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Juno Schmoono

Do you ever feel like a stranger in your own land? It's like you've decided to join a converation and everyone else is speaking Esperanza. Or Pig Latin and you're the pig. That's how I feel about the whole Junos thing taking place in Ottawa this week. I was just listening to Ottawa Morning on CBC Radio and the ahts reporter was breathlessly reciting the names of all the acts who will be in town, acts I could "catch". I'd only heard of one band and that's MonkeyJunk. I've only heard about MonkeyJunk because Scott and I did a documentary on the Ottawa Bluesfest ten years ago and we met Tony D. and Steve Marriner and they somehow came together to make a band. And gave it a cool name. The Junos is like a foreign film festival to me. And I'm the foreigner. It's the same thing with the Geminis. I've tried to watch the Geminis -- maybe the Genies, I'm not sure, I get mixed up -- and I can't name one movie which has been nominat...