December 2009
16 posts
2010: Ch-ch-changes →
Excerpt from Russell Brand's My Booky-Wook
I got it as a gift, and this part just leapt out at me last night as I was reading it. Reading about Russell’s ambition gets me fired up; I identify so strongly with these bits that I feel as though I could have written them.
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There were five minutes more, standing there with the tension, stifling the urge to vomit, already drained - nothing left to give but a performance. And then I...
Santa Baby by Candace →
I started learning ukulele a couple of months ago, and here’s my Ecksmas Eve version of Santa Baby, just before heading to bed to dream of sugarplums and Doctor Who.
Roots Music Canada » Blog Archive » Ask Candace:... →
The very first article from our ‘Ask Candace’ feature on rootsmusic.ca
I also give unsolicited relationship advice, but mostly just in the form of hollering things at random people on the street. If you’d like to solicit my opinion on things relating to music, please to be doing so by emailing me at candace@rootsmusic.ca
Merry Ecksmas: Yuletide traditions from the House... →
Conspicuous Compassion: I don't care what you... →
A follow-up to my response to Merlin Mann’s post about Conspicuous Compassion.
Roots Music Canada » Blog Archive » Personality... →
My first entry over at rootsmusic.ca - about branding, specifically as it applies to musicians, but really to anyone.
On 'Conspicuous Compassion.'
I’m not sure I’m going to decry conspicuous compassion as a symptom of how we are all dead inside, but I’m glad to see the issue getting talked about.
I work for numerous charities - both as a paid employee and a volunteer (mostly volunteer) - and people always laugh when I say that I hate charities, but I do. Mostly I hate big ones - in particular, I’d like the whole...
The Voynich Manuscript Decoded? →
I’m with the author, except not the bit about Da Vinci.
I think it could potentially be an anagram, but could the biological parts be recipes for perfumes or medicines? Or something on health or magic?
Perhaps some master-perfumer wanted to write a treatise to share his secrets with business partners or family members, but keep them safe from business rivals?
Or a generalist, keeping...
Some anagrams of my name.
A wench as cad.
We can has cad.
Was Can cad, eh?
Aw, sad chance!
Dawn as cache.
‘A was chanced.
[With my middle name:]
Cancan lady shewn.
Cancan; yawns held.
Scandal?! Nay, wench!
Scandal?! Any wench!
Lewd, canny ashcan.
Sandal, cyan wench!
Salad, canny wench!
Candy Chew Annals.
Nasal candy wench.
Chanced lawns?! Nay!
Chancel and yawns.
Cancel handy swan.
Chancy land...
Amazon.com: Behringer UFO202 U-Phono High-Quality... →
This is very, very cool, and pretty much exactly what I’ve been waiting for.
“Song of Wandering Aengus
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in...”
– William Butler Yeats
I see a lot of melodrama pulsing through Tumblr (that’s what she’s for, right kids?), and also a lot of friends are having minor or major relationship drama, and I pretty much have this to say: For me, it has been a lot of work to make my life better, but every bit of work I’ve done has paid off hugely. I’m 32, and if there’s one actual piece of wisdom I’ve...