Smokylies.org

Mark Robinson’s new guitar pop album Canada’s Green Highways is reviewed.

In the halcyon days of our youth, some of us remember the bitter taste of a shitty album after three brilliant efforts. Whatever the regrettable reason for such lapses, it mars our future music buying. We may even fall prey to paranoia that another favorite band will do the unforgiveable and release a raging slab of rancid dogmeat in place of a decent album. Which is not to say that I expect, or hope, each artist will release exactly the same record for twenty years. But a bit of paranoia goes a long way in averting stupid shit and so here we are, with much trepidation and the fleeting glow of expectation.
Read more…

Entertainment guitar, music review, pop album

Bubbling with anticipation for this year’s X-Adventure World Tour USA race, my adventure racing teammates and I arrived at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City at 7:30 in the morning on a sunny morning in mid-August. Mark, Luke and I jockeyed for position at the starting line with 45 other yellow-jerseyed teams. Coinciding with the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, the race had pulled a number of the 18,000 attendees to the world’s largest outdoor specialty trade show to cheer us on at the starting line.
Read more…

Sports adventure, race, sport