Unless you have been sleeping in a digital cave, you are all aware that Radiohead released a new album online that YOU, the paying customer, can name your own price for.
I paid 5 pounds for mine. You can be a real cheap bastard and pay "Zero". One friend of mine paid 1 pound which I thought to be too cheap. Don't be that guy.
I am a huge Radiohead fan, and so far the album has a lot of mellow tracks. It is not my favourite album, but it is growing on me with every listen. These guys are still the best out there.
Personally before this album:
1) The Bends: Their most "poppiest" album. It truly rocks out.
2) OK Computer: "Paranoid Android" The Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" of the 90s. One of the few albums that I can listen through its entirety (Weezer's Pinkerton included).
3) Kid A: "How to Disappear Completely" lifts my spirits every time when the strings go into chaos and then Thom's voice breaks through.
4) Tie between Hail to the Thief and Amnesiac: Both albums feature some great songs: "2+2 =5" is one of my favourite tracks of all time and tracks like "Spinning Plates" show the talented nature of Radiohead... I find an immense suspense in that track.
5) Pablo Honey: I know a lot of people like this album (see Little Buddy), but in grade 12, I got so sick and tired of "Creep" that I couldn't even begin to give the rest of an album a whirl.
I wish Radiohead would come back to Vancouver soon. They haven't been here since the magical night at UBC where REM played the night before and Thom Yorke actually joined REM on stage for "Shiny Happy People" and I could have seen this for free if only my good friend Kavie Toor and spoken up quicker and snagged the tickets this promotions girl was trying to give away and Kavie knew her but he was too slow and some other guy beside us said "I will take them" and he most certainly did take those four free tickets.
But I don't hold that against my friend. No way. I am above that.
Radiohead is one of the best bands live. I have seen them four times and each show was a musical masterpiece. Do not hesitate to see them live. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Werd.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
So hard to vie for my attention...
There is so much stuff that I am trying to do these days that I find myself wondering "What if I had kids?". After all, I am at the age where I probably should have one or two little ones. If I did have a family, I don't know where I would find the time to do so many of the extracurricular things that I do right now.
Take for instance my love for hockey. I am playing ice hockey twice a week. Every Tuesdays after school, I play with a bunch of Burnaby teachers out at lovely Bill Copeland Arena, home of the Burnaby Express (Kyle Turiste!). The ice is magnificent.
I also play with a bunch of guys on a team called Motown Friendship Tour (don't ask). Check us out at www.ice604.com. It was very satisfying setting up Duncan Barber for the game winning overtime goal in our last game. I always chuckle when I think of grown men celebrating like little kids over a victory in a beer league hockey game.
I also have been very occupied with a NFL Survivor Pool. My friend, Bryan Chi and two of his coworkers have entered two teams into this HUGE massive pool out in the East. Over 6000 teams with the winner taking it all. The premise is simple. Pick one team to win every week. If you are right, you move on. If you are wrong you are out. We have survived Week 6 and there are 1300 teams left. This may not sound exciting, but for me it certainly has put a charge into my Sundays. So sad.
Along with coaching volleyball, playing curling, hockey twice a week, my masters, and my teaching gig, I am acutely aware that I would not be able to do all this if I had children. Add in my TV viewing, and time becomes real precious to me. Which may explayin why I am fed up with some shows that are wasting my time.
That's right Grey's Anatomy. I am talking about you. This show is a complete mess right now. I know I knock it every week, but I get completely flustered with what it has become. Somehow the writers have to get away from this George-Izzie storyline. For Izzie to look right at George and say what she was thankful for in terms of what the old man made her realize. How awkward is that?
There is very little humour to be mined in any of the situations now. About the only thing that was nice to see (and it wasn't a nice action by the character) was to see the jerk ass Karev return. He had become such a nice guy and I sort of missed the cocky Karev from seasons ago. The show has lost a bit of bite with Burke, I am afraid to say, eliminating a good dynamic between Isiah Washington and Sandra Oh. George's wife is severely overmatched as chief and doesn't remotely strike me as one. I don't care about her enough to even look up her name (Ramirez? Gonzalez? Pedro? Whocares?) which totally escapes me right now.
I don't know how this show is going to fix itself. The treacle music must go now. The Snow Patrol thing is done. I mean, they could easily use the same song each week. I have no way of differentiating between any of the slow songs used at the end of each episode to make the viewers cry and to tie up all the plots that share a common theme while Meredith's voice narrates the obvious for us.
Inspired by my NFL football day (Cleveland and San Diego win!! This week we had to make TWO picks) here are some fearless predictions:
2 to 1 odds that Karev and Grey's half sister hook up.
2 to 1 odds that as soon as Grey and McDreamy become official, Grey's half sister will somehow bungle the entire thing.
5 to 1 odds that George ends up without either of his two ladies.
10 to 1 odds that the Asian intern girl, Lucy (crap, George's wife's name is Callie Torres... could not avoid that information) is the quarter sister of Yang. How can you be a quarter sibling? Grey's Anatomy writers will somehow figure out a plausible explanation.
Interesting fact: The actress who plays "Lucy" is a Korean adoptee. Her name is Joy Osmanski. Sandra Oh is Korean. Will Yun Lee from Bionic Woman is Korean. The sales guy from Chuck is Korean. And let's not forget about our two Lost actors, Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim. This is the height of Koreans in Hollywood. Domination is inevitable. Oh and as if that wasn't enough, John Cho, from Harold and Kumar fame has been cast to play Sulu in the brand new Star Trek movie. A Korean playing the most famous Asian character ever? And a Japanese one to boot? What am I getting at?
I have no idea, but when you are Korean, you tend to notice these sorts of things.
100 to 1 odds: Addison returns back to Seattle Grace, bringing 2/5ths of her coworkers (let's say Taye Diggs and Tim Daly, because they are nice looking gentlemen) and asks to combine their two hospitals into a brand new super show called Grey's Privates.
Really is anything private for Meredith if she is willing to continually have sex at her work, IN A HOSPITAL!!! Does anyone else find it disturbing that these two adults can't wait to get it on back in their private residence? Once may be plausible, but I believe Meredith and Derek have slept with each other more than 5 times at the hospital. Grody to the max. The hospital is supposed to be a clean place.
1000 to 1 odds: Rob actually stops watching Grey's Anatomy.
1500 to 1 odds: Rob manages to say something positive about the show.
Take for instance my love for hockey. I am playing ice hockey twice a week. Every Tuesdays after school, I play with a bunch of Burnaby teachers out at lovely Bill Copeland Arena, home of the Burnaby Express (Kyle Turiste!). The ice is magnificent.
I also play with a bunch of guys on a team called Motown Friendship Tour (don't ask). Check us out at www.ice604.com. It was very satisfying setting up Duncan Barber for the game winning overtime goal in our last game. I always chuckle when I think of grown men celebrating like little kids over a victory in a beer league hockey game.
I also have been very occupied with a NFL Survivor Pool. My friend, Bryan Chi and two of his coworkers have entered two teams into this HUGE massive pool out in the East. Over 6000 teams with the winner taking it all. The premise is simple. Pick one team to win every week. If you are right, you move on. If you are wrong you are out. We have survived Week 6 and there are 1300 teams left. This may not sound exciting, but for me it certainly has put a charge into my Sundays. So sad.
Along with coaching volleyball, playing curling, hockey twice a week, my masters, and my teaching gig, I am acutely aware that I would not be able to do all this if I had children. Add in my TV viewing, and time becomes real precious to me. Which may explayin why I am fed up with some shows that are wasting my time.
That's right Grey's Anatomy. I am talking about you. This show is a complete mess right now. I know I knock it every week, but I get completely flustered with what it has become. Somehow the writers have to get away from this George-Izzie storyline. For Izzie to look right at George and say what she was thankful for in terms of what the old man made her realize. How awkward is that?
There is very little humour to be mined in any of the situations now. About the only thing that was nice to see (and it wasn't a nice action by the character) was to see the jerk ass Karev return. He had become such a nice guy and I sort of missed the cocky Karev from seasons ago. The show has lost a bit of bite with Burke, I am afraid to say, eliminating a good dynamic between Isiah Washington and Sandra Oh. George's wife is severely overmatched as chief and doesn't remotely strike me as one. I don't care about her enough to even look up her name (Ramirez? Gonzalez? Pedro? Whocares?) which totally escapes me right now.
I don't know how this show is going to fix itself. The treacle music must go now. The Snow Patrol thing is done. I mean, they could easily use the same song each week. I have no way of differentiating between any of the slow songs used at the end of each episode to make the viewers cry and to tie up all the plots that share a common theme while Meredith's voice narrates the obvious for us.
Inspired by my NFL football day (Cleveland and San Diego win!! This week we had to make TWO picks) here are some fearless predictions:
2 to 1 odds that Karev and Grey's half sister hook up.
2 to 1 odds that as soon as Grey and McDreamy become official, Grey's half sister will somehow bungle the entire thing.
5 to 1 odds that George ends up without either of his two ladies.
10 to 1 odds that the Asian intern girl, Lucy (crap, George's wife's name is Callie Torres... could not avoid that information) is the quarter sister of Yang. How can you be a quarter sibling? Grey's Anatomy writers will somehow figure out a plausible explanation.
Interesting fact: The actress who plays "Lucy" is a Korean adoptee. Her name is Joy Osmanski. Sandra Oh is Korean. Will Yun Lee from Bionic Woman is Korean. The sales guy from Chuck is Korean. And let's not forget about our two Lost actors, Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim. This is the height of Koreans in Hollywood. Domination is inevitable. Oh and as if that wasn't enough, John Cho, from Harold and Kumar fame has been cast to play Sulu in the brand new Star Trek movie. A Korean playing the most famous Asian character ever? And a Japanese one to boot? What am I getting at?
I have no idea, but when you are Korean, you tend to notice these sorts of things.
100 to 1 odds: Addison returns back to Seattle Grace, bringing 2/5ths of her coworkers (let's say Taye Diggs and Tim Daly, because they are nice looking gentlemen) and asks to combine their two hospitals into a brand new super show called Grey's Privates.
Really is anything private for Meredith if she is willing to continually have sex at her work, IN A HOSPITAL!!! Does anyone else find it disturbing that these two adults can't wait to get it on back in their private residence? Once may be plausible, but I believe Meredith and Derek have slept with each other more than 5 times at the hospital. Grody to the max. The hospital is supposed to be a clean place.
1000 to 1 odds: Rob actually stops watching Grey's Anatomy.
1500 to 1 odds: Rob manages to say something positive about the show.
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