Gary Butler

6 of 1, l'enfer, c'est les autres

Can we please normalize calling outlaws "owlhoots" again

Out now: 𝘖𝘌𝘔 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱 𝘐𝘐, a double album that celebrates original Canadian music from outsider genres. My new ambient act, 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝘀, is thrilled to have our song "Smelting Pot" included. All proceeds go to @KidsHelpPhone👍♥️ ottawaexperimentalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oem-comp…

(The book: "What of Terry Conniston?" by Brian Garfield)

BAD: Kidnapped WORSE: Kidnapped by rock musicians WORSIER: Kidnapped by long-haired rock musicians WORST: Kidnapped by long-haired kid rock* musicians WORSTEST: Kidnapped by long-haired kid rock musicians who mean business *not Kid Rock, which would be a whole new level of bads

@CulturalSnow No worries

Old farts of Twitter! What linguistic innovation pisses you off to an irrational degree? I'll start with "Hundred per cent" when "Yes" would suffice.

EXTRA SHOT: a café called "Smugness"

Via the graphic novel: "𝘐𝘕." by Will McPhail: what I am going to liberally interpret as the three stages of caffeine denial* *note: It's the caffeine that's in denial

@garnetfraser So good Spiritual cousin to THEY TOOK MY SHOW AWAY (1983)

I was 16 when this aired and it did something to me. (The CBS sitcom being referenced at the beginning is, of course, the regettable Flip Wilson Show.) youtu.be/kRBWsz7V7bs

🎶The boys/men are back in town!🎶 (me: sax/vox + @Tearzan: axe/vox)

@CulturalSnow Here's an evergreen edit for you

How will we cope? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Greetings from Toronto where, if the ghost of Mark E Smith will allow the pun, I am furious oranj #fallfriday

Dunno what the youngers were up to late last night in the kitchen but I sure hope everyone is OK.

@StellaGarp Hope this helps!

🐝 or not to 🐝

@StellaGarp The descriptor mentions "bad luck, including blackmail, an attempted stabbing, and bankruptcy." So: Yes, #SAX.

I want to be the first human to pay a landlord on Mars.

Some people would say I'm in last place* *currently I say: Bring on the 4x CATCH 22s, @sternbergh

Fans of lazy journalism + Gordon Lightfoot will get a kick out of the writeups for COTTAGE LIFE's new playlist of Gord's "feel-good" gold. cottagelife.com/general/9-gord…

Never noticed this before, learned just now via @RackSpinner: April 18 is the debut birthday of both Superman (1938) and Batman (1939)

It me!🎷