May 11 2008
Coyote Video
Here’s a video from that woman who lives with a coyote in Wyoming. Yup, that’s a coyote and a cat living in harmony together.
Via her blog: The Daily Coyote.
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May 11 2008
Tom Waits Not Playing in Newfoundland
I’m seeing Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in concert this month, but I would easily give up both of those tickets to see Tom Waits who is beginning a new tour in June. Then he’s going to Europe. I hope he drops in on a few Canadian cities on the way back. Here are the [...]
May 09 2008
4 Movies I Can Recommend
Some comments about the last batch of movies I saw: Once, a so-called musical that feels more like a documentary; Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, great acting and great direction; Eastern Promises, perhaps David Cronenberg’s best film; Iron Man, the most entertaining comic book super hero movie I’ve seen for a long time; 28 [...]
May 04 2008
Small Newfoundland Icebergs
I drove out to Cape Spear yesterday and saw a few small icebergs. It was freezing.
The original audio has been removed because it was nothing but wind distortion. I replaced it with some generic stormy wind sounds.
Apr 30 2008
A non-RIAA Crapcast
This audio magazine is 17 minutes long. It’s called Some Mumblin’ and Sampling From Avalon Blues, Not Much Insightful Commentary Really [removed]. If I listened to the whole thing, I probably wouldn’t post it. I’m going to remove it sometime tomorrow, regardless, so get it while you can.
There’s probably a way to encode it into [...]
Apr 30 2008
3 Movies (1 Worth Watching)
The Maltese Falcon — I saw it tonight in a theatre. It was okay, but it’s not in the same league as Casablanca. Bogart’s performance is uneven, the romantic element is unconvincing and the story isn’t too intriguing or compelling. For me, it has more style than substance. And even then, it’s not spectacular. [...]
Apr 24 2008
Phillip & Jody Cairns Photography
Jody and I have received genuine, no-fooling, legit photo credits, all of them on the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website.
Mine appears in the Arts and Economy article.
Jody has two photo credits. The first is in the article on Rural Depopulation in Newfoundland and Labrador; the second appears in Depopulation Impacts.
All the articles are written by [...]
Apr 20 2008
5000 Photographs
At this moment, I’m creating a single DVD slideshow of all the digital photos or snapshots I’ve taken since 2003 (when I got my first digital camera). I simply dragged-and-dropped my entire “My Pictures” directory into Nero’s photo slideshow thing, whatever it’s called. It’s been transferring the photos for the past 15 minutes and it’s [...]
Apr 17 2008
Movies I’ve Watched - #8 (2008)
I didn’t watch any movies for the past two weeks. So I got nothing. Well, maybe not nothing…
I’ve been watching TV shows off DVDs instead (and playing video games). I come home from work and I don’t have the energy to do much of anything else. My evenings are split between playing classic arcade games [...]
Apr 11 2008
Skinny Legs, a collector’s item
Wow. I got a request from a Whole Wheat Radio listener for my cover of Lyle Lovett’s song, “Skinny Legs.” The song used to be in WWR’s library but was recently removed — probably because it played so often that Jim said enough is enough. I don’t blame him.
At any rate, by request, I present [...]
Apr 08 2008
Birthday Message from Iain
Many of you may not realize that Jody and I are twins and that we both turned 78 a couple weeks ago, give or take a decade or two. Jody’s son, Iain, left a birthday message for me on my answering machine.
I also got a bottle of single-malt scotch for my birthday, an MP3 player [...]
Apr 08 2008
Think Pink C.A.R.E. Package
A got a package from some politician on Ontario today. A previous package arrived a few days ago. This guy must be spending his constituency allowance on postage for this stuff, which cost more than $30 — though what’s inside is priceless. The first package contained a pink THINK sign, as in “Think Pink.”
The second [...]
Apr 02 2008
Jill Barber’s Music
I’ve been meaning to write a post about Canadian singer-songwriter Jill Barber, so here it is. I saw her in St. John’s, Newfoundland, a couple months ago. Just her and her acoustic guitar and a guy switching between mandolin and a pedal steel. A real sweet, pleasing traditional sound with a mild jazzy, [...]
