Lemurian Congress

I've talked at length about my love for Mike Oldfield's classic albums . The fact that those albums are now being re-released in new...

I was surprised to find Doctor John Walter in the 1967 KCI Yearbook . Why? Because he was my art teacher at Waterloo-Oxford in 1989! Doc Wal...

After I finished high school, I had an entire summer to figure out what I wanted to do in University. Little did I know that it would take a...

CHILD: So you don't want a hamster. FATHER: No I don't. CHILD: Have you ever thought that a hamster might save your life? I'd li...

It's outrageously hot here in Southern Ontario so excuse me while I try to sweat this one out. It's a shame, because... ...I'd b...

In the summer of '90 I had an amazing opportunity that I mostly squandered: I spent a few months working at WATFAC , the Waterloo Founda...

I have so many guilty pleasures that I'm in a permanent state of mortification, and one of my pleasures is a good old-fashioned dungeon ...

I have a new ritual which keeps me smiling on Monday mornings: when I go to work that day I allow myself to buy ONE album off iTunes. I migh...

One of my first jobs was as a part-time clerk at "Sounds Music Plus," a record store in New Hamburg. Besides sitting around waitin...

You couldn't be a child of the '80s in Canada without being exposed to Jane Siberry . Our radio and television stations, hungry to f...

Walking home from breakfast this morning, I passed a small boy on a crazy carpet trying to slide UP the bare sidewalk of Bluevale hill. He...

Sometimes it's hard to enjoy a band if you can't understand their lyrics. Language barriers can prevent an awful lot of a song from ...

In 1930 -- several years after the arrival of the talkies -- The New Yorker continued to make references to the phenomenon, indicating that ...

As a child and a teen I had a strange ability to re-watch movies, and while I still enjoy seeing a good movie two or three times, back then ...

I am now firmly mired in the "Patriotism and War" section of "The Young People's Library of Entertainment and Amusement....

So you're in highschool and you've just discovered musical alternatives -- life isn't just about Tom Petty and The Tragically Hi...

Some days, to pass the time, I read back issues of '80s computer magazines. It's a nerdy pursuit but sometimes I run across somethin...

I've already talked enough about Pink Floyd in this blog, and you already know enough about them. Let's just say that I've been ...

"Tubular Bells" was an album that I literally grew up with, one of those records that my mother played over and over again from my...

When I was six years old, a family friend gave me Jeff Wayne's double-album "War of the Worlds" for my birthday. It was a biz...