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Trying to find a really great recording of Cooley's Reel for my wife who is learning fiddle. I found something by Bothy Band which is of course top notch, but I'd like something with a sparser arrangement. And I did notice that on YouTube most of the videos have a very playing different style for reels than what I learned a couple of decades ago in a land far away...
I don't know if it's just a newer style, faster, more aggressive, staccato, or if it's a difference in style between the Island and the diaspora (I've never been in Ireland but I had the privilege of learning from recordings and even live teachers who were from the tradition. I once got an informal lesson from John McSherry in the lobby of a concert hall in exchange for some B&Hs!). But I prefer reels that give me the feeling of water running over river stones, tumbling over itself, splashing and eddying in a fluid monologue.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, she needs a professional recording. I used to play it with Maid Behind the Bar, I think.
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Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.
Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.
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Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.
Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.
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Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.
Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.
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Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.
Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.
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Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.
Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.
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"Find the time" - Five Star
"System addict" but not as good: jerky staccato beats, synthesised brass stabs, and synchronised dancing.
Note something strange about the picture here: the green's been removed almost entirely. It brings out the red-and-white jumpsuits worn by all the members of Five Star, and it shows the lights in the background in an unusual blue tinge.
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Electric vehicle registrations in Canada by province and quarter.
BC - the clear leader
Quebec - the only other province ahead of the national average
Saskatchewan - the laggard
Alberta - doesn't report data for some reasonData from Statistics Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2021019-eng.htm
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When we came home from vacation in… June? May? Early June, I think, we immediately planned another trip for the early fall. We were going to go to San Diego for a few days and then go to Los Angeles for a day or so and then come home. Just a massively huge, yet very short trip. We both booked time off from work and then right afterwards cancelled the whole thing in favor of another Florida trip in January.
We kept the vacation time on the books though. We thought maybe we’d go on a short trip somewhere closer to home. New York or the mountains in New Hampshire or something. Then as we got closer and closer to the start of the vacation time we started thinking about cancelling the time off and just waiting for the next big trip after the new year.
Then my father went into the hospital. Then my father passed away. Then we had the wake and the funeral. Now we’re down to one more work day before the start of the time off and there is no more talk of cancelling, despite having taken time off for my father. No. We’re going to have a staycation. We’re going to spend a week flaking on the living room couch watching Star Wars movies (Jen’s idea, not mine, I swear) and just ignoring civilization for a week.
I speak for myself when I say this, but I know Jen feels the same. I am not taking this time off from work because I want it. I am taking it because I need it. Physically and mentally. I need to shut down for a bit. I need to recharge my battery. I need to recover from the last month or so.
I have one work day left. Tomorrow is Friday. After that? One week’s worth of staycation. I am so ready for it. Give it to me, now.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/09/12/more-time-off/
#Family #flakeTime #health #MentalHealth #recovery #Staycation #timeOff #timeOffWork #Vacation
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Canada’s population reaching 38 million, from 35 million in 2015. That’s a 3 million increase in 5 years. Most of the growth is driven by immigration.
#canadaimmigration #immigrationcanada #canada #populationgrowth #canadianpopulation https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2019036-eng.htm
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#rideauRiver 90 minute #paddle today and the #cormorants were hanging out in my neighborhood! Here’s a short clip… #gowithTheFlow #staycation
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The #waterfeature we checked out at Hog’s Back Dam … this #staycation is turning into a collection of moving water images and videos… #goWithTheFlow #ottawa #ottawaValley
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'Beautiful' Northumberland village with stunning beach and beloved microbrewery
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Hey, remember that post from earlier today when I said we were planning the next two vacations already?
We’ve already scrapped one of them. California in the fall has been eliminated. We might do a staycation at that time, or maybe something short that’s close to home. The reason? The second planned trip, Florida early in the new year, is morphing into a major deal. We’re going to take the budget for Cali in the fall and roll it in to Florida in the winter. We have buy in from one of the kids. The other one will still be in school but might be able to come along for part of the time. That would be awesome. Awesome, I tells ya!
In other news that is also related to that same post from earlier today, I feel sick! My head cold was much better yesterday, then a little worse throughout the day today but not too bad. Around the time I sat down to dinner it decided to kick me in the balls and it got so much worse. I can’t breath through my nose anymore. It feels like my nasal passages have been completely bricked up. This sucks. Even worse, dinner went bad on me tonight… twice. Twice? WTF, bypassed stomach? Two bouts of the foamies complete with portions of dinner coming back for a return visit? (TMI, I know) All while being unable to breath through my nose? WTF, body?
The good news is, the first episode (or is it episodes?) of the brand new Star Wars show The Acolyte was supposed to be released on Disney+ about 23 minutes ago. I’m off to get my Jedi Knight fix on, kids! May the Force Be With Us, and our vacation plans, and my nose! Ah-Choo!
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/correction-already/
#aching #congestion #coughing #headCold #health #jediKnights #Sick #sneezing #springCold #StarWars #starWarsTheAcolyte #stuffyNose #Television #theAcolyte #virus
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🇨🇦 In October, the total value of building permits issued in Canada rose $1.8 billion (+14.9%) to $13.8 billion. The increase was led by the residential sector. #housing #CanadaStrong www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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For folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall UK! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3. Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation. #EvolBiol #EcoEvo sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/
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For UK folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3. Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation. #EvolBiol #EcoEvo sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/
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Vede #Orsini con il ghigno mentre parla una persona seria, professionale e anche più grande di lui come Claudio Pagliara, e poi fa anche che non si ricorda il suo nome, mi fa girare ##. Basta, ci sono due mila esperti veri, competenti in materia. Ha più che stancato
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Pirates’ Oneil Cruz nabs Mariners’ Crawford at the plate on a 105.2 mph throw from center field https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/156932/ #AaronHicks #Baseball #HenryDavis #J.P.Crawford #JorgePolanco #MajorLeagueBaseball #Mariners #MLB #NewYorkYankees #OneilCruz #PittsburghPirates #Seattle #SeattleMariners #SeattleMariners #statcast #ThrownBall
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Plants scream when stressed ☘️🌾🌿😱 https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3 #Plants produce high pitched staccato pops when they dry out or are wounded. We can't hear them, but many animals can. #BedtimeScience https://youtu.be/HMcg41YKfQo
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Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows Review By Lavender LarcenistI’m going to come out and say it. Arch Enemy has done untold damage to female-fronted metal bands. While their influence is undeniable, every iteration of the band has featured monotone vocals, cringe-inducing lyrics, and leather-clad frontwomen. As a woman, I have no issue with these things in a vacuum, but in the larger music sphere, they created simultaneously high and absurdly low standards. Requiring frontwomen to be stereotypically hot, thin, and sport bright hair, while also plummeting standards on the musical side with their milquetoast melodeath slop. This is an ill omen for North Carolina’s Blackwater Drowning, seemingly following in Arch Enemy’s footsteps on a surface level, but do they make the same mistakes from a musical perspective, or are they influenced only in aesthetics?
Blackwater Drowning’s sophomore album, Obscure Sorrows, is at times a grab bag of popular metal cliches. Their latest is full of groovy, djent-laden riffs and chugging, staccato metalcore. Light orchestration adds obligatory bombast to intros and a few sections, while uninspired cleans occasionally show up as if they are a necessary evil. Vocalist Morgan Riley has more range and skill than their clear inspirations (Arch Enemy), but ultimately sits in the mid-range for far too long, and her clean singing lacks skill and panache. The highlight of Obscure Sorrows is guitarist Ron Dalton’s playing and the rich production (courtesy of Cryptopsy guitarist Christian Donaldson). Dalton’s riffs cover a wide range of styles, and the album highlight “Heir Of The Witch” is where the band should focus their sound, with its rolling energy and massive groove. Bassist Aria Novi shines due to the quality production, and frequently bolsters Dalton’s riffs and drummer Aamon Dalton’s technical hammering. There is no lack of talent across the band, but the whole crew seems too comfortable sitting in the mid-range, making for an album that bleeds together.
Obscure Sorrows’ biggest sin is its inability to shake things up. Across the ten tracks, they all sit in such similar spaces that they are hard to tell apart. Even song lengths are eerily similar, and they tend to reach for the same tired notes, making for music that lacks hooks. It feels harsh to lay so much at the feet of Blackwater Drowning, because the band clearly isn’t lacking in technical skill, but I think comparing songs to each other and treating the album as a whole shows a record that is far too safe and too middling in its soundscape. Clean singing makes occasional appearances but rarely stands out except on “Teeth and Claws,” which features some genuine atmosphere and brooding emotion.
Obscure Sorrows isn’t bad by any stretch, and the album opener, “The Sixth Omen,” features a roaring intro riff, even if it devolves into an uninspired chorus. The production elevates the album, and the clarity and crunch on display are admirable even if the source material doesn’t necessarily do it justice. “Washed Out, Washed Away” is backed by a crushing blackened death riff, and “Where Men Fear To Tread” showcases Morgan Riley’s skill on the low end alongside an anthemic chorus bookended by a teetering solo. “Teeth And Claws” evil lead riff helps the track ascend the mid-range soup and features some creative cleans from Riley.
In the end, Obscure Sorrows is an album I wanted to love, and with a bit of editing, variety, and focus on groove, Blackwater Drowning could truly stomp fools on their next record. As it stands, their latest is a competent, if safe, drop in the female-fronted melodeath bucket. Fans of the genre may get more out of it than I did, and they easily beat Arch Enemy at their own game, but Blackwater Drowning has a bit of work to do before they can truly drop the barn burner I know they are capable of. Luckily, this is a young band with a hopefully long career ahead of them, and as many say, the third time is the charm.
Rating: Mixed
#25 #2026 #AmericanMetal #ArchEnemy #BlackwaterDrowning #BleedingArtCollective #Feb26 #GrooveMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #Metalcore #ObscureSorrows #Review #Reviews
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Bleeding Art Collective
Websites: blackwaterdrowning.com | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows Review By Lavender LarcenistI’m going to come out and say it. Arch Enemy has done untold damage to female-fronted metal bands. While their influence is undeniable, every iteration of the band has featured monotone vocals, cringe-inducing lyrics, and leather-clad frontwomen. As a woman, I have no issue with these things in a vacuum, but in the larger music sphere, they created simultaneously high and absurdly low standards. Requiring frontwomen to be stereotypically hot, thin, and sport bright hair, while also plummeting standards on the musical side with their milquetoast melodeath slop. This is an ill omen for North Carolina’s Blackwater Drowning, seemingly following in Arch Enemy’s footsteps on a surface level, but do they make the same mistakes from a musical perspective, or are they influenced only in aesthetics?
Blackwater Drowning’s sophomore album, Obscure Sorrows, is at times a grab bag of popular metal cliches. Their latest is full of groovy, djent-laden riffs and chugging, staccato metalcore. Light orchestration adds obligatory bombast to intros and a few sections, while uninspired cleans occasionally show up as if they are a necessary evil. Vocalist Morgan Riley has more range and skill than their clear inspirations (Arch Enemy), but ultimately sits in the mid-range for far too long, and her clean singing lacks skill and panache. The highlight of Obscure Sorrows is guitarist Ron Dalton’s playing and the rich production (courtesy of Cryptopsy guitarist Christian Donaldson). Dalton’s riffs cover a wide range of styles, and the album highlight “Heir Of The Witch” is where the band should focus their sound, with its rolling energy and massive groove. Bassist Aria Novi shines due to the quality production, and frequently bolsters Dalton’s riffs and drummer Aamon Dalton’s technical hammering. There is no lack of talent across the band, but the whole crew seems too comfortable sitting in the mid-range, making for an album that bleeds together.
Obscure Sorrows’ biggest sin is its inability to shake things up. Across the ten tracks, they all sit in such similar spaces that they are hard to tell apart. Even song lengths are eerily similar, and they tend to reach for the same tired notes, making for music that lacks hooks. It feels harsh to lay so much at the feet of Blackwater Drowning, because the band clearly isn’t lacking in technical skill, but I think comparing songs to each other and treating the album as a whole shows a record that is far too safe and too middling in its soundscape. Clean singing makes occasional appearances but rarely stands out except on “Teeth and Claws,” which features some genuine atmosphere and brooding emotion.
Obscure Sorrows isn’t bad by any stretch, and the album opener, “The Sixth Omen,” features a roaring intro riff, even if it devolves into an uninspired chorus. The production elevates the album, and the clarity and crunch on display are admirable even if the source material doesn’t necessarily do it justice. “Washed Out, Washed Away” is backed by a crushing blackened death riff, and “Where Men Fear To Tread” showcases Morgan Riley’s skill on the low end alongside an anthemic chorus bookended by a teetering solo. “Teeth And Claws” evil lead riff helps the track ascend the mid-range soup and features some creative cleans from Riley.
In the end, Obscure Sorrows is an album I wanted to love, and with a bit of editing, variety, and focus on groove, Blackwater Drowning could truly stomp fools on their next record. As it stands, their latest is a competent, if safe, drop in the female-fronted melodeath bucket. Fans of the genre may get more out of it than I did, and they easily beat Arch Enemy at their own game, but Blackwater Drowning has a bit of work to do before they can truly drop the barn burner I know they are capable of. Luckily, this is a young band with a hopefully long career ahead of them, and as many say, the third time is the charm.
Rating: Mixed
#25 #2026 #AmericanMetal #ArchEnemy #BlackwaterDrowning #BleedingArtCollective #Feb26 #GrooveMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #Metalcore #ObscureSorrows #Review #Reviews
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Bleeding Art Collective
Websites: blackwaterdrowning.com | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
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In Quebec, 57.3% of respondents were highly satisfied with their lives... meanwhile, in Alberta, just 38.1% surveyed reported being highly satisfied. Every other province was somewhere in between... https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canadian-life-satisfaction-is-improving-but-it-differs-greatly-by-province-statcan/ #cdnpoli #polcan
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When we came home from vacation in… June? May? Early June, I think, we immediately planned another trip for the early fall. We were going to go to San Diego for a few days and then go to Los Angeles for a day or so and then come home. Just a massively huge, yet very short trip. We both booked time off from work and then right afterwards cancelled the whole thing in favor of another Florida trip in January.
We kept the vacation time on the books though. We thought maybe we’d go on a short trip somewhere closer to home. New York or the mountains in New Hampshire or something. Then as we got closer and closer to the start of the vacation time we started thinking about cancelling the time off and just waiting for the next big trip after the new year.
Then my father went into the hospital. Then my father passed away. Then we had the wake and the funeral. Now we’re down to one more work day before the start of the time off and there is no more talk of cancelling, despite having taken time off for my father. No. We’re going to have a staycation. We’re going to spend a week flaking on the living room couch watching Star Wars movies (Jen’s idea, not mine, I swear) and just ignoring civilization for a week.
I speak for myself when I say this, but I know Jen feels the same. I am not taking this time off from work because I want it. I am taking it because I need it. Physically and mentally. I need to shut down for a bit. I need to recharge my battery. I need to recover from the last month or so.
I have one work day left. Tomorrow is Friday. After that? One week’s worth of staycation. I am so ready for it. Give it to me, now.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/09/12/more-time-off/
#Family #flakeTime #health #MentalHealth #recovery #Staycation #timeOff #timeOffWork #Vacation
