cbcmusic.ca

I'm listening to a Killer Covers stream on CBC Music........ AWESOME!!

I'm really thankful to have figured out the CBC Radio 2 station existed, it's pretty much perfect for me.  I mean aside from the classical and some different types of world music that gets in there, I either love (or like /learn to like /can ignore peacefully) a lot of the music on there. I can take classical at times like the afternoons in traffic or sometimes when the other two stations were on cock-rock overload, but it's not really my thing. Sometimes when I'm driving in the mornings and afternoons from work I feel like I'm having music overload, there are too many things I'm enjoying to even think about or remember who's what. Tom Power on the morning show is wicked. He says things like "wicked".

Back to Killer Covers. I wish I could stream music in my car. Earlier, Feist was covering Ron Sexsmith's "Secret Heart" - it sounded so pretty (Side-note: You know what I just noticed? I've been spelling Feist wrong for a long time! Ha!) Right now it's the Beatles with "Twist and Shout". Pretty please click BOTH of those song links, do it for the children!!! .... Did you? Bahaha! Beuller. Beulelr. Bueller. I love it. (Side-note 2: Youtube has commercials now before videos? Boourns!)

The other morning I had my alarm set on a Saturday or Sunday I can't remember, but I woke up to Stuart McLean entertaining me gently out of slumber. His voice is so relaxing and he's a funny writer, it was a odd thing to wake up to all dreamy like. I've read a ton of the Vinyl Cafe books but haven't really listened to the show, is that weird?

OK that's it for now! Goodnight.

-AMB

pickers, sea salt, & hbo

Good evening!

Anyone out there watch Canadian Pickers? I love Sheldon and Scott! Maybe I don't know much about pickin' but it seems to me that some people they pick from have homes that look an awful lot like some of the homes on 'Hoarders'. There are people out there with rooms and rooms and like four garages full of things for pickin'. O btw, I'll be using the term "pickin'" from here on out. Anyway. I wonder how much money people have put into their collections; are they in debt??  Are they really hoarders sometimes? Maybe to an extent. You don't have a garage with one walking path in it because it's full of boxes/crap without some qualities of your run-of-the-mill A&E hoarder. 

I saw some really neat weather/environmental/earth shows lately... One was "Earth from Space" which put visual to what happens with water vapor, etc. If anyone is doubting why global warming is important, check out the show and the piece about salt sea water and what it does in the winter in Antarctica. I'm not sure if this is the same... but it said how sea salt doesn't melt (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017)  but goes down down down off the Continental shelf, and is actually this huge "waterfall" 9 billion times more powerful then Niagara, and this flows up north, basically having an effect on everything - water, nutrients, etc. OK, I'm no Bill Nye, but that's a pretty good nutshell for something I watched at 4 in the morning.

I don't know why anyone would ignore or deny global warming - it's literally science. 

I also saw some other show one night about.... I think it was about lava. And basically what it comes down to is I will never live in San Francisco or Tokyo; you guys are going under. The earth is doing what it's always been doing, blowing up lava and moving around, it's just got more populated in the last few hundred years! 

This might be blogged about again: Loving the new HBO show 'The Newsroom' by Aaron Sorkin. It's only two shows in. It's a little "preachy" at times, but frankly, I could not be more supportive of what they're preaching about, so good on ya.  O, and 'Girls'. Too funny. 

Maybe I should re-name my blog to "Hey, guess what I watched on television this week!" 

-AMB