Pfffsssshhh! Yeah. This is happening. Basically I haven’t updated anything in a while and decided I should share.

I’ve been buying a ton of DVDs on Amazon lately. I mean a lot. 15 in the last 2 weeks or something. Due to this I’ve been watching a lot of movies. And it turns out my cheap, Sears brand DVD player starts kicking the bucket. Since I got a new HD TV for Christmas, I decided it was time to upgrade and got myself a Blu-Ray player. Future Shop had the model I wanted from Sony and I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about it from my friends, so I bought it. I have to say, the quality is amazing and I can’t wait for the Blu-Rays I’ve ordered off Amazon to show up. Which ones you ask? Band of Brothers, Die Hard quadrilogy, Rambo, Planet Earth and maybe some others I can’t recall.

But my DVD player is still kind of working. So I took my old TV and DVD player and set it up by my exercise bike and Bowflex. Ya, I got a Bowflex. No big deal. I like to watch movies while I’m exercising because I usually exercise for about an hour at a time. Also for Christmas – which I realize was months ago but whatever – I got Mighty Ducks 1 and 2 on DVD. I’m sure you all remember the basic story of Mighty Ducks 1. The classic underdog story of a team with no chance that no one wants to coach in the poor neighbourhood. Even the coach is court ordered to coach the team. So basically in the D2 (Mighty Ducks 2) they decide to get Coach Bombay to do it again but this time for USA in the world champs. This time he isn’t court ordered to do it, but is injured in the minors just as he was about to get a shot to get into the NHL and has nothing better to do. So for some reason they get all the same kids from the first movie to be on team USA plus 5 more randoms. One of whom I might add can’t even stop. Immediately the one kid is upset that they can’t be The Ducks and they have to wear Team USA jerseys. I don’t see the big deal here, because it’s your countries colours and you’re representing them on a world scale and you should be honoured. But whatever, they eventually become the Ducks again the last period of the last game against the dreaded Icelandic team! So the 3 teams they play are Trinidad, Germany and Iceland. Iceland being their biggest competition. The first thing that comes to mind is… what the hell?! Fair enough you see Germany actually putting up a fight in a world competition standard but Trinidad and Iceland? What about Canada or Sweden or Russia? The movie is basically a mockery of hockey, but I suppose it has a good message. It’s not all about winning. It’s about having fun playing the game… and once you realize that, you will win first place. Also, I’ve never been to Minnesota, so no offense if I’m way off, but at one point the movie there is a comment that Iceland is very similar to Minnesota. I don’t believe that for a second, I’ve been to Iceland and I would be really surprised if they looked anything a like. I think in the end though, they should have done the Flying V with the Knuckle Puck and some how incorporate the kid who can’t stop, the Texan with the lasso and Fulton Reeds’ incredibly powerful slap shot (he only gets 1 in 5 on net though I guess).

Another completely unrelated fact I found today is that there are different iTunes Stores for different countries. For example, there is some music on the US iTunes store that isn’t on the Canada iTunes store. And this is completely the fault of international copyright laws and how record labels handle this with iTunes directly, so I’m not blaming Apple, but I’m blaming the large record labels. Don’t make it hard for me to buy music on iTunes just because I live in Canada. I’m probably going to end up downloading it illegally if I can’t get it legally. Hopefully this post doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass.