007 Sundays on Encore Avenue's

On Sundays on encoure avenue2, they have back to back 007 movies. Its a good way to kill a sunday ( no pun intended) when there's nothing else on. Since the 1st 007 movie "Dr No" came out in 1962, there have been a total of 22 bond movies and 6 actors have played the infamous agent. Most recently Daniel Crag has taken over the roll in the last 2 movies "Casino Royale" and the forth coming "Quantum of Solace " arriving in theaters on Halloween. The latest movies budget was over $230 million and the total movie revenue from all 007 movies has exceeded $4.3 billion dollars ( actually its done $4,397,593,106 in box office sales ) and and has production costs of $1 billion ($1,098,000,000). There is however a little bit controversy that follows the james bond 007 name , and that is who is the all time fav bond actor. Some think its Sir Sean Connery, while others think Sir Roger Moore. Me personally, I'm a fan of Sean Connery.

The Bond series also received many versions in popular media. The 1960s TV imitations of James Bond such as " I Spy ,Get-Smart, and " The Man From Uncle" went on to become popular successes. As well are the numerous theme songs like "Live and Let Die" by Sir Paul McCartney, " For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton, and "A View to a kill" by Duran Duran to name a few.

The of course there are the infamous Bond Girls.

All you need to find out about James Bond, Sir Ian Flemming, and the Bond girls can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond
http://www.mi6.co.uk/mi6.php3
http://www.klast.net/bond/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_girl#Lists_of_Bond_Girls

Ultimate Rockband

With the recent arrival of Guitar-Hero and other band inspired games, it got me thinking of who would I put in my all-star rockband. It was a very very very tough decision but 1 choice was soo obvious its sickening so with that here is the line up:

Lead Guitar : Zakk Wylde ( BLS and Ozzy)

Rhythm Guitar : Matt Heafy (Trivium)

Drums: Joey Jordison (Slipknot)

Bass: Lemmy Kilmister ( Motörhead )

Lead Vocals: OZZY or Wayne Static (Static-X)

I know some of you may disagree with my choices, but it reflects both old school metal ( Lemmy and Ozzy) and new school metal (joey and matt). so I challenge you to come up with your own all star line up. Keep inmind that it was done once by the foremost metal label Roadrunner Records with their CD "Roadrunner United. The All-Star Sessions". Its a whos who of metal. Happily no one from NICKELBACK is on this cd!!!!!!!!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/rrunited/layout2.html

Thoughts from a brain-freeze and thaw !

After eating 24 ice cream sandwiches, drinkin half a gallon of coke and a temp of 32C ( 90F) at 9:00pm MDT my time, my brain started to think of some interesting things that, well I never remembered about before such as explaing a thunderstorm to your kids and it goes like this: "Someone took gods pictures as he farted while taking a pee". It explains how you see lightning first then the thunder. Others may explain it as "god taking pictures of angels bowling and gettin a strike" or " they are moving furniture in heaven" . IF however your like me, you reall know that is the crashing or booming sound produced by rapidly expanding air along the path of the electrical discharge of lightning. And as for snow, well to kids it could be simply "god shaking his head and getting rid aof dandruff" or " god dusting heaven" sure it sounds corny but hey its better than frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.

Other things like a tornado is gods vacuum cleaner, a water spout, same thing on water, a earthquake is god redajusting the earth, volcano, coolin down the earth to make it nicer, alot can be simply explained to kids, just gotta figure out a creative way so they can understand it.

Something ubber cute !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSwLIiYJKk

little video I took on my holiday. speaking of which.........

Had a very very relaxing holiday away from Calgary. Ate alot of awesome food, drank lord knows how many brews ( most of which was Keith's India Pale Ale and Keith's Red Amber Ale in either draft form and can form) , did alot of walking, got some sun, and caught up on some well needed sleep which i so very needed desperatly after working 12 days on nightcrew. see http://themountiangopher.blogspot.com/2008/07/well-i-survived-working-nightcrew.html about that little adventure.

Only in Saskatchewan!!!!!!

How in gods name to you enforce this?????????????

Cop: "pardon me son. you didnt hit that car didnt you see the sign?"