Monthly Archives: February 2007

I Spy a Friday Random 10

  1. I-Spy by jovike

    I-Spy by jovike

    Walk Idiot Walk by the Hives

  2. Not Nice by Chris Garneau
  3. Oh Sweet Woods by the Firey Furnaces
  4. Sunday Mornig by K-OS
  5. Girl by Beck
  6. All Apologies by Nirvana (solo, acoutistic, undated)
  7. Go! by Common
  8. Banquet by Bloc Party
  9. Handshake Drugs by Wilco
  10. The Hardest Button to Button by the White Stripes

I’ll be back with notes after dinner and drinks with Rosa and the girls.

Later…notes:

  • I’m zooming on too much Keffa coffee.
  • My darling cousin Heather pinged to tell me she loves Girl by Beck too. Great minds….
  • I just love Wilco. I think I like the live version of Handshake Drugs on Kicking Television better than the album track. Cool news is that band are wrapping work on the next album called “Sky Blue Sky” scheduled for release on May 15th. For the first time, they are recording with the same lineup heard on Kicking Television.

photo credit: I-Spy by jovike

More to the Super Bowl than ads

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Ken asked yesterday: Why Watch the Super Bowl If the Ads Are Online? I too lament the fact we Canadians don’t see the US ads on simulcast. But, I enjoy football. So I see lots of reasons to watch the Super Bowl.

The NFL does an phenomenal job telling its own story. The league has its own documentary film production unit. NFL Films “promotes the the National Football League and preserves its history for generations of future fans. To show the game, the passion and the visceral nature of the game from a player’s perspective.” They’ve filmed over 9000 games since 1962.

The broadcasters do an excellent job of engaging the casual fan for the Super Bowl. They know they’ve got the people who only watch one game a year tuned in. For those of us who watch all season, just watching the Super Bowl is like going to church once a year.

I’m happy the Colts won, but I’m sorta sad there’s no more NFL until next season. How many more days until March Madness?

CIRI Essentials of Investor Relations

I’m at the CIRI 2007 Essentials of Investor Relations today and tomorrow. The quality of this conference is top-notch, but I do miss my blogger buddies.

Kim recommended NoteBook from Circus Ponies. They say "it’s a combination outliner and free-form database that lets you clip, annotate, and share unstructured information." I’ve fallen off the GTD wagon a bit and I’ve got scads of unstructured information in my life. So far I like it. I used the Cornell Note Taking pages today for my notes at the conference.

Friday Random 10

Can spring be in the air by Jamuudsen

Can spring be in the air by Jamuudsen

Welcome to the Groundhog Day edition of the Friday Random 10. Blogging has been light this week because I’ve been mucho busy at work. The follow up posts from last week’s Geek Dinner IV are in the works. I managed  to register Flackadelic.com and connect it (with the help of Joey) to this here blog. Rounding out site tweaks, I plugged a Last.fm widget of my weekly top artists into the sidebar.

Here are 10 random songs from my iTunes party shuffle:

1. Some Girls are Bigger Than Others by The Smiths
2. Can’t Hold the Monkees Down by Christina Aguilera vs. the Monkees
3. So. Central Rain by R.E.M.
4. Something On by the Tragically Hip
5. Demon Days by Gorillaz
6. You Wreck Me by Tom Petty
7. Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones
8. Accidental Babies by Damien Rice
9. Distractions by Zero 7
10. Everything’s Alright Still by Lilly Allen

notes:

- Good to see a Hip song made the list. (Not entirely surprising considering I’ve got 167 Hip songs on my MacBook Pro). I think I’ll dig out our copy of the classic Hip bootleg Roxy and Elsewhere this weekend. It has the classic “Killer Whale Tank” version of New Orleans is Sinking and the “Double Suicide” version of Highway Girl. It is only six days until the Hip show at the ACC.
- Ruby Tuesday deserves to be on Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 songs list. I loved how it was used in the Royal Tenenbaums
- I’m enjoying Lilly Allen. Her debut album went on sale in the US this week.  From LillyAllenMusic.com: “The wait is over! US fans can now get their hands on Lily’s sensational debut ‘Alright, Still’ instore now! As well as her UK No.1 hit ‘Smile’, the album features the classics
‘LDN’, ‘Littlest Things’, ‘Alfie’ and fan favourite ‘Nan, You’re A
Window Shopper’.”
Does anyone else think its lame that we have wait so long for overseas releases? Aren’t we in a brave new world of music distribution?

photo credit: Can spring be in the air? uploaded by Jamuudsen