Hello, Dearest Friends! This post is coming atcha from Taah-raah-naah, aka Toronto, where I flew on Sunday to do businessy things all week. Digs are quite comfy, if corporately bland (The Sheraton), and methinks I'll be fed and wined to excess if I'm not careful. Last night saw me at Canoe, 54 stories up above the city. I had a lovely meal (roasted cuttlefish & calamari to start, followed by Nunavut caribou), but it was one of those places where food, drizzled with fussily named fluids, rested on beds of of more food, after being lightly or delicately prepared. I always feel uncomfortable when it takes a waiter three minutes to describe what I'm about to eat...
I'm not a fan of Toronto; while not the size or pace of either London or New York, it's a concrete citadel full of fast-flowing folks too busy to say "Hello" or smile. The vast Lake Ontario on which it sits strikes me as flat and sterile, almost as if it has been boiled in some apocalyptic nuclear or chemical catastrophe. However, it is currently the home of one displaced Scot, and we're hoping to meet up and sup later this week in one of the city's ethnic neighbourhoods. Maybe that'll change my view somewhat.
So, onto time. Sigh. As of late there seems to be far too much on for the puny 24 hours that inhabit each day to accomodate. Double sigh. Dearest Wife recently started a part-time teaching gig that prep, lectures, marking, and lacksadaisical first-years have conspired to turn into virtually full time. Triple sigh. And then there's all this child-rearing and parenting stuff. Quadruple sigh.
Dearest Tim has been in a similar timeless space recently, hence this week's Contrast Podcast theme of Time. Download the current episode here
(00:00) The Smiths - These things take time
Tim from The face of today
(03:02) PJ Harvey - One time too many
Lyle from Mentok the Mind-Taker
(07:09) Wesley Willis - He’s doing time in jail
Pieter from Two tramps in mud time
(11:17) Eat - First time love song
Ross from Just gimme indie rock
(15:04) Jean Louis Murat - L’horloge (english translation)
ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away
(19:08) Bob Dylan - Most of the time
Nuno from Undercover songs
(24:14) Rancid - Time bomb
James from Jamesisadork
(27:02) Secret Affair - Time for action
FiL from Pogoagogo
(32:15) Flight of the Conchords - Business time
Marcy from Lost in your inbox
(36:33) Joe Jackson - Got the time
Sid from Too Much Rock
(39:43) ballboy - I don’t have time to stand here with you fighting about the size of my dick
Dirk from Sexy Loser
(43:44) Clint Black - No time to kill
Rick from Are you embarassed easily?
(48:43) They Might Be Giants - 25 o’clock
Linda from Speed of dark
(52:34) Half Man Half Biscuit - Time flies when you’re the driver of a train
Crash from Pretending life is like a song
(55:42) Johnny Cash - Time of the preacher
Natalie from Mini-obs
(59:47) Weddings, Parties, Anything - For a short time
Anna from Music I-Quiz
(01:06:13) Matt McGinn - Little ticks of time
Dweller from Child without an iPod
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart) (buy here)
Yes, I seriously considered this track, on a nostalgic tip.
GBH - Race Against Time (buy here)
Perhaps a hangover from last week's fit of noise. Leather, bristles and studs please, but hold the acne.
The Pop Group - We Are Time (buy here)
Frm punk to post-punk, even though GBH came later. Argh, timeline confusion!!
The Jam - Just Who Is the 5 o'clock Hero? (buy here)
Er, that'd be me, sort of. Without the lunchbox.
Ndidi Onukwulu - May Be The Last Time (buy e-here or here)
If you don't know Ndidi, you need to.
Right, must fly off for drinks. Maybe I'll have the narwhal for dinner tonight...
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5 comments:
I don;t have the same T.O. feelings but maybe that's because I'm in the burbs and just hanging out.
We only visit the city for fun.
Culture Club! I was having a conversation with myself this morning about how I would justify posting a culture club song, and I also gave what I wil now refer to as 'your one' a thought this time before realising it would mean converting the vinyl and I couldn't be bothered. Secret Affair, interestingly, have had their 'god' status tempered by getting really arsey with another blogger when he played a couple of old songs, in fact arsey to the extent that he stopped blogging entirely. Which is a shame because everything about Time for Action is brilliant, especially the chanting fade-out.
we were listening to the podcast in the car (i love those things that hook one's ipod up to the radio) and my girls listened very intently to your intro--then they asked me who kenny g was! i tried to explain about him and celine and lionel, but not to much avail . . . ;-)
oh yeah, best moment of your intro--when slime says ACtion! perfectly placed accent and play on the song--very inspired, i must say. : )
ahhhh the soothing sounds of the pop group. smashing.
Argh, I've been so crap at replying. Apologies, Dearest Friends...
Dearest JaG: As long as you're enjoying yourself!
Dearest Crash: Once can always find a justification... As for Secret Affair, miserable old gits!
Dearest Marcy: Kids these days, NO respect for tradition!!
Dearest Ally: Are you sure you didn't mean "The smashing sounds of the pop group. Soothing?"
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