Canadian life, analog warmth, and audio adventures — one record at a time.
When our family applied for a Ukrainian passport at the consulate, the paperwork came with a certificate: a sheet with a box on it, a number inside the box, a QR code beside it. That number tells you where the…
I recently figured out why e-tickets on GO Transit — the regional train and bus network serving the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and nearby cities as far as Kitchener — have to be activated five minutes before you…
I've just made the kind of musical discovery that probably happens once in a lifetime. I was born in 1975, right around the time disco was beginning its climb to the top of the musical Olympus. And although I was born…
It's no secret that I prefer listening to music on vinyl rather than digitally. I love the ritual itself, and it's also a more honest way to thank an artist with my money than sending them a hundredth of a cent for a…
I now have a wishlist — a page where you can pick a gift for me. The idea was simple: I add links to things from any online shop, a guest picks a gift and marks it as theirs, and the card turns grey so nobody else buys…
As promised in one of my previous posts , a few words about Yello's new album. In short: it's a masterpiece. An astonishing blend of recognizable samples and the new possibilities of modern electronics. All the sounds…
This Halloween, my wife and I stayed in: we had plans for the next day, which happened to be one of our rare days off together. And since, as luck would have it, Yello's new album came out the day before the holiday, we…
This blog has been restarted from scratch. It used to run on Ghost, and at some point I realised I was spending more effort on keeping the platform alive than on writing. Ghost stopped being "a simple blogging engine"…
We've been in Canada for more than three years now, but some things still surprise us. For example, on January 1, new rates from our electricity provider take effect. And this is worth a closer look. First of all, you…
With so many options out there, how do you pick the right one without feeling overwhelmed or ending up disappointed?
