Rockies

The Luminato Festival is a Toronto-centric burgeoning cultural blip that is attempting to host the world's largest jam session, and pick the "Great Canadian Tune."

I don't know if this means the song that is the best, made by a person born in Canada, or the song that best represents Canadian-ness. Either way, I'm bummed that Spirit of the West, Maestro Fresh Wes, Propagandhi, and our girl Joni didn't make the cut.

I ride fervently for Feist, Sarah Harmer, "Taking Care Of Business," and The Hip, but of all the choices, "Boy Inside The Man" by Tom Cochrane, although a bit of a weak song, probably summarizes bits of our fractured and developing identity better than any of them.

"Sister cool this face
As if it's carved in stone
Don't leave me in this place
Like a boy without a home (repeat) "

However, the choice is between: "The Weight" and "Helpless" if we're being honest with ourselves (never a hallmark of Canadian media, but hey...).



This is the video I referenced just the other day. Also, this is the song with the lowish angled profile shots of Younger where a now infamous "rock" had to be removed from his nose in post-production. Neil Young's soul is made of solid rock, so that should come as no surprise.



As an added bonus, here's KD Lang haunting the life back into Helpless while Neil lay in the hospital.



This space has been ROCK HEAVY as of late. Might have to get into the rap and technos next week just to keep the blogger crowd. I'll be typing:

"this jam is a banger that is sure to have all the peak time party time party people putting their fists in the air to its wobbly bass, chopped-up vocals and banging jammerness!" As if this site was done from Scandinavia and I wasn't University educated. We'll see.

Ok, rock on eh.



Ok, fine, since I mentioned them before...here's one great Canadian tune. It represents all the conflict, luxury and stress that we're born into if we're born in this country, but really just born free: