Recent content by Buick Mackane

Usually if a CCR song is played it will be Have You Ever Seen The Rain or Lodi, two that I got tired of long ago. Change it up a bit and play songs like Born On The Bayou or Hey Tonight.

I’ll change the channel if Hey Jude comes on, loved it when it first came out.

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Sir Steve McQueen is the first Black filmmaker to win the Best Picture Oscar, how cool is that?

“Brandy” by Scott English was the original that was covered as “Mandy” by Barry Manilow. Barry changed the name to avoid confusion with the successful “Brandy” by Looking Glass a year earlier.

The Rivoli is up for sale cheap, great concert venue if we ever get past the pandemic.

The original version of Hippy Hippy Shake by Chan Romero came out in 1959, 5 years before it was a hit for the Swinging Blue Jeans.

No disgrace in being cut off by a racist KKK dude.

High Sparrow sounds like a religious fundamentalist of the Right to me.

How do you know this satire wasn’t written by a lefty?

Dire Straits “Walk of Life” sounds like it has the lyric, “Here comes Johnny saying Go Leafs Go” when it’s really “Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies”. I always thought that Joni Mitchell’s “Raised On Robbery” lyric, “A little money riding on the Maple Leafs” was a mondegreen but it’s...

They are garbage. You can’t even give them away at garage sales, unlike vinyl or 8 tracks or CDs. I must have wasted thousands of dollars on what is now landfill.

I carry a folding knife, spoon and fork so I don’t need plastic cutlery. I’m saving the earth in tiny ways.

Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, earlier published “SCUM Manifesto,” a call to arms for the coalition she was forming, the Society for Cutting Up Men. She finally got a New York Times obituary as an overlooked historic person...

All these years I thought it was “Michael was a movie maker” in the Guess Who’s Albert Flasher. Today I learned from Burton Cummings that the line is “Michael was a moonbeam maker”, which makes it a more trippy and fucked up song than I thought. Diesel fixed me what a weasel indeed!