SOUNDTRACK: ROB SZABO-“If I Could Do It All Again” (2003).
Rob Szabo is a singer-songwriter. And this song is a pretty traditional singer-songwriter song. It’s got some humor, it’s got some cliches. In some ways he reminds me of Jill Sobule (lyrically, not vocally, obviously) or maybe Loudon Wainwright III.
Szabo has a number of albums out already. I listened to a few others songs on his radio station and I enjoyed them. He strikes me as the kind of musician that the more you listen, and the more carefully you listen, the more rewarding his music is.
I wasn’t all that impressed by “If I Could Do It All Again,” but the other tracks were certainly good. And I could easily enjoy listening to his stuff when the mood was right.
[READ: June 15, 2010] “Stet”
This was probably my favorite story of the bunch. It’s funny, it’s dark and its very Canadian. I suppose that if you want to write a “Canadian story” it’s easy to set it where he does (so you can mention a LOT of Canadiana) but this story works beyond the surface.
And the surface is that this story is set in a Canadian newspaper. Mansour, Fabien and Matt are trying to meet a deadline. They bemoan their late hours, their hard work, their horrible bosses and the inevitable decline of newspapers. (more…)
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