The OTHER 50 Tracks

September 7, 2005 D. H. McKee

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Some background for those of you who don’t listen to the CBC (i.e. ALL of you). The Corp is in the middle of an interesting exercise to pick Canada’s 50 most essential songs. For the last couple of months they’ve been bringing in groups of music experts (and Leah McClaren) to debate which tunes should be added to the list.
This rigorous analytical approach has resulted in a list which excludes songs released after 2000 – ignoring one of the most fruitful five year periods in Canadian music – and includes Rise Up by the Parachute Club and Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins.
This heresy, friends, will not stand.
Pregnant Without Intercourse: The OTHER 50 Tracks

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.