Not since the Shuffle Demons took the Spadina Bus in the 1980s have musicians captured the gritty necessity of the Toronto Transit Commission as these two, Cyrus Watson and Randal Medford, with “I Get On.” Cyrus says he wrote the song because he was bored. Riding buses from Kennedy to Kipling and back again will do that to you. According to Cyrus: 90 minutes each way. That’s a lot of boredom. I’m not being mean when I say it translates to the screen.
The video’s gone a bit viral - to the point that the pair were honored today by the Toronto Transit Commission and Mayor David Miller with two Metropasses, valued at around a hundred bucks, good for the month of January.
Here’s the video.
Enjoy.
