If everything has gone to plan (and c’mon… does it ever?  Really?) I should be in Moncton right about now, indulging in the local cuisine and fine entertainment.  I’ve learned that every once in awhile I need to step outside of my comfort zone, and go have some fun somewhere.  Moncton is a nice break from the routine!

Look out, Moncton!  Here I come!

I’m sitting here watching City of Angels. It’s on TV and there’s not a whole lot of choice at this hour. I think that I’ve only ever seen it once, and I probably didn’t appreciate it as much the first time that I saw it. Given the last year of turbulence, it’s amazing how different it seems now.

There were a few great songs released on the soundtrack.  Remember Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls (are they even still around?)?  Love that one!  And I was pretty sure that Uninvited by Alanis Morissette was going to appear somewhere.  Apparently in the end credits.  I didn’t realize that Sarah McLachlan’s Angel was from this movie, although I can certainly understand why.  That song appears quite high on my top ranked playlist. 

Sometimes I’ll hear a song in a movie or a TV show that I’ve never heard before, and was probably never released to the radio, and for some reason it hits me.  My mission now is to find I Grieve  by Peter Gabriel.  It only played for about 30 seconds, but it was enough for me and one of the other guys to comment on it.  Good ole iTunes to the rescue?

If I remember correctly, I bought this movie (probably on VHS) for my sister a few years back.  Maybe it was DVD.  Or maybe it was the soundtrack on CD. 

The ole memory gets a little worse every day it seems! 

And now The Wedding Planner is coming on.  It must be wuss night on Movie Time.

Geeze, I’ve gotta be quicker on the draw! I’ve been working nights during the So You Think You Can Dance Canada shows this week, so I haven’t been able to watch either the performance or the result shows. Normally I could go for a few days without finding out the results, but apparently not anymore! Now, I’m watching the stats for the blog closely, and I last night I noticed several search engine requests for two particular names, with the words “voted off” in the search term! DOH! What a way to ruin it for myself.

I’ll still watch the two shows tomorrow night, but it won’t have quite the same effect.

Hopefully next week I’m a little quicker.

I know I’m getting old when my kids want toys that I’ve never even heard of before.  Take the case of the illusive Drago, Leader of the Bakugan.  The what?  Exactly!

Dragonoid (or Drago, as my son calls him) is part of a collection of toys called Bakugans.  I’d never heard of these before, but apparently they’re all the rage… atleast with my kids.  I’m guessing that this is a Japanese import of some sort.  I looked at the toys.  They all looked pretty much the same to me.

I searched through Walmart and Toys ‘R Us for Drago, but only managed to find a Drago figure, not the actual moving toy. 

“That’s ok, Daddy.  You can get it for me next time”, he said, after I gave him the figure. 

Ahhh… so understanding…

I’m currently trying out a couple of different alternatives to Google Adsense, and have thrown them blatently in the middle of the right side bar, where they stand out like a sore thumb.  This is simply a test.  Please ignore them and carry on. 

Merci! 

The summer is winding down.  The days are getting noticeably shorter.  The mornings are crisper.  It won’t be long before summer is a distant memory, and fall takes its place.  Sad, really.  I blinked, and summer seemed to come and disappear.  Where does the time go?  It wasn’t really the summer that I envisioned it would be.  Not that it didn’t have its high points.  It did. 

It feels as though 2009 is passing by at an incredible rate.  And maybe that’s a good thing.  I’m looking forward to 2010 being an incredible year. 

A fresh start…

I sat down last night at 8pm to watch So You Think You Can Dance Canada.  I wanted to finally see who the Top 20 were going to be.  I flipped on the TV, settled in nicely, and…  on came Merlin. 

I don’t know what to think about that show.  Considering I used to play Dungeons & Dragons for years, you’d think that the story of Merlin would be something that would interest me.  It does not. Sorry.  And why is it on during So You Think You Can Dance Canada???

Apparently I got my times mixed up.  This was only going to be a one hour show, so it didn’t start until 9pm.  Fine.  It gave me a little more time to make supper.  Yes, I was eating late last night.

When the show finally DID come on at 9pm, I had great fun txting the results to someone who was unable to watch it with me because she was stuck in a car on the way to PEI.   “Tara-Jean is in!”  “Earth man didn’t make it…”  (Earth man was the nickname we gave one of the guys because his name was very difficult to remember, and he was very spiritual and in tune with his surroundings.  Great dancer.  Just didn’t really fit in with the choreography part of the show)

All in all, it looks like a good Top 20, but I really wish that the judges wouldn’t toy with them like they do.  If they made it through, just tell them.  Don’t start to tell them one thing, and then surprise them at the end.  It’s frustrating.

And this year we have someone from the Maritimes to cheer for!  She’s a crumper though… whatever the hell that means!

I think that the next show is Tuesday night, when we finally get to see them perform and vote for our favs.  No, I don’t vote.  I just watch and grumble when my favs get voted off.

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 20:

I was looking through some old stuff recently, and I came across this picture.  It’s part of a series that was sent to me last year, but this is the best one (in my opinion).  It always makes me laugh, and that’s important nowadays.

Just look at that smug look on Captain Kirk’s face.  “I’m better than you.  I know it.  You know it.  Hell, the whole galaxy knows it! Now begone with you!”