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. Love Song - 311I Still Love You - 702Show You My Love - 702I'm
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?
In 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
I'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 Donoghue2. Three Cups of Tea by
On 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. The Astronaut FarmerPaul Blart: Mall CopPasschendaeleSmart PeopleYou Don't Mess with the ZohanZack and Miri Make a PornoRole ModelsTwilightThe
There 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,
As 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/
There'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
