Sometimes you tune in to your favourite singer or band for new, rare stuff; sometimes you just want the hits.In this video, for today, Frankie MacDonald (from Nova Scotia) does both: it's a new day, for one, and it's summer, so no snowstorms. But severe thunderstorms? Oh yeah.
So...
Montréal be prepared: have your rubber boots ready, have your rain coats and rain suits ready, order your pizzas and Chinese food, buy cases of Pepsi and
Coke
And most important as far as hits go:
have your iPads charged, have your iPods charged, have your cell phones charged, have your laptops charged and have your tablets charged
Seriously, I don't know the extent to which he's laughing at us while we're amazed by him, but I do really think it goes both ways. He has ingrained himself into my psyche to the point where every time the weather's just a tad unpleasant, his voice rings in my head telling screaming at me to have all my shit charged and he decides what grocery items I should buy and what to order out for.
Remember to ''keep your Iphones charged, stay away from golf fields, and get back inside your homes'' tomorrow...
I'm sure glad I no longer live in the dump I was in last year, when flood after flood degraded an already crumbling fucking building... I would have lost all my shit. And probably my cats, too.
So hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause they're flooding everybody out here...
The inside of the Calgary Saddledome is shown in this photo provided by the NHL’s Calgary Flames last week. The team said flood waters reached as high as the eighth row of seating in the stadium.
A GO train is also partially submerged on the Richmond Hill line that
left Union around rush hour. The murky brown water, which spilled
through the bottom floor of the train has left passengers stuck for (...) hours.(...) All flights at Billy Bishop Airport have now been suspended due to the
storm, according to Pamela McDonald, spokeswoman for the Toronto Port
Authority.(...) Toronto EMS are recommending people do not travel if they can as cars
are creating obstacles for paramedics. They also said they have received
a large number of people stuck in elevators. (...) The Toronto Region Conservation Authority also warned that the banks of
the Don River were at risk of collapse in the area of Hoggs Hollow in
the area of Yonge St. and York Mills.
Shit, it's like a cross between a natural disaster in a third-world country in the 1960s with the information age and a million levels of bureaucracy/government agencies. At least Canada's version of FEMA won't stall for days with their rescue mission.
Man, did it ever rain today. I think I hadn't seen that much water fall from the sky and into the streets since the flood of July 14th, 1987 (yes, an actual flash flood in a city/island like Montréal). In honour of that, a friend of mine invited everyone to reply to his Facebook status with a song about rain.
Among the common ones were The Cure (''Prayers For Rain''), Milli Vanilli (''Blame It On The Rain''), Mario Pelchat (''Pleurs Dans La Pluie'') and Guns N' Roses (''November Rain''), but I came up with Charlotte Martin's ''Every Time It Rains''.
Charlotte is an independent singer/songwriter originally from Illinois who now lives in California. She is a former model (and Miss Teen USA contestant, after having been Miss Teen Illinois) who has a university degree in vocal performance. She mainly plays the piano and, thus, is often compared to Tori Amos, except instead of singing about teddy bears and candy (and sex and rape), she sings about real life (and finding true love). Like a happier and (mentally) healthier Amos.
I met her in 2003 or 2004, when she came here before her On Your Shore record was released (she hasn't come to Montréal since). I put up posters of her around the venue and we hung out for most of the afternoon, then I watched her show. We've been in some form of contact ever since.
She is the nicest person I've ever met, and probably among the hottest, too, not that it matters, but it begs to question why she isn't more universally known considering she has everything the mass media would/should want, i.e. an exterior you can sell and a set of pipes stronger than just about anyone not called Whitney, Céline or Mariah.
She has covered Joy Division, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Interpol, the Stones and Pearl Jam, she has co-written songs and performed with Tiesto, Ben Lee and The Crystal Method and been on many movie and video game soundtracks, but this song here is all her, from her major label debut (she has since gone back to being indie). She definitely deserves to be heard more.
