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May 20, 2026
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Alternate Trailer for The Shining - This is awesome.
Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" is our other national anthem. It's both musically and lyrically worthy of this honour, and two events over the past few months have cemented its status as the song that unites. On July 2nd of this year, Canada's Live 8 concert took place
I've added 39 new CDs to my MP3 collection. Here they are... Feist - Let It DieTransplants - TransplantsHayden - Live @ Convocation Hall (Discs 1 & 2)Hayden - Elk-Lake SerenadeRamones - Smash You - Live '85Ramones - Loud, Fast RamonesSam Roberts - We Were Born In A FlameBif Naked
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Keep up that dream Mike. You just never know. I have been a long suffering Pittsburgh Penguin fan for some twenty years. Being from Ottawa it would be easy to jump
I am not a rocket surgeon. I feel it's necessary to fully disclose this obvious fact at the beginning of this entry. On August 2nd, I published a Toronto Maple Leaf 2005 reality check. In this entry, I wrote the following: "It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see we're
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Queen - We Are The Champions This song is
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Counting Crows - Mr. JonesCyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have FunCypress Hill - Insane in the BrainEminem - Lose YourselfEverlast - What It's LikeFleetwood Mac
Everything came together last night culminating in a tidy sweep as we in Raging Storm won the RSPA Division Championship. Last year, we lost in the finals but this season we redeemed ourselves. Good hitting and great defense is a deadly combination in slo-pitch. I don't have the exact scores
Tonight, we in Raging Storm leave it all on the field. There is no tomorrow. It all comes down to this. Will I be sharing a song of victory tomorrow or the anthem of losers?
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. This is a comment on your selection of songs that best represent the spirit of Canadian music. There are some songs & artists in that list that I have not heard.
Hipeponymous is coming soon. Hipeponymous is a limited edition, 2 CD and 2 DVD box set from The Tragically Hip that hits stores on November 1 and the cover will look like this. I own their entire catalogue, so I won't fork over this kind of coin for the two
A few years ago, I bought some Kellogg's cereal that had a DVD inside. The DVD was "Air Bud" and I put it away so that one day I could watch it with James. That day was this weekend as we all sat down to watch this Canadian movie about
Don Adams was 82. He was the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart."
I had a blast at the Pearl Jam concert and was lucky enough to witness first hand "Rockin' in the Free World" with Ed and Bono taking turns on the mic. It truly was one of those moments. Back in August I wrote about Pearl Jam's decision to release 192
Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Walk Of Life - Dire StraitsI Feel Alright - Screamin' Jay HawkinsHigh Priest of Turbulence -
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your RightBeck - LoserBig Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half-Steppin'Blink 182 - Adam's SongBruce Springsteen - Born to RunBush - Everything
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. I attended the Leaf/Canadiens game in Montreal last night. It was an entertaining game and it was obvious both teams are not used to the new rules.Sundin and Tucker
Spellbound: 8 out of 10. In "Spellbound" we get to know eight competitors in the National Spelling Bee and follow them as they aim for the title. It's a great documentary and you quickly see why it was nominated for best doc at the 2003 Academy Awards. Often times fact
You know that "to do" list we mentally keep of things to bang off as soon as other stuff dies down? I keep one, and it had a list of things to do to this web site as soon as other projects wrapped up. This weekend, I finally found the
Thomas Ross Bond was 79. He played Butch the bully in the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" serials of the 1930s.
"And you know that she will trust you for you've touched her perfect body with your mind." - Leonard Cohen, Suzanne
Last month, I started listing artists and their definitive albums. I banged off ten a day until I hit ZZ Top. I'm going to do the same thing with the same artists, only this time I'm listing their definitive song. 2pac - Dear Mama3rd Bass - The Gas FaceA Tribe
I've posted four new pictures in Pictures. We made Rice Krispie squares earlier today and Michelle got to lick the bowl. The result was a series of great photos...
