What if landing on a Sunday were a jackpot for holidays, the figurative Free Parking of the week, such that if a holiday occurs on Sunday, that <whatever> Day
becomes <whatever> Week?
Wouldn't that be more interesting?
So happy Canada Week. Kelly tells me he did see the Canada Day logo on google.com. I've been listening to Bran Van 3000's Glee and the Tragically Hip the past few days, waiting for my copy of BV3's Discosis to arrive, ordered last week from hmv.com, a dot-ca, since it isn't out elsewhere yet.
I forgot it at the time, but the Tragically Hip's Trouble at the Henhouse (1996) squeaks in on my list of best works of the past five years. I first wanted the disc because I'd heard a couple tracks from it somewhere--I think the Eclectic Mix channel of the digital audio service MusicChoice, via DirecTV. Ahead by a Century
and Gift Shop
are what I'd heard, when I found the disc (a promo copy, in an cardboard sleeve that unfolds) at McKay's.
The fondest memory I have of the channel is that that's what I listened to all the while I built the Event Horizon, my club/bar on FurryMUCK. Some of the songs I remember still: Good Enough
from Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling Towards Ecstacy, a cover of the Talking Heads' Heaven
that I still haven't found since, Toad the Wet Sprocket's Something's Always Wrong
(I think), the Why Store's Lack of Water,
and Barely Breathing
by Duncan Sheik, months before it actually became popular (read: overplayed) on radio and video.
Of course, now that we've switched to Dish Network and back, they don't have Eclectic Mix anymore. (They may've dropped it before we switched; I forget.) The Event Horizon's gone through a few haphazard changes and iterations, and no one ever goes there anymore--of course that likely has to do with moving on to other places, and general discontent with FurryMUCK. The reason I recall it now is because a new song, Life on a Chain
by Pete Yorn, could've been played on there. It hits the aesthetic of the channel so perfectly, I remembered and missed it. Alas and alack.
