Another week, another batch of people who are way funnier than I am!
Before I start, though, I just wanted to wish all of you a happy Memorial Day. Have fun, cook out, enjoy yourselves, but watch out for sunburn!
And now, on with the silly! And remember: If you think these people are funny, you ought to check them out on Twitter, as well as millions of others who will make you laugh until you snort out your major organs!
Slowly, Waldo's wife and Mr. Sandiego started putting the pieces together
— donni (@donni) August 1, 2013
"Stop showing your butthole to your sister" seems like something that I should never have to say.
— Sara (@smilely_gal) November 26, 2012
Whoever named the platypus should name everything.
— Jewpac Shakur (@jewfacekilla) May 18, 2014
Think I may have used too much ancient sea salt in this spaghetti. It just floated off my plate hissing, "There is no food, only Zuul!"
— Nathan Buckley (@duplicitron) June 30, 2012
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Nights of Today's Yesterday
X-Men: Mornings of Foregone Fortnights
X-Men: Out of Ideas - Just Claws-n-Shit
— Growly Grego (@GrowlyGrego) May 10, 2014
"As for weather on the east coast-"
*Don draws a dick on the map*
The anchors laugh. Don is fired.
In 36 hours a dickstorm levels Baltimore
— damn fine hat (@BromanConsul) August 26, 2013
batman: "i need a mask, to hide my identity"
superman: "and we should all wear capes"
robin: "and panties on the outside!!"
— Kelgore Trout (@KelgoreTrout) April 26, 2014
Is it true that women use their breasts to smother their prey before consuming it with their vaginas?
— Shkeeber (@shkeeber) May 23, 2014
I wrote a nostalgic Hollywood screenplay about growing up in the 80's and 90's.
It's just two hours of scrambled soft-core porn.
— Terry F (@daemonic3) May 24, 2014
And there you have it! Enjoy the rest of your week! But before you go, enjoy this awesome video clip from one of my own favorite radio show/podcasts, Wits!
It's SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! And you all know what that means, folks: It's time for some delicious Twitter goodness!
The funny was in high gear this week, what with #OperationAmericanSpring, #GodzillaProblems, and so many other hilarious hashtags. (Many of which, I feel I can say with no small amount of modesty, I did pretty darn well at.) But we're not here for those. If you want to see those, by all means, go ahead and search for them on Twitter. And, as always, if you're not on Twitter, JOIN! It's good times, and you'll meet some of the weirdest people planet Earth has to offer. (But it's the good kind of weird...mostly...)
And so, without further ado, and in no particular order...
Unless the answer is "Batman", I really don't care who you ran into at Costco last week, Phil.
And there you have it! But before I go, I wanted to throw another fun video your way. I'm sure a lot of you have already seen it, but for those of you who haven't, you should watch it. Then go to Bad Lip Reading and check out the other hilarious videos there.
According to this blog by Kris Silva, I'm supposed to answer some questions about my writing...The problem, of course, is that I really don't consider myself a writer. Certainly not on the scale and talent level of Kris herself, or the other people she has asked, or was asked by, to do this. They write books, for Bob's sake. I write snarky little posts about movies and then throw in a few .GIFs of religious leaders mining for nose goblins.
You see, I met Kris a while back on Twitter, and we chatted a bit about writing. I explained that I mostly wrote humor pieces about movies and my own personal life. Occasionally, I would try my hand at comedic fiction, some good and some bad. I also wrote two novellas for NaNoWriMo (link is currently down). One was called Being Kermit the Frog, which was about a man who survives an explosion in a toy factory that makes Muppet toys, only to come out of a coma believing he is Jim Henson. The other is called The (Other) Book of John, which is about a young atheist who, upon reaching the age of twenty-one, finds out he's God. Heady stuff, I know, but I never considered writing for a living. I do it mostly because it amuses me. I also write dick jokes. Lots of dick jokes.
Kris, on the other hand, writes steampunk fantasy novels, Muppet erotica (apparently, that's a thing), and is currently working on a horror-comedy called Wendigogo. She edits others' manuscripts. She makes the actual effort to get published. (And she will be...Mark my words.)
But she considers me a writer, so I have little choice but to answer these questions she has submitted. So let's do this!
1. What am I working on?
Currently, I'm not doing a lot of writing, aside from these blog posts. I'm also slowly putting together a commentary script riffing the movie Twister. My friend Larry Sieczynski and I wrote one for the classic horror flick Evil Dead 2 for Halloween last year, and we quite enjoyed it, as did the people who were kind enough to download it and give it a listen.
What he said.
I also write the occasional song and beg a DJ friend to play them on her show, which she kindly does.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?
I dunno...It's not as funny as other, better writers in my genre? Also, my "contemporaries" (or, as someone less kind might point out, my "betters") probably wear some form of pants more often than I do while writing. And they don't use their dog as their editor. Except maybe Garrison Keillor.
He also spends a lot of his time being alcoholic Daniel Radcliffe...OF THE FUTURE!
In all seriousness, I like to think I'm a bit quicker with a comeback than most, which is a product of my childhood; my family is full of sarcastic, funny people, so you really have to step up your game with them if you want to be a part of the fun. I also have a pretty solid grip on pop culture, so I can dig deep in there to pull out something odd or goofy that not everybody is going to think of right away.
3. Why do I write what I do?
Honestly, because humor is a wonderful thing, and because I suck at being serious. It's incredibly obvious in the few serious bits of the novellas I wrote. They come off as stilted and unconvincing to me. Therefore, I stick with things that make me laugh, and, hopefully, others will also get the joke.
Also, I have a fascination with the absurdities of life, and I think people relate to those things, even though they might not have personally experienced them. For instance, I wrote a piece a long time ago called "Young Derek and the Suicide Fish". It's about my first fishing experience, where I hooked a bluegill four different times within a twenty minute period. Each time I reeled it in, my mother would look at it, say it was too small and throw it back, only to have it latch onto my hook again. This was either the dumbest fish in the world, or it had just had enough of swimming around and doing whatever the hell it is that fish do and decided to end it all. Either way, I still find it funny thirty-five-plus years later.
"My gills aren't even blue! My life is a lie! Oh, how I crave Death's sweet release!"
Things like that just resonate with me, and, I'd like to think, others.
4. How does my writing process work?
Well, mostly it involves me bitching about how I really ought to get something written on this here blog thingie. Then I sit down and stare at my computer screen a lot. Next, I find some music to listen to while I write. This step is vitally important, not to mention time-consuming. (I have a lot of music to choose from.)
Three hours later, I come up with a title, which I will immediately scrap after writing the first two sentences of the actual piece because it ended up going in an entirely different direction than I expected it to. This happens more often than you might think because I tend not to do outlines for anything. Therefore, when something happens in a fictional piece I'm writing, I'm as surprised as anyone who reads it.
One thing I do, however, is research. Admittedly, it's very half-assed and mostly involves finding a funny picture that is, at best, marginally related to the subject, and then coming up with a caption that will tie it in with the piece.
Research also helps with writer's block.
(See? It works!)
When I'm writing a "slice-of-life" piece, I write it as if the reader is sitting in front of me and I'm telling it to them. This, I think, gives it an organic feel and a particular voice that runs through everything I write. Hopefully, the reader feels the same way.
Bloghop RSVP
Apparently, what I'm supposed to do now is connect this blog to a few others that will, in turn, write a similar (but more interesting) post about their own writing. I don't have four that I know well enough to ask this of them (aside from the ones who have already done it), so I'm just going to pick one:
Also: Part-time Dante Hicks from Clerks impersonator.
I know Dave personally, and I can happily recommend any of his writing and music. He's also got a great sense of humor and is a genuinely nice guy, too! How about it, Dave?
Okay, let's get this right out of the way so I don't get a whole bunch of questions about it: It's called the "Birthday/Mother's Day Edition" because it's my birthday weekend and today is Mother's Day. That's all. There's nothing birthday or Mother's Day-related about these tweets. Got it? Good. We still cool, bro?
Anyway, it's Sunday, so it's time for me to pull some of the funny tweets that made me laugh on Twitter this past week. And, as usual, I want to suggest that, if you find these folks funny, follow them! Most of these aren't one-time things! And if yo're not already a Twitter-monkey, become one! There's even more funny out there these! It's win-win for everybody!
And, finally, before I get started, I want to wish all of you awesome moms out there a super-wonderful Mother's Day. Without you, this planet would be a total sausagefest.
So, let's get started, won't we? In no particular order...
Some men are born to greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them.
I just folded a microwave pizza and ate it like a soft taco.
No, no, no. You're supposed to hose down the sex dungeon on Thursday afternoon to make sure it's ready for the weekend. It's clearly printed on the chart that's hanging on the fridge. Seriously, why did I even put it there if nobody's going to...You know what? Forget it. I'll just have the gimp do it.
Anyway, it's time for me to exploit some of the funniest people on Twitter that I've re-tweeted in the past week in order to get attention without doing any real work! And, once again, let me say that if you think these folks are funny, FOLLOW THEM. There's plenty more funny over there, and these folks deserve the attention.
And now, without any further effort ado, in no particular order...
"Unleash the corgis!" I cry.
As my corgi army descends the hill, the enemy begins to flee, overwhelmed by the sheer cuddliness of its foe.
— Blind Chow (@BlindChow) April 25, 2014
In retrospect, calling my failed Gentlemen's Club "The G-Spot" was a horrible business idea since no guys could find it.
— Terry F (@daemonic3) April 23, 2014
when i feel sad, i think of a giraffe in a turtle neck sweater. haha such a long turtle neck.
— timmy pumpkin (@TimmyPumpkin) March 11, 2014
My sister has a great career and lives in Hawaii. I peed in a Gatorade bottle last night because I was too lazy to get up.
— Cruz! (@nPhelendriqal) April 14, 2014
There’s a McDonald’s in this Walmart. And in that McDonald’s there’s a Starbucks. And in that Starbucks there’s a Walmart. And in that Walma
— Bill Mc7 (@BillMc7) April 27, 2014
Excuse me sir, but your goatee looks a little rapey.
— Root Beer (@MrNickJC) April 30, 2014
Sweetheart go draw on your fancy eyebrows, it's payday & I'm taking you to the Garden of Olives.
— That Mothafucka (@Sal0630) April 30, 2014
is nobodey else concerned that 'charlottes web' ends w/ the birth of generations upon generations of hyper-inteligent sentient spider babies
— jomny sun (@jonnysun) May 1, 2014
I don't think there's any way to accurately describe The Fox & The Hound without using the term "psychosexual thriller."
— Lazer Cat (@Laser_Cat) April 28, 2014
I keep asking myself...What if the hokey-pokey really IS what it's all about?
— kerin cook (@kerindoesntcook) May 3, 2014
There you have it! And, before I sign off, I want to throw this out at you, because it made me laugh a lot, and what better way to start your week?
This made me laugh sooo much! Kids imagine Star Wars, adults act it out - genius http://t.co/rNqT3nls2m
Ha! The connection is working again! Now I just have to get this done before it crashes again. And so...
Once again, it's time for me to share some of the hilarious posts on Twitter from some of the weirdest folks out there. (This is a compliment. Seriously.) As always, if you find them amusing, by all means, go follow them. And if you aren't on Twitter, GO JOIN! You will laugh until your ass falls off. That may sound inconvenient, but it's totally worth it.
At any rate, here we go. In no particular order...
Years ago I tried on my sister's bra, couldn't undo the clasp & was too embarrassed to ask for help. I'm still wearing it. I live in shame.
— Blind Chow (@BlindChow) April 21, 2014
Shot a furry #terrorist in my backyard yesterday, trying to make my kids fat and liberal with bright colored chocolate eggs. #Merica#NRA4VR
— JD McIntyre (@JDMcIntyre) April 21, 2014
Ya, I know a boner at the dinner table is awkward but did you see the way your aunt Sally sucked the meat off that turkey leg?
— Dr. Hooey Spitooey (@BigBagOfScum) April 3, 2014
[picks up hitchhiker]
"Where we headed?"
"Our demise [puts on Coldplay CD & opens egg salad] our slow, agonising demise. Mind if I smoke?"
— David Hughes (@david8hughes) April 22, 2014
Dad's Special Rum Cake Recipe:
1: No cake
2: Substitute vodka for rum
3: LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU
— Grant Tanaka (@GrantTanaka) April 22, 2014
The 70s were a v bad time to get superpowers. The main superpowers you would get in the 70s were "trouble hair" and "van".
— Dodgeball Boyfriend (@dvoted_hubsand) April 24, 2014
My google image search history now includes "People's kneecaps that look like baby faces" so I've got that going for me
— Chris Scott (@iamchrisscott) April 24, 2014
A Bald Eagle is just like a regular eagle, except IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS WHY I BOUGHT A CORVETTE, CAROL.
— It's Stephanie (@Snarfernini) April 22, 2014
*walks in pet shop*
one mermaid please.
ummmm we don't have any-
DONT SAY U ONLY HAVE MERMEN.
we only have-
FORGET IT. ILL BUY A UNICORN.
— timmy pumpkin (@TimmyPumpkin) April 22, 2014
Just so you know God and your dead grandparents can see you masturbating so make sure you put on a good show for them.
— Chris Young (@CYComedy) April 23, 2014
And, as an added bonus, here's an educational tweet. You know...to pretend you learned something...
WELCOME TO TONIGHT'S EPISODE OF
~ SIR E DOES A SCIENCE~
*pokes Jello*
THIS HAS BEEN ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF
~ SIR E DOES A SCIENCE~
— Ray (Sir E) (@SirEvisiae) April 24, 2014
And there you have it! Hope you have a great week!
Hello, dear reader. How are you? Myself, I could be better.
You see, due to a wonky internet connection, I find myself unable to post this week's Ten Funny Tweets. I'm currently writing this on my phone, which is not at all optimal for blogging.
Frankly, I'm a bit upset about the whole thing, but there's not much I can do at the moment.
At any rate, I'll make it up to you next Sunday, unless I can find someplace with free Wi-Fi tonight, which is unlikely.
Okay, okay...I know I usually post these lists earlier in the day, but, as today is Easter, I decided to give myself a little leeway so I could gorge myself and perhaps pass out in a food coma. I'm pleased to announce that this is exactly what happened, so, er, Victory, I guess!
Anyway, it was another hilarious week on Twitter, but I've decided to scale back to the original limit of ten posts, because frankly, it's been getting out of hand. And, as silly as this may sound, I feel like adding more and more each week diminishes the list. (Because you just know all those funny Twitter folk are just living for the prestige of ending up on a list that is read by the dozen or so of you that actually take the time.)
And so, in no particular order...
it's even more awkward now knowing that when my grandfather asks me to pull his finger, it's going directly into his colostomy bag
— Illuminated Wonder (@illuminatedwndr) April 13, 2014
Judge me all you want, but I think John Moe (@johnmoe), the host of Wits on Minnesota Public Radio, is one of the funniest human beings on Earth. And one of the funniest bits they do on the show is The Mad Men Show Sketch. This is why:
"Oh I got fired from the idea thinking up store. More time for brown drink, sex having, and PUNCH ME IN THE MIRROR." - Dan Draple
— John Moe (@johnmoe) April 13, 2014
Tryouts for my band tonight. So far it's Crackhead Todd on flute & me whispering into a paper cup so we're kind of just looking for dancers.
— Chelsea Lockwood (@Chelsea_Elle) September 18, 2012
I cleaned my phone on my boob and wound up with a date to the Senior Prom...
I'm not even in high school.
WHAT KIND OF WALMART IS THIS?!
— Felix Felicis (@LuckoftheDraw86) April 12, 2014
Rick Springfield was probably Jessie's shittiest friend.
— david nuzzy nussbaum (@theNuzzy) April 14, 2014
I'm in such a weird place in my life right now. Literally. This shop only sells Owls and Mayonnaise.
— Sam Grittner (@SamGrittner) January 16, 2011
Babies named Agnes are born wearing a floral print blouse that smells like beef stew and do crossword puzzles while they watch Columbo
— Bownuggets (@Bownuggets) April 10, 2014
Seven more cassettes and I'll have fulfilled the terms of my Columbia House contract.
— Tony P. (@Steelers1972) March 4, 2014
[speed dating]
"hi im jennif-
WE DONT HAVE MUCH TIME
*pulls out 17 charts*
HERES HOW JUMANJI FORESHADOWED 9/11
— EJ Gomez (@EJGomez) December 6, 2013
And finally, here's Tim Bartlett (@wbllostsoul), a truly funny human being who doesn't get nearly enough attention on Twitter.
Got banned from another Redbox site for dressing like the Grail Knight and saying, "You chose poorly" when someone rented a shitty movie.
— Tim Bartlett (@wbllostsoul) April 18, 2014
There you have it! And, as always, if you're not on Twitter, join and find even more funny!
Stay tuned, as I will be posting a new Couchcast in the next few days!
I like Canada. It's a country that has a lot of great things to offer, such as hockey, William Shatner, free health care, the Kids in the Hall and poutine. (And if you haven't tried poutine, you should probably take a good hard look at the life decisions that have led you to miss out on such a wonderful concoction.)
If this doesn't make your mouth water and your arteries scream in terror,
you are no son of mine.
I'm sure there's other great stuff there, but really, once you have a plate of poutine put in front of you, you enter a state of contentedness that, if a group of Canadians politely burst through your door and set you on fire, taking a moment to apologize for the inconvenience, you would still think they were pretty decent folks who sometimes talk a little funny.
I also like music. You see, I'm a musician. Liking music sort of comes with the territory. And living as close as I do to the U.S.-Canada border, I hear a lot of music from Canadian bands on the radio stations in Sarnia. In particular, I like to listen to K106.3, which plays a variety of rock music, including numerous Canadian acts, such as Big Sugar, the Tea Party and 54-40.
That's right, it wasn't Hootie. Or the accursed Blowfish. It was a Canadian dude named Neil Osborne. A few other songs from that band you might know are Baby Ran and One Gun. If they don't sound familiar, look them up. I'd be willing to bet you recognize at least one of them.
Anyway, being an outside observer, I've noticed some consistency in the ratio of good to not-so-good bands and musicians coming out of Canada, and although I'm not familiar with every band the Great White North has spawned, I know enough to see that, for every really good Canadian band/musician, there is an equal but opposite terrible band/musician. Allow me to offer a few examples.
(Author's Note: I realize some of you out there might disagree with me about whether this band is good or that band is bad, I should point out that I am a musician, so I know a thing or two about music. Also, it's my blog. If you disagree, feel free to comment, or, better still, go start your own blog and dedicate it to pointing out all the things on the internet that you disagree with. People actually get paid to do that, so you never know.)
Let's go old school first.
The Good: Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Everyone knows Bachman-Turner Overdrive, or BTO, as their fans call them. If the name isn't familiar, they will definitely recognize this song, "Takin' Care of Business", which I think is federally mandated to be used in every single movie ever that requires the characters to clean up an old building or construct something in order to raise money for, I don't know, a children's orphanage or some damn thing:
Catchy, isn't it? You may also recognize the song "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". I'm not linking it here, though, because, frankly, I don't need another brain worm today, now that I have that one stuck in my head. So...
The Bad: The Guess Who
Before finding the hook that would launch a thousand montages, Randy Bachman was a member of another band that felt the need to tell the listening public that women from the U.S. are, in fact, stalker-y skanks.
Now, I'm sure that they weren't saying all American women are dangerous psychopaths. For all I know, they weren't even trying to expose the mental illness of even one woman. It was probably some sort of veiled reference to the Vietnam war or some silly thing like that. (Hence, the line "I don't need your war machines.")
But when I listen to the lyrics, all I can picture in my head is a terrified Randy Bachman hiding behind his sofa and weeping while his doorbell rings over and over again and a drunk woman with running mascara and too much eye shadow pounds on his heavily barricaded front door, screaming, "RAAAAAANDY!!! LET ME IN, HONEY!!! I'LL MAKE YOU SOME POPCORN SHRIMP!!!"
Terrifying. Maybe they made a good point. I'll have to think about that one for a bit. I'll get back to you on it.
Moving along...
The Good: Barenaked Ladies
I want to say right up front that I love this band. They have such a wide variety of styles that they play, from rock to folk to country to straight ahead pop, it's hard to pick a favorite. I can't think of a single song of theirs that I wouldn't enjoy hearing at any given time. Go ahead. Pick a song. I'll listen to it until I'm blue in the ears.
See? They're fun!
The band currently consists of Ed Robertson (guitar and vocals), Kevin Hearn (keyboards, guitar, accordian, vocals and catering, I think), Jim Creegan (bass and vocals) and Tyler Stewart (drums, percussion and vocals). Up until 2009, Steven Page was the band's lead singer, but he left to pursue other avenues, releasing an album called Page One and starring in a television show called The Illegal Eater. You may recognize these guys from their first major single here in the U.S., "The Old Apartment", or, more likely, from this song:
See? Like BTO, these guys know how to jam a hook in your brain and make it stick. Just by searching YouTube, I got the fast "Chickety-China, the Chinese Chicken" bit running through my head and I had to sing it out loud, much to the apparent concern of Bosco, who I'm sure believes I've lost my mind. The same thing happens when I watch The Big Bang Theory, for which they wrote the theme.
Dammit. Now I have to sing that song...Back in a second...
The Bad: Justin Bieber
It seems a little too easy to pick on Bieber, especially considering his recent forays into felonious territory, but he is just terrible. Really, really terrible.
I think that's him on the left. Seriously, fuck that guy.
I was going to try to find a video of one of his songs to link here, but that would have meant I would have to at least listen to a tiny portion of it, and since I've heard roughly one whole minute of one of his songs, I figured that was enough and decided to link to a song from Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman's Hollywood Babble-On podcast, which is infinitely more entertaining and rewarding.
I don't know about you, but that pretty much sums it all up for me.
The Good: Rush
This one may be a little tough for me to write. You see, I'm not a huge fan of Rush. I mean, I get the music, and I know that, for the most part, they are an incredibly talented band. Alex Lifeson is a creative and interesting guitarist, and Neil Peart is quite possibly one of the greatest drummers that ever lived. It should also be pointed out that Peart writes most, if not all, of the lyrics for the band, so there's that.
No, the one that I have a problem with is Geddy Lee. First, there's his bass. It's just too loud and twangy for my taste. It overrides the other instruments. Dial it back, Geddy. You're the front man. There's no reason to dominate all the music, too.
He also has a soul patch. The guy is, like, 70, and he has a soul patch.
My next problem with Mr. Lee is his voice. I just don't like the way he sounds. Sure, he has a unique voice, but it's also incredibly annoying. It's like having a cheese grater rubbed against my ears.
That said, they're still a solid and talented band. And there's a reason why John Moe, the host of Wits, calls them "everybody's older brother's favorite band." That reason is the musicianship, which is demonstrated here, on an instrumental piece called "YYZ":
Incidentally, the opening notes are Morse Code for the title of the song.
One other neat thing I recently discovered about the band is this: Geddy Lee no longer uses amplifiers. He plugs his bass directly into the soundboard (presumably to make it easier to override everyone else onstage), and now uses what would normally be the area where his amps go as a place to put unusual gimmicks, like washing machines filled with t-shirts, which he throws to the crowd throughout the show. Fun!
The Bad: Kim Mitchell
This could have been an easy spot to take a shot at the band everybody loves to hate, Nickelback. However, as I've already picked one easy target for this post, I've decided to go with the deep cut that is Canadian rock guitarist Kim Mitchell.
Pictured: Nickelback. NOT Kim Mitchell.
They just look so punchable...Almost too punchable.
I get it, Canada. Kim Mitchell is quite a talented guitarist. But I just don't understand how he managed to gain the popularity he has, considering the laughably cliched songs he writes, such as "Go For A Soda":
If you don't think those lyrics are corny enough, look up "Rock And Roll Duty". Like "Go For A Soda", it has great guitar riffs, but is instantly ruined the moment the singer (Mitchell himself, I believe) opens his mouth and begins spewing lyrics like the following:
My Rock 'N Roll heartaches end up in song Sometimes i get it right sometimes I'm wrong And my love of Rock N Roll makes me a one-night-stand Sometimes I'm enriched sometimes I'm tanned I'm just doing my Rock N Roll duty
It gets worse from there. These lyrics remind me of the German band Autograph, a band that hit it big with "Turn Up The Radio", a song so filled with rock and roll cliches that it should have been issued with leather pants and a bandanna to hang around your neck when you listened to it.
The one thing that even remotely redeems Mitchell is that he really is a talented guitarist. I also recently discovered that he contributed a guitar solo for the song "Wind Me Up" by Barenaked Ladies. But that doesn't excuse the lyrics. That's all I'm saying.
Kim Mitchell (right) may look like Moby and Peter Frampton's love child,
but at least he doesn't have a goddamn soul patch. Suck it, Geddy.
There are plenty of other examples I could offer, both good (Alanis Morrisette, Bruce Cockburn, any of the Wainwright family) and bad (Sebastion Bach, Celine Dion, Gino Vannelli), not to mention some just plain "What the hell?":
Therefore, I encourage you to seek out some of the interesting and unusual musical fare that Canada has to offer. There's plenty of it out there.
And, again, try poutine. You'll thank me, right after your triple bypass surgery.
Okay...I know I just posted a bunch of tweets, but I saw this one a few minutes ago, and I had to share it, especially for you musicians out there.
A musician replies to an ad from a restaurant looking for a band to play for free 'to promote their work'. #geniuspic.twitter.com/6lfGJSYQyz
— Barnaby Edwards (@BarnabyEdwards) April 4, 2014
