Entertainment

Syd Barrett Dead At 60

Mulder

I am a big fan of Pink Floyd. I mean how can you go wrong with a song titled “Several species of small furry animals gathered in a cave and grooving with a pict”?? One of my favourite song titles of all time and a song I fell in love with when I used to stare at the glow in the dark stars on the ceiling of my bedroom in college!!

Actually, I think Syd was gone by the time that song came out, but he did help get the band rolling.

I think it’s funny that on CBC tonight this story followed one on a study on the virtues of magic mushrooms!!

Syd Barret dead at 60

Ottawa Blog Mafia Get Together – July 14th at Mexicali Rosa's – Dow's Lake Pavillion

Mulder

The third Ottawa blogger gathering that I know will be this coming weekend. Specifics are not finalized but it will be either Friday or Saturday.

Head on over to Phantom Observer’s site to put your two cents in. for more info.
Let’s try to get more than the small crew we got together last time around.

I will post again once Phantom sets the schedule and location which shouldn’t be long.

Update: The date is set for July 14th from 8pm to 10pm at Mexi’s at Dow’s Lake Pavillion. You can view a map via google maps here. Note, just northwest of Prince of Wales and just east of Preston is the parking lot. It’s free or pretty cheap if I remember correctly. I think you can enter just off of Prince of Wales.

Spread the word.

Canada Day In Kanata Blows Away City Of Ottawa Celebration Plans

Mulder

Every year since I have moved to Kanata (except one) there has been a huge celebration of our nation’s birthday at Walter Baker park in Kanata. This year, the City of Ottawa fired a shot across the bow of this celebration in Kanata by posting signs on every light standard in the Kanata promoting their own event at a different park in Nepean.

I contacted my local city coun. Peggy Feltmate who assured me that we would be having a celebration in Kanata. But this year the celebration will be anything but usual. The planners for the Kanata celebration have managed to get famous rockers 54-40 to play at the venue. They have a better Pizza sponsor. They have a better hillside for viewing both the band and the fireworks. And this year in addition to the usual blow up rides their will be a midway in the parking lot of the KRC and the Sens Roadshow will also be present making it far better than any other Canada Day celebration I have been to here in our small corner of the city.

I urge anyone who is in the west end of Ottawa or the outlying areas south or west of the city to drop by and make sure this celebration is a huge success … again.

Both festivals run three days with Kanata running Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday and the Ottawa festival running Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

What has me sold on Kanata this year is the prime band on Canada Day. Kanata will have Canadian rock legends 54-40 whom I have been a huge fan of since high school (I think that dates me). As some of you may know 54-40 is the band that wrote and originally performed the song I Go Blind which Hootie and the Blowfish have covered. They have also had numerous hits which many will know. Baby Ran, One Gun and Ocean Pearl to name a few.

The Kanata celebration pizza sponsor is also a local chain called Gabriel’s and Ottawa has the cookie cutter Toronto chain Pizza Pizza. In my opinion, no self respecting Ottawa resident orders from Pizza Pizza. The chain’s only reason for success is the large contingency of Toronto residents who have moved to the nation’s capital and haven’t discovered the cheese being used by Ottawa pizzarias which seems to be the key to a great pizza. One day. But not this Canada Day!!

I was proud to contact the organizers of the Kanata celebration today to offer my help in promoting the event and to offer my help on Canada Day itself. I look forward to seeing many of you who feel Parliament Hill gets too busy in Kanata this year. It will definately be a blast!!

Don Cherry's A Trip … An Acid Trip That Is!!

Mulder

I have to admit, that when Don Cherry wears big collars, I kind of like it. He usually has a snazzy tie and for the most part, he would have on a pretty decent looking jacket. But ever since Rose died, he must have lost his fashion sense. Tonight, I think he must have had his eyes dilated when he picked out his jacket. Either that, or I had an acid flashback while watching Coach’s Corner.

Don Cherry

If it wasn’t a flashback, then he needs to quit going to this guy’s tailor.

Elton John

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Dogged By Press?? It's Just A Day In The Life of Sir McCartney

Mulder

After four years of marriage, vegetarianism and bashing the heads of seal hunters, Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney are separating.

“Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much but have found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives, and we have actively tried to protect the privacy of our child.

“Separation for any couple is difficult enough, but to have to go through this so publicly, especially with a small daughter, is immensely stressful.

“We hope, for the sake of our baby daughter, that we will be given some space and time to get through this difficult period.”

Are they serious? When I heard this news on the radio this morning while driving to work, I actually laughed!! The absurdity of it all. I mean how much public scrutiny is too much for an ex-Beatle? The man has been swarmed, chased, had panties thrown his way, and had groupies track his every move. He has been met at airports by not only thousands of fans but by dignitaries, politicians and heads of state. The man was in, arguably, the most famous band in history. Yet the scrutiny is too much for him now?

I think there is something else going on here that we aren’t hearing about. Let me tell you why I think this.

  1. Stars these days seem to be using marriage, separation and divorce announcements to gain headlines.
  2. I had no clue the two had a daughter, yet they mention it three times in the short clip above.
  3. No pre-nup signed and he is 25 years her senior with a net worth in excess of a Billion dollars.

Something just smells fishy here. I think Paul just got officially screwed out of half of his fortune.

First A Beatle, Then The Walrus, And Now Just A Whipped Dork

Mulder

You know….sometimes it just doesn’t befit someone to call them an idiot or a fool or unmanly or under the sexual thumb of his wife, or boyish in the brain and not the looks but these days all those would be fitting. I much prefer to just call Paul a dork. It’s simple to the point and effective.

Knowing Apple records history for lawsuits I will probably get sued for this post but I’m sick of stars coming in and using their clout to start a protest against something they know little about. The McCartney’s are getting up in the face of East Coast Canadian seal hunters who started the annual seal hunt today. They released a new video calling for the boycott of Canadian seafood. (We all know how the boycott is just so huge, don’t we?). Little do they know the seal population has tripled in the last 25 or so years. How many fish do you think seals eat? You can’t just jump in and cut off the cycle of hunting or the battle for fish will affect the populations of numerous other species when the seals eat up all the stock.
A note to Miss McCartney, (yes by Miss I mean Paul), why don’t you pull up your skirt, grow a pair and go out and down one of them seals yourself. Aren’t you the Walrus?? Would you deny yourself the pleasure of your dinner?  Did you know that Walrus’ eat seals?

I am the eggman…I am the eggman….I am the Walrus….coo coo coochoo!!