rad lately. In fact, things have been going suspiciously well. So not to forget times not so long ago when nothing was going my way, I'd like to share a favourite song by Old Man Luedecke "It ain't goin' my way."

Anyways, I hope good fortune is smiling down on you as well. Cheers!

Ain’t goin my Way

I was feeling important, feeling in control
Felt like everywhere I went folks said “there he goes” I was beaming like a noonday sun
My ducks all in a row
When suddenly, all in a flash, I saw it was not so 

Chorus

It ain’t goin’ my way
Ain’t goin’ my way
There’s no denyin’ things ain’t flyin’ my way X2

Well I used to walk around a lot, feeling pretty small
Til people said you’re not so bad, and so I stood up tall But then my inner napoleon said you could have it all
I hit a curve and strained a nerve and headed for a a fall. 

Chorus 

Now I am lonely mole back in the underground,
I make bigger hills from little hills, cause I’m so tightly wound Really am I all that bad taking pennys for the pound?
Cause even from the margins, lord, there comes a holy sound. 

Chorus

Titanic

So Erica and Lynx and I went to see Titanic 3D on Tuesday. I was initially reluctant to give James Cameron any more of my money because I still regret strongly the hours of my life I wasted sitting through that blue tinted Pocahontas rip-off called Avatar, but Titanic is awesome for many reasons, the costumes, the love story, a young Leo. But before you go I'd like to remind you of all the horrible things about the Titanic movie so you can prepare yourself:

- the boat sinks
-1, 514 people die
- you hold your breath through half the movie
- the old couple in the bed about to drown
- the mother and two children in the bed about to drown
- the musicians who play until they drown
- the Irish guy who gets shot
- the captain at the helm when the windows burst and he drowns
- Thomas Andrews when he adjusts the clock on the mantle even though he is about to drown
- The foreign man and his son who go the wrong way down the passage and drown when the doors burst open
- the worker in the belly of the ship who doesn't make it through when they close the doors and he drowns
- all the people who fall off the ship when it is at a 90 degree angle, especially the guy who hits the goddamn propeller! OW
- all the people who sit in the lifeboats listening to the cries of the people in the water, and they DO NOTHING
- Jack Dawson freezes to death

Anyways, the first half of the movie is highly enjoyable, but for your own sanity leave after the car sex, as soon as you see that foggy hand print, grab your coat and get out of the theater. That way you can tell yourself that the boat made it to America and Jack and Rose lived happily ever after, and sold the Heart of the Ocean and bought a big house and Jack did nudie drawings of Rose forever, awwww. Also if you were looking forward to 3D boobs, you should know that the drawing scene is not in 3D.

Also- Erica cried at the end of the film. Apparently, it brought back all the trauma of seeing Titanic when we were 9 years old in 1997.

Rock 'n' Roll

So I popped into the Dakota Tavern on Tuesday for the last Weber Brothers show they'll be doing there for awhile. It rocked as usual and they did a nice little tribute to the great Levon Helm.

Space Sounds

I've found a new trick to relieve my occasional bouts of insomnia. Whenever the sandman is being a jerk and refusing to come visit me, I put on this recording of Jupiter's moon Io. Something about it is so soothing, it's like a galactic lullaby. I won't attempt explain to you the science behind how NASA was able to capture the sounds of planets and moons (I barely understand it), but I would like to tell you about the myth of Io and share my favourite painting of the subject.

Jupiter and Io, Antonio da Correggio, c. 1530,
 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

This song ROCKS

If you need a new ditty to jump around and dance to in your underpants this is that song. I've never heard of Vancouver's No Sinner before, but I read that this is their debut single. Way to hit the ground running!