Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) Heaven On Their Minds (2)

Very nostalgic for me. I LOVE the original Jesus Christ Superstar musical. I'm a creature of habit, but I think the voices are better than the newer version. I've listened to this on vinyl hundreds of times, to be sure!!

Bertie Higgins - Key Largo

Strollin' down memory lane tonight...
My dad played this record (yes, vinyl) more often than I cared to hear it!! However, it does bring back some good memories! ;)

Tacky video, though!! lol

Our backyard last night...

Our backyard tonight.... We got up to 15C today!! YES! Please spring... we're waiting for you!!

Off topic...

I took a picture of my ENTIRE kitchen. I'm looking for sympathy. I hate my kitchen with a passion. No one has ever endured such a small kitchen (except the other people in our condo complex)-- I'm certain... Julie... would you not just lose your mind if you had to cook in this thing everyday!? lol Argh.

The 11th Hour Trailer

CRAP! I knew it!

Thursday night... I'm driving to the supermarket only to see that gas prices have shot up almost .10/L in the last few hours!! I knew I should have filled up the van earlier! I thought "maybe they'll come back down", since they had already jumped from $1.07 to $1.14 over the past week. Now we are sitting at $1.23/L, pretty much throughout the entire city of Edmonton. I did the math for my American friend, Julie... that works out to about $4.65 a gallon!! Abosolutely rediculous, considering Alberta is loaded with oil. We have the largest oil deposits after Saudi Arabia! So why are we paying so much for gas?? Simple. Canada is a light-weight. I'm told years ago, the government decided that refineries were costing too much money to run. So now we send our oil to the USA and buy it back from them after it's been refined. I don't consider myself to be mathematically superior in any way... but the numbers make no sense. Why are we cutting ourselves off at the knees?! Why does this country keep selling itself short?-- literally.

I wouldn't be so annoyed to pay so much for gas if I knew it was environmentally friendly.... if we could run our vehicles on something less damaging to the earth. When I think about it-- I mean REALLY think about it... I see a visual of human-kind scraping out the insides of a tooth-- giving this earth a huge cavity. I would not drive a minivan if I could fit 3 kids into an Echo. I hate having to drive such a gas-pig. I wish environmentally sound choices were more affordable.

I'm on a tangent.... I just wanted to vent about gas prices... but it's such a big web, isn't it??

Ani Difranco Self Evident

I've always really liked this poem. I think that everytime I listen to it, I learn something new... it forces me to think in a different way. Intelligent. I love the controversy- some things need to be said.

The State That I Am In

{As usual... most of what I say has a musical reference. So does the title of this blog post}

So, I finally have hold of the computer. Free of whining and/or screaming kids... for as long as I wish... Assuming that I'm willing to (quite literally) lose sleep over it. You see, it's almost 11pm... scratch that. It IS 11pm. I hear Rosheen crying- Jason's upstairs, so hopefully that will suffice!

I'm at a loss for what to put on here. I wish my blog was fancy like Julie's. I'm afraid I don't have the skills or the time to make that happen for mine :( I had a hard enough time putting links on the side. Thank you, Julie. I just loaded your blog to get the address to link it... and noticed some movies you have watched. I'm in the process of acquiring "The Last King of Scotland" now! :)

Movies! That's it!

I recently saw Juno. Fabulous. Right away I thought CANADIAN! The Juno Awards, right? Well, sort of... not all the way Canadian. The director is from Canada, but had to go to the States to make it big. WTF is that? Some of the actors are Canadian... the main guy in Juno was also in Superbad (another hilarious film!) Anyway... The movie is great! Hilarious!! You laugh, you cry... Not to mention great soundtrack. Belle & Sebastian songs are always a good indicator of a good movie!!

I just watched The Kingdom, with Jamie Foxx. Not bad, but not great, either. The ending was interesting. Not a very thought provoking movie to say the least. Syriana was much better for that.

The Kite Runner was, of course, not as good as the book... but a great story nonetheless.

I watched The Assination of Jesse James. Honestly, other than the fact that I enjoy historical based stories... I watched this movie solely b/c it was filmed here in Edmonton and around Alberta! I loved recognizing backgrounds from Ft. Edmonton!! lol The movie was long and drawn out, but had a decent storyline.

A real favourite of mine that I mentioned on another post, was Into The Wild. It captivated me for weeks. I love the soundtrack (which is completely done by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder). One thought that brought me to tears during and after the film, was thinking "what if one of my kids took off... and wanted nothing to do with me or anyone in our family?... just dropped of the map and disappeared???". Scary. Fabulous and amazing movie. I really, really recommend watching it.

I'm in the process of watching Little Miss Sunshine. So far, it's quite good! Hilarious, yet deep on some levels! I love independant films that surface at film festivals. Not a fan of the big Hollywood Blockbusters. Although, major movie/tv studios like Fox are catching on to this and have sub-group studios like Fox Searchlight. Seems most of my movies that I like are by them! Hmm. I'll have to look for movie acquisition ideas!! :)

After having said I am not into the blockbusters... I hate to admit that I really liked Die Hard 4!! LOL

Ok, it's now past 11:30pm... I need sleep. Today was a horribly long and arduous day. Kieran, bless his little heart, nearly drove me to the brink of insanity after breaking 3 glass shelves in a card store today!! He can't keep his hands off anything, and he got a bit too curious as to how those shelves attatched to the brackets.... Not so good. At least they were empty. That's another store I won't be returning to. Ever!

So... ta ta for now!! :) It's past my bedtime... Until next time mon amis!

Blasted SNOW!!!

Yes, these pictures were taken over the past 3 days!!! Insane. How can people think that Climate Change is a myth?! It's almost the end of April, people!!! I'm so fed up with snow I could spit nails!!


The winds are so strong, which makes driving even worse... Drifting snow is a whole different driving condition, if you've never lived in the prairies!!

This was how it looked out my front step THIS MORNING (after 3 days of constant snow and drift)... This was after Jason had already shoveled the stoop!

So maybe I have 3 competing with me for the computer....

Ok, so I lied...

I didn't really have a post ready to go... I had all kinds of good intentions on getting that done!! I swear! There's only a handful of people who read this blog anyway... That would be Katy, Julie, Christy & sometimes Lindsay... Thanks for your patronage!

It's late, and I'm super tired. I was checking up on blogs, and figured I should just add something to let you guys know I haven't forgotten about posting! I'm going to play the "I've got 3 kids" card, and I'll go one more by saying "2 of them compete for my time on the computer!"... I'm beginning to understand how my mum felt when we'd ask to use the car (for work or whatever), and leave her stranded w/ no vehicle... Even though it was hers, and she worked hard to keep it on the road. Come to think of it... I understand a great deal more about my mother, now that I've got 3 kids of my own (just like she did)!! I'm sorry mum. I was a rotten kid lots of the time, and I didn't cut you any slack or empathize! Too bad wisdom comes so late in the game...

Seriously. I'm off to bed. I'm exhausted. I really only came on here to send a quick email... Once again, I've gotten myself distracted with nonsense!

ani difranco 7-14-2007 All A This

In the meantime... enjoy this song!!!

Anticipate

I am going to post soon-- very soon... maybe a journal-type post... or a birthday wish list.... something!! Right now, and shitty diaper is calling my name. Joy.