Demetri Martin is Cute

Demetri Martin + Travis=Goodness

OK, everybody...I'll see ya when I see ya. School has started and I am taking classes for the first time in over a decade! Lord have mercy! It's soccer time again, too. I'm a busy gal.

Venting My Spleen

I prefer not to dwell on the all-consuming horrendousness* that has consumed every waking moment of the week thus far. Instead, I choose to relish the one little ray of sunshine in my otherwise bleak existence. I'm number 1 out of 6 in my Fantasy Football(soccer) group!!! I'm number 29 out of all the folks in the Yahoo "Fans of Sunderland" group. I'm listed right up there with the Top 50, baby! Now, I'm not sure if this is indicative of any FF brilliance on my part, maybe it just says something about your average Sunderland fan. Either way, at this point I'm pretty pleased with the results of hitching my wagon to the Keane-O star.**

“If a player doesn’t want to come to Sunderland then all well and good,” The Guardian quoted Keane. “But if he decides he doesn’t want to come because his wife wants to go shopping in London, then it’s a sad state of affairs. It’s not a football move, it’s a lifestyle move. It tells me the player is weak and his wife runs his life.”

The Telegraph reported, “Keane’s recruitment campaign has been hit by a series of snubs and the former Manchester United midfield hard man last night vented his spleen.”

Keane said: “If there is nothing to do [in the northeast of England] then find something, because people who are bored are boring. Someone once told me that. People who get bored coming up to the North-east, they are bored because they are boring. It is nothing to do with the shops. Football has got to be the priority.”

http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/keane-o-vs-wags/

* Just stupid work sh!t. Nevermind the melodrama.
** Jose, no one can take your place in my heart. No matter how much spleen venting he does.

Forget Fantasy Football...This Is The Real Deal

This is my chance to prove to the world that I'm the next Jose Mourinho! For 35 quid I am now the proud owner of (to be determined) Football Club! I'll be sure to keep you abreast of the ins and outs of big time British football management.

The Dog Days of Summer Pop-Culture Extravaganza!!!

Okay internets, maybe I did forget about you. Sorry. In addition to taking life by the neck and attempting to give it a good shake like a terrier with a fat rat...here's the nonsense I have been attending to.

Knocked Up---Cute, but if you missed it in theaters...don't sweat it. It's more of a Netflixer anyway.

The Simpsons Movie---If you like the TV show, you'll like the movie. I went with two nine year old boys who thought it was the best, most hilarious movie they had ever seen. This resulted in a rousing rendition of "Spider Pig"...not once, not twice, repeatedly. On a more personal note, in the theater the nine year olds had to sit a couple of seats down the aisle from me. I am officially uncool.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix---I sure don't have anything bad to say about it. It's grimmer and more "real" than the previous films. I tend to prefer the flight-of-fancy quality of the third one though. No matter, you should be reading the books. Which leads me to where the bulk of my Potter attention has been focused...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows---Ooo Wee...as disappointed as I am that it's over, I'm OK with how it all wraps up (epilogue aside). No spoilers here though.

Octopus by The Bees (known in US as A Band of Bees)---Perfect 60/70ish summertime music, but with just enough '07. Makes me think of The Rascals or Three Dog Night or something, but I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Check it out for yourself; it'll make you feel good.

Calling the World by Rooney---Here's some more goodtimesummertime music that Possum and I have been listening to continuously. Sounds like snowcones! (We are such 13 year old girls)

That's all folks.