Roxanne Tellier – Time Enough at Last

When it comes to excuses, I’ve got a million of ‘em. Even now, as I should be writing this column, I am thinking of two dozen other things that I should be doing first – like alphabetizing the vitamins in the bathroom cabinet or swinging up to the grocery store for some spices that I won’t need until Halloween.  

JAIMIE VERNON – The Top 10 Ghoulest Songs of All Time

Well, it’s that time of year again, folks. Leaves fall from the trees, skies turn grey and the Toronto Maple Leafs pretend they’re going to play hockey. But amongst the fall classics comes Halloween where we celebrate the spooky, the haunting, the unnerving, the fun, and yet chilling Halloween tuneage.

JAIMIE VERNON – IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (SLIGHT RETURN)

This week I went to see ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ as one of the few films I’ve had time to check out this year (‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘The Lego Movie’ and ‘Transformers: Age of Bayisms’ the others). As the trailers and teasers have been unfolding for months online I came to realize that I’ve been waiting, unknowingly, over 30 years for this movie.

JAIMIE VERNON – ALL YOU NEED IS CASH

This week Apple Records/Capitol Records released the 14 album/16 LP Beatles vinyl boxed set. It’s the band’s entire in situ output while they were together (and alive) housed in a monolithic cardboard time capsule that is not unlike a black hole version of the Tesseract cosmic cube seen in the movie ‘The Avengers’. So what’s so amazing about this latest ad nauseam repackaging of the same material previously released as re-mastered CDs in 2009 and 2010? Well, it has bigger pictures…and, um, it’s on 180 gram vinyl…and um…the audio has been tweaked once again to compensate for the limitations of black PVC…and um….that’s it. In other word there is no difference.

JAIMIE VERNON – The Top 10 Ghoulest Songs of All Time

Well, it’s that time of year again, folks. Leaves fall from the trees, skies turn grey and the NHL cancels yet another season of hockey. But amongst the fall classics comes Halloween where we celebrate the spooky, the haunting, the unnerving, the fun and yet, chilling Halloween tuneage.  I ran this column in 2011 – in fact, it’s one of the first I wrote for DBAWIS and ended up in my book “Life’s A Canadian Blog” – and so I figured that one good 360˚ head turn deserves another.