Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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torrent: Mayor McCA, Lee’s Palace, 18 June 2004
http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=12213
Mayor McCa
Lee’s Palace, Toronto
18th June 02004172MB, FLAC format
Set List
========I’m So Poor. Buy My CD : 4’13”
That’s A Wrap : 3’14”
Hey Man, You Gotta Nice Job : 4’58”
I Got A Haircut : 3’11”
Funky Fresh Beets : 7’45”
I Can’t Pay The Rent : 3’13”
You Better Watch Out : 4’34”Recording Details
=================Audience recorded by Stewart C. Russell
Sony ECM-909A microphone -> iRiver H120 digital WAV recorder
(Direct digital file transfer to host Linux box)
Tracks split using Audacity
Levels normalized using the ‘normalize’ command-line tool.This recording was made with CA Smith’s permission.
About the Artist
================CA “Mayor McCa” Smith — One-man Band Singing Sensation, Cartoonist,
Tapdancer, almost-Mayor of Hamilton, ON — is probably best explained by
visiting his website: < http://mayormcca.com/>.MP3s live here.
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Dough D’oh!
Whenever you have to defrost live bread dough, make sure you don’t do it in a sealed polyethylene bag. It looks like a squid has been at it …(the resulting bagels were great, though.)
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The return of Mr Nae Friends
Okay, so now I have an Orkut account, it appears no-one I know is on it. Is this exclusivity, or something else?
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Hey Kids, It’s The Coalition of Negligence!
I misread this CBC headline “Allawi accuses U.S.-led coalition of negligence in ambush of Iraqi recruits“, and I thought, wow, that’s a whole new coalition, and a whole new ballgame!
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Peely’s dead
Legenadary BBC Radio DJ John Peel has passed away. Where will we get the weirdness now?
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Scooby-Doo breaks cartoon record
Scooby-Doo breaks cartoon record — but the BBC article is worth reading purely for the anti-Scrappy Doo feedback items alone.
I have to say, Scrappy Doo was perhaps the most annoying cartoon character ever.
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“If there’s one thing I really, really hate …”
Just been listening to Bing Hitler – Live at the Tron, that being Craig Ferguson‘s early stage act, back when he was much funnier.
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Uncertain Slogan
Richard Iwanski phoned, and left me with this slogan:
Martyrs for Mammon & the American Way of Life:
a Vote for John Kerry is a Vote for Perpetual PurgatoryHe and I are both not quite sure what it could mean, or what we can do with it.
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HCP UK drops Eddie Moore
I can’t believe this, but HarperCollins UK are making General Reference senior editor Edwin Moore redundant. Eddie’s a true mensch, knows everything (and everyone) there is to know about publishing, and is everything that was good about Collins in Scotland. He and I used to cycle to the Bishopbriggs plant every day, braving Scotland’s, um, interesting weather all year round.
As we were both active in the NUJ chapel, we used to wonder if the management, err, strategies of HCP UK were those of evil geniuses, or shambling morons. Now we know.
(An indication of this is immediately obvious from HCP‘s website; they can’t spell Dr Seuss, and they’re repackaging yet another bloody commemorative edition of LofR.)
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yay, yay, IPA!
Something has just changed on my Gentoo boxes; I can now display Unicode characters properly. John Wells’s International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode now displays as it should.
Now there’s nothing stopping me making weak pronunciation-related puns like “… to /Éš/ is human …”
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car bong
A large chrome hash pipe has lain in the rather obsessively manicured lot of a local Ford dealer for the last few days. It looks almost, but not quite, like lawn-sprinkler hardware or piece of hydraulics from an SUV. I wonder when they’ll notice it?
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let’s get confused
No wonder folks in the USA get confused with ballot papers — there are just too many choices.UK ballot papers are super-simple: list of candidates down the left, list of checkboxes down the right. More than one issue? More than one ballot paper. It’s not hard.
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No, we really did!
As a memento of actually seeing a chicken in Wingham, I decided to own the domains wesawachicken.com and wesawachicken.info. They both point here. -
Not that I do, of course
Friends who orienteer are the best, given that you (and they) know where they are.
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half a turbine: wee deid speug
We found a dead sparrow (= speug, in Scots, pr. sp-yug) outside the front window when we took the recycling out. It had hit the window. Sorry, little dude.
So that’s me used six months of the avian mortality of the ExPlace wind turbine.
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co-transiteers annoyance
Two new annoying fellow travellers on the GO train yesterday:
- The Clipper: she took about 10 minutes to get her nails just right … clip, clip, tick, clip … am I the only one who finds that kinda gross? I felt like making kapweeng! kapweeng! ricochet noises to go with it
- The Thumper: Take a Stompin’ Tom Connors record. Remove the vocals and instrumental accompaniment. Slow it down 200 times. That’s what this youth was doing with his right foot: thump … thump … … thump … … … thump … thump. He kept checking around to see if he was getting a rise out of anyone.
Being the consummate commuter of course, I abided by the first law of transit annoyances: Sit there and do nothing, for cowardice is a virtue.
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banjo blues
I’m kinda stuck with my banjo playing. I can frail away an adequate Shady Grove, but — despite what my teacher Chris Coole says — I just don’t have the confidence to learn new songs from a book or CD.
I get home late and tired, and very often the banjo gets neglected. This isn’t good. I enjoy playing, but I think everyone around me would appreciate it if I got some new tunes.