My son’s been kicking back and chilling this summer having finished Grade 12. He didn’t want to start a post-secondary education until he could get his bearings, find a job, make some money and attack it without being tens of thousands of dollars in debt at the starting line. Currently, he’s enjoying hanging out with his friends before everyone scatters to the four winds in September. They decided this week to play paintball. The best facility in Toronto is Sgt. Splatter’s near Dufferin & Eglinton.
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JAIMIE VERNON – YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags AMC, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cartier, City of Scarborough, computers, DBAWIS, Dick Tracy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downtown, Fashion Mall, Heroes, Hiro, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Mad Men, paintball, Seiko, Seiko 2000, Seiko T-001, Seiko Time, Selectric, Sgt. Splatter, TTC, typewriter. Apple Watch, typist, Wingold, wiring harnesses, wristwatch, Xerox, Yurko on August 6, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alta Moda, baking, Bob Segarini, Brimley Landslide, Bullseye Records, Calling Occupants, Canadian Music, CBS Radio, CD, Central Records, City Hall, City of Scarborough, City of Toronto, Current Records, Dave Rave, David Bradley, DBAWIS, Dee Long, digitzing, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elizabeth Bain, Figures at Dawn, Geographic Information Systems, George Brown College, Glenn Belcher, Google Maps, hipsters, Jaimie Vernon, John Woloschuk, Killer Dwarfs, KIRO Radio, Klaatu, Lake Placid, re-issues, Records Management, remastering, Robert Baltovich, sam the record man, shedding, Silverlode, Strange Advance, Terry Draper, vinyl, Works Department on March 5, 2016 by segarini
Long before I considered myself a profession record label weasel I worked in a government bunker as a data librarian. My job title was Records Management Assistant and my duties included archiving government documents, maps, tax records and all matter of ephemera – including name tags from VIPs who visited City Hall and ribbon cutting scissors from shopping mall openings attended by our politicians.
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JAIMIE VERNON – JOB: SECURITY
Posted in Opinion with tags BP, Brimley Road, Car Wash, City of Scarborough, Consumer's Distributing, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elizabeth Bain, Hockey Arena, Jaimie Vernon, Security Guard, Seiko Time, The Scarborough Mirror, Yurko Mychaluk on October 6, 2012 by segarini
Contrary to popular belief I haven’t always been in the music business. I’ve been playing music since 1978 (now retired), but my actual years working in the music industry – that is, getting paid for what I did – was 12 ½ years from November 1998 when I was hired as content editor for Sam The Record Man.com (see last week’s column) through June 2011 when my contract ended with dB Promotions doing radio promotion. I also ran my record label full-time simultaneously for 10 of those years. So, from the summer of 1979 until November 1998 I worked in both the private and public sector – that’s right, kids, I was a union man for awhile. But my work experience goes back even farther.
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Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 