Mr Searle

My dad is pretty cool.

He's like 6'4", and looks like Christopher Reeves and also, unfortunately, gets mistaken for Gordon Campbell on a regular basis (figure that one out).

One year, for Christmas, I got him a Gordon Campbell voodoo doll. It was amazing.

He used to be a cabinet maker, and an amazing one at that,

(One evening while at a friend's house which had been recently renovated, my mum came down from using the upstairs bathroom (which had not been redone) and proclaimed to my father, "Bruce, go upstairs and check out the cabinets in the bathroom! They are amazing!" to which my dad replied, "Thanks Yvonne, I made them myself.")

he is now the fire chief for the Roberts Creek Fire Department.

He built his own wooden kayak and also built our house from the ground up with his own two hands.

If he doesn't know how to do something, he reads a book and perfects the craft (when I asked who was going to teach him to sail his recently purchased sail boat, he replied, "Nobody. I'll just read a book. That's how I've learned to do everything else.").

My dad is witty, and smart and always up for a good laugh.

My first memory is from the first house we lived in. I must have only been a few months old (I have a wicked memory), i was lying in my crib, which was under the stairs, and watching him walk up the said staircase. I remember his work boots.

The smell of sawdust reminds me of my dad.

My dad is pretty cool.

He also has one of the most eclectic tastes in music I've ever witnessed (aside from my own) and burns and trades CDs with his friend Pete on a regular basis. (When I was a baby, he used to listen to all different kinds of really loud music so I would grow up to have a wide taste. It worked. I started making mix tapes for my friends in grade six).

And so I made him this short little playlist.

All these songs remind me of my dad in some way or another.

Some are songs I remember him listening to as a kid, and some just bring his face to my mind.

So sit back, or rock out to this playlist. And think of your dad. even if they wouldn't listen to it.

Cause today is the day of fathers.

1). Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
2). Yello - Oh Yeah
3). Timbuk 3 - Standard White Jesus
4). The Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
5). Talking Heads - Swamp
6). Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
7). tom tom club - genius of love
8). Devo - Girl U want / Gates of steel
9). The Tragically Hip - Little Bones
10). Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightening
11). Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
12). Dengue Fever - Ethanopium
13). Afrodizz - Yadsa
14). Young Canadians - Hawaii
15). The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso
16). Devo - Mongoloid
17). Frank Zappa - Willie the Pimp
18). Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

I know Devo is on there twice, but how could I not?