All He Wants To Do Is Dansk, Dansk, Dansk

A couple ofweeks ago I brought you some great on-ice moves by a hockey player in Norway, I don’t think this Swedish goaltender’s moves are really comparable. Let’s be serious he has a whole lot more gear weighing Oscar Dansk down, but he definitely has the best moves I have seen around for a net-minder lately. Much like our friend in Norway he gets the crowd into it and it looks like everyone is enjoying his antics at home in Malmo during the World Juniors.  This victory dance came after Sweden’s 3-2 win over Russia New Year’s Eve, giving home-team Sweden the top spot in their round-robin group at the World Juniors.

Get it goalie.

My 2014 New Years Resolution

This year my new year’s resolution is committing to processes. I have a couple big things I really want to work on so it is more of continuation of what has been working in 2013 and making a few more improvements. Improving my budgeting skills is a big one, nothing really interesting there. Crossing more firsts off my bucket list and travelling are more general things I want to do. 

My big one, the process for 2014 that I want to really commit to may sound a little silly but I say thing being completely serious, I want to quit snacking. Once a week, sure I will destroy some candy or maybe a bag of chips. But, over all I want to be done picking at food into the evenings and weekends. I have always done it, watched tv and plowed some nachos or popcorn. I feel like something is meant to be my hand (and about to go into my mouth) whenever I sit down in the evening. Its not a weight thing, I am totally fine with the calories; to me it is all about that control snacks have over me and destroying that weird feeling I get when I am not eating something casually while watching a movie or tv show. 

How do I plan on doing this? Well, this is the fun part. I am going to knit. Yes, I will be keeping my hands busy by knitting in my down time. The first project I am working on is a grocery tote; this is WAY more advanced than the last thing I knit which was a lop-sided dish towel. 

In 2014, I will knit and knit well (and not snack).

What is your New Year's Resolution for 2014? 

2013 Year in Review: Play-Doh Style

Nothing takes me back to childhood like the smell (and let’s be honest here, the salty taste) of Play-Doh.

This month the iconic children’s toy company released their epic look at 2013 created with Play-Doh. I can’t imagine how long this would take to put together, I always lost interest after about ten minutes, or as soon as two colors had permanently been merged into one chunk of Play-Doh.  I am pretty impressed by all it, especially the Royal Baby and Superbowl Blackout pieces.

Post by Play-Doh.

Post by Play-Doh.

Rossland Mountain Film Festival's Roxy Piette On Morning Rocks!

This morning on Morning Rocks Roxy Piette joined us from the Rossland Mountain Film Festival. Roxy is
the chair of the Rossland Mountain Film Festival that is going into its fourteenth year in 2013. The festival kicked off last night in Rossland and will be underway all weekend.

For more details about the Rossland Mountain Film Festival click here.

Jimmy Kimmel's Halloween Candy Challenge

Jimmy Kimmel puts new meaning in the phrase taking candy from a baby… in his annual Halloween prank he has easily convinced the parents who watch his show to mess with their children by telling their kids that they have eaten all of their spoils from Halloween. I love this video; I always tried to maintain my candy stock as a child by giving my parents all the candy I didn't like and then some of their favourites. Every year as soon as we got home we would dump our bags and trade candy until there was only non-name brand candy and Oh Henry bars left. This video has gone viral for good reason today, it is so funny. 

Thank goodness my parents never did this to me!

The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)

I get it; Miley resents her Hannah Montana roots. She really wants to separate herself from the role that really defined the early part of her career, the role that made her a household name and filled her bank account with more money than the average person makes in their entire lifetime. I can understand that, truly you when you're her age it is important to figure out who you are for yourself. With that being said her performance on the VMAs was disturbing, as I have stated previously I actually really like her song 'We Can't Stop' and I am really disappointed with the way she is portraying a song that is a fun summer song. MTV even had to bleep her. The more Miley acts like this crazy bimbo that needs to prove she's an adult that can do grown-up things, the more I want Hannah Montana back. 

I love the crowd shot, between astonished celebrities and celebrities in awe of what is happening there is a shot of Drake and he looks so embarrassed to be in a room where these shenanigans are going on…

While we are on the topic of things I don't like, I would like to mention the new 'Moon Man' (the VMA trophy), and I really do not like the redesigned trophy. It is terrifying! 

Here are the clips you need to see from the 2013 VMAs:

All that Miley action I previously mentioned, including a performance by Robin Thicke. 

The rumours earlier this week were true, NSYNC made an appearence.

And that Daft Punk moment that was so important they had to cancel on Stephen Colbert, well here that is.

Get More: 2013 VMA, Artists.MTV, Music

And then Katy Perry's impressive VMA finale performance.

Netflix Classic: iSteve

Netflix Classic: iSteve 

Have you ever watched a movie so bad you wondered what were those people thinking? I do this all the time. In fact you can read my previous blog about ‘Sharknado’ it was the worst movie I have ever seen. Which has inspired me to start a log of all the movies I watch that are just down-right horrible, most of them are F-list horror movies with cooky titles found on Netflix, hence the label “Neflix Classics”.  Every Saturday you can find my latest “Netflix Classic” review right here on my Mountain FM Blog.

iSteve (2013)

With the release of the new bio-pic about Steve Jobs being last week I decided to pick a parody film about the life of Steve Jobs this week for my Netflix Classic this week it was released online in April and it is called 'iSteve'. It was just as bad as it sounds. 

It is not often that I find a comedy so bad that I will tell people not to watch it. Even movies I don't like have seem to have some silver lining redemption moments, not the case with 'iSteve'. Funny or Die (online comedy heroes) really disappointed me with this turd of a movie. 'iSteve' was just not funny. It is that simple. I watched the entire thing, at first I thought I had read the description wrong and that it was a serious movie. Then it continuously made errors about the life of Steve Jobs and really bad joke so I knew it really was trying to be a parody film. 

Urg. I am not a huge Jobs fan. I am not a hater either. I read his biography, I have invested time into learning about Steve Jobs and the makers of 'iSteve' clearly did not. It was made written in three days and shot in five, I think they could have had something if they invested more time into making it. I have yet to see 'Jobs' the Ashton Kutcher movie released last week, I think I will wait on that. From the press it has gotten I think I will wait until it makes it to Netflix.

I may take time out of my day and money out of my wallet to see the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of 'Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I thought the book was fair and well written, I doubt the makers of 'iSteve' took the time to read it because there was little to no evidence of any research being done on the subject of his life.

I am being very critical, I know. It was just supposed to be a funny, light-hearted extended sketch but I found it kind of offensive. Funny or Die has a huge following, with people who will watch their content regardless of the quality.  

The only part of the movie that I thought was mildly funny was part of the evolution of Pixar that showed a meeting between George Lucas and Steve Jobs. 

Not worth your time, do anything else. Seriously, anything else. 

iSteve - Buy on Amazon or watch on Netflix from Justin Long

First Looks At Baby North West and Kanye West's Interview On Kris

Keeping it in the family, Kanye West visited the Kris show today and talked about being a 'musical genius' and a new dad. Kris of course is Kris Kardashian Jenner, the mother of Kanye's boo Kim Kardashian. During Kanye's visit he offered up the first photos of baby North West, his precious two month old daughter. 

When you read what he says in the Rolling Stone article it comes off as 50% ramblings of a egocentric maniac, 49% I better do this interview or this crazy lady (mother of my baby's Mama is going to kill me) and 1% man changed by love and a new baby . But, watching the videos is completely different. I judged all this self promotion (for both Kris and Kanye) as a all you can eat buffet to feed their egos, but in the videos of the interview Kanye actually comes off more like a cuddly teddy bear (not unlike the bear blasting off into new adventures on the cover of Graduation). 

Here is an a quote from the Rolling Stone article, quoting Kanye on the Kris show.

"The only thing I want to do in life is help people, and that's what's so disturbing about being written up in society as being some type of enemy. The last thing I would want to happen to my daughter is some crazy drunk black guy in a leather shirt to come up and cut her off at an awards show."

If you want to let Kanye finish you can read the rest of the article on Rolling Stone. Or check out the YouTube video. Both are posted below.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kanye-wests-10-best-quotes-on-kris-jenners-talk-show-20130823

The Conjuring with Jenny & Kate

When I was a child I loved horror movies.

As an adult, horror movies make me feel old and silly.

Why? Still not 100% sure. I think it has to do with a feeling that I was invisible, as an adult I have realized I am SO totally vulnerable. Also, pretty freakin’ co-dependent, watching a horror flick melts my mind. I live in fear of shapes and shadows until the sunrises. I can't even watch late night TV without my remote close by, every time a creepy trailer airs I have to change the channel. 

As a child, I would hide my eyes and wait for the shocking part of the scare to be over and then look up at the screen. As an adult, I do the exact same thing… longer. So long in fact that I scared myself more than needed, catching the most terrifying moment of ‘The Conjuring’ when I saw it Saturday night. I missed an entire scene of the movie and popped up at the worst possible second. I was so scared a full scream escaped my lips, making me look (and sound) foolish; giving the entire theatre a laugh.

On the plus side, I have not lost a minute of sleep yet (it has only been two nights since the viewing). But, I have a feeling that will change living in the basement (the most haunted part of most houses, as horror movies have taught us) of an old house in Nelson.

My little scream at Kootenay Centre Cinema is one of the most shameful moments of my life. It has been a long time since I have been so embarrassed. Thank goodness Afternoon Drive Hostess; Jenny Fines was beside me, screaming at the exact same time.  

Give the following sound clip a listen to hear our ‘The Conjuring’ experience! If you love to be scared (or to watch people be scared) you need to go see it!