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The Stories Behind the Songs – Part Two

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Alex Vincenzi, Alistair Taylor, Beethoven, Bell Canada, Billy Talent, Blue Monday, Bob Segarini, Brian Blade, Cameron House, Cardiff University, Carly Simon, Cherish Stevenson, Cherry Cola's, Cleave Anderson, Cliff Arnall, Dave Murphy Band, David Celia, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drop & Roll, ELP, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Esperanza Spalding, Indian Handcraft, Jace Traz, Jason Wilson and The Perennials, Lawrie Ingles, Let's Talk, Linsmore Tavern, Maharishi, Mark Murphy, Matt Groopie, Max Roach, My Psycho Ex, ONERUN, Orbit Room, Pat Blythe, Paul James, Phoenix Concert Theatre, Robbie Burns, Sam Taylor, Shoes.com, Sky Travel, Stop, System of Down, The Beatles, Tim Jackson, UG3, Zaynab Wilson on January 25, 2017 by segarini

It’s snowing!!!! Not those big, fat, fluffy flakes where one can almost cover your face. But it’s snowing…. Sigh. The grey, dull days of January with just a mere hint that the sun actually exists…..which begs the question, why doesn’t Bell Canada hold their “Let’s Talk” campaign on Blue Monday? That makes infinitely more sense than say, Robbie Burns Day. Why in heaven’s name would you pick the 25th of January for mental health awareness??? According to a number of sources, the term “Blue Monday” was coined by holiday company Sky Travel in a 2005 press release. Cliff Arnall, at the time a tutor at Cardiff University, had come up with a light-hearted formula to determine the most depressing day of the year which commonly falls on the third Monday in January. It’s now a worldwide phenomena. Everyone has jumped on the bandwagon and the term is used repeatedly by companies and organizations (there’s even a BlueMonday.org) and stories in all sorts of media abound. Newspapers recommend taking the day off, there are various sites that will calculate, on a yearly basis, which Monday is going to be “blue” so you can prepare…..the power of suggestion. Although the entire idea is considered pseudoscience by the scientific community, Blue Monday is not going away anytime soon. Did you know mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as any other colour?

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Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – Lists

Posted in Opinion with tags Billy Talent, Book of Lists, Book of Rock Lists, Cameron Carpenter, Dave Marsh, DBAWIS, Death From Above 1979, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Goddo, Lowest of the Low, Max Webster, Michael Hollett, music, Nash the Slash, Now Magazine, Now Magazine's 50 Best Toronto Albums, Records, Rough Trade, Rush, segarini, Shanghai Cowgirl, The Diodes, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Viletones, Toronto on January 10, 2013 by segarini

I love lists, especially when they pertain to music. I had a great chat with Now Weekly Editor/Publisher Michael Hollett last month as he was putting together the “50 Best Toronto Albums Ever” (which was Now’s cover story last week). More on that later. My love of lists began in 1977 with the publication of “The Book Of Lists” written by David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace. As a teenager it quickly replaced the “Guinness Book Of World Records” as the time wasting no-brainer book that you could pick up anytime, turn to any page, and by mesmerized by the amount of fascinating trivia.