Dan Sekulich (left)and I first met at high school, John F. Ross CVI in Guelph, and became good friends. He was a much better basketball player than me but despite that, I liked hanging around him because he can be a pretty funny guy — I’d call his sense of humour Pythonesque but with a slightly darker twist. We were also mods — teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s who were inspired by the lifestyle, attitude, and fashion sense epitomized by, say, The Jam’s All Mod Consand other punk-era power pop groups — The Buzzcocks, XTC, etc. — who saw ourselves as the rebel descendants of the British mod culture of the mid-1960s, brought to film in Quadrophenia and whose soundtrack came from The Who and the Small Faces. All of this in safe, wonderful but dull old Guelph, Ontario.
Since then, Dan has gone on to lead an incredibly adventurous life, usually with a camera crew in tow for some documentary or other he might be working on, but most recently he’s been armed only with (I presume) a tape recorder, note pad and laptop computer as he explored the zen of being (and being one with) an ocean-going ship. 
The product of that exploration, and journeys up and down North America’s east coast and to India, is a book— Dan’s first — called Ocean Titans: Journeys in Search of the Soul of a Ship. (right)
A Haligonian who now lives in Brantford, Ont. named Alfred Rushton writes up a review of Dan’s book in today’s Globe and Mail. Rushton never really says if he likes it or not but does a decent enough job of describing what’s in it. And because what’s in it sounds like pretty fascinating stuff, I’ll bet the review moves some copies of store shelves.
Dan had his publisher send me a copy a month or so ago and I’m embarrassed to say, it’s still on the shelf. But as I’m cashing in some vacation days this summer, my promise to Dan is that I will have the time to finish it by Labour Day.
UPDATE: Dan has some slightly different musical teenage memories at his blog.