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It was freezing this morning when I woke up around seven, the temperature was -16 or -23 with the wind chill. Another good day to stay inside, at least until I have to go to work tonight. I think Sunday is now my least favourite day of the week.
Last night I watched some of NHL All-Star skills competition and 3 on 3 young stars game. I certainly hope tonight's all-star game itself is more exciting. What I saw last night was boring and lacked any intensity.
"I'll lift you up, we can love or cry......."
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG1ZBaniv0
Lift Me Up by Live
I also watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno last night. It was a fairly funny movie and a "sweet" sort of story. This certainly is not Seth Rogen's funniest movie, by far, but it had a few moments. Elizabeth Banks is cute, but does not provide much of a comedic sidekick for Rogen. There is nudity, both female and male, and lots of colourful language, along with subtle (and not so) racial jokes, aimed at both blacks and whites. The song above by Live was used in the movie, the song was recorded for Selling The Drama but never made the cut and finally found its way into this movie. It is a typical emotionally building Live song with a catchy chorus. Information about the movie is below.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007028/
"This holiday she's alone, she leaves the lights on the tree and though the New Year has come, every night, they'll stay on for you to see......."
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHZL-KE9Jk
Always by Peter Bradley Adams
I really like the song above.
http://www.myspace.com/peterbradleyadams
I wrote the following last night, wishing for eternity to make things right.
Perpetuity
I broke a mirror, literally
My hands shake, occasionally
All their strength sapped
By years of lacking confidence
A man afraid and meagre
Thirty years looking inward
Without living a life outward
Always the banjo waits for her
I can only strum its strings
My voice quivers and leaves
The temperature grows colder
Winter lingers across Ontario
I sleep more than necessary
Always waking up more alone
Unable to capture her sexuality
A naked canvas but no nudity
The shadow of her body warm
In the light cast by a new day
Hours stretching out for miles
Life’s greatest trick and illusion
Makes us believe in perpetuity
But every face ebbs eventually
Flowing out to sea on a wave
Destined for a ship of memory
I will walk its plank and drown
Unable to swim back to shore
The land of beauty and vanity
A place lacking any real purity
On television and in magazines
Even its music is manufactured
Pop stars glowing like real ones
Their celebrity dimming quickly
Hollywood is nothing like Memphis
New Orleans knows suffering now
Making its jazz and blues stronger
Reality exists among the people
Their voices have been given hope
By a black man in a white house
Handing out hundreds of billions
Money to educate and encourage
The ideas of a young generation
Intellectually motivating their hope
Should I return in another lifetime
The fish in me will walk on land
Past houses devoid of sale signs
Our collective materialism gone
Replaced not by an Utopian dream
But with the reality of opportunity
No matter how broke or broken
You have been made by this life
Appearances will be deceiving
Making mirrors useless for love.
24/01/09
"All the other girls here are stars ...... you are the Northern Lights...."
Another version of my countdown is below.
Top 25 songs played on my iTunes player this year
1. Kathleen by Josh Ritter (1)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJopVRYL4c&feature=PlayList&p=7AF39F0EF4F0E947&playnext=1&index=3
2. Heart of Gold by Neil Young (3)
3. Golden by My Morning Jacket (2)
4. Twenty Years by Augustana (9)
5. Autumn Walker by Jets To Brazil (6)
6. End of the Empire by Sam Roberts (4)
7. Thank You by The Redwalls (5)
8. Elephant by Damien Rice (21)
9. Body in a Box by City and Colour (8)
10. Vanity by Emerson Hart (7)
11. 1 2 3 4 by Feist (12)
12. After Hours by We Are Scientists (14)
13. Cannonball by Damien Rice (22)
14. A Long December by Counting Crows (25)
15. Revolution by The Beatles (10)
16. Is There a Ghost? by Band of Horses (20)
17. Sweet and Low by Augustana (-)
18. You Don't Know Me by Ben Folds with Regina Spektor (24)
19. Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows (-)
20. Grey Room by Damien Rice (19)
21. Long Division by Death Cab For Cutie (11)
22. Tears and Rain by James Blunt (-)
23. Human by The Killers (-)
24. Hollow Man by R.E.M. (13)
25. All in Good Time by Ron Sexsmith (17)
Another place to hear good music is by listening to XPN and especially its World Cafe program.
http://xpn.org/xpn-programs/world-cafe
I am currently listening to a full length concert from the excellent Iron and Wine. A good Sunday morning choice. A Sunday morning where I did not win part of Lotto 649's 43 million dollar prize, my 5 tickets combined contained 2 winning numbers, the 3 winning tickets worth just over 14 million were sold in Ontario.
Below is an article from today's New York Times analyzing Obama's Inauguration speech and how it wasn't time for poetry, it was time for harsh criticism of America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25rich.html?_r=1
There will always be time for good music. The Guess Who's No Time is below as another Sunday begins to unfold around us.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDlwkuInBY
john.
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