Happy Canada Day!

[Jaimoe]

To all my hosers out there, have a great Canada Day. We're 141, but don't look a day over, say, 125?

Celebrate by downing a two-four, grab some poutine for a snack (with some mayonnaise on the side) and if you forget anything, head on over to your nearest corner store or dépanneur, perhaps for a box of Smarties, Hostess ketchup chips or a Crispy Crunch bar.

Oh yeah, crank up some Neil Young or Stompin' Tom Connors and throw some darts into pictures of some of our most famous turncoat ex-pats that pay lip-service to Canada like William Shatner, Jim Carey, Lord Conrad Black, Pamela Anderson, Mary Pickford, Monty Hall, Rich Little, Robert Goulet, Brian Trottier, Brendan Frasier, Keanu Reeves, Owen Hargreaves, Jonathan de Guzman, Greg Rusedski and all of the half a million snowbirds living in Florida that come back when they get sick for the free medicare. Godspeed to our troops fighting in Afghanistan, the memory of our war heroes from all the wars, to the memory and legacy of Terry Fox, Pierre Trudeau, Glen Gould and Don Cherry (who will never die) ... in that order! R.I.P. Oscar Peterson. You were one of the greatest.

[SMc55]

Happy Canada Day to you and all your compatriots!

[BH]

2008 Canadian Grand Prix.  BMW Sauber first win a few weeks ago!



And Gilles Villeneuve!


And of course:






Canadians also invented insulin, the light bulb (that's right), the zipper and the wonderbra.  Need I say more?

[Crispy]

2008 Canadian Grand Prix.  BMW Sauber first win a few weeks ago!



And Gilles Villeneuve!

Yay Canada! And Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - I drove my Jeep around that track once.

And Nueltin Lake (not me but I wish):

[MarkW]

Happy Birthday Canada!

Can we have it back now, please?  Willing to swap for Wales (or Scotland)...  ;)

[Jaimoe]

Happy Birthday Canada!

Can we have it back now, please?  Willing to swap for Wales (or Scotland)...  ;)

Well, the Queen is our head of state (and her face is on our money), so GB still has a piece of Canada, other than when we go head-to-head at the Commonwealth Games.

[Hawkeye]

Happy Canada Day!  (on Friday)

Came here looking for ways to celebrate...just for fun...Jaimoe's original post gave me a few ideas.  Would like to make a Maple Leaf pinatta and hit it with hockey sticks (what to fill it with?), maybe make a Canadian flag cake, drink some Molsons, play some street hockey (or Blades of Steel on the NES), listen to some Neil Young...any other ideas?  Good Canadian TV shows or movies?

[Crispy]

Happy Canada Day!  (on Friday)

Came here looking for ways to celebrate...just for fun...Jaimoe's original post gave me a few ideas.  Would like to make a Maple Leaf pinatta and hit it with hockey sticks (what to fill it with?), maybe make a Canadian flag cake, drink some Molsons, play some street hockey (or Blades of Steel on the NES), listen to some Neil Young...any other ideas?  Good Canadian TV shows or movies?

Gotta get some poutine in there somewhere! Woo Canada!

[Hawkeye]

Happy Canada Day!  (on Friday)

Came here looking for ways to celebrate...just for fun...Jaimoe's original post gave me a few ideas.  Would like to make a Maple Leaf pinatta and hit it with hockey sticks (what to fill it with?), maybe make a Canadian flag cake, drink some Molsons, play some street hockey (or Blades of Steel on the NES), listen to some Neil Young...any other ideas?  Good Canadian TV shows or movies?

Gotta get some poutine in there somewhere! Woo Canada!

Didn't know what that was...had to Google it...looks mighty good d'oh, eh?  I'd eat that any day!

[Jaimoe]

Happy Canada Day!  (on Friday)

Came here looking for ways to celebrate...just for fun...Jaimoe's original post gave me a few ideas.  Would like to make a Maple Leaf pinatta and hit it with hockey sticks (what to fill it with?), maybe make a Canadian flag cake, drink some Molsons, play some street hockey (or Blades of Steel on the NES), listen to some Neil Young...any other ideas?  Good Canadian TV shows or movies?

Although it's anti-American (in a late 1700s British vs US naval rivalry), crank up the brilliant "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great folk singer, Stan Rogers. Also listen to some other great Canuck acts such as the Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf, Arcade Fire, Tragically Hip ("Ahead by a Century", "50 Mission Cap" and "Bobcaygeon"), Broken Social Scene, Feist, Lenny Breau (he might still be the finest jazz guitarist ever), April Wine, Triumph, Rush, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Ian and Sylvia ("Four Stong Winds" rivals Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"), Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, The Guess Who, 54-40 ("I Go Blind", "One Gun" and "Baby Ran"), Lighthouse, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan ("Money City Maniacs"), Rheostatics, DOA, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, k-Os, BTO, David Wilcox, Anne Murray, Paul Anka, Buffy Sainte-Marie and so on.... and Diana Krall can go fuck herself, same with Bieber, Avril, Celine, Our Lady Peace, Nelly Furtado, Tea Party, Stereos and Nickelback.

Canuck films? Well, Porky's of course! Some of our greatest directors didn't always make films that focussed on Canada (Norman Jewison, Ivan Reitman), but some by David Cronenberg, Bob Clark (A Christmas Story and Black Christmas) and especially Atom Egoyan are set in Canada. Meatballs by Ivan Reitman is a must (Bill Murray is hilarious). Try finding the terrific Bruce McDonald rockumentary, The Grey Fox, The Terry Fox Story, FUBAR, Hard Core Logo, Never Cry Wolf, Prom Night - and the doc, Anvil: The Story of Anvil. Although not Canadian, Slap Shot is revered in my country. Sarah Polley's Away From Her is sad, but brilliant. Goin' Down the Road is the most influential Canuck film of the 1970s (and was parodied to hilarity on SCTV: "Were're goin' to Yonge Street.. Whoo!"). The WWI drama, Passchendaele, is good; we lost over 60,000 troops in the WWI for fuck sakes and Canada's population at the time was under 8 million.

TV shows: SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Durham County, They Call Me Fitz, Trailer Park Boys, Rick Mercer Report, Corner Gas (I find Red Green corny, but ok for what it is). Oh, and YouTube Hockey Night in Canada's Coach's Corner; Don Cherry spewing right-wing nationalism with a bit of old school hockey is pretty darn Canadian, and really funny too.

[Jaimoe]

Happy Canada Day!  (on Friday)

Good Canadian TV shows or movies?

One more that just came to mind: Hobo With a Shotgun.


I've got the Phillies-Jays game on right now (with Toronto wearing all red and white). I'm betting this perfect piece of power-pop will be playing at a backyard bbq, town/city park and/or street party across this great land:

Sloan - Money City Maniacs

[Crispy]

Although it's anti-American (in a late 1700s British vs US naval rivalry), crank up the brilliant "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great folk singer, Stan Rogers. Also listen to some other great Canuck acts such as the Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf, Arcade Fire, Tragically Hip ("Ahead by a Century", "50 Mission Cap" and "Bobcaygeon"), Broken Social Scene, Feist, Lenny Breau (he might still be the finest jazz guitarist ever), April Wine, Triumph, Rush, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Ian and Sylvia ("Four Stong Winds" rivals Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"), Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, The Guess Who, 54-40 ("I Go Blind", "One Gun" and "Baby Ran"), Lighthouse, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan ("Money City Maniacs"), Rheostatics, DOA, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, k-Os, BTO, David Wilcox, Anne Murray, Paul Anka, Buffy Sainte-Marie and so on....

What, no Stars? I love Stars. Enjoying Sloan, cool stuff!

[darkglow]

i'm sorry but where is this Canada that you speak of???

[Jaimoe]

Although it's anti-American (in a late 1700s British vs US naval rivalry), crank up the brilliant "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great folk singer, Stan Rogers. Also listen to some other great Canuck acts such as the Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf, Arcade Fire, Tragically Hip ("Ahead by a Century", "50 Mission Cap" and "Bobcaygeon"), Broken Social Scene, Feist, Lenny Breau (he might still be the finest jazz guitarist ever), April Wine, Triumph, Rush, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Ian and Sylvia ("Four Stong Winds" rivals Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"), Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, The Guess Who, 54-40 ("I Go Blind", "One Gun" and "Baby Ran"), Lighthouse, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan ("Money City Maniacs"), Rheostatics, DOA, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, k-Os, BTO, David Wilcox, Anne Murray, Paul Anka, Buffy Sainte-Marie and so on....

What, no Stars? I love Stars. Enjoying Sloan, cool stuff!

Ha!

Ok, I endorse all of these mostly indie acts as soundtracks for Canada Day: Stars, Metric, Wolf Parade, New Pornographers, Black Mountain, The Sheepdogs, The Sadies, Blue Rodeo, Handsome Furs, The Deadly Snakes, Great Lake Swimmers, Death From Above 1979, Cuff The Duke, K'Naan, Japanoids, The Stills, PS I Love, The Stills...

[Jaimoe]

i'm sorry but where is this Canada that you speak of???

Next to Denmark/Greenland and borders those French islands off the coast of Nova Scotia. I'm not familiar with any other country we border.

[Crispy]

Although it's anti-American (in a late 1700s British vs US naval rivalry), crank up the brilliant "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great folk singer, Stan Rogers. Also listen to some other great Canuck acts such as the Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf, Arcade Fire, Tragically Hip ("Ahead by a Century", "50 Mission Cap" and "Bobcaygeon"), Broken Social Scene, Feist, Lenny Breau (he might still be the finest jazz guitarist ever), April Wine, Triumph, Rush, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Ian and Sylvia ("Four Stong Winds" rivals Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"), Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, The Guess Who, 54-40 ("I Go Blind", "One Gun" and "Baby Ran"), Lighthouse, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan ("Money City Maniacs"), Rheostatics, DOA, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, k-Os, BTO, David Wilcox, Anne Murray, Paul Anka, Buffy Sainte-Marie and so on....

What, no Stars? I love Stars. Enjoying Sloan, cool stuff!

Ha!

Ok, I endorse all of these mostly indie acts as soundtracks for Canada Day: Stars, Metric, Wolf Parade, New Pornographers, Black Mountain, The Sheepdogs, The Sadies, Blue Rodeo, Handsome Furs, The Deadly Snakes, Great Lake Swimmers, Death From Above 1979, Cuff The Duke, K'Naan, Japanoids, The Stills, PS I Love, The Stills...

Whew -- just for today though. You like the Stills, eh? Goddamn, I LOVE the Sadies.

darkglow:


I kid because I love.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

South Park - Fuck Canada

[Jaimoe]

I like Trey and Matt. They kid because they love.

[darkglow]

Although it's anti-American (in a late 1700s British vs US naval rivalry), crank up the brilliant "Barrett's Privateers" by the late great folk singer, Stan Rogers. Also listen to some other great Canuck acts such as the Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf, Arcade Fire, Tragically Hip ("Ahead by a Century", "50 Mission Cap" and "Bobcaygeon"), Broken Social Scene, Feist, Lenny Breau (he might still be the finest jazz guitarist ever), April Wine, Triumph, Rush, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Ian and Sylvia ("Four Stong Winds" rivals Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"), Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, The Guess Who, 54-40 ("I Go Blind", "One Gun" and "Baby Ran"), Lighthouse, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan ("Money City Maniacs"), Rheostatics, DOA, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, k-Os, BTO, David Wilcox, Anne Murray, Paul Anka, Buffy Sainte-Marie and so on....

What, no Stars? I love Stars. Enjoying Sloan, cool stuff!

Ha!

Ok, I endorse all of these mostly indie acts as soundtracks for Canada Day: Stars, Metric, Wolf Parade, New Pornographers, Black Mountain, The Sheepdogs, The Sadies, Blue Rodeo, Handsome Furs, The Deadly Snakes, Great Lake Swimmers, Death From Above 1979, Cuff The Duke, K'Naan, Japanoids, The Stills, PS I Love, The Stills...

Whew -- just for today though. You like the Stills, eh? Goddamn, I LOVE the Sadies.

darkglow:


I kid because I love.

*snickers*

[BH]

New Pink Mountaintops to celebrate:

http://stereogum.com/731752/pink-mountaintops-through-all-the-worry-video/video/