Have you ever noticed that the moment you buy a red car you see nothing but red cars just like yours everywhere? Or if I said “Don’t think about the colour blue,” that’s all you would see or think about? With millions of sensory stimuli bombarding us daily, we need to be able to ignore… Read more »

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Release Date: 2006 Label: Kill Rock Stars Tracks: 12 Rating: 10 Ever listened to the Velvet Underground, the more psychedelic Jefferson Airplane songs, or Janis Joplin? Mecca Normal is the modern Canadian culmination of that particular sound, known to some as the ?riot grrl? genre. It’s feminist, political, personal, and everything mundane wrapped up in… Read more »

A good friend of mine has, for several years, been involved in teaching storytelling skills to elementary-school-aged children. She comes into classrooms and tells them funny or spooky folk tales and fairy tales from a variety of cultures around the world. Because she has a flair for the dramatic, and a lovely speaking voice, the… Read more »

The world wants to give me a name, but I have no name in the sense that you mean. My name, my true name, is the sound of a thousand bats wheeling across the surface of a harvest moon. My true name is the sound of wind blowing through corn, of waves crashing against rocks,… Read more »