Sask Books: Dead Rock Stars

“Dead Rock Stars”
By Wes Funk
Published by Backroads Press
Reviewed by Gail Jansen
Price $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-9781396-1-8
Growing up different from others always makes its mark on who we become as adults. For Wes Funk’s main character Jackson Hill, in his novel “Dead Rock Stars,” growing up gay on a farm in small town Saskatchewan, it’s a mark [...]

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Monster Mash

I just learned this today, and it’s a perfect time to talk about it, seeing how close we are to Halloween.
On this day in 1962, the novelty song Monster Mash reached number one on the American Billboard 100 list.  The Monster Mash, performed by Bobby “Boris” Pickett, was released as a single in October of [...]

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The Way I See It: Avast ye, all ye who come sail here!

So recently, a few friends of mine and I were discussing some of the laws that surrounded the music industry. Both Canada and the United States have them as a way to protect the composer, distributor and the producer of the music that has been recorded. This was spurred on by the recent [...]

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The completely random stuff of the day

Spam!
What about it?  Well, it’s kinda useless.  I am not speaking about the tasty meat substitute, but instead that garbage that fills up your inbox asking if you want car rentals, boob jobs or penis extensions.  The only thing they provide is humour.  A while back, Zodi and I were talking about spam like two [...]

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Pork and Beans, Pop culture and memes

Watching some videos on YouTube the other day.  Mostly, I was checking out some videos of music that would go well with the next series of Black Mask and Pale Rider.  But thanks to YouTube’s start page, something caught my eye.  A video from Weezer.  Now, I first heard of Weezer back in the days [...]

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Paranoid

This is a local band out of Outlook. I have it on good information that they are putting together a demo, and putting together their own material. They are called Fragile Transit. Check it out.

Until the day the music dies…
…keep ‘em flyin’.

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Nightwish-Creek Mary’s Blood (End of an Era)

Music is a big inspiration to what I write. And this really inspired a lot of the creation of Maxwell and Naomi Running Cloud. I find this inspiration is rather coincidental. I’ll get to that in a moment.

The band is called Nightwish. Formed in the mid 90’s, [...]

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Exciting and inspirational

In my line of work I get to meet a lot of different people. I’ve had the opportunity to speak with the different Premiers of Saskatchewan over the years. Such men as Grant Devine and Roy Romanow. I’ve also spoken to one of the most interesting women in the history of provincial [...]

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve Sarejevo

A long time Christmas favorite. It’s such a beautiful piece of music. A mix of Classical music and Rock.

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