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Break Songs (Or Music to March Break By)
Published March 12, 2010 @ 15:49 in Lists, Music

MusicIt's March break.

Here are songs in my collection that have the word "march" in the title.

  • 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones
  • 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
  • A Room At Heartbreak Hotel - U2
  • Achy Breaky Song - Weird Al Yankovic
  • Alone I Break - Korn
  • Ballbreaker - AC-DC
  • Bend and Break - Keane
  • Big Stuff (Previously Unissued Breakdown And Chatter) - Billie Holiday
  • Break - The Kleptones
  • Break - Three Days Grace
  • Break Down Doors - Default
  • Break Down The Walls - Chris Jericho - RA The Rugged Man
  • Break 'Em Off Some - Cypress Hill
  • Break 'Em On Down - Big Joe Williams
  • Break Her Down - Moist
  • Break It To Them Gently - Burton Cummings
  • Break It Up - Foreigner
  • Break It Up - Cypress Hill
  • Break My Body - Pixies
  • Break My Stride - Unique II
  • Break My Stride - Mathiew Wilder
  • Break of Dawn - Michael Jackson
  • Break On Through (The Doors) - Pearl Jam
  • Break on Through (To the Other Side) - The Doors
  • Break Out (Insert) - N.W.A.
  • Break Some Off - Korn
  • Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
  • Break The Bed - Odds
  • Break the Grip of Shame - Paris
  • Break The Ice - Britney Spears
  • Break The Spell - The Rolling Stones
  • Break Ups 2 Make Ups - Method Man/Method Man
  • Break You Off - The Roots
  • Break Your Heart - Barenaked Ladies
  • Break Your Heart - Natalie Merchant
  • Breakadown - De La Soul
  • Breakaway - Ratatat
  • Breakaway - Sass Jordan
  • Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
  • Breakdown - Guns N' Roses
  • Breakdown - Handsome Boy Modeling School
  • Breakdown - Jack Johnson
  • Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Breakdown - Tantric
  • Breakerfall - Pearl Jam
  • Breakfast At The Circus - David Wilcox
  • Breakfast In America - Supertramp
  • Breakfast In Bed - The Pretenders
  • Breakin' Dishes - Rihanna
  • Breakin' the Law - The New Pornographers
  • Breaking All The Rules - Ozzy Osbourne
  • Breaking Free - High School Musical
  • Breaking In - Means
  • Breaking My Own Heart - Duffy
  • Breaking The Girl - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Breaking The Habit - Linkin Park
  • Breakout - Foo Fighters
  • Breakout - Swing Out Sister
  • Breakthrough - Big Wreck
  • Bringin' On The Heartbreak - Def Leppard
  • Calypso Breakdown - Ralph McDonald
  • Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
  • Communications Breakdown - Chilliwack
  • Daybreak - Barry Manilow
  • Disciplined Breakdown - Collective Soul
  • Don't Break My Heart - UB40
  • Don't Confess (This Thing That Breaks My Heart) - Tegan and Sara
  • Don't Go Breaking My Heart [With Kiki Dee] - Elton John
  • Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - The Rolling Stones
  • Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast - Broken Social Scene
  • Guilty (Previously Unissued Breakdown And Chatter) - Billie Holiday
  • Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
  • He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart) - Levon & The Hawks
  • Heartbreak Beat - The Psychedelic Furs
  • Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
  • Heartbreak Hotel - Billy Joel
  • Heartbreak Hotel - Whitney Houston
  • Heartbreak Radio - Delbert McClinton
  • Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
  • Heartbreaker (Live, 1987) - Nirvana
  • How Could An Angel Break My Heart - Kenny G
  • I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home Tonight - Ann Peebles
  • I Want to Break Free - Queen
  • It's All Gonna Break - Broken Social Scene
  • Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
  • Nookie, Break Stuff - Richard Cheese
  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Psychic TV
  • Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) - The Band
  • Rude Boy Abroad [Lazare breakdub] - Bedouin Soundclash
  • So He Won't Break - The Black Keys
  • Spybreak! (Short One) - Propellerheads
  • Stop Breakin Down Blues - Robert Johnson
  • Stop Breaking Down - The White Stripes
  • Super Disco Breakin' - Beastie Boys
  • The Break - Soul Asylum
  • Time To Break Up - blink-182
  • To Da Break Of Dawn - L.L. Cool J.
  • Unbreak my Heart - Johnny Mathis
  • Up for Breakfast - Van Halen
  • Welcome To Heartbreak [Ft. Kid Cudi] - Kanye West
  • When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout
  • When the Levee Breaks - A Perfect Circle
  • When The Levee Breaks - Dread Zeppelin
  • When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
  • When Your Lonely Heart Breaks - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  • You're Breaking His Heart - Mark Mothersbaugh
Most Popular Social Networking Websites
Published March 10, 2010 @ 19:47 in Lists

MouseAccording to Wikipedia, these are the biggest social networking websites you'd know about in North America, sorted alphabetically.

  • Classmates.com
  • Facebook
  • Flixster
  • Flickr
  • Last.fm
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter
  • Windows Live Spaces

I currently have accounts with Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Twitter. Which ones do you use?

Dead Teen Songs: My Favourites
Published January 22, 2010 @ 09:59 in Lists, Music

MusicIn my travels the other night, I stumbled upon Dead Teen Songs or Teenage Death Music or the teen death song or teen tragedy. In addition to being quite the title, it's quite the list.

You've got to love songs about teenage death. Here are my ten favourite dead teen songs.

  • Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
  • Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-las
  • I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
  • Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash
  • The Legend Of Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
  • Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
  • 19 - Paul Hardcastle
  • Adam's Song - Blink 182
  • Jeremy - Pearl Jam
  • People Who Died - Jim Carroll

But my favourite teen tragedy song didn't even get a mention on this web page. That would be Big League by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider. Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane to the big league.

Top 10 Books of 2009 According to My Wife
Published January 12, 2010 @ 10:56 in Lists

BookI'm not much of a reader. I read a lot of the web, but not actual books.

My wife reads a lot, so I asked her to give me a list of her ten favourite books of 2009.

1. The Sealed Letter by Emman Donoghue

2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

3. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

5. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof

6. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell

7. When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson

8. The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

9. Outlander by Diana Galbaldon

10. Beach Music by Pat Conroy

I'm still partial to Goodnight Moon.

Movies I Hated in 2009
Published January 11, 2010 @ 13:18 in Lists, Movies

moviesOn the weekend, I wrote about movies I loved in 2009. As promised, here are movies I gave 5 or less out of 10 a.k.a. movies I hated in 2009.

2,155 Sources of Traffic, Here are the Top 10
Published January 2, 2010 @ 17:01 in Lists

hyperlinkThere were 2,155 sources of traffic to this site in 2009. #1 was Google and #2 was Yahoo. That's search engine traffic, and important, but this entry isn't about search engine traffic. It's about other sites that sent visitors over here throughout the year.

Excluding Google, Yahoo and Bing, here are the top ten sources of traffic to TorontoMike.com.

  1. StumbleUpon.com
  2. Twitter.com
  3. CanadianThinker.com
  4. EyeWeekly.com
  5. Facebook.com
  6. Torontoist.com
  7. CityNews.ca
  8. BlogTO.com
  9. PensionPlanPuppets.com
  10. HumbleHoward.com

Inbound links are always appreciated, and whenever possible reciprocated.

20 Celebrity Deaths of Significance in 2009
Published December 29, 2009 @ 16:23 in Lists

bereavementAs 2009 draws to a close, you'll likely be seeing a lot of celebrity death lists, remembering those who died throughout the year. For as long as I've had a personal home page on the interweb, I've marked celebrity passings. You can read them all at http://www.torontomike.com/rest_in_peace/.

Here are twenty celebrities of note who passed away in 2009.

The Death of Childhood Memories

Here are ten deaths that in one way or another represented my fleeting youth. The older we get, the more icons from our childhood loves we lose. Still, we lost most of the following far too early.

Other Significant Celebrity Passings

There were a number of significant celebrity deaths in 2009. Here are ten more who left us in 2009.

Abe Vigoda, however, is alive.

The 100 Best Band Names of All Time
Published December 14, 2009 @ 16:05 in Lists, Music

MusicThere's a link going around that lists the 100 best band names of all time.

Here's their top 10:

1. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Leave it to The Muppets to come up with the BEST BAND NAME OF ALL TIME.)
2. Guided By Voices (This always seemed like the secret to Robert Pollard’s prolific and bizarre output.)
3. Joy Division (The name came from the 1955 novel House of Dolls in which a Nazi concentration camp had a prostitution arm.)
4. Led Zeppelin
5. A Tribe Called Quest
6. 13th Floor Elevators
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Like Lemmy and the umlaut, we’d have retired random punctuation after these post-rock legends used it best.)
8. Public Enemy
9. Man… or Astro-Man? (After seeing them live, you still wonder.)
10. We Were Promised Jetpacks! (Yes, Scottish frontman Adam Thompson, we sure were.)

I like #3, #4, #5 and #8, but I'm not sure of the others. I don't even think #1 should count.

Without giving it a great deal of thought, here are my ten favourite band names.

  1. Joy Division
  2. Velvet Underground
  3. Soundgarden
  4. A Tribe Called Quest
  5. The Flaming Lips
  6. Revolting Cocks
  7. Rage Against the Machine
  8. Sex Pistols
  9. Sonic Youth
  10. The Psychedelic Furs
40 Christmas Songs
Published December 11, 2009 @ 09:55 in Lists, Music

christmas musicTis the season we're inundated by Christmas music. Like any music, some Christmas songs are great, while others are pretty dreadful. This year, I decided to wade through my collection and produce the top 40 Christmas songs.

Yes, music playlists are totally subjective, so I'm sure I've missed a few of your personal favourites, or perhaps I included a Christmas song or two you despise. That's what the comments are for! Let me know where I messed up as we collaborate to mould the ideal Christmas playlist for 2009.

  • Christmas Don't Be Late - Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
  • Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
  • Green Christmas - Barenaked Ladies
  • White Christmas - Bing Crosby
  • Mary Had A Baby - Bruce Cockburn
  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen
  • Merry Christmas Baby - Chuck Berry
  • Joy To The World - Clem Snide
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Coldplay
  • First Noel - Crash Test Dummies
  • Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie and Bing Crosby
  • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin
  • Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab For Cutie
  • Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
  • I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
  • Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto - James Brown
  • Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko And Plastic Ono Band And The Harlem Community Choir
  • Honky The Christmas Goose - Johnny Bower
  • I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas
  • Christmas Night in Harlem - Louis Armstrong & His All Stars
  • Carol Of The Bells - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  • The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Nat King Cole
  • Merry Christmas, Baby - Otis Redding
  • Let Me Sleep - Pearl Jam
  • Fairytale of New York - The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl
  • 2000 Miles - The Pretenders
  • Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) - The Ramones
  • The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
  • Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ray Charles
  • Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC
  • Song For A Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan
  • What Christmas Means To Me - Stevie Wonder
  • You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft
  • O Holy Night - Tipitina's Foundation
  • Baby Please Come Home - U2
  • Christmas Time Is Here ( Instrumental) - Vince Guaraldi Trio
  • Greensleeves - Vince Guaraldi Trio
  • Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
  • Welcome Christmas - The Who's of Whoville

Merry Christmas!

The 10 Best Christmas Movies / Specials
Published December 6, 2009 @ 13:08 in Lists, Movies

xmasHere are my ten favourite Christmas movies and specials. Feel free to add your favourites in the comments.

10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

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9. It's A Wonderful Life

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8. Love Actually

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7. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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6. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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5. The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

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4. Bad Santa

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3. The Polar Express

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2. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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1. A Christmas Story

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