Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Yurkos song of the day: Best of You- by the Foo Fighters

Pabbay (n.)
(Fencing term.) The play, or manoeuvre, where one swordsman leaps on to the table and pulls the battleaxe off the wall.

Ahh Douglas Adams, I dont think i could ever get tired of his humour. Post coming in slightly later than my planned saturday but at least i have a few good excuses this time. Namely working the night shift on saturday (last one ever hopefully) and then going to see Star Wars last night so i wanted to wait it out a bit so i had something to talk aboot.

*Addition of the actual post (Wed May 25th) and the removal of the half assed placeholder*
Here i go again, taking another crack at this here post. Why am i not just starting a shiny new post? well because i love the excerpt today and it should be actually utilized instead of being forced to be the opening line to what was esentially nothing. Annywho i believe i shall move on. Great song today/yesterday, it being the first single from the Foo Fighers up and coming sure to be epic album In Your Honour. Why do i think it will be epic beyond all belief? Well to answer that question I give you an excerpt from a letter Dave Grohl posted on the bands site recently about it

' "In Your Honor" will be the bands fifth album. Almost exactly a decade from the release of the first Foo Fighters record, it will come out in June. It is a double album, as promised. One CD rock, one CD acoustic. It will surprise you. It surprises me. Almost a year in the making, from 5 hours of bedroom demos, to warehouses being built from the ground up, to months of rehearsals, to the construction of an 8,000 square foot classic recording studio, to the recording of 40 songs, to the final track list of 20 songs, it is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life.'

So needless to say I am pumped beyond all belief for it. You guys could probably care less but I know it will definetly be a source of musical enjoyment for myself and in my rather selfish little bubble that's all that really matters.
Speaking of music I got the new Weezer CD a weekish ago, along with a few other assorted albums I have been meaning to get for a while. Its a pretty good record even though i am not a huge fan of the much hyped "Beverly Hills" song. Far to repetitive for my liking and overplayed for that matter. My reccomendations are "This is such a Pity" and "We are all on drugs" although i do find pretty much the entire album great listening material.
I also purchased the latest Moby CD which is somewhat of a mixed bag for me. The second ambiant CD is some nice relaxing sleep inducing music which is basically the whole point of ambiant music so if anything that was a worthwile purchase. The first cd (and the album proprer for that matter) I have been yet to listen to. Much of that has to do with the fact that I was such a fan of both 18 and Play that I really dont feel like being let down by an CD that is supposed to be quite the letdown. Chances are I will listen to it one of these days but right now i just cant bring myself to stick it in the old drive and well listen.

Sticking with this trend I might as well mention other purchases of much enjoyment. Biggest of all would have to be getting Scrubs Season 1 last week. Its funny how even with a show that you remember as being great can still suprise you with how many jokes you forgot and somehow become all the better. I had always thought that in its initial run I had missed a few of the early episodes but appearantly all i ever missed was the pilot which is somewhat of nice news to a fan like myself. Regardless the humour of the show still stands after a good 3,4 years and for that I am pleased. Dr. Cox is still my role model in life, if only i could become such a bitter, sarcastic talented doctor. One can always dream... one can always dream.
Earlier today I also found out about and then purchased the second season of Samurai Jack. Yes its a kids show and you all will probably shake your heads but meh in my eyes it is some great entertainment and thats all that matters. For waht it is, the show is very well done. I am hard pressed to find something that can be truly funny at times and then serious at other times all wrapped in a saturday morning "kids tv" package. Maybe it has to do with my enjoyment of comics or my resistance to the concept of growing up but its money well spent for my sake.

Well I did have some other things to talk and rant about but well most of it required a rather jovial tone and after hearing some recent family news its something i just dont have right now. Ill probably (hopefully) be feeling a bit happier by next week when you can expect a fuller and longer post.

Untill then,
Yurko the man using a nickname that has really lost its relivance now that high school has ended.


Saturday, May 14, 2005

Yurko's song of the day: That's Me Trying - by William Shatner

Peening Quarter (n.)
That area of a discotheque where single men lounge about trying to look groovy about not having the courage to ask a girl to dance.

And so with that I am back, an entire reader base shorter and a new template none the less. Why the new template your probably not asking? Well I felt that after such a long hiatus that something had to be done to spice this site up abit not to mention have something to show for being away for so very long of a time. I hope that you like the new look, although I am sad to say that the fancy flash links on the top lead to nowhere due to the fact that its a free template and so i am unable to really edit it. The plan is to replace all of the standard side links with fancy flash ones of my own making but that will take some time but hopefully by the end of the summer there will be a version 4.X that is to my liking. A few changes namely the fact that all of you are now "Affiliates" (it came with the template and i got a chuckle out of it so it stayed) and the addition of all my favourite web comics. That list is definetly in order of my frequenting but by no means are any of them not funny. All classics in their own right and bear a full reccomendation by the illustrious review panel working behind the scenes of this site.

Anywho yes today's song is by William Shatner, from his most recent album Has Been which i urge all of you to at least give a chance before completly writing off because for some strange reason its actually quite a catchy album. Much of that probably has to do with the fact that Ben Folds was involved with all of the real musical aspect but regardless you will be hard pressed to find something so rediculous and enjoyable at the same time (in CD format anyways). For the forseable future the quote of the day will be replaced with definitions from Douglas Adam's brilliantly funny mock dictionary The Deeper Meaning of Liff which i got a while back but well its been a while back plus about 8 since my last post.

Speaking of the absurdly amusing/things long time coming/Douglas Adams I went and saw the Hitchiker's Guide movie waay back when i returned from the blue collar kingdom of Edmonton. I must say that walking into it I was somewhat worried considering how much of a fan I am of his work. I am happy to say though that it turned out to be quite enjoyable. Granted its a film that you would enjoy immensly more having read the book series if only because of the semi-emotional attachment you would have with the charachters. Speaking of the charachters I would go as far to say as the film was perfectly cast, Arthur seemed like arthur, same with ford and the rest but the real show stealer was Zaphoid. Such a great performance as the egotistical, moronic politician. My only real big complaint with the film was the whole romance thing they slapped on just because it was a movie. In the books having Trillian actually liking Zaphoid made more sense, that and the final part of the film with the mice was just lame with the whole romance BS. Sure it was nice to see them get together etc but it just felt like what it was, tacked on and lame. Oh well, it was still a great movie if only because it managed to capture the zany spirit of the books which is no small feat considering how unique the books are. Realising now that there is a very good chance that Jenn and I are the only two of all of you who have seen it it was a moot paragraph. Move on? Lets!

Obviously made it through first year, grades were nowhere near what i had set myself to but ill take them. Next year is going to be a totally different game though mostly because i wont be such a dumbass in some regards and well hey no more chemistry or english for the rest of my existence. A reason to celebrate? I think so. Plus I'm taking 2 history courses next year so coupled with some courses im interested in next year is looking up.

Not much else to talk about, went and saw the Killers which was fun but im too lazy to go into my thoughts on that. Some really good CD's coming out but ill go into those when they come out and i purchase them. Same goes for Season 1 of Scrubs which comes out this week. That being said my plan is to start putting posts on this thing again at a weekly rate which might be complicated by the fact that my video card refuses to do what it should and render 3d things so the computers going to be in the shop for a bit. Still I will try to maintain that schedual because my lack of posts this year was just embarrasing. Well that basically wraps it up for today. Thanks for coming back and keeping the faith if you have read this.

Oh quick side note it looks like Mr.Chris is going to be working in the wonderful world of the service industry this summer. So yeah if you want to dish out some ridicule at that tall lanky kid you used to associate with ill be pedding reheated frozen doughnuts at the Timmy's in northland and hopefully also selling books at chapters in dalhousie if the ladie phones me back like she promised.

Till Next Ramble,

The Amazing, Boring and still as lame as ever Yurko