"Defend The Turf...."

Looks like we'll be freezing our asses off next Sunday at Commonwealth thanks to the B.C. Lions. Woo HOO! What a great game and the 4th quarter was a thing of beauty (except that timekeeper needs to be kicked to the curb). B.C.'s third string quarterback, Spergon Wynn, just kept marching it down the field for the most amazing touchdown...Saskatchewan scored 22 points in about 2 minutes and I thought B.C. was done. But no! Take that, Nub Jones.

Football rocks.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...

The Duke, Scotty, Champ 

"I said maybe, You're gonna be the one who saves me..."

To The Duke and Hammers, thanks for your help in finding the elusive singer of the cover of "Wonderwall".

I never knew it was on The OC, but I kept hearing it, and loving it, and I should have known it would be Ryan Adams...At first I thought it might have been David Gray, but that was wishful thinking. Duke have you heard Rufus Wainwright cover "Hallelujah"? It is so good. (Thanks again to Hammers for that little gem) I am thinking about making a cd with sappy ballads on it, can ya tell? I am open for suggestions so Blogger readers...What's your favorite sappy ballad?

Additionaly, The Duke suggested in my comments that George Harrison had written the lyrics to "Wonderwall" but apparently Harrison was responsible for the composition and arrangement of the Indian instrumentals for the unreleased film Wonderwall (the resulting soundtrack, Wonderwall Music, provided *inspiration* for the British band Oasis' hit, "Wonderwall"). I never knew that...That's good trivia.

Oasis always reminds me of that night we poured out of The Black Dog and Scotty C stole some buskers guitar, put down his portable bar, and belted out what has to be the best rendition of "Don't Look Back in Anger" for us all. We sang along at the top of our lungs:

"Sooooo Sally caaaaan Waaaait, she knooooows its too laaaaaate as we're waaaaalking on by..."

That was a great night...that is until PJ lobbed that empty mickey of SoCo into the street...whoops. We were forced to flee back to The Moontower. But that night will be forever etched on my brain, which is saying something given the fact that it was, yet another, drunk night on Whyte. We all know how they all seem to just blend together. That same scene was revisited years later, on the evening (Okay well 2 a.m. the next day) of The Duke's reception, to the tune "Hit me Baby, One More Time".

Aw, Scotty C, he is one great, great (not to mention hysterically funny) man.... And clearly very good at getting buskers to relinquish their guitars too...you try it...

Song Du Jour:Don't Look Back in Anger ~ Oasis

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd never been
But all the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away
So I start a revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I have went to my head
Step outside the summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

So Sally can wait, she knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock n Roll band
Who'll throw it all away

Gonna Start the revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I have went to my head
Step outside cos summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

So Sally can wait, she knows its too late as she's walking on by
my soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I heard you say

Don't look back in anger
Don't look back in anger
Don't look back in anger
I heard you say...

At least not today

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." ~Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Did Hitler really only have one ball? I learned that today in my class....Apparently when the Russians found Hitler, or what remained of him, they claimed he only had one ball? I think "consider the source" might be the best plan on this tidbit of info.

My prof went on to sing some song about it.

Yeah Education.

This last week I went to:
~Home opener of the Edmonton Road Runners, squeaked out the win, and I can't say the goalie, Moss, is that hot, but hey, first game and all...
~The Strath for many, many beers (and some bar called the Thirsty Turtle, they should call it Sausage Party)
~The Bears Football game (we killed Regina 41-7 and one member of the team had the unfortunate name of Kuntz...you can imagine what became of that...I froze my ass off in the blowing snow...brrrrrr.)
~ The other Road Runners game, again we won...good game. (first game of my 10 game pack)

So as a sports fan I got my fill. In between all that I studied (barely)and procrastinated (lots) a paper, which was due today. I also am organizing events for our group Debtsentence, along with the SU. So that is taking up oodles of time. Debate in Quad tomorrow, visiting MLA offices on Friday. So much to do!
Started my new job today. I love it.

Next week midterms! Not to mention I work two pandas games (Friday is the home opener and the CIS championship banner will drop at 6:45 if any of you would like to come!), the final game of the season for the Bears (then play offs, woohoo)and then the Smos final of the season on Sunday...

I've clearly lost my mind....It's all good.


Song Du Jour: "Wonderwall" ~ I have no idea..

Somebody help me...who does that remake of Wonderwall? It's a ballad...they over play it on the radio...

"He wasn't a violent alchy, just a gentle soak..." ~ Professor Pooh

My professor digressed and told a story in class on Tuesday about the neighbourhood drunk from his childhood. The drunk was an optometrist and he had a glass eye. Being an optometrist with a taste for the sauce he bought, at cost, a series of eyes in varying shades of bloodshot that he would replace as the night faded into oblivion. If he had to go to the bathroom he would remove his eye and prop it up on 2 straws over his brew..."keeping an eye on his beer."

Apparently Professor pooh would steal said eyes and use them as marbles in the school yard and, pretending to wipe a nostalgic tear from his eye, he commented, "they were the best marbles he had...." I was falling out of my chair laughing at this unexpected anecdote but the rest of the class doesn't seem to grasp his witty British humour.

Today he was explaining, while trying to get the overhead projector to work, that he wasn't a technophone per say, just terribly inept. He worried aloud that if he did get it working the bulb would most likely burn out...
There was a comment from the class about Murphy's law...and he scoffed and asked if we'd heard of 'Coles law' and to the shaking heads he said, "mostly made of shredded cabbage if memory serves me correctly...

Ba-dum-ba! Ching!!
That class is always entertaining...

We are studying Treasure Island....sadly I rented the movie to save myself some time...But I do plan on going pirate this weekend, (that counts for something right?) and I think my self-professed piss-tank of a professor would highly approve.

I got a new job this week and although I am up to my ears in my projects I am having a great week so it is celebration time!

Song Du Jour: Fair ~ Remy Zero (I am so sad they are no longer a band...)

"You're so strong
And this life and work and choice took far too long
Where'd it go? Tonight the sun shall see its light..."

"Nihilists! F**k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." ~ Walter Sobchak

There are certain movies that just don't let you down, no matter how many times you have seen them. The Big Lebowski is that kind of movie. It just gets more and more funny each time I see it. This time we watched it because Sammers was in a bowling mood and she's the birthday lady, so we did whatever she fancied. Happy Birthday Sammers!!

To celebrate we started out at a sweet little restaurant called Culina's...Just off 99 Street and about 86 ave. Then we were late getting to the bowling lanes, sorry dudes, but we got in a few games before going home to watch a movie...and why not a brilliant movie about bowling....just to top it off! YAY! (Thanks to The Dude and 'La Maison Blanche Video Rentals' for the late night loan)

Yesterday I went to the Library to research my paper but more specifically I came to update my blog...(**grumble, stupid computer at home won't let me publish, grumble**) and they closed down at like 5:30. It really sucks. So today I have been here since 11 a.m. and got a fair bit accomplished. I have a Kiddy Lit 389 Paper due on Tuesday. The resource desk Dude rocks, he helped me find a bunch of articles and stuff. What would I do without these librarians? I have to compare two authors in my essay. I picked the rational moralist Dorothy Kilner and The evangelical 'Sunday School Moralist' Favell Lee Mortimer. Mortimer was the first to use flash cards. And Kilner was the first to use animals in stories but give them human attributes...mmmmm...animism. I shall finish writing it tomorrow. Boooooring. Is it bad that it is Saturday and I just got my research done?

I like being on campus on Saturday. Walking here was very peaceful, the wind might be crisp and chilly and the leaves were whipping in my face, but I enjoyed the walk because the hectic pace of the week seems gone from campus. In its place is a kind of tranquil, calm in the air. Plus when you go to the info booth in SUB there is no lineup! YAY! Got my ticket for the 'Smos game on Monday!

Now if I can just get that paper done before then! Perhaps a better quote for this post would have been from Bernard Meltzer: "Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time."
Bah! 'Proper time'? That is not in my vocabulary....'beer time' I understand and it sounds to me like proper time might conflict so to be safe I'll just have to drop that whole idea....Sorry Mr. Meltzer.

Salacious B. Crumb
 

"When nine hundred years old *you* reach, look as good *you* will not, hmm?" ~Yoda

I love Yoda, yes Captain Grammar himself...he rocks!

Ahhhh...good ole Return of The Jedi....I think my favorite character is the little muppet, from Jabba the Hutt's lair of reprobates, who laughs hysterically at the misfortune of pretty much everybody. The little jackass kills me every time. He was clearly reincarnated as Nelson on the Simpsons...ha ha!

So, I go to the website to look up a link, so all my fine readers could see who the hell I am talking about, and I find, to my delight, his name is Salacious B. Crumb.
Wonder what that B stands for? And doesn't salacious imply that he is "titillating or arousing people sexually"? Hrmmm...Is that what he was doing to C-3PO's eye? Kinky.

Crumb, apparently, is a Criminal Kowakian monkey-lizard. Cram that into your frontal lobe..there might be a test...or that could be the answer you need to win millions on Jeopardy. Is it any wonder I can't remember new things? Clearly, my brain is crammed to capacity with useless trivia like this. Good times.

I'd forgotten how hilarious Han Solo is:

C-3PO: His high exaltedness, the Great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.

Han Solo: Good, I hate long waits.

And when he tells Chewie to "Fly casual"...Classic!

I find I am always in awe of the imagination behind these movies. Can't wait for Episode III. When does it come out? And who is going with me to see it at 2 a.m. that day?
As an aside, I am just wondering how it is that a Senator (Palpatine) acquires the ability to use deadly force lightning? You can't teach that.

Song Du Jour: Close To Me ~ The Cure