I have been doing this for the past few years, but this year I will give a little taste of the album with my favourite song from each album.

Top 5 Albums of 2012

5 - Polica - Give You The Ghost

Have you ever woke up in the morning with your mind in a fog, but you just have a feeling that it's going to be a great day.  Welcome to this whole album.  This album has a female vocalist that sounds like a female version of Jim James from My Morning Jacket.  Polica capitalizes on two things throughout this whole album.  The combination of beautiful vocals matched with great drum work.  They have filler guitar and synths that keep this album interesting through out.  I haven't quite heard an album like this that was lead by a female vocalist and I wish there was more music like this out there.  It doesn't just have a psychedelic,  a rock or an electronic feel.  It's kind of mixture of every one of the genres that does justice to bands such as Caribou and Daft Punk who have mastered the craft of the casual electronic vibe.  "Lay Your Cards Out" is the song that I have chosen as my personal favourite.

4. - Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool

Great follow up to their fantastic first album Beast Rest Forth Mouth.  It keeps up with the same feel of up beat electronic music.  Polica and Bear in Heaven would put on a great show together actually to think about it.  One of the things that Bear in Heaven has mastered is the complete album.  They have songs that flow perfectly into one another.  Every sound that you hear through out the album is well thought out and has a purpose.  The lead singer and guitarist keep the music on track through the album, and keeps it from straying to far off of the path.  They have multiple songs weaving into Pink Floyd territory, and also a few that wander into Radiohead land as well.  If you ever get a chance to see them live check it out.  They put on one of the best concerts that I have ever seen.  The song of choice is "Sinful Nature"

3. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits

So this is what happens when you combine two of my favourite bands.  The lead singers of Wolf Parade and Spoon joined to form this band, and have made a fantastic album in the process.  They split time in front of the mic, and have different vibes with each person.  It's not very often that I put a huge amount of stock into the lead singers, but both vocalists can change the complexion of the song with just the way they sing.  There is a lot of '80s influence throughout this album.  We are talking Smith's or Talking Heads influence rather then Judas Priest or Iron Maiden influence though.  One thing that's brilliant about this album is how they know exactly when to throw the rock back into the album.  Just when you thought you were getting one thing they bring out some thrashing guitars and go in the opposite direction.  Album of the year up until the last two months.  "Baby Get Worse"  is my choice for the album

2. - Tame Impala - Lonerism

I was getting a little worried with the music coming this year, that is until this past month.  Two albums came out back to back that were both amazing in their own way.  What can I say about Tame Impala?  They have nailed the psychedelic vibe while never losing site that they are a rock band.  They sold out their Toronto concert in minutes.  People are starting to take notice.  Remember a band called the Beatles, well Tame Impala is the closest in vocals that I have heard to the Beatles ever.  This album from top to bottom never loses it's sense of where it needs to end up.  There are parts when you can bob your head to the soft melodies.  There are some parts when you can air drum or air guitar, and there are some parts when you can marvel at the electronic background.  This album has every single thing that I hope for in an album, and this band will not be going away.  Remember this band because out of all the bands that I am talking about today they will be the biggest success.  "Elephant" and "Mind Mischief" are the best two songs on the album, but there is a cool video for "Elephant" so that is the choice.

1. Grizzly Bear - Shields

From the first minute that I heard this album I knew I was going to love it.  I really needed to grow into the first few albums that Grizzy Bear came out with, but this album hit me in the face as soon as I first listened to the opening single.  There is no other band using the Beach Boys way of harmonizing now, that is except for Grizzly Bear.  They have three singers, all have a major part in the way that they sound.  What Grizzly Bear used to have problems with was keeping everything together.  Things would come apart within the song, and they would have a hard time putting it back together.  Welcome to "Shields,"  they have made a perfect album from top to bottom there is not a bad song.  They are able to keep the vibe that they have always been known for, and also add more user friendly brilliant music.  Currently they are the best band in the world making a lot of other bands look like children's music, by making a sound that has never been made before.  I saw them live at Massey Hall and they were amazing.  Band of the year, album of the year, and single of the year with "Yet Again."

Have to love the Old Navy commercials with all the cast members from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.  Multiple Rusty's, priceless!

Hated giving up D'arnaud in the Dickey trade, but if you are going to go for it all you need to make a bold move.  Getting a Cy Young Award winner the year after he wins the award is tough to do.

When I was 21, did I dress as stupid as some of the 21 year olds do now?

Can the New York Jets just fold?  Or never be on National TV again?  Just have them play the Jacksonville Jaguars 16 games in a row and put it on at 2am on Wednesday nights.

Kacaba is selling off their award winning Meritage wine on their website right now.  It's  $44.95 a bottle, it's one of the best reds I have ever tasted.

Could you pay $76.80 for a six pack of beer that comes with two glasses?  For the first time ever you can buy the beer that the Monks have been brewing forever and it has been stated that it's the best beer in the world.  If anybody is looking to get me a xmas gift....

These shootings are senseless, but you are always going to have insane people.  What you don't need is every website and news station falling all over itself for ratings on these shootings.  Everywhere I look there is something to be read about this story.

I would enjoy a ride on a dog sled.  I think that I would pull the dogs after though just to make it even.

Imbibe, if you haven't heard me talk about this place nine thousand times in the past month or so.  Every Wednesday they have a board game night where you can have pints for five bucks.

Would you sacrifice your left pinky for an Ipad Mini?

I desperately want to perfect public speaking.  You never realize how difficult it is until you start doing it on a consistent basis.  I have worked in sales for over ten years and I still get somewhat nervous speaking in front of large groups.

Is it difficult to make an animated webisode for youtube?

Perks of Being a Wallflower - 7.6/10

Don't name your child a name that the first thing you think of is a stripper or a porn star.

Remember that old clapper commercial that had all of the old people clapping to turn off their lights.  It's still on the air.  Throw back commercials for products that are still in production would be fantastic.  I would watch that.  Better then Denis Leary yelling at me about how much his stupid truck can tow.

They need to get rid of Tony the Tiger though, he always looks like he is going to do something terrible to that child every time I see that Frosted Flakes commercial.

I am taking a stand to not see the Hobbit.  Three movies for that book?  Come on!


Whenever I hear "The Final Countdown by Europe" it makes me happy on so many fronts.  Jobe from Arrested Development, and seeing people confused on how they should dance to it.

We had our annual Holiday Party this past weekend for the shop.  I won a night away in Haliburton that includes a fireplace in the room as well as breakfast the next morning.  Only problem with this.  Where is Haliburton?

Conversation with a customer at work recently.

C:  Do you know which one of these computers is backwards compatible to Windows 7?
D:  No, but I could check to see which computers still have Windows 7 on it.
C:  That wasn't my question, I asked which of these computers is backwards compatible (Mocking tone.)
D:  I am not sure, but most of them don't have drivers for Windows 7.
C:  Well could you find out?  (In a more mocking tone)
D:  You want me to go online and check to see if every component of every one of our HP computers has drivers for Windows 7, is this correct?
C:  Thanks for nothing.

For people that don't know computers very well.  This would have taken me approximately 23 hours to do.

Argo - 9.8/10

If you haven't seen Argo, check it out.  It's one of the intense dramas I have seen.  The way it is shot is wonderful with an early 80's vibe.  Plus the storyline has a scifi underline in it.  How can you go wrong?

Next blog should have my top 5 albums of the year.  For those that enjoy my musical taste.

Two people have been transferred to the Caribou fan club.  Welcome Joe and Chris.  We have been waiting.

Drunk eyes - take a look into them, and you will see that the soul has left the body, and the only thing remaining is an ape type character sitting in the corner of a living room eating peanut butter out of the container.

Top 3 Foods that I wish didn't put the nutritional value on them.
1 - Pizza Pockets
2 - Kraft Dinner
3 - Zoodles 

I love that favourite two pubs in Kitchener are right across the road from each other.  Rum Runners Pub, and Imbibe are both fantastic, and have a wide selection of great beer.  Have you ever watched a Guinness being poured into a glass,  It's one of the most gorgeous things that I have ever seen.

Have you ever just looked at a couple and thought this is going to end horribly?

How has the National Enquirer stayed in business so long?  Does anyone actually buy it?  I do get a laugh walking by it every time at the grocery store though.

Are there really monsters under your bed?  This was my favourite headline of all time.

If you are meeting somebody for the first time and they are going for the handshake, give them a salute and see how the response is.

I have never bowed to anyone before, but I feel if I did that I would be entitled to tea after.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Interpol's "Turn out the Bright Lights."  If you don't have the album, give it a download.  Here's a little taste.

I can't ever remember having three rookie quarterbacks having the success Andrew Luck, RG3, and Russell Wilson are having this year.  It's impressive, especially RG3, he doesn't have a lot of talent around him.  NFL is in good hands.

We sell a remote control car that goes 80mph.  Why?

Are people on more drugs now?  Or am I just noticing more and more crazy people?  The scary thing is most of these people have kids.  Good luck in the future planet Earth.

Lawless - 7.1/10
Looper - 8.8/10

Seeing Joseph Gordon Levitt transform into Bruce Willis was impressive.  Seeing Nick Cage transform into John Travolta, not as impressive.  Funny, but not impressive.

I am just figuring this out now, but honey badgers are tough as nails.

Sara and I have three trips booked this year.  We are going to the Everglades in Florida, Columbia, and the Grand Canyon this coming year.

15 degrees in December.  I don't think I have seen that one before.

Had a board game night recently at the families place in Oaktown.  Pandemic is a really good team work board game that involves you trying to save the world from a medical outbreak.  Daryl that was 24 years old, would have just shook his head at Daryl of 34 years old.

I remember thinking about people that were in their mid-30's when I was younger.  They were so old.

For some reason I haven't hit the point of only liking music that I grew up with.  When is this supposed to happen?  "What is this?  I don't know this.  Put Pearl Jam back on....

Currently we are open till 10pm at work.  Who is shopping for a new laptop or TV at 10pm?  "Honey, we should go out shopping for a new laptop before Letterman starts."

Do you know why you want a tablet?

Two sports I would love to join next year.  Curling and Broomball.  I have great memories of these two sports when I was younger.

One thing that I didn't like about living in a small town when I was younger.  Everybody knew everybody's business.  Divorces, break ups, accidents, jobs.  I also don't want to wave at everybody as I drive by.

One great quote that I saw today from another person's post.  'Women aren't vending machines where if you put in enough Nice, sex comes out.'  

I was watching some old Big Bang Theory episodes.  I can pinpoint when the show started going downhill.  When Walowitz became less creepy.  When he was the creepy nerd that was always trying to sleep with women, the show was at it's best and most realistic.  

At sci-fi conventions you get a lot of guys that just throw out their fishing line and hope that a woman gets snagged on to it. 


The whole Star Trek Next Generation crew minus Wil Wheaton is going to be at a con in March.  You can have a picture with the whole crew for, wait for it.  $399.99!!!!

Everybody knows what a jailbreak is, correct?  Well welcome to my Black Friday morning.  twenty customers coming at me for IPAD's, and I only had one gun.

Toronto fans finally have something to cheer about, the Argos!  That stinks!

Proud new owner of the board game Ticket to Ride.  Watch the show called Tabletop.  It has Wil Wheaton playing some board games with celebrities.  You might think boardgames are for nerds, and that may be so, but next time you are watching The Voice or whatever other crappy reality show that you are watching.  Think to yourself, would I be having a better time strategically building train tracks from Winnipeg to Portland? 

Peter Bishop from Fringe is slowly turning into Neo from the Matrix, Cool! (Derek Zoolander tone)

Draft beer makes brain foggy.

Flute solos in music are dicey.  Only so many Aqualong's out there. 

People at bowling alleys seem to hate their jobs. Here's an example.  He also wouldn't allow late friends to join our lane.  They had to have their own lane. 

"Can we have the lanes down at the other end."
"No, we need to put you in order."
"Why?"
"We just need to put you in order."
"Are the lanes reserved?"
"No, I just want to put you in order."
"Alright, thanks!"
"I put you on the other end."

Black Friday will hopefully be the successor to Boxing Day in retail.  There is nothing worse then getting up at 5am the day after Christmas to go into work and being harassed by people that have been waiting outside in -10 degree weather for three hours.

Which term is better?  White Girl Problems or First World Problems? 

I have caught myself swearing and groaning at the computer when I accidentally click on Itunes to open up.

There are a few sports you can look like you know what you are doing at, even if you aren't that great at them.  When you see me dribble a basketball you know instantly that I am terrible.

There is a whole station on XM about Fantasy Football.  This blows my mind, what's even worse is that I listen to it every so often.

Can you tell by talking to someone on the phone if they are big or not?

John Gibbons eh?  I will give him a small window of opportunity before scrutinizing.

I really enjoy that commercial that has the car that honks the horn when someone is doing something inappropriate.  I would love this technology to exist with some creepy people that I know.  The dude that goes in for the inappropriate hug when he barely knows the girl.  Or the guy that gives inappropriate compliments about a girls body with multiple people around. 

Don't send out pictures of any part of your body on your phone.  Is there ever a situation that this doesn't come back to haunt you.

The Wii U has come out with very little fanfare.  Remember the original Wii, and the madness that ensued for a full year after it's release.

I wish I had built in lip chap on my lips.  It's very tough to look manly putting it on.

You are not supposed to grocery shop hungry, this also goes for LCBO shopping while stressed out or angry.

I almost wish that I didn't watch the Tribe Called Quest documentary.  It's really hard to like Q-Tip after watching it.

Received a compliment at work the other day.  Was called Matthew McConaughey from Dazed in Confused with my brown leather jacket and beautiful moustache.  I also assume she was talking about my hidden six pack under my work shirt.

Come on spell check, you should know celebrity last names.

Stayed at a really nice Bed and Breakfast over the past weekend near Shelbourne.  If you don't know anything about Shelbourne, join the club.  They have one pub that looks like it's been shutdown because of under-age drinking.

Do you know anyone that gets excited about receiving a message from a game on Facebook?  "Oh Johnny has sent me a message from Farmville 2.  How Awesome!"

Are you the type of person that makes every conversation sound like an emergency?  Stop it! You stress me out by just talking to you.


I finally have a moustache worth getting excited over.  I can grow handlebars fairly well, and feel pretty good about myself doing it.  Handle bars don't look as tough on me as I envisioned though.

If you have blonde hair, and can't grow the Hulk Hogan handle bars, just raise money for Men's health, save yourself the shame.

Black Friday is coming up soon in the States.  Waiting at the border for hours to go shopping.  I would rather have my eyelashes set on fire.

I find it funny to think that back in the '80s that it was cool to wear as little clothing as possible in the winter for dudes.  They would wear jeans and a jean jacket with a Scorpions patch on it.  Being warm was not cool in the '80s.  The cigarette would keep you warm enough.

Art is something I will never fully understand.  I don't think I can even come up with one sentence that would make me sound intelligent.

Does the bassist for every band have to be the least attractive?

I ordered a 6 pack of Birra Moretti at the Beer Store the other day.  I received the cold stare from the guys that worked there that beer was in the furthest depths of the Beer Store cold room.


The wink is a lost art form, when pulled off properly it can be a useful weapon.  When it's not executed properly it either looks like you have a lazy eye or you are extremely drunk.  Use with caution.

As a child I remember getting grass stains on my pants was cool.  Now getting grass stains on your pants makes you look like an idiot.

Is anything better then a peanut butter and banana sandwich?

If you are looking for a business venture in the food business, check out "Zoup" in Waterloo.  They are busy every single day, and are looking for new owners.

Are you the person that makes posts that always involve you bitching about friends minding their own business? Always deleting friends from Facebook, or deleting your Facebook constantly because of issues?  I am already sick of writing this.  Next topic!

We have enough flavored vodka's.  Geez, I don't need my Caesar to taste like marshmellows.

Toronto Blue Jays may have just made the biggest trade in baseball history.  Fans really need to come support this team now.  After all we have to pay the 150 million they just picked up in salary.

People look at you odd when you are a dude singing "Scrubs" by Destiny's Child.

NHL: lockout - 0/10

If you are the type of person that gets mad at an associate at a retail store because they don't have something in stock that you are looking for.  You should be kicked in the groin.

Sara and I are going to a Bed and Breakfast this weekend in Shelbourne to continue our Bruce Trail trek.  The guy that owns the place is a former chef, and will be preparing a beautiful meal for us.  He drops us off at the start of the trek, and prepares our breakfast before the hike. Can't really beat service like that.  Also if I won the lottery this would be the start of my blog every time.

Spanish is going fairly smoothly.  When the teacher speaks to me in Spanish though it sounds like the Charlie Brown teacher.

Mumford and Sons, and  Of Monsters and Men should get into a hipster canoe together near Algonquin Park and fight bears for a living.  That should keep them from making crappy music for a while.

 Even if I really enjoy a song, as soon as it becomes a commercial I instantly hate it.

It's ridiculous that Remembrance Day is not a holiday.

When I attempted to spell check ridiculous it gave me supercilious as the only spelling option. 

There's nothing manly about putting hand cream on when you are a dude, but it's a necessary evil.  Even when they call it a man hide on the commercials it's still not tough.

Holiday Party is coming up very shortly.  The one thing about working with a younger group, the Holiday Party is a party.

Call of Duty Black Ops came out a couple of days ago.  In other news Red Bull and Doritos sales are on the rise.

The two places you will hear the organ.  Going to Church and going to a Doors concert.  Coincidence I think not.

Fist bump or handshake, just be consistent.

Have you ever listened into a conversation where two people weren't listening to each other and were talking about two completely different topics?  It's very strange and confusing.

When the bathroom stall door doesn't open for you.  Before you try to push it more aggressively look for feet under the door.  Don't keep pushing the door.  This is a simple life lesson for stupid people.

Oscar Salazar is a very good name for a Spanish person.  

The US election is today.  It's the first time that I actually feel a little nervous about an election that wasn't Canadian.

Do you remember the Simpsons episode when Homer runs for Sanitation Commissioner and wins with all of these ridiculous promises?  Then after a couple of weeks they are out of money and garbage is all over the streets.  Welcome to Mitt Romney's time as President.

There is all this talk of Michael Vick being replaced as the starter in Philly.  I watched maybe ten minutes of that game and he was running for his life nearly every single time that he dropped back.  Michael Vick might be the only thing that has kept you from being winless.  Put Tom Brady or Eli Manning behind that line and see what happens.

Anytime TSN advertises that there is a Friendly  Rugby match between Canada and Samoa, you know that they are hurting for hockey.

Fringe has been unbelievably good so far this season.  JJ Abrams other shows, Revolution and Alcatraz.  Not as good.

Ping Pong, badminton, and dodgeball are very underrated sports.

Don't ever tell anyone that they dropped their pocket.  The joke is never good, and the laughs that you will receive are pity laughs.

It doesn't matter what situation that I am in.  If I see somebody racing an animal I will laugh.

There is no way to beat a bear in a hot dog eating contest.

I am in that terrible in between stage of my moustache looking like dirt on my face.

We have a VIP sale at the shop on Nov 22nd.  Come see me if you want any deals for the Xmas season.

Total Recall - 4.8/10
Neighborhood Watch - 6.9/10

Going back and watching all the Battlestar Galactica's again.  I can understand why I wanted to costume Baltar all of the time.  He is a perfectly utilized fantastic character.

Do you ever tell stories that bore even yourself?  Well, you can imagine how we feel.  I have never had the guts to tell somebody that they are boring.  I have only known one person to do that, and I am jealous of him.

Aerosmith is releasing a new album soon.  I feel the same emotion hearing that Dominik Hasek was making a comeback to the NHL.

Bow and Arrow and a sword is all that I would need in a zombie apocalypse.

Why do my eyebrows always raise when Cypress Hill comes on my Ipod during shuffle?



 

Remember when you used to make fun of your parents because they would be limping around after going for a hike or playing slo-pitch?  Well apparently I have just hit this age.

I  have been fighting a cold for the past week or so.  So....

Safety Not Guaranteed - 9.2/10
Excision - 7.9/10 (One of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen.  You have been warned!)
Amazing Spiderman - 7.5/10
Blade Runner - 9.6/10
Red State - 6.8/10

I won the stock option award through work.  Basically each store nominates one or two people per store that they believe are valuable to the stores success.  I was nominated and received the award.  

I also just passed 10 million dollars in sales for my career as well.  This is it for the self pats on the back.

The Trews are playing an acoustic set at the Starlight lounge in Waterloo for those that like the Trews.

Red Stripe is my beer of choice recently.  You can't really go wrong with the stubby beers.

When I go to a live concert my focus always seems to gravitate towards the drummer every time.  I find their ability to keep the beat and steer the music the way that it needs to be steered is amazing.

Javex does look like it would be tasty to drink.  They need to make things that shouldn't be drank black in colour.  No drink that I have ever seen was black in colour.  I think I might have had an alcoholic drink that was black.. I am pretty sure that it didn't do anything good for me either.

I still believe that there will be a NHL season.


Going to the ROM (Toronto Museum) this coming Friday.  They serve booze and have music playing in certain sections after hours at the ROM on Fridays.  Also the dinosaurs come alive, and Robin Williams comes out of the shadows slurring his words with his Patch Adams outfit on.
 
Would you rather have a Double Down from KFC or 4 pizza pockets?  They have the exact same amount of sodium.

Have they started having a mandatory food nutrition class in public or high school?  If they haven't they should start.  When I was a kid I had no idea what was good for and what was bad.  I figured that Zoodles were good for because it was pasta.

Dave's Tea is a place in Waterloo.  This tea shop allows you to smell the tea, and gives you recommendations on teas if you are sick, tired, or want to mellow out.  This place is extremely hipster and doesn't appreciate when you sneeze after smelling a tea.

I don't know one person that puts a bumper sticker on their car.  But I see bumper stickers on so many cars when I am driving.  Who are these people?

I am still not sold on Twitter.

Are you the chronic liker on Facebook?  Are you also the chronic liker that likes everything that females do, and you are a dude?  You know who you are.  Stop it!!

     

So you play a 162 game season.  Then have a 5 game first round playoff.  (I actually like the winner take all wild card.  It puts a huge emphasis on winning the division.)  If you have an ace, he gets to pitch 2 of the 5 games.  I am bias of course because of the A's, but having to face Justin Verlander twice seems almost impossible.  You have to win every other game he doesn't pitch.   Make it a seven game series and see who comes out on top.  If you can AFFORD an ace you have a terrific shot of making it to the next round.  Do you think the Yanks or Tigers would have won if it was 7 games instead of 5?  It makes a big difference when you have Sabathia or Verlander going instead of Fister or Kuroda.

 I am all for taste testings within supermarkets, but Walmart had a taste testing for no name coca cola.  "This no name coke would go well with a nice old cheddar cheese dear."

Expendables 2 - 8.0/10

We have a new BBQ restaurant right near our place.  They make a tremendous pulled pork sandwich.  There is nothing that smells better then a place that serves pulled pork covered with BBQ sauce.

Did you know that there is a professional mini golf tour?  We played at the best mini golf course in the States and there were people out there with multiple putters and their own golf balls.  The grand prize was $4,000.  Finally something lamer then being a professional bowler. 


So people don't hike in Myrtle Beach.  We didn't see one person on any of the trails that we did over the weekend.  It looked like we saw a scene from a horror movie.  There was a smoldering fire, and all their stuff was lying all over the place, but no people around.

Really dug the first Arrow episode.  It did seem like a rip off of the Batman story line, but overall it was well done.

Sara is gone for the next couple of days to a conference.  I will be putting the slow cooker to use I believe.  Maybe some spicy tacos will be in store.

Sometimes I get the words "exotic" and "erotic" mixed up when I am talking.  Erotic cheeses mean something completely different, and yet I don't know what it is.

People seem to enjoy posting pictures and comments about the events that their at, rather then actually enjoying the event that their at.

If you really know a topic you can tell if somebody knows just the bare minimum to have a conversation with you.  I hate having conversations with people like this.  You have no input, you are just spewing off something you heard from someone else.

Got a smoking deal in Niagara.  Tastings at 3 breweries and 2 wineries for $35.00 each.  They also pick you up from the hotel and drive you around.  That might be the best part about it.

 Still no hockey, I actually think they will get a deal done, but they need to be careful.  Fans in the mediocre NHL markets might be a tough sell to comeback. 

Oktoberfest is my worst nightmare.  Polka music, terrible sausage, and out of control drunk University students.  Even when I was in College I hated it.  I tried to like it because I love beer so much, but you can only dance to the Chicken Dance so much.

Did you know that their was a product that was marketed as a mustache fixer?  You wore it while you ate to make sure you didn't get food in your mustache.

Watched an interesting documentary about hyper active parents that are causing their children to not be able to make it in the real world.  They have had everything done for them their entire life.  I see this all the time when I am selling computers.  I try to talk to the student about what they are going to be using the computer for and the parents answer every question for them. 

There are a bunch of rip offs of American Horror Story that have come out recently.  They all stink, it's hard to make something frightening when you have a ghost of the week story.

Halloween is right around the corner.  There is nothing sexy about a zombie women.  And if you do think there is something sexy about a zombie you should do some more research.

Went for a nice hike at the Hilton Falls, right near Milton.  Really like the walk.  They have an area where there is a fire going and you can roast marshmellows or cook hotdogs.  We went to Rattlesnake point a couple of weeks ago as well which is a little more of a challenge.  Especially when you walk in high heels.  What you thinking girl?

Saw Grizzly Bear this past week as Massey Hall.  Can't believe I haven't seen a concert there before.  What a terrific venue, with not a bad seat in the house. 

Going to Myrtle Beach this coming weekend for Thanksgiving.  Looking forward to the beautiful and ridiculous mini golf courses that are in abundance.  There are a couple of courses that have fire works when you sink a hole in one.

Dredd  - 8.5/10
That's My Boy - 5.7/10

When I think of Winter I think of Guinness, slow cookers, and red wine.  I used to think of hockey.

The following shows need to hang them up. 

- How I met your Mother
- Big Bang Theory
- True Blood

That is all.

Dinosaur Jr. came out with a new album recently, how are these guys still around?  And how are they still really good?

Dodgeball league, bowling league and, Spanish lessons are on the docket for things to do in winter this year.

The worst Halloween costume I have ever seen is somebody dressed as the shocker.  I am not referring to the movie.

I Mother Earth is rocking Oktoberfest this year.  The last time I was at Oktoberfest we went to see Sloan, a bigger girl kept on falling down on the dance floor, while wearing a skirt of course, in front of our table   We also had some dude spilling multiple drinks on our table.  We decided to move tables, he came over to that table after because his table was too sticky and promptly spilled his rye and coke on that table as well.  The same dude kept yelling for Sloan to play Motor City Mayhem.  If you know anything about Sloan you will know that their main song is Money City Maniacs.

Movember is just around the corner.  Ladies this will be your one and only warning.

Watching stand up goalies now on the highlights entertains me.  How did they think this was a better way to goaltend then the current butterfly way?

You always know what a guy is going to be like if his name is Blaine or Chip.

Drinking off of a plate is harder then it looks.


Stop giving me a stupid phone book.  You should have to call a phone number on your rotary phone if you still require a phone book to be delivered to your house.  Why don't you call the milk man and paperboy at the same time?

Hipsters are getting uncomfortably close to my style of clothing and music.  Stick to your deck shoes and your Mumford and Sons cd's and we can stay friends.

Do you remember that scene in the original Naked Gun movie when Frank Drebin is umping the baseball game?  He gets involved in the pickle and starts throwing multiple baseballs around trying to prolong the game so the Queen doesn't get shot.  Welcome to Monday Night Football.

Finally some new music that suits my fancy.

Tame Imapala - Lonerism - 9.1/10
Grizzly Bear -  Shields - 9.8/10

There is an El Salvordorian restaurant that has opened up in Kitchener called The Guanaqita.  We enjoyed some pupusas and Mexican Nachos.  There was some salsa dancing going on behind us.  Really enjoyed the vibe, it reminded me of being in El Salvador. 

The Oakland A's are staying alive in the Wild Card hunt.  They have had a crazy stretch of tough games on the road.  If they can last it out and make the wild card game there will be a great together in KW to watch the wild card game for those that are interested in beer and playoff baseball.

After 100 years with Future Shop I have finally decided to make my incline to the top of the company. 

If you want to put someone through pain.  Make them call Microsoft to get another activation code for a Windows product.  I almost had an aneurysm giving them the same information thirty times while getting redirected multiple times.

I have only been mad a few times in my life.  One time is when a pie was baked too hot and burnt my mouth.

I find it funny when people tell me that they can't make soup.  Here's the directions.  You put a bunch of stuff in a slow cooker with broth. 

The Loved Ones - 8.8/10  (You might have to look for this one.  "B" horror movie)

Interesting fact - Ireland has a trail that you walk for 8 or 9 days that has stops in multiple villages and towns along the way.  There is a stop that has 50 pubs for 1200 people.  Strong livers in Ireland.

Nintendo wii-u - Will be coming out soon.  It's a tablet essentially, instead of you having to get up and be active you use the tablet and it shows up on the screen.  I believe it will do well.  We have been waiting for a new video game system for a while.

Story - An gentlemen calls me at the store for some help with there printer.  I tell him that it would be better to call Canon directly.  I try to tell him that the number is 1-800-ok-canon.  He doesn't understand that there are letters attached to numbers on the phone.  Get rid of your rotary phone from '64.

Value Village is over priced.  This is something I thought I would never say.

 Wine and Food festival was this past weekend in Niagara on the Lake.  There is nothing better then hitting multiple wineries that are five minutes away from each other.  There was one that had an outdoor kitchen that was a cooking school/winery.  Yes, I do realize that this is the best thing ever.

If you are going to let a fart go that really smells bad, walk away to an area that doesn't have people around.

Ostrich farm was terrific again.  I didn't realize how mean those birds are.  They kick with both feet and can rip people's throats out.  Chuck Norris jokes are done.  Sorry kids!!

Monopoly is back at McDonald's.  I can't help it, I love it.  My body not so much.

There are a couple of NFL refs that were fired from the lingerie league because they weren't good enough. 

Finally went to the Jane Bond restaurant recently.  Vegetarian restaurant with a wide assortment of beers on tap.  Friendly hipster vibe, didn't get a chance to try the food, but everything sounded delicious.

Bauer Kitchen this past Friday.  Watermelon Mojito - 10/10

Snow White and the Huntsmen - 5.1/10

Kristen Stewart, what does everybody see in you?  Chronic B**** face syndrome.  Pattinson was lucky of what happened.  How can you not be single if you can have any woman in America?

Danier Leather and Golf Town have end of season sales going on right now.  Got a $400.00 leather jacket for $75.00.  I look tough as nails in leather, but you take off that jacket and I have 0% muscle tone.

How have I not seen Wrath of Khan before?  Watched it at the Princess Cinema this past Saturday.  It runs very close to being as good as the newest Star Trek.

So you think Star Trek is only for nerds?  Watch Wrath of Khan and the newest Star Trek in succession, and if you still think that, we can no longer be friends.

Here comes Honey Boo - The mother looks like a bean bag chair with eyes and a nose.  I can't even watch the show, you know when you look at something and you feel like you are going to throw up.  Well the mother makes me feel like that every time I see her.  I didn't think a person could do this to me.

There are way too many fat kids.  Remember going to school and there would be one poor kid who would get picked on for being big?  Well the skinny kid gets picked on for not eating pizza pockets and playing World of Warcraft now.

Stop going to school and trying to be nurses or secretary's.  There are not enough jobs to go around and these schools that are just trying to get money out of you are over promising and under delivering.

I do enjoy the commercial with the dude in the fancy car that pulls up to the bus stop and asks the girl what she is doing and she says waiting for the bus and he drives off.  Then she gets a job as a secretary and gets her own car and picks up the dude instead.

Stop sending body parts all over Canada.

Divine Fits - the new album with the lead singer of Wolf Parade and Spoon - 8.6/10

Slow cooker will be fired up soon.  Is there anything better then Sunday Football while enjoying some ribs, potatoes, and a pint.

Watched 7 hours of football on Sunday.  It was glorious.

I think I am finally seeing Jennifer Aniston age.  She must be running out of souls of young girls. 

Nothing better then having a customer reek like booze at 10am in the morning.  You need to start partying pretty early to reek like booze at 10am.

Charlize Theron is coming close to stealing Kate Winslet's thunder as Daryl's favorite female actress.  

Have you ever had a piece of electronics that you just couldn't part with even though it was broken.  You try turning it on every once in a while to see if miraculously fixed itself.  It works for the same couple of seconds that it always does.  You feel happiness and then sadness when you see the red light come on like it always does.

RIP XBOX

Don't border agents seem like they are like the soup nazi from Seinfeld.  One pause or one studder and no America for you.

Everything is so cheap in the States right now.  We got a deal to the Sheraton in Niagara Falls with a $20.00 TGIF, $30.00 Seneca Casino, and $10.00 Starbucks vouchers for $99.99. 


Took Sara to the Buffalo airport today for her big trip to Dragoncon.  This convention might be one of the few that I am not able to handle.  My liver has a hard enough time with three days at the cottage let alone drinking hard alcohol from a flask for five days.

Avengers - 8.4/10

Yes, I finally watched it.  It was solid, my favorite character is still Tony Stark, but Hulk was a close second in this one with all of the senseless chaos that he caused.

Was in a wedding party last weekend for the last of the really close hometown friends.  Beautiful wedding at his parents place.  It is true I would love to look tough by smoking a cigar while drinking scotch, but I am a baby and always feel like garbage after I smoke the cigar.

I heard John Barrowman had frisky hands this past weekend at Fan Expo.  If anybody knows anything about John Barrowman he will hit on anything, this includes dogs I believe.

It's hard to believe what some people do to public restrooms in Tim Hortons.  Is there really gratification by doing this?  Aren't the Tim Hortons workers punished enough for having to work there?

Is there anything better then playing air guitar to "I believe in a thing called love" by the Darkness?

Poopy is the absolute worst nickname for anybody on the planet.  There is no good back story for you having this nickname.

Best thing that I have heard so far this summer -  Arrested Development coming back for season 4.
Worst thing that I have heard so far this summer - Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne getting married.

First song - Skater Boy:  Cake Cutting Song - Any Nickelback song, they all sound the same.

Hello Settlers of Catan.  I might have a chance to win now without Sara around to mess up my wheat production.

Have you ever wanted to try speed dating even though you are attached just to see how you would do?

Pulled Pork Sandwich should be called something else.  Anytime I hear these words put together I think of me just getting fatter. 

Back to School is at it's height right now.  It's been banana's at work.  It feels good to be busy, and it's nice that not everybody wants the biggest piece of sh** laptop that we have.

Oakland A's are still in the hunt.  They are leading the wildcard race with the Baltimore Orioles.  If you predicted this at the start of the year you are a liar.

I love to swear at items in my house that fall on the ground.

One habit that I am attempting to rid myself of is texting somebody while I am in a social atmosphere.  The other one is being online looking at your Facebook while you are having beers with a group of people.  When did this become socially acceptable?

It is overwhelming knowing all the shows that people have told me that I need to watch.  Breaking Bad, Misfits, Farscape, and Babylon 5.  You will get your turn, just relax!!

My Morning Jacket plays in the T. tonight.  I have seen them a few times, but if you have not.  You should go....

I can't see the NHL having another lockout, but if it does.  I am not sure if it can recover.


Poor Newfies and their accents.  You could be the smartest human in the world, but if you have a newfie accent, you're done!

Hotel Hell is a great new show that has Gordon Ramsay (yes he is in everything) going to hotels to try to fix their problems.  The first episode was fantastic, and when Sara and I tried to go to the website for the hotel it was impossible to get to because of the traffic.

For back to school here's 3 misconceptions about mac.

3.  There are viruses for Mac
2.  They are very expensive to have repaired.
1.  They don't make you a better person for owning one.

When I was growing up my brother owned a bunch of jean jackets that had patches on the back of them.  WASP and Kiss were the two that I remember.  Another reason why I think the '80s were from an alternate universe.

Could I do Improv?

Table Top is a show that Wil Wheaton hosts that has celebrities playing board games while Wheaton explains the rules of the games as he goes.  It's a nice show that teaches about some new games that you didn't know were available.  Keep mind sharp!!

Another successful golf tournament for Bill McLaughlin this past Saturday.  Team finished second with -9.  We bogied the first hole on the back nine.  The team that won played for a playoff at -10.  Let me vomit in my mouth for a second here.

F*** Word Search, I hate that stupid puzzle.

New Years plans are already set.  Love having a plan in place.  Also love that Karaoke is on the docket.  This year I will be using my crooning voice for good not evil.

Gin and Tonic is known as the panty dropper.  What happens when guys drink it?  Boxer brief dropper?

Battleship - 0.9/10 (I would rather watch Rachel Ray laugh for 2 hours straight)
5 Year Engagement - 6.7/10

Jason Segal is underrated, he is funny in everything that I  have seen him in.

Diet A&W Rootbeer is the best of the diets.

Here's a contest that you can't do past the age of thirty.  Eat a pack of gobstoppers, sweet tarts, and nerds back to back to back.

Big League Chew and Popeye smokes.  How are you still around?  
 

When you travel, please make sure that you or whoever you are traveling with is in the picture as well.  Pictures of random scenery with nobody in the frame is about as boring as somebody discussing 50 shades of grey with me.

Facts about fifty shades of grey.

- Was originally fan fiction about twilight. 
- Could have been written by somebody that had English as their third language.
- Reading porn is the same as watching porn.  Don't think you are classier because of it.

 There are not many board games that I get excited to play, but Settlers of Catan is one of them. 

Football is back in about a month.  Buffalo Bills will compete for a playoff spot, and the New York Jets will have no more then six wins.

There is nothing better then Strange Brew on a Sunday morning at the cottage.  "Psssttt, Act! Act!"

The Nashville Predators may have to mortgage their hotels, sell their properties to the bank to afford the rent on Shea Weber's contract.  Yes, we played Monopoly as well.

Golf tournament on the weekend.  There is a slight chance of rain.  35-45mm, might be more then a slight chance, but I am optimistic.

Come on Olympics, stretch run, you can finish.  Please stop owning the highlights.  My Oakland A's are in the stretch run and are getting no love because; of the speed walking highlights?

My worst nightmare would be if Hedley and Simple Plan joined forces to start a band and I was Clockwork Oranged in a chair with a set of headphones forced over my ears.

BBQ Nachos and Jerk Steak were the latest inventions of food.  Both equally tasty.

Hunger Games will make my Bluray exclusive club.  It joins, X-Men first class, Star Trek (2009), District 9, Equilibrium, and Coraline.

Stop showing me McDonald's commercials that they are bee-bopping, singing, and dancing in the kitchen.  Have you been in a McDonald's in the past year?  People don't look like they are happy to be there or even happy to be alive.

Yes , I know we need rain, but could I have the remote control for it and have it just rain when I have nothing else going on?

Have you ever seen someone swing a golf club, and just know that there is no hope?

Kraft Dinner is a weakness of mine, at least I get the whole wheat now.

I heard a funny question recently.  Choose one of the two options.  Would you rather have a person that you love's collarbone broke every three years?  Or have every song that you ever heard sung by Alice in Chains?  Now I thought it was easy as well, but think about it.  Happy Birthday?  National Anthem?

So the New York Rangers got Rick Nash for basically nothing.  Who is running the Columbus Blue Jackets?  John Ferguson Jr?

Watching the best fails on youtube, I have to wonder what would make people even attempt to do any of these things?  I am going to attempt to jump from the roof of my house and land into a garbage container.   The best that happens from this is that you land in the garbage container.  That's awfully low on the gratification scale.

Story:   When I was growing up we did quite a few questionable things.  We had all jumped into a buddies car.  He was the only person with a driver license of course.  We decided that we should smash some mail boxes off of a local side road.  There were six people in the car and one of the people noticed a very easy to smash wooden mailbox coming up.  We stopped and checked it out.  The driver piped up and said that he would like to give this one a shot.  Little did we know that some of the mailboxes had now been made to look like wood, but were actually steel.  He wound up with a aluminum bat and attempted to smash it.  The bat ricocheted off of the mailbox and smashed him in the back of the head.  It had knocked him unconscious for a short time.  None of us had our driver licenses and we had all been drinking.  One of the buddies was brave enough to attempt the tour back to town with the concussed driver passed out laying over three girls in the back seat.

The openings of the Olympics weren't half bad this year.  It was nice to see the Brits focus on the music side of things.  Seeing the Arctic Monkey's play live in front of the Queen was priceless.

VIP sale on August 23rd if I haven't already mentioned it.  Let me know if you need anything within the FS town limits.

Still haven't seen Batman.  I love Batman, don't love sitting in any theater for 2:45 minutes plus eight hours of commercials and previews.

I am not very good at the jumbled face coming together quiz in the theater.

If you had to fight one of these two men in a fight to the death who would it be?   Jean Claude Van Damme from Bloodsport or Liam Neeson from Taken?

I hate the feeling of knowing you made a mistake instantly, but there is no way to scramble out from under it.

Started watching Farscape recently.  It is the most out there, odd, what the f*** am I watching, mesmerizing shows that I have ever seen.  8.5/10

Playing Mystic this coming Wednesday.  Mystic is a gorgeous golf course just outside of KW that was attempted to be made into a PGA tour type course, but the builder ran out of money and it's so out in the boonies that they can't get power out there.

Attempted to go running yesterday.  Am I doing it wrong?   It's so bloody boring.

Jimmy Kimmel has a segment that has celebrities reading angry tweets from people that are writing about the celebrity.  It's pretty good if you haven't seen it before.

There was something magical about the sweep of the NY Yankees by the Oakland Athletics.  It's the old adage of David versus Goliath.  It's the first time in forty years that the A's were able to sweep a four game series of the Yankees.  There is something magical about this Oakland team.  They seem to be able to get timely hits when needed most and are able to get steady pitching each and every game.  They have an old man starter in Bartolo Colon and and a bunch of kids to go with him.  If they were able to get one more bat that might put them over the top to snag one of the two wild card spots. 

Have you ever smelt a bottle of Colt 45 that has been sitting out for a couple of hours?  It's toxic, and not in a Britney Spears circa '03 way.

Our co-ed slopitch team won our second game of the season.  The other teams first baseman came up to bat and gave me the hand up time symbol after being down 12-2.  It felt good to strike her out.  This isn't fastball or hardball it's slopitch.  You don't call for time while you get your feet planted for a lob ball that's coming in.

If you think you know the Beastie Boys, you don't.  Check out In Sounds From The Way Out.

No one likes the credit card dudes that come up to you in Zehrs.  I feel bad for these people.  This is one of the worst jobs.

Top 3 Worst Jobs

3. Cold Calling Anyone
2. Door to Door Sales
1. In the 1800's people had to wear a suit covered in honey.  They were there to attract all the bugs so that they wouldn't bother the guests.

Black Dynamite is now an animated show.  The first episode was fantastic.  It's about Michael Jackson being an alien that beats his family because they aren't talented enough.

Going to see the Jays/A's this coming Thursday.  Not sure who I am going to cheer for since they are my two favorite teams. 

The Flyers signed Shea Weber to an offer sheet this past week.  Nashville has seven days to match it.  Here's the details you need to know about it.  14 years/110 million, 26 million is possible in the first year if he maxes out all of the bonuses.  Nashville is a small budget team that would have a hard time generating 26 million.  They can't trade him for one year if they match the offer.  Basically the Flyers have put a gun to their head and said make a decision.

Chernobyl Diaries - 4.2/10

Zombie run is in Sept or Oct near Toronto this year.  It's a 5km run that has zombies popping out trying to eat you and have to avoid them.  Sounds like a great time, might make this the first run that I do.

Turn 34 in the next couple of weeks.  When does my brain switch from an irresponsible young adult to a fully functional productive member of society?

People that come into the shop can't know that I am in my mid 30's.  They always ask me where I am going to school?  Or how I could possibly remember the time that everybody didn't have a computer to themselves.  I remember distinctly having to go to the LDSS library and having to sign out one of the four computers that they had in there to check my hotmail account.  It took 15 minutes to load for the one message that I received from the hotmail team.

That whole Batman shooting in Colorado is terrifying.  To know that this could happen to anyone at anytime is an awful feeling. 

I have dyed my hair blonde a couple of times over the years.  This is the second worst mistake that I have ever made.  The worst was still having a mullet when the first time I dyed my hair blonde.

Frank Ocean, I apologize for not giving you a chance earlier. 

Listening to 80's music for 24 hours straight will make you hallucinate something extremely powerful.

Had a dream last night that I was babysitting a kid, but had no idea who he was.  The end of the dream ended with me being in New York without the keys to my apartment and no wallet or phone.  Now that's a nightmare.

Big Brother is back.  There are no words to describe my love for this show. 

Grizzly Bear is coming to town soon.  Tickets are booked. 


Peach and Mango salsa.  According to Sara it's the bees knees.

When you hear the instrument the sitar.  Your brain instantly transforms you into a dude high on LSD in the back of a Volkswagon van with a women wearing a flowery dress shimmering in an odd manner that is both frightening and calming.

For my birthday weekend we will be attempting costumes from the website People of Walmart.  If you don't know what this is, Google it and have a disgusting laugh.  I was thinking of having a cabbage patch doll and hanging on to it only by it's foot upside down.

I am not sure why everyone of my costume ideas involves looking disgustingly awful.  See my attached Facebook profile pic for details.

Wes Anderson, the only director that I go to an art house theater to go see his movie.

Rum Runners Pub, my pub of choice.  I seem to prefer the dark,dank, downstairs feel of a pub versus the the upscale fakeness of a Boston Pizza or Charcoal group restaurant.  The beer on tap always seems to be better with more interesting people to talk to.

Again went to Yuk Yuks recently, another stellar comic.  There is nothing better then having your stomach hurt from laughing too much.

Steve Earle is gigantic now.  Copperhead Road must have too many McDonald's on it now.


Am I getting old or is American Apparel the loudest store of all time?  Sara needed to go there to pick up clothing and I felt like I was at a concert of every type of music that I hated right beside the speaker.

The marble rye bread that was on Seinfeld looked very appetizing.  I understood why George's father stole it back after the dinner party.

Disco Batman also had too many tacos over the past five years.

Wil Wheaton was a super nice guy, and was very entertaining on stage.  We had a photograph with him as a team of Mexican Superheroes.

Jeff, who lives at home - 8.6/10
Magic Mike - ?  Come on did you really think that would happen.

I used to really enjoy the commercials that didn't make any sense.  Old Spice made the best ones, but now every company seems to be doing weird commercials and jumping on the band wagon. Perrier has one and there is also a drink spray one as well, I can't think of the name of it, and searching drink spray weird commercial doesn't work in google.

People that don't enjoy trying new beers drive me crazy.  There were years when I was younger that I wouldn't try anything new, and now that I actually expanded my tastes the LCBO has completely opened up.

Daryl's helping people not to be creepy tip number 1 - Don't tell someone's wife how nice her body is when her husband is standing beside her.

If I was to open a bar I would call it a saloon.

Bottlecaps the candy, is one of my few weaknesses when it comes to candy.

Met a dude at the convention that had eyes like a direwolf.  If this dude came into work I think I would avoid him at all costs.

There is a new board game that is Game of Thrones, Risk style.  Great cottage board game I believe.

Finally doing some golfing this week, it's about time.

There is a convention in November in Guelph called Genrecon.  If you are looking to get your feet wet with a scifi convention this would be a great one to go to.  Fairly small, first year running, and near home.

Inspirational, religious, and family oriented quotes are three of the most useless things on Facebook.  I think my count of rolling my eyes while reading the updates rose above twenty in one day.

Rotten tomatoes has actually helped the quality of movies.  If the rating is in the rotten category they seem to have a hard time at the box office.  Somehow Transformers doesn't have this problem, but with everything else it seems to be helping the quality of the movies.

Does anybody want to see Moonrise Kingdom next week at the Princess in Waterloo?

There is a band out of Hamilton called Monster Truck, they have a rare hard rock sound to them.  Bands style is similar to Graveyard or in non indie music terms, heavy Stone Temple Pilots.

Zach Parise and Ryan Suter will both sign with Pittsburgh.  You heard it here first.

There are some great deals on golfnow.com.  I see Rebel Creek golf course for $35.00 including cart all the time on the website.

Are you a one-upper?  Are you a person that always has a story or talent that is just a little bit better then the story or talent that is currently being talked about?  Stop doing this if you say yes to these questions.

Two of my favorite people booked a trip to Iceland recently.  I love seeing people in their early twenties going to a country that isn't normally traveled to.  I don't know one person that gets excited when you tell them that you are going to the Dominican Republic.

These big wedding productions are becoming ridiculous.  When you have to spend $60,000 on one day of your life it will never live up to your expectations.

Remember when the Macbook Air came out a few years ago?  Well now PC's are releasing ultrabooks to compete with them.  PC always seems to be a few years behind.

I am not sure if Oliver Stone is a noteworthy director anymore.

Wes Anderson's new movie called Moonrise Kingdom has just been released and is getting rave reviews.  Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Bill Murray.  How can you go wrong with that cast?

I understand how my parents felt when I was listening to White Zombie and Korn by hearing any band that is screamo.  I need this music off as fast as possible.

Story:  a few years ago I was at a Jays game and the dude came over and asked if anybody wanted to do the happy dance (lotto 649 dance.)  As per usual I was thrown under the bus and told that I would do it.  We had just got there and I only started my first beer.  So when the dude came back I had to chug back a few beers before dancing.  I had to dance for eight minutes straight while the camera went to each person.  When the camera finally came to me I was doing the matrix dance dodging bullets and finished it off with the cookie bake off dance. I had to beat 3 older dudes with big beer guts that were doing the fat guy dance.  I won the contest and won 649 for a year and a Jays sweater.  649 for a year netted me a cool $25.00.

It's almost better that I have a bigger beer gut to do Mexican Batman this year.  Mexican Batman had too many tacos in the five years since he fought crime. 

Fish tacos are tasty, but they need to change the name to something else.  My brain goes else where when I hear the words Fish taco put together.

Keep your shirt on if you are a dude walking in downtown Kitchener please.  No one needs to see a shirtless man with a cigarette in his mouth walking on the sidewalk.

Women don't rock the suit enough.  There is nothing quite as gorgeous as a woman wearing a black suit with a bow-tie.

Natalie Portman or Mila Kunis?

I love having a smokey baritone voice. 

Was in the T dot for the past few days checking out all of the new technology for back to school.  Coolest thing I saw was a wireless usb flash drive.  Meaning you could put pictures or movies on it and access it from any computer.  You could be upstairs and access a movie from it, while your wife is accessing pictures from it.

One thing I don't understand is how a high end hotel can have such terrible food. 

Just finished watching Game of Thrones season 2.  I am not sure that TV can be any better then that.

Stage collapsed at the Radiohead concert as you probably know.  I could have picked twenty things that might have happened to prevent the concert rather then that.  Thom Yorke losing his voice from drinking too many Pabst Blue Ribbons was one of them.


I work in Cambridge, they are a lot of Portuguese people in Cambridge, they enjoy honking their horns when Portugal is victorious in Euro Cup.  What happened to going to a bar and having a round of beers that you cheers to?

I have never seen anything like the Jays went through last week with losing three starting pitchers due to injury within the game. 

There are rumors of the Jays going after Jeremy Guthrie.  If you know anything about Jeremy Guthrie he is about as average as Kings of Leon are as a band.

Learn how to spell, it's a very useful talent.  It can make you look intelligent even if you are not.

LPGA is currently in Waterloo at Grey Silo for a tournament.  This is one of two sports that I would go watch female athletes play and have an interest in it.  The other would be tennis.

There would be nothing worse for me then having to go through a museum full of art and have to describe each painting.

Exotic Marigold Hotel (this in not an adult movie)  8.1/10

I miss Blind Melon, they were an underrated band that had a wicked jam feel when the world was ruled by grunge.  They did their own thing, and the albums that they put together were under appreciated.  Skip over No Rain and listen to everything else you 102.1 Edge Monkey's.

Zoup - Is a Waterloo restaurant that is about the best lunch place I have been to.  Salad's, soups, and sandwiches.  If you are looking for a business to invest in, this place is packed everyday at lunch.

Bbq'ing and being in the middle of cooking a steak and running out of propane is the worst thing that can possibly happen to somebody in the middle of summer.  I have never said f*** so loud in my life.

First time at the cottage this year.  It was beautiful, parents got this new game that involves throwing a frisbee basically at something that is similar to a garbage can. You play in teams of two and you can deflect it into or off of the garbage can and receive points.  Sounds simple, come to the cottage and try it.  More difficult then it sounds.

Radiohead is this coming Saturday.  I am not a big fan of outdoor concerts, but I couldn't pass this one up.

Prometheus - 8.5/10

Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender are both spectacular in this movie.

True Blood is back, is there any character on the show that doesn't have some type of power? 

My parents almost named me Randy Smith, my life would have been completely different with the name Randy.  I would have a mini van of kids touring up to Grand Bend to watch the motor speedway.

Going through the Starbucks drive thru takes at least three to four points off of my toughness meter.


Is Vin Diesel intelligent?  Just the sound of his voice sounds like he is lifting weights while talking.

 The drugs that I need to take for Colitis cost $5,400 a dose, my benefits cover it, but if I didn't have benefits I would have to have surgery most likely.  I find this to be ludicrous that anyone can charge this much for medication.

Checking out some of the smoke packs lately (I don't smoke) the pictures are disturbing.  I guess this is the point, but I can't even look at them.

There has been points of this year that I haven't done something because of the price of gas.  This is the first time of my life that this has ever been a decision based upon this.

Extra lean ground beef, carmelized onion, tandoori spice, and a little bit of bread crumbs.  Try this for your next burger recipe. 

Stephen Strasburg pitches against the Jays in Toronto tomorrow at 12:30.  If you are going to go to any Jays game this might be the one to go to.  He's going to be the best pitcher in the world within two years and they also have Bryce Harper on this team.  Washington will be a team to be reckoned with for years.

There is a new drug that is similar to LSD that is making people want to chew on human flesh.  Is this a selling point for people?  This seems like the last thing I would want to do while high.

What is with white beers in the summer?  I just get an instant craving for it as soon as the weather hits 25 degrees.

3D still stinks, Prometheus was in 3D and it was useless.  3D should only be used in porn.

People looked a lot tougher in the 70's.  Just something about the hairstyles, beards, and mustaches that made them look tough as nails.

No I haven't seen the Avengers yet, and I don't want to talk about it.

DJ'd last night for a buck and doe.  Good times had by all, I can't believe how strict the Ag Hall is compared to what it used to be like.  You could walk in with a liquor bottle in a brown paper bag, with no pants on, and no one would bat an eye.

Is Jose Bautista's five o'clock shadow permanent?

Sara is at a authentic Italian restaurant in the city tonight.  Not even a free meal is incentive enough to venture into Toronto and cripple my afternoon of watching Bluejays baseball.

I find that people are giving the finger more and more when they are driving.  This is something that I have never done.  I have never been mad enough driving to flip someone off.

Story:  Girl comes up to me last night while we I am dj'ing.  She explains to me that people in the city have a different way of mixing things and that I should follow a certain pattern when playing music and flow into whatever the people are dancing to.  I sarcastically thank her for her advice, and ask her what city she is referring to thinking Toronto.  She tells me Kitchener and she then tells me that she is hitting the buck and doe circuit.  This blew my mind.

How much money would need to be offered to name your child Socrates?

Reading the Hunger Games right now.  It's an excellent book.  You only need to be concerned if I start reading Twilight.

Quibids - You have probably have seen the commercial of IMAC's going for $54.00 and all that nonsense.  Each bid that you have costs you .70.  So you could bid on an item 20 times and not get it.  It's just like gambling.  The old saying is true, if it looks like it's too good to be true, it probably is.

The show "Louie" is on FX, it's basically the life of Louis CK.  It's a very interesting show, part standup, and part simple life story.  It's like no other comedy on TV right now.

David Duchovny with the proper writer is brilliant. 

Sex addicts - Isn't this every man in the world.

Sara is back, sounds like I would have loved the Madagascar trip.  She brought me back a plush lemur, it's very cute.

Watched the documentary  "Into the Abyss" about two kids that are in jail for murdering a family.  What a mind bender.  These kids still don't think that they did anything wrong.  They feel like their being punished for no reason.  Can you say sociopath?

True Grit - 9.0/10
John Carter - 5.8/10

What's the percentage of gun use that is actually used in self defense in the States?

Was in wine country this past weekend.  There was a winery that had a ice wine slushie.  There is nothing quite as tasty as this.

 I think there should be tests that need to be taken to be able to be a parent.  Not necessarily just intelligence, but there needs to be a mentally stable, financially stable, and competency to be able to be a parent.  It drives me crazy when people that can't support themselves are having children.

Hockey playoffs are over for me.  Every team that remains seems like the same team.  Super defensive, great goaltenders, and boring.  I am cheering for the Kings being that they have so many former Flyers on their team.

I try to love scotch because I love the idea of it, but I never truly enjoy it. 

Tried a franc blanc from a winery called Hinterbrook.  It's from a red grape turned into a white wine.  It was terrific. 

Where's the great comedy movies?  Nobody is writing comedy anymore.  The last one that I have seen that isn't a horror movie turned comedy is 21 Jump Street.

Chess is underrated.  If you get into a game of chess, there is nothing else that matters.  Is it okay to be in a chess club now at school?  Or is this still shunned?

Going to a Jays game on June 3rd.  It's always fantastic when the Red Sox come to town.  It should be granted two victories every time you beat the Yanks or the Sox.

Have we ever had a May 24 weekend that was this beautiful before?  I remember sitting by a campfire with somebody throwing a can of beans in the fire and having it explode all over my winter jacket. Second memory is remember how cold it was during these weekends.

MY TOP 5 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
5.      Junip - Fields

         I realize that this is a bit of a newer album and maybe I am misjudging the impact it will have over the years.  But this album has been permanently on my playlist for over two years now and still has the same feeling as it did from day one.  The album is just so beautifully mastered.  Great lyrics, with side-kicking guitar and drums.  This album flows from one song to the next seamlessly and if you wondered what Neil Young would have done if born in this era this is it.  A little bit folky, a little bit psychedelic, and a little rock and roll.  Jose Gonzalez has the best voice right now in the business, and I can't think of an album in the past five years that has had this impact on my Ipod quite as much as this one.  The album starts off with a little bit of a Doors feel then blasting directly into a drum beat with flowing lyrics. Just have a listen to the following in succession and try to disagree with me about this album "Rope and Summit, In Every Direction, and Always"   Junip has mastered the mood of music, they have strayed away from the one single at a time Itunes generation and have focused directly on the album.

4.     Black Sabbath - Paronoid

        Ever since I was a kid I have always been fascinated with Black Sabbath.  Whether it was the evil vibe they gave off or just the craziness of Ozzy Osbourne in general.  I would listen to Black Sabbath in the background coming out of my older brothers rooms.  The songs I remember most.  "Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs, and Fairies Wear Boots."  These songs are all on the same album.  I can't say there has ever been a band that has been this influential on a certain musical genre as Black Sabbath has been on heavy metal.  Just the slow heavy burn of Tony Iommi's guitar on each song of the album.  I can throw on this record at any point of any day and I will have a smile on my face.   I have a pile of favorite bands from this era of music Zeppelin, The Beatles, and the Stones, but none have the force of Black Sabbath and top to bottom on this album is spectacular. They have a perfect mixture of blues and metal, a sound that has never been matched.   Throw on this album and just try not to bang your head to it. 

3.     My Morning Jacket - Z

        This album wouldn't have made it to the top 5 if it hadn't been for the release of their DVD.  If you watch this band play this album live it brings things out in the album that you didn't even know were there.  I have never heard a band play the band around the vocals before.  Jim James can lay it down with a falsetto or throw a perfect growl in at any point of the song.  The album kicks off with "wordless chorus" which is a fantastic lead off to the album, but it really starts with the drums in "It beats for you."  As soon as you hear the starting for this song you instantly get transported into a different zone of music that you have not been a part of before.  My Morning Jacket have better singles off of different albums, but these albums don't have near the flow of "Z."  Every album they have released since this has been trying to find the magic that this one had.  "Lay Low" is a brilliant jam song comparable to something the Allman Brothers would have been proud of.  They only have a couple hiccups in this whole album which kept them out of the top 2.  
        
 2.    Pink Floyd  - Wish You Were Here

        Is Pink Floyd overrated?  Probably, but this album is not.  There has been no other album that I can think of that has twelve songs that match the brilliancy of the five on this album.  "Wish you were here" might be the best song of all time.  From the album cover to the two parts of "Shine on you crazy diamond."  There has been nothing in music that has even come close to class of this album.  The thing with Pink Floyd that everybody forgets is that Pink Floyd doesn't require people to be high to listen to their music, but it helps.  This is one band that was never utilized properly with their live music dvd's.  Just to see a concert with this being the only album played would be perfect.  Anybody that knows anything about any type of music should own this album.  This album is Pink Floyd's masterpiece.  While "The Wall" gets most of the glory, this album is the bread and butter of one of the most influential bands of all time.  The highlight of the album for me is "Welcome to the Machine," everytime I hear this song, my brain goes directly into a coma of laser light show.

1.    Radiohead  - The Bends

        It's been almost twenty years since the release of this album.  I am still trying to match Thom Yorke's voice throughout the album with car karaoke.  When I bought this album in the early 90's after seeing the video "Just" little did I know it would become the staple beside my name of my favorite album.  Everything about this album is perfect, the way it has the grunge guitar, match with one of the best voices in rock and roll.  This album just seemed to have a little more to it then the usual grunge bands of the 90's.  Since Radiohead has pretty much become the biggest band in the world right now, it's nice to hear this album that has a little scruffiness to it.  It's not mastered with the computer, it's just a pure rock and roll album. Just an analog sound that matches the perfection of their live shows. You understand how great of an album this is when you realize that the two worst songs on this album are the two most popular (fake plastic trees and high and dry.)  Even the videos for this album are spectacular.  I have listened to thousands of albums in my years of listening to music, and I can't find another album that sounds even close to this album.  From guitar solos, enchanting drums, to haunting vocals, this album is perfect.

Re-watching the Firefly episodes.  What an amazing show.  An undeserving short death.

One week ago I said that the New Jersey Devils were over matched against the Flyers.  Boy was I wrong.

Later.... with Jools Holland is a brilliant show.  I really like the fact that it's not a huge production, but still have top bands playing.  In the America's we love to over advertise and make it where the show could never live up to the hype.

Slopitch just started recently.  I remember last year where I was wearing a jacket and freezing.  This year not so much.

This whole NFL bounty is disturbing.  This might have worked in the '60s, but today, come on.  Trying to injure somebody purposefully while playing a sport is insane.

Went to Yuk Yuks recently.  It was a great time.  One thing that I love about comics is that there isn't really anything offside to make jokes about. 

It's difficult to know what to say when you are looking at an ugly baby.

It's also difficult to know what to say when a girl tells you that she thinks she is ugly, and you don't disagree.

It's been slower then usual at work recently.  Retail maybe a dying breed.  Online shopping is taking over. 

Went out to a pub recently in Guelph with a buddy.  I must say it's kind of nice to be hit on by girls that are ten years younger then me.  It's also funny to see their reaction when I tell them that I am over 30.

I haven't seen the Avengers yet, but I have heard that it's one of the few blockbusters that is living up to expectations. 

Can we just have every superhero blockbuster have either JJ Abrams or Joss Whedon involved?

I  have every movie that has been released over the past month to my disposal, and I chose to watch repeats of Firefly.  This should tell you how crappy the new releases have been.

Pet peeve - People that lose their identity when they go into a manager role.  I realize that you have a different job now, but you are still the same person, with a different title.

Radiohead records pretty much everything that they do.  I wish more bands would do this.  I love putting on just a random Radiohead concert just to see how they play.  Also love the fact that they don't try to gauge money out of me with every single thing they do.  Pay what you want for the record, brilliant.

At Polaris (scifi con) there is a contest that you can have Klingon make up put on you by professionals.  I would love to look like a Klingon for a day, but I believe that this would probably take most of the day up.  Decline!!

It's funny the first year I went to Polaris, it was my first year with Sara.  I deeply offended a Cardassian (another Star Trek race) by calling him a Klingon.  I felt like I had used a racist term, but in the end these people are not REAL.....

Sara leaves for Madagascar next week. Yes this is a real place, and yes it does have Lemurs.

I have had a blackberry playbook for about a month or so.  I can really only find one place that it's useful.  If you are traveling and want to watch a movie it's nice.

I find it amazing to watch drummers live.  They are the ones that carry the song, and they get zero credit for doing so.

The Flyers are currently in the second round against the Devils.  If game 1 is any indication the Devils look overmatched.

Midnight in Paris - 8.1/10

The Avengers is out this weekend.  It just looks like a big sugar cereal with no nutrients.

Why is it always hockey that has the racist comments.  Again after Joel Ward scored the series winner against the Bruins twitter was swarming with narrow minded imbeciles.

Remember Nada Surf?  Well they have a song called "When I was young" that is fantastic.

Well it looks like the hipsters are getting sick of the Jays again.  This past Sunday they had 24,000 fans out.  

Just because I don't like UFC doesn't mean I like men.  Meatheads strike again.

Finally bought another bbq.  Just a little mini one until the end of the season sales happen.  Everything taste so much better coming off of the bbq.

I watched a bit of Howard the Duck recently.  What was I thinking when I was younger?  That movie is terrible.

Saw a McDonalds commercial that was trying to convince parents that if you give a few apple slices with your happy meal then it's automatically healthy.

Paul Holmgren is not up for GM of the Year.  If you traded your two best and most popular players, and lost your best d-man at the start of the year and still finished with 104 points would you be considered a top GM?    And Claude Giroux is not up for MVP.  I hate the comment, well he wasn't the most valuable to his team.  If you are fantastic player playing for a fantastic team should you be penalized that your team is good.

I have to give some props to FOX.  They are allowing Fringe to finish up their season.  I bash them to no end, but this time I will give them the digital version of a high five.

Sunday night dominates when it comes to the best shows.  Mad Men, Amazing Race, Game of Thrones, and the Killing are all on Sunday nights.  They should maybe share with other nights.

Watching the Flyers/Penguins series has been gorgeous so far. I am not sure if I would like it so much if I was a Pens fan, but being a Flyers fan it's been joyous so far.

I have never seen Sidney Crosby this rattled before. He usually always has the right thing to say, but in this series he looks like a whiny kid.

Klondike has a commercial where if you listen to your wife for 5 seconds you win a klondike bar. Is your wife that boring?

Watching Radiohead perform at Coachella. Not quite as an electric of a performance as I am used to.

Went to the first two Jays games of the year. Opening night was electric, but way too many hipsters there. I realize that it's cool to like the Jays again, but please know something about baseball before professing your love for the Jays.

Cabin in the Woods - 9.2/10

My original XBOX has given up finally. It will be laid to rest. Many good times playing NBA live 2005.

There have been an enormous amount of cheap shots in these NHL playoffs. It's mostly goons that are running at the heads of good players. And for how nasty the Flyers series has been I haven't seen any Flyers player throw cheap shots at the stars of the Penguins heads. Same can't be said about James Neal.

Big Bang Theory is losing steam at a massive pace. Community is now the show with the best geek humor.

Dudes cannot rock ponytails. It's not possible.

The weather has made a mockery of me. Had a chance to go golfing in nice weather, but it's 1000 mph winds made it difficult.

Witnessed the most beautiful leg kicks to Rasputin on the weekend. Thanks to Jeff and Dickie for the great show.

If you get a chance to go to Seneca Casino across the border at Niagara, you will enjoy free booze, $10.00 minimum tables instead of $25.00, and a much less busier casino. Sara and I had a great time there.

2007 reserve Merlot from Kacaba Winery in Niagara was unreal. $44.95 a bottle, but it's the best red I have tasted.

Just got finished reading "The Bullpen Gospels." I really dig the in depth look into minor league baseball. All you witness when you watch or read about baseball is on the major league level. It's a nice looking glass into what baseball is really about.