The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

Exactly when did Britain become one great-big fascist clusterfuck?

So, presidential candidate John McCain featured vapid celebrity Paris Hilton in one of his political ads. The vapid celebrity then struck back (with an equally large budget and better writing staff).

Cute story about a farmer and his new neighbours, who are complaining about “the farm next door”:

“The people who bought the homes say, `Well, we love looking into your yard and seeing the horses and the cattle, but we don’t like the flies, and we don’t like the mosquitoes,’ and when I cut my field to bale it, they say, `We don’t like the dust in the air,’ ”

Jack Nicholson, on CBC’s “Marketplace” in 1978, touting the benefits of hydrogen powered cars and an eventual solar/hydrogen powered world.

I want to live in the future that came from that 1978.

One third of bottled water sold in the U.S. does not meet minimum EPA standards (for things like lead, bacteria, benzine and arsenic). But that’s okay, bottled water isn’t regulated by the EPA, it is overseen by the FDA – who has a whopping “less than one” bottled water inspector for the entire country.

Bottoms up!

[Warning: This video contains language and ideas.]

President George Bush Jr. tours nation, sees damage.

Some right-wing types suggest protesting Wall-E’s treatise on overconsumption by boycotting the purchase of useless, plastic Wall-E Pixar/Disney promotional crap.

This is rather like noting your formal objection to the film “Ghandi” by joining a vegan peace collective.

Heckuva strategy there there, Sun Tzu, heckuva strategy.

Guerrilla gardeners tell tales of hi jinx in the City of Angels.

This video was reportedly shot half an hour before the May 12, 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China. It shows a freaky luminescent cloud phenomena that sort of resembles the Aurora Borealis.

According to Friedemann T. Freund, from the Department of Physics, San Jose State University, NASA Ames Research Center, there are many strange things said to proceed earthquakes. Some of those phenomenon being:

“bulging of the Earth’s surface, changing well water levels, ground-hugging fog, low frequency electromagnetic emission, earthquake lights from ridges and mountain tops, magnetic field anomalies up to 0.5% of the Earth’s dipole field, temperature anomalies by several degrees over wide areas as seen in satellite images, changes in the plasma density of the ionosphere, and strange animal behavior.”

What a wacky planet we live on.