httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VF0BlXP-0Y Ghost Love Score By: Nightwish What’s better than heavy metal power chords, double bass drum pedals and wailing flanged guitar solos? Add a classically trained lyric soprano, a brilliant composer who often uses full orchestration and a bass player/lead guitarist bromance. Call it ‘Opera Metal’ and watch bands all across Europe and America follow suit, leaving […]
Archive for August, 2012
Songs I Never Get Tired Of #2
Posted in Music, tagged Songs I Never Get Tired Of on August 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Islands in the Grass
Posted in Poetry, tagged Poetry on August 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I see glimpses of what I’m running from In rows of houses all shaped the same Stretching further every year Trying to catch up with me Fences in between Say ‘stay out of my Eden’ Islands in the fresh-mowed grass Nations of white collars I pass a youth with sullen eyes and a […]
Prairie Autumn
Posted in Thoughts, tagged CNF on August 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn arrives early on the Canadian prairies. I can feel it on the wind, like the scent of cool foothills air that summons me back to bicycle races through hills of dirt that will one day become new housing developments. For the moment, the […]
Book Signings and Tales of the Crystal Speakers
Posted in Crystal Promise, News, Writing, tagged Crystal Promise, Tales of the Crystal Speakers on August 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well, things have certainly been picking up since the release of Crystal Promise. I did a book signing disguised as a barbecue, and sold more copies than expected. I ran out, actually, which just means that I needed to order more copies. Nothing wrong with that. Here are some delightful pictures of what I’ve been […]
Songs I Never Get Tired Of #3
Posted in Music, tagged Songs I Never Get Tired Of on August 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY Clair de Lune By: Claude Debussy There are plenty of nocturnes and songs to the moon out there, but the top two contenders in terms of popularity have got to be Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Debussy’s Clair de Lune. While I love both pieces, Clair de Lune will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the […]