If U Seek Amy

I've had lot of things I've wanted to write about over the last week but I've just been to busy. Or too lazy...take your pick. But after reading this one article pertaining to a Britney Spears song I though I could spare a few minutes out of my busy life to do some pointless venting. So the issue is a parents group is protesting Britney Spears new song "If U Seek Amy". Why might you ask...get this, they say by saying the title phrase quickly out loud produces a sound akin to spelling out the F-word. Ooooh no the horror! You know what I say... Fah Q and Sofa King what! Try saying it a few times to yourself. I don't really even catch it and if they themselves didn't point it out I would never have even noticed. So they are urging radio stations not to broadcast it because they believe it "would violate the broadcast indecency law" if aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Give me a break people. You hear what you want to hear. Maybe the ones protesting the song need a good seeking of Amy. And what about song's such as Foxtrot, Uniform, Charlie, Kilo from Bloodhound Gang spelling out in call letters 'fuck'. Or songs like "Come On Eileen" from Dexys Midnight Runners. Where's your indecency issues with those songs eh? Get off your high horses.

Warning: In no way does this venting support Britney Spears as an artisit...HA!

...Of the Dead

Head over to this link to check out a promo real for George A Romero's new zombie film.

"On a small island off North America's coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet...the islanders can't bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear. A rebel among them hunts down all the zombies he can find, only to be banished from the island for assassinating his neighbors and friends. On the mainland, bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of survivors in search of an oasis on which to build a new life. Barely surviving an attack from a mass of ravenous flesh-eaters. They commandeer a zombie-infested ferry and sail to the island. There, to their horror, they discover that the locals have chained the dead inside their homes, pretending to live 'normal' lives...with bloody consequences."

Joking Around

Have you ever noticed that when you switch your relationship status on facebook from whatever it's currently at to a blank status it reports the person as no longer being in a relationship?

That was the basis for a great joke I got to play on my family and friends. And for those who are still left in the dark about what the hell is going on then this story is for you. So I guess it was back in the beginning of November, or end of Oct...something like that. Me and my friend Julie were talking online and the subject of relationships come up and I made the observation about what happens when you change your relationship status on facebook. When people do that they usually get a lot of concerned friends curious as to what happened. They want to know if you are okay, when all the person really wanted to do was no longer share with the world of facebook their relationship status. I haven't been in a relationship for quite some time, so this is where the lightbulds start flashing in our heads. We thought it would be funny if I changed it to in a relationship and see what type of responses I'd get. Let me tell you, it worked like a flippin charm. Exactly ten minutes after changing it my sister-in-law calls me wondering whats going on. Then not too long after that my oldest brother in Edmonton calls me and says his wife wants to talk to me. She too wanting to know what's happening. Funny how both my oldest brothers have to get their wives to prod me for details. I let them in on the joke of course but I'm not sure if my sisters-in-law thought it was too funny. Then my youngest brother posts that he has to find out everything through facebook. He however thought it was freakin genius. Then my close friends and some coworkers make comments trying to find out what's happening. Every time someone came up to me I couldn't help but laugh my ass off. Without going into any details my original joke also ended up having a secondary amusing property. My friend also said it would be a funny way to find out if I had made anyone jealous at work, which we think in fact happened. So after my few days of fun I couldn't just change my status back. What type of impression am I sending to those who don't know it's a joke yet if I can't stay in a relationship for more than a few days...hahaha. Then that's where I forgot all about it until my sister in law made a crack about if I was still in a relationship or not. So my joke lasted for about 2 months and I officially broke up with my fake girlfriend just before Christmas. This of course added even a new level of black humour by having a Christmas breakup for those who still weren't in on the joke. Two learns I picked up with this insightful joke. People shouldn't always trust what they read online, plus way too many people are interested in my love life...lol.

On a side note of playing practical jokes on people. I played a great one on my staff just the other day. Three of my employee's were hanging out in the front of the department while I was paged to customer service where there is another manager talking with two police officers. This was the reason I was called to the front. They all see me talking with the officers and they get back to work. A few minutes later I come back to the department with this real morose look on my face and hand one of them my set of keys mumbling "I knew New Years would catch up with me". They were all concerned and asked what's going on. I told them I'm being charged with drunkin assault and that they are here to take me to jail. The look on their faces was priceless, as I handed them my keys and walked back up to the front. My employee's were left in a state of shock as I walked away. Then I rounded a corner and came back and told them I was just fuckin with them. It's been a while since I laughed that hard. I had sold this thing brilliantly and they bought it hook line and sinker. If your curious the cops just wanted to let me know about a female stealing computer software around town.

Big Sugar

This past week at work I had myself another High Fidelity moment. With Christmas finally being over I've been able to switch things over from month long non-stop Christmas music to good old Rockin Roll. Not that I have a problem with Christmas music, most of the time your working so hard anyway you pretty much tune it out. However last year we actually had some interesting Christmas music such as Twisted Sister Christmas. This year was boring crap. We never even had an album with Rum DMC's Christmas in Hollis, now that's just disheartening. I read online about a James Brown Funky Christmas and even a Star Wars Christmas album, now if we had those to play in the store things might have been different. Okay so back to the story at hand. Being in charge is great b/c I get to pick the music that plays in store. And if your reading this Julie please don't take that last statement as me being against your music...lol. It's just great to have that power is all :) We have an endcap of greatest hit's CD's and one of them was a Big Sugar GH. I hadn't listening to them in a really long time and forgot how many great blues rock songs they had. So I made that one of choices for the store to play. Then over the course of a few days of playing it mixed with my other selections I've been getting compliments on my taste in music. However I bet for most people they were just making those comments b/c they were sick of hearing Christmas music. But here is where my high fidelity moment comes into play b/c by playing the Big Sugar album the quantity of that particular CD has gone done in numbers. It's cool to influence people...

On a side note about Big Sugar, one of my employee's asked me what ever happened to the band. I told them they broke up and the lead singer went on the form the band Grady. They promoted on their last tour that it would infact be their last, and unfortunately I missed it when they stopped by Kamloops. The funny thing is the day after I play that CD in the store I found out from my brother in Edmonton they were getting back together for a one night only New Year's performance backed by The Trews. That would have been a wicked show to have seen, oh well.

Watchmen

Well it looks like we're going to have to wait a little bit longer to see the Watchmen but they have posted a new featurette which does give us an even better look at the film. Always look on the bright side of life eh.

Crank 2

Here's a link to the red band teaser trailer for Crank 2. This is going to be a badly awesome film.