Day: December 11, 2007

Our good friend Sara (now in the East Coast!) writes in her thoughts about Christmas. Also, she gives me a crazy picture of a cat in a Santa hat which is awesome. I managed to use my mad Photoshop skills to add her to the picture.

What is your favourite thing about Christmas?
It’s hard to say what my one favourite thing is, but I do love the constant radio play of the 80s “Do they know it’s Christmas”…and I love booze and Christmas lights!

What’s your least favourite thing about Christmas?
I totally hate the constant radio play of “The little Drummer Boy”…I mean the whole story of the song is that this poor little boy can only afford the gift of his drumming for the baby Jesus, that’s ridiculous! If I was Mary, I would’ve told that kid to screw off with playing loud drums around a baby! I mean the kid isn’t even playing an awesome drum solo, just pa rum pum pum pum, LAME!! Also, each year my love for Bowie subsides a little when I hear his version of the song with Bing Crosby, and that depresses me.

What’s better? The Christmas Story or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Why?
Dude, The Christmas Story is totally the best holiday movie of all time! I mean the sexy leg lamp and the ridiculous bunny suit are the stuff of comic legend. Here’s one of my favourite quotes:

Mr. Parker: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Mother: He does not!
Mr. Parker: He does too, he looks like a pink nightmare!

What’s your favourite drink during the holiday season?
Umm that would be eggnog I guess. See, I drink almost all types of alcohol all year round, and this is the only drink that comes out at Christmas.

What should Vero get Palmer for Christmas?
I think Vero should get you a copy of the LP soundtrack for Star Wars signed by George Lucas, that would be sweet!

It is my sister’s birthday today. Happy Birthday Maureen.

I wonder if Tim Horton’s gives you the day off on your birthday? I think every place of employment should give you the day off on your birthday if you choose to take it.

I hope you are doing something special. I also hope that you save me some cake!

Led Zeppelin played their reunion show last night in London England and from the rave reviews, no one was disappointed.

Here’s an interesting stat which relates to me: “An estimated nine million people applied for the 18,000 tickets.”

I’m going to assume that considering that everyone who won a ticket actually one the chance to buy two tickets, that means that there were 9,000 people out of nine million who got first round tickets.

I was one of those 9,000. So my odds were one in a million. ***updated***Scratch that. Matt pointed out that my math is way off. Let’s see…9,000 divided by 9, 000, 000…cancel those three zeros on the end so it’s 9 divided by 9, 000, cancel the nines so they are ones…1 in 1,000? Wow. That definitely doesn’t sound as good. I stick by the awesome one in a million calculation for sheer story sake!

Awww yeah!

As we all know, Mike and I decided not to go due to the hefty price tag around the holidays and it worked out for the best for us as the show was rescheduled from its original date in November to December 10 due to Jimmy Page injuring his pinky finger while gardening.

Considering the smashing concert they put on last night, I can only hope that they will be hitting up North America sometime in 2008.

Here’s the setlist:

‘Good Times Bad Times’
‘Ramble On’
‘Black Dog’
‘In My Time Of Dying’
‘For Your Life’
‘Trampled Under Foot’
‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine’
‘No Quarter’
‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’
‘Dazed And Confused’
‘Stairway To Heaven’
‘The Song Remains The Same’
‘Misty Mountain Hop’
‘Kashmir’
‘Whole Lotta Love’
‘Rock And Roll’

Dad’s body has an interesting way of planning out things further in life. As Dad nears retirement his body says “Scott, you have a lot of sick days left that you haven’t used up. Why are you using your vacation days for the Christmas break when you have some sick days to use?”

Hence, the reason that Dad is in the hospital last night with chest pains. Hope you had a good sleep overnight Pops.