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Barenaked Ladies rocked the Rays game last night! Here are my pics from the show! BnL @ Rays Game http://picasaweb.google.com/GapPage/BnLRaysGame?feat=directlink

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As Ed Robertson says, “This song could be about anyone I was in a band for 20 years with.” Edit (2010/02/27): Updating to BnLMusic YouTube link.

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First, they took on counting and the alphabet, and now, in a move surely planned to give all those ex-Bush administration people something to listen and learn from now that they’re not so busy, They Might Be Giants has a new album, entitled Here Comes Science. Check out some of the videos… Science is Real [...]

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One of my favorite geeky non-TV (new media? Podcast? Internet show? Netcast? Bah…what is the term?) shows is The Guild masterminded by Felicia Day. Well, The Guild team has created a music video. Hilarious, geeky, sexy fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

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I’m fascinated by neuroscience, by how the software that is our brain really works. I’m also fascinated by music, and how it can show how the brain works in a common way across cultures. Here’s a great example of that. Bobby McFerrin at the 2009 World Science Festival showing how a pentatonic scale is something [...]

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I was trying to find a decent video of one of my favorite Canadian bands performing the Canadian National Anthem, but this is as close as I could get… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGdV1xR6iw

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One of the things I really like about The Weakerthans is that their music sort of sounds like the kind of poetry we all had to read in high school literature classes. I know, you think it sucked. But I loved it. There’s something powerful about a terse arrangement of words that you have to [...]

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I’ve been meaning to get back to posting videos from Ships and Dip V since something like…ahhh…FOREVER. And now I’m finally jumping back in with videos of my favorite new band, The Weakerthans. They totally, friggin’ rawk. And not only because they’ve written some rocking songs about cats! So here’s the first of several videos [...]

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It was free when we went to Universal to see the new 4-man Barenaked Ladies, and, for a limited time, it’s free to dowload! Check out the link on the Barenaked Ladies Official Site. Greatest…band…ever… From BnL at Universal

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On this, the Irish-est day of the year, I share what might be my first Irish memory, and the thing that probably earns me an honorary Irish-ness. Back in grammar school, we used to do plays every so often. I remember one we did, my class had to learn to sing a song in Gaelic. [...]

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