Heard these guys recently on XM Radio station ‘Alt Nation’. If you sign up for their mailing list they’ll send a free MP3 of this track…check it out: www.fosterthepeople.com.

One of my all-time favorite New Order tracks…also check out ‘Age of Consent‘ from the same concert.

My favorite track from the latest DIOYY album. Not an official video…sadly there isn’t one. Check them out on MySpace or visit YouTube and watch the video for Dawn of the Dead…

Just a really cool video I saw on YouTube…You should also check out the second one in the series, features ‘Lisztomania’ and ‘One Time Too Many’. Definitely worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQbB0xeao8.

All in all the cover is pretty good. I definitely prefer the original, but the BSS version of it is a nice change of pace. It has the signature BSS sound, but is missing the energy (and Ian Curtis) of the original which really takes away from what I love about that song.

I found a page that has the track available for download…not sure how long it will be on there so if you want a copy, get it soon….

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His movies are classics…even if you don’t know the name, you know his movies. Growing up in the 80′s and 90′s it was hard not to enjoy one of his films. Even to this day I still have a hard time turning the channel if one of them is on TV…the other day Weird Science was on (and it clearly wasn’t one of his best) and I sat and watched the entire thing…

In honor of his career, I count down my top 10 John Hughes movies.

10. The Great Outdoors
09. Some Kind of Wonderful
08. Uncle Buck
07. National Lampoon’s Vacation
06. Pretty in Pink
05. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
04. Home Alone
03. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
02. Sixteen Candles
01. The Breakfast Club

For the complete list of all his films, check out his IMDB page. In the meantime, here is a cool little tribute to him for an award he won back in the early 90′s…

Just like every other time we go to Jordan, we packed everything up and headed out around 3:30…this time was different. As we passed the 403 Hamilton exit traffic started to slow, eventually to a stop. This was the beginning of me losing my mind.

First we tried taking Eastport Drive over the lift bridge…at the time it seemed like a pretty decent option consider traffic wasn’t moving over the Skyway at all and the QEW was closed ahead….little did I know it would be a disaster. After about 1 hour of driving we were just over the bridge and headed down Beach Blvd. A little further down towards confederation park we were told to turn back because our car (the Focus) wouldn’t make it through the flooded road. At this point were were around 1:30 into the drive….in regular traffic about 10 minutes from home.

This is when the frustration really started to set in. Now we had to try and make our way through industrial Hamilton. After about 30 min. into the city we realized not only was the QEW shut down but also the Red Hill Valley Pkwy. (which we later learned was flooded). There was nowhere to go. We tried heading towards the mountain…hoping for relief…nothing.

After 2 Hours we gave up. Now time to head home…

Based on where we were, Burlington St. was the best option….it took us another 30 minutes to get there and we figured it would be a quick drive back to the highway to head home…Nope. That was blocked off too….The police told us we would have to head back to Centennial to get on the Highway (in the complete opposite direction). By the time we made it back down there and drove into Burlington it was 6:30! One of the most annoying things was that I did not see any flooding on the QEW! I was expecting it to be under water or at the very least something like the plane crash from the movie Knowing…Instead it was open again and traffic was moving along as it normally does. I have never been so angry while driving. Why would they close the QEW!?

In the end we ordered some food from Montfort’s and I tried to relax after a stressful drive that took us nowhere…

Photos from thespec.com

The movie starts with a collage of clips starting in the 1940′s to their present time in the ’80s and really gives a good lead into the characters without spending a ton of time slowly telling each of their stories. The movie itself is set up in a parallel universe where the US had won the Vietnam war (with thanks to the Watchmen) and Nixon is running for his fourth term as president. It’s also a world where super heroes (and super villains) had once existed but now seem to be a dying breed. All in all it was a nice change of pace from what I normally see in a superhero movie…I recently watched Spiderman 3….It was horrible. The version I watched was the 3 hour directors cut and from what I have heard, that is the version you want to see. Apparently the theatrical version was cut in such a way you felt like there were holes in the story…I am not surpised people would feel this way as there was so much going on. I actually will probably watch it a second time just to pick up on all the small things I probably missed the first time around…

Final thoughts…a great story, a pretty good movie, and an awesome alternative to the regular superhero films.

After a lot of reading I decided it was time to build my website entirely with WordPress as I really don’t plan on having a regular website anytime soon. Why use WordPress? A WP website allows me to add small posts (like this one) and I don’t have to worry about adding new pages, links, etc. The admin panel does all the extra work for me…

Why the (partial) redesign?

For the most part I was happy with my old site, it was just the content that was lacking. I liked the header and footer but there were too many holes in between…mainly because I didn’t have time to properly finish everything. That alone was what got the ball rolling on using WP for everything. The next obstacle was learning the ins and outs of building a WP theme.

My old site had a WP weblog…but it used the bare minimum code required. This time around I wanted to use more features and that meant more reading…unfortunately there wasn’t a lot out there (that I could find) which really gave a solid walk-through.

The first resource I found (which turned out to be a good stepping stone) was on website called Code Scheme. It gave 4 quick lessons on the basics of building a WP theme. The basics were good, but I was looking for something with greater detail. After a dozen web searches I gave up and went straight to the WP ‘Docs‘ section on their website. Turns out that was the only resource I needed.

I started by downloading a basic theme framework and pulled it apart piece by piece. Once I was familiarized with what everything was, I added in my own code. Finally, things went from being incredibly confusing to incredibly straight forward. After a couple late nights I finished up all the code and then it was just a matter of polishing a couple design elements.

Now that everything is up and running I’m finding a couple small things that need updating here and there. I figure I’ll just update them as I go…if I wait until everything is perfect I’ll never have my website online!