Listmania Revisted

Hi guys…  Having a cold the last couple weeks limited some of my regular day activities, but made rooms for other things which isn’t always a bad thing.  Jim, Ian, and Darcy convinced me and Jeff to start playing World of Warcraft for example (though they did NOT convince us to watch “American Pie”!  Never!)  I also got a chance to catch up on listening to great music, something I don’t do as much as I did when I was younger, for various reasons (I barely used my car here in
Charlottetown this winter and my car is where I listen to music the most!).  So during my down-time at home I had a chance to pop on some music and just relax.  This prompted me to make another list (a la our Amazon Listmania) of my favorite music of all time (in no particular order).  Some are old sentimental favorites, and a few others are newer bands.  I included a “key album”, which may not necessarily be the best album, but maybe important in some way to me. I also ask that if you would like to make a short list of your own, just post it on the comments and share it with my loyal readers!  Do you want me to share the list with you?  OK! 

1          Pavement         Wowee Zowee

2          Texas Is The Reason           Do You Know Who You Are

3          The Promise Ring       Nothing Feels Good

4          Jimmy Eat World       Static Prevails

5          U2       The Unforgettable Fire

6          Pearl Jam      Ten

7          Alice In Chains         Jar Of Flies

8          Soundgarden      Badmotorfinger

9          Nirvana          Nevermind

10        StoneTemple Pilots            Core

11        Echo and the Bunnymen     Songs To Learn And Sing

12        Sunny Day Real Estate       Diary

13        Plankeye        Commonwealth

14        Michael Knott          Rocket And A Bomb

15        The Who        Quadrophenia

16        Led Zeppelin     Led Zeppelin III

17        Tom Petty      Full Moon Fever

18        The Cure        Boys Don’t Cry

19        Snow Patrol       Final Straw

20       Oasis       Definitely Maybe

21        The Futureheads      The Futureheads

22        R.E.M.            Murmur

23        Stereophonics           Word Gets Around

24        Third Eye Blind        Third Eye Blind

25        Beck          Mellow Gold

26        Eric Clapton    Slowhand

27        Neil Young      After The Goldrush

28       Our Lady Peace        Naveed

29        Soul Asylum      Grave Dancers Union

30       Preston School Of Industry           All This Sounds Gas

31        Papas Fritas      Papas Fritas

32        Public Enemy    It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

33        Rage Against The Machine    Evil Empire

34        Camber          Beautiful Charade

35        Hot Water Music     A Flight And A Crash

Now I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right:  “Lindsay, why are there some great bands missing… like the Rolling Stones.  Surely you like them!”  Well, that’s true.  I guess they should be on there too.  Or “Badmotorfinger?  Are you kidding, Superunknown was WAYYY better!”  Debatable, but could well be true.  I guess my list is not complete, but at 35 and counting, I gotta stop somewhere… 

 

A #1 fav:  Pavement

Though these guys are a sentimental pick that didn’t make the list:

ColdFX

OK, I’ve never tried ColdFX but I am feeling the effects of a cold this morning.  I could actually feel it coming on yesterday morning forced myself into my work-day morning routine anyway.  Does anybody take ColdFX?  Does it work?  I’m still a skeptic…

This does, however, give me a chance to update my blog, which has been terribly neglected of late.  What’s happened since New Year’s you ask?  Not a whole bunch, but only a month + has passed. 

Me and the crew went to Toronto, which was great.  I’ll post some pictures rather than writing too much about it.  Suffice to say we had a great time at the NBA games (I spoke with the Swirsk!) and hanging around TO. 

We went to the Hockey Hall of Fame, the CN Tower, Wayne Gretzky’s restaurant, and the CBC mini-museum (which is WAY cooler than it sounds – saw Mr. Dressup’s tickle trunk and the set of The Friendly Giant!)  We also saw the NFL’s Chad Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald playing Madden in some conference center! 

Nothing else too new I guess.  February is flying along, and at the end of the month I’m moving out of the Official Languages/Employment Equity section of HR, and moving on upstairs to Classification for the next six months, which 0ught to be interesting.  Can’t wait for spring/summer weather which hopefully will be coming soon.  OK, on to more photos!

                        

 

Me, Jeremy, Mehmet Okur, and though you can’t see him because of my fat head, Carlos Boozer sits enjoying a post-game radio interview.

Nothing better to do…

Bonnie gave me a great idea since I had nothing better to do.  Make some animé creations of me and Eungyung,  so here we are…  now that I’m seeing them, I realize I didn’t put much thought into them.  Could I have shown a little more creativity?  What does that cat mean?  Why am I under the sea?

  

From right now, until the Year 2000!

Happy New Year!  It’s back to the grind for 2007, but not for long!  Jeff, Ian, Darcy, Geoff and my brother Jeremy are off to Toronto for some NBA action (Kings vs Raptors; Jazz vs Raptors) so I can’t wait for that!  My last (and only) live NBA game involved Stockton, Malone, and Hornacek from the Jazz and Abdur-Rahim, Bibby, and Big Country Reeves from the Grizz in Vancouver.  And Jeff Hornacek waved to me and Jeff! 

 

Anyway, I had a successful Christmas holiday in Alberta.  I managed to get to BC for some snowboarding, saw everyone (almost) I wanted to see, with some notable exceptions:

Mark Z – romancing in the mountains.

Nick and Bobby – romancing in Vietnam (not each other – I don’t think… together, but not together!)

Jason and Bonnie – romancing in Vancouver.

Jim Roy – we’re all waiting for another post on your blog Mr. Roy. 

Jason Bergen – he’s a tough man to find.

Sebastian F – I don’t know you’re number!  OK, that’s no excuse.  I think he was off touring in a Pantera cover band.

Matthew Li, Wayne Kung, Jason Z - I ran out of time.  Next time for sure!

Mike Yee – I call you!  I won’t be denied!

Ian Stults – but I did see brother Dave.  And other brother Ian Firlotte.

I invited everyone to the PO for L’heure de puissance and a good group showed up.  Even saw Matty and his entourage later on at the Black Dog.  Ian was the life of the party that night for sure.  The only downer was getting shot down by the redneck “DJ” who wouldn’t play a PO staple:  KISS – “Lick it Up”.  What a loser.  Oh yeah we also had a blast playing Nintendo Wii at Jeff’s and at Dean’s party.  Thanks to everyone else who made my vacation a smashing success!  It was great to be back in the West after being a Maritimer for the last 6 months.  And rest assured, I’ll be back in the summer (twice) for weddings.  Normally I’m not a wedding lover, but for my brothers I’ll make an exception.  Farewell!

 

A toast – to the Olive Garden!

Economics Lesson

I got this old photo (summer 1998?) from Ian via Nick via Jordan’s old website (that was a funny site and I intend to lobby to bring it back – did Jordan ever share those U2 pics?).  By the way, did Jordo mean to use the name Adam Smith instead of John Adams?  Or maybe John Stuart Mill? 

My old econ profs Neil Hepburn and Ebby Aslani would be proud!

Supply and demand baby.  

Regardless, I’m sure all economists in the world can agree on one thing:  $10 is a fair price for such quality music.   Something else Darcy didn’t consider is that the law of diminishing returns is negated by me and Nick playing on the same album!  Marginal utility has no ceiling!  (I just blew Friedrich von Wieser’s mind.) OK wait, if this photo is from 1998 Nick isn’t on the album yet.   

Jason McKeeman’s vocals happen to have similar effects on diminishing returns however.  Mmm, that sound’ll melt your face.

 

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NBA is back!

Look, I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right.  The Tigers BLEW IT in the World Series, my prediction was wrong, blah blah blah.  I’d rather not talk about.  And since this is my blog, what I would like to talk about is opening night in the NBA (which was last night – Jazz, Kings, and Raptors is tonight though, and I’m enjoying it!  Not to mention the solid “Lost” episode I just watched). 

The Swirsk

Sometimes these Raps announcers make me laugh – Leo Rautins and Chuck Swirsky.  They’re REALLY prone to exaggeration at times, and they make some absolutely ludicrous statements:  <after Bostjan Nachbar squeaks in a weak dunk> Leo: “OH LOOK AT NACHBAR AS HE SLAMS IT DOWN!”  Chuck:  “Oh, he’ll do that to you every time if you don’t watch out, a lot of people think of him as just a pure shooter, but he’ll hammer that ball down in your face every time if you give him room…”  or “Are you kidding me?!  Kris Humphries was the great STEAL of this summer’s free agency!”.  These are actual things that were said tonight!  Let’s just be reasonable guys.  I love Chuck and Leo anyway, and always enjoy watching Raptors games thanks partly to their great banter, so I guess I shouldn’t complain.  It’s just that with the way they talk, Shaq could go off 20/20 from the line tonight, ‘Sheed could go the rest of his career without a technical foul, and the Atlanta Hawks could win it all this year, and we’d all be idiots for not knowing this already!  When we’re at the ACC in January, I’m gonna go talk to these guys.   Or maybe Ian will just yell at them “HOLD HANDS!”

World Series Prediction

 

Screw you Zeke!

Eungyung’s Look-alikes

Early birthday present…

I’ll say it again: “What a blast from Magglio!”  Tigers win the ALCS, making it’s first trip to the World Series since 1984.  It doesn’t get much better than this!  I attribute their success to my pilgrammage to Detriot this summer.  Can’t wait for our NBA trip – the Jazz, Kings, and Raptors in January!

Maggs celebrates his 9th inning blast.

 

 

  The Gambler original, Kenny Rogers