Dearest Spotify,
Back in the 80's one of the slogans for MTV was "I Want My MTV". That was when they played videos and didn't show the idiotic "Jersey Shore" though. Now it's the 10's, still waiting for a better name for this decade, now I want my Spotify! I submitted my e-mail about 24 hours ago and still haven't received the official invite. You probably want to get me access asap as my blog reaches ten's of people each day :)
While waiting on the invitation from Spotify, I've been listening to Pandora. Last night I listened to what I titled "Mambo #5" radio. Today I'm listening to "new music" radio. This is a very cool song I heard this morning:
themusicaddict
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Spotify, Spotify Come Out To Play (Updated December 14th, 2015)
There use to be a picture here of the gorgeous Brooklyn Decker that violated Google's Ad Sense policy. Someone must have complained as the picture had been there 4 years without any comments. I got rid of the cover of her 2011 SI Swimsuit Edition- she was looking crazy beautiful. Below I have posted a picture of the lovely Miss Decker circa 2015. You're welcome.
Hello,
For those of you who didn't get enough of Brooklyn Decker at the awful ESPY's last night, here's another picture:
Two pictures of her improves the look of this blog. More blog improvement below.
Spotify debuted in the United States today and I want to tell you how cool it is. However when your are poor, some might say cheap, like I am I want to check it out free first. There's a free option with Spotify, however you have to receive an invitation. I submitted my e-mail address to them this morning, now about 14 hours later I still haven't received the e-mail invite.
14 hours in internet time? That's crazy long. That's like 6 months in regular time. What's taking them so long to reply? I do have an extensive iTunes library and a membership with napster.com. As of right now I can listen to nearly any song I want on a moment's notice for a very small amount. However I want to try out the new toy, the new free toy.
I'm not a big Pandora fan. For me, my experience has been I type in a song or an artist but within a few songs its playing music that I don't like. (Tonight I started Pandora with "Tubthumping" and it devolved to The Baha Men's "Best Years Of Our Lives". Huh? Eventually it played a really crappy song "Sweat" by somebody called Inner Circle. Huh again?) I have been less than impressed by Pandora so far. I like having control over what I want to hear.
That's generally why I don't listen to the radio. Although Pandora at least has very few commercials. Thankfully it doesn't have lame DJ's or traffic reports though. I listened to about 10 songs on Pandora. Again I started off my listening with "Tubthumping" and after that either 60's or 90's songs were played? From the 60's "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Johnny B. Goode", "Do Wah Diddy". From the 90's Sugar Ray's "Fly", "Love Shack", "Mambo #5" and Los Lonely Boys' "Heaven".
Some sad news: it seems on the 121st day of the NFL Lockout a new CBA deal is imminent. What's the impetus you ask? Once the NFL starts missing preseason games they are losing $200 million each week of the preseason. Greed started this situation and greed is going to end this labor strife. As usual lawyers leave the happiest. I've heard the deal is anywhere from 7 to 10 years, at least we won't deal with this nonsense for a long time.
Shows you don't have to waste your time watching. "Bones" was pretty disappointing, I had heard a lot of good things about it. It didn't live up to all the praise I had heard about it. I watched a few episodes on Comcast On Demand and I wasn't overly impressed. A show that's similar, but much better, is the great "Rizzoli and Isles". Angie Harmon is still gorgeous and she has the sexiest voice ever. She has great chemistry with her fellow cast mate Sasha Alexander. Alexander is kind of attractive in a hot nerd girl sort of way. I mean that as a compliment.
I saw one episode of "Alphas" and I think that's enough. It felt like several shows thrown together. It felt a lot like "No Ordinary Family" with a little "Heroes" and "FlashForward" thrown in. Do you notice the commonality between those three shows? Yes, they have all been cancelled. Also in "Alphas" 90 minute premiere episode, it had up to 5 consecutive minutes of commercials. The only reason I know that is by fast forwarding the show. I bet close to half of the 90 minute running time was commercials. If you want to watch a cool show for nerds, I recommend "Falling Skies". I'm really liking that show, I look forward to seeing it each Sunday night. That's one of the few shows that's appointment TV for me. Although I still watch it on my DVR.
Also skip "Franklin and Bash". It's for those of you that thought "Married With Children" was too complex.
Tomorrow night is the final episode of "Friday Night Lights". I jumped on that bandwagon 4 years late, but this last season I've watched I've really liked. It has some great story lines, great characters and excellent acting. Are the Taylors going to end up in Dillon or where Mrs. Taylor interviewed for the job?
Last but not least in another very tense soccer match, the USA beat France 3-1. Abby Wambach had another header for a goal, which broke a 1-1 tie. Whether the USA wins on Sunday or not, I think that Wambach and Goalie Hope Solo will be the breakout stars. (Yes, I know they've both played for the US Women's Team for a few years. Relatively they have such a small pool of fans they've toiled in obscurity most of that time.) Also scoring a goal for the USA was Alex Morgan.
I thought to myself while watching the match if Morgan scores a goal, she could really break big. Not only is she an excellent soccer player, but as we use to say back in the day she's a stone cold babe.
I think Sunday's USA-Japan match could be one for the ages. The USA has completely dominated the series with Japan so far. But I think Sunday's match will be between two very evenly matched teams. With a earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant issues I predict that Japan will be the sentimental favorite. I don't get a sense who host country Germany will be pulling for. Although I think initially they'll be cheering for Japan. Although the US does have a strong military presence in Germany. I predict something will happen in the match that will swing the cheers for one country. My only prediction about this match is that it will be close and hard fought. I'm just glad I can watch this match. If for no other reason watch it for Abby Wambach, she's really fun to watch play.
themusicaddict
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
US Wins: The Score Doesn't Indicate How Good France Played.
Hello,
I would just like to apologize for my weak blog yesterday. Usually where I work I have plenty of time to work on my blog. However with a new school quarter coming up I was plenty busy yesterday.
I was able to take today off to deal with some bureaucratic nonsense. I also was busy this morning watching the USA's dramatic victory over France. For those who don't appreciate soccer and rag on it they will never understand how great today's game was. While USA did win the game 3-1, it was much closer than that. At the start of the second half France completely dominated possession but just couldn't quite get a second goal.
Thank goodness I'll be able to watch the Women's World Cup Finals Sunday afternoon. They will either play Japan, who scares me. I watched part of one of their games earlier in the tournament and they are awesome. Or USA will play Sweden, the team that the USA 2-1 in the first round of play. Not only is Sweden very good but they have the best post score celebration.
I may return later with more. I watched the new SyFy series last night. I have some opinions about that especially the ridiculous length of the commercials.
themusicaddict
I would just like to apologize for my weak blog yesterday. Usually where I work I have plenty of time to work on my blog. However with a new school quarter coming up I was plenty busy yesterday.
I was able to take today off to deal with some bureaucratic nonsense. I also was busy this morning watching the USA's dramatic victory over France. For those who don't appreciate soccer and rag on it they will never understand how great today's game was. While USA did win the game 3-1, it was much closer than that. At the start of the second half France completely dominated possession but just couldn't quite get a second goal.
Thank goodness I'll be able to watch the Women's World Cup Finals Sunday afternoon. They will either play Japan, who scares me. I watched part of one of their games earlier in the tournament and they are awesome. Or USA will play Sweden, the team that the USA 2-1 in the first round of play. Not only is Sweden very good but they have the best post score celebration.
I may return later with more. I watched the new SyFy series last night. I have some opinions about that especially the ridiculous length of the commercials.
themusicaddict
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Home Run Derby
Hello,
I don't about you but I just didn't care a whole lot about the Home Run Derby. I watched a bit last night but I got tired of it pretty quickly.
What did I do last night instead, I watched the mid-80's movie "One Crazy Summer". I admit I was feeling a bit nostalgic for the 80's. And any movie with Demi Moore can't be that bad, can it? Well it actually can. "One Crazy Summer" is a terrible movie. Don't watch it as it's not worth your time.
Although there is a scene that starts at about the 1:02 mark that sums up most 80's movie. This is the scene where Demi Moore is singing a song called "Don't Look Back". Since it's a song in a 80's movie, of course it's a synth driven track. There's a lot of bad dancing. Also for the most part many of these actors went on to do nothing. There are the usual jerk guys and the losers win. Along with seeing Demi Moore and John Cusack there were some other people to see. Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds" is in this movie. The guy that plays John Cusack's friend, George Calimari, looked really familiar. I couldn't figure out who he is. I had to go to imdb.com for the answer. I realized it's Freddy Rumson from "Mad Men". He's terribly cast in "One Crazy Summer", but he's perfect in "Mad Men".
themusicaddict
I don't about you but I just didn't care a whole lot about the Home Run Derby. I watched a bit last night but I got tired of it pretty quickly.
What did I do last night instead, I watched the mid-80's movie "One Crazy Summer". I admit I was feeling a bit nostalgic for the 80's. And any movie with Demi Moore can't be that bad, can it? Well it actually can. "One Crazy Summer" is a terrible movie. Don't watch it as it's not worth your time.
Although there is a scene that starts at about the 1:02 mark that sums up most 80's movie. This is the scene where Demi Moore is singing a song called "Don't Look Back". Since it's a song in a 80's movie, of course it's a synth driven track. There's a lot of bad dancing. Also for the most part many of these actors went on to do nothing. There are the usual jerk guys and the losers win. Along with seeing Demi Moore and John Cusack there were some other people to see. Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds" is in this movie. The guy that plays John Cusack's friend, George Calimari, looked really familiar. I couldn't figure out who he is. I had to go to imdb.com for the answer. I realized it's Freddy Rumson from "Mad Men". He's terribly cast in "One Crazy Summer", but he's perfect in "Mad Men".
themusicaddict
Monday, July 11, 2011
"Falling Skies", Led Zeppelin 1
Hello,
I'm still on a high from America's amazing comeback win in such dramatic fashion at the Women's World Cup yesterday. I watched "Falling Skies" until 9:00 and then turned over to ESPN, where they showed the amazing highlights again. America's amazing victory is truly goosebump worthy. I usually work Wednesday mornings, but I'm trying to get this Wednesday off so I can cheer on America in the WWC Semifinals against France.
But on the other hand I'm very use to my teams being on the losing end as well. I understand that Brazil is probably hurting a lot. They played a hard fought match and I think they'll win titles in the future. I tip my hat to the hard playing, gutty Brazilian team.
For those of you who are wondering why so much fuss has been made about this match, here are some reasons. 1) It's the World Cup! 2) These are the world's best women's soccer players. 3) That was one of the most exciting soccer matches, indeed sporting events, ever. That's not hype either. ESPN named it to it's Top 10 exciting sports moments as well. In a match where one team was playing short handed scoring on a near second last goal. That was only a couple of things that was part of all the drama in the match.
I thought last night was another great episode of "Falling Skies". I'm really liking this show after a few weeks. Last night the first 50 minutes were taut, but the last 10 minutes was pure filler. I was waiting for the characters to discuss why the skitter was gently stroking the hair of "its" harness kids. I thought that was interesting and wondering why the skitter seemed to feel such genuine emotion for the harness kids. Is it because the harness came from that specific skitter?
I know it sounds weird that I cared about Dr. Glass killing the skitter. I was getting attached to it. Is that why they didn't give the skitter a name to help prevent being attached? There seemed to be some true humanity in it's eyes. I thought the skitter was on the verge of spilling some secrets. I also thought Dr. Glass was getting attached as well. I do wonder how much the skitters are willing participants in taking over the world. I know Dr. Glass had the 24 hour deadline placed on her, but I didn't think she'd be the one to do the killing. (The killing, not to be confused with a very disappointing show on AMC.)
I'm still wondering who or what are putting the harnesses on the kids. Neither the mechs nor the skitters seem to have the ability to install harnesses. Where do the harnesses come from, it seems they could have been part of a skitter's body. Do the harnesses self attach to the back of children? Or was Dr. Harris the one that originally installed the harnesses? That would explain why he knew how to take them off. It could also explain why he survived when Tom's wife died. Did he make a deal with the skitters? If he did though, how did they communicate? What am I missing here?
Did the skitter kill Dr. Harris out of revenge? Or is it because Dr. Harris was possibly a traitor to the skitters? Perhaps that radio static was a skitter leader telling the skitter to kill Dr. Harris if it got a chance. I don't think we can accept Dr. Harris's death at face value. I have so many questions I hope get answered.
Along with reading Brady Udall's "The Lonely Polygamist" and Ted Bell's "Warlord", I've started reading Mick Wall's "When Giants Walked the Earth". It's a biography of the greatest band of all-time, Led Zeppelin. I've read the first 53 pages. So far the band formed, toured under the name The New Yardbirds and started working on Led Zeppelin 1. The mighty Zep made the CD in 30 hours studio time spread over 9 days. Both John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page had a lot of session work at that point. They were very familiar with working in studios. They definitely knew what they were doing, but still it's amazing that they were able to put together such a great CD in only 9 days. It takes Axl Rose that many days to decide on a song title.
Mick Walls also said that only 3 of the 9 songs on that CD were originals so that helped. Led Zeppelin did "borrow" from many other artists on several of their songs. To fulfill a contract and possibly generate some excitement for the new band they did those few tour dates. However a lot of people still weren't very familiar with them. Let's say you are in 1968 England and you hear about this new and upcoming band. They intrigue you enough that you go to the local record store (do you remember those?, if not watch "High Fidelity") and buy it. You have to take it home, you just can't start listening to it in your car on the way home. You get home and put it on your record player and the first few notes comes out at you. What do you think? I think that's a pretty amazing first song.
It's generally not the best idea to buy a CD because the band intrigues you usually. I was very intrigued by Oasis and bought "What's The Story Morning Glory". That was a piece of crap. Thank goodness we live in the internet age. Many times I'm able to listen to a CD on napster.com (maybe Spotify soon enough) before buying it. I would have never bought that craptastic Oasis CD if I had actually heard it before buying.
When one thinks of Led Zeppelin classic songs, "Good Times Bad Times" has to be on that list. Also "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Personally I think that nearly every Led Zeppelin song is a classic. Can you imagine a current band having that many classic songs on their first CD? In fact, here's a challenge question for you, name the last musician that had 4 classic songs on their first CD. Off the top of my head the last band I can think of doing that is Guns N' Roses. I know there will be some argument about this but I think "Appetite for Destruction" has at least 8 or 9 classic songs on it.
In answering my question please do not suggest Radiohead, Oasis, Nickleback, Kid Pebble or any of the other allegedly fantastic modern bands. In fact, of those 4 musicians mentioned, none of them have 4 classic songs by themselves. I'm sure there are probably a few musicians who's first CD has 4 classic songs on it, I just can't think who that would be right off.
Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times":
This is Led Zeppelin 1's track listing.
1. Good Times Bad Times 2:46
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:41
3. You Shook Me 6:28
4. Dazed And Confused 6:26
5. Your Time Is Gonna Come 4:34
6. Black Mountain Side 2:12
7. Communication Breakdown 2:27
8. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:45
9. How Many More Times 8:28
themusicaddict
I'm still on a high from America's amazing comeback win in such dramatic fashion at the Women's World Cup yesterday. I watched "Falling Skies" until 9:00 and then turned over to ESPN, where they showed the amazing highlights again. America's amazing victory is truly goosebump worthy. I usually work Wednesday mornings, but I'm trying to get this Wednesday off so I can cheer on America in the WWC Semifinals against France.
But on the other hand I'm very use to my teams being on the losing end as well. I understand that Brazil is probably hurting a lot. They played a hard fought match and I think they'll win titles in the future. I tip my hat to the hard playing, gutty Brazilian team.
For those of you who are wondering why so much fuss has been made about this match, here are some reasons. 1) It's the World Cup! 2) These are the world's best women's soccer players. 3) That was one of the most exciting soccer matches, indeed sporting events, ever. That's not hype either. ESPN named it to it's Top 10 exciting sports moments as well. In a match where one team was playing short handed scoring on a near second last goal. That was only a couple of things that was part of all the drama in the match.
I thought last night was another great episode of "Falling Skies". I'm really liking this show after a few weeks. Last night the first 50 minutes were taut, but the last 10 minutes was pure filler. I was waiting for the characters to discuss why the skitter was gently stroking the hair of "its" harness kids. I thought that was interesting and wondering why the skitter seemed to feel such genuine emotion for the harness kids. Is it because the harness came from that specific skitter?
I know it sounds weird that I cared about Dr. Glass killing the skitter. I was getting attached to it. Is that why they didn't give the skitter a name to help prevent being attached? There seemed to be some true humanity in it's eyes. I thought the skitter was on the verge of spilling some secrets. I also thought Dr. Glass was getting attached as well. I do wonder how much the skitters are willing participants in taking over the world. I know Dr. Glass had the 24 hour deadline placed on her, but I didn't think she'd be the one to do the killing. (The killing, not to be confused with a very disappointing show on AMC.)
I'm still wondering who or what are putting the harnesses on the kids. Neither the mechs nor the skitters seem to have the ability to install harnesses. Where do the harnesses come from, it seems they could have been part of a skitter's body. Do the harnesses self attach to the back of children? Or was Dr. Harris the one that originally installed the harnesses? That would explain why he knew how to take them off. It could also explain why he survived when Tom's wife died. Did he make a deal with the skitters? If he did though, how did they communicate? What am I missing here?
Did the skitter kill Dr. Harris out of revenge? Or is it because Dr. Harris was possibly a traitor to the skitters? Perhaps that radio static was a skitter leader telling the skitter to kill Dr. Harris if it got a chance. I don't think we can accept Dr. Harris's death at face value. I have so many questions I hope get answered.
Along with reading Brady Udall's "The Lonely Polygamist" and Ted Bell's "Warlord", I've started reading Mick Wall's "When Giants Walked the Earth". It's a biography of the greatest band of all-time, Led Zeppelin. I've read the first 53 pages. So far the band formed, toured under the name The New Yardbirds and started working on Led Zeppelin 1. The mighty Zep made the CD in 30 hours studio time spread over 9 days. Both John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page had a lot of session work at that point. They were very familiar with working in studios. They definitely knew what they were doing, but still it's amazing that they were able to put together such a great CD in only 9 days. It takes Axl Rose that many days to decide on a song title.
Mick Walls also said that only 3 of the 9 songs on that CD were originals so that helped. Led Zeppelin did "borrow" from many other artists on several of their songs. To fulfill a contract and possibly generate some excitement for the new band they did those few tour dates. However a lot of people still weren't very familiar with them. Let's say you are in 1968 England and you hear about this new and upcoming band. They intrigue you enough that you go to the local record store (do you remember those?, if not watch "High Fidelity") and buy it. You have to take it home, you just can't start listening to it in your car on the way home. You get home and put it on your record player and the first few notes comes out at you. What do you think? I think that's a pretty amazing first song.
It's generally not the best idea to buy a CD because the band intrigues you usually. I was very intrigued by Oasis and bought "What's The Story Morning Glory". That was a piece of crap. Thank goodness we live in the internet age. Many times I'm able to listen to a CD on napster.com (maybe Spotify soon enough) before buying it. I would have never bought that craptastic Oasis CD if I had actually heard it before buying.
When one thinks of Led Zeppelin classic songs, "Good Times Bad Times" has to be on that list. Also "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Personally I think that nearly every Led Zeppelin song is a classic. Can you imagine a current band having that many classic songs on their first CD? In fact, here's a challenge question for you, name the last musician that had 4 classic songs on their first CD. Off the top of my head the last band I can think of doing that is Guns N' Roses. I know there will be some argument about this but I think "Appetite for Destruction" has at least 8 or 9 classic songs on it.
In answering my question please do not suggest Radiohead, Oasis, Nickleback, Kid Pebble or any of the other allegedly fantastic modern bands. In fact, of those 4 musicians mentioned, none of them have 4 classic songs by themselves. I'm sure there are probably a few musicians who's first CD has 4 classic songs on it, I just can't think who that would be right off.
Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times":
This is Led Zeppelin 1's track listing.
1. Good Times Bad Times 2:46
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:41
3. You Shook Me 6:28
4. Dazed And Confused 6:26
5. Your Time Is Gonna Come 4:34
6. Black Mountain Side 2:12
7. Communication Breakdown 2:27
8. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:45
9. How Many More Times 8:28
themusicaddict
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Women's World Cup: USA Women Win!, Why Was "Fright Night" (of all movies?) remade?
Hello,
The USA defeated Brazil today in the Women's World Cup Quarterfinals. A match that someday will be made into a movie, the USA defeats Brazil 5-3 on penalty kicks. The USA now advances to Wednesday morning's semi-final against France. I'm not going to try and summarize all the amazing things that happened in this match for two reasons. 1) Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch it and 2) I don't have the ability to write about how amazing this match was.
I've included a link from espn.com below. I've just included some of the things that the USA had to battle and overcome in order to win this game.
1) First of all they played a very powerful Brazil team, which features the amazing Marta.
2) An USA player, Rachel Buehler, was given a red card, which meant that the USA had to play a person down from the 66th minute on. Also Hope Solo was given a yellow card right after that. The United States was playing with that hanging over their superstar goalie the rest of the match.
3) The game was tied at 1 going into overtime when Brazil quickly scored a goal to put Brazil up 2-1.
4) Then for the rest of the match USA had to make sure Brazil didn't score again, all while desperately trying to score the equalizer. All that with one woman short! Against Brazil! Literally almost at the very last second Megan Rapinoe kicked a great ball to the head of Abby Wambach for the tying score. This was the latest goal scored in World Cup history.
Go to this website to read espn.com's story about this amazing match. There's also video showing highlights from the match.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/323673?cc=5901
Why oh why was "Fright Night" remade? I graduated from high school in 1985, it seems like this movie would have been marketed to people of my age. But I have absolutely no memory of this movie. After watching the first 10-15 minutes last night, I see that I didn't miss a thing. Here's the original trailer, yes it's as intentionally corny and as bad as it seems. The original "Fright Night" is on Comcast On Demand. Not surprisingly "Fright Night" is in the free movies section:
A funny thing about "Fright Night" is that none of the "stars" went on to make anything else of significance. Their most significant thing is that Amanda Bearse was in "Married With Children". Also William Ragsdale ended up being on the very funny "Herman's Head". But other than that most of them seemed to have disappeared. It seems "Fright Night" was so "good" that a sequel was made to it. That's like making a sequel to "Transformers". What, they made two sequels so far to "Transformers"? Are you serious? Well who'd want to watch that? It's made about $250 million already? Really, what the hell? Crap is made every generation. (In regards to yesterday's blog, I do wish we could go back to shorter previews. More mystery is good.)
A trailer for "Fright Night 2":
Now this movie has been remade with Colin Ferrell, the new version apparently had a little more money in it's budget.
This is the trailer for the new "Fright Night":
After watching the first 15 minutes of "Fright Night" I knew I'd seen enough. Instead I decided to watch "Maid In Manhattan" starring Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez. Lopez looks good in this movie, but she's a lot more attractive now. Like Halle Berry, JLO has gotten better looking with age. Anyway "Maid In Manhattan" was an okay movie. One thing I like about it is that it was clearly trying to break out of it's paint by numbers fairytale. I also liked the ending. While the overall story is a bit far fetched, the ending seems believable. However the best thing about this movie is the music.
Here are some of the great songs from it:
This song is okay "Train On A Track", but Kelly Rowland looks absolutely amazing. She looks great with red hair. I never got why people thought Beyonce is hot, but her former Destiny's Child pal Kelly Rowland certainly is.
Not only is this next song amazing, but I like how they used it in the movie as well. Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why":
Diana Ross' "I'm Coming Out":
I loved how the character Ty was big into things of the 70's. Not only name checking Simon and Garfunkel, but also Richard Nixon and Bread. I think Bread had many good songs, but they are certainly representative of the 70's. This is Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard":
thewhatagreatgameaddict
The USA defeated Brazil today in the Women's World Cup Quarterfinals. A match that someday will be made into a movie, the USA defeats Brazil 5-3 on penalty kicks. The USA now advances to Wednesday morning's semi-final against France. I'm not going to try and summarize all the amazing things that happened in this match for two reasons. 1) Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch it and 2) I don't have the ability to write about how amazing this match was.
I've included a link from espn.com below. I've just included some of the things that the USA had to battle and overcome in order to win this game.
1) First of all they played a very powerful Brazil team, which features the amazing Marta.
2) An USA player, Rachel Buehler, was given a red card, which meant that the USA had to play a person down from the 66th minute on. Also Hope Solo was given a yellow card right after that. The United States was playing with that hanging over their superstar goalie the rest of the match.
3) The game was tied at 1 going into overtime when Brazil quickly scored a goal to put Brazil up 2-1.
4) Then for the rest of the match USA had to make sure Brazil didn't score again, all while desperately trying to score the equalizer. All that with one woman short! Against Brazil! Literally almost at the very last second Megan Rapinoe kicked a great ball to the head of Abby Wambach for the tying score. This was the latest goal scored in World Cup history.
Go to this website to read espn.com's story about this amazing match. There's also video showing highlights from the match.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/323673?cc=5901
Why oh why was "Fright Night" remade? I graduated from high school in 1985, it seems like this movie would have been marketed to people of my age. But I have absolutely no memory of this movie. After watching the first 10-15 minutes last night, I see that I didn't miss a thing. Here's the original trailer, yes it's as intentionally corny and as bad as it seems. The original "Fright Night" is on Comcast On Demand. Not surprisingly "Fright Night" is in the free movies section:
A funny thing about "Fright Night" is that none of the "stars" went on to make anything else of significance. Their most significant thing is that Amanda Bearse was in "Married With Children". Also William Ragsdale ended up being on the very funny "Herman's Head". But other than that most of them seemed to have disappeared. It seems "Fright Night" was so "good" that a sequel was made to it. That's like making a sequel to "Transformers". What, they made two sequels so far to "Transformers"? Are you serious? Well who'd want to watch that? It's made about $250 million already? Really, what the hell? Crap is made every generation. (In regards to yesterday's blog, I do wish we could go back to shorter previews. More mystery is good.)
A trailer for "Fright Night 2":
Now this movie has been remade with Colin Ferrell, the new version apparently had a little more money in it's budget.
This is the trailer for the new "Fright Night":
After watching the first 15 minutes of "Fright Night" I knew I'd seen enough. Instead I decided to watch "Maid In Manhattan" starring Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez. Lopez looks good in this movie, but she's a lot more attractive now. Like Halle Berry, JLO has gotten better looking with age. Anyway "Maid In Manhattan" was an okay movie. One thing I like about it is that it was clearly trying to break out of it's paint by numbers fairytale. I also liked the ending. While the overall story is a bit far fetched, the ending seems believable. However the best thing about this movie is the music.
Here are some of the great songs from it:
This song is okay "Train On A Track", but Kelly Rowland looks absolutely amazing. She looks great with red hair. I never got why people thought Beyonce is hot, but her former Destiny's Child pal Kelly Rowland certainly is.
Not only is this next song amazing, but I like how they used it in the movie as well. Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why":
Diana Ross' "I'm Coming Out":
I loved how the character Ty was big into things of the 70's. Not only name checking Simon and Garfunkel, but also Richard Nixon and Bread. I think Bread had many good songs, but they are certainly representative of the 70's. This is Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard":
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Women's World Cup, Go USA!
Hello,
From when I'm writing this in a little over a hour the USA will battle Brazil in the Women's World Cup Quarterfinals. This is a humonguous test for the USA. Brazil is a country full of amazing soccer players. Brazil's most amazing women's soccer player is Marta, considered the best women's player in the world. Brazil sailed through qualifying winning their 3 games by a combined score of 7-0. That's right Brazil hasn't given up a goal in this entire Women's World Cup.
Meanwhile the USA outscored their three opponents 6-2 in winning two of three matches. They shut out Korea and Columbia before giving up two goals to Sweden in their loss. There's no shame in giving up goals to Sweden. They are a very good team, whipping Australia today 3-1 to advance to the semi-finals, and they have the best post goal team celebration.
Good news for all other countries in this Women's World Cup, host nation Germany was eliminated by a very tough Japanese team yesterday. This Women's World Cup field is now wide open.
There's going to be a lot of pressure on American goalie Hope Solo. Let's hope she lives up to her uniform number, #1.
I won't be able to watch today's USA-Brazil match, but I'll be cheering them on in spirit.
thewomen'sworldcupaddict
From when I'm writing this in a little over a hour the USA will battle Brazil in the Women's World Cup Quarterfinals. This is a humonguous test for the USA. Brazil is a country full of amazing soccer players. Brazil's most amazing women's soccer player is Marta, considered the best women's player in the world. Brazil sailed through qualifying winning their 3 games by a combined score of 7-0. That's right Brazil hasn't given up a goal in this entire Women's World Cup.
Meanwhile the USA outscored their three opponents 6-2 in winning two of three matches. They shut out Korea and Columbia before giving up two goals to Sweden in their loss. There's no shame in giving up goals to Sweden. They are a very good team, whipping Australia today 3-1 to advance to the semi-finals, and they have the best post goal team celebration.
Good news for all other countries in this Women's World Cup, host nation Germany was eliminated by a very tough Japanese team yesterday. This Women's World Cup field is now wide open.
There's going to be a lot of pressure on American goalie Hope Solo. Let's hope she lives up to her uniform number, #1.
I won't be able to watch today's USA-Brazil match, but I'll be cheering them on in spirit.
thewomen'sworldcupaddict
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