Below are the top 40 movies in 2011 according to box office receipts. Two things immediately spring to mind: hot damn that's a lot of sequels and I sure haven't seen many popular movies in 2011. I'll bold the ones I've seen, since I know you're curious. Harry Potter and
Kim Jong Il is dead. That's a great reason to dust off these 17 bizarre details about the Dear Leader's life, blatantly stolen from The Daily Mirror. 1. His official biography claimed his birth was foretold by a swallow and led to the appearance of a double rainbow along with
Christmas music is everywhere. You can't escape it, I think they're now piping it through the sewage system. Christmas music cannot be avoided at this time of year. Most Christmas music is pretty awful. In fact, about 98% of Christmas music is terrible, which only leaves us 2%. Damn I'm
You don't need me to tell you that douch bag Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed by rebels in his hometown of Sirte yesterday. We all know what a violent, oppressive ruler he was, but the mainstream press also wants us to know how completely weird a guy he was.
Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. I'll bet you didn't know all of these fine folks were born in Edmonton. Michael J. FoxW. P. Kinsellak.d. langMark MessierRobert GouletMarshall McLuhanScott NiedermayerNellie McClungMoe BergJill HennessyTommy ChongDion PhaneufBruce McCullochJarome IginlaThere are others. Who's your
I tweeted a five year old collection of rain songs earlier on this rainy Saturday, and I wish I hadn't. A playlist this important needs to be fresh. Here's a fresh filter in my iTunes of all songs with the word rain in the title. I had to manually remove
Go big or go home, right? I just filtered my MP3 collection for songs with love in the title. After a little de-dupage and clean up, here are my 1187 songs with love in the title. With so many songs featuring "love" in the title, there’s a tune for
Here are songs in my collection with the word "sick" in the title. Assembling this list, I had to make a decision regarding covers. I decided to allow them, so you do get "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from The Red Hot Chili Peppers. World Sick - Broken Social SceneTymps (The Sick
As 2010 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/
I was just reading about one shot music videos. These are videos that are made with a single take. I like a lot of one shot music videos, and here are ten of my favourites. Note: While on YouTube throwing this list together, I noticed a bunch of my favourites
Looking back at 2010, I wrote a lot of forgettable crapola, but here are 10 entries of note worthy of a revisit. I Hate My Favourite Team Early in 2010, I realized something. I hate my favourite team. Canada Kills Pepsi Cheer In late 2009, I made it my personal
Earlier in the month I shared the perfect Christmas playlist. Now it's time for the 10 coolest Christmas songs. Who says Christmas music has to be awful? Here are ten cool Christmas tracks. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom WaitsSanta Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto -
I was asked today to supply the music for a Christmas party in a couple of weeks. I get those types of requests all the time because I'm awesome at it. Tell me the event and who's attending and I'll create the playlist for you. Here's a rock solid holiday
On Canada Day, 2007, I listed what I believed to be the top 100 Canadian songs of all time. It was a 1.5 month endeavour to assemble that list, and I was pretty proud of it. A new book by Bob Mersereau has reignited this great debate. Bob lists
It's my mom's birthday today, and I'm off to a BBQ to join in the celebration. I decided to filter out all songs in my MP3 collection with "birthday" in the title. Out of 36447 songs I was very surprised to find only ten "birthday" songs. Here are the ten
The Pinery Provincial Park is about 3.5 hours from Toronto. I just made the round trip in a new Taurus lent to me by Ford. This Taurus has a great audio system, enabling me to sync my iPod or listen to Sirius satellite radio. I did both. One of
All morning, I've been spinning tracks from Reggae Anthology: The Channel One Story. One track I dig, by this cat named Little John, is aptly titled "Smoke Ganja Hard". I wondered to myself, how many tunes are in my collection with the word "ganja" in the song title? It turns
My son made me a bookmark, my daughter made me a note pad that looks like a tie, and I made myself this dad mix. Daddy - KornDaddy - CustomDaddy - Queen IfricaDaddy - BeyoncéDaddy Can I Turn This - Elvis CostelloDaddy Cool - Boney M.Daddy I'm Fine -
Back in 1994, I purchased my music collection on CDs. When I needed to make a mix for portable listening, I dubbed my selections onto a cassette tape and listened to it on my Sony Walkman. In 1994, I didn't go anywhere without my Sony Walkman and a good mix
Here's a list of songs from my collection with "Mom" or "Mother" or "Mama" in the title. But be warned, not all of these mom and mother songs are appropriate for Mother's Day. Blueprint (Momma Loves Me) - Jay-ZChild Without Mother - MotherlodeDirty Mother For You - Memphis MinnieDo You
According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten organic search keywords that brought people to this site in April 2010. toronto mikesandra rinomato breastseric tunneyteri polo deathtuukka rask tradebig shiny tunes 2boom 97.3high park cherry blossomsbig shiny tunes 5rick hodge#5 on this list really irks me. When
I just wrote about George Costanza. That got me thinking about my favourite television characters of all time. I'm listing these ten here in no particular order. You may commence judging my ten favourite television characters..... now. Omar Little, ~ The Wire Favourite quote: "'Cause I know she ain't gonna never
I've always made lists. Top 10 this, Top 5 that... I've been making lists for as long as I can remember. Back in 1989, I made a list of my top ten video games at the time. I know this because I still have this list in a box collecting
It's March break. Here are songs in my collection that have the word "march" in the title. 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones21st Century Breakdown - Green DayA Room At Heartbreak Hotel - U2Achy Breaky Song - Weird Al YankovicAlone I Break - KornBallbreaker - AC-DCBend and Break -
According to Wikipedia, these are the biggest social networking websites you'd know about in North America, sorted alphabetically. Classmates.comFacebookFlixsterFlickrLast.fmLinkedInMySpaceTwitterWindows Live SpacesI currently have accounts with Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Twitter. Which ones do you use?
