While America gets an obesity epidemic, France gets this:
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Why America Hates The French
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole
Thursday, September 18th, 2008I was driving to pick up Vietnamese from a little place just around the corner from us and I was listening to 88.5 Live FM and a song was playing in which I heard:
“I’s the b’y that built the boat
I’s the b’y that sailed her
I’s the b’y the sunk the ship
You’re the one that save me“
The first two lines of that are taken from a very old Newfoundland song and it blew my mind when I heard it on the radio. I had to look up.
I haven’t been able to find too much in the way of actual facts, but the song is by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker and they are indeed Canadian, but not from Newfoundland. Which just adds to the mystery.
I’m hypnotized by the song now, and I think their T-Shirt looks pretty cool.
SMB/RC
Monday, May 5th, 2008Just wow.
Why is nothing I do ever as cool as what you find on the internet?
3 Lines, yet so much weird.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008This is crazy. I heard it on the radio a few days ago and I can’t get it out of my mind!
Speaking of sleep, I need to get some myself… let’s see what’s wrong with the post layout later…
Update: Didn’t care for all the messing around trying to figure out what was wrong with embedded videos, so I just installed EasyTube to take care of that for me. Yay!
C-10
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008People are screaming over over the C-10 bill that will allow the government to withhold any funding (and can anything Canadian be made without GoC money??) if the resulting film isn’t acceptable.
And if I understand things right it doesn’t get judged one way or another until after the film is made… So once you’re finished then your money can be pulled from you.
Steve’s a jerk.
I’ve sent a email about it to my duly elected representative. Have you?
(But on the bright side, I did find a YouTube clip of one of my favorite Kids in the Hall sketches on the facebook group!)
I’m just the Typical
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Somewhere closer to the other side
And I’m feeling like it’s now or never
Can I break the spell of the typical
[Listening to: Typical by Mute Math off the album Mute Math (3:57)]
Blue Bird of Loneliness
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007I got The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill out of the library and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. That’s what I love about searching through the movie section at the library – you never know what you’ll come across.
Hands down, my favorite parrot was Connor. Mostly ’cause he got such a raw deal. But the part that seals it was that he’d stick up for other birds that were being picked on. Connor isn’t the same species as the other parrots and as a result he’s always on the outside and always a little lonely. And it just seems so bloody unfair. Hell, I almost cried.
I guess when you get so wrapped up in the life of a bird, that’s a sign of a good movie.
Just don’t watch the “music video” on the DVD…. boy is that bad….
DocuRama has a catalog of other documentries on the disc and there’s a bunch more I want to see now.
Francis Fraud Coppola
Sunday, October 21st, 2007So after my fascination with Dracula, I’ve watched both Bela Lugosi‘s 1931 Dracula and Francis Ford Coppola‘s 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
There’s a reason I italicized part of that.
Both movies take huge liberties with the plot in the novel. But it’s Coppola’s version which upsets me. Because the title is a lie.
To call it Bram Stoker’s Dracula gives the impression that they’re using the original story.
But no, that’s not the case. Mina falls in love with the Count, because she’s his reincarnated wife. She marries Johnathan anyway, asks to be made into a vampire, helps them track Dracula back to Transylvania, then prevents them from killing him.
I know. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
That’s exactly like the book. Or not.
I’m currently reading Frankenstein and intend to watch the various movies for that too. I can’t wait to see what they did with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The N-Word.
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Sorcha posted a video to the Facebook page. It’s a clip from ABC about all the planes landing in Gander after Sept. 11.
And I don’t think they pronounce Newfoundland correctly once throughout the whole thing! Here’s the simple rule of thumb for proper pronunciation:
In Newfoundland we all like to have a good time so -
New-Fun-Land
Just like that. Newfunland. Not NewFinland, not Newfoundlind, or even the understandable Newfoundland. (They always seem to drag out the found.)
I’m not even going to get started on that other N-Word.
