alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Not just a liar, but a f@cking race-baiting liar. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's not misinformation if you do it on purpose. It's DISinformation. No one got it wrong by mistake. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yes. The remix was worse. But i didn't like corporate rock power ballads in the 80s, so i REALLY didn't need them in the 00s. And, they were trying to set a tone for the show, get away from the self-serious orchestral stuff... which they succeeded in doing, but i don't think it set a great tone. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Last Rodeo; A movie where a kid gets a brain tumor and his mom can't afford the surgery to save him so his ex-bull rider grandad enters a competition. If this were a Canadian story, it would be a boring movie; Kid gets sick, kid gets treatment, the end. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Sometimes a bad theme song can help sink a show. Maybe Firefly was never going to make it, but that cowboy song didn't help. Now i'm watching Enterprise reruns. 4 seasons and dropped. Gotta say, that Diane Warren-penned 80s power ballad was a bold choice, but one that sounded really dated in 2001. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's funny, i don't give a shit about Thanksgiving. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Bass players! Mids are tour friend! i'm watching a band playing Ramones songs, and the bass player needs a little bit of overdrive and some mids. Those driving eighth-notes would drive better. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Do such people believe this stuff? Does this person not think far enough to consider that people named these things... using a system? It's like any new bit of info that pops into view exists on its own without any context or cause. Then again, he refers to his own country as the Holy Land. 030
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026i was in a Tim Hortons near Hudson & i ordered a medium coffee with 2 milks, in French... & the woman serving me couldn't understand me. Okay, so she didn't speak French, that's fine, but... Tim Horton's. You sell one thing over & over. 5 words; un café moyen, deux laits. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"When this over..." Don't kid yourself. This will never be over. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hearing about these Cornell rapists, these privileged kids who know they can do whatever they want, i'm reminded of Brett Kavanagh, who only went to schools with other kids of his own class who know they can do whatever they want. Here's an XTC song that kinda fits. youtu.be/PnRzV4ehSxY?...youtu.beNo Thugs In Our House (2001 Remaster)YouTube video by XTC - Topic 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Take the 138 to Havre St-Pierre, you take the ferry at Tadoussac. 7 hours from Montreal & you're still only halfway there. Get there early enough you can find a place with some seafood . Couple more hours to Sept Isles & find a motel. The best is if you have a gig or 2 to break up the drive. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026i was listening to Frequencies on the CBC. Music from around the world. And what did i hear? Indian music with pitch correction. Latin Ameeican music with pitch correction, Nigerian music with pitch correction... And, is it really a Nigerian groove if the beat is a programmed Reggaeton beat? 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's hard to believe that Mr. Vance is actually as stupid as this answer he gave. Which means that he says ridiculous nonsense like this on purpose, with a purpose. 020
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ya, I lay down a while & look at my hotel wall & he's down on the street So I throw both his bags down the hall & I'm phoning a cab Cuz my stomach feels small There's a taste in my mouth & it's no taste at all It could have been me Oh ya, it could have been me Why didn't I say, Why didn't I say 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Who the f@ck is filing an injunction to force incoming PQ MNAs to swear that stupid oath to the king. As pointless fights that will just function as red meat to pur-et-dure sovereignists go... well... this is one of those. Can we just wait for someone to pick a fight over something that matters? 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i'm not "proud" to be a Canadian, or Quebecois, or a Montrealer. These aren't sports teams, they're political units. i feel affection for this place i grew up in. But i'm aware of its historical wrongs (that still linger). i am grateful for the things it's getting right. And i hope we can do better. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i had that pub musician experience last night; drunk person asks you for a song while you're playing a song, seems to be unaware that you're actually doing something, & when you do respond to them, "no i don't know that song", they say "sure you do, i can play it for you on my phone". Mmm hhhmmm. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My riding went PQ, as expected. i actually don't usually dislike the PQ on economic matters. Except when they sold out to PKP for a little while there. And now the Liberals have decent numbers again. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When i see a photo of a cat i don't know if it's male or female. i love cats & they're always beautiful. i never think; SHE's a princess or HE's a handsome devil. My cats have been mostly rescues. The've been survivors. Tough, silly, loyal, sweet, bratty, tender, insecure... THEY know who they are. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gotta say, i've been on a bit of a Stevie Wonder kick recently, going through his classic 70s albums. And right now i'm listening to Songs In The Key Of Life, an album i knew as a kid but haven't revisited in decades. Pastime Paradise just hit me so hard i burst into tears. This is heavy music. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i've heard people react to the ingredients of poutine; french fries, gravy, cheese curds, as if it was the most unpalatable combination imaginable... and i really don't understand people. People get weirded out by the least weird stuff. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People have weird hangups. My cat was family. Him hopping up onto our bed was the best feeling ever. 031
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i haven't been to a Victoire game yet. i've been catching as many games as i can online. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i was listening to Marvin's Room on CBC. Song came on, singer doing Stevie Wonder vocalising. But it was all pitch corrected. Now, i don't need chopsy singing. Not my main focus. But if you're doing some Whitney stuff you're kinda saying "check this out". And then it's all tuned? It's just lame. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i'm not bored by machine learning. i have no skill or understanding of engineering. i'm impressed by the complexity that things have gotten to in such a short time. i see wonderful applications for this tech. Working thru tons of data, improving its own systems, lotsa stuff i can't imagine. 020
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Remember when Artificial Intelligence was this kinda philosophical sci-fi notion about a far off time when computers developed consciousness, a quantum leap from machine learning to selfhood? And then they developed these impressive data collating programs & called THAT A.I? i'm not on board. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i have too many. Different people, different voices. i'll just namecheck the New Wave bassists i copied when i started playing; Bruce Thomas, Graham Maby, Tina Weymouth, Sting, Colin Moulding, Pete Farndon, Paul Simonon... 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This might not be a popular opinion; i don't want people to be cancelling Pink or Sheeran. i don't agree with her & he seems kinda gutless.... but this all smells of that easy public display of moral superiority... AND... pile-on. Easy to joing the gang kicking the shmuck. 001
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There's an spiteful part of me that hears whatever today's stupid hateful nonsense happens to be; blowing up alliances, gutting programs, demolishing monuments... and thinks, do it, ruin everything, make life shitty for your whole country. Show what you are. But no. i don't want suffering. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Funny how i don't need to watch the debates to know how i'm voting in the Québec election. There's only 1 major party that isn't too far Right and/or Nationalist (culturally or otherwise). The QS is cool on everything BUT sovereignty. Anyway, the PQ is gonna win my riding. Could be worse. Not much. 001
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i remember when the abandoned cat who was living in the courtyard of our building decided to trust my girlfriend & follow her into our apt. She found the bed & slept for 24 hours. When she asked to leave we thought she might not come back. She did. She stayed. She was a cowboy. We called her Slim. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ah, Québec. Where promising to pay people to have more babies for the Patrimoine is a viable election tactic. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i will not use IMPACT as a verb. We already have AFFECT. It's a fine word, and the only knock against it that i can see is that it doesn't sound quite as LOUD. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In the dream, i pass by the old house & walk into the backyard. i look in the basement window & there i am, age 16, with friends, listening to records, rolling.... something, talking a lot of nonsense. That time still exists & i felt like i could step back into it. i woke up with a sense of loss. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Donald Trump is a rapist and traitor. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i heard premier Danielle Smith get emotional about a unified Canada, all while continuing to push the "Ottawa is the enemy, we're mad as hell" line she's been pushing for years. i admit i don't know Alberta well, but hasn't Smith been feeding into EXACTLY the rhetoric that fuels the seperatists? 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026After my gig i take the road home. i take my exit, roll down the empty boulevard to my street. On the corner there's a shop that went out of business. They left the lights on. A beacon shining out alone in the night. That empty room, furniture gone, that lost dream, 1 abandoned plant left to die. 011
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"C'est ma toune"! i had the wonderful Quebecois experience tonight of playing a song at my gig & having a woman say "c'est ma toune" (it's my song)! You have to hear it with the right pronunciation. It's not "tune", nor "tooon". There's a special vowel... sorta near the "ou" in "would". Happy. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Senator Susan Collins warns Carney against strengthening Canada's ties to the EU. Hhhmmm.... 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah. i DO think of him as a guitar player, because of those simple (non)solos he took, just strumming the chords louder. And in every tv appearance i've seen of him, he's holding that sunburst stratocaster with the maple neck. He's got to be the first rock'n'roll star to be associated with it. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Please remind me to never ever ever go back to Facebook again. i've checked in a few times despite telling myself not to, and my feed is a cesspit of right-wing shit. Please remind me to never ever ever go back to Facebook again. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sure. But.... if someone says stratocaster, what pops into your head? Possibly just the guitar itself, iconic as it is. THE shape of electric guitar. Buddy Holly is the 1st star who plays one. Hank Marvin, the 2nd (but only for Brits). But Jimi! Not Gilmour, not Knofler. Jimi. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Completely trivial topic; someone asking "who do you think was the most influential stratocaster player"? Arguing that it's David Gilmour. Someone argued that it's Buddy Holly. But it can only be Jimi, right? Even if you're not a big Jimi fan (wha?), the iconic strat thing is tied to Jimi. 110
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There's an ugly angry dark part of me that says "let it all come crashing down". Let the Present Resident of the WH put his name on the Kennedy Center in time for it to crash, let him tout bitcoin til it crashes, let him crash everything. But normal people suffer. And the cultists will blame Obama. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In Montréal you hear people chatting in French & English, some speaking one, some the other, some going back'n'forth. This is presented as evidence of the slow loss of French. i see it as hopeful. Used to be, Anglos spoke English, Allophones learned English. Now we all muddle thru together. 010
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is how they appeal to that part of their voting base. That inwardly-turned defensive culturally-nationalist part of their base that likes to see them "doing something about this". 120
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tonight i was listening to Innervisions & i realized that when i listen to Living For The City, that middle section where our young protagonist arrives the city & gets 10 years in prison for being in the wrong place at the wrong time always upsets me. i love the song & dread the middle of it. 000
alecmcelcheran.bsky.social @alecmcelcheran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One could also write this as; "...AND it was an incredibly moving film". 000
