My Top 5’s (Part 1)

I’ve been thinking about how well received my Top 5 Spring Break Destination post in helping people decide on what to do for Spring Break this year. So I’ve compiled a list of different topics and listed my top 5’s which is mostly music related, my classmate Alex Glua has his top 5 list’s posted on his blog. His blog is pretty interesting has interesting news and videos from the entertainment industry which you might want to check out as well.

I will post more Top 5’s in the coming weeks, click the links to see other videos.

Top 5 Things I Love About Vancouver:

1. The Vancouver Canucks
2. The landscape and beauty
3. The diversity and culture
4. Kits Beach
5. Tied: Granville Island and Commercial Drive

Top 5 Things I Hate About Vancouver:

1. The rain!
2. All the bums and crackheads
3. Annoying immigrants (old and young) who can barely speak a word of English and are very rude (not all are like this but the ones that are piss me off)
4. Tied: The transit system, Everything is expensive!
5. All the shootings and gangs

Top 5 Films I Watched the Past 12 Months for the First Time:

1. Superbad
2. High Fidelity
3. Into the Wild
4. Garden State
5. Tied: American Gangster, Rescue Dawn and Juno

Top 5 Favorite Canucks This Year:

1. Roberto Luongo
2. Daniel and Henrik Sedin
3. Ryan Kesler
4. Alex Burrows
5. Alex Edler and Trevor Linden
   

Top 5 Places I Would Rather Be Then Vancouver Right Now:

1. Traveling Europe
2. Acapulco, Mexico
3. Cancun, Mexico
4. California
5. New York, NY

Top 5 Artists I Want To See Come To Vancouver:

1. Death Cab For Cutie
2. Tom Petty
3. Sigur Ros
4. Tied: Thursday, Jack Johnson
5. John Mayer

Top 5 TV Shows of the Moment:

1. Entourage
2. Dexter
3. Friday Night Lights
4. Kenny Vs. Spenny
5. Tied: Californication, The Hills, TMZ, Heroes

Top 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows:

1. New Port Harbor
2. The Hills
3. TMZ
4. MTV’s Made
5. Life Of Ryan

Top 5 Bars/ Clubs in Vancouver:

1. The Modern
2. The Shark Club
3. Republic
4. Subeez
5. The Cambie

Top 5 Songs of the Moment:

1. Flo-Rida ft. T-Pain- Low
2. Foo Fighters- Long Road To Ruin
3. Explosions In The Sky- First Breath After a Coma
4. Tied: Matt Costa- Never Looking Back, Stone Temple Pilots- Plush (Acoustic Version)
5. Tied: Delta Spirit- People, Turn Around, Kings Of Leon- Talihina Sky

Top 5 Songs to Blaze-up to:

1. The Postal Service- This Place Is A Prison
2. Tied: Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd- Time
3. The Doors- The End
4. Sigur Ros- Olsen Olsen
5. Tied: Sublime- Bad Fish, DJ Tiesto- Just Be, Explosions In The Air- The Only Moment We Were Alone

Top 5 Songs to Chill Out to:

1. The Postal Service- Recycled Air
2. Death Cab For Cutie- Summer Skin
3. Tied: Jack Johnson- Banana Pancakes, John Mayer- 83
4. Tied: Death Cab For Cutie- Translanticism, Death Cab For Cutie- What Sarah Said, Feist- One Evening
5. Tied: The Postal Service- Sleeping In, Matt Costa- Wash Away, David Grey- Sail Away

Top 5 Songs to Listen to While on a Road Trip:

1. Tied: Sublime- Date Rape, Tom Petty- Free Falling
2. Kings Of Leon- Taper Jean Girl
3. Tied: Keith Urban- Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me, Stone Temple Pilots- Crackerman
4. Tied: Elton John- Tiny Dancer, James Taylor- Country Roads
5. Tied: Bedlight For Blue Eyes- Dig On This, Rise Against- Broken English, Garth Brooks- Rodeo

Top 5 Songs to Listen to at the Beach:

1. Tied: Bob Marley- Jammin’, Jimmy Buffet- Margaritaville
2. Sublime- Bad Fish
3. Tied: Sublime-Santeria, Kenny Chesney- No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems, Blake Shelton- Some Beach
4. Sublime- Doin’ Time
5. Tied: The Black Seeds- So True, Jack Johnson- Times Like These, Blind Melon- Change

Top 5 Songs Played At My Funeral:

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird
2. Guns N Roses- November Rain
3. Led Zepplin- Stairway To Heaven
4. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
5. Tied: Oasis- Champagne Supernova, Metallica- Fade To Black, Explosions In The Sky- Remember Me As A Time Of Day

Top 5 Music Videos:

1. Johnny Cash- Hurt
2. Michael Jackson- Thriller
3. U2- Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
5. Tied: Guns N Roses- November Rain , Smashing Pumpkins- 1979

Jimmy Kimmel’s Fucking Ben Affleck

After the Oscars last night on Jimmy Kimmel he did a song called ” I’m Fucking Ben Affleck ” which was a revenge song to ” I’m Fucking Matt Damon “, Jimmy got a whole boatload of celebrities to show up and sing in the video. This must be one the funniest videos I’ve seen in quite sometime. Watch Robin Williams in this, might be the best part of the video haha.

Northern Voice 2008

This Saturday Feb, 23rd our class has been given the opportunity to attend Northern Voice, thanks to our instructor Kris Krug who will be one of the key speakers also. This will be an interesting conference as there will be sessions about blogging, social networking, advertising and podcasting which will help me better understand what more the internet can offer me. I’m especially excited to hit up the Sports Blogging and Podcasting seminar with Rebecca Bollwitt since I do love blogging about sports and hockey especially. Hearing from Matt Mullenweg who created this blogging host site, WordPress.com, and what he will have to say in his presentation ” Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here”. I will write another post with some thoughts and notes after the conference.

Vancouver Canucks Fans, Bandwagon Jumpers, and the NHL Trade Deadline

“Trade Markus Naslund“, “Fire Nonis”, “Trade Morrison“, “Fire Vigneault”, “The Canucks won’t win the cup”, “Trade, Trade, Trade”… Does this sound familiar? Well if you live in Vancouver like I do then you obviously hear this on a daily basis from the so called “Canuck fans”.

The trade deadline is coming up and I’m sick of hearing this shit from people calling themselves Vancouver Canuck fans, the moment the Canucks lose a couple games they write the Canucks off and say they should make all these ridiculous trades and how they should fire the General Manager Dave Nonis. Most of these fans probably have never been apart of a real hockey team and I don’t think are true hockey fans. Also when we start putting a string of wins together, we all of a sudden are going to win the Stanley Cup and are unstoppable. It’s funny to hear this sometimes and It’s kind of embarrassing to be associated with these people as being Vancouver Canucks fans, and having this stereotype on all of the real Canuck fans who stick with their team no matter what the outcome is.

Hearing some of the trade proposals these “fans” make and how they think they could do a better job at running the team. These people are in some fantasy world and think that being a G.M. of a hockey club is like playing a video game like NHL 08 or 2K8. They think it’s that easy to pick up a player like Jokinen, Lecavalier, or Sundin, well it isn’t! These days in the NHL it’s much harder, you have to think about things like the salary cap, upcoming free agents, contract negotiations, and the future. People would love to see players like Naslund, Morrison or Cooke traded away because they are expensive and are under-achieving, so what makes you think other teams would want them? What make you think they would trade their key players to the Canucks for a Naslund or Morrison? Get real! Most teams who are sellers in the market and are willing to trade some of their star-players want young talent and draft picks. Selling off your future up-and-coming talent for a “rental player” is the last thing the Canucks should do, just like running any other business you have to think long-term.

Another thing that pisses me off is booing and trash-talking of the foundation of the franchise Luongo when he lets a few bad goals in or loses a couple in a row. He is arguably the best goaltender in the NHL and to hear fans rip on Luongo when he’s having a bad game is ludicrous. We wan’t the guy to enjoy playing for this team and to stay long-term but if fans are on the guy for every mistake he makes that might just drive him out of the city once his contract is up.

I’ve been a die-hard Canuck fan for most of my life, and have stuck with my team through the good times (’94 Playoffs up until the finals) and the difficult times (the Mike Keenan/ Mark Messier era). I’m not saying I haven’t been pissed off at the direction the team was going or wanting to get rid of some players (IE: Jeff Cowan), I have, but I have always stuck with my team and always looked ahead even if things were looking dim.

So be loyal with your team! Quit complaining about how the team is run, you can’t do any better! And trading away our young talent is not the answer! Roberto Luongo said it best “I can’t win 82 games for you guys”. Bandwagon jumpers we don’t take your kind here, go cheer for the Edmonton Oilers! Have faith in the Canucks but if we don’t win the Stanley Cup there’s always next year.

 

 

Other Notes:

- Huge win by the Canucks tonight against the division leader Minnesota Wild, Daniel Sedin with the clutch goal in OT.

- Lukas Krajicek will have surgery for his shoulder and will be out for the rest of the season.

- Kevin Bieksa is recovering nicely and will play a couple games with the Vancouver Canucks minor league club the Manitoba Moose and could be back as early as next week.

- The NHL trade deadline is Tuesday, February 26th. It is an exciting time to see who and where players get moved so get up early and watch it on TSN. Sportsnet’s coverage last year was kind of a joke so I think the best and the most up-to-date news and trades will be from TSN.

- The Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers game this past Saturday, Feb 16th was probably one of the best games I’ve seen in a long time, it was old time hockey that’s for sure. Full of hard hits and fights with the Canucks coming up on top for the crucial 2 points. This game brought life back to the Vancouver Canucks and perhaps gave them a new identity. I have included the video.

Matt Costa and Delta Spirit Concert Rocked!

This past Sunday February 10th, me and some buddies went to the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver for the Matt Costa concert. Matt Costa is one of my favorite artists and it was a pleasure to finally see him live and wow did he put on a great show.

I didn’t really have great expectations for the opening band called Delta Spirit from California, they came onto the stage and started doing their thing and a minute or so into it we were blown away. They had a great stage presence, the instrumentals were superb and the vocals were amazing. If you get a chance to see them you wont be disappointed!

After a great performance by Delta Spirit, Matt Costa from Huntington, California came on and tore it up. Him and his band played all the great songs from the first album Song We Sing and a few from his new album Unfamiliar Faces. He is a very talented singer/ songwriter who started as a skateboarder and made the change to recording albums, and is signed with Jack Johnson’s label, Brushfire Records .

This show was one of the best I’ve seen and he is unbelievable live. If your a music lover you will appreciate both of these artists and I recommend you to buy their Cd’s and listen to them.

Here’s a clip from the concert I found on YouTube ( Matt Costa ):

Here’s the video Motivation by Delta Spirit:

Matt Costa Video: Mr. Pitiful

What Are You Doing For Spring Break 2008?

The countdown is on! Only a few short weeks until Spring Break starts, if you haven’t booked yet, what are you waiting for? Get on it! You don’t want to miss out on a great time.

I want to know where everyone is going this year on Spring Break, South Padre Island? Cancun? Acapulco? Jamaica? Or maybe you decided to stay around campus. Leave a comment and tell us where your going, how many people your going with, who you booked with, what school you attend, and any other comments you have.

StudentCity.com Newsletter February, Some Great Deals

Hey guys if you are looking for some great deals and news on Spring Break hit this link up http://www.studentcity.com/newsletter/2008feb/february.html

A Night To Remember

My team the New York Giants came up on top last night at SuperBowl 42, in one of the biggest upsets in sports history against the almost perfect New England Patriots. No one thought the Giants would come this far just barely making the playoffs as they fought their way to the SuperBowl and shocked the world. As a huge Giants fan who never gave up hope since the beginning it was nice to be rewarded with the win. Thats what I love about sports… Anything can happen!

Notes: The game was the most-watched SuperBowl ever and the second most-watched show with a Nielson rating of 97.5 million viewers, the M-A-S-H finnale was the only show to get more viewers with 106 million. It just proves once again Football dominates the sporting world in North America.