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Pat Blythe – Hockey, Music for Kids and Chuck Leavell

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Aeolian Hall, Allman Brothers, Blue Canvas Productions, Bob Segarini, Chicago Blackhawks, Chuck Leavell, DBAWIS, Don't Believe A World I Say, Johnny's IceHouse, Juice, Laura Gagnon, Meg Moonbeam, Mimi O'Bonsawin, Mother Nature Network, NHL, Noa Rozenblit, Paul Hornsby, Regent Park School of Music, Rolling Stones, RPSM, Sam Taylor, Sarah Smith Band, Scott Foster, Sea Level, The Hideout Toronto, The Root Cellar, The Strangers, Twigs County Tree Farm, United We Play Benefit on April 4, 2018 by segarini

I’m going to start out with something completely off the wall for me. Note, I am not a sports nut. Hockey (quelle horror!), baseball, basketball, volleyball, foozball….even Canada’s official sport, lacrosse…..don’t watch it, follow it, listen to it or talk about it. Sports is not something that ever turned my crank…..but then there’s Scott Foster. Foster is a 36-year-old accountant who’s never played in the NHL. He is a man who plays in a amateur league at Johnny’s IceHouse in Chicago, a man who was called into action by the Chicago Blackhawks on March 29. Foster is an “emergency backup”…..he fills in if the regular goalies are unable to play. Continue reading →

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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 segarini

Openers…….

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.