Glen and Troy’s NOlympic Teams – Part 1

By G January 5th, 2010, under Hockey and Other Sports, Remixes and Collaborations

Steve Yzerman gave me the best birthday present I could have ever asked for.  A chance to talk about hockey!!!  The team was named back on December 30th, and since then a great deal of debate has started, and as usual it has been focused on who is not playing as opposed to the great picks that were made. With a host of names ranging from Green, Doan, Fisher, Ward, and pretty much anyone good who plays for Tampa or Calgary.

Instead of giving a position by position break down like I was intending, I decided to start my Olympic analysis a little differently.  My hockey-hetero-life-mate Troy and I have decided to play scavenger and each take our own teams full of players that have been left over.  This is going to be a series of posts, starting with today, as we both make our initial 5 picks today.

Just out of interest, we are starting with the team that was named.  Any replacements made due to injury are going to be ignored, because, really, that would be a little too difficult.

In debating over this we argued about who should make the first pick and decided to have an MSN rock-paper-scissors war.  It lasted forever as we both insisted on taking rock every time.  Finally in the 127th round a victor was declared as Troy took…a bigger rock.

He used his first pick to take:

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The Decade List – Part 5

By G December 17th, 2009, under About G, Muzzak, Year in Review

And so it ends how it begins.  With reflection and a hint of regret.  I’ve saved some of my favourites for the finale here, hope you’ve enjoyed this feature!

The Decade List

Just to recount, here are the first 20 songs that bring us to where we are now…

1.  The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done

2.  Bloc Party – This Modern Love

3.  Beck – Lost Cause

4.  Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead

5.  Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies

6.  Matthew Good – Weapon

7.  Metric – Monster Hospital

8.  M.I.A.  – Paper Planes

9.  The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

10.  Ryan Adams – New York, New York

11.  Feist – 1234

12.  Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time

13.  Flobots – Handlebars

14.  Kanye West – Jesus Walks

15.  DJ Dangermouse – Encore

16.  Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out

17.  Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back

18.  Flo Rida featuring Kesha – Right Round

19.  Outkast – Hey Ya

20.  Rihanna featuring Jay-Z – Umbrella

And that brings us to…

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The Decade List – Part 4

By G December 14th, 2009, under About G, Muzzak, Uncategorized, Year in Review

After a few times focusing on such serious things as war and slefishness, it’s now time to look at some of the best additions this decade has had to help crowd the dancefloor.

The Decade List

But to recap, here are the first 15 songs:

1.  The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done

2.  Bloc Party – This Modern Love

3.  Beck – Lost Cause

4.  Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead

5.  Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies

6.  Matthew Good – Weapon

7.  Metric – Monster Hospital

8.  M.I.A.  – Paper Planes

9.  The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

10.  Ryan Adams – New York, New York

11.  Feist – 1234

12.  Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time

13.  Flobots – Handlebars

14.  Kanye West – Jesus Walks

15.  DJ Dangermouse – Encore

And now we have…

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The Decade List – Part 3

By G December 13th, 2009, under About G, Muzzak, Year in Review

More than any political or philosophical force, this decade saw the rise of one thing:  individualism.  This past decade doesn’t really have a name but it could easily be called the “Me Decade” and all of us could be called members of “Generation M-E”.  With the increase role that technology has on our lives, the entire world is at our fingertips.  We can now decide what we want, when we want it.  While I think that the consequences of this shift are still a long way away, the early years of the 21st century will surely be known as the beginning of the “Individual Revolution”.  Today I’ll look at the five songs that really make me think about me the individual.

 

The Decade List

Just to recap, here are the first 10 songs that made the list:

1.  The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done

2.  Bloc Party – This Modern Love

3.  Beck – Lost Cause

4.  Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead

5.  The Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)

6.  Matthew Good – Weapon

7.  Metric – Monster Hospital

8.  M.I.A. – Paper Planes

9.  White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

10.  Ryan Adams – New York, New York

The next five additions are…

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The Decade List – Part 2

By G November 30th, 2009, under About G, Muzzak, Year in Review

The past decade has been filled with conflict, from Iraq to Afghanistan, to rising crime in the Western World.  Today I look back at the songs from the past 119 months that have had the most impact on me personally that all have to do with conflict.

The Decade List

Before we start, just a reminder from last time our playlist so far was:

1.  The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done

2.  Bloc Party – This Modern Love

3.  Beck – Lost Cause

4.  Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead

5.  The Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)

The next five additions are….

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Shades of Wrestlemania — 4 Months in Advance

By G November 29th, 2009, under NostroGlenus, Rasslin'

With WWE Survivor Series in the books, it is about time to start getting geared up for the biggest event on every wrestling fans calender, Wrestlemania!  Already the seeds for some of the biggest matches have been sowed, and it will be interesting to see where things go from here.

It looks to me like things are going to shape up like this…

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Glen and Troy’s Quarter Season Predictacular – Western Conference

By G November 24th, 2009, under Hockey and Other Sports, NostroGlenus, Remixes and Collaborations

Today Troy and I continue our look forward to the rest of the NHL Season. Yesterday we looked at the East, today we will look at the conference that is full of surprises. Early season favourites like Detroit and Vancouver are struggling will basement dwellers Phoenix, Colorado, and Los Angeles are soaring. Will these trends continue? Read on to find out what we think…

Predictacular Logo - West copy

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Glen and Troy’s Quarter Season Predictacular – Eastern Conference

By G November 23rd, 2009, under Hockey and Other Sports, NostroGlenus, Remixes and Collaborations

Well the season is just over 20 games old and things are starting to get interesting.  In keeping with a very rarely followed tradition, my hetero-life mate Troy and I are going to try and lay it on line and see where each team will be at the end of 82 games.  Because of the sheer volume of writing we did I decided to split this post in two.  We’ll look at the boring Conference first today.

Predictacular Logo Eastern Conference

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The Decade List – Part 1

By G November 16th, 2009, under About G, Muzzak, Year in Review

As the first decade of this millennium draws to a close, it is time to start looking back a bit.  One of the ways that I intend to do that is by creating my own personal playlist of the decade.  This includes 25 songs that have made an impact on me in the past 9 years and 11 months.  I do not think that I have the ability or desire to rank pieces of art objectively.  So my criteria are simple.  All songs on the list must have been released in a year that begins with 20.  Also, for the purposes of accessibility, they are all going to be singles.  With that specific definition left up to me.

I plan on releasing the list in groups of five over the next month and a bit.  I do not have any schedule, they will just appear when I see fit I suppose.

Interestingly enough, I found that most of these songs were released in between 2004 and 2007.  These two years are significant to me both musically, as they are the year that my favourite band, Arcade Fire, released their two albums, and also personally, as they are the two years that I received University Degrees.  I am not certain if there is a connection or not, but it does add a certain credence to the notion that we need music when we are seeking meaning to our lives.  Something that certainly comes with facing the unknown world outside of the comforts of Academia.

Enough dither, there is plenty of time for that as the list goes on.

The Decade List

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Journey to Gold – Edition III

By G November 5th, 2009, under Hockey and Other Sports, NostroGlenus

They have finally named a day.  On the last day of 2009, Team Canada will be officially revealed.  There has been a lot of speculation, and there will continue to be a lot more as time goes on.   Now that the season is 15 or so games in, there has been some movement up and down on the depth charts.  Especialyl as foremer locks like Getzlaf and LeCavalier have struggled, while former long shots like Marleau and Stamkos have excelled.   As I have a few times already, I’m going to try and break down the potential team and give my thoughts on who should wear the red and white come February.

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