Segarini: The Sound of Breaking Hearts Redux

Cam is still swamped with his work (and passion) for this year’s Indie Week, so I thought I would search the DBAWIS Archives to see what we were doing during this week in past years.

This column originally appeared on October 12th, 2013. Like 2016, a lot of great musicians and friends alike took their leave of this life, unexpectedly and far too soon, and left many of us to remember them with fondness and see to it that they are not forgotten. This article is reprinted here as a reminder to do everything you can to remember those who go forth before us, and to value the friendships you are currently blessed with….  

 

Segarini: The Sound of Breaking Hearts

I am one of those people who tends to think we are here for a reason. I do not know why I believe that, but believe it, I do.

When I was a kid, (and being raised Roman Catholic) everything used to make a lot more sense than it does today. Now, very little makes sense to me. I find more and more people have turned to atheism, whose practitioners , (like those of the Jewish faith), believe that when we venture forth to the wrong side of the lawn, that is the end of the “Long, Strange, Trip.”  The only difference is that the Jewish faith includes God, while the Atheists just hold to the belief that life is a fluke of chemistry and random happenstance, and that when your ticket gets punched you are shuttled off this Mortal Coil and dumped on the side of the road and taken off the ‘Active’ list without so much as a handshake and a gold watch.

Really?

Poop…

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Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – F is for Facebook, Friends & Farewells

Sad. I posted one word on my Facebook status earlier this week. I had just heard that a dear friend had passed away after a long and very courageous battle, and that was what I was feeling. Outside of band updates and the occasional link to an event I rarely post anything either personal or political on my Facebook status. I rarely check in at concerts and you will never see a kitty, puppy or what I am eating, or drinking, posted on my wall. My kids are adults so there are no cute pictures of them on their first day of school or wearing their best Halloween costumes. Not my style.

Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – E is for A Little Bit of Everything

It’s sports overload right now as the NHL season has kicked off, baseball playoffs have started, the English Premier League and Champions League are in full swing and Canadian Graham DeLaet gets ready to tee it up with some of the world’s best at The Presidents Cup this weekend.  Throw in the NASCAR chase and NFL and CFL it is lucky that I don’t have cable as I imagine I would be spending a lot of time alone.