Posts Tagged ‘Newfoundland’

Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I was driving to pick up Vietnamese from a little place just around the corner from us and I was listening to 88.5 Live FM and a song was playing in which I heard:

I’s the b’y that built the boat
I’s the b’y that sailed her
I’s the b’y the sunk the ship
You’re the one that save me

The first two lines of that are taken from a very old Newfoundland song and it blew my mind when I heard it on the radio.  I had to look up.

I haven’t been able to find too much in the way of actual facts, but the song is by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker and they are indeed Canadian, but not from Newfoundland.  Which just adds to the mystery.

I’m hypnotized by the song now, and I think their T-Shirt looks pretty cool.

78 RPM’s of Awesome

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I somehow stumbled on to the Wired Blog about a guy who’s re-recording old 78 records and putting them online.

The man is a hero.

I’m totally going to torrent the collection.

My Grandfather loved music.  Behind the coat rack in the porch in the small house where he lived there was a solid wall of 78′s stacked side by side.  After he died I’m not sure what happened to them.  We have a good few of his LP’s but nothing like the 78′s.

Most of them were local Newfoundland artists as well.  Granted, not many want to hear the early work of those who would make Harry Hibbs seem refined but hey, it’s the work of my people.  I wonder if anyone else is preserving them?

The N-Word.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Sorcha posted a video to the Facebook page. It’s a clip from ABC about all the planes landing in Gander after Sept. 11.


And I don’t think they pronounce Newfoundland correctly once throughout the whole thing! Here’s the simple rule of thumb for proper pronunciation:

In Newfoundland we all like to have a good time so -

New-Fun-Land

Just like that. Newfunland. Not NewFinland, not Newfoundlind, or even the understandable Newfoundland. (They always seem to drag out the found.)

I’m not even going to get started on that other N-Word.