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Discover Danielle Dax ! The perfect song to "celebrate" sixteen years of pain, illness and suffering... Hmm... Maybe...

Everybody was marveling in itty-bitty Quebec, this Christmas season, over a certain Christmas-themed new CD release, from the artist formerly known as... Rita-Rita. Now, do not get me wrong here: I always thought the artist in question is a diamond in the rough, an overlooked and too often underrated TRUE ARTISTE - who simply had the misfortune of having tried to start off her career in a most commercial (and sort-of corny, tongue-firmly-in-cheek) way, as "Rita-Rita" - she who sang surrounded by alien misfits and other oddities... I liked the "joie de vivre" and all-around contagious goofiness that permeated the atmosphere when Rita-Rita sang... uh... okay, I forget the title of the one track that made it as a single release (and that got a video-clip shot for it as well) but I remember that it sure did ROCK! And that should be good enough for YOU too! ;) Now, we are in 2008 - soon to be 2009... "Rita-Rita" is long dead - for years now, the arti...

What's the point to record a new version of a song - exactly like the previous one, anyway? Kudos to the boys here: their version of this ole classic ROCKS. Hmm... Must be the American Way, eh? ;)

You better watch out You better look out Satan's Claws are coming to town! He knows if you've been naughty He knows when you have sinned...! He knows if you've been good or bad So that he can dish out punishment - HO! No wonder kiddies confuse Halloween and Christmas all the time! What will it be when St. Valentine's Easter Day rolls around - eh? ;)

Hmm... indeed! I recently posted a whimsical post (again) on the main blog of this network of mine here - the ol' network within the older network (owned by Blogger - duh!) scheme, eh - and I do mean THE LUMINOUS BLOG aka TLB PRIME... The post was all about repertoriating as many LUMINOUS folks and/or entities (corporate or otherwise) as possible within the small frame of time that I disposed of to do it - and, these days, it isn't much! Days after publishing it, though, I thought to myself "I am lacking musical entities on that thing!" and nearly kicked myself in the rear end (where else) for having omitted to add my MY SPACE pals, Luminous Anonymous! (Okay - I didn't really come remotely close to kicking myself - but still!) And then, I found what I thought to be PERFECT additions to the post, reason enough to edit it, post-publishing, as is my luminous prerogative around here...! I found... Luminous Orange! WOW - my favorite color coupled with my m...

According to the yahoos over there, THIS cat loves BROCCOLI: (Click on the above pic and you may be "lucky" enough to see the video evidence too! Courtesy of IAMS! Depends on one's definition of the term "lucky"...!) Well... I AMS-THINKING THAT... It's no big deal at all, really! Nope, it isn't! My little bastard of a kitty (aren't they all, you say...) actually goes gaga for OLIVES! Pitted, preferably sliced, sometimes stuffed with peppers (aye - the manzanilla variety!) So there...! Ah - but my video evidence is not ready yet... ok? Laters! ;)

Lest it is for the New World Order...? Or just the new America...! Ed Stein (call him Franken) did this! Complain at ROCKY-MTN.NEWS.NEA! *lol* I kid! ;)

Phillies' parade planned for Friday (AP) Many baseball fans here would not speak the "P" word in the anxious days leading up to the city's World Series title, lest they jinx the team. But now that the Philadelphia Phillies have claimed their second championship, everyone is talking about a parade. Hundreds of thousands of people could crowd the sidewalks on Friday to cheer the city's first national sports title in 25 years. Like, "in the End Days, Philadelphia shall be crowned again after a long, excruciating long wait" - and then BANG! Armageddon! No? Oh well... It's gonna happen anyway! There is some sort of ominous resonance here, though - one cannot deny it! Philadelphia hasn't won much of anything at all in over a century of sports; this franchise in particular only winning a second championship in 126 years NOW seems to truly MEAN SOMETHING... To boot, the fact that the Phillies lost their first World Series to the Boston Red Sox, way back ...

Découvrez Captain Hollywood Project ! Captain Hollywood Project Lyrics More And More Lyrics The full song, though, with rap interludes included in bold, is this: More and more and more, I don't know where we're going to More and more and more, there's so much we don't wanna do 'Cause without we cheat and we learn from each and every heart affair It's without we cheat and we hurt till somebody's in despair Boom, keep in tune, Hollywood will soon left to the point, Right to the point smokin' Like it's a joint, makin' Ain't got time to be fakin' It's my turn and I'm takin' Everything without shakin' Yo here with the bacon More and more and more More and more and more More and more bam, don't give a damn Pump the music and jam there's no time for the problem Not a thought to some, but just make sure you get it Show the fella's you with it Being prompt you get it, never will you forget...

Picture this: I point out logic to a certain someone (along with some helpful tips on how to recapture the fine and certifiably lost art of having a heart...!) - and that certain someone embarks on a rant about "natural selection" - adapted to the cutthroat world of BUSINESS! Hmm... John McCain now - did he just say that the U.S. is "winning" in Iraq?!? They'll certainly start referring to him as "McDoh" or Ron instead of John before too long; what a fine successor to Dubya he will be! Canadian politicians are not any better - of course. I hear Quebec's Prime Minister Jean Charest say things such as "what happened (or is happening) in the United States cannot happen in our country (read: province, of course!) and will not happen here." Rrrrrrrrrright. The truth is, whatever it is that happens in the USofA, we feel the whiplash of it all over Canada! If not a ripple effect, we follow their example, good or bad, in true imitative/...

Yanick Lehoux se joint au CH Max Pacioretty signe avec le Canadien Brisebois souhaite revenir avec le CH Le premier match du CH le 10 octobre Ryan O’Byrne sous contrat Montréal est prête pour le repêchage True journalism pros would have gone with "TOUT MONTRÉAL" and not with the feminine take of the city (even though, in French, a city - une ville - is a feminine word...) because doing it this way makes the uneducated immediately think it is okay to say "prête" (or "prette" really - as it spells itself out in their minds) on EVERY occasion... Such as "le diner est prette" and "les travaux sont prettes" - yikes! RDS (RIS -not as in LOL, no - READ ON...) failed miserably in its role to educate and give out a PRIME example on how to SPEAK properly, there... But there is worse where that came from... A...

To those who *dared* infer that my preference for ALAIN SOUCHON over PAUL McCARTNEY for "artiste de choix" on this Sunday, for (supposedly) THE big "show of shows" for this 400th anniversary of the foundation of Québec City ongoing (sigh) celebration (seems to be going on and on forever already - ENOUGH, ALREADY!) well - I can only say this... HA! I wanted Souchon because he could have sung THE most perfect song for this occasion - a song that seems tailor-made indeed and to be destined to embody the SPIRIT OF QUÉBEC INDEED! That song is... LES REGRETS! The song has this line early on in it: "j'ai perdu mon allégresse / sur des bateaux de conquête" - and that alone embodies the ambiance that surrounded the very foundation of Québec City four-hundred years ago, if you ask me!!! But noooooooooooo - some (or many... make that MOST!) do not want to hear THE TRUTH! Well, well, well - look at what the French, the very city of Québec and all the other moro...

Souveraineté au 400e (04/07/08) Souveraineté au 400e (04/07/08) - C’est la controverse autour d’une déclaration du premier ministre français François Fillion lors des cérémonies du 400e en parlant du Québec comme un pays. Hmm... The true scandalous thing to say, to rain on their queer Quebecker parade, would have been to say that this so-called "nation" is nothing but a historical MISTAKE...! To hear the same tired crap (allegations that it is, in fact, some sort of legitimate nation) is simply not what I'd call "controversy" - at all. It is merely pure FOLLY. The French know follies well too, of course - so it isn't surprising one bit that it comes from one of them, amusingly AFTER the Paris-Match GAFFE showing that they don't even know much about Québec, over there - certainly not enough to warrant France's support of it - AT ALL. Note that it is the Sarkozy (he whom I call "sarcophagus breath" - sorry, Carla Bruni, to see you kiss that...

Sam Roberts: 'Brother Down' Étiquette: Lost Highway Records

Basil Parasiris acquitté (13/06/08) Over there in the northern historical mistake that is Quebec (or, as a certain mayor and former TV personality always says, le "Cul-bec"...) - another miscarriage of justice has just occurred. They not only acquitted an assassin, they cleared him of any blame and objurgated the police operation that was absolutely RIGHT in attempting a surprise sting in "Cré Basil's" house, there...! The cherry on top was to hear veteran "crime time journalist" Claude Poirier come out and say that "the verdict was no surprise" to him and that, if it was both a terrible surprise and a huge disappointment to the police, it was "a bit too much" for the chief of police to make a statement that clearly pinned all the guilt of the officer shot dead's gruesome demise (he was shot in the face through a door) squarely on the shoulders of the acquitted Basil bastard... It's "a bit too much," really, Claude...

Débat 110% - Partie 3 (09/06/08) Débat 110% - Partie 4 (09/06/08) What the hell do Pamela, her bikinis and Bazzo have to do with the F1...?!? *lol*

Le pont entre les religions Le pont entre les religions Après avoir prononcé une discours au siège des Nations unies, à New York, le pape Benoît XVI visite la synagogue de l'East Park, où il rend hommage au rabbin Arthur Schneier, artisan du dialogue interreligieux. No comment on this...! Well, other than: I seriously doubt odd couples and strange bedfellows can last...!

Débat 110% - Partie 1 (15/04/08) Depuis la défaite du Canadien dimanche soir en prolongation, nombreux sont les journalistes sportifs qui ont fait des suggestions à Carbo. Débat 110% - Partie 1 (15/04/08) They're supposed to be IMPARTIAL - not give free advice to ONE SIDE over the other; influencing the STORY they'll be publishing shortly, in the process! And they dare frown upon bloggers - sheesh! You can't - not when your journalistic ethics are so low! What does this say, really - if you take something to heart, you will intervene (in some mild way only, of course - but intervention in any way is forbidden! Journalists are only to report a story; not shape it! They are supposed to observe and report - not even to give their opinion on it! And it takes a pundit blogger bandit to tell them how to do their JOB...! Hmm...) Ultimately, I wonder WHAT THE HELL here; did these VERY partial so-called journalists and alleged members of the press really want to see their dam...

Odd News Video Man hypnotizes cashier and steals money AP Public Nudity as Art ABC News » All news video ...

And as annoying as ever - of course!

Drummer Kombat - le 5 mars A non-violent source of entertainment that sounds violent (maybe even lethal, by association - lethal for the ear drums, for sure!) Now THAT is what we all need, hmm?

Débat 110% - Partie 1 (17/03/08) Débat 110% - Partie 1 (17/03/08)Après les Islanders de New York que le Canadien a facilement défaits 3 à 0 samedi soir, la troupe de Guy Carbonneau devrait connaître une semaine facile en jouant contre les Blues de St-Louis et à deux reprises contre les Bruins de Claude Julien. (moins) Les zinzins de 110% (quel non-sens; "cent-dix pour cent" - ça n'existe même pas, gang de zinzins, va! Et ça pense que leur opinion "experte" sur les sports-pas-forts vaut quelque chose après cette erreur flagrante de calcul en pourcentage! HA! Vraiment pathétique... vous pouvez bien être de TQS; le réseau qui ne sait pas combien de trente sous il y a vraiment dans une "piasse" - hmm? ;) - les pauvres zinzins de 110%, donc, se montrent condescendants envers les Blues et les Bruins - alors que les Bruins ont sensiblement le même nombre de points au classement et la même fiche [victoires-défaites-défaites en shootout] et les Blues, eux, ont...

Wow - and he teaches It's official: he's 50% Pavarotti and 50% Pimentel and all-around luminous in his *own* brand of pondering! ;)

Boston's erstwhile super band "Extreme" used to think so... The makers of DORITOS sure believe so - and they illustrate it in their commercial with three alternate happenings to go with the reputed three sides of any single tortilla chip they make ("sweet", "hot" and/or "bold" respectively) showcasing how a couch potato lost in the woods could POSSIBLY bore a gruffy bear to tears... But what of the copy-cat REBELLOS? (Hmm... Copy-catting is not very PC, pourtant ...!) They do come in TWO flavours, I do believe: Zesty Cheeze and Creamy Ranch - should that influence our labeling here...?!? If Doritos can be sweet, hot and bold - I'd say that Rebellos can be either knavish, coy or cranky! It's just my experience - what can I say, it's a free country and we can freely share our free experiences and deering-do, right Lucy Liu? ;) Je me comprends...! ;) I'd share more and double-dare anyone to sue but I'd be almost certa...

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Hommes bis "Les Hommes Bis" is pronounced exactly as "Zombies", you see - because, in the nauseatingly overcomplicated for no good reason French language, when one pluralizes something, there has to be a "zzz" sound at the end of the word... And so, here, the mostly implied "les" (the) ends with such a sound. Then you have "hommes" (men) and thus, immediately, you get the "ZOM" sound required for the clever play on words here - turning a social "unphenomenon" into a horror flick parody! This is, verily, my kind of brainy humor - well, as far as mass-media is concerned, anyhow! ;) Our next example is almost as funny - and certainly just as clever due to the fact that I came up with it, on the spot...! ;) vidéo ajoutée La compagnie créole Sympatico / MSN vues : 801 Comme on peut le voir sur le mini-écran ci-dessus, la place était NOIRE DE MONDE, eh? *LOL* Get it? Well, you have to be able to read ...

Drummer Combat First it was the Clips. Now it's the Drummers' turn. But, I don't see any drums there - do you? There's a pair of something else there - but no drums, no! Oh well...!