75 posts tagged “vox hunt”
In honor of Canada Day, show us your favorite Canadian.
Yeah, yeah, we know. We amuse you Americans no end. We apparently say "oot and aboot" You like our beer (that's ok, you can have all the crappy Labatt Blue and Molson Ex you want. We keep the good microbrewery stuff for ourselves). We stick the letter "u" in words like colour and famous. We gave you Celine Dion (sorry), Bryan Adams, Sarah McLaughlan, Feist, and Alanis "yes, it's another album about another fuckwad ex-boyfriend" Morissette (how this woman, with her record of public revenge, is ever going to get another date is beyond me. But I digress).
Anyway, here's a list of some of my favourite fellow Canadians. Like Redzilla, I'll start with my peeps, who I hope are all enjoying their day off.
Bobavid
Laurie
arbed
Morgat
Toe-Knee
Ian in Hamburg
And here are some of my favourite Canadians. You may have heard of some of them:
William Shatner (the Student Union building at McGill University is named after him)
Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best (discovered insulin)
Glenn Gould
Oscar Peterson
Stephen Leacock (turn of the last century humourist and author, kind of our Mark Twain)
Jacques Plante (legendary Montreal Canadians goaltender in the 50s ; first NHL goalie to wear a mask, his own invention)
Mary Pickford
Martin Short
Mike Myers (Mr BA went to high school with him)
Nellie McClung (feminist and women's rights leader; she led a movement that led to Manitoba becoming the first province in Canada to give women the vote. The country followed a year later.)
Henrietta Edwards (founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses, one of the longest-standing and most respected volunteer organizations in Canada. She was one of the "Famous Five", a quintet of women who, in 1927, successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Canada that women were indeed "persons under the law", and therefore entitled to sit in the Senate.)
Russell Peters (Indo-Canadian comic. Like me, he looks brown but has a white name. And he's fucking hilarious. Every thing that comes out of his mouth concerning Indian FOB (fresh off the boat) families is true. )
Share a song you listened to in 6th grade.
I apologize in advance for the horrible earworms that will follow.
Show us your favorite painting.
I believe this is another recycled QoTD. My answer then was the same as now.
Just one is too hard, but here are three. Crossing the River Styx by Joachim Patinir:
The interior of St Baavo's church, by the astonishing 17th-century Dutch painter of architectural subjects, Jan Pietersz. Saenredam.
And the Antwerp Madonna, by the 15th-centruy Burgundian genius Jean Fouquet. The painting has been stunningly restored in recent years. I saw it in all its psychedelic glory in 2002 at its home in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In a private viewing for just myself and a very charming and melancholic Russian count, a great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and the curator of the Tolstoy museum. Which is a story I will have to entertain you with another time.
Show us something striped.
Show us what you look like when you just wake up.
Submitted by kartika.
AYFKM?
Show us your job.
I am a senior communciations official for a government agency. So basically, my job is all spin, all the time.
Work it, Ali!
I've mentioned my ex-boyfriend and still friend, Matt Herskowitz, the crazy-talented jazz/classical pianist. This is an old video, shot about 10 years ago, when we were still an item. The piece is one of his own compositions, Serial Blues, which he arranged for orchestra for this recording. The "band" is the eclectic New York group Absolute Ensemble. I think the camera dude was doing the girl playing the baritone sax, which is why there are a lot of closeups of her, LOL.
And here is a vid of Matt doing the classical thing last year, with the outstanding (and cute!) young Canadian violinist Alexandre da Costa. This is a movement from a Brahms violin sonata.
Show us something that only occurs during winter.
In this hemisphere, at least:
If you had the ability to teleport, where would you go right now?
A luxurious beach villa in the Maldives sounds just about right...
