Hi, Our Basement,
I had a conversation one night with Bill Murray about love, marriage, and all the weirdness in between. At one point, he said, “you’ve got to meet the mother.” I thought about the phrase for years, and then I added the part about kissing the bride. It felt like it belonged in a song – a tagline similar to “You don’t miss your water till your well runs dry.” “Meet The Mother” is my attempt at writing something funny, which makes it a bit of an outlier in my catalogue.
Recorded by Tony Berg featuring myself live on electric guitar with Jason Boesel on drums, we fleshed out “Meet The Mother” a fair bit. Mike Viola stopped by one day to sing backup and play bass and suggested we pare the song back, all the way down to its bare essentials, like a Suicide record. That’s what you’re hearing now and forever, till death do us part.
I wanted to make the “Meet The Mother” video with Lili Hayes. Lili and her son Kevin, who directed the piece, have one of my favourite mother/son relationships, which is well documented on the Internet. It was great to be mothered by her for a day or two.
Thanks for watching/listening! I’m looking forward to sharing more new music with you in the months to come.
Hello
Good morning. What’s up? (The sky. O.k.)
Haha. Fun video.
Good morning. 🙂
Is Johnathan Canadian?
Don’t think he’s Canadian. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=johnathan+rice&t=ffsb&atb=v129-6&ia=web
Oh well. We can throw an American in there once in awhile.
Why the heck not. Lots of copacetic American music.
Anyone (else) remember when ‘copacetic’ was briefly popular? It may have been in the Seventies, so I suppose not…
Gee, I had no idea!
“copacetic (ˌkəʊpəˈsɛtɪk) , copasetic , copesetic or copesettic
adj
slang US and Canadian very good; excellent; completely satisfactory
[C20: of unknown origin]”
(from The Free Dictionary)
I like words of unknown origin.
I remember copacetic. Like “everything is copacetic dude”. Fun word.
Ha Ha! I was commenting on yesterdays page!
Yesterday was a weird vortex so I am not surprised.
I also took a look back at the Polaris days post. Sorry I missed some friends coming back to chat):
I have some catching up to do but of course I have other screen time tasks that are going to make that take a long time.
Haha! Thanks for finding us and dropping by Morgana. 😀
About Dan Mangan. Kim Blackier put up his Montreal show on da FB, which led me to this. Well writ, by the man.
http://danmanganmusic.com/
A note: entering the site shows you ‘tour’, up there. Canada is in the bottom half.
One sentence: “I wrote about being deeply in love with someone with whom I spend a lot of time figuring out who is more deserving of a nap.”
Oops sorry, I could have sworn I checked his nationality
Since I participated in his message him promo, I get updates from Dan Mangan’s team. It will be a very good album I am sure.
No worries Garf! It’s all copacetic.
dar: hah!
@beniot did you hear me shouting at you today from yesterdays blog post?
Drat, I just emailed our local talent booker to see if Dan Mangan may be making use of his gap in time between Calgary show and Vancouver show to stop here. He is out of the country:(
Oh, he emailed back from afar and confirmed Dan will not be stopping here. Poop. I also suggested we should drive to Vancouver to see the show … a bit forward of me but I am in a silly mood.
Also texted Liz (of Neil) so we can go see Dan at the Vogue together!
Loving the singles from the new album so far.
I heard you yell at Benoit about his lack of brain protection. tsk tsk Benoit
Dan Mangan isn’t stopping in Regina either. Not a big surprise, most are heading to Saskatoon instead these days.