When I lived and taught in Japan I got asked a lot of questions. I actually put up the main portion of Muschamp.ca just prior to going to Japan. I thought I had answers for a lot of the big questions, but one question that isn’t answered anywhere and that I was frequently asked by my many female Japanese students was “Who is my favourite actress?”

Jon Langford was a Welsh punk rocker who somehow ended up in Chicago fronting an alt-country side project…

“On the Beach” is an old relatively obscure Neil Young album, that I used to play on my radio show at CFUV. It was out of print for years, I don’t know if it was ever released on cassette, and it wasn’t released on CD until recently…

“Being John Malkovich” came on the TV unexpectedly this evening. It is a brilliantly absurd movie. I saw it when it came out, I guess in 1999 and came away very impressed. It was directed by music video maven Spike Jonze, starred John Cusak, Cameron Diaz, and of course John Malkovich, but the real star is screenwriter Charlie Kaufman…

While digging deep in the Harmony Central forums I found a thread about a dream band lineup. After catching up on the entire thread I had to take a stab at it. I put a lot of time and thought into my list, so much so I decided to re-post it here…