Author: James McNally

Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits

The CD I picked out this morning for my commute was Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits. Ok, I know you’re probably cringing. But this album (as we called them back in the day) is like comfort food for me. I know almost every note. It was one of about half a dozen that were on constant rotation at the weekly beer bashes I used to frequent back around 1980. Before you mock my mullet-rock roots, we were also spinning stuff like The Cars’ first album and Queen’s A Night at the Opera, though that probably just puts me into another category of bad taste. But I can’t help it. I know I’ve asked this one before, but what are some of your guilty pleasures when it comes to old music?

Women’s Hockey Gold/Ghost World

Now, I’m not much of a hockey fan. But I was proud of the way our women’s hockey team played tonight. Killing off 13 penalties called by the American referee (and forgive me here, but isn’t there supposed to be some semblance of impartiality in the appointment of referees, especially in the gold medal game?) and playing with incredible grit and determination, Canada took home gold. No offence to the US team, who were also amazing. I thought it was a really great game, and coming from me, that’s high praise. Now maybe it will light a fire under our flaccid men’s team…

The second half of my evening was spent finally sitting down to watch Ghost World, the DVD of which Brooke bought me more than a week ago. We hadn’t seen it in the theatre, but I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. As a fan of the comic book, I thought it was translated to the screen quite faithfully, and I thought Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi’s performances were wonderful. I’m crossing my fingers that it wins the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

New Links

Today is a low content day. Probably because of all that birthday cake. Anyway, a good chance to add some links to some new and wonderful sites:

  • Josh is an interesting and intelligent young (22, eek!) man. We are both getting married in October, a week apart.
  • Todd has both an interesting blog and a fabulous portfolio site (in Flash, no less).
  • Matt lives in Dallas, designed some cool code for the DFWBlogs site, and loves the Rheostatics. Go figure.
  • The new, Movable Type-powered™ GTABloggers site is live and kicking.