Mike v Ireland

Today...my buddy Mike is playing vs Ireland, the newly crowned champions of the 6 nations tournament, and its today at Tbird stadium at UBC.

If you cant make the game, its on Score TV at 4pm...go mike...

Now What

Well Canucks shit the bed and Arsenal have too...

I dont know what to do with all this free time!

I did find somethings that have piqued my interest...

Weezer covering Mgmt. check it out...good!



Jeff Ament, Pearl Jam bassist, was mugged outside an Atlanta studio while recording Pj's new album...here is the link

Finally, Coldplay has released a new live album for free...its very entertaining if your into Coldplay...here is the link

have a good long weekend...i will try to

Adidas Has the Ads going

Normally i am a huge nike ad guy and they commission some sweet ads but right now there are few adidas ones that i am truely loving...

here is the best house party ever...see how many people you can spot...my fav is kg with golden balls on the couch!



next is chelsea fc (i hate them!) player michael ballack showing his accuracy



i am so glad i am not the guy holding the hoola hoop!

Anything Goes

You have to see this blooper from Hockey Central on Rogers Sportsnet...
its pretty funny, a cheap laugh at least!



and this is a good chase for some trash talking...

Things are starting to happen

Tonight is Game 1 of the playoffs. Extremely excited b/c we were not in it last year...but hopefully things go off to a great start...c'mon nucks!
Also, Doves have release a new album 'Kingdom of Rust'...I have only heard a few songs but it sounds like more of their best!

Here is a video from Jools Holland. Damn brits! they get they best music programming...enjoy the vid

No Can Do

My moms was a huge Hall and Oates fan and so it was on all the time in my house growing up. I was sent this video and I must say that seeing the unlikely pairing of Darryl Hall and Chromeo matched together redo No Can Do was very surprising. But dude, it rocks! check it out...



Also apparently the Chelsea Liverpool game was cracker. The game was tied 4-4 but Chelsea held on to win on aggregate 7-5. What a game to have been at. I will try to catch it on replay on TSN later tonight.

Cant Sleep, What Else to Do!

Its is in the wee hours of the morning and I cant sleep. Maybe its the turkey waiting, no, more like kicking to get out of my stomach.

I thought that I would check on the status of my blog and came to the realization that I no longer may any attention to it. I should but I dont, so now on I will do my best to be a good friend and nourish this blog back to health once again!


Nucks won their division for the 2nd time in three years...not bad...i bet there are a lot of broken ankles that are healing just in time for the playoffs. Burrows has been pretty clutch for the last little while. Lets hope he can keep it up and watch out for Sundin, its his time to shine.

Got my Pearl Jam ten re-issuse...very please about that. I forgot how awesome that album really is. It hasnt really left my cd player for the last couple of weeks...
Finally got really into the police over the weekend watch Spectacle with Elvis Costello. He was interviewing the Police this past episode and there was some cool insight into the band. Here is their combo performance of 'Watching the Detectives/Walking On the Moon'. Very cool...



This is a clip of how Roxanne came to be and how Sting originally wrote the song



Thats it for now...time to try to sleep so I dont lose it on the students in the mornin' b/c I'm grumpy!!!

check this out...


hot ad with a hot track ...doves-pounding

vancouver 2010 ad


doves-spaceface

Step Brothers

Time for a video blog...its of Steve Nash and Baron Davis...its a pretty funny vid...check it out



Anyone want to be my stepbrother?

Also if you were at Pemberton and really liked Jay Zed like moi...you can get his whole Glastonbury set on the internet if you search for it. It is more or less the same as his set at Pemberton

i did the work for you...

Jay Z - Glastonbury

Summa Time

So school is finally out. I am always amazed at how fast the year seems to go by. But really should I be? Time is always the same and another school year has passed. The beauty of being a school teacher is that I get this time off. I have effectively taken the last week off. By that I mean that I have done absolutely nothing. Nada. And now I am bored...time to get some new hobbies, read that book I bought during spring break. maybe even blog a little bit more! Seems like people are looking at it a bit more...or maybe its the same people always looking at it!

Today was the best tennis match that I have ever seen. I slept in today and figured I go to tsn.ca and look at the result. To my surprise, the match was rained delayed in the fifth set two games apiece and tied 30-30. Okay...lets watch. What I saw was truly an amazing battle between two so evenly matched players. Nadal was coming off his French title win (where he dominated) and Federer was the world number one and on top of that, he hadnt lost at Wimbleton since 2001. The match went over five hours with about 4 and half hours of actual playing time. Nadal finally pulled out the win with a 9-7 win in the final set. Amazing win...is this the changing of the guard or is Federer going to come back to his former glory?



On another tanget...anyone who knows are plight the last few months with questionable landlords and downstairs tenents...well... i dont know but it seems to be firing up again...first sign, the note that says 'Leave My Cats Alone!'...second sign...lady downstairs yelling and landlord "Leave my f'in cats alone...dont f with them'...cue slammed door!

OH GREAT!

Its a Spain Thang

I just got back from watching the final of Euro 2008. It pitted Spain vs Germany. I have to say that it was a very entertaining tournament. Overall the quality of the action was very hi and very fun to watch. Of course there were some snoozers of games but overall it was good fun.

I was lucky enough to watch the game at a friends place who had HD. Why dont I have that sorted out in my own life yet?

The game wasnt too bad. The first part of the game was boring...both teams feeling each other out, seeing where things would lead! Then Spain a fantasic goal from Fernando Torres. A really beauty! The stuff happened...Ballack got some staples in the face...a yellow here...a yellow there...by the end of the game Germany gave up and it was pretty much Spains game for the taking and thats what they did.

Congrats to Spain for winning in style!

Trevor Linden retires

Well...I knew that this day was going to come but I suppose like so many other Canuck fans, we didnt believe that it would. I know that I have blogged about this before on the last day of the Canucks regular season but I am still in shock about the fact that there will be no more Trevor Linden. He was one of my idols growing up and still is. I wanted to be like him.

My one everlasting hockey fantasy was Trevor and I would be going on a 2 on 1 in the old Coliseum, he would pass to me, I would fake and then pass back and he would tap it into an empty net for the game winner.


I will also never forget the cup run of 94. Him and Captain Kirk were unbelievable. I also remember that my friend Al was able to predict the games results and he called every game of the playoff run. Damn him for predicting game 7 correctly!




I would like to say thank you so much to the only Canuck Captain in my heart. I still have my Linden for Rookie of the Year button too!

A New Day

Today I browsed the Arsenal website and came across this. Its the new first choice jersey for the Gunners. I have to say that at first glance, it is not the greatest but its not the worst either. I know that it will grow on me and that I will want to own one. ha! I still think the one that they wore the past two seasons are the best ones that they have ever had. I suppose thats why I am hesitant about the new one.

One a side but somewhat related note. Euro 2008 has started. The only really cracker of a game was Holland 3 Italy 0. I like that final. I am not a fan of Italian football. France bored to a draw. Honestly that is the team that I am cheering for. They have some of my favorite past Arsenal players of all time, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieria. Oh Spain just scored on the Ruskies 2 nill. Thats it for now.

Go Canada

I have just finished watching the Canada vs Brazil soccer game from last night in Seattle. Had I been more on the ball, I would of gone to the game. How often do Brazil come that close to your home with a more or less full strength squad. I didnt even know that the game was going on until about two weeks ago.

As for the game, i think that Canada could of actually won the game. I think that the turning point was when one of the Canadian players has a breakaway but chipped the ball wide. At that point it would of been 2-1 Canada going into the half but it ended up the reverse. So from then on Canada was playing catch up, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2...final.

The Canadian team has nothing to be ashamed of. They did very good, showed well and took the Brazilians all the way. Good for them.

Here is another link.

on a side note...rip L.B.

Man U are the kings of Europe

I stayed home today to watch the Champions League final. It was the first time that there was an all english final. It was between Chelsea (who knocked out Arsenal, bastards!) and Man U(who were Arsenal's chief rivals for so long). I dont know that I was really rooting for either team but I also didn't want Chelsea to win either!!!

Chelsea is like the Yankees. they buy the best players and overpay at that. That just ruins it for the rest of us. Plus they are so damn cocky and I cant stand the way they play their football.

Anyways I digress. The game wasn't too bad in the first half. Man U was bossing the game and looked like the team to win. It especially seemed that way after C. Ronaldo headed home the games first goal around the 30 min mark.

I was thinking that they looked the better team and was going to win. That was until Frank 'Dank' Lampard scored to even the game at 1 a piece on the 40th minute. This really took the wind out of United's sails. But luckily the half time came and they could take a draw into the changeroom.


The second half was a bit of a snoozer. Both sides weren't willing to be that adventurous and although Chelsea looked the better half in the second, I didn't think that they were going to win.

Fast forward to extra time. Didier Drogba got a straight red with 7 minutes left in the game. A bit of foolish thing to do in the biggest game of the season, if not his career.

He slapped Vidic in the face. Silly boy! But in the end, it didnt matter the game went to shoot outs and Man U was victorious! Thank god!


until next time...

the BEST football ad in the history of football ads

Chuck sent me this...it is probably the best ad i have ever seen...so good!

PLEASE WATCH...its better than the Kobe ad...