March 23, 2008 by ignatiof.

Last week I went to my local video store to rent the movie Gone Baby Gone. Unfortunately, being a new release, all the copies were rented. I said to my girlfriend, ‘Gone Baby Gone is gone, baby, gone.’ I believe that I was the first person to ever make that joke.

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March 23, 2008 by ignatiof.

Tell me that this song doesn’t go through your head at some point on Easter Sunday (lyrics reprinted without permission):

I’ve been drowned out by the rain
Still I’m wishing I could stay
But I’m sorry, my old friend
I’ve got to leave you once again
And despite what I might say
Measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein
And it might be very hard
Can’t be more than what we are
Can’t be more till it’s over

Here comes the resurrection
Everybody’s got to die from something
Nothing ever left to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below

So you goad me into spite
It’s the cruelty that you like
It’s the waiting for the one thing
That you never could define
Fill the longing just because
Emasculates the ones you love
Have to wait till it’s over

We are the less than mighty
Never was a way I thought it could be
Never quite enough to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below

I’ve been drowned out by the rain
Still I’m wishing I could stay
But I’m sorry, my old friend
I’ve got to leave you once again
And despite what I might say
Measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein
And it might be very hard
Can’t be more than what we are
Can’t be more till it’s over

Here comes the resurrection
Everybody’s got to die from something
Nothing ever left to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below

And if anger is the ending
Of the things that we’ve become
For the mother and the father
And the sister and the son
Through the shallow without wanting
Realisation to mistake
In the ugliness, the open
All the things we can’t replace
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control

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March 19, 2008 by ignatiof.

Here are, in the order in which they came to my mind, my all time favourite tunes. You’ll recognize some as Earlie Award winners. Some probably should have been winners, looking back, but it would be wrong to change awards after they have been handed out. What is this, the Grammy’s?

Velocity Girl - The Only Ones
Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
Weezer - Hash Pipe
INXS - Heaven Sent
Tegan & Sara - Like O, Like H
No Doubt - Sunday Morning
Rilo Kiley - Love And War (11/11/46)
Sarah Harmer - Lodestar
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster
Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
Delerium - Daylight

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March 13, 2008 by ignatiof.

I went through Wikipedia’s list of battles to find the 7 best-named battles ever. So now you don’t have to go through the list yourself. I’m a time saver, let me tell you.

7. Battle of the 300 Champions

This one is a must for any list. Not only did those 300 bad asses hold off the evil Persians, but they… ummm… well, they held off the evil Persians.

6. Battle of the Forum Gallorum

Now I don’t know a damn thing about this battle, but with a name that rhymes, what’s not to love, besides the dying and injuries?

5. Battle of Ogdensburg

Ogdensburg is a town or city in upstate New York. Ogdensburg. Who’d have thunk it would be worth fighting over? I would have expected North Haverbrook, but Ogdensburg?

4. Battle of the Lone Pine

Only one person died in this battle. Doc. When the Libyans came in their VW van and embedded many many bullets into his chest. Fortunately, Marty was able to escape to 1955.

3. Battle of the Bulge

A battle named after the struggle between human and waistline. Tasty.

2. Battle of Pork Chop Hill

Any battle named after meat is a-ok in my book.

1. Battle of Bloody Ridge

I guess this one pretty much says it all. I’m still waiting for a battle to be named ‘Battle with Miscellaneous Body Parts Left to Rot in the Aftermath’

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