Is it me, or are the days and weeks running into each other? It feels like I just finished a column and here I am writing another…..albeit late as usual. Today was one of those days where you just seem to bounce from one thing to the next. A 3am bedtime call after spending hours editing today’s podcast, was not conducive to an early morning rise, simply to rush downtown and open my maw for the dentist. Two hours later and I feel like my mouth has received the white glove treatment. Mr. Clean and the Lysol Lady have thoroughly cleaned and sanitized my mouth. Everything is now shipshape and spotless…..just don’t eat. It’s kind of like after your mom cleaned, tidied and dusted the living room. You couldn’t sit anywhere!
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Pat Blythe – Musings…..thanks…..a few shows…..and music
Posted in Canadian Music, Family, Food, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera “The Picture Taker”, Bob Segarini, Brass Transit, Cherry Cola’s, Chris Blythe, Cottingham Sound, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Forever Seger, Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto, Hellfield, Jane Harbury, luvthemusic, Mitchell Field, Paradise Theatre, Pat Blythe, Paul DeLong’s ONE WORD, Podbean, Thanksgiving, The Demo Studio, The Pandemic Interviews, The Picture Taker on October 6, 2021 by segariniPat Blythe – Chris …and Music
Posted in Canadian Music, Family, life, music, Opinion, Review, Work with tags A Girl With A Camera The Picture Taker, Bob Segarini, Chris Blythe, Christopher Blythe The Picture Taker, Cottingham Group of Companies, Cottingham Sound, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, El Mocambo, ElMo, Film House, Hellfield, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull, luvthemusic, Maple Leaf Gardens, Mitchell Field, Pat Blythe, podcast, podcaster, Quinn Labs, The Gasworks, The Pandemic Interviews, Toronto on September 29, 2021 by segariniBoy, am I late!!! Soooo late starting this column. Tuesday is my “writing” day, but far too much seemed to get in the way and now it’s 6:15pm and I’m on my third sentence! Good news is I received congratulations from our friends in Ottawa for attaining “senior citizen” status. Not only that, how absolutely thrilled they are to be sending me a monthly stipend of what nobody could live on. I should be grateful I receive anything (and I am), but if that’s what today’s 65-and-up population have to survive on, it’s no wonder we’ve got so many elderly living far below the poverty line. What I am extremely grateful for is that I can still work (when we’re not in the middle of a shitstorm) and continue earning a reasonable living. For how long is anyone’s guess, but this body and brain just keep chugging along.
Continue readingPat Blythe – Comparing “notes”…..and music
Posted in life, music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Canada Jam, Christopher Blythe The Picture Taker, comparing, Cottingham Sound, Dave Mason, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Leon Festinger, Mosport, Pat Blythe, Psychology Today, Savoy Brown, Steely Dan, The Crickets, Wha Koo on September 30, 2020 by segariniA great start to Tuesday morning! Mail call, and among all the real estate flyers, I spy the dreaded federal government envelope. My spine stiffens. Now what?? My brain spirals. Normally I would ignore it for as long as I reasonably could, barely avoiding jail time or another envelope with a nasty reprimand. The only thing worse than the first notice…..is the second. Coffee in hand and perched on the edge of my seat (literally), with great trepidation I open the envelope.
Pat Blythe – Christmas past, NYC, John Harris, N’we Jinan…and Music!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 120 Diner, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Bob Segarini, Canadian Musician, Cashbox Canada Legacy Award, Cashbox Canada Magazine, Chris Blythe, Cottingham Sound, Dave Beatty, DBAWIS, Distillery District Toronto, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hampton Avenue, Harris Institute, Hell's Kitchen, Holiday Inn Express, Jane Harbury, Jim Norris, John Harris, John Rowlands, Lisa Hartt, Louis Cifer, luvthemusic, Merry Widows, N'we Jinan, New York City, Ocean, Pat Blythe, Pat Silver, Rising Records, Rockefeller Center, Sandy Graham, SING! Toronto, SING! Vocal Arts Festival, Tranquility Base on December 5, 2018 by segariniMy house looks like Santa barfed up an entire Christmas store. Lights, decorations, bibs and bobs scattered about, the decorating a work in progress and I haven’t even purchased the tree yet! Chris use to chide me on the amount of Christmas paraphernalia I had accumulated over the years so I decided one year to use the minimalist approach. A week before Christmas day Chris asked me when I was going to decorate? Ya can’t win…. So, five containers, an extensive Santa Claus collection and a couple of supplementary boxes heaved up from the basement, I am now sussing and sorting, banging nails, climbing ladders, walking on the counter to get to the top of the cabinets….letting no space go “unChristmased”. Even my musical Charlie Brown Christmas Tree is back in its place of honour.
Pat Blythe – Openings, Bands and Music…Playing Catch-Up….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Ballroom Bowl, Bob Segarini, Brutus, Cottingham Sound, DBAWIS, Divided Line, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dora Keogh, Drums and Flats, Gem, Hideout, Horseshoe Tavern, Julian Taylor, Keith Hampshire, Kid Carson, Linsmore Tavern, Mike McKenna, ONES, Pat Blythe, Peter Verity, Riverboat Monday, Robbie Lane, Robbie Rox, Sam Taylor, Sarah Smith Band, Shawn O’Shea, The Black Swan, The Dreamboats, The East End Love, Walter Zwol on October 25, 2017 by segariniOpeners…….
Today is a bright but chilly October day. (great opening line huh?) Then there’s Snoopy’s book opening….“It was a dark and stormy night.” Okay, how about “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (Tales of Two Cities – Charles Dickens) Or, “It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen) THAT was a different time….most definitely. Then there’s, “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” (Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess). I can’t even begin to imagine explaining that one. How about, “I write this sitting at the kitchen sink”. (Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith). That’s sure to grab attention…..and apparently it did. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs and I don’t know what I was doing in New York.” (The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath). Confused, frustrated, a chronic depressive, Plath committed suicide by sticking her head in a gas oven at the very young age of 30, leaving behind two young children. “You’ve no choice, look back.” (The Story of Hansel and Gretel – Louise Murphy) We must learn from the past. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.” (1984 – George Orwell) Canada’s pants would do well to pay attention. Apparently they’re not paying attention to Hansel or Gretel.