Tuesday, April 22, 2008

"Most of the time I got nothing to say, when I do it's nothing and nobody's there to listen anyway......"

Today is Earth Day and it was first celebrated in 1970, when the modern environmental movement began at the grassroots level. In the past 38 years there has been some progress made and environmental awareness has never been higher around the world. Whether this awareness and actions growing out of it will be able to fix the damage already done from previous negligence and ignorance remains to be seen. Our actions cannot be confined to singular events like Earth Hour and Earth Day. They need to part of our daily activities and they need to become second nature. I am not an overly "green" person but I am getting better at making little changes and doing more than before. I am particularly good at conserving energy by using as little light as possible. It helps to have good eyes and lots of candles to read by, plus they smell good. In ten years when my eyes suck from reading with too little light, I will know what to blame. The biggest thing most people can do is recycle, but if you observe people out in public, you know there is a long way to go. Garbage ends up everywhere and anyway, rising in the wind trying to recreate a scene from American Beauty.
"I wish I was the wind, I'd touch your face"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kZl_foxwOLo
I was having a shitty day yesterday which actually began with the fact that I slept horribly Sunday evening. My timing for anything yesterday was off and I was grumpier than usual. Actually I am never really grumpy, I just don't smile much and I am overly introspective. In fact I am pretty funny, even if I can't be sarcastic but very few people get to know that. But my day got better as most of them inevitably do. I had dinner at my grandparents; roast beef with gravy, baked potato with sour cream, cabbage, carrots and tomatoes with zucchini bread and tea for dessert. I did have two plates for dinner and a second helping of zucchini bread. I will rollerblade it off, soon enough. Then the Montreal Canadiens won game 7 against the Boston Bruins, Carey Price was amazing and early Alex Kovalez was great. The crowd was racous and inspiring, it is too bad celebrations after the game were uncivilized, ruining the feel good atmosphere inside the Bell Centre. Among those in the crowd for the game where Canadiens legends Jean Beliveau and Ken Dryden along with former Prime Minister Jean Chretien and current Liberal leader Stephan Dion. It was funny watching Chretien try and cheer. The Canadiens victory makes me 6-0 in my first round predictions thus far and with a Washington and San Jose victory tonight, I could be perfect. I really want Washington to win and thought they were dead when they fell behind 2-0 last night but Alexander Ovechkin scored twice and they won 4-2, forcing tonight's game seven. I am torn between Calgary and San Jose because I picked San Jose and still think they have a deeper team but Calgary is a Canadian team and has Iginla, who is reason enough to cheer for the Flames. Should be an exciting night.
"Hell, I still love you, New York"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jsAUzmR6DSU
"This pretzel is making me thirsting..." I still love the fact that when there is nothing on television, after sports have played their role, I can still find Seinfeld. The episode I watched last night with Kramer getting a line in a Woody Allen movie and George trying to park cars, along with other antics always makes me laugh. What made the show so good in my opinion was how they spun everything together, each character's plot was never taken out of the context of the other characters. A string binding each of them, for the good or the bad.
Also last night's Letterman was one of the better one's in a while. Billy Crystal was on and is always funny. The beautiful Maria Sharapova was on and the 3 of them played tennis on the street. Plus Chris Elliot spent time with the New York Rangers, which was funny and in typical Chris fashion creepy. The links are below.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=56Q1FqtgQbM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T_plI2nu2cU
Makes me want to start playing tennis again.
From the Hour last night I learned that there is a frog that has no lungs and breathes through its skin.
"I taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb. They taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hbVx-Jjs9r4
Below is my music countdown, shorter and perhaps still irrelevant to you but what I listen to is more than relevant to me.
Today isn't great but it isn't shitty and couldn't be because I got to talk to Rebekah, who was pretending to be a cat and thus I had to bark like a dog. We are all children, even it takes actual children to show us how to be.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dty4Jk0eERA
john.

Top 40 Songs Played This Year On My iTunes Player
1. You Can't Count On Me by Counting Crows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YHrH88JtxaM
2. Have You Ever Seen The Rain by C.C.R.
3. When I Dream Of Michelangelo by Counting Crows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SuVXF9os6Gw
4. The One I Love by David Gray
5. Long Road To Ruin by Foo Fighters
6. Creep by Radiohead
7. Thinking About You by Norah Jones
8. Imitation Of Life by R.E.M.
9. Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash
10. Blanket Of Ghosts by Dustin Kensrue
11. Cowboys by Counting Crows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nae39OSzKrU
12. Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder
13. Calling All Friends by Low Stars
14. One by U2
15. Where The Streets Have No Name by U2
16. Always by Neverending White Lights
http://youtube.com/watch?v=obIBXJ0_UkY
17. If I Had Eyes by Jack Johnson
18. Say It To Me Now by Glen Hansard
19. Society by Eddie Vedder
20. Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder
21. Falling Slowly by The Frames
22. Talk Shows On Mute by Incubus
23. NYC by Interpol
24. Boy With A Coin by Iron and Wine
25. My List by The Killers
26. The Great Escape by Patrick Watson
27. Empty by Ray LaMontagne
28. Let It Ride by Ryan Adams
29. Lemon Parade by Tonic
30. Montebello Park by The Trews
31. Love Hurts by Incubus
32. Hannah by Ray LaMontagne
33. Everybody Knows by Ryan Adams
34. Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison
35. When You Were Young by The Killers
36. Tripping Billies (Live) by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
37. A Long December by Counting Crows
38. Michelle by The Beatles
39. Southern Girl by Amos Lee
http://youtube.com/watch?v=slUIDNUnbO4
40. Let It Be by The Beatles

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