In the meantime, Alex Ross has a new book out and you should read it! It is called Listen to This and is a collection of essays, many of which were published in The New Yorker in some form or another. It’s as well-written as one might expect, seeing as it’s from the author of one of the best books about 20th century music possibly ever.

Grammatically curious sentences notwithstanding (sorry about that last one) there will be some good stuff happening here soon, so stay tuned.

I have five papers to write in the next three weeks, so I don’t know that I’ll have too many words left over at the end of the day. Things are going to be a bit slow around here. I’ll try to post whenever I can, but just a heads-up that it will probably be a bit boring until I get these giant things out of the way.

In the meantime, Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs begins Thursday! Man those televisions!

I’m sure at least one of you have noticed the lack of Tunesday post this week. Sorry about that — our internet went down for a few days and the stolen wireless was barely enough to load a page, let alone upload a track, so I decided to forego it until next week. Fortunately, the upcoming post will feature two tracks to make up for it … stay tuned!

We’re back in school at York and it seems to be leaving little time for blogging lately. Imagine that, I know. I hope posts will be appearing regularly in a week or so, once the giant paper has been written and the myriad of assignments are handed in. Sorry for the general silence!

In other news, though, Jim Cuddy played at Massey Hall last night and was terrific as usual. I only got to see about 2/3 of the show, so I’m not sure how much Blue Rodeo material he pulled out this time around, but I did witness a particularly excellent rendition of “5 Days in May” featuring a serious violin solo by Anne Lindsay. Cuddy can always be counted on for a great performance, solo or with Blue Rodeo, and he always looks like he’s having the time of his life on stage. To top it off, his voice has never been better. Highly recommended!

If you’re interested, the Toronto Star published an interview with him yesterday in anticipation of the show. Aww, Valentine’s Day.

Coming up: the double Tunesday post, Brent Randall & His Pinecones‘ new album, and an interview with yours truly. The fun never stops!

joel plaskett pogues — I only wish. I don’t even know what that would sound like other than “awesome”. I don’t know if I want to hear him attempt “Fairytale of New York,” though; that could end badly.

stuart mclean useless — Now, I know I used to strongly dislike him, but that is a bit much. He is certainly not useless.

“woodhands suck” — Get off my blog!

pony da look lyrics — No.

don ruh — I just have this image of myself in the Mafia now. Ordering bloody animals to be put in people’s beds … laundering money … clearly I have chosen the wrong path.

And one of my recent favourites: sunlight on the lino what is the lino. Oh man. “Goodbye Girl” seems to perplex some people not of the Commonwealth. Here, young padawan.

I’ll be back shortly with some real posts. Hurrrrr. Happy Friday!

I’ve decided to make a bit of a change in how this blog runs — it’s going to expand its horizons a little. I started out just blogging about music and things surrounding music, but I’ve realised (and I’m sure you have too, particularly with the previous post about the election) that there are a lot of things I want to talk about. And by gosh, this is my blog, so I guess I can do that if I want.

So, without further ado, here we are in Vintage 2.0. Nothing else has changed. I just talk more. Hooray.

I am also toying with the idea of buying a domain name to house this thing, since the current one is probably a little too big and confusing to be effective. Hmm! Suggestions are welcome. I am thinking ruhee.ca would be kind of awesome.

Coming up: an open letter to Stéphane Dion, perhaps an album review or two, and the usual mishmash.