PLAGIARISM

Apparently, people over at the Washington Ovechkins have been reading my blog. Now you're probably wondering, 'Nicole how could you be so arrogant to assume such a thing?' I'll tell you why because the NHL sucks at advertising!

Sure it works on those who are ALREADY hockey fans but when you're trying to reach those outside the NHL fanbase, using the Hansen Brothers just doesn't cut it! They'll just think, those people over at the NHL sure are nice people to allow the 'special' hockey team be the stick boys for a day or two, then they'll get back to their NFL game.

I think its quite obvious that the NHL has a little trouble with thinking outside the box in terms of advertising so I find it really hard to believe that the Washington Ovechkins came up with this marketing campaign all by their lonesome especially, when I wrote about nearly a year ago...

What is this new campaign, you ask? Well its NHL players as rock starz...I know, I KNOW! Its quite obvious I've been ripped off! But don't worry I'm not mad...I'm acutally kind of proud. Proud that they thought of something that could relate to everyone. Proud that they chose Ovie as the lead singer and proud that me a student from Canada came up with an idea that an advertising firm paid millions of dollars a year, had to rip off because they couldn't come up with anything better...

ON TO THE GUERRILLA FOOTAGE...

Girl, you can do better

I know you'd never guess, because of this...and this...AND this but I like Hilary Duff. Not because I think she's a good role model (I don't believe in celebrities being role models for anything or anyone) or because she's a good actress/singer (because she's not) but because she's likable and because I haven't seen her vagina and she has that Valentino bag I want (now you know what to get me for Christmas ~*Hil*~). I just really dislike her boyfriend and the annoying slags that claim to be her friend. Its kind of like that friend you stop talking to because you can't stand their boyfriend well its the same with ~*Hil*~.

Am I the only one who thinks she can do a lot better. Doesn't she deserve someone better than a stumpy, 28 year old, mediocre hockey player, who has 5 years left in the league, if that? Elisha's got Dion, who's one of the top players in the league. Rachel Hunter bagged Jarret Stoll. Hilary, even Willa Ford did better than you did.

You're a bonafide celeb and you're telling me you can't do better than, Mike Comrie??????

Now I say this as a friend...BITCH, PLEASE!





~*Hil*~ being cute:

I know that hockey games can be intense ~*Hil*~ but it is only an Islanders game, its not that serious...

~*Hil*~ says: Wtf Mikey?
Indeed, that is your bf getting manhandled by Nigel Dawes

Yes, ~*Hil*~, this is what we call a Hockey fan

Oh you noticed too, eh? This is a Staal brother ~*Hil*~. Good looking, talented, a cup contender, sweet small town boy AKA not you're type at all

HOT DAMN!

-Ovechkin-Boudreau 08? I'm all over that!
-Chris Clark totally was a nerd back when he was like 13/14 possibly even 15. Trust me I know these things!
-Brooks Laich, oh Brooks Laich. So handsome. So sexy. Gotta love the look on his face; he's excited, he doesn't know what's going on but he's excited. Am I the only one who noticed he was flirting with the camera? He knew I was going to watch that's why, heh...
-Backstrom is clearly having the time of his life, male modeling it up for the camera.
-Why is Jose Theodore there and not Mike Green? He's been on the Caps all of 5 minutes. Oh and he was touched my that incurable, highly contagious, bleeding from every orifice, disease. Ah shit, there goes their season...

What is this Fuckery?

Now I'm not against cover songs at.all. In fact there are some cover songs I rather enjoy almost as much as the original. I love Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'! Ben Folds' reimagination of 'Bitches ain't Shit' is genius and Nouvelle Vague's...everything, is amazing! But King of the Rodeo? Done via big band, jazzy, female vocals? Uhhh I don't think so!



They all seem to be having a bitchin' time all up in that video, SO happy! BUT this version is just not working. The sound is good, the vocals are good, the instrumentals are good its just...well maybe I am a little biased, since king of the rodeo is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands BUT its just not working here.

Am I wrong?


PS here's the original:

Welcome to Toronto, Dad!

My delinquent little brother, the Toronto Maple Leafs, blew a 2 goal lead the other night, of course the media wanted answers!

Why? How could this happen? How could this happen to the Toronto Maple Leafs who are going to make the playoffs, who are going to win the cup? they're going all the way, don't you know?

So my new Dad, Ron Wilson, gave a little reality check for the media, and I quote:

"we're not going to win the Stanley cup this season, how's that for news?"

Don't worry Dad this won't be the last of the 'asinine' questions hurled at you, just you wait till the season starts.

But I must say, compared to last year, with all that dead weight, those old relics, those broken promises, my little bro isn't doing too badly so far. They're actually playing decent hockey...like all of them, not just Vesa Toskala.

I was right (as per usual it seems) all Toronto needed was some fresh blood to reboot things. Like my real brother said, Toronto's top line players, on any other team in the NHL would be 3rd liners at best, you know its bad when...

So now we've got a crop of new talent to look forward to. Moore looks promising, as does Schenn, and Earl's been carrying on what he did at the end of last season and that's playing good hockey.

I know its only preseason, and some of these dudes won't see much action in the NHL BUT at least they're not chilling in Sweden taking up cap space OR scoring on their own net! See guys things are looking up already!

However, we're still not winning the cup this season. The truth, it hurts!

Paul Newman, Legend.

1925-2008

Amazing. A Legend. A True Gentleman. The man to which I compare all men. This is the end of an era, no time after this will there ever be a man like Paul Newman and we should all be sorry for it. An icon is now at peace.

SPOTTED Nathan Followill hanging out with Hollywood's brightest

Nathan Followill chillin' with Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, and Chace Crawford at the SNL after party.


You know what I was wondering the other day? If the Strokes and the Kings are still tight? Its been a while since they've verbaly mastur-- uh talked about each other, heh.


xoxo
Nicole

Tough Love...it hurts

Who are these people???

If we're being open and honest here, which we are, I must say Caleb has yet to win me back. I got a leak to Only by the Night (Shut up, I'm still going to buy it, I just got a little impatient, that's all) and truth be told, compared to Youth and Young Manhood; compared to Aha Shake Heartbreak; compared to Because of the Times, Only by the Night doesn't even come close!

There are a few songs which are brilliant (i.e. Sex on Fire, Cold Desert, Crawl) but overall? It just doesn't feel like KOL at all. It sounds like they're reaching, like they're trying too hard; like First Impressions of Earth; like XY; or like *gulp* The Killers.

I know they want to be big in North America and are tired of shit bands like Fall Out Boy dominating the rock scene here and they SO deserve the success and adulation that Panic at the Disco and the Jonas Brothers get but why venture away from what made them unique, what makes them good?

Now I'm not saying that The Kings should make the same album over and over again like Kid Rock or Nickleback, in fact I've enjoyed their evolution from Youth and Young Manhood to Because of the Times. It felt right but Only by the Night doesn't feel right, it feels forced, it feels...disingenuous.

Come back to this. Come back to us. Come back to me.

All albums before, hover between 5/5 - 4/5 but Only by the Night is a 3/5 at best...and that hurts to say, like you don't even know!

Even though I'm not feeling this album, even though I haven't fallen in love with it like every album before, I'll still buy it. I'll still see them in concert, support them, love them, and they'll still be my top artist on my last.fm! because that's what love's all about.

I might have to file divorce papers but I'll still love the Kings, and I hope that the album after this one is truly great and blows everyone out of the water but for now, I'll sit in the back drinking my gin n' tonic, bobbing my head, being supportive but not in love.


The good ole days:

Best Kings of Leon Video to date!

The boys talk about their balls, sperm and 'Look who's Talking'...with their mom!



I would post the other ones but they feature that home wrecking 'model' Lily Aldridge. Ugh, did you know that she's one degree away from that highly contagious bleeding from every orifice disease? That means Caleb is two degrees away from that virus! THAT means that the band is three degrees away from Ebola's bastard child!

Maybe that's why Only by the Night is so...off but that's a different post.

Oh Caleb, what have you done?

Kings of Leon: WASSUP!?!?!

Ummm...



(from left to right: Lumber Jack, Cheesy 80s record producer, random dude, and a lost boy)

I hate to be so hard on my boys, they do look good, but, with the exception of Nathan, where'd all the hair go? The beautiful I don't give a fuck hair?!?!

Matt and Jared are totally male modeling it up for the camera BUT Jared, Michael Jared Followill, your look so reminds me of another Michael, a Michael, that was once a lost boy:



am I wrong?

A Rick Nash Picture Moment

Today's Theme: Rick Nash looking damn fine while being a gamer nerd




Rick Nash's fashion sense hovers just above Sidney Crosby's which means he doesn't have any BUT that shirt with 3 buttons unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up to a 3/4 length ; those jeans with that wash, that fit; and that tan, mm mm mmmmm!

I am now reminded why Rick Nash is husband no. 5 *sigh* Strange how in a matter of months we went from this to THIS, love's funny like that...

Brooks Laich doesn't have high speed internet

Here's a video from Cabbie on the Street (one of my personal heroes), interviewing Brooks Laich, Alexander Ovechkin and some other dudes about blogs, and the ever critical eye of the hockey media.



I love how ~*Canadian*~ Brooks' accent is. It's so Captain Canuck, love it.

You know what's weird about the seteroypical ~* Canadian*~ accent? It's that it pops up out of like nowhere, there are no geographical bounds as to where you'll find it. You'll find it in Yellowknife, you'll find it in Halifax, you'll find in Victoria. It blows my mind!

I was talking to some dude at school and he had that ~*Canadian accent*~, I asked him where he was from and he replied "Toronto", now when people say they're from Toronto it could mean Parkdale or it could mean Oakville, so I ask him where in Toronto, and he replies "the beaches" which is in 'the real' Toronto not the GTA!

WTF, so crazy, eh?

The Duchess

I love Keira Knightley! Love her! I think she's gorgeous, I think she's talented, I love her sense of style, and she seems to be the type of girl I'd totally be friends with but DAMN she's been looking like death incarnate, as of late!

Remember this Keira, with (albeit small) boobs, with thighs, with shape?




Now Keira's never been a fatty by any means. She's naturally thin (that bitch!), the type of thin that if she lost ten pounds then she's look like those kids in those commercials you see at 2am pleading for donations. But it seems that since her 'thunder thigh' days, Keira has lost ten pounds (possibly more) and as a result looks like she's at death's door.



Naturally everyone said homegirl's anorexic but she's been fighting those claims tooth and nail, her mom came to her defense, denying her daughter was anorexic; she even sued a British tabloid for printing her picture along side a story of a girl who died of the disease. So what is up with Keira Knightely?

She doesn't smoke, so there goes the coffee and cigarettes diet? I really don't see someone who has the disease (especially a celebrity) denying it all.the.frigging.time. AND if she did have the disease would her mother enable her publicly? Sharman McDonald is no Dina Lohan! I highly doubt that, maybe I'm being blinded by my fondess of her but I just refuse to believe that. But something is wrong with her.


Its quite apparent she isn't in perfect health. Her hair is thinning, her boobs have disappeared into a concave chest, her arms are sticks, the jaw has become razor sharp, her head has become enlarged by the shrinking of her body below it but by no means is she obliged to tell the world what's up with her health.

Whatever is ailing her, I hope she gets better. Maybe she just needs some vitimin D and a few carbs, I don't know but I wish her all the best.

Creepin' on Brooks Laich

Unfortunately for Brooks Laich, he has become my latest player obsession. Which of course means I over analyze his wardrobe, foot wear, musical taste, use of product in his hair...oh and the way he plays (I guess).

I don't care if its creepy or not I've watched this video a few thousand times...SHUT UP, if you were invited into Brooks Laich's bedroom, could you say no? I don't think so!

I think its cute that Brooks Laich mucks about with my ~*dream boyfriend*~ Mike Green and I love how they're so serious when rocking out, like its srs bzn! But was Baby Blue Sound Crew a shout out to the Canadian hip-hop group or was it a tongue in cheek critique on their lame name. I'm hoping it was the former, because being a Canadian artist is hard enough let alone a Canadian hip-hop artist. Hopefully, they're not haters, 'cause that's MY job boys!

Heeeeeey them and the bubble gum gang could tour together, I'd totally be a member of their street team, wouldn't you?



PS what kind of twat would reject flowers from Brooks Laich, regardless of the fact that its quite obvious he bought them at a grocery store...unless she was playing hard to get, then I say, play on girl! Play on!

Kings of Leon Home Video: Making Fun of Matthew

Poor Matthew BUT Jared is hilarious. I love it when Matt and Caleb are on the motorcycle and Caleb's running his hand through Matt's hair, oh wow, them boys sure are funny!

Kings of Leon Home Videos

NO, you pervs! Not those kind of home videos!

ANYWAYS, in preparation of the realease of only by the night, the kings have decided to let their perverted dedicated fans take a glimpse into their recording process and hopefully grab a few new fans along the way.

Am glad, they've finally realized the power of the internet. They may not be big here in North America but cyber space has no bounds, people, its universal; we get to see what those lucky buggers across the pond get to see.



Caleb saving himself for marriage? Who knew? LOL!