Music & Movies

It would be an American sentiment that anything that requires a course in order to appreciate is probably not worth appreciating.

That's what fine art in this country was largely supported by immigrants for some time.

In Australia we have had a similar but different problem. It's not as bad now as it once was, but it was known as the cultural cringe and basically there was a kind of national perception that our own art and culture was inferior. So we would import it or simply take the piss out of anything locally produced.

Well you're pretty much just referring to pop music when it comes to the shallow stuff, and who, other than teenage girls with nothing better to do than sit in their rooms and listen to CDs and talk on the phone, cares about pop anyway?

I think we are more demanding nowadays in regard to entertainment, if old literature and old theatre are any indication.

I do love art museums, and in that case it's usually the older works that are better. Some of what's in those places, you can't even call art.

Corwin--Canadians over a certain age are all going, "know what ya mean!" It's a 'thing' that is always hovering--trapped between the Yanks and the Brits, each of whom thinks we are inferior versions of them. It is less difficult than it used to be to celebrate Canadian talent.

Yeah, like I said, things are getting better, but at the same time the powers that be still feel we need to get in American TV personalities to be guest presenters on our award shows. Last time it was Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle and (of all people) Ronn Moss from which ever soap he's on. I note the latter has just released a CD. Obviously it was some sort of marketing deal.

Canada is but the product of a deranged imagination.

But they have one killer national anthem.

Yeah, I hear when it was released it was so popular it went zinc.

The Canadian national anthem is probably the only one whose citizens don't know the words to. I defy you to parse that sentence and win. They (the powers that be) changed them (the words to the national anthem) along about the time the Yanks made us go metric and everything stopped making sense.
Kirby, you are the product of a fairly normal imagination.

it wasn't zinc, it was molybdenum.

And yet we're still not metric. Go whatever they call non-metric measurement!