http://blog.winhara.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:23:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love music DVD's. Correction. I love some music DVD's. I enjoy the interesting content you get that you can't get at a concert.  It seems like bands and artists are so hit and miss when it comes to making a good DVD.  It's easy isn't it??  Just make it ... http://blog.winhara.com/2010/03/07/music-dvds/ [caption id="attachment_369" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Tom Thomson's famous painting The Jack Pine. Oil on canvas. 1916."][/caption] It's the stuff of Canadian legend.  Artist and avid outdoorsman, Tom Thomson, paddles out into Canoe Lake just as he has done countless times before.  This time he disappears.  After days of searching, his body - ... http://blog.winhara.com/2010/02/19/tom-thomson-extras/ Although I had done many trips in Algonquin Park I had never been to Canoe Lake.  When I started penning lyrics for this song I started feeling like I wouldn't really be able to finish them until I had seen the places I was writing about - Joe Lake Dam, ... http://blog.winhara.com/2010/02/19/canoeing-after-tom-thomson/ [caption id="attachment_324" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Winhara in mid Hugh-hazing about to hit up Toronto's Resevoir Lounge"][/caption] Last weekend we took our best friend and bass player of over 5 years out for his exit hazing. Hugh dropped the bomb on us as soon as we had all regrouped from New Years. He ... http://blog.winhara.com/2010/02/12/hugh-leaves-winhara/ I feel as though being a stunt double or a special effects man for movies would take much of the “ooh and awww” out seeing a movie – simply because you know what is happening to really create the moment where a helicopter is ninja kicked in half by the ... http://blog.winhara.com/2009/11/04/for-a-moment-i-was-a-12-year-old-girl/ [caption id="attachment_265" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="You can barely walk through it, but we're getting things done. (click to enlarge)"][/caption] I will be the first to admit it.  I like it when things are neat, organized, logical.  But there is a sense of finality to organization.  You clean up.  You say "There, I'm ... http://blog.winhara.com/2009/08/17/progress-is-a-messy-business/ In life we all have good days and bad days. It can be affected by weather, like a rainy sunday afternoon will leave you bummed out and feeling like shit.  Sometimes your feelings can be the direct result of a change in your day to day life such as a ... http://blog.winhara.com/2009/08/10/random-rambling/ Starting NOW until August 30th we are running The GREAT Hold Back Light Show Scavenger Contest.  Up for grabs is the new HOLDBACKLIGHTSHOW t-shirt (pictured below) and a $20 gift certificate to iTunes or HMV (your choice)!  It's easy!  Here's how you get into the fun: Head to our new site ... http://blog.winhara.com/2009/08/04/the-great-hold-back-light-show-scavenger-contest/ http://blog.winhara.com/2009/07/11/last-night-science-was-unhinged/ Recently a very traumatic thing happened. I was reading Marvel’s Civil War series and was saddened to see that Spider-Man was convinced by (his now mentor...wtf?) Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) to unmask on national television. I won’t go into details as to why this happened, or why it seemed ... http://blog.winhara.com/2009/06/22/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/