video blog update: 4/29/10 Canucks/Blackhawks

April 29/10 Vlog episode 2 from Gord Locke on Vimeo.

Run time: 5:48 min. I break down the Canucks blackhawks series. I did an opening reviewing my new webcam but the total blog was very long , I want to aim to keep my blogs to 5-6 minutes.. 10 minutes max.

My new video blog

So I'll be blogging here and on Vimeo from now on. I enjoy working with video stuff so I dont mind the extra effort into doing it. Im just a complete noob being on camera broadcasting myself on the net , Im not a public speaker so there's a lot I have to work on with my speech and dialogue. Hopefully I can start to tolerate myself.

Gordy's Video Blog from Gord Locke on Vimeo.

This was shot with my old Micro Webcam I bought in 2003 for 10 bucks along with one of those cheap labtec mics. This was hard to look at so I went out and picked up a new webcam which I will discuss in my next video blog.

Movie Review: Tod Browning's Freaks

I finally watched this 1933 classic I've been aching to see for years. This movie is so profound and lingering it superseded my expectations which I tried to keep nil. My curiosity for the eccentric oddities known as "circus freaks" was met in this film. It sounds rude of me to say that but its the truth and its our nature to be inquisite about "freaks".

Entirely casted with real life "oddities" , they came through with a brilliant performances despite not being actors. Their individual stories are a mix of tragedy to fondness to disturbed , just like "regular" people.

The plot is simplistic and yet so effective. A shallow gold digging primadonna acrobat named Cleopatra conspires with Hercules the strong man of the show to get the manager to marry her and then kill him to inherit all his money. The characters are mesmorizing and bizarre yet so compelling because they are real. You buy into them from the moment you see them.

Its not very long being a 1933 film but its a lovely film. Great example of less is more/better , resulted in a well made movie with a good story differenciated by the cast. I can see why this has the cult following it has caz I am part of this cult now.

Movie Review: sort of.. Keep Your Head Up , Kid - Don Cherry Story

The movie was good considering it was a CBC made for tv feature. 2 parter , 4 hours total.. probably 2 3/4 hours overall without commercials. Very entertaining. I was glued to the show.

I want to comment on some the stuff they portrayed that I didnt know or just forgot.

- Don Cherry blew his chance at an NHL career with a tragic yet bonehead baseball injury in the offseason. He was a bright prospect for the Bruins , dislocated his shoulder and showed up to camp hurt. In those days there is zero sympathy for injuries. His second chance with the LEads blown caz he went after Ron Ellis , the Leafs golden boy.

- Don Cherry coached the Vancouver's AHL affiliate team in Rochester. A) I didnt know the he coached for the Canucks technically and the Canucks gave him his pro coaching break with the Americans. But i now know why he has a disdain ill feeling towards the franchise , they treated him like crap. Tried hard to make him the scape goat and handle him like a puppeteer. Firing him despite doing a good job.

- I didnt know Cherry was also the GM of the Rochester Americans along with being coach the next season as an indepedant AHL team. Meaning no prospects from NHL clubs , he had to recruit the entire roster going camp to camp asking for cast offs. He turned a journeymen tough guy Battleship Kelly into a serviceable NHLer and from a business point of view , signed him for 7500 bucks and sold him to St.Louis for 50K.

- HIs personal work with JOhn Weinsink and making him a personal project and turned him into a respectable NHL name. The guy scored 27 goals in one season for the Bruins.

- Overall his personal life was always private so seeing anything to do with Rose and his kids was new.

In the end I see Cherry with a slightly different light , Im not suprised with anything I was merely enlightened.

PC down ..again

I have no idea why it went down now. I dont overclock anymore , I dont mess around with anything anymore , I strictly just use it. I went through the long haul of trouble shoots , including tring different Ram , CPU , Video cards , audo cards , Hard drives , ...EVERYTHING. I figure it must be the chipset on the motherboard? I dont know. Im reinstalling my old motherbaord which I prefer anyways considering I paid almost $300 for it. Now this mother fucker wont install for some fucking reason.. the SATA drives that worked before now gets errors..

Now , Im installing XP HOme on a old IDE drive jst so I can install the drives onto a floppy and try installing PRO on my SATA.

Maybe its a blessing caz I was planning on getting a Win7 PC anyways. Lets see how this goes first.. its going to take all night , I wont finish until tomorrow at the earliest. I dont even know if this will work.

Plus if it does.. I have to reinstall EVERYTHING AGAIN!!! its such a kick in the nards. Just installing the Service Pack is a acidy leak out of the anus.

This is when I wish I lived in Texas and owned a semi automatic caz I would like to destroy some old junk right now in the backyard with some scorching bullets.

*UPDATE

its 48 hours later almost..monday and I finally got windows installed and everything seems to be ok.

I admittingly majorily fucked up on the install in that I totally forgot i had a faulty PCIE slot and was suppose to use slot 2.. I wasted a good 6 hours+ on that alone. Kicked myself in the nards.

But the originally Hard drive problem? I dont know , Im speculating I might've got the D-Dos Worm and destroyed my harddrive (not permanently) but I really dont know what went wrong.

My anti church blog

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/15/church.abuse/index.html

HAHAHAHAHHA fuck you morons. Not laughing at the innocent kids who are getting raped , Im laughing at the church and its arogance to its own ignorance. Creepiest people on earth.

Vancouver Closing Ceremonies

The games are officially over. Its sad caz there was this holiday like vibe in the city for two weeks. It was ok to slack off or sleep in.

Anyhoo the closing ceremonies ....

Started really slow and boring and the middle portion was great. The concert segment started good but ended with who the fuck cares bands. I shouldnt say started slow and boring , they started initially by correcting their faux paus from the opening ceremony by poking fun at themselves with the whole malfunction.

I was going to rant off on various topics but Im really exausted from a long long week. Trust me on this , Im still feeling the after math of a long week but Im hoping Ill be 100% tomorrow again.

Anyways , good closer.