20 Feb 09 Now the light fades out, And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this…
It’s cold outside
And the paints peeling off of my walls
There’s a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigaretteNow the light fades out
And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this…
19 Oct 08 Levaquin, bronchitis, Passchendaele, vascular surgery and time with Oma & boys & the DFW / SO
So the Levaquin antibiotics seem to finally have gained the upper hand on the nasty (acute, as per the pre-admissions physician at the Jewish General Hospital said) bronchitis and accompanying fever etc that has hounded me for the last 3 weeks.
It was a great, relaxing weekend, with an early Saturday rise (somewhat) and the DFW/SO starting a well-needed re-organising of the boys’ rooms and cleanup in general. I had 3 eggs, 10 slices of bacon, 3 toasts with butter for breakfast (appetite is back) and 2 tuna/mayo/mustard sandwiches for lunch. After that it was finalising the cleanup and reorganising and furniture moving around, followed by relaxing and watching “So you think you can dance, Canada” (man, all of them in the top 20 can really groove!… all of them, but the blonde in the blue outfit, mmmmmmmm)…
Then some absolutely scrumptious Lamb Balti and Basmati before heading out for the 22:00 late showing at the ScotiaBank cinema of the new war & romance flick Passchendaele by Paul gross… it was great, if not quite in the “sequence” that we both felt it would be. The second half of the movie has most of the actual combat scenes and as it is a WW1 movie there is very overt and visually intense depictions of how close the combat was in the 1st world war….
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Tags: boys, Food, Health, Love, Passchendaele, surgery, Tristan, Zachary
11 Oct 08 Beastie Boys launch “Get out and Vote ‘08 Tour” in swing states and support Obama Barack
While driving around in the car with the boys, I started singing the refrain to “Funky Cold Medina” by Tone Loc, who arguably had/has one of the funkiest raspy voices around. Well, since I’m still working on my “acute” bronchitis, my voice was a bit like his (for the wrong reasons)… anyways, the boys giggled and asked me what I was singing. We then broke in to a discussion about funky vs. hip-hop… and then they said they had almost forgotten the Beastie Boys. I reminded them about the robots in the Intergalactic video, and the b-boys rapping as pseudo-teletubbies in the other video… and their eyes lit up and both wanted to watch it here tomorrow…. 
Always in their casual yet tenacious style, the B-boys want to remind all eligible US voters to get out there and exercise their right. To back it up, they’ve announced a “voter awareness tour” called Get out and Vote ‘08 which kicks off in several so-called swing (critical) states including the following shows which were just announced:
October 28 Richmond, VA at Richmond Coliseum
Beastie Boys along with Sheryl Crow / Jack Johnson / Norah Jones / Santogold
(wow what a line-up)
Nov 1 St. Paul, MN at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium
Beastie Boys / Ben Harper / Tenacious D
(another nice trio of top level artists)
Nov 2 Milwaukee, WI in the U.S. Cellular Arena
Beastie Boys / Ben Harper / Crosby & Nash / Tenacious D
Again C&N with B-Boys ? Wonder if they’ll do an on-stage mashup ?
I love how Adam, Mike and Adam finished off with “we are very excited about obama. hope you all feel the same.”
Here’s the full PR:
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Tags: Beastie Boys, Concerts, hiphop, Music, obama barack, Politics, Tristan, Zachary
15 Apr 08 ScotiaBank Scene contest for airfare, hotel and front row seats to Kanye West, Rihanna
If you, like myself, missed out on the Kanye West pre-sale opportunities for his Canadian concert tour, then you may be interested in joining the ScotiaBank Scene program. It’s a free loyalty program to drive viewers to their Scotia Cinemas. I signed up initially because my favorite theatre in Montreal is the Paramount… ok, the former Paramount. Awesome screens, seats, real Lactantia butter on popcorn … just overall a cool cinema. Sure, it’s not the venerable Imperial Theatre over on Bleury Street, but alas….
The details of this Scene contest:
From April 14, 2008 – May 16, 2008 SCENE members will have a chance to enter a draw to win front row tickets to the hottest show of the summer. All you have have to do is redeem 100 SCENE points to be automatically entered into the draw to win. The lucky SCENE winner will be eligible for:
- A meet & greet with Rihanna herself!
- Two front row tickets to the Glow in the Dark Concert on June 2, 2008 at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia. Featuring headliner Kanye West, and special guests Rihanna, N.E.R.D and Lupe Fiasco.
- Roundtrip Economy Air Travel for you and a friend
- 2 nights hotel accommodation
All this for only 100 SCENE points per entry! Be sure to enter before the contest closes. If you’re not a SCENE member, make sure you join the program and enter the contest today!
You can join Scene here …. you’ll get a temporary loyalty card right away in PDF format that you can print out and the permanent one arrives about 1-2 weeks later. Flash the card at Scotia cinemas to earn a free movie after about 10 movies…
Tags: contests, Entertainment, Kanye West, Movies, Music, Rihanna, Travel
