Opening Day Eve -Go Cubs Go (Taken with instagram)
Spurs are on their way to Wembley!
FA Cup replay- Tottenham Hotspur 3 - Bolton 1
Nelsen 74’, Bale 77’, Davies 90’, Saha 94’
R.I.P Etta James.
Fred Armisen on Jimmy Fallon (NBC). The Morrissey impression had me in tears sooooooooo funny.
Those on Barack Obama’s right see him as a hard-driven ideologue trying to frog-march Americans into an imagined socialist dystopia. Those to his left view him as pusillanimous, compromising and conceding his liberal beliefs to appeal to the mushy middle. But what ails the United States has less to do with the personality traits and defects that Obama’s critics, on the left and right, are so ready to identify, and more to do with the compulsions of the country’s democratic routines. It’s not Obama who is the problem; it’s America’s broken political system. Those routines no sooner deliver a new leader into office than he is required immediately to begin a new campaign for reelection…is it really such a great idea to require presidential leaders to spend so much of their first four years in office fixated on securing another four years in the same office…how about doing away with the two term-presidency, instead, establish one six-year term.
Khilnani, Sunil, (2011) “The Presidency” Foreign Policy, November, p 66.
Tom Waits - Chicago
The new Tom Waits album, Bad As Me, is incredible, and this song is fantastic. Growling and raucous, Waits at his best.
3 American University students, studying at AUC, were arrested in Egypt for throwing Molotov cocktails in Tahrir Square during the recent demonstrations
Gregory Alan Isakov & Brandi Carlie - “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” (Leonard Cohen cover)
I have to attach the lyrics because this song is just so damn good
i lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me
the room filled up with mosquitos
they heard that my body was freeand i took the dust of a long sleepless night
and i put it in your little shoe
and i must confess that i tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look throughand i showed my heart to the doctor
he said, ‘you just have to quit’
then he wrote himself a perscription
and your name was mentioned in itthen he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon
and i hear from the nurse that he’s gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruini once knew a saint who had loved you
i studied all night in his school
he taught that the duty of lovers
was to tarnish the golden ruleand just when i was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool
his body is gone, but out here on the lawn
his spirit continues to droolan eskimo showed me a movie
he’d recently taken of you
the poor man could hardly stop shivering
his lips and his fingers were bluei suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and i guess he just never got warm
but you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of iceplease let me come into your storm
- Leonard Cohen
Homeland Advantage: Florida vs. Georgia (SB Nation)
Hilarious look at The World’s Largest Cocktail Party…my favorite part is the “Miami” guy…Go Gators
The 23rd James Bond movie will be entitled, “Skyfall.”
Daniel Craig is back, as is Judi Densch AND Javier Barden (as the villian), Ralph Fiennes (character TBA), & Albert Finney (character TBA).
Sam Mendes (Director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, Away We Go, etc.) takes the director helm. A director more noted with drama than with action/suspense films. Quantum of Solace took a similar approach with director Marc Foster (Kite Runner, Finding Neverland, etc) which I thought was unsuccessful.
Given the success of the Bourne trilogies, the fact that Harry Potter surpassed Bond as the highest grossing cinematic series of all-time and considering how star-studded this cast and crew is… there are definitely big expectations for “Skyfall” and for the franchise to rekindle the mojo from Casino Royale.
I got high hopes and I’m admittedly geeking out a bit, can’t wait!
